On behalf of the Patterson Municipal Council, I welcome you to the regular meeting on July 15, 2025 at 700 p.m. The meeting is now called to order. Madame Clerk, please call the role.
Yes, Council President. Regular meeting of July 15, 2025. Councilwoman Cotton, Councilwoman Davala, present, Councilman Jackson, Councilman Khik here, Madam Clerk, Councilman Menddees, President Madam Clerk. Thank you. Councilman Omar, Councilman
Uden, Councilman Vez, present, Madame Clerk. Council President, here ready to serve. They are five present. Four are absent. This evening's prayer. This evening. Yes. Um, tonight's prayer will be
rendered by Pastor Wilfredo Carabelloo of the Eglesia Cristiana La Fente de Patterson. That flag by Councilman Veles. Thank you. Everyone rise please.
God bless everybody here tonight. I first want to send blessings in the name of Jesus Sevilla, pastor. He's I'm representing him tonight. Amen. Amen. Let's all pray. Father God, we come
before you Lord. We thank you Lord that you have given us this opportunity to be here tonight. Lord, whatever is said and agreed to is because you have permitted. Lord, bless every council and Lord, bless the mayor of the city of
Patterson. Oh, Lord, bless every worker that works here in the city. Lord, we ask you that you put your hands over each and every one of them. Lord, protect them, help them, oh Lord, guide
them every day. We ask you, Amen, Lord, that you keep helping them. Yes. in Jesus' name we ask. Amen. Amen. And amen. Let us remain standing for the pledge of allegiance. Um,
okay. led by Councilman Michael Jackson. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Madame clerk, can we just have everyone a moment of silence? Not just for our troops, but for everyone and all that have lost loved ones. Thank you. Madame Kirk, please read the statement
of compliance. Statement of compliance with the open public meetings law 2025 through 2026. Meeting day July 15, 2025. The time is now. How many 702 Adequate notice of this meeting was
compiled and disseminated in accordance with the open public meetings law in the following manner. One, the annual meeting notice of regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council was compiled for the year 2025 2026 on or about July 1st, 2025. Two, a
schedule of regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council for the year 2025 through 2026 was duly transmitted on or about July 1st, 2025 to the North Jersey Herald News, The Record, The Arabic Voice, The
Italian Voice, the Bay County Post, Dominicano News, Laiscare International, Ellis Basiel, The Patterson Press, The City Post News, Tap into Patterson, The Weekly, Bangla Patrika. in addition to any other publication duly requesting
such notices. Three, the schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council for the year 2025 2026 was prominently posted in the lobby of city hall first floor in the place reserved for the announcements of this type. Four, the schedule of the
regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council for the year 2025 2026 was duly filed with the municipal clerk. And five, a schedule of the regular of the regular meetings of the municipal council was mailed to any person who requested and paid the fee
authorized by the open public records act. Council president. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Consent agenda, Madam Clerk. I'm sorry. Consent agenda. Oh, sure. Okay. Okay.
Consent agenda. Items 2 through 18. All matters listed under the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the council and will be enacted by one motion. The items listed under the consent agenda are numbers 2 through 18. So move any item may be removed from the
consent agenda by the request of any council member and if so removed will be treated as a separate matter. Moved by counciloman Dava and council uh menz. Second by uh council men. Councilman Uden and Councilman Ibby.
Roll call, Madam Clerk. Okay. Roll call for the cons consent agenda. Councilwoman Cotton. Yes. Councilwoman Dava. Yes. Councilman Jackson. Councilman Khalik. Yes.
Councilman Mendes. Yes. Councilman Omar. Yes. Councilman Uden. Yes. Councilman VeZ. Yes. Council President. Yes. The votes are eight in favor, one absent. The consent agenda is hereby adopted.
Payment of bills, madam clerk. Okay. Thank you very much. Uh council president, madam chair, vice president. That is okay. Uh uh good evening uh Patterson to my colleagues. Uh before you you have the summary of
dispersements. Uh this was not a payroll week. Uh the total is 3,637,74754. Uh the majority of the uh payments are in uh other statutory expenditures and capital fund. Uh a motion is for payment of bills.
Second. Moved by Councilwoman Davos, second by Councilman Kh. Roll call, Madame Clerk on payment of bills. Roll call for the payment of bills in the amount of $3,637,74754. Councilwoman Cotton, yes. Councilwoman Dava, yes. Councilman,
Councilman Jackson, Councilman Khik, yes. Counciloman Mendes, yes. Councilman Omar, yes. Councilman Uden, yes. Councilman Vez, before I before I vote, I just want to put a question on the floor to answer later or
when he get a chance me to be a uh to give us a later on to highlight where we are after we are going to receive $29.5 million, but I heard rumors. I don't know if it's true or not. I don't like to go with rumors that the state will not willing to give us more money to
balance this budget. What is the plan? highlight us and moving forward to the whole council. Uh because there's a lot of uh a lot of um statements out there that lay off and no fireman's good, you know, we want to make sure that that's
not happening in a responsible budget to our council when it's going to be that uh saying that payment of bill. My vote is yes. Thank you, Councilman. Coun council president. So that is not true. We just had a meeting in finance and I will continue to recommend that all people that are on
the committee please come to the meeting. We are looking in various areas. We're working with our state legislators to identify additional funds as well as our BA um and just make sure we have another meeting coming up. We will be sending that um information out.
But we are not looking to do any layoffs especially I don't want any rumors to go out there. We're looking to lay off police or fire anyone. We're trying to do our due diligence and finance. Please come to the committee meetings. Madam clerk, my vote is yes. The committee. Thank you, council president. The votes are eight in favor, one absent. The
payment of bills is hereby adopted. Madame clerk, item number 25 23 23. Item number 23, resolution from the city of Patterson in support of the Patterson Habitat for Humanity application to the
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, New Jersey affordable housing trust fund program in the amount of $2,600,000 economic development resolution number 256. So move second. Moved by Councilman Blet, second by Councilman Ordin. Roll call, Madame
Clerk. Roll call for item number 23 for adoption. Councilwoman Cotton, yes. Councilman De, Councilwoman Devil, Councilman Jackson, Councilman Khik, yes. Councilman Mendes, yes.
Councilman Omar, yes. Councilman Uden, yes. Councilman Vez, they're doing a great work with the fourth ward and um they're doing a great work. So, supporting this kind of resolution will be good for the community. My vote is yes.
Thank you, council president. My vote is yes. Thank you. The votes are eight in favor, one absent. Item number 23 is hereby adopted. Item number 26, Madame Clerk. Item number 26, resolution authorizing additional
appropriation to Paulus Sakalowski and Sartar LLC for agricultural agrical architectural and engineering design services for the proposed new communications center RFP number 2023-39
public works resolution number 2570. Move. Second. Moved by Councilman Davala, second by Councilman BZ and Councilman Odin. Roll call, Madame Clerk. Roll call on item number 26 for adoption. Councilwoman Cotton,
yes. Councilwoman Davlin, yes. Councilman Jackson, Councilman Khik, yes. Councilman Mendes, yes. Councilman Omar, yes. Councilman Uden, yes. Councilman Vez, Councilman Mendes, and I did made a good
tour to the new communication room. I'm anxious to cut rivet on that one. Uh, Chief, you're doing a good job on uh bringing that up today into the state of the yard communication room that will serve not only Patterson will serve also other municipality. My vote is yes on this.
Thank you, council president. Yes. Thank you. Those are eight in favor, one against, one absent, I'm sorry. Item number 23 is hereby adopted. Item number 25, madam clerk. Item number 25, resolution addressing a new dance hall
license for EMA Restaurant and Lounge LLC, TA Cornito's Restaurant and Lounge, 487 21st Avenue, 6 W, Finance Resolution number 2569. So move. So moved by
moved by Council Vice President Dava, second by Councilman Ibby and Councilman. Roll call on 25. Madam clerk. Roll call on item number 25. Councilwoman Cotton. Yes. Councilwoman Dav. Yes. Councilman Jackson. Councilman Khik.
Yes. Councilman Mendes. Yes. Counciloman Omar. Yes. Councilman Newton. Yes. Councilman VeZ. Yes. Council President. Yes. Both are eight in favor, one absent. Item number 25 is hereby adopted. Item number 24. Madam clerk.
Item number 24 is a resolution authorizing a new entertainment show license for EMA Restaurant and Lounge LLC TA Honito's Restaurant and Lounge 487 21st Avenue 6 Finance Resolution number 25 col 368. So moved by Councilwoman Davis, second
by Councilman BZ. Roll call on item number 24. Madame Clerk, roll call on item number 24. Councilwoman Cotton, yes. Councilwoman Dava, yes. Councilman Jackson, pass. Councilman Khalik, yes. Councilman Mendes,
yes. Councilman Omar, yes. Councilman Uden, yes. Councilman Veles, yes. Councilman Jackson, yes. Council President, yes. The votes are nine in favor, none against. Item number 24 is hereby
adopted. Item number 19, Madame Clerk. Item number 19 is a resolution honoring Mr. Darren Miller as an extraordinary leader and global speaker sponsored by Councilman Alex Mendes, city council resolution number 25 col 363.
So move second. Move by Councilman Mendes, second by Councilman Odin. Roll call. Madam clerk. Roll call on item number 19. Councilwoman Cotton. Councilwoman Dava. Yes. Counciloman Jackson. Yes.
Counciloman Kh. Yes. Counciloman Mendes. Yes. Councilman Omar. Yes. Councilman Uden. Yes. Councilman Vez. Yes. Council President. Yes. The votes are nine in favor, none against. Item number 19 is hereby adopted.
Item number 20, Madame Clerk. Is this the one that's supposed to read? Okay. Resolution uh amending sponsorship or resolution number 25 342 appointment of Akaz Ali to the city of Patterson board of adjustment alternate number two
sponsored by Councilman Alex Mendes city council resolution number 2564 moved by Councilman Mendes second by Councilman Udin roll call discussion discussion council vice president Davin and counciloman Cotton uh council President, if I may to a
corporation council, I'd like to know um once again I brought this up in the workshop. Um the appointment of Akas Ali was already approved July 1st. Unanimous support. Uh
and so I recall that corporation council stated that the only way that we can remove that is by uh having uh Mr. Ali sent a letter of resignation saying that he did not accept the uh action that we
took. So Madame President, if I may to corporation council, was there such a letter provided stating that uh Mr. Ali would not be um would not accept the um nomination and the voting of the unanimous support.
Corporation council. Uh thank you, Council President. Thank you uh councilwoman at large for that inquiry. So the previous guidance um entailed this particular appointee and uh the status of his appointment. This resolution amends the previous
resolution. It doesn't rescend it and it only amends it to the extent that it identifies the sponsor of that. So the term is staying the same. Everything is staying the same. Um they're still appointed uh two-year term effective July 1st, 2025. The only amendment to
this is that um it's reflecting uh an update as who the council deemed to be the sponsor. Um council president, if I could I'm I'm sorry, Councilman, if I just Councilwoman Davo, I I want it to be known that I reached
out to Mr. Ali because I could not understand and I recall from our last meeting that you can go back and and the questions were asked to corporation council and I know that Councilman Jackson brought up do we just
change remove like I've never seen this in all the years that I've been here and I did ask Mr. Ali if he had uh provided a letter or something stating that he would not be accepting Councilman Udin
who is the person who brought forth the uh um resolution uh as he was the sponsor and we voted on. So I I right now I need everyone to know for those that are out there putting messages about we're speaking of people's fathers
or mothers or whatever the case may be. This is not about an individual. This is about the process and the way that it's gone. I don't feel comfortable with it. So, I need to let it be known here. I don't feel comfortable the way this has been done. On July 1st, this council
took an action unanimously to support Councilman Udin's appointment of Mr. Akass Ali. I don't understand the change and at this time, Council President, I just need to just put this here because I just can't support this. Thank you very much. Thank you,
Councilwoman Davo. Councilwoman Cotton. Thank you, madam. Thank you, um, Council President. Um, it was brought up ever since last week about how this appointment came up. Um, to me, he should have either resigned or that original appointment should have been
rescended and it wasn't done that way. And this is not the right way of doing it. You don't amend. To me, a record is still showing he's appointed by two different council people. And he to me he cannot be appointed by two different council people. Either he going to
resend or step out from Councilman Uden and then now be appointed by Councilman Mendez. And with that and we haven't gotten to the other ones yet, but um I got information that I'm going to share with all of you out there and
when I get to those other resolutions. But to me, I don't know what had been going on for for things to change and and and and I don't have anything against any of these college people who wants to be on the
board of adjustment, but to me, it should be done right and not the wrong way. With that being said, it should not be amended. Should be reset. Look, you're gonna get your turn. It should not be amended. It should be fixed. And that's it should be fixed.
resend and then reappoint. See what's going on. Thank you, council. Councilman Khaled, thank you. Um, council president, we have a corporation council. We have Madame Clerk. Obviously, we you went through the process and correctly it
made it to the agenda for final voting. That's true. That's all I want to say. the process uh we could discuss it back and forth for uh for hours. We had the same kind of discussion couple of years ago, four years ago and this resolution in front
of us is pretty clear. Corporation council oed it and he signed on it and it is on the agenda. I think we should vote on it. Thank you, Council President. Uh C one uh Councilman Odin and then Councilman Jackson.
Uh thank you, Council President. Um first of all Patterson we spent hour and a half in workshop session just to discuss about this issue and we are talking about the same thing again and again we don't want to fight for the people of
the city of Patterson we want to fight on our personal ego personal issues show that I'm right one thing that we all need to understand that we are we may all all understand the basic laws of the of of the country
of the city we all know that but when it comes to the uh advice I am not the adviser or the council members are not the adviserss corporation council is sitting here to advise us what's a legal process
so when we become the attorney it's actually we are actually crossing our boundaries that's exactly what's happening I don't want to discuss the same thing I rather would talk about the issues that's happening in the city of pattern rather is speaking about the same thing again and again and ending up
with the same way. And I want Patterson to know one more time. I don't like to repeat stuff but I have to repeat it. So I had an appointment which is July 1st. I appointed Mr. Ali
as my commissioner for board of adjustment and it passed. On the same day there was another appointment was appointed by councilwoman Mims. So there are two appointees were
appointed on July 1st. On the July 1st too please do not correct me if you're wrong. Three three on the July 1st there are I'm sorry there's another reappoint. I'm talking about new new two people. I understand that now I'm not talking about reappoint. I'm talking about
appointment. There are two appointments. We were advised that our since these two appointments are brand new, they will be uh categorized at alternate one and two.
After the meeting is over, one or two days later, we found out that councilman Jack Mendes is not reappointing his commissioner. He is willing to appoint the commissioner Hector Baralt who is a
current voting member in the board of adjustment. One of the strong voices in the board of was until before July 1st. Yes. In the board of adjustment and he was a fully voting member. The first call I received from council
president that this is a change coming that councilman Mandes is appointing actually reappointing doc uh Mr. Barald for the commission.
However, the sad part was that since he's going to change his uh space or spot, whatever we mentioned, he is going to lose his voting power and he's going to be designated another alternate. So, it means that my person and the and
commissioner bald is going to be alternate and councilman Mim's person is going to be the regular board member. No or who who else who's going to Okay, whatever the case. Okay, just but one thing I wanted to know that the Mr. Balt
is going to become the alternate. I felt this is this is kind of disgrace that person who has boarding power has experience in board he should have the boarding power still. So I reached out to the corporation council was illegally
can be done. Then I reached out to uh council comm councilman Mendes and we agreed that councilman Mendes is going to appoint my person and I'll appoint Mr. abroad and it's legally came to the council and it's right here on the
paper. If it's not legally coming here, how would it be appear on the council? It came to the legal process and we are here to vote for now. Feeling uncomfortable, that's your feelings. That's not low. I'm not feeling comfortable voting on this. That's your
comfortable level. That's your feelings. Do not do not use your feelings for the laws. This is legally came here is legally done everything by corporation council Abushi and we are here for the vote and Patterson need to know that when we are
discussing about these things we are ignoring these people sitting in front of us or the people sitting at home and we are discussing about same thing that has nothing to do with Thank you Councilman Odin. So let me just interject right before Councilman Jackson.
We had a long discussion and workshop. It doesn't require this long discussion. It is on to vote. It was made the request. Councilman Udin said, "Let's just vote to continue." And I I'm going to continue to say we need to be the change we want to see to go back and
forth and sling attack words. You know, something's going to come back. We can avoid that. After Councilman Jackson speaks, we are going to vote. If you agree with the item, you vote no. If you don't, you vote yes. That is a democracy. So, right after Councilman
Jackson, we're going to roll call. Thank you, Councilman Jackson. So, first of all, whatever Councilman Udin said is a bunch of nonsense. Um, and and whether or not we shouldn't be being truthful is not about uh
slinging um uh uh accusations. This is about being truthful. He's entitled to whoever he wants to appoint. The fact of the matter is he screwed up because he doesn't understand the process. And the other side of this, which more is more
concerning to me, is how we're trying to uh uh mitigate the importance of this item. This item is very important. It's how our community is being oversold. It's how our community is being overpopulated. is how
our community is being uh uh uh uh overbuilt while we're being underserved. So, I don't know what the hell you talking about down there about uh uh this is not an important item. We have people waiting. We have people waiting all the time or you rambling about all
kinds of other things. This is extremely important. The fact of the matter is there's a process. The process is if you appoint someone, they are not eligible to be unappointed. They have to serve their time or they have to resign. Now,
we had an hour and a half long discussion going back and forth, but we never came to a resolve because to say that corporation council can't be wrong, that's totally incorrect because he's been incorrect about tons of things, including disallowing items that I put in the workshop not to be automatically
included in the agenda. So, it's not like I'm going to take his word as the gospel because there's plenty of times he sold us down the wrong wrong path and you guys went along with it because it goes in line with your agenda. Now, here I don't understand it. Um,
obviously they want to switch. Ali is still going to get appointed. I have no problem with supporting it because they're entitled to support or appoint whoever they want to. But I'm bringing this to your attention community as the other item that Councilman VeZ sponsored
to allow three family houses to be built on 25 by 100s. I brought that forward to be back on the last workshop agenda. I I made it clear to corporation council that needed to be revisited. And tomorrow night it's on a planning board agenda so that they could just build three family houses with no parking
requirements, no board approvals, no nothing. And this aligns with that. So all of that nonsense he's talking about down there, we will see because the the board of adjustments has been ve very effective
particularly because my appointee has been one of the few that's been holding people accountable along with Miss Trice Barbie Watkins who was not reappointed along with Miss White who was holding the the line relative to our community
and the things that we're expecting. developers was having a hard time getting their projects approved through the board of adjustments. So, they raised sand and they're taking issue with council members and now council members are reassigning, moving the puzzle pieces around. That's the
reality. So, he wants to appoint someone fine, but be mindful of their voting patterns. be mindful even some of these people that they're appointing who actually don't reside here but
uh uh he wasn't reappointed no no I'm listen I'm not making any accusations I'm just I'm just stating the facts the fact of the matter is the facts of the fact of the matter is these
boards are operating in a way that's hurtful and harmful to our community where people are flocking here because they realize they can do things in Patterson that they can't do any place else. And these boards have their finger on the meter and and don't let it be
misunderstood because the council is directly responsible for each and every action that this board takes outside of the planning board. By the way, let me just say this because people were making a fuss about how the appointments were made and you know, I sent it to um to
some individuals. appointments have been relatively con consistent. I have yet to be an appointed person on the planning board. You have council members. There's one council person that's appointed to the planning board. I'm the longest tenur here outside of Councilwoman
Cotton and Councilwoman Dav. I have yet to serve on that on on that board. And it goes to show you what the intent of the council is. So when we're watching these these these developments go up with no parking and they're overdeveloping in our community, the
council has a direct hand in it and I and that resolution which I will be bringing back forward to the next workshop you guys I need your support to make sure it gets to the agenda and hold members accountable because instead of voting on the item they put it on the consent agenda so nobody had to
understand that what the what was going through. So, whatever nonsense he talking about, listen, whatever. He's part of the whole problem. Uh, I'm I'm ready to vote. Councilwoman, thank you, Councilman Jackson. Roll call, Madam Clerk.
Roll call on item number 20 for for adoption. Councilwoman Cotton. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Um, my vote is no. Thank you, Councilwoman Dava. Abstain. I'm sorry. Abstain. Okay. Councilman
Jackson. Listen, to be quite honest with you, it it's pointless. He has he's entitled to his appointee. You all who vote for him have to hold him accountable on the actions of his appointee. I'm not going to what we're going to get somebody else. It'll be the
same thing. Is he still going to have his own appointee? Whoever he wants to appoint, he's entitled to appoint that person. And I'm not going to not support them because I can I'm sure they definitely don't want to support my appointee. You had one person voted voted against my
appointee the other day. When you when his track record, his voting record is impeccable and I put his voting record against anyone else's just like I put my own against anyone else's. But Madame Clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Khik,
my vote is yes, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Councilman Mendes. Yes. Councilman Omar, my vote is yes. Councilman Uden, yes, Madam Clerk. Councilman VZ. No. Abstain. Thank you, Council President.
Yes. Okay. Okay. Um, one second. Okay. We have six in favor, one against, two abstensions. C. Item number 20 is hereby adopted.
Council President. Um what? Um council um vice president. So we just this was item 20, correct? I'm getting ready to speak on 20. 21 is removed. Okay. Because
yes, no I I was going to speak two items. So I just want I just want in in the agenda. No, 20 21 will be is removed based on the but just so you know why I abstain right because it's two items and I need everyone to understand
this gentleman was voted he is a standing commissioner they're just changing names and that's why I abstained from it because I don't agree with the changing of name not the individual okay so just so you understand why because then there's another one item 21 which council
president just stated it's going to be removed where then it's saying appointing the same person that's already been appointed. Okay. So, just please understand that action I just took. Thank you very much. Thank you, council. Um, vice president 21 is removed based on the last vote.
Um, item number 22, council. Um, madame clerk, please. Yes. Item number 22 is a resolution appointing Hector Baralt to the Patterson Board of Adjustment sponsored by Councilman at large uh MD Ford Uden City Council. Resolution number 2566.
Second move. Moved by Councilman Uden, second by Councilwoman um Council President Mims. Roll call on item 22. Madame Clerk, discussion first. Discussion. Councilwoman Cotton. See, I don't understand. like they just like going through it so quickly like
you know. So I got all my paperwork here. In 2004, Councilwoman Ames appointed and I called her to make sure I can mention her name, Jeline Rayfield. 2008,
Councilwoman Ames, No, Jeline Rayfield was was replaced with someone that resigned. to Councilwoman Ames for Josie Rayfield in 2008. Josie Rayfield was reappointed by Councilman Ames. In 2012,
when I came on, Jodine Rael went from serving 10 years. 10 years she's been on a voting member on the board of adjustment, but when I appointed her, they made her an alternate. So now she's not a voting member, now
she's an alternate. So the issue that I have with with number and I have I don't have a problem with the the the the man. I don't have a problem with him. The issue is I come in in 2012. They made my appointment who's been here for 10 years
and alternate because it's she's appointed by a different council person. Now item number 22, he's been here about six years. He was appointed by Councilman for Flavio. Flavio is no
longer here. So, how do you get how do you have a person? Now you got a new council member appointing him like I was a new council person appointing Rayfield and they made her an alternate. How do you how do you
keep a person and she had 10 11 years experience. Now you got this person coming on. Like I said, no issue with him, but now he remains a voting member. Actually, he's supposed to go to an alternate.
He not supposed to stay as a voting member. He should go to an alternate. And that's how you move up the ladder. You will move up. So whoever alternates now becomes now become voting members. Now,
when we had discussion with um Councilman Kh, his appointment was an alternate. Now, his appointment moves up to a regular voting member. He was an alternate. So, then you had and
then the second one, he was an alternate one. So, now he's a regular. Now, the person that's an alternate two, which Councilman Mendes did not reappoint. He got somebody new. So his person supposed to be a alternate one.
That's you can't you can't move up. You you if if you are appointed by a new council person, I don't care how many years you got in there. You're appointed by a new council person. So your person don't keep the status that it had even
though it's been there for 11 years or 10 years. So now they're completely changing this all around again. And this was in 2004, 2008, 2012. And it goes on how they
changed the vote from a regular to an alternate. They made my person Jodi Rayfield who has been there for 10 years made her a alternate in 2012 and she had been there since like 2004. Thank you.
I'm not finished but in case I'm just saying we got no I got to make them understand that if it happens with me why all of a sudden it happened with me but it can't happen to them. It can't like how they going to change the rules. Nothing against the person. I have nothing
against the person. But I'm going by the rules that was set when when we were here, when I was here, when my person was a good person, who watched the board, who who looked at the laws, they did all of that. And so now she became
an alternate. So now, now we voting on this item here. This person is being reappointed by a different council person and he's going to remain a a voting member. And to me, he's supposed to be go back to be an alternate.
That's what it is. So, let me let me So, let me No, let me bring some clarity cuz it's not altogether true. Councilman Flavio Rivera was the councilman who appointed Mr. Barack.
He did not run for reelection. Councilman Uden adopted him. So, he was his person. He inherited him. Now, he's choosing to reappoint him. He's had him as his appointment for two years. So, he's not extremely new to him. It's a reappoint.
Um, Councilman Jackson, if you would like, if you want to speak, we ready to vote because it's it's I mean, I don't and he's he's very he's an experienced commissioner already. Council President, Councilman Jackson, I just want to be clear. So now
for the board structure, who are the alternates? The alternates are Vivian Gains and and Akaz Ali. Ali. That's how it should be. That's how it should be. Roll call, Madam Clerk. Roll call on item number 22 for
adoption. Councilwoman Cotton. She said no. She said no. Thank you. Councilwoman D. I said, "No, because you know what? If they not had taken me through this uh 12 years ago, 10 years ago, when they made my person become an alternate and all of
a sudden she'd been here for 10 years and now all of a sudden she got to be an alternate. That's also it's okay for somebody who's been here for six years and it's all right for him to be a regular and not go down to be an alternate." No, I can't. You know, I have nothing against the gentleman. I have nothing against the family, but I'm
going by what they done starting in 2004. That's what I'm going by. That's all. Thank you, Councilwoman Dava. So, my my take is a little different in terms of um uh the councilman,
and I'm going to keep saying it. He should have just kept with reappointing the person that he had, but he was not considering him at all. But after various whatever messages, texts, whatever it is that they received, all right, because
we could have avoided all of this and July 1st, we should have taken action on Commissioner Bar to be reappointed and he didn't do that. Okay. So, that is why the take that I had with this switching
back and forth, uh, I abstain. Anybody that knows an abstension means a yes. I was just I didn't like the way that they did it. But we're here now with Commissioner Bar who has been there. Okay? And like I said, the councilman should have taken action and done it correctly from the beginning. But with
that said, okay, cuz this this is not about the person, it's about the process. My vote is yes. Thank you, Councilman Jackson. Thank you, Madam Clerk. So, let me um translate. Thank you.
because uh you know a lot of things are often said and you know somebody has to lend some clarity. There's different levels of language. It's not just speaking in Spanish or speaking in uh Bangladesh or have sometimes English has different versions as well. Here's here's a version. What happened was he
got phone calls. He was politically motivated to change his appointment and he understands his assignment. So, he's doing what he's being told to do because there's outside influences when it comes to this board. Now, I I'll just say
this, Councilwoman. I I respect your your your position from keeping what you want to do, but that's why you have to understand everything that's going on here. I don't let corporation counsel just tell me what how things are supposed to be. No, I was show,
show me the rule. I want to read it for myself. Don't come and interpret something and then later on we find out that that's not actually how it works because they'll tell you anything. Corporation council works on behalf of the mayor. The mayor is working on behalf of the developers. We know the
mayor is not working on behalf of us or the people that live here. And if he did, then our community wouldn't be so overpop populated the way it is. We wouldn't we wouldn't have these killings, you know. And and I I know there was I I did it in a rush. I want I
urge some of you to go look at my post today. I met this young lady and I not that I met her. I knew her, but I see her three four days a week at the gym. We all go to we got to go to the gym in East Rutherford. This young lady just graduated 3.4 GPA. She's now in the
transfer port. She's still a basketball player and um she has to go all the way to East Rutherford. Now, my daughters are there, too, but I'm driving them. I got to go out there every every day when we want to work out. Now, some people may say, "Well, how's that relevant to this?" It's absolutely relevant when we
don't have the things in our community that our kids got to go out and search for it. While everybody's running into our community, making money off our community, while these people are appointing these people that's voting against our interests, they're voting and moving against our interest as the
mayor is voting against our interest. Moving against our interest. So, you make a bunch of fields, you cut a bunch of ribbons, then you lock them up and the kids have no place to go train. Because see, sports is not about showing up on the field just to get your ass
kicked. Sports is about the training that happens before that. Where they where are they doing the training? Where they they have to go pay to train outside the community while we're selling things in our community. Listen, I'm on my soap box. I'm just going to be a good night tonight. I'm looking
forward to it. But, uh, Madame Clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Khal. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Um, we need to revisit the ordinance in place.
I see how the tone of some of the council member changes in 2021. I brought the same issue back in the council. Oh, everybody came after me. You did. Everybody came after me. Oh, I'm against
some of the appointees of the uh of the board. Now, I was trying to correct the issues that we having right now. I think after tonight appointment, we should revisit again. Correct. That's that's all I'm going to say. My vote is yes, Madam Clerk.
Thank you, Councilman Mendes. My vote is yes, Madam Clerk. Councilman Omar. Okay. Councilman Uden. Thank you, Madame Clerk. I want to be very quick. Um, just know you all are
very expert at this point. We are discussing about the laws. What's the ordinance? The reason of the there is a gray area in the ordinance. I can recall in 2023 when there was appointments and I remember councilman colleague brought the topic and wanted to amend it and
clarify it but his proposal was dismissed right away. I think corporation council instead of giving us opportunity to become an expert on the law. I think that should be clarified on the paper and we should go by the paper instead of us becoming the exp uh you
know expert on the laws and explain on our own way and whatever favors us. It did not the ordinance we discuss in the certain is not an ordinance it became a perspective who is explaining it. We don't want to see perspective. We want to see clear writing on the paper and we
need to go by law. With that being said, with a better expectation for tomorrow, my vote is yes. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Veles. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We have a legal department in the city of Patterson.
Some people take for granted that office. I do not take it for granted. Every time that I have a question, especially anything that we go to take action and if it has some touse on it, I
visit that second floor. Google this gentleman background education in the law. He been admitted in the superior court. He'd be admitted in federal court to take and trial cases. It's not a piece
of cake that we have there. So he knows what are we facing here. We asked him and he clear say the law say this. You guys not doing nothing wrong. This is what it is and we moving forward. That's why I've been keeping my mouth shut here
because I'm not going to take the slander and this and that. So the appointment is there. Let's vote on it. My vote is yes. And sorry corporation council for put you in the spot. Council president. My vote is yes. Madam clerk, thank you. The votes are eight in favor,
one against, one absent. Item number 22 is hereby adopted. Madam clerk, item number one. Madame clerk, the last item, the church is here. Can we take item number can we take item number one? Before you do that, I want to um change I want change my vote.
It the role the number has been called. Okay. Then I'll wait till I'll wait till I'm just saying they they do it all the time. Uh she announced the vote. The only time, Councilwoman Cotton, the only time the only time you can change your vote
is before the before the final call, the number is called or I vote. And that has happened already has passed. That's fine. I'mma tell it when I tell. She did. Yes, she called the vote. Uh roll. Um item number one, Madam Clerk. Item number one, um
second reading ordinance. Ordinance pursuant to the zoning and land development ordinance to designate Bible way Church of Christ 16 through 22 South Street historically known as St. Aanios Greek Orthodox Church as a municipal
historic landmark sponsored by Councilman Lewis VZ and co-sponsored by Council President Dr. Lisa Mims and Councilwoman Ruby N Cotton. Economic Development Ordinance number 25-021.
Public hearing is required. Moved by Councilman Vallet, second by Councilwoman Davlin and President Mims and Cotton. Yes. Uh public portion is now open. Public hearing is now open. On item number one see
by Council Mendes. Second. Roll call to close. I believe the reverend is here. Roll call to close the public hearing. Roll call to close the public hearing on item number one. Councilwoman Cotton. Thank you. Um thank you, Madam Clerk. I just want to say and I know that um a
historian Franco, John Franco had a lot to do with it too um of making this a historic landmark which should be. And I'm so I'm just I always say I always say that I'm happy that I'm sitting here when certain things can happen for the city. um for the good.
It's about the good, you know, and and and this has been there for years and for us to see this um to get through um you know, and you only thing you can say is thank thank you Jesus for letting me be here to see that. And I thank Jesus for letting me
see that. I'm happy to see you all here putting us together. I will say about you, John Franco, you'd be really working to make sure that we can preserve how some of our history that we have here in the city. I got to give you a hand about
that. Uh so with that being said, congratulations. I'm happy to be part of this. Madame clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Dav, so I am not going to speak right now because we're just closing the public hearing. I will say my statement when I
do my vote. Okay. Uh my vote is yes to close the public hearing. Councilman Jackson, yes. Councilman Khalig, yes. Councilman Mendes, yes. Councilman Omar, Councilman Uden, yes.
Councilman Vez, yes. Council President. So, just to by the way, I know you're excited. After this vote, we do roll call. After those votes, then you start yelling. Okay. So, my vote is just to close public hearing.
Thank you. The votes are eight in favor, one absent. Public hearing say I closed. Thank you. Roll call on item number one. Madam clerk, roll call on item number one for adoption. Councilwoman Cotton. I said we can jump up and join for now. We ain't got to wait for the end cuz we
know it's going to be yes all the way down the road. So with that being said, I'm happy. Congratulations. Thank you all for being here and putting this together. Madame Clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you, Councilwoman Davala. Bible way
Bible way church of Christ congratulations. Uh I think that Councilwoman Cotton the dean of our council have spoken so I'm not going to say much but just say congratulations and definitely thank you John Franco because it is important to preserve the
history of our city. So with that said my vote is yes. Congratulations. Thank you Councilman Jackson. Thank you madam clerk. So um it is become a practice where um many of the
actions of people who've come before us are often overlooked and often um unappreciated the the the uh the struggles and things of that nature that we have all endured. So that other people have been able to enjoy many many fruits that you know
somehow we seem to be excluded from these days. So, it's very refreshing to make sure that um you know, we can uh uh give a congratulatory uh uh circum situation, if you will. But, you know, for me, I like to push things a little
bit further. you know, I want to make sure that we're not only supporting, you know, our our historic organizations by a matter of resolution, but we also render the support that this city has been given to many other organizations
that don't have this foundational track record. So, um, that's a conversation I would like to have with you guys, you know, down the line because, uh, you know, there's there's over a billion dollars that comes into this community, right? And the way you continue to do
the way you continue to do good work is by being supported in the work that you already do. and having, you know, a a a resolution and an ordinance and a sign is all good, but we need those the type of support that's going to allow us to
extend ourselves much further and, you know, uh uh stop watching some of these outside entities come in here and receive all of the glamour and all the money and all the gold to do the things that we've been doing for years without
um any praise and acknowledgement. So, hats off to you guys for for the great work and let's keep it um going and let's take it to the next level now. Let's demand what you guys are truly entitled for to um Madame Clerk. My vote is yes. Thank you, Councilman Khalik.
Thank you, Madame Clerk. Uh I just want to congratulate everyone who is involved. Uh Councilman, thank you for sponsoring it as well. My vote is yes. Thank you, Councilman Mendes. Uh thank you, Madam Clerk. Municipal historic landmark is one of the highest
destination uh in term of history that a structure could receive. Congratulation. We voting on Patterson history. May God continue blessing all the organizing the member of this great institution. My vote is yes mad clerk. Thank you Councilman Uden.
Thank you madam cler by charge. Thank you for serving the people of faith and community at large. And I think this is a very good uh move councilman and other sponsors as well. And I think this is should be the partial of history and that's why we're moving forward. Congratulations by
Councilman VZ. So this is the year and I say the year of the Bible way church of Christ.
When I honor Reverend Jamela Pedaphor in the Black History Month, I said in that in that podium that I got to work hard to decimate the church as historic site.
So I started talk speaking to uh Mr. Joe Franco and thank you Joe Franco to look into the books with the help of Mr. Richmond uh Richardson and I receive a call from a person that is a member of that
church that she was listening to the message that I was given regarding the church and she called me and she thought that it just works and um well that's my words so she didn't talk she had faith that it was going to happen so she put
the energy on it from far away out of the state and and I say I don't want going to jump the the channels. Please speak to Reverend Pamela Pamela uh Pedaphor. I live reside in front of that church
for the past 15 years. When I wake up late to go to church, the church wake me up because they hit drums real good and they praise the Lord real deep without no church getting jealous in the
fifth ward. I said that the church is the rock in the middle of the fifth ward. Why is the rock in the middle of the fifth ward? I recall the bad days of this city when
CO 19 when CO 19 seeing that place serving as a funeral home because a lot of places cannot open and they serve as funeral home. Also, I serve
the kids when they go early to go to the preschool and how they treat them. And not only that, they expand the service that the lines of people getting food from the
food bank they have. That means the church is giving back to the community. I was speaking to the pastor and I say, "Pastor, one of these days you had to get a translator to translate in the future service in
Spanish because the church mainly is surrounded with Latinos. So, it's a good idea." Well, I don't know how to translate. I don't know how to speak. I don't know how to write, but I know how to legisulate, right? So, expanding the service of a church
is important. Expanding the heritage of the church is more important and the legacy of it. I know Reverend Pedaphor is watching from heaven. I know mom is happy that this is getting designated as
a historic church. Keep on working hard. Now they have a summer camp operating from that church that is giving back to the community. Not just sitting in church preaching and going home. They giving back to the community. So congratulation and to everyone that was
involved in designated the church as historic congratulation. Thank you. Thank you to my colleague for supporting me on this resolution and also to Joe Franco to make it happen. So saying that God bless the church my church.
Thank you council president. So, um, to Apostle Pedor, who I affectionately call dad, mom Pedaphor, to um, my sister and good friend, Reverend Pam Pedaphor, and to the Bible way church, and to Apostle,
I see that you're here as well. Um, I I just want to say that I really believe that we should give people their flowers while they can smell them. Bible way has been an intricral part of the city of Patterson for a very very long time and the fab fabric of our community. So when
uh council started this work with Mr. John Franco, thank you so much. You started this work and you did your due diligence and getting signatures and doing what you needed to do, it was a no-brainer, but making sure that we get this historic piece of property preserved and recognized in the in the
fashion it should. So, I'm looking forward to the futuristic plans of applying for historic grants and going through historic preservation board to get those things that so rightfully um are deserved unto your church. You already know I'm one of your biggest cheerleaders and biggest fans. My vote
is yes. Thank you, Councilwoman. Uh Council President, the votes are eight in favor, one absent. Item number one is hereby adopted. Thank Thank you, Madame Clerk. Madame clerk um it is time for uh the
public portion. I just want to say to the public present viewing we have completed all of the agenda items on tonight. I am going to say this first and foremost there is a threeminut time limit to speaking. Um if if you would like to go over the time I have asked
and preference that you reach out prior to the meeting because we want to make sure we keep the def the decorum. I've heard it said many times, Mr. Rucker, you've said it yourself. We have to keep the decorum on this side so you can respect it on that side. We will also be doing the same thing on this side as it
relates to if there's three minutes for the public should be the same thing for this side. So, you will begin to see that as well because we want to be the change that we want to see. I want to thank Mr. Rucker for allowing our first speaker um to be the pastor of the church. She's on the list, but thank
you, Mr. Rucker, for allowing that. Madame Clerk, first speaker, please. Yes, the first speaker is Reverend Pamela Pettifford. Kindly state your name. Thank you. Say that again. I'm sorry. I'm so overwhelmed right now. Y'all just bear with me, please. Okay. Am I in the
mic? Yes. Okay. Yes, you're good. Good. My name? Mhm. My name is Pastor Pamela Pedford, pastor of the Bible Way Church here in Patterson. I just really want to uh thank everyone
that helped um in this project. Um we started back earlier this year, but I'm so grateful for some of the members that are here from my church and um even my our second vice presider of
International Bible Way Church Worldwide. He is here. Apostle James Heron, Senior, and his lovely wife, Mother Callie Haron. I praise God for them. My mom is not here. She wish she could have been here.
Um, but to all of the council members that are here, thank you, Councilman Valz, Councilman Mike Jackson. We gonna have a conversation. Amen. To my sister and to uh G. Franco. I praise God for him. He's been such a
help and an encourager um through this whole process. And to uh Jimmy Richardson who was such a big help. And also to Kim Lawson. Yes. who is a former member of our church who is in Georgia now, but she
was the one that helped push this project to go on. And I am so happy for each and every one of you. I am happy. I pray that I didn't overlook anyone. Um, but I am just so happy. I'm so overwhelmed. I just want to shout. But I
just tell you, I'll wait till I get to church and cut me a shout. But I'm just so excited about what the Lord is doing. I can keep going on, but I'm going to cut it because I know I see the clock. But nevertheless, I am truly grateful from the depths of my heart what God is
doing. And I am so excited even about working in the community because it's so important and it's such a need and we do need the help, the continual help. But I praise God for open doors. I praise God.
Okay, I'mma have to stop. But I praise God for open doors. God will open doors and he will send you the help that you need in such a time as this. So God bless you. I see you s God bless. I love all of you. Talk to y'all
later. God bless you. Praise God. I want to thank the fifth ward and everybody that helped me. Thank Thank you, Pastor Sister Por. Next speaker, Madame Clerk.
The next speaker is Ernest Rucker. Ernest Rucker P. Look like we're having revival up in here. Uh I come to tonight you guys made a decision uh a few months ago to cut the council meetings down to
meetings. But what you did not do was increase our speaking time since you took away two of our meetings. It is hard for me to understand how it is fair for you to cut your meetings to two meetings and not give us more time to
speak. Now this is about community. now and I'm basing it on community. If it's fair for you to cut your days of work, it's just as fair for you to give us extra speaking time. And I'm asking this council through the president, I need someone to take
leadership on that. And let's not be unfair to the public. We can't lose six minutes. And you gained Well, actually, you lost a lot of work. You're only working two days, two two meetings out of the month. So again, you've got yours. We need now
we need ours. Let's also talk about the dumping in the city of Patterson. Excuse me. You guys have an ordinance. You have an ordinance on the books that says there's a $10,000 fine. Well, it's obvious that $10,000 fine is not
stopping the problem. So, I'm asking you guys to bring that ordinance back up to amend it to add 30 days jail time, a year's worth of public service. Another item that we're talking about here today is the rent leveling board
where the administration, I believe, just gave up on it. Doesn't want to see it work. We've been asking for that amendment to that to that to that uh uh writing board for months with no reply.
Now, something that helps the public, something that works for the public, we can't seem to get amended. We can't seem to get teeth. Nor Jersey City has dynamite powerful legislation. Your job as legislators is to give us the
legislation necessary for quality of life. That's not happening. I need someone and the next meeting I want to hear something about this. We don't want to just keep talking. We want to see action. The city is a cesspool at this
point. Garbage, crime, no jobs, high rent, no parking. And let's talk about that. You talk about these boards. Why are they allowing people to build these buildings without adequate parking? Why do people have to ride around the
block four or five times to find a parking spot? It is your job to change the legislation. Say it again. Oh, we talking about that. But the bottom line is you have an opportunity in this council to let us
know that you hear us. In closing, I say goodbye. Thank you, Mr. Rocker. Next week, next speaker, Madame Clerk. The next speaker is Sebastian Maha. Good evening, Patterson and Council.
Over the past few days, like many other Pattersonians, I have been faced with a reality that for many of us have known was happening, but is now finally coming to the light. That in this city, it seems
like if you want to get anything done, you have to grease a couple of squeaky wheels. That being said, let me ask the following question. Who do I have to bribe? in order to get a traffic light on East
24th and Market Street. I've made calls, spoken to commissioners of the county, council members, sent emails, posting it on social media for the last 10 years, and all we've gotten is a couple of white lines on the
crosswalk like if that's supposed to save anybody. Let me make one thing clear. Caesar Pina was not the first and will certainly not be the last real estate developer to bribe elected officials in the city of
Patterson. These backdoor deals have consequences. One of them is the overpopulation of our city. The driven by this unchecked and irresponsible development.
Look at what happened yesterday in Planefield. Rest in peace to the two lives that were lost and all the property that was damaged. But guess what? We're going to be next if we keep allowing these developments that seem to be made out of cardboard to be
overburdening our sewer system which is over aundred years old and is mixed use. It's an environmental hazard. But yet we're going to keep on taking money from developers to build whatever they want
around this city. It's overburdening our schools, infrastructure, and our fire department that supposedly the rumor is y'all going to slash their budget, too. That's why I want to personally thank Miss Alina Haba
and her staff for the investigations they launched there so far. And I will say this. I invite you. I urge you to look at the books, follow the contracts, and investigate every elected official
in the city. Not just for bribery, but for the blatant violations of election laws that occur in Patterson and in the entire county of Payic. That is why today I am calling for the establishment
of an ordinance calling for term limits, a two-term limit for all elected officials in the city of Patterson. Because when politics becomes a lifelong hustle, the citizens of this city
suffer. Thank you, Mr. Mahia. Next uh speaker, Madame Clerk. This next speaker is Robert Vieiraa. Please state your name. Good afternoon. My name is Robert
Vieiraa and I am Patterson. I'm here today because um I'm just fed up every day. They killing the illegal apartments, illegal buildings. This is out of control. You got these
buildings, developers making 30 units and only probably have like 28 parking. No backyard. I was raised in the backyard. Nowadays, these kids ain't got no
backyard. They got nothing for us to be be in the front of the house or somewhere down the street where the parks that are being rebuilt but for nothing. Because you give it two more years, the drug addicts got them. There's nowhere for our future kids to
develop some fundamental in the streets like we used to have. I wasn't born in Patterson. I came here in 78. But I consider myself Patterson to the fullest. While many from Patterson that was born left to Florida and I keep
seeing on Facebook, oh, I'm glad I left there. Oh man, I you know, that hits my heart. But like I said, we got to change. We got to make sure that these developers are held accountable. That they got to
have places for these kids to play. There's no room for a backyard just to hold four cans for 30 apartment unit. And they have no choice but to hit the streets. I work at Gator Recycling and I'm in the
garbage industry. I'm a supervisor and I try to hire guys that come home just to get them tired so they won't go back to the streets. And it works for some. But I said the contract that Patterson did
with this outsider company, instead of looking for the insider, we got our own dump. I'm quite sure you could have went to my boss, the owner. He was he opens the door and he was welcoming anything that came from Patterson. He was willing to uh operate his business out of
Patterson. Also, my thing is DBW, I give him a lot of credit. You can only work with what you got with. And I understand that. I see it every day. How garbage from one house to the next property is built on. I never seen this before in my
life. Patterson DPW is under manpower. I understand that. and it's ran by union, which I know a lot of times things that ran by union sucks, right? You sometimes you got to put your foot down to get
things done. My thing is my thing is this boat pickup, you know, it's taking a lot of work from the DPW guys. We got potholes that are whole I listen, we got potholes that are getting filled with concrete rocks.
Thank you, Mr. Vieira. Next speaker, Madame Clerk. Yes. Next speaker is Charles Ferrer. Please state your name. Good evening, Charles Ferrer. Mr. It's good that we're talking about
development. So, I'm going to share this article because, you know, as a history person, this article came out 37 years ago in the Pisonsonian and it talks about an allight superb block project that was supposed to be built in Patterson. I
think the reason why it wasn't built here in Patterson because the developer realized the type of people that were potentially he'd be dealing with so they left. But the point that I'm making is 37 years ago when we were supposed to build this development which was a hotel
and retail space. It was a $150 million project and in lie of taxes then they were going to pay $3.2 million in lie of taxes with a 2% increase.
Fasttracked 37 years later and in between there we're given tax abatement. We just did the hench cliff the senior citizen $115 million project $100 million project in le of taxes they're paying $75,000.
How did we go from 3.2 potentially in 1988 which would be I don't know what that value would be right now to 75,000. I have copies of the article for all of you. The best quote in this article was
by Councilman Rooney who saw the future and said that Patterson is going to be known as the Patsy Town and all the developers going to come here and just take advantage of it. And what do we have?
Okay. What do we have? And we can't get better because we don't do better. Okay. No money goes into the school system. And I hear all the taxpayers that are coming to the board and saying we can't pay anymore. While the developers say on
Facebook it's a it's only a 10year abatement or 15 year. But while you're getting that money, nobody said anything about the children. Nobody said anything about the taxpayers who have not received a benefit from any of these
projects developments. Even if you want to go back, I spoke out against Garrett Heights. Okay. And I was young then and it was bad then. And I haven't seen one development that has been good for
this city. Okay. Every time I take my mother to church in the morning, she talks about that two family apartment that was built at the end of Governor Street across from the church that's about this narrow with the two door.
There is no backyard. Who approved that? Is that somebody from the board of adjustment? And not for nothing, after spending most of my life in real estate, it's insane and it's insulting to put a three family house
on a 25 by 100. Thank you, Mr. Ferrar. Thank you. Next time I'll be calling you so I'll get more time. Thank you. Next speaker, madam clerk. Better. And we have Thank you. Next speaker, madam clerk. Yes. The next speaker is Miss Adrien Tulie.
Please state your Good evening, Miss Tulie. Adrienne Tulie, can you hear me? Okay. Adrien Tulie, good evening um to all of you. Thank you for having me here tonight. Um I'm here representing my daughter uh who's a student at U Phillips Academy Charter School in
Patterson. Um she's funded by the city of Patterson. There's a serious issue with Dr. Davis. Um there is a uh petition online. It is change.org titled Dr. Davis has to go. Phillips Academy
Charter School needs a new CEO. Um we are asking for the taxpayers of this town and surrounding towns to please sign the petition. We need to get a new school leader. Um the pictures, the photos are resurfacing. Um one which u
mocks a special education child. Another one of a woman bearing a uh bikini with her hand sticking inside of it. Um these are resurfacing. Um this is an issue. The students are uncomfortable. The
parents are uncomfortable and the Hispanics are scared to speak up because they've been threatened that ICE will be called. Um I'm not going to take light to the threatening. I I've been an educator for a long time. I've got some kickback about why don't I take my
daughter out to school. Not going to do that because no one said that to Ruby Bridg's mother. No one said that to the Little Rock Nine. No one said that to the Greensboro 4. No one said that to Brown Board of Education versus Board of
Education. And no one said that to our many founding mothers and fathers of the civil rights movement who stayed steadfast in their mission. When we are talking about leaders elected to lead our school, they should not have a background where you can go on social
media and see such filth and see such disgust. I'm asking for the taxpayers of the city of Patterson and the surrounding inner um cities to to help. U Mr. Jackson and his team, Miss Black, Miss Chanel, Mr. Eddie, a number of his
people have been helping me with the situation. I I need more help. And I I'm not going to stop. Um because when we're talking about children, there has to be better leadership. I've been an educator since 2001. If I would have done something like this, they would have
taken my teaching certification. Many years ago, there was a teacher in Patterson who questioned her logic of being a teacher and compared it to being a warden. And guess what? They petitioned. They got rid of her. I don't know who Dr. Davis knows, but I know
God. and God is sending me to do the mission because we need somebody else here. He's being paid by the city of Patterson. That should be a concern for everyone. I've brought my concerns to this council. Um Mr. Jackson has been steadfast in trying to help me and his
team, we we need we need more than that. And to think she's a black child being put out by people that look like her, something's wrong. Thank you, Miss Tulie. Next speaker, Madame Clerk. Next speaker is Sylvia Farra. She's not here. M madame clerk. Oh,
she's here. I didn't see you. Hi, Miss Farra. How are you? Peace and blessings. Thank you. Peace and blessings to everyone and my condolences to our constituents and our fellow New Jerseyians in Planefield and
throughout this state of New Jersey. Okay. I'm Sylvia for I was just giving uh peace and blessings, our greetings and our condolences to our Planefield relatives, family, our New Jersey constituents that are going through
right now. Um I'm here because of some issues that are occurring in Brook Slopes Terrace where I reside and that have been occurring for some time. A lot of it is well the whole community is being affected. I've asked for
federal oversight. I have asked for investigation into things that are going on. We have people that have come into our Brooks community making six figures. I've questioned that even to the board. I was given information who to reach out to
concerning this and it was looked into but I know everything is a slow process but partly that is why we're probably not going to get our pilot because of outside you know you know what's going on but a lot of it they try to cover I
feel bad for those that have no place to go when we've had one increase of $100 it's going to increase again and we have people that are coming in have only been in Brooks actually two years and are running all over the place. They they're
now in charge. How does this happen? We have the one entity that has been in court several times for the theft, longstanding theft in Brooklyn, mismanagement, bully tactics. Now we're under police
surveillance. At first everybody's thinking, whose car alarm is that? We had police surveillance on the We had lights, you know, cameras on the buildings. I got to speak quickly, but to but all that's being looked into, but I'm concerned right now,
you know, because I speak up. I've been targeted as yesterday. I went to Applebee's to get myself something to eat. I'm being watched. I have cameras all over me. I'm being watched. Anyway, no sweat there. I get
out of my car after returning from Applebees. They saw me when I was leaving my residence. Of course, they saw when I they sitting and wait for when I got back. So, some you know, you listen to this
spirit. I'm gonna play this tape for you. But anyway, this individual, I'm going to say her name. Yeah, that's that's one of them. Help me. Help me. Help me. I've been in danger. What the hell? Well, all the cameras are off. Okay.
Well, anyway, basically, I have it on film and on, you know, tape. I got up my car. I saw this one particular individual. She's coming down her out of her door. I'm like, "Oh, God." So, I walk back toward my car. I'm trying to avoid the person. Thank you, Miss Farra.
But anyway, I called the police because I know how they do. They, you know, come up with this stuff. But the manager came. Thank you, Miss Farra. your time. We have a we have a set rule. I have to be fair to everyone else. Thank you, Miss Farrell. Next speaker, Madam Clerk.
The next speaker is Pat Hillis. Pat Hillis. Hi, Miss Hillis. State your name, please. Good evening. Pat Hillis, Cumberland Avenue. I don't get to come out to many
meetings, but I do watch every one of them. I want to go back to July 1st to the reorganization meeting. I was appalled to see that when Vice President Davula was voted in, there were some council members that
didn't show the respect that they needed. And you speak about showing respect and you show about working together. I'm going to tell you what I saw that day was disrespect and division. So, I don't know how you can sit there
and speak about showing respect when you don't do it. I understand the vote didn't go the way you wanted. However, I will tell you, put your big boy pants on and get over it. You can't tell the community to show
respect and work together if you aren't doing it. So, practice what you preach. Another issue I'd like to bring up is the verbiage that's used um used by the council and sometimes by people at the podium when issues are
discussed about administration not doing what they're supposed to do and shortch changing people. It comes up that it's the black and brown community. Well, look at me. I'm not black. I'm not brown. I am part of the community. I am a taxpayer. And when people are shortch
changed, I'm shortch changed, too. something simple as trying to get my street clean for four years. I've called DPW. I was told that the director would get back to me. As of now, he hasn't gotten back to me.
There's a a driver on the sweeper. He gets paid with my tax dollars and he's not doing his job. Four years. How much farther do I have to go? Um,
and you also, as I said before, you speak about working together. How can this be done when you yourselves are dividing this city by race? I'm very involved in my community. I work together with all races. And I
would hope that when you see and you work, you work for all people. When I go to the polls, I vote for someone that's going to work for me. I don't vote for someone by race, by gender, by religion, or nationality.
And there's times when I vote that I feel after the election I am kicked to the curb. And I'm not happy about it. These meetings here are for the community. And to watch council do personal attacks
on each other, it doesn't give me hope for Patterson moving forward. Practice what you preach. You want it from us, then you have to show it. Thank you and have a great evening. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. The next speaker is Crystal Sura.
Am I pronouncing that right? Crystal. Okay. State your name, please. Hi, my name is Crystal Seruya. All right. So, I am rather new to this. So, I just moved to Patterson in November. I bought a house on East Main
and Hillman. And I would say that since I've moved here, it has been a journey, I would say. Um, good and bad within it all. So, let's start at the top. Let's talk about trash that people have been talking about numerous times since I've just been here today. And honestly,
hearing that things have been happening for years and years doesn't really give me hope that I'm even up here today, you know, making a difference and taking time out of my day to be able to sit here. So, what I will say is that since I've been moved here since November, I've had a problem with street sweeper
on an ongoing basis. I have called and called and I have been told by Inspector Agular as well as Mr. Cobb that the street sweeper has no replacements. All right? that there's only I can't remember if he said six or eight uh of the street sweepers and that when they go down that they have no replacements.
I've also been told that the employees that work in the street sweepers when they're out sick or when they're on vacation that there is nothing that could be done that my streets will not be cleaned because they do not have the manpower to be able to keep up with the tone turnover with staff when it comes
to being off or being sick. I think that that is very I don't know. I think there's definitely more that we could do when it comes to keeping our city clean. I've heard over and over again that Patterson strives to be what Jersey City is, right? And I was born and raised in
Jersey City. And I would say that y'all are a thousand miles away from that when it comes to keeping this city clean and keeping this city safe. All right. When we go back to keeping the city clean, all right, these streets are filthy. I'm outside every Monday and Tuesday on my
block raking and sweeping to ensure that the street sweepers are able to come and do their job when they do come. All right. Half of the um buildings around my newly um purchased home are abandoned and we need to start keeping the
homeowners responsible for cleaning up their trash. There's mountains and mountains of garbage all around my home that have nothing to do with me and this city is not holding the homeowners responsible. All right. But if I was, you know, if I put a bottle in a cardboard box, they don't come and pick
up my cardboard because it's not done correctly, right? But we're not holding other homeowners accountable. Recycling, you need a new company. All right. My neighbors believe that they do not pick up cardboard in my neighborhood, and that is a lie. I know that Billy Rodriguez has been super helpful, and
he's the only reason really that I've been having any success with my garbage since I've moved here. Y'all need a new recycle company. Okay. I've been told numerous times that it's the fault of the residents and that the residents need to be cleaner. All right. What I say to you all, it is y'all fault. Y'all
need to have more money and more people to be able to clean up these streets that y'all call home and so do we. But y'all are receiving a check. Don't forget that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. And welcome to the city of Patterson. Next speaker, Madam Clerk.
Yes. Next speaker is Kamishha Rogers Jones. State your name, please. Rogers Jones. Good evening. Evening. Kamisha Rogers Jones, Fourth Ward. Crystal Seruya is actually one of my good girlfriends. Um, we work together
and we're really great friends. She's heard the great things that I've said about being from Patterson. She knows I'm a proud Pisonsonian and she decided to buy a home here and I'm embarrassed. So, I encourage I did connect her with
different people within the city to help her with her issues, but I did encourage her to come here today to talk to you guys about her concerns. So, I hope that uh a follow-up or something can be done with her because she's a homeowner, a new homeowner in in our city. And not
just her coming into our city, but everyone deserves a great quality of life living here in Patterson. I'm here again to discuss resident parking as it pertains to um living in downtown Patterson. Um I have a family member, my
daughter, who lives downtown and has been receiving parking tickets um as a resident there. I don't know what you guys have planned to combat that. I know you have housing um developments coming up in downtown where we're going to see
more and more residents. As I drive through downtown, you know, I guess you guys change the the um the however you you label it for people to rent now on top of the businesses because I see a lot of apartments
downtown now, right? So you guys did some changing of whatever the board or whatever so that people can make apartments. So we're seeing more and more people living downtown. There's nowhere to park. So I'm I'm confused because we have
meter parking for businesses, but what is what parking do we have for the residents that live down here? And so I would love to know if you guys are planning any type of resolution, resident parking permits or something. Maybe something like you guys did for
Red um for um Redwood Village or Triangle Village. It's Triangle Village. They have residential parking, but maybe something like that to combat the issues cuz she's received five tickets now and what's the resolve there? I also wanted
to discuss um quickly. I wrote it down because I want to make sure I say it. All right. So, what I wanted to ask is one, I see in the news that we have a $3 million shortfall. I wanted to know what revenue have we
gained from all of the development that's happened in the city versus what we've put out to offer the services to those residents into those developments. Because if we haven't gained anything, why are we continuing on that path? Um,
but I would really like to know, I don't know if that's something you guys can provide for us, but over the last 10 years, what revenue have we gained from all of the development that's happened in the city? How has that benefited us? Because us as um residents, taxpayers, we're paying out a lot of money. I know
I'm Rogers, but we paying out a lot of money. Yes. But all of these developments are coming and they're not paying their part. And so now we have a $3 million deficit. and what are we doing to combat that? So, I would love an answer to that. One more thing, ma'am, because you gota we got to
be fair, Miss Rogers Jones. I hear you. We have to be fair that when we bring things to you guys that we would get answers. You will and you at the end that happen. I I will give it to you at the end. Answer. I had a question about residential parking last week, but Miss Rogers got any um update.
We will make sure there's an update. The second time that I'm here, it will be given. No one said anything to me. It will be given. Miss Rogers. I would like to see that happen. It will. Thank you. Next speaker, madam clerk. Next speaker is Dr. Fields. State your name, please.
Chelse. Good evening uh to you all. I want to talk about uh the booming business of Patterson. or should I say the booming business off of Patterson because while we're kept distracted with fans, ribbon cutings, celebratory events
and festivities, developers, team owners, and out of town investors are cashing in big time on the people of Patterson. You know us, we are the ones footing the bill while uh everything is literally left, we're left with potholes
here, rising rents, and broken promises. Let me get this straight. We, the taxpayers, have unknowingly helped fund a private stadium. Yes, you heard that right, private. After having built on public having it built on public dollars, it is now the shiny new home of
the Cosmos soccer team that somehow will yet be another project that will bring zero benefits to this very community that pays for it. Not one free ticket, not one youth program, not one dollar redirected into our schools or our streets by this developer, Bay Adulo
Wilson Ball Development. Just a room filled with Patterson's elite and Red Bulls Arena owner Eric Stover. In return, Patterson's park redevelopment has given us nothing, just lock gates on renovated parks, four swings, and another new park that the public can barely utilize in the manner in which
most park facilities are. These developers have capitalized on bleeding the city of Patterson as a profit pipeline that flows straight out of Patterson. You want to talk about playing in our face. Here's the kicker. This same man leading the effort, Mr. Bay Adulo Wilson, in case you don't know
who he is, he was the developer that was given $110 million. Now he's the chairman and the co-owner of the Cosmos. Same developer. the very team now calling the taxpayerf funed Hinchcliffe Stadium their personal playground. I
don't know about you, he's not just involved, but in my opinion, this whole Hinchcliffe initiative stinks. It's got conflict of interest written all over it. To you in power, it can no longer be just business as usual. You all are accountable and blood spills on your
hands every time you vote in a manner that allows Patterson to be exploited. We love this city. We fight for this city. And it's about time the people in power stop treating it like their personal ATM. I don't know. I don't want to know where the fans at. I want to know where the money is at. We'll stop
yelling black and brown when the black and brown community stops getting overlooked. And taken advantage of. Patteradisonson deserves better and we can no longer stay quiet about it. Thank you. Next speaker, Madame Clerk.
Next speaker is Ava Razak. She Good evening, Commissioner. State your name kindly. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. They fighting. I don't know why they're fighting. Hi.
Is ready? I mean, all right. Could we set the timing again? because I'm sorry. All right. Good evening everyone. Um I guess everyone's here on a different note, but I wanted to start this off by starting saying something else. Last
week there was an event that was taken um from the young lady who runs Gasa Moore, Miss Ingret. Um they did um a wonderful event for the ladies at Pedra Salon. Um, they took the young ladies that are staying at the Patterson Task
Force shelters at the Hilltop and they gave them a makeover. They did their hair, they did the makeover, they ate, they drank. I mean, they had a good time. I wanted to also give a shout out to all those who made that possible that gave donations for these young ladies to
be there. Also, I wanted to make sure that I said thank you for the new librarian that they did now for the kids. It's wonderful with the choo choo train. Another thing um for my council people here and mayor and everybody in the city, Miss Eve is going to ask for something, but I don't want you guys to
think that I'm asking for me in the on Circle Lab where the shelters are. They have a spot in the back that we would like to know if you guys can help us donate time and people because we all have people in the city that could make this happen and make that playground for the kids that are staying in that
shelter and I've been trying to do that. So, if you guys could come on, you guys know who to connect to. I'm not asking for me because I don't need it, but those kids there need a little safe haven. So, if you guys can look out and go up there by the circle by Monas, we
really appreciate it. Another thing that I wanted to invite um the Patterson Task Force on October 18, 2025, the doors open at 1:00. We're doing a early Christmas fundraiser um for the task force. The tickets are $35 and they
include um lunch and tickets. So, if you guys can really appreciate and share, I need you guys to really listen. If I come up here in the city, you guys know I don't ask you for nothing for me. I don't. So, I really in the time that I have as being a commissioner for the
task force, I want this for you guys to make it happen because you guys, a little bit of here, a little bit of there, a little bit of there, we can make it happen, guys. So, please look out. Once again, Kasa Moore, thank you Patterson Tasker, Miss Monica, Mr. Darian, um, Roberto, all the ladies and
the children that were there. It was a wonderful thing. They looked just so beautiful. They had a great time. All the donations that were giving from, um, Cumac, the Brownstone, Kilio, um, Bocaditos, just everybody. And you know what, ladies and gentlemen, if we were all to look at each other and we were to
share what we have, there wouldn't be nobody starving. So, what I'm trying to say is let's start the day early in the morning being positive. And I'll leave off with this. Let the first light of day fill you with a sense of purpose. Believe in your ability to manifest
positivity and joy. The universe is listening and ready to respond. Your attitude shapes your day. So, choose positivity and watch the world respond in kindness. Thank you so much. Thank you, Commissioner. and I look forward to everybody back again to
please help me for the task force because asking for me so thank you commissioner let's make it happen thank you next speaker madam my loved ones are here next speaker madam clerk next speaker is Eddie Oliver thank you good evening
state your name please good evening misses good evening Patterson good night I want to talk about corruption was an article was written yesterday uh about a developer paying off Alex Mendes
and Marisa Davida. And so let me make it clear uh we did not elect developers to protect our interest. We elected you
guys. So I don't blame the developer at all. Uh, and I don't question the motive as to why he paid Alex Mendes and who appears to be busy over there playing
with this something. Anyway, um, and Marisa Davia. So, I I don't question the developer, but I would like to know, Alex, I'm talking to you directly. What did you have to do in exchange for that money?
Oh, he's too busy playing. What did you have to do? Marisia the same thing. What did you have to do to get money from that developer? Again, the developer I he's in in the private sector. We didn't elect him. He doesn't he doesn't owe us
anything, but this fool um I'm sorry. I know Mr. Jackson, you you want me to cartel my my language, but it's very very difficult when you're dealing with these uh foolishness. Uh but anyway, so people of Patterson, please please
listen to me. Uh the evil that we have in this town does not come from the private sector. It's not the developer. It's these guys. This is the evil over here. With the
exception of Councilman Jackson, this is where the evil resides. when you get people like Marisa Davila getting money from the developer, Alex Bendes getting money from the developer. Uh, and so you ask, "Well, Marisa, answer the question. What did you have to do in exchange for
that money?" I he didn't just give it to you because you're pretty um let's So, let's just leave it at that. But, but again, people of Paris, please understand where the evil comes from. This is it. It's not the private sector.
They don't owe us anything. And so the the you you have people like uh Luis Veles, you know, in exchange of um he you know, the mayor giving his his
wife um a a job. Now Luis has to vote in a way that is pleasing to the mayor. I'll explain this. the the uh the the uh the mayor used to call him a
criminal all the time. So now the mayor stopped but in exchange Alex cannot vote in any way that would upset thank thank you Mr. Aliveres, thank you so much. And so, people of Paris, please
understand the evil in this town. We are looking at it right here. Thank you, Mr. Council President. Next, next speaker. Council President, I'm I'm respectfully asking for 30 seconds. That gentleman addressed me one second.
That gentleman addressed me by name. And all I'm going to say is this. He addressed me and I asked respectfully. He addressed me. And let me just tell you, it is obvious to me that he's never been elected official. I don't think he ever will be because he should understand what elects. I did exactly
what the law states. If you get a donation point of order, council president point of order. Ne next speaker. Hello. Next speaker. The next speaker is Valerie Freeman.
Order in the chambers. Order in the chambers. Next order in the chambers. Next speaker, madam clerk. She's coming. Next big is Valerie Freeman. She's coming. Val, next speaker is Miss Freeman. She's coming.
Commissioner Freeman. State your name, please. Thank you. Valerie Freeman. I'm here as a community person, not a commissioner. So, I don't want to get that um Mr. Strrew or none of my views that I speak
here today are on behalf of the school board. It's on me. First thing I heard you, council president, when you said that you had a meeting in the finance committee and that there will be no layoffs for the fire department.
I hope that's true. Because what I'm hearing is that the fire department will be the first department to be cut. They will remove one firehouse and they will remove an ambulance. They are 29 firefighters short.
They need more ambulances. They need new fire trucks. And they're the third busiest fire department in the state of New Jersey. when they were negotiating their contract, the city refused to negotiate with them and told them to go straight
to arbitration. And whatever arbitration came up with is what the city would agree to, but instead your mayor appealed what arbitration said. Then
we have Kathleen Long who was under oath stating that per theou with the state the city is to budget 2% for police and fire. She also noted that they had to use it to pay other bills.
How? Why? But she skated down to Trenton after receiving a nice little raise and nobody questioned it. Nobody said a thing. I applaud and I thank the firefighters
for everything that they do and how they continue to fight the fires and other pertinent emergencies in this city. after experiencing and witnesses witnessing what happened at Hinchcliffe Stadium.
If you thinking about laying off one of them, this city is going to be in trouble and we will be looking and facing a tragedy. Another thing is my good friend Charles Brown
retired April 1st. He has yet to receive his terminal leave pay. What's going on with that? All these things should come up in the finance meeting. You know firsthand who's retiring, who's leaving, the money
should be there for them to be paid. And when the money is not there for them to be paid, that means that something is going on here. And as long as you all continue, aside from Mike of course, to agree with all the shenanigans that this
mayor brings before you, you guys are part of the problem. It's time to stand up against the mayor. If you want to say move forward and we're better together and let's work together, set them straight because what's
happening here is sad and this is in in this new council president, new vice president, but are we going to still have the same shenanigans? That's what I'm concerned with. Thank you, Miss Freeman. Next speaker, Madam Clerk.
The next speaker is Bal Hakeim. Let's see here. Bal Hakeim. Bal Hakeim. Miss, Mr. Hakee is coming to the microphone. God loves those. Please state your name.
Huh? Just state your state your name. Thank you. Bal Hakeim. I'm not here on behalf of uh Negroes for Andre Seyer. Just want to make that clear.
I'm not I'm not here on behalf of them. Uh I want to read something from the Dictionary. the dictionary since we have some young people here and this is in a dictionary that is authorized by the board of education and it's um
jackass. This is definition a stupid person. A male ass or dunkey. What does it mean to be called a jackass? Stupid incompetent fool.
Definition of jackass. Now, a man who is a stupid, incompetent fool, synonymous with bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goofball, ghouls, zany. And I say that because we're talking
about developers here in the city of Patterson. Make sure this is clear. And if they really was interested in development, what happened to the mic? It was a little
louder. Did I blow it out? Anyway, there was a company that came here 2011. I know cuz I was sitting there with them. We never public publicized this here. It was under another
administration. It was this company. And what they wanted to do, they wanted to come in and they want wanted to develop the first and the fourth ward and build homes for the residents. That's what they wanted to do. However, paytoplay has always been a thing here in
Patterson. When I go around the state, the people always talk about um um they don't want to do business with Patterson because of um corruption. As Mr. Over Alvarez mentioned, is is corruption. you know, we can't get no good news um uh
here. So, I don't see um where we have benefit, but I see where um the um developers have benefited a great deal. And we blame it on those that sit and make
those decisions, those people that are sitting there at the um board of adjustments that agree. How in the world can you agree to some of the stuff? I mean, if you go out there and um and just look like I just um I just walked I struggled and I wanted to get Well, I
put it in my other bag, but I struggled because I went and purchased some air some earphones. And when I purchased the earphones, I got home, they were empty. Nothing was in it because people are desperate. So, they stole they stole the stuff. And I always reminded people, I ordered a
computer to come to Patterson. The company contacted me back and said we cannot send it to Patterson because of the risk factor. We got to change the image here. Thank you Mr. Hakeim. Good to see you tonight. Madam clerk, next speaker. Next speaker is Dave Gilmore.
State your name, please. Sounds like Yeah. Good evening, council. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Citizens, let me start with uh telling you that I've got over 40 years of management,
executive management, project management, regional management uh experience. I ain't never seen nothing like this. First of all, I want to go back to the couple of years ago and subsequent years
demanding that we get reports. Where are the reports? Where are the outcome measures made, missed, projected, and so forth to plan the next year? We just came out of another reorg. Where's the reports?
Where's the outcome measures for all of the money spent that you approved? This is not some obscure uh wish. You should be asking as your committee chairs multiple years where the where
the data is for what what you oversee. So to me that leads leads and lends us to the feeling that the information is being suppressed. The less information we have the more
ignorant we are because there's no checks and balances. That's a problem. And every now and then, somebody will get smart and ask for the reports, particularly when it's budget time and you come up short. Now, we want to know
where are the reports. Come on. That should be that should be everybody's agenda, getting the reports, particularly from those committee chairs. I'm somewhat uh upset
because last week I predicted people were going to jail and it only took two days. It only took two days for the indictments to come down and the folks being challenged for uh
somewhat illegal activities. Well, guess what? There's more coming. there's more coming and at this point you got to get in front of it. You know it's wrong. You know that all these approvals and
things that are happening by the by the resident commissioners on the on these boards and and before I run out of time I want to ask you again do you plan on reinstating the two meetings that have been eliminated? Because if not you need to give us six
minutes at the at the mic. That's right. Because 3 minutes is not enough to discuss the uh shortcomings in the city of Patterson. We are suffering. There's a lack of capacity and some of the people that are here that don't know what the hell is going on and we we we
need to address that. So I leave you with that. Have a good night. Thank you, Mr. Gilmore. Next speaker, Madam Clerk. Next speaker here is a Robersonson of Robertson. Not here. Madam A. Roberson. Okay. Not
a Robersonson. Oh, Annette. Oh, and good evening, Mr. Annette. Good evening. How are you? Good. Good. Um, I just want to recap what's something that was said at the workshop last week in regards to the PO order
with Ellisonal and that there was a back payment of about seven months um IOU. Um, my question is, and we did, I think it was stated that it had nothing to do with the Karen BAC, so we have to assume that
it has something to do with the BAC prior. My thing is, I think we need to begin peeling back the onion so that we could see what finance look like. Um, cuz it's behooved me that we are not
better at paying our bills, but we reflect on tax increases. So my thing is when we do tax increases, where do that money go? The other thing, the homeless population, they are just roaming the
streets. They're in between cars. You don't know when to go. They're trained. And what that means is the fence and all bent over. We need to do something with this share um situation. They're in properties. They're in business in front
of businesses. Um the traffic, the parking, the parking and we know we keep repeating this but it's bad. Miss Mims, I sent you something that was in the proximity of the hospital. This is how
people are parked and this is early in the morning. No fault of theirs. Um the other question is when residents come before this council, we know that the council is not addressing the questions or concern, but is it preview
and are we looking at or listening to the concern and are we trying to address what the constituents are bringing forth? The other uh question I have um in terms of developing, what is the fee that the city charges
for new construction for upgrading the sewer line? So that I think that onus is on the developer or on the people who are building. Do we have you know could we report that there?
I just want to make sure just a minute. Yeah. Right. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Gilmore. Okay. Um, that's pretty much it. But really, the development, we got to we got to we got to stop it. It's killing It's killing the city.
Um, I would challenge each and every one of you at about 2:30 stand on every corner on Main Street down to see what it looks like the park and the right turn off of Market Street to
block the box. What is it costing for those lines? If we're spending I I would like what the cost is for those lines because what we're doing we're wasting money if we don't have traffic patrolling those corners to issue out tickets. Yes. I have a coworker. Thank you miss um on
last week uh street clean on campus street got a ticket. She thought it was for street cleaning. It was for double parking and she was parked. She ended up paying the ticket not knowing assuming it was for street cleaning to visit better. Thank you, Mr.
Anna. Next speaker, madam clerk. Next speaker is Councilman McCoy. William McCoy. State your name, please. Good evening. Good evening, council members. Um, Bill McCoy. Um, Annette was my classmate, by
the way, and used to eat my lunch every day when I go to school. But I'm glad I'm grown up now. Listen, um I've served on this municipal council for 20 years. I served on the board of education
and um I'm really I'm really appalled. I'm a little bit disappointed that our standards are so low that somebody could go through an indictment, a superseding indictment
and US attorney federal charges for bribery of a board of adjustment member. And we have him vote tonight on appointing a board of adjustment member. and the and and it's it's not it's not
shocking to anybody. The council has not I remember the council saying, "We're going to give you a censure. We're going to give you a vote of no confidence. We're going to give you some kind of comment to say, "Brother, that's wrong. That's wrong." You know what happened
this evening when I was coming home? the headquarters that is on Park Avenue and 33rd that everybody been talking about that had his banner all over it. The new owners apparently wanted to distance themselves from the criminal activity
and took the banners down. The place had been stripped. It's returned back to its natural name as a laundromat. And we as a municipal council, we should have a better expectation of that. You know what my joy was? to see the new
council president because I would hate to see another council president go from the council president's seat to the pokey and this guy is on his way to jail one way or other and for us not to say anything about it
is really sad but for the 55 seconds that I have going to invite everybody to Jamaica Day on August 2nd and 3rd a gospel fest is going to be great we have a new international artist Boy that is
coming in and it's going to be a great time. I want everybody to join their hands with me and celebrate for someone who's been a saint for tolerating me for 42 years, my sweetheart. And tomorrow we celebrate our 42nd
anniversary, three kids and and going strong. Every day is our honeymoon. God bless you everybody. If we want better, we got to do better. And I'm hoping tonight that somebody will lean over and say, "Brother, you were wrong. You need to
repent. And if you're going to go back to Dominican Republic and wash again, go back down there cuz the last one ain't working." Thank you. Next speaker, Madam Clerk. The next speaker is Daniel Mahia. State your name please.
Hello. Uh my name is Daniel Mahia and I am the CEO of Silk City 1. Again Silk City1 is a platform that looks to create transparency within each and every city. Uh within the platform our main goal is to clean the river through the meth uh through the method of hydroponics and
aquaponics. uh but within the website in itself we have certain uh options for the people or the public. Uh the first option is any city events which would be divided into events by the people and events by businesses. Within the events by
businesses uh every week or every week and a half we would select a few businesses that would give a specific discount. That way people could either try their product and if they love it they stay with that company or they try the other uh companies that choose to work with us. The second option uh would
be for uh issues that needs to be addressed within the city. In the case scenario that uh for example we're complaining about a street that needs to be fixed. The it the issue would be sent to the person that's in charge and also
to the council members. That way you wouldn't have to waste your time coming to the city hall and speaking the same stuff. Now it comes to the uh the elected official to do their job. In the case scenario that you say that they're not doing their job, you have the privilege to vote them out as which we
already provided that within the platform uh which is a a recall referendum. It's all public and you're able to visit silkcity1.com. On the other hand, I yes silkcity1.com. Uh that's just the first website at the
moment. We do have a a bigger website being built under silkcity.1. Uh but for now, you could check out silkcity1.com. On the other hand, I do real estate within the city. And one thing that I've learned, I was in the Dominican Republic
for 28 days. You see a lot of things. For example, when it comes to product, a simple haircut over here could cost you $20. In the Dominican Republic, the same haircut is going to cost you around $3
is as to which what has the value to the to the job that you do, right? This is why I have a company also that I started which is called Silk City Wear. It's a sweater that even though it's summer, it's in the process of being released. This is our first concept as to which it
has uh kind on the outside and silk on the inside with its own message. You would uh whatever you think of it, it's probably this as long as it's good. Um the concept at the moment I am actually
going to hand it to uh Nelson Cruz a baseball player who's going to sign it and through the uh law of network it's going to go to every other artist or every other person and then at the end once it's fully signed on the inside it would go for option. This is just to
show how uh network works. At the end of the day you have to treat every other person that the council members uh with respect because that's all we expect. and I was pointed I was uh addressed with the uh by the council members and also by the people and each one have
given me their own perspective. Thank you for giving me some extra time. Thank you in advance. I was addressed by the the council members and the public. Mr. Mahia, no worries. Thank you very much. I'll be posting in the Silk City one, but this is the perfect example. Thank you.
Thank you. Next speaker, Madam Clerk. The next speaker is is it Stevens or Taran? Stevens, scratch your name. Okay, let's press that. Next speaker. The next speaker is Joel Keys. I don't think he's here.
Mr. Keys. Oh, he's here. Okay, Joe Keys Patterson. Damn, clock started already. Capitalism, our worst enemy. There have been many complaints in the black community about our people arguing and criticizing each other too much.
Consequently, some claim that we are our own worst enemy. Psychologist Dr. Bobby Wright and revolutionary activist Dr.Wami Tore disagree with both accounts regarding the complaints of too much arguing and
criticizing. Dr. right says, quote, "It's that same BS that got us all doing this individual stuff. You don't tell me what to do. I don't tell you what to do." And all of that. In one sense, we're the freest people in this country. No Jew can do anything that he wants to
against the Jews. No Irish can do anything he wants to against the Irish, but any black can get up here and say and do anything they want to, and we cannot sanction them." unquote. Regarding the statement that we're our own worst enemy, Dr.Wami Torres said,
quote, "We tell you from the very beginning, we've never taken the line of others that the biggest problem we have is we ourselves. No, our biggest problem is our enemy, capitalism, and it must be destroyed." The complaints and criticism I
referenced primarily revolve around the recent appointment of African-American woman Dr. for Lisa Mims. As the council president, I teach sociology, which is behavior science, from a systemic analysis. I created the accountability
challenge to help understand how systems shape negative behaviors. That's why the two questions in the accountability challenge are how has the system contributed to the problem and how has the individual. Corresponding with DrWaami Torres's assessment that
capitalism is our biggest problem, Malcolm X and others assert you can't separate racism from capitalism. Moreover, Dr. Umar Johnson avers quote we all have a white man inside of us, but we don't want to discuss that.
Quote, Professor James Smalls gives an example of Dr. Umar Johnson's analysis that we all have a white man inside of us. He said, quote, "We have a president at City College who was brought in because she is supposed to be an African-American woman. She is
African-American in terms of pigment, but value systems, beliefs, alliances, allegiances, and role models are all based on white supremacist notions. The same thing is happening at Temple. We have a black woman there. And it's not just one. We have brothers and sisters
who are basically white supremacists in terms of their intent, in terms of their values, beliefs, consciousness, and everything about them is rooted in white supremacist survival. In conclusion, speaking to African-American psychology students at
a university, Dr. Amos Wilson confirms, quote, "And this, students, is what you're being prepared to do. being prepared to put a black face on white power and to defend white interest. You must be ignorant of history or misread
it to play this kind of game. Last line, Councilman Jackson refuses to be a black face on white power and that's why he's one against 11 at these council meetings. Thank Thank you. Next speaker, madam clerk.
Next speaker is Cameo Black. Good evening, Miss Black. State your name, please. Hear me, O Black. Um, I came here last week, Alex Mendes, this for you. I know you going to jail, but I appreciate if
you pay attention. Um, last week at city clerk office when you was there with your son, you was talking real slick to me, saying, "Oh, show the proof. Show the proof." The pictures is in the proof. You had everything to do with behind your son. But let me tell you, I
don't care. I'm gonna win. And to all of y'all people up here on the council seat, y'all don't see that me and the rest of the younger generation is starting to step up. Y'all know why? Cuz we're tired of y'all. Y'all sit up here. Y'all play a lot of freaking games. Y'all done up. Y'all got to go. Y'all
got to go. Y'all time is up. Y'all keep saying we don't got to leave until our time is up. Y'all going to leave voluntary and or involuntary. You can leave or you're going to leave in handcuffs because a lot of y'all is going to jail. And I told y'all months ago the feds was coming and y'all was
going to jail. Everybody thought it was a game. They dropping names. All the names ain't out there yet. It's more to come. And guess what? Tonight, y'all ain't let me bring my popcorn on. But federal court, they're going to allow me to have my popcorn. And the rest of us going to have our popcorn, too. Cuz
y'all are going to jail. Then you can sit up there. You're going to believe me when I tell you. Everything that's done in the dark, it comes out in the light. Okay? I'm not Y'all waiting for me to curse. I'm not going to get I'm not going to curse. I just was baptized on
Sunday. I'm walking with the Lord. I'm walking with the Lord and I'm shining with the Lord. And when I told y'all I walk with the Lord and I'm covered by the blood of Jesus, I meant that from the bottom of my heart. And I'm going to show y'all better than I could tell
y'all is more than one way to skin a cat. Okay? And everybody with that's in cahoots with this board of education too, they going to jail too. And when I got banned for speaking up for my son, they was waiting for me to do performance. Guess what I did? I clapped
back by signing up to become a commissioner. And when I sit next to y'all, all the games is over with. I don't cut tide deals. I can't be brought. People that keep on telling me y'all gonna put money in my bank account. Y'all could take that money and y'all could shove it where the sun don't
shine. I don't need your money. I rather get it out the mud. I don't care if I got to wipe behinds, clean toilets. I would do whatever I had to do. But one thing I won't do is sell my soul to the devil. Have a good night. Thank you, Miss Black. Next speaker,
Madam Clerk. Next speaker is Elvis Durham. Good evening, Mr. Durham. State your name, please. Good evening. How everybody doing out there in Patterson P County? This morning came in made some
announcements. S city Esport S Esport is Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 at Hisup Stadium and it start at 11:00 a.m. until
11:00 a.m. too. And it's going to be featuring Riff of Patterson, New Jersey, Ashley Mley of Patterson, New Jersey, and many more. Tickets is only $25. You could call Miss
Gail at 8487236 32. 848723632. Um, and this start at 11:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Also, I think I got more time. Edo and Production, better known as Elvis Dorm Outreach Music Production
presents Sunday Praise is coming to the First War. Michael Jackson war councilman Michael Jackson. Sunday Praise. Sunday, August 10th, 2025. It starts at 4:00 p.m. and it's going to
be at New Generation Kingdom of Power Ministry on 170 North Main Street in the city of Patterson, New Jersey. And I'm inviting everyone to come. Oh, by the way, the pastor of that church is Pastor Thomas Prairie. I'm inviting everyone to
come because with the help of God, me and my music production is going to be putting the froz war back on the map and we need help. Okay, we need help. Um, for more information, you can contact us at 862823895.
And also go on my YouTube channel. If y'all want to know anything about the um parking of the downtown area, I broke it down. I wrote for the parking authority. Okay, you anyone behind me y'all want to laugh? I wrote for the parking authority 21 years. So go on my YouTube channel,
Patter NJ good news. Pis NJ good news and I broke it down in one of my videos and I prefer for the council, city council, people is coming asking you questions about the parking. Be real, be
honest. Let them know what it is because I did. Go on my YouTube channel. Subscribe to my YouTube channel. Person NJ good news. God bless you and good night. Thank you, Mr. Dorm. Next speaker, Madame Clerk.
Next speaker is Errol Carr. Commissioner. Good evening, Mr. Carr. God bless you. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening, Madame President. Good evening to the council. I must start by thanking the council for
um voting affirmatively um for resolution number 19 honoring uh Mr. Darren Miller. Mr. Darren Miller will be our keynote speaker for our flag raising for this year. I suppose you
have all received a letter from the Jamaica Organization of New Jersey. I only got one response from the council members, so I'm not sure, but I'm taking it that
everybody will be at our flag raising on Friday, August 1st, starting at 5:00. Madame President, I must also thank
yourself, Vice President Davilla and Councilman Valz for showing up at our ribbon cutting for the Patton Free Public Library.
It's a beautiful place right now and um the library board work very hard in getting this refurbished. I'm not sure you know our people here in
Patterson know that the children library is up and running. It's in good shape. So, I just want to be here tonight to just alert everyone that the children library
is open and it's no use for us to have it open and we don't have kids coming and taking books and enjoy the spot. So, I am appealing to all
parents in Patterson. Bring your kids out, take them, go to the children's library, let them become acquainted with relaxing with a book. You know, sometimes you find your kids doing things that it's
not really a defining and building to their emotional person. So, please get the kids out to come and use the space. Don't let it just stay there looking beautiful. We
want our kids in there. And I also want to use this opportunity to appeal to the council. We are going to need the support of the council to keep these our libraries working.
You know, two weeks ago we um a ribbon cutting for the one in um Tawa. It was beautiful. So we want to keep it going. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Next speaker, Madam Clerk. Next speaker is Corey Teague.
Commissioner Te. Good evening, Commissioner. Corey Teague, Patterson, New Jersey. So, I want to use a couple minutes I have tonight just to reiterate a very powerful verse of scripture. Uh the 24th
Psalm verse one says this. It says the earth is the Lord's. But it doesn't stop there. It doubles down and the fullness thereof. But then it goes further. It says the world and they that dwell therein. I think a lot of times we get
carried away and we get on these power trips and we forget who this world really belongs to. At any moment, God could click his finger and thousands of people could disappear. At any moment, God could stomp his foot and mountains
could be leveled. At any moment, God could look at a at a river and empty it just by looking at it. We got to remember who's in charge here. We're not in charge. And even the power and authority that we sometimes believe
that we have and even the majority that we sometimes believe that we have is an illusion at the end of the day because there's an eternal being that sits high and looks low. And when he's ready to do what he needs to do, nobody, no matter
how many votes you have, will be able to get in his way. Please understand that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. You can say and do whatever you want to me, but when you talking about him and messing with his children, you asking for trouble. Your arms are
too short to box with him. So enjoy your power. Enjoy the power that you think you have. But understand there's a higher power and he's looking at you and you're going to have to stand before him and none of your colleagues are going to be able to
help you. You're going to have to explain to him who did what and why. Why you saw what was supposed to be done and why didn't you do it and nobody's going to be able to help you. You're going to have to stand in front of him by yourself and God help you. I don't want to be there standing there next to you.
The only word you want to hear when you leave this world is well done. Anything else and you're in a world of trouble for all eternity. So make sure whatever decision you make, make sure whatever it is you do, because the Bible says, "Except the Lord build the house,
the labor is in vain that works on it." Paraphrasing. If it's not God's will, it's not going to happen. It's God's will for Cameo Black to be on that school board. And anybody that stands in her way is standing in God's way. Good evening.
Thank you, Commissioner. Next speaker, Madam Clerk. Next week, speaker is Wahita Muhammad. And then you're next. State your name. Good evening, Miss Muhammed. With God's name, good evening. First of all, I want to say, and this is no
disrespect to any of you, but I want to know why is it that only you, Commission, uh, Councilwoman Miss Marissa, is the chair of all of the vital committees. I don't understand that. because it makes the other council
people look like they don't know nothing that you know all the things about all these vital committees but when we come here and ask for a report you don't say anything your colleagues don't say anything what the I don't want to c I wasn't baptized but that that's just
crazy to me it makes you all look incompetent the other thing I want to say to you through the chair the corporation council I remember saying to you when you first got you that this
whole fiasco was going to come at your heart and your soul and you don't look happy anymore because you know some of the things that you are doing is not right and you have to be held accountable for that and you know that
Allah is going to ask you what did you do for what it was that you was witnessed to and I want you to stop saying to these people, especially the council president, whoever it is, that they have full authority to do whatever they want to do. That's wrong. That's a
whole board there. When they call for any other meeting or or adjournment or whatever, it's not just left up to that president. And you need to stop saying that because it's really tagging at your heart. The other thing I want to say is
all these new buildings that's coming up. Do you all think that you're not going to be held accountable if somebody walk in one of those damn buildings and they got killed because the building was not inspected? Do you really believe that? Because you're going to be held
accountable if somebody get killed in one of these buildings that you know haven't been inspected and you sit there and won't say nothing. Nothing. And then what are you going to say to that family that you didn't know? You're
not going to be able to say that cuz it's on record that you knew what was happening and you said nothing. And you're not going to be able to look at any of your colleagues and blame them cuz you have a mouth. God has given you a voice for a reason. And you sit there
and use it for nothing except what interested you. and you sit there and let things happen because you want to move to another point, it's not going to get you where you want to go. Especially when you keep saying
that you know who God is and God is good and all these things that you're saying. You're going to have to prove that. And it is a shame that you sit there and look like wita, you can say whatever you want to say cuz I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing, but you going to keep
doing it until God say what you're going to do. Go. Thank you, Miss Wita. Next speaker, Madame Clerk. Next speaker is Aubrey Rouse. It's Madame Clerk is three different they're together. So,
Aubrey, Amaya, and Evette, but they have they all have different. Please state your names. Aubrey, Amaya, I bet You people need to stop all the
violence. We all need to come together and people need to stop cursing at the meetings cuz kids are following after their parents and we need to stop and clean up Patterson, New Jersey.
So, I was at the other I saw the other meeting and I seen that there was a lot of cursing. I wanted to let you guys know there's not a lot of cursing needed all on TV. There's other kids watching on TV with their parents. Thank you.
Um I was going to come up here and say that stop cursing but anyone never curse today. Thank you. Thank you madam clerk. All the public portion is now closed. Have a motion to
close public portion. Moved by council vice president J. Second by councilman Mendes. Roll call to co close public portion. Roll call to close the public portion. Councilwoman Cotton. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Um, I just I'm not No. No. Because when I say no,
everybody else talks all the way down. So, I might as well say what I got to say. A little bit of it anyhow. Um, I just want to Oh, no. I'm sorry. Okay. The timer. She put the timer on. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to try to be brief,
but um there was a couple of things on here and I want to address Wita Muhammed about the committees. Um for the last three years, I've been on no committees, but whenever they needed someone to be at a committee meeting, they knew that they can call on Counciloman Cotton to
come to a meeting that they cannot be to. So to look at the agenda now to say why I'm on so many committee meetings but I'm not cheering but I can show up. I can be there during the day. I can be there in the afternoon. I can be there
in the evening. So to me not being on committees for the last three years and you never saw me sit up here complain because things will happen for the best. God will put stuff where they need to be put. I just want to answer a few questions here um that has talked about
I'm not going to be long but because I I got some other things I want to save toward the end and I know um Kamisha uh Roger Jones you had spoke about permit parking and um parking so many different
areas. Let me just say that you have a lot of meters now. And and for me, I have been fighting for quite some time now. Uh I'm not getting meters on 10th Avenue. I'm not getting meters on Broadway. And when I'm saying
Broadway from East 18 on down, 10th Avenue from 20 10th Avenue from East 22nd on down to East 28th Street. So, you know, it's probably going to happen, but I'mma do my best not under my watch that we get those meters put in. Uh, I
want to say too, um, and there's a lot of stuff going on. And I really sometimes, and I hear the young lady about Phillips, and I'm not quite sure like what's really going there, but you know, I will try to re I will reach out to you cuz I really not sure. And when
you're not sure, when you're not sure, then you need to, you know, people shouldn't comment on something that they do not know. They they can't they really I mean, if they're not sure about things. Um, but I would reach out to you. I just want to say too that um I want to thank you know what I think that
we need to thank people who do for us, who do good community things. And I want to say thank you to Eva Razer who my daughter is a softball coach at Kennedy High School and she's been she's the first female
since 1965 when the school was built. First female to head a girl softball team to be the head of the girls softball team. And she's the first black head coach. So when you when you see someone that's is
able and she played for them back in 1992 and 1994 and 1995 she played but to see her to be there and I want to thank Eva because we had senior day and what what you want to do is I find myself you want to do special stuff for children
and they had senior day uh for the girls at Kenny High School. There was about six, seven girls and then the opposite team they played was charter charter school. Um they only had one senior and what you try to do is give them a nice enjoyable day. And so with that being
said, so Eva helped feed both teams that day. And sometimes I think that we have to do special things for our children no matter who children. Because I always say when I started, I got three children. Councilwoman C.
30,000 children are my children and I'm going to do everything I can to look out for all children here in the city of Patterson. For someone to say we're not looking out. Yes, we are. I am. And there's a lot of council members up here. I will have more to say when I close out. Thank you.
Your vote. Your vote. Madame Clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you, Councilwoman Davo. Yeah. So, I I will begin uh by uh just starting to apologize to Council
President and to my colleagues. Um there are times that um you know, nobody's perfect. We make mistakes. And today, you know, a gentleman addressed me various times, mentioned my name. He didn't know that I was behind him. and then I was standing on the side. Uh but
to make statements as Councilwoman Cotton just said, saying things without having full knowledge. All right. And so I should have addressed what now instead of, you know, having the outburst. Um it is so I I do want to apologize for that.
When I'm wrong, I admit it and move forward. Um and so you know I am going to pray that that does not happen again because as we started July 1st we said we want to be the change that we want to
see. So um I just need to just put here and just say that when you're reading things articles there's certain people that use and put things out there without having a full message. So, let it be, you know, follow the money and
then have my name, you know, in terms of the statement uh that um Councilman Jackson's aid put forward. All right? You know, to make a statement, you know, I did exactly what I was supposed to do. Okay? I reported a donation that was
given to me and that's the law. I followed elect law. Unfortunately, I have hundreds of people that donate to me. I don't think that anyone that has, and I'm just going to speak in general, that does fundraising knows every person that donates. But I will say this to
you. I don't think any person I've ever known to fundra has asked someone, "What do you do? Are you do you work a Ponzi scheme? Are you doing X, Y, and Z?" So, you know, I received a donation. It's
out there. Many others have as well. So, I just wanted to make that statement because, you know, to have people here to use it for their own advantage, to think that people could come and insult and yell at you without having full knowledge, you know, I'm not that person
to have someone or to see someone on the floor and beat them down. I don't do that. That is not who I am. It'll never be who I who I am. Uh, but I will say this. I believe that everyone has the opportunity to go through a process um
uh through the court system if if point of order. Point of order, kids. Point of order. We're in the middle of roll call. They are not. Point of order. Point of order.
Point of point of order. Point of order. Nancy Greer is here. That is not true. Do No, that is not true. Okay, ladies. You're out of order. You're You're out of order. You're out of
order. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Then they they're not telling you the truth. They're not scared. Ladies, you're out of order. Ladies, you're out of order. You're out of order. You're out of order. There's
no way they told you that. You're out of order. You are out. Officer, please escort them out. Escort both of them out. You are breaking decorum.
Your officer, please escort them out. Okay. So, escort them out. There has to be decorum. Council president and and I I had the floor and Yes, council president. Yes. I I'd like
officer, please set the decorum in the chamber. Set the decorum in the chamber. Set set the decorum. So, council vice president, please, please return. I I do not exactly know what just happened. I just want to just finish my
my statement by just saying this. Okay. Uh, I'm putting forth being very open and being very transparent and anyone that is an elected official that receives monies, it is legal as long as you
report it and you report it correctly. So, this rhetoric out there of of putting me out there as I'm the only one that has received a campaign donation, um, it's unfortunate that they're using that for their own, you know, whatever stance they want to take. But with that
said, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity and and once again, I did have various people text me about the order and to all of those that were watching, you know, my apologies. Thank you and have a good night. My vote is yes to close the public portion. Thank you, Councilman Jackson.
Um, thank you, Madam Clerk. So, uh, first let me just say for the history of of the council chambers, we've actually
had to have actually had the officers um escort somebody out because an accusation of someone a council person paying young people to come to the podium. And if that is the case, that's absolutely disgusting. And uh I mean I
I've known that people get paid to come to the council many times before and I've been accused by council president by your mother of of of bringing people forward and I don't know if anybody could find anyone that I've paid or or has that have done
anything to co coorce people to bring Why are you talking over me? Why are you talking over me? I could just let you know right now that clock is just is is not going to get acknowledged. cuz now you still talking over me. Why you talking over me? I don't understand why
you doing that. But um so that's that's uh that's buffoonery right there. That's clown work. Let me start by addressing um you first, Miss Hillis, because I I think this is probably the one of the most sensitive
um matters and and I do totally agree with you. um the the the manner in which there's a number of people including myself who often um categorize or spotlight
black and brown people. I don't think that I can only speak for myself. Um one um my family I'm I I can pretty much guarantee I'm I come from the most diverse family that that anyone else sit here. I have um cousins, aunts um who
are white. I have cousins, aunts, mother who's Hispanic. Uh you know, I have people from all um walks of life in my family. But the thing that I will not um discredit is the the blatant um
the uh the blatant um unlevel treatment. Um the other day when we had 40 shots rung ring out on a in a park on Clinton Street, it was a young black man that was lost his life. And you know,
although it it, you know, it it falsely gets characterized many times that, oh, you know, it's just black-on-black crime, but we negate the neglect that takes places in certain parts of our community. And the backlash on that is
all of the community loses by that because the entire city of Patterson is plagued with the conditions. when we have for the very first time in the long history, forget the fact that he's a minority. Forget the fact that
he's a minority, but when we have for the very first time a Patterson person who was selected as the chief of fire and yet all the other chiefs previously have
been entitled to one, they all made more money than he does. two, everything that they requested, they they've gotten whether it was new fire trucks, it was it wasn't a shortage on manpower.
But the current chief that we have, who has, you know, coincidentally has grown up in the city of Patterson, went to a Patterson public school, has lived here pretty much all his life, is receiving different form of of a of a of
treatment, and in turn, guess what? the entire community is shorted on the services. I don't care if you're white, black, Spanish, whatever the case might be. Councilman Jackson. No, Councilwoman, I have the floor.
But the timer is off. We We There is no timer requirement within the code. It talks about the members of the public that come to the podium. Does not talk about very clearly outlined for And I have the floor and I will finish. I will finish. Could you wrap it up? you the three minute time
I will finish and if you wasn't if you wasn't so soyly speaking over me maybe I would have I would have been able to complete my time could you please wrap up council I'm not wrapping I will finish we have a number of different residents that have come to this podium that have
have looked to have their concerns addressed you made a promise that this this the BA and the administration would address the concerns of the public and that has yet to happen that yet to happen. I will address all of the members of the public that came here to
speak on behalf or or to to me so to speak, right? So, you can be patient. Mr. Rucker, with relative to the extension on time, I put forward the a resolution to extend the time of which this council is particularly this
council current council president and her role was also unwilling to support. Um the rent leveling board corporation council, the people who who are holding him in such high esteem has blatantly
left the rent leveling board unsupported and without the authority and power to do the things that they need to do. People, you have to look at what's taking place. You have to look at what's happening. You have to look at what's happening.
So just a point of order, we have no quorum. That's fine. I'll wait until quorum reconfirm reconvenes. Madame clerk, the meeting cannot continue if we don't have quorum and I I'll wait till the meet to to the quorum reconvenes.
Just just to the public as you're viewing, we're waiting to get a quorum. The uh city's business is over. Public portion is done. We're waiting now for for another council person to come into the meeting
and we have to formally close the meeting because if we do not the action that we took earlier um will be null and void. Uh madam cler we don't have to formally close the meeting. That's not how this works. Madam clerk we can continue. We have a quorum. Thank you. We have quorum. Once again we have quum.
So again relative to the rent leveling board corporation council has left the rent leveling board powerless. There was a ne a necessity for the rent leveling board to gain power of attorney to do
certain things and the board has just been we we made a whole fiasco about starting the rent leveling board and they've done absolutely nothing. In fact, the administration has made sure that their meetings have not been uh uh uh uh uh convened and uh well attended.
They don't have the support from the administration that's required. And therefore, you have members who've been fighting for the longest time to be on the rent leveling board that is that have resigned. Now, I will say this and I apologize because I I I did not write
your name, but um were you able to obtain my number from Miss Rogers? Yes. Okay. So, you can text me anytime and I'm available. As you see, I I don't walk around the community. You could talk to your husband. I don't walk around the community with the armed police guard. I'm all over the place at
all times in the evening. It was very late at night. I was walking uh in your neighborhood. Happened to make his acquaintance. I'm not afraid of the people who live in my community. That's the entire community. I can go all the way from the second all the way down into, you know, the the um some of the
more challenging portions of of of of the uh the ward. Whatever assistance you need, trust me, don't don't allow for the mis uh um communication of uh of we don't work together. I'm extremely effective. I get done the things I need
to get done. And obviously I have to do it, you know, by way of a ironclad fist at times, but the things that need to get done, they get done. So whatever services that you need, please um allow me to be one of your first uh calls and give me an opportunity to show you that
um I do um uh I do get things done. And lastly, I'll say this relative to the appointments. Again, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, you have to pay very close attention to what's going on. Corporation council and his agenda on
making sure the rent leveling board is not effective. The reassignments of those people on the board of adjustments to make sure that some of these large-scale projects that should not be get should not get done continue to get done. The planning board, by the way,
which is controlled by the mayor, if you look at their track record and their approval rate, they're about 90% approval rate. Every single large-scale development project that comes before the planning board easily slides through to the point where most developers would
prefer to go to the planning board than they would the board of adjustments because the board of adjustments have members that are appointed by this council. people like myself who do have members on the board of adjustments that's reflective of the work that I try to do and they're not so easily to
rubber stamp some of these projects. So when you look at certain things and how things are taking place and the new hierarchy within the council the the the the ideology of uh uh uh truncating people's commentary not only from the
public because they don't want you to come here and talk the moment the clock rings up. I'm sorry your time is up. Not one person was listening attentive. How can we answer the 24 to the 30 speakers in a 3minut period of time? We cannot.
We cannot. The administration has an answer to it. I've asked the BA for for reports on the Hinsk stadium state uh spending, the PRC spending, and a number of different items, and I haven't received one of them yet. council president hasn't held them accountable
for having it and yet she's done so because she's been given the chair because she would agreed not to do it. So I'll just say this last thing um relative to to to the budgeting reports.
Councilwoman Davilla and somebody could grab her attention because I don't want to talk about it when she's not in the room. She'll she'll make some some claims of ah somebody's talking about me or I'm not in the room and and this is relative and and mind
you I don't get me wrong I respect her greatly. She's probably one of the only PE council members that I that I have a conversation with from time to time. But what's the reality of it is is the reality of what it is. Councilwoman Dava has been the chair for the finance committee ever since Flavio Rivera has
left here. When Flavio Rivera came on, they put she as the council president put him as the finance chair as a rookie. He was just elected to the council. The finance committee has not done one thing, not one. There hasn't been one line item that was vetoed.
There hasn't been one line item that was changed since Councilman Morris had left here. I I left I made multiple suggestions on things that we should cut and it didn't get the support of this council. The finance committee had does absolutely nothing but go in that room,
meet with the administration, and come out here and read everything that they say they're going to do. The finance committee has not been responsible since she's been the chair, since Flavio was the chair, and yet and still here we are with a $3 million deficit
of which we're trying to chastise the fire department, which the fire department generates over $7 million a year for this for for our budget. And we're getting ready to cut their department irresponsibly. And not we have yet to hold the administration accountable. I was one of
the few who voted no on every single um appropriation for the temporary appro appropriations. I talked about how we were going to extinguish the the the budget almost to 90%. And yet here we are with no room to make cuts, $3 million that the mayor thought he was
going to, you know, do his little twinkle toes dance and the and the and the and the governor was just going to grant and it's and it's now that it's been denied. What are we going to do here? This council has not been responsible and no production has come out of that
finance chair and and the comm the the the community has been calling for it. I've been the only one calling for the misappropriation of all the the money's being spent. We just allowed the PRC to give $2.5 million to an entity that now
the developer is a is the owner of is one of the owners of. No scrutiny. No. Uh uh uh the I saw the the the director from economic development here earlier here with no explanation. Mr. Ba, I asked you for an explanation on this.
How many weeks ago? How long is it going to take me before I could get an explanation on the $2.5 million investment that we just made for the soccer team? What was the project is the projected return back to the community? How are we just spending the money? And how much money is left in the PRC? How
how long is it going to take for me to get that answer? C Councilman Jackson, you have been speaking for exactly I don't care. Council President, I don't give a damn how long you say I was speaking. You may not care. You can pay other people to come to the podium, but you can't pay me to be quiet.
Let me I asked the question and I'm ask I'm expecting an answer. I asked the question, I'm expecting the answer. You have not made sure that my questions are getting answered. So, I'm making a demand tonight. When do I expect to get these result these reports that I'm
asking for? When Mr. Ba, we're in the middle of roll call. When When do I expect When can I expect to get these answers? We have a $3 million deficit at this point. We're spending $2.5 million on a on a
professional soccer team to come to the stadium with absolutely no projections on return. None whatsoever. But yet, this is the stuff that she's co-signing. She's sitting here co-signing it by allowing him not to
answer. And this is the evidence right here. So, I will continue on with the charade while we play this game. Our community continues to be to to suffer. While people are being murdered in parks that we're spending great deal of money on, that park was budgeted for a fence.
That fence was not put up. Miss Janette Thompson has been asking, "Why isn't the fence put up?" On the day of the ribbon cutting, she asked, "Why isn't the fence put up?" On the day of the grand opening of the park, she asked, "Why isn't the fence put up?" We spent millions of
dollars on the park, and yet somebody lost their life right there. And and it could have been a young a young kid. While they're not answering the questions on where is the money, where's the money? It's a very simple question and it's what the responsibility of this
council is. We name streets. We we celebrate, you know, uh uh uh entities that's been in the city for the longest time, but yet we we can't even we failed to to do the simplest thing of balancing the budget. Madame clerk, my vote is no.
Thank you, Councilman. Councilman Khalik. Thank you, Madame Clerk. It's not something new. We've been hearing this rants for u for years now. Um I want to thank all the constituents
for coming here and letting us know about your concern. Miss Hillis, thank you for coming. Cumberland Avenue is on the DOT um review list. We approved it years ago,
but this money is coming from DOT. That's the hold up is already under review. Um and uh madame council president um like the our our um law said
3 minutes. It should be 3 minutes for each and every one of us. Yes. You got you got to you got to do something about it. I'm I'm not going to sit here and and hear somebody rent off every night for half an hour, 30 minutes
each time. I'm here to do city business. And he talking about the committees. Whatever committee he's since he's been here, whatever committee he's been assigned to, he never show up. He will come here, rent off. He should
come to the finance committee meeting and and sit once in a once in a bloom. He was in the finance committee before. He never showed up. He I mean it's not a lie. Your record I mean you used to come late 10 minutes 5
minutes before the meeting is over. So you haven't you were you were there you agree with that you were in the finance committee committee. What what change have you made while you were there? You say
I'm I'm speaking is is is my turn. So you could you could rent off. You could blame all of us for all the wrongdoing. What have you done? Go look at the first word. That's that's all I'm going to say.
Your constituent don't see you. They call me. I know they call many of the other council member as well. cuz they don't get a respond from you. You should be responsible for your own action as well.
You could blame all the people that you want. That that's that's all that's all on you. You might not know what I'm talking about cuz cuz you've been here you've been here for not long.
My vote is yes to close the public uh portion. Madam cler. Thank you, Councilman. Um, Councilman Mendes. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Um, before um I will take a few minutes maybe I might
pass a three minute, but let me just first let me just first to um say that I want to say thank you to all those resident of the great city of Patterson that reach out to me when they saw my name on the news. I am not accused. I'm not indicted of that. There's an
investigation going out. I answer all the question and I submit all the information and that's it. That's what happened. But I want to say thank you to all those that reach out to me because I know that I haven't done nothing wrong. I've been in open book in the city of
Patterson. I've been in business and I've been supporting my family since 2003. being a real estate agent and I've been h I've been helping hundreds of family to become first-time home buyer. I've been helping people to be business owner in the city of Patterson and my track records there. I'm a really open
book financially, personally and at any level that you could look into my into my lifestyle. So, let me just talk a little bit about my business. There's no such a bucket commission in real estate. Let me just give some education to some
of the people that make some comments. In a real estate transaction, you have banks, you have title company, you have lawyers involved, and you have real estate and broker involved. After I finish my transaction, there's a check that go in from the uh from the uh title
company to the real estate broker from the broken to my account. my but my account has been open and it's transparency and it's been there since I started doing business in the city of Patterson. And I want to I want people to know that because I never use this
position to help myself. I never go around using my title, my position to ask people for favor. I never done that. I work hard and I take pride of that. And if I like to travel, it's my money. If you like to buy new cars, it's my
money. I work day and night. I'm a hustler. But on top of that, I serve the city of Patterson with love and respect. And one of the thing that I like about this was to see all the phone calls that I received. I know there was some people that really wants to see me down, but
there was more people that were praying for me to make sure that I'm that I'm okay. And I called them back and I told them, "Listen, I'm okay. I haven't done nothing wrong. And that's the way I walk. I take pride of the work that I do. I take pride of my family and I take
pride of the job that I do when I'm sitting here in this chair. It's important that people understand know that because it's easy to accuse people and call people's name and it's sad but I understand that when you have your heart full of hates you cannot give love
because all you have in your heart it's hate. You some people they call themselves people of God but all you talk about is hate and try to see people down. So I'm in peace. I'm okay and I'm going to continue doing my work in my
community, helping people financially through my business, helping people here in the city of Patterson, helping families because that's what I do. In another note, with my election case, I've been fighting that case for five years. I've been spending thousands of
dollars in that case. You know why? Because I know that I'm innocent. And at the end of the day, you will see what's going to happen. Now, let me remind the community what happened way back in May. I was elected. They took my seat. They made me run in November and my opponent,
he got everybody supporting. He lost. I beat the guy in 2024 on my re-election. Before that, we went for a recount. He lost again on my re-election. On 2024, he lost again. But you know why? Besides
all of the negativity that I have of my name, you know why the reason why I get elected is because people believe in me. All I have is love in my heart for the resident of the great city of P. So when you call me, I am there for you. And I don't do this for a paycheck because I'm
saying this very often. I don't leave from a paycheck that I get from here. Trust me, believe me, I'm there out there day and night. You call me and I'll be there helping you. That's all I do. I have love for this community. When I came here, I came here with nothing.
This city gave me everything I have. I have love, love and respect for people and that's what I'm continue doing it. And I would love to do another run and you will see that he will lose again. That's what I would love to do. With that being said, Patterson, pay attention to the signs that we have
reuring 35. If you don't want your car ticket and towing, please pay attention to the signs. did not park the car when they doing the reservicing and let's do the work that people call us to do. Um let's do what we got to do. Pis my vote
is yes clerk. Thank you Councilman Omar. Thank you Madame Clerk. Uh first I want to say I want to thank the community for coming out today and speaking and uh letting us know your concerns. But one thing did stick out to me and that was Miss Pat Phillis. Uh you said the meetings are for the community and I
agree with you and you also said that we have to respect and work with each other and that's the message that I want to deliver to my council colleagues. Let's respect and work with each other because if we can't respect each other and work with each other, we won't be able to help them. So let's start on that. With that being said, my vote is yes.
Thank you, Councilman. I love it. Thank you, Madam Clark. Good evening, Patterson. those who are here, those who are watching us live and uh thank you to the resident who passionately shared your concern and I believe that
each and every concern were shared in this chamber in today's meeting um is a reflection of the challenges that Patterson is going through. And if we really care about each of the challenges that are
mentioned by our residents to address, we all have to work together. First and foremost, and this is an everyday issue, uh illegal dumping, overall cleanliness in our city.
And this is a regular issue. There's there's no doubt. What's the progress? The progress is that the cameras that are that that are waiting for $1 million investment when we spoke to the uh spoke to Mr. Adazi who's responsible for that
he mentioned that some of them are in action and full operation will be completed by September of this year. Now how would you know that they are functioning and what's the um you know positive feedback uh by installing these
cameras? I think all the departments both department uh Patterson police department and DPW involved to these cameras interconnected. We need uh report from both departments to make sure that not only council members or city officials know the
outcome but Patterson the resident of the city knows the outcome because this money invested from people's pocket not from only council members but comes from the residents. So resident deserve the answers that whether is the
functionality is effective or not effective enough. But again when you speak about the uh uh dumping issue that also aligned with the current bulk pickup situation. We have to schedule pickup then wait and
then pickup comes. Yes, we are trying to help as many residents and every week um and this is a very open record that how many times I myself schedule or my volunteer schedule on behalf of our residents.
It's not about the connection to the internet of how many people has internet connections. It's about how many people knows the process. So we should not just wait on the current uh scheduling process but we have to go back to our old patient which
is we have to have a scheduled date for certain areas for bulk pickups otherwise this is ongoing dumping will take place. No way you can stop it. Cameras can stop it because when there is a trash somewhere the more trash this trust
welcome more trash and that's how we are welcoming trash in our city. So I think uh patteru need to work on this to make sure that we have to go back to old way have to have scheduled date for certain uh neighborhoods to pick up the bulk
pickups as well as one of our resident mentioned about the uh street cleaning. Um this is this is concerning. That's very true. And sometimes what happens is because of the lacking of the uh inspectors um when they are car park
during the clean cleaning time the cleaning truck actually passed by. This is very this is very unfortunate. But one thing one thing I should is it remaining time or I use 3 minutes? I have no idea. But let me tell you
something that I I don't want to break the law. That's not that's not my uh character. But one thing I should know is this. Let's say today let's say 20 people addressed their concern here and that's what I'm we are trying to wrap it up in 3 minutes. Let's say 100 people
showed up. How am I going to address them in 3 minutes? I'm sorry. I have to address my people. I cannot just eliminate their concern because of my time uh you know time that that's assigned for me. I can't really uh take it. I have to address every concern we're um you know addressing this uh
meeting today. So that that happens that's very true. So we have to find a proper way or we have to work um with with the department say you know what what would happen if one of the route is down. We cannot just wait years or months to make sure that
oh this this this truck is down or driver is on vacation. Well, if diver is vacation, we are not giving the text tax break to the people. Hey, we're not giving you service. You stop paying your taxes. We we are not doing certain things. So that should not be an excuse. We have to
find proper way. If we use excuses that let people allow people to have the excuse that oh this month I'm not going to pay taxes because I did not get the services that I deserve. So excuses is is not is not a functionality of a government. Excuse is just an excuse.
An excuse cannot be a norm. Another concern was shared um about the developments um uh in educate uh parking spaces or no spaces in the backyard.
Well, it is very easy to just uh you know merely just uh blame the developers. I personally don't because these developers get permission from the boards from the administrative
teams then we the city whoever approves these projects they should take the responsibility first we cannot just blame the developers by name say hey your development do not have this but who approved it business people will do business any way
they want and unfortunately last week I I made made a comment that's one of the person from outside the town Odin made a comment that you don't need to say welcome to Patterson when you come to Patterson when you see the trust you
know the Yonyi Patterson and another person commented which is very disrespectful that Patterson is a piece of but it's a place to investment this is not Patterson should stand for this is this is not what Patterson stand
for this is this is this is This is this is this is what exactly we are stating for. So we're not just stating merely uh blaming the developers. We should take the responsibility that we are approving these projects without having first sight that was
really project and impact in our community and every project just know this the some of the board of ed commissioners mentioned about as an educator I know this the classroom sizes are getting bigger and bigger over over the time because we are throwing this uh we are
welcoming people in our city we are throwing these children to our school system when many of the developers are not even giving back to the city. We're not investing to our schools, not our city's parks, but we are just welcoming people. That's exactly happens. So, it's not
just like one way. So, all that are person uh you know responsible in a way. So, we have to we have to make everyone accountable and everyone just know this. I am given this job by the people. If I don't do my job, I should not sit in this seat.
That's all all should that's how it should work. That's why I am encouraging the young generation, educated people to come out and make their voice heard. We all need to work together. Thank you. And thank you my neighbor uh Pat Hilas
for joining. And I like the quotation. I like to quote you that do not preach something that you cannot practice. So when you when when you're preaching for respect, order, professionalism, but we must we must start from
ourselves. So we must practice it first. So let's let's work work together and address the concern of the people that that came here and those those concern are not just the people 10 or 10 people shared. This is the concern of the
majority of the residents in city of Patter. Thank you. With that being said, my vote is over. Thank you Councilman. Councilman VZ is 10:05. uh night. Where are your kids right now? Those uh residents that are sleeping now
probably rebroadcast tomorrow. Go to YouTube. What are you going to say to see if uh you could catch some stuff that I'm saying now? So, I want to I want to I want to uh clear the statement around. People, please look into the New
Jersey state redevelopment redevelopment law. also look at the Patterson redevelopment ordinance that both are married to make sure that the readment of the
first, fourth, and fifth war are the way it is. Don't go by what you hear. Go with the facts. I'm going to make it clear. There was a resolution. It's not a law.
is a resolution that I created to send to the board a study for relevant one, four, and five. You could probably raise your hand. How many people knows there are illegal
addicts in the city of Patterson? You could raise your hand. There are basement illegal in Patterson. So if you read the whole entire resolution with the supported document that will address
that in the city of Patterson. So making all this notion that we doing something wrong that we doing this that we want to put a building over there a three family house there where it don't fit. No, it's a study that we I requested to make sure
the redevelopment the redevelopment zoning of the city of Patterson are met. Go there, Google it, read it, and it's there. Um, this there this there's something I got to I'm going to mention here. There's
this in this since 2018, we have we have three BAS, Mr. McCoy, Mrs. Long and now Mr. Simon. We had three corporation council since this administration took over. Mr. Irvin, Mr. Shabbos, and now
corporation council Mr. Abushi, nine out of eight council member here, eight out of nine council members, sorry. Probably we could agree, disagree. We sit down, we talk to three previous BA with you, Simon now, right? I visit your
office and also with corporation counsel. I visit your office a lot and the first thing I say, corporate council, what the state law says about this and you do the discovery, the study and you tell us what to do. The BA office, we have a strict conversation
how we should work and is communication. I don't know why some people have problem in this side of the council to communicate and get things done. We have a individual here that get things done in our war because we communicate. We
sit down. I don't sit in finance. I ask finance what's going on. I don't sit in uh the uh committee what's going on. It's nothing new out there. Everything that's here goes to committee. Everything that's we vote on it is already vetted through committee. It comes to seek the 506 vote. But we all
aware of what's going on. Um, last but not least, Council President, and I got to say it loud and clear, there's three things, two things that I love that I love with all my heart is my
family. And I got to defend my family to the end. Who would not defend their family to the end? The second thing that I love is the community. When I see a gentleman that had an
accident a year ago, sitting in a hospital, sitting in a rehab for a year, and those so-called people that knows him had even extend a hand of helping.
No, no, I'm not saying I'm not I'm not saying who have helped. I say those that knows him. I'm talking general because I know where I'm going. So when I met this guy, this gentleman that I met by coaching way back, but now he's in a
situation, I realized that he don't live in Patterson. He live in Hackinack. So there's not a lot of resources here. So what I did, I contact his uh Hackinack freeholders and they working on something for him. When I see a fire
out there, okay, and you run for the need of the community, when you see when even the the other day a a 5-year-old boy drown in a pool and you hear that, you run for the need of the community, counseling,
you run for the needs of what's going out there. So, two things that I love, my family and the community. And that is the component that got me here. and I gonna defend this office
to the end because I know that my hands are clean, my heart is clean, and what I do for the community come from the bottom of the heart. Madame clerk, saying that, let's keep on praying for Madame Clerk and let's keep on praying for everyone in the city of Patterson.
There's some people that are compulsive liars. Saying that, my vote is yes to close the public portion. Thank you, Council President. Yes. So, um, first and foremost, I want to put it on the record. We had a meeting myself and council women, uh,
vice president with the mayor, uh, I believe it was on Friday, and I made a request, a mandated request, that constituent services would be in every meeting starting tonight. When I got here tonight, I text the mayor. He uh
stated that he was in an emergency. I'm not sure what emergency it was, but I am demanding that we have someone from constituent services, which is a part of their duty, to be in every single council meeting. I think that will cut down some of the
chatter and the extra talking. If you have someone from the administration in the meeting so that when the residents are coming to the microphone, they're not feeling that you're not listening to them. I have made the request in the past about a process. I know the BA is working on it, but we already we're
paying someone to do the job. So, mayor, I'm sure you are watching. I did it privately. You did not do what you said you were doing. So, tonight I'm putting it to the public. We are demanding on August the 12th that constituent service
be in every single council meeting. So when the residents are having concerns at the microphone that they are able to see someone from your office who gets paid daily to do this job, they're answering and responding to the resident's request. So I'm putting it on
the record and residents, please follow uh please tag the mayor and make sure that we have someone from his office in the meetings every week. That is a part of the role. I also want to say this
one. I will never pay anyone to come to the council meeting. I don't need to do that. Miss Hillis knows me from school 21. She's known me for a very long time. I don't need to pay youth kids or anything. And
what's appalling and I want to apologize to Nancy Greer cuz those are her nieces. Timmy Greer, those are his grandchildren and I'm sure they're coming to the meeting. And Greer, those are his nieces. that a lie would be told to state that I paid those beautiful
children to come to the microphone. Nancy Gre is my legislative aid. My other legislative aid is here. She heard what they said. They're part of the Upwardbound program and they were talking about how they get paid. Instead of saying what they said, they procluded
to try to defay my character by saying I paid those young people to come to the microphone. When I was here the other day, I did a a Facebook live here in the chambers and I'm going to talk only about 20 seconds over. I was here doing a live. Nancy Gre, who's my aid, was
watching the live and brought the young people here. The young people said to me, "We watch the meetings and we come to the meetings with with our aunt and the cursing and calling you out of names. It is it it makes us feel so bad." I said to them, I said, "Let your
voice be heard." I never said, "I'm going to pay you." I never said, "Come here to do anything." And if you notice, those three young ladies that came were very respectful at the mic. They even applauded that no one cursed tonight. That is what happened. But my my aid,
Jessica, is in the audience. She heard it. Nancy Greer is my aid. Those are her nieces. Those are Mr. Timmy Grant Greer's grandchildren. And Miss um Mr. Greer, those are his nieces. And I would hate to cause an uproar in this
community because you you're trying to cause an uproar by choosing to lie on me. I don't have to have any children come. My voice is loud and clear. I don't need anyone to speak on my behalf. I don't have to tell people to come and say, "Don't curse at the mic." I've
stated it myself and everyone did a great job. But I want to say in closing to the community, tonight we finish the agenda in an hour and a half. We start the meeting at 7:00. The agenda was done by 8:30.
We had 28 speakers and we were done. Within about 45 minutes, we were done. Everything was over. And we sat here tonight. We tried to put in place. People talk about accountability. Let's do what we want. And we're saying if we're saying the public has three
minutes, we should follow the same rule. As the council president, I am asking all of the council colleagues. Some people when I stated it, Councilwoman Cotton said, "Yes, she she heard it. She she stopped talking." Others felt like I don't have to listen to you. But we have
to be the same way we want the public to be. We have to be the same way. And I people were texting me the quorum and all this stuff. I'm asking you for those that were watching, please ask your council persons to show the same
respect. People are watching and people need to do um go home and take care of their families and they're here. The city's business was done at 8:30. Thank you to the public that came and the public that is viewing. We have to be the change we want to see. Um madame
clerk to close public portion. My vote is absolutely yes. Motion to close. Thank you. Madam clerk. Thank you council woman. Motion to close by council menus. Can I have a second? Madam clerk. Second by council davlin. Roll call. Madam clerk, I voted no. I'm here to revisit the vote. The vote was called. Roll call. Madam
clerk, the vote was not called. You can only get the floor if I give it to you. I'm not giving you the floor. She did not call the vote. Madam clerk, did you call the vote? Did you call the vote? No, she did not call the vote. See, this is Madam Clerk that I'm talking about. Madam clerk, the things that I'm
entitled to. She cannot call until the vote is called, please. She think people think they get a lick of power and it goes to their head. Roll call. Madam clerk, please. First of all, let me explain this. You don't have the floor, Councilman Jackson. You can only speak if you're given the floor by the president.
Vote. I voted no. I want to revisit my vote, Madam Clerk. Did you call the vote, Madam Clerk? No. No. But I voted. Correct. Correct. You did. And you you didn't um call. Okay. So, can you put the timer on? Councilman Jackson has already spoken for 32 minutes and we need the timer on for two
minutes. I may speak for 32. Two minutes. Madam Clerk, I may speak for 32 more. I'm not tonight. stop me. No. Who's going to stop me? Madam clerk, that's the question. Madam clerk, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.
Thank you. This meeting is not adjourned. Yes. Meetings have to be officially adjourned. And before we can take a role to adjourn the meeting, it has to be the the the public portion has to be closed. And let me say this, what Councilman
Khik talked about was an absolute lie. Raphael, I showed up to to every single committee meeting until they started doing their nonsense. Raphael, the meeting's not closed. Do not turn the the I'm president. He's never It doesn't matter. You don't have any
additional authority than anybody else. Everything that gets done has to be done as a consensus. You don't have any additional authority to anyone else. And this meeting has not been officially closed. This is the kind of stuff that we're talking about here. How we trying to railroad?