Mayor and Council - Regular Meeting

Adequate notice of this meeting of the mayor and council was sent to the Asbury Park Press, the Co-Star, our official newspapers, and posted on the burrow's website. Take roll call. Councilwoman Donovan here. Councilman Kenny here. Mayor Busesco here. Councilman Delasio here. Councilman Moroni here. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Please remain standing for a moment of silence for our troops, their families, and our first responders. Okay, thank you. Okay, we're going to this. So, we're starting off with workshop and it's my understanding that I need to read this NJS4 water share inventory report. Let me uh let me do that.

Uh borrow Delmare and all New Jersey municipalities are permitted to manage and treat municipal storm water under NJMS4 which stands for the municipal separate storm sewer system. Municipal permits including but not limited to storm water design, collection, treatment, infrastructure, maintenance activities required per its permit. To meet its permit obligations, Belmar and all municipalities were required to prepare and file an MS4 watershed inventory report with the NJP. An interim draft of this WIP phase 1 assessment report was completed for Belmar Burrow and filed prior to the January 1, 2026 regulatory deadline. A copy of the phase one inventory report is available for public review on Delmare Burrow's storm water web page which is https just leave out the slashes www.delmour.com delmore.com departments DPW stormwater management stormwater-management. This current draft report will be modified to include additional storm water infrastructure data also completed for Belar Burl and review comments and input from NJD Belar staff and the public. As part of the permit process, two semianual public meetings are required to make the public aware and to solicit questions or comments regarding the WIP plan. Questions or comments regarding the WIP report may be directed to Belmore Spoonwater Consultant

who is Terrence V uh PE CME uh at He's at ru.com. That those are our um engineers and his address is terry t r y.vote v o gt at re I think that's supposed to be.com. Two future additional phases of the WIP report will be necessary. the phase 2 watershed assessment report which is due January 1, 2027 and the phase three wershed improvement plan report which is due December 31st, 2027. Additional information on both of these future plans will be provided by NJD.

Okay. and we just have to open it up to public comment if anyone has comments or questions about what the mayor just read. Okay, thank you. Okay, moving on. Uh, anything else for workshop today? I think we there was a there was a couple questions that we had about the overlays on the ordinances. Can I ask those questions now? Uh, sure. I think Right. Okay. So, Council Member Rooney, did you want to ask your question first or Councilman Zavia, we were all a little worried about this?

So, uh two of the resolutions uh involve reszoning some of our uh areas. So, basically a mixeduse overlay and Brand ask maybe some questions directly to you. Mixed use overlay. as I understand it is that we have these zones uh that are currently either residential and business district um or semant redevelopment zones and part of the um your rules with the affordable housing and all those things now require some mixed use overlay zones. Correct. Well, this is part of the set fair McMevelopment affordable housing council holdover for for the burrow. So, um to answer your question, these overlay zones are part of the settlement agreement that was reached with the burrow and fair share housing center to address its unmet need. So, these two ordinances are part of like the comprehensive settlement package for round four. So, it doesn't have so much to do with affordable housing regulations. I'm not sure if that's what you asked as far as this is what the bureau agreed how it was going to meet and resolve its fourth round obligations.

You're you're using the proper terms. Thank you. There's no regulations requiring this. It's part of a settlement.

So, I I guess who came up with these specific areas? Was this between us and fair share housing? Was this between us and the judge? Who were they? This was between the burrow fair share housing and the burough planners and uh the program judge. It's capital P. Uh the program was part of the fourth round instead of going through the courts and also the special adjudicator. So this was part of the negotiation. Probably one of the final issues to resolve the fourth round was how the burough was going to meet its unmet need obligation and fair share was not comfortable or satisfied with what was initially presented. So, as part of the negotiations back and forth with the special adjudicator, different uh uh overlay zones were presented.

Right. Okay. So, we approve there's one overlay zone that was already created which made street main street overlays already done. Third round. Okay. That was third round. This is fourth round.

Correct. What is our as a council and mayor what are our avenues if we say okay this is I'm looking at for example uh 2604 the mixeduse overlay zone and the way it's ordered allows multifamily or business in a lot size of 7,000 or more um and it would it would you know include attached family uh town home style in a pretty heavily residential zone so if I'm a resident in that area. I'm kind of concerned that my lot, not only my lot, but my neighbor's lot can now be sold and multifamilies being put up in that area. Um, I think Main Street is, you know, Route 35. Those are areas where, you know, again, areas need a redevelopment or some possible, you know, apartments are mixed use. Uh, this area specifically is is quite concerning to me. So what is our recourse as someone that hasn't been up here for you know the last three years of incredible litigation and all the things we're going through. What is our recourse if we don't agree with this specific area in general

uh in order for the settle the judge actually this past week uh issued an order and a decision approving the settlement agreement. So if the and a conditioned on the bureau adopting everything that it said it was going to do as part of the settlement and these overlay zones are what was negotiated to be part of the settlement. The you know one of pulling one overlay zone out individually was not sufficient. So it took multiple overlay zones in order for the bureau to satisfy its unmet need obligation and um get through the program and also get approval from the special adjudicator. So, if the bureau doesn't adopt any of the ordinances which are part of the settlement package which include the overlay zone ordinances and the affordable housing ordinance then um it would jeopardize the settlement agreement like then it wouldn't be um fulfilling its obligations as part of the settlement agreement with fair share housing center.

Can I follow up on that? So, if that happened what would happen next? the uh settle the approval from the judge is conditioned on the bureau doing that. And if the bureau doesn't do it by March 16th, I know everyone says it's the March 15th date, but the judge noted in her decision that March 15th is a Sunday, so she's given everybody till March 16th, the bureau would immediately be stripped of its immunity and be exposed to voters remedy lawsuits. Would you say it would make the possibility of say a large construction building going on Ocean Avenue more likely?

There are developers that have been you know, one developer in particular that as part of the decision. Yes, to answer your question, as part of the decision that the judge issued last last week, this the beginning of this week, uh there, as you know, there was another challenge. There were three challenges to the Burough's housing element fair share plan, one from Fair Share Housing Center, one from 7th Avenue, and one from a developer for 104th Avenue, which is Leotech Vita, the Ocean Avenue site. The 7th Avenue um challenge was withdrawn. The fair share housing challenge was settled via a mediation agreement conditioned on all of this legislation being adopted. And just this week, the judge dismissed the 104th Avenue challenge, conditioned on the bureau doing everything it had said it was going to do.

And so if we did not do that, a vote against this would almost essentially be a vote in favor of the Ocean Avenue project. A vote against this would would uh jeopardize the settlement and expose the burrow to builder's remedy suits. Thank you. Um I have a quick question. Were these zones discussed publicly prior to to being shown here? I mean, was it discussed so that people in these zones know that they're now in an area that's susceptible to development? This is the opportunity. There'll be a public hearing and they'll go before the planning board. So, no, they have not been presented. This is the first time they're being presented today as they're being introduced as part of the ordinance.

So, we're voting on it for the first time and nobody's aware of it. Well, you're introducing it like any other ordinance. It's being introduced today. It will be sent to the planning board since it's part of, you know, consistency review. So, the planning board will be reviewing it. I think it's March 4th and then it comes back for final adoption on the 10th. Thank you. On March 10th. So, there'll be a public hearing and final adoption on March 10th. and a planner will be here at that time.

It's also important to recognize that the overlay zone is an optional zone. Other words, a builder, if they got enough property there, could opt to build under the overlay zone, but they don't have to. They could still build under the current um zoning laws. The other thing that's important to recognize is see before we we came up with this, we had um developers who were basically going to the court and they're basically saying, "Oh, the town should do this to meet this number. The town should do that to meet its number." And it was pretty clear from the court that they said, "No, the town, the burrow decides what they want to do in terms of meeting the required numbers." And I think we all agreed that this was the the path of least resistance because other than doing this then we were going to wind up with developments in other areas which we thought were were going to be overall let's say harmful but not not really um in the interest of the residents who live in those areas. So this was like the path of least resistance and we were very fortunate that I think fair share housing uh and the and the uh the um master special master agreed with us and the court agreed with us that this is a practical thing. Nobody it could be 10 years before someone uses the overlay ordinance. you know, we don't it might never be used, but it's an option that's there to uh to help us meet our affordable housing numbers.

Yeah, I don't know if I can comment here, but as a a resident of 4th Avenue, that's why I'm here. Um it wasn't clear in the amendment to the redevelopment plans where the overlay zones were. It looks like there was appendices that weren't there until recently. I know there was an announcement that um you put that out there and you could come to the bureau to get you know printed out or it was out available on PDF. Looks like something now. I agree with you that the preference would be to have overlay zones that are away from Ocean Avenue where we would lose build a remedy suit to develop a fourstory uh you know development on Ocean Avenue. So, as as a resident of 4th Avenue, I 100% agree that would become a thorough fair for a 30 sto, you know, fourstory, 30 apartment complex on 4th Avenue, you know, is someone that has four young kids. I don't want cars zooming down Fourth Avenue to get to a complex. So, I would agree that having overlay zones where they can meet affordable housing is what the residents want. And I'm one of the few people here. I know the meeting was rescheduled from Tuesday, but from what I've heard, that is not something that many residents of Belmar want in terms of a four-story development on 4th Avenue on Ocean Avenue. Thank you.

And and you know, and it's likely that if if this whole deal goes south, we're going to see many many more developers coming into the town saying, "We can get you the numbers. We can get your number. we can get your number and you can and this council will be dealing with with you know basically be going back to square one negotiating with all these redevelopers to try to to try to come up with numbers and they're going to say to the board well you know we can give them the number but we have to build a sixtory building and we we've we've gone through that already in the in the third round so we know what's going to happen so I think this is the is the path of least resistance I I think it's going to be um you know we were very fortunate that the court agreed to this and I think it's in the best interest of the burough that we move forward and we vote on this and approve this just I'm sorry just to kind of follow up on what your com was and councilwoman Donovan I haven't heard anyone in support of of precisely what has been proposed on 4th Avenue before no one's saying that's what we want but I'm also trying to look at this and saying okay if I live on 13th Avenue and I'm going residential zone. You know, is this an area that I like for multif family either? So, you know, there there's I don't think there's there's no easy answer. We're in we're in we're in these settlements and I'm not saying, you know, voting no when one thing would be okay, I now approve of something else. Uh it's kind of you have to look at each area specifically. Um and and and that's why I was asking the questions about where these zones even came from. I don't think we should have. This is not really a public session here.

It's fine. I I I'd just say that I agree with you. As I said, the PDF that was available on the website didn't actually show what the overlay zones were until recently. Two two things actually. Sir, I'm sorry. We didn't get your name and address. The clerk is asking. Sure. Sean Karen's 2084th Avenue. Thank you.

I'm just gonna come in here though too. If we don't approve this too, there's still a very good possibility that you'll have a humongous building on that site because the developer will come in and there'll be no there'll be no uh overlay district and they're going to say, "You know what? We don't have a builder's remedy." They're going to go to court and they're going to say, "I can build a humongous building here and satisfy it." and and the court could turn around and say, "You know what? I'm going to approve it." So, what I'm trying to say is not approving the overlay zone is not really protecting the residents in that area. It's actually opening them up to more more of a possibility that something will be built there that will be even bigger than was allowed under the overlay zone ordinances.

I have a different question. How many ABS in Belmar don't have some type of multifamily housing on them? I'm on ETH a there's plenty. Um, and is there a different def is there a technical definition for multif family that I'm not aware of because Okay, just making sure. Um, go ahead. I I know you said sorry. Sorry, I did not mean to over here. Isn't the the concern that if we don't approve it, to the mayor's point, all zoning ordinances are out of the question. So, you could have a two-story multi-development on multif family or apartment complex on 4th Avenue, but if we don't, then a developer could potentially say, well, we want to do six stories on 4th Avenue or Ocean Avenue or 13th Avenue. And then to meet the need, it gets approved as opposed to what the ordinance is that the plan level three stories or two and a half stories. Isn't Isn't that the concern?

Uh yeah, as we've presented in the past through the presentations, if there's a builder's remedy lawsuit, the burrow loses control of its owning for a particular site. And I just want to also note that um we're it's not only the compliance mechanisms that would be shifted or rejected if this is not um you don't it's not only the compliance mechanisms that would be called into question if the settlement doesn't go through. The numbers are recalculated as well. Right now, the the DCA number for the burrow for its prospective need or new construction was 43. Through negotiations, the bureau negotiated that down to a realistic development potential of 14. If the settlement doesn't go through, this 14 which is being met fully by the 7th Avenue project. If the settlement doesn't go through, the burrow would be back to its 43 obligation. that I was going to ask you. So this this then becomes the unmet back to zero.

I'm sorry. 43. The 43 is the is the um is the obligation that DCA assigned to the burrow. And the burrow then took a vacant land adjustment and negotiated to get down to a realistic development potential of 14 which gen then generates the unmet need which is now being met through the overlay zones. Should the settlement not go forward, the burough doesn't get to keep the 14. Now you're back to your 43 that you have to now meet with actual units. It's not unmet need that can be met through overlay zoning. It's 43 units that needs to be met with actual projects. One more followup. I swear

we have to use overlay zones. Now we have an unmet need with a vacant land adjustment of 14. Correct. When we meet that 14, can these be removed?

No. Your 14 is what your realistic development potential is. That's sort of the adjustment to what your obligation was. So you now have to generate 14 new units. That obligation is being met through the 7th Avenue project. Yes. So the the balance of the 43 is not doesn't dis just disappear. That's what is the unmet need. So the difference between the 43 and 14 is what's your unmet need. and the way you um develop a you now required under the affordable housing act to develop a plan to meet and address that unmet need. You can't just say, "Okay, we have unmet need." In the third round, it was sort of like, "We have unmet need. We'll get to it. We'll put together an ordinance." It wasn't um nobody really pursued it. Now, for the fourth round, they're much they're viewing that in a much more strictly. and they're saying you have to develop a plan, a credible plan that's going to be accepted by the program and the judge as to how you're going to actually realistically address your unmet need. And that's where these overlay zones came in. And we didn't start with, you know, all these overlay zones. We they were sort of like, okay, this isn't going to be good enough back and forth. Okay, we have another overlay zone.

So now we're down to 29, right? Yes. 43. And so now the last question again just with the right number if we hit our 29 with or without using these mixed use overlay zones can they be removed if we meet the unmet need. That's interesting. Um it's something that uh it seems like it I would have to look into that. I don't want to Yeah, but it's not a situation that I've encountered yet because this is all new for the fourth round. So I would have to look into that and I can for the next meeting. One more question. I can't have coming up. There's a lot of questions construction, you know, but but we don't have to meet that need until 2035. Yeah, you have until Thank you. And that's the point I was going to make.

When we when we uh do this and the court gives us the order, the burrow is is basically set for the next 10 years. So we will we will be basically um solving this problem for the next two and a half administrations coming up. All right. they will not be in a position that we were in back in 2023 where nothing was done. So I mean this is the opportunity to guarantee for the residents and for the public that there will be some stability in our redevelopment over the next 10 years. Um, and you know, obviously there's going to be I'm I'm sure there's some mechanism where they keep checking and seeing how we're doing, but we could in fact over the next 10 years, we could build affordable housing, which would which would, you know, take us into the future, you know, anticipating the fifth round. So, I mean, and let's not forget during those 10 years, we're also going to be increasing the amount of money in the um in the trust fund. So, I mean, we're going to have many opportunities over the next 10 years to keep building affordable housing without having to deal with builder remedy suits. And I think that's the advantage to to getting this done now because uh it will really guarantee that we're in the we're in a good zone. We're going to still have our zoning ordinances. Uh there's going to be a lot of things that can be done to improve affordable housing in the burrow over those years. and we're probably going to have the money to do it from the affordable housing trust fund. So, I mean, I think that's the the one of the other benefits of of approving this. Now,

I know you don't want me to comment again. And when they're when they're heard, this actually isn't even being heard. This is a workshop. This is the first It's fine, but obviously, Councilman Delasio, your construction business. I don't know if there's a conflict of interest in you voting on this going forward or not. We we need to stop the public session at this point in time. It's not even on what we're talking about where there's a conflict of interest. I can deal with that with Councilman Delasio, but but we we need to cut this off at this point.

Okay. Uh any other from the council any other comments or or things to talk about in the work session? No. Um sorry. Thank you for all the explanations. I mean we're here early today so we could stay, you know, till 6:00 if we need to. Um I guess there are no more issues for the for the work session. So let's move on to petitions. Do we have any petitions? I did not receive any. Okay, then let's go on to the approval of the minutes. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes of the January 27th meeting? I'll make that motion. Second. Councilman Donovan,

yes. Council McKini, yes. Councilman Delasio, yes. Councilman yes. Mayor Buckesco, yes. And can I have a motion to approve the minutes of the February 4th meeting? Motion. Second. Councilwoman Donovan, yes. Councilwoman Kenny, yes. Councilman Delasio, yes. Councilman Moroni, yes. Mayor Buckesco, yes. Yep. Okay. Reports of council. Um, Councilwoman Donovan.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, I'm going to start off with thanking DPW again for all of their very hard work. Um, Superintendent Mustau was kind enough to text me some some fun stats just for you guys. Uh we had the day the storm was about to hit 17 plow trucks, three front end loaders and 23 employees on standby starting at 3:30. Um it has been incredibly gratifying to see all the incredibly good work you've done. I we've gotten so much good feedback. I'm sure all of us have from all the residents. So kudos to you. Thank you.

Thank you. And speaking of support, I just want to put out a little reminder to everyone. Um, obviously we all know that the parade has been postponed, but please remember to shop local, particularly this Sunday. I know so many of our businesses um throughout the burrow, uh, rearrange their schedules, redo appointments to accommodate the parade. Um, and so if they could use a little extra boost of support from you, I'm sure every single one of them would appreciate it. Um, on April 17th, we will have an MVC event here in Belmar. You can work on your license renewals, Real ID, um, all of your standard MVC affairs. Um, we will get more information out to you, um, through Burough channels. Um, D and Discover March 8th, 11:30 to 3:30. We have over 20 restaurants participating and our favorite, the trolleys. So, um, you can still buy tickets. They are available online and I believe in most of our local retailers. Um, we have new ebike rules here in New Jersey. Uh, council president Kenny and I worked on Belmar's uh, ordinance, but at the time I remember our chief Scott was

frustrated.

Frustrated, good word. Uh, because of the lack of coordination with what we were seeing on the local level with what the state actually was supplying. And so now all electric bikes are categorized as motorized bicycles, which means for us or for you, depending on what you have, you need to have a driver, a license, um, state registration, and insurance. And this will apply to all ebikes with a deadline to register July 20th. So get that together. Um, two other big things. One, um, Chongqing has put forth a bill and this is my first time publicly talking about it but we are looking to promote it that will help our businesses when the bridge goes out and it will lower the taxes that they have to apply in those businesses while the I believe sales tax while the bridge is under construction there. Um it has only just been introduced. So, um, we are thankful to him for for supporting us and supporting Avon and we hope everyone can support it as much as you can. Contact your leg well will contact your legislators. But, uh, if you know people in other districts around the state, please ask them to ask their elected officials for support. And speaking of elected officials supporting us, the biggest news, um, our representative Chris Smith, we have a $1 million earmark that his office has sponsored and has been approved and is in the final budget for Silver Lake.

Um, huge, huge news. Yes. Obviously, this also had support from all of our federal officials. So, thank you to our senators as well. But I know his office worked very hard on this. He worked with our environmental co uh commission uh particularly Diane Delo who is our chair, Gary Hener who has been taking this on as a passion project. So we are very excited because as you all know we have this planning grant we're working on but this will really be what enables us to take a plan into action. So thank you very much. If you have any questions please contact me. Council President Kenny.

Thank you mayor. Uh, again, thank you so much to DPW and everybody who helped get through the storm. I hope everybody is loving the sun melting all the snow as I am. Uh, okay. I don't have as much as council um, Councilwoman Donovan has, but recreation summer basketball signups are starting March 1st for grades 2 through 8. The Easter egg hunt is March 21st and grades one from ages 1 through 9 years old starts at 11:00 a.m. on the Fifth Avenue Beach. Drain date is March 29th. Summer camp signups, I know everybody's always anxious about summer camp, starts March 11th for Belmar residents. Additional, if additional spots are available, they will be open to non-residents after March 11th. Please check the burrow website on summer camp so that you can get the latest information. Um, and also junior guards is full. So, we are full to capacity for the summer for junior guards, which is such an awesome program that does every year. Um, also there is is a a sign outside for shredding. If your business has a lot of paper shredding, please look at these areas. We are not listed as one, but like Avon is uh not um I think Neptune Town, Neptune is Neptune City. So, there's some adjacent towns for shredding. If you have a business and you need to shred some stuff, here it is. Uh so, pick this up and this will be I think posted at the front doors of the bar and um Um, Dennis,

thank you. Uh, Councilman Delasio.

Okay. Uh, the Harbor Commission had a meeting on Tuesday the 17th and that rehashed some of our financials that we had. Um, the a presentation for at our last meeting, uh, two meetings ago rather, the February 4th meeting, meeting them. Um, and we're trying to figure out some of the electric breakdowns of the harbor, uh, the marina area, uh, to figure out how much electric is being used, uh, throughout each area. Uh, we also discussed the fuel prices, heard some concerns from the commercial, uh, boating, uh, you know, commercial boats, the fishing boats, uh, and we're working through, um, some of that with them. what they needed to understand is that some of the um increases we were proposing were for capital funds to then put in reserve to then repair the marina instead of hitting, you know, onetime fees and having put possible large repairs at the marina. Um but we heard their concerns and we're working with them on that. Uh lastly, we had a planning board meeting on um February 9th, which I unfortunately missed. Uh that and that was the final hearing for the Mark bill project uh which is between 6th and 7th along the river road across from Klein's that was approved uh part of the declaratory judgment settlement was 139 units as I spoke of last meeting. Uh coming up planning board is March 4th and we are going to hear the amendment to the housing element and fair share plan which I believe is mostly what we we were just talking about and some other amendments and that's on March 4th board meeting is at 700 p.m.

Thank you uh Councilman. Um I'll join the chorus of thanking Billy and his team. Uh we really appreciate it. Um they kept the firehouses nice and clean as well. Um we did have duty crews at the fire companies as well. So people staying over there so the response was uh still satisfactory. We did have a couple of uh calls. So that was interesting. First time I'd ever driven a fire truck in the snow. Uh that was interesting. So thanks to everybody involved.

And thank you for your service during that time. And of course I I would be remiss if I didn't say thank you also you know that but um you know as as I I knew they would they did a great job. Okay let's move on to then the public session for the resolutions that are on the agenda. If anyone has a comment or question about a resolution on the agenda, please step forward, state your name and address. Okay, seeing none, can I have a motion to close the public session? Motion. Second.

All in favor? I Okay. Can I have a motion to approve the resolutions as listed on the consent agenda? I'll make the motion. Second. Okay. Councilman Donovan, yes. Councilwoman Kenny, yes. Councilman Delasio, yes. Councilman yes. Mayor Buckfusco, yes.

Okay. Um, next is second reading and public hearing on ordinance 20261. This is an ordinance amending chapter 25 setting revised construction permit fees. This is open for public hearing. If anyone would like to comment on this ordinance, please step forward, state your name and address. Okay. Can I have a motion to close the public hearing? Motion. Second. All in favor? I. And can I have a motion to adopt ordinance 20261?

April. Before we do that, Council Delasio is going to have a conflict on this. So, how do you want to handle that? Or just not call his name? I'll just I'll not call his name then. Yeah. Okay. I think that's best. Thanks. Okay. Uh, Councilwoman Donovan, yes. Councilwoman Kenny, yes. Councilman yes. Mayor Buckfusco, yes.

Uh, next we have first reading and introduction on ordinance 2026. This is an ordinance amending chapter 39 affordable housing um to address the requirements of the fair housing act and the uniform housing affordability controls and to comply with the bureau's round four affordable housing obligations. Do we have a motion to offer the ordinance for first reading and introduction? I'll make the motion. Second. Okay. Counciloman Donovan. Yes. Councilwoman Kenny, yes. Councilman Delasio, yes. Councilman Moroni, yes. Mayor Buck Fusco, yes.

Next is ordinance 20263, an ordinance amending chapter 40, article 5, zoning districts of the revised general ordinances. Do we have a motion to um offer this ordinance for first reading and introduction? I'll make a motion. Second. Okay. Counciloman Donovan, yes. Councilman Kenny, yes. Councilman Delasio, yes. Councilman Moroni, yes. Mayor Buckfusco, yes. And then we have ordinance 20264. Is it also an ordinance amending chapter 40, Article 5, zoning districts? Um, do we have a motion to offer this ordinance for first reading and introduction? Motion. Second.

Okay. Councilwoman Donovan, yes. Councilwoman Kenny, yes. Councilman Delasio, yes. Councilman yes. Yes. Mayor Buckesco. Yes.

Okay. Now we're on to the regular public session. If anyone would like to make a comment, please remember to state your name and address first. It's a Friday afternoon. Come up. Claire Hanger. Um I also just want to say thank you to DPW not only for the streets being immaculate. um was out just getting a little bit of extra off. And one of the guys stopped and said, "Um, you okay?" And I said, "I'm good. Just cleaning up a little bit." And they said, "Okay, just want to make sure." And I hate plowing the driveways in, but we have no choice. Which is totally understandable, but it's all clear. And thank you. Have a good weekend.

Thank you. Any other comments? Okay. Can I have a motion to close the public session and adjourn the meeting? Motion. Second. All in favor? I have a good weekend everyone. Yes.