March 12 2026 Ventnor City Commission Meeting

All right. Good evening. I'd like to
call to order the city of Venner
commission meeting March 12th, 2026.
If I could um have everyone stand in
your various locations to salute the
flag.
I
>> pledge allegiance allegiance to the flag
United States of America and to the
republic which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, liberty and
justice for all.
Thank you. Can I have a roll call? Lisa,
>> Commissioner Langraph
>> here.
>> Commissioner Mento is absent. Mayor
Creable
>> here.
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>> Excellent. Thank you. We have no
presentations this evening. We have no
department heads and we have no capital
discussions. Uh I see no minutes to
approve and no ordinance introductions.
However, we have three public hearings
and three adoptions.
So um
we're going to well we'll discuss them
now but we'll do them uh in the regular
meeting. The first one is a bond
ordinance providing capital for various
equipment for the vendor city school
that is um not to appropriating 900,000
and authoring the issuance of bonds or
notes to finance thereof. Any other
comments there? It's something that
we've been discussing for a while.
>> No good with that. Um
the second um public hearing and
adoption in the regular meeting will be
um uh city code entitled
affordable housing chapter 102. Um want
to take this opportunity to um uh
introduce Tiffany and um who who who
else is on the call that would like to
discuss that and maybe add some
background.
So, I'm here with Nick and uh I'm gonna
defer to Nick uh but I'm here to answer
questions because he's on camera and I
am not.
>> Okay.
>> So,
>> sure. So, uh this is Nick Carlson um
with Archer and Grinder. Uh we've been
working with the city on its affordable
housing obligations um since uh earlier
uh last year 2025. Um so just as a quick
background on uh June 30th uh we had to
submit the uh housing element fair share
plan which was done uh it was accepted
by the court uh on time and uh any uh
anyone who had any objections uh had a
certain amount of uh time statutoily uh
to object. Only one objector uh filed
any objection. That was the Fair Share
Housing Center. And it's important to
note that they did not object to any
substantive uh portion of the housing
element and fair share plan. All they
wanted was uh for us to submit to them
for review. Um certain other documents
uh that would be part of the um the
filings uh that were going to be due uh
this month. Um they're due on March
15th. that includes the affordable
housing ordinance uh to deal with the
city's fourth round um affordable
housing uh obligations as well as uh a
number of different types of um
documents. Uh there is a uh affirmative
marketing plan. Uh there is a uh
ordinance uh creating the position of
municipal housing liaison and uh
eventually appointing someone to that
position and so on and so forth. I don't
need to uh describe every single one,
but they just wanted to see our drafts
um in order to just uh make sure that uh
that they were on board with what we're
planning on doing. We ended up
submitting uh documents to the court on
October 9th, 2025.
the uh
fair share housing center on December
4th, 2025
emailed back um or sorry, not emailed,
but uh filed a correspondence with the
court indicating that they were um that
they accepted the documents that we
submitted on October 9th. The court then
entered a case management order uh
requiring the city and the fair share
housing center to uh draft and agree to
a consent order that would essentially
uh document everything that would be
done in order for the city to uh meet
its obligations for affordable housing.
And uh there were some very very minor
changes that were made to the housing
element and fair share plan that we had
submitted uh last summer. And one of
those was the set aside ordinance. We
had submitted a draft uh set aside
ordinance uh on June 30th last year and
it said that there would be a 20% set
aside for units that were offered for
sale but a 15% for units offered for
rent. And eventually we um turned that
into a uh 20% flat uh set aside across
the board for any um anything with five
or more units. Um, and
>> more units.
>> I'm sorry. 10 or more. Yeah,
>> 10 or more. Right.
>> 10 or more units.
>> Right. That's right. We got it down to
um uh we did made it 20% and in exchange
it was only for 10 or more units. Um
that's correct. And uh
the only other real changes were for um
the reporting requirements. Uh we um we
established uh uh a schedule by which we
would submit all our our draft documents
which Tiffany has drafted most of those.
We submitted those to the fair share
housing center over the past month or
so. They have uh responded back in
writing that they approved um everything
that we sent to them. some of the
documents. Uh they have not approved the
uh versions um the final versions, but
uh Tiffany uh has been speaking with uh
the Parishure Housing Center and has
been doing uh similar documents uh for
several different municipalities and is
basing and Tiffany, you can correct me
if I'm wrong, but basing uh most of her
drafts off of either model ordinances
and um or just on versions that she has
already had had approved um for other uh
townships and the fair share housing
center indicated in writing that as long
as they um as long as the material
provisions uh were were kept the same
that they would not have any problem
with it. So uh the only objector to uh
any of our uh submissions and the only
objector to the housing element and fair
share plan um has signed off on the
versions that uh that we have ready to
uh to adopt today today.
>> Okay. Great. Good work, Tiffany and and
Nick. Thank you both. Pardon me, I gota
sneeze.
Excuse me.
>> Thank you.
>> The only thing I'll add is, you know,
Fair Share Housing may or may not have
comments, but uh we'll address those if
they come back. They wouldn't be
substantive, and so I'm not concerned
about them because they haven't
officially signed off on everything. But
we have to complete by March 15th. And
you're not the only town they haven't
officially signed off on because they
have 400 and some municipalities they're
trying to get through.
>> Jeez. Right.
Um but also the one of the broadstroke
headlines here is that we are in
complian within the deadline.
>> Correct. That's the cake. That's the
March 15th deadline. Kate,
>> right? Good. Thank you. Thanks for the
work. Um and I think along with that if
we if we're okay to move on unless
anyone has any questions
>> no
>> was uh we'll have 20 uh 26007 which is
uh requires that we um create a
municipal housing liaison.
Correct.
>> Yeah. That that'll be Danielle Manera
out of the code office because she'll
see the stuff coming across our desk.
So, it's someone in the construction
office that sees the units being built
and she sees all those those documents
already. So,
>> Lance, if I if I may interrupt at at
this point, the resolution that's before
the commission uh names me as the
housing leazison.
>> Oh, okay. I thought we were going with
Danielle on this.
>> We were I think we can leave this alone
for now just so we can get through it
tonight. We can always do a substitution
later.
>> All right. Congratulations.
>> Yeah. Right.
Well, the language in the ordinance
though also says that it if uh if and
when I leave, the next administrator
would automatically be the housing
liaison. So, we'll probably want to
revisit that down the road, too.
>> Okay.
All right. Yeah, I thought we I
thought we' talked about Danielle, but
that's fine. That's no problem.
>> All right. Thank you. Um
>> thanks, Tiffany and Nick.
>> Thank you.
>> You're welcome.
>> Yeah. Um, yeah. I guess that's all. Is
that all we were looking for?
>> Well, we're going to have Oh, the public
hearing on that in the in the regular
session. So, they might want to hang on
just in case there's questions during
public.
>> That would be helpful. Thank you. Um, so
moving on to uh resolutions by consent.
We have uh the first one is 2026-082.
This is uh authorizing a refund for a
tax overpayment, which is um pretty
common place. Um 2026-083
is another refund for tax overpayment.
Um
2026-084
is a yearly uh parking enforcement for
uh giving us the ability to enforce no
parking from April 1st to June 30th for
various events throughout the city. Also
something we do annually. Uh a little
bit more um description might be needed
for 2026-085.
This is a resolution um that we are
adopting and uh reiterating I guess uh
that you brought to the table, Lance.
This is the uh regarding the New Jersey
pact um re
um
>> yeah the new real real regulations. Um,
yeah, a lot of the coastal communities,
uh, Kate May County has actually filed,
uh, litigation against the D for these
rules. But what's happening up in our
legislative body is that, um, I guess
it's scutterary, um, has proposed a
bill, Senate resolution number 106, that
would determine that the D's proposed
coastal regulations are inconsistent
with legislative intent. And remember,
when the D proposed these rules, they
didn't do it through the legislative
process, right?
>> They did it through the rulem process,
which takes out both our assembly and
our and our senate um legislative body.
So, they kind of usurped the rule making
pro the real rulemaking process that
everybody else follows. They're allowed
to do it. It's just not done very often.
Um, these rules went into effect uh, I
think the third week of January of this
year after u, Governor Murphy signed him
the day uh, his last day in office. So,
a lot of towns are are supporting uh,
Senator Scutary. I'm having trouble his
his name. Scutter um, and that that bill
to basically nullify those rules. Um,
I'm dealing with a lot of these rules
right now. These rule these are the ones
we've talked about that will require
homes to be elevated another four to
five feet for base flood elevations. Um
causes a lot of problems on the barrier
islands with uh home construction and
new home construction. Any renovations
that you do require you to meet these
new flood elevations. I won't go into
all the details, but raising on on some
of the more smaller lots that we have,
raising a house to that height creates
all kinds of problems from access,
stairways, things of that nature. Um, to
also even to some extent firefighting um
on bigger lots. You know, that home's
going to be well up in the air, set back
from the street. Can our fire department
get their ladder trucks to the back of
that home so they can or the sides of
the home because it's so high in the air
now? You know, it's I'm dealing with
this in in Brigantine right now. It also
creates aesthetic issues. You're looking
at, you know, down the side of these
homes, three, fourtory tall uh because
you're going to have that that first
floor garage area of sheer walls. Um so
from an architectural standpoint, much
less important, but also of concern. So,
I support this this resolution moving
forward to uh try and resend those rules
and come up with something that's more
reasonable. Look, we all know that
there's issues at the shore with uh
flood elevations and sea level rise, but
this took it way to an extreme to a
point where if you build a parking lot,
you have to make that above base flood
elevation.
>> If the water's that high, nobody's here,
>> right? So
>> yeah,
>> that's my little short story on it.
Sorry for to be so longwinded trying to
turn the volume down on my other phones.
>> Beep.
>> Understood. I I support it as well.
There there were some applications in
the planning board that raised houses
from their original 1920s elevation to
15 ft. And they actually did a pretty
good job at keeping the aesthetics, but
a 4T more than that would be
>> Yeah. would be would be hard to imagine
as it becomes this sort of a half a
floor and um and then like you said the
the our lots are so close together it'd
be it'd be almost impossible to get
stairs with so many switchbacks to get
up to those.
>> Yep.
>> Um we then the stairs would be out in
the middle of the street. What it tends
to happen is they they'll put it
internal. So you get a door that's into
in between your garages and it's not a
very attractive entrance way to a home.
>> Yeah. It's awkward.
>> It's awkward. Yeah.
>> Talking to the designer. You do design
not houses, but you have the eye for
that and it's just not an aesthetic
thing.
>> Yeah. No, they it's a it's an it's
definitely um a lot to it. So anyway, um
moving forward, the next resolution uh
and I hope that goes forward. Uh the
next resolution we have is 2026-086.
Um this is uh this is authorizing to
enter a contract with Delasio and
Associates for planning and design
services for lead service line
replacement program phase 1B for
115,000.
>> Right. So this is new technology they're
coming out with that um Delasio has been
working with the D on and a couple other
communities. He brought it to us. this
this funding can be returned to us as
part of the technical support that we're
part of with this whole leadline service
the public seminar that we had a couple
weekends ago. Um all of that is
reimburseable expenses through this
grant should we should we move forward
and use this technology. Um what it does
it without excavation it will assist in
determining whether you have lead line
um or not. So that's that's a savings
down the road that if we can go down a
street and find out, you know, all these
homes on the right side don't have, you
know, lead lines or galvanized lines,
right,
>> we're in pretty good shape. So we don't
have to dig up that street as much. So
that that's what this will do. But these
u this is experimental stuff that
they've used in other communities that
the D and and the state is trying to
push us to use and they're helping us
pay for it. So
>> Okay, great.
Can I add one thing to this?
>> There there were other proposals sought.
I believe
was also another the recommendation from
the our engineer was to go with the
Delasio proposal.
>> Yeah, the tetratech was the highest and
I think the other was in the middle and
then Delasio is the lowest.
>> Great. Um
uh okay. So then we'll have um we have a
we're pulling uh 087 until we get the
full set of specs for that um concession
for the uh food, beverage, and uh pier
kiosk and beach cart service. So we're
pulling that.
>> That's uh 2026-087.
Then we'll have bills and payrolls.
>> Uh we're going to add a few. Thank you.
Yeah,
>> we're going to add um some additional
resolutions. Um 202688
is adopting the affordable housing
spending plan which was discussed
earlier and adopting uh two and then two
2026-089
is appointing the affordable housing
liaison Tom Cheró and 202690
is adopting the affirmative house is the
affordable housing affirmative marketing
plan. Um
>> these are companions to the ordinances.
These are the resolutions that adopt and
implement the things that are specified
in the ordinances. Okay. And so they go
hand in hand.
>> Um what is the marketing plan? What is
it? What's the goal there?
>> The marketing plan in addition to having
a housing liaison, we're obligated to
have a housing agent uh who is not an
employee. that agent becomes responsible
for marketing any of the units that are
created down the road as part of the
affordable housing plan.
>> And it's afford I'm sorry, it's um
affirmative in that you cannot choose
arbitrarily who qualifies to get these
units. They have to market them in an
afford in an affirmative fashion, take
applications, determine qualifications
and eligibility for either rent or
purchase of the units, and that agent
handles that aspect of the plan.
>> Okay. There's firms, Tim, that that
is one that does a lot of it. Um, we've
also talked about partnering some of the
more local facilities in ARC and um I
think Homes for Everyone or something
like that. that that some two local
folks work for and I've talked to them
about they're interested in it. We would
we would get pricing and see what their
plans are to help us through that
process.
>> Okay. All right. As part of it goes hand
inand with the
>> Yep.
>> with the statutory regulation that we're
following here.
>> Yeah.
>> Um it look so move any other questions.
I'll move on to the next one which is
going to be pulled. That's uh 091.
This is we're waiting for some more
information on correct for
rehabilitation and renovations.
>> We'll bring it we'll bring it back to
you when when we finish everything up.
>> Okay. All right. And then uh that's 091.
And then the last one which will be on
the agenda is 202692.
Um this is approving rates uh changes
and charges for the 2026 recreation
department, city of Vner. So, some some
uh some increases there, but nothing too
uh out out of the ordinary and
recommendations by our our uh wreck
leader there, right?
>> The only ones that I saw that were
significant, mayor, is is the one for
the water park and that's kind of out
out of our hands. That's something we
don't have water park. So, they're going
to that and that's what they charge. So,
>> exactly.
>> That was the only one that really jumped
out at me as a as a significant
increase, but that's, you know, the cost
of going to a water park. So
>> yeah,
>> not not really under our control.
>> Yeah. I um I grew up working in my
grandparents restaurant in the summers.
So we went to um stock the soda machine
and slicer camp. Uh it wasn't go to we
didn't go to fun camps.
Make breadcrumbs. Make breadcrumbs for
service later camp
anyway.
Um
so that is uh one through five. Those
are the uh excluding 091 for uh adding
from the bench. Right.
>> Yep.
>> We're going to go uh we'll approve uh
bills and payroll.
And we have one discussion item. You
want to take that on now? The revocable
license.
>> Sure. Uh so the the resident there at 21
South Troy came to the city. I don't
know if it came to the clerk's office. I
think it did. or construction. And then
what we do is they they requested to use
part of the city's rightway basically
for fencing. Uh they want to put a 4ft
high fence out to their their sidewalk.
Um so what happens is they send that in
and our city engineer in this case it
was Matt Duran took a review of that. Uh
said there's no real safety issues or
concerns. It's not at a corner that it
won't affect any any sight triangles at
a corner. Um it's behind the sidewalk.
it doesn't infringe on public access.
Um, and we've done this uh in in certain
instances where, you know, they want to
put the fence up. If we need that area
back, we have the right. That's the
revocable part of that license. So, I
don't have an issue with it. So, what we
typically do is if you we discuss it at
this meeting, we put it on for next for
a vote resolution approving that
revocable license.
If I might, um, in Matt's letter, it
does say that we do need to get the
legal legal description.
>> Yes. As after this meeting, they provide
him the legal descriptions.
>> We'll get that.
>> He'll have the applicant will have to
comply with all Matt's conditions.
>> Yes.
>> Great. I think I saw that they were
looking for a little bit more play space
for their for kids in that area. So, I
think it's and it's it's not a very
>> uh it's it's a you know, we have small
lots. It's not a It's It doesn't seem to
be any adding any difficulty to the
neighborhood.
>> No.
>> Um so I app I I agree with it as well.
>> All right.
Um
so seeing that we're through that part
of the agenda, I could open it up for
public comment for any before we open
the before we close and open. I u have a
motion to open the meeting for public
portion on anything that we've discussed
so far.
>> I'll make that motion.
I have roll call. Lisa,
>> I'll second it. Yes,
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes.
Is there anyone in the Zoom platform? I
don't think so. I think we've all got
>> anybody on Zoom who wishes to question
or comment any of the items spoken about
so far? Please make yourself known by
raising your hand within the chat
feature and you'll be recognized.
No.
>> No. Okay. Um, may I have a motion to
close public portion?
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes.
Um, I may I have a motion to close the
workshop portion of the meeting and call
to order the regular session of
tonight's meeting.
>> I'll make that motion.
>> I'll second it. Roll call. Lisa.
>> Commissioner Langri.
>> Yes. Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. Uh, moving forward, we have no
minutes to approve, no ordinance
introductions. May I have a motion to
open for public hearing ordinance
2026-005.
This is the bond ordinance for general
capital improvements regarding the
school.
>> Make a motion to open to for public
hearing ordinance 2026-005.
>> Second. Roll call, please.
>> Commissioner Langri,
>> yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. Any
comments from the public on this
ordinance? Ordinance 005.
>> Anybody wish to question or comment on
ordinance 005?
>> No.
>> Nothing. All right. Well, stay tuned.
Uh,
>> yeah.
>> We have a motion to close public hearing
on uh 005.
>> Motion to close.
>> Second. Have a roll call. Paul,
>> Commissioner Langraph.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Kel.
>> Yes. I have a motion to adopt ordinance
2026-005
as described earlier.
>> Motion to adopt.
>> Second. Lisa, can I have a roll call,
please?
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. I have motion to open uh for public
hearing ordinance 2026-006.
This is the motion uh this is the
ordinance to create uh chapter 102 of
the city entitled affordable housing. I
have that motion.
>> Make a motion to open public hearing on
ordinance 2026-006.
>> I'll second. We have a roll call. Lisa
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Creable.
>> Yes. Any comments from the public
regarding uh affordable housing?
Anybody wish to speak or comment on
ordinance 006?
>> No.
>> Hearing none. May I have a motion to
close public hearing ordinance 006
hearing? So moved. I will second.
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. A roll. You already gave me a roll
call. May I have a motion to adopt
2026-006
um entitled affordable housing as
described?
>> Make a motion to adopt ordinance
2026-006.
>> I'll second it. May I have a roll call,
please?
>> Commissioner Langra,
>> yes.
>> Mayor Creel,
>> yes.
>> Moving down, we have uh ordinance public
for uh public hearing ordinance 007.
This is um creating the municipal
housing leon liaison. May I have a
motion to open for public hearing?
>> Motion to open public hearing ordinance
2026- 0007.
>> I'll second that. We have a roll call.
Lisa,
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor
>> Creable.
>> Yes. Any comments from the public
regarding
Tom Cheron who is our municipal housing
liaison? Only that aspect of Tom Cheró.
Anybody wish to question ordinance 007?
>> No.
>> There are no comments. Uh motion to
close, please.
>> So moved.
>> I'll second. We have roll call. Lisa.
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes.
Uh ordinance adoption for ordinance
2026-007
uh entitled municipal housing liaison.
May I have a motion to adopt?
>> Motion to adopt ordinance 2026- 0007.
>> I'll second. May I have a roll call,
Lisa?
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. Okay. See if I get this right. This
is resolution motion to adopt
resolutions
2026-082
to 092
omitting
80 ordinance 87 and order ordinance 91
as described earlier in the workshop.
May I have that motion?
>> I'll make a motion to adopt resolutions
2026-082
to 092 with the exception of 087 and
091.
Thank you. I'll second it. Roll call.
Lisa.
>> Commissioner Langra.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. Lisa, will you read bills and
payroll, please?
>> So, we have bills in the amount of
1,165,246.98.
We have payroll from 215 to 228 2026 in
the amount of $71,279.31.
>> Okay. Thank you. I have a motion to
approve bills and payroll, please.
>> So moved. I'll second Lisa.
>> Commissioner Langraph.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. I see no announcements or safety
reports. Uh Commissioner Langraph, do
you have any uh comments or reports this
evening?
>> Yeah, just briefly. Um I asked Rick and
and Ernie to give me some updates on
some things. Um storm water kind of
running as normal. We had a little bit
of an issue with pump number three. Um
got some debris stuck in it after some
work that was done out in Veter Gardens
Plaza. Um drinking water. This is
interesting. Uh during the last cold
snap that we had a lot of waterline
breaks, things of that nature. Well,
that shows up here. Um we're about
we pumped
uh let's see million million.1 gallons
per day is is uh what we pumped.
Normally we're just under 800,000. So
with those waterline breaks, that's
that's the reason for it. You know, you
have service lines break, city line
breaks. So you try and catch them as
soon as you can so you don't lose this
water, but it's still being pumped out
of the ground. So um but all those have
been fixed for the most part. There's
some still some minor stuff happening on
the on the resident side, but nothing on
the city side. Um got some upcoming
street work, continue fire hydrant work,
replacing the old Cory fire hydrants. Um
waiting on a few new fire hydrants to be
delivered, trying to replace all the
ones in the city over a period of time.
give us better better service to our
firefighters to get better access for
fighting fires. Um,
let's see. I don't need to go into that
too much.
Water or work continues on the water
tower over on Surrey by the boat boat
house. I know we had a little issue
there, Tim. I I saw Rick's working with
you and John Kelly to try and get better
access for the boat boers.
>> Yeah,
>> the crew crew teams over there. So,
hopefully that'll work out.
>> Yeah, thank you for that. I just just
interject that was very I appreciate
that the boat uh the work construction
kind of pins them in for getting their
trailers out and they have a race not
this Friday but next. So they want to be
able to make some adjustments to get it
out of there so that the mainland crew
can get to Philadelphia. I think the
flicks start
>> pretty early and then we'll need to
>> we'll need to yeah used to go to them
and then we'll need to give them some
space in the parking lot while they're
away since they're going to have to load
and unload those. It's kind of a
>> that the part of season
>> got that lot there. So there's there's
space out there for them. It's not used
too much for the rest of the, you know,
hopefully they'll get those scaffolding
down. Well, that's not going to be till
summertime, I guess. So, it's going to
be crowded over there.
>> I appreciate the help.
>> Yep. Glad it work. Glad hopefully it
works out. I think Monday, I think
they're working on that, right?
>> Yep.
>> Uh let's see.
Lots of minor stuff. Um PW are engaged
in preseason uh workups, doing some
mandatory safety training coming into
the new the new spring and summer
season. Um
let's see, seasonal rehire. We're
starting to rehire our summer summer
folks and get an update on some capital
projects from from Rick and what we need
with public works. Um
looks like we got our green team uh
shredding event coming up April 25th.
So, we're kind of coordinating that with
Ski Beach uh and special events on the
May calendar. Got the block party coming
up. So, all those things we're getting
kind of geared up from a public work
side. Fishing pier opening for key sales
starts uh 8 a.m. on April 25th and
pickle and tennis ball work has
commenced as of this week. Starting to
do some of the demo out there um to get
that work going before the season
starts. It should be ready for, you
know, the summer season. Um
boardwalk construction continues.
They're moving pretty quickly. The um
the pilings are being driven down by
Suriri now, right where they the the
stockpile and lay down yard is for now.
So they're moving pretty well. I saw an
update of the schedule uh just this
week, just today I guess it was that uh
they plan on having everything up and
ready by May May 15th or something like
that. May 11th. Tom and Tom Tom, you
sent me that schedule. I saw
>> Yes. The uh the decking is scheduled to
be completed within the next few weeks.
They are looking to be finished and
demobilized around May 15th, which was
what the what the target date was. So,
>> yep.
>> Did they decide if they're going to go
any further towards Jackson Avenue
before they shut down for the summer?
>> I don't know the answer to that yet,
Lance. I think when you get back, that's
a discussion that needs ice because
>> um we'll see.
>> It's an odd project. uh Tim and and the
public that we actually have to spend so
much of the state's money by October of
this year. Um they kind of cut us cut
two months short on us. We thought we
had till December, but they said we have
to do it by October so they can show the
proofs that we spent the money by the
end of the year.
>> So, and one of the unfortunate things
too is that we have an extra week this
summer between Memorial Day and Labor
Day.
>> Memorial Day is early. It's on May 23rd
and Labor Day is late. So that's a week
that we lose if we aren't able to uh
accelerate the pace here.
>> Yeah. But we did purchase all the
lumber, so that helps.
>> We did. Yep.
>> So that's all I have.
>> Great. Thank you. Um I'll be very brief
as well. Uh couple of things. Uh we did
have a meeting with uh um the sheriff
municipal court. It actually went much
uh much smoother than I expected. The
police department reported no real
issues with them. They've reported that
the kiosk has been being used more
frequently and um they reported that um
there was addition better communication
between um the prosecutors and the
police department. They handed they did
hand them off uh some uh tickets that
were not um that that are backlogged,
but uh they they came up with a system
that the backlogs will be done weekly so
that they'll cut through that. So I was
actually very pleasantly surprised. I
know there there might be some things to
brief you about with code, but um the
police department aspect of the shared
court has seen a much marketked
improvement. The the last few meetings
we had were
almost adversarial that there that there
were things not getting done, but this
one seemed on on our side anyway that
there was that a lot of the friction had
been ironed out. Were you going to say
something, Tom? Okay.
>> Yeah. I I hope that we've gotten better
with the code because it hasn't shown
that yet.
>> Okay.
>> So, I I do want to talk to I think Dino
attended that meeting.
>> He did. Yes.
>> Yeah. I want to talk to him and see what
what was resolved because as of
the notes that I got from from Pam and
Dino were that it's not working very
well. We've got backlogs to last summer
from, you know, violations that we've
issued that are not getting resolved
through the courts.
>> Okay.
>> So,
>> yeah, man. But I'll be glad to discuss
it with you next week when you're back.
>> Okay, that's great. Thanks.
>> Um and then uh other from police
department, good news that we have uh at
the last minute before closing the
application process. It looks like we
had a influx of class ones for the
summer. So we may have between eight and
nine depending on how that the last few
play out with one or two returning. So
that's good news. we were um it's always
I think a a quality of life uh issue to
have enough guys to have on rotation,
guys and women uh on rotation in that uh
class one and you never know uh if you
find somebody that may want to be a
police officer later in life. So, we're
looking forward to that. And then uh
also uh if every if the entire role
comes back um we'll have another uh a
large staff of uh larger than normal. We
have a young staff of lifeguards. Uh so
we met with um Chief Funk today. Um so
we have about if everybody comes back
we'll have about 80 on that staff and um
not the need for as much of a test as we
would normally have. So that's also good
news.
>> Mayor that that's not actually an
increase over last year. It it's but
it's less rookies. It's fewer. If
everybody comes back, we won't need to
hire as many rookies,
>> right? So it's not an increase. the
chief is still looking to run camp and
that sort of stuff to have people
available if uh a shortage develops, you
know, as guards go back to school and
those sorts of things. But 80 is the
number was the number last year,
>> right? A lot of that's a lot of beaches,
three per stand. Um and that's all I
have.
>> Um any other uh any other com if I can I
just quick comment on that? Remember one
of the things that's changed with the
way that beach patrols operate. I think
it used to be kind of standard practice
for them to work six days a week. Uh,
and those days are over because subject
to overtime requirements now. So, that
has increased the the number of guards
that all the towns need in order to be
able to properly staff
>> uh for public safety without running
into issues with overtime.
>> That's changed in the last few years.
That's true. That makes that makes the
math make more sense is that we have to
have more shifts, more more more
tours, I guess you would call it. Okay.
Um, with that, any other comments? Uh,
we can go to I can ask for a motion to
open the for public comment.
>> Make that motion.
>> I'll second. Lisa, roll call.
>> Commissioner Langraph.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creel.
>> Yes. So, at this point, anybody um would
like to speak about anything regarding
Ventner City? I see there might have
been somebody else add to the the Zoom.
This is your chance.
Okay. Anybody who would like to speak on
any items, please make yourself known by
raising your hand or within the chat
feature and you'll be recognized.
No
>> hearing. None. I have a motion to close.
>> Motion to close.
>> I'll second. A roll call. L.
>> Commissioner Langraph.
>> Yes.
>> Mayor Creable.
>> Yes. Uh, we have no executive session.
May I have a motion to adjurnn?
>> So moved.
>> I'll second.
No. Roll call. Commissioner Langra. Yes,
>> Mayor Creel.
>> Yes. May meeting adjourned.
>> Okay. Thanks, guys. Thanks for
accommodating my vacation.