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 30, 2015 Commencing at 4:46 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: KRYSTLE NOVA, ESQ. Corporation Counsel ERIN KNOEDLER, Director of Operations  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 3 ROLL CALL 4 REGULAR AGENDA 4 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD 6 ADJOURNMENT 7  3 1 ACTING CITY CLERK: Okay, this is -- this 2 is a Special Public Meeting of the Union City 3 Board of Commissioner, being held on Friday, 4 October 30th, 2015, at 4:45 p.m., at the William 5 V. Musto Cultural Center, 420 15th Street, Union 6 City, New 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. 16 Adequate notice of this meeting has been 17 provided as 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 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 Valdivia? 9 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Here. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 11 Martinetti? 12 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Here. 13 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 14 MAYOR STACK: Here. 15 16 REGULAR AGENDA 17 18 1. Resolution Supporting Transfer of Property 19 - Block 213, Lot 28; Block 218, Lot 17; Block 20 219, Lots 22-24 & 35-37 for the Proposed Uptown 21 Middle School 22 23 ACTING CITY CLERK: We have one item on the 24 agenda for tonight. It’s a Regular Agenda. 25 It’s a Resolution Supporting Transfer of  5 1 Property for Block 213, Lot 28; Block 218, Lot 2 17; Block 219, Lots 22 to 24 and 35 to 37 for -- 3 for the Proposed Uptown Middle School. 4 MAYOR STACK: Obviously this is self- 5 explanatory. It’s using the parking lots up on 6 -- from 35th Street area between Bergenline and 7 Kennedy Boulevard for an uptown middle school. 8 Anyone have any questions on this matter at 9 this time? 10 Seeing none. 11 I’ll make a motion. 12 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion made by Mayor 13 Stack. 14 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Second. 15 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 16 Valdivia. 17 MS. NOVA: In this case, although normally 18 Commissioner Fernandez, Commissioner Valdivia and 19 Martinetti would recuse based on their conflicts 20 with the Board of Education, we -- based on the 21 doctrine of necessity, Commissioner Martinetti 22 and Commissioner Valdivia will be voting on this 23 matter. 24 ACTING CITY CLERK: So, roll call. 25 Commissioner Fernandez?  6 1 Recusing. 2 Commissioner Rivas? 3 COMMISSIONER RIVAS: Yes. 4 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner Valdivia? 5 COMMISSIONER VALDIVIA: Yes. 6 ACTING CITY CLERK: Commissioner 7 Martinetti? 8 COMMISSIONER MARTINETTI: Yes. 9 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor Stack? 10 MAYOR STACK: Yes. 11 12 OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE BOARD: 13 14 ACTING CITY CLERK: Mayor, there are no 15 other items on the agenda at this time. 16 Would you wish to take public comment? 17 MAYOR STACK: Sure. 18 Thank you first to the Commissioners for 19 being at the meeting today on -- this meeting at 20 this time. It just was urgent to get this done 21 so the school can proceed. 22 Anyone wishing to ask a question at this 23 time concerning any matter concerning municipal 24 government in the City of Union City, please step 25 forward.  7 1 Seeing none. 2 3 ADJOURNMENT: 4 5 ACTING CITY CLERK: Is there a motion 6 to adjourn? 7 MAYOR STACK: Motion. 8 ACTING CITY CLERK: Motion by Mayor Stack. 9 COMMISSIONER FERNANDEZ: Second. 10 ACTING CITY CLERK: Second by Commissioner 11 Fernandez. 12 All in favor? 13 14 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 15 16 ACTING CITY CLERK: That’s it guys. 17 MAYOR STACK: Thank you very much. 18 19 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 20 at 4:49 p.m.) 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 heard on Friday, October 30, 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