right if I can have everybody's attention I'll wait till the picture's done though I'd like to welcome everybody to our July 10th city council meeting if everybody could please R like salute you could remain standing our Deputy Mayor Karen leads us in prayer Heavenly Father please be with us and guide us as we make decisions that affect the lives of many raise us up and point us toward A Better Tomorrow grant that we may both perceive and know what things we ought to do and receive Grace and power to fulfill what is expected of us in your name we pray amen all right Lynn can you read the open public meetings act announcement thank you I'd like to ask Mike Karen and denn well first of all I just want to say thank youday best flag SCS ever had uh today's a very special day we have a number of our uh baseball and softball teams here we have our eight softball our 10 baseball and 10 Softball All championship teams and be happy on beh of the city of we wanted to conat how well you guys repres also I want to take to thank all parents and I say one of the greatest Investments one of the greatest Investments that you can ever make is the investment of a child especially as a dad who's coaching or a mom who's coaching that influence really goes a long way not just with your own children but with all of the children on those teams so we're very very proud also like to thank our baseball and softball commissioner Tom bichi Tom has done an outstanding job uh Reviving and growing both the baseball and softball programs and uh how many would you have over 110 now yeah 165 that is very impressive [Applause] and it goes without saying it's without you know the hard work of Tom and I know Jess is in there helping as well as well as all the coaches and uh it's great I think almost half of the childhood population of RGA team I've been playing baseball and softball so thank you guys for coming out uh we're gonna start off with our uh U softball and that's mugh pizza and I believe you guys won the championship what was a score I lost it just had it what was it 17 to zero I thought it was a typo oh man that is impressive impressive wow all right so we'll uh read the names as you come up we'll uh hand you guys our certificate as well as we'll take a picture at the end with the team that was their score I thought it was the record too I see some of so o oh okay all right City brigan tetine certificate of appreciation is hereby granted to head coach Paul Fuller Atlantic BW softball league eight and under Champions 2024 excellent job just uh line up on uh on Coach here as we uh call your names up get the coaches out of the way first and just get all the uh one players up here right after that assistant coach Danny Moss city of briy certificate of appreciation hereby uh granted to assistant coach PJ right thank you very much assistant coach PJ cook assistant coach Tom leura okay on to the players we go so I'll just read the first one off here as I did with the first couple uh city of Brigantine certificate of appreciation is hereby granted to obviously all members of the winning team we starting off with Zoe bomb Atlantic Atlantic bab Ruth softball Le eight under Champions 2024 congratulations what position you play Zoe all right third basem a hot corner all right well I'll get their I'll get their positions called out here but just so we can uh just kind of make it a little bit more interesting next up Stella cook what position did you play Stella right field all right right fielder watch those balls slicing away from you right-handed bats go Sloan Morrison what position did you play SLO left fielder sloon Mars Jay Fuller pitcher all right conratulations lovecome Phillies hat I had the pleasure I'll just like add this in a little anecdote here uh coach on a couple College show uh showcases for softball it's not exactly top secret information you click on your TV and you see how good some of these girls are when they get older and uh I'll tell you what these high school players they could bring it it was a pleasure actually umpiring uh it was two showcases that I did so uh I just brought that mind saying a piter something okay moving on Sailor [Applause] cook you play first Bas first basan all right Bryce Harper watch out all right next up Lily Warren position you play [Music] Lily CER catcher okay probably the most involved position in the whole team right baseball softball you're into everything when you're a catcher next up Isla laara I'm sorry Isa Isa La play is second base I'll just add a little bit here and there my favorite Philly of all time Chase hutley want to teach a kid how to play ball just tell him to watch some clips of Chase Utley whe it be on the bases hitting bu bil's greatest second baseman ever all right next up Emily snore Emily snore right fielder all right old do you get a position never to be uh to be taken lightly the way balls slice away from you with all the right-handed ball players all right next up we got Easton Moss Short Stop all right biggest defensive position on the field and I put Muse petza on the bottom so let's uh let's give him a big hand for supporting the team and parents we grab a quick picture now what all right next up we have our 10U baseball Jackson electric got Mike re all right 10 you baseball coming right up I just want to say one thing I can't ever remember remember as much excitement and such a great vibe from all the Champions three championships I don't think it's ever been done before in the history of breaking te at one season so congratulations to all the Champions here it's so so good to see such a great [Applause] crop commissioner Tom RI was just saying to me he's so excited and so happy about it that he wants to invite everybody over his house tonight after this is over how about a cod to commissioner Tom all the food you want open bar okay all right first of all we want to thank Jackson electric sponsoring the uh 10 new baseball Champions first up I want to call up head coach Steve [Applause] Marson and and I want to say I have to say you know I I I umpired a few of the games this year and I have to say coach Steve was one of the most mild-mannered coaches that you'd ever arrived so respectful how about it for assistant coach Steve hoppel Steve's not here he's recovering but Shannon's coming up to place representing coach steeve uh come on you got to stay up here assistant coach Kyle bbau next up assistant coach Matt [Applause] manour how about it for coach Sean [Applause] Bangor all right first one for the players we got Ben borbo way to go Ben how about Bryson schaer [Applause] hey Bryson somebody's going to give that to Bryson I just want to say one thing you know nobody's mentioned yet but none of this could be uh accomplished without the commitment from the parents so we want to thank all the parents too for everything you next up he's he's following in his dad's footsteps with the big hits at timely Manor so I want to call Dash Mah here how about Ethan hoppenfeld my [Applause] buddy next up Evan [Applause] how how about it from my good friend Harry Deo next next up jez [Applause] Perez right next up Matt manour How about if for roit sh her next up Ryan Morrison let's here for Ryan Riley okay all right next up Ryder vanor [Applause] okay William Solano [Applause] chalas and last but certainly certainly not least Wyatt hoppenfeld these guys they came up with the timely hits All Season the close one run game there was just so much excitement as I'm sure there was with everyone but there you go how about it for the uh 10 you boys champion e all right ladies you ready all right now we have the all right guys all right now we have our 10U girl softball I think I caught parts of a couple of your games my granddaughter plays EV played games year quite a bit here congratulations on super super season and when I was your age I was a softball player also I was I was a pitcher yeah all right so your sponsor was the Brigantine Education Association is there someone here for to get their certificate all right we'll make sure they get it we had have head coach Anthony Martella [Music] assistant coach Aaron shotland and for our ladies we've got Michaela mle [Applause] Riley Martella M Mich at what position were you oh mostly infield but not outf all right there we go Marty stac all except Outfield and catcher all right a utility player she can play anywhere lauralai pacis where did you play sh Short Stop Short Stop Emily Maguire that's sure very important position all right Colby [Music] Calhoun Christine Cow Bella green right field ARA [Applause] Sanchez and what position second second Bas Alexandra Larson Center all right what a super season ladies congratulations coach do you want to tell us uh their their uh record uh we only finished with one loss we lost our first game of the season and we won every game after that so for all right so we have one last thing for tonight if we could have all of the teams come up for one big picture come on up teams coaches everybody come on up e e take a five minute reset yeah all right we're going to take a five minute recess with a motion second uh I'll make that motion second all in favor I any oppose none all right we're going to take a five minute recess e for for for for yeah hockey ch all right we have a motion on second to resume the meeting make that motion second all in favor I any oppos seeing none meeting has resumed uh tager any need for executive session tonight no mayor no executive session uh next up we have our approval of our June 16 2024 council meeting and executive session minutes motion second moved questions or comments I see none can we have BR yes yes yes yes may Sarah yes car have our approval of payroll requisition list operating expenses we have a motion second questions or comments seeing none we have roll call yes yes yes yes s yes all right next up we have public comment this is on agendum items only please come up state your name and address for the record all right see no public comment we close the public portion except we have ordinance number 11 of 20124 this is an introduction and this is a bond ordinance providing for various improvements to the water SE utility in and by the city of Brigantine in the county of Atlantic New Jersey appropriating 8,960 thereof and authorizing the issuance of 8,960 th000 in bonds notes of the city of the finance the cost thereof we have a motion second so move second all right so the purpose of this two main purposes one is just general maintenance of our utility system too this is also in preparations for the lead service line repairs and Replacements that are being mandated by the state of New Jersey so this will help us to start that process uh this is uh an introduction any questions or comments by Council all seeing none can we have broke off yes yes yes yes yes we have ordinance number 12 of 2024 this is an introduction and this is a bond ordinance providing for various Capital Improvements in and by the city of Brigantine and the county of Atlantic New Jersey appropriating 17,21 18,800 therefore and authorizing the issuance of 16,35 uh 7,860 bonds or notes of the city to finance part of the cost thereof we have a motion second I'll make that motion second all right so one of the biggest things we're doing is we're uh reinvesting back into the city this has to do with um improving the city our buildings our grounds our recreational facilities uh big part of this too is also the beach parking lots we're looking at repaving all the beach parking lots bathrooms the amenities that we can start to put back into the island um one of the big questions that we always ask get asked is what is the impact going to be on taxes uh this will have little to no impact on taxes one of the things that we work on here in the city is making sure that as debt falls off we then replace that debt to keep debt levelized uh some municipalities try to go and have zero debt I don't think that's a good financial plan I think what you do is you reinvest and use that money in the city but by keeping debt level it makes it easier and affordable within your tax Bas to do so that's why we're moving this forward all right any questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call you yes yes yes yes yes Sarah yes car we have resolution 2024 d130 and this is a resolution awarding a contract to AT&T for the lease of space for the installation of antennas on the Water Tower located at block 1502 lot 6 seven on the city Brigantine tax map and authorizing the entry into an agreement related to the same uh for the rental payment this will come in at $364 per month we have motion second questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call yes yes yes yes Sarah yes car resolution 204-1131 and this is a resolution authorizing an extension of the word of contract with can of worms LLC for trash removal we have a motion and second questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call you yes yesy yes yes yes Sarah yes yes resolution 2024 132 this is a resolution by the city of britin New Jersey authorizing a contract with Doren engineering for Professional Services to prepare the gis based map of the city of Brigantine infrastructure Brigantine New Jersey we have a motion of second all right for those of you who don't know uh J GIS is geographical information systems uh this contract is in amount of $4,899 and basically what we're doing with this is upgrading um I guess updating all of the maps that we have most of our Maps we have for our City's infrastructure are original they're paper copies they're very old they're taped together they're held together so we are now digitizing those records and updating to preserve them so this is a process we need to do to move forward uh questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call you yes yes yes yes yes mayor Sarah yes motion Carri resolution 2024 d133 this is a resolution by the city of Brigantine New Jersey authorizing a contract with Palestina and Associates and CM services for building and site improvements at well five and six and former well three Brigantine New Jersey this is the amount of 24,700 motion second questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call you yes yes yes yes yes Sarah yes car resolution 2024 d134 uh this is a resolution amending the city of Brigantine 2024 year Municipal budget by the insertion of a special item of Revenue and appropriation from Atlantic County for sumers Shore pedestrian awareness Grant this is in the amount of $5,250 and motion second questions or comments seeing none we have roll call yes yesy yes yes yes yes motion car resolution 2024 d135 this is a resolution amending the city of Brigantine 2024 year Municipal budget by the insertion of a special item of Revenue appropriation from the federal bull gr best partnership Grant this is in the amount of $617 motion second move second questions or comments seeing none can we have roll call yes yes yes yes yes yes resolution 2024 136 uh this is a resolution for southern Coastal Regional employment benefits fund this is our renewal uh we have a motion in second so we belong to a coastal hith this allows us to stay into that Coastal hiff the benefit of this is that um through the coastal hip we do get a cheaper insurance rates and right now it's been outperforming the state of New Jersey's PL so we wish to stay in this any uh questions or comments see none can we have roll call yes yes yes yes yes Sarah yes motion Carri next up we have our consent agenda we have the 29th Street block party request seventh street block party request the Fall New Jersey Jeep Invasion and Brigantine surf jam request we have motion and second questions or comments sing none can we have roll call you yes jry yesy yes yes yes mayor Sarah yes all right next up we have our Council manager committee discussions TIG for us no mayor just the grant that we inserted into the budget it's uh we really appreciate that Grant from the county uh it's it allows us to put an officer out there just to concentrate on crosswalks pretty nice do a couple different details just all walks educate people crack down on it so we appreciate that count thank I turn it over to our Deputy Mayor Karen all right I just love seeing all the kids and families here just it makes everything meetings uh family fun weekend was awesome thanks to the Rec Department Public Works the Chamber of Commerce for all the hard work they did it was a fabulous event uh Saturday morning this coming Saturday morning 9:00 am is uh Brian Woods walk at St Thomas parking lot it's a wonderful Foundation that gives thousands of dollars in the eighth graders each year excuse me Thursday July 25th the Tony TOA band will be next to the summer um will be next up in the summer concert series down building I believe starts at 7 o' now put that fund together and also just like everybody else I want to congratulations players first and foremost well the wonderful work I did wining those three championships parents the coaches a lot of work goes into that uh I can't remember three championships in once it's like the feet so uh congrats once again and wish a safe summer to everybody uh all our city employees our residents year round parttime summer whatever the case might be best everybody thank you fantastic WEA alls absolutely family fun great job by everybody Farmers Market pack really really have to thank our thank you mayor first of all I want to thank everybody for coming out here tonight it's a beautiful night shly I don't know what you're doing here well I do know what you're doing here but thanks for coming out and we're with you but uh other than that we got the cultural arts commission has some some events coming up and I'll let you know all about them the Arts Festival is coming up next month uh the economic development committee has been meeting and talking businesses are in good shape buildings in good shape real estate's in good shape if you have any questions i' be happy to answer anything about Economic Development uh the Chamber of Commerce I want to thank they're really really helping out here they did a fabulous job with family fun uh weekend there it was just one of the best ones ever so I want to thank Alex look right here on the back here and everyone else PA ala Tano Maria uh this next Tuesday starts the first movie on the beach the big surprise Little Mermaid and special guest here so you're free down to uh movies at what street there again Alex 38 that's right yeah other than that any troubles you know where to find my number page Bri times I'm available 247 for me anything all right and thank all our department heads for the job you're doing this summer just amazing be cleaning up all signs and everything else on the street and uh and and you know keeping legally parked cars off the street and keeping the title streams and ponds open working everything else and the fireworks were were amazing I was glad to hear there was no major incidents thank you including appreciate we had our BCP races on Monday night and uh it was really exciting except it probably was the foggiest I've ever seen the control R held I don't think you could see 10 feet out into the ocean so the fact that all of the guards made it out and back both times was very very impressive and I think truly shows the skills because I expected a couple people to end up in Atlantic City or LBI they all made it back uh so it was a great racing uh the big event is going to be August 9th we're going to be defending our South Jersy Championship brigan tetin will be hosting the South jerseys and uh for lifeguards winning the South jerseys they talk about the equivalent of immortality and uh we had our double screw do that our swimmers are real strong and our singles guys so um hosting that race August 9th make sure you come out we'll have every Beach Patrol from Bri and all the way down to Kate M Point um up here on the beach family fun weekend absolutely amazing great partnership between uh the city and the Chamber Commerce I really like the new location I think the community center really gave us a lot of space and a lot of parking and I thought that was really helpful people come in they can park they can spread out I know the uh company the vendor who does all the rides have the extra space he might be able to bring a couple tractions out next year so I think it was really good making the full weekend I think really gave people something to do especially over that Fourth of July holiday so the chamber thank you very much for our city Staff All Above I thank you excellent job been probably the best attended family fund day I've ever seen last decade so very impressive uh we had a member of our plan board uh resigned and the member was actually our Chamber of Commerce representative so replacing that member with the Chamber of Commerce I'd like to appoint uh we have a motion a second to appoint Paul amakano to the alternate four position on the planning board so second uh Lyn have yes yes yes yes yes yes alternate number four uh want to give an update for uh short-term runnels one of the things that we've been doing is kind of piloting over the last couple weekends having the weekends staff our code enforcement officials uh we're having success with that put together um our starting plan one of the things I want to say is we're establishing a process it's going to bring all of our properties into compliance but the process is going to evolve as we continue to assess the needs of the community this is our starting point where we are uh we've had very good success over the last couple weekends and now we're going to start to push this out publicly um we're going to have our code enforcement staff has and will continue to be working um on the weekends the inspectors will be focused on identifying unlicensed rental properties as well as monitoring and addressing parking issues uh any violations these are code enforcement violations code enforcement violations can be reported and we're going to put this in the Brigantine times at ltic City Press it'll be on our website some people have it uh to code enforcement Brigantine Beach nj.com I know that a couple of our uh residents in the community have had the email address ahead of time so we can pilot it it's been working so now we're going to P this out to the public uh these emails will go directly to the on duty inspector so when you send the email it goes directly to them they have the ability to respond uh from that point uh the fire prevention office will be staffed by administrative Personnel on Sundays from 9:00 am to 4m the office won't be open to the public but there will be office staff available to answer phone calls and um to reach the office by phone you can dial the uh 69266 3102 that's 69266 3102 the schedule of the the code enforcement staff is going to fluctuate based on need uh so we're going to move things around based on when we see the most issues or when things need to be responded been kind of flexible with that schedule so that'll be moving as we go forward uh while on duty the inspectors are going to be looking obviously one of the big things is trash violations uh there's a lot of people who either have inadequate trash or they put trash out on Sunday night but their trash night might not be till Tuesday Wednesday Thursday so we're addressing that um for the uh some people have issues the ACA does offer a cart service so for some of the short-term rental owners obviously if you're a property manager or you yourself aren't able to take care of it there's a cart service there's a couple of actually young men on the island who have actually started their own business so you can look to that if you want to hire locally but there's a opportunities for that more information on the part service can be found on aca's website uh people have trash violations that are out there you can email the code enforcement at britin bj.com or you can call 69266 312 I know for the last two weekends I think um we dealt with probably 40 issues uh dealing with trash I think the first line was to notify them that they were improperly putting the trash out give people an opportunity to correct it I know in the first week we sent 20 Letters Out 19 of the 20 uh corrected the issue so we're going to continue to work on that if it continues obviously it's within the code enforcement's ability to write tickets and issue fines but I think they want to give the property owners the ability to address it first uh to report uh to report noise violations on street or safety issues please continue to call the Brigantine police uh you can call the non-emergency number at 266744 if it's an emergency if you're seeing something that's an emergence situation obviously dial 911 uh for more information on this you can visit the city brigantine's website it's Brigantine beach. so we're going to put this on our website we're going to put this out in book of papers and also Atlantic press to make sure people know how to get involved how to get engaged in what we're doing and this will continue to grow based on the so I figured it was a good start but we wanted to roll something out for everybody at this time we are going to open it up for public comment anybody wishing to be heard please state your name and address for the record e for e e e e e e good evening happy summer hope you had a great fourth Andrea Sullivan 2000 Ocean Avenue let me just preface what I'm going to say I want to thank you for all your efforts to try to rain in the the chaos that's raining down especially I call the epicenter around 20th Street which you know we have 17 flanking 20th Street it's just even the 400 block we have six houses and three of them are MC monster Str strr so I I feel for I need it that 300 block is just utter chaos especially on the holiday weekends okay so I just I have another question maybe Tyra could answer mayor Sarah do we govern our meetings by Robert Rules of Order like the council a special type of format that we use for addressing or speaking or how the meeting supposed to flow or what are you allowed to say okay well just I guess because just last meeting I I missed it because I requested the the CD and I couldn't download it an app to play it there was someone took the microphone apparently bmear bmear me up and down pretty good on the microphone for the public record and I just think that that type of character assault should not be permitted in you know the public format there's a character assassination somebody can look me up and send me a letter but I think to go there and have a broadcast is kind of like pretty lame anyway um the salt PO leags let me just I I can't tell you how wonderful this feels to sit there and watch these kids come up here and get their certificates because I coached for 45 years three Sports in Philly and I played a bunch myself and and it's just it warms my heart to see those bit those ball fields alive with the kids when I sit back there and I sit there and actually like it almost teod thinking if we keep allowing our properties to be gobbled up by people have no intention of living here as year round residents and keep pumping in two-day rentals or the primary use of that property or any property as a short-term rental we're going to eradicate the type of activity we were here tonight saluting it will disappear and that's heartbreaking that's heartbreaking um so meanwhile I'm still captain of the seven dead uh you know team we're still proponents so if you just made the rental seven days all this two-day nonsense would evaporate and I think I there was an article in the press and I think I sent it out to everybody that Airbnb actually forbode the two-day rental over the Fourth of July holiday they banned it when their sight was all the chaos that type of stuff brings so I just I'm keep going to keep leaning in you know I am just we can wipe out the two day and go to Seventh Day everybody will be happy and is still is a rental thank you 30 Street first City consum story system especially need people have questions I don't think that this Council has acknowledged yet fact that you are bu apparatus set up to hand certain problems trash Etc but that doesn't deal with the essence of this situation have problem the and if anybody of ccer would like to respond to that certain problems still have the same situation is what we call which handles events people come fames to so low we're dealing with basically events things that happen where do we stand on tures the County Board of Commissioners I believe johnley is out openly in opposing this stand short stand prove other thank you and for the motion wi I visited a number of municipalities basically uh start here our County Executive he's 100% against them uh when I've met discussed the issue with him he said before he can take action he needs to hear from more than just the short towns he said there's 23 municipalities he wants me to speak to all 23 I've been out probably now publicly and here at 10 different towns in their Council meetings nine of the 10 have passed resolutions one's going to pass it into the next one I have a number of lined up I've talked to elected officials all across the county they will they've at least committed to me that they're going to pass the resolution they just need me to come to the meetings unfortunately a lot of the meetings are the same night so I'm going town to town getting the support that our County Executive has asked me to get I will tell you momentum's in our favor uh we will continue to fight this we have people from local level all the way up to presidential candidates now that are promising to shut these projects down so we're hitting this at every level through the court systems through government officials and through uh the election process so we're going to continue to stay on this fight um and I'm going to make sure that our and the Board of Commissioners get the support that they need to move forward and as I told them they can pass a resolution in opposition but the reality is we want to join in with litigation because we really need remed from the courts in order to stop these projects so we're going to continue to do that so hopefully I'll have information for you soon I was in PT public last night 100% uh in favor of our resolution and supporting the county to take legal action um as for short-term rentals and I'll turn ask uh guess Michael this question my understanding is that the state of New Jersey designates short-term residents uh short-term rentals as residential not as commercial is that correct yeah so I think that is the issue I understand your statement and position that they're businesses but the state of New Jersey deems them as residential use so there's not a lot we can do that at the local level but we are trying to address a lot of issues that are going along with it um for the most part as I know in your neighborhoods 20th Street it's still a challenge there we are still working there a number of the short-term rental properties almost all but probably three owners are in compliance right now we're addressing the trash issues we're addressing the special events issues that were going on with the properties and we're do all we can to get everybody in compliance as I said it is a slow process but we are moving our way through this we to continue to increase our efforts until we get it to where we need to be so we're GNA back down if there's any other Council comments if there's no other Council comments can we have a Motion in second mayor real quick I just realized um not have a meeting before National Night Out so National Night Out is August 6 it's always the first Tuesday in August great event all free food to R water ice baseball bring the pitching Mach big hit SWAT demonstration which is always a big hit all the Departments will be there and a lot of different tables from all over the county Kines will be there so August 6 I've been to a lot of the national nightout events all across the county Brigantine hands down as best officers do a great job putting it together there's no other motion second to adjourn all in favor any oppos start seeing none motion pass thank you for coming out watching your counil team pH I'm sorry I don't Micha I don't believe she heard Mrs Phillips our attorney had the had for it's one uh thank you for coming out watching your Cil