B of County Commissioners which will actually be preceded this evening by two separate public hearings and I just want to take a minute to explain this so you all know what we're going to go through uh lots of roll calls lots of gabble banging um and uh hopefully a very good
outcome we're gonna have two separate public hearings starting right now the first will be on the adoption of a project labor agreement for pay County Public Works contracts over $5 million in the second public hearing which we're going to begin with right after the first
one okay um and the second one is on the adoption of a responsible contractor and subcontractor policy for pay County Public Works contracts over $250,000 so we're going to have both of those hearings and then we're going to start our meeting at which point we'll
actually we'll actually adopt the resolutions uh those two resolutions as part of our consent agenda so for those of you are here to talk about those each of the hearings going to give you a chance to do that the actual adoption will follow as part of our consent agenda in the main meeting so I hope
that was helpful and with that Lou would you do a roll call an announcement of the public hearing for the pla hearing this public hearing is being held to solicit comments from the public on the adoption of the project labor
agreement for pay County Public Works contract over $5 million it if adopted the contractors will be be required to enter into a project labor agreement as a condition of Performing work on a project uh Public Works contracts over
$5 million a copy of the project labor agreement has been available for review in the office of the board of County Commissioners Bay County Administration Building 401 Grand Street Room 223 pson New Jersey the County Board of County
commissioners of the county of B on May 21st uh 2024 adopted resolution r24 d407 which calls for a public hearing scheduled for tonight June 25th 2024 at 5:15 in the pay County Administration
Building 401 Grand Street room uh 220 Patterson New Jersey the time date and location of this public hearing was advertised in both the Herald news and the record on May 30th 2024 County Commissioners Cruz Duffy
Gallow here James leapor here deputy director lazara here director Bartlett here can I have a motion to open the public hearing I'll move it second County Commissioners Gallow yes leor yes deputy
director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes does anyone presid desire to be heard on the adoption of the project labor agreement for County Public Works contract over $5 million see another one at the podium I move to just want to make sure deputy
director everyone understood what we're going for this is for this the public hearing on the labor agreement right yep make sure I give everyone an opportunity if they want to speak good evening Tom Kelly president P
County Central labor Council I rise in support of the project labor agreement um it will ensure quality construction for pay County into the future it's been 24 years in the making besides that ensures good quality options and jobs
for pay County Children good quality career jobs and that's what we look for and we hope everyone else joins us and support of that thank [Applause] you good evening
everybody Brian Jackson president of P County Building Trades um I am too in support of the project labor agreement and responsible contractor language that is being presented tonight um to ensure jobs for
our residents and all our Union that are present tonight and I just want to extend my thanks to all [Applause] you anybody else okay we have a
motion second and if the um if the record um let the record show that uh orander Cruz joined the meeting at 523 and we'll be voting on County Commissioners Cruz
yes Gallow yes James leor yes deputy director lazara yes director Bartlett yes can I have a motion to adjourn this public move it second ER second Cruz County Commissioners Cruz
yes Gallow yes leapor yes deputy director lazara yes director Bartlett yes all right thanks everybody for following along that brings us to our second public hearing of this evening which is on the adoption of a responsible contractor and subcontractor policy Lou would you announce the public
hearing roll call public hearing is being held to solicit comments from the public on the adoption of the responsible contractor and subcontractor policy for the Bay County Public Works contracts over um $250,000 if adopted the new policy would
require all contractors and subcontractors to execute a contractor responsibility certification and they as a condition of the performance performing work on a public um I'm sorry on a public works contract over
$250,000 supporting documentation of the resolution are - 24-48 has been available for review in the office of the board of County Commissioners pade County Administration Building Bay Bay County Board of County
Commissioners um Bay County Board of County commissioners of the county of B on May 21st 2024 adopted resolution r-4 d48 which calls for the public hearing schedule for tonight June 25th 2024
at 5:15 p.m. in the Bay County Administration Building Grand Street room 220 Patterson New Jersey the time date and location of this public hearing was advertised in both the Herald news and the record on May 30th 2024 a
revised public notice was advertised in both the Herald news and the record on June 13 2024 okay just for the record I know public hearing States a different amount
it was amended advertised on June 13 20 thank you Council for clearing that up uh so roll call okay uh County Commissioners Cruz here Gallow yes lour here deputy
director Lazar here director Bartlett here so does anyone present desire to be heard on the adoption of a responsible contractor and subcontractor policy theay County public they all left and that hurt Tom welcome welcome back to the podium Haven
haven't seen you in four I don't know who got the better view of me anyway again Tom Kelly president P County Central labor Council um I rise in support of the responsible contractor language as the voice of over 20,000 union members in P County some of them
obviously reflected here it is uh a way of guaranteeing that when P County hires contractors they're getting good quality contractors that aren't cheating that aren't skipping out that are providing good quality craftsmanship and a quality product to pay County and the P County residents are getting what they
paid for thank [Applause] you seeing no one at the podium I move to close the public hearing second County Commissioners Cruz yes James I
keep say leor yes uh Gallow yes deputy director lazara yes director Bartlett yes gonna have a motion to adjourn the public he move it second County Commissioners Cruz yes Gallow yes leor yes deputy director
lazara yes director Bartlett yes all right thank you all very much for your contributions uh and we're going to move on to our regular meeting now where these two among many other things will be adopted as part of our content agenda with that welcome again to the June 25th
2024 meeting of the faay County Board of County Commissioners luk can we have a roll call and announcement of the open public meeting y uh C uh County Commissioners Cruz here Duffy Gallow here James leor here deputy director lar
here director Bartlett here ladies and gentlemen no requirement of the open public meetings law has been satisfied with respect to this meeting specifying the time date and location included in the annual notice adopted a reorganization meeting filed with the county clerk post an administration
building mailed to two newspapers in accordance with the provisions of the law uh thank you very much that brings us to the Pledge of Allegiance and the invocation everyone please rise Mr Cruz do you lead us Ryan us with an invocation
we have such enthusiasm here tonight and such a crowd I'd say let's have a collection was a good the director not for me let us bow our heads in
prayer when you arise in the morning give thanks for the morning light for your life and for your strength give thanks for your food for the joy of living if you see no other reason for
giving thanks the fault lies within us we pray this through God's love and grace forever and ever amen thank you very much brother Ryan please remain standing for a moment of silence remember all the men and women
who have died while serving in the United States armed forces and also all those who have died uh here in SE County covid-19 group that now numbers 2,31 residents I also want to acknowledge the passing yesterday
suddenly and unexpectedly of Bob Jeffrey the husband of Linda nardone keep her the late husband Bob I have a motion for approval of the minutes of June 11 2024 so
moved second County Commissioners Cruz yes Gallow yes leor deputy director Lazar yes director Bartlett that brings us to approval of proclamations can I have a motion for
approval of gr five move it second County Commissioners Cruz yes Gallow yes uh leapor yes deput director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes administrator report Matthew oh director
than thank you um first we have on on my agenda the presentation of a proclamation and certificates to the Lakeland Lancers baseball team for winning this year's fa County baseball tournament if I could have Coach edcor come up with the team and commissioner
Cruz come down Why Don't We Begin by uh congratulating our Pake County tournament winners let give them a big round of [Applause]
applause I will now um read this into the record to memorialize your Victory this year whereas the board of County commissioners of the county of Pake has the desire to recognize the Lakeland baseball team for winning the Pake County baseball championship tournament
which took place at hinchliff stadium for the first time in over 18 years whereas the assistant coach Rick kosi threw the first pitch and he celebrates his 50th anniversary with the Lakeland baseball team the Lancers launched two home runs in the top of the first inning
to eat up all the momentum of the championship and historical atmosphere and Mickey Gillian and his lak Lake Lakeland baseball team seemed to be stuck on the repeat in the latter stages as the Pake County tournament continued
and whereas two batters into Tuesday night's championship game at Hen Stadium the sophomore catcher hit a two-run homer to ignite a four-run first inning he had done the exact same thing in the semi-finals three days earlier and whereas the Lancers dedicated their Victory to longtime coach dick Shut who
died last July guid the program from 1970 to 1989 winning state championships in 74 and 76 whereas this is lakeland's fifth Pake County Title finished third in the state group SE uh group two and
ranked 25th overall in the entire state so now therefore let it be proclaimed by the pay County Board of County Commissioners that it hereby publicly recognizes and Applause the Lakeland baseball team and coaches for bringing home an outstanding victory for their school and for the entire pay County Community let it be further Proclaim
that this board Wishes the team and their coaches continued success in their journey ahead congratulations guys you very much well I didn't bring anything prepared but uh I'd just like to um say congratulations to the boys we didn't get everybody here obviously it's a
summer break now so a lot of people went on vacation but I do have three members here that I'd like to acknowledge that are moving on to college and playing college baseball first one is Brian Hoffman he will be playing at Albright
[Applause] University the other one is uh Ron Conway he'll be playing at Stevens in Maryland and the third gentleman is Xavier Diaz he will be playing at Fairley Dickens University in
[Applause] Madison Lake L baseball has a a long tradition of winning um they've only had four head coaches since 1959 and uh we we dedicated this season to a longtime coach uh who I played
under dick shoy and he recently passed away um and the boys dedicated their season to it so was very special that they won the P County tournament something that eluded him in all his years he had won state championships in 74 76 and 881 but was never able to win
the pay County tournament uh this year the boys really had a miraculous season they uh were finalist Runner UPS in the uh state finals as well we just came that short of winning the safe finals as well uh they finished the season 20 and8
and uh I wish them the best in their Futures in in college this is a uh nice stack of certificate for the team members and the coaches and since we have three of them here we'll present them with their certificates so Brian Rowan and Xavier please accept these
certific Ryan oh he has other and anyone friends and family that want to join us thank you very much I'll pass the certificates on to the rest of the boys thank
no problem [Applause] I'm sorry there's one thing I'd like to just add because I am a pay County resident I've lived in uh Wan I I grew up in Patterson and Riverside but I've lived in wanu all my life it was really special to play at Hing Cliff Stadium
this year uh I'm very um proud that we're taking uh advant you know we're recognizing the history there uh it it's really coming along it looks great and personally I'm very proud of it I I really liked playing their Hench Cliff stadium and the entire Falls I'm glad
that we're redoing it thank you Matt you were a baseball player in your youth right yeah I was a member of the 2003 County championship team director thanks for bring that up fellow County Champion right here on the podium uh director next we don't have them with us but we also just want to
recognize the uh ppon Lake Cardinals baseball team for winning the um njsiaa group one state championship at Veterans Park in Hamilton they couldn't be with us but congratulations to the Cardinals um next is a recognition of of June as hunger awareness month we have a
presentation on food security efforts by SE County Department of Human Services by uh Dr Ry kakar so Dr kakar I will turn it over to you all right e good evening Commissioners and everyone I wanted to talk a little bit about The
Hunger awareness month for the month of June uh the main goal of this is to increase the awareness of the need in the county um for food um so we did a little survey with some of the pantries who were willing to respond so out of the 21 pantries that
responded uh this shows that nearly all our municipalities are being served by the 21 pantries that responded and this is only 50% of the pantries that we have in the county uh some of the pantries actually requested us to take them off the list because they don't have enough
produce to give out so there's a huge need uh that we all need to address um as we see the operating days for the counties uh for the for the pantries across the county uh you'll see a lot of them are operating during the
weekdays uh some of them are operating during the weekends Saturdays and there's no one operating on Sunday one of the biggest barriers is the lack of volunteers and support for Sundays which is one of the big days when the families are out um doing groceries and need
groceries um so in addition to food there are other services that are needed and some of the pantries are providing some of those services and this shows the Gap as well in the services that is needed if you see there's only two pantries doing snap enrollment which is a big issue in
the county um so we have uh as we go further into the presentation we are addressing some of those needs through our new programs that we are coming across uh average visit per month is to Across the pantries so you can visit the
pantry twice a month for most of the pantries and um the duplicated number of visits for the year is 531 th000 so there's a huge need and um that's why I wanted to come up and talk about our hunger
awareness right now so if you see the other needs that we have that are not being met is The Vic enrollment and the intake assessments as well as hygiene products which is really needed and um the families need them even including the diapers as
well so if you compare that to our impa impact Pake uh project that we are doing across the country which is a collective impact across uh the different sectors and the nonprofits and the public private partnership this is the most surged categories by our residents if
you see housing as we all know is the biggest need with 46% uh followed by health and then by food so these are the basic needs if you look into the masslo hierarchy that we need to address um the biggest bad that the pantries that
responded to our survey are definitely volunteers delivery vehicles um lack of meat lack of uh freezers and storage and space so and also culturally appropriate food so these were some of the needs that they had
identified um so one of the things that we are putting together and I want to thank our County Administrator because this has been a long long project coming uh County council's Office definitely uh the roads department so we have our
first mobile food pantry that we awarded on June 11th uh the award went to kumak who uh which is one of our uh Partners in the community and they will be following with our hope family that we have the hope one and hope two for fear
recovery we will be using our hope uh food mobile food pantry to cover all the municipalities in the county and providing hopefully fresh uh produce increasing access to food and in addition to the food on the pantry we'll
also have temporary assistance services so they will be uh assistance in filling up uh snap applications Vick applications assistance in connecting to wraparound services that will be within the mobile pantry and we'll work with all the municipalities like we did last
time with the recovery month to make sure all municipalities are going to be covered and we'll have an Outreach calendar once that gets done so we'll release that and it'll be on our website for any Resident to um see so they don't have to come down to um partisan to pick
up the food they can pick it up from their own municipality as order um then extending our partnership we are also wanting to announce our emergency food provider Coalition this will be led by our partners food
providers and we as a county will be there to support them because our goal is to have them lead because they are the uh Experts of this so we are hoping to uh have trauma informed uh Cooperative collaboration across this uh
Coalition we'll also want to increase snap and Wick uh as we saw those were the needs that were identified in the survey that we got got we don't have one uh collection of data across the county so that's one of the other goals that the Coalition has um and then by
providing support and sharing resources we also want to have make sure that all the pantries are using their resources um and maximizing on it so we not wasting food um and also hopefully creating a healthy food access map across the county that'll be accessible
on our website hopefully towards the end of this year um so that's our goal we are also in addition to the Same Spirit working with our northern Jersey Partners we have some here in our support with Bergen County and County to
create across the state um sharing of resources and best practices so we able to move forward together as a northern Jersey collaborative as well so this is our um hunger Awareness Month uh presentation and we actually have some of our providers here um to celebrate it
with us so um no lose here but I think we have some certificates we have some certificates um Sandy and I'll join you in just a minute to present those I want to give my colleagues the opport ask any questions about his presentation certain for me one of the
surprises was how few of these facilities are able to provide help with things like Wick and snap applications which seem so basic to the issue of security are there ways in which either your office or other County offices like
Board of Social Services could be better partnering with private uh nonprofit yes so one of the goals of our um food coalation is to work with kumak who is actually just certified as the snap uh
so we had applied for Robert Wood Johnson Grant um a few months ago and it was awarded to the county so kumak's leading and board and us are in partnership with them uh um so we can you know work together and address the needs in the
county excellent um great well let's uh Mary I just want to say that hope truck is just so amazing going out to the people and bringing what they need and you know one of the things that I've always said is the more we can get out
there a network the more people will know what we have to offer and using this in addition to the other uh hope fans this is just a home run for everybody I believe so congratulations on
that yeah as the uh as a member of the committee Human Services committee I know uh commissioner Duffy and Commissioner James with this but we've worked on this for a while and there's been many conversations and back and forth and I'm just finally uh you know I'm happy to see that we're at this point that we can finally get the
services out to the community yes it actually we it rolled in on Thursday it looks really pretty there on the board so hopefully soon you'll see it on the road thank you terrific yeah let's present those certificates to folks are here
Arthur you should be here too right so here are the folks from nine of our partner organizations that are here with us Nicole Davis in the center for food action Nicole here okay um Catholic
Char's father English is represented by Carlos Wan get those to thank you very much Oasis is here with Jim Walsh thank you Jim St Paul's is here Richard C
Williams uh the food Harman and DeMarco everybody thought those were Union t-shirts [Laughter] right all right you got um and kumak is here we just heard from
Jessica the YMCA of Patterson Byron Moran um United Way of faake Mary are you here Mary CIS finally always welcome on this side of the Pake River the Bergen County food
task force Patrick B stay here all you come in the middle you're all very much Matt that was terrific anything else on your agenda that's all I have for tonight director all
right well that brings us to county commissioner reports um I wasn't here at our last meeting so I just want to take a moment and uh thank the Democratic voters here in faay county for seeing fit to uh send my colleague Sandy and I along with our running mates onto the
general election uh it was a long and challenging campaign uh but I'm grateful for the support of those who had our backs and looking forward to being part of the contest to protect American democracy come November that's all I
have S this is a big night for a lot of us who are here tonight and I have to huge thank you to Tom Kelly Patrick
Brian and Scott now I guess it was about two months ago when um I met you guys down in hden at your hall and we started
talking about pla's and you know and and we came to the conclusion that we needed to sit down at the table we need to sit down and talk about how can we move P County forward and do the right thing and with that we've had two or three
meetings here at the county again uh Patrick Tom Scott and Brian along with myself and commissioner laor um our administrator Matt Jordan am I yeah and
and we were able to bring this to fruition but wasn't just us because it had to be the whole commissioner board and when I can I can honestly say to you that the entire commissioner board supported this resolution we had
to do a couple of public hearings and whatnot in between but we're here tonight to vote on this resolution and move forward with a great work in relationship with some great people who I know you guys are trained you know
what you're doing and the work you do is second to none so with that I thank you for giving us this opportunity to work with you and we look forward to moving forward and doing more jobs with you [Applause]
guys thank you Sandy or yes thank you director I just want to take this moment to congratulate all of the graduates uh of pay County all of our high schools up and down all 16 municipalities especially uh the ones at uh our tech school faake County uh Tech where I was
had the privilege of participating there along with some of my other colleagues and just seeing the U excitement in all of those students faces to be able to reach this Milestone um this class of 2024 was uh as a freshman this was their first graduation because their e eighth
grade year was during covid so this was their first experience of uh you know walking down that aisle so to speak and being able B to participate and enjoy this moment with their family so I thought that that was important to highlight also uh I want to con
congratulate and thank uh all those that participated in our juneth panel discussion which was on juneth director you were the moderator and you did a phenomenal job uh we had some great panelists uh County Superintendent Kesha dreford telisa Coleman who's the
director of the Board of Social Services uh telina Queen who's Patterson's poet laua and Craig redond a Renown music musician and band leader of the sea dreams and it it was a different type of event that really highlighted the impact
uh that some of these Services have on our community when we talk about the Arts and education and and still highlighting the struggles that we all face and see uh just you know here in 2024 uh as we watch the news and still
hear about the struggles and the impact that our community faces so we just have to keep keep that in mind and I ask everyone to keep that keep that in mind when you make these decisions when we're out there working and uh that we have that Insight of of the issues and
struggles that our community still faces today in this day and age um and I think that that also just kind of Segways to um you know the moment that we'll be very shortly where we're voting on this uh agreement with our union workers and ensuring that everyone has a fair share
and their a fair share Fair opportunity um and just the work that the labor unions do to empower that next generation and so this is why this is so important and momentous and I I want to thank my colleagues for supporting this as well and us having this conversation and you
guys out there uh entrusting us with this decision to make sure that you guys have that opportunity available so thank [Applause] you absolutely right Orlando I just want to add to your comment about tech just
um extraordinary job by our team up there both of those days of graduations were in the mid to Upper 90s um and the way that they managed to keep the students cool and uh it's tough to keep the stands cool in that sunlight but uh having the folks on hand that were
necessary had medical issues and everything that they were able to dool uh great work is always by our fols Hector I just want to congratulate a friend of M got SEC [Applause]
county P thank you director I have 11 uh M my committee has 11 resolutions my colleagues but I want to call attention to three of them resolution three is uh got a lot of conversation about it
tonight responsible contract subcontractor policy state county contract over 250,000 resolution number four is a project labor agreement for all public work contract Public Work contract over
$5 million and keeping in the labor theme resolution number five is the resolution ratifying the memorandum of agreement between County of Jersey State Police benevolent Association local 265
State County prosecutor's office offic Association employees state county prosecut office and the reason that I talk about all three of them U I would like to acknowledge fellow members of my
committee uh director and deputy director Sandy but I also want to acknowledge the hard work put into all this conversation by our administrator Matt Jordan and our County Council de none of this would
have been possible without their participation and [Applause] their while I'm asking for the support of resolution 34 also number five while you guys are out working hard we have
our 365 local of J Department and also prosecutors are protecting you while you guys are working so I want to them and all the hard work that Matt and the V put into and that's all I have direct thank you very much P so in the absence
of communications for those of you who are following along we're down to letter K this is the oral portion have a motion to open the public portion of the meeting so move second County Commissioners Cruz yes Alo
yes yes director Lazar director Bartlett yes so this is the part where members of the public can have their say about anything they'd like uh you get three minutes and you we ask you to begin with your name and address so have at it
see see now you're showing off I just when I saw the Lakeland baseball players honored in their coach Board of hitch Stadium recently the p County Central labor Council M County buildings and trades and the County Education Association took 150 kids to
hch stadium for a game what a miracle the game is the same day that they honored they decided they were going to take the Negro League stats and bring them into MLB we have 150 kids at Hino Stadium bringing them through the Negro League Museum and all
of a sudden you see channel two pull up four five seven I like what the hell's going on MLB after all these years decided to take those stats and include them and it changes the books but that's the other thing I mean we're talking about jobs and getting jobs for kids and construction but and you guys are aware
of it the CLC the buildings and trades the County Education Association we're out here every day in these communities doing stuff like that two weeks later we're pulling tanks in Clifton you know the food pantry which our call us was here from father English we donate over 30,000 pounds of food to him every
thanksgiv like clockwork so it's more than about jobs it's more than about good Construction it's about what we do here in the community as a community and that's why I'm such strong supporter the things but I also would Hench cord triggered me because there was a miracle we were there that day we're going through the Negro League Museum and all
what's Channel 2 doing here for and all of a sudden then it all came up so good stuff thank you [Applause] very I'm back again you know so good evening again I just want to um again
extend my um my thanks to everybody who was in those meetings again Sandy um Matt um Pat um again thank you guys so much because for me this um it's a fast
moving train however um colleagues before me they they've tried to get this thing done and I'm I'm just so overwhelmingly pleased that we we are getting this done and this is a great start to a longl lasting relationship
want to thank everybody from every Union that came out here tonight you guys represented you guys got the call and you showed up and I want to extend my thanks to Tom Kelly and um all you guys again thank
[Applause] you you know you missed at kaha business agent plumb's local 24 it's Andy friends here Pat we
work together to move this thing ahead to get a project labor agree and responsible contractor these trades behind me and all the trades they get it they get more P County members into the programs I had my last two days I talked to Pat look to some of Mt people here
today I have seven members from fa County most of them from the votch B un and I conversation looking to get into local 24 we're reviewing everything back and forth we all get it around here now the importance is projects coming with
AFL Investment Trust Fund there's a groundbreaking coming patteron on Straight Street Brian Norton from the AFL is coming here you can have all Tom Kelly the president of Trades and all the Affiliates and agents going for a groundbreaking with union pension money
so we continue we want to help and support you we support the people of us and again I thank all the Commissioners for their help God bless [Applause] you director seeing no one else at the
podium I move to close the public portion second County Commissioners Cruz yes Gallow yes yes director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes thank you all for your comments so that brings us to the consent agenda L1 through l47 andent
from Council there's no late starter or executive session and as uh commissioner leor pointed out this includes items three and four so with that are there any uh Commissioners that want any items removed from the content agenda and voted separately seeing none can I take a
motion to adopt consent agenda L1 through l47 move it second um move by leor seconded by Cruz County Commissioners Cruz yes Gallow yes War yes deputy director L yesl
yes new business Personnel second County Commissioners Cruz yes Gallow yes four yes director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes bills move the bills second County Commissioners Cruz yes
Gallow yes four yes director Lazar yes director Bartlett yes anything else before I call for a motion toj okay it was approved in case you guys missed that [Applause]
[Applause] [Applause] all right now I'll take that motion to I'll move for adjournment second all in favor I