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 Conference Room, Third Floor 3715 Palisade Avenue Union City, New Jersey Tuesday, December 23, 2014 Commencing at 8:15 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: DOMINICK CANTATORE, ACTING CITY CLERK SCARINCI HOLLENBECK BY: MONICA E. de los RIOS, ESQ., (Arrived at 8:18 a.m.) Corporation Counsel  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3 ROLL CALL 4 REGULAR AGENDA 4,6 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 8 ADJOURNMENT 9  3 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: This is a Special 2 Public Meeting of the Union City Board of 3 Commissioner, being held on Tuesday, December 4 23rd, 2014, at eight a.m., in City Hall, 3715 5 Palisade Avenue, Third Floor, 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 bulletin board in City Hall and 23 has been made available to the public in the 24 office of 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 REGULAR AGENDA: 17 18 1. Resolution Authorizing Emergency Contract 19 for Electrical Improvements for the DPW Storage 20 Structures Facilities. 21 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: First item on the 23 agenda is a Resolution Authorizing Emergency 24 Contract for Electrical Improvements to the DPW 25 Storage Structure Facilities.  5 1 MAYOR STACK: Right. 2 The reason I wanted to set the meeting and 3 the reason we’re doing it at this time, I would 4 like to put on the record, -- it’s not that we’re 5 trying to go around the public or anything, it’s 6 just that with the holiday season and everything 7 else, I know a night meeting somebody wouldn’t be 8 able to make -- many wouldn’t be able to make I 9 should say. 10 This is an emergency for the electrical for 11 the DPW facility on 5th Street with the tents that 12 we have set up down there. 13 So, it’s just to get electric in them and 14 heat and everything else. 15 That was the reason. 16 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to 17 approve item 1? 18 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 19 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 21 Stack. 22 Second by Commissioner Fernandez. 23 Roll call. 24 Commissioner Fernandez? 25 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes.  6 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 2 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 3 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 4 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 6 Martinetti? 7 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 9 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 10 11 REGULAR AGENDA: 12 13 2. Resolution Authorizing Emergency Contract 14 for Installation of Propane Fuel Tank for DPW 15 Storage Structure Facilities. 16 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Item 2 is Resolution 18 Authorizing Emergency Contract for Installation 19 of Propane Fuel Tank for the DPW Storage 20 Structure Facilities. 21 MAYOR STACK: And this is the same thing 22 with the DPW facility. 23 Even if you get a chance, when you all go 24 down and take a look at it, the facility is very 25 large.  7 1 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: It’s -- 2 MAYOR STACK: It’s a nice facility. The 3 tents worked out very well. We started to bring 4 trucks down there last night. It’s coming out 5 very good. 6 Commissioner Rivas, thank you very much for 7 your work with Henry Munker on this and Kathy and 8 Ralph Tango. They’ve all been working together 9 to get this done. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion? 11 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 12 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 14 Stack. 15 Second by Commissioner Martinetti. 16 Roll call. 17 Commissioner Fernandez? 18 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 20 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 21 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 22 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 24 Martinetti? 25 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes.  8 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 2 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 3 4 (Whereupon, Monica de los Rios, Esq., 5 Corporation Counsel, arrived at 8:18 a.m.) 6 7 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 8 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor, there’s -- there 10 are no other items on this agenda. 11 Would you like to take public comment at 12 this time? 13 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 14 Anyone wishing to comment at this time, 15 please state your name and address for the 16 record. 17 Seeing none. 18 Alejandro? No. Okay. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to -- 20 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Second. 21 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- adjourn? 22 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: I’ll -- motion. 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by -- 24 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Second. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- Commissioner Rivas.  9 1 Second by Commissioner Martinetti. 2 All in favor? 3 4 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 5 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: Thank you. 7 MAYOR STACK: Thank you. 8 MS. de los RIOS: My apologies. 9 10 ADJOURNMENT: 11 12 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Motion to adjourn. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion to adjourn. 14 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Motion. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by 16 Commissioner Fernandez. 17 Second by Commissioner Rivas. 18 All in favor? 19 20 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 21 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Thank you. 23 24 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 25 at 8:19 a.m.)  10 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  11 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, December 23, 2014, and 10 digitally recorded. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Monitored and Proofread by: Deborah Dillon