Corporation Council is here always president um Mr Raphael is ready when you're ready we are set to go yes we're ready let let us know good afternoon Mr rapael Friday all right okay so here's your folder okay everything might not be near because we got some at last but everything is on your welcome how are youc you look great council president uh thank you can you uh I'm not sure who it person there can someone can you if someone is there can you tell someone to provide me the uh password for my laptop right the one I have is not working can you provide a password I for laptop e e e e cing um is also um um just loging into the computer right now at this time I think that we we m i so council members so um so so we live good evening Patterson um good evening everyone on behalf of the pison municipal Council we welcome you to this regular virtual meeting March 26 2024 uh the meeting is now called to autum on and cler please call the rooll yes Mr President roll call for municipal Council regular meeting of Tuesday March 26 2024 the time is now 7:30 p.m. councilman abdalaziz councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava present councilman Jackson councilman khik pres Madame clerk thank you counc councilwoman Ms I am here Madam clerk is a terrific Tuesday thank you Dr Mims councilman urin I'm here mam CL thank you councilman valz blessing Tuesday council president your voice was real scratchy uh you need to take your mic my vot is um yes pres Mr President my vot is yes M clerk present thank you council president this evening's prayer is been rendered by commissioner Del Mall which has been followed by the flag salute led by woman at Lord Marissa Dava good evening good evening first Peter 3 and8 finally all of you have United a mind sympathy brotherly love and tender heart and a humble mind let us pray Lord I come before you today with a humble heart praying for the prosperity and well-being of all the citizens our of of our beloved City Patterson I know that you desire all of all of your children to thrive and I ask that you bless each and every person in the city of patteron with resources and opportunities they need to succeed I pray that you will provide for our community and give them strength to preserve through difficult times bless every family who has lost a loved one wrap your arms around the them only as you can I ask Lord that you pour compassion empathy and kindness towards all of us who have gathered tonight and those who are watching Lord please give us wisdom to recognize the needs of our community and the creativity to develop innovative solutions to all of our challenges bless our efforts to create a strong vibrant and supportive Community inspire and Empower our community leaders and this elected Council to create policy and program promoting fairness and equality for all patteron residents both young and old protect our police firefighters and DPW staff as they serve our community help us to listen to one another seek common ground and work together to achieve our shared goals I pray you unite our community in the spirit of generosity cooperation and mutual respect please make our community be a beckon of Hope and inspiration for others help us to recognize that we are all part of the same community and have a role to play in building a better pison finally may God's strength sustain us his power preserve us his hand protect us his way direct us and his love go go with all of us this night and forever in the name of our God the father Jesus the Christ Jehovah God in the name of Allah amen amen amen amen at this time flag of our country I'm sorry madam Kirk am I able to proceed yes yes councilwoman you may proceed with your flag at this time flag of our country salute pledge Al the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stand one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you now let's do a moment of silence for a troop and for those that lost a love one in our in our country and in the city of pison thank you council member and the staff uh mad clerk please read the statement of compliance yes M statement of compliance with the open public meetings law for 2023 2024 today's meeting date is March 26th the time is now 7:16 p.m. adequate notice of this meeting was compiled and disseminated in accordance meeting's law in the following manner one the annual notice of regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council was compiled for the year 2023 2024 honorable July 1 2023 two a schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the minicipal council for the year 2023 2024 was duly transmitted onor about July 1 2023 to the north Jersey Herald News the record the Arabic voice the Italian voice the P County pulse Dominicana News theis International L special the patteron press the city post news tap into parison the weekly Bangla Patria in addition to any other publication duly not requesting such notices three the schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2023 2024 was prominently posted in the lobby of City Hall first floor in the place reserved for the announcements of this type four the schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2023 2024 was duly filed with the municipal clerk and five 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 Mr President thank you Madame clerk um so before we getting into payment of bill um council members and members of the our community in the city of P the reason why as you might know the reason why we're doing this meeting virtual is because a portion of our Council chamber collapsed the roof collaps of the ceiling and Destroy multiple chairs up downstairs on the floor thank God there was nobody there at that time uh there nobody got hurt which is a blessing uh so the engineer and I know public work has been working on um to just get an assessment I know Madame ba later on will um give us and director Billy Rodriguez they will give us an assessment of what's going on in the chamber and when we're going to be able to go back into the chamber and how we're going to be able to utilize one section of the chamber uh so which is very important so um with that being said uh thank you for being here and conducting this meeting virtual uh because to just conduct City business uh so before I I announce payment of Bill council members let's let's do payment of Bill and pres councilman Jackson thank you council president I asked for the floor prior to the payment of bills because I sent the request that this Council readdress the matter that was voted on two weeks ago with regard to officer Jessica Amarante and uh it's important that we address it before I'm sorry one second it's important that we address it before we start because it will require as you know a unanimous vote in order for us to to be able to put it on the agenda to be discussed this the this the officer pisoni and born and raised in patteron she was um she was uh uh she got into a a fight with the with the with the gentleman while on the job she suffers severe damage she has spinal fluid leaking shoulder damage knee damage multiple contusions she was out of work for a very long time and we allowed them to come and sell us that she was derel of Duty it's this council's obligation to uh readdress the situation and um I would like for us to have an opportunity to discuss it today and um and I would like to make a mo to bring this put this item back on the agenda tonight for discussion and for uh uh official uh movement okay thank you pres council president council president council member Les just one minute council members uh and members of the public Jessica Amante with this case we we went into a executive section because it was a personal matter that we went we have a discussion on the secutive section and then we went in public and and and vote on this uh um um on this on this um the Jessica Amarante case so I would like to ask legal uh if we going to be able to have a discussion oping uh now because it's a personal matter so I just want legal guidance I have no problem to bring this back into the agenda uh councilman but I need to know uh what's going to be the legue of ramification if we start if we open this discussion now uh because I understand that we took action on the last meeting about this case so with that being said um Corporation Council council president I don't see Corporation Council on I don't know if the floor if he got knocked off council member just a minute uh there's a motion on the floor but I need to I need a guidance from legal once again to see if we're going to be able to have the discussion because this is a personent matter and we took out we have a discussion on the executive section because of the situation and public portion Council let me see mad clerk can you can you call Corporation Council counc yes meanwhile council president you call Corporation councils common sense tell me that to talk to talk about an employee a City Pass you have to get right notice second she have an attorney uh that that communication should come through their attorney and not through a council member uh putting a request on the floor when it was discussed in in in executive section we could be all in violation at this point and we can continue talking about this matter in public I I I I I hear your councilman so as every councilman have the right to put a motion on the floor to bring any item um so I'm just waiting for I and I tot I understand and I get your point and I I agree it's a personal matter so um let's wait for Corporation Council I don't see just a moment let me see if I can find a cell number just a moment so what we gonna do is so I'm not requesting to have an open discussion with regard to the employees personal data on the open format what I'm what I'm requesting right now is for this Council to readdress the public vote that we made in order to uh uh Short change this young lady who put 23 years of service into our city a young lady who was born a Dominican born and raised in patteron went to school in Patterson served the city she worked in the clerk's office right thank you she worked in the clerk's office for a number of years she served under the Jame she served this city and then she also worked in dispatch then she served as a police officer for 23 years and we just voted as an official board as a board representative of the Community we just voted to disallow her to to gain a full pension in which in which it would been have been no detriment to the city no detriment to the city would not have costed the taxpayers an additional dime what we did was we short changed the young lady who put her life on the line and counc order I'm still council president I have I have the floor a young lady that put her life on the line and we still have right to address this matter and further council members furthermore just for a point of clarity with Council councilman bz's Point her attorney has send has sent Communications to the city was not divulged to the council Council in full clarity let thank you Council I got Corporation councel and I will come back to you go ahead Council mes no I I want to hear the legal opinion because I will stop thank you so Corporation Council this is what we have we have a virtual meeting because of situation at the council chamber I need your legal opinion on this matter we voted on we spend a good amount of time on the executive section is my understanding that this person received notice to be on the meeting on that and to be part of that discussion that we have with member of the police department she decide not to be be present or her lawyer decide not to be present we hear one side only but she was notified to be present on that meeting on that executive section uh so I want to hear your opinion and right after that this is this is my take on this uh but go ahead so I want to hear your opinion um on this matter thank you council president I do believe uh the person was served with the right notice and as we saw um did did not appear or correspond regarding that particular rice notice okay so Corporation Council we we we send the notice to her and to the lawyer she to be present so what we get what's going to happen is next week hopefully God willing we will get back at into the chamber and it's going to be a workshop I'm willing to go into a secutive sessional with my full Council body to have a discussion about this matter but we're not going to do this now we're moving with the Renda that we have in the book council members We're not gonna have more discussion about this matter but we're gonna have it at the chamber at the workshop and we will have a sec section to have a discussion because the idea is to see if the council member would change their vote and before that we need to have a conversation and I'm willing to have this conversation on a executive section not in the public portion not in this platform because it's a personal matter and I'm going I don't want to put the city at risk uh I don't know what's her lawyer what's the started with her lawyers so I'm not informed about that but I'm willing and ready to have that conversation at the workshop on the executive session and have a full discussion and if we have to revisit the case the police going to have to come back in front of the council and her lawyer or her is going to have to come back in front of the council so I appreciate it council members Council mava payment of bill please thank you very much um council president to all the council members um you have in front of you the summary of dispersements uh for the amount of 12,285 46442 uh out of these 12 million you have the Board of Education payment for6 Milli 97,3 3647 in general government you have 4, 69,1 5.73 uh the majority of that is uh full payment of um I'm sorry I think I yes 4,586 th000 is G General Insurance um and just so you know there's an additional 220,000 Capital fund that's specific for a chassis for a recycling truck so that totals 12,285 46442 um and move for payment of bills second move by councilwoman DAV second by councilwoman Ms roll call cler and Council roll call Madame clerk for payment of Bill yes Mr President roll call for payment for approval of payment of bills in the amount of 12, 285,000 yes councilwoman daver yes councilman Jackson no councilman Kik yes councilwoman mems yes Madam clerk councilman urin yes councilman VZ yes madame clerk Mr President my V is yes madame clerk thank thank you Mr President and council members the votes are seven yeses one no one absent payment of bills in the amount of 12, 285,000 consent agenda all matters listed under the consent agenda are num are considered to be routined by the council and will be enacted by one motion the items listed under the consent agenda are numbers 5 through 43 any item may be removed from the consent agenda by the request of any council member and if so removed will be treated as separate move move by councilman DAV second by councilman Ms and councilman b roll call cler on the consent agenda yes Mr President roll call on consent agenda as amended item number eight has been removed councilman abdulaziz is he here no he's not okay thank you councilwoman councilwoman cartton councilwoman cartton yes Madam cler thank you councilwoman councilwoman Dava uh let the ref record reflect that councilman abdulaziz needs the link if someone can please send them the link uh my vote is yes thank you councilwoman Dava councilman Jackson yes you councilman colleague yes councilwoman MS um before a vote Madam clerk after the uh the vote is called can you uh explain if item 8 is removed from the consent to be on the non-consent or is it totally removed if you can um answer that afterwards my vote is yes yes thank you Dr mes councilman Udin councilman urin sorry I did not notice this mute uh my vot is yes Madam CL thank you councilman Udin councilman valz just for the record they could read on title number eight um it will be good after the vote uh my vote is yes Mr President my vote is yes M clerk thank you the votes are eight yeses one absent the consent agenda is hereby adopted now I'll explain what happened with item number eight item number eight was um has been removed because the applicant for the liy um license registration application has um sent a letter withd drawing the application that he no longer wishes to make the application in the city of patteron so we have to thank you thank you madam council president yes thank you Council DAV so I didn't want to say this before I voted on the consent because I don't want to be a misinterpretation of me not supporting but um I just want to put on record um that I support the Bengali Community as a whole and I was not aware I was not given the opportunity to have my own uh uh Bangladeshi honory but you know in honor of all all right just for future I would like to be given the opportunity also to choose uh someone from the Bangladesh Community to honor all right so I just wanted to just say that thank you thank council president uh thank you council president Council woman every council member should have received at least three emails that was sent by uh Miss Miss Jones Douglas I think Sophia also sent but we did not hear back from anybody uh only councilman Dr Lisa M sponsored one so it's my understanding you chose the name and put the council members and that's what I meant but anyway I don't want to get into a discussion I just wanted to just put that on record we we just we we sent I sent an email to all the council members to pick your own one we're waiting until Monday Monday you know afternoon no one picked anybody so I have to continue uh the celebration that's why I had to pick one only person who us send the email on Friday Friday I think Friday that's uh councilman M who picked her own own okay okay thank you councilwoman thank you councilman councilman M cler let's start with a non conern agenda item number 44 yes Mr President item number 44 is a resolution honoring a phenomenal woman who has served the great city of pison for 23 years Diane molum It's sponsored by councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims co-sponsored by councilwoman and cotton it's city council resolution 24 colon 216 so moved second move by councilwoman MIM second by councilwoman Ruby and Council Bess roll call M cler on item number 44 roll call on item number 44 for approval councilwoman cotton yeah I let me pass for a minute because the resolution is not even in here is it on the on site you said 44 pass it 44 yes it should be pass for now thank you councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson yes councilman khik yes councilwoman Mims and so to her family who is watching um we had a conversation in regards to this great woman who has been working in the city of patteron for 20 three long years and still serving our great Community I want to commend you for the great work that you do your humility and your service to the residents and the great city of Patterson uh to miss Zan McCullum my vote is absolutely yes thank you Dr Mims councilman urin my vote is yes madame clerk thank you councilman councilman valz I agree with the words councilwoman Al large Lisa mince my vote is yes thank you counc ccom coton are you ready here I'm here council member let that record reflect that we have councilman ABD ABD aiz from the six War joining the meeting okay councilwoman cartton you can call councilman Al he he's next did you say yes Al no he just came on I had called you before so if you're not ready I'll go to him councilman AB we are voting on item number 44 it's a resolution honoring U Miss Diane McCollum for 23 years of service to the city of Patterson are you hearing me councilman ABD I have to un I think he's Rose yeah he R so we're going to have to go through councilwoman okay go ahead I'm sorry go ahead Madam clerk I just want to say councilwoman um m u thank you for uh allowing me to be part of this for um Dian McCullum for the 23 years of services you know we must as women make sure that we um recognize the uh everyone in the city that does great work and great jobs with everybody in the community and so it's an honor for me to uh recognize this Phenomenal Woman here in the great city of Patterson um Dian McCullen Madam clerk uh my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilman abdulaziz are you there I think we lost him so Mr President um um both councilwoman M congratulation thank you so very much for honoring her work and dedication for 23 years to the city of Patterson Dian Mallen congratulations we're looking forward to give you this resolution in the city council chamber Council M you what would do you do everything with Excellence so my V is yes M cler thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item number 44 is hereby adopted thank you Madame clerk item number 45 yes Mr President item number 45 is a resolution honoring Miss Leticia ho for her 20 years of service to the city of partisan is sponsored by councilwoman Marissa Dava and co-sponsored by all remaining council members it say city council resolution 24 colon 217 motion second it's move move by councilwoman Davila second by councilman Udin and councilwoman kton council president M and councilman and mve by D second by councilwoman CT please councilwoman c as well second by councilwoman C roll call CL on item number 45 roll call on item number 45 for approval cons woman cotton thank you madam cler I just want to say FTI how uh 20 years of service I've known her since she was a baby but to just a it's an honor that we have such a a law employee here in the city of Patterson uh and I just want to say um congratulations um I know that she just got promoted as um director of dispatch but um and also uh her mom and I bow together and we go on trips together bowling so her mom is an outstanding bowler so Ley how I appreciate you you've been dedicated you are a you are a role model for the other women coming under you um your dedicational hard work and you are truly truly honor and I'm happy that you're here with us in the city of patteron with that being said Madame clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman daver so I want to say that you know this came from the the fire department just so you know um I had a battalion chief reach out to me and say that it would be um that he wanted her to be honored and the entire force wanted her to be honored because she well deserves it for 20 years you know the how family and this is another Council woman is another phenomenal woman that we are honoring for her 20 years of service and for her to have started if you read in the body how she began with us in 2003 uh in the fire department as a public safety telecommunicator trainee and now has elevated to the current position as director of communications I congratulate you I congratulate you and your entire how family um and I'm looking forward also to doing this presentation in the chambers all right we are unfortunately sorry that you know you were not able to be in the chambers today but I'm sure that the chambers will be full of firemen and women so with that said congratulations my vote is yes thank you councilwoman Dava councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk uh let me send the congratulations out to Sister how for a job well done and um acknowledgement well deserved um Madame clerk my my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson councilman kle job well done congratulation my vote is yes thank you councilman kle councilwoman mes so Leticia you know how I feel about you I just honored you on Friday you're one of my women who Rock um honores and collaboration with the bronze Heat organization not only once I've honored you twice I think you're phenomenal phenomenal and I think that when people do a great job like yourself and so many others every day is a day to honor you my vote is yes mam clerk thank you Dr memes councilman Udin my vote is yes Madam Kirk thank you councilman valz when we talk about First Responders this is a first responder you know thank you for your dedication and communication and uh keeping us also in check so congratulation uh my vote is here Mr President uh thank you madam clerk now thank you Council mavida for choosing uh this phenomenal person letia Howard for her 20 years of service uh it's important and and it's great when we uh acknowledge the phenomenal job that we have that our employees are doing in a different department and I'm very open to see my Council Cali bringing those honor and honoring them in public and giving them those result solution I'm definitely looking forward to see this one and the council woman as well so with that being said my vote is yes thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item item number 45 is hereby adopted councilman yes council president this is uh I think I I know that Council woman men will agree with me Council women men agreed uh started with the employee of the month uh honory uh please do not stop doing that because that will brace our employees and uh let's continue doing that honores every month uh for the employee of the month of the city and that was based on the resolution I believe so so we need to continue doing it it was an ordinance so the administration yes ordinance correct So based on ordinance so we don't want to violate any ordinance City p and that's one of them that we should move forward also beautiful beautiful thank thank you council member item number 46 Madame clerk yes Mr President item number 46 is a resolution memorializing the life and the legacy of Roberto Manuel Howell junr it's sponsored by councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims it's a city council resolution 24 218 second Mo by Council woman M second by and Council Council woman Ruby and council president Ms um Corporation Council I would like to add councilman Jackson as a co-sponsor to this item this is his family member so I want to make sure that he's a part of this resolution thank you um council president no thank you coun um clerk um so so we got so we will make that change on the on the on the body of the resolution uh before you frame it I'm very sure you're gonna frame it to give it to Howard and at the council chamber roll call M CL on item 46 yes Mr President I'll read the um the titl to the record as amended its resolution memorizing The Life and Legacy of Roberta Manuel H Jr it's sponsored by councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims and co-sponsored by councilman Michael Jackson City Council resolution 24 col 218 roll call in item number 46 for approve councilwoman cotton U thank you madam clerk I just want to say that um for uh how um went to school with with with my son um and also his father was the principal of Esau high school at the time that my son went back in the 1990s and I just want to send his family my deepest consoles um my daughter um always says that she talks to him every now and then that she would call he would call but he was such a gentleman and I just um want to send my condolences to his family to his father to his mom um we better be grateful for Life while we here we never know tomorrow that's right may he rest in peace Roberto H Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava yes thank you councilwoman councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk um and and I appreciate the gesture uh Dr Mims councilwoman Mims yeah um uh Roberto's death caught all of us um off guard uh uh anyone who loses their life such a young age um is tragic but um if if any any person who had had any experiences with uh Roberto you knew that he was such an amazing person he was a great spirit he was uh genuinely um uh loving and caring for everybody that he came across he was um you know it's just uh hard to put the words to to put to words what um you know what kind of a person he was and to to my Uncle Bobby the entire family um who now has lost um a second son um you know uh this this this entire Community um Mourns for the entire family and I appreciate all the gestures for our family and for Roberto and um you know he's going to be very much so missed uh Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you thank you councilman Jackson councilman khik my vote is yes Madam clerk thank you councilman Council M Mims so I just want to say to the how family to council Jackson and his family as well um Mr uh Roberto lost his life tragically he was one of our male carriers for the patteron public school district and I'm sure if his dad and family are watching um or anyone that's watching they'll share this with him on tonight I remember a conversation he was always in our building as well as many schools across the district picking up mail dropping it off probably three times a week and I never forget maybe two weeks before his death we would talk we would always say hi and bye but one day he stopped me he was like I don't think you know who I am and I'm like I know exactly who you are and then he went into a whole dialogue about his father and he thought I was talking to him because of his dad and I said I do love your dad and I respect your dad but I respect what you do the fact that you take your job seriously you come in you do your job you don't have any extra things going on you're making sure you're dropping off and picking up and he had the biggest laugh because he thought that was so hilarious that I I was saying to him that he was the drop off and pickup guy so every time I saw him after that like hey you dropping off or you picking up what you doing so we're going to miss him um I mean it was very very um heartbreaking when everybody heard it we just could not believe it because he was just in our building uh the day before um and so uh Patterson School District misses him I'm sure his family misses him even more and this community has um it's a great loss for the community at large so to the family to his friends and to all of the Patterson Public School Employees we will miss Mr Roberto but all of his hard work and dedication Madame clerk my vote is yes thank you Dr mes councilman Udin uh first of all thank you uh Dr Ms for sponsoring this but just know this Patterson public school is mourning for so many losses in last two weeks we lost him about two three weeks I would say and this week we lost Miss brownie she used to work as a uh instructional assistant or a personal aid in capacity in at Jek High School the day before she passed away she was at the work site she was completely fine and she passed away two three days ago this morning we got the news that act Academy when before uh J High School come to one one school the ACT Academy vice principal Miss McMillan passed away this morning so three losses in two weeks from Patterson Public Schools so I is it's really tough for everyone cuz we spend many many years with these individuals and I'm talking about Miss brownie I after my election I went back to the building in the teachers room everywhere there's a articles from the newspaper about my election pictures she was posting that one of our teachers running and she just posted all the news articles on the teachers room you know just as and I at that point I I I knew her just you know as Miss Miss Brown and not nothing to know other conversation I ever had after this I spoke and and we are very connected uh but we lost her and miss McAn was a wonderful educational leader who worked in many years in in school district and lost her this morning so we pray for all these families and uh their soul and we always should remember them their hard work for our children and our city of Patterson thank you and with having said my voice is yes to thank you councilman urin councilman bance my vote is yes Mr President thank you m clerk my deepest condolences to the family of Mr Howell and may He rest in peace my V is yes M thank you um Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item number 46 is hereby adopted councilwoman DAV I'm sorry um I could barely um understand what councilman Udin was saying so I want to ask did you say that Miss mcnight passed away M Miss McMillan she used to work with Mr aing from no no no okay no no no I miss I was my teacher so when you said that I couldn't hear you're coming in and out so I couldn't understand it okay my apologies no problem you might know her too cuz you you might have seen her to graduation ceremonies thank you council members item 47 mad clerk yes Mr President item number 47 is a resolution honoring a phenomenal woman for her many years in patteron public school anet Huntley it's sponsored by councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims it's a city council resolution 24 colon 219 so moved second mve by Council Ms second by councilwoman Davila a second council president and second by councilwoman rby c as well cler on item 47 president councilwoman Mims can you add uh Ruby cartton as a co-sponsor please um sure so mad clerk let the record reflect on the um so let's um read the resolution with councilwoman Ruby C also as a co-sponsor yes Mr President so item number 47 as amended is a resolution honoring a Phenomenal Woman for her many years in patteron public school anet Huntley it's sponsored by Council woman Dr Lisa Mims co-sponsored by councilwoman Ruby n cartton its city council resolution 24 colon 219 thank you any roll call go ahead roll call and item number 47 for approval councilwoman cotton thank you Madam clerk I just want to say Annette Huntley is is a truly uh Phenomenal Woman Annette Huntley um I remember her from the 90s maybe the 2000 when she was um she's always uh she worked at the board of education but I just want to say to Ned Huntley she helped me tremendously um back in the day when you had the anow um fighting for three and four years old U fighting for all day kindergarten and and that hunt helped me to be a chairperson of Title One National Coalition for ESN for children so in that Huntley you have been around you have helped so many people someone may not even realize that you have helped them you have helped so many parents and and that Hunley you have they call you up you try to you try your best to steare them in the right direction and I want to say to you I truly appreciate you and everything you've done for me and I'm going continue to love you and appreciate you because you are truly truly you know about education Madam cler Annette Huntley congratulations councilwoman Ms thank you I want to say Madame clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava I don't think I personally know Miss Huntley but let me tell you um anyone that's a champion for education and anyone that councilwoman men's and councilwoman kind can speak so highly of within you know the Board of Education I will truly always support so with that said Madame clerk congratulations my vote is yes thank you councilwoman daver councilman Jackson yes thank you councilman councilman khle yeah thank you councilman khle councilwoman Mims so to uh the family the friends in the patteron public school district um um Annette Huntley is the epitome of service the epitome of excellence and the epitome of Grace she has been U one of the administrative assistants or executive secretaries in the Patterson public school districts for a very long time when you need help with a board resolution when you need help with just getting it done or finding information or whatever you need you make a call to Annette hudley I also want to shout her out because we did the woman one 1,000 women's March um last year and she served as one one of the co- cheers with myself um and and we had an awesome time and R Thompson Thomas of doing a an an event in the community which was done within a couple of months and we had a lot of women there so big shout out to Anette Huntley I know your family is watching and we will make sure that you see this I believe that we have to give people their flowers while they can smell them my vote is yes Madam clerk thank you Dr Ms cman Udin my vot is yes Madam Clerk thank you councilman councilman Valance thank you for your service I concur with all the statement from my colleages uh my vote is yes thank you councilman Mr President my vote is yes mad clerk thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item number 45 is hereby adopted as amended thank M before we move to item number 48 Madame clerk uh those who would like to participate on the public portion can call 973 3211 1579 and enter the meeting ID 8326 press start one to listen to the meeting and Press Start three to be added into the speaker uh quote on to the speaker room uh it's important let me repeat the number which is 973 3211 1579 and enter the meeting ID 8326 press start one to listen to the meeting and press the start three to be added into the speaker uh room um we're going to start we're going to uh once we open public portion we're going to take call for 20 minutes whoever wants to call we're going to allocate everybody into the room and we're going to start getting those call uh people that are calling will have a top priority we want to make sure that the community participate on this meeting but it's important that you follow the process so the system doesn't have any problem we just need to follow the proc process of the the number plus the star one to listen to the meeting and plus the star number three to be added into the speaker room B cler item number 48 I'm sorry ccom councilwoman and councilwoman Dava can we skip 48 for and go to the next one I need to find out something okay so okay we'll leave 48 uh yes councilwoman davan I just wanted you to also put on record as you stated for anyone who wanted to call in uh I know that soon once we're we're almost done with the non-consent that you're going to doing the public portion and to let everyone know that you do not control and none of the council controls the uh public portion which once after after the three minutes it cuts you off okay so it's not that they're being cut off so I just want to exactly so the three minute rule the three minute rule is still in place on anywhere or form so so and this important M Clerk is taking um um you know control of that I know we um councilen C does want item 48 let's do before the public poral item number 53 Madame clerk item number 53 yes please okay item number 53 is a resolution authorizing change order number one for the East Side Park Tennis Court renovation bid number 23.11 for the engineering division of the Department of Public Works it's a public works resolution 24 colon 225 Mo by council president Mendes and councilwoman Ms and second by councilwoman Davila as well I moved it as well W moved it so it it was moved by council president Mand Council byoun theb mov and put in the agenda that's all right you can't vote on it coun urin and Val second also by coun UD and Val as well so I know we have we have council member the public War director on the line but this is very so we allocate $ 54,9 for the renovation of the tennis court at Eide Park the cost for the the renovation was 382,000 15 155,000 with 35 cents so we have a remaining balance of $ 13245 3.35 the reason why we are reallocating this funding is because we're got to put new light in around the tennis court at Eide Park and we're going to be able to play do tournament at night because the light that we have um there there also the director could add um any additional comedy to that but we're going to put a St lighting system around the tennis court and they're GNA it GNA it going to make the East Side Park loop brighter director yes thank you council president um yeah we're doing this changer for a decrease in the original contract due to um the original specs were just for regular spotlights were that were already there um and we didn't think that was fair to the upgrade that we did to the tennis courts so we um so we held the money on the lights parts of the line items for the lights Parts on the uh on this uh contract and we're going to be introducing another resolution P hopefully the uh the next Workshop to for the um the mus uh Sports liting system which will you know you can play tournament like you said play tournaments at night play at night we could have better control of the lights um they don't have to stay on all the time we could control them from our phone um just like all our ball fields are getting now beautiful direct and also keep a mind keep director that uh just a second couna keep in mind director that there's been a few requests that the fence we have to make sure that the fence go all the way down we got to fix the problem on the bottom we're working on that okay please okay council member Les uh council is is my understanding that uh soon the ordinance of using the parks publicly is going to change uh in other words uh this had to be when people when you say people could play tennis this is had to nighttime this had to be schedule with uh DPW to be able to use uh the tennis court because it if if if the new ordinance goes in place like that it's going to be going on Place uh everybody that be in the park After Dawn is have to be with permits and not just uh be in the park because they want to be the other thing is council president is uh I know we we put in capital money in all this parks and it's good and um and I'm happy that Roberto Clemente fence looks beautiful I we receive a lot of calls a lot of calls saying that looks better um and I hope y we could do the same thing with the Colombian Park that we could find some funding to beautify also the Colombian Park and 21st Avenue that I know alel is always also allowing uh to beautify that small pocket park right there in 21st AV working on it thank you thank you councilman thank you director and yes uh um that's a good point Council we we are so uh East Side park is is we closing East Side park every night me when the Suns go down we we don't want people at the park but with the tennis court we're looking forward to have Clinic to teach our kids our youth to play tennis we're looking forward to have tournament but everything have to go through uh the department of recreation and DPW so to have full control of our Park councilman uh director Rodriguez yeah you just mentioned that the the resolution is for Esa Park that'll be for all parks uh from dust to dwn for all parks not just e park sure plus you know since I'm the third world councilman I gota look for my East Side park you know but I got nothing nothing against my second W but I got to look for my third W residence but now also you know East Side park is the largest park and you know what's going on I mean people that want to be there for late until late at night and we' be doing a very good job closing the park and we got gate in every court and every entance so it's easy we got full control of the park now before it used to stay open all night not anymore that's done so we we we're very happy so I have a question to the director quick uh um Council Council thank you councilor president uh director so are we charging the people or no they just scheduling no if uh if if you if it's a schedule if it's a league they have to pay uh um a security fee but there there's no charge after that a security fee after they they're let's say they have a league they pay a security fee when when their league is over they re they put their receipt in and they get a reimbursement at the end of the year go well there's nothing that we have to charge them for if they you know destroyed something or something like that then they'll get the four refund and they have to have their own insurance yes definitely got it unless unless it's a recreational league if it is run through Recreation then uh the city of covered but if it's a uh outside organization yes got it thank you pres uh councilman Jackson thank you council president so director yes sir if a if a resident wants to utilize the park to take their kids to the Park to catch balls or go on the tennis court to hit um to valy tennis balls that's how is that not they're going to be required to have uh insurance no the the the court the tennis courts are open up every day so when when this new ordinance goes into effect there'll be every the whole park will be shut down at um at at dawn but um uh if let's say east side has a game or a tournament they have the permits anybody that sign there playing the pickup game would have to move because East Side High School has the permit well that's during that's during a pickup game hour my question is if as a parent if I want to go to East Side park in the summer 7:38 o'clock where it's uh the sun may have already set how is that how does that work for for John cute public want my kids to the to the tennis court I want to take my kids to the softball field to hit balls catch balls I'm not it's not a team it's not organized sport it's just a parents or kids just uh out just uh according to the ordinance When the Sun Goes Down The Parks will be closed if there's nothing that's actually organized that's on the field so any pick up you know anybody will have to leave just as they do in the county parks uh stuff like that they have the same ordinance very good welcome roll call CL on item 53 yes Mr President roll call on item number 53 for approval councilwoman carton councilwoman cartton councilwoman daver coton is on councilwoman cotton yes you're yes Madam CL councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson yes councilman colleague yes councilwoman Mims progression in the third my vote is yes councilman Udin my is yes M councilman valz under say yes Mr President thank you m clerk thank you uh director Billy thank you the DPW committee and my Council Cali for supporting this resolution we're definitely moving our third war forward with that being said my vote is yes thank you Mr President and council members the votes are eight in favor one absent item number 53 is hereby adopted thank you m clerk uh councilwoman C are you ready for item 48 or or should yes I am yes I am council president okay let's do item Comm Clark item number 48 that is sponsored by councilwoman K and councilwoman Doctor Lisa yeah this council president if I mayad go ahead Council woman right we I want to add um in the um councilman U Michael Jackson uh to that resolution with um councilwoman members and myself okay Corporation Council as a sponsor yes councilman Jackson a sponsor or co-sponsor I I'm a CO I'm a sponsor person we all sponsor I don't I do sponsor okay thank you sponsor okay so okay I'm sorry council president go ahead uhh we ready we ready okay no problem so so R call cler with no add yes so if you could read into record with the with the um Amendment the resolution on item number 48 is a resolution honoring and memorializing all black partisan softball team called clanes it's sponsored by councilwoman Ruby and carton Dr Lisa Mims and councilman Michael Jackson as sponsored um it's item it's a city council resolution 24 colon 220 second thank you it was moved by councilwoman Roby Kon uh second by Council Ms correct clerk on item number 48 roll call on item number 48 as amended councilwoman cotton thank thank you madam clerk I just want to say to my Council colleagues uh it was brought to my attention um uh that we needed to honor um this the all black Clancy softball team that was here in the city of Patterson um there's a lot of people here that I knew there quite a few that are gone on but we need to memorialize them and let them know that U we did not forget about them and and I added um councilman Jackson name um councilman Jackson to it because his father's name is in the resolution um and that's why I wanted to pull it off I wasn't sure but I know I have my husband has a family member that play and my husband's friends Ronald laan um steering mcdown um they all went to school together back in the 60s and um so I wanted to make sure and so when I read the resolution and it says several members including Johnny Briggs Roger Nelson and Mike Jackson went on to play in the Major League you know that's something that sometimes our history are not being told to everyone like it should be told and I said sometimes we had good things and sometimes we didn't have good things but you know what I found that we continue to be able to live and on and I remember my husband plays um baseball at isau high school back in 1961 where he could not play one year because they said we can't have four black players in the Outfield so we couldn't have four they had to make sure they only put two and two so finally by the time he got into his sopore year now he was able to play so I think our history need to be told I want to say to the um this the anniv the 40 anniversary of the Clancy all black softball team from the city of Patterson for those that are still here I I I honor you I appreciate you I know you gone through holy hell and back but you're still here and you're still going to show us and you're still going to teach our young people that we can still so I just want to say congratulations I'll do something special councilwoman Ms and Jackson in the future you know pretty soon probably maybe towards the end of April but I just want to say I congratulate and we need to honor and memorialize the ones that are no longer here with us that are no longer here to say we appreciate everything that you've done with that being said Madam clerk it's an honor to be able to do this 40-year anniversary of the ccy all black softball team from the city of Patterson Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman daver yes thank you councilman DAV Jackson thank you madam clerk um although I'm very appreciative councilwoman I appreciate you acknowledging my dad he was a captain of uh Clancy softball te I spent many days in that bar as a young kid after the games at um um at uh man laf pman old before was great livei but anyway uh I I would um be remissive I don't correct a uh a wrong um my my dad did play he was amongst the captains he was excellent player but there was another Mike Jackson who actually made it to the majors my father did not play in the majors oh okay Johnny Briggs and Mike Jackson um but yeah but but Stan Stanley McDow I mean Stanley MCD and um Johnny um John Bennett um uh uh Kevin malie uh all those guys they were like family my father played with them so um I'm sure it's appreciated I'll let him know and uh all my vote is yes Madam clerk thank you councilman Jackson councilman khle my word is yes Madam cler thank you councilman councilwoman M so um councilman Jackson's dad is one of my favorite people um but there's so many of the players from Clancy's team that are um relatives in our family so I I just want to say thank you to counc Moten for putting forth this resolution um one thing that I've learned and have heard history can never be erased it can only be told thank you so much for this honor Madame clerk my vote is yes thank you Dr Ms councilman Udin my vote is yes thank you councilman urin councilman valz yes thank you councilman Mr President thank you madam clerk thank you councilwoman k for putting this gracious resolution together with that being said my vote is yes M cler thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item number 48 is hereby adopted as amended thank you Madame clerk Let's uh do item 49 Madame clerk yes Mr President item number 49 is a resolution authorizing the public sale of city property not needed for public use pursuant to njsa 4A colon 12-13 Etc it's an economic development resolution 24 221 move move by move by Council second by Council roll disc discussion discussion Council can we be provided with a brief overview as to what property this is um and possibly any details as far as a guessman of what we're looking to receive or to get in return for the sale of this property can we get a overview please uh yes uh so we have the director Tiffany on the on the on the meeting uh good evening director so there's a question from councilwoman uh Lily samin about the uh the details of the list and the property yes so good evening Council um just so that everyone is aware the resolution that's being presented this evening relates to the auctioning of um of Lies me as well as um several other properties there are six other properties that will be um auctioned as well um just so that everyone is aware as it relates to lies the property is roughly 25,800 feet um it's on a little over half an acre um it's a freestanding single story retail facility and so it has been vacant and abandoned for multiple years um the property falls within the Great Falls historic district and um would absolutely have to follow the historic design guidelines so the current assess value on the property is 525,000 okay that's 327,00 for the land uh 197,00 for the Improvement um it's different from the appraise value which is uh $350,000 that appraisal report was shared with members of the council um I'm sorry was there a question just continue okay so the highest and best use um for this site would be to continue it um as a restaurant facility and to be developed um consistent with the Zoning for that area um again auctioning this property allows the city to um generate some Revenue um we would certainly look to exceed what the current appraised value is in terms of you know what the the auction would generate I would estimate roughly 750,000 to a million is what um the auction house is stating um for everyone's reference Max span is the auction company um they are a reputable Auctioneer firm um that the city has utilized in the past so they come with a lot of experience um and a wealth of knowledge our prospective date in terms of going live with the auction would be about um five to six weeks from today if it's pasted this evening so we're looking at the end of April council president I still have additional questions sure Council so um you mentioned these six other properties could you identify um before you mention that so when this first came forward as far as um lies was concerned I made a recommendation to the administration that we would not just do the auction through Max ban just for libes that we would take a look look at other city-owned properties and then we would do that auction at the same time so I see that that's being done but I just want to identify where those properties are what they are and then I have a recommendation after that council president so I just want to get in the addresses or locations of what that's going to be are those uh in particularly the ones that we talked about that they will be sold directly to the community that they will get first dibs at those properties or is this just all encumbersome and then you can have uh developers and City owned because the conversation and the recommendation I presented was that we have properties out of the city owned listing that will be for City for Patterson residents first to get the opportunity so are these six other properties that way so these six other properties are outside of the Redevelopment area which allows us to go to auction the other properties listed on that on the um on that sheet that was shared with members of council included properties that are located within the Redevelopment Area Redevelopment Law requires that those go um you know be shared with those that actually are contiguous with the property so those are separated out from the list and the six properties that I'm referring to I can give you each um address including the block and lot so the first property is 97 North 8th Street block 416 um I don't have a lot number for that one you could give the add you could give the you could give the address direct with the address we'll be okay yeah 97 North 8th Street is the first one um 414 East 18th Street 319 12th Avenue that's the third one the fourth is 218-220 Patterson Street or Memorial Drive so that one we need to look into um some of these properties will require a title search um but that's the that was the fourth property the fifth Property is 38-46 Elm Street and and then the sixth property would be 1022 East 25th Street actually um there those are two properties so 1022 East 25th Street and 1041 East 24th Street um they're somewhat ad joined so those are the six properties they do need to be looked into a little further so um title searches will need to be run on those we did get estimates for um from title companies and we'll most likely pursue with one of the three that we received quotes for okay just I'm still I still have questions so with the six properties and I just want to get clarity because it was stated that these additional properties we will be able to sell them and have Patterson residents get first div so are we saying now that these resident these particular properties will be open for all they will not be for Patterson residents first will be all encumbersome is that what we're saying that is correct so they will be auctioned alongside of Lies um in one um single event um the reason for doing that is because one lies is the main draw right and so the other properties wouldn't be highlighted if they were done separately which is why we're combining the auction to include those six other properties um again bundling them with those six other properties gives highlight to those other six that may not otherwise would have received lower offers so this is an opportunity to gain multiple bids by also you know having a much um broader auction by including libes as the feature um as the main feature okay I'm gonna say this to uh the administration answer my council members I don't agree with that I think these items should be separated um one should be for lies and then there should be an additional for these six other properties only because we have to think about the residents residents want to invest in our community they get outbid when it comes to the auction process I'm not sure I've seen a couple Council memb that have been in those meetings and our residents want to invest but they just don't have the long stretch of of dollars and or lines of credit as others do and that was the recommendation from the beginning that we would have opportunities to allow our residents to be able to participate in this process I believe this should be separated we can do the auction simultaneously with still using maxan as we've already approved them but I think it should be separated to allow our residents to be able because if we put this out the residents are going to come and they have they want to be able to participate but unfortunately they out bid all the time I'm not saying we should not allow others to come in as well but I think our residents should deserve to be able to receive some of the benefit of being able to participate in this process so to the administration that's my recommendation and to the council members this should be two separate items on here and I I think it's um because it takes five to six weeks it's not that far off because we have to do title searches on these six properties anyway but I think it it allows us to do our due diligence and show the responsibility and accountability as Council people to say to the residents we consider you and we think that you should be a part of being able to receive some of these properties as well that is my recommendation um and I'll come back later and if I I need to put a motion on the floor I will do that council member I have I have uh councilman Jackson councilman Bess and councilman Udin uh on that on that order uh do you ask for the floor councilman Jackson I did okay so I got right after you go we'll go councilman bless and councilman so uh um I I didn't take any notes but I I have to say man you know council president and and I'm trying to I'm trying to be as cordial as possible but the mere fact that I I would I would I I would allow you or give you an opportunity after to acknowledge whether or not you knew which property this was for because when it was read into the record none of the property information was included and you was very quick to continue to move this on for a vote which is very concerning even at the coun as a council president it should be for something like this we should all be well informed on and the public the public should be well informed on what this Council has all these intentions on doing and it mirrors the fact that you you you took took the initiative to remove the item which we all had a full discussion at workshop last week about televising Workshop meeting so that the public can be well informed about these kinds of situations this is yet another bad move we we've never had an assessment to find out see the council continues to bend over for this Administration which has completely sold our community out and the fact that the the the the picture is being painted as uh the the public is going to have an opportunity at this once it goes to public auction it is a public auction you know the example has been set already Ros Rock has shown the entire state of New Jersey how to get things like this done I'm looking through the list you know some of them are commercial properties some of them are multif Family Properties one I mean the the questions there's many many questions that still haven't been answered are these properties actually City owned properties if they are how did the city come into possession of them you know we understand lities we know we know what that is and this Administration has had the agenda to sell that property from the beginning we already know everybody knows the the the buyers already in line so the fact that we're now uh uh coding this as an open public sale and then even have the gumption to um portray the fact that pisoni are going to have an opportunity to have a bid at this we have people crawling through our communities that are loaded with with with disposable income while by the way the Fabian is now closing their doors because the residents of patteron don't even have enough disposable income just to go to the movies because they're being overpriced through through the exorbitant rents and we have done absolutely nothing this city council has laid on its hands and done nothing not one thing to benefit the public when it comes to uh uh giving opportunities at becoming a homeowner becoming a business owner we've done zero nothing we can't give one example of when we've done when we have done so and we had this discussion close to a year ago six months ago yet again and it's coming back to us disguised and now you as the council president which by the way during that during the last time this came forward when you weren't the council president you were in opposition of it as well and now all of a sudden you're funneling this thing through for on behalf of the administration trying to rush it through without giving the public you know great details on what what it is that we're doing this is an embarrassment but yet I don't expect anything different it's what we've been doing for the last several years so I mean you can answer if you like I already know that you you're not going to answer and if you are you're gonna lie about it this is yet another example why patteron is in the dumps and the residents are suffering because they have no opportunities and the council's giving away all these opportunities to everybody else for the for a property appraise that $350,000 we all know that that property is far has far greater value just because of the potential outlay of of taxpayer dollars that we're gonna that we're spending there so we're setting somebody up for a layup while we're spending all the taxpayers dollars anyway why why am I even bothering well I'll tell you why because the public is listening and I'm hoping that the public is listening well thank you council members Council you're right you're right you're right on point but let me just let me just add this and and I'm not I'm not answering to that comment I really want to thank Council men because you councilman me you bring value into your recommendation you're not pushing now to the members of the public I just going to tell everybody that we spend a very a lot of hours with director Tiffany going through all the list of those property the list of those property they not as attractive and the reason why the director put it together with u leis that have more attraction is to see if people get interest into those property I like C's idea to separate it because we we haven't done title search in those property that that I is that correct director that is correct so those okay so this is what happened director since we have not done title search on those property we got to make sure that those property are clear to move on into the action we should not be voting on a property that we not that doesn't have a clear title this is the conversation P that we need to have it's not poting finger as council president I know I don't know what I'm guilty of but I don't pay attention to that because I'm here to do City business I'm not here to play politics we spend hours and hours at the committee meeting but there's some council member that they don't attend to any committee meeting they don't do any work with the director but when the camer is on they love to come on and just put the show count members of the public resident of the great city of parle leis is the property that has been dilapidated for years and years right next to the great FS the great FS is totally renovated but you don't have any place to buy a uh soda or a bottle of water at the great fs and we have thousands of uh arrested people from outside tourists coming into the Great Falls to take pict and they have to go back because we don't have any restaurant so Le is going to be in the auction hoping that somebody will buy to put a beautiful restaurant on that section and beautify the area that's what we've been doing and that's the work that we should be doing there's nothing behind closed door the legislation is right here and you hear the director and I'm in the real estate business by the way this is my experti value and and I'm closing um no council mess is on the line councilman o and I'm apologizing we we just wanted to make a motion council president to amend this item exactly yes before before the motion I will get I will give the floor to councilman and councilman Udin but the appraisal value the director stated is 525,000 and the assessment of the property is 3 350,000 if we get a that's incorrect that's not what she said so you don't coun councilman Jackson you don't have the truthful to the public that's incorrect you don't have you don't have the floor Council so counc solution is therec President thank you council president there was a a nice button when people like to interrupt we we did it um on the on the time that was uh uh the pandemic that was a m Buton so you could do that from future on um but I just want to bring this up um then um director do you mention uh um four 418 I say four four what was that um in 18 Street 18 stre yeah 414 East 18th Street yeah I just I just Googled the address it looks like a residential address so I just want to make sure that's not a city property uh and it looks well well conditioned property on it uh next to another another house that I just want to make sure and the recommendation that uh Council woman mins is a wonderful one uh we attend committees uh some people unfortunately go to taxology committee that bring all toxic into this council meeting but we are here to move it forward uh with the right thing and the and the subject here is Lees everybody that comes to Great Falls have to see on the left side that abandoned property and the good thing is that it was clear for the record that leby do not own rents so we could move forward uh with this property uh is it the Redevelopment area and I I believe as a councilman of that new District I want to see that area beautified for the great things that's coming down to front of the great fall the rooftop restur uh all the properties that um we going to make sure that looks beautiful in the new fight 10 uh that brought up a new leadership in the fifth war that right now has a good representation so let's move forward on this let's take the recommendation I will second that motion of list men uh to move forward as it is uh council president may I yeah uh you're on mute sorry council president you're on mute yes thank you thank you um uh Council M director just give me a minute there's a motion on the floor by councilwoman Mims second by councilwoman Dava and myself to remove item and council member to remove the rest of their property and just do leave it but Council you ask for the floor right after you we're going to vote on the motion Council thank you council president so as my Council colleagues are saying that we need a restaurant in that particular area we need rooftop how would you know the whoever will purchase this property will offer whatever business we are dreaming I want to take you back to the last year when we offered a Max pen to take this job and bring these properties to the auction I and many other individuals from the public came and show up and speak about that you know particular property and we talking about Le lunch and when we are talking about this we all and I I particularly mentioned about this that we need to have some condition aligned with the auction if we just sell it like this whatever we can dream we can say we want as said we want rooftop council president said there is no place to buy a soda but how do you know the buyer is going to offer that to you so we have to have a contract that says these are the particular businesses can be offered which is called conditional sale which the term you are very uh C pres since you are in the realtor business you know that the conditional sales has to conditional cells should take place so that whoever P Chase or even the current buyer who will buy this uh property if that person sell to someone else still the condition would be aligned to this particular property that what are the businesses can be offered which will cover the theme of the Greatful area so I believe before we continue doing this we have to have condition cleared that what are the businesses can be offered whoever will purchase they have to purchase with the condition that will be stated that will be recorded so Council as part of the conditions as part of the terms and conditions of the contract um city council does have the final say and that you are able to accept or reject any of the bids or offers that are put forward related to that project thank director yeah so so so councilman I have another question council president so go ahead as as director just said we can cancel and we can accept that that's true however before we offer or bring it to the market the condition should be aligned to this to to wording should be there why am I saying this let's say let's say orally whoever let's say I purchase this property or I put the B you know U I'm interested buyer and I said okay I I'll go with whatever you guys telling me today tomorrow if I sell this product to property to someone else how would you control that cuz this is our property now tomorrow this is not going to be our property when someone will purchase it and will sell someone else in the future we are talking about years later how would you control that property what businesses can be offered I think that should be stated should be recorded and is written form so thank you Council mesia from the director director correct so it is written in in the current resolution if you guys look so the six properties are not named so it's the resolution only refers to libes as the only property currently looking to move forward and being auction I mentioned the six properties because subsequently once those title searches come back and if they're clean and ready to move forward it's just my way of alerting the council that there may be six other properties that would come before you to then vote to move forward in a separate auction or a combined auction depending on the track so it could be simultaneously done it could be combined in the one auction depending on the timing of when the um the title searches come back as it relates to um what can be done on the site it has to be consistent with the zoning however you know folks do have the ability to go before the zoning board and request changes but again everything that is mentioned in the resolution as well as in the contract of sale has to be in compliance with with the current zoning okay council president I have additional question I have to state that so I understand the allows d I 100% agree what you are saying and they have to appear to the uh Board of adjustment I 100% agree with this but but if there's no condition whoever the board of adjustment members sitting today or will come in the future you don't know what what are they going to if condition is stated again I'm saying just to be safe and to keep the theme of that particular site I think these conditions should be aligned with it when I'm saying conditional sell if if the buyer does not maintain this condition the city can get back to the get back the property that's what the conditional sale means it's nothing it just the says condition for example I'm selling my property but I give the condition that this part of the building cannot be changed or this only only businesses can be offered that that particular property that's what all it says if someone purchases this is the business they can offer if they want to make it a residential one day they cannot do this but because the condition align the condition goes with the property doesn't matter how many times owner changes if conditional takes sales takes place the condition will be aligned to the business why am I saying this I have no personal benefit but we have to think about that part particular site we have a dream for this particular site but after certain time who's going to keep that up thank you this is the concern but this not only for me cuz before we give the job to Max pan people showed up to the council meeting they made their voice hard about that particular site so we have to be mindful about it okay thank you um so any director so you have a final comment about this I know Council Council ask me for the floor no I asked you for the floor no I'm sorry councilwoman Dava then you go and then Council M as go ahead and let him I don't know if there something I mean I just want to move forward and take action can we have a we have a motion on the floor move by D move by Council M and second by councilwoman DAV councilman BL right after you comment I will let the director speak and then we go for and then we go for a vote on the motion yeah correct I also did a motion for second on the item uh councilwoman men's requested now my director um what is the difference then you stated that we could reject the bit what is the difference between rejecting this bit and not rejecting the bit of the cleaning company that we have so this is this is different this is done through an outside Auction Company so the contract would be presented to city council it it's different from an RFP process okay okay yeah got it yeah only with this only with the statement that is outside bidding and and we V for that company to do it it will explain it thank you thank you so so council members and members of the public we have a motion on the floor to uh uh to make an amendment on this resolution by separating Lees from all the different theate property moved by Council M and second by councilwoman Davila myself and council member Les roll call make an amendment on resolution number 49 B clerk yes Mr President roll call to amend resolution 24 call 221 to separate the properties which is um moved by councilwoman Dr mes second by council president Alex Mendes councilman valz and councilwoman mariss Dava councilman abdulaziz is he here yes councilwoman cotton yes I need to speak when we finish roll call council president yes okay councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson so before I vote on the Amendment um let me just say this um councilman uden just giving credit what credit is due uh understanding that you're not a realtor and you're a teacher you taught you you you put class together today though I give you credit you um you you must been an adun Adjunct professor professor as well because you've you've said exactly what I said the first time this thing came through that we need to make sure that it's specifically outlined we're not required to sell this property the city much like when you're a kid and I'm sure you you've done this in your classes as well playing Monopoly you don't want to sell off your properties these are assets that we just we don't want to give away regardless of whatever we were're able to muster up for it today it's an ongoing asset that's going to continue to you know add increase in value but here we are carrying the water for the administration trying to offload this one last property and even even the intent it was it the item was by itself to begin with but we we classified it with uh six other items listen there is no possible way we should not be selling this property we should create a lease agreement that allows for the city to generate Revenue that can keep with the consistency of what that area has been produced it should be the same style of of of eery it should not be able to be changed at all what's soever you know if you're talking about maintaining a certain historic nostalgic uh uh representation of the city it's the city that drives it if we're going to give it to a developer he's gonna do what's best suits him it's not gonna they're not going to do what best suits the public so for people to say that they work in real estate and then here we are uh uh uh confusing assess value to appraise value and not understanding the the put putting deed restrictions on this on on a property such as this right now it's probably one of the most valuable assets that we have and yet we're still here intrigued and interested on giving it away and we and we and they're playing the same game they play Forever the city council will have an opportunity to see this or or have a vote on it the next time it comes around if if if the batter if the pitch throws you strike at the first pitch and you don't swing that's up to you you strike out you watch two two strikes go by we're not going to get another uh opportunity at this and if you think that you that you are at this pace you're mistaken Madam clerk my vote is no thank you um councilman Jackson councilman khik yes madame clerk thank you councilman khle councilwoman Mims thanks councilman khle so let me just State this because sometimes things are stated and we just ride by it so first it was stated that we do absolutely nothing the council people do nothing I disagree we just did something we identified number one in the packet in the reso it did not list the six properties So based on what I received in my packet I questioned the process and I asked the I pointed question in regards to not libes because we had a robust discussion on lies but in regards to the six properties then after hearing even more dialogue from our director that we had not done a title search the process will be tainted to go forward without a true title search because what would happen if we find in the title search that there are leans or different things or concerns with any of these properties we would have to go back and revisit this item on the agenda so that was doing something I'm speaking Council Ms starting it off and then all the council people that have already second it and are voting in favor we're doing something we identified a concern we're removing it to cover and protect the city we're also making sure that these properties are right for sale because if these properties we're we're not receiving any Revenue any tax dollars on it once they're clear and they're ready for sale we auction them they could come on the tax rooll which benefits the residents of the city of Patterson because the more properties that pay taxes the the more stable that our taxes can become so that's why I'm proposing it but my other piece to it is not just to remove it because of the title search and other concerns but also to make sure that Patterson residents are a part of the process to receive um some of these properties so that we get a return on investment from people that live in this community that work in this community can benefit from the sales of some of these properties that is the other piece Patterson the proof is in the put in we're moving forward to make sure that this item is is fullprof and solid and I think that's what we should do all the time by reading researching and then collaborating and working together to make sure it gets done I want to thank my Council colleagues for seeing the benefit and making sure we do the right thing and I also want to thank council president for taking the time so that we can move this forward so we can move on to public portion Madame clerk this vote to to remove these six properties from this item until the title Sear are clear it's something that benefits this community it protects our new director director Delaney we want to make sure she stays a little while longer and it make sure is that that whatever properties we can get if it's six out of six we're great if it's four out of four we're great that's money that will come into the tax role and it will save some of our taxpayers some money with that being stated Madam clerk we're doing something my vote is yes thank you Dr memes councilman Udin you're muted you're muted councilman thank you madam Clark so yeah I definitely in support of separating these items and I think every single item should be should be uh presented separately and of course as councilman uh stated I definitely support this but as I as I mentioned about this one property that's that is attraction and that's the one of the uh most precious uh you know and most valuable property that we have and going on sale but we want to make sure that we're keeping that in control so once it's come for voting I definitely want to see the condition aligned with this restriction is there that what can have done and not done to particular uh you know property and that should be there with the property regardless how many times owner changes because in the real estate laws there is a law that comes with it that's why and even you know the whoever buys now and sell to how many people doesn't matter but still condition would be there so I'm I'm going to just stay on my Lane to make sure that we keep the theme of the Greatful area and uh to separate items I definitely need support and my vote is yes thank you councilman Udin councilman valz first of all I want to say thank you for the a council member that always like to see the city move moving forward uh some people like to see a city decade uh abandoned and not move it forward the way that we want to see our city move forward regarding when it comes up to Redevelopment in our area um if you look at the Henley stadium and people put sometime statement out there that we saw the city we s the Henley Stadium to the private developer and it's one of the things that was they it and abanded for more than 30 years and now you people could enjoy it big tournament could go there Revenue could come to the city restaurant restaurant goes on and on and people people people you know I like to praise the good thing that P have been doing and and and this body of eight council member moving the city forward trust me you know we don't want to be a person that everything is negative everything is negative everything's negative I think I know the people of is going appreciate when this is uh uh well Complete because those that sit in the council understand the process understand that every everything that we do in the city has a memorandum understanding uh the director knows what she's doing and um and and trust me everybody going to be there cutting the ribbon for the next beautiful project that com in there in the border of the second the second W and the fifth W so um thank you Council woman means this is fiscal responsibility making sure everything is done the right way so council president I'm not a realtor but I know I know how to make my decision right for the city so my vote is yes thank you councilman um Mr President thank you Madame cler um let me say before my vote I I I now I see that the first war councilman is follow me follow my social media very well and yes I teach a lot of people to become first-time home buyer I teach a lot of people to uh get into real estate business to be an investor I have a lot of passion for that because when you are getting into invest investing in real estate is investing in generation wealth and I love to teach people you know how to make money how to be successful and I've been very successful about that but I also am a licensed realtor if you pass by 21 Oak Street I have the building for sale it's on the contract you will see my sign there if you pass by Merc Street I have put for sale on Merc Street this is what I do but I don't like to bring my private business into the public but I have a lot of passion to teach our community how to invest in real estate how to become first-time home buyer because I believe that this is the right thing to do and this is the best way to empower our community by helping them to become homeowner in the great city of patteron and I've been doing this for a very long time uh you know so but with that being said I want to thank you know my Council colleague Council woman men for uh this motion councilwoman Dava councilman B for uh second this Mon and also I inan full support um I mean there's a lot of work behind the scenes there and I mentioned that uh we met with the director we spent like three close to four hours director going to a lot of different property and I would like to encourage the first world councilman to get involved and to and to work with this project because there's a lot more work to be done there's a lot of property in the first war and the flaw Zone that we cannot build we cannot sell that we got to find a way what we're going to do with those property so there's a lot of work to be done in the first war so he should be in communication with the committee with the director to be part of this job because uh we haven't talked about all those property that are in the flaw Zone that we got to find a solution and the director knows because we already have that conversation it we're not there yet now this those property they they not we have to do a title search we've removing that with this motion and I totally agree with Council Ms we have to give opportunity to our patteron resident to have the first opportunity to purchase this property and put this property back into the market and uh and and that's what and that's what we're definitely going to do uh so with that being said my vote is yes uh for the amendment on this item Madam cler thank you Mr President the votes are8 yes is one no item number 49 is hereby amended we s in a restaurant February yeah yeah I'll call you later yeah council member un mute yourself please they looking for rest on the fth I I'll repeat the vote council president yes go ahead so the votes are eight yeses one no item number 49 is hereby amended to read motion to amend the resolution to separate the properties as um as listed in the resolution thank you m c now we're voting on I would like to make a motion to move the item forward for the the auction of the lies property second council president I had a question before that now we may if I may councilman if I may um have the motion in the second yes Council councilwoman there's a motion on the floor is moved uh by Council Ms seconda Council myself let's go let's go the motion to move item 49 and right after president she call for a discussion Motion in a second and she's calling for a discussion you don't have the floor just ask for the floor I said difficult my question is and I want to make it clear Council now we we we move to separate the the the the property so uh my concern now too is we don't know know if Libby has a clear title uh before we put it out for auction we not we don't know if they have a clear title now I see that the property is worth 525,000 now are you saying the city residents of pass going to have first bid is that what uh no no council woman their asset value is $525,000 but their price of Val is $350,000 so that's that's the difference right I understand so but you're saying now then that the city of Patterson I mean the residents in the city will not have first bid no this is open this is open for everybody the rest of the property is the the one that we're gonna choose patteron first I'm not worried about the rest of the other property because the I'm not worried about the rest of the other property because they're not lies and let me tell you something this property is a go mine now if you don't want to accept that it's a go mine it's a gold mine because someone's going to buy this property probably pay a million and then they're going to turn around and buy a liquor license for one of these 50 licenses that they can't place now because there's no liquor store within a th000 feet of Lies so if someone buys a a liquid license they now will be able to put a liquid license there because even if you cross Wayne Avenue Bridge even if you go down M um McBride Avenue already there was there was it it's already C Le already has a legal license license but I'm saying to you they going to you know who's going to come in here oh um um Texas Roadhouse uh uh who's gonna come in here Red Lobster you know I would like to because they're gonna pay more than the 325,000 they're gonna pay more than the 520 they're going to pay more and you know but now you're saying they're not going to have First Choice pison residence is not going to have first choice because once we put it out for bid it's open to everyone president okay this a go mine absolutely thank you Council Council M before we go into the into the voting um um yes I just wanna I just wanna I just want to bring a a a little history over here right um for decades I could say 10 20 years the Armory was abandoned they went to auction when the building was up and nobody want to buy that place for $500,000 it fails a 100 100 times and then they went down and say so you know let's bring the better the better offer for it and from coun councilman I just want to tell you I want to just let you know this they didn't want to even pay $500,000 for the whole property when the Armory was up they came in they gave $3 million for property so this is this is going to be a a an example that you never know who coming in with more money if you say this go mine people G to come and say you know what I don't want to go only by the value that the property has I want to bit for higher three million five million and then bringed bring red red lob or whoever you want to bring but they're G to pay for it and and and give the opportunity for it now listen don't confuse you know still people that Resident that want to invest in the city of patteron they had to be Financial solid too because then it's going to fall into a tax a tax lean on it then we got to go back and and recover because they cannot pay the taxes you cannot buy a property here uh with $10,000 only you know let's let's be realistic those people that buy with $110,000 of property in the city of Pon we could we could rent I could rent you a restaurant in the for $10,000 but auction thank you Council M thank you this is the last item before we get into public let's council member make that9 pass me over no I'm passing you over roll call 49 roll call and item number 49 is amended councilman abdulaziz man council president that's the way you take control meeting that that's the way my vote is yes councilwoman cotton I'm sorry council president what are we amending now no we voting on item 49 on item number 49 for the sale of liit only you know what I hear what everybody's saying I hear everybody saying you know to me a paronian should have first crack at it I mean I mean people can shake their heads and I know what it is not to be able to have the opportunity they going to that 525,000 don't mean nothing they're going to bring in 2 million going to bring in three million that's what's going to bring it I think that I just right now I wish that one of us could get not one of us as council members but one of us in the city of Patterson um could get this so I can't go with this sale my vote is no thank you councilwoman cotton Council woman Davin so as much as I would want to see someone from Patterson purchase you know such historic place all right the reality is different all right and if we're talking about putting you know um a property back on the tax rols um I want to see us going for higher I'm not seeing us I I don't want that land that as councilwoman kind of stated is a gold mine I consider it to be a gold mine a landmark an important Landmark I mean anybody that goes around especially on the weekends Friday Saturday Sunday and you walk around and you go to the greatfor you see the amount of people coming through there just imagine having something high level and when I say high level I'm talking someone that is able to come in there with lots of money make sure that there's parking available and make it a nice place I cannot see it sold for 300,000 I on a personal so oh then would say that then then you know it's going to get more than 300 it should woman I have the floor I have theor alling all I'm saying all I'm saying Council woman I have the floor Council woman that's it I have the floor Council woman okay so what I am trying to state is we already heard we have it in front of us okay at the assess values okay I do not want it sold for what it's assessed it needs to be more all right it needs to be more all right and like I started by saying I would love to see someone from the city of Patterson but the reality is you have to have come in with a lot of money to be able to do that and I just do not see anyone in the city of patteron being able to revitalize that area that's just me right now all right and with that said I am going to support this this has been coming back and forth to us once again you know councilwoman Mims you know that recommendation to make the Amendments separate and then vote on this um is very important all right um yes talk about not raising taxes we talk about at least stabilizing but then when things like this come to us you know it's it's like we we kind of like pedal back and we break and we can't do that the city cannot afford we already know all of the increases that are coming from the Board of Ed we just cannot continue we already know that we can't not have you know throughou we have to always have that tax levy and it's always say hey let's go higher we already know we got to do some other tough things so you know with that said um my vote is yes thank you councilwoman daver councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk this is a this is a this is amazing let me say that and I I respect it council president at least uh you you sticking to your gangster man you know how to kiss ass boy you're doing it well for the for the administration and let's talk about this first of all let me never please let me let me clear this up I would never ever mistake a class being taught by councilman Mendes I would never mistake that I said councilman oudin to a class you sir made a a buffoon of yourself because if you're talking about an initiative to lower taxes please give me the example maybe it's the public see I don't really have to like really go too heavy any longer because all I got to do is walk around the public and they're letting me know they they they're seeing what you guys are doing tell me the example that we that you can give me that started that lowered anyone's taxes you guys allowed 17 acres of land to be given away for a dollar in Fifth Avenue which I fought against you guys allowed for uh uh uh the sale of a property over on on uh Ellison Street for $7 million over that a purchase that we purchased the $40 million over on um on Eastwood Avenue all of these deals the same thing then councilman council president this to the public by the way this is not to the anybody sitting here because it has off councilwoman Cott for holding your ground but we don't know who's gonna buy it it's the same thing they said when we extended the uh Redevelopment Zone on LA on Lafayette Street when one of the council members landlords was the person who was making the purchase we don't know who's going to make the purchase come on man stop lying to the public this is a bad deal we should have more Ironclad uh control over what is going to go there this is not making a decision that's the best benefit of the community of patteron this is a it's a it's a sham it's a sham and and and the mere fact that the administration because I'm not I'm not at all fting the director director I think you did a phenomenal job presenting it but you didn't know that it was presented the exact same way you presented it today a year before you got here and which the count this Council pushed it back but you know when certain deals are cut for certain people to sit in the presidency they're no longer an opposition of the administration they're moving things forward listen give me the example council president you keep touting about you love firsttime homeowners give us the list of firsttime homeowners you created because I do have the list of those properties that you sold to those developers in this community I have that list the ones on on on East on uh East Main and all these other properties that you Ser sold as a realtor to developers I haven't seen you cutting any ribbons with a new homeowners I haven't seen that but what I have seen is this Administration giving the city of Patterson away and here's another example of that we're not gonna have anything left the $110 million the ba is calling me a liar last week this not taxpayers dollars well how much money did the developer put in the in the project por how much money did the developer put in where's the money where the money come from are we using two minutes here or what this guy so ignorant he just can't help himself the ignorance I mean I guess but you know he he he's never even owned a piece of property let alone does he own a piece of property in patteron this guy reduced rent paying a reduced rent to a developer so he could give away his votes to to give away properties like this listen let me use let's not take Jabs out y point of order man come on coun councilman of the six mind your business I can use my time how I so please if I want to take shots of people this we should allow to take because yet you don't want the truth to be divoted you City Business Council president take control this please yes please coun president take control do what remove items from the from the agenda illegally continue to do what you do lick the May's uh bootstraps and keep doing what you're doing keep selling the city off go ahead council president you have an election coming up let the people understand what you're doing you're giving the city the city away tell me where this been a tax savings to the residents tell me where child tell me how this is going to be a savings you can't you're incapable you don't even understand it to that fashion but I tell you what what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna remain consistent I'm gonna expose all of your nonsense I'mma continue to allow the community to see through this nonsense and if it's a savings or a benefit to the community spell that out we keep using the same catchphrases we moving the city forward where's it moving where is it going R Baraka has shown us how to empower residents how to create economic economic I'm sorry can on this item that we could move the agenda I am I'm voting on this item you didn't allow me to speak during the discussion you over you overuse your Authority you gave two other council members the opportunity to speak during the discussion youi now you want to truncate my my uh you you said it was your words use your your time in during the during the voting session to to to make Clarity of this situation and that's what I'm doing I'm exposing your failure I'm exposing you sir and and I don't have to even work hard to do it the community seeing it you was you were totally an Oppo in opposition to this now all of a sudden the mayor got you on a leash and you're under his command hey it's h K9 school is good I guess Madam clerk you know where I am my vote is absolutely no not oh thank you councilman Jackson CL before continue with the roll call every council member is going to have three minute to close to vote on every item I mean this is is sad it disrespectful and it's really sad you know that's his all intention is to hijack this meeting and and put all those uh just uh let's let's continue for now M cler get keep the clock after 3 minute every person will be mute and we continue the meeting please continue the roll M cler councilman khik thank you Madame clerk you don't have to start the clock I'll be under two minutes um the truth is this auction will be open to everyone pattersonan come out and be on this property also every area in city of Patterson is zoned so whatever the zoning allow to build on the property the owner will be allowed to build something there and another thing I want to mention we're talking about tax saving one of the council member brought a brought a um pilot he wrote a ordinance on his own try to give a 99 years Pilots to a property that's that's not tax saving I don't know what is he talking about how you going to uh uh save taxpayer money who who you talking about who you said CC not you coun talking about that person knows okay well you mentioned you mention somebody that's all point of order point of order of order Council mes please Council please ahead that's that's that's not you you save taxpayer money by writing a ordinance and try to give somebody a 99 years tax abatement that's not you save money anyway definitely we need to we need to do something with their property um and let's auction it out pan come out be get the property build whatever the zoning allow in that section and my vote is yes to go on is a open bid it's not a sale Bill bid is a open bid you could come and you could bid on this property my V is yes thank you councilman K councilwoman memes so because the Precedence has been set Madam Clerk please don't put the time because I want to put some facts on the record and I may go a little bit over three minutes but I just want to State some facts so one I want to give a big shout out last night to the planning board there is a rooftop restaurant that was already approved so this is not attached to that that was already done last night big shout out to Pastor Charles Selena's servant Hood Ministry and those that are involved in that process that was approved last night which is on the McBride A extension so that's already coming that was approved by the planning board on last night totally separate from this particular item that we're voting on now it has been stated that it was already apprais at 525,000 it was a it was assessed at 525 it was appraise at 325 but they're looking in the upward uh for a sale of 750 to 1 million I just want to go back to the facts because this was stated by our director from the very beginning so I'm just reiterating facts when it comes to this particular item it is an open bid we voted on this uh maybe a month or two ago that there would be an open bid process for this this particular um project through Max span this Council voted on that so it's not something we're bringing forth tonight there was no f f um discussion in the past this was voted on and I you know to the public I always tell you go back and look at the votes to see who voted to bring it to this place right the second thing is and to to this is a open process councilman KH has already stated it that means anybody can vote on it you come in you vote on it and whoever gets the highest vote you know what auctions you get the property so my recommendation to those people that say Patterson I want it in these type of processes why don't you collaborate get 10 people to come together and I always tell people maybe five of you have money five of you have credit line of credit goes a very very long way come together instead of saying I don't have the money by myself you come together under one particular entity you could get whatever you want but it's called collaborating putting a plan together and making something happen it's not enough to talk about it it's not enough to complain it's not enough to yell and scream and say you're not doing it pointing a finger all of that everything is strategic if you want it you got to go get it if it's something worth having it having you got to put a plan together and make it happen you may not have have all the money get a line of credit if you own a property find out how much Equity you have on your home take that Equity invest it maybe you got 500,000 somebody else got 600,000 put your money together and you come together and you vote on this property have your $10,000 ready so you can sign off and give that money order to um maxband as the process States and then you're ready to make then you can go and make the purchase don't listen to the rhetoric about what you can't do there's ways to get it done anything you want to do you can make it happen you just have to have a strategy and a plan to the administration I'm GNA put this out there because now this is Libby's I am looking forward to the pl for a hotel coming to the city we have all this different these restaurants coming you got a Hench lift and all so many things that we're working on there needs to be in hotel in the city of Patterson there is one here but we need another hotel in our community so that people that are coming in if there's a game or maybe there's a two-day uh concert or revival going on that we can find a way to have people to come in to stay here and to enjoy uh the amenities right in our community people are into cigar lounges and Sip Sip and cigar lounges and and different things like that those are some things you got to look into what you need I saw our director he popped on he liked that idea but there's so many great things we can do in this community but it comes from not battling but building we got to work together you may not like everybody you may not like everything but people will listen when you have great ideas you come forth with ideas and it makes sense then you could be a part of and I think c abdulaziz will come on camera you'll be a part of the get it done committee let's get it done let's move this city forward this item is a win for the community it's going to bring some tax money into our tax Ro um that place has been um deprived there were dumping and littering going on loitering going on and everything going on in that Corridor it's time to fix it up and move our city forward Madame clerk for this item to move forward and let's build it and not battle it my vote is yes thank you Dr memes councilman Udin GTD all right all right so thank you madam Clark um You Zed councilman al-aziz not me I'm speaking at this point they got a new member Council Council no I've been on the I've been on the C maybe one day you'll come on the committee right I I am always always right you know stand for the right I don't take any s i take s for the people that's my stand it doesn't matter I'm not enti Administration I don't speak against anybody particularly I never last two years I never address anybody particularly whatever I stated what is the best for the city of Patterson and that's what I state so I am not against moving it Forward forunate I I stated it and I want to go for higher Vier regardless who would you know who bid for higher that's not my point my point was what are the businesses going to be for and how now of course the education comes that every single sit was zoned how about the variance once it comes to the uh those boards they sometime give variances for different properties which is not allowed maybe three stor building allowed they they're giving variances for five stor that's happening we are not talking about something hypothetical that's happened previously and that's going that's might happen in the future this is exactly what I'm speaking about it's nothing I definitely want to generate money but this particular property is not only about money we have to we have to understand that this particular property is not only about money it's about theme of the neighborhood once we may be financially satisfied but if we lost this property and if we just leave it open for whatever can be take place that lost forever that's exactly what I'm trying to State it's nothing against anybody or in favor of anybody I'm in favor of that theme of the neighborhood that's exactly what I'm talking about unless the condition is stated unless condition is stated I said it from the very beginning when maxen got the job I stated that people came to the chamber they stated their intention how they want to see this neighborhood I cannot support blindly just leave it open for any business can be offered was Z allowed I can support that once the whatever we think is the best pting business can be offered is stated on the paper and Max pen move forward with the auction I definitely would support that I cannot support like this because someone can purchase it and maintain whatever condition we give them orally but who know who knows whoever will buy this property today is not going to sell again to someone else and that that buyer is going to maintain whatever theme we want to see at this point we have to we have say because we still own this property once we sell it that's someone else's property so this is exactly what I'm standing on Patterson this is for my record I am not against it I'm not against to move forward I'm not against to go for higher beer but I'm against the way we are putting on the putting on the sale I want to see the stated re formed that how we want to see this particular properties develop with that being said I'm sorry I cannot support this my vote is no thank you councilman Odin councilman Valance oh well so let me put myself in the camera I know some people Miss to see me uh how are you everybody uh fortunately you know I'm park now want to make sure I was only listening um how you doing councilman Jackson nice to see you today uh but one of the things I got to say is that I know my colleagues could agree with me when the county decide to invest in a in the new bridge on my Brian's proves you know the councilman the first world was complaining because they was fixing the bridge I mentioned the person by name I don't need to hide when they was doing uh the uh uh the Redevelopment area in the fifth War the coun was against it when they was doing the rment area in the new District of the fifth War 510 where the great fall set he was against it he was against the hinley stadium and giving RS packs to everybody around and not only that brings in that toxic idea to the community that I want I'm G to say it again and I got to say it again there's people they are haters in government they don't want to see the city moving forward they don't want to see the city Redevelopment in the city you know I have to say it the right way people people cannot manage their own restaurant and their own personal agenda and they want to manage the city agenda so you know why it's in in stake right now is the Lees everybody that goes through there could see oh that place is abandoned oh this looks ugly oh this look like this but now we got the opportunity to put it out there that everybody could participate and have the opportunity if they want something good bring it on let's bring it on and we're g to see something different in in in that area so I'm happy that the board yesterday approved a rooftop restaurant and and and what is coming in that area by the leadership also from this Council in the fifth W of that area 510 so I was supporting that always way and I will support that always in the in in my in my w um you know I had to say this from Council president council president I could I could testify that your profession right now is realtor and before that you was a a transportation manager with your own company I couldest how many people in the fifth War purchase property because you lead them to the right loans to the benefit of Home buy uh firsttime buyer program I CEST how many residents in the whole city have benefit by your orientation and your realary expertise right so I couldest that because I see the the family happy out there and and and get into houses so you know I know that you are well well prepared to to get all this attack and people putting great clouds over you for the work a great job that you've been doing not only in the council SE also out there at as a as a professional realtor meanwhile there's other people going to Federal Court filing fake papers just to stay in in the fifth War as a business but hey that's okay but Le is here Le is going to get auction people are going to see that as a place that had to be redeveloped and um I'm I'm moving forward into this vote and my vote is yes and let's get it done thank you council president thank you Mr President thank you Madame clerk I appreciate council members so let me just take two minutes to just do um I I definitely have have to comment on this because it's extremely sad that councilman Jackson was using everything just to attack me I don't know what he getting about this and and in fact it's really sad he got to check himself he really have to analyze what is the purpose of him being in this meeting but let me talk about he attacking you attacking my my personal business I don't know what you get to Mr the the fushi family on Toto Avenue they have a beautiful property because of me uh coun M know that a burned down property on Madison Avenue there's a brand new home owner first-time home buyer a person that bought that property just because of me I have a person in the first war that is ready to buy another property fifth War a business owner that never owned a property is about to get his property for the first time H and and owning the business that's what I do for living helping people and yes teaching people how to invest in real estate you could laugh you could you could say whatever you want but it's really sad that you're bringing all of this together that you bring all of this to here but the proof is there I'll be helping people for many year to become first-time home buyer and I love to do this this is my business now I don't bring my client his family into uh the public because there's no need to I would more happy to do that but people that follow me on social media they know what I do at closing they know the people I show them the property they know all of that you should get into my social media and do some research on that so because I don't I definitely don't need to spend time with you going back and forth about my profession and yes if I have a property in the market and a developer wants to do business with me I'm more than welcome I'm a professional and when my client hire me to sell a property my job is to get the best return on that investment and is to get the top dollar for that property and that's what I did for the property that you mentioned in the first word that I got the best deal for that person and that person is happy with all the money on his packet that's what I do for people you got to check yourself what are you doing for people instead of bringing all The Nasty negativity into this meeting now to the resident of the great city of patteron this is what we doing here this is the only way that we're going to be able to help our taxpayer by moving on decision that that are going to bring Revenue into the City and and you know why councilman Jackson you're not helping the director the director is doing a phenomenal job but you lying that lady she doing a great job and I invite you to be part of those meeting because you have a bunch of property in the first war and the flaw Zone dilapidated property that you have no knowledge tiany doing an amazing job and you bashing her job you say that you acknowledge her job you're a liar that's that's not true I will invite you to come into the meeting because the problem that you have councilman is that you love to see the camera on to lie to the people I'm inviting you to get into the uh into the committee meeting you never attend to one committee meeting I don't even understand that and I put you in several committee and I invite you to the economic development committee meeting for you to put you input you really want to work you really want to help the community come to the workshop come to the meeting and and bring your idea to the table you're not doing anything by attacking me all right so just zero so the only way that we're going to help this resident of the city of pison is by taking action like this I want to congratulate the councilwoman uh Ms councilwoman D and all my Council KH for move that moving on the right direction members of patteron leis has been there for years and years a theapy data buing building assess Valu is 525,000 we're not making those number up we have professional that Tiffany hired those professional and the administration and Tiffany as the Director working with those entity and you not acknowledging the job that she doing so you throwing her under the bus um I'm not I mean nobody's packet and the director she's a professional so and the and and and the assessment is and the price is 350 they hire professional to do that now I'm hoping to get 1 million two million $3 million for that property because that's the only way that we're going to help our taxpayer and that's what we do in cityor patteron there's nothing behind closed door this is a public document those that visit the great FS you could see that the great F that building is there forever I hope you know that people pay um you know the highest the value of money for that in order for us to bring that money into the city because we have to find a way to re stop the tax increase we have to fight with the state we got to fight for with everybody because our resident they're losing the property because of the high taxes in the C city of par we got to bring cannabis back into into the agenda we got to help the city and the only way to help the city is by working together and doing what we doing moving forward and taking action with that being said I'm looking forward to see a a a investor that come in and build a beautiful restaurant by the Great Falls and pay as much as that the the pressure company can get for this property so with that being said let's do the work that we been hired to do my V is yes M cler on item 49 thank you council president the votes are six yeses Madam cler public portion he wants to rec conman Jackson wants to Recon question if he reconsiders Corporation Council reconsideration memb please council members please council members please council members we now we're moving into public portion that's what we're doing now council members okay so let me may I announce the vote yes announce the vote I have make an announce can you please bring Clarity to the council he cannot deny me he cannot deny me council president councilman Jackson wants to Recons his vote he said before he get I gotta ask legal I gotta ask the legal department if it's reconsideration is got to be different that the way he vote because Corporation Council uh thank you council president um it is my understanding that mad he reconsiders his vote if he reconsiders his vote he he doesn't necessarily have to change it um so my my understanding is consistent with Madam Clerk and if Madam clerk is if that's your understanding as well then that that's what it is thank you okay all right so so so so before the vote councilman Jackson have two minutes to reconsider the vote after that we going into a public portal wow thank you council president just pointing out that you're your your time frame was at three minutes and 40 some odd seconds but needless to say um uh uh uh thank you madam clerk for for allowing the reconsideration first of all um Let me let me just say this uh it you you don't have to say I'm a liar all you have to do is prove where the taxpayers are benefit from any of these ACS that you've taken any of these actions councilman Shah khik talked about the necessity for for this these things to be heard on the uh planning board as he has sat and voted in favor in all all of these projects that have taken over our community while our community is suffering we here selling selling off properties to developers and not making opportunities available uh for councilman valz to talk about the the um um falsehood and taking personal shots listen I'm willing to go any single night you can never debate with me because you you you a falsehood on the facts and you've never owned a piece of property in the city of patteron and you don't even understand the ramifications of your actions and how it's derel to the taxpayers of the city of patteron so I would like for you to outline it for me Council council president you stood in in direct opposition of this of this project the last time it came came forward if you voted no yet it hasn't changed and now your vote has changed and now you want to take Silence with me because I'm pointing it out I'm only pointing out the facts and if there's anything that I'm stating that's not factual then all you then please just just prove that you you you stated two people that you that you vote that you uh uh help acquire properties and I'm happy that you did but remember your your act your actions as a as a realtor is public record as well and we we can just go down the line all the properties that you sold to to to to developers that don't live in the city that are non-homeowner occupied uh properties this is not a benefit this Council not taking the the initiative to vet out what is going to be the future reference of this uh the future endeavors of this property is completely irresponsible so my hats off to all to those of you and councilman um um Udin you hit it right on the head this Council has done this in as a habit we have sat here and lied to the public we make these actions you know who else is a is a real uh uh former resident Vic Frierson is is a realtor as well let's call somebody else who's a licensed realtor and have him do an evaluation it's it's not going to line up with the things that this that the council president is talking about but yet I will reconsider my vote and my vote is consistent Madam clerk my vote is absolutely not but my vote is is in in is indifference of all of the uh falsehoods that these council members are passing passing over you want to understand why the city of pison is the way it is just watch this meeting you can understand it my vote is no Madam cler thank you councilman Jackson the votes are six yeses three NOS item number 49 is hereby adopted as amended council president uh yes the council me but so before before um before I'll be very brief council president yes but just let me reme let me remind the public about the the num so to those that would like to participate on the public portion can call in at 973 3211 1579 and enter the meeting ID 8326 press a star one to listen to the meeting and press the start three to be added to the speaker quote so with that being said let me reiterate what I say I'm open to do business with any person that wants to do business with me and I'm a licensed Realto and everybody know I don't need to debate that with the councilman councilman Jackson but I will I will humbly recommend the counsilman and I was challenging him to sit with the director tiffan that he throwing her job to the floor right now and she's our new director he throwing her job to the floor down to the drain that's what he's doing by taking this action he's been a child with this action and that's what he's been doing with this I'm encouraging him and I challenging him to sit with the director to sit with the director because in the first world we have a bunch of property that are in a flow Zone and we still don't know what's going to be the action to those property he has a lot of work to do instead of attacking his Council Cali do your job in the first war look at those property and see how can we help the city with that problem that is in our shoulder this is the right thing to do with moving forward with this Le uh so um GOC we're going into the public portion Madame CL thank you council president so I just want to bring some clarity to the public um where libes will be Lo where libes is located currently it is in a a Development Area for restaurant I was not stating that that would be the place for the hotel I'm making a recommendation to the administration that there is a need for a hotel in our community if there is you know um ideas or you want to change a Redevelopment Zone that is something that can be done and amended but it's done through those boards the board of adjustments and or the planning board so if there are some things that you're looking for for that is something you can propose at any time to make those amendments master plan uh the uh Redevelopment and master plan amendments and adjustments are done every 10 years but at any point as long as you have majority vote you can change uh the the zoning areas and what can be defined in those locations so I just wanted to bring that to the public for clarity so they will know in what particular area and you can always request a copy or Oprah open public records act the Master uh Redevelopment plan for the city of Patterson that was amended and I want to put on the floor when as a previous planning board member when we did these plans uh I think councilman valz was on as well he was the uh representative from the city council it was open for anyone to come in and have ideas and I just want to put on record there were some people that did not even show up to add or to subtract a way to ensure that each of the areas in the the community were at um its best so there's always opportunities to make these adjustments and amendments you just have to come make your voice heard and then there needs to be a majority vote thank you council president I wanted to bring and also to identify lanyard laws and rules so that we can abide by the process thank you so much thank you counc yes very brief council member please yes briefly uh adding to councilwoman uh Alisa men yes we to as councilman uh draft a resolution and request to the board to reconsider also the R zone and and ask them to put also a hotel in the area if we want to if we want to do that Council woman means uh let's get together let's uh draft something as a resolution or support of what you're saying now that if we could add a hotel in the area we could do it moving forward for the zoning board could take action and I know they agree with us thank you council members and just uh so we're getting into poly portion but I totally agree with with you Council M and Council M Les I mean the person that will pay a million dollar for that property it will not it would not build a two family house or three Family House the person it it will definitely open a beautiful business on the and restaurant beautiful restaurant on the first floor and I would love to see a book te Hotel uh going up so that will be an amazing idea and that's the next job that we got to do we have to come together as a governing body to start talking about what's going to happen with leave is after we get the money that we expecting to get to help our taxpayer so Madame clerk uh how many speaker do we have uh council president while we're waiting for the speakers can we do item 52 really quick I don't think it would take that long yes just do we have any speaker on the we have eight speakers on Q we got a speakers on Q so let let's uh let's move that through the a speaker and right after we finish Madam Clerk we we will be taking call until 10:05 and after that we will um after that we will um close it and we'll finish with our speaker and we're going back with do item um thank you counc I was just saying for the sake of our director he's you know if he's started he's had a long day the item is very quick and if we could do that really quickly and open public portion I agree directors can um at 3 o' in the morning now so has to get some rest director I like to see the director here on to the end council president I I could wait if the council could wait you know the public so go ahead you on now so go ahead you're on let's take it out of the way let's take it out of the way director item 52 and 53 director so mad clerk let's do those item they 53 53 is 53 I'm sorry we only have one item item 52 so let's get let's take that item out of the way mad clerk before we get to public item item 52 is a resolution authorizing the award of contract to Green Valley Group Inc for the Barber Park playground improvements bid number 24 04 for the engineering division of the Department of Public Works it's a public works resolution 24224 second it was moved by Council woman K and Davila and Mims and and and V and second by council president Mendes I said second but I was muted yeah everybody said second you know I no problem CL on this important item very important item I know it's an appointing item council president huh I know it's an appointing item it's a very important and let's keep in mind before the call that director came to me and we add this item into the agenda because we hoping to finish the director came to me and have a conversation and ask council president I gave priority to this item because the idea is what you me no no I'm let you finish go ahead woman point of I'm just saying this was can we just vote the public is waiting can we was our Workshop this was our workshop last week no it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't on the agenda it wasn't on the agenda consum I add it because it's important and it's important for you as well and all of you it wasn't on the agenda um Council the director the item wasn't ready but it's important for you and the community director I'm asking the director what's this item on there it was at it it was at it um the night of the C the workshop yeah it was added it was after it wasn't on it was after we added after on item 52 call on item number 52 councilman ABD aiz thank you you madam clerk um so I want to give a shout out to the community that cleaned up and maintained and took back that Park um you know I know how parks are very very important and they single-handedly transformed that neighborhood yes so I won't go into calling names I'm GNA give that to my Council colleague Ruby cotton who's been fighting tooth and to make sure that that Park gets the resources it needs so Council and kind unfortunately I'm not next to you right now I will be giving you a fist pump because you've been working hard with all your committees and all I even want to name all the acronyms you give me on the Committees that you're on out there in the fourth a so counsel C congratulations congratulations to that neighborhood this is first step for the resources it's long overdue everyone that it's long over do I'm happy the administration the council and the director are finally getting this uh this first step there and I hope for bigger and better things in Barbara Park um so congratulations everyone my vote is yes because we care about the entire city right councilwoman K right thank you yes he does councilman Al that's fine councilwoman cartton thank you madam clerk yes it has been a long road you know this started back with mayor Joey Torres when we started to try to do the work in the park and then they discovered and I'm probably saying it 20 2015 or 16 I'm not sure and when they discovered that the soil was contaminated and they could not do anything and so the the choice was either cap it or remove it um after speaking with mayor Torres I said the best option is to remove it so now this way you don't have to keep in it every year CU once you cap it you still got a test so this has been a long road I want to thank everyone who has been helping me um and and we had so many so many people that was with us um that been out there helping us and like I said I don't want to leave nobody out but it's a lot of us and I'm saying the the G family and I'm saying Victoria I'm saying Kelly MOS I'm saying even councilwoman Ms came out with me when we were when I had to sit and wait for mulch for 3 hours to get mulch there for the playground um and then we had the Saints L we had the patteron leas Royals with Charles uh Adams we had uh it it was just St Luke was part of it but just the idea that if we get started now that this part um is going to be um ready for National Night Out that's hoping for director Rodriguez that we can have it ready for National Night Out so I want to thank everybody who I always say sometimes change don't come when you want but change will come it might not be tomorrow it might not be next week but it's going to come and so I'm happy to see that we're finally getting this done and for everybody who played a key role in this uh of getting this done and and we've been really having some good times in that Park and I can tell people just go sit in the park and you it it puts you into a trance and sometimes people need to sit still and just be quiet because they need that quietness for a minute or that peace for a minute so thank you council members for um um um helping me to get this suit too without you all guys I wouldn't have been able to and I want to say thank you to all of you too and to the to our mayor and to our ba uh uh and our director Billy thank you for pushing this to that we know this has been a long time coming uh with that being said Madam clerk um and also where's my Javier at CFO he's somewhere but anyhow with that being said I know my my Madame clerk um my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman DAV there has been many in been many instrumental individuals that um have and can't take take credit okay for what's being done today all right um and I do want to start by saying this because back in 2014 2015 all right I was in that Park and there was one individual that really stood out and I am going to mention her by name because she was instrmental she started with the cleanup of those filthy um needles the needles all right and so I have to mention my commissioner uh Victoria okendo okay um yes councilwoman there's been from ver am to you okay being a champion there for the park the Grier family uh Kelly Moss and so many more um some that you know um um by name I won't be able to mention but you know I also want to thank our director our DPW director because you know you have to go out there right and you listen to the community as well you listen to the the council uh um the council person from the Ward but also you got at large you got councilwoman men's myself councilman Udin and people come to us as well and so for you to also sit down and take those recommendations you know are very important those things are discussed when there's no one else in the room but the committee all right and so with that said you know yes this body is the one that finalizes that support that is needed and so um to everyone involved you know anyone that knows me they've known how even before I was an elected official I'm a champion for Parks as I started at out uh as a member of the p County um Friends of P County Parks and moved on and then through you know the the Grant and the 10-minute walk and you know us being able to fix more of our Parks councilwoman men's and I and Madam ba you know we went to Chattanooga and then you know through my leadership we created the patteron uh friends of Patterson Park so you know I am big about Parks I think it's important when I hear individuals say oh I'm not going to that Park and they prefer to go out this is what we're supposed to do in addition to fixing our schools and supporting our schools and you know making sure that our streets are clean and that those poth holes are filled and streets are paved and you know houses you know become beautiful you know home uh to to new homeowners you know parks are very important as well so you know with that said I'm very happy you know to support this measure but I'm sorry I had to shout out my commissioner Victoria o candle thank you as well councilwoman k my vote is yes thank you councilwoman Dava councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk first let me point out some of the obvious council president made it clear that his initiative to uh mitigate the process where this was not discussed during last the uh Workshop he took it upon himself to add it to the agenda which is great I mean fine I don't dispute that but but but he also took it upon himself to remove the item for televised workshops um which is yet again something he supported heavily until he became the president members of the public members of the third world please make note of that and um you know I listen this is not about taking personal shots it's just about listening some some of the things is get very difficult for me to hear there's not one Street in this city I could ride ride and say oh this is a clean Street as a matter of fact the other day there's a gentleman he works for DPW I'm not going to call him out but he was out on uh an arch and he single-handedly you know did a job sweeping up the streets and uh uh the street look very look very well manicured it don't take like maybe an hour later and and it's being you know totally disrupted the streets the potholes the amount when you when you when you consider the amount of workload that we've put on this DPW Department without fairly paying these gentlemen and expecting them to just do a job to clean up around all of this mess that's going on but we hold none of these people who are making these great Investments accountable now I know this is not relative to this park situation because you know I'm in full support but when you you want to uh uh make references to you know how we have to clean up the streets we got to cover F potholes that's really not happening in fact you know I don't understand how all the other council members are not feeling abused as well councilmen of the six for points out how there's 12 24 streets in the in that's being paved over the next year or so and 12 of them in is in his Ward you guys are carrying water helping him along his W is getting all the you know all of the uh uh tender love and care and not because he's the councilman because it's the mayor's former uh uh Ward and you know it's the deric neglect so I'm not saying anything about you know the job that he's doing that's great I'm proud of him but I'm talking to the rest of you all all throughout this community in the first ward in the second ward and the Third Ward and the fourth ward in the fifth War forget the council people just the residents alone just think about this 24 streets are ear marked to be paved and 12 of them in the in the six so so we had the rest of us the five of us had the had to divy up the whatever's left and yet on Governor Street near um um P near uh uh Bridge Street that street has never been paved never come down Clinton Street you can see the cobblestone in the street there's certain streets that you ride through even in the sixth FL where you can find railroad ties under the ground but we're talking about all these great decisions the mayor he's cutting ribbons while the movie theater's closing and people with this whole notion of I would love to see a boutique hotel open up people can't even afford to go to a movie but yet we gonna you know we're gonna have a boutique hotel come here while some of our residents you know I just went to a funeral yes yesterday for for Mike who was senselessly murdered and then another friend I find out gets stabbed in the neck like listen what are we doing here man anyway any listen Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson councilman colleag thank you Madame Clark councilman Abdul hopefully you have le Lei Avenue on your list as well it's it's long over to do to get that street paid I have many of the street in the second r on the list as well also we talking about Parks Westside Park will be renovated starting this summer we will be spending close to $13 million total renovation of Westside Park is is great thing coming in city of patteron and my V is um and I want to thank councilwoman Patton for advocating for hard park at barbar Park my vote is yes madame CL thank you councilman KH councilwoman mes thank you madam clerk so many um things have been said in regards to those those people that were part of the advocacy and the push for this park but I have to add to your list counselor MAA and Boogie or Tony Glover who um actually spread all of that Mulch and stayed out there for hours and you know never forget us getting him some Kentucky he was like he just wanted something to eat we gave him something to eat but he took all that mulch that was put there in a p a pile after waiting there for hours for it to be delivered and Tony Glover book big shout out to you and to everybody else that was mentioned I agree with councila with the needle exchange program when we were out there standing out there um with that program and that we don't even want to get into that but you know advocacy and activism definitely works and from that and the needle exchange coming to the park with the needles um moving out all of the people that should not have been in there was very important especially when it comes to our children and recre ation when only approximately uh the budget for recreation is very low we have to creatively and innovatively find ways to increase recreational opportunities in the city the public is waiting to speak I'm going to move forward within my time limit limit Madam clerk our vote is yes for this item thank you Dr memes councilman Udin oh thank you Madame Clark so yes um one thing one thing I believe that is if every word council members pay or con concentrate on their word to move move up you know then entire city can move forward and that should be so those who are doing great job we instead of criticizing them we think they should get credit for moving their words forward since we talking about the fourth word and Barber Park I think it's long overdue and uh councilman Kon should get credit for this my daughter can go with her and play there cuz uh she was babysitting my daughters for for certain times when I go to the council chamber at night most of the time my daughter stay with councilman um Ken nobody knows that so I think she could she could walk her to the Barber Park to play there so I want to see this park moving uh you know improved the playground is there and uh thank you councilman Kon we in support of you and support of the park with having said my body yes thank you councilman Udin councilman valz um occupy Barber Park I remember when that came up let occupy Barber Park G Greer Nancy Greer the uh too kandall um don't forget Mr B that always was in the par cleaning it Hakim B and also I want to send shout out that probably councilwoman uh C know and all those coun probably know Charles Florio put his security detail to make sure drug addicted do not go to the park and that was a collaboration with h and nobody asked him he did it by himself because he was interested that fair street was clear enough to Children could go to the park see that's collaboration I just going to put this out there you imagine a mayor of the city of Patterson that will have nine members against the mayor to get things done nothing will get done you imagine nine council member against a mayor of the plans of the mayor and nothing will get done at least we have a council member that knows to move City forward and make sure that we do everything for the community and this is what collaboration is Council I recall one day they want to do that um that stage and you say hold on let's hold on for a minute let me have a meeting with the community to see what they want in Barber's Park I remember you stated that so councilman uh um um not councilman director Billy last week uh spoke to me as committee chair and the first thing he said councilman this item needs to go to the workshop and I took initiative to talk to council president and say let's put as Title First until the document gets pred and probably you didn't saw the document but you saw the title and that's why it's here today and I'm happy that that is collaboration for example if Council woman is is I have a committee we have a committee we talk I was out of the country and we talk about this I say if it's good for the community let's move it forward because I know my colleagues are going to for for it and thinking on you councilwoman account thinking everybody that comes to the committee with ideas I make it move it forward because I have to think in your witches I to make sure that I work with my colleagues and work with the director and director thank you thank you because you have fulfill the wish list of many many years of the council that you bring forward every council member here had communicated with you say I would like to do this in this part I would like to do this in this park and you have look for the room to do it hopefully one day the first world could take that same communication and make things happen my vote is yes on barar Park thank you councilman valz Mr President um thank you madam clerk um before before my vote let me ask to councilman Jackson the reason why uh when when when the recommendation came to add the uh the televised Workshop uh into the into the agenda I called all my Council KH that vote against none of them want to change their vote there's no need for me to bring this legislation back into the into the agenda because nobody wants to change their vote as a council president I have a full communication with all my Council colleague at least with seven of them and we dialogue and we have a conversation and I know I and I want to know how they feel that's the reason why the item is not on the agenda and I want to bring that item into the agenda just to put a show out there now cannabis is going to come back because one council member that vot against now we now we'll vote in favor that's the reason why you will see canab back into the workshop and that's the way I work as council president now yes I decide to put after Council M call I decide and the director I decide to put this into the agenda because this is important for the community and for the council woman M and for all of us because a lot of people they've been working for many years to bring Barbaro Park back to what it is now and and the councilwoman Kat has an amazing group of people behind her and it's incredible I remember uh Victoria kandle with the needle picking up needles brother gig gria Kelly MOS nasty gria so many great people are been working with castle c to bring this part back and I say this is important for the people and it have to be on the agenda and I'm praying that the director uh you know that will you get that ready before National Night Out because I believe that councilwoman cat will have the best National Night Out of everybody on that beautiful part so that's the reason why patteron I don't like this are on the agenda and this is the way we should be working and and advocating for my War I'm excited about what happened in the third war since I became the councilman I've been advocating for the third war since day one with the administration the east side park was dilapidated that tennis score was a disgrace for over 20 years I became a council member it's a brand new state-ofthe-art tennis court the east side park is totally repaved it look beautiful now investing more money into lighting the park new benches new table are on the way amista Park exercise machine beautiful new table I'm excited it's 42 never been pav in in over 30 years now it's brand new 14th Avenue is never been fixed in over 30 years 20 years that somebody else was here I'm here now it's fixed the Riverside section brand new baseball field all the road from east5 all the way to Madison brand new I'm excited about what happen in the third war and I'm I'm going to continue working with everybody with all my Council Cali with the administration because it's not about us it's about the people it's about what can we do to make our city better my vot is yes Madam clerk thank you council president Madam CL Madam clerk I I want to pull I want to reconsider my vote I want Jackson real quick so um it was mentioned is 64 so I'd like to reconsider my vote councilman Jackson mentioned some things but I want to go on the record and give kudos to other people that represent the six W right like councilwoman mariss Dava like councilwoman at large Dr Lisa Mims and councilman at large uh Faro Udin they represent the Sixth Ward also so when you see us bring things forward for the six w i collaborate with my at large members because they represent my residents and then I collaborate with my Council colleagues like council president Alex Mendes his Ward borders my ward we're working hand inand to bring a new playground on the border of the third and six councilman uh Louis valz has a whole border around my ward we look at projects that get uh get accomplished because we work together so when you see this stuff happening it doesn't happen in Silo we Advocate we collaborate we get things done and I'm gladly I could teach you how to do a counsilman Jackson and I'm going to put this on the record you like to speak facts I walked your ward one time and the residents complained about the roads and I actually asked the mayor I said mayor did councilman Jackson put any recommendations for Road resurfacing in his Ward I actually felt bad for your residents when I knocked down their doors and I asked them and I asked the ba and I go because they all reach out to us right Council colleagues and say what's the roads that you like for your ward first W residents especially the people that Liv in that Chamberlain nav area um by a 7-Eleven Buckley right councilman Jackson did not submit a list they not submit a list for roads repaved to the administration every council person submits a list so let that that's why things get done in the six Ward and that's why it has and that's the facts you called me out I don't I don't usually do this but I want to give kudos to the other Representatives that represent the Sixth Ward uh my counsel at large colleagues because they do advocate for the Sixth Ward but that's the facts opra those emails you'll see I when they ask us for roads i s mine in right away and I call my my counsel I large colleagues and say hey please put this road on your list please put that road on your list so sorry council president I'm going to reconsider on this um and I just want to put that on the record I will continue getting things done not that I want your endorsement councilman Jackson but thank you for highlighting all the great things that we're doing in the Sixth Ward I appreciate it my residents are texting me so Madam clerk for the fourth award just like how I supported getting Buckley Park renovated my colleagues will tell you in the first Ward it was me that made that motion to move the million dollars and the director will tell you that when I called him at midnight to get things done in the first Ward and you see what it is now now I will gladly support Ruby K in the fourth ward to get her Park done because it's l overdue my vote is absolutely yes thank you councilman ABD president council president uh yes after after the vote please Council vote oh council members we have a multiple we have eight people on the line we have we have 10 now and we also have anend let's do this let's move out of the public portion because 10:13 so we don't want to be we don't want to put people on on the waiting line on the phone for too long and they've been on the phone waiting so okay I announce the votes please yes so the votes are nine affirmative um item number 52 is hereby adopted and council president just a reminder um we do have an addendum for an item to be voted onto the agenda it's one of the taxi um companies they're running out of time yes we have to director director Billy before we go to public portion go ahead thank you thank you council president I just want to uh say that this is the the result of when uh Community takes back a park that was being used for for stuff that we uh we didn't want to see for um when Ruby counton said that the ample theat wasn't enough and she brought it back and she said we need to do more um and now we have a full-fledged Park this this this is what community is about um Barbera Park is is going to be outstanding Park but we're going to hit the ground running I'm telling you we're going to try to get this done before National Night Out and I'm going to be there with we're we're GNA have a try to have a a pre-con meeting tomorrow I got everybody on on board and we're gonna I'll keep everybody um a bre of what's going on moving forward but this is this is what happens when Community takes back over a park and I appreciate the council um approving this uh measure and and thank you go thank you direct thank for track Park while you're working on that Park don't you forget got you thank you uh so mad cler let's move into public portion we got the 10 speaker and we're gonna we're closing the um the call right now that we're going to take care other the stand speaker and we go getting back into City business okay because I announced C member I announced that by 3:15 we're gonna stop taking call so they all in the line let's take first Pi CL on the on the public portion they're coming in just a moment counc me they com in go ahead counc I just want to say that alel is right that's why I got a lot of Street pave in the fifth War I communicate with the mayor I communicate with my a lot of sweet got paid in the fifth War because that and the mayor testify and the councilman agree on it moving forward fifth War give me a call please I will exactly so so um so the council members I definitely agree we there's a lot of work to be done and the only way that we're GNA get it done is by by working together and and just uh and to help our our constituents a different section of the city of pison and that's what we should be doing right now as we speak I mean I feel pleased with all the Improvement in the third war and I'm looking forward this and there's a lot more changes to comeing so they're not H are they are they mam clerk uh Ryan said hello yes hello hello yes you're on please state your name for the record as well please state your name yes hello good evening yes hello good evening this is commissioner Victorio Kendall how is everybody this evening good evening commissioner good good evening how are you how are you um I want to first thank you for um your vote on Barbara Park it's been um a long road fixing that Park um but I just heard you mention something about working together and that was the greatest thing that Barbara Park taught me it didn't matter how many needles I picked up if G Greer didn't come if Kelly Moss didn't come if bow hen didn't come because I may have picked up the needles and protected the park during the day but these men got up at night in the morning 2 3 four o'clock in the morning to guard that Park so I thank you um for voting to give it upgrade and get that Park fixed up and opened um for our city I want to thank the GRE family Kelly Moss Pat goer I thank my Council women councilwoman cotton commissioner uh councilwoman Dava councilwoman Mims Alex Mendes Alex remember when you jumped the woman was being strangled across the street in the building yes and you jumped up and ran over the wall and you got her some help um we thank you for that that everyone has had their hands in this part um councilwoman Dava Dr baral everything I did in that Park they were 100% my my my partners and behind me and I thank you for that so um I hope that Patterson all parks can get the same attention that Barbara Park is getting um and also before my time is up you know um on a serious matter you know quality of life is to come home and find a parking space to go in without having to drive around the same block see things because there's nowhere to put your car and let's face it it's as simple as demand as parking is always going to exceed the supply but what puzzled me was when I went to the city of Patterson's zoning ordinance chapter 500 page 200 it shows a schedule of required off street parking for residential uses in other words it tells you how many parking spaces are supposed to be per dwelling so let's take my house for instance I'm in a two family dwelling and according to your guidelines with your zonings there's two bedrooms on each floor two family house this house is supposed to have 2.5 parking spaces per unit I can't even get one I've been on my block for 13 years I can't park in front of my house I'm competing with people who've been on the Block for 13 days just moved in and they come with trucks pickup trucks I have two School Vehicles being parked on my vehicle my my um in my neighborhood and I do have a driveway but I will not go in it because two men walked up in on me when I was parking my car inside my driveway inside the garage and my parking space was always blocked by others so I'm wow so so counc president you you need announcement make the announcement after Victoria Victoria after every every three minute at the end of the three minute it's not us it's the system that disconnected the person that is on the line after the three minute please call again we're GNA we we will go to the next speaker but please give us a call again we'll put you on the line um because I mean it's it's serious I mean and you concerned we really want to hear you uh uh you know your full the full situation we need a full pict picture of what happened in you BL Victoria okay um because we definitely have to take action on that so please call us again M CL so let's move into the next Pier that we have in Q and when Victoria calling we just put it on the line and also Mr Price is calling I think he's on the line uh so so if you if you listen to all stay on the line Mr priz so because you you will your time will come okay let's speak on clerk he's um he's been queued up just a hello good evening hi Victoria for you you know once three minutes St your name for and go ahead please good evening this is Deborah Hannibal Patterson resident Miss Deborah good evening Miss Hannibal please go ahead good evening mam clerk the councel and the administration uh I was just calling tonight to remind people to register to vote uh on the hills of Black History Month and women's History Month uh people have fought bled and died for our right to vote uh during the last election less than 20% of the registered voters and Patterson voted and that's just a disgrace to our ancestors and to people that fought for our rights to vote so I please uh vote uh for the six years that I've been back home I have heard Council one councilwoman cotton blead beg implore for something to be done about River Street the repaving now last week and I heard the um the statement tonight and sometimes we'll try to correct things that we said but what was said last week was um loud proud 10 toes down where privilege was being shown that one of the counil people uh stated that approximately 50% of all the street Paving was done in his Ward now I don't know what they call it but it sounds similar to environmental racism that certain Wards are not getting what is equitable and I'm just saying that as private citizen Deborah Hannibal because that was very disturbing to me when I heard that and then I want to talk about the administration tonight putting forth the auction for Libby without knowing fully that the title searches had been done and then to say at some point that Patterson residents would be would get first dibs but now to say that we'll just go in with everyone else that doesn't sound like Equity cuz what Patterson needs is a chance and I think somebody needs to give Patterson a chance and that doesn't seem like Patterson residents it looks like we're being left out again because we're not going to compete with the other uh big people like a a Texas Roadhouse and I don't understand they're not making land anymore my grandfather used to say if there's a way for patteron to keep that property and and and be the land owner why don't we do that and lease that property and then I'm going to speak about the park when are we going to have restrooms in the park I was at a or a place to see if we are hosting tournaments I've my sons I traveled all over the Eastern United States and this is the worst place to have a tournament and I hate to say it I'm a Patterson person I'm always proud her turn up it looked like Miss Han got this connect M clerk on the U because after the three minutes so Miss Hannibal you could call us again and that way you president Council council president I'm just this is why I told you to stay in the beginning of the meeting when you were announcing that it cuts them off so um I'm just going to let you know that I [Music] [Music] you always say I don't call you you come to my building not true return some of these calls Michael keep doing what you've been doing lims keep doing what you've been doing now I want to know you got the police on the fourth ward on Broadway and the shooting is taking place in the fourth and in the first and I want to know why are there's some police in these hot areas of murders can you please tell me that and you brought these police here from the chief whoever he is from New York nothing has changed we're all still afraid to go out because of all these murders now can you please tell me I've been hearing for years you going to fck the roads on River Street everywhere nothing has been done I've been hearing y'all saying oh we got the money to fix this we got the money to fix that well what are they gonna do it so please comment on the end and let me know what is going to change in Patterson and did the police get all this money to help these crimes for the city of Patterson please tell me that happy New Year to everybody I didn't get a chance to say it this my first time talking on this Council thank you council president until the next speaker comes can you highlight us on the River Street because people are getting confused on that I don't need highlight it River Street Great Street uh all the streets are a mess you're muted council president council president you're on mute thank you thank you and I'm still and I'm not in the and I'm not on the okay and I'm still not okay thank you Michelle just an answer to you very quick uh 3 ver three we finished with the architect work and the engineer work now we're going to start breaking ground very soon there's going to be a big de Tour on the on R Street Billy I know you want to comment on that but we're going to leave that for the end of the public portion but just to Michelle just to let you know Michelle M sure we got the funding and they're already working on River Street attention City patteron it's going to be very uncomfortable to be around that area for the D2 but it's gonna be it's going to be wealthy so so next speak man correct the person's been queed up just a minute okay and also leis somebody spoke about le le is is ready to it's ready to be hello please state your name for the record go ahead this is this is Miss this is Mr Price from the third war Mr Price good are good good evening um the first thing I want to start out with saying to you guys is we've been battling with this issue with technology and how to do these meetings virtually for too long and we still haven't gotten it right that's unacceptable the next thing is we have to find a way so the public can address you guys and have more time than 3 minutes when you want us to vote you you will come and sit in my living room for two hours but when I need to address you guys about you and the horrible job that's happening in the city I only get three minutes that's not cool now have any of you guys thought about tax abatement for the taxpayers the ones that are homeowners that have been paying taxes for 20 and 30 years like me I want a tax abatement and I want to see one of you guys Foster some kind of legislation to do that for me the same way you do it for developers because the developers aren't paying the taxes and as far as uh councilman uh the same thing that Mr B said councilman uh khik councilman abdelaziz as well as Council woman gobler I've sent you guys several emails I've called you several times and you guys don't respond I think you need to give up the seat if you can't respond to the very people that pay your salary that's me I don't care what Ward you represent your paycheck still comes from every single taxpayer and I'm one of those taxpayers now as far as libes you guys think that Libby is going to be some kind of site that you know what it's going to be you guys have no power I sent you guys all emails about zoning board as well as the planning board once it goes from the zoning board and the planning board and they get their approval the city council has no power at all and you guys should know that if you paid attention to the email that I sent you explaining that these zoning boards members of Patterson they don't care about the residence and they don't care about the city at all they are doing things in the R1 District that shouldn't even be allowed and they're approving it as well as the the planner who's on the board he's in cahoots with the Architects as well as the attorneys I sent you guys emails you should have been prepared for this before I got here tonight because I sent you an email ahead of time but most of you don't respond the three I mentioned abdelaziz Alik D you guys need to do a better job and guess what you shouldn't be allowed to be a council member and not report to work here you want to call this a job but you don't want to come to work but I bet you go to the other job every single day well guess what elected officials this shouldn't be a job this shouldn't be a career you guys should serve one term and go to your other job where you have your career where you make your money how about you guys vote to give yourselves a pay decrease the same way you did to give yourselves a raise we gave you more money and we get nothing for it absolutely nothing but this three minute rule it needs to change one more thing before we finish how about we change our government back to the people we need more power to the people we vote for you guys you guys get in the seat and once you get in the seat you do whatever you want you don't need me to come to a City Council meetings to be your moral compass you should have your own moral compass his time is up okay uh so let's pick M CLK um the next speaker is in the que just a minute counil president thank you let me let me remind all the resident of the city of Patterson that are on Queue that you have three minutes uh to speak and it's us we not disconnecting the call it's the system that automatically stop the call at 3 minutes uh members of the public thank you council president i' also like to remind them that the number to call is 973 3211 1579 and enter the meet an ID of A3 2 six press star one to listen to the meeting or press star three to be added to the speaker queue thank you there's one okay hello hi good afternoon please state your name for the record Sebastian M here go ahead Mr Maha thank you hi good evening Patterson Sebastian Mah candidate for the fifth board Council seat firstly before I begin I would like to acknowledge that it's women's history month and I'd like to take a moment of silence to remember all the women who have suffered violence throughout the world okay thank you um I would like to continue by staying that I actually agreed by a statement made by councilman Bellis when he said said that I do not want to violate any ordinances in the city of Patterson that being said I find it pertinent to read the following ordinance 44-7 from the city of Patterson's code which states that no campaign material or political signs shall be erected posted or displayed including on private property more than 30 days prior to the date of election which such materials or sign pertains and any such material or sign shall be removed not more than 14 days after the date of such election as we can clearly see this is one ordinance currently being violated in the city of Patterson and throughout the Fifth Ward as we may know many of us may know that the attorney general just ruled that line voting in the state of New Jersey as we've been using for so long is constitutional because it violates the constitutional rights of Voters across the states the Constitutional Clause that they are referencing is the equal protection clause which requires that states govern impartially impartially and laws are applied fairly without discrimination if these signs are not taken down in a timely manner I'm sure the Attorney General will have a field day with all the evidence accumulated by the community in regards of this issue which is infringing upon the constitutional rights of the residents of Patterson once again my name is Sebastian Mahia candidate for the fifth World Council seat in the city of Patterson thank you for your time let speak president council president your next speaker comes up I would like to have le I would like to have legal uh to state what happened in the Supreme Court regarding political sign is U is uh uh if he want to know a little bit of this individual the United States Supreme Court had ruled that council president are we allowing commentary between are we waiting for the next speaker go ahead counc okay thank you United States Supreme Court had ruled that the display of political and other types of signs on residential property is a unique and important and protective means of of communication and town cannot restrict and display a such sign learn a little bit Jackson teach him a little bit more thank you next mad CL we have the next speak on Q yes yes council president go ahead they're coming up just give them one minute no problem please take your name good evening please take your name for the record good evening Abed candidate for the sixth W City Council seat okay go ahead Mr I'm call today speak about moral and ethical I'm calling to speak about moral and ethical governments unfortunately the councilman of the Sixth Ward also took the Playbook from the councilman of the Fifth Ward displaying political signs throughout littering and making our neighborhoods look like political playgrounds we should all be ethical whenever it comes to governments and we should understand the laws you're a legislator so if you your predecessors wrote the laws we should abide by them and if they are unethical like the fifth W councilman said then the city needs to remove it for off of their books we're also going to speak about the transparency about the meetings six word councilman shot down the efforts for televising Workshop meetings he should know that we have two buildings one being Maurice J Brooks and Maurice bricks building on Day Street as well as street that some residents cannot get up or leave their residents to come to the public hearings so I would like to council president bring that back at the next workshop and it we are facing intimidation tactics to our candidates intimidation is a tactic that's used by most of politicians I would like to warn the six W residents if eight people come knocking at your door and asking you to put a sign on it your right is to refuse do not feel intimidated it is your right it is your property I hope that the DPW director does hold the campaign responsible for every sign and enforces the $50 penalty the $50 fine for displaying the campaign signs 30 days before before the campaign my name is abet sabata six W City 6 word city council candidate and if you have any questions my phone number is 973 332 4340 thank you let's speaker M clerk just a moment counc president person has been queed out do we you have more speakers yes we have a few more speaker member please state your name for the record caller hello hello say your name for the record and can you mute your phone it's um giving us a bad feedback here yes ma'am please state your name for the record yes you may go ahead please go ahead and state your name it's Chanel Phils can you hear me Madam clerk yes I'm hearing you now miss F please go ahead okay uh good evening first of all to the council and I am reaching out to everyone tonight uh with regards to uh I first want to address placing the uh Workshop back on the queue for televised meetings um as Mr abet says I chime and Echo his um position as well and saying put it back on because we have a lot of elderly a lot of disabled and a lot of parents with children that are not able to come out and we need to be kept aware of what's going on in this Council uh secondly I want to say to councilman Mendes please get your personal feelings in order uh your ression always tends to reveal just how emotionally weak you are you have to check yourself on that if one counsel person says something that you don't agree with you don't have to take 25 minutes to explain what you do for a living and who you are we know who you are when you know who you are you don't spend time justifying that so please stop that because it Wast a lot of time throughout the uh meeting and and tonight was Despicable to make us wait until almost 10:15 to speak was disgusting and then everybody gets cut off within about 2 minutes and 50 seconds rather than the actual 3 minutes I've been timing it last uh Marissa one of the most disrespectful things I heard you say tonight is that you don't see anyone in Patterson that has the means to make a purchase um how dare you pass over the residence of Patterson because of your own personal observations if you're going to serve on this Council everybody needs to be inclusive with the mindset that someone could possibly purchase libes that is a resident here we don't know the pocket of each person that lives here we do have people here that make a wonderful amount of money that could possibly AFF lies and then some we don't know what the next person is making so we shouldn't make those kind of observations that no resident has the uh ability to afford uh to buy lies that's is just one of the most disgusting things I've heard tonight you guys have to really get it together have a good night next speaker next speaker thank just moment council president no problem hello hello please say your name for the record uh yes uh Brother G Greer Addison New Jersey uh just want make thank you madam Kirk I just want to uh make a couple statements concerning uh bar Park uh first of all I want to thank the mayor for keeping me updated as well as councilwoman Ruby cotton on uh on Barbara's part I want to commend the council tonight for uh passing the resolution uh it's long overdue y'all it's it's it's going overdue and uh councilwoman Ruby cotton if you can I would like to see the final uh the final layout of the park uh did we get everything we asked for was something taken out uh I would definitely like to see that uh before the work uh begins and also um the folks y'all forgot to think with Barber Park is is DP W especially B I mean this brother work day and night in that Park uh whenever I had an issue in that Park you know I can call on DPW and they can come and assist us and someone else that job left out the patteron fire department uh I'm going to PST some pictures uh throughout the years of the folks that really came through and helped us uh I remember the day patteron fire department came in and they eat the lining in the uh mul uh in that Park and uh like I said I'm I'm I'm I'm g go in the archives and I'm going to put some pictures up either tonight or tomorrow but I want to thank you guys for for passing that and the other thing I want to speak on is this ticket and tone cars throughout the city I mean folks have lived in their homes for a number of three years and now the subject getting a car to and tiet I've been here all my life I have never seen that happen um all of us and I try to warn you guys it's it's the increase of of the residen that's in the city uh these big development buildings so if there something that you guys can do about that I mean tell Chief Abasi that you know e off if EAS off a little bit Yeah if they in front of fire hydrant by all means to the car and also councilmen Lis for Les I just want to clear something up with you uh when you mentioned Charles uh Florio provided security for barage Park I can still remember the day he called me and he made that suggestion to me and at the time we we def definitely welcome uh his security um they did a great job while they was there and we really appreciate it so uh on that note I want to say thank you and uh oh one other thing what's the status on the ceiling in uh the council chairman has the work started I mean that sounds like something that could be done um Hey Brother G thank you I know on three minute you're gonna get disc connected you have any other question and I will uh on while the next speaker is um we waitting for the next speak I will I will allow Madame ba to just answer that question to you but if you have any other question you want to take advantage of your minutes the next speaker is up oh the next speaker is up yes okay so Brother G so M Madame B will be answer you we're gonna be please say your name for the record I'm sorry hello hello please say your name for the record and go ahead yes my name is Mark Johnson Mark Johnson yes go ahead Mr Johnson yes hello I'm glad that everybody's on this park issue because I've been waiting for this to come along I don't know if you guys realize but it's 12 and 12 in Rosa Park is yes which is called yes Mark John if you have your um your devices on please turn it off yes giving a feedback here Mr Johnson yes you said turn my mic off do you have your um television on or something in the background this plan I got my speaker on turn it off no you're speaking on the phone right yes okay go ahead sir speak on the park there's a par yes there's a park on 12th a 12 in Grand or now probably 12 in Rosa Park in the middle of the block it was it was developed in the 1960 hello yes we're hear you can you hear me better now yes we could hear you better now hello yes we hear you go ahead okay yes hell apologize with the era my name is Mark Johnson I'm glad you guys brought this park issue up there's a park located that was developed in the 1960s it's located on 125 in Rosa Park I don't know if it's called a park anymore because it only has two basketball court in it I don't know what you guys consider a park or a playground nevertheless it is a park and it was built and if nobody should remember Michael Jackson you should remember because when your father is Ambassador used to Mark in the firehouse we used to be in the playground playing basketball and the park has swings merry go rounds and everything like you guys just totally forgot that that park exist and like with all development going around only thing that ever separated that Park from gav was bricks and with all the houses being built around here all the prom is being buil around here we should be able to get bricks for free I say listen that's not you know saying it's good that you guys recognize the park but let's not forget a lot of people moved in this town and there is a park in the middle of 12 that separates GN and 12 I was born and raised there the firehouses there the Ambassador used to march in the firehouse is now called Moms and Pops way like it has history also I second with that brother said about the tax bement for homeowners who have owned their houses for 30 years my parents bought their house when I was 16 years old here I'm 60 now and my sisters don't ever say nothing about attack V so let's just like so the is speak we have no more speakers Mr motion to close by Council mes second second by councilwoman Dava roll call cler to close the public portion uh on this meeting on this um um virtual meeting yes Mr President roll call to close the public portion of the municipal Council regular meeting by virtual of Tuesday March 26 24 councilman abdalaziz thank you madam clerk so um to the sixth World residents I just want to thank each and every one of you that reached out mam this is what they're doing Miss W muhamed you've been holding on for how long yes an hour and a half okay mad cler Madame clerk it LO it looked just a minute it looked like there's one more speaker I we announc with Madame CL I asked Madame CL if there's no there was other speaker that speaker didn't pop up on the screen for Ryan so the speaker was not on the on the waiting room and didn't follow maybe the process but let's bring the speaker up now that's what we doing we're not closing the mic to any president there are a few people that are waiting in Q I have three people that just text me that are in Q as well M can you check and Ryan is saying there's no one on his screen Ryan is checking he has a screens up and Ryan is there and he's waiting yeah Ryan is with me and the other people that called they are on the waiting room and we make the announcement from the beginning we got 10 people in the waiting room and no one nobody was there is it way to search right president council president I even see them they're showing me their wait time so they're definitely can you double check with Ryan and members of the public is the number to call is 973 3211 579 and enter the meeting ID 8326 you have to press star one to listen to the meeting and you have to press the start three to be added so you have to press the start three to be added into the into the waiting room maybe that's the part that is missing so let's double check they've done that council president we got to retract the motion in the second let's council member can we retract the motion Council I'll remove it just make sure that they're on the two and not on the meeting portion of exactly Council remove the motion and yes go ahead go ahead go ahead Miss speaker are you are you there I think he called councilman men Jackson pH to express herself that she was waiting but I think she had to go again and put star three so once again members of the public if you wish to speak on the public portion the phone number is 973 3211 1579 and enter the meeting ID 8326 you have to press the star one to listen to the meeting but if you want to to speak you have to press the start three to be added into the speaking room and we will add we will pick you up from there we know have four speakers in Q after those four after those four speaking we done with the public portion let's take the first one out of the four put the first one of the four ran please just a moment council president yes good afternoon good evening everyone good evening please your name this is Francis Francis Harrison 41st Street Patterson New Jersey okay I see all right go ahead Miss Harrison yes okay I'm calling to make a few comments um I'm commenting about the uh ticket and toes that are being done through the city it's not evenly being done and it would be nice to find out what is your method because even in the Third Ward there is a parking situation and the fact that there is no consistency in the way that they're doing the jobs that they do and that the reinforcement of the city has always been an issue so the inconsistency of what they're doing to come in the middle of the night and ticket and toe people who need their cars for their children or their job I would like to find out if that the council could find out what is the method for the ticketing and towing and also the lwh hanging fruit in this city if the city is strapped for money there are so many other things that they could be getting money from uh the traffic is horrendous the double parking nothing has changed from that because there's no penalty for double parking there's so many other things that could be done by this chief of police or the OIC or whatever his title is that the lwh hanging fruit that would establish some money for this city is not being followed so that's an issue that I have I agree also with the other speaker about giving some of these homeowners some abatement to these taxes it's like go to them and get the taxes you have way too many other areas in this city that are not following the zoning and planning with their homes they're making two and three family homes out of one family home those homes are not paying their correct taxes and it's like nobody's looking into that and there's so many other things that could be done in this city to help the real community that is here not the newcomers not the people that are coming in making their own rules and that would be a bigger help to us that are concerned about doing better in Patterson and thank you for your time thank you Miss fris uh next speaker M cler yes Mr President just a so once again if you're on the line Ma so let just let me know but if you are waiting on the line don't forget to press a start three to be added to the speaker room and please state your name for the record and go ahead my name is darling Mars and I'm calling about several things one of the most important things is that how uh the cars are absolutely being told my son car got tolded three times there is you ride around La n and the thing I feel that's reprehensible Andre he is the city crying out for help okay and um he won't even come and address them people have to leave their garbage um that needs to be picked up on the street come back because they can't get bulk picked up the the ceiling in the building is falling apart how it's just showing how the city is devolving into a slum there are some things that are happening but on the on the most part you talk about Libby you know LS had the nerve to talk about Mike's business but I never heard anybody talk about when Libby wasn't paying rent I never heard anybody talk about um when uh the Art Factory weren't wasn't up to Cod I never heard anybody complaining about when Mr G's didn't have the the permits to just recently to get uh to renovate the building I never heard anybody talk about that hookah plant in the C Hookah Store in the in the sixth War that's not licensed property but man he has to be denigrated all in public and try to make it seem like he's a poor businessman Lewis he at least has a business you don't even have a house how do you try to denigrate someone it's ridiculous and you everybody talks about the great things and Lisa saying you know like if you come together and work together put your money together you can buy uh uh uh lies well that didn't happen for Mr Belmont he had PE investors trying to buy that property where Home Depot is now so that he can make luxurious partments for uh senior citizen years ago he tries to get um but when it comes to us it doesn't talk about Equity is happening in the city so you know wish said you guys were facing as to what's really going on and help the people to be able to get new homes and different things so that everybody could live and not just Andre if I lived in pan I would take my book to look Andre's house and sit it in front of his house and let him wait until um someone comes and pick it up um I I was born and bred in that City and it's ridiculous how it has devolved good night thank you next pick put the next speaker on pleas any more speaker council president yes there's one more on the line so we're just waiting for um it will take he Mr can you go ahead and state your name for the record caller hello this is Charles fer can you hear me yes I'm hearing you yes yes this is Charles ferer good evening good evening yes Charles I I okay I'm sitting here I'm listening and so here's a couple of things I'd like to make suggestions that you do I heard the second ward councilman say that the taxpayers are are seeing savings on on your access channels please list those savings and please list any of the other benefits that are have trickled down to the residents of Patterson because you know as I ride through there every day I don't see them I don't see the benefits the only benefits I have seen are for the developers who've gotten the developers fees and then got great tax abatements and and don't fault the school district for increasing property taxes because every time you gave a tax abatement whether it was you or the zoning board or whatever board can also give out tax abatements you denied Revenue going to the children of the city of Patterson and this has been done since Garrett Heights okay it's nothing new so if we're going to evate everybody and I think that was a great suggestion by the gentleman what about a tax abatement for the people that have been giving their Blood Sweat and Tears while other people have walked out of the city with their pockets full back to their neighborhoods with their nice beautiful homes okay and and this nonsense about Towing people how about start by Towing the police cars that are parked illegally all around city hall and many other places Tow and ticket them if you T tow ticket someone that's one thing but now you've already caus another hardship because they have the ticket to pay plus they have to now pay for the fact that their car was told how is that a benefit for one of the residents of the city of patteron because we've overpopulated the area there's not enough parking at many of the buildings that we put up so where do the rest of the People Park where the regular people who were their first used to part think about it and try to make it make sense enjoy your evening thank you the next one please hello please say your name for the record go ahead Muhammad go ahead Miss Muhammad I'm calling first of all let me thank the rent leveling board for at least trying to make sure that the seniors over here at Freedom Village get some kind of help with all this astronomical rent that we asked we asked to pay when we are on fixed incomes so let me thank them and and Corporation council's office but I hope and pray that this is the end of this mess that we're in the second thing I want to say is did I hear you all say that now the parks will be closed at sundown and we won't be able to go in those Parks after after that time because make that make sense to me so somebody please answer that if that's what you said the next thing I want to know somebody please tell me where are the cameras that you've been talking about with all this illegal dumping have you seen the the videos that G have been going around the city showing all this illegal dumping but yet in still we say we got cameras where are the cameras and the last thing I want to say councilman Jackson Don't Stop even though you know that every single time that you come out with the facts you gonna get attacked by the by the the people that the mayor has already bought and paid for so just don't stop just keep doing what you're doing but please answer the question as to whether or not we're not going to be able to use the parks and we the cameras please somebody and please don't give me no roric tell me exactly what I'm asking thank you any more speaker council president yes there are more speakers two more speakers I'm sorry I'm not understanding this we went from having a on Q which normally when we have a list on the council it was Madam clerk I'm sorry Council no I'm just saying not understanding what's going on normally in AO we have a list of of people you said now there's been more people and they keep adding on so when do we it's cut it it's cut off counc woman let him speak you hear me I'm heing sir line is it my turn yes okay yeah hi my name is Miguel Rodriguez patteron resident I'm not trying to discourage council members but I don't know how you guys put up with all the hatred and the racism and the and then you got one council member always trying to start a war in the place I mean I give it to you guys for the amount of money you make yeah I mean you have to really be dedicated to take this time and now as far as the new housing that's the best thing that could have ever happened to patteron it wasn't because of these developers from outside Addison would still have all the vacant abandoned drug infested Lots I mean you guys complain about everything and as far as the parking Patterson's a mess drive around at night no crosswalks are blocked everything is blocked you guys don't want a little you know like other towns make it look a little better you have to tick it and you have to tow vehicles and as far as at nighttime to close the park who wants to go to a park at nighttime doesn't make sense doesn't make sense in patteron and it doesn't make sense in any other town to be walking around a park at night doesn't happen and and please stop all the fighting and let these council members work at one council member that always is trying to start up you know that races or or whatever just relax man or go for another job somewhere else but you're just causing a lot of these same people to call all the time and just cause all this chaos and that's all I got to say thank you there's one more speaker hello this is Mr Price go ahead Mr Price hey this is just the price falling back um again I just want to say to uh the council members set we need to have all of the meetings the city council meeting as well as the zoning board meetings the planning board meetings they should all be virtual and I don't think it's fair if any of you guys are not property owners in this city you shouldn't be able to legislate on what's going to cause taxes to go up for the taxpayers that's not right you should have skin in the game and councilman Mendes you know I had several conversations with you about this you shouldn't be able to do that but the next thing I want to say is you guys always talk about what goes on in other towns and other cities but I looked I look at City Council meetings all across the US I see lots of City Council meetings where the council members or the Commissioners have to address the public when they come to the public portion and when they speak to them they have to respond to them they in that meeting how dare you have a meeting like this and you tell us we're going to address the public at the end or address the public later I said something about three council members on this meeting and I said it because I knew what I was saying was factual they should have to respond to that they should have to respond to it in the meeting the lies the time is up for that this is 24 can't hide anymore the point is we need more from you guys you want to be elected officials but we need more just as everyone else said I'm expecting you guys to get together you're are council members there nine of you I'm expecting all nine of you to get together and come up with the legislation for this tax EV batment all we're looking all I'm looking for as a taxpayers lower my taxes by 30% or make it equivalent to what you're doing for the developers and do it for 10 years like them do it for me the same way it won't be as much of an impact on this city but I'm expecting you guys to put your head together I'm putting it on record I hope this meeting is recorded so you can go back in your little room I don't care what you have to do get the legislation done the same way you do for developers and just like Mr perer said you guys say you're generating savings for the taxpayers produce the numbers produce the numbers it's time out for the rhetoric I know most of you are running for office or six of you are running for your seats again produce the numbers and also you shouldn't be allowed to talk about what your personal business businesses and what you're running for office for while I'm paying you in that seat like you're doing tonight I don't want to hear about what you do for a living I call these Council meetings I don't ever talk about what I do for a living you have no idea what I do for a living because I don't talk about it that's not what we're here for but if you campaigning do your campaigning on your own time thank you there are no more speakers Mr President move to close there was motion to close and second by councils roll call M clerk to close the public portion of this virtual meeting roll call to close a public portion of the municipal Council regular meeting of Tuesday March 26 2024 councilman abdalaziz thank you madam clerk um so before I um address some of the speakers well I am going to address the first Speaker I just want to thank all the six Ward residents um for the hundreds of requests for my lawn signs and from my to my campaign we are there's tremendous momentum right now more texts are coming in that they they want law signs and and I and I am truly humbled and honored that they are supporting me and and we will continue to do that to uh to to to the candidate that's running six short I I I I'm sorry that your neighbors are strong supporters of mine and that you have to walk outside and see that they're all support me um but that's what happens in elections and and that's what happens when you deliver results so I will continue and I will not apologize um for delivering for the six Ward all right right before this meeting I was knocking on doors hearing concerns and getting things done and we'll continue to do that we have not stopped and that's why you see the support that you'd see because in the six Ward we continue to do this day in and day out so six Ward residents thank you again if you want a lawn sign we just had we the the the the response has been so good we have ordered another shipment of signs um so when you walk through the six Ward or you drive through the six Ward um you know the residents are proud and I promise you things uh could be better we are going to make it better we're going to continue working hard and I'm going to knock on your doors I'll be out door to door again tomorrow and um and then I appreciate um all the Sport with that being said six W residents this Saturday please come out to school 25 uh we are having our annual Easter egg hun um we have hundreds of families that are are are that join us um and come see the newly renovated field that we got done together along with this Council for the first event on the new field at school 25 at 12:00 um this year we're going to have more bikes all right the kids love it we have a golden ticket in our Easter egg um for the kids that find the golden ticket they get a bike um and please come down bring your kids come by say hi to my Council colleagues all of you are invited 12 o'clock School 25 at the um entrance will be at the corner of Michigan and um Tran Avenue bouncy houses Easter eggun DJ um I look forward to seeing all of you and that's what makes the six W great we come together from People's Park to Lake View to South Patterson and we we we celebrate each other so I hope to see everyone there also on April 4th we are doing a community ofar uh for Ramadan um and please come to school n at 6:30 and break bread with your neighbors Muslim non-muslim Arab Turkish Bengali African-American white what may what whatever you are come down and break bread at school n at the six W community of star um and and and end Ramadan you know that'll be the last uh couple days of Ramadan last week and we'll be in South patteron uh breaking bread with our neighbors so once again I'll see you out on the streets we don't stop knocking on doors my I'm always accessible and I want to thank the six W residents when when when I come to these meetings and sometimes I I I I have to deal with or I have to deal with today's the day when you see the residents and they thank you and not even when things are wrong they educate you they let you know and I am responsive and Mr Price I apologize I don't know who you are I miss didn't see your email um once I see I'll respond but I know you live in the Third Ward so I always yield to the people in those Wards to respond to their residents and the council at large members that's a respect thing that we have amongst each other um you're more than welcome please call my secretary I love to give you a phone call and they'll get me they'll get me your number and I and I'll call you up but at this time right now we're going to continue uh delivering for the six ward in the city so to my opponent I'm sorry your neighbors are supporting me after the election you won't have to see my face anymore those signs will come down so thank you very much Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman abdalaziz councilwoman cotton thank you madam clerk um I just want to say to everyone out there watching and I know that um we um had to we vote on Barbara Park which I'm so happy that we have finally finally finally got this done uh hopefully we'll be able to see the outcome uh for National Night Out also I want to say people had talked about River Street um I just need to say that and I my request to River Street was you're not going to be able to shut that whole street down in one shot we're g to need to have to get that sewer fix first then we need to once we get the sewer fixed then we got to get the paving but one of my requests was there's certain parts of River Street that's narrow and I was I was hoping that they can widen it because what's going to happen is people are still parking on the sidewalk so neighbors uh residents who you parking in front of their house on the sidewalk are cracking the sidewalks people have to replace at sidewalks so when when they um I know they went out to I know they went out to bid I'm not sure that the bid came back I don't believe that it came back yet for River Street for the engineering department for them to figure out what it's going to cost so River Street I'm not quite sure how they're going to do that but I know to shut down River Street from Fifth Avenue all the way down to Art Street Bridge um is almost impossible to do it all at one time once we can pay the SE system then we can pay it but my other request was it need to get ridden um and it's been a long while but I want to say also there's a lot of potholes I know they started back again I called and there's so many on the list so I just want to say to you all out there that they are working on the poth hold um to get it fixed some of these streets now are going to be paid because once the weather breaks and we can make sure that they get paid uh to uh Michael price you know I I I get your emails and I um I I do my best to answer them or I try to um steal you to the right person that you need to go to um for for uh Roger he has spoken about Barber Park for Mark Johnson Mark Johnson um I'm not quite sure if you ever call me about 12th Avenue Park um my concern for 12th Avenue was that I do not want them removed the basketball court I wanted them to take some property that's on gowin Avenue side to make it uh uh the playground area for for the young people so if you are still on the line Mark Jackson you um if you can call me at my office here Mark Johnson I mean and we can talk more about because there was another gentleman who started a park back in the 1960s and um I'm not quite sure what the family last name is but they um was very very instrumental with the park and I also remember the firehouse when it was a firehouse I remember when uh the ambassadors um um um practic there my sister was an ambassador U Back in the day also I want to say to um to this many things that that I think that we might we must get done W talked about um the cameras yes we did we ordered a lot of cameras and I think what I can say for sure is that people are getting ticketed for these dumping they are getting ticketed what I find is that sometimes and and I think our find starts at $10,000 if you get caught dumping so they are getting they are getting caught it's just that they're they're just doing it um so much you know and it's like everywhere they're they're not targeted certain they they're just dumping all over the place that they can dump I want to also say to um um my doors are always open as I always said you can call me at any time for for different things but what I find is that people don't under we must understand that coming out of this pandemic there are still a lot of people who has um uh issue and I and I hear what Miss Rah said about the rent leveling board what they moved on Monday night uh with penr that they cannot increase the rent but there's certain increases that they can do for people who are on social security so there's many things that um sometimes you can't understand what you need to do but we just have to make sure if you're not sure about something and I hear everyone say about the parking um I just want to put it out there right now the attorney general or I mean OIC or the chief of police has been working diligently on after hour clubs they've been working really hard on after hours what has become to my attention is that some of the liquor store owners are being I call them hijacked meaning that they shut the they shut it they shutting out the hours down so M council members we pass a ordinance that you couldn't sell beer and wine after the 10:00 so even if they you can consume it inside but you can't buy and take out so what's happened is that some of these after hours are being shut down that people are demanded to go to the liquor store knowing that they can't sell them being wi at the 10:00 uh I just want to say to you all out there my constituents I know we're closing the public portion my doors always remain open my phone always remain open whenever you need to call me I'm here because there's certain things um sometimes I think people may not know what people call for but um I have a lady now that has Alzheimer's and I'm doing my best to get in touch with her I'm talking to her children to tell her children your mom cannot live in her apartment by herself and those are calls that I would get because they need now to speak to a social worker they need to speak to so many uh as I said sometimes council members we don't vote the same and that's just the way it is it we don't we disagree with certain things and we just and we agree with certain things but I'm going to close my public portion I'll have more afterwards I got to go I'm going to come see you council president because I need to tell you something but with that being said Madam cler um my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cartton councilwoman daver councilwoman daver are you still there councilman Jackson he may got up thank you madam clerk uh so first uh uh I would like to to to ask Madam clerk I don't know if the uh we were able to capture um information to some of the callers would love to have a opportunity to have a conversation I think his name was Miguel Mr Miguel um and and it would be nice if you come forward at a public meeting meeting as well because uh you know these um virtual calls leave me to believe that that's a uh it's another fake page I get harassed Often by these fake pages and um you know I would like to point out to the council members this some very intelligent very respectful uh longtime patteron people that that often hit these uh these um you know these public uh uh sessions Mr Mike Price respect the brother greatly every time he every time he has an opportunity to address the council and I respect him he he never does it when he doesn't come down publicly he Wass till we go virtual and he utilizes his time but obviously he's very articulate he understands exactly what he's talking about um I can say the same for Charles Ferrer highly respect um educator in our community for many many years um Miss Muhammed we know you you shake things up because uh the moment I put your voice on the on the screen oh they put the breakes on trying to rush off the public portion um Mr bias you're a firecracker and sometimes they may try to um exclude your word but it's very difficult for them to do so I only say all of that to point out the fact that not one of these members had had spoken negatively about anything that I that I'm doing not in fact there hasn't been any that come forward publicly to talk about that but many of them are highlighting and show and pointing out the same things that I'm talking about and and again these are very intelligent um highly respected people so it speaks volumes it talks a lot about you know the the way in the way in which the public is interpreting what's being said um moving forward tax abatements the the councilman of the second ward um falsely accused me of writing or or attempting to give a tax abatement out for 99 years that was definitely not the case um you know I stand on truth and I stand on facts these things could be you know easily researched and and and looked looked up on public sessions what I what I did was I pointed out the fact that there was a 99e tax abatement and I was I was proposing a 60-year tax abatement for residents not for developers residents in which you know the councilman you know clearly did not support um and I still stand on that I I talked about the need for providing um um Equitable fair and affordable housing and I made an attempt to to keep a facility uh that was poorly um administered through the housing authority and was turned over to Residents not developers so please when you're going to you know spew some Mis uh interpreted facts let's be accurate and let's make sure we we we notate to the public exactly what the the uh uh the agenda was and I was to make sure that residents didn't lose their places residents who you know this Administration in collaboration with certain cohor and the council we're trying to you know push an agenda to have these residents lose their their their longtime um owned properties um the high rents is a direct result of what's Happening here and we have not done anything in fact uh uh uh Miss Muhammad pointing out the rent leveling board I'm glad to see the fact that um you know there's at least an agenda to attempt to make sure that the rents aren't continue to be uh uh so so extreme exorbitantly high but let me point out the fact that that facility has a tax abatement that facility is privately owned by a developer Penrose by the way who then is not paying their Fair sharing taxes but they're they pulled out the back and they cracked all of cracking all of our residents over their heads in fact our seniors and what initiatives has this Council taken to make sure that our seniors aren't uh taking advantage of I mean I'm meeting with these residents in in in all these buildings all the time co- arms uh uh Freedom Village you know various spaces where these developers are who are making thousands hundreds thousands of dollars walking away with 40 50 million 20 $25 million in in uh developers fees all right hitting our residents over the head so when all of this uh this Progressive you know uh uh movement that that we're talking about here point point out the fact that I'm lying like State some of these facts that you that you guys make claim to and um and uh uh uh you know let's let's let's bring some clarity to the public and and just once again just to reiterate the commentary on on Mr Miguel first of all let me explain something to you I'm probably the the least person that could ever be racially um um uh uh subjective around here I'm I'm the absolute most diverse council person not just in the city of Patterson probably around the state of New Jersey and you know I uh I never is there is has there ever been a reference I've supported every single Community every culture I'm never you know um utilizing racial a racial agenda if it's I can't help it but the point out the facts of certain ethnicities that's been you know excluded from the equation and it's it's very sad you know in in America because you know uh there's so many so many powerful leaders around this world but more importantly people like Martin Luther King Malcolm X uh uh uh the list is is is is is endless that have sacrificed so much lost their lives and yet whenever somebody of color talks about dis and treatment it's we're being racist it's it's impossible for person of color to be a racist it's not it's not that's not it what we're talking about is inequity and we're talking about the uh the the uh uh the in in inequity in the towing practices in the city of pison how residents in the city as Miss Muhammad and other people have pointed out wake up in the morning and their vehicles are gone they can't go to work they they're already struggling to pay these High rents that the council and the mayor is doing nothing about but yet they wake up in the morning and their vehicle's gone all right if there's some if there was an illegal uh parking scenario because of the conditions that this derel Council and the derel uh uh Administration has subjected the community to now we come and make you pay the price as well so the poor job that was done with planning allowing allowing certain these for certain areas to be inundated with you know overrun uh uh residences illegal basements illegal addicts not adequate parking and then we travel around the neighborhood in we hours of the night and we don't give a courtesy blow we don't do that because we're looking to Target our own residents we are on the menu and if you guys don't understand that as this upcoming election comes about and if you guys don't understand it please just just pay attention I I'll make it abundantly clear I mean I feel very comfortable in my the people that I've spoken to and I've spoken to quite a few everyone is very excited to support me but I'm also supporting other people in other areas I'm supporting Frank filipelli in the second ward I'm supporting Sebastian Mahia in the Fifth Ward and I'm also supporting Mr my brother Abed in the Sixth Ward because if you watch these Council meetings cannot have a a consistency where council members are just laying down for the administration mean you know I said it before the bubbles are apparent people start bubbling and all of a sudden they flip just like a pancake and that's what our council president has done and I'll leave it there I'll sit back and listen to the rhetoric and the nonsense commentary he gets very uncomfortable every time you you mention something starts moving around all crazy but listen the facts are the facts and you can't run from them you can't deny them uh city of patteron have a good night and I'm looking forward to my reelection and I appreciate all the support that I'm getting from the community and everyone who tells me just keep doing what you're doing trust and believe me I cannot be I cannot be wavered I cannot be broken I will continue to expose this corruption this corruption is the reason why our community is in a condition that's in and we need a desperate change that change is on its way have a good night Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson councilman khik thank you Madame clerk I want to thank all the res for calling in and letting us know their concern I'm not supporter of any of the abatement I consistently voted against it usually Council don't vote on the abatement last eight year I've been in the council uh we voted on probably four abatement the people who get the abatement is usually from the state um so it's not even a actually the council function to vote on every pilot or every Amendment the developer anybody goes some of the C council member put a otion out all council members are approving those abatement that is not true and also as you can see from previous meeting councilman Jackson he said it don't I saw he wrote the wrote the ordinance with 99 years then he said he want to give us 60 years so the truth is in the puding like he said truth is he wrote The Resolution so he want how how you going to stabilize taxes when you going to try to give it uh give it abatement to the to the residents uh for 60 years where the same entity had a had had a abatement for 30 years already Okay and like I said I'm against all the Amendments and what I said is the fact and resident of second word knows I'm more than confident in my election and don't worry about me why about yourself councilman Jackson my vote is yes to public hearing thank you councilman K councilwoman mes councilman Kik I'm proud of you that that was really good you you pretty much shocked me tonight that was good councilman KH let me do what I always do every every single week I want to thank the community for calling in through our virtual experience we know that there um is a situation in uh the chambers where a por a portion of the back ceiling collapsed due to the rain coming through and it's been uh in a in a disarray for a long time and finally it collapsed so I'm praying that it gets resolved there were great points brought up by every person that spoke regarding parking or lack thereof regarding um uh different people speaking about different things they feel should be done and or not not being done in our community um and so I I just want to make it clear I am your councilwoman at large if you ever need to reach out to me you can call or text me or you can call my secretary's office for any of these situations to see what we can get resolved I want to put it on the record River Street has already been approved by this Council uh there will be different phases to River Street River Street is not just a repaving situation it is a seore infrastructure stral uh repair so it takes phases to get it completed it encompasses three Wards the First Ward Third Ward and the fourth ward um so three Wards along that strip um it is definitely the Dukes of Hazard as you drive through River Street um we all ride through there all the time and we're like dodging potholes you almost have to ride on the sidewalk to avoid your axle from falling off so this has been approved and I hope and pray that we start putting something Madame ba on our access channel to alert the public uh whatever that timeline or time frame is so that the public is aware that it's been approved and these are the dates that we will start the work um on River Street to those that uh question tax abatement there is already a process in place please call the tax assessor office or at 973 3211 380 or you can go to the the tax successor office at City Hall 155 Market Street on the first floor there is a process in place for residents already where you have the up to five years where it could your uh taxes can be stabilized they will give you the application um and it has to be approved through the city council but there is already a process in place so we will not have to reinvent the will as City Council Members there is already an abatement process in place through the tax assessor's office so please call or go there in person to get the application um so that you can fill out the paperwork bring it back in so that you can be um approved for that for every person that spoke you know regarding whatever your concern was um no matter what it was I I think it's just um it's powerful that you take the time to do that I also want to talk about um there was a project or there were a group that came together and they wanted to um bring a restaurant franchise in the Riverside housing U facility that mound of space is still available um and I know that the talks ended but I'm hearing that the talks are back in rotation um and in relations to uh something being done um with that same entity of the group of people so there is conversation that is going on it will um especially with our Economic Development Committee through the mayor and the administration those talks are are back in in rotation um and that space is still available so it's not like the space is gone and we don't know where it went it is still there why it the you know it did not happen at that time I that's you know unbeknown to me but I know that there are talks and their back in rotation in relation to um that particular group and I don't want to name a name because there were more names than just one it was a group that came together to collaborate to um do a business franchise in the Riverside um housing um in that in that particular development um thank you uh to the public for staying on as long as you have it is like TW almost 12 o'clock in the morning um and the agenda I always look at the agenda and go the agenda is like we're gonna get out early and Madame ba we used to take some bets I think we need to go back to betting maybe we'll get out earlier um of these meetings but you know looking at um all the stuff that's here I'm trying to remember everything Mr Price Mr bias I miss you but Mr Price anything you need from me let me know I'm not just your council person at large but I'm actually your neighbor I can skip to your house Council woman cotton um you gotta mute your phone we can hear you um so with with that being stated um Madam uh clerk I think I addressed all the speakers and if I have not forgive me I'm 54 and it's almost midnight my U vote is yes Madam clerk thank you Dr Mims councilman Udin thank you Madame Clark good evening Patterson those who are those who joined us made your voice hard or those are still watching with us uh I thank you all to joining and making your voice hard because you care about Patterson I always state that because sitting and waiting for hours to speak for 3 minutes is not an easy job so I I really appreciate that and as you know I always like to hear from our people and I I do every single report possible from my end to reach out to the residents of the city of Patterson try to go to every single corner to meet the people that's that's what I do and I'll keep on doing it and I think that's what should have done all those great things taking place in the uh you know City that's I 100% agree with for example Harbor Park we uh the um Improvement that we have approved today which is great things however we cannot ignore the part that the everyday experience of the people are not not great if you think about so many things that taking place people are not happy about I'm talking about day before yesterday in Hulker section which is we think the one of the safest area in the city of Patterson on Cham map 4: a.m. some of the like you know it looks like on the camera some children were uh riding bikes and they are checking all the uh cars two or three cars they broke the windows and took whatever inside the pH in the window inside the car so this is what we are talking about we cannot be satisfied how we are if we are satisfied how we are now we cannot move forward we have to we have to acknowledge the lackings that we have at this point and we to find the solutions and I as a council members I always you know take the burden that as a part of the government I take the responsibility too that I think I could have done better job I never say I'm doing great job no I think I I can do better I can I can do more and that's what TR should be if I'm satisfied that we are now it is not going anywhere it's going to stay exactly the place we are yes we cannot disrespect and that's the only part I don't like it we can disagree we can State whatever way you think is the best way to move forward however I think we should ignore the part or avoid the part that we should not Peck each you know peck on each other or disrespect each other now uh my stand today on few things is was very clear and again I say same you know stating regarding the Great Falls again this this agenda fell twice so I believe and Corporation Council can give details to it that if any agenda fail twice it cannot come exactly the way it was before what the changes coming that should be also there um that should be a major change so looking forward to see it um again we have to um consider that are we ready to to move forward with the retail licenses we you have to think about the enforcement is you know one the thing we are failing here right now is we have ordinances by resolutions but the the fellow parties you know code enforcement even today if you just go to you know downtown area and you'll see people are selling their products on the street the furniture they're living on the street and selling that and only two blocks are where the Community Improvement they can just walk and issue the tickets it's just just just that neighborhood I'm talking about forget about the other side of the city of Patterson so I think we could we could have done better job we should come together and and and do do whatever best for the city of Patterson so again um thank you all for joining as I always say that every Sunday I go to different parts of the city uh sit down on different uh coffee shop and make copy for free for one hour and sit down with people and listen to them and I listen to their concern and I I email to whoever Department should get the concern of the people and um and again I always tell people that you have to come together to make your government to work and when I'm saying together means you have to come up with build an association five people 10 people come together we the council members the Mayors whoever elected officials have to care that organization because you are together now when you're together we have to carry you because it's not just one vote it's some votes to get comes together so I think I think council members the city officials could have done better job than what we are doing now and I'm I'm also responsible it's partially responsible for um you know whatever happening right now so with that being said my vote is yes to close thetion thank you councilman urin councilman Val thank you madam clerk uh has been a long long night and I want to thank the residents of Patterson to uh uh to be in tune in and watch our meetings uh I did more more likely the meeting um in my vehicle because sometimes you know taking this meeting home I don't want to bring some negative uh um you know energy to my house and sometimes it's better off sometime having the meetings in the car and then I pray and then go home and I'm okay so um I just took some notes here just went I Vis revisit some stuff uh I think it was Miguel Rodriguez uh that spoke real good and brought what he see every day through this council meeting and probably we going to have hundreds and hundreds of individual out there with the same sentiment and same opinion we are body that we supposed to conduct ourself to have a councilman to bully the way my council president shake his head move his head or whatever that's real disrespectful you know having council member bullying mean how the way I speak you know that's real disrespectful you know I I pray for one day the first word gets peace with legislation and with a new person in that war trust me I pray for that day thank you Miguel Rodriguez for highlighting the way that we're supposed to conduct each other in this meeting and hopefully I know this is a sentiment a lot of people out there that watch this meeting that they don't have the time to come to the to the council or call when we have meetings um Victorio Kendall we had a conversation uh and I after that conversation I did revisit um and we we and I'm going to say we the council the DPW committee when there was a is issue with Downtown parking regarding the residents and the meters and all that stuff uh the DPW committee had a big discussion with the legal department to bring forward a City Wide parking permit it was drafted we took models from Jersey City we took model from Garfield we took models from other city that has the same problem of parking issues and I spoke to the uh spoke to U uh the legal department to locate where's the draft of it to bring it back to committee and bring it back to uh a vote uh in the council it's a Citywide parking permanent ordinance that will start alleviating uh this parking situation that we have in the city of Patterson uh regarding River Street and I know councilwoman men's highlighted and other councilmen highlighted but that's why when when this press conference and with this town hall meeting we like to attend because some of those things are highlighted and not only that uh when we talk to the ba we we approach to her uh give us a status on this uh talk to the mayor give us a status of this he give us a status and that's why we could inform the company the right way we always say there faces so face one already is done as the sign and scope of work phase one is the sign of the New River Street and scope of work so that scope of work goes now to a phase two that is in Bing process and that phes as we speak is in that process soon as somebody is awarded or bid the process of the scope of work then come phase three the repair of that scope of work and the mayor announced it and I know council president and my colleague agreed that they find in that scope work that 60% of the sewer had to be repaired and 40% reconstructed curbs and handicap ramps had to be performed in all theal long of V stre that is not going to be done in one day that's going to be done by faces everybody know the engineer Department knows that some of those roads and councilwoman coton stated and and I agree what she's saying some of those streets uh Butler Street Highland lion Street are too narrow and they have to do a truck route and they have to do a lot of stuff they're not going to do it all in one time they have to be coordinated with engineering but the last the last uh uh phase then has resurface how you going to resurface the street if we don't do all this repair the mayor with a combination with the engineering and the people working on this are working to if the weather permitted that before the end of of the falls is going to be resurfaced that's putting our finger crossed that everything is go smoothly and goes the way it's supposed to go and uh we we the council okay we approved the funding for that uh repair of River Street based on the recommendation complaints and and anybody here in the city knows the condition Street and thanks God we we assigned the funding for that uh I want to thanks uh those people that called from South Jersey okay to highlight that I live in a rental house every year every year when I'm running they bring the same the same statement you know um that i r a live in a rental house that you know all that stuff uh bring new stuff you know people already know all those news but one thing they know they're not going to stop me working but thank thank you for the call from Jersey South Jersey they they good they good I I I take care of those calls and concern uh regarding Char fod and Mr Price Mr Price knows that when I get a chance to answer his text I answer it and also I try to address with the collaboration of the fourth world Council woman and also with the uh the third world councilman because when I get a test I talk to councilwoman Ruby Cen and I also talk to councilman Mendes regarding the text and uh we have communication and also we delivered the message to the DPW director regarding any issue that he has in the street with street cleaning and all other U issue that he come forward uh Char Ferrar uh councilwoman stated any Resident can visit the tax assessor office and apply for the tax reduction uh that are available for seniors and veterans uh or any change of circumstance through the application that are state law uh um tax law state tax law in place so that is out there just to clarify uh some people out there that say that we uh approve any tax AB bment or pilot core arms pen RS Governor towers and other people that have come requesting tax AB bment or pilot extension and finance committee knows Madame ba knows that we have denied them okay we have denied them so uh to say that we are uh approve to all the developer all this stuff is is a is a statement that is out of context um last but not least um you know free of speech is free to speech ladies and gentlemen I got a list and I get to continue the list people have been calling me to put the signs in their houses in the private property you know I welcome you go to those to those houses and tell them that they cannot have my sign because you're going against their freedom of speech their freed of speech is to support me their freed of speech they see the work that I'm being doing in the fifth board and everywhere I go and they see a sign they call me I want one in my house when I was picking up petition I was going house by house saying I'm councilman VZ I need your help I need to get in the ballot I'm running again for reelection and people sign my petition matter of fact some people sign petition they don't know they running against me and they come back to me say coun me I didn't knew they was running against you but that's okay that's what it is so you know if some people want to support some people that is what people have to do come out and vote local election matters it affects local decision you know people are concentrating in the county people are concentrating in the in the federal level but I'm concentrating and people are concentrating in the local election that will affect directly to you so ladies and gentlemen those are watching thank you for the energy you have to continue to to continue the leadership that I've been bringing in the fifth War since 2016 true and real leadership and I'm bless that everybody say that Louis A Bess so A is for action for we want more years four more years vote 4 a for action with true and real leadership the people councilman God bless you all thank you madam clerk uh for the opportunity my colleagues thank you uh after this I going to disconnect uh I want to go have some rest because tomorrow oh no n disconnect you want me to disc we have we have two items that need to third vote oh so as a responsible councilman I GNA stay here to the end of the agenda thank you uh council president thank you madam Madam clerk thank you councilwoman D for saying no do not leave I know I miss you too so my vote is yes to close the public potion thank you councilman vill woman daver all right so I I will be quick because it's almost midnight yes and I know there was quite a few um constituents who address thank you everyone that came on the call uh and express you know your concerns or your dislikes and specifically if you address me I'm not going to take time to address anyone um everyone my personal number is 973 641 2286 you can give me a call okay if you think that I don't answer your calls or you know there was quite a few people saying that I don't answer their calls or their emails but with that said just to move forward um I do want to mention something um because I know that um commissioner Victoria okendo started to speak about her situation in the fourth ward in about her driveway and uh prior to her mentioning that there was everyone may recall that there was a constituent who came who was very upset because she received a ticket for parking in front of her drive right and we all know that there's sit situations with parking and so um I reached out to Corporation councel um and I said to him I think that there's something that we can do and he said well you would have to you know change the code amend the ordinance uh to allow this right and so I said all right so let's look into that uh and moving forward um commissioner okendo has been sending me the ordinances from different municipalities that do have that all right and so Corporation Council is looking into is uh getting ready um to give me um a uh a draft okay so we can talk about it in committee and then bring it to the entire Council to see if that's something that um the council would like to support in addition there are some other things that are in the works as well um I also have for the Public Safety Committee there is also another ordinance uh concerning after hours and uh the um revocation of cosos and so that's also something else that will be coming to committee so then we can discuss it there and bring it to the council as well um I am going to address one other person Miss fields did mention and um said um that she was disappointed or I don't know what what she use um concerning a statement and so by any means is that a statement to offend anyone um in the city of Patterson my statement was that I wanted the most for that property and secondly um if I made the statement about um constituents in Patterson I don't know what people's memes are I do not know that but when I look around this city and I look at the way constituency treats the city because let's keep it real we constantly don't different departments and directors and so forth and DPW workers but they are not the ones tossing the garbage out there okay it is the people all right and so uh my statement basically was I want the best so sorry if you mis uh misunderstood my statement in terms of paronian um libes is open for everyone to bid on okay and I think that you know let the highest bid all right um or auction in this auction uh through Max vanan um May the highest you know bitter win I mean that's the way it is and then I want to see that redeveloped and I want that property back on the tax rols and um I think that um it'll be very good for the city so once again sorry um if my statement because I would never want to offend anyone in the city of patteron I Love My Town um you know sitting as an elected official you know many times is is is is um somewhat disheartening sometimes because you know you can't please everyone and that's the unfortunate piece and sometimes you make decisions based on a bigger group instead of a a a a you know you're going to have people that are always going to oppose you know but I look at the bigger picture uh when I look at the entire city so thank you very much uh to the constituents who called in uh Mr Price I don't know you I don't know what you do but definitely I've given my cell phone number please reach out to me we can definitely have a conversation um so with that said um I'm not leaving just yet I do know that we have to take um action on certain items that require two3 vote so um thank you to the constituency my vote is yes to close the public portion thank you councilwoman Dava Mr President thank you mad clerk uh um def let me address some comment from the public portion but I would like to um take a moment to thank all the the members of the community for participating on this poly portion um Mr price thank you uh he's well involved in the community and I'm looking forward to have a good dialogue with him uh I believe that you know he should be well involved because I I like that he has a lot a lot of good idea and I'm all about debating good ideas for the community Mr Charles I was very happy to hear Mr Charles on the public portion uh you know I spent a lot of time when I was a a board member at the patteron Board of Education with him I have so much respect for him and and council members you know listen I don't I don't feel bad when people try to make fun of the way I act uh sometime I try to stretch myself because I wake up very early uh six o'clock in the morning I'm out dropping my kids to school myself to school uh doing my workout and then after that 8:00 everybody know that I'm in the road um so and I don't like to talk about myself because I'm it uh I'm not here to talk about me or what I do with my private uh sector that's that doesn't matter I'm here to talk about what is good for the PE for the community for the resident of the city of P so how can we improve the city of P so let me just show you uh uh what I do since we just talking about in the morning since 8 o' in the morning I want just uh let me just add this on the uh on the this is a this is a a picture right this is one one of the picture this is um let me just dumping right let me just uh put this over here that way they could you see it uh so um so this is another one on sit Avenue dumping right and I could just keep I just could continue mention look showing you picture of the thing that I do if you want to go if you want to go to a clean War come to the third war early in the morning I'm driving around the entire third war looking at how my look see if there's people dumping garbage everybody know that was 6 Avenue the director address it I want to take this moment to say thank you to our DPW director and the staff Michael Jackson from DPW because early in the morning I'm sending them picture of people dumping garbage uh when people take bag of Le out and I'm sending those text please pick this up do this do that early in the morning I start going around the entire third world making sure that my word look clean because I take pride of my work I take pride of what I do in the city of patteron and as the councilman of the third world that's my job and I do it with so much love and so much passion that's the reason why I say if you want to want to if you want to come to a clean Community come to the third world we're not perfect there's a lot more work to do Park cabin 33rd I'm on top of the block and I'm on top of every corner of the third world the third world is a better word because I'm the counsilman of the third world because I'm a person that is available to the community I'm accessible to the people when you need me you don't come to me I go to you I sit down with you and I do the best I can to help you and if I can't help you I direct it to a person that will be able to help you that's my job over here so and that's the only that I will that I'm offering to the community might work for the for the city and I always say I came to the city with nothing on my hand this city has been a blessing for me and I have I have a lot of passion for my community and as a legislator I know that I'm impacting the community the right way and I'm going to continue and I'm proud I'm not I'm I'm an elected official that I could work with anybody I don't I don't I don't take uh personal attack uh person I could work with everybody councilman Jackson any of my Council colleague my see a beautiful East Side park look what happened today we finished with a tennis court renovated we repaid the whole East Side park and we have to go down there's so couple of section that is missing close to Route 20 and we're going to complete it now we have $138,000 so now we're going to put lighting around the around the tennis court new benches new table and new playground is on the way to the east side park and that's what I do advocate for my third world resident 14th Avenue it was it was a it was a disaster for over 20 years now it's totally brand new it's 4 the second never been paid on over 20 years now it's totally brand new and the Fifth Avenue project councilman m is great thank you for mention that because that was the first phase I'm proud every time I get into a Fifth Avenue project I take pride of this project because I remember how those old building look now we have resident Senior Living on a beautiful facility now the second phase is the business Corridor on Route 20 and that's the only way that we're going to move our city forward and we're going to bring additional Revenue into the city of Paro the town hall meeting in the third world never you never have done town hall meeting ever in the third war in the last 20 years now since Council m m be came to the third war now you have town hall meeting you have my constituent reaching out to me being part of the meeting having conversation with public work with the chief of police with everybody because that's what I do you passami Star Park beautiful I saw a senior doing exercise tunami stop Park you know how how happy and and satisfied I feel and that's what I want to bring bring to the community we're not perfect there's a lot of problem on the way uh to be fixed in the city of patteron but the only way that we're going to fix it is by taking those personal attack out and concentrate on the city business that we have to do not attacking people and not lying to people because there's now back uh uh deal behind closed door on all those non nonsense like Little D I've been waiting for and I've been pushing for Little D to be on the agenda and I told the administration I'm tired to see that building all the LA dat and the and the great F looks so beautiful uh councilman M already mentioned a beautiful restaurant that is going to be across the street from the Great Falls it's coming because we changed the Redevelopment agreement of the Great Falls this Council we did that and and now I uh leave is and we're going to have a beautiful restaurant I'm looking forward to seeing a person who's going to come in and pay top dollar for that location and that's the only way that we go we that we're going to move our city forward let me take this quick moment to thank all my supporter this Sunday I have my campaign kick up at The Brownstone and it was incredible we have to open another room if the one room it was not enough we opened the second room for the amount of people that went to support me to become the councilman of the third world for a second term and I love it I just want to say thank you and let me let me just share this with a lot of people before I decide to run for my second term I knock on some of the door of those people that never that didn't support me on the first time and I sit down with him and I ask them how you feel about my term and you what I told they told me they say you know what counselman go for a second term I didn't support you the first time and I'm supporting you 100% now because they see my work and my dedication that's the only thing that I could promise all my constituents in the city of Pon that I'm here committed to work and you see those picture I'm not using the P portion I'm not using the televised meeting to attack any Department I do this behind the scene I call the director I call them when there's a problem I call the chief of police when we have a problem and I take and I do this every single day every single day parking is a big issue in the city of parel we definitely need to bring back the discussion for the Citywide parking permit in the city of Patterson I feel what Victoria okendo is going through uh we definitely have to we need to have that conversation at the next workshop and and and and we're ready to move the city forward I'm satisfied to the job that we'll be doing but there's a lot more work to be done uh with that being said Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you Cil president the votes are nine affirmative votes public portion is hereby close thank you Madame Clerk and we have mad clerk let's take item number 50 on the agenda item number did you say 50 5 Zer do we have to to the agenda uh so let's do item 50 council member let's do item 51 then we're gonna we're gonna add the uh the item there's one item for taxi that need to be add on the agenda so so after 50 and I'm sorry M council members after item 15 51 please stay with us because we just have a few more item that we could get it done in a in a in a very short time okay please council members item number 50 item number 50 is a resolution authorizing transfer of calend the Year 2024 appropriation reserves it's a finance resolution 24 calling 222 so move so move move by councilman councilwoman DAV second by Council roll call CL on item number 50 item number 50 roll call councilman abdulaziz yes councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson no councilman khik yes councilwoman mimes yes Madam clerk councilman urin yes councilman VZ definely that's easy yes Mr President my V is yes M CL the votes are eight yeses one no item number 50 is hereby adopted thank you m CL item 5 uh 51 item number 51 is a resolution authorizing calendar year 2024 emergency temporary Appropriations for the month of April through May 2024 it's Finance resolution 2422 move so move move by Council second by Council call CL on item 51 roll call on item 51 for approval councilman abdalaziz yes councilwoman cartton yes councilwoman DAV councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson no no cman kle yes councilwoman mes yes councilman urin cman urin I said yes Madam CLK thank you councilman VZ Yes Man clerk thank you coun Mr President i v is yes M clerk thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one one no item number 51 is hereby adopted council president council president if I may Council yeah I came into your office I I have have to sign out now you know uh and I just want to let you know that I I have to sign out but before I sign I just have one more thing that I need to say I want to thank Second Baptist Church for allowing me to for them to a meeting called the social justice Ministry so I want to thank them for doing that they brought a lot of issues to the table I think they kind of made um everyone understand things are working so I just want to thank Second Baptist Reverend Evans Reverend Peterson for doing a meeting last week at Second Baptist Church called social justice Ministry thank you good night to all my Council colleagues um Madame clerk uh secretary Melinda Linda coration Council ba have a good night you all thank you thank thank you Council M she she always says St the on to the end and we all we all are witness but she came to my office that she really have to leave uh so please let's stay let's stay with the meeting to we close the this agenda we're very close to F's agenda M to it 49 please yes item four to nine was already um um adopted we we already did all the N so we just have item number 54 which is theendum and we have items one through um F four um yes so let's do the Adent M clerk so let's do the that which is item 54 and let's go with the with the four that we have the two second reading uh the one second reading and the two first reading okay right so item number 54 is a resolution approving renewal of tax cab registrations for fast Pat LLC 35 Broadway in patteron NJ 07505 move second it was move move by Council m a second by council president Mendes M cler okay thank you coun so roll call to vote item number 54 onto the agenda councilman abdulaziz he left okay thank you councilwoman cner has left as well councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson councilman KH it's G coun K are you there yes madame CL thank you councilman counc woman mes yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz yes council president by body says: so the votes are six yeses three absences item number 54 is hereby added to the agenda roll call Mad cler on item 54 roll call on item 54 for approval councilwoman Dava yes councilman colleague yes madame cler thank you councilwoman mes yes councilman urin yes councilman Valance yes tell 100% yes Mr President my vot is yes M cler thank you Mr President the votes are six yeses three absences item number 54 is hereby adopted president council president can we please do first reading first yes first reading okay let's do um we could do let's do item number three on first gr man cler yes Mr President item number three is a first reading ordinance no public hearing is required on this one it's an ordinance amending and supplementing P code chapter 275 currently titled housing standards to be now entitled housing standards and short-term rentals it's sponsored by council president Alex Mendes it's an economic development organiz thank you president Mendes second by councilman councilman and Council Al I believe so roll call Mon cler roll call and item number three Council woman councilwoman Dava yes councilman colleague yes councilwoman M yes councilman Udin yes councilman Valance yes Mr President my V is yes thank you so the votes are six yeses three uh I'm sorry six yeses three absences public hearing and second reading will be at the next regular meeting of April I'm sorry give me a of April 88 2024 thank you m cler item number four M clerk item number four is a resolution in introduction of the downtown p had a discussion a very good one um and I'm sorry um councilman vas all right because I know you asked a question but I wanted because um Council M and I were were at that meeting um the fin at the finance committee yes and then he came to the to the council to the workshop I was in a workshop and I didn't miss that Workshop no you you wasn't you wasn't here so you you wasn't at the workshop you missed that that was one of the one of the only one that I believe that you missing since oh okay you miss yes but let me but let me just let me just encourage you're loving the sun exactly let me just encourage you Council mes and Council Davila uh you guys start both of you a good dialogue with the with the director of the uh improvement district and I was part of the conversation at the finance committee but please uh get that get back into that conversation because the situation with the garbage in the downtown is a serious problem that need to be addressed the garbage amount of garbage people are used to get the garbage picked up at the downtown area uh five days a week six days a week because of those little restaurant they don't have any place to storage of garbage now they have two days but both of you Council and Council Davila so we got to go through the adoption this is the only the introduction before the adoption of the budget I think we all have to meet up and and and and I want to be part of the conversation let me know when that's going to take place because I do believe that that the solution will be including the Improvement the District of downtown to collaborate with the city and work with the budget and see how can uh increase how can we increase the collection of the garbage in the downtown area so I'm looking forward to have that dialogue so um uh roll call man clerk on that item if there's no more other question roll call and item number or um before I um I I take the role on this one I know our um Finance director has also asked for an extension for the next um hearing on this one so it will be much longer than what um the previous public hearing um items were announced for councilwoman daver do you have that date Madam clerk I have May 28th okay my vote is yes thank you councilman colleague for the first reading my vote is yes thank you councilman councilwoman Ms yes councilman urin yes councilman VZ uh yeah I will I will I will say that um Council Dava um I'm going to try to not miss uh that next meeting that we need to talk to them because you know I got a nice portion of the First Ward now well former First Ward and I need to be in top of a lot of stuff and to put in order and Sid could work with us quite good my vot is yes Mr President um thank you man clerk so so until May 28th council members we have a good amount of time a very good time window for before the adoption of this uh uh budget to sit down with the director of the Improvement District uh uh that he was very positive and inclined to collaborate with the city and with us to fix the problem on the garage situation in downtown so I definitely uh hope that that conversation take place before May 28 my vote is yes B clerk thank you Mr President the votes are six yeses three absences item number four is hereby approved on first reading public hearing and second reading will be on May 28 2024 at the next regular meeting thank you Madame clerk item number one or second reading Madame clerk item number one is an ordinance establishing Allway stock control at the intersection of 7th Avenue and East 18th Street it's a public works ordinance 24-21 move by council president Mendes Council Bless and second by Council mavila R public hearing is now open me MERS of the public that we should speak on item number one on second reading uh forway stop sign on 7th AV and E8 see nove to close council president Council M I moved it as well I've been fighting for years M clerk let the record reflect that Council M me move that also as well she make a great Point um on the last meeting that she also been advocated for that for many many years back so uh um U motion on motion to close public hearing is there anyone Madam there's no one there's no one for the public hearing no move to close move by Council DAV second by Council roll call clerk to close the public hearing on item number one roll call to close a public hearing and item number one councilwoman daver yes councilman khik yes madame CL councilwoman memes yes councilman urin yes councilman VZ uh yeah Mr President my vote is yes M clerk the votes are six yeses three absences public hearing and item number one is hereby closed roll call M cler on item number one roll call on item number one for approval councilwoman Dava yes councilman [Music] colleague he said yes thank you councilwoman Mims yes councilman urin yes councilman VZ yes Mr President our V is yes M cler thank you the votes are six yeses three absences item number one is hereby adopted thank you Madame clerk um so we closing the public hearing on on item number one now we voted no we we already voted vot yes okay okay my my apologies mad clerk item number two on second reading MAD clerk item number two is a second reading ordinance public hearing is required it's an ordinance establishing always stop control at the intersection of 14th Avenue and is 30th Street it's a public works ordinance 24-02 Mo move by Council mavila Council mes and council president Mendes and uh and second who second uh second just go ahead second by Council and R Comm cler on item number two um um public hearing heing is now open then item number you know don't move to close uh there there's no there's not anybody that wants to speak on second on number two mad cler we don't see nobody there's no one here no by Council mavila roll call M cler to close um the public hearing on item number two roll call to close public hearing and item number two councilwoman Dava so sorry oh we tired anyway my vote is yes to close the public hearing item number two thank you councilwoman councilman K it's 12:30 in morning my vote is yes madame thank you councilman K councilwoman memes before I callose and I I forgot to do this but council president can I be a co-sponsor with you on item number three we could go back to it but I wanted to ask before I was not paying I was not uh focused on that but my vote is yes to close thank you Dr mes councilman Udin yes councilman valz Council president you could me a co-sponsor both of them all of them my is yes I question first Mr President this before my vote M clerk make no this is public hearing I vot is yes on public hearing to close the public hearing mad clerk thank you the votes are six yeses three absences public hearing and item number two is hereby closed uh thank you madam clerk so before the um before before we voting on item number two make sure you add council M as as co-sponsor on the uh on item number three okay appreciate it um roll call M cler on it number two thank you president go ahead M CL roll call second reading on item number roll call and item number two for approval Council woman Dava yes cilman colleague yes Cil woman MS so I just want to thank everyone that came out to my woman who Rock event last Friday congratulations to all 22 of phenomenal honores it was absolutely amazing to honor all the great women throughout pay County that do a wonderful job especially the great city of Patterson and thank you council president for adding my name uh to that item I am closing I need to pack I'm going out of town so I am so sorry to be on public the agenda is done so I'm not walking out on the agenda it is finished but I am this is my last vote and I am signing off Madame clerk my vote is yes thank you madam clerk ba everyone have a good night and enjoy your weekend thank you Dr MS counil man urin councilman urin I said yes m'am cor thank you councilman Odin councilman Val yes Mr President thank you m clerk thank you my Council k for approving this for web St sign on 14th Avenue E3 since we fixed 14th Avenue they've been speeding and there's been a lot of accident on this corner we have appreciate supporting this item my vote is Yes Man cler thank you Mr President the votes are six yeses three absences item number two is hereby adopted thank you president yes Council mes just for a recommendation uh to the administration we put in place the ordinance of speed humps to see when they PID the roads to add the scope of work to add speed humps that will alleviate at the same time the speeding because they just Paving we had the ordinance the study comes in if the study comes in that is a heavily traffic you know is a road that people speeding already there's a amount of accident already they should include a scope of work to put the speed hump at the same time they they resurface and then we don't have to go back and forth based on the speed hum ordinance if they if they do the study that there's a a lot of accident in that in that street they should post speed especially when we do River Street we already have if we already have uh the speed hump ordinance to analyze the traffic how fast they're going to go after it get paid so speed hun will be good establish it in the scope of work also on River Street and moving forward for next future uh resurface that we do yeah that's how Union City do it that's great yeah definitely thank motion to close second by councilman khag Ro cler to close the regular meeting um yes Mr President rjed the municipal Council regular meeting of Tuesday March 26 2024 Council woman Davin so before I just want to say as we start ending uh the month of women's History Month um I want to just congratulate all the women of the Council as long as Madame Kirk our deputies our assistants Madame ba and every woman um every constituency in in in our city and speaking females um I know that you know this weekend we will celebrate um Easter so happy Easter to everyone um the most important woman in my life this Friday will be now nine years in heaven so just a little shout out you know to mention her and always keep her memory alive um to council president um I want to thank you uh for recognizing me as a um woman of Valor in the Third Ward um just so you know that is where I was raised although I moved into the first on my home for 21 years and lived in the first W for about 26 years um you know I do want to say that um I do appreciate didn't know that's why I wasn't there um but um I was recognized somewhere else but I do I do want to say thank you you know for acknowledging the women on the council um many of times we can be seen as as not working together but the reality is that sometimes we can agree to disagree but the work gets done all right um so to everyone you have a good night uh to my colleagues once again I'm wishing you all well um as um we move into May so to Madame ba we get the work done to amelinda I would have loved to see your pretty face but your picture is nice too and to Corporation Council have a good night my vote is yes to close the public portion I mean not the public portion and Corporation Council I want my stuff all right he's there yeah no he's there okay yes thank you everyone Council thank you councilman Council woman mes did she help good night everyone thank you council president president for the honor but I am packing good night everyone thank you councilman urin thank you council president so I had two different events or scheduled On's on Friday one on Saturday then I think I have to reschedule and find when when we can go back to the council chamber um and I asked the question to Madame Clark is there any answer if you have please let me know so that I can reschedule because this Friday I supposed to um have the bang Heritage juk celebration and Saturday I invited the women from the city of Patterson about 40 of them to honor on this Saturday but it's not it's not happening I think after to resk schedule or go to different locations so if you have the answer uh please let me know or I have to who should I reach out to get the answer that whether it's safe to go back to the chamber would have to wait for a week or how long is it going to take to uh fix the ceiling but again we are thankful that no one was there at that at the time and no one got hard so we have to be thankful because day before I think Council M had event and she was using the entire chamber so you know before anything gets to very serious condition I think we should take care of this um again uh thank you and if you have the answer please let me know Madame Clark I'm going to wait for the answer tomorrow until tomorrow morning to reschedule or find another location somewhere um I don't mind to reschedule but if we if we have the solid answer that you know by another week or so you know we can get back to the chamber uh with that being said Thank You Patterson uh for allowing us to serve you and and and again your support is important always to you know to make us to do better job uh keep us in your prayers whatever religion you believe in but keep us the council members your officials everyone your PR that we can do better job to serve you well uh that being said my vote is yes Madam Clark good night thank you councilman urin councilman Valance um you know um soon Ramadan going to be over but still let's pray for the victims and the family of Palestine and pray for seafire uh let's always pray for for peace in the Middle East um you know and also let's keep on prayer the victims of the Baltimore Bridge uh that came down you know uh when H things happen locally affect everyone let's keep on praying for those victims and families um when I heard about it was like you know Council woman DAV mention it to me say councilman you not you didn't saw what happened today you know let's Le let's pray because tomorrow is not guaranteed ladies and gentlemen tomorrow is not guaranteed and and make sure that we that we do what we are called to do and leave the Good Taste of our work you know what what was that somebody have a commercial okay so um you know uh let's phrase each other you know um I know that we are in the Holy Week for everybody everybody should be in Holy Week every year round you know and no matter what religion you possess is is in our good deed and and and what we do every day uh in this city I pray for my city listen I pray for my city every day and um and I go to in peace when I go to sleep I go in peace and I drink a lot of coffee and I still go knock down myself uh like nothing I I was not drinking a lot of coffee I don't go to Donan Don a lot because you know you didn't invite me a lot but that's okay but um I love you my brother but um um Madame ba this is the meeting I have your microphone is working I haven't hear you at all today but that's okay that's okay that means we working um council president um you know I pray for you your family and and and and I pray all my councilmen all those the councilmen that want to get reelected you know I pray for this election we come together as a un a United body you know and and and pray for the changes that we need to pray you know um and making sure we do the right thing you know those individual that you know um you know there is called something in out there in the state of New Jersey I I had it written here but I I log out out of it it's called cyber harassment you know there's a state law that condemn cyber harassment and people use uh Faceook Facebook and uh take pictures of everyone and do a cyber harassment you know you could get a DAT in court if if I continue seeing this you know I don't have no remorse to do what I have to do with my attorneys and um and and put a order in place so but uh we here to move forward uh I bless my family Council um corporate Council thank you for all your legal advice you know your department uh half step up and saving us money and also representing the whole city you know with this community Court I'm excited you know we announc it people are excited uh Mr Lopez have been reaching out to um nonprofit uh faith-based organization uh and that's a good initiative I already spoke to a couple of Minister that have received a call they have to call back please uh uh this is a good initiative uh corpor councel I'm proud that you was the stare uh the stare of this initiative and this Department of Justice uh looking in a good willll and to serve those that um deserve a second chance now and this is one an initiative of this Administration with a collaboration of of the council you know may the mayor always said share vision and share Victory uh and and I going to say a Unite share is a share Victory and that means all together could work together to move the city forward uh living uh our personal agenda on the side um Melinda thank you um uh Rafael thank you for being here it thank you for your hard work I'm Madam clerk you know I know you your staff is working around the clock to make sure this election uh are transparent uh residents out there you know uh keep an eye on your mail V vote by mail uh deliver in a mailbox you know the instructions are there uh don't get full uh vot your counts come out and vote uh the local election matters uh if you want to continue the progress in the fifth War Madame ba uh it was B to my attention uh to please communicate with the garbage collection company is my understanding that they are bringing dumpster in the middle of the night through that residential area to dropping in Harrison uh on lot uh Harrison Street I believe it is um and uh some residents are complaining about the noise and also uh they say they see rats I haven't I told the person to send me picture because I cannot go just based on a statement but to look into that uh because their Depot is on a residential area to make sure that they going to bring it to bring it during the day better than in the middle of the night uh those dumpsters so um uh we are here to work together and I'm making sure that we we we satisfy um the the needs of the community I know you you wrote every detail from any um resident out there I know you're G to get back to them um thank you thank you thank you for for having us in this uh um in this uh Zoom meeting but um hopefully that uh the roof could be uh repair and and and and bring safe to whole entire city uh employees you know um and that's the most thing that we all care about uh the safety our employees um if I have any other concern I know I gotta you got to open policy a door policy in your office I could reach out to you also any Department in the city so uh council president thank you madam Madame clerk thank you thank you thank you to all your staff and uh hopefully we could move and and I don't know when my secretary uh when um she coming back but hopefully she comes back I know I receive a letter I I Reed what was that okay so um saying that council president thank you uh good night to everyone and let's keep on praying one each other okay uh my vote is yes to close the meeting tonight thank you councilman Mr President thank you Madame clerk uh so let me just um start uh my closing remark by uh congratulate all the women not only the city of pison but around the world because we ending uh International women's month and it was a blessing for me to put an event together here at the chamber uh and I I have the privilege to honor the three powerful Council woman that I have in the chamber and at the city council with us councilwoman at large Dr Lissa Min councilwoman at large marava and councilwoman of the fourth world Ruby C it was an amazing event also I have the privilege to honor and recognize a former assembly woman the queen of patteron Elise Evans also the another queen of patteron Mayor Jame Williams Warren and so many other powerful women in our community there's a lot of great people in the city of patteron if we put a list together of all those powerful women that doing so much uh for the community including our mad clerk mad cler thank you uh congratulation on this International women's month Madame ba congratulations uh thank you for your job uh and just your dedication so so before I end this meeting let me remind the community I've been educating all my third world resident uh about the garbage collection the bll pickup if you need to if you a a a Furniture outle a home that you want to put it outside please get into the website www Patterson nj.gov garbage collection or you could call the 973 3211 1573 I understand there's a lot of senior that they don't it's it's difficult for them to get on the website but there's a phone number that you could call uh to um to to schedu the Bowl pickup I'm being educated in the community on that uh so so we make a lot of progress today um I feel very pleased by by voting on this bar part uh new renovation is way long overdue I mean we we acknowledging the hard work and the dedication of many leaders from the community as we mentioned before and my Council col Victoria kendle g g g NY G and so many other and and and I want to take this moment to thank my Council k for the first reading legislation that we adopted already to stop the Airbnb in the third war the Historical Area a lot of people they buying property there and they turning those property into business to my third world resident all the East Side area all that section we voted on first reading already uh to ban Airbnb on that section and the second reading is going to be on the next special and a regular meeting also we voted already on second reading um the forweb stop sign on 14,000 in east3 uh attention to the resident my consistent of 14,000 in east3 it's it's already passed we're getting ready to we're GNA get ready to install those four W stop sign and also seventh AV in the E8 as well we moving forward thank you Patterson Alex mes 1A on the ballot onea May 14 Let's Rock the vote let's go out and vote don't stay home uh and those that know me know that it's not about winning it's about breaking record I don't like to win with a small por let's win with a big number and that's what we're going to do in May on May 14 and once again thank you for the great support humbly I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart this Sunday it was incredible thank you councilwoman Davila for being at my event council member I know Council but there was other council member like councilman uh Udin councilman colleague I know it's Ramadan and it's kind of difficult for them to go to function early I understand that but I want to say thank you and councilman Ms also she was in another function I understand that but I say thank you for the great support I'm here to work with all my Council Cali to move the city forward and I'm here to work with all the city of Patterson and on my third world resid God bless the city of Patterson Mendes 1 18 May 14 let's bring Victory again to the third war my vote is yes B cler thank you council president the votes are six yeses three absences the um Regular meeting of Tuesday March 26 is hereby adjourned good morning Patterson thank you good morning Patterson uh God bless the 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