Planning Board - Special Planning Board Meeting

1 CITY OF UNION CITY HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY PLANNING BOARD : TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDED SPECIAL MEETING : : PROCEEDINGS ____________ ____________: City Hall 3715 Palisade Avenue Union City, New Jersey Monday, February 29, 2016 Commencing at 6:08 p.m. M E M B E R S P R E S E N T: YDALIA GENAO, Mayor’s Designee ALICIA MOREJON CAROLINA FERNANDEZ JAY SHAH ALEJANDRO VELAZQUEZ, Alternate No. 1 JEANNE KOEHLER, Vice Chairperson DIANE CAPIZZI, Chairperson M E M B E R S A B S E N T: BRIAN P. STACK, Mayor, Chairman CELIN VALDIVIA, Commissioner RUDY RIVERO FRANKLIN MEDINA JOSE GUARENO, Alternate No. 2 A L S O P R E S E N T: CARLOS VALLEJO, SECRETARY TO THE BOARD WILFREDO J. ORTIZ, II, ESQ., Attorney for the Board DAVID SPATZ, Consultant Community Housing & Planning Associates, Inc.  2 I N D E X PAGE CALL TO ORDER 3 SALUTE TO FLAG 3 ROLL CALL 4 HEARINGS Closed Session for Affordable Housing Litigation Pending Case in Superior Court: 1. COAH Plan 6 ADJOURNMENT 9  3 1 MR. ORTIZ: Mr. Clerk? 2 THE SECRETARY: May I have your attention, 3 please? 4 Please take notice that on Monday, February 5 29, 2016, at six p.m., a Special Meeting is 6 scheduled for the City of Union City Planning 7 Board to be held in the Municipal Chamber of the 8 City Hall, 3715 Palisade Avenue, Union City, New 9 Jersey. 10 Opening Statement. 11 This is a meeting called in compliance with 12 Chapter 231, Public Law 1975, of the Open Public 13 Meetings Act. 14 Notice of this meeting has been provided as 15 follow: 16 Notice of this meeting, setting forth the 17 time, date, location and agenda, to the extent 18 known, was sent to The Jersey Journal, The 19 Record, and The Hudson Reporter, has been posted 20 on the bulletin board in the City Hall, and has 21 been made available to the public in the Office 22 of the Municipal Clerk. 23 Before we call -- before we roll call on 24 tonight’s evening, can everybody kindly rise to 25 salute the 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? Absent. 12 Ydalia Genao? 13 MS. GENAO: Yes. 14 THE SECRETARY: Commissioner Celin 15 Valdivia? Absent. 16 Alicia Morejon? 17 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 18 THE SECRETARY: Diane Capizzi? 19 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Here. 20 THE SECRETARY: Carolina Fernandez? 21 MS. FERNANDEZ: Here. 22 THE SECRETARY: Jay Shah? 23 MR. SHAH: Here. 24 THE SECRETARY: Rudy Rivero? Absent. 25 Franklin Medina? Absent.  5 1 Jeanne Koehler? 2 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Here. 3 THE SECRETARY: Alejandro Velazquez? 4 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Here. 5 THE SECRETARY: Jose Guareno? Absent. 6 Let the record indicate there are eight 7 present. Excuse me. Seven present. 8 Those absent tonight are Mayor Brian P. 9 Stack, Commissioner Celin Valdivia, Franklin 10 Medina, Jose Guareno. 11 So, we have a Board made up of seven 12 members. 13 MR. ORTIZ: Madam Chairwoman? 14 THE SECRETARY: We have -- 15 Go ahead, Mr. Ortiz. 16 MR. ORTIZ: No. Go ahead. Go ahead, Mr. 17 Clerk. 18 * * * 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  6 1 Closed Session for Affordable Housing Litigation 2 Pending Case in Superior Court: 3 1. COAH Plan 4 5 THE SECRETARY: We have a closed session 6 today. 7 Closed Session for Affordable Housing 8 Litigation Pending Case in Superior Court, COAH 9 Plan. 10 Mr. Ortiz? 11 MR. ORTIZ: Yes. 12 I was just going to point out to Madam 13 Chairwoman, there’s a need for a motion, but I 14 think you were about to do that anyway, so I cut 15 you off. I apologize. 16 THE SECRETARY: Thank you, sir. 17 Can I have a motion to go into closed 18 session? 19 MR. VELAZQUEZ: I make a motion. 20 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Alejandro 21 Velazquez. 22 Second by? 23 Second by Alicia Morejon. 24 Roll call on the motion. 25 Alicia Morejon?  7 1 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 2 THE SECRETARY: Diane Capizzi? 3 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 4 THE SECRETARY: Carolina Fernandez? 5 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 6 THE SECRETARY: Jay Shah? 7 MR. SHAH: Yes. 8 THE SECRETARY: Jeanne Koehler? 9 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes. 10 THE SECRETARY: Alejandro Velazquez? 11 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 12 THE SECRETARY: Ydalia Genao? 13 MS. GENAO: Yes. 14 THE SECRETARY: Motion carries. 15 We are in closed session now. Let me lock 16 the door. 17 18 (Whereupon, the Board moved to Closed 19 Session at 6:11 p.m.) 20 21 (Whereupon, the Board returned to Open 22 Session at 6:38 p.m.) 23 24 THE SECRETARY: May I have your attention, 25 please? We are in open session right now.  8 1 MS. MOREJON: We’re open? 2 THE SECRETARY: The Board voted to go to 3 Executive Session to consider what the action is 4 about –- 5 Pardon me, sir. 6 -- about COH (sic) Plan, Executive Session 7 beginning at 6:12 (sic) and ended at 6:40 (sic) 8 p.m. 9 10 * * * 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25  9 1 ADJOURNMENT: 2 3 THE SECRETARY: There being no other 4 application on tonight’s agenda, can I have a 5 motion to close -- 6 MS. MOREJON: Motion. 7 THE SECRETARY: Motion by Alicia Morejon. 8 MR. ORTIZ: Is there a second? 9 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Second. 10 THE SECRETARY: Second by? 11 MS. MOREJON: Alejandro. Alejandro. 12 THE SECRETARY: Alejandro Velazquez. 13 Roll call on the motion. 14 Ydalia Genao? 15 MS. GENAO: Yes. 16 THE SECRETARY: Alicia Morejon? 17 MS. MOREJON: Yes. 18 THE SECRETARY: Diane Capizzi? 19 CHAIRPERSON CAPIZZI: Yes. 20 THE SECRETARY: Carolina Fernandez? 21 MS. FERNANDEZ: Yes. 22 THE SECRETARY: Jay Shah? 23 MR. SHAH: Yes. 24 THE SECRETARY: Jeanne Koehler? 25 VICE CHAIRPERSON KOEHLER: Yes.  10 1 THE SECRETARY: Alejandro Velazquez? 2 MR. VELAZQUEZ: Yes. 3 THE SECRETARY: Motion carries. Seven in 4 favor. 5 Let the record show that the meeting has 6 ended. 7 Thank you. 8 9 (Whereupon, the proceedings were concluded 10 at 6:39 p.m.) 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, DEBRA A. KASZNIAK, 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 PLANNING BOARD heard on 9 Monday, February 29, 2016 and digitally recorded. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Monitored by: Kevin Dillon, Jr. 25 Proofread by: Deborah Dillon