the reorganization meeting of the Lake Como mayor and Council to order please stand for salute to the flag in a moment of Silent reflection Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands Nation please remain standing for a moment of Silent reflection thank you Sunshine Law please Mayan in which resolution the time place of agenda and regular meetings commencing January 3rd 4th noce was delivered to the as Park Press the co-star and tap into and a copy of the Noti is posted on the B website and the bul bo b all meetings to the public thank you we will begin our meeting uh let me just first welcome everyone and say happy new year uh thank you for joining us tonight U before we do our roll call we will swear in our uh two councilmen who were elected in the last general election um and we will start with councilman nick deor uh if you want to come to the front and anyone who wants to join you um to hold the Bible and we'll do the swearing only [Music] than come on buddy come [Music] on your H oh hold that right there got it right you baby okay you're going to repeat after me I Nicholas deor to solemnly swear I Nicholas tomor do swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and I will their truth faith and allegiance of the same and to the governments established in the United States and the governments established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will faithfully and I will Faithfully partially partially and justly and justly perform all the duties of councilmen perform all the duties of councilman according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations we're doing a group shot all right now group shot just walk her up okay baby I'll take it I got to [Music] take she's gonna start dancing all right would you give me your oh you using yours okay repeat after me I Peter ventrice do Solly swear I Peter ventri do SAR that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and to the governments established in the United States and in this state and in this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people and that I will Faithfully that I will Faithfully partially and partially and justly and justly perform all the duties of counc and just perform all the duties of the position of councilman according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God conratulations [Applause] [Music] thank you nice to see you thanks okay uh we will do roll call here here here here here here um at this time I will take a motion for nomination for council president I moved nominated nominated who Doug okay we have a nomination have a second okay roll call please sorry I thought you yes SC yes anano yeso yes yes yes Val yes okay as far as our appointments I have no changes uh we have no changes in um in Council so the appointments will remain the same um and then we have no Communications so we will go to reports of committee starting with councilwoman Al balad Doyle thank you may mayor all matters are in order thank you councilman ventrice thank you mayor all matters are in order councilman deoro Chief anything uh all matters are in order all matters all matters are in order councilman Dano uh thank you mayor under DPW just a reminder that um leaf and brush pickup is complete and we'll pick back up back in April um with the exception of Christmas trees being picked up by the DPW every day so you got one to put out you can put it out and it'll be there that day to pick it out every day awesome except for weekend yes thank you councilwoman skull thank you mayor um congratulations to councilman deoro and councilman ventrice um also uh just wanted to say that we had some fantastic lights um light contest winners in December and I think probably most of those homes are still L up so um you will be getting prizes this month um we're going to be getting those out but hopefully I think everybody knows if they've won um really honestly all of the homes look beautiful so thanks for participating um other than that all matters are in order thank you council president with thank you Mr Mayor first I like to congratulate Nick and Pete on their re-election and I look forward to working with them for another two years uh I also like to thank the members of the council for making me their council president again I appreciate the support under my committee uh 2024 it's going to be a big year for Lake comoo and it's becomes our 100th anniversary of the town and so we Happ events coming forward over the next few months uh so I will let everybody know when they come about first thing we're going to do is that one of our uh members uh is a member of the our res resident sorry one of our resident is a member of the lake com planning board and she also owns little door Brewery in neptun City uh she's coming out with a beer for the town called 1924 and we are going to have a kickoff once the beer is made uh at at one of the bars in town so I will let everybody know in future meetings when that's going to be but we're going to have a lot of events coming forward in 2024 than that thank you right thank you for my report I will uh say congratulations to both Pete and Nick thank you for the service that you have shown for this town and the service that you will show in the future um congratulations Doug on another uh term as the president of the council um and I just want to say that I'm looking forward to the events of this year uh we are in our 100th year of existence South belmare and Lake KO and like Doug said we are going to see that theme echoed throughout a lot of our events this year um starting with our kickoff and you'll see um see some of that shown in the parade uh and in the mayor's bash and in Lake Como day and the events throughout the year so we're looking forward to a very big um and joyous celebration this year in Le com but every year is a celebration in so this is just a little bit bigger thank you um with that I will take a motion to open for um public comments on consent agenda and new business so move second all in favor anyone before we do that uh I am pulling one item off of our new business that is resolution 2024 31 the temporary budget um we will pull that from this agenda and it will be on next month's agenda so anyone wishing to speak to anything under the consent agenda or the two items under new business may come to the mic and do so now seeing none I'll take a motion to close second all in favor thank you and I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so move second all in favor I opposed itions you want to do a roll call okay we'll do a roll call on that Amy yes yes yes yes yes yes thank you uh under new business we have resolution 2024-25 okay I was ready earlier resolution uh so offer resolution 202 24-29 a resolution authorizing execution of an agreement with the Amoth County SPCA beat resolved by the mayor and Council of the burough Lake comoo that the burough clerk administrator is hereby authorized to execute an agreement with the Monmouth County sdca for animal control services along with the Trap and release option for a one-year term beginning January 1st 20 24 ending December 31st 2024 a copy of the agreement shall be attached to this resolution thank you I have a motion do I have a second second call please yes yes yes yes yes yes thank you the resolution passes we have resolution 2024-25 three is a resolution authorizing execution of an agreement with the dental uh Services organization Incorporated be resolved by the mayor and Council of the B Lake Como that the burough of clerk administrators hereby authorized to execute an agreement with the dental services organization Incorporated for a term of February 1st 20124 ending January 31st 2024 is that supposed to be 25 25 amended as 2025 that's right Amy supposed to be 25 right um as amended I have a motion do I have a second second call please yes SC yes yes yes yes yes thank you uh before we go to uh motion for public comments I just want to note on the consent agenda when we have a list of our meetings for the upcoming year we have a very special meeting on June 3rd which is a Monday which will be our 100th anniversary meeting and that will be 100 years to the day in which we had our first meeting as mayor and Council of South goore I wasn't there Doug I I'm I don't know if you I was there I don't think so um but that I mean that's a pretty special day it'll be 100 years to the day which is pretty cool so um at this time I will take a motion to uh open for public comments soov second all in favor thank you one anyone wishing to come to the mic for any comments or questions can do so at this time seeing none I will take a motion to close second all in favor I thank you next meeting meeting tues January 16 F 730 meeting meeting all meetings are over to the public thank you can I have a motion to adjourn so moved all in favor we areour thank you very much that