Good morning everyone. We are on the record. Today is Monday, the 14th day of July, 2025. This is a caucus meeting of the Jersey City Municipal Council. We had a scheduled 10:00 a.m. start. It is now
10:08. May we have a roll call for the commencement of this meeting. Council person Ridley here. Council person Hulings present. Council person Bojaniano here. Council person. Council person Solomon present.
Council person Gilmore, Council Person Deise, Council Person Rivera here, and Council President Waterman. We have achieved a quorum. We have we have uh seven council members at
10:09 a.m. on behalf of Council President Waterman and the members of the municipal council in accordance with the New Jersey public laws of 1975 chapter 271 the open public meetings act also known as the sunshine law. Adequate notice of this meeting has been provided
by posting on the bulletin board of the first floor of city hall the annual notice which is the schedule of meetings and caucuses of the municipal council for the calendar year 2025 and filed in the office of the city clerk on Friday, November 15th, 2024. In addition, at the time of its
preparation, the agenda of this meeting was similarly disseminated on Friday, July 11th, 2025 at 7:10 p.m. to the mayor, municipal council, business administrator, corporation council, the local newspapers, and posted simultaneously on the city's website so
I can certify as to our total compliance with the Sunshine Law. I did note that Council Person So Cle just came in at 10:09 a.m. Uh, Council President Waterman, I understand there is an urgent matter. Uh, one of our council members has to leave, so we're going to
address what item is it? 10.4. 10.4. Uh, first, is that correct? Yes. Okay. Item 10.4. I'm just going to read that into the record. The title is Bear
with me one second. 10.4 is a resolution of the municipal council demanding the deployment of substantial additional resources toward traffic enforcement and street safety infrastructure improvements. That's resolution 25-460.
Okay, council. Thank you. Yes. 10.4. 10.4.4. Yes. Just for the public, I apologize. I have a funeral. Unfortunately, I need to uh depart for. So, I just wanted to cover my resolution before we left. So, just uh it's basically a resolution obviously. So, it's non-binding, but it
is calling um and we're asking for uh the administration uh as well as the broader city to do two things. One is deploy significant resources to traffic safety improvements um making sure our roads are safe. And then the second is to deploy resources to traffic enforcement. And I think specifically um
at a recent meeting the public safety director, you know, said that he didn't want to deploy officers to a specific traffic enforcement unit, but he wanted all officers to do it. Um but my concern is that in that system when no one's responsible, it just doesn't get done. Um and so we we're asking them to again, it's non-binding, but so the council to
say, hey, you know, public safety, we're calling upon you to deploy officers specifically to traffic enforcement so that they're out every day uh doing that. Now, go ahead, Rich. you have. Yeah. Uh first of all, where is traffic safety? They're not here. And nothing is
going to get enforced until we increase the size of the police department and bring proper leadership back to the police department because what's going on now is an absolute disgrace. The cops are so disgusted. They've had it. We're down to 804 and I understand there's
about 15 of them leaving and something has to be done. Of course, I'm tired of listening to them complain to me. I know Danny, you getting the complaints also and it's time. It's got to stop. Okay. Okay. Danny, now the question is with
this this um resolution, where would the resources come from? That's the council's concern if because this is nothing binding, but you know, we just want to have this conversation openly. Yeah. So, uh, council, just as we go through the budget process, uh, we had
introduced the budget and, um, is there any amendments that would be made by the council, um, I know Councilman Solomon had requested a few changes. Um, those would be presented to the council for you guys to, uh, possibly move money around within the budget. Uh, basically
at this point, it would be the council's priorities in which they like to fund and not fund. I was just say that the budget director also said that um there the capital she she they have worked to find capital funding for um okay the traffic engineering division which which we're appreciative of.
Yes. But but I don't think we've received those details yet in detail. So so we want to finalize the capital appropriation a reappropriation ordinance to present to the council at the next council meeting. Um, one thing that we want to make sure is we're more transparent than we were on prior uh,
capital amendments in which that we show exactly where the dollars are coming from and where they're being reallocated to make sure it's the priority of the council. John, I I'd like one thing. you know, maybe maybe by Wednesday if you could speak to the director and the chief of the department if we can get a
breakdown of the divisions within the police department to show us how many officers they have within their division, you know. So like if we have officers again we we here are not uh uh the the the
managers of those you know specific allocated departments but if you have a a section that has maybe 40 officers and there maybe they could you know start rolling them back in you know within within the uh confines and also if I
know that director does not like the motorcycle department but we have a we have a few motorcycles there. I'm sure that those can get fixed up and maybe put two or three out, you know, in in in areas of the city that, you know, can can use officers in that traffic safety
division. But I think we have officers probably in areas where it might be a lot and, you know, I think we should get a breakdown per department within the police department of where they are. Councilman, I'll definitely ask them as for their or chart. Um, I just want to be uh uh honest and that it will
probably be headcounts, not individual names. Uh, but I think that's the best headount is what we need. I don't I don't want to pivot on names. John, let's cut it out. When I was in the North District, we had 160 some odd cops. We're down to less than 80. You
can't patrol a whole North District the size of the North District with 80 cops. It's And to listen to them say, "Nobody wants the job." Of course, nobody wants the job. Who wants to get paid $40,000 to work weekends, holidays, nights, uh, you know, you're never with your family?
It's got to change. We have to start taking care of the police department and the fire department and bring it back uh to the way it was. Go ahead. And so, oh, go ahead. Ladies, councilwoman first. Thank you. And I guess I guess this is
probably more of a rhetorical question because the the director isn't here, but Councilman Solomon, I think you said that the police department would prefer that all the officers kind of do traffic enforcement rather than forming a traffic division. Correct. When when you know, obviously I don't
want to put words in the director's mouth, but we were at you and council president you were at the meeting when he said this. they were, you know, he said that he doesn't want to put officers in the traffic and traffic division that he wants all officers to be responding and he gave his reasons. Partly he said he didn't have enough
officers. Partly he said he thought it would be better. You know, my my just my argument is that I don't think that works. We that's what we've done for the last 12 years and I obviously I think residents are pretty clear that it's not working. But that that is said I guess my question is you know shouldn't they already be enforcing
traffic violations? Like, isn't that the the job of the police already? So, if they're not doing it, like why why were they told to stop that we now have to tell them to to do it? Like that's that should already be something that they're enforced. And and obviously we had our meeting that this was discussed in the closed
session. Won't say more, but we did discuss it in the closed session. Uh this is for director of infrastructure varel. Uh is it possible to expedite the uh study to reduce speed limits or are
you going as fast as you already are or like what needs to be done? I know it has to go to the NJ dot but yeah we come up. Sorry. Um it's already being expedited. So, the
mayor's priority is to put forward that legislation for the speed limit reduction citywide before the end of the year. And there are a couple of steps that we have to go through with the Department of Transportation at the state in order to accomplish that. Part
of that is a study that has to be done um by traffic engineers that take a look at um our roadways, the speed limits that we have currently, the classification of roadways that we have because they all fall into different categories and then to make a
recommendation based off that. We've already started the process and we expect to complete it in the next couple of months through the city's on call traffic engineer. Okay. And when we when I guess that um
ordinance comes to the council, it'll be after that study is done. Correct. So the study would be completed first. It would be submitted to the New Jersey Department of Transportation. We would get a response from them hopefully with
no um modifications needed. And then once we have that, we would attach it to the ordinance that would that we would put before the council. Um and then you know logistically there's a lot that we would have to work out to actually make that a reality on the ground after the
um you can imagine the number of signs that would have to be changed with the current posted speed limit to the new and how we phase that how we prioritize you know things like school zones first maybe then streets that we know are the
highest injury streets in our city and then the rest of the And regard I'm sorry, regarding the ebike safety law. So I thought, correct me if I'm wrong, Councilman, but the
Uber, all those uh delivery apps were supposed to give out the vests that was on them. Like what would be on the city's part for us to enforce? So um quick update there. So um it has the implementation is taking longer than
we want but is moving forward. So of the three major delivery companies um Uber and Door Dash have put the safety tests on their apps and will now be giving us regular updates on on how many people are taking them and they did an event where they handed out the vests to
driver uh to deliveristas. So now moving forward we are in a position where we can start enforcing uh because the test is is ready on on two app platforms and they've distributed the vest. So uh and again they don't have to wear specific vests, they just
have to wear reflective gear. Um so those two things are now moving forward and code compliance can start enforcing now. So we did enforce it on the people that are biking or we did enforcing it on the delivery apps. of just you know so it depends on if the apps are not
distributed so the law requires them to distribute it if they don't distribute it it's their fault if they distribute it and the person doesn't wear it then it's the person's fault so it's both you know it both depends on the circumstances thank you I just want to just add to um I'm I'm
all for the uh 20 mph speed limit change I'm all for that u my concern is is is the police department going to be part of that study Because I mean unlike what the director says that all officers can be part of
that trafficking thing, but the traffic division is specific with radar and all of that. We we we can't say all officers are going to, you know, enforce that because, you know, if you pull somebody over going 27, 30 m an hour, how do we
know that they were going 30 miles an hour if there's not a specific, you know, m, you know, radar machine on the vehicles, right? So, how is is is the police department going to be part of that? And if they are, we need to be specific.
Do we have a traffic division to help with fines and summones summons that you know are going to be given out when we pull people over? I know you don't expect me to answer on the enforcement part, but I'll answer
the question about the study, which you asked. So the the study itself is just about the actual speed limits themselves. Um and you know what speeds people are driving, what speeds would be appropriate for the way the roadways are
designed and what categories they fall into. That's it. What happens after that is really what the city can determine. um how the police department is integrated into the process, how public works is integrated, how we roll this
out in a way where the all of the departments that have to work together can actually accomplish it is something we will do after the fact. But the study is strictly just based on the numbers. Yeah. And B director Patel, does that count for county and state roads also? Once we
make that change, we will include the county and state roads, but the county would have to legislate um the county roadways and the state would have to legislate on theirs. But if we're doing the study anyway, I think it makes sense for us to include those because they're still in our city
and we might as well do it. So, if they're not on board, that changes a lot. then we wouldn't recommend what they're going to do, but as a part of the study, if we're taking on the effort to do a traffic engineering study, it makes sense to look at those streets because they
intersect with so many of our local roadways. I just want it clear when it comes to 10.4, the funding can come from the capital. it can come from their capital because I because I know um I'm hearing concerns about they want to cut staff and all of
that in order for this to happen and I don't want nobody to lose no job or anything like that. So I don't want none of this cutting a staff member. So any any hard assets um any safety improvements, design, uh engineering, architecture, that would all be
qualified through capital. Um if you're looking to hire additional police or staff, then we'd have to shift budget money around from somewhere else or raise taxes. that would ultimately be the decision to be made. So the the capital directly addresses um hard
infrastructure around these initiatives and engineering and outside professionals that would engage in it. Um it wouldn't involve park enforcement officers, cops or or of those nature. That would have to be a budget amendment through uh the actual salary and wage
line throughout the city. I know that was concern for some of the council me members because they heard that they wanted to cut certain staff and uh at this time we're not cutting the staff. We're trying to, you know, make sure everybody have a job, you know, with so much going on throughout
the city. So, we need to really fight for everyone to keep a job, not cut a job. It's hard times for people. And my last comment, if we're going to uh look for the motorcycles, can we look for the bikes as well? That's it.
Okay. All right. First director, director Kierce. Morning, President Waterman, members of the council. I'm covering uh I have uh four items and I've been asked to cover one for public safety. Resolution number
agenda number is 109 25465. Resolution authorizing the award of a contract to Atlantic Tactical Incorporated for the purchase and delivery of body armor. for sworn police officers under New Jersey state contract for the Department of Public Safety, Division of Police. Total amount of the
contract is 72,97360 and the funding is available in the public safety grant account. Questions? The next item is 10:10. Resolution will authorize the award of a contract to Alarm Computer Ser Systems Incorporated
for the purchase of the Rave Mobile Safety Smart 911 annual license for the city's emergency notification system under GSA contract. Total amount of the contract is $88,8647 and is funded through the 2023 UASI
grant. Next is 1026 25482. Resolution will authorize the sale the authorize the award of a contract for 97 97 motor vehicles through the public surplus.com public online auction which
are no longer suitable for use. 102725483 resolution will authorize the award of a contract to lease servicing center DBA as NCL Capital for 5-year lease of 10 Westrid go for scooters for use by the
public safety parking enforcement division. Total amount of the contract is $456,6268.90 with an annual lease payment of $91,253.78 commencing May 20th, 2026. And the last item is 102825484.
Resolution will authorize the ward of a contract to Rachel Michelle's Oil Company for the purchase and delivery of gasoline on the New Jersey state contract. Total amount of this contract is $900,000 with a temporary incumbrance of $5,000 which is available in a DPW automotive
operating account. The scooters, are those the tricycle scooters? Freewheel scooters. Okay, Councilman, they're more efficient uh for parking enforcement. Uh with the SUVs, most times you have to ride doubles because if they're writing
tickets on separate sides of the streets with this, they have two doors, they can go out on each side. So it'll be more efficient in uh making sure the enforcement's uh taken care of. Okay. Thank you, Owen. Morning, council president, members of
city council. HHS food and nutrition has two items for your consideration. The first is resolution 25470, agenda number 10.14, a resolution authorizing the award of a competitively bid contract to Witson's
food service for preparing senior home delivered meals. Meals on wheels contract is not to exceed 1.3 million. I have a brief synopsis of the RFP process. You're all aware uh six vendors uh submitted RFP. There was a committee of five members including representation
from the BA's office. They were graded. They were meticulously graded on taste, quality, cost. To keep into consideration, every dollar of additional cost for this program cost approximately $160,000.
Um compliance, are they providing what was asked even in the RFP? Our grant guidelines are very very uh specific and non-negotiable menu. uh do they follow USDA guidelines? Two RDS were on committee uh with
specific focus on whether they uh whether each menu had 90 milligs of vitamin C daily or 1,000 IUs of vitamin A three times a week. Logistics, how detailed is their proposal in response to navigating the city? And packaging.
Uh we did have a vendor that scored very well, but their packaging uh wasn't was flimsy. It broke when they delivered it to us. So, you have to factor that type of thing in when you're delivering meals to 500 uh homebound seniors.
Did any um local vendors apply? Um I' I'd have to look at the proposal. I think I I think there might have I'm not sure if there was a local vendor actually. It's it's specifically broken down in the proposal. Uh but I could
tell you that Witson's and Riviera uh were the two highest scores. Um, Riviera, I believe, is out of the Bronx. And the reason why I asked because I know um, people are always trying to
like always asking about city contracts and some people are saying they don't know. So, that's why whenever I hear about bids, I always want to know if local people apply. Um because if it's a logistical something that's as simple as
it wasn't packaged the way it should have been um then maybe next time when they go around and bid for it they'll be able to shore that up. But I mean I ain't advocating for anyone in the Bronx or anything else other than Jersey City. Um so that's why the reason I asked
that. Yeah I could sh that information is all in the RFP specified. I could also share that. Uh, but I could tell you just from just from a cost perspective, there were some that were just way like 75% double the cost, which would be half a million
dollars in access. So, thank you. Okay. Second item, resolution 25471, agenda number 10.15, a resolution authorizing the execution of a
memorandum of understanding with the city of Jersey City as grantee and Jersey City Housing Authority as subgrantee for the community funding grant from HUD for the revitalization of the Curry'swood food pantry. Uh, I don't know if you're familiar, but there is a
ongoing a project that's beginning for the Curry's Woods food pantry that's um that comes from HUD funding. Basically, we're working closely with them. But the technicality of the process is the money has to be reimbursed from a city account. So, they have to do the work,
the architecture, they they basically we reimburse them and then HUD reimbures us. uh the entire process is broken down on the CR CRBG program for HUD. So every step whether
it be architecture or construction is specifically broken down by funding. So that's essentially the process. Thank you. Good morning, council president, council members. Jennifer Wong, director of traffic engineering. I have six items
for your consideration today. The first item is 3.6, ordinance 2583. This is an ordinance to uh prohibit on street parking in front of St. Joseph's school at 509 Pavonia Avenue on school
days from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Next is item 3.7, ordinance 2584. This is an ordinance to prohibit right turns on red at the following
intersections. Summit Avenue, Pavonia Avenue, and Central Avenue. Um the intersection of Southern A Summit Avenue, Newark Avenue and Hoboken Avenue. Uh the intersection of Summit A and Sip
A and the intersection of Summit AB and Grand Street. Next is item 1020 resolution 25476. This is a resolution to approve the
submission of a grant application for the NJ DOT bikeways grant program to construct a shared use path and bikeway along Philip Street between Audrey's Zap Drive and Thomas McGovern Drive. This would eventually connect to the existing
bike lanes on Caven Point and Jersey Avenue. And this concept was developed in coordination with NJDAP as part of the Liberty State Park revitalization project. And next is item
1021 resolution 25477. This is a resolution authorizing the approval to submit the grant application for the municipal grant municipal aid grant to repave Palisades out between
reservoir and Bower Street and reconstruct sideway uh sidewalk where necessary. Um and we will also consider concrete curb extensions at key intersections and street trees.
The next item is 1022 resolution 25478. This is a resolution to designate uh a few uh loading zones in the journal square area. There are 1 2 3 4 5 six uh
loading zones. These are just to designate areas that are already being used uh for loading. And the final item is 1023 resolution 25479. This is a resolution to designate bus
stops for the new NJ Transit bus route 16 um in the Bergen Lafayette neighborhood. Where where would that bus which route would that bus be taken? So this new
route um was created to alter both the six and 86 routes uh making them more direct. And then the 16 connects the Journal Square to the Bergen Lafayette to um the downtown area and it's already
in service. So this is just um designating those bus stops. That's right. They're just bringing back the local bus. Yeah. I um had something that didn't make the agenda and I it's the loading
zones and I know it was in the system. I just want to bring it on as a late item. It's loading zones for heights of the heights didn't make it didn't make the agenda. It was in it's in the system. Um
if it can be approved and if we could bring it on as a late item, I'd really appreciate it. Um, do you see it? Sorry. Do you see the loading zones? Yes. Not on the agenda. Um, but I did submit it through ICOM.
Why didn't it make it? I'm just curious cuz this is 12 days out. That's why I'm always asking the question, why can't these things make it on time? That's why I'm just asking. I think that's a legitimate question, right? Yeah. Uh, Council President, uh, we
could take a look in Compass to see what the timeline was and I'll get back to Yeah. We know the timeline. I'd like to motion to bring it on though. Thank you, Jennifer. Why not? Other council people motion. We don't take motions during the caucus.
Caucus. I mean like at the council meeting. You can do that at the council meeting. That she want to know why this stuff ain't making it. These things Jennifer, can I ask you something? They
put in a moden zone on uh Newark Avenue and uh Baldwin, but they didn't paint the red line. Cars are parking there every day. Of course, there's no enforcement from the parking authority because they're so short-handed. You got to paint the the lines red or yellow,
and they got to be enforced. Sure. I'll I'll uh work with our striping contractor to get that uh painted. Yeah. Parker, no. Well, you wanted to say something. No, I seen you came up. I thought you were going to No,
I was going to help answer questions about the timeline, but the BA's got it. Oh, okay. All right. Okay. This is Jennifer Amanda. Good morning, Council President, council members. Uh, I'm here for resolution
25-457, agenda number 10.1. This is a resolution authorizing the cancellation of unexpected uh funds. This was for the 2020 NJD. It pays to plug in grant. Uh
the city was awarded $48,000 and expended $47,596,000. The ending balance is $44. This grant has been closed and we uh need to cancel the unexpended funds.
Questions? Thank you. Thank you. Earth. Good morning, Council President, members of the council. I am here for agenda item 10.5, resolution 25461. This is a resolution of the municipal
council of the city of Jersey City authorizing the submission of an application to the New Jersey urban enterprise zone authority for enterprise zone assistance funds for Jersey City UE fiscal year 26 administrative budget for the second half of the year which is
January 1st 2026 to July um June 30th 2026 in the amount of $346,479. $9. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you.
Joe Kuna, always got to call you twice. Morning, council. Morning. I'm here to present on resolution number 25-487, agenda item number 10.31,
resolution of the city of Jersey City consenting to the undertaking of sewer system capital improvement uh projects by the JCMUA. Uh this is a formality in the source service contract of 1985 to come before you to request that we can spend money
on very needy worthwhile projects involving the combined sewer and storm water sewer system throughout the city. Seeking your approval questions. Uh Joe, I do got a question. Um not
necessarily regarding this, but um my concern is the repavement of the roads after the work is done. Um it's taken entirely too long. Um because
from a resident's perspective, they've endured the road condition before the construction, during the construction, now is after the construction. So I'm just trying to see like what is a reasonable time frame
that we can inspect rules that we can expect roles to be repaid after the work have concluded. That's a great question. So with our utilities and with any utility uh even from my time during department of infrastructure, we like to look for a
minimum of 90 days from the last backfill activity, which is usually the last piece of pipe or the last catch basin go in. Um but 6 months is preferable. Unfortunately, in our area, paving is is a cyclical thing. Seasonal, we really can only pave from about uh
early April if we're lucky through maybe uh Christmas if the plants stay open. On a rare occasion, I have seen where we could pay a premium in the winter because it's mild to pave. Now, I will say this, the Department of Infrastructure is well underway with their paving program. We've been working
handinhand with them for the past six years to make sure that we pull our resources with paving. Admittedly, the MUA is a little late with bidding our current uh annual um program, but in this sewer resolution, one of the recurring projects is in fact that
roadway restoration. so that we don't hit a gap like we just did. Uh but that being said, they do have a paving contractor out. Um assuming it's not the same contractor who wins our bid, which we are going out for bid this month into next month, looking to award by the end
of August at the latest, um we should be able to bring in another crew and run side by side. So when when when like they were doing work um forget the contractors we used
to to do the the remediation of the pipes and all of that stuff on Randolph. So who is who is is in that contract as part of the repavement or that's a whole separate contract. So another great question. So many times we are allowed a certain amount of
pavement restoration. the infrastructure bank, which is the majority of our funding sources because of the benefits on the interest. It's a no-brainer to try to go there. Plus, it's a requirement of the state that we go to them first. They allow reimbursement or
the expenditure of a certain amount of asphalt. It's usually limited to the trench itself. That doesn't comport with the ordinance that the city rightfully put in place many years ago, 2015 to pave curb to curb, blockto block if we're a large utility company. And JCMUA
leads the way. We pull PSCG, Verizon, everyone else in lock step with the Department of Infrastructure and their requirements. Otherwise, they don't get a permit. Okay. Joe. Joe. Sir, I know I've been driving you crazy, but
the people have had it. When is the Baldwin Avenue bridge going to get done? Maybe the governor should come up there or the mayor should come up there and we start getting city officials up there cuz people are tired of what's going on on Baldwin Avenue. It's over a year now.
Yeah. So, nothing has been done. As of last week, we finally got clearance from Port Authority, who owns a portion of the bridge, a large portion, and the uh Conrail Federal Rail, which is actually owned by CSX. We have already placed an order on the pipe, and we shortened the
project to one/ird of what it was originally going to be in order to expedite. So, we look to be putting that pipe in the ground as soon as we get it, probably by the beginning of September. And it's going to take at least 3 months, three and a half months, right before the winter, we should be done. But we're going on over a year and a
half and it's it's a it's a joke. I I'm not blaming you. No, I understand. You know, but we met up there with certain offic certain state representatives and the unions and everything and nothing's been done. And people are breaking my back and it's a
shame. It's a damn shame that you close a road, a major, not you, but the major road is closed for over a year and a half and god forbid the fire department gets stuck in that traffic there and has to respond to a fire, somebody's going to
get killed. Understood. Yeah. Our our ideally we prefer that no trains hit our water manes and we don't have to close any roads for any amount of time, but unfortunately this is the hand we were dealt. We did uh find a way to go one way and admittedly it's been one way for
quite a while now. Probably for the better part of the last uh six, seven months. Yeah. So it's not ideal. You're right, Joe. The Port of authority and the state should have been told to get go to hell a year ago when we met up there and all these promises promises promises and they did nothing.
Yeah, we we tried that. You know, and as I said, God forbid there's a fire there and that traffic's backed all the way up from Montgomery Street to Magnolia Avenue and the fire department can't get through and somebody gets killed. We've been lucky up to now. We absolutely have.
I guess you got to relay a message. The loves us up there. Thanks a lot, Joe. I was going to ask I mean I was going to say like what Gilmore was saying was Councilman Gilmore was saying was spot on. Um I don't know if there's a way for you to
come back after 90 days and either level off like things that are too high like mounds of asphalt that are too high or asphalt that's dipped too low. whoever the vendors are, that needs to be a part of the discussion because it's
often times they leave it in such a a rugged state. It just really does a number on earshocks and just bicycles and anyone that uses the roadway. And just to clarify, you mean in the time between the 90 to 6 months and the actual repaving completely, right?
Yeah. If there's like a some other measure that you could do other than repaving to like just sort of smooth it out. I don't know what other tools there are in in your arsenal, but So, we have a we have an annual contract. Uh it's never less than
$750,000 to about a million with company called Pothole Killers. They're able to fill a pothole from a/4 in deep to up to 6 in or 8 in even. So, the problem is it's a widespread trench issue what you're talking about because it's meant to do what it does. It settles and then
we level it off with the paving. If anything is to come up in any time, they've been doing the lion's share of the pothole filling throughout the city for the past 5 years, six years, might even be more, but uh we can step that up for sure. Just call them in, please. I know it's a pain, but uh we'll fill in
as much as we can. Even if it's like so mountainous, you know, I was like talking to Director Patel about it, but um anything you could do to like smooth it out? Absolutely, we will do that. And Joe, also um at this is a water related
question. Um so if if water I know they're doing a revamping or redevelopment right across the street in McGomery Gateway. Um so if the water's off from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. They're they're responsible for pro providing
the water. In fact, can can them people be in their house from that duration? How does that work? Is it a hydrant that's flowing or? Well, they cutting off all of the water, I guess, because of the work they doing for the Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. So, since since CO, we've been very
careful not to shut water anywhere as much as possible during the day. And we try to use the midnight hours, like usually never earlier than about 11:00 p.m. uh till about 5:00 a.m. because of the rush, you know, the night rush to shower and the morning rush to shower, cook and eat. So, um, that sounds like a
specific location. If you could just text me that one, I'll take a look. That doesn't sound like something we want to permeate. We don't want that to happen. Awesome. Um, the resolution. Uh, so there's a lot of
lot of projects. Thank you. There's a lot of projects on this list. It's ambitious. Is there a timeline for completion? Is it the next 5 years, next 10 years, is the next year? Like what can you give us
a little flavor as to what the timeline is for all these projects? Sure. About 75% or more of those uh are actually completed. Anything that says emergency, yeah, is either completed or about to be completed. We already owe these contractors money on those. Okay.
So, they have been presented to the local finance board. Local finance board did offer positive comments on about $68 million worth of those expenditures. The rest happen to be a little bit more generic for future projects that come up so that we don't have to uh take up your
time as often as this. And uh obviously the on calls annual are a big big part of what we do. So I'm glad that we were able to include those in the list as well. Thank you, director. Thank you. Thank you. Take care. Enjoy that. Thank you, Joe. Take care. I'll talk to you soon.
Councilman. Morning. Council President, council members. Uh for the record, Paul Kate, division director, disease prevention, health and human services. Um I had one resolution and due to some schedule confusion. I'm presenting on
behalf of uh four different divisions today. Uh so first is item number 10.1. This is a resolution authorizing the cancellation of unexpected budget appropriation balance. Yeah. Yeah. I'm sorry. Who did? Uh I thought that was mine. I'm
sorry. Okay. Interesting. Uh all right. We'll move along to So this is on behalf of environmental health. This is item number 10.12. This is a resolution authorizing HHS to accept the 2026 childhoodled program
grant. Uh this is awarded by the uh through the state uh department of health office and local public health. This is an ongoing grant that repeats here every year. This is just a renewal. Um on the heels of that, this is also environmental health and this ties into
the lead program. This is a resolution authorizing the city to apply for and accept the grant funding from the New Jersey Department of Health under the 2026 childhood lead exposure prevention project to detect prevent uh lead exposure for children. So those are both
environmental health. Uh next on behalf of the uh division of immigrant affairs item number 10.17 uh this is through the office of new Americans uh under the fiscal year 2026 legal services. This is a grant for
unaccompanied children and similarly situated youth to provide legal counsel and supportive services to immigrant uh unaccompanied children and similarly situated youth. Sorry, I'm a bit unfamiliar with that one so I had to read through it. Uh finally, 10.18.
This is a resolution authorizing the city to apply for and accept grant funding for New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services uh for age friendly grant program to support the development of a community needs assessment for older adults and that's
for the Division of Senior Affairs. Was that Paul 10? The the last one was 10.18. So he covered 10.12, 10.13, 10.17, and 10.18. Correct.
And interestingly enough, I do not see mine on here. This was a grant cancellation also. I thought it was 10.1. Okay. Oh, four instead of five. Any questions? We're good. Thank you. Thank you very much,
Asia. Who? Good morning everyone. Morning, Council President. I have two items for you. The first one is agenda item number 10.6. That's resolution 25-462. And it's a resolution to authorize the
business administrator to execute the discharge of a mortgage encumbering 380-38A Johnston Avenue in Jersey City. Um, this person received a home investments partnership loan in the amount of $52,000 in 1993. Um, all conditions have
been satisfied. Um, per this discharge, there is a repayment amount of $64,15360 due. Um, are there any questions?
Next one. The next uh agenda item that I have for you is 10.16. That is resolution 25-472. and that is a resolution reprogramming CDBG um CARES Act. So those were our Corona
virus dollar fundings um and authorizing a memorandum of understanding with Jersey City's Department of Health and Human Services. So for this grant, um the municipal council did approve funding out of this CDBGCV block to be
used for violence prevention services. There were about $500,000 in total funds that was earmarked for this program. Um after application and committee review, it was determined that this funding was going to be split to two organizations. one focusing on
adults and that was going to be scores re-entry and one focusing on serving youth. Um, and we awarded those youth servicing funds to JC Pal specifically to focus on youth that had been impacted by gang violence, gun violence, and have
truency issues here in Jersey City. Um, at this time we've undergone a mutual contract termination with scores. um they did come back to us and needed to do a budget modification for additional funds received and they did receive a large amount of cannabis funding um from
the community and therefore did not need to utilize this particular set of grant funds. Um however with our conversation and review of JC Pal's work um we could not come to a mutual understanding and therefore the division of community
development has made a determination to move forward with terminating the balance of their contract. Um, we're talking about a contract that we went into in November of 23 with a period of performance from September the 1st of
2023 through August 31st of 2024. That was the time period, excuse me, that they had to spend those funds. DCD did have conversations with JC Pal and decided to execute a contract extension and gave
them an additional time period from September 1st of 2024 till November the 30th of 2024 to be able to cover any additional spending they did appropriate to the grant during that time period. To
date, DCD has received $80,84520 worth of eligible reimbursement expenses. So, that is the amount of funding that we have been able to pay back to JC Pal at this time and we are asking to cancel the balance which is $169,15480.
Um I just want to say um this is not a statement about JC PAL as an organization and this is not comment towards whether they're doing work in the community. So DCD sees them doing work. We acknowledge the work that they
do and we can always use more people that want to scoop our kids up and do work with them and wrap them up with love and respect and kindness. All of the things and we give kudos to JC Pals for doing that. However, the issue that we are having um is merely a contract
issue. DCD issued an RFP for a particular amount of work focused on a specific subset of children. Gang violence, gun violence, truency involved youth. Um JC Pal's sentiment is that the
work they do, whatever work they do should be considered violence prevention. And that is not clear. That's not what speaks to in the RFP. That's not what they wrote back to us in their grant application. And that's not what is highlighted and dictated in the contract that we mutually agreed upon
when we mutually signed and decided to move forward with this project. Um so failure for us to come to a consensus today and vote to terminate this contract and move the funds into a different program um will result in these funds being returned to HUD. Okay?
So I just wanted to be clear on that statement as well where these funds are moving to. Um we have analyzed a program with the Jersey City Department of Health and Human Services for peaceful families. So this is a program that they are doing in conjunction with the
superior court for adults who are engaging in domestic violence in the home and they are being court ordered to participate in um mandated counseling. So through um the HHS department receiving these referrals, they have
hired and trained domestic violence facilitators who are running this program which I do believe is a 12week um online andor in-person counseling session that these courtmandated individuals do have to participate in.
And upon completion of this program, a report is then provided to the judge who will then make determination on what's going to happen with these individuals moving forward. We do thank DCD by moving this funds to the HHS program. We're still meeting the initiative of um
trying to combat violence that we know has been exacerbated by COVID and people being inside of the home. Um and we're also happy that some of this funding will go to support city employees and um protect some more employees and their salaries. So if you have any questions, I'm here.
Yeah. So with regards to to PAL, they're being reimbursed to the tune of 80,000. Um so was sub was invoices submitted and then that work was deemed outside of the scope of the grant proposal
that um invoices were submitted for things that are not eligible for re expenses as outlined in the project. Um, one example of something that has been discussed, um, was a field trip to go watch a WWF wrestling match. And as the grant administrator, I made a
determination that that does not meet the guideline of violence prevention nor the mentoringship or the counseling program that I was funding him to conduct. So, no. Okay. Um, now I haven't looked at the grant, but I will say this as it relates
to violence. There is a school of thought that essentially says that any intervention with youth that deters them from entering gang activity is also
considered violence intervention for said demographic. Um, like I said, but I haven't seen the grants. I don't know specifically what the grant spells out, but I do know that there's a school of thought that essentially states that any
type of intervention you're doing with individuals that live in the area that have seen increased gang and violence, any type of activities with youth in that area is considered as um violence
prevention. Um, Councilman, thank you for that. So, I will say like two parts. A, I think I've emailed everyone on the council and their aids a copy of the contract, a copy of their grant application, and uh, a copy of their
response. Um, in addition to a timeline of everything that has already occurred preto this meeting. If you need me to reforward that to you, I absolutely can. Um, I will say that as per the contract, what we put in there, um, we were looking for people to engage in two models. both the intervention and
prevention model. Um, so yes, what you were stating is fact there are various models that you could engage in for this program, but specifically what we were looking for through this grant was for someone to accept referrals for kids
that are gang violence involved or who have been victims of gang violence, who were gun violence perpetrators or who have been victims of gun violence andor youth that are currently having truency problems to the point that the court system is now involved. So, anything
outside of selecting these kids for the programming and crafting um one-on-one mentorship, art therapy, music therapy, counseling, like that is spelled out in the RFP of the services that we were looking to be provided to the youth. And I tell you that you've had
conversations with them about these specifics as well as this spelled out in a grant. Um yes. So attached to that email is also the PowerPoint from um January of 2025 where we had an additional you know like
a last attempt conversation um to clarify what is needed for the proper execution of the grant and what I would be looking for. And even at that point in January of 2025, they were given an additional 30 days to produce any receipts from the period of performance
that I could use to reimburse them additional funding from the grant. Um to date I'm not in receipt of any additional receipts for reimbursement. Okay. So um just for clarification so the how many how how in total how many
invoices did they submit? Um we reimbured them via two received tunches. Um so they received I believe one tunch for about $50,000 and the second trunch was for about $30,000. Um, and at that time, I want to say about
November of last year, I as DCD actually went out for RFP to hire a third-party auditing service that would go out and audit the work that's being done on the grant for all of the nonprofits just so that there could be no statements of
impropriy or unfairness on how the evaluation of the grants have occurred. Um, I am in receipt of the final monitoring report for JC Pal. Um, and again, it is difficult for firsttime or smaller mom and pop nonprofits to come
and take these federal grant dollars. The standards of what they need to do are much higher than what you're doing if you're receiving foundation money or small grant money that you know doesn't require this kind of reporting and
segregation. So, for example, the third party auditing report has shown that I actually paid them out for a $10,000 PSEG bill for the property. They're running services I can pay for a part of the lights. However, my auditor found that they do not have a cost segregation
plan. The the funding that they're using to run their organization, 100% does not come from DCD for this one program. So they have to break it out and show me if this is their whole PSCG bill, how much are they getting from other sources, what other programs are they running,
how much time are they spending running my program, and then they have to break out the bill and I would be only be able to cover that portion. My third party auditor said I can cover about $5,000 of that. So now we have a conversation about $5,000 that I've overpaid them for
inappropriate receipts that they can't prove. So again, if they can go back and cut these costs out and prove to me that it's actually the whole 10, they can keep the whole 10. But this is why we go over these layers. It is complicated contracting. Um the staff in the office
do the best they can and I've stepped out and taken additional resources to help us to be as effective and efficient as possible in the grant execution on behalf of the city. And Deja, just to uh to clarify, like when we when we do move these funds
around, all of this stuff has to go back to HUD, I guess, for their review. They know each step of the process who's getting allocated these funds and um you know, whether we have to report back to them whether or not the rules are being followed, right? Yes. So, typically all
these reviews do happen after the fact. So it might be three, five years from now that HUD wants to come back and check this program and what we did at this time. So that's why it's very important for us to keep our documentation as tight as possible. Okay.
Yeah. No other questions. That's all I have for council today. Thank you so much for your time. Thank Thank you. Take it from the top. Oh, can I before we start, Sean, can I just ask something? Uh, we have nobody from city planning here. And uh, Mr.
Metro, can you please make sure someone from city planning responds to my emails request for a meeting about Route 139 resoning? City planning proposes 10-story buildings on Route 139 and Kennedy Boulevard and only five stories
on Route 139 by Palis Aids. I met with Persian Field Neighborhood Association, Nardome Place Residents, and Sergeant B. Anthony Association. The community does not want 10thstory buildings. They want five stories on 139. I keep on
contacting planning. Nobody gets back to me. I mean, Councilman, I'll make sure you get a response. The what? I'll make sure you get a response if you just give me an email. Thank you, John. Thank you. All right. On to our first reading ordinances. Item 3.1, city ordinance 20,
somebody's saying something. Ordinance 25-078 is an ordinance authorizing the city of Jersey City, to renew the lease with Riverview Community Garden for the use of block 30002, lot 2, more commonly
known as 285 Ogden Avenue Community Garden. Is there um this is for corporation council? Is there like a rule that these community gardens have to be accessible to the general public or like what what are the rules surrounding that? Cuz they're usually open for a limited
amount of hours and um I've gotten some feedback from community members saying they'd like it to be more accessible to the public. They're supposed to be accessible to the public. I don't know if it's uh if there's set time in the code. I I can
take a look at it and get back to you. Okay. Thank you. That's all. Okay. Item 3.2, city ordinance 25-079, is an ordinance authorizing the accepting the dedication of street and sidewalks on a portion of Chapel Avenue
situated at block 27503, lot 14.01. Item 3.3, city ordinance 25-080, is an ordinance authorizing the execution of an easement access and maintenance agreement between 500 commun
LLC and the city of Jersey City in connection with the construction of a residential building at 500-510 Communipore Avenue. Good morning. One second. One second. Sorry, Chuck. Go ahead, Chuck.
Good morning. For the record, uh, Charles Harrington, Connell Foley. I'm just here in the event any members uh have have any questions. This is pretty straightforward. It's uh as part of the uh project, the uh owner agreed to make the uh sidewalk wider. So, this just
officially dedicates a portion of his property to make the the sidewalk wider and available to the public. Any council members have any questions? Uh, in making it wider, it's I guess his
building is sitting back further or is he Okay, that that's right. That's why he agreed to move the uh set back the building further to create the wider sidewalk. Okay. Any other questions? Right.
Item 3.4, 4 city ordinance 25-081, an ordinance authorizing the city of Jersey City to acquire certain real property known as block 2753, lot 13 on the city's tax map located at a foot of Chapel Avenue from Liberty
National Development Corporation LLC for the purpose of ensuring continued Feb service to the public. Item 3.5, city ordinance 25-082, is an ordinance of the Jersey City Municipal Council amending chapter 163,
firearms and weapons to add article 6, firearms storage. Yes. Uh we just got this uh all this information this morning and I would like to have somebody here on Wednesday to explain exactly what they're talking
about on this on 3.5 uh Councilman I can speak to it real quickly. This um was a proposed ordinance provided from an outside group. The law department looked at it, went through it. Um it's just an additional ordinance violation. So it
would be updating our code uh 163. It's going to be ancillary to any other statutory or 2C violations. If somebody has some other unlawful storage of a weapon, it would be if they come in find that uh an a handgun is unlawfully
secured, they'd be able to issue an ordinance violation as well as any other accompanying 2C violations. So it's really just making sure that it's either in a secure lock box or has a trigger lock on the box. If if who comes in and if the police department, if the police
department is called to the house for some other reason, enters and finds that there's um a hand, you know, they would have to do an investigation. If there's a handgun sitting around, uh inquire who's the owner of the handgun, is it properly?
But is isn't that already in the state ordinance? Is is this the state law? Is it just what is this for? just to like uh it's just to make it um a local requirement as well. There's different state violations as to when it needs to be locked away for when it's around
children or people under a certain age, but we can give you the comparative on it. I think I thought what I heard too though a lot of um domestic violent situations when they were going into a lot of women were being threatened and the handguns was not locked up. I think this is some
push from moms, right? even though it seemed like common sense people who own them would do it but they finding out this is becoming a problem. So that that was my that was my concern. Obviously the pe the those of us who you know who who have firearms and you know
we we we do it the right way. you know, I just want to make sure that, you know, this is done properly and, you know, we're addressing obviously the people who are not legal with their handguns, right? So, I mean, I just get a little concerned when they say, "Well, if they
come to your house, you know, yeah, it's not going to be knocking on the door going around looking for this." Like we said, it would be ancillary to probably a different criminal investigation. And then if for some reason criminal charges are dropped, it comes down to the municipal court. There's still a municipal violation you
can hang your hat on. That's how it's envisioned. Who would you say is proposing this? Uh I believe it was um the gun safety. It's a gun safety group. Yeah. Who's the gun safety people? She'll come in. We'll have her in.
Uh Every Town for Yes. Every Town for Gun uh safety. Every Town for Gun Safety. Hoboken also recently passed an ordinance. I'd like to know more about it. Sure. We can give you we have research on it. We can provide you our our memo since we looked into it and this is the
language uh we proposed. So I saw this was a request from Mom's Demand Action, right? That they they wrote a letter too. But I just know women who are abused and also moms who, you know, children got,
you know, accidentally. I mean, I'm all for it, you know. I'm 100% on board. I just don't want to be targeted, right? You know, for people that are are are lawful, you know, owners, then, you know, cuz there's a lot of them out there that, you know,
are just completely illegal weapons. And I just want to be make sure that we're not being targeted. Okay, any other questions? All right, item 3.6 and 7 were touched on earlier. On to our second reading ordinances. Item 4.1, city ordinance
25-074 is an ordinance of the Jersey City Municipal Council amending the Jersey City Official Zoning Map. Item 4.2, 2 city ordinance 25-day 075 is an ordinance amending chapter 160 fees and charges establishing zone 3 permit fee.
Item 4.3 city ordinance 25-076 is an ordinance amending chapter 218 multiple dwellings section 12 preventing algorithmic rent fixing in the rental housing market of the code of ordinances of the city of Jersey City. And item 4.4
for city ordinance 25-077 is an ordinance of the Jersey City Municipal Council for the amendments to chapter 345-31 of the land development ordinance regarding general development checklist. We will have a public hearing on the
fisc sorry. Oh, go ahead. We will have the public hearing on the fiscal year 2025 municipal budget. We have 14 speakers so far. Any questions or comments on petitions and
communications 6.1 through 6.29? Hearing none. Any questions or comments on office communication 7.1 through 7.8? 8. Any questions or comments on reported directors 8.1 through 8.4?
We have our meetings claims and on to our resolutions. 10.1 was touched on earlier. Item 10.2. Resolution 25-458 is a resolution authorizing a license agreement with Morina Foundation
allowing the city, excuse me, allowing the city of Jersey City to enter the property owned by the licenser to use a space located at 888 Newark Avenue in connection with the Jersey City Youth Mural Arts Program and other uses in the
months of July, August, and October of 2025. Item 10.3, city or resolution 25-459, is a resolution authorizing the closure of the public right away as per ordinance 25-073
in connection with the Jersey City Marathon Half Marathon for Sunday, April 19th, 2026. Items 10.4 through 10.6 were touched on earlier. Item 10.7, city resolution 25-463,
is a resolution introducing and approving the 2025 2026 budget of the Westside Avenue Special Improvement District, directing the city clerk to publicly advertise the budget and schedule a public hearing and directing the tax assessor to prepare an assessment role for the properties
within the district based upon the budget. Item 10.8, 8 city resolution 25-464 is a resolution authorizing the award of a contract to turnout and fire and safety incorporated for personal protective equipment through the new New
Jersey Cooperative Purchasing Alliance Bergen County Coupe for the Department of Public Safety Division of Fire. Items 10.9 through 10.10 were touched on earlier. Item 10.11, city resolution 25-467
is a resolution authorizing the award of the contract to Millennium Communication Group for the purchase of 400 early, excuse me, yearly block hour service under the interlocal purchasing systems for the Department of Public Safety
Communications Center. Items 10.12 through 10.18 were touched on earlier. Item 10.19, city resolution 25-475, is a resolution authorizing the acceptance of grant funding from the state of New Jersey in the amount of
1,12,13 for the park and recreation improvement and acknowledging associated projects under the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Corona virus state and local fiscal recovery fund
grant number BF-24-00. 009. Items 10.20 through 10.23 were touched on earlier. Item 10.24, city resolution 25-480, is a resolution ratifying the award of a
contract for Verizon Business Network Services Incorporated for data services under New Jersey State Contract for the Department of Administration Divid Division of Information Technology. Item 10.25, 25. City resolution 25-481
is a resolution ratifying an agreement with Superon LLC, a Center Square Technologies company, for providing maintenance and support services for one solution payroll and personnel system. Items 10.26 through 10.28 were touched
on earlier. Item 10.29, 29 resolution 48, excuse me, resolution 25-485 is a resolution of the city, Jersey City Municipal Council authorizing a 5-year tax exemption with Warren at Bay LLC for
improvement to commercial and industrial structure located at 130 Bay Street, block 11504, lot 2. Sean, yes. Um, can someone give some insight or some intel on exactly um
what's going on here? What um I guess five-year tax abatement is this what is the commercial what's there? Sure. Um Councilman says uh was a conversion to commercial space. So they're eligible under um our ordinances
for a 5-year abatement and to have um the improvements uh get the abatement. So, I can provide you a little more information. It was my bad. I forgot to tell the applicants that it was on this meeting, but I'll provide you details about what's
um and this is a 5-year abatement that the tax assessor is allowed to authorize with um council approval, but I'll provide you a little bit more of the details, but their whole application is attached. Um and everything's gone through the entire process, gone through
the tax assessor's office and our office as well. Okay. Item 1030, city resolution 25-486, is a resolution endorsing a change in New Jersey state legislation to authorize automated traffic enforcement
in cities of the first class and support vision zero goals. This came out after um a meeting we had in the Heights with the council president and myself in attendance and it was a request from the community um in terms of getting more
enforcement. the police can't be everywhere and this would help um Jersey City because we're a very dense city and it would be limited to cities of the first class which is defined as cities
that have a population of 150,000 and more. And essentially they would be put on intersections that are like high crash corridors. you could put them on buses and bus lanes and you know whether it's a school bus
or a senior bus in terms of doing automated enforcement. So we want the state to allow us to opt into something like that so we could let the cops continue to do the things that catch the
bad guys. So that's where I'm at with that. Oh, so this something that would have to go through the state legislature? Yes. The next step would be for us to well, we're going to pass this resolution hopefully as a council and then we go to
the county commissioners and we ask them to pass a similar resolution and the state already has a vision task force, the vision zero task force or I think it's committee actually it's a committee. They made a committee this
year. They're supposed to give a recommendation within a year of the establishment of this committee. The committee was created in January 13, 2025 of this year. So, they're going to put the recommendations for the incoming
um governor. And this should be part of that because the city, the county, and the state all have uh vision zero as a goal. And I know that the pilot program didn't work like over 10 years ago now,
but this would be limited to cities that are high density because that's where most of the traffic fatalities and the serious injuries are happening. So low hanging fruit that you know we should be able to achieve.
Okay. Item 10.31 was touched on earlier. Item 10.32, resolution 25-488 is a resolution reappointing Britney Bunny as a member of the Jersey City Cannibis Bo control board. Next, I
Yeah, I thought Didn't she resign? Yeah. What's it? So, so she she did resign, but I believe what the intention is is because we recently passed an ordinance that kind of reconstructed the cannabis board and I believe she does
have an interest on serving again. So, we have to reconstitute the cannabis board. No. Yeah, we gota I don't think we What is going on with this this cannibis board in totality, John? if you know.
Oh, uh, council, this is the administration adding, uh, nominations to reappoint, reestablish the board after we, uh, made the changes to the board's, uh, uh, design and the application process.
But the the problem here is that we have someone that resigned and now they're reapplying. The rules have not drastically changed that much. It's just a matter of how we going to configure and we're adding people because
everybody can't make it. They don't get paid for this stuff. So, I mean, I Yeah, I just don't feel comfortable with um reappointing anyone who have resigned. Out of these three, she's the only one
that resigned. Correct. Yes. And didn't we push the number to five? I think seven. What? So where's the other four? Do we Councilman? There's one that is currently still on the board. Um that
was waiting. So with three new appointments, we would establish a quorum. Obviously would uh would need additional nominations to fill the entire board, but so we would have four if these three nominees are um approved. So meetings
could again restart but Rich you want to nominate someone to Rich can sir cannabis board. So again I'm just going to reiterate we do not take any action in the caucus.
I know joking a joke. Um where's my drum set? Um, item 10.33, resolution 25-489 is a resolution reappointing Jose Canetero as a member of the Jersey City Cannabis Control Board. And item 10.34,
resolution 25-490 is a resolution reappointing Jeffrey H. Kappowitz as a member of the Jersey City Cannabis Control Board. I'll ask the uh it's through the mayor's uh advice and then the consent to the council. So, I'll bring feedback to the
to the uh mayor and uh potentially maybe another um appointment. Yeah, another point is Okay, we don't have anything else. May I have a motion to adjourn at 11:27 a.m.? Second. Who made the motion?
Rich. Motion was made by council person Ria, seconded by council person. On the motion to adjourn at 11:27 a.m. All council members by acclamation, please say I. We are out of here at 11:27 a.m. Thank you so much everyone
present and everyone watching at home, remember teamwork makes the dreamwork. Have a great rest of the day. Stay safe.