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 Monday, March 24, 2014 Commencing at 7:33 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 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: 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 HEARING AND ADOPTION 4 REGULAR AGENDA 7,8 10,11 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 12 ADJOURNMENT 13  3 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay, ready? 2 3 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 4 said.) 5 6 (Whereupon, there was a pause in the 7 proceedings.) 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay. 9 This is a Special Public Meeting of the 10 Union City Board of Commissioner being held on 11 Monday, March 24th, 2014 at 7:30 a.m., in City 12 Hall, 3715 Palisade Avenue, Third Floor, Union 13 City, New Jersey. 14 This meeting has been called in accordance 15 with Chapter 231, Public Law of 1975, the Open 16 Public Meeting Act. 17 Adequate notice of this meeting has been 18 provided as follows: 19 Notice of this meeting set forth the time, 20 the date, location, and the -- on the agenda to 21 the extent known was forwarded to The Jersey 22 Journal, The Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has 23 been posted on the bulletin board in City Hall, 24 and has been made available to the public in the 25 office of Municipal Clerk.  4 1 2 ROLL CALL: 3 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Roll call. 5 Commissioner Fernandez? 6 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 8 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Here. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 10 Martinetti? 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 13 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 15 MAYOR STACK: Here. 16 17 ORDINANCES FOR HEARING AND ADOPTION 18 CONSIDERATION: 19 20 1. ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING LEASE OF PROPERTY FOR 21 POLICE PRECINCT 22 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: The first item on the 24 agenda this morning is an Ordinance for Hearing 25 and Adoption Consideration.  5 1 Ordinance Authorizing Lease of Property for 2 Police Precinct. 3 MAYOR STACK: Anyone wishing to comment at 4 this time, please step forward, state your name 5 and address for the record. 6 Seeing none. 7 This is going to be very good for the 8 neighborhood on 25th and Central. We’re moving 9 the Police Precinct from 27 th and Bergenline to 10 27th -- 25th and Central. 11 Seeing no further. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 13 close the public hearing? 14 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Motion. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 16 Commissioner Fernandez. 17 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 18 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second; Commissioner 19 Rivas. 20 Roll call. 21 Commissioner Fernandez? 22 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 24 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia?  6 1 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 3 Martinetti? 4 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 6 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 8 adopt? 9 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made -- made by 11 Commissioner Martinetti. 12 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 14 Valdivia. 15 Roll call. 16 Commissioner Fernandez? 17 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 18 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 19 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: 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 3 REGULAR AGENDA: 4 5 1. Resolution Appointing Members of Board of 6 School Estimates 7 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: The second item is on 9 -- is the Regular Agenda. There are four items 10 on the Regular Agenda this morning. 11 First item is Resolution Appointing Member 12 of the Board to School Estimate. 13 MS. VANEK: Mayor, for the record, we would 14 typically recommend that Commissioners Fernandez, 15 Valdivia and Martinetti recuse on this matter. 16 But under the doctrine of necessity we 17 recommend that Commissioner Valdivia vote. 18 MAYOR STACK: So the members of the Board 19 of School Estimate now will be Commissioner 20 Valdivia, Commissioner Rivas, -- 21 Right? 22 MS. VANEK: Correct. 23 MAYOR STACK: -- and myself. 24 MS. VANEK: Correct. 25 MAYOR STACK: Okay, I got it.  8 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay, so roll call. 2 Commissioner -- 3 MS. DILLON: Motion? 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Oh, I’m sorry. 5 Is there a motion? 6 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion by Mayor Stack. 8 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 10 Rivas. 11 Commissioner Fernandez; recusing. 12 Commissioner Valdivia is -- 13 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Voting. 14 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- voting. 16 Commissioner Martinetti’s recusing. 17 MS. VANEK: And Commissioner Rivas and 18 Mayor Stack. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 20 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. I vote yes. 21 MAYOR STACK: And I vote yes. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: And Mayor Stack? 23 24 REGULAR AGENDA: 25  9 1 2. Resolution Approving Payments of Claims to 2 the Union City Board of Education 3 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Our second item is 5 Resolution Approving Payment of Claims to the 6 Union City Board of Education. 7 MS. VANEK: Mayor, again, we would 8 recommend that Commissioners Fernandez, Valdivia 9 and Martinetti recuse typically. 10 But under the doctrine of necessity we 11 recommend that Commissioner Valdivia vote. 12 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: I move it. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion. 14 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: I -- 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 16 Commissioner Rivas. 17 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 18 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 19 Valdivia. 20 Roll call. 21 Commissioner Fernandez; recusing. 22 Commissioner Rivas? 23 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 25 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes.  10 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 2 Martinetti; recusing. 3 Mayor Stack? 4 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 5 6 REGULAR AGENDA: 7 8 3. Resolution Extending the Appointment of 9 Dominick Cantatore Acting City Clerk Through July 10 1, 2014 11 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Third item is 13 Resolution Extending the Appointment of Dominick 14 Cantatore, Acting City Clerk, through July 1 st, 15 2014. 16 Is there a motion? 17 MAYOR STACK: We’re all going to vote no. 18 No. 19 Motion. 20 MS. VANEK: Dominick’s not laughing. 21 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Motion. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by -- 23 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- Commissioner 25 Valdivia.  11 1 Second by Commissioner Martinetti. 2 Roll call. 3 Commissioner Fernandez? 4 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 6 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 8 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 10 Martinetti? 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 13 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 14 15 REGULAR AGENDA: 16 17 4. Resolution Appointing Acting Chief 18 Financial Officer 19 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: And the fourth item is 21 Resolution Appointing Acting Chief Financial 22 Officer. 23 Is there a motion? 24 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second.  12 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 2 Stack. 3 Second; Commissioner Martinetti. 4 Roll call. 5 Commissioner Fernandez? 6 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: 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 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 18 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor, you want to take 20 any -- 21 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- comment -- 23 MAYOR STACK: Anyone wishing -- 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- from the public? 25 MAYOR STACK: -- to comment at this time,  13 1 please step forward, state your name and address 2 for the record. 3 Seeing none. 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Seeing none. 5 6 ADJOURNMENT: 7 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion -- 9 There’s no other matter to the Board. 10 Is there a motion to adjourn? 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 12 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 13 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 15 Stack. 16 Second by Commissioner Rivas. 17 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: All in favor? 18 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: All in favor? 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Roll call. 20 All in favor? 21 22 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 23 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: Good. 25  14 1 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 2 at 7:38 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  15 1 ________________________ Brian P. Stack 2 ________________________ Lucio P. Fernandez 3 ________________________ Maryury A. Martinetti 4 ________________________ Celin Valdivia 5 ________________________ Tile 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  16 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 Monday, March 24, 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