just yeah ask I have already nice little okay absolutely is this just a is this like a longevity is this a longevity thing or I'm sure number two I think they're going to do a00 States indivisible andice I wish to announce that the 48 hour notice is required under the open public meetings Act is email to the Asbury Park Press the coar and the new coar on December the 7th of 2023 that a copy has been placed in board in the Bal office and then a copy has been filed with the municipal cler 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 Mr Noble here Mr gzi here M Mone here Mr Weber I'm here I don't know who phone it is but somebody's phone okay that was uh Welcome to our first meeting of 2024 Happy New Year to everybody uh hope everybody had a good holiday period uh this is a necessary meeting that should be hopefully very short uh we had three resolutions uh related to financial matters uh and I'll I will cover those right now so the first resolution is 20241 which is adopting a temporary operating budget for the year 2024 this is fairly routine in that um between the time we start the year on a on a fiscal basis and we adopt a budget um we are allowed I think number is 25.2 is that correct or 26.2 26.25 26.25 uh um spending um until that time in which we uh adopt the budget so uh there's no questions around temporary budget I'll make a motion to adopt 20241 adopting temporary operating budget for 2024 we had a question should we I I don't know if anyone has any comments but should we open the agenda to questions about the agenda from the uh that is not on the agenda is it it's on the agenda for number six Council wants to move that to up thing but then Public's commenting after we've already acted so yeah so I make a motion that we open it um to public comments second on agenda items only on agenda items only second I don't know that anyone has any well we just need a roll for vote of everyone say yes to grant that motion before we can open it up okay Mr Noble yes Mr hzi yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes any public questions yes uh Thomas Jan 62 Third Avenue with regard to the uh ordinance 2024-25 as as you're talking about financial matters today mayor th this goes to the point that joint Insurance Fund is not free uh you did a settlement earlier this year um at the 2023-24 with the jusis which you know states that the joint Insurance Fund pays uh $67,500 that's still taxpayers money that resolution also then says that the burrow has a $2,500 deductible well again we're paying again and now I'd like to point out that on uh November 19th we paid a uh Summit risk Services a co- insurance company on the Januzzi case another $116,000 so the the cumulative effects of this mismanagement and lawsuits is creating a real problem for the town and I was wondering what we're going to do about it as as a mayor and a council this resolution is for um joint Insurance Fund for Middle County for uh I think the years which years is it 2020 yeah and back um this is a settlement based on that that your comments although appropriate comments don't really tie to this particular uh resolution no actually they do because they show the cumulative effect of this insurance policies on taxpayers so I believe I am actually well I would disagree with it because we are note we have not been a member of the middle sex joint Insurance Fund since 2020 but we are paying 60,000 a year for the next three years of our taxpayer money due to lawsuits under that joint Insurance Fund so my point is is that we have the januzi case we're paying on that our most likely our MTH County joined Insurance Fund premiums will go up these are cumulative effects of poor management not only for us but for other municipalities that was the point I'd like to make but I do appreciate the fact that they're going to let us pay it over three years so the taxpayers don't get smacked all at once but thank you very much thank you any other questions okay if there's no other questions I'll make a motion to uh pass 202 or to make a motion to approve 2024 once adopting a temporary operating the appr report we have a second second Mr Noble yes Mr gzi yes M Mahone Mr Weber yes mayor Fox yes 20242 adopting a temporary Debt Service for the year 2024 I'll make a motion sorry Qui yes um just just a very simple question uh perhaps our business administrator knows the answer but in the current fund the sewer utility and in the Beach utility there's the mcia program payments it was just interesting me that there's zero allocated to principal it's all that just they're banss right now so you don't pay on the principal in the first few years on a ban you um pay on the interest only and then when you go you have to go for permanent financing within 10 years so these are all of okay new new BS okay great thank you okay second to the motion second Mr Noble yes Mr guzi yes yes M Mahoney yes Mr Weber yes may yes 2243 approving and authorizing St payments of supplemental assessments for year 20 the years 2001 to 2011 to most County Municipal joint Insurance Fund a second to that motion second just no yes Mr H I want to make a quick comment and that is that um middx County J originally hit us with an invoice for 200 down $225,000 a quar of a million dollars almost and uh our attorney Mr Canon negotiated adroitly on our behalf bringing that number down $44,000 to the number we're uh voting on tonight and uh enabling us to pay it over three years so I just want to TI my hat to Mr Canon say thank you and I vote Yes uh M Mahone yes Mr Weber and i' just like to comment every one us to pay interest on this and again uh it was expertly negotiated and paying interest so yes mayor Fox yes thank you okay just server we are paying um some interest yes it's about $5,000 a year no I know but I just wanted to make sure I was pres correct information for the record thank you okay I'll make a motion tojn uh have second second all favor I than [Music] youone a real resolution thanks we miss him already know you know this this will really [Music] oh thank you thank you wait till you see the next don't you [Music] dare stressful