Board of Commissioners - Special Board of Commissioners

1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS : : TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED SPECIAL MEETING : : PROCEEDINGS : William V. Musto Center 420 15th Street Union City, New Jersey Thursday, March 2, 2017 Commencing at 8:13 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: ERIN KNOEDLER, DEPUTY CITY CLERK SCARINCI HOLLENBECK BY: KRYSTLE NOVA, ESQ. Corporation Counsel  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 OPENING STATEMENT 3 ROLL CALL 3 ORDINANCES FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION CONSIDERATION 4 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 6 ADJOURNMENT 8  3 1 MS. DILLON: On the record. 2 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: This is a Special 3 Public Meeting of the Union City Board of 4 Commissioners being held on Thursday, March 2 nd, 5 2017 at eight a.m. at the William V. Musto 6 Center, 420 15th Street, Union City, New Jersey. 7 Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. 8 9 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was 10 said by all.) 11 12 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: This meeting has been 13 called in accordance with the Open Public 14 Meetings Act. 15 Adequate notice of this meeting has been 16 provided as follows; to The Jersey Journal, The 17 Record, The Hudson Reporter and been posted on 18 the bulletin board, City Hall, and made available 19 to the public in the Office of Municipal Clerk. 20 21 ROLL CALL: 22 23 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner Fernandez? 24 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 25 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas?  4 1 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Here. 2 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 4 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner 5 Martinetti? 6 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 7 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 8 MAYOR STACK: Here. 9 10 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 11 action on the following item: 12 ORDINANCES FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION CONSIDERATION 13 1. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 334 OF 14 THE CODE OF THE CITY OF UNION CITY ENTITLED “RENT 15 STABILIZATION”.) 16 17 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: We have one Ordinance 18 on for Hearing and Adoption. 19 It’s an Ordinance Amending Chapter 334 of 20 the Code of Union City, Entitled Rent 21 Stabilization. 22 Mayor, at this time, would you like to open 23 for public comment? 24 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 25 Anyone wishing to comment at this time,  5 1 please step forward. State your name and address 2 for the record. 3 Seeing none. 4 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: May I have a motion to 5 close public comment? 6 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Motion. 7 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 8 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Motion by Commissioner 9 Rivas. 10 Second by Commissioner Martinetti. 11 Commissioner Fernan -- 12 May I have a motion to adopt? 13 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 14 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Motion. 15 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 16 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Okay. 17 Motion by Commissioner Valdivia. 18 Second by Commissioner Rivas. 19 Commissioner Fernandez? 20 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 21 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 22 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 23 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 24 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 25 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner  6 1 Martinetti? 2 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 3 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 4 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 5 6 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 7 8 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: At this time, Mayor, 9 would you like to open for public comment? 10 MAYOR STACK: Anyone wishing to comment on 11 any matter concerning municipal government in the 12 City of Union City, please step forward. 13 Seeing none. 14 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: May I have a motion to 15 close public comment? 16 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 17 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Motion by Commissioner 18 Martinetti. 19 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 20 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 21 Valdivia? 22 Commissioner Fernandez? 23 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 24 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 25 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes.  7 1 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 2 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 3 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Commissioner 4 Martinetti? 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 6 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 7 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 8 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: At this time, there are 9 no other items on the agenda, may I have a motion 10 to -- 11 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Motion to adjourn. 12 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: -- adjourn? 13 MAYOR STACK: Thank you. 14 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Motion by Commissioner 15 Rivas. 16 MAYOR STACK: Thank you, everybody. 17 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Seconded by 18 Commissioner Fernandez. 19 All in favor? 20 21 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 22 23 DEPUTY CITY CLERK: Okay. 24 Thank you. 25  8 1 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 2 at 8:15 a.m.) 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  9 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 Attest: 14 Erin Knoedler, 15 Deputy City Clerk 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  10 1 STATE OF NEW JERSEY : 2 : 3 COUNTY OF ESSEX : 4 5 I, DEBRA A. KASZNIAK, assigned transcriber, 6 do hereby affirm that the foregoing is a true and 7 accurate transcript in the matter of the SPECIAL 8 MEETING of the UNION CITY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 9 heard on Thursday, March 2, 2017 and digitally 10 recorded. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Monitored by and proofread by: Deborah Dillon