Good evening everyone. I'll call to order this uh evening's city commission meeting September 25th, 2025. If you'll please um rise for the flag salute to the flag of the United States to the
republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. It's my fourth one of these this week. Wow. Thank you. Uh, roll call. Cindy, please. Commissioner Langrath here. Commissioner Mento here. Mayor Creable
here. Uh, the open public meeting announcement pursuant to the open public meeting 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 www.venorcity.org. Uh, sec. Next, the live streaming
announcement. The city of vendor 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. Right. Uh this evening we have no presentation and we will um uh few actions. We will
um approve the minutes of August 14th regular session, August 14th executive session, August uh September 11th regular, and September 11th executive. Any questions there? Um the the redevelopment plan, they
they're the applicant thought that was going to be on for tonight. It's not going to be it's going to be at our next meeting. I don't know if they noticed for that. So just an announcement that the redevelopment resolution I guess that we would would have adopted um would be at our next meeting which is the October 9th.
Right. So Jack asked me to make that announcement and we'll just carry it till then. Great. Um did they come back to the building? Not yet. They won't come back until after we take action. Nice. Was it noticed for this meeting? So it doesn't have to be renoticed. He may have. That's why I just made that
announcement in case someone was here for that. It'll carry to the October 9th uh board meeting, city commission meeting, excuse me. So, there would be no discussion or announcement of the uh on the redevelopment for this evening. Correct. Thank you. Yeah, there was some confusion about that.
Well, Mike Floyd, our attorney, his mother passed this week. I see. So, there's been Mike Floyd's mother passed, so he's was kind of preoccupied with dealing with family matters. So, um no question.
So um thank you. Um so uh moving forward we will have no public hearings or adoptions but we do have a number of resolutions including a number of four we will be adding on the bench. Ordinance introduction.
We do have an ordinance introduction. Oh I'm sorry I I I went down too fast here. We do have an ordinance introduction. Ordinance 2025-020 adopting chapter 204 the code of city of vendor entitled taxation establishing the five-year exception of the abatement
program. So this is continuing the existing abatement program as it exists. Readopting re readopting it. Any questions on that? No. It's been very successful. Very successful. There's quite a few of them on here tonight and
yeah, I think it's something that um has has proven itself as a as a great tool for the city. Um thank you. Uh number nine, uh we don't have any public hearings or adoptions.
Um catching up. Number 10, uh resolutions. We have resolutions 297 through 308 and we are adding 309 through 312 on the bench today.
So um starting with uh 297 um this is supporting knockout opiate abuse day. This is a um this is a recognizing um a um a
the opioid issue in the country and and recognizing that day formally. Um then we have uh the prevention obviously. Um resolution 298 is uh a public works. Do you want to pick on
that? Stormwater assets for the city of Vener. It's a mapping. Is that correct? Yes. So, this would update our maps for stormwater outfalls throughout the city. Um, we get some funding for it as well, but I think this is being tied to Remington Vernick for them to map the outfalls, make sure we know where they
are, and if they do not have um uh I call them duck duck valves or flapper valves on them to keep the title from tides from coming in um we'll they'll note that, but we'll we'll get a GIS map from that that okay product. So, so it's the first step in in upgrading
any of those. Updating it. Yeah, we have existing maps, but they're pretty old. I think I may have worked on the last ones. That's how old they are. So, that was a long time ago. Yeah. Uh, so the and then uh 299 the the
next resolution is tied to that as well. That's inventory. Um, both are both sub have not to exceed numbers on them. Yeah, this is a watershed improvement plan through Ernie and and our um water department, city streets department really. So, it's
wershed management. Ties to the other one as well. You're right. Okay, great. Uh D, uh resolution 300. Um this is authorizing uh two part-time traffic guards. So, we have uh two new
guards starting um September 23rd, I believe. Um and then uh resolutions 301 through 307 are all tax abatements. I'll leave
those for the record in the addresses are in the resolutions. They'll be by consent, but they are all tax abatement resolutions. Um as as we said, it's a very successful program um and is a benefit to the city.
Uh two next that would bring us to um 308 308 which is a large uh resolution here. Do you want to speak on this? The sand blasting of North Sur Avenue water tower. Yeah, it's not just sand blasting. It's painting um some refurbishment of the
water tower over on North Sur Avenue. We got three bids in. The high was 1.7 plus million. The low was just under a million979 197,000 we're going to award to um Dynamic Sand Blasting and Painting LLC
for that work. Um so we're going to also that color will change. We'll have to decide on it. Ernie's been pushing us to lighten that color. Um the darkness of that green actually causes the water temperature to heat up and it makes it harder to maintain good quality water in that
water tower. So we're going to look for a lighter color. H that's why all the other colors are very similar. Light blue. The light blue. Um and we'll have to come up with if we're going to keep surely the best or come something different on there, right? We should discuss that. Okay. So, great.
If you want to see how that's done, go over to Brigantine. They're doing theirs right now. They they drape the whole thing and shroud it and then power they um sand blast it and then repaint everything. Remember what we've done the last time to get the that green turquoisey blue on
there? Yep. It's a big It's a long process. I remember it last week for varying degrees. Um sand blasting it's not going to be quiet. You're going to have machinery operating compressors a while weeks or months plus. Yeah.
Long time. Every day. Every day. Yep. Put out a notice or Facebook. It's not a bad idea putting out a notice. Um, so that is 308. It is a large contract and we did
get the best bid that available. Um, if I can just jump in real quickly, I think it's also substantially below what we estimated it to be. You thought it was going to be closer. It'll be financed through the uh the I bank. So, we'll get very favorable terms there.
We get some grant money for this, too. Did we get money for this, too? We got I bank. We get I bank. Yes. So, yeah. So, you know, part of that is free money and then part of it's a low interest, right?
All right. Um, so next item would be approvals of bills and payroll. Uh, I don't have any discussion items. We're adding these. Uh, I'm sorry. We are adding um, uh, yes, we are adding four on the bench. Uh, 309 is,
um, fleet maintenance purchase. These are, uh, vehicles for the police department, correct? um replacing older vehicles uh which we are getting some money for but not not a lot. Uh 310 is awarding Polystina
Associates Construction Management for Vendor Gardens Plaza storm sewer repair project. So is that the pump station there or is that it's all tied to that? Yeah, it's the um just going through it because Ed sent it over to me today. It's there's an
increase in $12,000 in inspections, right? um not to exceed increase of 12,000. So not to exceed 66 225. This is actually a change order. Yeah, change order. A project that's basically wrapped up. Okay, great.
And that seems to be working. We get when we get the heavy rains, it seems to be getting the water into the system and out through the bay. Now, the next project will be new pumps or an upgrade to the pumps at the end of that street. And to refresh your memory, we will be
submitting an invoice to the city of Margie for their share of this project. I think they're on the hook for 35%. I think it's it's under 40. It's around that. Yep. Okay, great. I think that's enough color
for that. Um, next is 311. This is uh appointing lifeguard pension commission pursuant to NJSA34-13-28. So this is bringing that um pension back into compliance. I appreciate the um uh volunteers uh that uh stepped up.
Matthew Spears is an existing lifeguard. Uh Jackie Fox a member of uh will be a member of the citizens com citizen member of the commission. and Sean Gleason also will be a member of the citiz commission. That's our that rounds out our
and right and once this commission is is back uh to being a functioning body uh we'll be amending the existing plan uh for their approval uh and then ultimately I guess we'll submit it to the state comprollers's office to make sure that it complies with the audit
that they did. So, I I've been working on that uh draft for their consideration and we'll probably have that finished next week uh so that we can, you know, get this thing moving and uh submit our corrective action plan to the state by the middle of October.
Okay. And ultimately, it's going to come back here for you to adopt the new plan by ordinance. Great. Great. Thank you. Thanks for your work on that. And then lastly, the 312
is another um another public works. Do you want to put some color into that? Cambridge Avenue bulkhead. Yes, that bulkhead needs to be replaced. We tried to squeeze it into the Winchester Avenue project that finished up uh this spring, but we just really couldn't do that.
It's better to do the stand standalone project. It's Cambridge Avenue uh bulkhead end street end at um well Cambridge Avenue in the Bay. So, um, it's in fairly really poor condition. So, Arthur Chu came back with the best estimate for that and he's in he's in
our pool of engineers. Great. So, he does a good job with the bulkheads. Great. And that finishes our resolution. Resolution. Okay. Uh, so then we will have approval
of bills and payroll. And I have no discussion items that I'm aware of. Anyone? Anyone submitted any? No. Um uh at this point, do we have any public uh we can open uh the floor for public portion for any items that have been
discussed so far? Have a motion to open for public portion. So moved. Second. Second. Roll call, please. Commissioner Langra, yes. Commissioner Mento, yes. Mayor Cable, yes. So any no one here in the in the chambers? Is there anyone on the Zoom
platform that wishes to discuss anything in the agenda that we've discussed so far? There will be time to discuss any general items at the end of the agenda. Okay. Anybody on Zoom wish to comment on any of the items that have been spoken
about so far? Mrs. Han, nothing from you. Mrs. hand jerk clerk who's out with her laptop in bed. Hope to send me a picture. Her toes are
Oh, boy. All right. Missy Miss uh best wishes to you, Lisa. Yep. Get well soon. Get well soon. Um uh can I have a motion to close uh the workshop portion of the um public? So move. Second.
Roll call. Cindy. Commissioner Langrath. Yes. Commissioner Manto. Yes. Mayor Creable. Yes. Can I have uh um call to order the regular portion of the meeting? And our first item would be approval of minutes.
Uh August 14th regular, August 14th executive, September 11th regular, and September 11th executive. May I motion to approve those minutes? I'll make that motion. Second. Roll call. Cindy. Commissioner Langrath. Yes. Commissioner Mento. Yes. Mayor Kel. Yes. Can I have a motion to introduce
ordinance 020 readoption of chapter 204 as described? I'll make that motion. Second. Have a roll call. Commissioner Langra. Yes. Commissioner, my voice. Mayor Creable.
Yes. Uh, moving on past public hearing and ordinance adoption. May I have a motion to adopt resolutions 297 through 23 23 312 as described in the uh consent
agenda. I'll make that motion to adopt resolutions 2025-297 through 312. Second. I have a roll call. Cindy. Commissioner Langra. Yes. Commissioner Mento. Yes. Mayor Creville. Yes.
Can I have uh approval of bills? A motion to approve bills in payroll. You hear it here with the Who's discussing bills and payroll? I can read them. Yeah, that's fine. Thank you. Okay. From August 31st to September 13, it is $716,78946
and the amount for bills is $2,340,39487. Thank you. A motion to approve bills and payroll. So moved. Second. A roll call. Cindy. Commissioner Langraph. Yes. Commissioner Mento. Yes. Mayor Kore. Yes. Seeing no safety reports or
announcements, any commissioner reports? Commissioner Langraph, you want to start? Yeah, I've got a few. Yeah. Um, one that's kind of gross. Um, we've we've deployed a mic I got to read how microbial treatments within our sewer
system. So what Ernie has been doing over the last few months is in certain sections where we we have a lot of backups um for whatever reason volume clogs whatever we've instituted this micro microbial
basically bugs bacteria into the system and it actually eats up that stuff and it's working. Um we actually cleared it with the county because it ends up everything ends up in the county wastewater treatment facility. Um, and it seems to they're called uh let's see, inoculates main main sewer lines with
bio-engineered organisms that eat solids lining sewer lines such as fats, oils, and grease. I hope everyone ate dinner. Oh, yeah. So, it's like, yeah, it's an eco-friendly ACA approved solution to address routine and
responsive maintenance of our sewer mains. organisms also provide additional odor control by absorbing a portion of the hydrogen sulfide odors that sometimes escape into the air. Maria is very well aware of that. Started a test period by inoculating the canal Harvard
Fulton pump station uh Wellington Avenue and Dorset Maine and 12 other high volume manhole locations on Veterary Avenue in the business districts. It's proven to be successful. Um started in April of this year. We've authorized $9,200 to be spent to date and we'll be
presenting a request to continue the program in the near future. So it's it's starting to they're seeing fewer responses in those areas from clogs really. Um so it's like activia if you're the city. It's like gut health. Yeah. For the city. Sorry.
How do they get them? It's just a solution they pour into the manholes. Yep. Yep. So, that's the that's the exciting sewer news in September, unless I want to comment. Yeah, exactly. Um, just a couple things cleaning up from from the summer and thanks Rick for
the report and and thanks for the other one as well from from both Ernie and Rick. Um, we're pulling up all our beach mats, they'll all be removed by the end of September. Trash cans, what ones we have left because we lost quite a few from Hurricane Aaron. Um, boardwalk
shower removal by by October 1st. the uh restroom winterization by November 1st. So, those will be open until November up on the pier and around town. Um we've put a PO out for the pier and
court and the tennis court restroom signage. Um waiting for that for a little while. If you've been out by Titus Field, um Sandy Vasperino has finished the brick work out there. Um there's a couple things left to be done. There's a plaque that he's working on to thank the folks that really started the
recreation facility out there. Um he's working with that um with some of the the older folks that were around during that time. Some of them are still here, most of them are not. Um there's also those bees that I talked about our last couple times before. They're they're on
order along with the plaque. Um that's kind of it. Everything else is So Pure Masters are still working with heavy fishing volume like another week or two. That's true. Yeah. I think the the um the spots ran long, although it was empty this morning. Yeah.
Um Yeah. So, we'll see how long we keep the the peer masters up there, but we typically keep them up there till the third week in October. So, all right. That's all I have. Thank you. Commissioner Mento, do you have anything coming up? Still implementing a new payroll system
and it's coming along. I think we're going to be live shortly. Um, but I Amy and I did talk today, so don't rush it. There's any little thing in there, you're not 100%. Um, just take more time. So, that's that. Um, packs and
assessor. It's business as usual. We have some events coming up. This Sunday is Mja Mja, the pasta dinner at Red Room. Please pay attention to Facebook in case we have to cancel due to rain. It will be the next Sunday that occurs. Is there going to be a TV there?
There's not going to be a TV there. Oh, right. They schedule this on Eagle Sunday. There's gonna be a lot of people looking at their phones while they eat. I may be giving up my ticket to somebody. So, I think that someone else can go.
October 19th is Eagles Tailgate uh in conjunction with the BBA at Ski Beach, 11:00 a.m. pregame, 1 p.m. game. October 26 is our Halloween Fest at Ski Beach, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. And then that takes in December. And because they're such magnificent events, I'm going to
mention them even though we have another month. So December 5th, 67 is parade weekend. We have the tree lighting on December 5th. And um we are honored to have make an appearance. Um probably their first appearance is the Margate
Community Church um bell choir and they are amazing, amazing, amazing. Um the sixth is our parade and the seventh there's events for um families at I think at um doing ice cream and a couple other things but we have it all
posted. Yep. And look for the information. Um one other thing Rick Rick's got something there. October the 4th is our second shredding textile collection event. Yes, that's ski beach
and um yeah, shredding and textiles. So, so materials, clothing, flip blocks, old luggage. Yep. Thank you. Stuff that would go in landfills. Repurpose it there and shredded. We thought adding one at the end summer.
Special events committee thought adding it at the end of the summer was prudent. A lot of people clean their houses out after the summer. We wanted to capture that stuff from going out to the landfill. Yeah. And we moved that from Newport to Ski Beach. Yes. Um as we did the first one. So, thank
you. I should have had that on here, but I didn't. Um December 10th is our New York City bus trip. It's Christmas spectacular, and I believe there there's two buses going up, and I believe there's still some open seating. December 15th is the city hall lighting,
and that's always very, very nice. And then December 19th, Santa on the fire truck, which I love. Um, and that's that's it for now. Oh, wounded warrior. We we uh honored the wounded warrior on September 17th.
It rained, so there was no parade. And we we went to Longport City Hall and met Chase Tantum and his family. He had five children. Big family. Big love family. Um, it was emotional. I felt I was
emotional. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. And um a lot of people showed up and they a little barbecue for for them and it was just really a nice hometown event and I hope they had a great time in our three cities and they left here on Tuesday.
Yeah. Really nice. Thanks. Yeah. And the voting for best of the press, best speech, best concert venue, library and football court ended yesterday. So keep your fingers crossed. get all those emails anymore in the text
to vote for everybody. Great. Thank you. Um I'll just follow with the we I have been to the the uh Titus Field that sign that um is being finished is looking great. Um the Viking Rowing Club received uh a donation from
the Pluty family for um after the Beach Patrol Hall of Fame and um event of a new uh rowing shell from the Palut family and be named after it's a brand new Vespole 8 um which we're putting to good use this fall um headra season. Um
the uh um lifeguards will have a update. They don't have it yet, but at the next meeting, I'll have an update of their um they had a very busy summer. Um and as always, uh really um uh you know,
reflected the city in a in a positive way. I think um uh you know, the new chief's got some great programs going. His his uh his team seems to really be jelling over there. So, I'll have those those do those numbers for you at the next meeting. And then um I'll just
comment briefly. I want to thank Rick for meeting me out on site doing a couple of walkthroughs now for um tree plantings. Um we did a uh we have a grant for tree inventory that we're now uh we we coordinated with the uh
arborist and and the plant and the contract that we have with Bayiew to do the planning so that they'll uh there will be uh they'll do the inventory after this planning group is done. But we'll have somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 trees or so going in to sort of s
make the the tree plantings symmetrical and new. They'll also be upgrading the the the planting areas around each tree so that they'll have a uh small curb and and native species plants around it. It'll all be um he's also part of his
contract is to water them for 20 for 12 months so that they take hold and they'll go into dormcy through October. So, I have a I have a This has been a long time chasing this, but we'll have them in by October planted and dormant throughout the winter. And then we
should have a really nice attractive group of planning from uh from uh all the way from um the edge of I guess um Nashville Market all the way to the end of that district
and then picking up again in uh around the Dunkin Donuts all the way to uh the Troy Avenue school and then two more late entries at the Sundays and um tanning salon block on that block. So, they'll all be kind it'll be a big it'll be a big improvement and they're all
going to be species that are approved and list by the the hard work that the green team did. So, there's been a lot of coordination for for something like this and in the long run I think it's going to be something I think we can all be proud of. um mentioned something too. You reminded me
of on Dorset Avenue the businesses that have embraced our um containers flowers planters. They're beautiful. They're flowers. Yep. Nice. Yeah, they really took care of them. And one of the things following following up on that,
I've asked Dino to kind of talk to the business owners at a lot of those other ones that are not so wellmaintained, not just on Dorset, that if they're going to stay there, they're going to have to maintain them. If not, we're going to remove them. Um, and even the areas that have the trees in them, once that goes
in, they're supposed to maintain like if they have little plants in the bottom of them or whatever, the grass and the sidewalk, all notices are going to go out for those to talk to those property owners. We'll take care of the curb side, you know, inside the road, from the curb out in, but from the curb to
the properties is the property owners responsibility. So, they'll be getting some polite notices. Um, just not really even warning letters, just a letter going out saying, "Hey guys, remind you to to trim these this grass up." And now is a good time to start it. I I mean, I think it's better than when
you guys first came into office. Yeah. But needs improvement. Yeah. Yeah. What do you call whiskers or whiskers? Whiskers. Public works guys call them whiskers because they look like little when they come up through the cracks, the weeds. Yeah. Whiskers. There's something else
that we did notice that is apparent. There's so many plaques, memorial plaques around. Some of them are just overgrown. Families must have donated these plaques many years ago. Yeah. So, we have a couple that came off the street. Yep. So, one of the things would be also for
us to maybe refurbish these at least, you know, sand blast them and just put a coat of paint on them so they're presentable. But they're very dated and they've been in in these tree pits for a long time. and you know just neglected for whatever reason. So that's another thing. We'll have an inventory of where every marker
is at what street in front of what address and then we're going to have one of the guys come through and just you know pull it, strip it of the paint that's there and just put proper paint on it so they're at least visible. But we have a lot there's a lot of those memorial plaques around.
Yeah. Yeah. When Rick and I were out with the contractor, we did make a point to go to and we actually ran into some of the the restaurant owners and business owners to tell them it was in the works to let them know that, you know, that they were that some of them were happy to see it because there are some trees that were literally just
hanging on by a thread. And then we did I will just say to the point that Lance you pointed out and that that they're maintained. Vince's barber shop was actually was actually out there putting uh uh putting new plants into his space.
So we didn't have the I kind of didn't have the heart to say we're going to tear out your rose bush that he really was taking really really taking care of his place out. So he'll he's going to have a little bit he's not he's a serious gardener and he really really was. You could just tell he was not. He was there. He was there um taking care
of his Yeah. I think there were some tomato plants in there too somewhere. It was like a tw It was like a two foot square. But I I think we do need to be careful to notify the people where you're doing these plantings and where you're doing a 12-month deal for maintenance and
watering. If we're planting native plants, you don't want these people going out thinking they're weeds and pulling them out. So, so we need to educate everybody as to what they can and can't do in terms. Yeah, it'll be it'll be they look like a weed to you, but we
planted it as a native species and leave it alone. I agree. Some of those grasses do look like they're they do look like weeds, but they're not. And so, I think there's some they're going to have some color to them, some are not. But the the trees themselves are depends on the season, right? In the spring, they may not look like much, but
by August they're beautiful. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think he said two inch diameter two inch by down trees. That's a good It's a good hearty size. Looking forward to it. I think it'll be something that we can all at the spring. You'll I think we'll
It's a good start. You have a lot more You have a lot more money appropriated for this. Good. Um that would uh any other comments? No. No. Um, so, uh, I have a motion to open
the meeting for public comment. So, moved. Second. Roll call. Cindy. Commissioner Langra. Yes. Commissioner Mento. Yes. Mayor Creable. Yes. So, at this point, we we um we invite anyone to have a a comment about any um
specific agenda item or uh during the workshop or the regular session or uh any um anything that's veterated. Is there anyone in the Zoom platform that has any comments um or public comments? Anybody on Zoom has wish to comment on
any item, please make yourself known within the chat feature or by raising your hand and you will be recognized. Nope. No. Seeing none and seeing only Rick in the audience here, I guess we have no other comments. Uh, can we have a motion to close public comment?
So moved. Second. Roll call. Cindy. Commissioner Langrath. Yes. Commissioner Mantto. Yes. Mayor Creable. Yes. Seeing no executive session. Correct. I have a motion to adjurnn. I make a move. Motion to adjurnn meeting.
Second. Have a roll call. Cindy. Commissioner Langrath. Yes. Commissioner Mento. Yes. Mayor Creable. Yes. Meeting J.