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CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS : : TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED REGULAR MEETING : _ : PROCEEDINGS Saint Anthony School 700 Central Avenue Union City, New Jersey Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Commencing at 7:01 p.m. M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: BRIAN P. STACK, MAYOR 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: LUCIO P. FERNANDEZ, COMMISSIONER A L S O P R E S E N T: DOMINICK CANTATORE, ACTING CITY CLERK SCARINCI HOLLENBECK BY: MONICA E. de los RIOS, ESQ. Corporation Counsel DOUGLAS GUTCH, City Treasurer  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 ROLL CALL 4 APPROVAL OF MINUTES 4 CONSENT AGENDA 5 REGULAR AGENDA 24,25 27 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 28 ADJOURNMENT 29  3 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: This is a Regular 2 Public Meeting of the Union City Board of 3 Commissioner, being held on Tuesday, August 19, 4 2014, at seven p.m., at Saint Anthony School, 700 5 Central Avenue, Union City, New Jersey. 6 Everybody please rise for the Pledge of 7 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 setting forth the 18 time, date, location, and the agenda, to the 19 extent known, was forwarded to The Jersey 20 Journal, The Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has 21 been posted on the bulletin board in City Hall 22 and has been made available to the public in the 23 office of Municipal Clerk. 24 25 ROLL CALL:  4 1 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Roll call. 3 Commissioner Fernandez is absent. 4 Commissioner Rivas? 5 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Here. 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 7 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 9 Martinetti? 10 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 12 MAYOR STACK: Here. 13 14 APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES OF JULY 15, 15 2014 AND AUGUST 5, 2014: 16 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: First item is approval 18 of previous meeting minutes, -- 19 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Move it. 20 MAYOR STACK: Second. 21 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- meeting held on July 22 15, 2014 and August 5th, 2014, be approved and 23 recorded. 24 Motion made by Commissioner Rivas. 25 Second by Mayor Stack.  5 1 Commissioner Fernandez; absent. 2 Commissioner Valdivia? 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 5 Martinetti? 6 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 8 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 9 10 CONSENT AGENDA: 11 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 for 16 the Period of July 30, 2014 through August 12, 17 2014 18 ( 4) Resolution Approving the Library Payroll 19 for the Period of July 30, 2014 through August 20 12, 2014 21 ( 5) Resolution Supporting the Members of 22 1199SEIU 23 ( 6) Resolution Designating Loading Zone in the 24 City of Union City, Located at 3133-3139 Central 25 Avenue  6 1 ( 7) Resolution to Authorize Bus Shelter in the 2 City of Union City at 43rd Street and Park Avenue 3 ( 8) Resolution Authorizing the Execution of a 4 Contract with Care Point Health Medical Group for 5 the Provision of Athletic Medical Examinations 6 for Children Participating in Recreation Programs 7 for the City of Union City 8 ( 9) Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 9 of the California Café Liquor License No. 10 0910-33-021, Located at 2002 Bergenline Avenue 11 (10) Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 12 of the El Chapin Corp. Liquor License No. 13 0910-33-075, Located at 2118 Bergenline Avenue 14 (11) Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 15 of the A/C Corp. Liquor License No. 0910-33-149, 16 Located at 414-38th Street 17 (12) Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 18 of the How About Life, Liquor License No. 19 0910-33-115, Located at 4215 Park Avenue 20 (13) Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 21 of the Pebble Beach Inc., Liquor License No. 22 0910-33-157, Located at 8000 Kennedy Blvd. 23 (14) Resolution Awarding Raffles License to the 24 Holy Cross Armenian Church, Located at 318-27th 25 Street  7 1 (15) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 2 Contract for Accounting Services 3 (16) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 4 Contract for Auditing and Accounting Services 5 (17) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 6 Contract for Planning and Zoning Consultant 7 Services 8 (18) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 9 Contract for General Engineering Services 10 (19) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 11 Contract for General Engineering Services for the 12 Community Development Agency 13 (20) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 14 Contract for Architectural Services 15 (21) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 16 Contract for Architectural Services for the 17 Community Development Agency 18 (22) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 19 Contract for Substitute Public Defender 20 (23) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 21 Contract for Personnel Consulting Services 22 (24) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 23 Contract for Recording and Transcription Services 24 (25) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 25 Contract for a Federal and State Grant Consultant  8 1 (26) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 2 Contract for the Municipal Court Prosecutors 3 (27) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 4 Contract of Green Acres & Open Space Funding 5 (28) Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 6 Contract for the Substitute Municipal Prosecutors 7 (29) Resolution Authorizing the Clerk to 8 Advertise and Accept Bids for Cleaning Equipment 9 & Supplies 10 (30) Resolution Authorizing the Clerk to 11 Advertise and Accept Bids for Poly Garbage Bags 12 (31) Resolution Authorizing the Clerk to 13 Advertise and Accept Bids for Dog Waste Bags 14 (32) Resolution Authorizing Refund of Redemption 15 Monies to Outside Lienholders 16 (33) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of 17 Premium Monies Collected at the Tax Sale 18 (34) Resolution Cancelling Taxes on Abated 19 Property, Block 229, Lot 7 Also Known as 551 40 th 20 Street 21 (35) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of Tax 22 Appeal Issued by the Tax Court of New Jersey to 23 Block 87, Lot 32 Also Known as 406, 16 th Street 24 (36) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of a 25 Duplicate Payment, Block 252, Lot 13 C0006 Also  9 1 Known as 4310 Palisade Avenue 2 (37) Resolution Cancelling Taxes on Property 3 Erroneously Assessed for Block 89, Lot 16.01 4 C0402 Also Known as 1720 New York Avenue 5 (38) Resolution Authorizing the Tax Collector to 6 Adjust the Third and Fourth Quarter Property 7 Taxes of Certain Properties 8 (39) Any other matter of City business that may 9 arise 10 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second item is the 12 Consent Agenda. 13 First is Resolution Approving the Payment 14 of Claims. 15 Second item’s, Resolution Approving the 16 Payment of Concurring Claims. 17 Third item. 18 Resolution Approving the City Payroll for the 19 Period of July 30th, 2014 through August 12th, 20 2014. 21 Item 4. 22 Resolution Approving the Library Payroll 23 for the Period of July 30, 2014 through August 24 12, 2014. 25 Item fifth.  10 1 Resolution Supporting the Members of 2 1199SEIU. 3 Item 6. 4 Resolution Designating a Loading Zone in 5 the City of Union City, Located at 3133-3139 6 Central Avenue. 7 Item 7. 8 Resolution to Authorize Bus Shelter in the 9 City of Union City at 43rd Street and Park Avenue. 10 Item 8. 11 Resolution Authorizing the Execution of a 12 Contract with Care Point Health Medical Group for 13 Provision of Athletic Medical Examinations for 14 Children Participating in the Recreation Programs 15 for the City of Union City. 16 Item 9. 17 Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 18 of the California Café Liquor License number 19 0910-33-021, Located at 2002 Bergenline Avenue. 20 Item 10. 21 Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 22 of El Chapin Corporation Liquor License number 23 0910-33-075, Located at 2118 Bergenline Avenue. 24 Item 11. 25 Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal  11 1 of the A/C Corp. Liquor License number 0910-33- 2 149, Located at 414 38th Street. 3 Item 12. 4 Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 5 of the How About Life, Liquor License number 6 0910-33-115, Located at 4215 Park Avenue. 7 Item 13. 8 Resolution Approving the 2014-2015 Renewal 9 of the Pebble Beach Inc., Liquor License number 10 0910-33-157, Located at 8000 Kennedy Boulevard. 11 MAYOR STACK: What do you mean 8000 Kennedy 12 Boulevard? 13 8000 Kennedy Boulevard where? 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: That’s what was on the 15 -- on the list that I had. 16 MAYOR STACK: There’s no 8000 Kennedy 17 Boulevard in Union City. 18 ACTING CITY CLERK: It could be 800, Mayor? 19 MAYOR STACK: 800 but we never had Pebble 20 Beach -- 21 MS. de los RIOS: Pebble Beach. 22 MAYOR STACK: -- liquor license at 800 23 Kennedy Boulevard. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: Yeah. 25 MAYOR STACK: No, let’s remove that off the  12 1 agenda and let’s get a clarification on that. 2 That makes me nervous. 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yeah. 4 Pebble -- 5 MAYOR STACK: No. That’s never been there. 6 Pebble Beach -- Pebble Beach, Incorporated 7 is at 4101 Park Avenue. But it has been 8 inactive -- 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: That’s the list -- 10 MAYOR STACK: -- for many years. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: That’s the list I 12 received from the record room. 13 MAYOR STACK: There’s something wrong with 14 that. 15 Just check it with the Chief in the 16 morning. 17 Let’s remove -- item 13 will be removed on 18 here. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay. Item 13 is 20 removed. 21 Item 14. 22 Resolution Awarding Raffle License to the 23 Holy Cross Armenian Church, Located at 318-27th 24 Street. 25 Item 15.  13 1 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 2 Contract for Accounting Services. 3 Item 16. 4 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 5 Contract for Auditing and Accounting Services. 6 Item 17. 7 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 8 Contract for Planning and Zoning Consultant 9 Services. 10 Item 18. 11 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 12 Contract for General Engineering Services. 13 Item 19. 14 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 15 Contract for General Engineering Services for the 16 Community Development Agency. 17 Item 20. 18 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 19 Contract for Architectural Services. 20 Item 21. 21 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 22 Contract for Architectural Services for the 23 Community Development Agency. 24 Item 22. 25 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a  14 1 Contract for Substitute Public Defender. 2 Item 23. 3 Resolution Authorizing the Award of 4 Contract for Personnel Consulting Services. 5 Item 24. 6 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 7 Contract for Recording and Transcription 8 Services. 9 Item 25th. 10 Resolution Authorizing the Award of 11 Contract for a Federal and State Grant 12 Consultant. 13 Item 26. 14 Resolution Authorizing the Award of 15 Contract for the Municipal Court Prosecutors. 16 Item 27. 17 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 18 Contract of Green Acres and Open Space Funding. 19 Item 28. 20 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a 21 Contract for Substitute Municipal Prosecutor. 22 Item 29. 23 Resolution Authorizing the Clerk to 24 Advertise and Accept Bids for Cleaning Equipment 25 and Supplies.  15 1 Item 30. 2 Resolution Authorizing the Clerk to 3 Advertise and Accept Bids for Poly Garbage Bags. 4 Item 31. 5 Resolution Authorize the Clerk to Advertise 6 and Accept Bids for Dog Waste Bags. 7 Item 32. 8 Resolution Authorizing Refund of Redemption 9 Money to Outside Lienholders. 10 Item 33. 11 Resolution Authorizing the Refund of 12 Premium Money Collected at Tax Sale. 13 Item 34. 14 Resolution Cancelling Taxes on Abated 15 Property, Block 229, Lot 7 Also Known as 551 40 th 16 Street. 17 MAYOR STACK: This is the home for veterans 18 on 40th Street right off Kennedy Boulevard. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item 35. 20 Resolution Authorizing the Refund of Tax 21 Appeal Issued by the Tax Court of New Jersey to 22 Block 87, Lot 32 Also Known as 406, 16 th Street. 23 Item 36. 24 Resolution Authorizing the Refund of 25 Duplicate Payment, Block 252, Lot 13 C0006 Also  16 1 Known as 4310 Palisade Avenue. 2 Item 37. 3 Resolution Cancelling Taxes on Property 4 Erroneously Assessed for Block 89, Lot 16.01 5 C0402 Also Known as 1720 New York Avenue. 6 Number -- item 38. 7 Resolution Authorizing the Tax Collector to 8 Adjust the Third and Fourth Quarter Property 9 Taxes of Certain Properties. 10 Mayor, would you wish to take public 11 comment at this time? 12 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 13 Anyone wishing to comment on the Consent 14 Agenda, please step forward, state your name and 15 address for the record. 16 MS. SALDANA: Claudia Saldana, 1199 -- 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Come up. 18 MAYOR STACK: Just if you could just please 19 step forward. 20 Right over here. That will be fine. 21 MR. DILLON: Can you -- 22 MS. SALDANA: My name -- 23 MR. DILLON: -- can you state your name and 24 address? 25 MS. SALDANA: Okay.  17 1 My name is Claudia Saldana. I’m 1199 2 member. 3 MR. DILLON: You need to -- I need a 4 spelling on that, too. Sorry. 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Caldana (sic); -- 6 MS. SALDANA: Okay. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- spell. 8 MS. SALDANA: S-- Saldana, -- 9 MR. DILLON: Saldana. 10 MS. SALDANA: S-A-L-D-A-N-A. And then 11 Claudia, C-L-A-U-D-I-A. 12 MR. DILLON: Thank you. 13 MS. SALDANA: And I’m 1199 member. I work 14 in Castle Hill, Union City. And I’m here just to 15 thank you for supporting us. 16 You know, because we’re trying to fight for 17 a better contract and to fight because we without 18 contract for so many years and all of -- 19 (indiscernible) -- settle down. 20 We fighting for that and we just want to 21 appreciate you. 22 I have a letter to write but I see like 23 you’re very busy to -- to read -- 24 MAYOR STACK: Oh, you could submit them. 25 MS. SALDANA: -- for you.  18 1 MAYOR STACK: Sure. You could submit them 2 and we’ll keep them. No problem. 3 MS. SALDANA: Okay. 4 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 5 MS. SALDANA: Okay. 6 MAYOR STACK: Claudia, I just want to say, 7 on behalf of the Commissioners and myself, I know 8 the members of your union work very, very hard. 9 MS. SALDANA: Yes. 10 MAYOR STACK: I see how hard you work. 11 In fact, my mother is in a facility right 12 now in Rochelle Park -- 13 MS. SALDANA: Um-hum. 14 MAYOR STACK: -- and -- at the Chateau. 15 And I see how hard they work and how low they’re 16 paid. 17 So, we’re on your -- 18 MS. SALDANA: Yes. 19 MAYOR STACK: -- side a hundred percent. 20 MS. SALDANA: Yes. 21 MAYOR STACK: Whether -- whatever we can do 22 here and in the Senate. 23 MS. SALDANA: They don’t want to pay 24 insurance for our children. I have to enroll my 25 son in New Jersey Care (phonetic) because they  19 1 don’t want to pay -- you know, they don’t want to 2 go. 3 MAYOR STACK: And their profit margin -- 4 MS. SALDANA: You know me, you know that 5 I’m a good worker. 6 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 7 MS. SALDANA: He don’t know me -- you know 8 me -- 9 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 10 MS. SALDANA: -- for volunteer since ’98. 11 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 12 MS. SALDANA: I’m a hard worker and just my 13 people. 14 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 15 MS. SALDANA: You don’t see; they have 5- 16 star-rated facility. That mean because we work 17 hard. 18 MAYOR STACK: Because of the work that you 19 do. 20 MS. SALDANA: That’s it. 21 MAYOR STACK: That’s right. 22 MS. SALDANA: So we just want your support 23 and thank you, the Commissioners. 24 I’m a little shy and nervous. 25 MAYOR STACK: No, you’re doing fine.  20 1 MS. SALDANA: Thank you for you -- thank 2 you for your support. Okay? 3 MAYOR STACK: You did great. You did 4 great. 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Thank you. 6 MAYOR STACK: We wish you a lot of luck and 7 we’ll make sure -- 8 MS. SALDANA: Thank you. 9 MAYOR STACK: -- we’ll make sure that -- 10 One second, Dominick. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Sure. 12 MS. SALDANA: Sorry. 13 MAYOR STACK: -- and we’ll make sure -- 14 we’ll make sure that we send this out also to the 15 owner of the -- the owner of the nursing home 16 also. 17 Okay? 18 MS. SALDANA: Yeah. Okay. 19 MAYOR STACK: Whatever else we can do, 20 we’re here to help you. 21 MS. SALDANA: Okay. Thank you, -- 22 MAYOR STACK: Thank you very much. 23 MS. SALDANA: -- Mayor. 24 MAYOR STACK: Thank you. 25 MS. SALDANA: Thank you, everybody.  21 1 MAYOR STACK: Make sure that this is 2 submitted -- 3 You got it? 4 Okay. Good. 5 MS. SALDANA: Good-bye everybody. 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: Yeah, I have a copy. 7 Yeah. 8 MAYOR STACK: Good. Okay. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Anybody else? 10 MAYOR STACK: Yes. Anybody else wishing to 11 comment? 12 Kathie, right over here. 13 MS. PONTUS: Kathie Pontus, 512 39 th 14 Street. 15 Just curious. Where these are all saying 16 Resolution Authorizing the Award of a Contract, 17 does that mean you have the people that the 18 contracts are gonna be awarded to known already? 19 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 20 MS. PONTUS: Okay. 21 On number 27, for Green Acres and Open 22 Space Funding. 23 MAYOR STACK: I believe that’s David Spatz 24 but I -- 25 I mean I could double-check it.  22 1 Do you have that, Monica, readily handy? 2 MS. de los RIOS: I do. 3 MAYOR STACK: I believe it’s David Spatz 4 though. 5 MS. PONTUS: That’s -- is that not the 6 state thing that covers the historic properties 7 as well? 8 MAYOR STACK: The Green Acres? I don’t 9 believe so, no. 10 MS. PONTUS: No, the Open Space? 11 MAYOR STACK: The Open -- 12 MS. PONTUS: Isn’t that the thing that was 13 just on the ballot or some business and it took 14 in all of that? 15 MS. de los RIOS: I’m not aware of that. 16 Mayor, -- 17 MAYOR STACK: I don’t believe so, no. 18 MS. de los RIOS: -- this is Community 19 Housing and Planning Associates. 20 MAYOR STACK: Yes, David Spatz. Community 21 Housing -- 22 MS. PONTUS: Oh, okay. 23 MAYOR STACK: -- and Planning Consultants. 24 MS. PONTUS: All right. 25 Thank you.  23 1 MAYOR STACK: Thank you, very -- 2 Anyone else wishing to comment on the 3 Consent Agenda? 4 Seeing none. 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 6 approve all items on the Consent Agenda? 7 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 9 Commissioner Valdivia. 10 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 12 Rivas. 13 Roll call. 14 Commissioner Fernandez; absent. 15 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 You know what, Dominick? If you can sign a 25 copy -- I know you can put the seal on it; but  24 1 sign a copy of the Resolution and we can give it 2 to Claudia tonight and she can take it back to 3 her union. 4 Claudia, you want to take this back? 5 You can take this back. And if you need 6 one with a raised seal, just contact Mr. 7 Cantatore tomorrow and he’ll give you one. 8 You could take this one tonight though. 9 MS. SALDANA: Okay. 10 You’re the best Mayor we have -- 11 MAYOR STACK: Thank you very much. Thank 12 you, I appreciate that. 13 14 REGULAR AGENDA: 15 16 1. Resolution Approving the Redevelopment 17 Agency Payroll for the Period of July 16, 2014 18 through July 29, 2014 19 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay, next item is the 21 Regular Agenda. There are three items on the 22 Regular Agenda. 23 The first item is Resolution Approving the 24 Redevelopment Agency Payroll for the Period of 25 July 16, 2014 through July 29, 2014.  25 1 MAYOR STACK: I’ll move it. 2 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 4 Stack. 5 Second by Commissioner Rivas. 6 Commissioner Fernandez is absent. 7 Commissioner Rivas? 8 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 10 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 12 Martinetti? 13 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 15 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 16 17 REGULAR AGENDA: 18 19 2. Resolution Authorizing a Budget 20 Appropriation Reserve Transfer 21 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item 2. 23 Resolution Authorizing a Budget 24 Appropriation Reserve Transfer. 25 MS. de los RIOS: Mayor, at this time we  26 1 would normally recommend that Commissioner 2 Martinetti recuse herself. 3 However, in light of the numbers present 4 here today, we’re going to invoke the Doctrine of 5 Necessity -- 6 MAYOR STACK: Great. 7 MS. de los RIOS: -- to allow her to vote 8 on this item. 9 MAYOR STACK: Great. 10 Commissioner, did you move that, too? 11 I’m sorry; I didn’t hear -- 12 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: No, not yet. 13 MAYOR STACK: I’ll move it. I’ll move it. 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Roll call. 15 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: I’ll second. 16 ACTING CITY CLERK: I mean -- 17 Mayor Stack. 18 Second by Commissioner Rivas. 19 Commissioner Fernandez is absent. 20 Commissioner Rivas? 21 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 23 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 25 Martinetti; recusing.  27 1 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: No, I’m voting. 2 MS. de los RIOS: No, she has to vote. 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: Oh, you’re voting? 4 Commissioner Martinetti? 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Voting; yes. 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: Yes. 7 8 REGULAR AGENDA: 9 10 3. Resolution Authorizing Payment of Claim for 11 the Grace Theater Workshop 12 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item 3. 14 Resolution Authorizing Payment of Claim for 15 the Grace Theater Workshop. 16 MAYOR STACK: I’ll move it. 17 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 18 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 19 Stack. 20 Second by Commissioner Martinetti. 21 Commissioner Fernandez; absent. 22 Commissioner Rivas? 23 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 25 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes.  28 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 2 Martinetti? 3 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 5 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 6 7 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 8 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor, would you wish 10 to take -- 11 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 12 Anyone wishing to -- 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- public comment? 14 MAYOR STACK: -- address the Board at this 15 time, please step forward, state your name and 16 address for the record. 17 Seeing none. 18 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 20 close the public comment portion of the meeting? 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 22 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 24 Commissioner Martinetti. 25 Second by Commissioner Rivas.  29 1 Roll call. 2 Commissioner Fernandez is absent. 3 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: Yes. 12 13 ADJOURNMENT: 14 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 16 adjourn? 17 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Motion. 18 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 20 Commissioner Rivas. 21 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: All in favor? 23 24 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 25  30 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Opposed? 2 Thank you. 3 4 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 5 at 7:14 p.m.) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  31 1 ________________________ Brian P. Stack 2 ________________________ Maryury A. Martinetti 3 ________________________ Celin J. Valdivia 4 ________________________ Tilo E. Rivas 5 Board of Commissioners 6 7 Attest: 8 Dominick Cantatore, 9 Acting City Clerk 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  32 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 Tuesday, August 19, 2014, and digitally 10 recorded. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Monitored by: Kevin Dillon, Jr. 25 Proofread by: Deborah Dillon