Heat. Heat. I would like to advise all those present that notice of this regular meeting of July 16th, 2025 has been provided to the public in accordance with the provisions of the open public meeting act of the state of New Jersey. Notice of time and place of this meeting has been included
in the annual notice of meetings which was posted and filed with the city clerk and with the Jersey Journal in the Star Ledger. An additional notice of time and place was posted and filed with the city clerk and was forwarded to the Bergen record and star ledger on July 11th,
2025. The regular meeting of the municipal council of the city of Bayon is now in session. Miss Medina, please call the role. Mr. Booker, here. Mr. Perez, here. Miss Weamemer here. Mr. Laaloosa here. Please rise for the pledge of
allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay.
Our first item is the hearing of the municipal budget. The calendar year 2025 local municipal budget which was approved at the meeting held June 18, 2025 was published in the Bergen record and posted on the bullen board by summary as required by law with notice
that it would be further considered for following following a public hearing at this meeting of July 18th is now before the council for its consideration and a public hearing and the resolution moved by for a second reading. Who'd like to move it? Move it. Second.
Second. And second reading is by title the calendar year 2025 local municipal budget. The council is now ready to in council is now ready to any any member of the public to speak
concerning the municipal budget. Yes. Hello everyone. Sharon Nidowski 126 Avenue. Um what is the blended um increase for our taxes this year? About 3% that includes everything.
Okay. So um my concern is if you look at the budget there are currently have about 47 pilots active right now or that were um awarded. We
have three you're going to robotically pass tonight that are for um final passage and then you have another two that you're introducing. Um that's an exorbitant amount for a town our side to have pilots. I don't
think other towns that are bigger than us have used that many pilots. We always hear how great all these developments are doing but so we shouldn't have to incentivize people anymore. That's what it is. It's an incentivize. You're offsetting the risk. But we heard time
and time again from you sitting up there that there is no risk. Everything goes to 100% right away. Um and I don't want to hear we're offsetting the increase in raw materials because all of our residents raw materials have increased
too. Our food, our insurance, our taxes, everything has increased. No one's offsetting your taxpayers. and your job really is to look out for the interest of your taxpayers. Um, so and I'm I really don't understand how you can say
you're doing that when you keep giving out these pilots that, you know, I know I passed a lot when I sat up there, but they're kind, you know, and you're not even increasing the time, which we did for a while. These are going back out to long-term pilots. I'm just, you know, trying to make sense of you saying on
one hand tonight you're first thing you're going to do is raise our taxes and then you're going to give out more pilots. So I I'm just, you know, I'm just saying my piece on that because I know you're going to do it anyway. Thank you. Anyone else?
I future. Okay. And may I have a motion to close the hearing? So move second. Have a second. Second on a motion to close. Mr. Booker.
Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. I Mr. Lapaloosa. I And I have a resolution to amend and I have to read it in full. Here we are.
It is whereas the local municipal budget for the calendar year 2025 was approved on this day 16th day of July 2025 and whereas the public hearing on said budget has been held as advertised and whereas it is desired to amend said approved budget
now. Therefore, be it resolved by the municipal council of the city of Bayon County of Hudson that the following amendments to the approved budget for the calendar year 2025 be made. And under general revenues, number one,
surplus anticipated from $9,250,000 to $6,750,000. Surplus anticipated with prior written consent from the director of the division of local government services from 0 to1,182,992.
Munis Miscellaneous revenue section A local revenue 160 East 22nd Street 2.01 01 realy LLC from 106867 to 36,162. Section G, other special items of
revenue. Preschool TA school preschool school school tax from zero to 1,437,2182. Summary revenue section A local revenue from 24,154 24,154,995.17 to 24,87 thou $84,300.17.
Section G, special items of revenue, $18,932,624.85 to 20,369,84367. Subtotal General revenue revenues is 63,860 $860,62428 to $63,910,14010. The amount to be raised by taxes for
support of municipal budget. A local tax for municipal purposes included reserve of uncollected taxes 94,584,3652 to 94,534,53187. Total amount to be raised by taxes 103,5265
$526,649.72 to1 103,476,8757. Total general revenues is 167,300 167,387,274,2167,387,15.17 general appropriations a operations within caps employee group health insurance 22,15,000
to 23,4 23,48,900 $180. Total operations item 8A within caps is from 107, 100 million. I don't know why I don't want the million there.
107,38,433 to 108,342,413. Total operations included contingent within the caps is 107 million 39 thou 39,433 to 108,343,413. detailed other expenses including
contingent 42,423,433 to 43,727,413 and total general appropriations for the municipal purposes within caps is 12792,6205 to129,296,65 5 cent operations excluded from caps. Cap
employee group health health insurance cap exclusion 4,45,0002 2,741,020 total oper other operations excluded from caps 7,658,49 $4969
to 6,354,42969 Total operations excluded from CAPS 1 11,349,5942 to 10,445,17942 cent detail other expenses 9 million 444 4400,105.97 right to 8,136,12597
total general appropriations for municipal purposes excluded from caps 32,930,98343 to 31,627,343 total general appropriations excluded from CAT caps 38,259,916.94 to $36,955,936.94
reserved for uncollected taxes. Taxes 1,134,7371 to1,134,47818. Total general appropriations is 167,387,387,274 to167,387,15.17. Total general appropriations for municipal purposes within cap $127,992
92,6205 to $129,296,6005 operations excluded from caps. Other operations 7,654,4969 26,354,42969 Total operations excluded from cap 11,349,5942
to 10,45,7942 reserve for uncollected taxes 1,134 $4,7371 to1,134,478.118. Total general appropriations is 167,300 167,387,2274 to167,387,1517. And be it resolved that the foregoing
amendment to the calendar year 2025 municipal budget was introduced and read at this meeting of July 16th and the set amendments will be published in the Bergen record on July 17th and the public meeting public hearing for the amendments will
be held on Wednesday July 23rd at 6 p.m. Who would like to move the amendments? So move in a second. Second and on the amendments. Mr. Booker. I
Mr. Perez. Hi. Mr. Weame. Hi. Mr. Lapalooa. Hi. And a resolution postponing to July 23rd, 2025 at 6 p.m. Move it. Second that resolution. Mr. Booker. Hi.
Mr. Carol. I'm M. Carol's absent. Mr. Perez. Hi. Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloo. I current taken out of order is R six. We authorizing the council to go into close session to discuss matters involving
attorney attorney client privileges pursuant to NJSA 104-12. Like to move it move it second on the resolution. Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer.
Hi, Mr. Lapaloosa. Hi. We will be coming back out for the remainder of the meeting. Meline, we're ready to restart. Okay, we're ready to reconvene. on the motion to reconvene. Who'd like to move it?
Move it. Second. Second. And on the motion to reconvene, Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. I. Miss Reamer. I. Mr. Lapaloosa. I. Okay. Starting with 01, an ordinance to
exceed the municipal budget appropriation limits and to establish a cap bank which was introduced to pass the first reading at the meeting held June 18th was published in the Bergen record and posted on the bulletin boards required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at
this meeting of July 16th. Is now before the council for its consideration and a public hearing and a resolution giving the ordinance second reading is moved by council member Perez. Miss Weamer, will you second? Second. on the resolution. Mr. Booker, hi. Mr. Perez, hi.
Miss Weame. Hi, Mr. Laalooa. Hi. Second reading is by title an ordinance to exceed the municipal budget appropriations limit and to establish a cap bank. The council is now ready to give all persons interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard. Concerning it, the council president
will recognize anyone who wishes to speak. No protest against objections to or statements in favor of this ordinance or passage has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? So move second. On the motion to close, Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez.
Hi. Missur. Hi. Mr. Lapaloo. Hi. And a resolution ordering final passage. Move. And on that resolution, Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi. Miss Dreamer. Hi. Mr. Lapalooa.
I two is an ordinance of the city of Bayon County of Hudson, New Jersey, approving the financial agreement buying between the city of Bayon and East 20. Make sure I have the right East 25th Street Urban Renewal LLC for the property located at
80-84 East 25th Street, which is identified as block 442, lot 14, as shown on the official tax map of act as shown on the official tax map of the city. It was introduced and passed the first reading at the meeting held June 18th was published in the Bergen record
and published on the bulletin boards required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at this meeting of July 16th is now before the council for its consideration and a public hearing. So, Maline, we need to do um
Okay. There was some confusion uh with the email that the uh uh developers attorney sent. Lot 14 is the correct lot there. Um that and that was noticed uh you know it's so as it currently reads it's there. It was noticed correctly then.
Yes. So, I know there was lot 12 there uh at in some uh uh copies of the ver of this version in draft. Um but lot 14 is correct and that is exactly what I read. Yeah, I know. So you have to point out the other side of
it. Yeah. But the um but also just um for the next couple ordinances uh here we do have Dan Banker from NW Financial um if if you want uh for the council's uh and the public's uh bene uh benefit uh can
go over the uh analysis of how uh we uh came to the terms of the financial agreement being up for adoption tonight. Thank you. Going back, the council is now ready to give all persons interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it.
The council president will recognize anyone who wishes to speak. Sharon Nowski 126 Avenue. How many years is the pilot? So, we're going to call up NW Financial and we'll let I just want to know the years. I don't
need to know all the other details. 20 years. 20 years. What happened to that 15year limit? Um, and how many units? Uh, 14 units. Any affordable housing? No.
Any workforce housing? This will be being pilot number 48 now as we're raising taxes just for those who might be keeping score at home or foot in the bill. Thank you. Anyone else?
No protest against objections to or statements in favor of this ordinance or its passage has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? So move second. The motion to close. Mr. Booker. Mr. Perez. Hi.
Missur. Hi. Mr. Lapaloo. I and a resolution ordering final passage. Second. And on the resolution for final passage, Mr. Booker.
Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. I Mr. Lapaloosa. I three jumping gun. uh an ordinance entitled an ordinance of the city of Bayon County of Hudson, New
Jersey, approving the financial agreement buying between the city of Bayon and 211-27 Broadway Urban Renewal LLC for the property located at 211-27 Broadway, which is identified as block 305 block 20 as shown on the official tax map of the city,
which was introduced and passed the first reading at the meeting held June 18th, was published in the Bergen record and posted on the bulletin board as required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing of this meeting of July 16th is now before the council for its consideration and a
public hearing and a resolution given the ordinance second reading is moved by the council president Mr. Perez will you second second one that resolution Mr. Booker I Mr. Perez I miss I Mr. I
second reading is by title an ordinance of the city of Bayon County of Hudson approving the financial agreement buying between the city of Bayon and 211-27 Broadway urban renewal LLC for the property located at 211-27 Broadway which is identified as block 305 block
20 as shown on the official tax map of the city. The council is now ready to give all persons interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it. The council president will recognize anyone who wishes to speak. Um, so how many years is this pilot? 25 years.
25. Oh, even longer. Um, again, way off the 15 that was promised we were going down to. One thing I forgot to ask on the last one, but I'll ask on this one. How many units is it? Uh, this is 39. And how many parking spots? 39. So, everyone's going to have just
one car a piece. And is there any um places in inside for deliveries, Ubers, or anything like that, or is that just going to be on the street in the residential area? that was uh the offloading uh again for
the council's uh for this council's recommendation was put into the redevelopment plan and uh that is part of the site plan approvals uh for there to be an internal uh loading and offloading zone. So there is yes
so additional to the 39 are there are these EV chargers here or something by state uh mandate there has to be 10% EV okay so you got 39 and how many bedrooms how many bedrooms are these units uh the unit is 10 studios nine one
bedrooms and 22 22 twobedroom units and we really think no one's going to have more than one car where are they going I didn't ask question on the one before it but that's in the worst area ever The parking, I don't know if anyone pays attention. I
know you get emails all the time up there. The parking is insane. There is nowhere to park. People are parking four or five blocks. You have now instituted and I don't really think you thought it out. You instituted 24-hour parking, but you have zones by colors
there. And I par I live on a border. If I live on a border or a zone and I come home at night and there's no parking, I can't I can maybe have to in my own zone go 15 blocks to find a parking spot, but I can go park over here the next block
over. There's a parking spot, but I'm going to get a ticket. I'm a bayon resident, but I'm not in the right zone. I think you needed like to figure that out better because you're restricting people from from almost some of them just from parking down the block from where they are because the zones change.
People drive around for hours, hours looking for parking and this just complicates it more. Councilman Wemer, you live over there where that last one was. And I've been at meetings where other people, Miss Kodeski Rodriguez, has come in and talked numerous meetings about the parking problem over there.
And this just conflates it. I mean, it just falls on deaf ears. It's a real problem. And I've heard it. We're going to address it. We're going to address it. Um, that's what Miss Gdeski was told. And I really don't see anything happening. I just see you guys addressing it by making it worse because
that's what this does. If you really think people We don't have the transportation infrastructure, public transportation infrastructure to say that people don't need cars. It's impossible. We don't have the best bus system. We have light rail which is not
it it's terrible. You know, if you're going anywhere, you can't get to the airport. There's nowhere. It is not. We do not have the infrastructure of public transportation to say people don't need cars. It's just not true. Look around. Thanks.
So, I'm I'm going to offer you a couple of comments, Sharon. Um just because um I I don't disagree with you. Um, I do think that it is unrealistic to think that within a community um, such as Bayon, we are going to be a totally
green community in which people are going to utilize alternate means of transportation because it's just not going to happen. It's not happening now. It never did before. I' I'd love to see it uh, get there someday. And I'd love to tell you that I'm the first one that jumps on my bicycle instead of my car,
but clearly if you look at me, that's just not true. So um I don't disagree. I have started um asking our developers to allocate enough parking spaces in the building so that there are more than one
parking space, one for certain and then more than one available. And however they institute that is is certainly uh up to them, but I need one dedicated spot. And then I need to have the ability if there's a two-bedroom apartment, there needs to be two spots
allocated to that apartment. I could even see whereas one-bedroom apartments were a husband and a wife. My husband and I have more than one vehicle. Um, it is realistic to think most people do. So, I do think that greater consideration has to be given to that area. I don't disagree with you
whatsoever. And I have started asking the developers. In fact, last week when I met with um one of the designers, the developers, and their architectural firm, um they did actually agree to go back and reconfigure their parking to
allocate one dedicated for each one-bedroom and two dedicated for each two-bedroom. And so it is it is a I can share with you it is a new effort. Um, I don't know that there's a building uh currently up and in effect that has that going on
today, but it is my ask in the future of all developers. And we also been very vocal about trying to get the developers to pay more money so that we could get some parking decks around town which would alleviate some problems as
well. So, uh, Council President, sorry for the, uh, interruption here, but I think the one of the other financial terms, too, and, uh, correct me, Mr. Banker, if I'm wrong on this, but also for this pilot, based on the council's direction, there's a community benefit
payment of $78,000. That's uh, again to be made to our uh, parks, infrastructure, um, parking needs, um, as you know, sees fit in the amended uh, redevelopment agreements that will come after. Um, for the last one, there was a payment that wasn't mentioned of 28,000 for those 14
units. So, I just want to make sure that for the record, those um, you know, are there for your considerations again for the public's knowledge for the stuff that was negotiated with the uh, developer on these projects. Thank you.
Can I um I just did some quick math and $78,000 over 25 years means you're getting $3,120 to the city per year to um create more of a parking crisis. That's not even enough money to maintain one parking
spot in the city. Thank you. Could you tell us your name and address, please? Anna Delicado, 16 Pavonia Court. Thank you. Anyone else? No protest against objections to or statements in favor of this ordinance or
its passage has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? Move. A second. Second. And on the motion to close, Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weame. Hi,
Mr. Lapaloo. I and a resolution ordering final passage. I move. And on the resolution, Mr. Booker. I Mr. Perez. Hi. Miss Weame. Mr. Lapaloosa. Hi.
04 is an ordinance of the city of Bayon County of Hudson, New Jersey, approving the financial agreement buying between the city of Bayon and Nova Groupoup Urban Renewal LLC for the property located at 474-476 Broadway which is identified as block 205 lot 10.01 01 as shown on the
official tax map of the city which was introduced and passed the first reading at the meeting held June 18th was published in the Bergen Regan and posted on the bullets boards required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at this meeting of January 16th is now before the council
for its consideration and a public hearing and a resolution moved by the council president given the ordinance second reading Mr. Perez will you second second on that resolution Mr. Booker I Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloosa. Hi.
Second reading is by title in ordinance of the city of Bayon County of Hudson, New Jersey, approving the financial agreement buying between the city of Bayon and Nova Group Urban Renewal LLC for the property located at 474-476 Broadway, which is identified as block
205, lot 1.01, as shown on the official tax map of the city. The council is now ready to give all persons interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it. The council president will recognize anyone who wishes to speak. Yes.
How many years is this one? Do I hear 30? Uh 25. 25. Another 25. How many units? 30 units and the breakdown of the bedrooms. Yes. Five studios, 15 one bedrooms, and 10 two bedrooms.
Again, um it's going to be the same issues. Um, and I just like to say I'm going to respond to Mr. Lapaloo's we're getting money and from these developers to maybe build parking garages where maybe the two properties you're in
eminent domain in. You may want to instead of putting more luxury housing with not enough parking and the one you're being sued on, I don't know if you got noticed yet. It'll probably be on next month's agenda that um Dr. Aena for Holiday Tree and Trim did file a lawsuit against the city on that. Um,
and again, so instead of maybe put in a parking lot, we'll spend money on lawyers. And I know the JIF don't pay any uh don't charge us, but they do. Um, but again, we we're giving away all the land to to we don't consider anything. You want to emit domain land for a
parking lot? I'll applaud you and I'll get behind you and I'll go out there and help you get it. But you're doing it for that. We're saying we're going to build parking, but there is nowhere left to build parking. You keep building more units and again how many parking spots were there? Uh 32.
And how many total units? 30. 30. So we're we're at a, you know, two two plus. But again, the number of two the number of twobedroom units has really increased percentage-wise in the number of units. And then you'll tell me that they don't impact our schools
because these twobedroom units don't have kids. And and if you want to talk about cars, and thank you, Miss Weamer, for your input. I appreciate your efforts to do that. Um, you're saying that they don't have um, you know, Miss We talked about two cars. Well, let me tell you, when
you have two bedrooms, you think there's people, they're not necessarily husband and wife. They're roommates. They have they have two people. They have roommates living in there because they can't afford the the rents that are being charged. Not if you work locally in Bayon, you're not affording that. We
don't pay our our school system. Our teachers hardly make anything if especially if you're new. The younger people barely can stay alive in this town. Um but again, tell me we're not impacting our school system with all these two-bedroom units, you know, because they are. There was a
time when there were less two-bedroom units, but we seem to have gone away from that and are not worried about overt taxing our schools. Additionally, we're right now we don't even have classrooms for them. We're outsourcing our kindergarten and and prek to um
private institutions around the city. We don't have room for them, but we keep hearing how we're going to address it, but it's just words. You're just again, once again, you're complicating it. You're adding to the problem. We don't have anywhere for the cars or the kids. So,
I also remember you voting yes on a lot of these projects that had the same amount of parking that you're coming at the council with now. First of all, I I said it before I voted on them, but I didn't vote for 47 of them, Gary. You did. Yeah. But you found religion now. Thank
you. Hi. Please state your name and address. Yeah. Ken Dupe, 90 West 3. I heard my ears picked up on asked. We asked the developers. We asked them. Why do we have to ask them?
I understand. I was told Well, wait. Can I finish, please? Yeah, go ahead. Uh I was told a while back that what we did with these what do you call them where they have don't have to pay so much for so many years or whatever. It was great. It took us out of the hole and now we're at a point where we don't have to really do that
anymore. That's the way I understood it. Don't we have any leverage? These people seem to want to be coming in here. The people open up restaurants and on and on. They must be they want to be here. I would think we should demand not ask. Make it required. You're going to come
here. going to give us this. Not could you put a parking lot. You're going to have to or you're not going to come here. We'll get another developer to come here. Well, it's it's not as easy as you made it sound. If you want me to explain it, I can explain it a little bit to you. Um the developers also have a choice of
where they want to build, too. So, um as far as demand, there's only so much of that you can do. And as far as, um Mr. Skiller was up here talking about the community contributions, money that goes to parks, money that goes to different things. They're giving us money back in
addition to the pilots as well. So, we get our service charge and we get money for different projects and different things. So, that's when I say we're trying to get money, it's all a matter of pulling the money for certain items.
The problem we run into with the pilots is if I live on 46th Street and a building is built on 46th Street, the money has to be spent around 46th Street. So if the first ward is in need of a parking garage, like I want to
start having these pilots pay into a fund to fund these parking garages, I have to spend it around 46th Street, which may not be the place where it's needed the most. Maybe I got to do it downtown on Seventh Street like Mr.
Drowski said or whatever. So, I can't build it. So, that's an issue and a problem. There's legal issues about where the money could be pulled. So, the council, we we have these great ideas and sometimes we're bound by law that we can't do certain things.
That's why we need to have closed sessions and things to talk about. Must be ready because I I can't get into details. All I'm doing trying to keep it simple like if I was talking to I'm I'm not trying to make it complicated either. I'm explaining to you why. Let's start acting. It's easy to it's easy for somebody to
come up and throw stones and say you should do this or you didn't do that. But the truth of the matter is that there's certain legal bounds that we all have to live by. All I'm saying is let's start working from a where we have the stop asking you know there's other developers that come. One doesn't come another one.
That might have been the primary now. So you set down the rules. Don't beg them. Set down the rules. It just, you know, go for a state of whatever. Thank you, council president. Yes. Without interjecting a personal opinion
here, I would encourage anyone concerned about development and planning development in this community to go to the planning board meetings, which is where this originates. By the time it comes here, story's been told.
The planning input input at excuse me, the input at that level is probably critical. If you have strong feelings, I suggest you go to planning board meetings first. The planning board will decide on
certain things. They'll hear about the parking spots. They'll hear about the structure and the development, how many bedrooms, and things of that nature. And then their recommendations get sent to us. Mr. Ceri, 8 West Grant Street. I understand we
have a lot of traffic, but for years been hearing about we're going to get walk over bridges on 440. Are we waiting for another seller to get killed on 440 and 39 32nd Street or another gentleman on 22nd Street on 440?
Where's the walkover bridges? You've been talking about this for years. Sharon was on it on that council then way before Sharon was on the council. It was talking about it. Where are these bridges? Don't talk about that 25th Street bridge because that developer should have been shot.
That is the worst walkover bridge I ever seen. Yes, it is. That elevator should have been put in when that staircase was put up. That developer should have been sued or they should have remodeled that bridge. That was the worst bridge. And I don't
care the city council allowing it. Use a f fall for that. Somebody gets falls down the stairs. Guess what? Somebody's going to get a million dollars from you guys. The uh the bridges over 440 are already set in motion. We're waiting for that to happen 10 years and No, we had an open
meeting, but I didn't see you there. So, you don't know. You want to know why? Because nobody postes anything. That's not true, Gary. I don't see any posts on your on your on your web pages. I don't see anybody's web page. I tell you what, there was actually more than one meeting here in the council chambers with viewpoints and
they handed out booklets. And Gary, I follow the city page. I follow your page. I don't see crap, Tom. It was on there. I'm pretty sure I I don't believe a word you're saying, you know. Sorry. Sorry, but it was there.
Anna and Delicado, 16 Poni Court. Um, when is the planning meeting that you guys were talking about about developments? Um, you know, uh, that would be good to know if we want to go there. Um, excuse me. Uh ma'am, I am uh the council representative for the uh
planning board and it is held once a month on Tuesdays and it is posted on the website along with the agenda. Yeah. G generally their uh Tuesday the second Tuesday of each month at uh 6:00 in this
uh room here. It's uh posted on the uh city's website on the calendar. Keith Galant, 25 East 23rd Street. Gary, um, people do find religion. Times change, people's change, and, um, I think you're, um, starting to take the
criticism a little too personally. Thank you for that. I appreciate I can I've spoken to Jackie about this. I can disagree with someone, but I can still be civil about it. I think I'm pretty civil. Um, people and if you can't field
um volatile uh comments. You're in the wrong job. I think municipal government's governance is difficult. It's why I'm not running for one of your seats. Um so I just want to put that out there. It's not a good look. All right.
Um, people are running out of patience in this city day by day and you guys are going to have to field more unrest and comments like this. So, you you've just
got to um come up with a a way to communicate better. Um, and I've got my own issues with a lot of them, but all in all, I still want to say that I've chosen to live in Bayon.
Um, and that doesn't mean that we can't manage intelligent growth, including the parking problem. And I'll be the first one to admit at my address there are now five licensed drivers at a single two
family bome box address. So we can all point to the developers which by the way should be providing guest parking spaces as well. Um but we also need to understand that there's many different facets that feed into the parking problem. Every single
family home in this town has multiple licensed drivers at them. Every multif family house has multiple licensed drivers at them that all require parking spaces. Okay, I do agree with Sharon
that we are not a city that is um very um forward-looking in terms of public transport, but if that is the case and that is the reality we're dealing with, we need to come up with better solutions that serves the constituency and the
taxpayers better and in a far more civil way. Anyone else? No protest against objections to or statements in favor of this ordinance or its passage has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? Move it. Second.
And on the motion to close, Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weame. Hi, Mr. Laalooa. I and a resolution ordering final passage. Second on that resolution. Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi,
Mr. Laalooa. I five is an ordinance of the city of Bayon County of Hudson, New Jersey, adopting the redevelopment plan for the property located at 90 935-939 Broadway which is designated as block 85
lot 23 as shown on the official tax map pursuant to the local redevelopment and housing law. It was introduced and passed the first reading at the meeting held June 18th, was published in the Bergen record and posted on the bulletin boards required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at
this the this meeting of January 16th is now before the council for its consideration and a public hearing and a resolution moved by council member Perez giving the ordinance second reading. Mr. Laaloosa, will you second? Second. On the resolution, Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez, I miss I
Mr. Laaloosa. I. Second reading is by title a res ordinance of the city of Bayon County of Hudson adopting the redevelopment plan for the property located at 83 935-939 Broadway which is designated as block 85
lot 23 as shown on the official tax map of the city pursuant to the local redevelopment and housing law. The council is now ready to give all persons interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it. The council president will recognize anyone who wishes to speak. Sharon Drosski, 126 Avenue. Thank you,
Mayor Jane. You gave me a great idea. Yes, everyone could go to a planning board meeting, but let's all talk about the planning board. Councilman um Booker sits on that planning board. I don't know. I haven't I I I'll go look at some of the videos if he's ever mentioned
parking or anything there. But I also do know that here, right here tonight, you're going to approve the plan, which I'm going to ask all the same questions on. And I also, Ben, when I sat up there, I voted no one. But you, Gary, you led and overrode at a meeting a
plan. The planning board, all the experts made a plan, said what they thought should fit in that spot. you opened it at the meeting, made a motion to increase the building by one floor and add more units.
So, don't say it's locked. It's written in stone. I thought I heard someone say once the planning board gets there. So, go there and tell it cuz it's not it's not when it's somebody who who's a supporter of yours, Gary. And that's what happened that time. I voted no on it. You added it. You went against the
expert recommendations on what that area could hold and added a whole another floor. Okay. So, right now, how many um What project was that that you're It's the old CAS cam. Jimmy Jimmy's uh Jimmy Gal's property. We It was three
floors. You opened it at a meeting and you overrode the planning board. You didn't even send it back to the planning board. You just overrode it and and Yes. And your colleagues voted for it. I voted no on it. Um but again, how many this is the plan myself from that. So, what is the plan here? How many
I recused myself from that vote. You absolutely did not. I did. Um but um can I um how many units are on this plan? Because you guys can you guys can adjust this and change right now listening to the people here. You have
that power. So again, this is the Bank of America site on the corner of uh 45th and Broadway. uh CME's planners uh did this plan given some site considerations uh
about the uh property being first of all a any regular shaped lot uh you know kind of dealing with the back portion of it. The second other consideration to also with this is the current building and the bank lot um the vault uh being
underground. So the removal of that um in order to make the project financially feasible had some considerations that's also deviating from the uh generally approved standard. So, the first um bulk regulations here for this um is just
making sure that the minimum lot area is 11,250 square ft uh with a minimum lot frontage on East 45th Street of 135 ft and on Broadway 75 ft. Um
the building does have uh a height of uh eight stories uh 95 uh feet uh with parking uh solely to be on the uh first floor um no more than 25 ft uh to deal with the stack parking uh with the
entrance uh garage on the 45th street side. So currently right now there's a curb cut on Broadway. the city will be gaining that uh curb cut back uh on that. The second thing again on the the setbacks there uh two is also from
making sure that there is a five uh sorry a uh 12t sidewalk provided along the Broadway side and a 10-ft um sidewalk proposed on the 45th street side. Uh there was also then some consideration made again for the
stacking of the or the setbacks of the building as it kind of goes up. So um council president Lapalooa again you also kind of again directed uh the administration to look at uh kind of st um setting back making it more of like a
a wedding cake tier on that and we did try to take that into consideration. So after the first floor, there is a 25- ft setback on the from the first floor um uh on the pedestal parking uh again to accommodate the residents in the back.
Uh there is a maximum unit count um allowed for 25 uh sorry 65 dwelling units. Uh there two bedroom and one bedroom. Uh it's studio one and two uh bed, but the
developer is proposing just only uh studio and single beds in their uh um it's approved. What's appro What is this plan approved? How many onebs and two bedrooms? There's no there's no unit count on those. It's just an overall dwelling count yet. Okay. Yeah, this is for the site plan. So
again, for their proposed site plan, um because this also does require a technical review committee, the developer has said that they're not going to while the plan calls, you know, allows for two bedrooms, they're uh have indicated that they do not want to seek
two bedrooms in this building. And parking uh parking is uh for uh residential space is one space per dwelling unit. one space per dwelling, which wouldn't be so bad if it really only doesn't have any two bedrooms. But again, it's on
Broadway where there's limited other parking and no other. Um, and you already Thank you for letting us know you're giving us back the parking spot on Broadway, but you're taking away one away on the side street. So, it's a net game for the city. No, that's not because there's already a curb cut on on 45th Street for that one.
Okay. So, one spot back a meter spot. Meter spot back. Yes. Okay. So, now's the point you guys can make changes, you know. So, I just wanted to make that clear that ultimately it's not written in stone once the planning board does it. You guys are the final final
comes to you for the final approval and you guys can make changes and it has been done. Okay. Excuse me. Uh Mr. Dross, can I uh address uh some of your concerns? Yes, I am a representative of the planning board and a lot of people do not come to those meetings. The questions that are
being posed here, some people are getting firsthand. the reason that I make my decisions here because I've already been informed about what's going on the project and that's where my vote comes from. And far as all the other questions and concerns far as parking,
apartments, units, water damage, all that stuff, I am already aware of that. My colleagues come up to me and they ask me questions about what goes on in the planning board. Yeah, I understand that. I sat on the planning board also and I would demand that I've seen some of your videos. I
would and I would question things. I would make them change the windows. I would make them change things. That's what I'm saying. You have the ability to do that. And that was what my opinion was. I was the one there. But my colleagues, just like with with the um cast cam lot, they they didn't agree. They wanted more building. They wanted
more units. And they voted. They overrode it at this meeting, which is absolutely, you're right. My question is, you're sitting here hearing us all say this. Are you at these meetings? Um I'll go to the next one. Saying, "Hey, we need more parking. Hey, we need this. We got to answer. And you also one of
other thing you need to do with all this construction is have a better coordination of where all the construction's happening in the town at the same time. downtown Bayon the other day. They sent you around in a circle because they were doing stuff on Fifth Street on Orient Street and the two different detours were different jobs and they literally sent you around in a
circle and you have these all these construction things going on at the same time on the I understand what you're saying but my question here is that your your concern is my position on the board and everything that you're questioning people should come to the meeting. some of the important questions that you're asking right now are being addressed for
the first time and they're unaware of what is going on in the planning board. The planning board makes makes informative decisions and then they bring it to the city council. The city council definitely is the final product but it doesn't move until it goes to the planning board. Yes, you can. But my point is you are
the c you're our representative. So if if residents are coming here expressing concern about things, you should be raising them as the council person on the board. I mean I I asked for literally for the buildings that went on
Avenue E. A resident came to this meeting and asked about you know can we get like standardized blind in the windows because these apartments these these windows look a mess. you know, people some people have blind, some people don't, some people. And you know what? I was the representative at the
next um planning board meeting, the next building that came up. I made that recommendation and they agreed to it. But I didn't I didn't think of that on my own. I wish I did, but I listened to what people said to me at the council meeting because I'm representing them at the planning board meeting. So, I'm just
saying, are you bringing back what you're hearing here? Because I know, like I said, I've been here to a lot of meetings and I hear multiple people talking about the parking and all that. So you're you're representing you're at large. You're representing the whole entire city. You should are you bringing that information back to the planning
board because not everyone can make a six o'clock meeting. Especially if you don't work in town and you got to come across the the turnpike bridge. You might not make a six o'clock meeting. It's really not it's really not conducive for the working people or their family. Okay. Well, I listen I I respect your opinion and what you're saying and I'm
not here to have a back and forth. This is not what the meeting is for. But what I'm saying to you is that those decisions that are made in the planning board then are moved forward to the council and that's where we make decision. So when the people come in and they bring up some of these questions, they've already been answered and we try and maybe I should maybe be a little bit
more informative and bring back from the planning board to the public. But again, that information is already available to them as someone the young lady just asked when are the meetings. She's not even aware when the meetings are and they're coming here asking questions and they really don't know what's going on. Yeah. Well, our our our I think our
paper of record is the Bergen record. So, we don't have a newspaper here. So, and and and the city really doesn't do a lot of outreach to let people know what's going on. Well, I'm going to disagree with that. But listen, thank you anyway. I appreciate your opinion. Council President, if I may, Michael Melli, I represent the redeveloper of
this property. The council, I think this council in particular, interacts with my clients more than any council in history. Full stop. I meet with every one of you individually and the projects that come out here you've had input in before they
get here and even after that when we come back for pilot we circle back with you and say is there anything else and and Councilwoman Wemer and I talk all the time about design tweaks about parking about loading to suggest that
you do not do your jobs is irresponsible. You do your job. You don't bound you don't pound your chest. You don't say, "Guess what we did? How we beat the developer into submission." Because that happens in private when we talk. And you just don't brag about it. But you do
interact with us. And it's not always the way we want it, but it's not always the way the city wants it either. We have to make something that's financable and buildable. And that's what Councilman Lalooa was talking about that demanding. You can demand, but then nothing gets built and nothing gets
done. So, I thank you for meeting and I continue to do that. And I just heard somebody say, "Good, good, no development." But we saved the city's budget already. The city's thriving. Its budget is we can do things that we couldn't do before. We can give raises to people that can't that deserve them,
that have been waiting for years because we couldn't afford it. We could invest in infrastructure. We're getting payments. Uh there's one pilot up for introduction. You're going to get $288,000 out of that project. One project, right? And that was towards community
and that wasn't my I would never suggest that on behalf of my clients. You guys asked for that council president to get back to the agenda. Yes. I well I would like my five minutes if that would if that would please you please. Thank you. Um listen I will I will discuss this with each one
of you and you know when's the last time I came in with parking that you guys weren't okay with on something? You know that even if it says one to one and you tell me we need more than that. you know, I'm going to go back to my clients and it's going to be more than onetoone in the end. That's the truth. And um I thank you for your time.
Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Um Ann Delicado, 16 Pavonia Court. Um I'm an infrastructure designer by trade and I don't think Bon infrastructure is a poorly run city. I moved to this city for a reason and I respect the
infrastructure of it, but I also do think there are valid concerns that I hear across the community as someone who, you know, um, knows a lot of people and is very involved in my community and, you know, I'm excited to see what the future holds on these and the plans
on those. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? No protest against objections to or statements in favor of this ordinance or its passage which has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? Move.
Want a second? Second. On the motion to close. Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi. Missur. I. Mr. Lapaloosa. I. And a resolution ordering final passage. Second. And on that resolution, Mr. Booker.
Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi. Miss Weame. Hi. Mr. Lapaloosa. Hi. 06 is an ordinance authorizing an amended and restated financial agreement for long-term tax exemption for the
property located at 155 Goldsboro Drive which is identified as block 790 lot 1.01 as shown on the official tax map. It was introduced and passed the first reading at the meeting held June 18th. Was published in the Bergen record and posted on the bullets and boards required by law with notice that it
would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at this meeting of July 8th is now before the council for its consideration and a public hearing. And a resolution given the ordinance second reading is moved by the council president Mr. Perez. Will you second? Second.
On the resolution, Mr. Booker. Mr. Perez, Miss Weamer. Hi. Mr. Lapaloosa. I second reading is by title an ordinance authorizing an amended and restated financial agreement for the long-term tax exemption for the property
located at 155 Goldsboro Drive which is identified as block 790 lot 1.01 as shown on the official tax map of the city. The council is now ready to give all persons interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it. The council president will recognize anyone who wishes to speak.
Yes, chair. questions. So, how many units is this one? How many years? How many units? So, for the public's record for the ' 06 and 07, these are the the reason why it
says amended and restated. These are the financial agreements that were approved under the previous council for the Joe Forgion uh residential portion that accurate uh was then assigned. Um, Madison Capital has now taken over the
project as the lender from Acurate and has these under two different LLC's and under, you know, taking legal advice from our special redevelopment council. Um, a re amended and restated financial agreement that uh allocates just again
two pilots for two different legal entities. Uh, is the reason why these two ordinances 06 and 07 are there, but these are already built. um projects. The terms are not changing uh for what was already approved on on that. And this is part of again finalizing the
year plus ongoing saga of settling the tax appeal lawsuit and litigation uh regarding the financial agreements with uh uh Accurate Builders, which is now from their lender took their position as Madison Capital. Okay. So, no terms changed. No terms
change except the the difference of having two different entities. Oh, and uh just so I don't have to come up again and we can get to the public speaking for everybody. Um it was good that I was glad Mr. Miselli got up and talked and made it quite clear that you guys all have input into the number of
units and parking and and number of bedrooms. That was really nice. Thanks for the clarification. Thank you. Anyone else? Um Meline, I apologize. Um, Director Skiller, could I ask you a couple of questions, please?
Sir, out of the 47 pilots that are currently on our books, how many of them were instituted by the prior administration approximately? I mean, this backing out the numbers,
the prior council, I mean, we've done maybe 15 to 20. So, or hold on, let me We started with silk 40%. No, I take that back. I I'm sorry I misspoke. I'm just going off the top of
my head on this, but we got silk lofts. We started with we had did the Is it fair to say that is it fair to say that a precedent had been set? Well, absolutely. There is definitely a
precedent that was set. Um the you know the terms of the financial agreements were already you know almost agreed upon um of the standard clauses and again they've been tweaked as the changes of the council you know for the need to that um and again you were the
first one that you know talked about in the financial agreements talking about a community benefit payment. I was and then the rest of the council you know again bought the idea and that's why we're now doing that. Um and we've had the legal discussions of where to put them of again it's not in a financial agreement you know it's
amending the RDA to reflect those terms but they have to go hand inand you know the redevelopment agreement talks about the ability to build the pilot or sorry build the project the financial agreement talks about the funding aspects of it you know and again what the city's benefit of it you know we
have you know these are ongoing I think processes that we are better refining um from prior you know from prior practices, you know, uh to where something I think that is a more transparent, more um open, you know, on
the collaboration efforts from the administration to the council and to the developer. So, um you know, we are very forceful on what we ask for uh you know, but this is also a negotiation process um for it. you know, we don't want to
lose the ability to again have property sit a foul. Um, right and we also at the same point too don't want to have be in a situation where you know the lender you know banks don't feel comfortable within our real estate market uh there. So that's why these financial
agreements, you know, are necessary um in that process and and during that process also um uh Moody's, which is the financial institution that rates different municipalities whether or not they are a good investment or a uh high-risk investment did in fact raise our
investment rating. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. It is. Yeah. And so my my questions are are just to ensure the community um that one as as a council we do have the community's best
interest at heart. I I know I do um and I I believe that I could uh say with relative certainty that my colleagues do as well. Having been here long term um as as Keith uh so very well pointed out, it is not easy to sit here um and and
listen to ongoing um ridicule and and something that borders almost on harassment. But because it is the community's thoughts and feelings, I think we have an obligation. We chose to be here. We have an obligation to do this. However, what I what I do want the
community to understand is not everything started today and a lot of these policies and procedures that are in place were put in place one to benefit the community to as as Miss Noski pointed out to um entice the
developers to come here. It was a how $30 million deficit in our budget. Yeah. or 12 years ago, 12 years, 10 years, 12 years ago, whatever the case may be. Nevertheless, so it it did these programs did enable
us to come out of that deficit. I I do there's a lot of things going on. We'll we'll introduce a couple of things at the end of the meeting as well um that I'm hopeful uh we can look at that will benefit the community greater. these contributions that we have asked for from the developers um are contributions
that we started just recently. It is something that we do not have the ability to mandate. We are asking for the contributions. I don't know that we've ever had a developer say no, I'm not willing to do that. Um I do know that we take part in an awful lot of communications um and back and forth and
we do give thoughts and ideas. I know we take those thoughts back. Certainly parking um is one because I go through it also. As I said, I we have um two vehicles in our household as well. So, I I just I wanted to point out that these not all of these financial agreements
started today. Um a good portion of them had started by the prior were started by the prior administration. Um the precedent had been set. Uh the developers do come to expect that same um consideration that was given prior uh
to them as well. And so we do try to continue that in the best way that will serve the city. So um council I just want to uh just add something quickly just so that the public um doesn't think uh again there's a 47 active pilot that that means that
the projects have been built. Um doesn't mean that again you know we the pilots that were approved are going to be added to the list immediately. They still have to be the building has to be built. So there's, you know, for me to, you know, give an accurate number, you know, say, "All right, these are 48 through, you know, you know."
Sure. And I I don't expect that, Joan. I I appreciate it. I'm sorry. But nevertheless, the 47, you know, major, you know, majority of them, you know, if not most of them were under the prior administration administration, right? Thank you, Joe.
Okay. I'm sorry. No, it's okay. No problem. And that's what I was saying about the asking. I appreciate that to back up on that. Anybody else? No protest against objections to or
statements in favor of this ordinance or its passage has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? So move. Second. A motion to close. Mr. Booker Mr. Perez. I Miss We Mr. Lapaloosa. I. And a resolution ordering final passage.
Move it. Second. And on that resolution, Mr. Booker, hi. Mr. Perez, hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloo. I 07 is an ordinance authorizing an amended and restated financial agreement
for long-term tax exemption for the property located at 110 Goldsboro Drive which is identified as lot 722 lot lock lot 722 lot one as shown on the official tax map of the city which was introduced and passed the first reading at the meeting held June 18th was published in
the Bergen record and posted on the Bolson board as required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at this meeting of June 16th, 2025. It is now before the council for its consideration and a public hearing and a resolution moved by council member Perez given the ordinance
second reading. Mr. Lapalooa, will you second? Second. On the resolution, Mr. Booker. I Mr. Perez. I. Miss Reamer. I. Mr. Lapaloosa. I. Second reading is by title an ordinance authorizing the amended and restated financial agreement for long-term tax exemption for the property
located at 110 Goldsboro Drive which is identified as block 722 lot one as shown on the official tax map of the city. The council is now ready to give all persons in interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it. The council president will recognize
anyone who wishes to speak. and Manny West history. I don't understand much of this uh dialogue here, you know. I'm sorry. I don't. But what did pop up to me was the Goldsboro Drive. And since we're talking about all this building here, I think I mentioned,
you know, a while back I got a little carried away, but I think before any new building is done in that area, that situation has to be fixed. I mean, isn't there any way that the council can at least mandate that? So, I've actually met I'll let Mr.
Skiller tell you, but we met and there is a plan to fix. I just want to mention one thing. I go to Lyles, Costco, etc. Uh, if you go and, you know, it's like playing a video game to go out certain entrances, your back, walk, backward.
So, what I do is I go around the gym. If you go around the gym, you could bury a body in someone's potholes. I really I agree. pictures. I have a a thing called Bayon Watchdog. If you go there, you can see the pictures. But I do have a calling to the city engineer and it will be addressing it. But here
again, it's not like, you know, you told me I do it. I'll go out there and handy. I'll just throw some dirt in there. But he's it's the city road, but the developer has to take care of it. So once again, you know, the developer, you know, maybe it's going to get done quickly. You know, the person said they
were going to contact him, but the thing is, I don't know. Let's let's work for a power of strength, not weakness. You know, a gentleman over here said there won't be any more buildings if we demand I think a lot of people would like that. The joke was years ago when I grew up,
they would knock down a one family house and they say, you know what's going to happen? Developer is going to buy it and he's going to put up two families. I don't if anybody remembers that. I guess I'm talking about my age. Now you knock down a couple things and you put up 20 store buildings
and I don't you know people wouldn't care if you stop building you know because you know I know you do for the interest of the people but I think we have to see it because when you say you're going to raise our taxes you're getting all this money and this and that but we don't see it right
the number one thing that's asked of us what the number one thing that's asked of me and my colleagues can tell you sure what am I hearing this could you speak louder the number one thing that's asked of me as a councilman is to not raise my taxes. And the solution was to get new
ratables in. And those developers are the new ratables. And that's the reason why we were able to get that $30 million deficit down. No, I said that. Appreciate that. But it seems like we're crossing the bridge now. But how how can you um erase that
deficit and get more new ratables in if there's another way to do it? I would love to hear it. Well, let me tell you, I've done everything went up, not just from CO. It went up on its own, but then CO made it go up even more. I did a budget for 40 years on paper. I
don't know any people ever did that, right? But I made pretty good money in the 80s when I had my own business. When the computers came around, I went to working for like $10 an hour at Satan Hall shoveling food. But I still did a
budget. I couldn't go to you or anybody else and say, "Hey, my car broke. Give me." But you do it. I mean, it's all over. Not you guys, the country, everything. Right. You ever hear, you know, I've worked at places where they froze salaries. You got some high salaries in this city. I don't take it away from them. There's no
reason a guy can't There's no reason you can't have a salary freeze once in a while. We We run into some problems. Again, I know I've I've said this before where the five of us have all come up with great suggestions and things that would benefit the town and sometimes there's caps and all these different things that
limit us on things that we could do. They're made for the public because this way there's channels and there's there's different things that have to be voted on so that the public can see it all, but it limits us sometimes in what we could do. if I could snap my fingers
tomorrow and get that Goldsboro Drive fixed. I know, you know, we we went over a plan with the traffic department, which I'd like you to explain a little bit. Right now, um sometimes I guess when things are agreed upon and developed, you don't know what the situation's going to be
like until afterwards. Now it's swelled so much with the traffic of all these different businesses and the apartments and different things that are built that you start to see, okay, I gotta change this traffic plan now. So that's what we did. We went down there with Lieutenant
Ki from the traffic and we've figured out some ways now that we need to change. We need to maybe put a divider in the middle where people can't go across because right now the two driveways are are right across from each other and we actually have people like you said playing
the cat and mouse game to get across from the traffic. It's swelled so much that um we know that there's a problem and there is a fix coming that I can tell you. Just one last thing. I know you guys are doing good job and I get passionate. I'm
not not throwing stones at anybody, but I actually talked to Lloyd uh called me up today and I think maybe agrees with this and I'm also uh checked into town halls in other cities. Newark in the summertime they have two town hall
meetings a month and four in the in the winter. You know, I think this should be a venue where, you know, we're taking up a lot of time here and there's a lot of other speakers, but maybe consider having town hall meetings maybe on a topic. Maybe each councilman rotates it
and then we could come in here and instead of going through all this other things a lot of us don't understand or don't care about, we can focus more on this and maybe back and forth, we can come up, you know, with an idea or two that you like and we'll like. How's that sound? So, you know, think about it. Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you, Council President. Laploo, just to update you on the traffic plan uh for uh MPY. Uh Andy Riel uh who's our special projects engineer um is still designing it. He's finalizing his cost estimates on that.
Uh where we should have a response um um by the end of this week on it. Uh but there's a couple design changes. Uh for the most part, it's uh restriping. Uh and also again there's still some of the things that uh for I think it's cross lane that comes out
of um um the entrance uh that Mr. D pre was talking about uh on that specific cross lane is the name of the street around the gym that you were speaking when I said the city owns it. Nobody knew the name of it.
We did but the city owned it the developer is responsible. the developer is. So what happened was under that redevelopment agreement um that was passed the overall developer uh for the Costco site is
responsible to build that but when he sold off the residential portion of that that's the last item that's being bu um finished right now um by Madison Capital and that should be done um by within this year on that. Uh so um Mr. 4G own
entity has to, you know, repave uh um cho uh cross lane along with um uh port um Imperial Boulevard, I I think is the original name. There's they're still doing construction work again. They're finishing up the
they're finishing up the walkway uh along there. So, they're bringing the uh heavy materials of concrete uh you know, they're doing this the sewer uh lines. We can check into some of the big ones and see what we can do about getting it filled. Yeah. And and then Director Sker, is there an
update on the Costco entry and exit? Costco submitted uh an application to the state uh Department of Transportation for highway access uh so that they can get a curb cut onto Broadway. Uh sorry, onto onto 440. uh on
that uh and then um once when uh the state you know approves that uh plan uh make sure that it conforms with the uh DOT uh regulations uh then it will come in front of the uh the planning board for it to be heard. No protest against objections to or
statements in favor of this ordinance or its passage has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? Second and on the motion to close Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloo. I
and a resolution ordering final passes. Move it. And on the resolution, Mr. Booker, hi. Mr. Perez, I Miss We, Mr. Lapaloosa. Hi. 08 is an ordinance authorizing the sale
of the property. Yeah. Authorizing the sale of the land at a private sale to a body corporate and politic pursuant to NJSA4A col 12-13B section 1 and was introduced and passed the
reading first reading at the meeting held June 18th was published in the Bergen record and posted on the bullets and boards required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at this meeting of June 16th is now before the council for its consideration and a public hearing and a resolution
moved by the council president given the ordinance second reading would like to second and on the resolution Mr. Booker Mr. Perez Mr. Perez I did said I
oh Miss I Mr. I second reading is by title an ordinance authorizing the sale of land at public sale to a body of corporate and politic pursuant to NJSA4A
12-13b section 1. The council is now ready to give all persons interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it. The council president will recognize anyone who wishes to speak. No protest against objections to or
statements in favor of this ordinance or its passage has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? So move. And on a motion to close. Mr. Booker. Mr. Perez. I. Miss. We. Mr. Lapaloo. I a resolution ordering final passage.
Move it. Second. And on that resolution, Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi. Miss Weame. I Mr. Laaloo. I 09 is an ordinance amending and supplementing the revised general ordinances of the city of Bayon chapter
13 recreation and other public facilities which was introduced and passed the first reading at the meeting held June 18th was published in the Bergen record and posted on the bullets and boards required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at this meeting of June 16th is now
before the council for its consideration and a public hearing and a resolution given the ordinance second reading. Who'd like to move it? Move it. Second. And on the resolution, Mr. Booker. I Mr. Perez. I Miss Weamer. Mr. Lapaloosa.
I. Second reading is by title and ordinance amending supplementing the revised general ordinances of the city of Bayon chapter 13 recreational and other public facilities. The council is now ready to give all persons interested in this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it. The council president
will recognize anyone who wishes to speak. No protest against objections to or statements in favor of this ordinance or its passage has been filed with me. May I have a motion to close? Move this on a whole. Is that okay with everybody? You want to close the hearing as a whole?
I'd just like to make a quick comment. Uh, as a veteran myself and I see here in the statement also says all uh military veterans honorably discharged uh out to the public. Please, to all the veterans out there, make sure you have your VA card and it does say honorable
discharge on it, otherwise you won't get in. Thanks. Right. And and I think we collectively believe we can't do enough for these veterans. So, um that's why we do it on a whole. Okay. So, on the motion to close the hearing, Mr. Booker, I.
Mr. Perez, I. Miss Weamer. I. Mr. Lapaloosa. I. And a resolution ordering final passage as a whole. as a whole, please. And on that resolution, Mr. Booker, I Mr. Perez, hi. Miss Weamer, I
Mr. I 010 is an ordinance amending and supplementing the revised general ordinances of the city of BAM chapter 7 traffic which was introduced and passed the first reading at the meeting held June 18th was published in the Bergen record and posted on the bullets and
board is required by law with notice that it would be further considered for final passage following a public hearing at this meeting of June 6 July 16th is now before the council for its consideration and a public hearing and a resolution moved by council member Perez Miss Wemer will you second Second on the resolution. Mr. Booker.
Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi. Miss Weame. Hi. Mr. Lo. Hi. Second reading is by title an ordinance amending and supplementing the revised general ordinances of the city of bay on chapter 7 traffic. The council is now ready to give all persons interested in
this ordinance an opportunity to be heard concerning it. The council president will recognize anyone who wishes to speak. No protest against objections to or statements in favor of this ordinance or its passage has been filed with me. May we have a motion to close. Move it. Second
on a motion to close. Mr. Booker, hi. Mr. Perez. Hi. Missur. Hi. Mr. Lapaloo. Hi. And a resolution ordering final pass. Move it. Second. And on the resol resolution final passage. Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi.
Missur. Hi. Mr. Lapaloo. Hi. Our first speaker is Darlene Denega. Darlene Denega, 38 Kelly Parkway in Bayon. Okay. I cry for the geese and also the humans
who paid a fee to the USDA to murder animals who have done no harm. One should never be the reason why any animal trembles in fear, cries in pain, or loses their life. Keeping silent while our geese are being tortured to
death is morally wrong. I suggest you listen to actual recorded sounds of terrified crying and screaming geese as they're being gassed, which is available from the Animal Protection League of New Jersey. Mothers, fathers, and their babies suffered and died in
agony. Tom Carter and the Bayon City Council condone this unspeakable massacre. We had a variety variety of non-lethal solutions presented to Tom Carter in 2023. So far, none has been accepted by Mr.
Carter. I believe the ultimate evil is knowing what is wrong and looking away when you have the power to make the difference. That is the true evil. Tom Carter made the decision year after year and the city council approved the
contract to gas our geese. His victims never had that choice. Now there's talk about a resolution to no longer allocate money for gas geeseing. Will this resolution uh be renewed every year or will it be a
permanent resolution or and can it be revoked the following year? Um I ask what will it take to melt the ice in your hearts and and ban geese gassing forever? And I just have something else to say. um the area where you on Fifth
Street when you're going to go onto 440 towards Walmart or whatever that whole area there were four families of geese mothers fathers and their babies there were four families and they're not there anymore and I was told that the USDA
cannot come into Bayon onto uh private property because from what I understand it that area is not owned by Bayon so what happened to those geese What happened to the babies? I don't understand it. And I'm really upset. They were, if you saw how cute they were
and adorable and the mother protecting the, you know, the mother and father protecting the babies as you got close and they're gone. So what happened to them? Who g who took them and gas them? And it's private property from what I understand.
And I I don't understand it. First of all, isn't that against it's a wild they're wildlife. So who why gas them? Who gas them? Who gave them that permission to do that when and when it's wildlife and not supposed to be they're not supposed to be touched. So why are
they being touched? Nobody has an answer. So who approved that to gas them like that? Is this Germany or what or Bon? What is it? So who did it? Who gave them permission? And who wrote it down on a piece of paper saying that you can gas the the
geese? Who? Gary, do you know what happened to those legs? Do we need a new councilman? I mean, what do we need? New blood in here or something? Really? Because who did it? Who signed the paper to say to do that to wildlife? Because people can be
prosecuted for that because they're a wildlife. They're not supposed to be touching them. So, so who did it? The city council did not. No. And you're the council people, but you don't know. So, somebody came in here
and just sit in on their own. Um, Mr. Dupe, take you. You have a turn. Come. Okay. But I think everybody got to speak. We don't want to do a question and answer back and forth. So, we need your statement. Gary, can you please look into and find
out who slaughtered those geese, the families? I don't know if those geese were slaughtered or moved on. I really did the USDA come in and because then they broke the law because they're not I don't know where they came in. I really not owned by the I really don't know where they came in.
So because they come at 2 or three in the morning. We don't know what they did. Maybe they chased them. We have something further on on our our agenda that will explain a lot of this. Well, why don't you say it now? Where? But because it's more prevalent to do it during the resolution.
But who signed it? The paper. Because when I'm going to call the governor up because you can there is a number and you can leave it and I I'm going to tell them that nobody's going nobody admitted right here who signed the paper to kill those kids. I'll answer your questions when it comes
a little further in the right the agenda. I will but you should know though, right? We do. But I I will answer I will answer your question. Did you sign the paper too? Did you sign one? No, I did not. I never signed a paper.
USDA. Never. I never signed a check either. So, who did it? So, let him say who did it, but what he seems to know and it's from the information. Wait a second. One second, Maline. Who's next on your list?
Mr. Okay. All right. Go ahead. Uh, Kenday, 90 West 35th Street. The plane detective, you know. Um, I want to find out like she did too, but I'm just going to tell you what I've learned from conversations with several pe people who
I won't The only person I'll mention is the uh Well, let me read this. It's okay because I I did text you back. You texted me. I texted you back. Let me get my other glasses on. Well, that's keep it brief but to the
point here. I've been in communication with a couple of council members and my understanding is that none of the council members wanted the geese any geese killed. In addition, the city was presented with
non-lethal alternatives by the Animal Protection League of New Jersey Wildlife uh mitig uh mitig I can't mitigation team. Uh
Mr. Carter, why did you uh not go with these? We're not going to do we're not going to do a question and answer. This is your public speaking portion. Well, how people going to learn? She's asking a question. Well, there's something coming on later on that I promise you you'll get some answers from, but I cannot allow the back and
forth during the speaking part. Um, I'll pose it now as a question then. Yeah. And if any question you have, you have to come through the chair first. If Mr. If Mr. Carter and if he didn't, I think he should be the opportunity to say that he didn't.
If he doesn't say it, I don't want I don't want a question and answer. This is not a statement period. in spite of people taking a fifth. So that means it's not I explained to you we're going to I was told I don't want to call off people name I was told that he was in meetings
and I was told that he was asked to cancel the contract which he could have done up until that day but he didn't do it. So I think he should be given the opportunity for his sake to respond. When the time comes if Mr. Carter wants
to make a statement I will let him. He doesn't have to though for right now. I know he doesn't have to, but the council is going to address this further on. You're gonna address it going forward. What about the the things that we're talking I'm going to address the things that you're talking about will be addressed.
You will address who ordered the killing of the geese. Were you going to answer that? Excuse me. There are agenda items. Yeah, you have to you have to go. There's there's some order. Come on. Let's Let's have some courage
here. stand up stand up for what they did and I'm going to explain everything. You will get an explanation, but let other people speak cuz that's their speaking portion as well. Well, we're discussing this. What are they going to speak about other things?
I'll sit down, but you know this is uh the silence is uh speaking loudly here. But but Ken, this is the way we do our meeting. You're allowed the statement period and to talk for five minutes on anything. Well, that's why you should have town meetings then. But it can't just be questions because this meeting will go
on forever. It was one question. It was more than one question. No, I said, "Why did you not utilize not lethal methods to Mr. Carter?" I'm giving the opportunity. He could tell me that he didn't do it. He's not saying anything. So, it's it's a disservice.
Ask questions of anybody. You have to go through the chair and this is just the public speaking portion. Waste of my valuable. I'm sorry. Sorry. You'll get information that I promise you. Mr. Ceri here, West GR Street, I had two items I
was going to talk about. Uh 10:12 10:22 the uh Jewish temple. I already talked to Miss Elli about it and he told me what's going on. They're going they're moving ahead with it.
The other issue I have is Uptown, Gary, you know it. It's a crap hole. You got public service digging everywhere. Now you got a water department coming down 49th Street. It was just paved.
And they're going to dig up the street. Why don't they before they dig up the street, why don't they go to each house first to see which one has a lead line instead of digging up the street to find out, oh, this guy don't have a lead line. He has one on my block. I'm on West Grant Street.
There's five houses on that. Five houses don't have lead lines, but they're going to close that whole street down. They're going to dig it all up, and the city's allowing it. I feel that this town taxpayers Because with all the convenience public services
putting us through like they like the bail bridge did. They gave First Street on Boulevard a tax break. Well, they should give everybody a tax break. All the inconvenience that this town's going through public service. No. What they're doing is they're raising their raising
the prices. Also, Goldsburg Drive you brought up. Wish we could put a uh concrete uh barrier down there. If you remember, probably about a month ago, I stood here. Joe Skylinder
was here. I said, "Put delineators in." Oh, we can't do that. Put a New Jersey barrier in. Can't do that either. Well, guess what? You should put a New Jersey barrier in because you want to know why? The other day I'm going onto 440 going out to make a left turn. There's three
lanes now. Because you got the morons going into the turn lane, going to the Costco. Now they're going into that lane. And you know what I did? I cut the person off that was on my left. He wasn't supposed to be there. I had my grandson in the car. I said, "Jayen, what should I do?" He said, "It's up to
you." I said, "Okay." The car in front of me gave me 5T. I hit the gas. I cut him off. He stopped me at the light. I said, "What are you going to do?" I said, "You're wrong. You're still in the left lane. Now you're in You're blocking crust from coming in. So, who's going to get the ticket?
We have to do something down there." We will. I keep on hearing years ago I worked for KRE. We we had p we had to pave the roads as we got done each building. We had to pave pave the roadway. That traffic
light that was supposed to be on Goldsburg Drive 5 years ago, six years ago should have been in place before KRE got done. Somebody's going to get hurt or get killed and it's going to be on the city's head. And I want to congrat
for his done before the Costco was built and they said it didn't warrant it. Now we're willing to wait for that. Costco agreement with you about the delineators too. So these things are coming. I understand. But before Costco got built, you had how many units down the
lower end of MOT? You had over 200 units? almost 2,000 units down there coming out. The eyes should have the eyes should have opened up. Put a light there right away. But no, now now that now you your backs are up against the wall. Car
accidents that happen every day. But nobody cares. Well, we care. We're just waiting for DOT approval for the light. All right. But put the linears in or uh New Jersey barriers. Okay. Before somebody gets killed over there because I'm going to keep on cutting people off if they're on my left.
I'm going to push. I'm going to make sure they stay in the left lane and they go head-on with another car. And I'm going to sit there be a witness. Yeah, he was in the wrong lane. And now I'm going to come back with the pictures and show you what the person looks like then and see how you like it.
Miss Nrosski, I just um this is not what I was going to talk about, but I just want to address one thing Miss um Wemer said back to me. Um yeah, I I know that I passed them. I also know there's a lot more. Um I voted on pilots when I sat up there when we had a $30 million
structural de deficit. When I left sitting up there, we were down to single digits in the deficit. I think we're back up. And we use them for a purpose. Also the LA when I left the last ones we made we were not doing anything more than 15 to 10 years. So um unless the deficit has gone completely out of
control and um another thing you mentioned Moody's the fact that our Moody's waiting went up means that they can that these um developers should be able to get better financing without incentive because the rating went up. You you know that better than most people sitting up there. So, that's
another actual reason why the pilots don't have to be as long as they are or the terms to be as great as they are because they can get financing because of the rating increase. But what I really came here to talk tonight about is um I was down at the fireworks last week. Um
and I'll just say that uh it was it was great, but I was there in the beginning and there was an incident down there with kids with fireworks. And I just want to commend the cops. The it was a lot. They were chasing these kids. They a firework went off almost went off into the they were shooting them in the air
and the cop got them and they dropped it on the ground. One cop stepped on it otherwise it would have shot into the crowd because it was still shooting. It kind of blew up his shoe a little. Um but you know he definitely saved people from getting hurt. They was only like three three kids I think that got um
arrested and taken away and then the rest of the night um wind up being a beautiful night. So I condemn them. It was a very hot day. they're all in full uniform, full gear, you know, and uh you know, I just want to say they did a good job and I appreciate that and the rest of the evening wind up being very
enjoyable. So, thank you to the Bayon police. Thank you. Uh Mr. Drosski, um I just like to address I agree with you 100%. I happened to be at that event and early on there was some juvenile delinquency
to put it lightly was happening in the Bayon Police Department. And I I don't say that simply because I was a former I am a former police officer, but the uh the uniforms were outstanding and they did save a lot of people from being hurt. It was under control. Some people
were detained and moving forward the event went over uh without a hitch. And I just again I commend uh the Bayon Police Department and the DC is here. And I also want to say that to the fire department also. They were involved and I agree with you 100%. They they should
be noted about that. Thank you. Mr. Galant. Good evening. My name is Keith Galant, 25 East 23rd Street. Um, I'm here tonight because of uh what I believe or
at least from my perception of my lived experience is a rise in hatred and bigotry in Bon. I wrote an op-ed and I didn't publish it or send it to the news outlets. I was counseledled by um some very smart, trusted people to come here
first and give you a chance to address what I believe is an issue. So last month when the mayor posted on Facebook about the raising of the LGBT LGBTQ pride flag, it should have s been a symbol of progress. Instead, it would
triggered over 450 comments, many of them hateful. It was a digital wave of bigotry that can no longer be ignored. This wasn't an isolated incident. A similar reaction happened in response to the Bayon Medical Center raising the
pride flag. Also last month, a Jersey Shore publication intentionally published an article completely misrepresenting the raising of the Junth flag in Bayon over the American flag. That could have easily been fact
checked, but it wasn't. They went ahead and published what they knew was a falsehood and misinformation. That should leave us all asking why it wasn't fact checked and what the real agenda was behind publishing that story.
Bon has a long documented history of exclusion. From its role in slavery and redlinining to the present- day culture of denial, many residents still act as if diversity is something to fear and not embrace.
And when that mindset goes unchecked, make no mistake, it poisons the entire community. Bigotry doesn't damage just reputations. It hurts people and drives money out of the city. LGBTQ residents, people of
color, and younger generations are spending their dollars elsewhere. Where inclusion is real and it's not just performative. Bon doesn't suffer from a few bad apples. It suffers from a refusal to
reckon with its past and its present. But here's the truth. In my opinion, Bon can change. The pride flag was a start, but it must be followed by real leadership, honest conversation, public
discourse, and a bit of public courage. If this city chooses honesty over denial, inclusion over fear, it can finally become what it claims to be, a place for everyone. I'm here today to ask the council and
the mayor to take a stand and issue a public statement denouncing expressions and actions of bigotry and hate in Bon to let everybody know this is not what Bon is about, stands for, or tolerates.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, um I I apologize, Council President. Um I am uh responding to um Ken because Keith because as he said uh he did reach
out to me. He does live in the second ward. Um he's a wonderful I know to be a wonderful part of the community. Um provides a tremendous service and um and is and has just become a friend. Um that from the man that yelled at me the first time I met him, but that I I'll take
ownership of that. It was my fault. Uh, nevertheless, um, Ken, on behalf of the entire city, I I I'm sorry. I apologize that that is um the feelings that you have garnered um
and how you are meant to feel uncomfortable um in your own home um and and within the community that you chose to be a part of. Um I'm very happy to issue that statement in in favor just as you ask. Um, I would I won't speak
for my colleagues. I do I I think I can speak for them in saying that that is not a culture that we would ever look to um to enhance or to encourage here within the city. It's not who we are. Um, and so I I I don't think you're
going to um have much of an issue uh with with certainly with with myself coming on board. Um, and I was able to I although I did not receive the email in advance, I was able to give my colleagues uh copies of your communication so they do have it. I'll of course let them offer their own
comments, but you have my full support. I just want to offer another perspective. If this hate and bigotry was directed at black or brown people, the city would come out and say something and denounce it immediately. if it was directed
towards women with sexism and misogyny, the city would get on board and come out and denounce it immediately. But it seems when it's directed towards LGBTQ LGBTQ people, um, and I won't use the
slurs that I feel I'm entitled to use. Um, it gets a pass and I'm just not standing for it anymore. I started the business of growing the flowers here because I was tired of sitting at home and watching this culture continue to
grow in Bayon. And I decided to raise the bar and show people there's a better way to be kinder and gentler and more accepting. And we need leadership from the city to get on board and at least start sending the messaging that that's what we
believe in and that's what we stand for. Absolutely. We'll do our part to get a resolution together and I think I speak for my colleagues that we embrace diversity in this town and we'll prove it to you. Thank you, Keith. Uh Councilman Booker,
again, uh real quick, I just want to say to you, uh you mentioned two flags that I am very uh closely related to. I have uh several family members who are part of that community and I totally support everything that you say. Thank you for coming out and saying that and and
mentioning both flags Junth and LGBTQ plus community. Uh the fact of the matter is that most people need to hear what you have to say because I am a lifelong uh resident of Bayon. I don't want to belabor the conversation, but the fact of the matter is I've always
defended Bayon. It's like it's family. I love Bayon and I say it completely and wholeheartedly and honestly. The fact of the matter is families fight. Families don't agree all the time. Families have growing pains. Yes. And that's what Bayon is doing right now. Bayon is actually in the midst of a
growing pains, but everybody is welcome in this town and diversity should be welcomed and I'll do everything in my power and I will say it loudly uh that I support everything that you said. I didn't get a chance to read uh your thing, but I will definitely read it tonight. Matter of fact, uh I'm looking
forward to it and anything that I can do, please reach out to me and I just thank you for that. and uh the general uh public should uh hear that message. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Mr. Inseroino.
Good evening, uh council members, uh city clerk, everybody here. Um when last I saw you, it was I think it was back in April. I'm sorry about my throat. I've been very sick over the weekend and my throat is a little uh iffy. Um I saw you
in April when I was trying to uh um advocate for uh my taxi license appeal. Um I have not heard a word since then and as I'm sure Miss Medina can attest, I've I've been around trying to find out what's going on. So, I figured I should
come down tonight and find out if there's anything you still require from me in order to expedite that appeal. And if not, when you think that this appeal might come to a resolution for better or worse. I I'd really like to get my life
back and either be driving a cab down in Bayon or not. So, um it's been three months, I think. So, do you have any idea when that might actually be decided? I I think we can decide by next month. I think
um Okay. So, I think at one point we had it on the agenda, did we, Miss Matina? We had an a we had a hearing. We haven't come to a Okay. So, I think we could come to a decision by next month and um we've we've heard your appeal.
We have your letter and we're going to further discuss that. Okay. I don't want to speak for anybody else as far as decision wise, but by next month if you come, we'll have a decision. All right. Okay. Thank you very much. That's all I can
uh Mr. a signal. Good evening. Mike Bigno with the Bao Nature Club. Uh, first I'd like to make an announcement that the Bale Nature Club will be doing a cleanup at Ahern Stadium this Saturday morning between 9 and 11:00. We'll bring the supplies, the
pickup sticks, and the bags. We just need volunteers to come out to that new walkway area by Ahern Stadium where they have the new gazebo and uh also that the cleanups are done on a waterfront that's being developed
now. Bon was such an industrial town. I mean Newark Bay was totally polluted. Members of our club remember swimming in it and they'd come out purple from the dye company that was over by Rowski Park now. And also I'd like to thank the
Payic Su Valley and Carta and the uh Department of Public Works for that job they did cleaning up Rowski Beach and also removing the uh jet ski from behind the boat work area and that these areas are being cleaned up now and it's
bringing nature back. And as the industrial area left, they did lose you lost your money. That was jobs, big jobs. and it's being cleaned now. And with that, the developers are building buildings and they need areas,
walkways for the public. And we're benefiting from that. The walkway out at uh Lefontway and the golf course, golf course used to be a garbage dump. I mean, it is now a nature
preserve. It's just magnificent. The west side is beautiful with the walkways and it goes from Collins Park all the way to the Vicowski area and in that birds have returned.
I mean we now have Kappa rail families down by Lefont way off the golf course also on the other side the old Mati which has all been developed now and new walkways are going in as I speak to building it now from the LA fitness to
connect up the other way. This is terrific. We have yellow crown knigh herand that last I spoke that I was hoping that the bayon city council and the bayon city will name the yellow
crown knigh heron the bird of bon. Last time I was here we had 16 nests. The nests have gone to 21 nest and we've counted over 50 chicks. 50 chicks now. And these nests are
scattered throughout Bayon now. Naturate is coming back. It's it's building itself. We have great blue herand, great egrets. We're also looking at just the other morning, we had black skimmers along the
Bayon inlet where they're putting in the new walkways and stuff. So, I'm hoping that the development keeps coming and it keeps cleaning the waterways and the industrial area that was left by these
companies which had to be chased down by with the help of the riverkeeper, Hackinac Riverkeeper, which worked tirelessly to go after these companies and clean up the messes that they left. And all these things that were left in Bayon are now being cleaned up with
money from all kinds of sources. And we'll take any money we can get from any of them to open these w waterways again to nature, bringing the fish back, the crabs, and everything else. And so the public can enjoy these walkways. And I know city council, the planning board,
and members of everybody here have been working to keep this area clean and open it up again for the public and the environment so that we can enjoy it. And I'm I'm going to also put the plug in for that kayak launch on the east side
with the Bayon inlet there while they're putting in now. I see they started work on the ferry and the walkways continuing. though any keep up the good work in that respect and I'm looking forward to hearing about the yellow crown knighth heron to be named the
official bird of Bon. Thank you very much and everybody will enjoy it and they'll all go out looking for the nest. Thank you. The uh the Hackinack River keeper um I had a discussion with him recently and he said the water in the the Hudson Bay
is uh the cleanest it's been in 70 over 70 years. Yes. Yes. They've been doing uh progressing in the right direction. Yes. They've been doing testing. They actually test three places in Bon and they have that the chart of what they've they've come up with with the Hagac River keep has it on their website.
70 years. That's quite a Yeah. And we also have over eight osprey nest that you can see from the Bayon shores here. So the ospreys and they're getting good fish out of there. And Mike, did you see the the turkeys? Yes. There's a lot of lot of wild turkeys. There's a lot of the wildlife is coming
back especially up by uh the county park seem to like that Avenue B area and these are good things and Bayon's doing good at keep them going and and bringing them back like that and a couple young deer sightings as well down now don't forget just to name that yellow night heaven I don't know what to
do I can give you a tour you're giving us you guys are giving us a lot of stuff okie dokie yes because it people just love it and it's huge tourism you know people come from hundreds of miles to see a yellow crown knight have a nest with their chicks.
Okay. Thank you, Mike. Okay. Nico Parido. Good evening. Nicole Pulyafo, 7:15 Broadway. I have just one concern. May I? So a picture is a thousand words.
I'm behalf the two apartment I mean the two building concern that the driveway the big issue is the driveway with the dandr how we can solve that problem people
constantly repeatedly always parking there. It caused to me a personal trouble with the justice because I was kind of violent and I'm afraid I'm going to be even more violent in the future.
There was a gentleman with me leaving the building that he have to leave because the wife he doesn't feel well. another gentleman for the next building. He couldn't make it because tonight he was stay tied up at work overtime.
So I'm the only boys to represent both building. Everything I've been try to solve that problem is a fellow. I call many time of the police like I've been told
and the answer is always the same. I'm sorry. Bayon is booming. It's exploding. We don't have enough caps to send them over. This is not an emergency. I get tired. Okay.
People lo to park in that spot just to come back not too long ago this afternoon around 2:30. If you look at the picture, a car parking right on the middle of the driveway. I coming a beeping. The guy is
moving is moving just one step up in front of the beggar which only has one car parking in front and then all the street it was free parking. As soon he moving I go into the
driveway. The guy back up a park parking bucket there with all the parking in front of him by the bagel up to the bank of America. So that parking it cost me almost jail time. I'm facing a court the end of this month
in the superior court because last month there was a car parking and block the entire driveway and this people nowhere to be found. Half an hour. Beep the horn. Beep the horn. Call the police three time.
As soon as the police arrived, a sort of the word. He come from the store just across the street. Botanica shop. Botanica. A spiritual store. As soon he saw the policy come out. This
again. He come out. Oh, I'm moving. Oh, now you realize you got to move the car. So, you are a present that you did on purpose. You left the car, you know you're going to be in the store tied up for so long. You don't have no decency.
Okay, I'm asking you how we're going to solve this problem or what we can do to try to solve the problem in permanent way. All the question I've been asking for the help have been denied. Okay. Call the police. The non-emergency
number is not the solution. The police arrived at the door the day. Okay. After the messy happened and I called the bridge three time when he finally decided to send a police on the place two patrol car they said they
don't even have the distance to ticket this people to cause a trouble. So I I ended up kind of pay the price the victim against the abuseful people. What do we can do to solve the problem permanently? So, it is a police issue that we have to have the police enforce
this. We have police here. We have some of our higherups. When you're finished speaking, and I ask one of them to approach you and see what we could do, maybe some sort of patrol or something of that nature, the police will know better than
I what we're going to do to change this to make sure you get satisfaction. Any sign to discourage people to parking is if you look at the picture. Yes. The driveway is like internal. So people when when they have it on the on on the
spot, they cannot to see against the wall that the lines are pretty bright. So I understand what you're saying. Why can't they see the lines? They remove the tree. I was told they cannot put a pole with the sign. Why cannot pull a port with the sign? They got to do something about all the
solution. They try to attempt they fail. There is no solution up to today unless we make something new. Okay. Thank you. But the the police I'll make sure one of them see you before picture back or do you is that ours? Do you have a way to make a copy?
I already took a picture of it. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. We'll make sure you get some action. I really look forward because in the building there is also a father with the little kids that supposed to come in tonight, you know, and then is it could
to be an echant too. So somebody got to stop. You got to try to discourage to park in there. have parking behind the buildings, right? So, you need the driveway to go behind. Yeah, we're going to do the driveway. Yes. Okay. For both buildings. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you.
Um it just says Meline. That's not me. Okay. There's two no parking zones if you see it. one the yellow for the hydrant, the white for the driveway. Yeah. On the other side, too. Okay. Moving forward. An ordinance for
introduction. It is approving a financial agreement buying between the city of Bayon and 15 East 23rd Street Urban Renewal LLC for the property located at 15-21 East 23rd Street which is identified as block 198 lots 1
and two as shown on the official tax map of the city and a resolution moved by council member Perez fixing Wednesday August 13th at 6 p.m. Dorothy the E Harrington council chambers as a time and place for public hearing and final passage. Miss Wema, will you second?
on the resolution. Mr. Booker, hi. Mr. Perez, I Miss We Mr. Lapaloosa. I 12 is an ordinance amending and supplementing the revised general ordinances of the city of Bayon chapter
10 tra taxation and special improvement districts and a resolution fixing Wednesday, August 13th at 6 p.m. in the Darthy E. Harrington council chambers is a time and place for public hearing and final passage. It's moved by the council president, Mr. Perez. Will you second? Second.
On the resolution, Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi. Miss Weame. Hi. Mr. Lapaloosa. I 13 is an ordinance amending and supplementing the revised general ordinances of the city of Bayon chapter
24 water and sewer service and a resolution fixing Wednesday August 13th at 6 p.m. in the Darthy E Harrington council chambers as a time and place for public hearing and final passage. It's moved by the council president, Mr. Perez. Will you second? Second. On that resolution, Mr. Booker. Hi.
Mr. Perez. Hi. Miss Weamer. Hi. Mr. Lapaloo. Hi. 04 is amending and supplementing the revised general ordinances of the city of bay on chapter 7 traffic and a resolution
fixing Wednesday August 13th at 6 p.m. in the Darthy Harrington council chambers as a time and place for a public hearing and final passage. It's moved by council member Perez. Miss Wmer, will you second? Second. And on the resolution, Mr. Booker. Mr. Perez. Hi.
Miss Weamer. Hi. Mr. Lalosa. Hi. 15. Excuse me, Mr. Dup pre. Excuse me, Mr. Dupe. Please.
Thank you. 15 is an ordinance approving a financial agreement buying between the city of Bayon and the Bayon energy center urban renewal LLC for the property located at 401 Hook Road which is identified as block 419 lot one as shown on the
official tax map of the city and a resolution fixing Wednesday August 13th at 6 p.m. in the DD Harrington Council chambers as a time and place for a public hearing and final passage. Who would like to move it? Move it. Second. And on the resolution, Mr. Booker.
Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloosa. I 06 has been withdrawn. Communications is a resolution moved by the council as a whole ordering the following communications to be received and filed.
It covers C1 through C7. Any questions on the communications and on the communications? Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi. Mr. Lapaloosa. I. Officers reports is a resolution ordered
a move by the council as a whole ordering the following of officers reports to be received and filed and any resolutions incorporated within them to be adopted. It covers O1 through O2. Any questions on the officer's reports and on the officers reports Mr. Booker.
Hi Mr. Perez. Hi Miss Weame. Hi Mr. Lapaloosa. Hi. Consent resolutions is moved by the council as a whole and it is a resolution ordering the following resolutions to be adopted. It covers CR1
through CR17. CR18 is being removed from the consent. Any questions on the consent resolutions? You said CR14. 8 n and 14. Okay. 18 is going to be a resolution. Yeah, but that's
it's not a consent anymore. So, so on the remaining consent resolutions, Mr. Booker, hi. Mr. Perez, I Miss We Mr. Lapaloosa. I CR8 is authorizing the mayor and city
clerk to enter into an agreement with the Bayon Economic Opportunity Foundation to provide the course of supplemental remediation investigation, reciprocal, remedial investigation report, remedial action report, remedial action analysis,
and remedial action plan for the former Holy Family School from Matrix New AL engineering for the amount not to exceed $43,270 for a period of one year commencing September 1, 2024 through August 31st, 2025.
First of all, is was that a increase of I didn't I just didn't bring it with me. Was it an increase or is it a new because it says 24 to 25. That's why I was asking. CBDG goes from September of 2020 into the so um you know I'm a big fan of you know
the head start and everything they do over there but my concern is they we bought this building in 201 18 maybe I know there was a delay I mean um in yeah and there was a delay because
of co and this is where our head starts moving we're selling off the buildings that they're in now you have that on the agendas was passed already. Um, we have a backlog. We have a a long list of people who are trying to get into the program. Uh, it was an agreement with the board of ed to to house some of the
kindergarten there because we didn't have enough room for them. It just my question is this is remediation. I would think at this point almost 10 years into the process or seven years that the remediation was done. I I know
that um Senator Mendez just gave um or Congressman Mendez just gave uh another $5.7 million I think to get this done and it can't get done soon enough. My my question is is um what can we do to no longer? It shouldn't really take this
long to rehab this building and I was just concerned about the mediation why we're doing remediation 10 years in and trying to get it certified. I would have thought it would have been done before this. I'm just saying I just don't want to see more delays. So, I'm just offering my
opinion. You don't have to call me up on the next one because it's the same thing. It's just um just concerned about the delay and the impact it is to our our children, especially our most vulnerable, our Head Start kids. There just isn't enough and people are actually being denied services because
there's a waiting list. That's um you know, really just plain not acceptable. Let's go on CR8. Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloosa. I
CR9 is authorizing the mayor and city clerk to execute an amendment to agreement number CY 24095 with the Bayon economic opportunity foundation to provide community development block grant funds in the amount of $39,740
to cover the cost of remedial investigation of the soil at the former Holy Family School by Matrix New World Engineering to increase that agreement in the amount of $13,290 for additional services making the total
contract $53,000 and $53,30 and on that one Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weame. Hi, Mr. Lapaloosa. I um I just want to answer something to
what you said. So, I'm not exactly sure why they're investigating the soil, which I will find out and we'll let you know for sure, but I think it was something new that happened obviously that wasn't included before. So, I don't know if that's it could be something
like an oil tank or something of that nature, but I'm not sure, but I will find out. CR14 is authorizing the use of the maximum allowable bid threshold pursuant to NJSA 48 col 11-3 section C.
Yeah. Could you please um explain um what the old threshold was and and and is this a blanket or you using it for a certain project? No. every five years. Uh, as per the local public contracts law, the state treasurer has the ability to increase
the bid threshold. So, on July 1st, the treasurer increased it from 44,000 to 53,000 for towns that have a registered QPA. So, what this means is that for projects, you know, just for those who don't know, projects that
if if it's going to be less than that, then you don't have to go out to public bid. Correct. But that's optional for you. You have to um opt into this, right? You're you're raising it. You could This is the local public contracts law. Oh, okay.
Yeah. Every five years they increase it. It's it's been going up every 5 years. Okay. So, thank you. Yeah. You're welcome. And on CR14, Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi,
Mr. Lapaloosa. I Oh, are you addressing CR18? Yes. Okay. So, I would like to read the resolution and this will answer some of your questions and if not I will answer the rest of them. Okay. Bo both Darlene and
Mr. Dupe. Whereas the city of Bayon is a peninsula bordered by the Newark Bay, the Gil Vanc, the New York Bay. And whereas there are open grassy spaces near water, there are geese. And where there are geese, there are droppings. And whereas
the increased influx of geese into the city of Bayon increases the potential for damage to public parks and private property as well as elevating the potential for the spread of diseases found through contact with the geese geese feces and the unsanitary and unsafe conditions created by the
presence of an overabundance of geese. Whereas many people have problems with these otherwise mostly harmless birds and conflicts with geese have historically led to inhumane, ineffective, and unnecessary roundups and killings. And whereas since 1999,
the United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services Agency has been engaged in lethal culls of geese primarily in urban or densely populated areas. And whereas the city of Bayon recently allowed a federal agency to implement the culling of geese within
the city's parks. Whereas this municipal council was not asked to authorize or support said culling. And whereas there has been great outrage on the part of Bayon Citizens as a result of the culling. And whereas this municipal
council is similarly outraged that said culling took place. Now therefore be it resolved that the municipal council of the city of Bayon New Jersey as follows.
Section one, there's five sections to this. This municipal council hereby rejects the idea that the culling of geese is a necessity. Section two, this municipal council hereby rebukes the administration's recent choice to cull geese.
Section three, this municipal council hereby demands that the administration refrain from any future cullings of any type without first having the approval and consent of the municipal council. This restriction, section four, shall not apply to individual or small groups
of wild animals that may need to be administered to by exterminators and/or animal control officers. And section five, this resolution shall take effect immediately. So, what I would like to do is take a
vote on this and if you have any questions on this resolution, I'll ask the public you could come up and speak about it. Or would you rather do that before the vote? We'll do that before the vote, Meline. Okay. So, if anybody has a question, wants to
come up. Ken Dupe 90 West 35th. Um, we all make mistakes. I think there's a mistake here made me made made here and I think it takes a man to stand up and admit it. And that's what I'm looking for. I think the council if the council
made a decision I don't know, you know, like you, I've been inve No, no. Well, like I'm used to the chain of command. So, I don't know in the city who's higher, you guys or the Department of Public Works, but if you're uh not
decision, if your recommendations, because I understand I've made a lot of calls. I spoke to this uh whatever it's called here. I spoke to someone at the animal protection league and um I was informed that they had meetings prior to
this offering all these alternatives they use border collies they use bird control on and on and also even if a contract was signed it could have been cancelled so here
again I can't ask a question but I I think it's in due respect to the person who approved that to give them the opportunity to say why they made that decision not to to kill the geese instead of doing it humanely. So, a little background, a little over a
year ago, I met with Darlene, I don't know if you were in room, you were in the room, Dorene Frager. Okay. Well, a little over a year ago, I said, "Okay." And they and you asked me, "Why is the city killing
geese?" And I said to you, I don't know anybody in the city of Bayon who kills an animal or is trained to kill an animal. I mean, so it's a matter of the right questions. Unbeknownst to me, I did not when I asked Mr. Carter, he had told me of the
process. The federal government comes in and rounds these up. But again, not knowing that we're paying for that service. I thought the government came in and did what they did on their own and didn't ask us for anything. This
year it was made public to me that we are actually the city paid money for that service for the federal government to come in and they do that in a lot of other places. So when I met with Dorene recently, she gave me this book and Mr.
Carter to his credit at least is willing to try and implement some of these changes. So I have to give him credit for that that he's willing to look into it. The people from care had said that they would even pay for some of the changes. Right. You're not answering my question
though. Excuse me if I may. So why why was the decision made to kill them as opposed to look for alternatives? I'm not getting that. I wanted they gathered the geese and what they do with the geese is I don't know what they do with the geese. So when you asked me what did
they do with the geese on 440 I don't know if they were rounded up or not. Well shouldn't somebody know that who who was when you sign a contract with somebody you look what's being done. I don't think Mr. Connor knows individually. I can't answer your question. My understanding was he was part of that discussion where they were offering
alternatives. So that's why he's not given the opportunity to say if he gave a good reason and you know well I don't know the reason why but I can tell you that when I found out when I just wait a minute when I found out I was outraged
myself okay that we were paying for it and so that's why at the last uh caucus meeting I said we're going to do this resolution now we changed the resolution and made it longer to do all this stuff but as far
as somebody to blame or whatever. I don't know if if that's really the case here. Well, I think I think there has to be, you know, any place I work somebody does something wrong has repercussions at very least an apology. Well, you can't do it there, but you
know, you're not going to satisfy me. If if I can I don't know if the microphone's working, but if I can, Mr. The administration, the executive branch is different than the legislative branch, which is the council, right? They're they're the council.
They're they're the they're the legislative branch. Administration does things with as far as the running of the city of Bon goes without uh a daily check with with the council. A decision was made by the
administration to call the geese. Whether that was good, bad or indifferent is subject to argument. Um the council has expressed its displeasure with this is not working right. Uh has expressed its um
displeasure with the administration's decision to go through with the culling. And you're right, there are several alternatives. I know other towns that have that have utilized the dogs for example and people county parks do not utilize u the US
wildlife either they have a company separate company come in geese chasers geese chasers but we also have other alternatives with cap guns that's I understand what you're saying but isn't isn't aren't we talking about teamwork here yeah and and everyone shouldn't this does one person have the
authority to make a decision to kill something rather unused alternatives and that person was not given the opportunity to speak. That's what I don't understand. Well, I think that person's actions speak speak for themselves and and and the administration has has not admonished that individual. A choice was
made on on behalf of the administration to pursue this channel. I do know in other communities where they have dogs come and and uh bother the geese. People show up at those council meetings and complain that the dogs it's a horrific thing to do to the to the geese. It
throws off their um mating habits there and and they do bond uh with with one mate and people complain about that. Some people don't want anything to be done to the geese. So So uh what what I'm saying is on the administration's behalf, I know you're looking for
something for Mr. Carter. I I I I don't think I I think the decision was made by the administration to go go forward with this. I don't know if that'll happen again given the the um opposition to it. Well, I don't know. I I'm just not satisfied. I understand what you're
saying, but it's not going to satisfy many of us. You kill you kill the families and babies and everything, you know. I I understand. I hope he goes to sleep dreaming about it. I understand that, Gary. in 2023 when we had that meeting with the animal protection league, Angie
Metler who's the president, uh um Dorine Frager, myself, you and um Tom Carter, and we brought an award-winning architect to do mo modification habitat. And we
even offered to pay because you didn't want to put the money out. We offered to try a a program like a little pilot program and you didn't do that either. You chose and and Tom Carter this year,
what two weeks ago he could have called the USDA and cancelled that and these families would not have been gassed. It is such spoke to Mr. Cartering had already started. So painful a 45 minute of your burning inside out. These are babies, little
babies with their mothers and fathers. I just I can't wrap my head around the suffering and the pain that they went through because him because of him. All he had to do was call. He would have gotten a refund. He would have gotten his money back and he stopped doing this
to innocent beings who've done no harm to anyone. I'm really angry about it and I have been crying over this because those families, those four families that I saw every day when I go shopping, they're gone. Imagine dying that way. It's a
It's not a quick death. It's a slow, awful, painful death. And it should not have happened. It should never have happened. Well, this council agrees and that's why we're doing what we're doing. Okay. But but will this permanent be permanent? We're We're never going to gas again.
It's permanent and permanent unless some other council comes in and changes it or the same council. But we're not going to. Okay. So, all right. The five of us are in agreement with this. But still, he has blood on his hands. I I Okay, I think that's enough. I don't
I don't think that's right to say that. I just want to make sure I'm I'm understanding a section of the resolution when it comes to animal control. So, if I am a property owner and I have a family of geese who have somehow gotten into my attic,
I am by law allowed to have animal control or pest control or or something where the lives of those geese could be terminated. Um, is that is am I understanding that part of the resolution clearly? So, not geese, but
necessarily, even though you mentioned that, but um exterminators, things like that. If you have a mouse problem or something of that nature, I would think they would still have the right. Right. But we're on the subject of geese. So, yeah, let's let's keep it to the geese. Right. So is that I just want to make
sure so everybody understands that if the geese do come onto private property that the resolution allows the property owner to hire people to terminate the lives of the geese.
I I I I think a more accurate I'm I'm just I just want to make sure we've got clarity on where the rights of the property owner are and the impact on the lives of the geese. That's all. A more accurate representation of the resolution over here uh of the
resolution would be that the municipality is only talking about this the the legislative branch is saying we don't want the administration to do anything like that call geese there is a caveat at the I think the
last paragraph says a small groups of animals that need to be addressed by uh animal control services or an exterminator are not covered by this and this certainly doesn't go to private property. This is just an admonition to the administration to don't do this again.
Okay. And and I and I and I get that. I just want to try and be um conscious and and aware that, you know, property owners, right? Um we we we deal with everybody deals with pests, whether the raccoons, skunks, geese. Um, and I just
want to make sure that um, the rights of the property owners to deal with pests, even geese. Um, so you want to kill what I'm suggesting is is that there's a
resolution on the table that may need to be clearer about where uh, and how that the dealing property owners deal with geese takes place. Th this this this resolution doesn't
speak to private property owners. It speaks only to the administration. Okay, fair enough. I'm I just want to make sure that you still have the right to call an animal control company or animal care company. Right. I mean, I'm not in favor of killing animals. I'm an animal lover,
too. I just It sounded like there might be some gray area here. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Not in Bayon. We're not the council is not going to agree to that. No signing.
I told you nobody up here has signed anything. So on CR9 18, Mr. Booker, can we do it as a whole? Is that okay? But you moved it as a whole. You have to vote on it separately. Okay. So Mr. Walker. Hi,
Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. I Mr. Lapaloosa. I R1 is moved by Council President Perez, designating the property located at 120-12 West 33rd Street, which is
identified as block 143, lot 28, as a non-condation area in need of redevelopment, and authorizing the planning board to prepare a redevelopment plan pursuing to local redevelopment and housing law. Miss Rea, will you second? on the resolution. Mr. Booker, I
Mr. Pres. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloosa. I R two is moved by the council president approving the traffic control plan and fencing plan for the property located at 736-746
Avenue, which is identified as block 393, lot 3.03. 03. Mr. Perez, will you second? Second. On the resolution, Mr. Booker, Mr. Perez, I Miss Reamer. I Mr. Lapalooa. I
R three is designating the property located at 15-23 East 33rd Street, which is identified as block 140 lots 3, 4, 5.01, and 5.02, 102 as a non-condation area need of redevelopment and authorizing the
preparation of a redevelopment plan pursuant to the local redevelopment and housing law and it's seconded by the council president and we have a speaker Mr. Patella, you want to state your name and
thank you. My name is Chris Patella. I'm an attorney here in Bayon and I represent RDA Realy Number Two LLC. Um, just like to start off by saying that I'm going to kind of quote Shakespeare a little bit. The rumors of my client's demise have
been greatly exaggerated. Um, there is no intent for them not to go ahead with this with this project. As a matter of fact, I have in my hand a letter of intent which is being circulated tomorrow for signature. And once that's done, it would take us probably 10
working days to finalize the PSA u where my clients will be selling their property which is known as the um holiday tree and trim property to the developer. So, we wholeheartedly endorse this application and u we're moving forward with this sale and we know that
that will take place shortly. Thank you. Thank you. On R3, Mr. Booker. Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Mr. Lapaloosa.
No. What I think we want to see myself, I don't want to speak for Jackie, but this has gone back and forth several times and it needs to be a signed contract that I get to see.
I appreciate you coming up. It's not that I don't trust your word, but this has changed several different times and I would feel more comfortable seeing the actual contract signed. Council President, just so you know, now that it now that you have to by virtue of a tie,
the Aryan need designation has been has died. It's going to have to go back through the process again if you want this to do that. Um, you could alternatively I I will leave it to Mr. Coffee, cancel that vote, Mr. Coffee. I don't know how that works. I'm not a municipal attorney on that on that side.
Uh, and and and do this next month. I would rather see us wait for that contract than see this die because I think this second phase is gonna help us get more parking for the city and and I think it would be a shame for us to deny
it at this point. Uh because I think this is this part this second phase which is unrelated to the first is is a good and it can independently move. It's a good project and I would either ask that you reconsider it and let us move forward because it is unrelated to the uh the first phase which you just heard
Mr. Patella it's going to move or that you table it cancel your vote and and and push this to another month. Procedurally, it would go there would be a motion um to reconsider the resolution that was just
not passed. And upon reconsideration, there would be no second. Actually, no. You'd have to vote to reconsider it first. That vote to reconsider would would then have to pass. And then on that reconsideration,
there would be a vote uh on the a motion and and a second to uh vote on designating the property at 15-33's 33rd Street. Uh and then if there's no second, it doesn't go through. Uh but it
would it effectively negate the vote uh that that was just taken and it would mean that there was no action taken on it and it could be correct for another month. So the mo the motion that some one of the council members had to make would be to a reconsider and void the vote that was just taken uh
reconsider the resolution and void the resolution the vote that was just taken a vote on that and then it gets reconsidered and if there's a motion in no second it was it was never turned down it just wasn't uh acted upon
with that is there a motion to recons so before we go forward Mr. Patella had said within 10 days. So if that's a consideration, Miss Weame has to also she would have to reconsider
her vote as well by the next by the next meeting. I would think I'd need to see not a vote, but I mean I would need to see a a signed contract by obviously your clients
and and your clients have gone back and forth and there's been a lawsuit and all these other things going on. So this is the reason why we we're at the point where we're at. And I understand that and and I only ask that the council consider that that first phase litigation has literally nothing to do with the second phase. And
I know that's an intellectual argument. It's a logical argument uh and that you I understand you want to see a signed contract even if that other let's walk down the worst case scenario. Let's say the Ires are serious. They want to not get condemnation. They vote they they
they win the lawsuit and we can't use their property. No one we can't buy their property to develop it because the condemnation can't go through the the area need no longer is in effect. It's out. We can still develop this phase. The one that's in front of you tonight. We can still do that and that has a city
parking lot in it and we mean to give back a significant amount of parking that the city won't be able to build itself and we're going to build and we're gonna give back spaces and that's the only reason that I will reconsider this is because and you heard me mention it many times about the parking garage and how important that is.
Agreed. And that's why I don't want to see this fail. Waiting on me, I think. So to So the motion is to reconsider R3 and reject the vote that was taken. And and and I'm happy to move that um
that motion forward to reconsider. Um and I'm happy to table it until the following month. I would um Attorney Patella, you were not the attorney that put forth that that filed the pending action, are you? You are not.
So you do not Right. So with with with that being said, you you can represent that the intent is there to move forward with the PIA purchase and sale agreement, but you cannot guarantee it. Is that fair? Oh, no. I I'll stand here and guarantee
it. From our from our side, the young Angres will be signing this PSA. Right. But memory serves, you guaranteed it once before and now I have a pending litigation. You represented in the past that that property was going to be sold
and that it it was all going to take place, but now we have a pending litigation. Okay. And that I've already spoken to the overzealous attorney who uh moved forward with that bit of We don't know any of those, by the way. No, no, we don't. Um I'm too old to be
an almost zelis litigator anymore but um that will be and I said to him we are going to contract and you are dismissing that complaint. Is that correct? And he said yes. Okay. And what is the length of that contract? Both doctors I y Mr. and Mrs. Y
um are on board with that. Also spoke with Mrs. Iger Dr. Iger Raayang today or wasn't wasn't available. He was in court in the state of New Jersey. a contract for sale if it's a cash deal can be put forth in 10 days. Okay. So, what is the length of that contract?
What do you expect it will be before that is finalized and there is a change of of hands and ownership? This is this is a commercial transaction. So, it could be closed in one day. Oh, there you go. Look at that. The the the reconsideration what I'm hearing from the council is you don't
want this to be considered. You're willing to to reconsider and then put it off till next. So carry till next month, but you will not address this next month unless two things happen. A, there's a contract, a fully executed contract of sale, and B, there is withdrawal of the
lawsuit. Fair enough. Is that correct? And that's fair. Fair enough. The withdrawal could be provided to me tomorrow. I'm sorry. You can withdraw it. I I can't. I'm not the attorney. He's not the filing attorney, but we don't have a meeting tomorrow. We have a meeting next month. So, you've got I I think it would be fair if we if it
was handled quite that way and that the pending litigation was withdrawn and the contract of sale was moving forward fully signed and executed. Quite honestly, I would I would have liked for that sale to have taken place, but I could I could consider it with the
signed agreement. We will have a signed document and a filed stipulation of dismissal the next time we meet a month from Okay. today. All right. So, I'm I'm fine if we'd like to move forward with the motion to reconsider the vote that was taken um
and allow it to be tabled. So, on the motion to reconsider, I think come up and speak. Well, I'm so happy to hear about a parking garage, but we were promised
from the same developer a parking garage on 22nd Street when they built the one where the dollar store was that burned down. It was supposed to be a private public partnership there. And we still didn't get it and they're short of the parking spots because that was part of
their requirement. So I I do have concerns about promises met and promise promises made and promises kept. Thank you. And Sharon, do you mind if I ask you how did you handle that at the time if you approved something and something was assured and then it ended up not coming to fruition? We we believe that they were in good
faith uh do it. Uh it was already done. So we already passed everything. There was no there was no retro we can we can do. But you know history today I would make a different decision based on history and what had happened. Right. You do something, it's learning,
right? You learn. You say, "We tried this and it didn't work last time." And my belief is that there was a condition president that the city of Bayon had to perform that it has been unable to perform to allow for that parking garage to be built.
Again, we're waiting for somebody else to just I just since I did read the litigation, we just had somebody else promise somebody else doing something here so that if it doesn't go through, you'll say, "Oh, well, you know, There's no condition present on the city of Bayon in connection with this one. This is two private parties who have agreed
to um collegially develop a a group of properties. Um and part of that collegial effort involves providing a parking facility on uh and including our parking our the
city property there. So they're just adding on. So they're going to use the city property to build on and meet their parking requirement. Oh, that's all public. It's all public. None of it's reserved for for there. And it's increase more than just the law.
Okay. But I I'm always, like I said, I'm off all off all for it when you're making parking, but I just have concerns because I know um you know what was promised and what wasn't satisfied last night. Thank you for letting us know. Mr. Patella, again, not that we don't
believe your word, but I want to see the written contract. Usually when you say it twice, it really means that you don't believe that way. But that's all right. But I just wanted to clear up something. He just what the last speaker spoke about was that some project on 22nd Street that had nothing to do with the anchors.
This is this is their one and only project and they're not even the developers. They're just a land owner. So we will I I just didn't know. Okay. Fine. Okay. gater information.
Again, uh I think uh Mr. Coffee was correct on uh discussing the condition precedent on that. Um again though, for the concerns about making sure that the required parking uh for uh this site, you're going the council will have
numerous opportunities in the redevelopment plan and then also the redevelopment agreement to you know address and make sure that your concerns are met that there is sufficient public parking. uh on that on this site uh you know to get to meet the needs. If the
city's going to put it you know property you know up for stake to get make sure that we get more parking built. We want to make sure that a the administration and you be the council are satisfied on the number of spots that is you know potentially going to be provided here. Thank you. And council if you need clarification
Mr. Coffee is right. there was a condition precedent that the city did not fulfill in terms of building that parking deck um and providing the the ability to do that. We've been trying to come to solutions uh over the few years. We have taken spaces in another
building. So, it's not that people are parking on the street. We have taken spaces in the Barnabas deck in the in the meantime. So, it is accounted for, but at some point uh we're going to need to sit and figure that out because it can't be perpetual situation. Um, but it was not from my client's failure to
perform. We were ready to do it. We were ready to move forward and I think the city determined that it was not feasible for them to do the part that they had agreed to. Okay. Well, let's get back to this. Yeah. The at hand. And um, like I said, we'll be able to let's let's do a vote on the
revision. You're taking a vote on the motion to reconsider. So on the vote, Mr. Booker, I Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloo. I And now the motion to table until August
20. Oh, August 13th. Who'd like to move it? Move. Second. Okay. And on that motion, Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. I Miss We Mr. Laloosa. I thank you.
R5 is awarding a contract for cleaning services for the police department to Carson 1994 Corp doing business as Janro of Northern New Jersey for the total contract amount of 111,443. Would like to move it?
So move second on that resolution. Mr. Booker. Hi. Mr. Perez. Hi. Missur. Hi. Mr. Lapaloosa. Hi. I have a couple additional items. Some are on your agenda, some are not. The first one is authorizing the
cancellation of the trust fund reserved account for disability trust account in the amount of $50,647.78. Would like to move it? Can we get a little clarification on it? It's actually a stagnant account that the auditors and the state asked us to
cancel. What was the original intent of that account? It's from years ago and it was from an old disability. They set up a separate trust when they didn't have to when they would take money and put it aside to pay for the disability insurance. So, they
set up like a separate bank account and they never had to. So it just it's been stagnant for like seven years. And so if we Yeah, we closed it and then moved the money into operations and that's already been effectuated.
So then what are we approving it for? Because there was never a resolution done. It was done a long time ago and when the state reviewed our FIN finance statements, it was never done by resolution and they asked us to do a resolution.
So, we're not necessarily authorizing it. We're just we're ratifying action that has already taken place. We're removing it from our books. The account was closed. The actual bank account was closed, but the accounting wasn't removed from the books. Okay.
There's I don't there's not much you can think we have a choice. Right. So move second second. And on that resolution Mr. Booker Mr. Perez I Miss We Mr. Laalooa I
two is from the honorable James M. Davis appointing Edward Lick Jr. to the planning board as a class Six member um for a term to expire December 31st, 2028. Move it. Second.
And on that one, Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloosa. I three is authorizing the mayor and city clerk to enter into an agreement with Arcadus for the environmental engineering assistance in grant writing
not to exceed $25,000. on that one. Mr. Booker, Mr. Perez, hi Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lapaloosa. Hi. And four is from the Honorable James M. Davis, reappointing Irene Rose Pike to the Bayon Housing Authority for the term
to expire December 21st, 2029. On that one, Mr. Booker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Laapaloosa. I and last one I have is authorizing the mayor and city clerk
and or other required municipal officials to execute an administrative service agreement with empower retirement LLC and submit all necessary documents to the director of the the division of local government services for approval.
This is in connection with the deferred compensation plan that they administered a plan and the division of local government services contacted us and said we need a resolution to authorize empower retirement LLC rather than their
predecessor in interest which was an insurance company that got swallowed up by somebody else. So I'll move it second on that resolution. Mr. Walker. Hi, Mr. Perez. Hi, Miss Weamer. Hi, Mr. Lopaloosa. Hi. And that is all I have. Mr. Coffee, do
you have anything? I don't think I have anything. Well, well, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. No, just one. Oh. Oh, that's right. No worries. Um, so we've had we had a
lot of um discussion tonight about the pilot programs that are on our books and what it is that they benefit and what perhaps um they don't benefit. One item that the pilots are um do have an
ability what one one thing the council has the ability to do is to allocate a portion of the pilots towards our schoolboard budgets. In the past, um the prior administration
did make a resolution to allow for the uh council to um allocate that portion, but it would be done by resolution. So I am very cognizant of the fact that this is something that is very near and dear to all of our hearts as well as
especially because it is the education of our children. it is their ability to meet their needs and um and do so hopefully um without the need to raise our tax levies towards our citizens. So I have um I'm working with the legal
department now to review and investigate what our abilities are and what is the best way to proceed. Um, but I have proposed um some language to the law department that does require a legal opinion. This
is nothing that is guaranteed, but it is something I'm asking them to look into. Um, and it and it will be reviewed and considered by outside counsel um to be resolved at our August meeting. The language that um our law department is
comfortable with is will will read right now section 15.08 08 allows for a voluntary payment to the Bayon School Board District, Bayon School District, excuse me. And it says, "From time to time and in the sole discretion of the
municipal council, the municipal council may adopt a resolution redirecting the city to remmit 10% of the annual service charge to the Bayon school district as a voluntary payment or payments. That is the current language.
In the future, I am asking us to consider language something to the effect of in addition to the annual service charge as set forth and calculated herein, the redeveloper shall make a separate annual
payment in an amount equal to 10% of the annual service charge to the municipality, which sum shall be supplemented shall be used to supplement the Bayon school district's budget. So that would be a separate allocation
to the Bayon school district's budget. It is over and above what is required of them in the pilot program right now. I don't know that that that is allowed. I don't know that is going to pass muster. We do have to get a legal opinion but it
is what I have asked to be considered. So I wanted to share that with the public. I think um attorney Coffee is working on that with outside counsel now and that's something that we'll look for in August.
Okay. And and Maline, uh I know we there was a tax cancellation for 442 Avenue C. I don't know if we did that one. It was an ad. We we received notice that a tax bill went out. 442 Avenue C is is half of the
the park on N 19th Street in Avenue C. Uh and over the past two years, we purchased both of those properties from individual property owners. So we closed on the north side of the park um on January 30, 2025, which is after the
assessing date. Um so a tax bill went out uh to the prop former property owner uh for $4,982.25 for the third and fourth quarter. This resolution would ask that the tax collector be granted the ability to cancel the taxes because the city of
Bayon knows it, owns it, and would be paying itself. So, yes, I did. Who would like to move it? Move it. Second. And on that one, which will be at six, Mr. Booker, hi. Mr. Perez, I Miss We
Mr. Lapaloosa. I And now I'll take a motion to adjurnn. Second. And on the motion to adjurnn, Mr. Booker, hi. Mr. Perez, hi. Miss Weamer, I Mr. Lapaloosa.
I have a good evening everybody.