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 Monday, February 23, 2015 Commencing at 8:08 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 SONIA SHULMAN, TAX COLLECTOR  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3 ROLL CALL 3 REGULAR AGENDA 4 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 5 ADJOURNMENT 6  3 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: This is a Special 2 Public Meeting of the Union City Board of 3 Commissioner, being held on Monday, February 23rd, 4 2015, at eight a.m., in City Hall, 3715 Palisade 5 Avenue, Third Floor, Union City, New Jersey. 6 Everyone please rise for the Pledge of 7 Allegiance. 8 9 (Whereupon the Pledge of Allegiance was 10 said.) 11 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: This meeting has been 13 called in accordance with Chapter 231, Public Law 14 of 1975, the Open Public Meeting Act. Adequate 15 notice of this meeting has been provided as 16 follows: 17 Notice of this meeting setting forth the 18 time, the date, location, and the agenda, to the 19 extent known, was forwarded to The Jersey 20 Journal, The Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has 21 been posted on bulletin board in City Hall and 22 has been made available to the public in the 23 office of Municipal Clerk. 24 25 ROLL CALL:  4 1 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: Roll call. 3 Commissioner Fernandez? 4 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Here. 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 6 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Here. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 8 Martinetti? 9 (COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI WAS PRESENT AT 10 ROLL CALL; NO AUDIBLE RESPONSE.) 11 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 12 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 14 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 15 16 REGULAR AGENDA: 17 18 1. Resolution Authorizing the Tax Collector to 19 Prepare, Complete and Mail Estimated Tax Bills 20 and Authorizing an Estimated Annual Tax Levy 21 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: There’s one item on the 23 Regular Agenda. 24 It’s a Resolution Authorizing the Tax 25 Collector to Prepare, Complete and Mail Estimate  5 1 Tax Bills and Authorizing an Estimate Annual Tax 2 Levy. 3 Is there a motion on item 1? 4 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 5 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 6 Second. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 8 Stack. 9 MAYOR STACK: Second. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 11 Martinetti. 12 Roll call. 13 Commissioner Fernandez? 14 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Yes. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Rivas? 16 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 17 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 18 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 19 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 20 Martinetti? 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 23 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 24 25 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD:  6 1 2 ACTING CITY CLERK: There are no other 3 items on this agenda. 4 Does anyone with the public wish to 5 comment -- 6 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 7 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- on any item on the 8 agenda -- 9 MAYOR STACK: Any member of the public 10 wishing to comment at this time, please step 11 forward, state your name and address for the 12 record. 13 Seeing none. 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Seeing none. 15 16 ADJOURNMENT: 17 18 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion to -- 19 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Motion. 20 ACTING CITY CLERK: -- adjourn? 21 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Motion. 22 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 23 Stack. 24 Second by Commissioner Fernandez. 25 ACTING CITY CLERK: All in favor?  7 1 2 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 3 4 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: That’s the quickest 5 meeting I ever had. 6 MAYOR STACK: Thank you. Thank you 7 everyone. 8 9 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 10 at 8:10 a.m.) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 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  9 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, February 23, 2015, and digitally 10 recorded. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Monitored and Proofread by: Deborah Dillon