Board of Commissioners - Special Meeting

1 1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY 2 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS 3 : SPECIAL MEETING : TRANSCRIPT OF 4 : --------------------: PROCEEDINGS 5 6 ROBERT WATERS SCHOOL 1800 Summit Avenue 7 Union City, New Jersey 8 Tuesday, August 3, 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 WENDY A. GRULLON, COMMISSIONER (VIA ZOOM) MARYURY A. MARTINETTI, COMMISSIONER 13 CELIN J. VALDIVIA, COMMISSIONER BRIAN P. STACK, MAYOR 14 15 M E M B E R S A B S E N T: 16 LUCIO P. FERNANDEZ, COMMISSIONER 17 A L S O P R E S E N T: 18 SCARINCI HOLLENBECK 19 BY: ANGELO AUTERI, ESQ. Corporation Counsel 20 RAY GONZALEZ, ESQ. 21 Attorney for the Union City Alcohol Beverage Control Commission 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 3 5 APPROVAL OF MINUTES 4 6 CONSENT AGENDA 5 7 CITIZENS ADDRESS THE BOARD 10 8 LIQUOR LICENSE PUBLIC HEARINGS 9 Chrisam Corporation 11 10 ADJOURNMENT 14 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  3 1 MS. ROSARIO: Please stand for the 2 Pledge of Allegiance. 3 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was 4 recited.) 5 MS. ROSARIO: This is a special public 6 meeting of the Union City Board of Commissioners 7 being held on Wednesday, August 3, 2022, at 7 p.m. 8 at the Robert Waters School, 1800 Summit Avenue, 9 Union City. This meeting has been called in 10 accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act. 11 Adequate notice was forwarded to The Jersey 12 Journal, The Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has 13 been posted on the bulletin board in City Hall, 14 made available to the public in the office of the 15 Municipal Clerk. 16 17 ROLL CALL: 18 19 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Grullon. 20 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Here. 21 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 22 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 24 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 25 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack.  4 1 MAYOR STACK: Here. Let the record 2 reflect that Commissioner Grullon is on Zoom 3 because she had an emergency. Thank you very 4 much, Commissioner, for being at the meeting. 5 MS. ROSARIO: And Commissioner Fernandez 6 will not be here today. 7 8 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 9 action on the following item: 10 APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES - REGULAR MEETING - 11 JULY 19, 2022.) 12 13 MS. ROSARIO: The first item is the 14 approval of the previous minutes. Motion to 15 approve the minutes from July 19, 2022, Board of 16 Commissioners. May I have a motion to approve? 17 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Commissioner 19 Martinetti. 20 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 21 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 22 Valdivia. Commissioner Grullon. 23 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 24 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 25 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes.  5 1 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 2 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 3 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 4 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 5 6 (Whereupon, the Board discussed and took 7 action on the following items in total: 8 CONSENT AGENDA: 9 ( 1) Resolution Approving the Payment of Claims. 10 ( 2) Resolution Approving the Payment of 11 Concurring Claims. 12 ( 3) Resolution Approving the Escrow Funds. 13 ( 4) Resolution Approving the City Payroll 14 07/02/2022 - 07/15/2022. 15 ( 5) Resolution Approving the Library Payroll 16 07/02/2022 - 07/15/2022. 17 ( 6) Resolution Authorizing Refund of Redemption 18 Monies to Outside Lienholders. 19 ( 7) Resolution Authorizing the Refund of Premium 20 Monies Collected At the Tax Sale 21 ( 8) Resolution Amending R#07/19-12 to Authorize 22 the Award of a Contract For Accounting Services 23 For 2022-2023. 24 ( 9) Resolution Amending the 2022-2023 Schedule 25 of the Board of Commissioners.  6 1 (10) Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of 2 the City of Union City, County of Hudson, New 3 Jersey, Cancelling $444,000 of a Funded 4 Appropriation Balance Heretofore Provided For 5 Funding of Various Capital Improvements in and For 6 the City of Union City. 7 (11) Resolution Awarding Contract For Library 8 Board Counsel to the City of Union City For 9 2022-2023. 10 (12) Resolution Authorizing an Increase to the 11 Contract With Gregory T. Farmer, Esq., For 12 Alcoholic Beverage Control Prosecutor Services For 13 2021-2022. 14 (13) Resolution Amending R#07/19-26 For the Award 15 of Contracts For Substitute Public Defender 16 Services For 2022-2023. 17 (14) Resolution Authorizing Auction of Certain 18 Unclaimed Tangible Personal Property - William 19 Scotsman Mobile Office Trailer. 20 (15) Resolution Approving the FY 2022 Budget For 21 the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) 22 Program.) 23 24 MS. ROSARIO: There are 16 items on the 25 consent agenda.  7 1 One, Resolution Approving the Payment of 2 Claims. 3 Two, Resolution Approving the Payment of 4 Concurring Claims. 5 Three, Resolution Approving the Escrow 6 Funds. 7 Four, Resolution Approving the City 8 Payroll 07/02/2022 - 07/15/2022. 9 Five, Resolution Approving the Library 10 Payroll 07/02/2022 - 07/15/2022. 11 Six, Resolution Authorizing Refund of 12 Redemption Monies to Outside Lienholders. 13 Seven, Resolution Authorizing the Refund 14 of Premium Monies Collected At the Tax Sale. 15 Eight, Resolution Amending R#07/19-12 to 16 Authorize the Award of a Contract For Accounting 17 Services For 2022-2023. 18 Nine, Resolution Amending the 2022-2023 19 Schedule of the Board of Commissioners. 20 Ten, Resolution of the Board of 21 Commissioners of the City of Union City, County of 22 Hudson, New Jersey, Cancelling $444,000 of a 23 Funded Appropriation Balance Heretofore Provided 24 For Funding of Various Capital Improvements in and 25 For the City of Union City.  8 1 Eleven, Resolution Awarding Contract For 2 Library Board Counsel to the City of Union City 3 For 2022-2023. 4 Twelve, Resolution Authorizing an 5 Increase to the Contract With Gregory T. Farmer, 6 Esq., For Alcoholic Beverage Control Prosecutor 7 Services For 2021-2022. 8 Thirteen, Resolution Amending R#07/19-26 9 For the Award of Contracts For Substitute Public 10 Defender Services For 2022-2023. 11 Fourteen, Resolution Authorizing Auction 12 of Certain Unclaimed Tangible Personal Property - 13 William Scotsman Mobile Office Trailer. 14 Fifteen, Resolution Approving the FY 15 2022 Budget For the Community Development Block 16 Grant (CDBG) Program. 17 Mayor will recuse from payments Chasan, 18 Lamparello, Mallon. 19 Mayor, would you like to take public 20 comment on the consent agenda? 21 MAYOR STACK: Anyone wishing to comment 22 on any matter on the consent agenda, please step 23 forward, state your name and address for the 24 record. Make a motion to close, seeing none. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion.  9 1 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack. 2 Second by Commissioner Martinetti. 3 Commissioner Grullon. 4 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 5 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 6 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 7 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 8 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 9 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 10 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 11 MS. ROSARIO: May I have a motion to 12 approve all items on the consent agenda? 13 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 14 MAYOR STACK: Second. 15 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Commissioner 16 Valdivia, second by Mayor Stack. Commissioner 17 Grullon. 18 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 19 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 20 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 21 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 22 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 23 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 24 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 25  10 1 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 2 3 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor, at this time, would 4 you like to take public comment on any of the 5 concerns of the municipal government in Union 6 City? 7 MAYOR STACK: Sure. Anyone wishing to 8 comment on any matter concerning municipal 9 government in the City of Union City, please step 10 forward, state your name and address for the 11 record. Seeing none, I'll make the motion to 12 close public comment. 13 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 14 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack, 15 second by Commissioner Martinetti. 16 Commissioner Grullon. 17 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 18 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 19 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 20 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 22 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 23 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 24 * * * * 25  11 1 LIQUOR LICENSE PUBLIC HEARINGS: 2 1. Chrisam Corporation 3 0910-33-007-011 4 (Anthony J. Bianciella, Esq.) 5 6 MS. ROSARIO: Now, we have liquor 7 license hearing. 8 MR. GONZALEZ: Good evening, 9 Commissioners. For the record my name is Raymond 10 Gonzalez, G-O-N-Z-A-L-E-Z, acting ABC attorney for 11 the City of Union City. 12 Today, there's only one application and 13 that's a renewal of Chrisam Corporation, it is a 14 matter that went before the State of New Jersey, 15 Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of 16 Alcoholic Beverage. There was a hearing that was 17 had, the Commissioner -- the director actually 18 approved the allowing the renewal of the license 19 from 2017 to 2018, 2018 to '19, 19-20, 20-21, 20 21-22, and '22 to '23, of which was done. We have 21 confirmation that it was all complete. 22 The reason this took so long was that 23 the petitioner, the license holder, which is a 24 pocket license, it's not an active bar, made his 25 application to the City. For some reason, the  12 1 money got lost, they couldn't do it, then they 2 implemented the new registration, which was 3 online, and they couldn't do it because they 4 didn't have it from the old one. It took a very 5 long time. There was an actual denial, there was 6 a reconsideration. That reconsideration was 7 supported with all the documents. The director 8 said that it should be allowed and that's what we 9 have here today. 10 It was subject to the filing of 11 2022-2023, which I have confirmation from our 12 sergeant who's in charge of the record room that, 13 in fact, it was done; is that correct? 14 SERGEANT ZERON: Yes. 15 MR. GONZALEZ: I did prepare a 16 resolution with a little more detail setting forth 17 the reason why it's taking so long and exactly 18 what's being done. 19 MAYOR STACK: Is there anyone here to 20 comment on this application? 21 MS. ROSARIO: Can I have a motion to 22 approve, Mayor? 23 MAYOR STACK: I'm going to put up the 24 motion now. 25 First of all, congratulations on your  13 1 first meeting, Ray, I'm glad you're here. 2 I'll make the motion to approve. 3 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack. 4 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 5 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 6 Valdivia. Commissioner Grullon. 7 COMMISSIONER GRULLON: Yes. 8 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Valdivia. 9 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 10 MS. ROSARIO: Commissioner Martinetti. 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 12 MS. ROSARIO: Mayor Stack. 13 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 14 * * * * 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  14 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 MS. ROSARIO: There are no other items, 4 may I have a motion to adjourn? 5 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 6 MS. ROSARIO: Motion by Mayor Stack. 7 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 8 MS. ROSARIO: Second by Commissioner 9 Martinetti. All in favor? 10 11 (Whereupon, all Commissioners indicated 12 in the affirmative.) 13 14 (Whereupon the meeting was adjourned at 15 7:08 p.m.) 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  15 1 Brian P. Stack 2 Maryury A. Martinetti 3 Celin J. Valdivia 4 Wendy A. Grullon 5 Board of Commissioners 6 7 8 Attest: 9 Angelo Auteri, Esq., 10 Corporation Counsel 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  16 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