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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 FRESHMAN ACADEMY 1800 Summit Avenue 7 Union City, New Jersey 8 Tuesday, July 19, 2022 9 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 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 19 BY: ANGELO AUTERI, ESQ. Corporation Counsel 20 21 HILDA ROSARIO, City Clerk 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 PRESENTATION 4 6 APPROVAL OF MINUTES 9 7 CONSENT AGENDA 10 8 REGULAR AGENDA 26/27 9 CITIZENS ADDRESS THE BOARD 28 10 ADJOURNMENT 29 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 MS. ROSARIO: Good evening. This is a 2 regular meeting of the Union City Board of 3 Commissioners being held on Tuesday, July 19, 4 2022, at 7:00 p.m. at the Jose Marti Freshman 5 Academy, 1800 Summit Avenue. Please stand for the 6 Pledge of Allegiance. 7 8 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 9 recited.) 10 11 MS. ROSARIO: The meeting has been 12 called in accordance with the Open Public Meetings 13 Act, adequate notice has been sent and forwarded 14 to The Jersey Journal, The Record, and The Hudson 15 Reporter, has posted on the bulletin board in City 16 Hall and has been made available to the public in 17 the office of the Municipal Clerk. 18 19 ROLL CALL: 20 21 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Fernandez. 22 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 24 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Here. 25 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia.  4 1 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 2 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 3 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 5 MAYOR STACK: Here. 6 7 SPECIAL PRESENTATION: 8 9 MS. ROSARIO: The first item is a 10 special presentation to Mr. Gregory Farmer. 11 MAYOR STACK: Just before we read the 12 presentation and Commissioner Fernandez presents 13 it, I'd just like to thank Greg. I've known Greg 14 for many, many years, since I was a young guy, I'm 15 not young anymore. But I've always had a great 16 relationship with Greg, I consider him a friend. 17 But most importantly, he's been an outstanding 18 attorney and municipal ABC prosecutor. No one 19 single handedly -- and I said this to Mrs. 20 Farmer -- has helped more in the City of Union 21 City to clean up. We had some real bad liquor 22 establishments when I came in as the mayor. And 23 nobody stood by me more than Greg did over the 24 last 21 years to help me clean up these places. 25 We closed so many of these bad places, we took  5 1 cases to the appellate division, to the Supreme 2 Court. I remember Studio 45, we had that case 3 going on forever. And we were victorious. And 4 thanks to Greg, he's helped me tremendously in 5 cleaning up the quality of life in the community. 6 It was much different when we took over, and Greg 7 could tell you, 21 years ago and the way it is 8 today in Union City. Some of these places, we had 9 to babysit on a daily basis, be out there at 3:00 10 in the morning. We rolled the hours back from 11 3:00 in the morning to 2:00, the liquor owners 12 told me that the sky would fall if we did that, 13 everything seemed to work out at the end. It 14 actually helped the police to do more proactive 15 patrolling. We really, really cleaned it up. 16 I'm in total debt to Greg for what's 17 he's done for this City. Whatever he's made as 18 the municipal ABC prosecutor should have been 19 tripled for what he's done to help us. And I'm 20 sorry to see him go. I tried to convince him to 21 stay. He's done a tremendous job. And on behalf 22 of the commissioners and myself, I say thank you 23 so much for what you did during the most difficult 24 times in the City to help us clean up a lot of 25 these bad establishments. Thank you for the  6 1 dedication, the late hours, some of the character 2 attorneys that we dealt with over the years, 3 without mentioning names, Greg and I know well. 4 One of them is our favorite. I remember we had a 5 meeting one night until almost 1:00 in the 6 morning. Those are tough times and the 7 Commissioners will remember that. Those were 8 really tough times. 9 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes, he was 10 here, Mrs. Farmer. Yes, he was. 11 MAYOR STACK: I just say Greg, thank you 12 and thank you to your family. We're going to miss 13 you, don't be a stranger, keep in touch with me, 14 please. I know your phone number by heart, I do. 15 And thank you for everything, Greg. 16 Thank you sincerely from the bottom of my heart. 17 Thank you. 18 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: As much as I'm 19 honored to be presenting this to you, I'm also 20 very saddened because you're a great attorney, 21 you're a great person, but most of all you're a 22 true gentleman. And I really hate to see you go, 23 sir. It's been a great pleasure knowing and you 24 work with you here at the ABC board. 25 On behalf of the Mayor and the Board of  7 1 Commissioners, we'd like to present to you this 2 plaque. Congratulations, sir. 3 4 (Commissioner Fernandez read the 5 plaque.) 6 7 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: I'm going to 8 read a proclamation. Before reading the 9 proclamation, I thank you for everything you've 10 done for the City of Union City. And my wife 11 works at the courthouse, she's a secretary for 12 Judge Montenegro and she loves Mr. Farmer, right, 13 Mr. Farmer? They got the same respect for each 14 other, they both like each other a lot. I didn't 15 know you were going to retire, I would have 16 brought her. 17 MR. FARMER: I'm having a conference 18 with her Thursday. 19 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: I just want to 20 say thank you for your service and I remember 21 going to your office on 30th Street, we were there 22 in your office. Also like the mayor said, a 23 phenomenal attorney for the City. Thank you for 24 your help and thank to you to your family for 25 sharing him with us because he's been amazing.  8 1 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Thank you very 2 much for your dedication and what you've done. 3 We're going to miss you. I wish you all the best. 4 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: I'm going to 5 read the proclamation now. 6 7 (Commissioner Valdivia read the 8 proclamation.) 9 10 MR. FARMER: Thank you very much and I 11 was thinking about what I would say today. I 12 realized after thinking long and hard that it came 13 down to two words, thank you. Thank you for your 14 kindness, thank you for your generosity, thank you 15 for your support, thank you for your loyalty, 16 thank you for your comradery, and thank you for 17 always making me feel comfortable and supported. 18 I could not have done any of the things without 19 your help, your support. 20 And as was mentioned, I've been in 21 Union City 50 years and I've seen the changes. 22 Without a doubt, the City is in better shape than 23 it's ever been at any time, but also the support 24 of the committee and you're always out meeting and 25 greeting people and always doing one thing and  9 1 that is making Union City better. And you've 2 accomplished that and you still keep going to make 3 it better and better and better. You've done a 4 wonderful job and I thank you for all those years. 5 6 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 7 action on the following item: 8 APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES - REGULAR MEETINGS - 9 JUNE 30, 2022 AND JULY 6, 2022.) 10 11 MS. ROSARIO: Motion to approve the 12 minutes for the June 30th and the July 6, 2022 13 Board of Commissioners meetings. 14 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 15 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack. 16 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 17 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 18 Fernandez. Commissioner Fernandez. 19 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 21 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 23 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 24 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes, for  10 1 June 30th and abstain for July 6th. 2 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 3 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 4 5 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 6 action on the following items in total: 7 CONSENT AGENDA: 8 ( 1) Resolution Approving the Payment of Claims. 9 ( 2) Resolution Approving the Payment of 10 Concurring Claims. 11 ( 3) Resolution Approving the City Payroll 12 06/18/2022 - 07/01/2022. 13 ( 4) Resolution Approving the Library Payroll 14 06/18/2022 - 07/01/2022. 15 ( 5) Resolution Authorizing Refund of Redemption 16 Monies to Outside Lienholders. 17 ( 6) Resolution Cancelling Abatement Taxes. 18 ( 7) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of Premium 19 Monies Collected At the Tax Sale. 20 ( 8) Resolution to Cancel Tax Sale Certificate 21 22-00035 Block 48, Lot 26 C0001 - 414 10th Street 22 ( 9) Resolution Lowering Interest Rate on 3rd 23 Quarter Taxes and Abatements 24 (10) Resolution Authorizing an Increase to the 25 Contract With Gregory T. Farmer, Esq., For  11 1 Alcoholic Beverage Control Prosecutor Services For 2 2021-2022. 3 (11) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 4 Contract For Alcoholic Beverage Control Prosecutor 5 of the City of Union City For 2022-2023. 6 (12) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 7 Contract For Accounting Services With Business 8 Accounting Service LLC 2022-2023. 9 (13) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 10 Contract For Auditing and Accounting Services For 11 2022-2023. 12 (14) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 13 Contract For Arborist Services For the City of 14 Union City For 2022-2023. 15 (15) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 16 Contract For Architectural Services For the City 17 of Union City For 2022-2023. 18 (16) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 19 Contract For Bond Counsel For the City of Union 20 City For 2022-2023. 21 (17) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 22 Contract For Special Construction Code Litigation 23 Counsel Services For 2022-2023. 24 (18) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 25 Contract For Corporation Counsel For the City of  12 1 Union City For 2022-2023. 2 (19) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 3 Contract For General Engineering Services For the 4 City of Union City For 2022-2023. 5 (20) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 6 Contract For Engineering Services For the 7 Community Development Agency For 2022-2023. 8 (21) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 9 Contract For Substitute General Engineering 10 Services For the City of Union City For 2022-2023. 11 (22) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 12 Contract For Special General Counsel For the City 13 of Union City For 2022-2023. 14 (23) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 15 Contract For General Counsel For the City of Union 16 City Community Development Agency For 2022-2023. 17 (24) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 18 Contract For Open Space and Green Acres Grants 19 Consultant For 2022-2023. 20 (25) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 21 Contract For Planning Board Counsel For the City 22 of Union City to Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, 23 Jacobs, LLC, For 2022-2023 24 (26) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 25 Contract For Planning Consultant For Affordable  13 1 Housing Matters For 2022-2023. 2 (27) Resolution Authorizing the Award of 3 Contracts For Substitute Public Defender For 4 2022-2023. 5 (28) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 6 Contract For Public Defender For 2022-2023. 7 (29) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 8 Contract For Interpreter Services For 2022-2023. 9 (30) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 10 Contract For Webmaster Services With AlphaDog 11 Solutions For 2022-2023. 12 (31) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 13 Contract For Labor Counsel For the City of Union 14 City With O'Toole, Scrivo For 2022-2023. 15 (32) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 16 Contract For Personnel Consultant With Jason 17 Michael Consultants For 2022-2023. 18 (33) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 19 Contract For Planning and Zoning Board Consultant 20 Services For 2022-2023. 21 (34) Resolution Authorizing the Award For 22 Community Development Agency Planning Consultant 23 For 2022-2023. 24 (35) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 25 Contract For Planning Consultants For Land Use  14 1 Ordinance For 2022-2023. 2 (36) Resolution to Award a Contract For Police 3 Physician Services. 4 (37) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 5 Contract For Recording and Transcription Services 6 For Union City Boards With Susan Bischoff, CCR For 7 2022-2023. 8 (38) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 9 Contract For Special Counsel Services 2022-2023. 10 (39) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 11 Contract For Special Counsel Redevelopment 12 Services 2022-2023. 13 (40) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 14 Contract For Counsel For the Rent Stabilization 15 Board With Marotta & Garvey For 2022-2023. 16 (41) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 17 Contract For Special Hearing Officer Services For 18 the City of Union City For 2022-2023. 19 (42) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 20 Contract For Special Projects Planner Services For 21 the City of Union City For 2022-2023. 22 (43) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 23 Contract For Special Tax Appeal Counsel Services 24 2022-2023. 25 (44) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a  15 1 Contract For Tax Appeal Expert Services For the 2 City of Union City For 2022-2023. 3 (45) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 4 Contract For Zoning Board of Adjustment Counsel 5 For the City of Union City For 2022-2023. 6 (46) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 7 Contract For Substitute Municipal Court 8 Prosecutor. 9 (47) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 10 Contract For Feral Cat Spaying and Neutering 11 Services For the City of Union City. 12 (48) Resolution Authorizing the Depositories For 13 the City of Union City. 14 (49) Resolution Awarding the 41st Street Soccer 15 Field and Park Improvements Project. 16 (50) Resolution Authorizing the City of Union 17 City Union City to Enter Into the Hudson County 18 Cooperative Pricing System. 19 (51) Resolution Approving the Cash Management 20 Plan. 21 (52) Approval to Submit a Grant Application and 22 Execute a Grant Contract With the New Jersey 23 Department of Transportation For the New York Ave, 24 Summit Ave, Central Ave, 15th St, 22nd St, and 25 43rd St Bikeways Project.  16 1 (53) Resolution Authorizing the Use of Grant 2 Funds For the 4100 Palisade Avenue Acquisition 3 Project. 4 (54) Resolution Authorizing the Awarding of a 5 Raffle License (to Holy Cross Armenian Church) 6 (55) Resolution to Authorize Bidding For the 7 Provision of Street Paint and Related Services For 8 2022-2023. 9 (56) Resolution to Authorize Bidding For the Auto 10 Mechanic and Auto Repair Services For 2022-2023. 11 (57) Resolution to Authorize Bidding For 12 Locksmith Services For 2022-2023. 13 (58) Resolution to Authorize Bidding For the 14 Provision of Auto Parts and Related Equipment. 15 (59) Resolution Approving the 2022-2023 Renewal 16 of Sol Chicken, Inc. (T/a Sol Chicken Inc.) Liquor 17 License No. 0910-33-126-007. 18 (60) Resolution Approving the 2022-2023 Renewal 19 of Ganesh Swami Inc. (T/a Union Liquors) Liquor 20 License No. 0910-44-132-009.) 21 22 MS. ROSARIO: Thank you. There are 60 23 items on the consent agenda. 24 One, Resolution Approving the Payment of 25 Claims.  17 1 Two, Resolution Approving the Payment of 2 Concurring Claims. 3 Three, Resolution Approving the City 4 Payroll 06/18/2022 - 07/01/2022. 5 Four, Resolution Approving the Library 6 Payroll 06/18/2022 - 07/01/2022. 7 Five, Resolution Authorizing Refund of 8 Redemption Monies to Outside Lienholders. 9 Six, Resolution Cancelling Abatement 10 Taxes. 11 Seven, Resolution Authorizing the Refund 12 of Premium Monies Collected At the Tax Sale. 13 Eight, Resolution to Cancel Tax Sale 14 Certificate 22-00035 Block 48, Lot 26 C0001 - 414 15 10th Street. 16 Nine, Resolution Lowering Interest Rate 17 on 3rd Quarter Taxes and Abatements. 18 Ten, Resolution Authorizing an Increase 19 to the Contract With Gregory T. Farmer, Esq., For 20 Alcoholic Beverage Control Prosecutor Services For 21 2021-2022. 22 Eleven, Resolution Authorizing the Award 23 of a Contract For Alcoholic Beverage Control 24 Prosecutor of the City of Union City Union City 25 For 2022-2023.  18 1 Twelve, Resolution Authorizing the Award 2 of a Contract For Accounting Services With 3 Business Accounting Service LLC 2022-2023. 4 Thirteen, Resolution Authorizing the 5 Award of a Contract For Auditing and Accounting 6 Services For 2022-2023. 7 Fourteen, Resolution Authorizing the 8 Award of a Contract For Arborist Services For the 9 City of Union City Union City For 2022-2023. 10 Fifteen, Resolution Authorizing the 11 Award of a Contract For Architectural Services For 12 the City of Union City Union City For 2022-2023. 13 Sixteen, Resolution Authorizing the 14 Award of a Contract For Bond Counsel For the City 15 of Union City Union City For 2022-2023. 16 Seventeen, Resolution Authorizing the 17 Award of a Contract For Special Construction Code 18 Litigation Counsel Services For 2022-2023. 19 Eighteen, Resolution Authorizing the 20 Award of a Contract For Corporation Counsel For 21 the City of Union City Union City For 2022-2023. 22 Nineteen, Resolution Authorizing the 23 Award of a Contract For General Engineering 24 Services For the City of Union City Union City For 25 2022-2023.  19 1 Twenty, Resolution Authorizing the Award 2 of a Contract For Engineering Services For the 3 Community Development Agency For 2022-2023. 4 Twenty-one, Resolution Authorizing the 5 Award of a Contract For Substitute General 6 Engineering Services For the City of Union City 7 Union City For 2022-2023. 8 Twenty-two, Resolution Authorizing the 9 Award of a Contract For Special General Counsel 10 For the City of Union City Union City For 11 2022-2023. 12 Twenty-three, Resolution Authorizing the 13 Award of a Contract For General Counsel For the 14 City of Union City Union City Community 15 Development Agency For 2022-2023. 16 Twenty-four, Resolution Authorizing the 17 Award of a Contract For Open Space and Green Acres 18 Grants Consultant For 2022-2023. 19 Twenty-five, Resolution Authorizing the 20 Award of a Contract For Planning Board Counsel For 21 the City of Union City Union City to Cleary, 22 Giacobbe, Alfieri, Jacobs, LLC, For 2022-2023. 23 Twenty-six, Resolution Authorizing the 24 Award of a Contract For Planning Consultant For 25 Affordable Housing Matters For 2022-2023.  20 1 Twenty-seven, Resolution Authorizing the 2 Award of Contracts For Substitute Public Defender 3 For 2022-2023. 4 Twenty-eight, Resolution Authorizing the 5 Award of a Contract For Public Defender For 6 2022-2023. 7 Twenty-nine, Resolution Authorizing the 8 Award of a Contract For Interpreter Services For 9 2022-2023. 10 Thirty, Resolution Authorizing the Award 11 of a Contract For Webmaster Services With AlphaDog 12 Solutions For 2022-2023. 13 Thirty-one, Resolution Authorizing the 14 Award of a Contract For Labor Counsel For the City 15 of Union City Union City With O'Toole, Scrivo For 16 2022-2023. 17 Thirty-two, Resolution Authorizing the 18 Award of a Contract For Personnel Consultant With 19 Jason Michael Consultants For 2022-2023. 20 Thirty-three, Resolution Authorizing the 21 Award of a Contract For Planning and Zoning Board 22 Consultant Services For 2022-2023. 23 Thirty-four, Resolution Authorizing the 24 Award For Community Development Agency Planning 25 Consultant For 2022-2023.  21 1 Thirty-five, Resolution Authorizing the 2 Award of a Contract For Planning Consultants For 3 Land Use Ordinance For 2022-2023. 4 Thirty-six, Resolution to Award a 5 Contract For Police Physician Services. 6 Thirty-seven, Resolution Authorizing the 7 Award of a Contract For Recording and 8 Transcription Services For Union City Boards With 9 Susan Bischoff, CCR For 2022-2023. 10 Thirty-eight, Resolution Authorizing the 11 Award of a Contract For Special Counsel Services 12 2022-2023. 13 Thirty-nine, Resolution Authorizing the 14 Award of a Contract For Special Counsel 15 Redevelopment Services 2022-2023. 16 Forty, Resolution Authorizing the Award 17 of a Contract For Counsel For the Rent 18 Stabilization Board With Marotta & Garvey For 19 2022-2023. 20 Forty-one, Resolution Authorizing the 21 Award of a Contract For Special Hearing Officer 22 Services For the City of Union City Union City For 23 2022-2023. 24 Forty-two, Resolution Authorizing the 25 Award of a Contract For Special Projects Planner  22 1 Services For the City of Union City Union City For 2 2022-2023. 3 Forty-three, Resolution Authorizing the 4 Award of a Contract For Special Tax Appeal Counsel 5 Services 2022-2023. 6 Forty-four, Resolution Authorizing the 7 Award of a Contract For Tax Appeal Expert Services 8 For the City of Union City Union City For 9 2022-2023. 10 Forty-five, Resolution Authorizing the 11 Award of a Contract For Zoning Board of Adjustment 12 Counsel For the City of Union City Union City For 13 2022-2023. 14 Forty-six, Resolution Authorizing the 15 Award of a Contract For Substitute Municipal Court 16 Prosecutor. 17 Forty-seven, Resolution Authorizing the 18 Award of a Contract For Feral Cat Spaying and 19 Neutering Services For the City of Union City 20 Union City. 21 Forty-eight, Resolution Authorizing the 22 Depositories For the City of Union City Union 23 City. 24 Forty-nine, Resolution Awarding the 40th 25 Street Soccer Field and Park Improvements Project.  23 1 MAYOR STACK: Just on that one, there's 2 one correction, it should be 41st. It's just a 3 technical on the agenda, that's all. 4 MS. ROSARIO: Okay, 41st Street. 5 Fifty, Resolution Authorizing the City 6 of Union City Union City Union City to Enter Into 7 the Hudson County Cooperative Pricing System. 8 Fifty-one, Resolution Approving the Cash 9 Management Plan. 10 Fifty-two, Approval to Submit a Grant 11 Application and Execute a Grant Contract With the 12 New Jersey Department of Transportation For the 13 New York Ave, Summit Ave, Central Ave, 15th St, 14 22nd St, and 43rd St Bikeways Project. 15 Fifty-three, Resolution Authorizing the 16 Use of Grant Funds For the 4100 Palisade Avenue 17 Acquisition Project. 18 Fifty-four, Resolution Authorizing the 19 Awarding of a Raffle License (to Holy Cross 20 Armenian Church). 21 Fifty-five, Resolution to Authorize 22 Bidding For the Provision of Street Paint and 23 Related Services For 2022-2023. 24 Fifty-six, Resolution to Authorize 25 Bidding For the Auto Mechanic and Auto Repair  24 1 Services For 2022-2023. 2 Fifty-seven, Resolution to Authorize 3 Bidding For Locksmith Services For 2022-2023. 4 Fifty-eight, Resolution to Authorize 5 Bidding For the Provision of Auto Parts and 6 Related Equipment. 7 Fifty-nine, Resolution Approving the 8 2022-2023 Renewal of Sol Chicken, Inc. (T/a Sol 9 Chicken Inc.) Liquor License No. 0910-33-126-007. 10 Sixty, Resolution Approving the 11 2022-2023 Renewal of Ganesh Swami Inc. (T/a Union 12 Liquors) Liquor License No. 0910-44-132-009. 13 Mayor, would you like to take public 14 comment on the consent agenda? 15 MAYOR STACK: Sure. Thank you, Clerk. 16 Anyone wishing to comment on the consent agenda, 17 please step forward, state name and address for 18 record? Seeing none, I'll make the motion to 19 close public comment. 20 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 21 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack 22 second by Commissioner Fernandez. 23 Commissioner Martinetti will recuse from 24 the Adolfo Lopez payments. 25 Commissioner Fernandez.  25 1 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 2 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 3 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 4 MR. AUTERI: We need to take a motion to 5 approve all items on the consent agenda. 6 MS. ROSARIO: Oh, I'm sorry. Motion to 7 approve all items on the consent agenda? 8 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 9 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Commissioner 10 Valdivia. 11 MAYOR STACK: Second. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Mayor Stack. 13 Commissioner Fernandez. 14 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 15 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 16 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 17 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 18 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 19 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 20 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Recusing on 21 payment to Adolfo Lopez payments, aye on the rest. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Thank you. Mayor Stack. 23 MAYOR STACK: Yes on all, except 24 anything to do with the Lamporello firm. 25 MS. ROSARIO: Yes, there was no payments  26 1 in this one. 2 MAYOR STACK: Okay, good. 3 4 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 5 action on the following item: 6 REGULAR AGENDA: 7 1. Resolution of claim to Grace Theatre 8 Workshop, Inc.) 9 10 MS. ROSARIO: There's two items on the 11 regular agenda. Resolution of Claim to Grace 12 Theatre Workshop, Incorporated. 13 MAYOR STACK: I'll move. 14 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 15 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack, 16 second by Commissioner Martinetti. Commissioner 17 Fernandez is recusing. 18 Commissioner Grullon. 19 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 21 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 23 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 24 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 25 MAYOR STACK: Yes.  27 1 MS. ROSARIO: Thank you. 2 3 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 4 action on the following item: 5 REGULAR AGENDA: 6 2. Resolution authorizing the 7 submission of an FY23 municipal aid grant 8 application and execution of a grant contract with 9 the New Jersey Department of Transportation.) 10 11 MS. ROSARIO: The second item is a 12 resolution authorizing the submission of a fiscal 13 year '23 municipal aid grant application and 14 execution of a grant contract with the New Jersey 15 Department of Transportation. 16 Motion to approve item 2 on the regular 17 agenda? 18 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 19 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Commissioner 20 Valdivia, second? 21 MAYOR STACK: Second. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Mayor Stack. 23 Commissioner Fernandez. 24 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 25 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon.  28 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 Those are grants that we're seeking for 9 various streets in the community for repaving and 10 sidewalks. 11 12 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 13 14 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor, would you like to 15 take public comment on any portion of this 16 meeting? 17 MAYOR STACK: Yes. Anyone wishing to 18 comment on any matter concerning municipal 19 government in the City of Union City, please step 20 forward. I would just like to thank the 21 Commissioners once again for moving 100 percent of 22 our meetings throughout the community to every 23 neighborhood in the community in the evening 24 hours. 25 Anyone wishing to comment at this time,  29 1 please step forward, state your name and address 2 for the record. Seeing none. 3 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 4 close this portion of the meeting? 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 6 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 7 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Commissioner 8 Martinetti, second by Commissioner Valdivia. 9 Commissioner Fernandez. 10 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 11 MS. ROSARIO: 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 ADJOURNMENT: 21 22 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 23 adjourn this meeting? 24 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 25 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Commissioner  30 1 Martinetti. 2 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 3 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 4 Valdivia. 5 6 (All Commissioners indicate in the 7 affirmative.) 8 9 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 10 7:25 p.m.) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  31 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  32 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