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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 regarding contract negotiations and litigation.

• Regular session votes include those for budgetary matters, special events, beach wedding applications, worker’s compensation claim settlements, and committee appointments.

• The City Council will vote on a Redeveloper Agreement with Interfaith Neighbors for the development of a 20 to 24-home development on the former Turf Club site along Springwood Avenue. The duplex format would provide homeowners with an adjacent income property. Plans call for the 10 building complex to be developed in phases with each owner occupied home featuring one and two bedroom units.

• The appointment of Morris County-based Phoenix Consulting to assess the city’s fiscal needs, management and operations on an as needed basis. The agreement calls for a $150 per hour rate, not to exceed $10,000 through year’s end.

• An extension of the city’s Stronger NJ Neighborhood and Community Revitalization Streetscape agreement to June 2017 to allow construction completion of the HUD funded boardwalk lighting project.

• The annual renewal of 16 Alcohol Beverage Licenses, some of which come with special conditions that include the hiring of off duty police officer details, sound mitigation and service restrictions.

• A new ordinance clarifying one-way street designations along Fifth and Sunset avenues between Webb Street and Ocean Avenue will be introduced.

• A tax exemption financial agreement for the redevelopment of the Kinmouth Building at 71 Mattison Ave is being pulled. Developer Carter Sackman is no longer interested in financial assistance from the city, officials said during Monday’s Workshop meeting. The project includes 5,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor, 48 residential studios, and its 17,800 square foot live stage Savoy Theater. The project comes with sidewalk and landscaping improvements and at least 48 parking spaces or a $3,000 fee in lieu of each parking space. Project professionals have estimated an 18 month construction timeline.

The public will have the opportunity to ask questions and make comments prior to the final votes for the following ordinances:

• The refunding of a Monmouth County Improvement Authority Bond in order to actuate savings for the $2.25 million bond, of which $1.77 million is currently outstanding; and establishing a handicapped parking spot within the 1300 block of Third Avenue.

• The creation of a program coordinator to manage the city’s Set Aside Program for minority, veteran’s, small business and women’s business enterprises. Guidelines outline a goal of awarding no less than 25 percent of city contracts to minority owned businesses, no less than 10 percent for women-owned businesses. To be eligible, a business must register with the State of New Jersey’s Selective Assistance Vendor Information with the state’s contracting services.

• The Police and Fire Alarm systems regulation to govern equipment, devices or systems that trigger an emergency response call. City residents and business owners will have three warnings before false alarm calls are charged via summons.

• The city’s final vote on changes to its metered parking guidelines are administrative changes and do not affect the previously adopted rates, City Clerk Cindy Dye said.

• A final vote of the new sound mitigation changes relieves downtown businesses without a sound engineer’s report to adhere to previously outlined sound levels between certain hours.

Click here to view the full agenda with supplemental materials.

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