I'm going to put the I'm City Council will now come toward them. Roll call. Mr. Dangler's absent, Mr. Rasses. Here. Mrs. Woodis's absent, Dr. Vogue.. Mr. Vera. I'm here. Please stand for pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, the richest and richest and richest and one nation, under God, invisible, and liberty, and justice for all. And ahead of us all. I will now read the mission statement of the City Council. The Long Branch Mayor, City Council and Administration are committed to cultivating an environment of mutual trust and respect our values, the diversity of our community. We will strive to enhance the quality of life and all who live here, like make a long branch a desirable place in which to live and prosper. We will treat all members with respect, all members of the public with respect and expect the same in return. Certification? I hereby certify that this meeting has been published in the newspaper in accordance with the Open Public Meeting Act and post it as required by law. Thank you. Reading and approval of previous minutes, I need a motion to approve the minutes of April 9th, 2025. So moved. Second. Roll call. Mr. Dangler's absent. Mr. Rassus. Yes. Mrs. Wittis. I'm staying. Dr. Vogue. Yes. Mr. Widis. I'm saying. Dr. Vogue. Yes. Mr. Vera. Yes. Motion pass. Consideration of ordinance, public hearing and final consideration, there's none. Ordnance for introduction. Ordnance 06-25. This is the first reading of ordnance 06-25 entitled an ordinance designating a handicap parking space at the 549 second avenue. Summary, this ordinance designates a handicap parking space at 549 second avenue. I need a motion to introduce the first reading, advertise and post according to law, and set the public hearing from May 14th, 2025. So moved. Second. Roll call. Mr. Danieler's absent. Mr. Rases. Yes. Mrs. Widis. Yeah. Dr. Vogue. Yes. Mr. Vier. Yes. Motion passed. Ordnance 07-25. This is the first reading ordinance 07-25. Entire and the ordinance of manning chapter 111, plastic single use to include a elimination of single use condiments, and create a new article to control plastic, dust, and containment. Summary, the purpose of this ordinance is to amend and supplement chapter 111, Plastics Single Use to include a elimination of single use condiments. This ordinance also includes a few autoko to include the regulation of plastics, dust, and condiments. A need a motion to introduce on the first reading advertised and post-according law, and set the public hearing from May 14th, 2025. So moved. Second. Welcome. Mr. Dangler's absent, Mr. Rassus. Yes. Mrs. Wittes. Yeah. Dr. Bo. Yes. Mr. Vera. That yes. Before I open the cup public portion, I want to ask our city attorney to right now to open up. Councillor Preston, there was just one item that was on the agenda and I know that this was, I don't want to say it's unusual but we haven't done this in some time. And that's resolution 72 to ask 25 which permits the transfer of a redevelopment agreement and a finance agreement. All of the redevelopment agreements that the city has entered into and finance agreements also over the years have all permitted and this one does permits the transfer for one property owner to another. These projects sell oftentimes. They are as a matter of contract entitled to have the property transferred from one owner to another. All we're doing with this resolution is certifying a couple of things. The first is that they're in compliance with all of the agreements requirements. In this case, that's true. The second part, because this project was just at its completion. We went through a process through building engineering legal to make sure that all of the items that had to be done to complete the project were done. So we've been actually working on this for some time. We've now, all of the departments have now signed off that it is actually done and complete. So all we're doing is authorizing the execution by the mayor and the clerk of the assumption agreement, which just now binds the new entity to all of the provisions of the finance agreement and the redevelopment agreement. Like I said, this is really kind of more of a paperwork thing. The developers entitled to this as a matter of their contract and prior city ordinances. Thank you. You're welcome. Public participation for resolutions to all general comments. I need a motion to talk with the public portion of the meeting for all comments. So moved. Second. All in favor? Hi. Opposed? If there's anyone in the audience that has a comment to make, please step to the podium and stay your name and address clearly. For the record, you'll have five minutes and may only speak once. Good evening, Susan Mkidis, 63-PAPE Drive, Atlanta, Kylings, New Jersey. I'm here on behalf of Food and Water Watch. I notice that your support for the Superfund Act is on your agenda, and I'm just thankful for that. Thank you very much for putting it on the agenda, and I'm hoping that it will have an affirmative vote. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hello, my name is Julie Burke and I live on Wall Street between Norwood and Oakwood. We like to call ourselves the stepchild of Long Branch because we're right on edge, across the street is West Long Branch. I'm here because I lived in my house since 2002. And it's always been a busy street. And when my kid was small, I tried to get children at play sign or slow down. And I got ping ponged back and forth. Oh, that's a county road. You have to call mom of the county. Call mom of the county. No, no, no, that's a long branch. You have to, and nothing ever got done, you know? The only thing that gets done that's great is that our street gets plowed like 20 times, like when it snows, it's great. But anyway, I'm here because of the noise issue. The last couple of years, it's just been insane with the car, is there an ordinance for music and cars? Because my whole entire house will shake. That's how loud it is. And also, I'm here because our little piece of road has become a drag strip. People turn off in Norwood and there's a straight away until that first curve. And there are people that just like gun it. And it's like crazy. and a lot of times they're in loud cars too so and I'm really nervous right now what got me to come here my son has grown up but we have little kids little toddlers that just moved in next door and across the street and we just need some sort of like police presence if you like cop was on Oakwood for a half a day once a week or something, given out tickets to these maniacs, that I mean, they'll like gun it and go like 60 miles an hour in this little strip. So that's why I'm here. We need help over there. And it's just getting a hot flash, sorry. It would just really be so sad if one of these little kids got hit, you know. And I don't know, it is a county road but in its west long branch and its long branch. I don't know if there's signs like, when people stop at the stop sign and the traffic gets backed up and there'll be some usually a dude in the car with I mean just so loud and I don't know if like a sign would help like hey lower your radio like because I don't think people realize how loud it is you know so? So that's one issue, but the speeding issue, that's, it's bad. So that's why I'm here. I'm going to let our business administrator address it. Yeah, so we'll have our traffic division go out there, and we'll take a look, and we'll put up some digital speed signs, get some readings of exactly what's going on there, and then make sure patrols are boosted for the noise. But we'll deal with the speed through instruments. That would be awesome. Yeah, thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. Hi, I'm adding my two cents to Julie. My name is Janet Rackham and I live at 615 Wall Street which is again a little nub of long branch that is the orphaned stepchild of the city. And my house, I'm the second one in from the corner. My house has been hit. Two trees have been taken down. My porch has been hit twice. My house has almost been hit itself. I've come home from working in the city and found tire tracks in my front yard. And this is again, from people whipping around from high street, norwood trying to make the light come, whipping onto Norwood and sliding and losing control of their cars. I'm not a little kid, but I don't like it that I'm startled by some person speeding around the corner in their blue BMW, hitting the street tree which exploded and shook my entire house. And then it was pretty funny actually. The BMW kind of crawled to the center of the street and then all of us inners fell out. That was kind of funny. But it's really disconcerting and my house is a big house and I'm sitting in the back of the house and sometimes the entire house is shaking because there's a big, there are several very large pickup trucks in our area that come down and go around the corner and they have such amounts of speakers in their truck that my house shakes, Julie's house shakes. It's so loud. A couple of years ago, there were some little Brazilian trucks that were just jammed with speakers. I actually photographed one and I looked for it online because it had a Brazilian plate. And it was competing in some kind of car show in Newark. And the entire bed of the truck and all of the doors and every floor space in a vehicle were packed with speakers. I mean, that was it. And I was rocking my daughter's dog one time. And I saw this truck come out. And I called 911 and they came and said, which was it the blue one or the white one? I was like, what? There's more than one of those cars. So I haven't seen those cars in our area in the last year or so. But the big, like these big double wide cab cars, trucks, the pickup trucks, they're really defenating. And then they're the little part of my friends, the little pissant cars that are small, but they want to have a president, and so they have really ramped up exhaust systems. And it's so irritating. You're just trying to have a nice quiet time when you have, sweetening it. But are small, but they want to have a president so they have really ramped up exhaust systems. And it's so irritating. You're just trying to have a nice quiet time in your house reading a book. And the noise is irritating and shaking the house, it's deafening. And I would be happy to sit on my friend's porch with my little phone camera and shoot these people so that I could say, this one did it and this one did it, so that something could be done something could be done That's all thank you. Thank you Then some of the 433 ocean terrace long branch requesting one minute notification from the public record to the public record Concerning the former fire department member former public works employee and former officer of the local fireman's relief association Who was charged by the mom of county prosecutors office with falsifying and destroying public records at the 499-25 Council meeting, City Attorney Ray-Nohen falsely responded to my statements, specifically concerning the criminally charged defendant and the local fireman's relief fund. Turning Ray-Nohen incorrectly stated the following quote. I understand he's been separated from the relief association which by the way is not a city function. It's a function of the not-for-profit corporation that runs the volunteer fire company. Mr. Rano continued, so it's got nothing to do with the city. The city doesn't make appointments to it. It's in accordance with state law. Again, Rano stated, and now, announced with emphasis, quote, which by the way is not a city function. And so it gets nothing to do with the city, end quote. To the contrary attorney, Rayneau, chapter 45, dash 8 of the city says, quote, every The reactive member of companies section-ABCDEFGHNI within the fire department shall in each year perform at least 50% of duty at fires and drills. And a record shall be kept of such attendance and duty by the company captains and chiefs of the fire department. An annually reported to city officials and the secretary of the Local Firemen's Relief Association to qualify for exempt certificates and state benefits. The UFD Commander must report all qualified members of Section 45-1J annually to City officials in the Secretary of the Local Firemen's Relief Association. Furthermore, in addition to the just stated, the criminal court order concerning subject individual defendants, PTI, states as follows, quote, further ordered that defendants shall be forever disqualified from holding any office or position of honor, trust or profit. Under this state, where any of its administrative or political subdivisions, pursuant to NJSA, two C-Call and 51-2D, bad old core corrupt, long branch government, Council President and the era. What corrective and disciplinary action are you and Council going to take against the attorney right now for incorrect and false statements at the last council. Say, saying what the truth is does that. Council President Vieira, what disciplinary action are you taking against the attorney right now? That attorney answered that question. You're gonna let the attorney answer how Council is going to discipline them. Your medicine, mindlessness at these council meetings, councilman Vieira is unspeakable. It's deplorable. Council President Vieira, have you and council's order and audit of the Long Branch Firemen's Relief Association? Once again, since an officer of that association has described in City Chapter 45-8 was charged with falsifying public records by the Mammoth County Prosecutor's Office. Yes or no, Council President Villera. Mr. Attorney, are you answering? I'm happy to answer the question. Council President Villera has no answer. No, but I can. It's not capable of long. You know what I do? Council President Villera, have you and Council reported the defendant's violations of a PTI criminal court order and maintaining an official position in the local fireman's relief association to the Mammoth County Criminal Superior Court judge responsible for the criminal court order? One minute notice, Mr. Villera. One minute answer. One minute notification. It's not capable. You don't have the intelligence. Resolution 72. That was quite a defensive statement you made, Mr. Inam. Just didn't have to defend Resolution 72 because you know what's wrong. Oh, no. In Resolution 72, Section 19, does the application transferring entity will not unreasonably withhold? It is with reason that this council should not approve resolution 72. The transfer of the tax exemption at a time when a two percent municipal cap is lifted in the state education department incentivized the 5% match of any increase by the Board of Education on tax payers to cover a state funding cutback with the Board of Ed currently losing 1,300 you have an idea of what I'm talking about. It's insanity. Five minutes. Lead insanity to give a long-term tax abatement to a new owner. So Mr. Lapor, I'm requesting a no vote. Mr. Lapor, since your conduct at this meeting attorney re-known is deplorable. And it's uncivil. I'm surprised, Mr. Yara. You haven't disciplined the city attorney. John Goverment. Mr. LaPore, just for the record, Mr. LaPore is running out of the room because he never wants to hear the answer to the questions. Five minutes from Mr. LaPore. I just want everybody to understand that. That was just, performance art, I think, is what that was. It certainly was all lies. This has nothing to do with the grant of a long-term tax abatement. And Mr. Lapour knows that. And I apologize to the public for me trying to interrupt him and him screaming at me. And of course saying that I was not civil. But once again, this is what we do. Every meeting Mr. Lapour gets up, says as many lies as he can and gets up and walks out of the room. With regards to the relief association, the fact that we report who are active firefighters are to the relief association doesn't mean we control the relief association. It's a private entity in not the city. I don't think that there's really much else we can say then when I said before Mr. President about the resolution. Thank you, anyone else? I'm not quite or new. Good evening, all. Thanks for the opportunity. My name is Nick Degel-Yelmo, 580 Pat Navinu. I've been coming here now on a regular basis. And I have two issues. They're the same two chronic issues. And of course, foremost is the always the unresolved issues with taxes. I know that property taxes that is. I know that we're anxiously awaiting the final budget. And hopefully, Mr. Martin can elaborate a little bit more on that. And it should be forthcoming, I take it. My question is, let's say that the budget is X, and I won't give any numbers, because the last time I did, I insulted, and I don't wanna do that, but we know for a fact, the taxes are gonna come at x. In order to be able to, the property, excuse me, the budget is going to be at x. In order to be able to pay for the budget, we're going to come up with something probably x minus 10, x minus 20, X minus 30 million. My question to the council and everyone involved, what measures, what plans, what horseite do we have to try and clarify that pitfall? Because you know that there's going to be a shortfall. And obviously, if the budget is here and if you've only have property taxes here, how you're going to come up with that difference. So the obvious thing, as has been done historically, is the property taxes go up? Is there any thought of making some budgetary cuts to be able to have a little leeway because, and I'm not a finance person, I was a biology major, I went the totally different way, so I don't have the expertise in that, but hopefully we can get some additional information about that. Because it's obvious, I mean, despite the fact that we see buildings being built, but there's no additional money's coming in. So I won't even address that, but I would be who, I would request that there be some kind of a measure implemented to decide, hey, how are we going to come up with the shortfall? My second issue. If any of you are not and haven't taken a pulse of what's happening in the town, our streets are not safe. I don't have to tell you all the statistics and serve public safety direct. I don't have to wind up telling you. The two murders in March were horrific. The multiple stavings continue. You know, granted it's a small group of people, but everybody is afraid. The businesses are afraid. Mario, porto de sol, that normally gets families. You know, families go in there with children. They're afraid to go in there because there have been multiple stabbings on Broadway. What can we do to restore this confidence? What kind of statements can be made? Because this is unheard of, totally unheard of. And Mr. Dangler, at the last meeting, said he's not afraid of walking on Broadway, which is admirable. But he's, by very, very few. The rest of the people are scared, blankless, and there's no restoration of confidence in that. We need some restoration. We need some kind of statement, whatever it might be. I don't deal in the criminal justice system, but just take a pulse. People are afraid. Look at the businesses. Those businesses are hurting. Forget about the peer village crap, you know? You guys will have no quants, no quants, in getting an army of police if there's a pop-up party for the pilot program. But God forbid there's something in the hood on Broadway, on Lippincot. I don't see that. I beg of all of you, where paying taxes, our taxes are about to go up again, do something to restore the confidence. I don't have the answers. You're our elected officials, our workers. Five minutes. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Seeing this, none. I need a motion to close the public participation portion of this meeting. So moved. Second. Paul in favor. Aye. Pulse. I will now ask Madam Clark if there is any changes to the order of the resolutions. No changes have been made. Thank you. We could take a list to consider the resolutions. Sorry, apologize. We can take the list of the resolutions as a consent agenda. Road call. So cute. I mean, motion. So cute. Second. Road call. Mr. Dengler is absent. Mr. Rasses. Yes. Mrs. Whittes. Yes. Dr. Vogue. Yes. Mr. Vera. Yes. Motion passed. Thank you. Applications are none. the business of good or the autumn Councilman Rases. I'd like to thank everyone for coming out this evening and please stay safe. Stay safe. Thanks. Thank you. Councilman, Councilwoman, where is? I do like to thank everyone for coming out this evening and your comments and I hope everyone had a nice holiday and before to the summer. Thank you. Thank you. Councillor Worma Vogue. Thank you everyone for coming out and I'm really for you. A thoughtful comments. I know as the mayor, as a Councillor, the whole administration will look in terms of the kind of response for you if it's information. But certainly we take all of these comments seriously and appreciate the input. And hopefully we will see you in two weeks. Thank you. Thank you, Councillor Wormivore. May it belong? Thank you all for your comments ladies. Thank you for making aware of that more aware. I'm sure Mr. Shirley and the director will address it. Thank you. I have just a few upcoming events that I wanted to mention. So the citywide yard sale is May 17th and May 18th. It's that weekend from 9 to 5. No permits are required for this event. So if you want to have a city sale, please do a yard sale. Our next history and motion series is about Fort Monmouth and the history of the base. For those who don't know every once a month and evening at the senior center, we have some sort of historical information or lecture about the city or the area. And as I said, the next one is on May 6th, at 6 PM at the senior center, all about the history of Fort Momoth and the history of the base. The Burlap project is our current exhibit at the Arts and Cultural Center. This exhibit takes Burlap bags donated by Ruck coffee, which is here in town, and then transformed into art by many different local artists in the community. The reception, the event goes on until May 6, I believe. So for further information, please take a look at our website. And finally, our third annual Disability Resource Fair is set from May 3rd from 12 to 2 p.m. at the senior center. I join us for games, resources, music, and a lot more. That's a growing event each year. And this year it's going to be both inside and outside at the senior center. Again, thank you all for coming and have a great week. Thank you Mayor Palom. And I got to say Julie, Janet, thanks for your concerns. I know that I have you very well. I know they got a little speeding over there. And Nick, I know you mentioned safety. Safety is our first priority up here. And I know you mentioned, if it the pop-up party up here village. We would be set. We know about those things. What happens with stavins? I'm not a direct public safety or anything about it, but if we know about a murder or a stabbing or anything like that, we would be there too. These things happen unexpectedly, you know that. And we are safety, we're working on that. You know what I mean? We have a public safety director, we have a administrator, we got all of us up there. We're working out. Our first priority is safety for the citizens of Long Branch and you know that. We do everything we can to do that. These things do happen unexpectedly. You know what I mean? We don't expect, well, somebody has an argument, That was out of life and steps somebody. You know, you can't keep people from hanging out in the streets, you know that. And I understand the business of suffering, there's other issues. an argument pulls out a knife and steps somebody. You know, you can't keep people from hanging out in the streets, you know that. And I understand the business of suffering, there's other issues going on. You know what I mean? It's not just what's going on with the crime, there's other issues going on in the different cities with business of suffering, people not coming out to the public. You know what I mean? So, but I want you to know that we are addressing that topic and we're going to do everything on our power to improve that. All right? Thanks a lot. For that, I want to say good night and thank you for coming out tonight. I need a motion. Yeah. I need a motion to close. Some move. Second. On your favor. All right. All right. Opposed? Thank you. Good night.