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 ACADEMY FOR ADVANCEMENT AND ENRICHMENT 7 2210 Kerrigan Avenue Union City, New Jersey 8 9 Tuesday, November 21, 2023 Commencing at 7:00 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 BRIAN P. STACK, MAYOR 15 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 16 CELIN J. VALDIVIA, COMMISSIONER 17 18 A L S O P R E S E N T: 19 SCARINCI HOLLENBECK BY: SAMANTHA BLAKE, ESQ. 20 CELIN J. VALDIVIA, COMMISSIONER 21 Corporation Counsel 22 HILDA ROSARIO, 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 4 5 CONSENT AGENDA 4 6 REGULAR AGENDA 12 7 ORDINANCE(S) FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION 13/15/17 8 CITIZENS ADDRESS THE BOARD 19 9 ADJOURNMENT 20 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 MS. ROSARIO: I'm going to start now, 2 I'm going to be recording the meeting. Can we 3 stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. 4 5 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was 6 recited.) 7 8 MS. ROSARIO: Before we start the 9 meeting, we're going to be giving the 10 proclamation, which we already did on 11 November 8th. 12 MAYOR STACK: Thank you very much. 13 14 (Whereupon, the proclamation was 15 accepted.) 16 17 MS. ROSARIO: This is a regular public 18 meeting of the Union City Board of Commissioners 19 being held on Tuesday, November 21st, at 7:00 p.m. 20 at the Academy For Advancement and Enrichment, 21 2210 Kerrigan Avenue in Union City. 22 This meeting has been called in 23 accordance with the Open Public Meeting Act. 24 Adequate notice was forwarded to The Jersey 25 Journal and The Record and has been posted on the  4 1 bulletin board in City Hall and made available to 2 the public in the office of the Municipal Clerk. 3 4 ROLL CALL: 5 6 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Fernandez. 7 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 8 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 9 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Here. 10 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 13 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 14 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia, I'm 15 not sure -- 16 MAYOR STACK: He's on his way, he might 17 be tied up. 18 19 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 20 action on the following items in total: 21 CONSENT AGENDA: 22 ( 1) Resolution Approving the Payment of Claims. 23 ( 2) Resolution Approving the Payment of 24 Concurring Claims. 25 ( 3) Resolution Approving the Escrow Refunds.  5 1 ( 4) Resolution Approving the City Payroll From 2 October 14, 2023, Through October 27, 2023. 3 ( 5) Resolution Approving the Library Payroll 4 From October 14, 2023, Through October 27, 2023. 5 ( 6) Resolution Authorizing Agreement to Pay Real 6 Estate Tax Bills Between the City of Union City 7 Property Known As Block 92, Lot 6. 8 ( 7) Resolution Authorizing Refund of Redemption 9 Monies to Outside Lienholders. 10 ( 8) Resolution Authorizing Payment Plan For 11 Delinquent Taxes. 12 ( 9) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of Premium 13 Monies Collected At the Tax Sale. 14 (10) Resolution Authorizing Increase to Contract 15 For Special Projects Planner Services Service 16 Heyer Gruel and Associates For 2023. 17 (11) Resolution Authorizing Increase to Contract 18 For Planning Consultant Services For Affordable 19 Housing Matters With Heyer Gruel and Associates 20 For 2023. 21 (12) Resolution Authorizing Payment For Emergency 22 Sonotube Installation Services Required At 23 Specified Locations Throughout the City of Union 24 City. 25 (13) Resolution Authorizing Payment For Emergency  6 1 Repairs to the Senior Citizens and Police Parking 2 Lots on 38th Street. 3 (14) Resolution Authorizing the Placement of a 4 Lien on the Property Known As 822 19th Street, 5 Union City, New Jersey 07087, Block 104, Lot 27 in 6 the City of Union City For Emergency Repair Costs. 7 (15) Resolution Authorizing the Placement of a 8 Lien on the Property Known As 822 19th Street, 9 Union City, New Jersey 07087, in Block 104, Lot 27 10 in City of Union City For Emergency Police Detail 11 Costs. 12 (16) Resolution Authorizing the Placement of a 13 Lien on the Property Known As 1902 Kerrigan 14 Avenue, Union City, New Jersey 07087, Block 104, 15 Lot 26 in the City of Union City For Emergency 16 Repair Costs. 17 (17) Resolution Authorizing the Placement of a 18 Lien on the Property Known As 417 43rd Street, 19 Apartment 2F, Union City, New Jersey 07087, Block 20 245, Lot 19 in the City of Union City For 21 Emergency Repair Costs. 22 (18) Resolution Authorizing the Placement of a 23 Lien on the Property Known As 1312 Bergenline 24 Avenue, Union City, New Jersey, 07087 Block 64, 25 Lot 18 in the City of Union City For Emergency  7 1 Repair Costs. 2 (19) Resolution Authorizing the Placement of a 3 Lien on the Property Known As 2200 Bergenline 4 Avenue, Union City, New Jersey, 07087, Block 124, 5 Lot 1 in the City of Union City For Emergency 6 Repair Costs. 7 (20) Resolution Authorizing Contract For 8 Emergency Demolition Services For Cornice At 2200 9 Bergenline Avenue, Union City, New Jersey 07087. 10 (21) Resolution to Authorize Payment to Hutchins 11 HVAC, Inc., For HVAC Repair Services For Leak on 12 Third Floor At Union City City Hall. 13 (22) Resolution Authorizing Preventive 14 Maintenance With Hutchins HVAC, Inc. 15 (23) Resolution Awarding Contract For the City of 16 Union City 2023 Street Sign Replacement Program. 17 (24) Resolution Designating Bergenline Avenue 18 Between 26th Street and 27th Street As "Humberto 19 D. Fragos Way".) 20 21 MS. ROSARIO: There are 24 items on the 22 consent agenda. 23 One, resolution approving the payment of 24 claims. 25 Two, resolution approving the payment of  8 1 concurring claims. 2 Three, resolution approving the escrow 3 refunds. 4 Four, resolution approving the City 5 payroll from October 14, 2023, through October 27, 6 2023. 7 Five, resolution approving the library 8 payroll from October 14, 2023, through October 27, 9 2023. 10 Six, resolution authorizing agreement to 11 pay real estate tax bills between the City of 12 Union City property known as Block 92, Lot 6. 13 Seven, resolution authorizing refund of 14 redemption monies to outside lienholders. 15 Eight, resolution authorizing payment 16 plan for delinquent taxes. 17 Nine, resolution authorizing the refund 18 of premium monies collected at the tax sale. 19 Ten, resolution authorizing increase to 20 contract for special projects planner services 21 service Heyer Gruel and Associates for 2023. 22 Eleven, resolution authorizing increase 23 to contract for planning consultant services for 24 affordable housing matters with Heyer Gruel and 25 Associates for 2023.  9 1 Twelve, resolution authorizing payment 2 for emergency sonotube installation services 3 required at specified locations throughout the 4 City of Union City. 5 Thirteen, resolution authorizing payment 6 for emergency repairs to the senior citizens and 7 police parking lots on 38th Street. 8 Fourteen, resolution authorizing the 9 placement of a lien on the property known as 822 10 19th Street, Union City, New Jersey 07087, Block 11 104, Lot 27 in the City of Union City for 12 emergency repair costs. 13 Fifteen, Resolution authorizing the 14 placement of a lien on the property known as 822 15 19th Street, Union City, New Jersey 07087, in 16 Block 104, Lot 27 in City of Union City for 17 emergency police detail costs. 18 Sixteen, resolution authorizing the 19 placement of a lien on the property known as 1902 20 Kerrigan Avenue, Union City, New Jersey 07087, 21 Block 104, Lot 26 in the City of Union City for 22 emergency repair costs. 23 Seventeen, resolution authorizing the 24 placement of a lien on the property known as 417 25 43rd Street, Apartment 2F, Union City, New Jersey  10 1 07087, Block 245, Lot 19 in the City of Union City 2 for emergency repair costs. 3 Eighteen, resolution authorizing the 4 placement of a lien on the property known as 1312 5 Bergenline Avenue, Union City, New Jersey, 07087 6 Block 64, Lot 18 in the City of Union City for 7 emergency repair costs. 8 Nineteen, resolution authorizing the 9 placement of a lien on the property known as 2200 10 Bergenline Avenue, Union City, New Jersey, 07087, 11 Block 124, Lot 1 in the City of Union City for 12 emergency repair costs. 13 Twenty, resolution authorizing contract 14 for emergency demolition services for cornice at 15 2200 Bergenline Avenue, Union City, New Jersey 16 07087. 17 Twenty-one, resolution to authorize 18 payment to Hutchins HVAC, Inc., for HVAC repair 19 services for leak on third floor at Union City 20 City Hall. 21 Twenty-two, resolution authorizing 22 preventive maintenance with Hutchins HVAC, Inc. 23 Twenty-three, resolution awarding 24 contract for the City of Union City 2023 street 25 sign replacement program.  11 1 Twenty-four, resolution designating 2 Bergenline Avenue between 26th Street and 27th 3 Street as "Humberto D. Fragos Way". 4 Mayor is abstaining on payment to Chasan 5 Lamporello. 6 Mayor, would you like to take public 7 comment on the consent agenda? 8 MAYOR STACK: Sure. Anyone wishing to 9 comment on the consent agenda, please step 10 forward, state your name and address for the 11 record? 12 Seeing none -- is that supposed to be 13 Fragoso? 14 MS. ROSARIO: Is it Fragos? 15 MAYOR STACK: They contacted me, that's 16 why I -- 17 MS. ROSARIO: It's Fragoso? 18 MAYOR STACK: Just to make sure the 19 resolution comes out, it's Fragoso. 20 MS. ROSARIO: It says Fragos. So I'll 21 check it with Lili. 22 MAYOR STACK: Seeing none, motion to 23 close. 24 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 25 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor Stack  12 1 second by Commissioner Fernandez. 2 Commissioner Fernandez. 3 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 5 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 6 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 7 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 8 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 9 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 10 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 11 approve all items on the consent agenda? 12 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 13 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 14 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor 15 Stack, second by Commissioner Martinetti. 16 Commissioner Fernandez. 17 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 19 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 23 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 24 25 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took  13 1 action on the following item: 2 REGULAR AGENDA: 3 1. Resolution approving payment to the HCIA.) 4 5 MS. ROSARIO: There's one item on the 6 regular agenda. Commissioner Martinetti will 7 recuse. 8 Resolution approving payment to the 9 Hudson County Improvement Authority. May I have a 10 motion to approve? 11 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Motion. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by 13 Commissioner Fernandez. 14 MAYOR STACK: Second. 15 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Mayor Stack. 16 Commissioner Fernandez. 17 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 19 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 21 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 22 23 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 24 action on the following item: 25 ORDINANCE(S) FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION  14 1 CONSIDERATION: 2 1. ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 311 OF THE CODE TO 3 REQUIRE PROPERTY OWNERS AND TENANTS TO CLEAN 4 ANIMAL DROPPINGS ORIGINATING FROM THEIR PREMISES.) 5 6 MS. ROSARIO: There are three ordinances 7 for hearing and adoption consideration. 8 One, ordinance to amend Chapter 311 of 9 the code to require property owners and tenants to 10 clean animal droppings originating from their 11 premises. 12 Mayor, would you like to take public 13 comment on this ordinance? 14 MAYOR STACK: Anyone wishing to comment 15 on this ordinance at this time, please step 16 forward. Just important, this has come to us from 17 a lot of residents, that's why we're moving 18 forward on this. 19 MS. ROSARIO: Motion? 20 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 21 MS. ROSARIO: Made by Mayor Stack. 22 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 24 Fernandez. 25 Commissioner Fernandez.  15 1 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 2 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 3 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 6 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 7 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 8 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 9 adopt? 10 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 11 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by 13 Commissioner Martinetti, second by Commissioner 14 Fernandez. 15 Commissioner Fernandez. 16 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 17 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 18 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 19 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 20 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 21 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 22 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 23 24 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 25 action on the following item:  16 1 ORDINANCE(S) FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION 2 CONSIDERATION: 3 2. ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 290 ENTITLED "PARKS 4 AND RECREATION AREAS" TO RESTRICT CERTAIN 5 INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT AND ACTIVITIES.) 6 7 MS. ROSARIO: Second ordinance is 8 ordinance to amend Chapter 290 entitled "parks and 9 recreation areas" to restrict certain 10 inappropriate conduct and activities. 11 Mayor, would you like to take public 12 comment on this ordinance? 13 MAYOR STACK: Sure. Anyone wishing to 14 comment at this time, please step forward, state 15 your name and address for the record? 16 Seeing none, motion. 17 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor 19 Stack, second by Commissioner Fernandez. 20 Commissioner Fernandez. 21 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 23 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 24 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes.  17 1 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 2 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 3 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 4 adopt? 5 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Motion. 6 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 7 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by 8 Commissioner Grullon, second by Commissioner 9 Martinetti. 10 Commissioner Fernandez. 11 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 13 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 14 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 15 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 16 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 17 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 18 19 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 20 action on the following item: 21 ORDINANCE(S) FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION 22 CONSIDERATION: 23 3. ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 220 ENTITLED 24 "BUSINESS, RENTAL PROPERTY AND MULTIFAMILY 25 PROPERTY INSURANCE REGISTRATION".)  18 1 2 MS. ROSARIO: Third ordinance is 3 ordinance amending Chapter 220 entitled "business 4 rental property and multifamily property insurance 5 registration". 6 Mayor, would you like to take public 7 comment? 8 MAYOR STACK: Yes. This exempts the fee 9 for senior citizens? 10 MS. BLAKE: Yes. 11 MAYOR STACK: There would be no fee for 12 senior citizens. 13 Anyone wishing to comment on this 14 ordinance at this time, please step forward and 15 state your name and address for the record. 16 Seeing none, motion to close. 17 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack, 19 second by Commissioner Martinetti. 20 Commissioner Fernandez. 21 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 23 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 24 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes.  19 1 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 2 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 3 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 4 adopt? 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 6 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Second. 7 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Commissioner 8 Martinetti, second by Commissioner Grullon. 9 Commissioner Fernandez. 10 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 11 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 12 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 13 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 14 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 15 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 16 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 17 18 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 19 20 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor, would you like to 21 take public comment on any portion of this 22 meeting? 23 MAYOR STACK: Sure. Anyone wishing to 24 comment on any matter concerning municipal 25 government in the City of Union City, please step  20 1 forward, state your name and address for the 2 record. 3 Seeing none, I'll make a motion to 4 close. 5 MS. ROSARIO: Motion made by Mayor 6 Stack. 7 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 8 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 9 Martinetti. 10 11 ADJOURNMENT: 12 13 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 14 adjourn? 15 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 16 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Second. 17 MS. ROSARIO: All in favor? 18 (All Board Members indicate in the 19 affirmative.) 20 21 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 22 7:12 p.m.) 23 24 25  21 1 Brian P. Stack 2 Lucio P. Fernandez 3 Maryury A. Martinetti 4 Wendy A. Grullon 5 Board of Commissioners 6 7 8 Attest: 9 Samantha Blake, Esq., 10 Corporation Counsel 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  22 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