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 HOUSING AUTHORITY PAVILION 3911 John F. Kennedy Blvd. 7 Union City, New Jersey 8 Tuesday, August 16, 2022 9 Commencing at 7:08 p.m. 10 11 M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: 12 LUCIO P. FERNANDEZ, COMMISSIONER WENDY A. GRULLON, COMMISSIONER 13 MARYURY A. MARTINETTI, COMMISSIONER CELIN J. VALDIVIA, COMMISSIONER 14 BRIAN P. STACK, MAYOR 15 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 16 17 A L S O P R E S E N T: 18 SCARINCI HOLLENBECK BY: ANGELO AUTERI, ESQ. 19 Corporation Counsel 20 RAY GONZALEZ, ESQ. Attorney for the Union City 21 Alcohol Beverage Control Commission 22 23 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR 24 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 201-933-8220 SBischoffccr@yahoo.com 25  2 1 I N D E X 2 PAGE 3 CALL TO ORDER 3 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 4 ROLL CALL 3 5 APPROVAL OF MINUTES 4 6 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION 5 7 CONSENT AGENDA 7 8 REGULAR AGENDA 11 9 CITIZENS ADDRESS THE BOARD 12 10 ADJOURNMENT 13 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 MR. AUTERI: This regular meeting of the 2 Union City Board of Commissioners, being held on 3 Tuesday, August 16, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. at the 4 Housing Authority Hillside Pavilion, 3911 Kennedy 5 Boulevard, Union City, New Jersey. Please stand 6 for the Pledge of Allegiance. 7 8 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was 9 recited.) 10 11 MR. AUTERI: This meeting has been 12 called in accordance with the Open Public Meetings 13 Act. Adequate notice of this meeting has been 14 provided to The Jersey Journal, The Record, The 15 Hudson Reporter, and has been posted on the 16 bulletin board in City Hall and has been made 17 available to the public in the office of the 18 Municipal Clerk. 19 20 ROLL CALL: 21 22 MR. AUTERI: Roll call. Commissioner 23 Fernandez. 24 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 25 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Grullon.  4 1 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Here. 2 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Valdivia. 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 4 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Martinetti. 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 6 MR. AUTERI: Mayor Stack. 7 MAYOR STACK: Here. 8 9 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 10 action on the following item: 11 APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES - REGULAR 12 MEETING - AUGUST 3, 2022.) 13 14 MR. AUTERI: The first item on the 15 agenda is the approval of the meeting minutes for 16 the August 3rd, 2022, Board of Commissioners 17 meeting. May I have a motion to approve the 18 minutes? 19 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 20 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 21 MR. AUTERI: Motion by Commissioner 22 Valdivia, second by Commissioner Martinetti. 23 Commissioner Fernandez. 24 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Abstain. 25 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Grullon.  5 1 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 2 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Valdivia. 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 4 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Martinetti. 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 6 MR. AUTERI: Mayor Stack. 7 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 8 9 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 10 action on the following item: 11 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION: 12 1. ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE XIII, 13 SECTION 65, TO UPDATE THE TABLE OF ORGANIZATION 14 FOR THE UNION CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT.) 15 16 MR. AUTERI: Next on the agenda are 17 ordinances for introduction. Adoption on the 18 first reading authorizes the Municipal Clerk to 19 advertise the Ordinance(s) with a notice of the 20 introduction, together with a notice of the time 21 and place where the ordinance will be considered 22 for final passage. This ordinance will be further 23 considered at a meeting the Board of Commissioners 24 to be held on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, at the 25 Roosevelt School, 4507 Hudson Avenue, Union City,  6 1 New Jersey, at 7:00 p.m. 2 It is an ordinance amending Chapter 4, 3 Article 13, Section 65, to update the table of 4 organization for the Union City Police Department. 5 May I have a motion to introduce? 6 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 7 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 8 MR. AUTERI: Motion by Mayor Stack, 9 second by Commissioner Martinetti. 10 Commissioner Fernandez. 11 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 12 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Grullon. 13 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 14 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Valdivia. 15 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 16 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Martinetti. 17 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 18 MR. AUTERI: Mayor Stack. 19 MAYOR STACK: Yes. All this ordinance 20 will do and I know it's not the hearing yet, but 21 just for everybody's knowledge, all this is 22 ordinance will do is eliminate the rank of 23 inspector in the police department, which is a 24 rank between captain and chief. And instead of 25 having an inspector, now we'll have a fourth --  7 1 instead of having three captains, we'll eliminate 2 the inspector, we'll go to a fourth captain, which 3 will give us a captain in a patrol division seven 4 days a week, we'll have a captain working at the 5 most needed times in the City, additional 6 supervision. 7 MR. AUTERI: Thank you, Mayor. 8 9 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 10 action on the following items in total: 11 CONSENT AGENDA: 12 ( 1) Resolution Approving the Payment of Claims. 13 ( 2) Resolution Approving the Payment of 14 Concurring Claims. 15 ( 3) Resolution Approving the City Payroll 16 07/16/2022 - 07/29/2022. 17 ( 4) Resolution Approving the Library Payroll 18 07/6/2022 - 07/29/2022. 19 ( 5) Resolution Authorizing Refund of Redemption 20 Monies to Outside Lienholders. 21 ( 6) Resolution Authorizing Crediting the Tax 22 Appeal Decisions By the Hudson County Board of 23 Taxation. 24 ( 7) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of Premium 25 Monies Collected At the Tax Sale.  8 1 ( 8) Resolution Authorizing Crediting the Tax 2 Appeal Decisions By the Tax Court of New Jersey. 3 ( 9) Resolution Supporting the Drive Sober Or Get 4 Pulled Over 2022 Statewide Labor Day Crackdown. 5 (10) Resolution Awarding Contract For Television 6 Advertising Services For the City of Union City 7 For 2022-2023.) 8 9 MR. AUTERI: The next item is the 10 consent agenda. There are ten items on the 11 consent agenda. The mayor will be recusing from 12 payments to the law firm Chasan Lamporello. 13 Commissioner Martinetti will be recusing from 14 payments to Adolfo Lopez. 15 Item number one, resolution approving 16 the payment of claims. 17 Two, resolution approving the payment of 18 concurring claims. 19 Three, resolution approving the City 20 payroll, July 16, 2022 to July 29, 2022. 21 Four, resolution approving the library 22 payroll, July 16, 2022 to July 29, 2022. 23 Five, resolution authorizing refund of 24 redemption monies to outside lienholders. 25 Six, resolution authorizing crediting  9 1 the tax appeal decisions by the Hudson County 2 Board of Taxation. 3 Seven, resolution authorizing the refund 4 of premium monies collected at the tax sale. 5 Eight, resolution authorizing the 6 crediting the tax appeal decisions by the Tax 7 Court of New Jersey. 8 Nine, resolution supporting the Drive 9 Sober or Get Pulled Over 2022 statewide labor day 10 crackdown. 11 Ten, resolution awarding contract for 12 television advertising services for the City of 13 Union City for 2022 to 2023. 14 Mayor, at this time, would you like to 15 take public comment on any items on the consent 16 agenda? 17 MAYOR STACK: Yes. Anyone wishing to 18 comment on the consent agenda, the items that were 19 just read into the record, please step forward, 20 state your name and address for the record. 21 Seeing none. 22 MR. AUTERI: Motion to close public 23 comment? 24 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 25 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second.  10 1 MR. AUTERI: Motion by Mayor Stack, 2 second by Commissioner Fernandez. Commissioner 3 Fernandez. 4 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 5 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Grullon. 6 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 7 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Valdivia. 8 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 9 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Martinetti. 10 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 11 MR. AUTERI: Mayor Stack. 12 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 13 MR. AUTERI: Motion to approval all 14 items on the consent agenda? 15 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Motion. 16 MR. AUTERI: Motion by Commissioner 17 Grullon. 18 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 19 MR. AUTERI: Second by Commissioner 20 Fernandez. Commissioner Fernandez. 21 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 22 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Grullon. 23 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 24 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Valdivia. 25 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes.  11 1 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Martinetti. 2 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes, with the 3 exception of Adolfo Lopez, aye on the rest. 4 MR. AUTERI: Thank you. Mayor Stack. 5 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 6 7 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 8 action on the following item: 9 REGULAR AGENDA: 10 11 1. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF CLAIMS - 12 HUDSON COUNTY IMPROVEMENT AUTHORITY.) 13 14 MR. AUTERI: Next is the regular agenda, 15 there's one item. Resolution authorizing payment 16 of claims to the Hudson County Improvement 17 Authority. Commissioner Martinetti is going to 18 recuse on this. May I have a motion to approve 19 item one on the agenda? 20 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 21 MAYOR STACK: Second. 22 MR. AUTERI: Motion by Commissioner 23 Valdivia, second by Mayor Stack. Commissioner 24 Fernandez. 25 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes.  12 1 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Grullon. 2 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 3 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Valdivia. 4 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 5 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Martinetti is 6 recusing. Mayor Stack. 7 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 8 9 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 10 11 MR. AUTERI: There are no further items 12 on the agenda, may I have a motion to take public 13 comment on any matter concerning municipal 14 government in the City of Union City? 15 MAYOR STACK: Sure. Once again, I'd 16 like to thank the Commissioners for moving 17 100 percent of our meetings throughout the 18 community in the evening hours. At this point, 19 this is anyone wishing to comment on any matter 20 concerning municipal government in the City of 21 Union City, please step forward, state your name 22 and address for the record. Anyone wishing to 23 comment at this time, please step forward, state 24 your name and address for the record. Seeing 25 none.  13 1 MR. AUTERI: Can I have a motion to 2 close public comment? 3 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Motion. 4 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 5 MR. AUTERI: Motion by Commissioner 6 Grullon, second by Commissioner Fernandez. 7 Commissioner Fernandez. 8 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 9 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Grullon. 10 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 11 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Valdivia. 12 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 13 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Martinetti. 14 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 15 MR. AUTERI: Mayor Stack. 16 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 17 18 ADJOURNMENT: 19 20 MR. AUTERI: There are no further items 21 on the agenda, may I have a motion to adjourn? 22 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 23 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 24 MR. AUTERI: All in favor? Thank you. 25 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 7:14 p.m.)  14 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 Angelo Auteri, Esq., 11 Corporation Counsel 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  15 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