--------- You're welcome. Good good evening everyone. On behalf of the Patterson Municipal Council, I welcome you to the workshop of August 12, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting is now called to order. Madame Clerk, please call the role.
Yes. Roll call for the regular meeting of August 12th, 2025. Councilwoman Cotton here. Councilwoman Dava present. Councilman Jackson, my good people, if you're wondering why
the city's in shambles, this is why. Why wouldn't we televise the debacle? I'm glad you you were rolling. But we're going to try to hide from the public the incompetency. If you feel so boisterous about your your actions, be proud of it.
stand on it, pat your chest, and let everybody know they're going to try to do it under the cloak of darkness. The incompetency of this council is reflective of what our community looks like, and that's just the bottom line. Um, present, Madame Clerk.
Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Khalik, present, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Councilman BZ. Present, Madame Clerk. Councilwoman, I'm sorry. Council President, I am here. Madam Clerk,
thank you. The votes are six uh here and three absent. The meeting can begin. Can we all just stand for a moment of silence in remembrance of our beloved Madame City Clerk, Jacqueline Murray? Thank you.
Madam clerk, can you please read the statement of compliance? Statement of compliance with the open public meetings law 2025 through 2026. The meeting date is August 12th, 2025. The time is now.
I don't know what the time is. I'm sorry. Time is now 7:08. Adequate notice of this meeting was compiled and disseminated in accordance with the open public meetings law in the following manner. The annual meeting notice of regular meetings and workshop
sessions of the municipal council was compiled for the year 2025 2026 on or about July 1st, 2025. A schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council for the year 2025 2026 was duly transmitted on or
about July 1st 2025 to the North Jersey Herald News the record the Arabic voice the Italian voice county pulseana newsa international espiel
press the city post news tap into patter the weekly bangala patrika in addition to any other publication duly requesting such notices. The schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council for the year 2025 2026 was prominently posted in the
lobby of city hall first floor in the place reserved for the announcements of this type. The schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council for the year 2025 2026 was duly filed with the municipal clerk. A copy of the schedule of regular
meetings of the municipal council was mailed to any person who requested and paid the fee authorized by the Open Public Records Act. Council President, you're welcome. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Payment of bills. Uh, finance chair.
Thank you very much. Uh, council president. Good evening, Patterson. Uh we have before us the uh city of Patterson summary of dispersements uh for the amount of 29,680,82545. Uh this was a payroll week uh which
totaled 5,800,1467. Uh there are 23,880 uh,810.78 of computer checks. Uh the uh major uh or the bigger amount uh grant fund
$4,90,269.68. This is specific to the Vera Ames uh park uh allocation as well as Westside Park. In addition, capital fund, there's 2,363,659.19. In addition, uh Westside Park did receive capital funds as well as grant
fund. Uh the board of education will be up to date with this payment of July. Uh 6,955,669.92. And there was also a payment to Pic Valley Storage for $4,286,81060. uh making a total of the computer checks
of 23,880,810 uh.78 cents payroll 5,800 uh 5,800,1467 totaling the amount of 29680,82545. My motion is for payment of bills. Motion by council um finance chair vice
president Dava. Second by council member leak. Roll call. Madam clerk discussion. Discussion. Councilman Jackson. So the first thing first question I'll have and it's to the the finance chair and council president. I know as usual
you guys are eager to give our money away and just spend without any any accountability. But considering that we just had 35 to 40,000 residents to just go the last 5 6 days without water. I mean I would have thought that we would have started with a responsible report
from the administration on the conditions on the circumstances as we're spending money. How many of our departments had to be uh deployed? How many people are we paying overtime? Is
DPW involved with this thing? What are we doing as a municipality outside of sitting back and waiting for the uh the water commission to to to to have del to to to repair what was broken. Um I think
and all this is just to the public because the council me various council members don't really understand our roles in when it comes to certain things. The water commission is owned by the city of Patterson and therefore they have a board that runs it of which the
mayor is responsible for for appointing board members. Coincidentally, we happen to have a board member of the commission who sits here as a council person as well. Why don't we have a report before we start spending money? because we still we don't even we
haven't even finalized, you know, um uh adopting our final budget and we're still just just carelessly spending money in excess of $30 million without without having a responsible
report from the administration. I mean, I know I'm the only one that's been asking for reports and things of that nature, but when a catastrophic event slaps you in the face and you got 30 to 40,000 residents that had not been
attended to, they had to wait online, seniors without water, people living in excruciating conditions, were still not making a demand on reports. I sent the message to the BA uh Sunday evening, Mr. BA cuz I got a
lot of employees who call me with concerns. Are is city hall still going to be open? He didn't respond to me till midday the next day. Oh yeah, by the way, we have, you know, a little running water. We just lost Madame Clerk from cancer. We lost several employees
right out of this building from cancer. Is there a a report? Are we doing a a you know a an observational study on our people? forget the fact of how poorly we allowed the clerk to be treated while
she was here. But we we're losing people from cancer and we're doing nothing. We're we were sitting there and watch this guy sit like a bump in a log with absolutely no accountability and no responsibility to the public. Now, I already know everybody's going to vote in favor of this. I'm going to be the
only no vote. That's fine. But I'm not going to sit here quietly and just watch them not give us reports on what's going on in the city. How many residents went without water? What parts of the city, what parts of the city did we have
without water? What was done? What sites did the BA visit? When they doing campaigning, you see corporation council in the Masonic Temple giving away White Castle hamburgers. Where was he at making sure that people were able to get showers? I mean, it's it's it's the truth. It's
the truth. So, where's the report on what and the condition of what we're dealing with right now? Does anybody have does does the commissioner for the water commission have a report to the public? Are we just going to continue to spend the public's money without any answers?
All right, let's go. Just carry on. Roll call. Madam clerk, don't. All right, then I won't comment. Council council I have to I have to excuse myself anyhow on this payment of bills okay and uh finance um chair knows and uh CFO no so
I thank you excuse myself thank you council roll call madam clerk roll call on the payment of bills in the amount of $29,6802545 councilwoman Davo yes Councilman Jackson
you know and I'm going to be in rare form home tonight. Y'all going to be mad at me cuz this is absolutely necessary. It's not just I'm not making this stuff up. Hi, Mike. The neighbors were very thankful for the water you had delivered. One person I forgot about was
Rev. Green, 275 Elmer Avenue. He's a really nice pastor who is now blind, so he can't drive or get out much anymore. He used to walk every day at East Side Park. If possible, maybe someone could deliver water to him. Thanks. Hands with medium
dark skin tone pressed together. Again, I'm I'm I'm not making this stuff up. Like, we out here making deliveries. How many deliveries did the BA make? The BA, the signing authority on the city, no reports on what's going on, collecting the check
and doing nothing. I I have to text him late in the evening. No answer because he feels as he doesn't have to answer to me. They have to answer to this council. They have to answer to the public. And for the public to be continue to be mistreated the way they are, where council members are saying, "You live in
a private building. We're not bringing you anything." And and I'm this is all over. I got to go to uh uh uh Second Baptist across cuz seniors in these buildings that have not got that didn't get any water. They get didn't get any water. And we have a
mayor who was campaigning in Rochelle Park the next day while residents are suffering. And the council members, this council's job is to hold the mayor accountable. Who's holding them accountable? He was campaigning the next day in
Rochelle Park for for candidates who have nothing to do with Patterson. while Patterson residents going without water, toilets overflowing, people in the towers telling me they got to wipe the feces off the floor with towels and they look at them just sitting here like it's just okay.
Madam clerk, my vote is no. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Khik, my vote is yes, Madame Clerk. Thank you, Councilman Vez. I was going to say something in the discussion, but um to the chair um um administration if
it's possible to you could bring us a to a uh report of the union agreement that DCA approve uh regarding the board of health employees and u in that part of the union to see when we going to bring it to the floor and sign for it. And the
last but not least, I we received a letter uh detailing from the chief of fire about trying to uh maintain that table organization uh to be able to please uh look into that uh document to
be able to make sure that we don't lose funding, grant funding and met the the for the fire department. Last but not least, I want to thank uh the OEM, uh the Patterson Fire Department, to the Patterson Police that went on and beyond
to take water to those private development seniors building like Governor Towers, like Martine Pores and others sites because they care. And let me say this, the fifth war was the last I I don't think that the fifth war lost
water pressure, but yes, we the council, those that are responsible, make sure that our seniors and our resident took portable waters for they before they could take it to their home. So I'm grateful for that. And um that's where we stand. We stand in difficult times.
We used to stand together. Um I have 10 fingers. I cannot just use one to point and four nine of them pointing back to us. So saying that payment of bills, madame clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you council and council president. My vote is yes, madam clerk.
Thank you. The votes are four in favor, one recusal, one nay, three absent. Payment of bills is hereby adopted. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's open public portion. First speaker public portion. I see we have
we have 12 speakers. Madam clerk, just to give um information to the public, each speaker has three minutes to speak. We're asking um as we will be on this side of the day as respectful. We're asking the same respect on the other side. Um we want to hear from the
public. We're excited about you being here. We look forward to hearing um your questions. I'm really happy. Um constituent services, I know he's here. Constituent services, where are you? Oh, he's in the back. Could you just
stand? So, um I made a request to the mayor that constituent services would be here. So any concerns that you have pertaining to the city after um it's over you will get his card and they will give in response um within um a real
efficient time speed. So thank you so much Javier for being here on tonight. Madame clerk can we take the first speaker please? Thank you council president. We have 13 speakers and the first speaker is Darlene Morris. Please state your name. Uh, my name is Darling Morris and I'd
like to say good evening to friends and neighbors. Um, I just like to start off with um, Mayor Andre Seya and some members of the council. Your record speaks for itself and it's not a record to be proud of. For many years, you
failed to address the real and urgent concerns of the city. You ignored the cries of the parents of the Lowry family, the Seabbrooks family, the Deji Suss family. three lives stolen by violence. Three families who have begged for justice and um and change. Instead
of a decision and action, they got lip service. Instead of progress, they got silence. And silence is not leadership. It's neglect. And the community also needs closure on those issues. While you shout, while the while um while while
you stall, rits in the city keep rising beyond reach. Overcrowding grows. Traffic is a daily nightmare. Garbage files up our streets. Crimes erode the quality of life. And now even the infrastructure is crying out burst pipes, crumbling roads, power failures,
and saying, "Me too. We need fixing, too." These are not isolated issues. They are symptoms of years of inaction. Being the change we want to see does not mean sitting quietly while the silent screams. It does not mean watching problems grow worse and hoping someone
else will step in. It means action. It means standing up. It means ensuring that there are results and that people get the benefit of the results. The city has almost um 200,000 residents. If just 10% of us uh which
would be 20,000 strong went directly to the governor office and demanded immediate intervention, they could not ignore us by numbers. Um, numbers move mountains and right now the mountain we face is made of complacency and neglect.
We have the power. We have the truth. We and we have the right to expect better. So, let's stop waiting for someone else to save us. Complaining on social media, coming to the council meeting have proven to be ineffective. You have to
continue moving forward. You have to get out of your seats. You have to get out of your homes. You have to move forward and demand better because people in other places get better. It's reprehensible that people have to live under these conditions while people sit there and act like the laws are
impervious to to uh understanding, impervious to um looking into them to see what makes the difference. I I demand that um you look into these issues for real and not just lift circles. People need help. My family
back there been weeks without um water. Their their toilets are messed up. And and I'm surprised this place is full of capacity cuz if it were me, I my my head would explode before I accepted that type of behavior. Thank you, Mr. Marvis. Next speaker,
Madam Clerk. Yes. The next speaker is Frank Filipelli. Frank Philipelli, 311 Sherwood, aka Frankie Flip. Listen everyone, I got to go because I have I have non-p potable water in my truck, a 300galon
uh bucket that I've been bringing to our citizens. 200,000 people are without water for 5 days. You know what urine and feces smell like? 5 days in your toilet. You could drink all give all the free water out.
What are you going to do? Pour that po Poland spring water in in the toilet? We need toilet water. We have fire trucks. Listen, I'm not going to put a blame, but I'm going to explain how you organize and collaborate
and not point the finger. It's happened. The water man's broken. What do we do? We don't go campaigning. We have fire trucks that hold, I don't know, 500 gallons, 400 gallons in the truck. drive it to the get these
landlords that have you know who they are. They have giant tenementss of people tell them to set out Rubbermaid garbage cans. Have those fire trucks drive over like I've been doing at 21 Jasper Street and and filling garbage
cans out of my own water in East 24th Street. This is 3,000 gallons that I've given out. You know, I'm going to get charged for the water and the sewer. didn't even go in my store. But that's how you play, right? Doesn't matter about me. But the thing is, it's happened. What do we do? There's other
towns in this district that don't even want to crack their hydrant. Come on. We have school I was just went to school 14 on Union Avenue. Follow me Frankie Flip Philip Pell on Facebook. I
go live all the time. The gentleman in the in in maintenance comes running out at me yelling because there's two tanker trucks. Everyone, you didn't flush your toilet. There's two empty tank trucks, 500 gallons each, sitting in the parking
lot of school number 14 on Union Avenue. Empty with prime water. I'm sorry. Prime water is salt water. We pour it on the street. You could pour it in your sewer. You could flush a toilet with it. You could save it and fill that water with non-pottable water, meaning you can't
drink it, but you could flush your feces with it. What are we doing? Let's collaborate. Let's not point fingers. Let's let's hands on deck. What are we doing? What are we doing?
It's You know what? It's up to the people in November. It's up to the people in May. When is enough enough? How about this? Do we have firewatch? You realize these big apartment complexes with all the seniors that can't flush toilets don't
have sprinkler systems? When when when the school of arts on Grand Street had no sprinkler systems, we have firemen around the clock in an empty school building. That's fire rated. Watching it getting paid overtime. You don't want to pay firemen overtime.
Thank you, Mr. Phil. Is that what it is? Thank you, Mr. Philip. I don't have enough time, but Next speaker, madame clerk. Next speaker is Daniel Mahia. Please state your name. Hi. Uh my name is Daniel Mahia and I am
the CEO of Silk City 1. I am only here today because on 270 Broadway uh we're opening Hikapo Jara. um this Friday around 8:00 a.m. Um it's the first business that I managed to
basically from the beginning to end get all the approvals and the design uh process. It was b made by me and uh along with the owner uh but it's a best example of what I do when it comes to real estate and uh my platform for Silk
City 1 is also growing. Um feel free to follow. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayhem. Next speaker, Madame Clerk. The next speaker is former Councilman Anthony E. Davis. Please state your name. Good evening.
Um, to God be the glory. I want to start off and I want to give condolences to my dear friend and her family Jackie Murray. Uh I am saddened about the loss
of my dear friend who I talk at least twice a month about how she was treated and what goes on here. I'm not even going to get into that because
God will take care of that and the people. But I want to say, you know, I don't come to the mic often. I want to commend you and congratulate you, council president.
I have a uh through you to uh the corporate council. I need to know um what is it or what's the issues in in the I guess the ordinance in terms of commercial
vehicles on the streets. Uh we do realize that parking is an issue and where I live, we have not one but two commercial vehicles overnight. I
like to know what's going on with it as well as the enforcement. Now, unfort well, not unfortunately, but we do have two churches on the uh block and
Sundays we there's police officers cars are there moving and ticketing cars and I get it. Okay, I'm fine. But what's up with those commercial vehicles?
I mean, they are there taking up space. So please can you look into that for me? That's number one. Um as I get phone calls from, you know, uh people from across the
country, good morning, good afternoon, good night, doesn't matter. I'm getting them about our city council and I can't do anything about that. We can only, you know, put up. But um be mindful and
let's put the city's business first and not personal business first. So, um, I say that to say that, you know, uh, please let's continue, um, everything is not peachy creamy, and I'm not saying that, but I think, uh, uh, to
have a bulldog as Mike, uh, who's staying on stuff and as well as others, but please, uh, put the business of the city first and not your own business. I yield. Thank you, Councilman. Next speaker, Madam Clerk.
Yes. Next speaker is Joel Keys. State your name, please. Joel Keys Jr. Buckbreaking. I'm here to address the racist statement Charles Florio made towards Dave Gilmore
when he said, quote, "Because he couldn't shut up, now I'm Dave's daddy." Unquote. Since I created the accountability challenge, I use it to resolve all problems. It consists of two questions. How has the system contributed to the problem and how has
the individual? Let's examine how the system contributed to this problem. James Madison said to a friend, quote, I designed a constitution that will leave the power in the hands of the rich. He continued, quote, we created an
electoral republic. Now, as a politician, you've become captive to your donors. In other words, we gave the rich the raise because the campaign financed the politicians and they could take out politicians by financing their
opponents campaigns. The next systemic cause of the problem is, as Dr. Leonard Jeff described, quote, "This is an instance of the rightness of whiteness. Rich white men with money and power think they can say
and do anything they want to." unquote. Florio said, quote, "Because he couldn't shut up, now I'm Dave's daddy." Unquote. The origin of this mentality goes back to the slave plantation. Whenever the slave master felt it necessary to remind
the enslaved Africans of the relationship of power, which was white superiority and black inferiority, they would perform the egregious ritual known as buck breaking. It consists of the homosexual act of a white man sexually
molesting a big black buck in front of all the other enslaved Africans to make an example out of the victim and set an example for the other enslaved Africans. This aspect of buck breaking involved homosexual intercourse. During sexual
intercourse, whenever it involves domination and subordination, whether heterosexual or homosexual, the subordinate partner generally refers to the dominant partner as daddy. Moreover, Malcolm X spoke to an African-American
audience. He said, quote, "No matter how much education you get, no matter how many employment promotions you get, no matter how much money you make, what does the white man call you?" unquote. The entire audience replied in unison, "Boy, if Florio was not aware of that
history and the meaning of his statement, then his actions could be considered a microaggression, which refers to saying something unintentionally hurtful without considering the potential harm that it may cause before speaking, regardless
whether it was a microaggression or not. Since politicians are captive to their donors, except Councilman Jackson, he won't suffer any consequences unless, of course, we the people organize and mobilize as a united force and take some
action. Thank you, Mr. King Jr., next speaker, Madam Clerk. Next speaker is Kamisha Rogers Jones. Please state your name. Thank you. Kamisha Rogers Jones, Patterson, New
Jersey. Um, yesterday I watched and I it hate it pains me to say this, but I'm going to I'm going to say it. I watched as someone that I care about and love,
council president, turn a crisis and what was supposed to be an act of care and compassion into a publicity opportunity. I want to say to you, councilwoman, I am very, very disappointed in you. I
expected much more from you. Not only are you a council woman, but you are also a woman of God. And the behavior and the things that I saw in you yesterday did not depict what I know you to be. What I want to say to everyone
listening, this crisis is not an opportunity for us to take pictures and make Facebook posts to show us what we think may be heroism. This is a real hands all hands on deck
situation and no one is going to be declared a hero. All right. No person or politician should feel like they're going to get any credit for doing what is right,
for making sure people have basic needs like water. And so we should not be using this as an opportunity to boast ourselves, boast our political aspirations. Like I told a cameraman the other day
when I was collecting water for seniors, get your camera out my face. I am in a very vulnerable state. I'm very upset. And you think this is an opportunity for your news station. What's the story
here? that we don't have water, that we can't wash, that seniors can't get to water. What is what's your angle here? Get your camera out my face. And so what I say to you, council president, I hold you at a higher standard than most here
because who you are in God and yesterday was a big disappointment. What I will say is that our seniors were not made a priority. Many were not served as they should be and thankfully they are now. But what I would say to everyone instead
of us taking this moment to care a lot of us are using this as a selfish opportunity. Let's all come together being selfless serving with love and true compassion
and not use this opportunity for our own gain. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Rogers Jones. Next speaker, Madam Clerk. Yes. The next speaker is Chanel Fields. Dr. Chanel Fields. Please state your name. State your name please.
Tonight I want to talk about a pimp. The word PIMP as we know it is someone who solicits services from others to profit from their work without fair exchange of pay by way of forcing their workers to procure an audience of followers for their personal
advancement. This is exactly what president current council president Lisa Mims did in our last meeting that took place on Tuesday July 15th 2025. Amaya, Evet, and Aubrey
were pimped and taken advantage of. They were promised pay for their services to come before this microphone and blast those of us in the community who have cursed on the mic in this council chamber. The message was beautiful but quickly distorted when the young ladies came to me in the hallway and told me,
"Council President Mims," that they told her they were hungry. In return, you gave them a job to do. You promised them that if they did the speech you required them to do, they would be paid and could use that money to get food. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around you bypassing the need of children who let
you know they were hungry. In addition, let's talk about the fact that you were totally unethical in your practices of exploitation of these beautiful young ladies who are minors. To top it off, you had no prior written, verbal authorization, or consent from neither
or of their parents to solicit these children. Ask me how I know. And then in an attempt to save yourself, you did fake damage control. You made several failed attempts to assassinate my character. You ran around calling people to ask them to lie on me at this council
meeting tonight. You bush. That was quite dastardly and bold of you. You have proven time and time again that you have no integrity in you at all. And you really have some nerve. Well, tonight I'm raising funds for the young ladies because they still have not been paid. What's most deplorable and despicable is
that she picked children from a walk of life in whom both of the mothers are incapacitated. Out of respect, I won't elaborate on that, but thankfully they have a father who is present in the children's lives and he's doing the best he can. Mims utilize this council chamber as a
personal moment to take advantage of these children and that's what makes it wrong. And I'd like to take a moment to turn lemons into lemonades. I have Hey Niece, I love you t-shirts on sale for pre-order where 100% of all of the proceeds will go to all three young
ladies. Community, we owe it to ourselves to weed out all manner of criminal activity, foolishness, bribery, trickery, and corruption of any form. Thank you and good night. Thank you, Miss Phil. Next speaker, Madam Clerk.
Next speaker is Gabriella. I believe that's Vday. Please state your name. Hi, my name is Gabby Wday, 265 Belmont Avenue in Hamilton. Um, first of all, I just wanted to apologize. I didn't mean
to offend anybody in the Adas. I was just It's a tough time for everybody and I was kind of hoping that we could start on time and then follow parliamentary procedure. So, that was my only Well, my apologies. I certainly did not
meant to offend anybody. Um, and I was coming here tonight to talk about weed, but I don't know. I think that there's I think I'm going to yield my time to someone that has a more important issue that they'd like to raise. Um, the only
thing that I would like to ask though is that I please don't feel compelled to comment on my nonpublic comment, if you will. It just in the interest of time, we can all just
again apologies and I appreciate everybody here. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker, Madam Clerk. Next speaker is Eddie Olivaris. State your name, please. Eddie Olivarees. Good evening, Patterson.
Um, tonight I want to start by thanking I don't think he's here, Mr. Hakeim. um in one of the last meetings he used a dictionary to talk about and get his point across which is what I am going to
do tonight. Mr. Jackson I must uh I must um tell you that you keep on telling me that I should use my words u wisely. I will not tonight because I'm talking tonight about stupidity.
So, uh, but before I do that and define it, uh, I want to say to you guys that you really are an embarrassment. Uh, you know, all of you, including the the PA, you're an embarrassment. So, you
mean to tell me that it is uh, okay, what happened in the last meeting that you were not able to close because this happened before? Oh, it's okay. I mean, we did it before. Why not? Shouldn't that have underlined
the need to correct the problem? It seems to me that that's a more mature, but I'm I'm not really looking for maturity over here. But anyway, I just wanted to to uh point that out. Now
let me uh define stupidity as per the dictionary. Behavior that shows a lack of sense or judgment. As I said that, I thought about Councilman Jackson, I mean uh uh uh
Councilman getting caught uh by video urinating in public, lack of sense and judgment. And here we have this guy urinating in public,
an official, an elected official. Uh that's what stupidity, that's the very definition of stupidity. Lack of uh sense and judgment. Anyway, I went on and I wanted to know a little bit more about so I looked at Bonhoffer and I am
going to because I don't really have the time. Three minutes is not enough. But um Bonhoffer was a German theologian uh which says a lot. I mean just saying that he's German there's a lot of substance there. But in essence he he um
said that stupid people are more dangerous than evil people because they're susceptible to manipulation and they accept uh orders from authority without questioning. Anybody?
Anybody? Except Jackson, not you. Anybody? Does it ring a bell? Take it home and chew on it. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Next speaker. The next speaker, and pardon me if I'm
mispronouncing your name, Trinella V. Samuels. Please state your name. Hi, you pronounce my name properly, Tranella V. Samuel. Thank you. Um, this is my proposal to the mayor and the council. We listen and we don't
judge. Do you have working bathroom with shower and toilet and sink? Well, for now it's like not really because of the water issue, right? Do we have a working kitchen with a fridge and stove? Do you have food, perishable and unpishable
items to prepare in set kitchen? Do you have a bedroom with clean bed and pillow and sheets? Do you have free access to free or paid health care where you can receive assistance with your health care needs?
Do you have a permanent home address? Do you have a legal documentation to prove who you are? For the majority of you, the answer, my friend, is yes. Unfortunately, for the unhoused, the answer to most of these questions is no.
But we listen and we don't judge. It's time for my fellow Psonians, for us to do more than listening. We need to take action. The time is now. Yes, Patterson is a great city. It's also
known for its great drugs. That's why people are being dropped off here in bus loads and they will do anything to get money to support their drug and alcohol habit. We listen and we don't judge. Right. To every problem there is a
cause, a pro. To every problem there is a cause and there is a solution, right? Um so um you cannot tell us there's a war on drugs. That is not true. Patterson is making a killing, a profit off of the unhoused by charging
them with uh with charges, looping around like a merrygoround, sending them to drug court, taking their social security money, and leaving them in um a state of dismay. I'm asking council
to help me change the destiny and fate of the unhoused that we pass by every day. Most of in front of the city hall right there sleeping. I would like to build from the ground up three 24-hour
shelters in three hotspots, epicenters where the unhoused are involved in legal activities to get them to get by from day to day. Patterson, I repeat, Patterson, let's stop. Let's step up and step out as leaders of New Jersey. This
crisis is getting from bad to worse. And I all I see is newer programs profiting off of the unhoused with no real help or solution. I am a Pisonsonian since 1978 and I am a proud Pisonsonian born,
excuse me, raised. Are you? Do you like passing drug addicts to get to work or even school in the morning? Do you like that the streets of Patterson are unsafe at night? Fourth work, you have it in front of you. Thank you so much. We'll look into that
information. Next speaker, madame clerk. Next speaker is Andre Sarmto. State your name, please. Good evening, everyone. My name is Andre Sarmmentoto. Um, I'm here today cuz I wanted to complain. On June 10th, DPW,
one of their trucks, a recycling truck hit my car while it was parked out front. I was home sleeping after dropping my kids off for school. And around 9:00 a.m., the truck hit my car. Literally basically just hit it there and left, hit and run. If I didn't have a camera in front of my house, I would
have been stuck with that bill myself. I reached out to DPW after watching the the camera for a few hours cuz I thought it was done overnight. And I went to DPW and basically they told me that, you know, that they had to look into it. At first, I sent the video. They asked me if it if I was sure that that happened
by DPW. After seeing the video, it said DPW on the truck and they still didn't believe it. It went on there for two weeks. They told me to keep going back to see what they would come up with. Still, it's August 12th today. I haven't received my car from the auto body shop.
I had to go through my insurance. My insurance went up and I have to pay for that. I wasn't able to work. I mean, I got a a rental from the my insurance for 24 days, but after that, I haven't been able to work because I don't have money to pay for a rental. And you know, I
have had to borrow cars from my friend, my mother. I have five kids. I have a very high expensive rent, 2,700. So, it's tough for me to pay this. I was I had to pay the deductible myself out of pocket. I had to take out a loan as well. And I still haven't received any
money, any payment from DPW. No answers. I believe that I shouldn't only be entitled to $1,000 of the deductible. But, you know, for all this time that I've been having to suffer throughout this hit and run that happened, and if I didn't have that camera, I'd basically be screwed. I'm pretty sure that this
goes on every day. DPW or the other trucks from the city probably hit all these cars and just walk away like if nothing happened. You know, the city continues to close their eyes and leave all of us, you know, with with bills on our hands because they're protected by
Title 59 and they're not eligible to pay for any any dam damages done to any entities. And I believe this is very unfair. And you know, I believe if this happened to any of you guys sitting up there, you guys would be suing the city or suing
the people that, you know, so I I have the video. You know, I'm I'm still considering suing the city. It's it's a very tough situation for me. So, I would like someone to be held responsible. I know they keep telling me that the person that did this was suspended and they're still suspended,
but that does nothing for me. You know, I need, like I said, I have five kids. My change is right here. I have all five of them. I'm not lying. And it's it's tough. It's tough for me to pay these bills myself. My I'm still paying for my car while it's at the body shop. I'm
paying for insurance is sitting at the body shop. So, I need someone to be held responsible for this. Thank you so much. Corporation council will come and see you as well as our constituent service. So, if you turn around, he's coming to meet you uh to give you instructions. Thank you. Uh,
next speaker, madam clerk. Yes, the next speaker is Miss Cameo Black. Please state your name. Good evening. This right here. So, let me start off by saying as Chanel said, maybe your favorite line is, "Hey
niece, hey auntie." But anyway, after the last meeting when you got me removed, I don't know how you had the balls to sit there and call me the following day once you got me removed because it's something you did with
playing in them kids face. You shouldn't have called my phone. You shouldn't have at all. It's nothing to for us to talk about. If you wanted to talk to somebody, you should have talked to them kids that you finessed to come down here. You should have talked to the parents and got permission for them to
come down here. You are becoming a disgrace. Your real personality is starting to show. And I hate that for you. I really hate it. Everything is starting to go to your head. And me running for commissioner of the school board, you telling me how I need to act.
First of all, I don't act. I've never been an actress. Okay? I'm a nurse that went to school, a real school. got pay paid the people. I didn't get a faticious doctor's degree or none of that. I bust my ass for everything that
I get. I work hard for it. You need to chill. Like seriously, you need to humble yourself. You sitting up here saying you can't be removed out that chair. I don't know who told you that. You can't suck your way to the top all
the time. That's not going to work every time around. It's not going to happen. Some things you got to have brains for. Okay. Make it make sense. Stop playing with me. I don't bother nobody. I mind my business when I come down here. I
come down here for reasons. Like I And I'm not going to keep talking. I'm not threatening you. Don't ever ever ever call my phone. Oh, you call me auntie. If you're going to put it out there of why I caught you, called you auntie, let
let the world know because there's no blood relation. So if you want to let everybody know why you consending me your niece, put it out there, okay? Let's be real. Let's be honest. You already know. I got baptized. I'm doing everything I need to
do as a god-fearing woman. What God that you playing with, I don't know. But I'm getting nothing but blessings upon blessings upon blessings. And I cannot be deceived by the devil. Okay?
And you are the devil that keep playing with this God. But it's only so long before your ass is going to be exposed. Stop the And that's it. And that's all I have to say. Don't ever, ever, ever call me again. Like I said,
and that removal, it wasn't about nothing. The jokers is on you and I pray to God that Thank you. Well, I ain't finish me. You can have no Thank you. Um, madame clerk, are there any more speakers? Next speaker is Miss Tulie.
Miss Tulie. Please state your name. Yes. So, I I come here and I come here a lot and it's mostly on behalf of my daughter having an issue over at Phillips Academy Charter School with Dr. Dwayane Davis. Um, I don't come here for myself. I come
here looking for advocates for my daughter. Um, even in hindsight of me being restricted from the school grounds since February 5th, I'm restricted from parent teacher conferences, uh, restricted from school events, restricted from in-person board
meetings. I I don't come here for me. um and what he's doing to me and um you know filing frivolous uh defiant trespass charges. I come here um advocating for my daughter and looking for this council um to help um that
seems to be a far cry um except Mr. Jackson. He he continues to help. And response to Mrs. Cotton's previous warm regard as it relates to making mention that she has three of her own children and 30,000 children in this city um was
definitely a term of endearment worth memorializing. Within this council, there seems to be an outright disregard and a possible racial disconnect as it relates to Dr. Dwayane Davis unlawfully putting my daughter out of Phillips
Academy Charter School. And this is the same racial disconnect that has been duly documented as it relates to Philips Academy board members who are consistently aiding and embedding such unlawful behavior um within the struggle struggles of just simply being black. It
would be a dubious proposition at best to ignore that many black people are against each other. Many other races are against black people. All while we as black people remain to be the world's most hated race. This entity alone
doesn't dismiss accountability that should exist when it comes to officials leading and protecting young children. On March 27th, my daughter was unlawfully deregistered for blatant reasons of retaliation and
discrimination because a lawsuit was filed in mid December of 2020 2024 against Dr. Dwayne Davis. The extreme um harassment has been uh ongoing ever since and remains. And seeking relief as it related to this unlawful
dregistration, um I went to the office of administrative law. The judge ordered that my daughter be placed back in the school. And this action was not um received well. It was received with much resistance and continued retaliation.
Um, however, it was enforced by the Patterson Police Department that did a remarkable job making sure that that judge order was heard from afar. Dr. Davis continues to harass, discriminate, and retaliate against my daughter, um, me and my ex-husband with all kinds of
tactics supported by many members of the Patterson officials, including Judge Stamp. Please note um the actions that are happening are not supported by Michael Jackson or the Patterson Board of Education members. Thank Miss Kulie. There are no more um
have got one more speaker. One more speaker, Miss uh Annette. Annette or Yes. Thank you. Please state your name. Hey, Robersonson. How are you this evening? Um, hi. Just um to highlight some uh I
want answers, but I'm sure it won't happen tonight. Um I would like to know on a given shift for the Patterson Police Department days, evenings, and nights. How many officers are on patrol?
Secondly, with that being said, if there if there I think we're privy, we should be privy to that information. And then the other question would be in addition to that there if there is a traffic violation or traffic accident, how many
traffic um officers do we have? If officers are in pursuit at a crime scene that is more uh hideous than a traffic violation or a traffic uh accident, I think we need to know that there because we do know already the wait time for an
officer to arrive to an accident could be extended. Okay. So I think we need to know know that information and if there that's a problem I think we need to look at funding the police department so that we can have adequate protection when
there is a automobile accident. Secondly, with the crisis that we have going on in the city, I think what we need to look at is the overdevelopment of the properties because when you have
multiple dwellings going on and we don't have the farmland to protect the water, we get exactly what just happened. And for me, although I had somewhere to go,
I got a sense of what homelessness feels like. So with that being said, that's the other concern. On CNC Street coming off of Oliver Street, there's a woman that's always in a wheelchair.
Always. and she's either backing up onto Canti Street, which makes it um incredibly hard for drivers to drive in the fashions that we drive in. Um, another point of reference to
homelessness on Main Street up before right before Mary Street, there's a group that gathers gathers there and there's a woman there that two of my co-workers said um had displayed an act
of uh loot. Um, and we have the school that's getting ready to open up. We have the daycare center that's right there. Um there need to be more patrolling going on in that area in particular when school opens up in the 12 seconds that I
have left or 11. The parking parking is an issue and when you have officers and sheriff officers talking about the same thing. The concern is not just my concern. It's the concerns of officers too as well. Thank you Mr. Robinson. There are no
more speakers. Can I get a motion to close? So moved by council vice president Davis, second by councilman Khalik. Roll call to close public portion. Huh? Roll call to close the public portion. Councilwoman Cotton.
Thank you, Madam Clerk. I just wanted to um comment and I'm going to um do it real quickly. Um what's happening now um with us here with the water situation. Um, I am a council woman that sits on
the board, the Sake Valley Board, and as of now, we have been replacing our water lines. We have been replacing our water main. Um, yes, a lot of the pipes are over a hundred years old and they have been replacing them. Um,
I guess as soon as they can get all the reports done, you will get a report. But this what's happening now is being paid by P Valley Water, not from the city of Patterson. Now what we have to do and I want to say I always say to people, you
never know who's at the end of that line who needs help. And there's quite a few people that I have called that I have that have helped me deliver water. And I just deliver water cuz at the end of the line, I don't know who you are. I don't say what water you live in, but there
are people out here who are doing it privately and are turning people away. When I'm saying they doing it privately, they're doing it privately. They're turning people away from the first ward, from the fourth ward. They're looking for certain people. And I say if you go
to North A and Oxford, they're not turning away. So, I'm going to I want to start letting people know who those people who claiming they love this city and they're giving out water, but they turning people away because they the wrong color or the wrong nationality.
That's what's happening, too. It's happening. And I would tell her who it is. I'm not sure who it is because every time I ask somebody, they don't seem to understand or know which ones are doing it. And so I will so I want to say to
the community, you know, it's about helping each other. It's about doing for each other. I don't showboat. No, a lot of we're not showboating. We're trying to do, you know, Yeah. We're just trying to get everything done. And I just want
to say that I'm angry with some of our children who got seniors, parents. I'm angry with them. They know their mother living by theirel. They got grandchildren. They're not doing anything for their children. I know it got to be said
because I stood online and watched cars come through there. Watch cars come through there to get free water, driving Denali's, driving Escalades, driving Mercedes. Why
are you online getting free water and you can go to Walgreens and get it for $2.99? Why? Okay. No. Why should they not the public? Give it to who they needed to give it to. That's what's wrong in our community. Now, I'm talking. That's what's wrong. Because there's people
that are needing it and they're not getting it. They're not getting it. And so, we got to I'm You know what? That's it. I'm That's it. That's all I'm just saying. I just wanted you to you asked a question
and I'm saying for people if you call me I don't say what you are I don't say what your nationality is I don't say what color you are I help out and I'm going to help out and you know I want to say thank you to Valley Water I want to say thank you to
DPW I want to say thank you to Joe Cavalera there's so many people that have been helping out woman cotton and you know what that's what's wrong because people forgot What happened in 2012 where we had hurricane Sandy, people
forgot. Councilwoman Cotton, you need to remember some of the the the the problems, the the things that have happened in our community. Counciloman, and we all chip in together. That's what we're supposed to do. That's it.
No, that's it. Come on. Stop it. Counciloman Cotton, I'm all right, Councilwoman. Um, with that being said, I'm still going to help your community. Councilwoman Khan, I'm still going to help you. I don't care. I'm still going to help you.
Thank you. I'm still going to help you. I got so many events coming up. Council, Madame Clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you, Councilwoman and Councilwoman Davilla. Driving excellent. Well, I'll I'll start by saying um that we are all in this
together and I would like the same respect I gave as the public was speaking. So, I'm asking you kindly to let me have my moment to speak.
As I stated, we we are all in this together. It is unfortunate that some people don't like certain responses. We're all hurting some way or another and and I am in agreement with some of the statements. I don't do things and
I'm holding a camera to take pictures of what I'm doing. This issue started on Friday and I just got phone calls and inboxes that I can share. I don't have to put it here, but I can share for you to see the amount of people that were
asking people that were seniors. I ain't going to lie to you. There's a street I never knew existed in the city of Patterson. It's called Wad Ruth. Was Roof. Have you ever heard of it? It's in the first ward.
Have you ever heard of it? Well, let me just tell you, I went to a senior and I took them water. The only thing that I asked, cuz I ain't going to lie to you, 40 bottles, I can't carry them. I asked, "Do you have somebody in your household that could come down?"
She said, "Yes, I do." Okay. So, I'm just saying that to say that it all started on Friday. You didn't see me posting anything. The only time I posted something was so the community could know that there was additional water being given out. Come and get it. That
was it. That was it. It went on Saturday. It went Sunday. But I want to share quickly something that happened yesterday because as I've been on the mayor, I've been on uh OEM Troy Ayes and I'm thankful for them because I want to
start by thanking them, thanking Pic Valley Water Commission, but I'm still upset because people still don't have water. People still can't flush their toilets. So, you know what I did? When people go out there, nobody's calling. I called the governor's office myself. I called lieutenant governor. I spoke to
her chief of staff. I spoke to the governor's chief of staff. I have proof, but I don't have to go out there and say all that I'm doing. They told me steps to take. And I'm going tell you this. They said we cannot call a state of
emergency if the OEM coordinator does not call it. They cannot. Okay. I went back to OEM. I called I'm sitting right behind uh um city hall yesterday.
As I finished the phone call, the mayor and both uh uh uh um coordinator Ayes said, "We're going now again the third visit to Cold to Arms." Council President was coming out and I told her I just got off the phone with
the governor's office. She told me she was on her way to Cold Arms and I said, "Get in the car. Let's go." I was with my son and I said, "Let's go and see what needs to get done. this thing about what was going on and issues and and and the apparent, you
know, photo ops and all that. I didn't go there to take any pictures. I went there and all I did is all of those those seniors that were there that didn't understand what was being said in English. I was translated in Spanish and all I said, "Everyone is going to get water. We're going to start from the
top." We both coordinated with the two managers. They took out lists and every person Troy er DPW delivered 16840 uh uh um uh packets of water. Each
person came and we had volunteers. My son was one DPW going up to flight six, seven floors taking the water for the seniors. They were still missing 30 36 36 council woman council president made a
phone call. Is there anyone else that can? Because at this point now Troy is saying we got to go. We're going to send we're going to send the the the the big the 6,000galon truck. But I'm saying how do these seniors they could barely they can't pick up this these 40 bottles. How
are they going to pick up a gallon? How are they going to pick up a a a bucket? So, you know, I was feeling some kind of way with what was going on. So, I just just just wanted to just share that because that is not something that was put out there. Everyone So, when I hear
that people are saying that we the council and I'm just going to speak for self right now that we're not taking care of seniors. See, we're in this together. So, everyone's affected, but we know that children and seniors are the most vulnerable. And so while others were talking and
pointing fingers and complaining, there were others just doing their thing without having posting anything, making the phone calls, getting the donations from private donors. We had a gentleman Mike Raaglia who with Sheriff Odamo's sister got donations of thousands of
thousands of gallons being given out. Nobody was being turned away. You know, the only thing that was asked, we want ID. Why? because we want to make sure that it's Patterson. We want to make sure that it's held in or prospect part. All right? So, all of these things that
are being said, listen, all I could tell you, all I can say this, you may not like it, but I'm telling you the truth of how it went about and it's okay. I'm okay. That's okay. Guess what? We haven't had the opportunity. I have not spoken once. Okay? I didn't see you do
that to Councilman Jackson as he took over half an hour. So, all I'm saying, I have the moment right now to just share with the community of some of the things that have been going on. When Councilman Jackson calls me, guess what? I pick up the phone call. What do you need,
Councilman? And I'm there. So, I actually expect the same thing from him. He don't do that. He'll go on my Facebook and try to point and say, "You're doing something wrong. It's you're supposed to be fighting for the people." I am fighting for the people, but guess what? Guess what happens? We're not we're not in control of P
Valley Water Commission. That's right. No, I I just need cuz listen, everybody has their job to do. Everyone has a job to do and the infrastructure is hundreds of years old. And at the end of the day, we talk about
all this, you know, construction going on. Let's talk about the three her the three um earthquakes that we had. The three earthquakes that we had. Let's talk about that last year and two just a few weeks ago. So anyway, I'm sorry, council president. I just needed to say that because when I hear a lot, see
people want to come here. Once you start telling the truth, they want they have their own narrative. So it doesn't matter what you say, but I'm going say out there, Patterson, you all know who is being assisted. If you are in need of additional help, all I'm just saying is
reach out and call. Thank you very much. My vote is yes. Thank you, Counciloman. Councilman Jackson, thank you. Please don't do that, brother. Please don't do that. Let's make it um let's not give them excuses to um to get in the way of what needs to
be done. So, first of all, for those of you uh out there watching, you can help me find the meeting that this transpired in because there was a meeting where Councilwoman Dava was the president and Councilwoman Mims was
sitting next to her. And when there was an effort to try to truncate her time, Councilwoman Mim said, "I'm reclaiming my time. I'mma talk as long as I want to. And see what happens here at the council. There's something called
practices, the common practices of the council. We have this there's a and and and those of you who know former clerk Madame Jane Warren, former mayor, the best mayor we we arguably had had, you can reach out to her and she'll outline it for you
that there's a there comes a point of common practices of the council where they come they become a tradition that that's how things function. Now all of a sudden people want to truncate your time because they don't want to they don't want to be exposed. So, whatever
Councilwoman Dava was just talking about about truth, you talked about not doing press uh not being in front of the camera. You was in the very first press conference because you had those plaid pants on that somebody sent me a vid a picture of it. So, you were you were present in all those press conferences
talking about we're doing X Y and Z. So, I don't know what you're talking about by not not bragging or being in front of the media about things that weren't being done. More importantly, I take every phone call. There is never a phone call that I that I duck. I don't delete
people's posts off of my post either. Yeah. You deleted something that I wrote on your post because it was too truthful and too too strong for that post. I never delete anyone and I'm willing to debate stand toe-to-toe on every single
thing that I ever present. So to to to to give the miscue because if there was any level of respect and maturity, I would have got a phone call from them when they claimed they went down the coat because I speak to the
manager and everybody knows I I'll make sure Miss Woodson comes to the microphone again. We'll see how many because but prior to that truck getting there because I had to do a live video exposing the fact that the mayor from Prospect Park brought a tanker truck
there. It wasn't until after that all of a sudden the next day a tanker truck shows up at at the at Riverside Riverview Towers and then the tanker truck didn't make it to Co Arms until after the fact. But by that time they had running water in the in the laundry
room and I had we had a meeting with the management and management had taken all of their their maintenance guys filling five gallon pales taking them to every single apartment so they could flush their toilets. So this whole we coming
to save you at coat arms nonsense is is totally incorrect. And if she claims that there is a a you know a method of having some kind of cohesion or working together, they would have called me to say, "Hey, because 90% of the residents
there, not only do I know them, I have a personal relationship with them. So if there was an effort to take care of them, they should have called the person who has the closest relationship." But no, that's not what they what the effort was to do. The effort was to gain shine as uh Miss Rogers was pointing out. and
instead of making sure because I'm still getting text messages and calls from people who who don't have water to flush their toilets. Furthermore, where's the council president and the council vice president? We have the building sub code official here tonight.
We have the director of ed uh uh uh community develop community and economic development here tonight. I saw the director of health and human services here. Where's the reports on how many residences had to had to deal with overflooding feces in their toilets?
Now, right away before you can open a building, right, there's a requirement. The requirement is to have your building inspected while it's being constructed. And through that inspection process, there has to be an acknowledgement of
properly working plumbing. And if at any point the plumbing is not working properly, that means residents are now being placed in a condition where they have to live in unsuitable conditions. And what happens when that happens? If
there's a fire at a at a facility and the residents can no longer stay there, what happens? The landlord is required to provide them with alternate living space. Where's the health and human officer with director's uh report on how many
residences residents within the city had to live under these conditions of which it was spelled out tonight where people had said for 5 days they had to live with feces and urine. Where's the health hazard when it comes to that? Did we get a report? Did madam president
or madam vice president hold the administration accountable? Look at this guy. He's afraid to even look up at anybody. He's his heart is beating a thousand miles per minute. I I guarantee you put a put a a blood pressure test on him
right now. We have to rush him to the hospital. We need some EM EMS's uh uh people in here as well. You mind please, Councilwoman? Nobody talk said anything to you. I'm getting to you next. I'm getting to
you next. And your failure on the on the water commission. No. Yes, you are. No. Yes, you are. Where's the reports? Bring the reports that Oh, now it's coming. She been on the water commission for for years. Years. For how many years you been on there, council council woman?
How many years? Years. Oh, so that's not years. That's not years. Oh, okay. She wants 15. She wants 15 years on. Failing for three is not enough. Okay. So don't come at me with this nonsense.
Oh, I didn't take out my phone. No, you at every single press conference. Every single press conference. Did anyone else hold him accountable for taking a skip over to Rochelle Park campaigning while we're sitting here dealing while residents in the towers had nothing?
Remember the truck the the the the uh the tanker didn't make it to the towers until yesterday. And of course he that was a Facebook live post that he did. While by the way, they're weighing on Dave Gilmore for doing his lives and his
Facebook posts. The mayor's constantly posting about things that the conditions of the city. And I I'll hurry up this long because by the way, we got another meeting with another attorney as we have to give away more money because the city's being sued. The gentleman sitting in front of you, uh, Mr. Keys, and
behind you, Mr. Olivaris, he's here to give us the more bad news that we're just going to vote yes for it. But anyway, that's a whole another thing. That's the failures of what takes place here. Now, Miss Tulie, I'm going to say this. What's happening to you is absolutely despicable. The fact that one
child, just one child is mistreated. A a judge had already had to acknowledge and place a child back in in in in um in school. and the fact that we have not. So, we did and and I I took a small group, but I'm inviting every one of
you, every one of you who would like to help me advocate for this this parent who her child is being mistreated in a school that has been allowed to put place their roots in our community and they're raking off hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars in our
community while even if it's one child being mistreated is one child too many. Do you know the next meeting board? for next the board meeting. Councilman, we cannot talk across the day. I'm not I'm just asking for a date. I know, but she can't respond.
You know the next meeting? We we can try to look it up before I finish. But I'll make an announcement and I'll post it. If anyone anyone watching, if you would like to come with us to to that next school board meeting in support of this this parent who is being
mistreated, I I welcome that. I welcome every single parent in this community because that that should not happen. Um, so Councilman, former Councilman Davis, I know he I I think he might be outside. He might still be listening relative to
the commercial parking. What we're having here and what we're witnessing is is uh selective enforcement. So today I go outside for for street cleaning. I'm there to move my car and the and this
this the the the the rudest attitude. See what this is about people. This is this is not about treating residents with respect. This is about we we got we have budget crisises. We have raises to give or people who don't even who can't
even who shouldn't even be in a position being paid three, four, six times what the average employee in in the city makes. So, we got to get out here. And who do we take advantage of? We take advantage of the residents. Uh, Nickerbacher, Mr. Ba, I'll put this
forward. Uh, Nickerbacher Avenue. I get a text message almost every single night that there's commercial vehicles parked in front of I think it's three. I'll give you the exact address. Commercial vehicles illegally parked every single night. and the residents over there have
to take had to take it on the chin while people um in my neighborhood who are forced to park on top of the crosswalk because there's no parking because of all the overdevelopment and all the illegal basement apartments and those people are given tickets while these
commercial vehicles are left every single night. I'll get I'll give you you know what I'm going to give you a load of confidence and we'll see tomorrow if this young lady is still calling me the same. I'll give you the address. I want to see those vehicles towed. If they're on the on on the on the street parked
illegally, they should be getting towed. So, Councilman Davis also talked about personal. I'm not here talking about anything personal. And let's be quite frank. When you have an elected person who has a family member who works for
the city and it gets a $10,000 raise and you bring that up, that's not personal. That's city business. That's city business. When you have uh uh uh you know the mayor out doing press conferences in
other communities while his obligation is to Patterson, that's not personal. That's city business. When you have, you know, all of the the the the the family members that have that are hired and you talk about this stuff and bring this bring it to the attention of the public,
that's not personal. So, if they want to get angry because I'm going to continue to badger on these points and it's not for them. They don't care. They already have an agenda. This is mostly for the public. This is to let the public know what's going on. This is to let the
public know because see, they love to keep you, you know, uh, in the dark. And the more you don't know, the more they can take advantage of you. So, how many people out there knew that Patterson owns the water commission? We don't know that. And every time you hear them, they
make an excuse. That's a private building or that's not us. That's the parking authority. Call housing. I heard council members, I've seen their post. I screenshotted them telling the residents to call the water commission.
That's like if if if if you come to my restaurant and my employee mistreated you and I tell you, listen, call um call the board of health and I don't want to deal with it. No, they the citiz the community voted us in to put competent
people on these boards to service our needs so that we don't have catastrophic instances like this. But when you have people who are not holding people accountable and as we're not holding the
mayor accountable then this is what you get with this is what you end up with. Who doesn't in their right mind who in their like in in this modern day time thinks that pipes that have been underground for over 140 years are just supposed to stay there without being
addressed. And then when they break they say it's not our fault. You think that Patterson is the only city with the old infrastructure? Does New York say that when they when they're replacing the rails in their subway? No. They don't wait till a damn train falls off the
track and then No, they're replacing and upgrading every year. So, and uh uh um so I wanted to say this this last this last thing, Sister Rogers. And listen, I totally agree with you and I know you and and you you said
it clearly and it's not necessarily for you because if it don't I think Darlene Moore said it best if when you throw throw a rock and who the first dog that how yelps is the one that got hit. I don't do my lives for self-gratification. I do my lives for
educational purposes. And let me tell you something, my I would I could I could state the claim. my lives are at the actual most effective that anything I could do a live today and tomorrow whatever the issue was is going to be
resolved because until I did that live none of the residents in Riverview Towers was being taken care of until I did the live on on uh uh Halpine Street none of that garbage got picked up so it's very effective and unfortunately
instead of us having a cord because I I made attempts to work with the BA He came in as I made the same attempt to work with corporation council. They come in here making these promises. Councilman, we want to work. We're going to do this. Sure. Absolutely. I give
everybody the benefit of the doubt. He hasn't produced one thing I've asked him for thus far. He hasn't produced one report. He can't even look me in the face. I text him to say, "What are do we do the employees have to report the work tomorrow?" He
couldn't even give me an answer. Anyway, I hate to believe this, but it's necessary. It's necessary to to put these people on on on the spotlight and show you their level of incompetence.
He hasn't produced one single report on the spending of Hinchcliffe Stadium, on the spending of the of the PRC, of the SID. Not one report. Hundreds of millions of dollars. You know what I was told by one of the water comm uh people
from the water commission that when they built this when they redid the stadium they they put levels of of extended it and put levels of concrete and masonry on top of where those pipes burst. Councilman Jackson. So if there's no accountability, they're
doing work. We we spent $110 million. Still no reports on it. Right. Still no reports. And today, while I was volunteering at Kennedy High School, giving what I g what I gotten for free for Mr. Joe Keys, and I and I'm volunteering coaching these young
quarterbacks, none of them are in none of them are around. You know where they at? They got to practice with no no locker rooms, no equipment. I you know, the the field conditions right outside. They couldn't even come in the field because of the circumstances that was
going on today. And while we have professional teams who are benefiting from your money that we spent, the $110 million, a professional baseball team, a soccer team, and now a girls flag
football team or football team, while the kids at Kennedy have to be have to practice with no facilities, no locker rooms, no water, no none of that stuff out there. Councilman Jackson, I'm not done. Councilwoman, I'm I'm
reclaiming my time. You got to be patient. Come or unless you want to adjourn tonight's meeting, we could reconvene at the next meeting and adjourn it then. You guys want to walk out and leave us without quum again. I apologize. You you you'll
get used to it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. You'll get accustomed to it. These are the things that's necessary in order for us to to expose the corruption in the city. So I I'm I'm I'm hopeful because we do we still have these professionals in house.
I would assume that maybe there was an inspection done on all the facilities that was left derelict and these landlords got notices saying, "Hey, you got 24 hours to take care of your residents in a better fashion." Hats off
to Ronald Matthews. Ronald Matthews has some has a house some houses that he owns. He has a tenant on Lily Street. He dropped off that big tanker. That big tanker they put out with the that's a it's like a 500 gallon. He dropped that off in the yard and she's sharing it
with all the neighbors because he knew he has to take care of his resident. So you have people who are making hundreds of millions of dollars on the on these facilities that have thousands of residents in there and they're home somewhere or they're probably not even
home. They're probably on their yacht while people have to live with feces and and urine all over the place. See, it bothers them that I do this because they don't want to hear the truth. She Look at her. She bailed. Got the hell out of here. Anyway, it's it's not pointless.
It's It's working. It's working. And I And I'm appreciative of it. Um, with that being said, uh, one last question because I'm hoping that while since we do have a a commissioner here and, uh, uh, the BA,
Mr. BA through the chair trying to find out if the Pake Valley Water Board Commission has an interconnection agreement with any other clean water providers in the area because there should have been a fail safe just like we provide for Prospect Park Helden and
things of that nature. We should have had some interconnections and um hopefully she'll she'll she'll oblige us and maybe she'll indulge in that and let us know and she'll tell us who we have this interconnection agreement with.
Council and council council. Madame clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Khik. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Thank you for joining us everyone. If Patterson owned the Pik Valley Water
Commission, why are we asking them? We should ask our BA and the mayor to answer them. So it's so it's pretty clear Patterson Patterson do not own the P Valley Water Commission. We we do have
a we do have a we do have a representative. We upon appoint like a commissioner that's all like we have various board city of Patterson has a commissioner in the board that's all as far as I know um I mean it is an
emergency is is uncal for the public I'm speaking that's what I thought um it was it was it's an emergency we got to pull it together and
point of order some of us point of What do you mean that's what you thought? Councilman, you cannot speak. Have him Have him explain. What does he What does he mean by that's what he thought? Out of order. Councilman Jackson. No, I'm not out of order. That was disrespectful. That was out of order.
That That threatening gesture. That threatening gesture. What do you mean by that? No. Council President, you sat right there and allowed him to disrespect a member of the public. You sat right there and allowed him to disrespect a
member of the public by saying that's what I thought. If somebody did that to you, first of all, when people came to the microphone to hold her accountable, she said I should be ashamed for not defending her. He then he didn't got disrespectful with a member of the
public. She's the council president cuz he didn't she didn't say anything about it. I'm speaking. I have the floor. So you need to but you're speaking but that doesn't that doesn't entitle you to disrespect members of the public that doesn't entitle you to do that and every single
time you do it I will check you every single time you do it I will check you every single time you do it I will check you can't do anything about it grow up that's what I'm going to say every single time I will check you if
she's not going to check you are out of order I'm not out out of order in defending. I have the public's position threat that way. That's not out of order. He did it to Kathy. He did it to Kathy Morgan speak to Kathy Morgan and now he
did it to Eddie Oliver and you sat there and didn't say anything. Councilman Jackson, I'm not going to sit there and let him have him explain what the Councilman Jackson are out of order. I'm not out of order. You have requested I'm not out of order. They explain what he meant by council
Jackson. You requested a point of order per Robert orders of rules. Before you can speak, I have to give you the floor. You took it upon yourself when you called the point of order to speak. You did not allow me to to say, Councilman
Jackson, what is the violation? You just spoke. And that's why in turn, you are indeed out of order. And I will do it every single time. Out of order. every single time that you don't fail to address the public issues.
See, I'm here for the public. I'm not here I'm not here to appease you guys. If he's going to take it upon himself to be disrespectful to the member of the public, I will interrupt him every single time. Councilman Jackson and he's and he's capable of doing the same thing. Councilman Jackson,
if I disrespect somebody, he can do the same thing. When you spoke, Councilman Jackson, they did not interrupt you. Who did I disrespect? But who did I disrespect? Councilman Jackson. I'm defending a member of the public. Councilman Jackson. I'm defending a member of the public
because he says that's what I thought. He's over here trying to act like a tough guy all the time. That's what he thought. Councilman Jackson, you are out of order. You are out of order because you are not granted the floor. Councilman Khalik, please continue.
Uh, he could continue when he could continue when I decide he can continue. He can continue after he apologizes to the member of the public. Let him apologize to the member of the public. People who watching, see this is what he does. Distracting the Tell them Tell them what I do.
Tell them what I do. I I have Tell them what I do. If you can apologize to the member of the public, then I'll let you speak. Apologize to the member of the public and then I'll let you speak for disrespecting them. For what? For disrespecting. He's the one who was disrespecting. What did he say? He was He wasn't What
did he say to you? What did he say to you? Counsel said and counsel. What did he say to you? What did he say to you? I'm not even What did he say? That was so worth you. Not even worth. What did he say? That was so order. Not even worth it.
Point of order because you have I'm not going to allow you to come here and speak to anybody that way. If you decide if you decide you want to disrespect somebody from the public, I'm going to be right here stopping you from doing it. every single time. You're not even worth it.
Let him apologize and then I let him speak to nobody and Councilman Khal. Any night that he decides that he's going to disrespect somebody from the public, I will be right here holding him accountable.
Every single night he does it, I will be right here holding him accountable. Now, do whatever you got to do. So, so let's get that straight. Let's get that straight. Councilman Khaled, continue. Please do whatever you got to do. Continue. Councilman Khaled. Thank you the public for coming. You
know, um, one of the member Frank Flip came out. He said over 200,000 people completely out of out of water. Um the reality is
in city of Patterson not everybody is out of order but we do have a emergency issues fifth word, sixth word, third word some part of the fourth major issue we have is in the second and the first portion
of the first word. Okay, even second word you go to stony hill road area they have full pressure hillcrest area where even I live we have low pressure we are able to survive we do have issue in c
some areas we do have issues see we do have issue in some areas but pic water commission with the state d they have been working around the It's not in my hand. If I if I could go
out there and pull up a rock or do something, I think every one of us will be out there behind behind his lift stadium try to try to restore the wa water. So, I think we need to be we need to be patient. We need to help our
neighbor like we've been doing in par in second word specifically. I could tell you every organizers and civic organizers are out there in every corner of the street every hour 2 hour 3 hour later they're bringing pallets of water
giving out to the community and only way I could inform the residents is go to social media and let them know hey there's a water distribution going on on Union and Sheridan app or or or or uh or in a BD supermarket or fast roll super
even those supermarket market. They open up their stores in the second word. Come if you need water, come get it. Even portable water, garden hoses. Many of the resident in the Hillrest Second World area, whoever had low pressure water, they put out their garden hoses
outside, letting everybody know, come out, pick up, fill up, fill up your bucket and take take it uh as as you necessary. That's how we need to pull together instead of pointing fingers like like I did it. I got nothing to do
with it. What happened? It's an emergency. It came from up above. That's what I believe. But we got to we got to stick together and and get over I mean look out for each other. You you you go in the in the second war
in many other area of the city as well. If anybody have running water, they their garden hoses outside. Come pick up some water if you need it. I could give you like 10, 15, 20 addresses. They're taxing people. They're putting on even social media. That's how you inform
people on social media. That's why I share uh the location of the places where the water being distributed. Sometime I go there, people even call me and tell me can you come by do a live video so the people know, people get informed. That's how we inform people
instead of blaming people. Come on, let's work together to go through this crisis. It is a crisis. It is a crisis. Was it preventable? Probably it was, but it it didn't get
prevented. So, we are facing it. Let's face it and let's go through it together. That's that's all all I'm going to ask for. My vote is yes to close the public. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman VZ. Councilman VZ.
Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. One second. Um officers, I'm not sure who has their music playing. Can you please um turn your music off while we're in the middle of um session? Thank you. Thank you, madame president, madame clerk. Uh you're welcome. This was some some question um arise
from the public portion. One was Anthony Davis, Councilman. I just want to advise the councilman that we have two ordinance in place that address commercial vehicle. One of them address from 9:00 a.m. to 900 p.m. residential
zone 1 and two is not allowed. So during the day, no commercial vehicle should be in residential zone one and two from 900 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. U is a ordinance citywide. old vehicle, commercial vehicle after two tons should be in our
streets um from that time from 900 p p.m. to 9:00 a.m. Um I will ask uh through the chair ma please uh please send a um a memo or a or a
letter to the OIC to please uh when they receive this type of calls from our constituents in the city of Patterson that uh they could send the quality of life units uh to address this type of situation. And I know that we have
shorter staff, short of cops, and we have limited resources with police. But I think if they have that uh quality of life unit, they could address this, especially when commercial vehicle are park taking residential parking uh from
our residents. Um, you know, um, I I be real careful when I use the word racist and, uh, to point to people that are racist is is something that I don't I don't try
to use it just liberal, you know. I understand that Mr. Joe Key is going to probably come next week and make another lyric, another quote and poem, and I quote what I got to say now. But the gentleman that you stated that he was
racist, he sponsored. Hold on, sir. Or or racist statement. A racist statement. A racist statement. In other words, through the back door, you call him racist. So that gentleman that you back door, you call
him racist without directly calling racist. That individual sponsor jumpstart, sponsor grandparent raising grandchildren's, give back to the community. Come on. Give back to the community. And
everybody that knocks their doors, that gentleman that you talking about about his racial comments, support the community more than us. And that's John uh Mr. Florio. Anybody that you call him racist, go down his door and tell him that you need a
sponsorship to help one of those kid that don't look like me, they will he will do it. He sponsor everyone out there. You know, when people have beef with him and I find out when people come here and complain about John Florio
and you find out the facts about what's going on and let me say this, when people come and complain about Florio, go back and find out why they owe eight 10 months for rent, they the bad people now, right? But when meantime, they are
living free rent, that's a pro, that's not a problem. So that individual calling racist or racist comment that he did, he stand for this community. 70% of his employee looks like you and me. 70% of what he invests in the city to
his construction, he spend it in our city. I raise that. You could come tomorrow and say I do this, I do that, whatever, whatever. But let's talk with facts. Let him defend himself. Let him defend himself. But when you come here talking about people who are
racist, be careful. This city do not deem no more division at all. At all. And I got to say this at last, madam uh uh uh madam um councilwoman Ruby Kim,
she's appointed by the mayor's office to be the leazison of the the city of Patterson on the front of the W uh com water commissioner the same commissioner. Yeah, 103 is appointed also by Pake City
and I believe the other city is Clifton. Yes. Okay. They have commission appointed by their mayor. Now this problem of the water is not problem of the city of Patterson was we didn't created that. That's an incident occur with the water
commissioner. Now we should be blessed that we haven't spent a penny in water that they are supplying what they supposed to supply those trucks the the the toilets the water that you see out there. and they asked us, the fire department to be the the the the
partners to make this happen in our city. So in Puerto Rico, because I'm Puerto Rican, they say that people drown in a cup of water. You know what this people are doing right now? Us and sometimes we drowning in a cup of water.
Let's pray that God gave health to those employees of the water commission that they could resolve that problem right away and that we could go back to normal. Let's pray that our building don't don't turn on fire and that we had to ask trailers of water to contain a fire in our city. Let's pray for our
police department that working 24 hours, seven days a week trying to maintain the quality of life in our city. Why we cannot sit down and say let's pray for our city for one one day we could sit down on that side and this side and say let's move our city forward.
Let's pray and let's work together. You could stand there and bash me and slander me. You know what I do? I pray for you for God give you help and health to see my victory because I'm going to have victory. Last and not least,
there is a there there's a there's a say and once again I got to say it. People drown sometimes in a cup of water. Let's try to not put the little stuff that's going on in our city bigger that put more
stress in our city and join us to make our city success. Madame clerk, thank you. My vote is yes to close. Thank you, council. Council President, thank you so much to the public that is present and viewing. I want to thank you as I do every week for coming out and
being here to constituent service. I'm really excited that the mayor and the BA that constituent services will be here. I know a lot of you that came to the microphone, they met you in the hallway, Mr. uh Fernandez did to take your request and they will follow up on that.
We are in um a water crisis in our community, which we don't have to reiterate, we are living through it. All of us that are here, we all live in Patterson. We all are impacted by the water crisis. Some of us low water pressure. I have a lot of family
members. They have no water at all. None for six days. So, it's not that we're sitting here and we're oblivious to what's going on because our families are directly impacted. But I do want to say there's been many people, many partners,
not just in Patterson, but throughout that have come alongside the Pake Valley Water Commission, our OEM, uh, fireman Troy Ays, our mayor, the council people have been out there. We have a fire department, police department, our sheriff's department, um Micro Magglia
has been on the front line. Um and so many organizations, so many. And so for me, we work in tandem and collaboration as someone that is at large that represents all of the wards. Uh we've worked with Irma and housing and we work
with those other senior facilities that are not owned by the city. I want to acknowledge and put it out and thank Senator Benji Wimbley. Senator Benji Wimbley has been working on the 6,000 tank water trucks
and that's how we got those trucks to be here and we're excited for that. Thank you to Senator Wimbley for working with the mayor um and ensuring um ensuring that that is the case. Patterson, let's continue to um work
together. Please close that door. Um tonight there were many uh things that were stated um as far as uh different allegations and accusations and I will not address them because people in this community know exactly
who I am. We don't need to do anything um out in the community for any accolades. It's about serving the community in which we live in that we um are in every single day. And so many people in this community um are affected. If you are still having
issues, please reach out to us. We will send it directly to our OEM coordinator um and that's who gets stuff done. As we go to these different facilities, we're working in tandem with our co coordinator, fireman Troy Ays, Pake
Valley Water Commission, police, fire, DPW, sheriff. So many people are involved in trying to get it done. This water crisis has impacted four towns, Patterson, Helden, North Helden, and Prospect Park. It is not isolated to
Patterson and we can have as many theories as possible as to why we believe the water crisis happened but none of it probably will be true because we don't know what happened. No one knows. They're still down in the core. I just saw they just did an update about
20 minutes ago. Um they have a a good number of people that are now up and running. They still have some people that are out. But the first day it happened that Friday, we went down in the trench and the water was flowing like a river. And when we went there
today, we saw that they had capped it and it was just trinkled. So that means the water was starting to flow through. And of course, it would take a while because there are millions of gallons of water that flow through that pipe stream. But the first day we went down, myself, uh, Councilwoman Khan,
Councilwoman Davala, we went down into the hole where they were to see that the gush of water that was flowing like a river. And when we were there um today at the press conference, we saw that it had been capped um off and the water was starting to flow. And that's why some
people are starting to see um see their their pressure build back up and water um come back um in their facility. Um, as stated previously, I was affected. Um, and it didn't stop me from being out there in the community. No camera, no
phone, none of that. Coordinating with fireman Troy Ays when he said we're going to a location, we met him at the location and we helped the residents. People called us. We made um conversations and calls. We did that. We talked about Presidential Boulevard.
Senator Benji Wimbley has been on it for the last three weeks. He has been working with the mayor. That's how we got those um 6,000 water tanks to the city of Patterson. And I want to thank Senator Wimbley for working with the mayor and so many other people for
working with our community um in the middle of this crisis. So many people have donated water. Pake Valley Water Commission has has done the bulk of everything in the community. And as people have been calling, we have so many of us have been personally delivering water to people's homes.
business um um their place of um the buildings and everything. So, it's been a collaborative effort and it's about not pointing fingers but getting the work done. As we continue to do the work of the business, it is um uh my heart's belief that when one of the person in
our community hurt, we all hurt. We all impacted whether you had water or you didn't have water, we are all impacted by this crisis. Madam clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you, council president. the votes. Madam clerk, I apologize. I need to reconsider my vote.
Close the vote. Be very very brief. Madam Madam um clerk, uh Madame President, you don't have the authority to to override when I want to reconsider my vote. It's a part of Robert. Councilman Jackson, what I was about to do, you didn't let me finish before you
give me You're trying to give me a directive. I was going to call you to speak. You didn't allow me to do that. Councilman Jackson, appreciate it. So what I want to do is just clear up a few things. First of all, and I appreciate you, Sister Rogers, for holding that stance because it's with import taste for him to sit
there and do that. Everyone who comes to the podium is entitled to their perspectives and opinions. Mr. Keys, one thing he never does is bring any fallacies or falsehoods to the microphone. He is capable of, you know, state taking a stance. But, you know, some people h feel the need to to have
to protect other people, right? It's Stockholm syndrome. But just for a point of clarity, and this just goes to show you how the people that sit here don't even understand their roles. They don't know their job. They don't know their responsibility. Uh Councilman Khik says
that we don't own the uh water commission. Then someone put up a post on Facebook and said, uh it's pathetic how some council members are either just liars or give turkeys either way, right? And then he says that so Patterson don't own the Pake Valley Water Commission.
Then somebody used the AI to to to just simply Google it. The Pak Valley Water Commission, PVWC, is owned by the city of Patterson, Clifton and Pake. Just for a point of clarity, I know he should
know this because he owns a company that he's not the so singular owner of. Him and his brothers are partners. Does it mean that he doesn't get to go and say I owned? If Patterson anything first of all I'm going to give a a brief class on this shortly we'll go
live the parking authority the housing authority the water commission uh task force the city of Patterson there was a point in time early on probably 1800s that the three cities got together and you could
just look this information up and they created the water commission They create it as a public utility collectively and in turn we have appointees who serve at our disposal.
They serve on behalf of us to represent us in our best interests. So if you have the authority to appoint that means the director you have the authority to fire all the employees the board has authority in which they don't
exercise. Councilman Khik just simply showed that he doesn't even understand the the the interworkings of government and what we do have the responsibility over. And I had to make sure that was made clear because I'm not going to sit here. I there's never something that I
speak on here that I'm not clearly a breast of. And if it is, I will always concede, ask for an opinion, and I will simply be quiet. To say that we don't own it is just to be respons irresponsible. We own the water commission and our
board right now tonight. This council should have had a committee of the whole where we had our commissioners from the Pake Valley Water Commission right here answering questions to the public. But we don't do that. We don't hold anybody
accountable. We let the housing authority give away all our public housing. We let these these uh outside contractor uh uh uh investors come in here and take over and do all these illegal evictions to our people. We let them raise rents. The gentleman came
here tonight. He's talking $2,700 in rent and we don't even pay for his vehicle. That's the beer. He's the signing authority of the city. He doesn't even understand his role. You should never have had to come here. I know you made multiple calls, but see
this is what you have to do. You got to do live videos. You got to come here. You got to put them on blast. Anyway, madam clerk, my vote is no. Thank you, Councilman. Votes are five in favor, three absent.
The I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I lost my paper. Okay. Five in favor, three absent, one against. The public portion is hereby closed. Madam clerk, we will now temporarily suspend the workshop and open with a
special meeting. Can I have a motion to temporarily suspend the workshop? So move. Moved by Councilman Bless, second by Councilwoman Dava. Roll call to um temporarily suspend the workshop and open the special meeting. Roll call to suspend the workshop.
Councilwoman Cotton. Okay. Councilwoman Dava. Yes. Counciloman Jackson. Yes. Councilman Khalik. Yes. Councilman Vez. Uh, Council President, before I close, I just want to commend a gentleman here,
Mr. Orashio McCoy. 2016, the office of the may oro McCoy, my friend. Uh, 2016, the mayor created the conition services and he was every meeting and now he's following Mr.
uh, Fernandez will follow his lead. So, he paved that role. So, um I'm happy to see him here, but he paved the road of custodial service in the city of Patterson. Mr. McCoy. Uh saying that, my vote is yes. Thank you, council president. Uh my vote is yes, madam clerk.
Thank you. The votes are six in favor, three absent. Um the special meeting is hereby open. The workshop is hereby closed. I'm sorry. It's temporarily suspended. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Um, so would you um at
this point, would you read the items into into a public hearing and then we will um ask the public to um be escorted into the hall until Council President, may I read the uh 20 the 48 hour notice? Thank you. Uh notice
of the time, date, location, and agenda of this meeting was transmitted to the North Jersey Herald News, the record, the Arabic voice, the Italian voice, the Paya County Pulse, Dominican News, Laiskea International, Ellis Basiel, the Patterson Press, the City Post News, Tap
into Patterson, The Weekly Bangal, Patrika, in addition to any other publication duly trans transquest requesting such notices at or about 11:00 a.m. on August 7th, 2025. Such notices were posted on the bulletin
board in the offices of the city clerk at city hall. One second. Um, one second. We don't have a quorum. Can someone get one of the council people inside, please? We don't have a quorum. We need uh Can you ask Council Cotton to
come inside, please? to the public. One second. We don't have a quorum. We only have four council members. We're trying to get someone to come back inside. Can we please get a council person to come inside so that we can start executive session?
We have our lawyers here. They're being paid by the minute. Can we please get a council person from the hallway to come inside? Amen. Amen. Amen. I will ask again. Can we please get a
council person to come inside? Madame clerk, we will open the public portion. We don't see any speakers. We have a motion. Move to close. Move to close by Councilman Khalik. Second by Councilman Blesz. Roll call to close public portion.
Roll call. Roll call to close. Roll call to close. Roll call to close public motion. Madame clerk, please call the role. Roll call to close the public portion of the special meeting. Councilwoman Cotton, Councilwoman Davin,
Councilman, yes. Khik. Councilomanz, yes. Um, Council President, yes. Um the votes are five in favor, four
absent. The um the public portion is closed. Public portion is now closed. Madame clerk, let's proceed with the executive session. Could you please uh read the items um for the special meeting agenda, please?
Yes. One second, please. Thank you. Yes. Pursuant to the Open Public Meetings Act, be advised that the municipal council of the city of Patterson has scheduled a special meeting for Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. to be held in the council chambers, third floor
city hall, 155 Market Street, Patterson, New Jersey, for the purpose of discussing the following matters. Number one, resolution authorizing a municipal council executive or close session in or joining the city council chambers, 155
Market Street, to discuss processing an involuntary disability retirement application on behalf of a city employee. Law resolution number 2571. Formal action will be taken. Two, resolution authorizing a municipal
council executive or close session in or joining the city council chambers 155 Market Street to discuss pending litigation in a matter of oro versus city of Patterson law resolution number 2572
formal action will be taken. Three, resolution authorizing a municipal council executive or close session in or join in the city council chambers 155 Market Street to discuss pending litigation in the matter of estate of estate of Joseé Korea versus city of
Patterson Law resolution number 2573 and four resolution approving the processing of an involuntary disability retirement application on behalf of a city employee Law resolution number 25 col374 formal action will be taken.
Five. Resolution authorizing settlement of pending litigation claim in the matter of Orso versus City of Patterson law resolution number 2575. Formal action will be taken. Six. Resolution authorizing settlement of pending litigation claim in the matter
of estate of Jose Korea versus city of Patterson. Law resolution number 25 colon 376 formal action will be taken. Thank you madame clerk. Um at this point if there's anyone that is here in the
chambers um that is not supposed to be here then we will ask that you will um go into the lobby area and then you can reconvene following the close session. Okay council at this time Raphael council president uh we need to vote to go into executive session. Roll call to
go into executive session. Roll call to go into executive session. All the items that there's resol foreign group. Okay. Just the ones in executive session. So first you read these already. I did. So resolution number one and go in executive session. Resolution number
two. Resolution number three. Okay. Resolution number one uh for executive session. Resolution authorizing the municipal council. um executive a closed session in or join in the city council chambers 155 Marcus Street to discuss processing an involuntary disability retirement
application on behalf of a city employee law resolution number 25 col 371 formal action will be taken to resolution authorizing a municipal council executive a close session in or join in the city council chambers 155 Marcus
Street to discuss pending litigation in a matter of versus city of Patterson law resolution number 25 col 372 formal action will be taken and three resolution authorizing a municipal council executive or close session in or joining the city council chambers 155
Marcus Street to discuss pending litigation in a matter of estate of estate of Joseé Korea versus city of Patterson law resolution number 25 colon 373 so move second moved by council member second by councilman Khali roll call to go into
executive session Roll call to go into executive session. Councilwoman Cotton. Yes. Councilwoman Dava. Yes. Councilman Khik. Councilman Vez. Yes. Okay. Council President. Yes.
Thank you. Five in favor, four absent. Executive session is now open. Good job, Raphael. Part: 2
They will listen now when they leave him up there. The post. Thank you. Madame clerk, can we have a motion to um reconvene the um special meeting workshop session, please?
Move. Are we voting on those items? Moved by council member. Second. Second to real and Khal. Councilman Khal. Yes. Roll call. Roll call to reconvene the workshop
session. Councilwoman Cotton. Councilwoman Dava. Councilman Jackson. Yes. Councilman Kik. Yes. Council um Bles. Yes. Council President. Yes.
Okay, that's six in favor, three absent. Madame clerk, item number four, please. Okay. Okay, the workshop has reconvened. Number four.
Item number four is a resolution authorizing the city of Patterson division of personnel staff to process an involuntary disability retirement. Maybe I should just read from the actual resolution because what I have on the roll call is different. Yes. Go ahead.
Okay. Uh resolution authorizing the city of Patterson division of personnel staff to process an involuntary disability retirement application for police officer John Sonia. Move. Moved by Councilman Velas. Second.
Second by Councilman Colleague. Council President. No, the special meeting. The We're We're in a special executive session. I'm sorry. Did I say workshop? We're reconvening the special exe. The
executive session. Executive. Roll call. Madam clerk. Roll call on item number four. Councilwoman Cotton. Yes. Councilwoman Dava. Yes. Councilman Jackson. Councilman Khik.
Yes. Councilman Veles. Yes. Council President. Yes. Thank you. The votes are six in favor, three absent. Item number four is hereby adopted. Item number five, Madame Clerk.
Item number five is resolution authorizing settlement of pending litigation claim in a matter of Orso versus City of Patterson law resolution number 2575. Formal action will be taken. So move
moved by Council Member Veles, second by Councilwoman Daer. Roll call on item number five. Roll call on item number five. Discussion. Councilman Jackson. Number five. Yes.
Roll call. Madam clerk. Roll call on item number five for adoption. Councilwoman Cotton. Yes. Councilwoman Davala. Yes. Council Jackson. Thank you, Madam Clerk. So, to the public, um, you know, I I have a a a different
perspective when it comes to things like this. You know, there are times when you have to um be firm and stern in the in your negotiations. There are time when you have to protect the city's best interest,
but when you have an individual that's struck by a city vehicle that's owned and operated by an employee uh or operated by employee of the city and owned by the city, there's a bigger responsibility than just trying to save
a dollar. Um, you know, uh, we currently have an active, uh, uh, uh, lawsuit pending that's that someone is going to be awarded a great deal just for the personal abuse that they went through.
This person was struck by a vehicle, sustained some um, uh, long-term damages, some traumatic brain injuries, and their their life as they known it, as they knew it um, has changed. I cannot support this. I mean, I
understand that um you know, the there was an effort to negotiate down, but it wouldn't have cost the city any anything different to make sure that a person who has committed themselves to 20 plus years to the city of Patterson who is
critically injured, who would may never ever be able to work again and god knows what else. and um we're happy with uh bringing them to a settlement because we don't even understand those conditions, those circumstances.
Bringing them to a settlement that's far less of what would have been fair if someone would would have actually held out for more money. I can't support this. Um, I am here to to um support the the community's best interest, but I ask
every one of you if it if the role was reversed and you were the one that was critically injured, would you want not to be treated fairly? Would you want not your family member to be treated fairly, your mother? I can only imagine the people who who who this woman is, you
know, almost in her 70s and her children. What do they feel um about her her sustaining these injuries and in the city like really haggling her down to the least amount possible. It's not it's not respectable
in my opinion. I cannot support this. Madam clerk, my vote is no. You councilman Councilman Cle. Thank you, Councilman Veles. My heart goes to the uh victim of this accident. Everybody knows what happened
and um the legal department did what they have to do. Um and um we here to cover whatever they ask for, you know. Um my vote is yes.
Thank you, Council President. My vote is yes, madam clerk. Thank you. The votes are five in favor, one against, three absent. Item number five is hereby adopted. Item number six, madam clerk. Item number six is the resolution authorizing settlement of pending litigation claim in the matter of estate
of Jose Korea versus city of Patterson. Law resolution number 25376. Formal action will be taken. Second. Moved by councilwoman Davis. Second by Councilman Khalik and Balez. Roll call on item number six. Madam clerk,
roll call on item number six. Councilwoman Cotton. Yes. Councilwoman Davala. Yes. Councilman Jackson. Okay. Councilman Khalik. Yes. Councilman. Yes.
Council President. Yes. Thank you. The votes are four in favor, one abstension, three absent. Item number six is hereby adopted.
Madame clerk, um roll call to close the special meeting. Thank you. Can I get a motion to Yes. Mo move motion. All items are done. I move to close the um
moved by Councilman Cully, second by Councilwoman Dava. Roll call. Roll call to close the special meeting. Councilwoman Cotton, Councilwoman Dava, Councilman Jackson, yes. Councilman Khik,
yes. Councilman Vez, yes. Council President, yes. Thank you. The votes are six in favor, three absent. The special meeting is hereby closed. So to the public, we have a few council people that are out due to death in
their family. We have several members of the ZES that have um no water. So I'm going to work with our clerk for the remainder of the agenda. Can I get a motion to close the meeting? Move to close. Moved by Council Member Le, second by Councilwoman Dabler. Roll call to close the meeting.
President discussion. We have administration here. So just for the public um to answer Councilman Jackson um there's something new that has been started. We talk about reports all the time. If you look on the
back of every agenda starting of which has started the last page you will see city council committee reports. We are starting to attach the every when we're doing community development, legal meetings, public safety, finance, we are
attaching how many council members are attending the workshops and what directors are present. We have discussed these things in a workshop. We have done our due diligence. I'm asking all council members, those that are called and they're excused because they had
things, we will make sure those things are duly noted. But as all of the directors that are present, we have met in every committee that is present. Madame clerk, roll call to close the meeting. Before you before you can you you move for the vote discussion, please.
So does this mean that the individuals that are here, they sat here the entire time and they there's nothing that they are going to present before the council. are are we are we taking into account are we paying any of these positions overtime or etc. I
understand that maybe there's a new new process but even the fact that some of them are taking away from time from their families we're going to so this is a new practice where they're staying here the entire meeting despite not having something to present before the council.
So this is not a new practice Councilman Jackson and when you become the president you could do it the way you like. Madame clerk roll call please. Council President, that's not answering my question. Matt, I just I have We're in discussion. I call for discussion. We're in discussion. Madam, you don't just get to override
discussion. We're in the first and a second. I call for a discussion. You act as we're in roll call. Opposession. Call to question by council member. If we have majority vote, that means we close the meeting with the consent of the majority of the council. Madame
clerk, roll call. to close the workshop session of August 12th, 2025. Councilwoman Cotton, Councilwoman Dave, just for the record, none of our directors get overtime? None. Am I correct?
Okay. Uh, my vote is yes. Thank you, Councilman Jackson. Fantastic. Let them hang out all the time. and and and just for the record just I mean they have people he has to what the council is disregarding is that
we don't have to get up at 8:00 in the morning and have lines of people that are there expecting us to be there to answer to their concerns just not to be considerate and just because we have the ability to say hey we want you to sit here and then the audacity people get
take power and sometimes don't understand the the the the uh misuse or misguidance of power. Just because you've been chosen because you've been willing to to go along to get along as council president doesn't mean you get to negate or override a question from
the council. I simply had a question of whether or not this is going to be because everyone can acknowledge it might be within our um our bylaws, but everyone can acknowledge that we have not held accountable for directors to be here the entire time and have to
entertain. Not one director, I didn't see one of them outside of uh uh Mr. Fernandez and he already took off and corporation council did. I didn't see any one of them address any of the resident's concerns. We're going to have them sit here and if that's your choice,
hey, listen, I'm fine with it. I just want you to answer the answer to the the what the question is. If this is what we're doing now, because you're the pre madam president, that's fine. That's your choice. That's your options. I Hey,
listen. I know I I I know at least one of with whom which they have very young children at home. So for us not to be considerate of that, it just shows, you know, what what our intentions are. But I'll rest it there. I mean,
that's funny. Madame clerk, my vote is no. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Khalik. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Thank you, Madame President, for taking this initiative for under the circumstances. some of the council member doesn't have a water in the house as well or or low
pressure water um and in future um workshop meeting we'll discuss every item we'll have question I think under the circumstances is a great decision thank you my vote is yes to close the workshop thank you
thank you councilman Councilman Delesz um I don't want to close this meeting into um I just want to remind every uh resident of Patterson that we are going to be celebrating the life of Jacine D. Brown Murray
that she's not no longer with us. But you know uh we the service information is going to be August 17, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. Um it's going to be at Montream Baptist Church at 305
Gmouth Drive Eastberg, Pennsylvania. Madam, madame clerk, uh is any chance this information is in the uh you know it is okay. Those that did not understood what I was saying, just go to
our 77 and uh read it from there. Um my condollet to the whole entire family, especially us, the the city council that really stand for her and love her and um and we going to continue praying for the family. So, the residents of Patterson,
just stay safe out there. Um, I just have one request. Mr. Ba, in my closing, uh, please contact OIC. Um, I know I bombed texts regarding the quality of life on on Park Avenue on
Summer Street, Park Avenue on East 18, Martin Street between Market Street and XX Street and XX Street between Straight Street and and Summer Street. This is
hot spots that needs extra attention. We don't want to bury no modding in the city of Patterson. They aware of it. I bomb him with texts. Um I just want to inform the community that I'm not naive when it comes up to know the situation
of my ward. Any concern that they send me on text, I direct them to the appropriate departments. But please, I need that extra attention in the in the u in the area that I just mentioned. Um
it was a good meeting. Thank you, Council President. Join my family after this. Madame Clerk, um let's keep strong. Thank you for your work. Did the the the secretary from my office on the office from all the secretaries from um
the council directors, keep on working. Thank you, Mr. McCoy, for your service. And um uh she said she's postponing the uh Oh, no. for tonight only. Mr. McCoy. Mr.
McCoy. Yeah. One of the one of real McCoy. Um my voice is Yes. To close this lady. God bless you all. Okay. Let's pray each other. Thank you, Councilman. Council President. Thank you, Madam Clerk. And to the public that is viewing. Um as you know, we're in the middle of a crisis. Some of
our council members don't have water. So, and we're out in the community making sure that we get water and deliver it to assist in in the process. Um, tomorrow 529. Um, and I just want to give some information out. Um, tomorrow North 8th
in Oxford at 12:00 for the water distribution and then uh Kennedy High School again at 5:00 for water distribution 5 to 9. So to the community, you can always reach out um to any one of us or reach out to uh the
administration, to the mayor's office, or let us know um if there's a concern or there is a need, we will make sure um we will continue to work. It is a workshop um that we're coming to close. Please continue to help um your
neighbor, help your your family members. Um, even as I leave tonight, um, I need to go and make sure my family members are safe and okay, as most of us will. Madame clerk, with that being stated, uh, the workshop meeting of August 12th
is now closed. My vote is yes. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I apologize greatly. I cannot I apologize. I must reconsider my vote very quickly. And and I'm thanking all of the council members that did not. And I let it slide for a moment. If you do
not have if you did not have a personal relationship with Miss Murray, please refrain from announcing her from doing anything, I will call you out. As Councilman, former Councilman Davis came here and talked about on the mic on how she had complained about the treatment
and what she received from people right here from this council. Do not make me embarrass you. I'm not saying any names. If you did not have a personal relationship with her, refrain from mentioning her and disrespecting her as
she has passed on, as she service this community so graciously. And you guys know exactly who I'm talking about. And I'll just rest it there. I apologize, Madam Clerk, but I won't let her family who knows who had to live with her going home every night complaining about the treatment that she
got here. Don't worry about who I'm the spokesperson for. Don't worry about who I'm the spokesperson for. But again, again, if you didn't, if the family doesn't come here and have anything good to say about you, don't don't do do not use her name.
Do not utilize her name. Councilman, and I'll just rest it there. Madam clerk, my vote is no. Thank you, Councilman. The votes are five in FA I'm sorry, council. Just call it. Call it. You voted you? Yes, I voted. Five in favor, one against, three
absent. The workshop session of August 12th, 2025 is hereby adjourned. Thank you and good night. Thank you and good night.