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20th December the 7th of 2023 that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burrow office and that a copy has been filed to municipal clerk as a courtesy to the public this meeting may be attended via Zoom if for any reason the zoom portion of this meeting fails or is disconnected the inperson meeting will continue and action can and will be taken providing there is an inperson uh Quorum Mr Den Noble here Mr gubitosi here miss Mahoney here Mr Weber here mayor Fox here okay good good evening everybody um I I'll do our our commercial announcement to start and then we'll get going here uh I try to emphasize as at every meeting that although we welcome this agreement because it helps us think things through from a different perspective our voice should be constructive and we all want a brighter Bradley Beach and ask just to join us in that Journey ask everybody to gauge their tone going forward excuse me um we are all neighbors um M DeMarco excused tonight she's ill hopefully uh there's a bug going around and hopefully that's not caught up to her but uh hopefully she'll be back in uh tomorrow uh Welcome to our fifth meeting of the year we continue to celebrate women's History Month with a little March Madness uh congratulations to one of our summer residents Chris daily Chris is the um associate coach of University of Connecticut They just won the Big East tournament on Monday and they headed to the NCA tournament division one course has been a associate head coach at Yukon for some 35 years as an director's grad and she's had a house here or a condo here on on Ocean Park for some years now also want to congratulate another um woman leader on the sports world that's me barber she's the NYU women's basketball coach uh her team is playing playing in the division three final four tomorrow night uh in Columbus Ohio her team is 29 and0 and is the favorite to win the tournament they haven't gotten to the final four since 2007 so it's a big deal it's her fourth or fifth year so we wish those um women leaders success um in the coming weeks uh tonight uh we will as previously communicated be trying uh some new approaches to our meeting process uh this is our first uh off offal Department readout of an important team our our Public Works team which I see a number of the Public Works uh team in the building so that's great so if we have a detailed question we can point to those folks right over there yeah that's right uh in addition we have one of our key commissions the St tree commission is going to provide an update uh we'll continue uh we'll continue everybody we'll continue to ask everybody to help us with clock management another kind of March term and we' all ask you to uh work with us in the coming weeks and months on that so uh with that we've got um no workshops for tonight we do have two presentations the first as I said is the Department of Public Works uh this will be the first in the series uh I believe next month we're having Recreation followed by police I'm not sure but uh I know we've got a lineup I know uh bajio Kone who's been our public work supervisor for how many years years b a lot a lot of years well supervisor for for about six years six years supervisor yeah but a lot of years in total yeah I'm gonna get to that please don't mess up my and as I said there's a number of uh these key guys in the uh room and we uh we really appreciate what they do so I won't uh take any any more of your thunder G all along yeah so we've got two screens so you can just um I would got some handsome guys there hey uh yeah we need to get that yeah let's get all that stuff on the side off please thank you okay you're gonna introduce Andrew too right yeah okay will so Andrew and I have gone over this adalum the last three or days and Som so to do do the best this is not our strong best can um for those of you not know onor works I just contined my 28th year on March 1st and i' like to thank the residents of this community governing allow me to raise my family and you guys have been very respectful to me throughout the years I like to feel like I've been that back um so thank you very much I'd like to thank my Public Work employees my men and women of my my department my supervisor Patrick Allen has been with me for he's been here 27 years I couldn't do it without him um I have Dana my office manager without her Andrew myself and Patrick will be lost that's a fact um and I want to thank everybody else you know for my sanitation department you know to myal employees to my street department employees I just want to say thank you because without them you know we would not look as good as we do ab um my name is D I'm the San for for public Wars I've been in this position for six years now uh pretty much after G took over um you know it's I'm on my 17th year now for the bur and honestly I love my job I love the town it's a privilege to work in this town every day and you know I look forward to many many more years just just a quick little and we're not going to take up tooo much time just a little quick side note when I took over we kind of had the sanitation cross upon us and um I went into Andrew I said Andrew I think this J will be perfect for you um make us look good was a very simple conversation I think consistency is the most important treat the residents with respect and I think he's absolutely done that with his employees that work so hard for him that makes everybody presentation I'm 53 this is the first one I'm doing you're up again in October so would like to start with our project and capabilities uh we'll start with the common AB center we had um issues there um which created some uh mod issues and we work hand in hand with the remediation company um when they completed their work there was shrock obviously that had to be removed ceiling tiles that were removed throughout the entire building um molding taken off a flooring taken off windows that had to be reset um we had a rewrap on the HVAC so that the building is comfortable for everyone that works there for the seniors that go there all my friends and uh you know basically the the men and women did an amazing job for that um silven Lake we take care of I have some notes so silen Lake you know we did a parch maintaining wall a few years back um we also installed the sprinkler system for the logs and we do a seasonal planting every year uh to try to make that look as good as we possibly can um flet Lake bridge with the assistance of Le Public Works uh we reconstructed the entire Bridge it's a little hairy at times we had to work out of we almost fell in a few guys but we got it done and uh absolutely came out amazing and I can't thank the the men and women enough for for their for their work on that um the recreation center we remodeled that about three years ago it was about three years three years ago so we had a major water leak that destroyed a lot of it and uh we rebuilt it and uh it was a long time yeah it was a long time some so that was that was basically a complete gut the Main Street take care of the papers in front of our our you know home buildings Rec Center we take care of the curbs and also we do some Road repairs uh the beach R we we've installed new stairs sidewalks we did the pads as you can see here to make it a little easier for people to get to the showers and to get to the m mat and we try to do we can in that ASP um Parkplace Avenue Su and asshol project is going on currently we're assisting the contractor uh and Engineers anything that we can do to make that job easier uh we do um Lake Ferris Park that that's going on currently um again work side by side with them and and just to try and make it get done as quickly as possible so everyone who wants to enjoy that Park we'll have the opportunity to do so um capabilities so we have uh we do a lot of our own electrical work in house um we do our own hbac we have a plumber not a licensed plumber but we have plumbers that know as much as licens plumbers we have a mechanic on staff who's actually our longest current 10e employee Mar grah has been here 29 years one year more than I have um he's still a go-to guy and I appreciate him every single day um apartment Tre we have apartment do staff uh Mas unfortunately I've been doing that for way too long my buy and Sh we and fair on that um sewer maintenance so that our sewer lines run properly um and again project management we can you know go to that as far as the Parkplace Avenue project terce project and customer service is always first and foremost how what we do and we I mean we have a lot of time with that are interchangeable with a lot of these you know these these talents you know guys that are you know landscapers plumers little know they know a little bit of everything so you know we're uh we're pretty lucky to have um this is from departmental responsibilities I'm G to leave TR to the end I'm G let say a few things on that that we um Building Maintenance obviously we have you know a bunch of buildings in pwn that we we make sure we maintain and and you know make it safe for all the residents of the community um and for the employees um snow removal it doesn't snow anymore so I know we should put take that off leveling of the Lakes we are prominent in in um flut Lake and silver Sil Lake as far as when storms are coming I discussed with in um and we go over you know when we should lower it how much we should lower it we don't base it on how many inches of rain we're getting it depends on how high the water table is so there's a lot of factors that go into that that you know we really take into account um but that's very important we saw we had that stor September 29th was 10 in of rain you been repeating to not have that flow at that point um sidewalks we construct sidewalks we do our seasonal planting uh obious we have le and brush pick up we just started brush Actually March we got pick up so there's two remember special events um we we help and assist any of the committees or you know any organizations that that have events we work side by side with them do the best we can to make it as successful as possible we uh so also we we do do a lot of work with the insurance company that the burrow um has and we make sure that we meet all o standards and all of our equipment um and you know make sure it's safe for the men and women of our department and for the residents of of the community that's absolutely first and foremost um and we also work with the engineers on this page uh I mean TR recycling we you know we I've said a little bit before about it you I don't need to get into we're out there 5 days a week you know these guys sitting out here they work their asses off excuse my language matter um but they you know they're out there in every kind of weather rain snow heat and uh honestly yeah like you said before they make us look good so I just want to thank you guys okay so by the way I have to thank Michelle for putting this together he 100% was instrumental and doing this when they said he wanted to do a PowerPoint like what is that and Michelle help out so thank you Michelle uh Municipal collaboration so I I have to be completely honest I've been here again 28 years I don't have to keep repeating that but I've never had had a better relationship with these Burrows as if we have today it's it's unbelievable we work side by side DM we just assisted them at their St Patrick's state parade we've done that every year now for I don't want to say could be long but it's been quite a while um when they had a a sand issue on the beach front you know Belmore doesn't have the luxuries we have on our beach from with with bulkheading and and our Big D they're saying those right up to the boardwalk they had sand all over their Boardwalk so we assisted them on that they do all the mechanical work on the jet vac which is our sewer maintenance truck they do all the mechanical work on that so we work side by side Avon listen they right that us there isn't anything we don't do for each other uh Neptune big big you know big company there they do tremendous amount for us they've uh videotaped a lot of our sewer lines which has helped us and saved us a ton of money I'm sorry have my back got but um they have assisted us for years with the video truck and that costs an extreme amount of money they've done it for you know since we did a share service with them um ashburg Park Neptune City the it's basically we work side by side yeah they're all the fun all the way it's same with us excellent excellent relationship and and we strive for that all the time because a lot of things Neptune have we don't have a lot of things bmore needs we we provide it goes both ways right okay so um this is Department of Public Work Public Works Capital request I don't know if everybody can see that um may counil see that um it's basically a self-explanatory I'm asked to put together Capital requests and and what I do is I try to provide the burrow with what I believe needs to get done uh you know to provide safety for the residents and for you know any vehicles that on the road if there's a Rel that's in need of repair I make sure that I let them know some of this equipment that's here you know it's stuff that we need as a supervisor when I'm you know it's something that you have to understand that every vehicle has a life expectancy and we need to make sure that we let them know it's it's a 10year cycle it may be on its 12th year but we try to keep the vehicles in the best shape we possibly can to not you know give another burden to the to the residents of this community for you know to be able to have to buy this whe so we try to I'm not big on spending money I'm just not but sometimes you do need things so this is part of our Capital request you know anybody wants any of you have any questions on that I know I pass yeah the the only one um this replace silven bulkit one of the conversations we're having right now with um the uh the team with Avon is do we go with the natural Shoreline on the East part of Sven so that's a project that's ongoing that that would that would eliminate that need yeah um right now I think the phasing and I I don't think I've had a chance to speak about this the phasing looks like we would do maybe the first third of Sven on our side leave the bulk the bulkhead that we already have that we've done there and let's just see how it goes so there seems to be pretty good um alignment on that so we could probably avoid that cost yes which is a good thing that's one that had I think I think there was another question G just a quick question the footnote the the POR Kone just curious I think you drove a a 10 to 12 year old uh truck your first five years of did sometimes to sometimes to a for and really you know you have to it's you have to tread lightly if you let something if you keep something too long you lose the value the trading value and sometimes counterproductive so we try to keep up on that the best we can but we also don't want to burden the residents with purchases that you don't ask a question while they're here or do we have to wait you have to wait yep thanks this is the budget I got to be completely honest I'm going do a couple of not that that meredi had give me yeah I can PCT him with you if you need I'm pretty familiar with it so the mayor speaks about this I'm gonna if left me a note so in um I'm gonna kind of read it she says F point for Budget tday BBW had approximately 100,000 in savings um and it was split almost 50 in 2023 in 2023 2023 right and it was U it was U split almost 50/50 between salary and wages and and other expenditures um the 50,000 savings and salary wage was we we we lost a very valuable uh employee and uh we did not replace uh we wanted to see um how much we could do with some part-time employees and it worked out it's it's been a bit of a strain but but it's working um and uh the 50,000 other expenses was just basically Ty our Bel doing more um projects and app yeah I mean that so the budget I can just cover for you guys so I think Merith is going to cover it it's about a million eight um annually um salary and wage is over a million a million one of that so this is a very people intense although the the percentage of um other expenses here is higher than other departments because of the equipment and supplies and all that stuff um the tech the 24 temporary budget um we're going to this is we we a lot between 25 and 30% um that we can spend in wi this until until we finalize our budgets and get those approved uh but you know it's a good budget picture from from yall that you did tighten your belts last year U we've been very headcount conscious and uh uh so it's about a million one um expenditure on um on people and uh about $600,000 of all the things you guys buy and maintenance and all that so that's that's pretty much the budget stored for and we'll see more about that when we get into the 24 budget question are you finished with the presentation yes we have finished okay so I I don't have a question for you but I did and especially since the audience can ask questions at this point I just wanted to comment on one or two other things um most of you probably know stories like this but I just want to make sure that you know I get a chance to speak up for for our DPW crew um G you didn't mention uh the way you guys basically stepped up a couple years ago and helped us create the maritime forest and uh what most people don't probably don't know is um the maritime forest was basically a lot of weeds and a and a parking lot and the parking lot was actually creating some uh sustainability concerns for our environmentalists because it was you know it was cement or whatever it was you know black top um on top of black yeah and you know it was being used for uh either our own DPW equipment and maybe some of the lifeguards were parking there whatever but um and I was brand new on the council so four years ago and came to G and I said is there anything we could I had the environmentalists including council person Weber uh telling me hey you know but it'd be great if we could get rid of that that parking lot and G didn't blink I asked them if we could do it and he said uh done you know we'll get it done we had to work you you had to coordinate a little with u Dicky Johnson and others but number one we owe you all that that of gratitude plus all the restoration work that was done and now the ongoing maintenance you guys kind of created a beautiful thing for the burrow but you created more work for yourselves and as far as I know you didn't hire any more B to get that done so we HDE a fox that's in there so I wanted to call that particular accomplishment and and another thing that I think we're all very proud of is that we're were able to name it after former mayor Julie shre that signed I don't know if you guys have seen that sign we can never get a different sign like that sign is amazing it hasn't changed one iota years holding up great in the weather the other thing that I I I think we are Council have a unique perspective on regarding you guys and that is our Engineers over my four years on Council have told me repeatedly you guys you the town of Bradley Beach doesn't appreciate what you have or you don't appreciate it enough because they they tell me and they tell most of us uh other towns their DPW they don't have the skills you went through a skill inventory carpentry cement work Plumbing electrical the things our DPW guys can tackle and take on that others don't other towns can't uh saves us an incredible amount of money and the interesting part to me is as I mentioned it's our Engineers who keep telling us that so I'm I'm very well aware of it because of that but I just wanted to make sure everybody understands you go beyond the other things you've already U shared with us as the public and then finally we haven't done this yet but uh I just want to make sure the the DPW folks in the audience can can you all just take a stand so we can appla all of you thank you all very much and G for the first PowerPoint presentation great job yeah great job here's one one thing I want to um I want to just talk to for a second that silven Lake uh and it it also ties into the Ocean Park M cave deal you talk about capability and project management uh that's a really good example of um you know you all didn't do the outfall pipe on theave and Ocean Park but you were in INR intimately involved and you really helped with the project we F that yeah and um the other is on the silven lake you know we're dealing with the short-term issue but the longer term issue that we're going to be into next year um I know you guys are going to be very involved in that um it's it's not as difficult in the context of people you know the summertime that spot but uh and it wasn't as dangerous as the Ocean Park okay but you all be very involved in that too probably it's probably GNA be next spring yeah so we appreciate that very much so great you guys did a great job thank you thank you all right we're GNA move to oh go yeah thank you uh Biagio Andrew everybody that's there great job and thanks very much and appreciate it I just have a couple of quick questions while I have the chance uh you mentioned leveling of the lakes and I just want to confirm do does so even though we share the lakes with other towns am I right that it is Bradley Beach's job to lower the Lakes as needed is that right or does Neptune ever come over and lower Fletcher or does Avon ever come over and lower silvin Neptune Neptune does a tremendous amount for us it's something that we took on and we monitor um so yes we do do it um but if I need it uh Dave Nomo who's the supervisor for their public works department I said Dave listen I have nobody get over there he'd be there in a second but currently we are monitoring yes on both sides okay so they have the ability but it sounds like it's usually us correct how the supervisor of Public Works he calls me says you handleing the lake today I say yes and if he were to handle it he'll say B we'll take care of it we have like I said earlier a very good work relationship okay and just it I bring it up in the context of the Fletcher Lake commission they've been getting a lot of questions about lowering the lakes and some people unsatisfied uh they're on the Ocean Grove side but they've been getting flooded and I mean I know we've had some events that there's nothing that we could have done you know that's last September um but there's been some events since then and and people uh feel like there could be more lowering of the lake and I'm just I'm just just a messenger here you don't have to answer me you don't I'm just saying that's why I brought it up um because they're getting it at the Fletcher Lake commission I have one other not really question question so much as a comment I want to respond to that real quick sure the lake it's not as easy as we're gonna see rain there's two inches of rain we're going to go there and lower the lake two in it's not as easy as that we have a lot of variables that we need to deal with there's wildlife in there there's fishes in there there's turtles if we lower the lake For an upcoming storm and it doesn't rain there's a lot of other things we would have to deal with it's just not as easy as seeing rain or or the O cordinator calling me up S it's going to rain it's it's a real Balancing Act and that also to mention you have to play the tides if you're going to go there they say to us say listen uh we need you to Lower Lake if the Tide is High I don't care what we do you can't lower the lake it's a major balance in act it's not as easy as them saying hey we're upset they didn't lower the lake it just doesn't work that way unfortunately oh no I fully appreciate that so thanks um and then the one other thing is a comment um the shry commission they are obligated to um have it's really the town to maintain a certain number of cus continuing education units um and you know they're volunteers and they do that but um it's it would be helpful if one or two people uh in DPW could take a tree maybe it's a tree trimming course or just some basic course that's offered by the D because that helps us out when they ask us about cus there's only five people on the commission I mean but we we have Commissioners I mean you know five volunteers taking courses sometimes we have uh the liaison taking courses but they're asking about the whole town when the state asks us to assess so if there's any way that the staff can take a course every once in a while it helps us for the year for the the cus that we need to maintain our accreditation with the state so um if nobody's taken it in a while please consider that and pick who you want to learn more about trees uh and it really just helps the shade tree commission and the whole town thanks J okay great job guys you appreciate it if you guys want to start bailing out that's okay I know you work pretty hard uh our next um so we're trying to tag team this between um our direct departments and also the key commissions and uh boards uh so tonight we we have asked the shry commission to talk about 2023 and I think Larry you're gonna handle that and you have anything up for the yeah I do have okay Michelle it's our clickers we yell down the hole okay well unlike DPW I I did not spend the last few weeks trying to pull this thing together I did about 15 minutes chestday you think all my life so um thank you so BR be sh Tre commission uh what do we do why we exist we are the advocate for the tree canopy here in P um our our goal is to keep maintaining grow the canopy throughout the town um and taking as much benefit from uh the presence of trees as we can shave water retention and disposable and so and the beauty as well um so so that's really kind of what we do um so was asked to talk about the 2023 accomplishments we'll get into that but I'll give you a little bit of background so I forgot to for those people don't know young bagall I've um and uh from a commission standpoint uh it takes a village I'm not alone I'm very hon H to work with some very dedicated people who are members of the Shad commission um and including three of the four council members that we have been on the aison over time and uh the the team members that I have uh on the commission uh they're very dedicated and volunteers volunteers so you know they're they know doing this they're doing this you know for our town um we're not not getting rewards for it except for get rewards of our own fruits the trees so um so it does take a lot of folks here all very active very dedicated um what are some of the things that we do we do have a shade tree commission uh sh tree ordinance that's been in place for a number of years um and uh we uh we are looking to enforce it and grow it and uh to ensure that everybody is following the the outline of the of the ordinance itself um we we are responsible for the planting strips that are all over town as well as uh as well as public areas as far as tree plantings we also help the residents with the uh tree plantings and removals from private property um and uh uh and so in order to do that uh we're there as as advocates and a source of information as well we do have um a a web page on the B website where we we keep some very important reference information reference materials for the residents so that they can help determine um things like um which what types of trees will do much better here in Brad Beach than would in in um in what marown uh we have a high salt cont in the air in the air as well as high wind so not every tree um thrives in in areas like that so we do help to advise residents on any type of trees to so um we hold events um to um to U inform the public about what we do we want to get them engaged we like to we like to see them being engaged and helping us help the town so moving on in history um there was a sha tree commission here in Bradley Beach prior to about 2012 it disbanded at that time and reformed back in 2020 I've actually been uh a a member of the Reform chry Commission since 2020 um and uh happy to be doing it and uh we uh what we did when we regrouped um we kind of started From Scratch we built a lot of programs we we came up with different programs to help to um again engage the public in what we're doing and to to help us achieve our goals uh we do receive a budget from the town uh it's uh it's about 10,000 per year but we were also also self-funded um and and you know one of these days you guys are on the um but uh um we do have uh we do receive fees from the applications that we that we have we also receive uh funding from anom tree program that we have think very important it's been very well received throughout the town um and we also have um assessments that are um in line this is this is not just something that Bradley Beach does we are in line with the state regulations on tree removals um and and applying assessments where where you can and should uh when trees are being removed and not replaced um during the between time of 2020 and 2023 we we've been successful in about 150 trees so far um however we have to keep in mind that in addition to the trees we're planting we're also approving the removal trees so the progress that we're making is not as Speedy as we'd like um you know our net trees uh every year is uh is much smaller than the actual every year we can plant probably between 50 and 70 trees and the net result is usually 20 to 25 trees with removals that we have um in 2021 we earned the status of Tree City USA which is uh which is National recognition of a town which is dedicated to uh preservation of trees and the uh and again being the advocate for um expanding our program within town uh we we were successful also in obtaining a $115,000 grant so that we could do a tree inventory what's the importance of that well we want to say that we're improving the town that we're making progress to our goals how do we do that you have to have a start point the inventory gate is just that um we we have an exact inventory of all the trees in town on public properties planted strips non private property um and so we are keeping track of our progress um in uh in expanding the uh planting of trees in public public spaces and and private spaces um and um uh we also uh we also as a sh commission we do participate in the regional chry uh commission uh meetings that take place in Manasquan it has Adon Belmar Asbury Neptune many of the many of the short comms participated in that we share our programs uh they share theirs with us and it helps us to refine our own programs and to think of other things that that we get move forward in 2023 applications we reviewed was 42 um we uh we planted 76 trees between the two we we typically had two um planting events every year one in the spring and one in the fall uh and with that we planted uh 76 trees we removed 37 um one one of the things I think is very important again we're a volunteer uh commission and we uh we listed the help of about 40 volunteers for those spring planting events some people come out every event uh some are only out for one whatever they can make we're happy to see you um and uh so but it but it is that's the way we get things done one of the programs that we started last year was uh the trees older than Bradley Beach kind of belong the theme of the 130 year anniversary for Bradley Beach so um we had Nick cor is uh you know see what the head head that uh program and we've uh We've identified a number of trees in in Bradley Beach that based on formula that we use to measure the age of the trees itself we can see if the trees are old the Brad the beach or not kind deter the AG tree um and we've got PLS for those trees that we've that we are in the process of placing one those trees giving uh some of the residents recognition they all seem to be pretty excited about it when they when they find out hey I got an old tree and it's a got a badge of honor for and again it's about their Community engagement and and we think that that's helping um other events that we participate in we do have an annual ARB Day event which is in April uh this year in April 26 but it's at the uh Second Avenue Park come join us we'll be uh we'll be dedicating um a tree to the Radley Beach Elementary School uh senior class uh and uh and and we also have the proclamation for AR that the mayor comes and and and do a speech Force um some of the things the the other other events that we participate in Earth Day um and uh also news events we we've engaged the co-star and the coaster um with interesting articles things that we're doing we have a tree of the month um that we've that we've been doing now for quite a while and again it's creating a lot of Buzz creating a lot of excitement with the residents um you know just being very proud of of of what we do we're doing for our town um uh for those of you who haven't seen it uh this is a um this is The Medallion that we use in our omy tree program uh we uh you know folks will typically um uh get them in memory of so someone uh someone or something and so forth but we attach it to the low branches uh of the tree and it's meant to to last for for quite a while the program has been very well well received word of mouth is um is expanding program we get we get anywhere between five and 10 trees per year um as homy trees um and uh and again U um it just um it we do have a uh this is a revenue source for us as well to to help plant even more trees in town Advance um uh one one Army tree was over over Second Avenue was was planted in in Emi in honor of the Holocaust victims and um a dedication ceremony was held uh very well received and and you know again got some recognition in go okay 2024 uh we'll do the um as I mentioned we have the annual arbit Day celebration we will do on April 26 uh with the elementary school pration Earth Day participation and again that's uh community outreach and engagement that's what we're trying to do spring plant spring and fall planting events uh tree of the month the regional shade tree um commission the participation qually um and this year we're focused on uh updating the shap tree ordinance um to be U Better aligned with the state ordinances uh that are that do help to manage the the shade activity um and also uh one of the other things we're looking to do is um when we first re-engaged back in 2020 uh we got a lot of comments resident we a sh commission we sh commission and so therefore um but but uh since that time we've done a number of mailings um hopefully all residents here have seen those mailings um where uh we we send out some information try to engage with our wish wishing tree program and our hly tree uh programs uh and um I'll be done that through Su bill and the tax bill mailing to happen the beginning of the year this year we missed it because you guys are too efficient we got it out we got it out before so we won't make that that STI again um but the other thing we're going to look to do is we're sharpening up the the ordinance because now people do know about the ordinance and like I said there it's it will help us to uh strengthen the use of the ordinance and the uh and also um make sure that you know if if people that choose uh not to replace trees that they'll have they'll be paying into uh in fund with assessment so that we can plant trees out throughout the bar uh just as a um from a statistic standpoint um the for an urban area such as ours uh the canopy cover uh Target for us is about 39 to 40% and and that's 40% of the Town covered with the county from the from the trees right now we're about 14% so we' got a long way to go and again all the net result of the trees that we plant is we're only getting a net of 20 to 30 trees per year it's going to take us a little while um so anybody else wants to to get more trees in it byans l can I ask you a question on that that point is there any consideration because we're a short count this first block or two generally we don't have a lot of uh trees on those first couple blocks is there any consideration for that or it's just kind of a straight up formula I've never asked that question but it's a great question we can ask we do have the bber as are arist um he probably would be able to help with that with that yeah I know third block back you've got a lot more success first first two blocks very difficult to find the right species that will thrive in that that Environ that okay right thank you but yeah thank you um I would be remiss if and and I'm sorry that I that I followed you instead of appreciated you because um we couldn't do this without DW so thank you your whole cre um they're a big help to uh each one of our planting events they they help us get organized and uh and do all the plantings um can't say enough about the uh Bradley Beach sh volunteers the commission members uh they they are dedicated people very knowledgeable as well um and uh so we we're much luckier than some other towns that that just have people who are interested in PL TR we have we have actually skilled resources on um the uh Bradley Beach Boro assistants uh you know they they know who they are Captain shelle um and Meredith you know all helping us make sure that we process everything correctly um are bur the son Jan John and in the past Al uh and uh again all of our volunteers we just want can't thank you enough any questions I got one or two um Tree City we've continued to be a tree city right yes we have so once we've got that designation just maintain it that's correct okay yeah but there's there are there is criteria that we need to meet each year uh one of the things that we talked about was cus that John brought up before um and we also have to have a minimum budget per resident right um as well as you know certain activities in order to qualify for that so we've been lucky Che so far okay thank you thank you very uh quick question some of the statistics you shared regarding the the net growth in trees that you know you plant 70 but you lose but we remove 35 I know that through your process of reviewing applications for people who want to remove trees you typically have them replace trees they remove and I'm wondering are you counting the replacement trees as ads or no those that's that's the that's the net those are those Replacements those are those are net um nothing Venture nothing gain but it's the it's the net from those that remove that don't replace the net okay so there so net youve we've lost saying that one year 35 Trace yes okay like and you know going to the ordinance of the things that we hope to be able to fix in the ordinances um there's a lot of construction going on in this town uh people coming in and clearing the entire line um and we know that there's program in Spring Lake where uh when someone does that down in Spring Lake uh the homeowner actually uh puts money into a fund they calculate the value of the trees and it's not the assessment that we that we year which is $500,000 I mean they're they're talking the homeowner May wind up needing uh to put uh 10 to $20,000 into the the um in the fund so that once the construction is done they they assist the homeowners in choosing and planting the trees so we hope to do something similar to um make sure that you know those people that are clearing the lots and and unfortunately the difference the big difference between us and um Spring Lake is a little bit more property down there for the average lot here people are expanding to 60% of lot as uh as um uh as covered and we very little room for trees so so we have to look for sources out elsewhere to for plant I just want to again I know others may have questions but just while I'm speaking I want to call out number one you for the wonderful job you've done just leading the commission for the past year or two right it's been at least a year yeah year year and a half um uh I know I see Nick sitting in the audience Nick would you mind just doing a quick stand up just so we can applaud you guys as well sh greenblat a former volunteer who was responsible almost single MERS and and helped us really get started just again these things just didn't happen a lot of hard work to pull these program together and and I recall Sean in particular you basically drafted that uh that whatever application for the $15,000 tree inventory single-handedly as I recall yes and I'd be remiss without also mentioning Dr heflick Who first started as chair when when this whole commission was reinvigorated right so I and and between his leadership and now yours you guys all these things you've been talking about the uh the tree of the month and I know Miss council president V Noble has been very involved in that but such creativity that you guys have brought to this uh the tree of the month and the you know the coordination with newspapers and the the trees older than BR Beach it's just vtin to watch the progress you've made and the work you've done so thank you thank you I'll EO that as well you guys are amazing it's a blessing to this town to have trees being planted again a lot of trees we were losing very quickly and I also like to thank the Public Works while they're here because they unload the trees they dig the holes they put the uh the mulch around they bring the water bags they water so thank you guys couldn't do it without you and thank you again Larry for a great presentation and a Great Commission thank you couldn't do it without you guys too pleasure question Larry sorry Larry um the 130 year old truth I thought that was that was wonderful when the plaqu came in just two quick questions if you found a tree that wasn't quite 130 years old like say it was 128 did you kind of Mark that within two years that would be 130y old tree and then that would get some kind of plaque oh or maybe Nick okay no all right and is 130 year old tree protected so it was really interesting when you said to me people come in there a lot to build can you cut down 130y old tree great great question um the only way that it can be prevented is for the tree to um is for us to apply for Heritage status for a tree that's that's that old and uh we have hav done that yet for anything but but that is a way to do it but um there's nothing to prevent someone from saying this would make a great porch instead of a tra all right thank you very much appreciate it thanks s okay we'll move to the next agenda item uh approval minutes um we have uh the February 28 2024 Council business meeting minutes uh have a second to approve those second Mr Noble yes mros yes M Mahoney yes Mr we yes yes uh 202 uh February 28 2024 executive session meetings executive session minutes I'm sorry um make a motion to approve the February 208th 2024 executive session minutes second Mr Noble yes Mr goosi yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes may Fox yes March 3rd 2024 special meeting minutes make motion to approve second Mr Noble yes Mr hosi yes M Mone yes Mr Weber yes but I don't think uh Miss Mahoney can vote because she wasn't there if oh that's right I cannot because I not there so you have to abstain I abstain thank you uh March 3rd 2024 executive session minutes second Mr Noble yes Mr G yes M Mone up Mr Weber yes may yes okay uh we go oh I'm sorry I thought I said sorry I'm jumping ahead sor um we'll now move to agenda item 8 public comments per pertaining to the 313 agenda item only five minutes and help us with the clock please just line up in the front please every ready so uh don Greenberg 302 Parkplace uh uh I was listening to the public works uh presentation and it brought to mind something with the summer coming um have we thought about doing something about the gas Lea blowers uh one gas Lea blower running for an hour will put out as much pollution as car driving 1100 miles and not to mention noise pollution um so I was one and there are alternatives you know you can get electric leaf blowers okay uh no air pollution and much less noise pollutions and there are these things really oldfashioned B Broms that we can also use now it may take a little longer uh with a broom and you may pay a little more in labor cost but the cost of the planet can't be calculated so I was wondering if we have looked into that and if we haven't why why don't uh we have looked at sporadically different um DPW pieces of equipment to go electric with uh I'm not sure if that's one of those I can find out yeah so I mean if that be something that would a uh help our sustainability profile in the town and B I know people you know at least online I've seen are always complaining uh I don't look close enough to the beach to hear it but you know those things start going off at what 78 in the morning uh on the beach the electric ones aren't as quiet as you think they are yeah I own one so yeah I don't they're much quieter than the gas ones you know the gas ones I think are somewhere around 90 DB or more the electric ones were much quieter around 50 so um and even if it's not the noise pollution Mr Mayor 1100 miles of driving a car for one hour of a gas flower okay so y okay guys looking at that that would be great thank you thanks any other agenda questions yes I noticed in the DPW um did you just oh sorry thank you you um I noticed one of the bullet points um for the uh various projects I want to do in the upcoming years um had stated the um reallocation of the DPW site for $5.4 million um and I noticed I remember seeing you quoted in the paper not that long ago that you were looking to sell various assets or properties in the town um so my question is with that I'm assuming that's what you're targeting um is that something that will be decided upon between the entire Council um will there be a discussion about what that property should be used for or actually one of my questions on Su was that I wanted to know is what is really the benefit of wanting to condense that or reality at to I know we talked about it going to the middle um so that was one question and then additionally with the boardwalk money coming in from the silven lake brand um again you were quoted saying that silven Lake brand I mean the I mean the boardwalk the boardwalk money brand for Sven Lake that it's not for Sven Lake no it's for the storm water for the but you also stated um I believe also in another article that um who was my friend call um that that would require additional Bond monies so my question is you know what kind of money are we looking at you know it's great to to advertisers with hey won this award but it's not going to be enough and we're looking at possibly x.x million to also bond to you know put it in just you know be more transparent about what it's going to really take to do these projects question yeah I don't think it's a question of transparency we need to estimate what that is uh and I don't know what that estimate is would say it's double it the 4.3 wouldn't surprise me it's probably $8 million um the question becomes as Community do we want to bond $4 million over the next 30 Years to protect our um um our south end of our town I think the answer to that my answer would be yes not because I live on the south L town I live at the 600 block so it's not uh affecting me but that's something that was in our B access plan should be in our master plan but apparently there was a resolution done a few years ago that it didn't get in there um so it will be more money but we we don't have that estimate and then like said if you could speak to the other point of the DPW you know what really what's the ROI on us wanting to convin it or what do we really need to get out of that so the first thing we did was we said at at and I said this the first day on the job was we're we're 75 mil square town and we've got two DPW sites doesn't make sense why are we using that kind of real estate um so we do we have done a study and that five I don't know if the number is going to be five it's going to be four if we consolidate everything for the North End um that's all we've done um if we do do that then that other site is open what do we use it for do we sell it do we use it for parking do we use it for another function we don't have those answers yet but that would be the that's what we do but I think it's two years out on the capital plan okay we do have a plan and also the same thing too is that if you're looking to perhaps gain you know money or or sell an asset you know yes it's natural think we want to go and bring it to the north end but is North End worth more money to us if there's something we're going to actually gain out of it and just condensing the lot back over to the no we would not want to do that there's there it's just way too small that lot we we can't even park in that lot right now the employees Park and vix parking lot right do we have any any and is anything being still considered with a greenhouse I mean I know we've done surveys and people have asked about perfect place for a dog park something that everybody seems to want in this town are we still entertaining that that's that yeah that's a question we continue to look at but okay we may try to make a decision on that instead of keep Hing it down the line I would like to see it sooner than later um we've established that the greenhouse is defun it doesn't work anymore so I think that's an ideal spot to be considered and addition I'd like to say with the DPW Yard I'd love to see it be open space Green Acres maybe parking or enlarging the ball field and you can get some money from that as well and as far as spending five million I think we should visit with a Butler Building type of building but we can put offices and facilities in there and um it could be pretty large and it's very economical and I don't think we need to build like we had a presentation of a couple buildings that looked more like a country club to me right that uh are very expensive they're very pretty right but they're a lot of money so absolutely these are just things I have in my head no thank my pleasure see anybody on the board yes uh Thomas take hand six Third Avenue I had a question about the uh the bids for the concessions are those just pad sites they're not the trailers anymore I it's not specific in the resolution they're not trailers if it's trailers it's the vendor bringing them in okay they're bringing their own we have no liability so in that case doesn't mean it's it's leased for the entire year like they could stay open for Thanksgiving dinner if they want it because we're not touching the trail I don't know the answer that the leases expire each year on October 15th okay so that's rather okay great um that to answer your question I amended all the leases basically to not be trailer leases anymore to be site leases for the season sight leases for the season and and were there any specifications for the the visual look of these uh the concessioners have agreed as approved by the buau so they have to basically come and tell us what they're what they do for p sites the numbers are very good I want to thank you for that can and on these uh two ordinances 20241 and 4-2 um there was no workshop for these I'm just kind of puzzled I thought we the status is we do a workshop and then we do an introduction but these were never Workshop you have to ask ouncil you'll have to ask the councilman bances for mandat so there's really I mean the count the council can do whatever they like but there's not a lot to Workshop like storm water is that's what's required to be passed and both of these have to be reviewed by the Lang board because they are technically land I believe so if they do it says it at the last page of the ordinance I know the 450 one does they both do they both I mean on the storm water management plan I I think we should really contact the DDP and and make them aware that silen Lake and is is merely a retention base and it be handled that way I me we're catching all the water route 18 Roe 35 Route 71 and it doesn't function as a leg it's basically a retention basement and I just wish we could hold the D dot and and the uh the D the same standard as as they're going to hold people who buildt it's really it's really not a right the correct adaptive use for that L but thank you very much yes evening got the 312 Friendly Avenue I wanted to talk about where is it 24- 169 and why we have to hire another Consulting lawyer firm for deping in negotiations with2 you're asking the wrong person well you should be going to negotiations you should know if it's going on I do um I have to say let me just finish this that with this wonderful presentation that b gave us about all the work they've done and the respect that all of us have for them they deserve a contract and if we look at the bullet point question this question is on this point excuse me on the bullet point it showed salaries and wages were 23 how could they be they still haven't gotten the contract we forecast you can't for then how can you forecast you're like cutting off you're throwing the baby without the back B water you have to know what your contract is going to say you can't just predict and you're going to get it that's why they call it a forecast so I have to ask did they go to are they in an impass I I really can't say right now because it's the talks are confidential confidential M stey excuse me missy I I just wanted to give you an answer to your first question which you were asking about um 2024 69 and why why there was reference to an attorney uh the council has expressed concern based upon the feedback we received from local 159 about sorry local 152 about the um about the behavior of one of the attorneys representing us I agree with that I understand that and that's what but 69 is about we have issues with spending money frivolously not for that reason but in other reasons in our town and because negotiations have been dragged on for so long we have to resort to that which is sad sorry it's a sad State of Affairs and these young men and women deserve a contract I I absolutely good well then you should go to negotiations more yes um Beth Kepler 504 gental Avenue here in town um to follow up on Mr cen's comment in regard to the lake um I'm aware of a of a comment that you yourself made m in regard to fishing in the lake and that you said that you would never fish in the lake in parts of the lake right and I'd like to know um I see people regularly fishing in the lake with children and I don't I see signs for everything don't feed the Ducks pick up the poop you know signs for everything but I don't see any signs um letting people know that there's been a litany I mean and I know that you have the report um indicating what kind of toxins and chemicals and such that have been found and dredged in the lake that have made it unsafe and yet I don't see any signs or any kind of warning letting people know that are not from town may not be aware of the situation and have access to the report that you have that um perhaps that should be something that should be considered in the in in regard to the fact that yes it's a lake but as Mr Cohen said it is a retention fond and the fact that in particular speaking to the night of September 29th when you went on and I still have the video when you and the time in which you went on used 12 and commented in regard to the fact that it was not possible that particular weekend to drain the lake because you had said that it was a high tide issue however I also have been up here previously and cited specific news reports which I still have screenshots of indicating that as early as that Monday and Tuesday of the week that there were in fact warnings and people saying that there was going to be significant rain coming and in the past having lived here for s my family has lived here since 1955 there were possibilities prior to the high tide that you were referencing to have potentially drained that Lake and mitigated the damage and you indicated and insisted on the record and I also have um recorded the shots of the video in which you said that and misrepresented that you had in fact drained and indicated that the dra the lake should be drained when in fact that is not true so I just want to make that on the record and I have documentation of everything that I'm saying and can back it up so I don't want anybody here to misunderstand or misinterpret the facts that you did misin you did misinform the public at this meeting and contradicted your own words and statements that you made to news2 on the news on the evening of or the afternoon of September 29th okay thank you for your opinion yes not my opinion fact thank you for your opinion yes fancy Meadow Ocean Park on M as the Grinch and Penny Pincher in town as well as person who believes in being fair and treating everyone the same because we a big problem with an understatement speak the M better you can towards you yeah thank you bendy um so you repeat I'm the Grinch and the Penny Pincher and um I believe in treating everyone fairly which we have a problem with I do not understand how you can even consider giving free beach batteries to St Rose PTA if I may um interrupt you no it's my comment I know but I want to tell you that we they've been donated already we're removing that all well that's a big problem okay oh personal like private donor did well you know then then we don't even need to you know get into it but they're not in town and you're going to open a whole P wordss so okay we'll move on from that if you're saying a private donator then it should have been removed from here um which should have happened at the beginning of the meeting um but I would like to um reiterate the problems with 202 24- 69 the fact that we can spend more money on the lawyers because someone has been negligent in negotiations while Pacific cases would want wonderful job DPW guys and that they show up here tonight not getting paid is just disgusting because all that we've spent in attorneys could just give them the raise and the fact that we've hire them hiring an attorney that to go over our attorneys is probably the reason we didn't want that for him to begin with who also is not responded to my letter to them regarding why we've never sought reimburse so once again here we are wasting money in my opinion and again Do not sit here and say what a wonderful job these guys do oh I will put your money where your mouth is they're here on their own time not getting paid and yet you can't give them a contract for over 15 months shame on you other question yes a question on 202462 and 2024 64 the tour Hy bike drive and the Alzheimer Association block um I know um on 2024 63 it says this is a pass walkthrough only for those two events are DPW and police um being compensated for any assistance that is needed yes so for 2024 63 that is a pass through only they do not need um DPW or police assistant so they still were required to pay the application fee and um they wrote a letter on their letter head asking for the $2,500 deposit fee to be waved because that wouldn't be necessary because they didn't need other department okay okay and sorry what was your question on the other one so 202462 and 20246 um4 yes both of those would pay both fees because they're they're going to require both assist okay and we are not then going to reimburse them back there no that that that's not a reimbursable fe okay good perfect and my last question is the OEM appointment menu does OEM do they receive stiens do they get paid to be on OEM uh verygal what what is it though so it's um I i' have to get you I'll get you the number but it's very orinal and also how do people get nominated to be on OEM because it seems like we keep putting the same old same old people onto these boards we're commissions and they're also receiving stiens as well um as I said the stiens are very margin it doesn't matter it's still a paid position they're receiving tax funds from where they yes they they apply they volunteer and then they're they're appointment okay so and and how was was there any notification that there was going to be an oem opening for this particular J this particular it's an acting position we haven't um we're not with it's not going to be per at this moment in time it's not permanently filled until we assess some other things okay but then you will be communicating this then on a regular basis what is going on with o so that it's not a back door deals with you know certain people in town especially since people are getting stiens to be on this so these are in effect peed position positions yes okay thank you very marginal you're not paid okay I thought it was like the person doing theme of stuff was getting paid a little bit Yeah okay thank you all right there's uh thank you there's no more uh agenda questions uh one second I'll mayor if I may explain something about that one resolution why we didn't remove it once the agenda is set we're not supposed to really change the agenda on the website so the proper protocol will be to withdraw that resolution um which is what we're going to do with the bad donation y I just wanted to make sure that was understood thank you okay agenda item nine ordinances we have two the ordinance uh first one is 202 24-1 and ordinance amending article two terminology and article eight off street parking driveway and loading requirements of chapter 450 zoning of the bu's revised General ordinances to require and regulate electric vehicle Supply service equipment and make ready parking spaces pursuant to state law mandates make a motion discuss discussion uh yes any discussion on this I have a quick question why is it 2024 D1 was this written in January is this that's our first ordinance that we're passing this year a yeah I can't believe it yeah I'm like this seems like I I thought we had more already no not not yet and then the ones next is four that's actually two and I did I did correct that oh okay okay great all right I can't Corrections on the agenda here all right thank you okay okay any other questions okay make a motion to approve thank you okay you got it okay Mr Noble you're seconding yes thank you Mr Noble yes MOSI yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes uh 2023 I'm sorry 2024 d two an ordinance amending chapter 396 storm waterer management for the buroughs revised General ordinances to adopt new regulations consistent with the amendments to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection storm water management rules uh there an introduction there any questions or any comments not we move to ask for a second on that motion second Mr double yes Mr gzi yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes Bo yes second okay um Communications um there's an Communications appointment memo for acting OEM person uh until we get ourselves reorganized there that's a communication um we'll move to resolutions we've got nine resolutions on the consent agenda I'll try to uh some of them are a little bit redundant but I'll just um read through them very quickly we have um 2024 58 the award of a bid for volleyball concession license 2024 59 the award of bid for surf camp concession license 20246 the award of bid for brenley Avenue concession license 202 2461 Award of bid for Nork Avenue concession license 202462 approval of the bbbc to conduct their tour D Bradley Beach flight race ride on Saturday April 20th from 8:30 to 10 202 2463 approval of marriage place by the SE to conduct their 5K walk run for Saturday October 12 9 to1 uh it's a pass through as um the clerk had said 2024 64 approval of the Alzheimer's Association conduct their annual walk on Saturday October 7th I think that's 2024 not 2023 from 6: to 1:30 um so that's a correction um I did that okay thank you uh approval of appointment for prary firefighter Kevin SAR you hear Kevin no uh an approval for uh BB bbpa to conduct all premises 5050 R for Sunday September 88 2024 from 9 to 9:00 am to 800m I'll make a motion to Yes um I just had a quick question I think it's probably for our fler before we vote um Erica the three um events 62 63 64 the 63 the Mary's place is clearly indicating it's a past walkth through no the other two both do require Burrows yes resources Y and in both instances are are people putting down in Deposit they most certainly are uh 2500 yep perfect thank you you're welcome second okay Mr Noble yes Mr gy yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes air Fox yes okay uh there's only there's three individual resolutions 2024 67 uh the approval for the United Fire and truck company to apply for a coin toss license permit and to have a coin toss for Thursday July 4th through Saturday July 6 at the intersection of Main and Highway 71 uh in Bry Avenue uh make a motion to approve 2024 67 second Mr Noble yes Mr gubitosi yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes may Fox yes uh make a motion to table 202468 not table I'm sorry um uh withdraw withraw withdraw thank you thank you uh 20246 authorizing to adult season badges um have second to withdraw second Mr Noble yes Mr goosi yes Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes air Fox yes uh 2024 69 authorizing assign special counsel Jordan Meisner and suser PC to conduct independent investigation to circumstance around Collective part negotiations between burrow and UFCW 1552 I would like to move that motion that resolution second wait I'm sorry Council what did you I don't know if I heard what you what did you say I make a motion I said I'd like to move that resolution move it correct are you saying second you're not I'm sorry you're not coming in real clear you're saying you want to move it I didn't think that you were making a motion on that resolution you simply read it and I thought you weren't making the motion so I make the motion second didn't come through that way Mr Noble yes Mr G yes Miss Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes uh no um announcements there are none we'll go to um mayor and Council reports why don't we start with um councilman Weber sure thing and just give me a second to get my bu and first aid reports they're in two different places um so for the first aid for the operational period ending march 13 2024 the the squad responded to five day calls and Five Night Calls for a total of 10 calls eight were for medical two were fire calls the squad conducted one drill for the safety and education of the membership there were no outof Town Mutual Aid requests and the squad responded to no Mutual Aid assistance for this operational period and they fulfilled 100% of their assignments for that period I have a fire report that just went some here we go fire um for the month ending February 29th 2024 the fire department responded to three day calls and two Night Calls for a total of five calls as well uh three were for fire alarm activations one was for wires down and one was a carbon monoxide alarm activation the department conducted one training for our annual bloodborne pathogen right to no training there were no Mutual Aid requests and the this department also fulfilled 100% of their assignments um both departments are still looking for for volunteers they do offer training to qualified individuals anyone wishing to do so should contact uh through the buau should inquire through the buroughs website so that is fire and first aid um Fletcher Lake committee meets tomorrow night um so I don't have a report for them the shade tree I will just mention I think it's been mentioned but we're having a planting on uh the May 4th we are going to need volunteers so please contact me if you want to be a volunteer I'll let Jane talk about the rest of that stuff uh I would like to congratulate the probationary firefighter Kevin sawar tonight for um for that and the rest of my Council report is going to consist of um questions for the mayor and I I think it goes without saying that you know some of the most extraordinary things to happen in this town in a very very long time have happened in the last few months this is the first meeting that we're having since getting the report from the mammoth County prosecutor's office and uh obviously that was just a shocking shocking report I want to remind everybody that we thought we were getting a report about one incident that happened in November that we thought well we that we all saw the um the body cam footage for but we got a report that had a lot more than that it had nine different instances and and we all read it so people should know the details um my question for the mayor is Mr Mayor did you actually read that report I I'll cover that in um the executive session okay so the reason I asked that is because I do not understand and any any way how any person could read that report and just think it's okay to to to let the subject of that report just retire just no questions asked just we're going to let you retire I don't know how that is possible um so I think you know this council's still looking for answers and um the people of Bradley Beach are probably still looking for answers I'm sure people have questions about why we had an emergency meeting but I hope it is clear uh that you know the clock was being run out on us and once we realized that and had the report in hand we did what we had to do um so that is the extent of my report thank you Council woman uh the environmental commission did not meet in March our next meeting will be April 1st and land use board will meet meet on March 22nd uh with regard to the uh report uh that came out from the mcpo uh I was shocked um I'm disappointed that it was held from us for so long I did ask the mayor immediately when I found out that um the chief was going to be put on administrative leave uh when we would find out what was going on and um it was held from us until the very last minute and um I was saddened and astounded by what I read in that report um when it comes to the budget um we were told we would get it in time for this meeting and we still don't have it I got up here in October and was hoping I would have some idea of a budget very early and um it takes would take me a while to learn about Municipal budgets because I come from the corporate side but to not have anything at this point is just these two things are so disturbing to me um because these are big issues so um that's that's my report thank you council president I'm sorry the noble sorry you okay yep okay um the tourism did not have a meeting but they are rocking around the burough and there's sham rocks hidden throughout and if you find one bring it to a business and you win a prize the shade tree had a meeting March 6th they had one application 20114 Avenue they removed Seven Trees and they're going to replace them Seven Trees so that is very good news they're working on the ordinance modifications as Larry Bagwell had mentioned earlier and uh the spring planting is scheduled for May 4th at 9:00 a.m. and their account currently has $ 16,27 74 the there was no um Bradley Beach Board of Ed meeting but just some updates they had coffee talk with h the parents a little parent workshop and they just they talked about self-esteem friendship skills for and and academic success for their children they also celebrated read Across America they had Camp read some more they camped out they fished they sat by the fire and they read books by the fire all inside the gymnasium it wasn't real fire or real fish but they really read real books um they also had uh some special guests free to the students including assembly woman donlin Board of Ed member April Davis and also the Bradley Beach police department and also the eighth graders read to the preschoolers great job done by everybody and that completes my report thank you thank you Council thank you you um excuse as I've um I made a practice of doing over the last few years I'm going to do again tonight read prepared statements because it's very important that the statements I make in these meetings are documented for posterity you you never know when you may need to draw them at a later date um first off I think some you know some a very positive topic that I'd like to share with everyone and that is our police report uh detective Lieutenant brownie who's on vacation this week reported that our K9 officers were deployed to assist with sweeps and security measures for both Asbury Park and uh belmare St Patrick State parades I want to say personally that this is an amazing unit that our police department has built from scratch largely with private funding Bradley Beach residents should be very proud of what our police department has accomplished and by the way these are all my words I finished the lieutenant detective Lieutenant brownie speech but our residents should be very proud of what our police department has accomplished and for the recognition and respect that our neighboring municipalities hold for this unit our plan our council plan is to hold a uh a brief Workshop possibly in May in which our officers can share the story and the successes of our K9 unit with the public uh Captain Arnold I've mentioned that at least once this at least twice now so it's fair warning hopefully in the May time frame if uh your resources are available I'd love to share that story with the public um a couple more challenging messages I I just want to make sure we communicate to the public one is um we're still waiting for the 2022 audit to be completed uh as I stated last meeting on February 28th the preliminary feedback from our auditor is that our 2022 Financial records were a mess that was basically a quote as of our status meeting on January 21st where I was included with the auditor um the the auditor was still trying to make sense of our financial records that he could not reconcile and he was still creating adjusting entries he is acutely aware of the extremely late timing of his completion of this audit and he is doing everything in power to deliver a final report for now we must continue to wait as we approach a 15-month wait since the end of 2022 um I'm going to Echo some comments that Miss Mahoney just made regarding the timing of our budget as I stated in our last meeting I am once again very disappointed at the timing of the budget delivery this year the resolution we passed on January 24th almost two months ago allowed a one Monon delay for this Administration to complete the transmission of the budget to the council originally we had agreed on January 27th and we moved that timing out one month to February 27 entering tonight's meeting March 133 the budget has still not been shared with the council for hour re review this is not the way to run a government this this is at least the the third consecutive year in which the first budget Workshop is late and to date the council has not had a chance to review the budget yes this year we have a new CFO and in no way do my comments reflect on our new CFO he has a great resume and a track record of delivering results given the concerns that our auditor has raised about 2022 audit data I am actually very grateful to our CFO for all that he has accomplished in his 2 and a half months stay with us however this very late timing again reflects poorly on this Administration ladies and Gentlemen please do not be surprised if the budget adoption process runs late into this calendar year again as it has for the past few years once a preliminary budget is delivered to this Council we will will need time to analyze the budget to ask questions about the budget to receive answers about the budget and to suggest Alternatives adoption again could take a while want to comment on our fallen heroes trust I'm excited to confirm that since our last meeting the burough has officially launched our fundraising site in partnership with our Bradley Beach Historical Society our thanks go to Mr Paul nin the chair of the historical society and Miss Jane MAA a Historic Society member who I understand has done a lot of the heavy lifting um she's been working to get their site which is already up and running but to get our our function for uh contributions running if you haven't seen the Facebook postings please try to find them on the Bradley Beach Community or preserving Bradley Beach those two Facebook sites if all else fails please contact me directly at my burrow address and I can help get you connected we hope to be able to purchase Memorial banners and a new monument for Riley Park um with donations we receive I believe I can speak for this entire ccil and for virtually every resident in Bradley Beach when I say that our Bradley Beach heroes must not be forgotten quick note I need to make regarding the special session held on Sunday March 3D many residents have asked why the session was held and some have questioned the legality of the session mayor Fox himself was quoted in the coaster newspaper stating that the meeting was illegal because it did not satisfy State Statute requirements to provide 48 hour notice to the public very simply stated and for the record I want people to know that this Council the burough attorney the burough clerk scheduled this meeting following all requirements under our ordinances for emergency meetings if you wish to better understand these requirements please review burrow code section 5-8 d as in dog the date of this emergency meeting was very important as it represented a fleeting opportunity for this Council to recommend employee disciplinary action which we are authorized to do under our burrow ordinances and under State statutes those are my prepared statements I I have a an additional statement to make that is not prepared but uh it regards the negotiations on local 152 and and to some degree one of the resolutions um we just passed and that is these negotiations that have been taking place for 15 months and have apparently made very little progress ultimately please keep this in mind I've had this conversation with the administration already ultimately whatever is agreed upon needs to be approved by this Council despite the fact that this Council ultimately is the approver or not of whatever is negotiated um despite that fact this council is having very little input into the negotiation process very little um I would say virtually none we get very periodic updates uh the updates are generally just telling us that impasses have been reached I personally have had conversations with members of our negotiating team strongly raising concerns at least about one issue of importance to me that uh that I have just been ignored upon my recommendations and um I just want to make sure that everyone understands the council is every bit as frustrated as most of our residents when they hear these discussions the mayor and the administration is making all of the decisions as to what is being negotiated we have raised questions we have gotten no answers we have heard we have heard feedback in public from local 152 that some of our Representatives might be handling these negotiations in an improper unprofessional manner I don't know if that's true but the reason we have asked the mayor to intervene he has chosen not to and therefore the council has had no choice but to request an investigation to determine the professionalism of the council's representatives in these negotiations they are our Representatives but at times I'm not sure they are actually talking for us that concludes my comments thank you uh I have just couple quick comments uh first is um on on the mayor's Wellness campaign Tomorrow there's a um a second zooming uh session zooming for wellness uh at 6 PM uh the spotlight will be on Al Le the ad doctor of WellPoint she's an acupuncturist and Stress Management expert she's going to discuss the principles of acupuncture and uh provide a presentation um on elements of that you can go on the website and sign up for that it's our second um for a into a zoom meeting uh I do want to mention that almost three years ago we started the mayor's Wellness committee uh last year for 2022 we submitted an application and was was actually named uh a healthy town to watch which is kind of a silver status um we submitted that application again and hopefully we'll hear about what that looks like for next week but I I want to really give a shout out to the 16 person steering committee uh who's really committed a lot of effort to our committee and uh and to our residents uh to really increase and improve our health uh across our our community so I wanted to just uh let them know I'm thankful and grateful and um hopefully uh we'll see uh hopefully we'll do as well as we did last year in that application um I want to talk a minute about Community Project funding um I was very glad and I know we got um some people criticizing the meeting that we had in February on when the focus was on Main Street and um the bbbc came in with a survey um that also talked about Main Street we had our engineering we come in uh with refreshed plans and some and some comments on trying to move this forward so clearly we have to get a plan to uh together and and start that moving and we're going to meet with the uh engineer Friday to to look at steps to do that uh but we now have a reason to do that uh the reason is that um a compelling reason I'm sorry uh we worked with Senator Booker and congressman palone and the respective staffs on two funding projects one was for silven Lake improvements and the other was for Main Street uh the Main Street application uh followed the planning work that has been previously done and we continue to try to refine uh improvements like pavers uh street lights tree Wells benches and other uh configurations uh We've continued to look at well I'm happy to report that last Friday um there was a budget vote in Washington and on page 216 of that 306 page document Bradley Beach has been awarded one 1,416 279 so um congratulations to that team uh on this funding Grant so this should help us get a jump start on whatever plans we have for Main Street so there's more to follow on that um but I will say this this is uh uh very positive and on the funding side we've had some really good um results in the last six months uh between the unused asset Grant the board preservation Grant the county grants that we've gotten that we're working on the parks right now we'll be working on the recreation center we'll be working on we are working on Lake Terrace uh We've exceeded um $6 million in assistance um from uh for our community to improve it uh I've used the term the bookends of Bradley Beach the bookend of the beach and Main Street so our beach is you know clearly our Priceless asset we're responsible for it and we try to maintain an improve prove it um I think the grants that we've got there and the continued work we do are going to continue to do that for us and serve us well I view our main street as kind of our 401k if we invest in it uh over time we're going to receive uh great returns for the community so I'm really excited about this particular um uh news and uh it's it's very uh preliminary right now but uh I did confirm with Congressman Bone's office that um this in fact will happen we just now got a work through some of the logistics um so uh on that point of um the um investigation that was just uh conducted I do have a um a document and statement that I'll put into the record and I'll I'll Supply it to the council uh it's it's fairly long so I don't want to drag out um drag it out it'll be in the record uh and that's my report so uh with that we will go to the next item which isor it'll be in minutes and it'll be it'll be public I don't think Point order what is the question can he put a statement in if he doesn't read it or does he have to read it for the statement to go in to the minutes technically it's up to the council as how they want to do that previously you've let people submit written submissions from the audience don't know this is who's time has been cut off the mayor's they mean it's up to the council to approve the minutes when they're published so I'd like to make a motion to have them read it please I I'll I'll pull back the the statement you'll get it anyway um you'll see it um okay public comments please yes um regarding the OEM and the fact that there is a small ston for them perhaps we could look at the idea of actually um Staffing it with appropriate people like why not you know put on an EMT put on a fire fighter who those are both volunteer positions they can get a small s um have a police member on there and perhaps even a DPW I mean that is who really encompasses the office of emergency mag rather than friends and the old boys just the thought might be really efficient for us to do that to have those four members as our o I think there's two police that's fine but why not now knowing that there's a second why not also in one Ence reward an EMT and a we're not sure there's as I said and if there's not that's fine but again even those s why does our OEM not actually be stacked by probably the most capable folks doing it that's that's just my comment not a question thank you um regarding the budget yes it's it's a farce um obviously we don't have the 2022 do we know when the 2023 is going to be worked on as well can we and I don't like to use the word assume assume the new CFL will be also working on the 2023 no the auditor will okay will that be starting anytime soon yes star in April okay and obviously the 2024 budget um we're already working you must obviously know what you want to spend or what not has any of that information been shared with the council no yes no yes what you say yes you say Capital forecast forecast is on high with this much money or un detail the budget has not been shared nothing has been shared with Council beond well it's not we have shared the capital you fight later it's my time thank you yeah um PL it simply and you know I didn't hear what you said I'm sorry the last thing you just said don't worry about it given all the Troublesome information that is surface about Chief WEA and is abuse not only in his powers as Chief but also of others why are you so reticent in not declaring or or I should say declaring that he will not have any type of a future role in any other department of this town whether it's a paid role whether it's a volunteer role um any role at all we don't want him you may but it's done nothing but cause Havoc for everybody in this town um we need to move on past it um it's unfortunate but when people make wrong decisions circumstances happen and they have to you know deal with those circumstances so I would hope that you seriously listen to what seems to be everybody's desire that there is no position for chief in this town in any Essence moving forward just as a point of matter um and also as a result of this what are you doing as our mayor to prevent any such occurrence or abuse of that happening within any of our department would it be safe to say that these departments as I've always understood it is that they report to the ba so the understanding that it would be the responsibility of our current PA and our past PAs to be handling this and to be keeping this all in check those are my statements thank you yes sorry sorry about that Beth Kepler 504 Central Avenue here in Bradley um I am not even going to give the mayor the Dignity of addressing him because we shouldn't even be addressing him and acknowledging him as a mayor he's proven he's unfit and incapable and that he is a criminal a couple of weeks ago on the February 14th meeting he actually threatened me when I accused him of embezzling our money and that he was a criminal and we needed enough for last year I've been saying that we need to have the Attorney General involved um just by this is not even about the chief anymore that animal is gone now we need to address this criminal that sits here reporting to be our mayor and I implore and demand that this Council as our legislative body take the Smoking Gun that is a report that they would that this accomplice and running the criminal Network in this town withheld for 45 days an attempt to run out the clock and hide it and broke the law this isn't just an accusation there is an ordinance that he was required to provide it and share it with you and this isn't the first ordinance he's broken and he's withheld it with the attempt to cover up another criminal the ex-chief an and so now I'd like to read for those people who want to continue to defend the indefensible from the prosecutor report in their words it should be noted that when detective Sergeant was bur called Chief weda to advise him that he was the target of an internal investigation and advise him to the need to serve him with an official notice Chief Rita yelled at Sergeant wasburn over the phone and became combative about accepting his notice Mammoth County prosecutor's office Chief detectives John mccaden contacted Chief WEA to discuss with him the need to conduct himself appropriately when detectives formally served him with his administrative notice and he was ultimately served without incident furthermore in the report uh can I can I have your attention as long as you're allowed to be sitting up there no I like your attention I like you like order and you like tone I want your attention because this is Criminal what you're doing pay attention okay now it says pursuant to to uh here it is oh yeah please be advised this offic is finding untruthfulness implicates attorney general directive 29- the directive establishing County policies to comply with Brady versus Maryland and Giglio versus United States and its disclosure requirements as well as the public posting of Provisions IAP 911.2 F at this point this Council I implore you it's overdue that the Attorney General be involved and a criminal investigation be conducted there is a criminal Network going on Larry Fox threatened be at the February 14th meeting for which I will be serving a notice of T very soon because I have I have sent in a Oprah foer request for your oath of office and for your shity bond do you have a shity bond personal shity bond this is comments make no I'm asking you a question you have and this section is for comments oh you answer other people's questions when it's convenient but you don't like to answer them when they're inconvenient and you tell other people that they're breaking laws you accused the the Council of holding a meeting that you felt was unlawful how about you breaking the law and withholding a report that they were entitled to have for 45 days an attempt to run out the clock to protect your co- criminal I hope you like wearing orange sir I hope you look good in it I hope it's your favorite color because you're going to be wearing a lot of it you're a criminal and the fact that you have the G and the nerve this here and come back here after the circus that you've created and pretend and carry on as business as usual this is not business as usual this is a business you're running you're affecting my bottom line I have an investment in this home in this town and which is my home and you don't know and the and the circus that you're calling the 22 budget that's it's hot mess that's what criminals do when they don't want the criminality to be uncovered because you know darn well that councilman gubitosi has the skill to look at the documents because of his background in money management and accounting and to point out very easily all the irregularities of your criminality and that's why he's being sued you think we're stupid we're paying really close attention to you mayor Fox and you're the one who ought to be careful about how you are conducting yourself in this town because what you're doing is Criminal and you're making it much worse to yourself thank you yeah you're welcome thanks for your opinions yeah uh yes next all right 49 Bley Avenue I too like Council memberi have a prepared statement I do not relish public speaking I think I write better than I speak I'm here of course to discuss a situation or better sit now the Gita crisis which is what it has become Mr Fox because of your underhanded and dishonest minute dation of the entire Affair I had at first planned here to reveal Litany of the issues with your behavior on this but my five minutes doesn't allow not even close I was going to ask questions like even after the report came out how could you continue praising the former Chief in multiple media interviews statements and through your newsletter without without acknowledging any of the 28 violations cited against him and I certainly wanted an explanation of why as mayor and as the face of our community to people literally around the world who read this story you have not offered publicly a single word of regret or apology for the former Chief's victims not a single word for the officer who is public publicly bered in the presence of his wife and two small children not a word about the ex Chief telling the officer maybe your kids need to see their dad yell at not a word to the officer pulled into a conference room literally pushed around in his chair and bered for an hour in the presence of other officers one of whom called it the longest hour of my life and worst of all not a single word at the you to or about the Man simply walking down the street on his way to work before his constitutional rights were violated by the ex chief I can't see exactly why you behave this way but I can sure as hell say what it looks like you acted first and foremost not as near Bradley Beach striving for what's best for the town its residents you instead made a priority of running cover for the ex- chief if we see it from that perspective everything you did and didn't do suddenly makes perfect sense you sided with him not us for what reasons we don't know yet not yet anyway does he have some incriminating information showing you were much more more deeply involved in this than we know I don't know it's worth noting though all of these incidents happened under your watch or what was supposed to be your watch anyway Burl Hall is not a very good place and that think you had heard nothing of all of this seems a stretch but the idea you may have been aware and did nothing that covered it up that's much more on brand all this said I do see out so I'm being constructed as you ask people be the beginning of the meeting first we need more investigation what I just mentioned as well as action review the formal deal you struck with the ex-chief on that point I commend Mr Canon and the members of the Town Council who called and attended an em meeting last week beginning addressing that issue before it was too late secondly Mr Fox and you should do it soon whatever your specific role here it's clear to everyone maybe even yourself if you're honest about it that politically speaking you're not going to recover from this even some of those who supported you previously aren't with you on remember Mr Fox Bradley Beach is a small town people talk and they're talking now the election is still eight months away why drag this out your relationship with the town is irretrievably broken if I can steal a line from the report that was used to this right ACH the reality is the faster you go away the faster the story goes away we'll all be able to move on and that's in everyone's interest including ironically Mr Fox in yours thank you thank you any else like many residents and council members um were all concerned about our financial situation we haven't had the audit in 2022 the tax payers have the highest Municipal tax increase in County and still we have had no B budget workshop for this year's um for this year's budget um I think it's important for me to bring up a financial a situation about the Memorial Day PES um this is financially now I'm talking the parade costed the town $950 the vendor venues were $13 $1,810 the net was $4 4,752 however that does not include the cost of overtime for public works and the police so therefore one could conclude that that event cost the taxpayers money once again this this event is scheduled for this year my question what is was the tourism director Amy Hall and the tourism liaison councilwoman Jane denoble present at the meetings who is on the committee and does this event need Council approval like the tour to Bradley Beach by bride Mary's place by the sea wall and Alzheimer association annual walk and I I learned tonight these organizations had to put up $25,000 to participate well my othered question is did this committee put up $25,000 why if these groups had to have Council approval for their event why didn't this Memorial Day Festival have Council approval another question Michelle Wy is spending time on this event does she receive a stien for this for her time and is the Barrow paying a fee of capture point to register vendors and parade participants I would like to have my questions answered we'll get those answers for you um well we've noted those and get those to I can ask you the one you asked of me yes please I was not at the meetings as of Were you invited no do you know why no tourism has tourism not has not been involved in the Memorial Day Parade in past well then they were not involved in it then what is it for what is the goal and objective of the Memorial Day Parade it's a celebration in Bradley Beach for what for what well that's for what I I am not against the parade I am in favor of the parade but I am objecting to the way this is handled it's a process we are we are talking about Main Street all the time and look what you're doing you're competing directly with Main Street this was not a profitable event and what didn't receive Council approval why did it receive Council approval we'll list all your questions and get get that back to well I would like for the council to know all the answers to as well thank you next for it Greenberg for Place have um I do have a question about the budget process uh councilman to would want to answer you say you passed the resolution to extend the time for you to get the first iteration of the budget process and that came and went I think that happened twice that correct January 24th council meeting we the deadline was the 27th and we extended it from January 27th to February so is there any sort of penalty if that was not made we're still within the state guidelines but so a resolution was passed the resolution was violated what's the point of passing a resolution if nobody pays attention to it that's a question for Mr Canon I guess it's a great question I stop the band no I mean look so is there any penalty if a if an administrative person such as the mayor or the you know the the accounting staff don't meet the criteria of the resolution and it comes and goes as a practical matter no should there be I mean if you pass a resolution to enforce something what's the point of if there's no penalty if it's not followed I mean there's State guidelines the budget has to be introduced and adoped by certain time period right what's the introduction date by guidelines believe it's March March end of March okay so so will that budget be introduced by the end of March it'll be there'll be a workshop on March 27th an introduction on April 10th and then we need to make a decision wait so but it has could you let me said the end of March right has to be introduced I think it has to be presented by the end of March oh present there three steps presented this program is presented introduced adopted yeah go forgive me I'm not the CF well you know everything right I triy okay the problem with that those three steps is if there are any questions at all we get into back a lot of back and forth and and while the administration typically introduces very late they then put a lot of pressure on the council hey we got we got deadlines you guys got to approve it well we ask questions we don't always get satisfactory answers time drags on last year the council either for one reason or another we either voted no to adoption or we taed meetings uh motions to adopt because we didn't have those answers and it roll the whole process rolled into June and July and and we had vendors we had merchants in town telling council members that we the council were being blamed for Bradley Beach not paying their bills because we were voting no on the on the budget so it's a very sensitive subject to me per for three years running we can every year we go through this process and then we're promised that the next year we're going to start in October we'll get you something by January 31st three years running it has not happened and we are always told the state ex expands the deadline it doesn't matter the state expends the deadline because the state is late getting us data it could be pension data or whatever all the other line items in the budget that have been work through with our department heads and everyone else that data is available and decisions are being made and I imagine even right now there's a preliminary budget that's been drafted missing a couple of lines nothing has being shared with this Council except the capital Improvement plan which is a portion of the budget and by the way it's not a recommendation it was a plan asking us for our input it wasn't this is what we propos so why isn't if there's some preliminary budget work going on in the background why not share that with Council Mr Mayor why not get their Fe well so we are waiting um we we started the um audit last year wul late for any number of reasons um the auditor is working with the CFO right now to finalize some ending balances starting balances and that's pretty much done um we will have the audit report I believe on the 27th we will also have the budget intro because uh the CFO will complete one of the things you have to complete before the budget is in AFS he's 95% complete with the AFS he just needs to make that stand for annual financial statement yeah um and once he has that um he'll he'll have that ready to go so that's so that'll be presented on the 27th to the council and will they be expected to vote on that then no no at all Workshop thank you the mayor and R Who name and address name and address my name is Anthony Deo um I live on Lake Terrace it's 2000 uh I I'm not here to make a complaint I'm here just to make a bit of a quick presentation so um for the last 14 years I've written thousands of Articles and blogs on New Jersey real estate and so having lived through the Great Recession and a couple other downturns I've been tracking some of the the numbers and so I've been putting them together my background is Wall Street as you can see from my cab U New York Stock Exchange was back then uh I was there the great you know the great crashing IBM at the time but let me just leave some numbers read them out to you and you know everybody's talking numbers and everybody's so angry but I know together our town can prosper okay and I want our town to lead the way in New Jersey I have a vision for Bradley to lead the way the average tax bill in mon county is $1,590 Asberry Park they pay on average $8,000 Alon by the SE 11,000 Belmar 8,215 Neptune 8399 and Bradley Beach is now at 9161 the increase is for Brad is 7.9% the concern that I have is that as we come out of and I wrote this over here as I would like to see that the town would Rise Up from the economic ashes of the pandemic and commit the the community to a few of these suggestions first one pass an ordinance that limits constraints and realid state tax increases to be no more than the percentages of uh inflation pass that that have been red by the US Census Bureau so the US Census Bureau tells us that inflation is 3.5 and we do know that that's a lie but we want to we want to enforce they alive at least to our benefit and so this is not a complaint but I'm just saying you can't go higher than 3.5 or whatever the the inflation is so that's number one number two I would suggest that we put together a stewardship commission within the next 45 days of individuals whose skill set and knowledge base can tighten this town spending and actually produce a 5% reduction in taxes lastly and this you know is for everyone expedite the sale of the church on Lorraine Avenue which funds shall be held in a special e uh environmental uh account for when the weather events occur we have the wiggle room to spend more money now that money is not going to go into you know just the general checking account we can put it in a savings account and for the years that we don't have a storm we haven't had a major storm since 2012 maybe we won't get another one for another 10 years we'll be add making 5.2 5% on a million and a half bucks so my point is I you know I have personal relationships with some of you you know I only want the best through our town and I just this is a word of exhortation and encouragement I'm not here to scream I'm not to tell anybody that they're wrong I'm saying I know that we can be better thank you thank you thank you yeah yes Ed beckon 205 ever green Avenue fo on January 18 you received a report from the prosecutor's office pertaining up to 28 infractions for previous Chief belief some some were infractions against committed against citizens and some against his own officers you waited for a period of time to make the report public then decided to let Chief retire and still collect his pension again we're not discussing two or three instances of possible misconduct but many more I realize this is a a a time where I'm supposed to just give my comments but I do have a question for you and I hope you can answer so my question mayor Fox as a citizen of our town who has to pay for the decisions that you make or don't make can you explain why you made this decision to allow him to retire and collect his pension without a more formal review by the town which I assume includes the council and and the attorney and other members who have a lot of experience to be sitting up there with you is that something you can answer for uh yeah I can actually share this document with you that would answer most of those questions um the um the short answer to your question if you look at the minutes of the uh February 28th meeting I don't think we were here at that meeting oh you were okay so I read through exactly um the process what happened what was done uh we worked with the we took the lead of count the prosecutor's office they did the investigation they made the recommendations they had the meetings with all parties the the the comment of letting the chief retire we we I think the proc said and we said we can't dictate when somebody retires or doesn't retire um they retire uh we can't say you're not going to retire um so um I understand your frustration um it's and it is a troubling report uh I can just tell you that I know that I worked very closely with the prosecutor's office they provided me the direction I have that all in writing uh they they document it to me up through February 28th the day we the last council meeting on confidentiality on um how to hand how to basically handle this investigation the report is a piece of the investigation it's not the end of the investigation I hear what you say but I'm still amazed that the elected body up here was not consulted and they knew the frustration of the town and I realize that you maybe with Mr Barco decided to allow him to retire but we don't allow we didn't allow him to retire okay but with his pension that's not our decision either the pension is a state agency that assesses um what pension payouts are we have nothing to do with that but there's certain bylaws that the town what we did was I supplied that report on February I forget what the date was I think it was 14th or 15th to the pension committee and said as a Prelude to potential a potential retirement you should see this report and that was on the direction of the prosecutor they told me to do that there are certain bylaws that person that the chief of police must follow in order to collect his pension and I suspect one of those 28 infractions that were committed would have stopped him from at least until a legal review of the circumstances took place the prosecutor's office did the report did the investigation the first question I asked when I met with them on November 10th was are there any criminal activities here the answer was there are not these are all administrative so these were administrative that's not a criminal offense I'm sorry when he hits an employee that's not a criminal offense there there's no that was not there's no nobody hitting anybody in the report he slammed the chair into somebody's leg that's hitting I that was in the report the report was interpreted and read out by the prosecutor they did the investigation well I have to say this Mr tonight I have a lot of respect for all you people up there okay every one of you Mr gr toi at the last meeting that I was at brought up a vote of no f and I can't believe I'm standing here in front of the people of this town and I'm about to say this just am I'm lacking confidence in okay thank you thank you good even great cast IO I live at 64 bra uh there have been a lot of comments about the report and I have a little bit of a different spin um I I worked over 4 years at a company where if you didn't do your job right or certain people didn't do their job right people die and that certainly could be the case with the police department and I kind of think it's kind of fasinating that we didn't lose one or more lives because the the culture of the department had to be toxic so my take on this is is how could this happen now at my company we do a lot of things and um the employees have places to go when they see or hear something that isn't right we call them speak up resources you would be able to go to your manager if you didn't want to go to your manager you could go to the chief legal councel if you didn't want to go to the chief legal council you could anonymously call an external Corporation and remain anonymous so with all of the problems the duration of the problems I can't wrap my head around why nobody in the police department didn't do anything and so the only reason I can come up with is they had nowhere to go where there was trust so while everybody is focusing on the pension and this and that I'm focused on what are we going to do to fix the problem in that department and other departments so that it never happens again right so we need to have a way that when people people go to work there everybody wants to get up in the morning they want to go to work they everybody I'm sure there's nobody that gets up and says I want to do a bad job today right they normally get up and say I want to do good right but sometimes they're prevented from doing good because of the environment that they're in or some of the people that they're working with so the town could do something and they can create you know whatever you want to call it speak up resources come up with your own name so that people have a way to bypass the person that's their boss to bypass the person I I could I could observe a behavior of two co-workers in all and that's certainly been done many times so that's really what's needed because I'm not really sure that the police department is fixed because one person was is no longer there the toxic environment the culture right and I used to have a saying right culture each change for breakfast so you have the culture just because you made a change that doesn't mean you really changed anything because the culture of the police department that same behavior that might be going on with the officers that are there right now and to a new person they might have to come in and say okay I have to deal with this because this the culture but no they should have a way to go and call and that that Department I don't know I don't know a single person that works there I know nothing about it but it could happen and it shouldn't happen because when people go to work they need to uh feel like they can do a good job thank you thank you for listening thank you for that input that's good input um Lindy 312 rley Avenue this is not about what we have been talking about this is about the occupancy of the vi Center um Miss Le got a phone call that it was 70 plus so was that for sitting was it for standing or was it for sitting at a table was just three different occupancies and I'd like to know the answer to that and I don't know who to get it from because nobody seems to know who would I go to go to code but I don't know where she got that information I somebody from the coding office Baler I'm not sure who but I can follow told me it was 70 plus so that would be other would thing for standing because I I will is about the size of this so I don't think we can fit you know so I'm pretty sure that the tables and chairs there would probably be half and that would be 35 so it's not accurate accurate in size for them so the other thing I have to say is all right we have no budget but yet we're spending money so we have all these music festivals listed for this summer does anybody have tally on how much they're all going to Quest I'm sure tourism does maybe well it does come out of the tourism trust right which is funded by CEOs and not tax dollar money it comes by we're all spending our money in town well we're spending money for the gpw and the police department right right so I'm just asking how much is it cting so you're asking like how much does it cost with the police and the yeah because we don't seem to know that Works being present yeah that's a good question and also on the concessions on the boardwalk or on the prominade rather how do that work when you get a bid do you start at like it's like $220,000 and then work your way up people bid on it how does it work that's the way it works so how come the two are so different I'm sorry the two price the two bids are so different there a $110,000 difference between them it's the real estate no they're bid separately best real estate is cheaper than the least real location location location Seal bids right you had to come in with they are Bid separately so do they know do they know where the bid starts John Mr Weber the Greg you wrote the bid so do you want to handle that there's a starting bid so what starting bid I don't know what they I could tell you you was it what you nework and brenley yes I so the side uh I'm going to wrot the bids I essentially took the prior rent from 2023 added whatever the normal increase was that had been occurring in the prior lease and then rounded it to the nearest thousand or near number so I don't know why one you know whatever they were paying I don't know one was higher than the other that's what they were paying all along so did they both have the same opening bid no because actually I would think Brinley would be the Hot Topic where you would want to go that truck was always busy and the North End didn't have anything and they had a terrible food truck I think it was the year before so they their business didn't do well so and the one that we have now it's like it's an ice cream borer so I looked them up it seemed to be like ice cream uh I believe it be to own 10,000 freeze out in um so they're they're not going to have food it's just going to be ice cream no I'm not complaining about that no I love iceam I uh BR the Avenue the opening bid was $20,000 per year and for nework Avenue the big was the opening bid was $25,000 per year and that reflects basically the difference between two bids so how many the prior you have multiple bids no we have one why would you higher why would they you don't know who you're you don't know who you're bidding against so we do yeah we trick them into giv you us more money yeah thank you very much all right and I would just like to comment on Lake Terrace Park it looks like it's progressing and thank you very much for doing that please please please can you put the swings at the right by there so adults can get on them without breaking their backs and CH little children get on them also because the ones on Ocean are very high and it's very difficult to get on them unless you're very tall but may prox you s them out thank you thank you uh gra Beach I just uh want to recognize a Bradley Beach resident uh residents who's probably saved many lives out in the ocean and that's uh Bob Rosenberg who announced his retir so it's all I want to mention thank thanks I was kind of holding that till we got it squared away but thank you Bill probably same for Dicky Johnson probably the same for Dicky Johnson it's in Facebook yeah we're working through that right now mece park um so many people said some wonderful things here this evening and I would either like to add to them or not um minimum occupancy of this room is full people as for the sign including tables and chairs we have 52 seats oh my surprise um I am surprised and shocked that you all are shocked with the report from the prosecutor's office um none of this was sequence to many of us it's just been a really long time coming so how do you fix it as I've said before the reporting of the police chief needs to be to the VA return to that position and the new opposition needs to come from without from outside of BR Beach and yes I would like to um endorse the fact that Mr GRE should never have any position in this town municipality again made her volunteered and speaking of paid as I've said for how many years and to um confirm what M natalis was asking yes there are people in this room that get sket there are people in this room that are paid employees the people on Zoom can't see them some of us in the audience don't know them you had people in public works they're not a group they're individuals and at the beginning of every Meeting those people need to be identified P present but you know you ignore me and I'll just continue to bring it up um while you can't share certain things in triplicate is your letter regarding Mr bua on the website right after each other let I don't remember the order Shamrock letter oh sorry Easter egg letter it's all green letter M prade and then it repeats itself and then it repeats itself once was more than enough for me but again we pay people who have no consequences to do a job correctly website says uh all this stuff about a film pickup it says our schedule has changed for December 2024 and January 2025 I do not see where this ran through this Council and it was voted on and you put that in there after recycle game so again to somebody else's point what happens when we don't need our resolutions we have no accountability for anything I beg lead maybe you'd like to take on the wonderful job you did for children ISM and its budget and stuff to do the same thing for the rep departments God bless you it should not be a re agency we spend and spend and spend person's never there when I go there um I don't get it um when Co was over and the meetings were turn here besides into Murphy's statement of this week that said we were ill prepared I came back with how are we prepared through the next one where's our PPE where are our masks what about all the laptops are we charging them are we making sure that they're working what has happened to them never got an answer but I'm going to guess bar Beach is not prepared I'm going to also say that we had a resolution to give a part-time person at no expense last year it was quoted in this meeting to be have added duties including that of assisting tax collection now we're advertising for fullterm Prim for that position that we've jumped to spending more parttime fulltime doesn't make sense to me and for all those people that were speaking about the may miss SW said in court on March 7th in the mayor versus the council that he would be done at the end of the year thank you yes Thomas J Coan 612 Third Avenue you know I'm really happy that the Public Works did their presentation I want to thank them but those numbers up there were the first numbers that I saw for the budget and I was not impressed with the number that had been expended in 11 weeks and the numbers that were the balance for the next 41 weeks I'd like to see that again because that did not look good to me again first Bud that was a temporary budget that's only a small portion that we a lot but no you've allotted it and you've used a ton of it in 11 weeks and now it because it's only 20 it's only it's a small portion of the Year 11 weeks yeah oh okay the number was big for 11 weeks that's my point mayor and I do want to wish you luck with the mayor wellness program and um and you know being named a healthy town to watch this year but I don't want to break it to you but you may not get it because too many people are watching so you may not receive it this year um maybe we'll do better um well yeah if everybody's watching I mean we need more media we need more people to watch us now um I do want to say what what stuns me most is in this whole thing is you're stalling in an action on on the chief thing I mean you assumed that you were the administrative Authority without checking with the balance of the council you're not the administrative Authority and you're going to be the administrative authority over someone who raised money for your campaign and campaign for you I mean it really boggles my mind the way you don't share information with your colleagues and take everything over and make people Sue because you you just command deer everything it's really quite amazing to me um the 43 days blows my mind when I read that report of the 43rd day day and you assumed there wasn't going to be a council meeting over the weekend so we're in good shape but you know what you must underestimate your colleagues unfortunately I didn't release that report the prosecutor's office did January 18 January 18 no the prosecutors released the report to the public okay no no sir actually I was in my house and I was told the report came to the council but I couldn't read it I had to wait for the public then I waited two and a half hours until it came out for the public the council received it the same M day yeah from the prosecutor's office yeah they ask you the prosecutor office from the business Comm bus from the prosecutor's office to the businesses no no the document and so did Miss DeMarco and so did Mr Bernstein and You released it to the council the same afternoon that the we did not release a report to the council the prosecutor released a report to us 3 minutes later we we released it to the count no no you had the you admited you had you did not have a redacted report why did they get a redacted report when they the administrative Authority it was the it was the um direction of the prosecutor I did not do the redaction the prosecutor I understand I understand that sir but you had the benefit of an unredacted report and you didn't share that unredacted report that youve had for the 43 days with your Council who is the full administrative Authority okay so I I I'd love to see the memo backup on this but you know we don't have the 2022 audit there's no trust for you anywhere and I do want to ask you I mean how many acts of contrition you have to say after every meeting because you don't tell the truth at all it's amazing just amazing so when are we expecting the AIT I want to make sure I can be there that day March 27th March and will that be the the full presentation where we can question the auditor he'll be here or you just going to give I'm not sure what format we're going to put it out I'm not sure you're not sure if he's gonna be here I mean even I'm not sure I'm not sure I just I mean I don't know how this runs can't give a solid number you can't give a solid date you can't give a solid time and you Commander everything it's incredible there is no trust and and it's not going to get any better and I I do agree with the people said it's really time to resign because thank you sir um no other questions we will okay I no real questions I have a couple com oh you're most welcome I was here few weeks ago and I mentioned how um he just me name I'm sorry Henry 209 I made a comment that I think all the Property Owners should pay their fair share when I'm talking about commercial versus and I kept I know there was a difference between commercial and residential if you want me to tell you what it is I talked with the assessor he told me what it is I had to leave unfortunately I never directed anything towards Mr cols Cohen I don't know why he got up and he said I don't know the facts I don't think it was right I never said a word to him I never said anything about what did and the thing is it was wrong and all I said is the commercial properties need to pay their fair share for instance dorsy their taxes are now $1,078 they went down last year $634 went down Del pones $ 12,852 they went down $639 here's here's the m qu that's the bakery that's the coffee shop and the restaurants on the side the attack successor couldn't figure it out for me okay okay so I said how do it calculated it's calculated by how much rent is to be achieved off the property I go well I don't think that's fair I don't think that's right so I go off the phone I well I talked to them for about 45 minutes about and this is five months ago I go off the phone I call up two other towns where I own properties one in Delmar on for D and I said how do you calculate I don't problem I paid 15 or 20,000 there I he says well commercial is a little different we now do a land assessment just like you do on residential and then we do the income approach like we do in Bradley we didn't do a land assessment about three weeks later two weeks later I had a call I I never asked him to call me back he called me back he said we're changing the way we do it it's not right we're going to do a land assessment and then an income approach I said well that makes sense makes sense to me look at uh uh UA their taxes went down $750 I don't think anybody's residential property taxes went down but biscuit that they all went down 300 the assessment on commercial property is probably like I don't know the assessment not the taxes the assessment is probably 100,000 not 100,000 probably 10 million too low across all the properties I said to him what is the what is the property is it is it in the middle of the prop in the middle main center of town is that worth nor no it's all work the same that's that's ridiculous how about Corner profit are they work more oh it's we do it all the same I I told them that's wrong too because you know why because all the good properties around the corner look at the bakery look at the bank look at the real estate look at uh you look at what what is his the real estate over there um Patrick Parker this went down $400 doesn't make sense it's wrong and I don't wait for it to come out don't wait for them to come come out with the thing because I'm surprised no one said anything about you didn't have any commercial property owners come up here and say I don't understand that my property values went down my Pro my property taxes went down I think mine went up well I have a couple properties one went one went up 1,300 one went up about 500 it's not fair they need to pay their fair share and I don't need to be bullied by someone that I didn't say anything to I'm I'm not going to stand for it and I'm not the person to be B thank you thank you okay if there's nobody else we will make a motion to adjourn second a motion to Executive session do I have a second second yes what do I do for executive session call in I didn't even know that somebody set up okay I'll call I'll call on the phone I will call so yes sorry I didn't introduce you guys to the people who are complaining time yeah War do f love it all get here yeah I think environmental Commission about 27 in yeah who the big star um Justin play the NFL play the NFL play the NFL [Music] all right R afternoon I'll forx that's a good name that's good name yeah that that's whated right when you got I like your different tape on has I the only time I came to meeting was 97 do when they did the main street because were Main Street was but the people were renting didn't want the new papers and street lights stuff R go right like your rent G to go up but your go you know how this works and so that's the only time I really came and interacted when because I said I'll pay the money I want Pap I want to get it done but uh you know and then we moved here full time you know um same shut down yeah it was a totally illegal event for didn't pay any taxes they Li on their ABC permits from [Music] organ the third question and I did this is how I got now they're trying to do with so  like me you know yeah can't figure out the truth seriously you if you're active in politics you want to look at the the law trying the pass it was just out voted out of committee in the house of Senate Monday yeah they're trying to gut the overall gut the whole thing so you can't so what happened is when I did my off call your I call my I oh my God I didn't to do any work so the third question on license for a special ABC permit for beer and wine at a function for a nonprofit is are you current with your and then I called the uh I called the state DCA they hadn't filed there and I pulled the IRS in Washington we had no no records for six years of them filing ACC but I'm the and it was on but you know and the vendors want to kill me because what happened was I filed it right when they approved it and then they kept can down the road and Court you know I was spending it cost me five grand I mean I do this for fun you know I did it to make point but it got to within a month the event I'm like they're going to try to go over let's go for sumbody judgment he went for some judgment and I made an agree with judge jge sett revoted without one of the council members who was I said absolutely do that wife he voted you can't vote it's wife's the president of the chamber and you're voting for he he was indignant about you know just like right so then when they revoted I presented all information and the vote was 22 two weeks before get these interational it was it was on The Daily Mail the UK UK up from the New York Post New York Post people that just shot all friend of mine in Dallas saw it Florida but but it's it's just been constant I I spent a lot of money on I've won over cases where they had been my lawyer and I I won that open public meetings cases um but there's no fee shiing so I had to eat that so another you know just fun I just Su and you know what right nobody apologizes that's thing nobody goes hey except my friends this Council the council don't even anyway it's great to see2 yeah you shouldn't be here oh I am I am a registered voter here wife I mean you said I'm here April sometimes come we come all weekends you know but but you know my wife wife said when I said listen I want I I she we'll break it up no she registered Princeton because she wants to keep her hand in Princeton politics and I here yeah you are and I it's all yeah 31 years is it better for the commute no I I'm retired know when you live there I was taking a train into y yeah so was you know you know I grew up in six County got married and down here and stay there and then you know my house was too big I really couldn't take oferty I got tired yeah it's tired where did you grool my father went to um Monclair okay and when I was a little kid he would say this isn't football there I'm G to take see monair Bel monair Nutley I mean I was like eight years old all these games my wife is from we said football game that was like yeah I me it's a different like that was like you know you know everybody I grew up in noreast Philly and East High School Central High School was the big Thanksgiving Day game yeah it was I was actually on JV uh I was actually I was end of B squats right we had a couple guys got hurt and they stuck me in on a game against Central at offensive guard I was this PA and 170 wait we didn't Central High School in PH Philly oh my God I stick to 170 and I need a go Greenberg you're in I was no did I okay he was I by height I was able to use leverage against weight and you know we had it was I mean we we were both bruis at the end of the game we shook hands and it was a fun game but man last time I ever to play interior line it was just I be I was I was the guy that didn't step back fast enough but and and on the B squads was fun yeah it's good football Philly too yeah I remember this we heard a practice and so when you're on the bomb squads right you have to stay in your lane right that is the Mantra oh yeah stay in your lane so we're in this practice and the guy broke away and I attack but an open Fe perfect open field tackle probably best tackle and Coach yell oh my give me two laps l or anything uh in Northeast High School that there's some good college players year like most of the people active or right I got to tell you we're not getting a big turnout because everybody's in [Music] [Music] Florida part two there's an executive session normally business after executive session there's two resol resolution afterward so and this is my public service so the is that you negotiate your contract for cable television you do 10 years and then all of a sudden all a sudden they got there you know then then they spent money six months later got their and then now they went to this the hour the hour which is actually pretty cool I do like it yeah s you can't see everybody so when you're on zo you see the audience yes you can yeah depends on who's speaking someone speaking here yeah pick it up and you can see the see in our Corporation oh yeah absolutely hey man how's how are you all right look for DJ I saw right e that that BR up e e e ask all so that right makes call go you got to get well my mom side yeah I don't know so I I mean so but right so I could under what the five go days later he comes home goes his GPC depression surgery so he was he probably had some on but then he didn't move months yeah and then it gotse so they and then five years later my point was he lost he lost over 50 PBS so if he took the surgery which weigh 230 would have been like you know much better off but I had prev so every once in a while six months eight months I would get little right and I was supposed to have my care literally I didn't think be so you know they put on F fley blah blah so it's clear up right so I leave I was my NYU cardiologist said where it's at go I came home came down here infected flush it out came back down here two hours later so drive to Princeton they admit me what's called continuous ladder irrigation big 3000 bags hanging and they have threeway then they did they scope and said he saw a couple you know do certain things blood thers do surgery Sur no no no so so so then they did that and it helped but then I still had a little blood and then they did a second procedure called a prostatic arterialization so that's when they basically go in and put great stuff the artery that Feats the prostate you know expanding pH um they couldn't get all the way in they can only get to like one level above because they said my ter they torturous F but SE help I was pain clear right they took the they took the they took the the bladder bags out right uh and everything is coming out clear so FY on Friday morning being clear U but it's kind of a temporary solution have a little Ting every once in a while longm I got to wait I got three to six months but I'm get my shoulder done that's a sh window of time after about after about June the surgery BEC harder because the longer you wait I did a full tear the longer you wait the further theend travel way [Music] so so he came so he came know I'll do Myck my driveway My Neighbor House so he finishes the mine I'm walking up the front steps get my wallet to take like big barels you know and you know my steps come out like that a little bit caught my toe I heard so now got yeah I can it's be summer you're once I do this in June that's six weeks SL and then read that and then we're leaving yeah September and on top of all that Mary has got her replacement schedule for May 15 April 15 one yesterday it's like it's well it's not even in a HP Sur same they kept they kept him overnight well anthia so they kept him overnight but he's in some kind of cool yeah yeah we buy yeah and so then you know he did stand well he's got so I think PT to show him how to go stairs but once he gets up there he's not move well that's what we haveon we're going to come down here yeah yeah exactly but the knee they say the hip is easier knee oh really but you'll be up and walking the same day 16 weeks in my foot now what your fo I AED oh they I didn't do bad I really fig can actually do did you have the little Halo coming out met coming out no they put plates and screws I two plates screws she one of those little Halos that were scking out of her fo couple weeks right now pain is just tended pain because I'm walking differently and the PT guys is getting me to know my balance is actually improved good because I used to I used to never use the tub I always be on the outside of say BL your dad off but it was well a lot of it was like it hurt so much at the last cou this is your push yeah yeah yeah so it's likeing was here that's usually get from high heels and stuff it's actually father okay and and I just again I on my wa play football that was it you didn't go up no I pass that slow yeah okay a right get [Music] [Music] cross was incredible to be all oh yeah sure yeah what's thing are you serious I know how long toov went to think bov don't think major football school exactly I thought you were just like saying the guy was giving a right like Oh how we going this how we W so can you imagine you never played football the first time you play it's how we I can't wait like I people that know him they go I know John I always go okay I got a so yes respect [Music] you think about every single yeah Ian the gy Gat humy Gat I Sean Johnson gate gu research this Sor right I guess um it's uh yeah it's nice to get yeah we got what's his name he I'm kind of he wasn't really coming yeah no he's good and I see him in TOS River I I represent some properties down there so um yeah he's U you know I mean we're actually we're given concrete back yeah cuz we were little over okay and now we're that's the way it's supposed to work that's the The Balancing Act yeah the only thing that that we have it's like weird I think I talk about this I I told you about this they have theage they the main building yeah but is it a on reg it's but it's not attach yeah oh it's not attach so then so it's almost like it's next to an accessory structure the place oh it is reporing reping that's okay I haven't anything well it was locker room yeah where you know what um it's uhing talking about something that invol I imagine he walk down the I just you know he can do a lot more damage in the next 10 I know just contract yes so where's Maryanne having her surgy um it's a doctor from robil oh she going pH no no no that's where headquarter this is one of their sat offices and she the surgery in uh tell you though I went through have the cry CT I passed myg show I'm sitting there stress the symptoms only manifested under stress and not you know like I do an endurance work I was yeah I said I my bir father genetics I mean my grandfather on my mother's side yeah good yeah it's amazing what they do just think about you know years ago my grandpa so they done something else oh so without cracking my chest they said that if they couldn't get the scent in right there's this other artery that you use right I re rerouted and it's it's surgery but they don't CRA your chest yeah isn't that why I can't believe yeah and and I said what about the area that other AR serves he goes well your it's it your body will actually revascularize that area I mean it wasn't a hard it was yeah they take it out of this area here and because I had um a 70% blockage of a branch of the LA right and I said you going to set that as well because it's too small I said well what happened that 100% you it's such a small one I no it's such a small area and again your body will beast in the rights that's P yeah like you know for the smaller arteries they do that because you're right I guess you just chill yeah yeah so but I may down the road I may need a couple other STS for a couple areas yeah they're like were 50% but what just just just just my grandfather I his he's the one that really go carrier you know like like Carri sound well yeah I got an F and there's some Nitro here somewhere that's the what do you have that I had a reaction to what we saw shellfish and then I had a reaction they f a shellfish allergy but I turned I tested negative and um you never figure out what it was so they just got me the the of it yeah they gave me some of but yeah Mar and I were joking right I met Maran when I was 40 so by the end of this past two weeks of joke was that more women seem like penis than the entire 40 years before I met Maran the past two weeks you know all they want to come check make sure there's no infection we were laughing about like you started joking when when a new nurse came in or a new nurse's a and they wanted to like do you know what they call Foley maintenance right they Pi wipes and off we us okay so we got to get your first name your last name your position here we got to put it in the spreadsheet that's it's so stressful yeah oh so um after the the proed after no before the first procedure I was in there and I went to try to go to the bathroom right it's a little constipated and this happens a lot they say the Vegas varas Bear Down by blood pressure drop and I felt I said I'm going to pass I told I am going to pass out get Li I can feel to pass out right and when I came to I'm sitting on the floor I started out on the toilet I'm sitting on the floor and I'm looking up the hospital the doctor does the rounds and you know know feel at all and he said that was the second time I woke up and he said the first time you woke up you're like cracking jokes but I said yeah I said you know what this the first time I ever passed out as an adult and then I give a break pause I said hosp and in and out and like you know almost sitting there I'm saying I'm that guy now I got these day meds night meds and I was feeling like you know had a little p party last night good there text Maybe great took off that watch wedding ring where I left and I hit it somewhere I he somewhere in the house I can't fre find it find it demo yeah phone this start so so what do you want me to look up look up so think you're building a house right that's C unmute me oh there I am hey can you guys hear me yes yeah make motion to return to I make a motion that we return to the regular meeting what are you saying second okay second uh Mr Noble yes Mr gubitosi yes Miss Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox absent okay um okay returning to the agenda uh we have resolution Mr Noble yes Mr gubitosi yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes may Fox absent and for resolution 2024-25 yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox absent okay all right oh go ahead I was gonna adjourn I'd like to make a motion to adjourn this meeting all in favor hi hi thanks everybody you see is that hotel art go back to party John that is Hotel art and thanks thanks for the public for hanging around round the public it's we got two public I know I hear we were very very entertaining I I'll have you all know I I missed a night out with my colleagues this is the first night where people actually went out and did something fun and I'm like all right peace out see you