Hey Brian, how you doing? Jake, I'm call [clears throat] >> No, I I should have just gone for the picture or whatever, but like I just >> I think I was at a basketball game.
>> I think I was at a basketball game. >> They played the big boys played You got to go watch them play. >> I That's what >> the other teams get. >> So crazy.
>> It's so like I go just to watch that. You're the only one I can pull off a tan suit in the summertime. >> First time. >> Yes. To join the conference as the host please enter your host.
>> There are participants on the call including you. You're joining your conference as the host for a minimum of available commands. >> I got five o'clock. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the [clears throat] republic for which it
stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Roll call. Mrs. Felero, >> here. >> Mr. Franco, >> here. >> Mr. Cabrera, >> I am here. In compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act, chapter 231, PL1
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 mailing and emailing same to the Herald of Cape May County and the press in Atlantic City on September 24th, 2025. Should we rise?
All rise. >> All rise. [laughter] >> Attorneys in the house. in the event of an emergency, emergency exit is the door which you came in just by our police officer and the door to our right just by our CFO. Um
just a couple quick announcements. We're going to do a sound check. Mr. Kiff, how are we sounding? To all our folks watching from uh uh remotely. Um this being this meeting is being shown live on the burrow's Facebook page and the YouTube channel. If anyone would like to call in and make a public comment,
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clerk at walacress.org with any questions or phone her at 609729 8040. Madame clerk, we have no ordinances. So, I look like we're moving right to resolutions. >> Yes, sir. The first is authorizing
burrow engineer work order for sanitary sewer improvements park boulevard phase 2 NJ infrastructure bank NJIB fiscal year 2027 clean water application for survey engineering design phase and permitting services at the not to exceed
sum of 185,000. >> I make the motion. >> Honorable second. >> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Felero. >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabera. Yes. >> Next is authorizing refund of an EMS overpayment. >> I make the motion. >> Second.
>> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Fosero. >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabera. >> Yes. >> Next is authorizing amendment to the 2026 municipal budget to account for additional funding from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
for the recycling tonnage grant. >> I make the motion. >> I will second. >> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Felero, >> yes. >> Mr. Franco, >> yes. >> Mr. Cabera, >> yes. >> Next is waving special events application additional fees and burrow
support fees to Amanda's Wish Foundation for a memorial 5K run family walk taking place on September 20th, 2026 from 7 to 10:00 a.m. >> I make a motion. >> I will second. >> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll
call. Mrs. Fusso? >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabbera. >> Yes. >> Next is authorizing award of contract to Cape May County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Inc., also known as Cape Assist, for employee assistance program. >> I make the motion.
>> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Felero? >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabarus? >> Yes. >> Next is cancelling interest on 2023, 24, 25, and 2026 misapplied sewer payments.
I make the motion. >> I will second. >> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Felero. >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabera. >> Yes. >> Next is authorizing a shared services agreement with the Kate May County Municipal Utilities Authority for solid
waste disposal and recycling services commencing January 1, 2027 and expiring December 31st, 2029. >> I make the motion. >> I will second. >> Has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Felero, >> yes. >> Mr. Franco,
>> yes. >> Mr. Cabera, >> yes. >> Next is supporting Love Blue, Inc.'s submission of the sustainable communities grant application funded by Atlantic City Electric. >> I make the motion. >> I will second. >> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll
call. Mrs. Felero. >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabera. >> Yes. Next is authorizing refund for peer playmates camp fee for $525 for 2026 session 1 made payable to Natalie Ins. >> I make the motion second.
>> It's been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Felero. >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabera. >> Yes. >> Next is amending the Youth Advisory Council resolution number 26-183 to allow for membership to consist of at
least seven members. I make the motion. >> Second. >> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Fusselo. >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabera. >> Yes. >> Next is authorizing advertisement of a notice to biders for the Wildwood Crest Fishing Pier. >> I make the motion.
>> I will second. >> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Feloro. >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabera. >> Yes. Lastly is authorizing a licensing agreement between the Burrow of Wildwood Crest and Backyard Baseball Blue Claws 9
under for the use of Higgies and Morris Fields for youth baseball games and practice. >> I make the motion. >> Second. >> It has been moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted. Roll call. Mrs. Felero? >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco? >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabrera? >> Yes. >> Motion that all bills properly
authorized as submitted be paid. >> I second the motion. It has been moved and seconded that all bills properly authorized as submitted be paid. Roll call. Mrs. Fussero. >> Yes. >> Mr. Franco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cabera. >> Yes. >> Motion that all reports received from the court administrator, chief financial
officer, tax collector, chief of police, supervisor for the recreation department, construction official, and EMS supervisor for the month ending June 30th, 2026 be accepted as presented. >> I second the motion. It has been moved and seconded that all reports received from the court administrator, chief
financial officer, tax collector, chief of police, supervisor for the recreation department, construction official, and the EMS supervisor for the month ending June 30th, 2026 be accepted as presented. Roll call. Mrs. Fussellaro, >> yes. >> Mr. Franco, >> yes.
>> Mr. Cabrera, >> yes. Motion that all minutes from the commission's meeting dated June 17, 2026 and July 1st, 2026 be approved. >> I second the motion. >> It has been moved and seconded that all minutes from the commission meetings
dated June 17th and July 1st, 2026 be approved as presented. Roll call. Mrs. Felo, >> yes. >> Mr. Franco, >> yes. >> Mr. Cabrera, >> yes. Thank you, Trish. >> You're welcome. >> Okay, that brings us to our uh engineers report. We have this handsome young man here in front of us. just sporting his
tan jacket on looking nice, single, ready to mingle. Jake from State Farm, you're up. >> Got it. Uh good evening, mayor and council. Uh briefly go over uh the engineers report and provide an update on the ongoing projects that we have going on that are in progress and uh
yeah, I'll start with the capital projects starting with the Bayside bulkhead replacement and flood mitigation improvements. Uh there is no update uh for this project and the project is still in its closeout phase. Uh for reconstruction of Bayiew Drive, uh there is no update and the contractor
is still working on punchless pad or punchless items for the Crest Fishing Pier reconstruction. The project is scheduled to be advertised for a public bid on July 29th uh 2026 and bid opening is
scheduled for August 26 at 11 a.m. NJI bank. Uh there's no uh update to this project and um final reconstruction is complete and contractor still working on punch uh items for New Jersey Avenue
sanitary sewer and water imp main improvements. Uh there is an update and the contractor has demobilized for summer and will remobilize after summer to complete the remainder of the work which in which includes utility main work between Buttercup Road and Morning
Glory Road along with property side water service replacements as needed between Lotus Road and Morning Glory Road for fiscal year 2024. NJTCA small cities program press pier bathroom improvements construction will not begin until August
20th and will be completed by November 20th. Uh Centennial Park improvements there's no update to this project and the contractor still working on punch list items for fiscal year 2025 NJ dot municipal aid program reconstruction of Stockton
Avenue. Uh it's my understanding that the uh project will be um going on the next agenda for advertisement to bid and for fiscal year 2026 NJ dot muna program reconstruction of Denver Avenue.
The project is currently in the design phase. Uh there are no updates to uh existing grant applications. And that is all I have for my report. >> Okay. Governing body. Any questions for Jake? >> No sir. Thanks Jake. No, thank you.
>> Okay. Um, all right. Moving on. Nothing under uh correspondence, but I we're going to go on to public comments. I'll read my uh excerpt on that. Uh the open public meetings act requires that a portion of every meeting of a municipal governing body be set aside for public
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the record. All comments and questions should be addressed to the governing body as a whole and not to the individual members of staff. Each speaker will be limited to five minutes. Speakers may only speak once during this portion. Time cannot be yielded to another speaker. Speakers and members of the public are
expected to maintain proper decorum and shall civily make their comments. Personal attacks, obscenity, derogatory or slanderous remarks, and disruptive behavior will not be tolerated. I ask that you do not mention any of the employees by name. The governing body is
not required to respond to questions during the public comment period, but may choose to do so at the end of the session or refer inquiries to appropriate staff for followup at a later date. Comments should be related to any governmental issue affecting this municipality. For those participating
remotely, these same rules apply and you will be acknowledged by me and must state your name before making any comments. The chair reserves the right to interrupt the or terminate a speaker's privilege if the rules or decorum are violated or if comments become disruptive or exceed the time limit. I thank you in advance for your
cooperation ensuring a respectful and productive dialogue. I now open the floor for public comments and we'll start with anybody here in the audience today. >> Anybody on the conference line have any public comments? >> Uh, yes. Can you hear me? >> Yes, I can hear you.
>> Hi. Uh, this is uh Bernie Bolinsky. I live at 7901 New Jersey Avenue. >> Go ahead, Bernie. at the corner of New Jersey and Louisville. Um there was a probably like a 25 foot aluminum pole put up directly across the street from
my house last week and I just received an email um finally explaining what it is. It's supposed to be for security cameras. >> Yes. >> Uh I'm sorry I missed the meetings that it was discussed, but what what's the
purpose of this please? So along the lakefront, as you know, it receives a lot of uh uh ve uh motor or I call it water vehicle traffic. Um there's a lot of activity at the kayak launch. There's a lot of events that take place along the lakefront. So from
a uh uh security for all of that and also uh liability protection so that we have um can see what's going on there at any given time in the event there is an issue or an incident or or so forth we have um the documentation for that.
>> So are these cameras going to be live 24 hours a day? >> Yes. Can I can I just ask before you proceed with this, is there any more inconspicuous spot that you can put that that poll? I mean, it's right in the middle of the of the park. It's it's
it's hideous. >> Yeah. My understanding is the vendor uh that was awarded the job uh chose the locations that best have best access to the electric along the lakefront.
And this has been discussed for the last chief >> for a while year and a half to two years talking about that. >> So this isn't something new. >> So there's nothing you could do to to relocate that this pole.
>> Well, I think there's two poles along the lakefront. >> Yes, there are. Uh and with the uh vendors and the contractor, we had to do markouts. Uh we had to look for the electrical infrastructure. Um they had to worry about outfall pipes. Uh there
were numerous things that they had to worry about uh before we installed the poles and those were the best locations for what we were trying to capture by the uh security cameras. So >> where they where where they ended up and
they're >> I'm sorry. >> Go ahead. Chief Chief has given his given a a response to you and then as soon as he's done I'll I'll come back to you Bernie. >> They're cemented in with uh quite a bit of cement. They're not going anywhere.
>> Okay. Did Bernie did you hear that? >> Uh yes. Are the uh how many cameras are you going to be up and where are they going to be facing? >> There's So I know they're going to face north and south. They're they're not facing towards any of the residences.
They're going to face west, north, and south. >> Okay. All right. I guess if there's if there's nothing that could be done now, I mean, it's just uh just more and more stuff is just getting put up across the street
and it's it's uh between signs and polls and everything else, it's just getting very distracting. So, >> right, Bernie, and I >> my opinion, >> I understand this has been on the burrow's uh page for a while, for at
least two years that chief said it. So, this isn't something new. Yeah. And I and I take responsibility for that for not keeping up with the uh >> the agenda, but Okay. >> Yeah. It's a it's again Yeah. And you
live there, so I'm I'm sure you've seen the the number of activities that go on there. Um the the traffic in the water at the at the kayak launch, um the people that enjoy the lakefront and so forth. So, it's unfortunately it's the world we live in. you know, um you know, every ounce of prevention is what we
need to do to protect you as a taxpayer and all of our taxpayers um from any, you know, future claims and so forth. But it's again, it's purely public safety driven um and nothing more than that. >> Mayor, can I say something? >> Sure. >> Go ahead. Chief has one more comment.
>> Go ahead. Go ahead, Chief. So, uh, during this entire project, there's going to be, uh, security cameras put up at, uh, multiple park, uh, and municipal building locations. Um, unfortunately, there was nowhere to, uh, install these
cameras without putting those poles up at, uh, Sunset Lake. every everywhere else we had existing infrastructure that we could that we're going to be able to install those uh security cameras on, but at uh at the lake there was just nowhere for us to put them. So, we had
to erect those holes. >> Thanks, T. And I I believe we also we have existing location at the splash park as well. So, you'll see one very similar to that that's been that's actually been there for about two years now. Yes, but there will not be uh that one
has a um oh my gosh uh it has solar thank you solar panel. This one these ones will not. Thank you. Thank you Francine. >> All right, Bernie. Any other any other questions? >> No. Uh just if there if there's if
they're going to be monitor 24 hours a day, there is some activity uh over there at the at the boat launch that I get concerned about once in a while, especially on weekends and probably holiday weekends. It's not all the time, but uh if the cameras are going to be monitored and all, I would I would think
that the uh that the that the police would respond to uh uh any kind of activity that they don't uh think is safe. >> Go ahead, Chief. Uh, so they're not going to be monitored 247. Uh, we don't
have the staffing to to be able to monitor them 247, but they will be they will be recording 24/7, so we can go back and utilize video surveillance footage if need be. >> Bernie, did you hear that? So, they're not going to be monitored 247, but they
will be recording 247. >> I got it. Okay. I appreciate your uh I appreciate your response and uh and so thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else on the conference line with any public comments? >> Okay, we have one more crack at public
comments after we go through uh new business uh which is none listed. Uh old business historical museum is on hold. That's a follow-up after the summer. Uh back beach excavation is is still on hold pending. Uh we do have a meeting scheduled with the Army Corps and the D
for next week. Um so more to come on that. Um commissioner, anything on dredging? >> We had our first uh meeting with um for acquisition phase that we're planning on having one in the next few weeks to follow up with that. So
>> okay, uh Washington C viewfalls and capacity. I can tell you that we are getting closer to there's two separate grants here. One of the grants which would be is specific to the triangle area over on Park Boulevard
is moving closer to uh uh reality. Um all of our after a lot of uh work by our engineer and our professionals and our finance team and everybody involved. We finally got the application uploaded and and we're hoping to uh get some positive
news uh on a potential just a little under $4 million a award. So nothing's definite yet, but the application has been submitted. So um that will be something that we'll monitor uh very closely. All right. As I mentioned earlier, the Army Corp and D project um
is there's another meeting held uh or scheduled uh with them next week. So they just sent us some plans which he just I think came early this afternoon that I haven't had even had a chance to forward or even review yet. But uh we'll take care of that shortly. uh burough
hall renovations. Uh we're we uh um looking to schedule another meeting. We had to unfortunately um cancel the other one. Uh but we are looking to schedule another meeting in the very near future. All right. Last round of public comments. We'll again we'll start with anybody here in the audience. Mr. Blay,
do you have anything? Mr. Metler. >> Hello. >> Okay. Um wow, I just learned about those security cameras. That's good. Is it do they just do the um kayak ramp area or do they do the entire lake?
>> They're going to capture uh the entire lake to include uh New Jersey Avenue. >> Great. Great. Okay, that's good news. That's good news and that's kind of why I'm here. Um my name is Fred Metler. Uh
I live at 109 East Stan Road in Wildwood Crest. Um, I'm also the chairperson of the Wild Crest Backbay Dredging Committee, which was established back in 2014, right after Superstorm Sandy. Um, but that's not the capacity why I'm up here
right now. Um, I grew up uh as a child and a teenager uh on Stanton Road uh affiliated with the Wild Gable Yach Club and so I grew up on Sunset Lake. Uh, swimming, water skiing, boating, we did it all. Uh now, uh as I uh had a family,
I brought my two boys up on Sunset Lake and now you can see my grandkids out there wakeboarding on Sunset Lake. Um Sunset Lake this year, and I've shared this with Commissioner Franco.
Um for the past I don't know how many years, there's always been a jet ski rental business on Sunset Lake. Um this year that business went away
and what we've noticed is the lake is now being used which really it used to be used for before the jet ski rental and that is for boats to go out there and anchor for boats to use it for water sports. Um boats that are traveling
inter coastal to stop by for weeks at a time and anchor there. And every weekend um and even during the week, the number of boats that are in Sunset Lake is growing. I counted over a hundred boats
mored in Sunset Lake this past Sunday. Some of them morowed together, like eight boats together. Okay. They're out there just to enjoy the sun, enjoy the water, probably having some beverages, probably having some food,
but spending the entire day out there. And they're out there now because they don't have 10 jet skis going around a circle and making noise all day long. And I think it's great. I really do. You know, that doesn't mean that a jet ski company can't come back, but right now
the lake is being used. So, I just want to make sure that the town knows that Sunset Lake is going to continue to be used more and more and that we all know
that we have a um a death problem in in Sunset Lake um since Superstorm Sandy. And we've been working for the last 12 years in coming up with solutions to get Sunset Lake dredged. Okay. And then there's other
issues uh before that can be done. But I want to make sure that we are doing everything we can to secure whatever construction, dredging, purchasing of land or whatever because I
I think we have a very short window. Not that this can't happen down the road, but we have a very good window right now. If we don't take advantage of it, I think we're going to uh I think we're going to be sad about that. So, um I
don't I'm not asking any questions. I'm just informing you of what I've noticed and um and ask that both Commissioner Franco Francine uh continue your hard work on on getting these things done and um I
look forward to the day that uh I can stand up here and say that uh we don't have any judging problems anymore. Okay. >> Absolutely. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else public comment here in the audience?
conference line. Any public comment? Okay. Hearing none. Uh Trish, I think we have a close session resolution. >> I have a resolution for the board of commissioners authorizing executive closed session in accordance with the provisions of the Open Public Meetings
Act, specifically NJSA 104-12B, possible addition of a school resource officer and the potential hire for a deputy CFO. Can I get a motion? quotion.