With the official start of summer still a ways off, talk in Surf City, at least some of it, has turned toward the fall and a possible new kite festival that would be site-specific to the borough.

“We realized we needed to have some further information to allow us to make a fully informed decision,” Councilman Peter Hartney said at the borough council’s May 14 meeting, where the issue came up for the second consecutive month. “We requested the information and are in the process of collecting it.”