States of America to the for stands Nation indivisible andice call Mr here Mr Franco I'm here and Mr I'm here compliance with the open public meetings act chapter 231 Public Law 1975 the notice requirements have been satisfied as to the time place and date of holding said meeting by by posting notice on the bulletin board here in burrow Hall and by mailing and emailing the same to the Herold of Kate May County on October 4th 2023 and the Press of Atlantic City on December 13th 2023 in the event of an emergency your emergency exit is your back right or our front left or just by the American flag your front left our front right uh this meeting is being shown live here today on the Burrow's Facebook and YouTube channel I just want to do a quick sound check Vicky we are we sounding good all right um if you're watching this meeting live and you want to ask a question you're more than welcome to call in and you're going to use the the conference line number which hits right up here with us at 888 36347 34 and when prompted you're going to enter the access code 969 90205 by the pound or the hashtag if you happen to watch the recorded version of this meeting and you have questions or comments you're more than welcome to email our Clerk clerk at clerk wild craft.org or phone her at 69729 8040 Madam clerk I believe we have two ordinances one for uh passage and one for introduction correct uh the first is ordinance number 1431 regarding murals motion that ordinance number 1431 be be placed on second reading and final passage by title only second we moved in second that ordinance number 1431 be placed on second and final reading by title roll call Mr shf yes Mr Franco yes Mr Caba yes ordinance 1431 reads as follows an ordinance of The Bu of Wild Crest amending section 85-97 signs Article 15 chapter 85 Land Development to regulate murals on buildings and other structures in the burough of Wild Crest motion that a public hearing now be held on ordinance number 1431 I'll second it it has been moved and seconded that a public hearing on ordinance number 14 31 now beeld roll call Mr shf yes Mr Franco yes Mr Cabrera yes floor is open for public comment on ordinance number 1431 startor anybody here in the audience no one anyone on the conference line have any public comments specific to ordinance number 1431 caring none motion to public hearing on ordinance number 1431 now be closed second has been moved and second that that the public hearing and ordance number 1431 now be closed call Mr yes Mr Franco yes Mr cab yes motion that ordinance number 1431 be passed on second and final reading and advertised according to law second has been moved in second that ordinance number 1431 be passed on second and final reading and advertised according to law roll call Mr shf yes Mr Franco yes Mr yes next we have ordinance 14 2 and it reads as follows an ordinance adopting a Redevelopment plan for certain property in the burough of Wildwood Crest County of Kate May state of New Jersey uh motion to ordinance number 1432 be passed on first reading advertised according to law we brought up for second and final reading and public hearing on May 22nd 2024 at 5: p.m. I will second it been moved and second that ordinance number 1432 pass you passed on first reading advertised according to law we brought up for second and final reading in public hearing on May 22nd 2024 at 5:00 p.m. roll call Mr yes Mr Franco yes Mr yes next we have the resolutions the first is authorizing a licensing agreement between the buau of wild the crest and wild Harbor Tri club for use of the kayak MCH for Open Water Swim season 2024 a motion I will second it's been moved in second the foregoing resolution be adopted roll call Mr shf yes Mr Franco yes Mr Caba yes next is designating May 5th through the 11th 2024 as the 55th annual professional Municipal Clerk's week in the burrow Wild Crest motion I second it has been moved in seconded that the foro resolution be adopted rooll call Mr shf yes Mr Franco yes Mr Caba yes and and it sounds like we're in the middle of that week now right all right well MC this is your resolution thank you for all your hard work and all your organization and keeping us up to date and all all what you do and you and Vicki my pleasure a second thank you a third right on next is designating May 19th to 25th 2024 as National Public Works week in the Bureau of Wild Crest I'll motion N I will second it has been moved and seconded that the foro resolution be adopted roll call Mr Shi yes Mr Franco yes Mr Cabo yes and that is a national holiday by the way National Public Works week but everybody still has the work next is authorizing refund of Mercantile license and tourism fees to mild pcel notion uh second it's been moved and seconded that the foro resolution be adopted roll call Mr shiff yes Mr Franco yes Mr Cabo yes next is authorizing Amendment to the 2024 Municipal budget to account for additional funding from the grea Wildwood tourism Improvement Development Authority for 2024 summer events I'll motion that I will second we moved and seconded that the foregoing resolution be adopted roll call Mr Shi yes Mr Franco yes Mr cab yes next is authorizing Amendment to the 2024 Municipal budget to account for additional funding from the Atlantic County Municipal joint Insurance Fund safety incentive program motion second been moved and second is that the forgoing resolution be adopted roll call Mr shef yes Mr Franco yes Mr Caba yes next is au authorizing the bur of wild request to enter into a contract for Cooperative purchasing with Camden County Educational Services Commission motion second pleas been moved and seconded that the forgoing resolution be adopted roll call Mr shiff yes Mr Franco yes Mr Caba yes lastly it's authorizing a licensing agreement between the B wild Prest and 7116 Park Boulevard LLC for the use of a portion of Lake View dos LLC for porta potties motion second it's been moved in second foro resolution to be adopted roll call Mr Chef yes Mr Franco yes Mr C yes motion that all bills properly authorized as submitted be paid can I get a second yeah motion a second it's been moved and seconded that all bills properly authorized as submitted be paid roll call Mr shift yes Mr Franco yes Mr Caba yes I was watching a turn that I knew it was facing the wrong way I kind of broke me the wrong okay uh brings us to correspondents uh non listed under under the agenda we'll go to the first round of public comments we'll start with anybody here in the audience anybody have public comments he's come on up to the podium we do not need your address just your name lot of Staff here today I feel pretty safe today yeah anyone on the conference line have any public comments round one okay moving right on to the discussion items under first item and only item under new business is uh potential Street reconstruction program I believe uh our CFO Francine and Mark deaz participated in a webinar on this program sounds like there's a good opportunity for the bur of w Crest and we'll ask uh White AKA frantin Springer to uh good morning yes the mayor had asked that markio and myself attend um will look into um possible funding uh financing at the I bank so there was a uh large uh seminar on April 24th which Mar Blasio and myself attended via Zoom um so there was a there was a slideshow obviously uh a PowerPoint presentation which I've given you a couple of pages uh from that so that you can review at your leisure afterwards so basically the New Jersey Transportation bank which is the otherwise known as the I bank so it is um they fund uh road projects as well as um different infrastructure structure U sewer projects as well so this is the front page that I did give to you was really why use them so basically it gives you some flexibility in budget relief um and it lowers the cost of the capital project so why use them for the burrow we um we actually have a a great rating our Moody's rating is a a A2 right now but um what the ibank does is they lend you money at their rate which is a AAA so if you look at the information on the on the sheet you can see um basically what the ibank does so what they're going to do for us in this circumstance is if we have a $5 million project for roads that we would like to go out and pursue for the upcoming year what we would do is we would go and and um and go to the ibank they would Finance it and what they do is they give you a grant it's not really a grant in the standard terms but what they do is they give you a reduction of Interest so you would depending on how many years you go out to borrow on the project so if it's under 10 years you receive a 75% um interest free financing so you would only have to pay 20 interest on 25% of that which is a a huge reduction um and it's at a better rate we actually have a great rate but theirs is even better than ours so uh so if you look page two on here just basically kind of tells explains it if it's under 10 years it's it's um you wait if it's under 10 years you only have to pay 25% um interest at the AAA market rate and if it's over 10 years if you borrow over 10 years then you only get 50% interest free so the grant is only 50% of the interest so really um it's a great example that they use because uh the example that is attached just happens to be um a 10-year maturity for a double A2 borrower um so basically it just shows you the savings which is about a 50 $500,000 Grant really to the burrow so we would save um $500,000 if we borrowed $5 million um on interest so I just it's a really good opportunity for the burrow Mark and I are going to like look at the project see what is see what is out there and available for um Road reconstruction and then what we'll do is we'll uh reach out to the finance department at the ibank and uh see if we can fit the $5 million or you know wherever wherever that lands into our current um Debt Service schedule so I think it's a great it's a it's a no-brainer for the burrow I mean to save the money on the uh on the interest because it could be more than that it just depends on what the rates are so basically right now A the double a rate is coming in at 3% like someone just borrowed and had a AAA rate and it was at 3% as far as our rate someone just borrowed um out on the out on the market and they got um 3.75 so for so it it's it's a large savings any any uh gbody any questions for uh frine is there a time that we have to get into this or is it kind of open yeah it's open yes it's open the I bank is is always there and they just happen to have um probably some extra funding at this point so they're you know proot promoting um you know getting in uh right now because they they have extra money to award because at some point you know obviously they can't award all because it is a grant they're basically granting US money you know at a finance no Finance um and no interest thank you that's great yeah no problem can we do it today I'm sorry can we borrow today yeah so I I just want to just uh to The Next Step would be if if there's some interest here is uh for our engineer U de blasing Associates to identify uh roadway projects and I'll just go back to for a second that there was a um sanitary sewer and Street condition master plan that was done in 2018 into 2019 and then there was also uh as you know there's uh we've been doing various Mill and pave projects just dealing with the asphalt and the condition itself however this program is more for the sanitary sewer systems than all the infrastructure underneath it so uh there was a lot of streets including the ones that were getting ready to start they're under construction now that we didn't want to waste money on milling and Paving that need to be completely reconstructed so this would be a great program for that um one of the one of the streets that I Loosely talked with engineering about and I we had a meeting yesterday on it so Park Boulevard from cresy down to Rambler is in really bad shape so after the summer we anticipate going starting the bulkhead project and the valves and all that where those streets Street ends will be raised but they will tie directly into Park Boulevard so that might be a project that may have some interest to to the burrow and then maybe a couple side streets that we're having some problems with so anyway I just wanted to put that out there way for engineering but for some interest if we don't mind sliding uh ibank and Street reconstructor on the old business we'll come back to that one absolutely some of the streets have uh terracotta pipes underneath them yeah a lot of them that's they breaking down yeah the the Terracotta pipes there's there's Old Clay uh there's there's some other types too I think there might was aware of that all right thank you yep Francine who did anyone else explore this and other municipalities oh yes definitely the county has just recently and there's definitely other municipalities in K May County that have um have explored so we're not we wouldn't be the first obviously okay that's fine with me great thank thank you FR you're very welcome okay uh moving under old business uh we have uh the time limit parking I think that was resp respect to the 20-minute parking uh listed here uh and kind of similar to that was I think actually Jake laid out a diagram for some employee parking in the lot across the street as well as along Pacific Avenue uh I don't know if we have any movement on that yet or wherever stand on that yet anybody and it was if I can just round it off it was $35,000 for a change order to do that work while we have contractors in town so I believe you were a no I was a yes I still have the review the actual details of what we're doing with that project because 35,000 is might be a littleit extreme but I I have to review it right now okay yeah yeah just just to summarize that so it kind of there's there's some concrete work involved line striping some seel coating uh the parking spaces will be employee parking on on Pacific Avenue basically the The Sweep Brier to Cardinal block the the concrete work is in the actual parking lot so that you can't use the whole curb as the drive in and off area you have to have one access point and that's going to be would be off the Pacific Avenue yes and um I know we're getting some complaints I know some of the staff has told me that the neighbors are upset that we're parking in front of their houses so this would help us delineate employee parking and get them away from uh their houses so anyway so that's basically what I was going to say is I haven't heard any complaints I don't believe the chief has gotten any complaints from anything for the parking even around this area this is really kind of self-made is where I stand on that and 35,000 is a lot of money to spend so that's right stand on that when we get closer on more to say okay keep it under no business then concession agreement that's on hold traffic caling uh there was a meeting with coler's engineering yesterday uh with uh staff from Public Safety Chief and Ralph grai as well as the engineering firm myself Connie and Francine and U they're we're awaiting a report as a result of all that meeting so soon as that is available uh we'll certainly share that in uh Backbeats exavation is on hold but on that note uh Public Works has started uh doing their their uh pre-season uh Prem Memorial Day maintenance to the beach beach is starting to come around starting to look good uh dredging anything on that nothing on my end Connie I don't know if you you spoke to I did actually speak to Scott Douglas last week um they are still in acquisition believe it or not for uh epim Island they are making progress um the dredging project may be delayed slightly because of the update on North Wildwood dredging which is going to occur very shortly there was a new Arrangement made um the governor's office so it may push phase to a large regun project back slightly they are still doing permitting and they are still in the acquisition phase but because of the use of the dredge company it may push us back just a little bit I'm waiting to hear back on exact numbers and and when that will happen Okay uh New Jersey Avenue infrastructure pre- County that's starting um the I think we're ready to go out the bid on that soon but we're still trying to tie in some loose ends with the county but more importantly the funding for it public works roof uh the funding will be in place for that project on May the 20th uh the the uh the vendor it's a co-op uh vendor um they indicated that it's about eight to 8 to 10 weeks out for materials so if if awarded sometime in early June the project could start as early as say August somewhere that neighborhood all right uh bside outfalls we talked about that uh so there was a just a discussion yesterday with respect to um kind of like the process of that so just to touch Bas on that the there are properties that have um personal property uh installed such as pavers and uh Rock and slate and so forth in the public RightWay um all of those individuals will need to be notified ified um the bid specs are ready to go uh we anticipate going out the bid in June uh there will be notice given to all the affected owners that have issues and then there'll also be General notice to all the owners letting them know that the project is moving uh closer and when it's going to start and it basically covers all the details so there's no questions as to um what's going on and why and how much and and all that good stuff so these wheels are in motion we anticipate having an answer on the Fig grants for the potential pump stations at some time in June no later than July 1st and then we will need to move forward on uh on the decision and even even if there was is money get from FEMA that gets awarded to the burrow the project as exists will not be affected in terms of if we had to add PM stations in later so the draft went out yesterday to all the parties involved and I did get comments back so I'm going to finalize that draft send out the second draft to the governing body members today soon as I get done the meeting that's the goal is to get that letter done get it out to the governing body members for their review before it gets sent out and hopefully um we can get the 200 foot list from um our assessor early next week and we can get that first letter out that explains the entire project the second letter we decided would not be sent out until after the May 22nd presentation um that Mark will be doing okay so our engineer is going to do a presentation at that meeting explaining the project getting more in depth and then we'll send out the specific spe ific letters to property owners that have unique circumstances that need to be addressed that's a good point you remind me that so May 22nd Mark is planning to do a Public Presentation we will need to put out a press release on that Mr kff uh inviting the public to either watch Thea live or come to the meeting because it' be a good opportunity for any any of those Property Owners to ask questions and get more details okay uh Washington seie no word from Mr rotala on the uh on that grand opportunity correct nothing yet okay uh public comments last round anybody here in the audience we have a Clos session item on the agenda anyone on the conference line have any uh public comments Commissioners do you have any com I'm sorry hello1 congratulations on the on the dates progress for the project congratulations I mean this is a long time coming thank very much uh I wanted to find I wanted to follow up on the bulk head at 54 5400 Lake Road I know uh over probably the last two months the the police uh the police chief has been out there taking a bunch of pictures and uh I just want to understand the progress of that bolt head being being contracted to be weight to to be raised up to equal at least the ordinance in the town right now or uh or improve so it doesn't flood the the neighborhood the next time uh we get a high tide I think the next high tide is going to be either tonight or tomorrow night and our Street's going to be flooded again from that bulkit so I was just wondering what the progress was on having that Resident raiseed their bulit uh I'm not I know that a violation notice went out with with that respective information uh and there's generally a period that that they would need to comply with that if not then they the summons would be issued for them to appear in court I don't have the answer for that uh right now as I stand here but I can certainly get you the information and give you a call back if you don't mind uh um you don't have to do it now but if you don't mind following up with u with the clerk's office and we'll get back to you with that information okay yeah I'll I'll give Cony a call later probably tomorrow later this afternoon probably tomorrow thank okay okay when he calls so question uh last round of uh public comments again anybody here in the audience anybody on the conference line hearing none uh I'm sorry commissioner comments I don't have any by the way just happy Mother's Day that's all I have uh I'd like to just say that uh I'm seeing a lot of work done around town your departments are busy cleaning up and getting things ready our uh police department is gearing up for our special occasion on the 11th and I appreciate the work that they're doing I also want to thank the rescue for their participation in this event also uh there's a lot of things moving a lot of cogs in that wheel that make this whole thing go we have a great staff great Superior staff great Chief in both areas and you're doing you're just doing wonderful I appreciate that I sound like I'm always saying that all the time but I mean it so we have a great Community uh other than that have a happy Mother's Day and we'll see you later okay so uh TR you have a resolution yes authorizing executive CL in accordance to the provisions of the open public meetings act specifically njsa 10 4-12 with regard to four items can I get a motion motion second it's been M second that the for resolution be adopted roll call Mr Chef yes Mr yes Mr cab yes 956 can we take by thank you