Board of Commissioners - Special Meeting of the Board of Commissioners

CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS : : TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED SPECIAL MEETING : _ : PROCEEDINGS City Hall Third Floor Conference Room 3715 Palisade Avenue Union City, New Jersey March 11, 2014 Commencing at 8:01 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 VALDIVIA, COMMISSIONER M E M B E R S A B S E N T: TILO E. RIVAS, COMMISSIONER A L S O P R E S E N T: DOMINICK CANTATORE, ACTING CITY CLERK SCARINCI HOLLENBECK BY: CHRISTINE M. VANEK, ESQ. Corporation Counsel  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 ROLL CALL 4 ORDINANCES FOR INTRODUCTION 4 REGULAR AGENDA 6,7, 9 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 11 ADJOURNMENT 11  3 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay, we’re ready to 2 go? 3 MS. VANEK: Yup. 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay. 5 6 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 7 said.) 8 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Morning, everybody. 10 This is a Special Public Meeting of the 11 Union City Board of Commissioner being held on 12 Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at eight a.m., in City 13 Hall, 3715 Palisade Avenue, 3 rd Floor, Union City, 14 New Jersey. 15 Opening Statement. 16 This meeting has been called in accordance 17 with Chapter 231, Public Law of 1975, the Open 18 Public Meeting Act. 19 Adequate notice of this meeting has been 20 provided as follows: 21 Notice of the meeting setting forth the 22 time, the date, location, the -- and the agenda 23 to the extent known was forwarded to The Jersey 24 Journal, The Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has 25 been posted on the bulletin board in City Hall,  4 1 and has been made available to the public in the 2 office of Municipal Clerk. 3 4 ROLL CALL: 5 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: Roll call. 7 Commissioner Fernandez? 8 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 10 MAYOR STACK: He wasn’t able to make it 11 this morning. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is out. 13 Commissioner Martinetti? 14 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 16 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Present. 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 18 MAYOR STACK: Here. 19 20 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION: 21 22 1. ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING LEASE OF PROPERTY FOR 23 POLICE PRECINCT 24 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: On the agenda this  5 1 morning we have an Ordinance for Introduction. 2 Ordinance Authorizing Lease of Property for 3 Police Precinct. 4 Is there a motion to introduce? 5 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 6 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 8 Stack. 9 Second made; Commissioner Fernandez. 10 Roll call. 11 Commissioner Fernandez? 12 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 14 I mean Commissioner Valdivia? 15 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 16 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 17 Martinetti? 18 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 20 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 21 Just for everyone’s knowledge. This will 22 be a new Police Station Precinct on 25 th and 23 Central Avenue, leaving 27th Street going to 25th 24 Street; 27th Street had the old DPW facility. 25  6 1 REGULAR AGENDA: 2 3 1. Resolution Ratifying an Emergency Contract 4 for Emergency Snow Removal Services for the City 5 of Union City 6 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: We have three items on 8 the Regular Agenda today. 9 One -- the first item is Resolution 10 Rectifying (sic) an Emergency Contract for 11 Emergency Snow Removal Service for the City of 12 Union City. 13 MAYOR STACK: I’ll move it. 14 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 16 Stack. 17 Second by Commissioner Martinetti. 18 Commissioner Fernandez? 19 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 21 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 23 Martinetti? 24 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack?  7 1 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 2 Just for everyone’s knowledge, again, the 3 only reason that this was needed was because of 4 the amount of snow that we received. 5 We very seldom ever go to outside 6 contractors. We had to do so in this case to 7 remove snow from 49th to 30th on Bergenline and 8 from 21 to 5 on Summit Avenue, 32nd Street from 9 New York Avenue over to Kennedy Boulevard. And 10 it was done over a two or three-day period 11 around-the-clock. 12 13 REGULAR AGENDA: 14 15 2. Resolution to Approve Payments for 16 Emergency Repairs/Operations of the DPW Central 17 Facility 18 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item two is Resolution 20 to Approve Payments for Emergency Repairs/ 21 Operations of DPW Central Facility. 22 MAYOR STACK: Christine, you want to 23 briefly explain that? 24 MS. VANEK: Sure; no problem. 25 The City Engineer had declared an emergency  8 1 due to the fact that PEOSH had required the City 2 to vacate a portion of the DPW facility on 27 th 3 Street and there were certain emergency 4 expenditures that were required. 5 There were certain emergency repairs that 6 actually had to be done to the DPW facility to 7 make sure that the remaining bays that we were 8 still occupying were safe to keep our equipment 9 in. 10 Additionally, there were trailers that have 11 been rented to relocate most of the DPW 12 operations offsite; portable restrooms and also 13 some safety netting for the remaining portion of 14 the DPW. 15 MAYOR STACK: I’ll make a motion. 16 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 18 Stack. 19 Second made by Commissioner Valdivia. 20 Roll call. 21 Commissioner Fernandez? 22 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 24 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner  9 1 Martinetti? 2 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 4 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 5 6 REGULAR AGENDA: 7 8 3. Resolution to Approve Contract for the 9 Purchase of Gasoline and Diesel Fuel for City 10 Vehicles 11 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Third item on the 13 Regular Agenda is Resolution to Approve Contract 14 for the Purchase of Gasoline and Diesel Fuel for 15 City Vehicles. 16 Is there a motion to approve? 17 MAYOR STACK: Once again, we’re not going 18 to be able to use the fuel at the 27 th Street 19 facility. So this is a contract with a -- 20 We put out an RFP, right, Christine? 21 MS. VANEK: This project was actually bid 22 twice because we knew that we were not going to 23 be able to use the fuel at that building per New 24 Jersey Transit. 25 So it was bid twice; we got no bids.  10 1 So now the third time we were allowed to 2 negotiate. 3 There was an extensive review of the gas 4 stations -- local gas stations in the area by the 5 purchasing agent before coming to use Tiger 6 Buying Group for the gas. 7 MAYOR STACK: And this is on 1836 Park 8 Avenue in Weehawken. 9 It will also give us tighter control over 10 gasoline now by the system that’s being set up 11 through the Chief. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to -- 13 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- approve it? 15 Motion made by Mayor Stack. 16 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second; Commissioner 18 Valdivia. 19 Roll call. 20 Commissioner Fernandez? 21 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 23 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 25 Martinetti?  11 1 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 3 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 4 5 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 6 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Anybody else have any 8 question? 9 MAYOR STACK: No. 10 Any members of the public at this time that 11 would like to comment on any matter concerning 12 municipal government in Union City, please step 13 forward, state your name and address for the 14 record. 15 No. 16 ACTING CITY CLERK: None. 17 MAYOR STACK: Seeing none. 18 ACTING CITY CLERK: Seeing none. 19 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 20 21 ADJOURNMENT: 22 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion to adjourn? 24 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion.  12 1 Second. 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay, second made; 3 Commissioner Martinetti. 4 All in favor? 5 6 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 7 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Aye. 9 Yes. 10 11 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 12 at 8:07 a.m.) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  13 1 ________________________ Brian P. Stack 2 ________________________ Lucio P. Fernandez 3 ________________________ Maryury A. Martinetti 4 ________________________ Celin Valdivia 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  14 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 SPECIAL 8 MEETING of the UNION CITY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, 9 held on Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 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