Officers and Directors present were President Joe Marcianti, 1st V.P. Lach Cameron, Treasurer Alice Bass, Recording Secretary Celeste Brockwell, and Corresponding Secretary Pamela Boright. Absent were Directors Lil Buirkle and Pat Hoffman.

The minutes and treasurer's report were accepted as read.

The audit report of LVT was read and accepted.

Correspondence:

John Paff, advocate for Open Government, confirmed that he will speak at the LVT meeting on Friday, June 15, 2007.

The Planning Board responded to LVT's letter requesting information about the planning board activities. The Planning Board said that LVT can send a representative to their meetings and request a copy of their minutes.

LVT Treasurer Alice Bass met with Chris Parlow Borough Administrator, Councilman Bob Lamb and Citizen Bill Kinney due to concerns about the reduced revenue received last summer on our beaches and to discuss methods to increase revenue.

Alice felt that Councilman Lamb was not receptive to opening the beaches for Memorial Day weekend as other surrounding towns have done. Memorial Day weekend was a big source of income for surrounding towns as reported by Alice Bass following her inquiry into neighboring beach communities.

Lavallette has 28 beach openings. Closing every other beach opening (14 of them) and having checkers at alternate beach openings were also a concern. Would this have an adverse affect on renters not wanting to be inconvenienced? Bill Kinney also felt that the DEP should be contacted to see if there were any issues with them that needed to be addressed as a result of this potential plan to close alternate beach access ways. Another suggestion was to have beach checkers only on weekends at every beach opening. The committee plans to meet again.

The criteria and application for the three $500 scholarships offered by LVT will be released to the Ocean Star, The Asbury Park Press and The Observer and posted on our website lvtnj.org The application deadline is April 27th.

The rebuilding of the Boardwalk continues with the goal of completing it to Philadelphia Ave. The use of DPW employees and laborers hired specifically to work on the Boardwalk has been a huge savings to the taxpayers.

An ordinance pertaining to lot size on West Point Island was introduced on first reading and passed by a vote of 4-1. The purpose of the ordinance was to prevent subdivisions that would reduce lot sizes and cram more houses into smaller areas.

Some concerns with the proposed ordinances were the potential for creating hardships for people who own property that would have to apply for variances for future construction, possible restrictions on building as a result of natural disasters and some corner lots that may be adversely affected by the ordinance.

The second and final reading of this ordinance will take place at the council meeting of March 26th at 7 p.m. at Borough Hall.

The Planning Board will not meet until after the Special Election. Presently they have a quorum, but if someone is unable to attend, there is no quorum.

• Unanimous approval of $300 per year to Bob Holland to update LVT's website.
• The by-laws committee will meet again before presenting amendments to the LVT Executive Board and to the membership.
• Ideas to memorialize LVT founder Ralph Gorga were discussed such as creating a permanent yearly LVT scholarship in his name. It was voted unanimously to have the by-laws committee establish this permanent scholarship in Ralph's name and present it in the amended by-laws.
• Unanimous approval of appointment of Ann Gorga and Amy Siperstein to serve as Directors to LVT.
• By-laws committee was asked to also amend by-laws to establish alternate Directors to better insure that quorum of Officers and Directors will be present.
• The special election for Mayor will be March 13th. The cost to the local taxpayers could be $7,000-$10,000.
• Alice Bass was complimented for her research on beach revenues. Councilman Ardito felt that we could have beach checkers on every block and it would be effective.