Board of Commissioners

1 1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY 2 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 3 : REGULAR MEETING : TRANSCRIPT OF 4 : --------------------: PROCEEDINGS 5 6 BRUCE D. WALTER RECREATION CENTER 7 507 West Street Union City, New Jersey 8 9 Tuesday, February 15, 2022 Commencing at 7:06 p.m. 10 11 M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: 12 LUCIO P. FERNANDEZ, COMMISSIONER 13 WENDY A. GRULLON, COMMISSIONER MARYURY A. MARTINETTI, COMMISSIONER 14 CELIN J. VALDIVIA, COMMISSIONER BRIAN P. STACK, MAYOR 15 16 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 17 A L S O P R E S E N T: 18 SCARINCI HOLLENBECK 19 BY: JORGE deARMAS, ESQ. Corporation Counsel 20 GREGORY T. FARMER, ESQ. 21 Attorney for the Union City Alcohol Beverage Control Commission 22 HILDA ROSARIO, Acting City Clerk 23 24 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR 25 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 201-933-8220 SBischoffccr@yahoo.com  2 1 I N D E X 2 PAGE 3 CALL TO ORDER 3 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 4 ROLL CALL 3 5 CONSENT AGENDA 4 6 REGULAR AGENDA 9 7 CITIZENS ADDRESS THE BOARD 13 8 ADJOURNMENT 14 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 2 recited.) 3 4 MR. DeARMAS: This is the regular public 5 meeting of the Union City Board of Commissioners, 6 being held on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, at 7:00 7 p.m. at the Bruce D. Walter Recreation Center, 507 8 West Street, Union City, New Jersey. 9 Notice of this regular meeting has been 10 noted in accordance with Chapter 231 of the Open 11 Public Meetings Act. Adequate notice has been 12 provided to The Jersey Journal, The Record, The 13 Hudson Reporter, placed on the bulletin board in 14 City Hall, and has been made available to the 15 public in the office of the Municipal Clerk. 16 17 ROLL CALL: 18 19 MR. DeARMAS: Roll call. Commissioner 20 Fernandez. 21 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 22 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Grullon. 23 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Here. 24 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Valdivia. 25 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here.  4 1 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Martinetti. 2 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 3 MR. DeARMAS: Mayor Stack. 4 MAYOR STACK: Here. 5 6 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 7 action on the following items in total: 8 CONSENT AGENDA: 9 ( 1) Resolution Approving the Payment of Claims 10 ( 2) Resolution Approving the Payment of 11 Concurring Claims 12 ( 3) Resolution Approving the Payment of 13 Concurring Escrow Refunds 14 ( 4) Resolution Approving the City payroll for 15 the Period 1/15/2022-1/28/2022 16 ( 5) Resolution Approving the Library Payroll for 17 the period 1/15/2022-1/28/2022 18 ( 6) Resolution Cancelling First Quarter Taxes 19 ( 7) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of 20 Redemption Monies to Outside Lienholders 21 ( 8) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of Premium 22 Monies Collected at the Tax Sale 23 ( 9) Resolution Authorizing the Adjustment of 24 Estimated Taxes for the First Quarter 25 (10) Resolution to Appoint Hilda I. Rosario as  5 1 Acting Municipal Clerk 2 (11) Resolution Approving Change Order No. 9 for 3 Contract with AMCO Enterprises, Inc. for Municipal 4 Building HVAC Replacement Project 5 (12) Resolution of the Board of Commissioner of 6 the City of Union City Approving the 2018-2019, 7 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022 Renewal of Liquor 8 License No. 0910-33-021-008 Issued to California 9 Cafe Corp. (Pocket License) 10 (13) Resolution Designating 33rd Street between 11 Palisade Avenue and Hudson Avenue as "Jose Miguel 12 Lugo Way" 13 (14) Resolution Approving Change Order Nos. 2 and 14 3 for Contract with HBC Company, Inc., for Summit 15 Avenue Lighting Improvements Project 16 17 MR. DeARMAS: The consent agenda. 18 Item 1, Resolution Approving the Payment 19 of Claims. 20 Item 2, Resolution Approving the Payment 21 of Concurring Claims. 22 Item 3, Resolution Approving the Payment 23 of Concurrent Escrow Refunds. 24 Item 4, Resolution Approving the City 25 Payroll For the Period January 15th Through  6 1 January 28, 2022. 2 Item 5, Resolution Approving the Library 3 Payroll For the Period January 15th Through 4 January 28, 2022. 5 Item 6, Resolution Cancelling First 6 Quarter Taxes. 7 Item 7, Resolution Authorizing the 8 Refund of Redemption Monies to Outside 9 Lienholders. 10 Item 8, Resolution Authorizing the 11 Refund of Premium Monies Collected at the Tax 12 Sale. 13 Item 9, Resolution Authorizing the 14 Adjustment of Estimated Taxes for the First 15 Quarter. 16 Item 10, Resolution to Appoint Hilda I. 17 Rosario as Acting Municipal Clerk. 18 Item 11, Resolution Approving Change 19 Order No. 9 for Contract with AMCO Enterprises, 20 Inc. for Municipal Building HVAC Replacement 21 Project. 22 Item 12, Resolution of the Board of 23 Commissioner of the City of Union City Approving 24 the 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022 25 Renewal of Liquor License No. 0910-33-021-008  7 1 Issued to California Cafe Corp. (Pocket License) 2 (13) Resolution Designating 33rd Street between 3 Palisade Avenue and Hudson Avenue as "Jose Miguel 4 Lugo Way". 5 Item 14, Resolution Approving Change 6 Order Nos. 2 and 3 for Contract with HBC Company, 7 Inc., for Summit Avenue Lighting Improvements 8 Project. 9 Would the public like to be heard on the 10 Consent Agenda? 11 MAYOR STACK: Is there anybody wishing 12 to comment on the Consent Agenda, please step 13 forward, state your name and address for the 14 record. Seeing none, I'll make a motion. 15 MR. DeARMAS: Motion by Mayor Stack. 16 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 17 MR. DeARMAS: Second by Commissioner 18 Valdivia. Roll call. Commissioner Fernandez. 19 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 20 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Grullon. 21 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 22 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Valdivia. 23 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 24 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Martinetti. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes.  8 1 MR. DeARMAS: Mayor Stack. 2 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 3 MR. DeARMAS: Can I have a motion on the 4 vote to adopt the Consent Agenda? 5 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 6 MR. DeARMAS: Motion by Mayor Stack, 7 second? 8 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 9 MR. DeARMAS: Second by Commissioner 10 Fernandez. Roll call. Commissioner Fernandez. 11 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 12 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Grullon. 13 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 14 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Valdivia. 15 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 16 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Martinetti. 17 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: I'm recusing 18 on any payments to Adolfo Lopez. Aye on the rest. 19 MR. DeARMAS: And you're recusing on 20 North Hudson Regional? 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: And North 22 Hudson Regional. 23 MR. DeARMAS: Mayor Stack. 24 MAYOR STACK: Yes. With the exception 25 of any bills to Chasan, Lamporello, I recuse.  9 1 (Whereupon the Board discussed and took 2 action on the following: 3 REGULAR AGENDA: 4 1. Resolution Ratifying Execution of a Memorandum 5 of Understanding with the State of New Jersey, 6 Director of the Division of Local Government 7 Services for Transitional Aid.) 8 9 MR. DeARMAS: Regular agenda. 10 Item Number 1, resolution ratifying 11 execution of a memorandum of understanding with 12 the State of New Jersey, director of the division 13 of local government services for transitional aid. 14 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 15 MR. DeARMAS: Motion by Mayor Stack. 16 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Second. 17 MR. DeARMAS: Second by Commissioner 18 Grullon. Commissioner Fernandez. 19 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 20 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Grullon. 21 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 22 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Valdivia. 23 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 24 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Martinetti. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes.  10 1 MR. DeARMAS: Mayor Stack. 2 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 3 4 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 5 action on the following: 6 REGULAR AGENDA: 7 2. Resolution Authorizing Payment of Claims for 8 HCIA.) 9 10 MR. DeARMAS: Item number 2 on the 11 regular agenda. Resolution authorizing payment of 12 claims for the HCIA. 13 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 14 MR. DeARMAS: Motion by Commissioner 15 Valdivia. May I have a second? 16 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Second. 17 MR. DeARMAS: Second by Commissioner 18 Grullon. Roll call. Commissioner Fernandez. 19 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 20 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Grullon. 21 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 22 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Valdivia. 23 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 24 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Commissioner 25 Martinetti is abstaining.  11 1 Mayor Stack. 2 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 3 4 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 5 action on the following: 6 REGULAR AGENDA: 7 3. Resolution authorizing payment of claims for 8 Grace Theater Workshop.) 9 10 MR. DeARMAS: Item Number 3, resolution 11 authorizing payment of claims for the Grace 12 Theatre Workshop. 13 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 14 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 15 MR. DeARMAS: Motion by Martinetti, 16 second by Mayor Stack. Commissioner Fernandez, 17 recusal. Commissioner Grullon. 18 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 19 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Valdivia. 20 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 21 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Martinetti. 22 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 23 MR. DeARMAS: Mayor Stack. 24 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 25  12 1 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 2 action on the following: 3 REGULAR AGENDA: 4 4. Resolution of the City of Union City, in the 5 County of Hudson, State of New Jersey, authorizing 6 the participation by the City of Union City, 7 County of Hudson, New Jersey, in the pooled note 8 financing program of the Hudson County Improvement 9 Authority.) 10 11 MR. DeARMAS: Item Number 4, resolution 12 of the City of Union City, in the County of 13 Hudson, State of New Jersey, authorizing the 14 participation by the City of Union City, County of 15 Hudson, New Jersey, in the pooled note financing 16 program of the Hudson County Improvement 17 Authority. 18 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 19 MR. DeARMAS: Motion by Mayor Stack. 20 Second? 21 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Second. 22 MR. AUTERI: Second by Commissioner 23 Grullon. Commissioner Fernandez. 24 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 25 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Grullon.  13 1 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 2 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Valdivia. 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 4 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Martinetti is 5 abstaining. Mayor Stack. 6 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 7 8 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 9 10 MR. DeARMAS: Opportunity for the 11 citizens to address the Board. 12 MAYOR STACK: Sure. Anyone at this 13 point that would like to address the Board of 14 Commissioners, please do so? 15 I'd like to thank the Commissioners once 16 again for moving 100 percent of our meetings 17 throughout the community. This meeting tonight -- 18 and everyone was notified of this from 13th Street 19 south, down to the city line, Palisade to Kennedy 20 Boulevard was notified about this meeting through 21 the mail. 22 At this time, anyone wishing to comment 23 at this time, please step forward, state your name 24 and address for the record. Seeing none. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion.  14 1 MR. DeARMAS: Motion by Commissioner 2 Martinetti. Second? 3 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 4 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Fernandez. 5 Commissioner Fernandez. 6 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 7 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Grullon. 8 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 9 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Valdivia. 10 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 11 MR. DeARMAS: Commissioner Martinetti. 12 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 13 MR. DeARMAS: Mayor Stack. 14 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 15 16 ADJOURNMENT: 17 18 MR. DeARMAS: There's a final item on 19 the agenda for this evening, motion to adjourn. 20 MAYOR STACK: Thank you very much. 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 22 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 23 24 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 25 7:13 p.m.)  15 1 Brian P. Stack 2 Lucio P. Fernandez 3 Maryury A. Martinetti 4 Celin J. Valdivia 5 Wendy A. Grullon 6 Board of Commissioners 7 8 9 Attest: 10 Jorge deArmas, Esq., 11 Corporation Counsel 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  16 1 C E R T I F I C A T E 2 3 4 5 6 I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a 7 true and accurate transcript of the testimony and 8 proceedings as taken stenographically by me at the 9 time, place, and on the date hereinbefore set 10 forth. 11 12 13 14 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR LICENSE NO. 30XI00233700 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25