Welcome to AT&T. No problem. No problem. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Mr. Sheff here. Mr. Franco, I'm here. Mr. Cabera, I am here. In compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act, chapter 231, public
law 1975, the notice requirements have been satisfied as to the time, place, and date of holding said meeting by posting notice on the bulletin board here in Burough Hall and by emailing the same to the Herald of Cape May County and the press of Atlantic City on October 15th, 2025.
In the event of a major hurricane, tornado, or any other natural disaster, emergency exit is the door you came in, your uh back right or front left, or just by the American flag. A couple quick announcements. This meeting is being uh live streamed today on the
Burough's Facebook and YouTube channel. We're going to do a quick sound check. Mr. Knif, are we good to go? All right. Looks like we got the thumbs up. Um, those of you who are watching this meeting live and you would like to make a public comment, you can dial in at the
dial in access code 888 3634734. And when prompted, you're going to enter the access code 96920 followed by the pound or the hashtag. In the event you watch the recorded version of this meeting and you have uh
questions or comments, you're more than welcome to email our clerk at clerk wildwoodrest.org or phone her at 6097298040. Uh with respect to public comment, I will once again read an overview of the open public meetings act. Um I just
wanted to let everyone know that you're able to express your opinion and when you do, you're going to come up to the microphone here. those of you who are in the audience and we do not need your address. We just need your name. You can share your opinion and your concern, personal experiences, and information.
You can certainly ask a question, but we're not obligated to answer if obviously if we don't have the information. You can certainly make suggestions. What's not allowed are personal texts, obscenity, and slanderous remarks. Um, and no attacking any burough employees or other
individuals. Please no names and be cognizant of the fact that you are allowed to express your opinion but for the public's uh consideration. Not all opinion is fact. Um any disruptive or dis no disruptive or disorderly conduct. No filler busting or hijacking uh this
meeting. Uh there is a 5m minute time limit. And again you're going to come up to the podium and we just need your name. All right. That's the quick overview on the down and dirty of the open public meetings act. Madame clerk. Can we move forward on the ordinances please? Yes sir. So the first ordinance is
ordinance 1469 and it reads as follows. An ordinance to amend section 59-3 of the code of the Burrow of Wildwood Crest known as the salary ordinance fixing and determining salaries and compensations of the Burrow of Wildwood Crest and
providing for the raising of the amounts thereof by taxation and for the time and method of payment. Motion that ordinance number 1469 be passed on first reading advertised according to law be brought up for second and final reading public hearing on October 22nd, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
Second. It has been moved and seconded that ordinance number 1469 be passed on first reading advertised according to law be brought up for second and final reading and public hearing on October 22nd, 2025 at 5:00 pm. Roll call. Mr. Schiff, yes.
Mr. Franco, yes. Mr. Cabera. Yes. Next we have the resolutions. The first is authorizing a shared services agreement with the Kate May County Municipal Utilities Authority for solid waste disposal and recycling services
commencing January 1, 2026 and expiring on December 31st, 2026. A motion. I will second. It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mr. Schiff. Yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. Mr. Cabera. Yes. Next is authorizing acceptance of
the calendar year 2025 best practices inventory and authorizing the appropriate burough officials to execute same motion. I will second. It's been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mr. Schiff. Yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. Mr. Cabrera.
Yes. Next is amending, supplementing, and restating the 2025 Burrow of Wildwood Crests Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual. Motion it. Second. It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mr. Schiff.
Yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. Mr. Cabera. Yes. Next is authorizing advertisement of a notice to biders for rental of beach concession at approved locations for sale of ice cream, ice cream products, and bottled water only. Motion. I will second.
It's been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mr. Schiff. Yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. Mr. Cabera. Yes. Next is authorizing advertisement of a notice to biders for rental of beach concession at approved locations for beach umbrellas, beach chairs, and
approved flotation devices only. Motion. I will second. It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mr. Schiff. Yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. Mr. Cabrera. Yes. Next is authorizing advertisement of a notice to biders for beach
concession at approved locations for ocean surf camp and water safety instruction program. Motion it second. It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mr. Schiff. Yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. Mr. Carrera. Yes. Next is authorizing the appointment
of Carmen Alamino as a member of the Wildwood Crest Backbay Dredging Advisory Committee for term commencing immediately and expiring December 31st, 2026. A motion it second. It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll
call. Mr. Schiff, I have a quick question on that. How many members are on that committee right now? Six? I don't know. It's six. Yeah, six or this could be the seventh. Okay. Just want to know. Uh I'm a yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. Mr. Cabera. Yes.
Just give me a second to write that note there. Next is authorizing expenditure to purchase a 2026 Ford F350 cab and chassis extended cab 4x4 pickup truck for the public works department under state contract in the amount of 90,933.
I'll motion it. I'll second. It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mr. Schiff. I have another question there. I thought we were going to be going into leases. I didn't really think that we should be putting out that kind of money. I don't know what happened there.
Uh it's Do you want me go ahead? So, in response to that, this um this vehicle is for the valve um exerciser. So, it is going to be used for the sewer department to open and shut the valve. So, we do have to um basically put the
exerciser and and mount it onto the vehicle. I was Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you. Yeah, no problem. Okay. Mr. Shiff, is that a yes? Yes. Yes. Mr. Franco. Sorry. Yes. And Mr. Cabera. Yes. Lastly is authorizing the Bureau of Wildwood Crest to enter into a contract
for national cooperative purchasing with the by board cooperative purchasing program. I'll motion it. I'll second. It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mr. Schiff. Yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. Mr. Cabera. Yes. Motion that all bills properly
authorized estimate be paid. Can I get a second? Okay. It has been moved and seconded that all bills properly authorized as submitted be paid. Roll call. Mr. Schiff. Yes. Mr. Franco. Yes. And Mr. Cabera. Yes. Okay. Uh under correspondence. Nothing
listed. Uh discussion. Uh more of a just a reminder for everyone. So the November 19th meeting has been moved to November the 18th. Uh the time for that meeting is is uh 9:30. Just for purposes of uh everyone's uh knowledge is just Lar the
meetings in November December are all in the morning meetings. There's no evening meetings in November and December. Okay. Uh under old business uh we'll just breeze through that. Uh box truck ordinance. Uh Mr. Mayor, you forgot the go blue camp. Sorry.
Oh, it's at the top again. Sorry about that. I couldn't couldn't forget. We have a special guest here in the audience today from the public works department, Julia Tate and uh superintendent cheer to give a presentation on the go blue campaign.
Ready? Morning and governing body. As part of the go blue can recycle program, DPW is welcoming Waw Crest residents to join the campaign. The first phase of the program is ask Wrests to visit our household trash and recycling facility located at 120 West
Newark Avenue. Monday through Friday, 7 am to 2 PM, residents can visit the facility with their free recycle permit and current red recycle can. If you don't have one, you can purchase, you can grab yours at the Crest Arts Pavilion. They are also open uh Monday
through Saturday 9 to 4. Residents can visit the facility with their red I already read that sorry. At the facility, we will exchange one can per household. A program has been established to reuse and recycle the collected red cans while earning recycling credits. You can keep your
extra red can until we roll out our second phase in late October. DPW will swap out your red can curbside during a recycling collection day. Blue is the universally accepted color for recycled containers and our goal is to go blue burwide by early spring. Additionally,
we've teamed with Terraycle, who is creating a recycled plastic statue from recycled rigid plastics and the red cans exchanged to craft a display statue at the Crest Arts Pavilion building. Also, DBW has designated a specific dumpster at the recycling facility to collect
rigid materials for the sculpture until the end of November. Please spread the word and help help us collect as many beach toys and rigid plastics for our new sculpture coming next spring. Please contact us with any questions. 609-5227446. Okay. Uh governing body, any questions
for the public uh from public works on the go blue campaign? Thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Just just to clarify, Brian, what are the hours for the picking up of the arts pavilion? I I don't I think in the offseason, what are our offseason hours? 9. The Ars Pavilion The Arts Pavilion is
now open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 2. Got it. Was closed Wednesday and Sunday. We did, however, bring a stack of recycling tags here to Barrow Hall. So, if you can't
get to the art during those hours, you can come to Barrow Hall during their regular business hours and get them from the clerk's office. Okay. Yeah. All right. Everybody got it? All right. And uh maybe we can just put out another information bite on that social media and andor press release and
we can all share it internally. All right. So that wraps up the go blue campaign. Uh thank you public works for doing that. Um I just want to add so this movement to the blue. So if you everyone goes back if you remember you spend any time on the beach you'll remember that there were there was a
pretty big push back in the early 2000s to have red red recycling cans out on the beach and red recycling cans which is what we're talking about here today. making that change over to the nation and n and the county accepted blue color. Um the blue cans I think as as
Julie indicated are being purchased um by the recycling grant. Um so that is the purpose of us to make to move move that change over. You may also those some of those parks and the street end trash cans that were the gray and blue the the heavy tower cans they were um
we're try we're switching those over have already been switched over so that the blue matches the recycling there and the gray is for the trash so we can be in compliance and I want to thank public works for their leadership and getting the burrow writing that ship um from the sins of the past. So thank you. All
right, any other questions on the on the love blue campaign or I'm sorry the blue campaign. All right. uh under old business uh box chocolate ordinance. Uh we're just waiting for some additional comments on that from the PD. Uh 250th
birthday committee. A reminder that we're still seeking uh volunteers to serve on the country's 250th birthday committee which again next year uh 2026 would be that year. Um I had some initial conversation with the
recreation and the tourism department about setting up a meeting or looking at that meeting to be held at some point uh towards the end of uh November. Um the crest municipal app is on hold pending uh next year's budget. Uh historical museum will have a presentation on what
we have on hand in the near future. Uh nothing to report uh on the traffic calming. We're just waiting for uh information from the grant. Back beach excavation is also on hold. Um but I did mention at the last meeting and I'll reiterate it here again today.
Uh public works uh with the help of Lommax Environmental Consulting will be placing snow fence and posts out on the beach especially in the low-lying areas to naturally build up the sand. In the spring the post and the snow fence will be removed. the sand will be excavated
to fill in the low-lying areas, which is much much much more less expensive than using heavy equipment to move the sand. So, I want to make sure that the public understands what what we're doing in that regard. All being done um to save the burrow a lot of money. Uh nothing to
report on dredging New Jersey Avenue infrastructure pre- county. Uh that work should be starting here on New Jersey Avenue. Mr. Delasio next week probably um at the request of the burough in the next two weeks. Two weeks. Okay. Uh Washington CU
beachfall, we're just waiting to hear on the uh the FEMA grant. Army Corps and D, there's been no movement on that. That's at a at a standstill. Uh Burough Hall renovations, we're just waiting to hear from the architect, that's also on hold. fishing pier. Nothing new to report
other than that the open space program of the county uh made a recommendation to the board of commissioners to award wa crass 2.5 million but we have not been formally uh formally informed of that as of yet. Um
trees on Atlantic Avenue that information was sent I believe over to uh our environmental consultant and also the planning board. Correct. Okay. Uh governing body, anything under old business you'd like to add, comment on? Oh, the green team should weigh. I think we were told on the last one, right, Trish? I sent it to Okay, you did.
Yep. That's all. Okay. Yeah. The one thing I wanted to say was the box truck ordinance. It's been there a while. Uh the police have made their comments, Brian. I believe they were on your desk somehow or another. So, either
I'd like to take that off of there or just uh have a report whenever you can. I uh I didn't mean to drop that on you. No, I'll take I'll take a look at it. Yeah, I'll touch base with the department. Thank you.
Okay, that wraps up the uh uh old business. We're going to go with anybody here in the audience for public comment. Again, just please just come up to the podium. Just need your name. Do not need your address. Good morning. My name is Michelle Schaefer and I had a couple questions about the ice cream contract. Will it be
remaining the same the three years with the 2year option? Uh I don't have the copy of the specs for me. I I believe the setup is similar to what it was before. Okay. And water is included in the contract with ice cream. Correct. Okay. and your bidding process. When you
are entertaining bids, if someone has an outside relationship with one of the vendors, are they recused from bidding or do or from voting or do they vote? What is your your voting process, I guess, is my question.
Well, so so the bidding process is basically gives out the bid, right? That I understand. And then then whoever based on the specs uh wins the bid. Um, only after that would any any approval be voted upon or approved by the by the governing body. Okay. But everyone votes on it
regardless of their relationship with a vendor. Yes. Okay. That was it. Thank you, gentlemen. Yep. Where do you live? Uh John Roman from Marie representing Maurice Flower Shop. We uh got wind that
you're going to be the two the defunct houses at the end of uh uh New Jersey and Civ Crocus. Crocus, right? Is it uh eventually going to be turned into a parking lot? So, we're we're still weighing out that. So, just to go back and reiterate, um we
had had it for sale. We didn't get any biders. So right now the the governing body has made no decision to to to sell the lot. Now after that unsuccessful attempt to sell it. So right now it's the decision is to just keep it safe and maintain it.
Um at the last meeting there was some discussion on the burrow potentially moving towards the purchase of the house next to that, right? Uh so that we could because we really need that we need that parcel in order to have a parking lot that would work, right? Um, so we're just waiting to hear
back on what that potential scenario could look like and the price. Obviously, you know, like parking scenario with that 20 minute parking zone with the jellyfish across the street, our shop, uh, Mr. Hall's place, you know, it's like it's nightmare in the summertime, you know, you know, trying to like for
me, I do the driving. The people in here know me. But anybody uh, it just would be good. The parking lot would be nice, right? Do you have when you say for you do the driving, so getting in and out of the store? Yeah. for you. Yeah. In other words, like, you know, when I have to do a wedding or a
funeral, like, you know, besides normal deliveries, is it Yeah, I can't park in front of the shop, those five minutes to just to load the van up and go. I have to park someplace else. Maybe we can maybe we can talk to the PD about getting you a drop off, a temporary drop off spot, pick up and drop off spot. Okay.
Similar to what you have at some of the hotels, they come in, when they check in, they grab their keys, and they go. Yeah. Because like I say, nobody really, you know, like I say that, you know, we've called in complaints, you know, you know, to the police and they do their job well, you know, but the uh the people, you know, just as a mute point.
It's every every weekend, every weekend during the whole summertime. Gotcha. Okay. Commission, can you uh look into that? Go ahead. Okay. Thank you, gentlemen. Ladies, don't laugh again. Just trying to keep it light.
Anybody else? Hello, Joe Vcomi. I want to on the trees on Lank Avenue. I thought that maybe the burrow could somehow uh coordinate people that want a tree curbside could somehow work it out doing the saw cutting for the concrete and
maybe coordinate that to encourage people to put the trees. Years ago, I put a tree in curbside and I saw cut out the concrete and jack hammered out the concrete. And for the average homeowner, that would be beyond their skill level. So maybe to prod that along a little bit
if there was a homeowner that do wants a tree, maybe offseason we could work that along with uh maybe even an outside contractor that would give a group price to anybody that would want that. Uh such a suggestion because I know it came up at a meeting and it would become the homeowner's responsibility to maintain
the tree. Uh but even the thought of starting it out, put removing whatever existing concrete's there and doing the planning. So maybe uh that would be one option of seeing how many people were really interested in it and then helping out coordinate that.
Right. So Joe, just to clarify, so you're saying if the burrow were to provide the trees and the access or I guess the to put the tree in, they have to remove the concrete or whatever is necessary. And then from that point, once the treerees planted, then the burrow of the property owner would take
care of it from there. And this would start off with a property owner that says, "Look, I do want a tree, but I'm not sure I I know how to go about it." And it might even be the burrow not getting involved in it, but barrerow finding a couple contractors that would privately work with the homeowner to say, "We'll plant a tree for x amount.
We'll remove the concrete and plant a tree." So most of the landscapers can saw, cut, and remove concrete because they do it when they do pavers and all. So it would just be maybe that that hurdle for some I know my wife and I walk all the time when when you're walking down the street and there's a tree there. It's like 20 degrees cooler
under the tree. It's just remarkable the difference. So uh just there's a possibility to get people over that hurdle of of getting rid of the concrete plant the tree. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks Joe. Anybody else?
Anybody on the conference line have any public comments? Okay, hearing no comments. Yes, sir. Mayor, I'll be sending you and the governing body an email after the meeting today just to inform you that the um the burrow won a first place award for the New Jersey Society
Municipal Engineers uh category one first place for the Crest Arts Pavilion renovation and landscaping. Congratulations. Congratulations to the burrow for a large meal. I could tell a story on that project,
but I'll save that for save that for another day. But I know it's some of the some of our residents uh most favorite building in the burrow. So it's a labor of love engineering in the burrow and public works and recreation and everyone that goes into getting it taken care of. But so that award will be given up at the League of Municipalities this November.
So there's a lunchroom for that. So the burrow would be invited to come and take a photograph and receive the award. Is it a black tie event? Negative. Negative. Negative rider. All right. Anybody else before we wrap this up? Conference line. Last call. All right.
Hearing none. Can I get a motion? Motion. Can I get a second? Second. All in favor? I