Planning Board

1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY PLANNING BOARD : TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED REGULAR MEETING : _________________: PROCEEDINGS Union City High School Media Center 2500 Kennedy Boulevard Union City, New Jersey Tuesday, November 23, 2021 Commencing at 6:02 p.m. M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: YDALIA GENAO, Mayor’s Designee JOSE GUARENO, Alternate No. 1 HECTOR OSEGUERA, Alternate No. 2 ALEJANDRO VELAZQUEZ, Vice Chairperson DIANE CAPIZZI, Chairperson M E M B E R S A B S E N T: CAROLINA FERNANDEZ FRANKLIN MEDINA ALICIA MOREJON CELIN VALDIVIA, Commissioner BRIAN P. STACK, Mayor A L S O P R E S E N T: CARLOS VALLEJO, Secretary to the Board  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 SALUTE TO FLAG 4 ROLL CALL 4 ADOPTION OF MINUTES 6 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS 8 ADJOURNMENT 10  3 1 MS. DILLON: Yes. 2 THE SECRETARY: Thank you. 3 MS. DILLON: On the record. 4 THE SECRETARY: Please take notice that on 5 Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021, at six p.m., a 6 Regular Meeting is scheduled for the City of 7 Union City Board of -- Planning Board to be held 8 in the Union City High School located at 2500 9 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Union City, New 10 Jersey. 11 This meeting called in compliance with 12 Chapter 231, Public Law 1975 of the Open Public 13 Meeting Act. 14 Adequate notice of this meeting has been 15 provided as follow: 16 Notice of this meeting, setting forth the 17 time, location, to the agenda, to the extent 18 known, was forwarded to The Jersey Journal, The 19 Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has been posted 20 on the bulletin board in City Hall, and has been 21 made available to the public in the Office of the 22 Municipal Clerk. 23 Before we call roll for this evening’s 24 meeting, can everybody kindly rise to salute the 25 flag?  4 1 2 (Whereupon, the Pledge of Allegiance was 3 said by all.) 4 5 THE SECRETARY: Thank you. 6 7 ROLL CALL: 8 9 THE SECRETARY: Roll call for tonight’s 10 meeting. 11 Mayor Brian P. Stack? 12 Absent. 13 Miss Capizzi? 14 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Here. 15 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 16 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Here. 17 THE SECRETARY: Commissioner Valdivia’s 18 absent. 19 Miss Genao? 20 MS. GENAO: Yes. 21 THE SECRETARY: Miss Morejon is absent. 22 Miss Carolina -- Miss Carolina Fernandez is 23 absent. 24 Mr. Medina’s absent. 25 Mr. Guareno?  5 1 MR. GUARENO: Here. 2 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Oseguera? 3 MR. OSEGUERA: Here. 4 THE SECRETARY: Let the record indicate 5 there are five present. 6 * * * 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  6 1 ADOPTION OF MINUTES: 2 3 ( 1) Regular Meeting Held on October 26, 2021 4 5 6 THE SECRETARY: All right. 7 We’re going to Minutes. 8 Regular Meeting held on October 26, 2021. 9 Can I have a motion? 10 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Motion. 11 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Miss Capizzi. 12 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Second. 13 THE SECRETARY: Seconded by Mr. Velazquez. 14 Roll call on the motion. 15 Miss Capizzi? 16 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 17 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 18 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 19 THE SECRETARY: Miss Genao? 20 MS. GENAO: Yes. 21 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 22 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 23 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Oseguera? 24 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 25 THE SECRETARY: Five in favor.  7 1 Motion carries. 2 * * * 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  8 1 ADOPTION OF RESOLUTIONS: 2 3 ( 1) Resolution Appointing the Planning Board 4 Secretary for the year 2022 5 ( 2) Resolution to Approve the Planning Board 6 Schedule for the Year 2022 7 8 THE SECRETARY: We have two Resolutions on 9 tonight’s agenda. 10 We have Resolution number 1. 11 Appoint the Planning Board Secretary for 12 the Year 2022. 13 And Resolution number 2. 14 To Approve the Planning Board Schedule for 15 the Year 2022. 16 Can I have a motion to adopt these 17 Resolutions? 18 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Motion. 19 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Miss Capizzi. 20 MR. GUARENO: Second. 21 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Second. 22 THE SECRETARY: Seconded by Mr. Guareno. 23 Roll call on the motion to approve these 24 two Resolution. 25 Miss Capizzi?  9 1 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 2 THE SECRETARY: Miss Genao? 3 MS. GENAO: Yes. 4 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Velazquez? 5 VICE CHAIRPERSON VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 6 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Guareno? 7 MR. GUARENO: Yes. 8 THE SECRETARY: Mr. Oseguera? 9 MR. OSEGUERA: Yes. 10 THE SECRETARY: Five in favor. 11 Motion carries. 12 * * * 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  10 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 THE SECRETARY: There being no other 4 application on tonight’s agenda, can I have a 5 motion to close tonight’s meeting? 6 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Motion. 7 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Ms. Capizzi. 8 MR. GUARENO: Second. 9 THE SECRETARY: Seconded by Mr. Guareno. 10 All in favor? 11 12 (Whereupon, there was a chorus of ayes.) 13 14 THE SECRETARY: The ayes have it. 15 Have -- 16 Thank you and have a good night everyone. 17 Let the record indicate the meeting has 18 ended. 19 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Happy Thanksgiving. 20 21 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 22 at 6:04 p.m.) 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 REGULAR 8 MEETING of the UNION CITY PLANNING BOARD heard on 9 Tuesday, November 23, 2021 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