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CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS : : TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED REGULAR MEETING : _ : PROCEEDINGS City Hall 3715 Palisade Avenue Union City, New Jersey Monday, June 30, 2014 Commencing at 8:09 a.m. M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: BRIAN P. STACK, MAYOR LUCIO P. FERNANDEZ, COMMISSIONER MARYURY A. MARTINETTI, COMMISSIONER CELIN J. VALDIVIA, COMMISSIONER TILO E. RIVAS, COMMISSIONER M E M B E R S A B S E N T: A L S O P R E S E N T: DOMINICK CANTATORE, ACTING CITY CLERK SCARINCI HOLLENBECK BY: KARA A. KACZYNSKI, ESQ. BY: MONICA E. de los RIOS, ESQ. Corporation Counsel GREGORY T. FARMER, ESQ. Attorney for the Union City Alcohol Beverage Control Commission  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 ROLL CALL 3 REGULAR AGENDA 4, 6, 7, 8, 11,12, 14 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 15 ADJOURNMENT 15  3 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: This is the Regular 2 Public Meeting of the Union City Board of 3 Commissioner, being held on Monday, June 30th, 4 2014, at eight a.m., in City Hall, 3715 Palisade 5 Avenue, Third Floor Conference Room, Union City, 6 New Jersey. 7 Everyone rise to the Pledge of Allegiance. 8 9 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 10 said.) 11 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: This meeting has been 13 called in accordance with Chapter 231, Public Law 14 of 1975, the Open Public Meeting Act. Adequate 15 notice of this meeting has been provided as 16 follows: 17 Notice of this meeting set forth the time, 18 the date, location, and the agenda, to the extent 19 known, was forwarded to The Jersey Journal, The 20 Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has been posted 21 to bulletin board in City Hall and has been made 22 available to the public in the office of 23 Municipal Clerk. 24 25 ROLL CALL:  4 1 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Roll call. 3 Commissioner Fernandez? 4 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 6 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Here. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 8 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 10 Martinetti? 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 13 MAYOR STACK: Here. 14 15 REGULAR AGENDA: 16 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: On the -- we have six 18 items on the Regular Agenda this morning. 19 First is a Resolution Authorizing Budget 20 Transfer. 21 Second is a Resolution Authorizing the 22 Removal of a Lien on Property Known as 1914 23 Kerrigan Avenue for Relocation Expenses. 24 MS. KACZYNSKI: Mayor? I believe we need 25 to take number 2 off the Regular Agenda and move  5 1 it to a special because we do have one recusal on 2 that one, so we can’t do a general vote. 3 (Whereupon, there was a pause in the 4 proceedings.) 5 MS. KACZYNSKI: Okay, so we are going to 6 vote on each one of these separately? 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Oh, we are? 8 MS. KACZYNSKI: Okay. 9 Yeah, there’s no Consent Agenda; we’re just 10 going to vote on each one separately. So, that’s 11 fine. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay. 13 MS. KACZYNSKI: We can keep it in the order 14 that it is. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: All right. 16 Item 3. 17 Resolution Renewing Plenary Retail 18 Consumption Liquor Licenses. 19 Item 4. 20 Resolution Renewing Plenary Retail 21 Distribution Liquor Licenses. 22 Item 5. 23 Resolution Renewing Limited Retail 24 Distribution Liquor Licenses. 25 Item 6.  6 1 Resolution Renewing Club Liquor Licenses. 2 MS. KACZYNSKI: So we’ll just take each one 3 separately. 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay. 5 6 REGULAR AGENDA: 7 8 1. Resolution Authorizing Budget Transfer 9 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 11 approve item 1 -- 12 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- on the Regular 14 Agenda? 15 Motion made -- 16 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- by Mayor Stack. 18 Second by Commissioner Valdivia. 19 Roll call. 20 Commissioner Valdivia? 21 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 23 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Fernandez? 25 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes with the  7 1 exception of CDA Operations just in case; 2 otherwise, yes. 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: I’m sorry; exception? 4 Okay. 5 MS. KACZYNSKI: CDA Operations. 6 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Okay, yes on 7 everything. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 9 Martinetti? 10 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 12 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 13 14 REGULAR AGENDA: 15 16 2. Resolution Authorizing Removal of a Lien on 17 Property Known as 1914 Kerrigan Avenue for 18 Relocation Expenses 19 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 21 approve item 2? 22 MS. KACZYNSKI: Before there’s a motion, we 23 recommend, Mayor, that Commissioner Martinetti 24 recuse from this item. 25 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Move it.  8 1 MAYOR STACK: Second. 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 3 Commissioner Rivas. 4 Second by Mayor Stack. 5 Roll call. 6 Commissioner Fernandez? 7 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 9 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 11 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Martinetti 13 is recusing. 14 Mayor Stack? 15 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 16 17 REGULAR AGENDA: 18 19 3. Resolution Renewing Plenary Retail 20 Consumption Liquor Licenses 21 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item 3. 23 Resolution Renewing Plenary Retail 24 Consumption Liquor Licenses. 25 Is there a motion?  9 1 MR. FARMER: Mayor, before you move on 2 that, -- 3 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 4 MR. FARMER: -- there are just two things. 5 If you look list there are two licenses 6 that were blocked off. 7 That’s El Cuco who hasn’t complied with 8 some requirements that the Police had requested; 9 but more importantly hasn’t paid the registration 10 fee, so it doesn’t go on at all. 11 And the other one is Manhattan Bar and 12 Grill, the old Spot (phonetic). 13 This was the one where we’ve had some 14 issues with respect to noise, had some 15 disciplinary complaints and we thought that it 16 would be better to deal with that issue at time 17 of renewal because it’s a different standard of 18 proof. 19 So, consequently, that’s not been renewed. 20 I would like to see whether or not we could 21 get a date on that. And a date that I would 22 suggest, respectfully, that the date be a night 23 meeting pretty close to where the bar is located 24 because we’re going to have some citizens, I 25 suspect, coming forward. I’m notifying everybody  10 1 within the 200 foot radius that we’re going to do 2 it. 3 So, if we could pick a day either now or 4 you let me now -- 5 MAYOR STACK: We will. 6 MR. FARMER: Okay. 7 MAYOR STACK: Before we leave today we’ll 8 pick a date. 9 MR. FARMER: Okay, thank you. 10 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 11 MR. FARMER: Other than that, -- 12 MAYOR STACK: So which licenses are not 13 being renewed right now? 14 Just for clarity for the Board. 15 MR. FARMER: El Cuco. 16 MAYOR STACK: Right. 17 MR. FARMER: And Manhattan Bar and Grill. 18 MAYOR STACK: Okay. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion? 20 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 23 Stack. 24 Second; Commissioner Martinetti. 25 Roll call.  11 1 Commissioner Fernandez? 2 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 4 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 6 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 8 Martinetti? 9 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 11 MAYOR STACK: Yeah. Just -- 12 Yes. 13 Just before I do vote on that, what about 14 El Migueleno? 15 MR. FARMER: El Migueleno isn’t on your 16 list. 17 MAYOR STACK: Oh, it’s not on there. 18 MR. FARMER: No. 19 MAYOR STACK: Okay, very good. 20 Okay, yes on all. 21 22 REGULAR AGENDA: 23 24 4. Resolution Renewing Plenary Retail 25 Distribution Liquor Licenses  12 1 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item 4. 3 Resolution Renewing Plenary Retail 4 Distribution Liquor Licenses. 5 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion by Mayor Stack. 7 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Rivas -- 9 Commissioner Rivas. 10 Roll call. 11 Commissioner Fernandez? 12 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 14 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 16 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 18 Martinetti? 19 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 21 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 22 23 REGULAR AGENDA: 24 25 5. Resolution Renewing Limited Retail  13 1 Distribution Liquor Licenses 2 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item 5. 4 Resolution Renewing Limited Retail 5 Distribution Liquor Licenses. 6 Is there a motion? 7 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion by Mayor Stack. 9 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 11 Rivas. 12 Roll call. 13 Commissioner Fernandez? 14 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 16 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 18 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 20 Martinetti? 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 23 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 24 25 REGULAR AGENDA:  14 1 2 6. Resolution Renewing Club Liquor Licenses 3 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item 6. 5 Resolution Renewing -- Renewing Club Liquor 6 Licenses. 7 Is there a motion? 8 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 9 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion by Commissioner 11 Martinetti. 12 Second by Mayor Stack. 13 Roll call. 14 Commissioner Fernandez? 15 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 16 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 17 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 18 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 19 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 21 Martinetti? 22 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 24 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 25  15 1 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 2 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: We have no other items 4 on the agenda. 5 Mayor, would like to take public comment at 6 this time? 7 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 8 Anyone wishing to comment at this time, 9 please step forward, state your name and address 10 for the record. 11 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Seeing none. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Seeing none. 13 MAYOR STACK: Seeing none. 14 15 ADJOURNMENT: 16 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 18 adjourn? 19 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 20 MAYOR STACK: Just before we do, I would 21 just like to take this opportunity to thank 22 Christine -- Christine Vanek for all her work 23 that she’s done on our behalf. She’s on her way 24 to becoming a Superior Court Judge and she’s done 25 an excellent job for the City of Union City and  16 1 we appreciate all her work. 2 MS. VANEK: Thank you, Mayor. 3 MAYOR STACK: Thank you, Christine. 4 MS. VANEK: Thank you. 5 (Applause.) 6 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Good luck to you, 7 Christine. 8 MS. VANEK: Thank you. 9 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: And thank you so much. 10 We really, really appreciate it, -- 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: We’re going to 12 miss you. 13 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: -- your hard work. 14 MS. VANEK: I’ll miss you, too. 15 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: And keep us posted. 16 Keep keeping us posted. 17 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Wish our best, -- 18 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yeah. 19 MS. VANEK: Thank you. 20 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: -- you and your 21 family. 22 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Wish you the best. 23 That’s right. 24 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion to adjourn made  17 1 by Mayor Stack. 2 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 4 Fernandez. 5 Roll call. 6 Commissioner Fernandez? 7 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 9 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 11 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 13 Martinetti? 14 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 16 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 17 Thank you, everyone. 18 19 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 20 at 8:16 a.m.) 21 22 23 24 25  18 1 ________________________ Brian P. Stack 2 ________________________ Lucio P. Fernandez 3 ________________________ Maryury A. Martinetti 4 ________________________ Celin J. Valdivia 5 ________________________ Tilo E. Rivas 6 Board of Commissioners 7 8 Attest: 9 Dominick Cantatore, 10 Acting City Clerk 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  19 1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY: 2 : 3 COUNTY OF ESSEX : 4 5 I, KAREN A. MARINO, assigned transcriber, 6 do hereby affirm that the foregoing is a true and 7 accurate transcript in the matter of the REGULAR 8 MEETING of the UNION CITY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 9 held on Monday, June 30, 2014, and digitally 10 recorded. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Monitored and Proofread by: Deborah Dillon