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 JOSE MARTI STEM ACADEMY 1800 Summit Avenue 7 Union City, New Jersey 8 Tuesday, July 25, 2023 9 Commencing at 7:00 p.m. 10 11 M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: 12 WENDY A. GRULLON, COMMISSIONER MARYURY A. MARTINETTI, COMMISSIONER 13 CELIN J. VALDIVIA, COMMISSIONER BRIAN P. STACK, MAYOR 14 15 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 16 LUCIO P. FERNANDEZ, COMMISSIONER 17 A L S O P R E S E N T: 18 SCARINCI HOLLENBECK 19 BY: ANGELO AUTERI, ESQ. Corporation Counsel 20 21 HILDA ROSARIO, City Clerk 22 23 24 SUSAN BISCHOFF, CCR, RPR 449 Columbia Blvd., Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075 25 201-933-8220 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 PROCLAMATION 4 6 MINUTES 4 7 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION 5 8 CONSENT AGENDA 7 9 REGULAR AGENDA 24/25/26 10 ORDINANCE(S) FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION 27/29 11 CITIZENS ADDRESS THE BOARD 31 12 LIQUOR LICENSE PUBLIC HEARINGS n/a 13 ADJOURNMENT 32 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 MS. ROSARIO: Please stand to salute the 2 flag. 3 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was 4 recited.) 5 MS. ROSARIO: This is a regular public 6 meeting the Union City Board of Commissioners 7 being held on Tuesday, July 25th at the Jose Marti 8 Stem Academy at 1800 Summit Avenue in Union City. 9 The meeting has been called in accordance with the 10 Open Public Meetings Act. Adequate notice was 11 forwarded to The Jersey Journal and The Record, 12 has been posted on the bulletin board in the City 13 Hall and made available to the public in the 14 office of the Municipal Clerk. 15 16 ROLL CALL: 17 18 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 19 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Here. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 21 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 23 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 24 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 25 MAYOR STACK: Here.  4 1 MR. AUTERI: Commissioner Fernandez is 2 absent. 3 MS. ROSARIO: Thank you. 4 5 PROCLAMATION: 6 7 MS. ROSARIO: The first item is the 8 proclamation to November 2023 as transgender 9 awareness month. 10 11 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 12 action on the following item: 13 APPROVAL OF MINUTES:) 14 15 MS. ROSARIO: Second item on the agenda 16 is the approval of minutes. Motion to approve 17 meeting minutes for the July 11, 2023, Board of 18 Commissioners meeting, motion to approve? 19 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by 21 Commissioner Martinetti. 22 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 24 Valdivia. 25 Commissioner Grullon.  5 1 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 2 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 6 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 7 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 8 9 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 10 action on the following item: 11 ORDINANCE FOR INTRODUCTION: 12 1. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 171 13 ENTITLED "FIRE PREVENTION" RESTRICTING OPEN 14 BURNING THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF UNION CITY.) 15 16 MS. ROSARIO: The next item is the 17 ordinance for introduction. Adoption on first 18 reading authorizes the municipal clerk to 19 advertise the ordinance with a notice of the 20 introduction, together with a notice of the time 21 and place when the ordinance will be considered 22 for final passage. The ordinance will be further 23 considered at meeting of the Board of 24 Commissioners to be held on Tuesday, August 8, 25 2023, at the Robert Waters School, 2800 Summit  6 1 Avenue in Union City. 2 The first item is an ordinance amending 3 Chapter 171 entitle "fire prevention" restricting 4 open burning throughout the City of Union City. 5 May I have a motion to introduce? 6 MAYOR STACK: I'll make a motion. This 7 is important because this would be any type of, 8 Angelo, you can correct me, restriction on fire 9 pits and things like that, also on top of roofs in 10 the City, which is a big concern. It was brought 11 to my attention by the construction code official 12 that the boards may be approving some of this and 13 it's very dangerous to have a fire on the roof of 14 the building. If something happens, the amount of 15 danger to the residents that live in the building 16 and the surrounding area. I don't know if you 17 wanted to add anything? 18 MR. AUTERI: That's right on the mark, 19 Mayor. And this ordinance in particular will 20 amend our prior open flame ordinance to specify 21 that the rooftop won't be allowed for any kind of 22 charcoal or open flame burning. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor 24 Stack, second by Commissioner Martinetti. 25 Commissioner Grullon.  7 1 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 2 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 6 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 7 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 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 Escrow Refunds. 16 ( 4) Resolution Approving the City Payroll From 17 6/17/2023 Through 6/30/2023. 18 ( 5) Resolution Approving the Library Payroll 19 From 6/17/2023 Through 6/30/2023. 20 ( 6) Resolution Authorizing Adjustment of Taxes. 21 ( 7) Resolution Cancelling Taxes on Property 22 Deemed Exempt For 100 Percent Disabled Veteran. 23 ( 8) Resolution Authorizing Refund of Redemption 24 Monies to Outside Lienholders. 25 ( 9) Resolution Cancelling Overbills on Third  8 1 Quarter Taxes. 2 (10) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of Premium 3 Monies Collected At the Tax Sale 4 (11) Resolution Authorizing Increase to Contract 5 For Special Counsel Services With Chasan, 6 Lamparello Mallon & Cappuzzo, PC. 7 (12) Resolution Re-Appointing Member to the Union 8 City Library Board of Trustees. 9 (13) Resolution Approving Kennedy Ng As Rent 10 Regulation Officer For the City of Union City For 11 2022-2023 12 (14) Resolution Appointing Kennedy Ng As Rent 13 Regulation Officer For the City of Union City For 14 2023 Through 2024. 15 (15) Resolution Rescinding Lien Imposed on the 16 Property Known As 402 Mountain Road, Union City, 17 Block 182, Lot 6 For Emergency Repair Costs. 18 (16) Resolution Authorizing Purchase of Ford 19 Transit Passenger Wagon From Union City Board of 20 Education. 21 (17) Resolution to Approve Grant Application With 22 the NJ DOT For 2024 37th Street (Park Avenue to 23 Hudson, New York Avenue to Bergenline Avenue and 24 Hudson Avenue to Palisade Avenue) and 38th Street 25 (New York Avenue to Bergenline Avenue) Roadway  9 1 Improvement Projects. 2 (18) Resolution Authorizing Payment to Z-Tech 3 Contracting, LLC, For Emergency Repair Services to 4 Firefighters Memorial Park. 5 (19) Resolution Authorizing Payment to Treatment 6 Specialties/Mer-Made Filter For Emergency Repair 7 Services to Firefighters Memorial Park Splash Pad. 8 (20) Resolution Amending Reso 07/11-15 to 9 Authorize Increase to Payment to Adamo Brothers 10 Construction, Incorporated, For Firefighters 11 Memorial Park Splash Pad Repair Services. 12 (21) Resolution Authorizing Contract For County 13 Services For the City of Union City For 2023. 14 (22) Resolution Authorizing Contract For Alcohol 15 Beverage Control Prosecutor Service For the City 16 of Union City For 2023. 17 (23) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 18 Contract For the Arborist Services For the City of 19 Union City For 2023. 20 (24) Resolution Awarding Contract For the 21 Architectural Services For the City of Union City 22 For 2023. 23 (25) Resolution Awarding Contracts For 24 Architectural Services CDA For the City of Union 25 City For 2023.  10 1 (26) Resolution Authorizing the Award of Contract 2 For Auditing and Accounting Services For 2023. 3 (27) Resolution Authorizing the Award of Contract 4 For Bond Counsel Services For the City of Union 5 City For 2023. 6 (28) Resolution Authorizing the Award of 7 Contracts For Special Construction Code Litigation 8 Counsel For 2023. 9 (29) Resolution the Award of Contract For 10 Corporation Counsel Services For the City of Union 11 City For 2023. 12 (30) Resolution Authorizing the Award of Contract 13 For General Counsel For the City of Union City 14 Community Development Agency For 2023. 15 (31) Resolution Authorizing the Award of 16 Contractor of Green Acres Open Space Grant 17 Consultant Services For 2023. 18 (32) Resolution Authorizing Contracts For General 19 Engineering Services For the City of Union City 20 For 2023. 21 (33) Resolution Authorizing the Award of 22 Contracts For Substitute General Engineering 23 Services For the City of Union City For 2023. 24 (34) Resolution Authorizing the Award of 25 Contracts For Engineering Services For the City of  11 1 Union City Community Development Agency For 2023. 2 (35) Resolution Authorizing the Contract For IT 3 Webmaster Services For the City of Union City For 4 2023. 5 (36) Resolution Awarding Contract For the 6 Interpreter Services For the City of Union City 7 For 2023. 8 (37) Resolution Authorizing Contract For Labor 9 Counsel Services For the City of Union City For 10 2023. 11 (38) Resolution Authorizing the Award of Contract 12 For Personnel Consulting Services For the City of 13 Union City For 2023. 14 (39) Resolution Authorizing Contract For Planning 15 Board Counsel Services For the City of Union City 16 For 2023. 17 (40) Resolution Authorizing Contract For the City 18 of Union City Community Development Agency 19 Planning Consultant Services For 2023. 20 (41) Resolution Authorizing the Contract For 21 Planning Consultant Services For Affordable 22 Housing Matters For the City of Union City For 23 2023. 24 (42) Resolution to Award a Contract For Police 25 Physician Services For the Union City Police  12 1 Department For 2023. 2 (43) Resolution Authorizing Contract For Special 3 Counsel Services For the City of Union City For 4 2023. 5 (44) Resolution Authorizing Contract For Special 6 Hearing Officer Services For the City of Union 7 City For 2023. 8 (45) Resolution Awarding Contracts Special 9 Projects Planner Services For the City of Union 10 City For 2023. 11 (46) Resolution Authorizing Contract For Special 12 Redevelopment Counsel Services For 2023. 13 (47) Resolution Awarding For Transcription 14 Services For the City of Union City For 2023. 15 (48) Resolution Awarding Contract For Tax Appeal 16 Services For the City of Union City For 2023. 17 (49) Resolution Awarding Contracts For Tax Appeal 18 Special Counsel Services For the City of Union 19 City For 2023. 20 (50) Resolution Authorizing Contract For Planning 21 and Zoning Board Consultant Services For 2023. 22 (51) Resolution Authorizing the Contract For 23 Zoning Board of Adjustment Counsel Services For 24 the City of Union City For 2023. 25 (52) Resolution Appointing Member of the Union  13 1 City Housing Authority. 2 (53) Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of 3 the City of Union City Approving 2023-2024 Renewal 4 of Liquor License No. 0910-33-055-005 Issued to 5 Juana Y Gloria Restaurant, LLC, (T/a Juana and 6 Gloria Restaurant). 7 (54) Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of 8 the City of Union City Approving the 2023-2024 9 Renewal of Liquor License No. 0910-33-210-006 10 Issued to Arturo Tepetitla Popoca (Pocket 11 License). 12 (55) Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of 13 the City of Union City Approving the 2023-2024 14 Renewal of Liquor License No. 0910-44-124-006 15 Issued to Downtown Liquor Store, Incorporated (T/a 16 Downtown Liquor Store). 17 (56) Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of 18 the City of Union City Approving the 2023-2024 19 Renewal of Liquor License No. 0910-33-128-004 20 Issued to Griffin Concepts, LLC (T/a Fork Hill 21 Kitchen). 22 23 MS. ROSARIO: There are 56 items on the 24 consent agenda. 25 One, resolution approving the payment of  14 1 claims. 2 Two, resolution approving the payment of 3 concurring claims. 4 Three, resolution approving the escrow 5 refunds. 6 Four, resolution approving the city 7 payroll from 6/17/2023 through 6/30/2023. 8 Five, resolution approving the library 9 payroll from 6/17/2023 through 6/30/2023. 10 Six, resolution authorizing adjustment 11 of taxes. 12 Seven, resolution cancelling taxes on 13 property deemed exempt for 100 percent disabled 14 veteran. 15 Eight, resolution authorizing refund of 16 redemption monies to outside lienholders. 17 Nine, resolution cancelling overbills on 18 third quarter taxes. 19 Ten, resolution authorizing the refund 20 of premium monies collected at the tax sale 21 Eleven, resolution authorizing increase 22 to contract for special counsel services with 23 Chasan, Lamparello Mallon & Cappuzzo, PC. 24 Twelve, resolution re-appointing member 25 to the Union City Library Board of Trustees.  15 1 Thirteen, resolution approving Kennedy 2 Ng as rent regulation officer for the City of 3 Union City for 2022-2023. 4 Fourteen, resolution appointing Kennedy 5 Ng as rent regulation officer for the City of 6 Union City for 2023 through 2024. 7 Fifteen, resolution rescinding lien 8 imposed on the property known as 402 Mountain 9 Road, Union City, Block 182, Lot 6 for emergency 10 repair costs. 11 Sixteen, resolution authorizing purchase 12 of Ford Transit passenger wagon from Union City 13 Board of Education. 14 MAYOR STACK: This is a brand new -- 15 this is a brand new vehicle that Board of 16 Education had purchased, that Tony Vergona had 17 mentioned to me and the Board of Ed couldn't use 18 it as a school bus, so it's a smaller van, a 19 passenger van, brand new. I may even have a 20 picture in my phone, it's 58,000. We're going to 21 buy it exactly from the Board of Ed for what the 22 Board of Ed purchased it. It's got zero miles on 23 it and we'll probably put that in the senior 24 citizens department, which will be helpful when 25 the senior citizens have to be transported.  16 1 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: It's a very nice 2 van. 3 MAYOR STACK: And it's a low step van, 4 which is good for senior citizens to get in and 5 out, very good. It's a smaller van. When they go 6 to Shop Rite, stuff like that, we'll have a second 7 or third one. We've beefed it up, so we have 8 plenty of vehicles, not like where we had before 9 with the broken down vehicles we were dealing with 10 for a long time. The fleet now overall in the 11 City is better than what's it's ever been. 12 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: I've driven one. 13 MAYOR STACK: How many passengers? 14 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Fifteen. The 15 senior citizens will be less than that because 16 they need more room and all that. 17 MS. ROSARIO: Seventeen, resolution to 18 approve grant application with the NJ DOT for 2024 19 37th Street (Park Avenue to Hudson, New York 20 Avenue to Bergenline Avenue and Hudson Avenue to 21 Palisade Avenue) and 38th Street (New York Avenue 22 to Bergenline Avenue) roadway improvement 23 projects. 24 Eighteen, resolution authorizing payment 25 to Z-Tech Contracting, LLC, for emergency repair  17 1 services to Firefighters Memorial Park. 2 MAYOR STACK: Just to go back to number 3 17. This would be doing streetscape on 37th 4 Street, between Park Avenue and Hudson Avenue by 5 the shelter and in that whole block, that would be 6 new sidewalks, new street, and tree planting. 7 Then we would be doing 38th Street from New York 8 Avenue to Bergenline. So we'll be paving this 9 year, Hudson to Palisade, Palisade to New York, 10 and we would continue that from New York Avenue to 11 Bergenline on 38th Street. 12 And then also, we would also do 37th 13 Street would also get paved this year, which we're 14 doing between Palisade and New York Avenue. And 15 we would also be doing 37th Street between New 16 York and Bergenline Avenue. So the whole area 17 would be done around that neighborhood. And 18 that's extra money that we had on a grant that we 19 did very well on the last bid. It was much lower 20 than what we anticipated, so we did an LTIF 21 application and that's what we want to do, 22 transfer that money over. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Nineteen, resolution 24 authorizing payment to Treatment 25 Specialties/Mer-Made Filter for emergency repair  18 1 services to Firefighters Memorial Park splash pad. 2 Twenty, resolution amending reso 3 07/11-15 to authorize increase to payment to Adamo 4 Brothers Construction, Incorporated, for 5 Firefighters Memorial Park splash pad repair 6 services. 7 Twenty-one, resolution authorizing 8 contract for county services for the City of Union 9 City for 2023. 10 Twenty-two, resolution authorizing 11 contract for alcohol beverage control prosecutor 12 service for the City of Union City for 2023. 13 Twenty-three, resolution authorizing the 14 award of a contract for the arborist services for 15 the City of Union City for 2023. 16 Twenty-four, resolution awarding 17 contract for the architectural services for the 18 City of Union City for 2023. 19 Twenty-five, resolution awarding 20 contracts for architectural services CDA for the 21 City of Union City for 2023. 22 Twenty-six, resolution authorizing the 23 award of contract for auditing and accounting 24 services for 2023. 25 Twenty-seven, resolution authorizing the  19 1 award of contract for bond counsel services for 2 the City of Union City for 2023. 3 Twenty-eight, resolution authorizing the 4 award of contracts for special construction code 5 litigation counsel for 2023. 6 Twenty-nine, resolution the award of 7 contract for corporation counsel services for the 8 City of Union City for 2023. 9 Thirty, resolution authorizing the award 10 of contract for general counsel for the City of 11 Union City community development agency for 2023. 12 Thirty-one, resolution authorizing the 13 award of contractor of green acres open space 14 grant consultant services for 2023. 15 Thirty-two, resolution authorizing 16 contracts for general engineering services for the 17 City of Union City for 2023. 18 Thirty-three, resolution authorizing the 19 award of contracts for substitute general 20 engineering services for the City of Union City 21 for 2023. 22 Thirty-four, resolution authorizing the 23 award of contracts for engineering services for 24 the City of Union City community development 25 agency for 2023.  20 1 Thirty-five, resolution authorizing the 2 contract for IT webmaster services for the City of 3 Union City for 2023. 4 Thirty-six, resolution awarding contract 5 for the interpreter services for the City of Union 6 City for 2023. 7 Thirty-seven, resolution authorizing 8 contract for labor counsel services for the City 9 of Union City for 2023. 10 Thirty-eight, resolution authorizing the 11 award of contract for personnel consulting 12 services for the City of Union City for 2023. 13 Thirty-nine, resolution authorizing 14 contract for planning board counsel services for 15 the City of Union City for 2023. 16 Forty, resolution authorizing contract 17 for the City of Union City community development 18 agency planning consultant services for 2023. 19 Forty-one, resolution authorizing the 20 contract for planning consultant services for 21 affordable housing matters for the City of Union 22 City for 2023. 23 Forty-two, resolution to award a 24 contract for police physician services for the 25 Union City Police Department for 2023.  21 1 Forty-three, resolution authorizing 2 contract for special counsel services for the City 3 of Union City for 2023. 4 Forty-four, resolution authorizing 5 contract for special hearing officer services for 6 the City of Union City for 2023. 7 Forty-five, resolution awarding 8 contracts special projects planner services for 9 the City of Union City for 2023. 10 Forty-six, resolution authorizing 11 contract for special redevelopment counsel 12 services for 2023. 13 Forty-seven, resolution awarding for 14 transcription services for the City of Union City 15 for 2023. 16 Forty-eight, resolution awarding 17 contract for tax appeal services for the City of 18 Union City for 2023. 19 Forty-nine, resolution awarding 20 contracts for tax appeal special counsel services 21 for the City of Union City for 2023. 22 Fifty, resolution authorizing contract 23 for planning and zoning board consultant services 24 for 2023. 25 Fifty-one, resolution authorizing the  22 1 contract for zoning board of adjustment counsel 2 services for the City of Union City for 2023. 3 Fifty-two, resolution appointing member 4 of the Union City Housing Authority. 5 Fifty-three, resolution of the Board of 6 Commissioners of the City of Union City approving 7 2023-2024 renewal of liquor license No. 8 0910-33-055-005 issued to Juana Y Gloria 9 Restaurant, LLC, (t/a Juana and Gloria 10 Restaurant). 11 Fifty-four, resolution of the Board of 12 Commissioners of the City of Union City approving 13 the 2023-2024 renewal of liquor license no. 14 0910-33-210-006 issued to Arturo Tepetitla Popoca 15 (pocket license). 16 Fifty-five, resolution of the Board of 17 Commissioners of the City of Union City approving 18 the 2023-2024 renewal of liquor license no. 19 0910-44-124-006 issued to Downtown Liquor Store, 20 Incorporated (t/a Downtown Liquor Store). 21 Fifty-six, resolution of the Board of 22 Commissioners of the City of Union City approving 23 the 2023-2024 renewal of liquor license no. 24 0910-33-128-004 issued to Griffin Concepts, LLC 25 (t/a Fork Hill Kitchen).  23 1 Mayor abstains on payment to Chasan, 2 Lamparello and Mallon. Commissioner Martinetti 3 recuses from Adolfo Lopez and mayor recuses from 4 Item Number 11 for Chasan Lamparello. 5 Mayor, at this time, would you like to 6 take public comment on the consent agenda? 7 MAYOR STACK: Sure. Anyone wishing to 8 comment on the consent agenda that was just read 9 into the record, please step forward, state your 10 name and address for the record. Seeing none. 11 Motion. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor 13 Stack. 14 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 15 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 16 Valdivia. 17 Commissioner Grullon. 18 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 19 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 20 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 21 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 22 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Abstain on the 23 items mentioned, aye to the rest. 24 MS. ROSARIO: And Mayor Stack. 25 MAYOR STACK: Yes. All except Chasan  24 1 Lamparello. 2 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 3 approve all items on the consent agenda? 4 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 5 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 6 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack, 7 second by Commissioner Valdivia. 8 Commissioner Grullon. 9 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 10 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 11 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 13 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 14 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 15 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 16 17 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 18 action on the following item: 19 REGULAR AGENDA: 20 1. Resolution on payments to Grace 21 Theater.) 22 23 MS. ROSARIO: There's three items on the 24 regular agenda. One resolution on payments to 25 Grace Theatre. May I have a motion to approve  25 1 Item 1 on the regular agenda? 2 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 3 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Second. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by 5 Commissioner Valdivia, second by Commissioner 6 Grullon. 7 Commissioner Grullon. 8 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 9 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 10 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 11 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 12 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 13 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 14 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 15 16 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 17 action on the following item: 18 REGULAR AGENDA: 19 2. Resolution on payment to HCIA.) 20 21 MS. ROSARIO: The second item is 22 resolution approving payment to the Hudson County 23 Improvement Authority. 24 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 25 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Second.  26 1 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor Stack 2 second by Commissioner Grullon. 3 Commissioner Grullon. 4 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 5 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 6 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 7 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 8 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 9 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti 10 recusing for that one. 11 12 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 13 action on the following item: 14 REGULAR AGENDA: 15 3. Resolution approving legislative 16 grant for FY23 budget operations.) 17 18 MS. ROSARIO: The next item is 19 resolution approving the legislative grant for the 20 fiscal year 2023 budget operations. May I have a 21 motion to approve Item 3 on the regular agenda? 22 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by 24 Commissioner Martinetti. 25 MAYOR STACK: Second.  27 1 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Mayor Stack. 2 Commissioner Grullon. 3 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 5 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 6 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 7 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 8 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 9 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 10 11 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 12 action on the following item: 13 ORDINANCE(S) FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION 14 CONSIDERATION: 15 1. An ordinance authorizing the City of 16 Union City to revert to a calendar fiscal year 17 from a state fiscal year.) 18 19 MS. ROSARIO: There are two ordinances 20 for hearing and adoption consideration. 21 Number one is an ordinance authorizing 22 the City of Union City to revert to a calendar 23 fiscal year from a state fiscal year. 24 Mayor, would you like to take public 25 comment on this ordinance?  28 1 MAYOR STACK: All this will do is 2 instead of us operating July 1st to June 30th 3 fiscal year, we'll now operate January 1st to 4 December 31st. Anyone wishing to comment on this 5 ordinance at this time, please step forward, state 6 your name and address for the record? Seeing 7 none, motion. 8 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack. 9 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 10 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 11 Martinetti. 12 Commissioner Grullon. 13 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 14 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 15 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 16 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 17 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 19 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 20 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 21 adopt? 22 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by 24 Commissioner Martinetti. 25 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second.  29 1 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 2 Valdivia. 3 Commissioner Grullon. 4 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 5 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 6 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 7 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 8 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 9 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 10 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 11 12 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 13 action on the following item: 14 ORDINANCE(S) FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION 15 CONSIDERATION: 16 2. An ordinance to amend Chapter 296 17 entitled "Peace and Good Order", to create a new 18 Article IV entitled "All Terrain Vehicles, Dirt 19 Bikes and Snowmobiles".) 20 21 MS. ROSARIO: The second ordinance is an 22 ordinance to amend Chapter 296 entitled "peace and 23 good order" to create a new article IV entitled, 24 "All Terrain Vehicles, Dirt Bikes and 25 Snowmobiles".  30 1 MAYOR STACK: Angelo, you want to give 2 an explanation on this one? 3 MR. AUTERI: Sure, Mayor. 4 So this ordinance will prohibit all 5 terrain vehicles, dirt bikes, and snowmobiles from 6 being driven on the City roads. But in addition 7 to that, it also prohibits gas station attendants 8 from filling gas in unregistered vehicle. It also 9 prohibits storage facilities from allowing storage 10 of unregistered vehicles. 11 MAYOR STACK: Excellent. 12 MR. AUTERI: So that's all in an effort 13 to keep these vehicles, which are really not fit 14 for city driving on the roads. 15 MAYOR STACK: Exactly. Anyone wishing 16 to comment on this ordinance at this time? Seeing 17 none. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack. 19 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 21 Valdivia. 22 Commissioner Grullon. 23 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 24 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 25 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes.  31 1 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 2 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 3 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 4 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 5 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 6 adopt? 7 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 8 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 9 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor 10 Stack, second by Commissioner Martinetti. 11 Commissioner Grullon. 12 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 13 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 14 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 15 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 16 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 17 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 18 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 19 20 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 21 22 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor, would you like to 23 take public comment at this meeting? 24 MAYOR STACK: Yes. Anyone wishing to 25 comment on any matter concerning municipal  32 1 government in the City of Union City, please step 2 forward, state your name and address for the 3 record? Seeing none. 4 I'd like to thank everyone for coming to 5 the meeting. And thank the Commissioners for 6 moving 100 percent of our meetings around the 7 community. 8 Motion to close. 9 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor 10 Stack. 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 13 Martinetti. 14 Commissioner Grullon. 15 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 16 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 17 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 19 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 21 MAYOR STACK: Yes. Thanks, everyone. 22 23 ADJOURNMENT: 24 25 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to  33 1 adjourn? 2 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 3 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack and 5 second by Commissioner Martinetti. All in favor? 6 (Whereupon, all Board Members indicate 7 in the affirmative.) 8 9 10 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 11 7:19 p.m.) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  34 1 Brian P. Stack 2 Maryury A. Martinetti 3 Celin J. Valdivia 4 Wendy A. Grullon 5 Board of Commissioners 6 7 8 Attest: 9 Angelo Auteri, Esq., 10 Corporation Counsel 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  35 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