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The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at City Hall.

A closed executive session will start at 5 p.m., followed by the regular council meeting at 7 p.m.

Public participation takes place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the agenda include:

• Executive session discussions pertaining to contract negotiations with Carter Sackman for the Savoy Theater and Interfaith Neighbors’ redevelopment agreement for the Turf Club along Springwood Avenue.

• The Regular meeting votes include budgetary matters, an agreement with Belle Mead-based Rok Industries to oversee online tax sales for a fee not to exceed $15 per listing, and with Neptune Township for a $6,000 annual appropriation for Wesley Lake improvements.

• There is also a vote to move away from hiring a parking consultant by rejecting bids in order to shift operations to a municipal department head with part-time employee assistance. City Manager Michael Capabianco said the move comes with considerable savings to the municipality and would keep control of the utility in the city’s hands.

• The governing body also will vote on grant applications to help fund the police department’s operations.  The Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control’s Cops in Shops/Summer Shore Initiative Grant helps fund local undercover operations. The Cops Hiring Program grant helps fund police department new hires.  Guidelines limit the minimum term of employment to four years, with the first three years supported by a 75 percent funding of up to $125,000. Capabianco recommends the hiring of 2 new police officers under the program so as to not tax future budgets once financial support ends.

• A vote is also listed for a redeveloper’s agreement with Interfaith Neighbors for its proposed Turf Club affordable home development that would bring owner occupied units configured within five buildings to the Springwood Avenue Redevelopment Area.

• New ordinance introductions include a refunding of general obligation bond in order to accrue savings, changes to the City’s set aside program, property maintenance code, and police and fire regulations. The latter sets a three limit warning on false alarm response before being charged for a call.

• The proposed metered parking regulation is does not change the rules or fees associated with the utility. Municipal clerk Cindy Dye said the changes are administrative cleanups to delete any conflicts in verbiage.

• The public will have the opportunity to ask questions and make comments before the City Council votes on the creation of a one way street and the creation of a handicapped parking spot within the 1200 block of Springwood Avenue.

• Comments and questions can be made prior to the governing body’s vote on a tax exemption financial agreement with Sackman Enterprises for the Savoy Urban Renewal project. The redevelopment plan calls for the refurbishment of the 17,800 square foot Savoy live theater space is and a 5,000 square-foot commercial space on the ground floor of the Kinmonth Building. The plan also calls for the development of 48 studios homes on the upper four floors. The tax emption agreement would remain in effect for up to 25 years. The agreement outlines an estimated annual revenue to the city as $150,000, as opposed to the $25,000 in annual tax revenue.

Click here to view the full agenda with supplemental materials.  

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