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Okay. Want to do the U call to order this? The adopt. We have to do the um Yes, the pledge of allegiance. And I Okay. All right. Um, Commissioner Fay, would you like to lead us in 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. Commissioner Fay, you would like to call
the attendance. I mean the um Yeah, the attendance. I am right. Commissioner Driscoll, present. Commissioner Glover, present. Commissioner Hollowback, present. Commissioner McGee, present.
Commissioner Ballardo is absent. Alternate Commissioner Mulleran, present. Alternate Commissioner Novak, present. Attorney David Rasheski, present. and
staff secretary Joe Ryan. We do have a quorum. Okay. Thank you very much. All right. If we can just um look over our minutes that we received from Secretary Ryan and see if anything has to be corrected or changed. Yeah, I corrected
a typo that was in the original uh version of this. So, I gave out a new version which you should look at now. Yes. Good. Thank you very much. I would like to say something about the minutes. Um it's the paragraph
concerning St. Andrews. Yes, it is true that um Jessica Driscoll did draft a report on um the chapel and Jessica and I did communicate and I
did express that when I was doing the research for the church, I did have a lot of research concerning the chapel and if I could continue with report and we did resolve it between ourselves and I don't recall um Jerry Noiki quite
saying it in this way. He said it somehow different in a way that upsetted me so much um at last month's meeting that I did have to um complain to our legal counsel.
Is there a suggested change in wording from either Commissioner Holivac or from legal counsel? I mean, we could always have a closed session and um actually see what was said at last month's meeting, but I do
recall he said something so upsetting to me where I did have to complain. I'm not sure how this would I'm not sure how this would affect the the wording of the the agenda as presented, but
um I'm not sure if m commissioner Havoc wants to amend it the language here in some way. I have nothing to add. Is there any suggestion? Actually, I was hoping that that part would be taken out.
I know he did say something else. Okay. Which part would you like taken out, Commissioner? Uh, give me a paragraph or a sentence. The um entirety concerning St. Andrews because I know he did say something else. He did not word it this
way. All right. Are you asking me to remove the entire paragraph on the top of page two of the minutes? Yes. Well, I would point out there was a reference to North Street. There was some kind of discussion about St.
Andrews. even if um there may be disagreement about how to phrase it. Um if you'd like perhaps we could come back to this next month, maybe you'd like to send me some proposed uh alternate wording. Yes, I I I think that's an
excellent idea, Joe. Okay. Uh why don't we do that? And if it's okay with the commissioners, we can postpone the adoption of the minutes as they might be amended until next month. Would that be acceptable?
Okay. Okay. Yes. All right. Thank you very much. All right. So, um let's have review of correspondence. Review of correspondence is really brief. There were two comment sheets uh already submitted. one uh in reference
to a proposal for 22 East 11th Street and the other in reference to a proposal for 108 Avenue F, 104-106 Avenue F, 94-102 Avenue F and 101 East 21st Street. And in both cases, the
commissioners offered either no comment or no objection. And that was it. The correspondence was pretty light for this month. Okay. And nothing new. All right. So, we're going to move down to we have a request for comments from the zoning board of adjustment or
planning board. Nothing new. Okay. Any updates on historic properties? No. 17 North Street is still not completed. Okay. Thank you. Any other business before we record
for the shortest meeting of all time. Uh yes, the uh I have Okay. Oh, go first, Commissioner. Yes, thank you. I almost missed my queue. Uh so Lee and I have been working with the folks at the
Bayon dry dock or or trying to um we've uh reached out a few times uh via phone and we haven't really received the response that we're looking for about any potential buildings for landmarking or any additional communications from the team there. So uh Lee's drafted up a
proposed um letter that we can actually send to the folks at the dry dock and um Dr. Ryan, as as part of the plan, is going to socialize with um some of the folks here at city hall to see if we can get a more direct point of contact to send that letter to and and we're hoping
to kind of get a different channel of communication open so we can find out about potential landmarks on the property. All right, very good. Thank you. Anyone anything to add to that? Okay, very good. Um yeah, I
um did hear from some folks on the commission last month that um they were approached by people from Mount Carmel, which is now officially uh St. John Paul
II Parish, who expressed an interest in um a process to designate the church building on East 22nd Street. Um the mayor uh thinks that would be a uh very
positive idea. So I wanted to mention that this evening. Okay. Thank you. Before we adjourned um what I was really excited about I I don't know if anyone
was able to see um the letter from Mayor Davis that um St. Andrew's church will be reopening. The arch dasis has to give $3 million in repairs and then um what
he suggested that the community um those of us who live in Bayon or moved out could help out as well. But it was so good to hear that the church will eventually be reopening. Yes. Very good. Yeah. I think we all saw that and we
were all very happy. I know I was very happy to see that considering all the time and effort a lot of people did um to preserve the church. So I thought that was a um kind of unexpected but um extremely uh welcomed. You know I didn't
I don't think any of us really kind of expected. I mean we were hoping to save the building um the fact that we're going to reopen as a church I think was something that was even beyond our expectations. So it was beyond mine. Yeah. That's why I was so excited when I heard that. I know. I was uh I was
surprised by it. Uh pleasantly, more than pleasantly, that's putting it mildly, but very shocked, shockingly surprised and happy to hear that they were going to do that, especially in the light of so many churches being closed in uh in and around not just Hudson County, but I was reading about even
even throughout New Jersey. So, that was extremely good news. It's like kind of pushing it in the other direction. So, yes, I agree. Um I think we're all very happy to hear that. Yes, exactly. Anyone else have
anything? I feel like Jerry's waiting. We end the meeting. Um, anyone want to make a motion? I would make the motion to adjourn the meeting. Second. All in favor? I Oh,
look at this. I think we did what? 12 minutes. Seven. Yes. 12 minutes. We might have set a record. My um my good friend who teaches with me at school is on the historic pres preservation commission of
New Milford and their shortest meeting was an hour and a half. Their shortest they sometimes run three over three hours. He'll give me taxes. We're still going. So I have to tell him now that we've just set a record 12 minutes. We call the meeting to order at 7:10. It is
now 7:22. All right. Well, thank you very much everyone. We'll uh the next meeting is um No, our next meeting is uh Oh, May the next meeting will be Tuesday,
May 27th here in the um city council chambers. All right. Well, thank you very much everyone. Have a safe trip home. Um and good night.