Brant Beach Bulletin
January 19th, 2025
This issue covers the BBTA Winter Speaker Series, tips to avoid frozen pipes, the InVOLve volunteer initiative, suggestions for combating litter, upcoming yard sale dates, two new BBTA trustees, and the January Township Commissioners’ Public Meeting.
❖ Please join us as the Long Beach Island Historical Museum speaks to BBTA and BBYC members on Saturday, February 15 at 10am at the Brant Beach Yacht Club Sailing Center at 6106 Bayview Avenue. The topic will be “Early History of LBI”. The first thirty minutes will feature refreshments and socializing with your neighbors, followed by a one-hour presentation. This event is open only to BBTA and BBYC members. No registration is required. Families are welcome.
❖ Copies of the self-published book “Privateers and Pine Robbers – Coastal New Jersey During the American Revolution”, authored by our excellent January 11 speaker Robert Cobb, a Barnegat resident, are available on Amazon here.
❖ This week’s extreme cold spell is likely to bring frozen pipes and water damage to unprepared houses. All homes – both occupied and unoccupied – should sign up for notifications of water usage spikes from the Township’s free Water Smart app tied to our new water meters. You’ll be notified by text or email of a burst pipe within hours, when damage can be controlled. Sign up at https://longbeachtwpnj.watersmart.com/index.php/welcome. (To find your account number, go here and enter your name.) If your home will be temporarily unoccupied, turn off the water to your entire house using the valve located near your water meter. This way, if a pipe freezes and bursts, only a small amount of water will escape. When you turn the water valve back on, be sure to walk around your home and listen for running water.
❖ Project InVOLve will bring together eighteen local and regional non-profit organizations seeking new volunteers at the Long Beach Island Library in Surf City on Monday, January 20 from 1-4pm. These organizations span a range of interests including community services, history, the environment, human services, first responders and health. They include LBI’s fire and first aid squads, the Long Beach Island Historical Museum, ReClam the Bay, Save Barnegat Bay, Alliance for a Living Ocean, Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, Habitat for Humanity, Rotary Club of LBI, Kiwanis Club, Lighthouse International Film Festival, American Association of University Women, Coastal Volunteers in Medicine, Interfaith Health & Services, Southern Ocean County Animal Rescue, and St. Francis Community Center.
❖ Much of LBI’s winter litter problem is caused by our fierce winds blowing trash from construction sites. Contractors are required to keep their dumpsters covered with tarps and prevent their debris from blowing throughout the neighborhood. To report offenders, call the Township non-emergency number at 609-494-3322. Another source of litter is the plastic stakes and white tags placed by weed control companies. These stakes and tags may be removed by homeowners 72 hours after an herbicide application.
❖ Townwide Yard Sales are scheduled for Saturday, May 24 and Saturday, July 5.
❖ BBTA is pleased to welcome new trustees Rusty Johnson and Joe Pahlow to our Board. They fill the seats of John Fiore and Steve Havelka, who recently left the board after many years of outstanding service to our community. Both will continue to contribute and remain involved as BBTA members.
COMMISSIONERS’ MEETING
Representatives from the Brant Beach Taxpayers Association including Pete Potochney, Mike Fahner, Georgia Glasser, Rusty Johnson, Janis Metz and Donn O’Brien attended the January 13 Long Beach Township Commissioners’ Meeting.
Our three commissioners were re-elected in November and were sworn into office. Their first order of business was to vote to re-affirm Joe Mancini as mayor. The mayor’s young grandson held the Bible during the Oath of Office.
There were no changes to each commissioner’s area of responsibility:
Joseph Mancini, Director of Public Affairs & Safety
Dr. Joseph Lattanzi, Director of Revenue & Finance
Alexander Meehan, Director of Public Works & Water/Sewer.
Ordinances
❖ Proposed On First Reading: First reading ordinances are available by visiting, emailing or telephoning the Township. They are no longer available on the LBT website.
25-01: This annual ordinance is titled “An Ordinance Fixing and Determining the Annual Salaries, Designating Holidays and Providing for Overtime Compensation for Certain Officers and Employees of the Township of Long Beach, County of Ocean, New Jersey.”
❖ Passed On Second Reading:
None.
Thank You For Your Continued Support
