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 William V. Musto Cultural Center 420 15th Street Union City, New Jersey Friday, October 31, 2014 Commencing at 3:15 p.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: DOMINICK CANTATORE, ACTING CITY CLERK SCARINCI HOLLENBECK BY: MONICA E. de los RIOS, ESQ. Corporation Counsel  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3 ROLL CALL 4 CONSENT AGENDA 4 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION 7, 8, 11,12 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 16 ADJOURNMENT 17  3 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: This is a Special 2 Public Meeting of the Union City Board of 3 Commissioner, being held on Friday, October 31st, 4 2014, at 3:15 p.m., at the William V. Musto 5 Cultural Center, 420 15th Street, Union City, New 6 Jersey. 7 Everyone please rise for the Pledge of 8 Allegiance. 9 10 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 11 said.) 12 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: This meeting has been 14 called in accordance with Chapter 231, Public Law 15 of 1975, the Open Public Meeting Act. Adequate 16 notice of this meeting has been provided as 17 follows: 18 Notice of this meeting setting forth the 19 time, date, location, and the agenda, to the 20 extent known, was forwarded to The Jersey 21 Journal, The Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has 22 been posted on the bulletin board in City Hall 23 and made available to the public in the office of 24 Municipal Clerk. 25  4 1 ROLL CALL: 2 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: Roll call. 4 Commissioner Fernandez? 5 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 7 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Here. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 9 Martinetti? 10 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 12 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 14 MAYOR STACK: Here. 15 16 CONSENT AGENDA: 17 18 1. Resolution Approving State Contract with 19 Beyer Brothers Corp. for Repair of Vehicle 20 2. Resolution Rescinding Contract with Unipak 21 for Poly Garbage Bags and Re-Bidding Contract 22 3. Any other matter of City business that may 23 arise 24 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: First item is the  5 1 Consent Agenda. 2 Item number 1, is Resolution Approving 3 State Contract with Beyer Brothers Corporation 4 for Repair of Vehicle. 5 Item 2. 6 Resolution Rescinding Contract with Unipak 7 for Poly Garbage Bags and Re-Bidding Contract. 8 Is there a motion to -- 9 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- approve? 11 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 13 Stack. 14 Second by Commissioner Fernandez. 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 21 Martinetti? 22 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 24 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack?  6 1 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor, you want to -- 3 you wish to take public comment at this time 4 on -- 5 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- this -- 7 MAYOR STACK: Anyone wishing to comment at 8 this time, please step forward, state your name 9 and address for the record. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Seeing none. 11 MAYOR STACK: Seeing none. 12 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Motion. 13 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 15 Commissioner Rivas. 16 Second by Commissioner Fernandez. 17 Roll call. 18 Commissioner Fernandez? 19 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 21 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 23 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 25 Martinetti?  7 1 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 3 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 4 5 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION: 6 7 1. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 239 8 “LITTERING” 9 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Next item is Ordinance 11 for Introduction. 12 The Ordinances will be further considered 13 at a meeting of the Board of Commissioners to be 14 held on November 18, 2014, at seven p.m. at the 15 Bruce D. Walter Recreation Center, 507 West 16 Street, Union City, New Jersey. 17 First Ordinance is an Ordinance Amending 18 Chapter 239 Littering. 19 MAYOR STACK: I’ll move it. 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion -- 21 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- made by Mayor Stack. 23 Second -- 24 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- by Commissioner  8 1 Fernandez. 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 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION: 16 17 2. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 16 VEHICLES 18 TRAFFIC SCHEDULE XIII “BUS/COMMUTER VEHICLES 19 STOPS” 20 21 ACTING CITY CLERK: Next Ordinance is 22 Amending Chapter 16 Vehicle Traffic Schedule VIII 23 (sic) Bus/Commuter Vehicle Stops. 24 MAYOR STACK: These are two bus stops that 25 we’re moving.  9 th 1 One is on 30 Street, on the Marginal. 2 It’s being recommended by the Police Department; 3 Chief Molinari is here with us today; 30th Street, 4 right on the Marginal. It’s right in front of 5 501 30th Street right now. 6 We’d be moving it from the northwest corner 7 to the northeast corner, -- 8 Am I correct, Chief? 9 CHIEF MOLINARI: Correct. 10 MAYOR STACK: Right, of 30th Street, -- 11 CHIEF MOLINARI: No, south. 12 MAYOR STACK: South. Sorry. I’m sorry. 13 Southeast corner. 14 Right? 15 CHIEF MOLINARI: Correct. 16 MAYOR STACK: Southeast corner of 30th and 17 the Marginal. 18 It would make it safer. It would stop the 19 backup of traffic. After a study of this, -- 20 actually, residents actually brought it up at a 21 Public Safety Meeting that we held, an outdoor 22 meeting, on 29th to 30th Street and Bergenline 23 Avenue. 24 I’ll move it. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by --  10 1 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- Mayor Stack. 3 Second by Commissioner Valdivia. 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 And the other -- the other one was on 15th 17 Street and New York Avenue, on the -- in front of 18 Colin Powell School, which would be at 1500 New 19 York Avenue. We’re moving that to 1400. 20 Right, Chief? 21 CHIEF MOLINARI: Correct, Mayor. 22 MAYOR STACK: To 1400 New York Avenue. 23 And this is again being proposed by the 24 Police Department. We have an officer there 25 every day. The buses stopping make it somewhat  11 1 of an impediment for the children and the parents 2 that are bringing their children to school. 3 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: It’s dangerous. 4 It’s true. 5 6 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION: 7 8 3. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SCHEDULE V TO SECTION 9 16-4.1 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF UNION CITY 10 ENTITLED “TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS” TO ADD A STREET 11 WHERE VEHICLES OVER 4 TONS GROSS WEIGHT ARE 12 PROHIBITED.) 13 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Next Ordinance is 15 Amending Schedule V to Section 16-4.1 of the Code 16 of the City of Union City Entitled Traffic 17 Restriction to Add a Street Where Vehicle Over 4 18 Tons Gross Weight are Probited (sic). 19 MAYOR STACK: Where is this? 20 MS. de los RIOS: Prohibited. 21 This is on 33rd. 22 MAYOR STACK: Oh, 33rd, between New York 23 and Bergenline. The block is very tight also. 24 Yes. 25 I’ll move it.  12 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 2 Stack. 3 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 5 Martinetti. 6 Roll call. 7 Commissioner Fernandez? 8 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 10 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 12 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 14 Martinetti? 15 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 16 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 17 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 18 19 ORDINANCE(S) FOR INTRODUCTION: 20 21 4. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER II, 22 ADMINISTRATION SECTION 2-21, POLICE DEPARTMENT, 23 SUBSECTION 2-21.1 OF “THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF 24 THE CITY OF UNION CITY, 1996” 25  13 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Next Ordinance Amending 2 Chapter II, Administration Section 2-21, Police 3 Department, Subsection 2-21.1 of the Revised 4 Ordinances of the City of Union City, 1996. 5 MAYOR STACK: And exactly what are we doing 6 here? 7 Just for the public’s knowledge. I mean I 8 know and the Commissioners know but we should 9 state exactly what we’re doing. 10 I believe that there was a typographical 11 mistake made and we were changing the number of 12 specials, I believe, from 25 to 35. 13 Right, Chief? 14 CHIEF MOLINARI: That is correct, Mayor. 15 MAYOR STACK: And we had -- instead of 16 having three captains, it was typed in that there 17 would be four captains, which is not our table of 18 organization. It would only be -- it would be 19 three captains. 20 And was there any other mistake in there 21 that was made? 22 Was there something else? 23 CHIEF MOLINARI: There was. It actually 24 increased the number of sergeants from -- our 25 current T.O., which allowed for 26, to 29.  14 1 MAYOR STACK: And that was a mistake also. 2 CHIEF MOLINARI: Correct. 3 MAYOR STACK: And this is being done. One 4 thing we’ve tried to do is trim the ranks and 5 have it where we have more officers on the 6 street. Chief Molinari’s been very effective in 7 getting that done and helping me with that. 8 Even though at times the State of New 9 Jersey has told us that we should have additional 10 in the ranks, we’ve always tried to do more -- 11 we’ve always tried to do more with less. 12 And it’s even been recommended to me in the 13 past that we have two deputy chiefs and bring 14 back the inspector position; even from officials 15 in the State, which is something we could always 16 revisit in the future. 17 But right now we’re going to go with the 18 three captains. 19 And we’re going to have how many sergeants, 20 Chief? 21 CHIEF MOLINARI: Twenty-six, Mayor. 22 MAYOR STACK: Twenty-six. 23 And how many lieutenants? 24 CHIEF MOLINARI: Eleven. 25 MAYOR STACK: Eleven.  15 1 And thank you -- 2 CHIEF MOLINARI: Which is the current table 3 of -- 4 So the only proposed change here is 5 increasing the number of special law enforcement 6 officers from 25 to 35. 7 MAYOR STACK: Right. 8 Thank you very much, Chief. And thank you 9 for your work. 10 I’ll move it. 11 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 13 Stack. 14 Second by Commissioner Martinetti. 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?  16 1 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 2 3 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 4 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor, there’s no other 6 item on the agenda. 7 Will you -- 8 Is there a motion to adjourn? 9 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 10 MAYOR STACK: Anyone wishing to comment at 11 this time, please step forward, on any matter 12 concerning municipal government. 13 Seeing none. 14 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 16 Stack. 17 Second by Commissioner Rivas. 18 All in favor? 19 20 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 21 22 ADJOURNMENT: 23 24 MAYOR STACK: Thank you. Thank you very 25 much, everyone.  17 1 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Motion to adjourn. 2 3 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 4 5 MAYOR STACK: Chief, when do you think the 6 bus stop -- 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion to adjourn? 8 MAYOR STACK: -- will actually be painted? 9 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Motion. 10 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 12 Commissioner Fernandez. 13 CHIEF MOLINARI: I mean we’re good to go. 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 15 Rivas. 16 MAYOR STACK: When will we be able to paint 17 that bus stop? 18 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: All in favor? 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: All in favor. 20 21 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 22 23 MS. de los RIOS: I can call them; maybe he 24 can do it on Monday. 25 MAYOR STACK: Yeah.  18 1 2 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 3 at 3:22 p.m.) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  19 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 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  20 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 Friday, October 31, 2014, and recorded on 10 tape. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Monitored by: Kevin Dillon 25 Proofread by: Deborah Dillon