##VIDEO ID:LcTSrY1Vibc## thank you Rafael good evening everyone on behalf of the pis Municipal Council we welcome you to the workshop section on January 14 2025 at 6:30 p.m. the Mee is now called to order M clerk please call the role roll call for the workshop session of January 14th 2025 at 6:30 p.m. councilwoman Dava okay sorry councilman Jackson councilman khik here councilwoman Mims here and ready to serve councilman VES same here councilwoman cotton council president prent cler please read the abent I'm sorry um please read the statement of compliance yes statement of compliance with open public meetings law 202 24 through 2025 meeting date January 14 2025 6:30 p.m. adequate notice of this meeting was compiled and disseminated in accordance with the open public meetings law in the following manner one the annual notice of regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council was compiled for the year 2024 2025 on or about July 1st 2024 two a schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2024 4 2025 was duly transmitted on about July 1st 2024 to the north Jersey Herald News the record the Arabic voice the Italian voice the P County PO dominicano news Lisa International lsal the Patterson press the city post news tap into Patterson the weekly bangler Patria 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 2024 2025 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 2024 2025 was duly filed with the municipal clerk five a copy of the schedule of regular meetings of the municipal Council was mailed to any person who requested and paid the fee authorized by the open public records act council president thank you madam clerk um now let's move with payment of bills councilwoman Davila thank you very much council president Happy New Year to everyone um council members you all received through email the payment of bills the summary of dispersements oh God uh the total of the summary of dispersements is 13,161 1861 .74 this was a payroll week of 5,516 19987 cents uh if you look at the general government the majority um is all for health benefits uh and also there is uh some sore included in there as well uh making that a total between the computer checks of 7 million 644,000 9987 for payroll making that a total of 13,161 18617 motion is for payment of bills we have a a motion moved by councilwoman DAV and second by councilwoman Mims roll call M clerk on payment of bills roll call for payment of bills in the amount of 13,161 18617 cents councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman devila yes councilman Jackson no okay councilman khle yes Council woman Mims yes yes Council valz thank you council president my vote is yes M clerk thank you council president the votes are six in favor one no two absent the payment of bills is hereby adopted U thank you Madame clerk um council members I we have our director from the fire and police department and our fire chief uh let's start with the fire department um let's start with item number 20 um which is council member resolution authorizing the application to the US Department of Homeland Security um assistant far fighting grant program number 20 um director good evening all fire all police right yeah all fire and all police can yes Grant and uh it'll be a 10% match for the city which is uh comes to 15 15,000 uh basically they're going to give us 150,000 for this grant the grant will be for the purchases of uh nozzles appliances and hoses which is U mandated for us to uh have thank you that should go and consent council members yes H number 21 uh council members director that's is okay 21 resolution the rise in the counc council president Council uh yeah thank you um I don't know uh the ba is not here but uh corporate Council in the past we used to uh do an application and then come to the council with another resolution a sentence U now we we going back again with the same method to applicate a application and accepting at the same time um I know that this was the issue before because what about if we didn't agree we agree on the grand but we don't agree in the match you understand especially when the city is in a in a burden uh financially you know even that this is not a big amount of match and it's good for the Department I'm not saying your department only but in the past we used to bring the solicitation or application and then the acceptance in another form of resolution uh we're going to continue doing like that I don't have a problem but you know uh just to keep in mind that we used to do that before application and then acceptance was another resolution if weent sure um councilwoman D so councilman valis uh you are correct in certain instances there are we have done that in the past that we've done a reso um to go ahead and apply and then to accept funds in certain instances though we do have especially uh time there's some timing involved it's to apply and accept okay just so we so Council your point we have done that and we still do that but in certain instances we do have apply and accept it sometimes we have you know such a short deadline like the councilwoman said that we don't even get the money numbers yet you know so that's why it's good that the the uh the chief uh mentioned how much is the percent of match you know it's good to the record that it's not a lot but at least it's done thank you thank you Council council members item number 21 for the fire department resolution authorizing the war contract to show training solution Chief this item before anything this item is going to go on regular okay chief go ahead and please we had a extensive conversation in our Public Safety Committee meeting regarding this um I did have some questions which one is that but after I don't do any one M but after uh you know careful consideration at the end of the day you know through the direction of the public safety director and the chief uh there was only two companies uh that bid and um the chief um feels that this uh entity is is best fit for the Department for the men and women of the fire department consent um no no no council request will go on regular item yeah item 22 council members resolution authorizing a fiveyear uh inter local service agreement with the pay Valley Water Commission uh director council members that that's a p Valley Water Commission uh they pay us 150,000 currently for us to provide uh confined space protection we just did a fiveyear contract with them with increases 2% per year should GOC counc president council president this is not the first time right okay uh did they owe us money okay no no okay good all right no they pay um item number 22 will go on consent um now we moving to item number 23 resolution U resolution the that item has to go on regular because it 22 Valley Water Commission yes there's a conf um you know Council to recuse herself so let's have item 22 unregular council members so item item number 23 um Chief resolution um the first renewal contract with Millennium stry that's uh basically uh disaster relief uh whe if we use them that's when the city pays them last time they were used was during covid where we paid I believe an amount of 60,000 and they were able to bring millions of dollars to the city consent thank you council members better to have and not need the need and not have it again so council members now we will item number 23 as for councilman Jackson request Madame clerk item 23 will go on regular thank you um now we're moving down the line with police item number 28 resolution authorizing the city of patteron to enter into aou with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission director yes this is the normal we've been doing this for years it's the providing of an officer for security over at the Motor Vehicle Commission office and they pay us uh the amount is $349,450 in 12 equal payments for our officers thank you thank you Council D consent um item 29c president just if everybody is looking at item 27 it's crossed out only because it's the same item as 28 okay thank you councilman D item number 29 director yes item number 29 it's let me it's a virtual reality simulator you know how years ago the building got flooded out and we have to use pesis range we use paramis range but what this also does is it helps with less than lethal Force yes so use the microphone use the microphone the guy would be coming at you and then you decide if you're going to shoot you you shoot or you don't shoot it's like it's almost like a a video virtual reality and then you find out that the guy had pencil in his hand you know what I mean so they bring you through these scenarios this is really good for our officers um it's being funded um I believe by the by a grant gr okay 29 consent thank you C councila item number 30 resolution authoriz the war contract with first priority emerg vehicle um director number 30 I if you've been to New York City and you see the blue and white uh Ford trucks that have like a utility cab it's a it's a twoe wheel vehicle it's going to go to ER it'll have all of our less than lethal like um you know something they call it a containment bar right it's a it's a square and instead of having to fight with somebody you can hold them against the wall and handcuff the person how are we funding this director uh this one here is being funded believe mix y uh this is going to go from the state through transition okay how you council members this consent you feel okay um director um those are the only items that we have from fire police and um number 38 number 38 yes move 38 which is resolution authorized in the second op your year renewal contract with the Research Foundation of CNY uh director yeah this also is um it's a renewal they do a lot of our Coalition for you know the group that does the opioid response this is not the real fix program this is more uh a coalition for opioid response that our teams work with to help you know us figure out and look at the statistics look at the data and how do we get in front of Fentanyl and the opioids that we're faced with today this is a grant as well and this is a uh a renewal okay council members consent thank you director so um um this just I have only one comment on this renewal it's very important director that when we renew a um contract with any entity it's important to have a report on the performance and that that will be extremely important for us as a council members to see the performance of that entity before we make we do the renewal how effective they been the results since they've been in that's definitely for now make sure that report is attached to that resolution for us to make a smart uh decision decision understand Council presid thank you okay um thank you councilman Jackson director is there any funding that's uh implicated in this this item Poli doesn't show yes it's a grant and it's $125,000 beautiful you have two more so so this grant is paid to them this this grant will go to them this funding will go to them not to us the grant source is what exactly excuse me the source of the grant are we we is an application that we provide they provide no no we're going to provide them with 125,000 to um the John J college for their consulting services on the opioid response and I believe this is a state Grant because it's just got the G there and that's pretty much what the I could I could talk to our uh CFO if you yes it's a grant that we received so we received the Grant and we're using the grant to pay for these services so there's a there was a gr application that was put in for this yes a couple years ago it's no beard grant that was I want to say maybe 2024 2023 maybe it's a no Grant from a couple years ago the provision on the grant was it was a threee I I would have to look at the grants but it was a big Grant it was I want to say almost there are two or three op grants I'm not sure exactly which one this is it's it's a two-year Grant it started uh yeah we we started in in 23 with it and it had an option to renew for an additional three and onee periods and that's what we're doing here can I get the details on the grant sent to my email pleas sure I and I can give you a copy okay okay pres counc president police department has two more council member just a second ask councilman Jackson request M clerk item 38 will be on regular and also director I need a a performance report from 2023 since they've been in the city on that CCU and how would F that they been thank you director we got two more items council president uh just a minute council member Le thank you uh director um the word Consulting creates uh a money of $125,000 to this uh Cy John Jon college that so so in other words is it goes only in communication uh they Supply any kind of resources tools or whatever to attack this kind of up are they working collaboration with human services they work with our people like ersie and Todd and some of the other people that work on the Coalition they will work together with them in collaboration but if you want an exp explanation on this I will bring them to the next meeting and let them explain because I don't want to misspeak correct council president it will be healthy uh because is $125,000 is not new in in in in front of us we've been doing it but we want to see what is the the factual solution that they bringing to see less in our street to see less respond in our street to see if it could walk through through um this Consulting process to see how effective it been those $125,000 understood thank you thank thank you uh so they will be on the meeting on the 21st director the 21st is the meeting yes and it's here yes I will find out who spearheads this who has run it through and then I'll make sure that that person is is here that day thank you director director we also we also have two uh two more we have item 42 director which is resolution authorizing the a contra to nor Eastern inter interior service LC on the um Houston County Educational Service can you speak a little bit about that this here is the new Operation Center that's being built at headquarters basically what you're going to have is like I'm standing here and I don't want to give it all out but if you could imagine there's always going to be a white shirt that's going to be at the say the podium with all of our cameras that are connected and you can go through Citywide and then calling shots out to our officers it's going to be an operation Center so shot spotter goes off Z we can go right over to that area we can see what's going on we can get to radio to our people but you're always going to have that room manned and it's going to be manned by the super counc coun um director just a minute Council I think you you're refering to item 43 the director oh I'm sorry I AP resolution yeah yeah that's the demolition for that project to go off for a bit Yeah counc president demolition just a minute Council Val I'll be with you in a minute I 42 is the resolution so that they can start breaking that down to build that for the coop it's a co-op and it's being paid for with asset forfeiture funds be conc and state a thank you counc council president goe council president yes the shot spider is fine M please yes yeah what they tearing down I want to know what they tearing down what building are they tearing down okay so so the one we discussed is the demolition yeah that's a demolition for operation well you spoke about the operational correct right how much is the operational if uh if it gets to approve how much is going to be invested in that I don't have the figures on that but I can tell you that um it's going to be State and asset forfeiture and we're also working to try and make an agreement with the state to even reimburse us back on the asset forfeiture part okay so so it looks it sounds good right because we have to upgrade that building even I don't have a CO on it but we have to upgrade whatever is in there sure my my question will be don't you think that this should be in the new communication um um room that we have or building that we could to have no because it's got to be where the cops are mhm you got me needs to be in the heart of the police department where all your cops are where your supervisors are where people are coming in and out so they see what's going on and when that person is calling out or when that shot spotter is going off you don't you want you want it to be right in the heart correct so so in other words uh director you know it's it's good because we need to upgrade technology for our officers and and and I always support that roughly right I don't know you the bit haven't come back or whatever for that uh roughly how much you think based on your experience this will cost roughly will you experience in the Char department and other cities gu the demolition is going to cost no de I don't care about the demolition I'm talking about the operational room 42's construction is uh $497,900 and it's going to our side contractor yeah and and uh we're not going to see DPW employees breaking walls or nothing like that okay so it's going to be directly to that contract now the operational room the one that you say you got cameras all that stuff and good things you know it had to be in there how much you think it will cost us with monitors cameras and all that stuff councilman roughly roughly you know you don't know I'm going to be honest with you it's not as big of an expense as you think because shot spots were our expenses they all over what you're looking at is today is screens you're looking at monitors we need to get monitors set up and then have it so that we can click through it and go to wherever that shot spot or wherever that units calling wherever that 911 Call's coming from so that we can go to it and you're in one spot looking and then you're calling it out to the unit that that's correct and and I say once again I agree I agree that the technology we needed but what I'm thinking here is that we've been talking about a new uh police building a new recreation SL police department and then five years from now we had to demolish all this building and everything go down the rain we no I I I think I think you're wrong with that because basically what we're bringing in is like I said screens those things can be moved okay if you want to take that tomorrow and put it somewhere else you can if you want to take you know live screens and the cameras are the infrastructure that's already out I got in the community okay we're using both Community cameras and police cameras those cameras are already there thank you thank you director so our council members are you okay with 42 and 43 going I I know you have a question councilwoman okay so councilwoman C and then councilman Jackson yes Billy can you please come up cuz you was standing up there with them um excuse me did the president got up oh finally okay no because you know what as I'm reading it now it says um uh Demolition and construction it has both in there yeah that's for the for the space that the the operation is going to be held out of right so just going to the half of the money is for to tear it apart and the other half is to rebuild it excuse me councilwoman yeah it says it says Demolition and and conru right reconstruction now let me ask you something director um if I'm standing in front of 111 where is it at in the back part um um um Memorial Drive side or in the where where is where is it at at 111 Broadway the what I wouldn't put that out in oh you don't want to put it out I'll tell you where it is no I I mean I'm trying to figure that's why I said I want to know half the money is to tear it down and other half fix it it 111 bro it's going to be at 111 so I'll just come over there and you can show me where it's going to be at definitely okay thank you Council council president well I basically had a similar question with regards to the uh demolition um so this is a portion of uh 111 Broadway do we have an an approximate square footage that this uh I don't have the I don't have the drawings but it's the interior and it's going to be the demolition and the construction that's what's going to cost the 497 930,000 all right so 497 th000 that's just the Demolition and reconstruction That's not including so because there's two items here right the second item is the technology which what you clearly said the technology is just monitors and Etc it's going to be construction and demo construction and demo for $400 plus th000 yeah it's going to be 400 do we have the uh square footage director Rodriguez do we do we know the square footage no there's no square footage on here no I can get you the square footage um let me just see here do we have the details on what exactly is is Tak taking place so we're demoing what some masonary some uh sheetrock walls you're going to make director I I don't want to give out where it's exactly care about where it is going to have to take some you're going to take old offices down offices and partitions so that you can you know have a bigger room so instead of having those small little box offices they're going to come all down and the other side where we have all those box offices they're going to come down they're not being used so that's where that's going I'm going to need a detailed list of what we're constructing are we are we replacing uh uh space heaters Air Handlers like what 400,000 half a million dollars is getting us what exactly taking down some partitions and putting up some some aluminum Framing and sheetrock walls drop ceiling what are we doing counc we could get you the details on it as far as right now I don't have detailed of exactly what's going in what if they could change in the HVAC anything like that but we definitely get it to yeah I I need a full detail list of the construction um proposed construction oh definitely regular all right uh um Madam clerk uh item 42 will go on regular councilman Jackson's request and 43 uh is the um maintenance for shot spotter so that'll go on consent thank you director thank you very much everybody okay uh DPW director we'll get it though let's do all of DPW 31 to 34 DPW that's 31 to 34 31's a renewal 31 you got it 31 32 33 director good evening so we have item on public work from let's take here item 31 from 34 director item 31 is a resolution authorizing that renewal of a contract with J&J electrical Construction and design yeah this our um electrical contract is a renew yes consent consent council members item 32 resolution authorizing that rejection you want as councilman Jackson request item 31 will be on regular so item 32 is a resolution authorizing the rejection of all bid and authorizing the solicitation of new bid for the West Railway Avenue sewer separation Project Director yes after meeting with a purchasing and Engineering it was determined that the state purchasing laws wer followed on on the bid on certain inst so we want to reject the bids and go out the bid again okay this is just a rejection of all debate yes let me ask you council president councilwoman C how many bids came back um I think it was if I'm not mistaken I think it was three three and so the engineering department discovered that all three of them were not good enough well I don't want to say all three of them one of them maybe the lowest one was didn't follow the uh the state criminal the lowest one didn't follow yeah I don't want to you know I think that was the the problem okay thank you councilwoman so councilman Jackson on item 32 so this is actually the effort to separate the storm yes from okay and it's um are we starting in specific areas of the city or we this is for West Railway West I understand this is from for West Railway but we're also are we are we is there an effort to separate sewer from storm on uh on River Street as well yes River so that's being separated yes okay that that's within the C director the separation of the Su on the new reconstruction of river three okay so item 32 council member on on consent um item 33 uh 33 director resolution authorizing the mayor and the clerk um to execute the site actess agreement between the city of pison and Dam realy group consent thank you that's regular item 33 council members consent consent direct to outline director um I don't have the res in front of me these are run of the Mills we do these all the time when the monitoring Wills are requested through the state um hold on especially when it's new projects and Etc 85 Florida a two mon 85 Florida a this is for two monitor Wells there okay uh conc 33 council members feel great uh ID 34 director is a resolution authorizing in the change order number two for the barbar park playground Improvement bit number 2404 council president president just a many council members so councilwoman Captain I need to know um director exactly what this change order is because it says um when I read the resolution it says uh making room for the playground or something to that effect when when it was determined that the water line wasn't um big enough to support the sprinkler system everything we brought inake Valley they changed their water system for us but in that in that time the the curbing um and the certain places of the concrete was broken so we had to re redo that was never input into the um into the original contract cuz that all found out after the fact so this is this is to pay for that part to redo the curbing that was broken to add the the water right cuz it was in one side then they put it to the other side okay I understand that council president thank you Council councilman I see Council then Council thank you council president um director so uh this that was not included in the beginning as you have stated on the resolution so do you think any other change will come over the time project project for this no this is done after this okay okay we don't want to see any more changes no not for that one all right sounds good thank you so item 34 um consent council members uh Council Jackson director what's the um cost uh 15 15,000 15,00 M director you say 1515 yeah that's what it was right okay just just for the record okay so director that's the item 34 is the last item that we have CC pres uh we have I have council member Le council member thank you so now it's clarified that the what what what the change of order was to um I know the line of water whatever the excavation for that line or whatever have to do done but was trigle trigle triggle us here that when they talk about new playground uh for the new playground yeah cuz is the playground area or the playground equipment the water if if you were there for construction the water line came in through the playground area so we had to re we had to bring it in through the playground that's why it says through a new playground oh so so in other words no no but it says here for new playground yes okay so in other words not the equipment that is there it's the playground area it's for the park councilman it's for the it's for the sprinkle system for the for the water fountain for the one that was in the middle okay I got you thank you thank you Council thank you director you know Cil I'm I got to request um goad dor there's an item on here for um Public Works there's an ordinance I'm going to ask that it number 44 yeah 44 I'm going to ask for that to be tabled into committee yeah this is exactly what was my request as well uh council president that let's have this uh indepth discussion committee and then we can move so council president may I please just a minute so Council to we don't need to discuss it right now no no I just want to I just want to so MERS council member just a minute I know I have a request from director to table it we're going to table but I open the floor to council M you finish Council mine so yes as I as I have uh spoke with uh director and uh that was not discussed in the in the committee I believe that committee needs to sit down and uh and and have discussion before we bring it to the okay so council president may I thank you so I thought this was discussive in a press conference uh that we was having at the um at the uh site of Pake Street uh I don't know you recall you was there um I believe your director was there that I requested in the public portion on you know when we were speaking that is good that we have uh big penalties um The Dumping and um I agree on it $10,000 while we only adding on here and top of the $10,000 is that they do community service so that was the only thing that we adding here we not adding nothing else that is not different that in top of the penalty to pull more teeth uh to the ordinance of dumping they get the fine but at the same time they would do community service the way so I spoke to Legal he saw it factual I don't know why he had to go to committee because it says in h director can you speak a little closer to my I can't hear you because the the way the ordinance reads I believe says and or so you can either do community service and community service it I guess it'll be up to the prosecutor and the judge Jud um as Public Works my opinion I don't want that that's why I going to bring it back to committee counc thank you thank you Council Council I'm sorry thank you coun coun I have Council M first and then you next ladies first counc councilen M so this is not because we tabled this so there's really no need for further discussion it's table so I have another point of reference I submitted some items about three months ago I received um information from traffic that they will be on the agenda tonight and they are not so I'm going to be sending them again in the morning one is e16 for the 15minute parking and there's another item um that was sent three months ago and I was told they would be on the agenda for tonight so I will be sending those items once again and prayerfully we could get them on next week for both uh and then in addition to um in 2018 I've been pushing for traffic lights on Madison and 7 a as well as Broadway in East 27th um traffic has identified that there's been at least 50 accidents per location which really it shouldn't have taken that long for us to move forward but I'm saying to the administration well CFO the ba is not here but to the CFO that we need to allocate some dollars to put traffic lights on Broadway East 27th and Madison and 7th app before someone is fatally killed there's been some major accidents people have been in the hospital for a while please let's get those items done and I will forward in the morning these items that's been waiting for three months thank you thank you Council m coun so thank you councilor president since uh councilman M spoke about some of the items she sent and uh director that I also sent a few items which is uh stop sign on um Grand Street for this traffic study I requested uh pedestrian Crossing on the union Avenues um and that's about four months that that I'm waiting for as well so let's let's take a look at what's happening we can have the conversation in the next committee meeting um thing I want want to spoke about that in the last time we uh spoke about the um surveillance camera around the city dumping areas uh removable cameras to make sure that no dumping takes place also uh name or shame um and we want to make sure that before we introduce another resolutions or another ordinance whatever items we pass we want to see in action that's what we're waiting for we can have as many ordinances pass in this chamber until we uh you know go to the the action or you know bring them to the reality there's no point of just adding rules after rules so what's the update with buying cameras and how we are going to uh if we really need to bring any change to this I think uh councilman Val item can be can be uh Incorporated with Whatever item we passed recently I say about two months ago thank you thank you Council council president let the record reflect we not table it we send it it back to committee table is when it don't exist I'm sorry it's it's back on is back on the commit thank you thank you uh counc director so so now before we move on director I know that's the last item from you um very recently we approve we approve director we pass the legislation uh by increasing the fine for dumping up to $10,000 and minimum $2,500 which is a heavy fine but need more we need more I hear that some number from the administration that we have over $15,000 collect is and fine but that's not enough dumping is a huge problem in the city we need you help we need everybody help on this because pis is The Dumping Ground P County director the numberers way more than that for 20 way more than can you give us a report of how much money the estimated number right now for for for dumping and um I would say garbage child early and stuff like that is about $300,000 how much about 300,000 300 collecting on fees no not collect I don't I don't collect I just find you find 300,000 okay if we could give us writing uh I will appreciate it I'm excited to hear that because that's a heavy uh number on dumping so councilwoman Davila uh council president thank you very much director uh I got a constituent complaint uh this morning uh at the office can you please check into 162 RAV uh there was a request uh apparently months ago I don't know if it's true or not not but that was what stated uh for a um handicap they said they went through the uh Traffic Division they can you please look into 162 R and a council president okay yep thank you very much thank you council president council president councilman BL thank you council president uh director um I know that you probably receive a uh a WhatsApp video from King Street and summer um under the train treel I believe it is how difficult is to take that boat that have no no license plate have nothing it's being there sitting for a while how difficult is to because it's abandoned it's right there uh you know how how we could remove it if there's no license play no no no you um shoulder that question what was that you should have asked Jerry that question why that's it's I it's a a boat on the street we can't tell them no more cuz they don't have we can't put it nowhere so how difficult is to tell PD listen we have this boat uh no registration no plate number no nothing no decal and it's just a a a graffti wall over there and what it promote it promote people to continue dumping you could clean there tomorrow but if the boat stay there people going to continue dumping you know I understand that you overwhelm your department is overwhelmed I I'm happy to hear that up to date from one year because we celebrating one year of dumping in the city of patteron you you know what it's one year of dumping last January is when this all started when they decide that the administration was going to pick up the bulk the administration was going to pick up the mattress and all that stuff okay we celebrating this month a year of dumping in the city of Patterson now now DPW is overwhelming they pick up today tomorrow they dump and I have proved that I have proved that with videos and and and cing people out there what we have to do is ladies and gentlemen is a real plan a real plan that will satisfy the residence of patteron a real plan that really will keep the city clean okay because wherever you go and my colleagues could agree DPW is trying to do the work but something's going on in this city that residents have to put their 50/50 everybody had to be on board you know it's not enough that if I see something and you see it you don't say nothing you had to do something if you get plates or whatever you have to come and stay forward to keep our city clean but uh this this Trestle on the uh Madam ma Madam um com womankind I know you're weary because you are being a addressing it to but is it's in that spot you know how difficult is to move a boat and Jerry is not here but you know I don't know but somebody had to come together and say you know what enough is enough let's move this boat G GRE a reporter every time so and and you no hold on Council woman you know we get we get the complaints and and we direct those complaints to the proper individuals yes and once again they overwhelming they doing the job but some point have to stop thank you C I could I could praise and take the rooc calls and say Patterson we have issued 15,000 summonses today but our city still look look dirty I don't know how we could address this Council Council Dila um all right thank you very much director thank you so very much I got two more 35 and 36 let's do it together yeah 35 yes those are the new is on the administration resolution 35 is a resolution authorizing application and acceptance in a fund from njdca 2025 Recreation Improvement gr program at the larby field or Eide Park field uh Direct by the way I got the heavy machine on the field yes so I was I was there today that consent council member it's the third war my council president gu move forward I'm sorry I 36 council member resolution authorizing the application and acceptance of form from njdca 2025 Recreation approv for the uh ground program for the patteron recreation center consent consent I think counc council president can we get an explanation this is saying approximately 2 million what Recreation Center can we get some recation improvement no it's does not say Center no we need explanation you better ask for some question you better ask for some clarity look let me tell you something to Patterson viewing never take anything by face value in the city you have to ask some questions so um can you explain what this is for it's $2 million no this is a grant that Administration put into the state for to fund uh part of the new recreation center that we're you know trying to build and this is just Mone we didn't have the dollars and the money had to be allocated elsewhere so that's why I asked the question why are we accepting the grant when we don't have plans for the recreation center that's a I bet it is that's why I should not go on consent it should not even be here this should have been this was a part of the $19 million program or whatever they were going to do that fell apart so that's why I'm questioning why this is even here at this point without a vision so um council president it should not be on consent as a matter of fact it should be removed until we get some clarity because there's no recreational plan so why are we accept them accepting or is there something that I'm not aware of um CU if that's the case this should not even be on the agenda um thank you Council M just a minute councilman Ms I know item 36 we're not taking from action today but it will be taken from action next week on this item Mr CFO do you have any additional information on this item because this is an application for um the application for acceptance of the fund um CFO you have any any explanation um well this again this is an application for grant funding for plans for the recreation center but I don't think that's uh totally scrapped there is a plan um we're just trying to get the money from other sources other sources okay so what we going to do so what we so we Going's answering what's the plan I'm sorry council president so Council that was stated I would like to know the plans because the original plans was the $19 million that is out of the window so what are the plans we're accepting money for what plans for the well there's already um a framework for a recreation center where what do you mean where you're saying that where's the framework where where uh I mean we can have a meeting and I guess it could be shown well that's what I'm saying since we don't have Clarity council president Council I'm only one person but this item should not be here we don't have any clarity as to a vision or plan for what this is for we have an item on the agenda to accept money for something we don't have plans for like it's like gaslighting to the community for me councilman Jackson thank you council president well this is what happens when you make a a a tradition and the Customs become just allowance to allow the administration to do whatever to bring a forward a proposal for $2 million and I have a site and furthermore you know within the provisions of our Charter every meeting that we H hold there's a representative from the mayor's office which is the Ba's office that's supposed to be here I mean obviously she's already accepted you know unemployment in other locations but the disrespect just continues the office is supposed to be represented every time she's absent she never has representation for from her office she has Mr Harry sabales the CFO his requirement is to be here all the time according to the bylaws according to the the uh uh the conditions of our Charter and you know this just another example the audacity for them to bring forward uh an item no location no information you know it's it's a a track record that they're accustomed to having the council being in the rubber stamp and this is what what they what what it's become so I mean obviously I'm I'm surprised to hear anyone else say that this should be getting pulled but I I'm in total agreement this sh shouldn't even be on the agenda without having a full outline plan got you thank you councilman Jackson definitely definitely Out director item 32 will be removed from the agenda um we're looking forward to have that conversation with Administration this item just a minute Council this item has been very I mean there's a lot of sentiment when it comes to the rec center we've been crying the community's been crying for rec center for many many years and if we if we adding in a legislation on this agenda for a Rec Center related the full plan have to be in the agenda everybody have to be fully aware even before we receive some funding we got to have a presentation this is the location the fourth War the first war whatever the location is but the community need to be fully involved item 36 will be off the agenda pres president coun president yes councilman I have health and human Serv for that coun President yes I'm you have the floor youit all right so my my my statement will be and I know he already move it and and custom will be let's hear everybody opinion and then make a decision to table it right because it will make it more powerful that table but you know what will happen if we approve this today to the next meeting to approve we are putting a stamp for mismanagement of funds for mismanagement of fund let me say why the title is misleading because the title is saying that we have a recreational center in planed and in place it should be the title should be different and um if we approve this moving forward still will be given a stamp for mismanagement of funds because they could to use it for other things counc president I had asked for the floor before Council I had asked for the floor um so uh I did request for Health and Human Services to go next uh but in addition I just want to put on record I noticed that my honor for Black History Month is not here I did give the information to the clerk's office um so I just want to make sure that it is in it is my honor is Denise Koba uh from the health and human services department uh and so you will have all that the additional information okay yes um thank you Council mava now we have Health and Human Service director president uh Council thank you council president I have a question to CFO um CFO so let's say we uh table this item back is there any is it going to hard the gr to get in the future I want to hear direct answer from you I'm not sure to be honest okay table all right says table okay here you go so it's gone good job he not sure thank you thank you coun council members thank you let's get back to uh Health and Human Service item 24 director remites um item 24 which is item which is a resolution authorizing the war contract to St Joseph University Medical Center for Medical Service in connection with the treatment of tuberculosis item 24 24 should go consent item 24 item 25 solution authorizing the um the city of Patterson to enter into an agreement we receive grant funding from the JC Healthcare quality Institute director that is the this is the second year that we get this grant last year was a $25,000 Grant this year we got $10,000 it's for the mayor's Wellness campaign uh and this year our focus is going to be domestic violence awareness well very good consent consent thank you council members consent item 26 director which is resolution Rising the split Award of contract to mount the lead inspector in director this is part of our lead and healthy homes Grant it's required uh we're splitting the contract because it is a very busy Grant so we have two different um providers that are available when we have to go do this type of work in the homes consent they serve item 26 consent thank you director those are the three item only that we have from Health and Human Service Direct thank you we appreciate director before you leave yes sir I'm sorry counc anything um councilman um um council president councilman bless I know that he addressed new items anything that you want to say about the second reading is your ordinance to before we uh continue I will be here when that comes up if there are any questions but this is the council president's initiative so oh oh y okay what what is he referring to Second reading or number five number five the last one I have a question director you say have 37 Sor director the previous item 26 you have a question about that you ask for the FL no no the prev 25 yeah so director Council Jacks 25 the mayor's Wellness um yeah it's it's called the mayor's Wellness campaign that's what the New Jersey um Health quare Quality Institute calls it so they reach out to municipalities throughout the state of New Jersey the municipalities who choose to participate have to apply submit a Grant application with an idea 25,000 from last year no last year was 25,000 we did a mental health Ambassador and you know they went out to different events they participated with cbh care which was our clinical partner this year again we were allowed to apply we're actually one of two municipalities in the entire State who were awarded a grant again for the second time 10,000 this year's $10,000 there there is no Communications being paid through for for any for this grant is there Communications for what I'm sorry to the public no no this grant the money is supposed to be spent on the grant we are administering I am the grant admin ministrator directly so we don't have to H Grand was spent on an ambassador we had a mental health Ambassador out of my office the way we wrote the grant we opened it up for social workers or mental health workers out of my office who were able to apply we posted the job someone in my office applied the social worker she personally was the mental health Ambassador Chosen and she worked with cbh cares to do different type of events mental health awareness throughout the city she was paid in addition to her no salary it was overtime it was at night and weekends because her title and her collective bargaining unit didn't allow her to under her title to go out and do that so I had to compensate her so the grant money was used to compensate her yeah so she was paid in addition to her salary correct as over as a different position yes correct okay um very good I'm I'm just curious about about you know um some of these grants and how they're being provisioned and whether or not the Public's being um if there's any communication uh factoring I've asked for a report from the administration for multiple times how are these Robo calls being that that the community is receiving every single day how are they being paid for if they're being paid for for um uh uh through the mayor's uh personal campaign fund that should still be disclosed um to the council and uh you know I know this has nothing to do with you but I'm just focalizing it through this moment again to the administration that again um as a council member my my the responsibility of the administration is to provide me with the reports that I request and I've been requesting for an outline of how these items are being paid for over and over again and I have not so um receiv received it and it's a blatant dis disregard and disrespect to this counil and as we all sit here and just allow for business to continue as usual without the administration and the mayor being accountable for reporting you know it just shows the irresponsible activity of the council uh thank you council president um just a minute um thank you councilman Jackson counc president good chair to uh uh javel Silva last time we asked the same question where this Robo calls is coming from and they tell it was coming from the uh OEM system you you run the finance of the city you know where every penny is spent can you confirm me it this coming from the OEM system the r calls um I believe it's coming from the Telecommunications line not the oen system but I can double check uh the telecommunication is being paid by whom it's by the budget excuse me by the budget hold on uh councilman you come late assemblyman s sit down um United the state right now you're here in the chambers um so can you repeat that again please I believe they're paid by the budget I can speak loud council members paid by the budget it's paid by the city budget yeah now so this is why I'm saying it's paid by the taxpayer money is clear enough that he's been using taxpayer money to announce and promote every single thing that happen in the city my main and campaign my main concern is that he's making the city of Patterson liable you know why because every time it says major announcement I got to think that something's going bad in the city and that you had to announce that something is going bad as an emergency one of these days there's going to be a re emergency and nobody's going to answer that call and there's going to be a lot of catastrophe in the city of patteron okay because when you say it's a special announcement and comes in your call ID the first thing is is what's going on in the city and it and and it will not start speaking until you say hi so no I'm not listen I could be running for mayor I could be running for reelection I could be running for assembly men if I want tomorrow and be anybody in the line but I'm talking fact if somebody calls and say it's a mayor announcement and there's a catastrophe in the city of Patterson and there's a real emergency a lot of people will not answer that call a lot of people will not answer that call right and um and is a libility for the city in general uh council president as I as I say just after I Council KH counc corre I'm elected official he's elected official so I have the same rights to use that OEM to say hi residence of pisan this is your councilman of the fifth War the city parison we just want to announce that we pick up the garbage in your house let's use the let's use the taxpayer money the right way the right way thank you Council mik thank you council president we are more than a year away from the election if you're going to talk about some stuff like this I mean we'll be here all night it's information same as TV all the other entities they use the city been using for years now now we're going to talk about it is it is it is it is not something new some information what's going on in the city May or do robo calls he's the administration I think he has the he has the right to do so so we need we need to stop this net picking and and let's do City business what's on thecil member yes I definitely at 8:00 so our council members at 8:00 we have a special meeting but also we have a sec section um I'm trying to do and also the public still waiting for publica portion um so Council M jackon I haven't finished you know what's what's simply amazing is three two or three years ago the gentleman that just spoke would have had a completely different position all of a sudden he's he's batting um uh RBI for for the the second world councilman before there been a big fight now all of a sudden he's talking about oh this is not about an election that's coming up this is about being responsible with the budget you have phone call is going out every single day and we don't even have a report on how much we're spending on it this council's responsibility is to be fiscally prudent on how we're spending the money every single day he's sending an a message that's nonrelated that's actually you know uh a fallacy $15,000 and then the director comes here and discredits the the the information that he's sending out on a on on a robo call and I mean even the list that these that these calls are going out on because for whatever reason I'm not privy I'm not privy to to these calls but I happen to be in the car with somebody aing message late last year Administration launched an operation clean sleep to crack down on illegal dumping in Patterson proud to report at the last court date $15,000 in fines were assessed to violators we take Zero Tolerance approach to Illegal that's so so so you know here here the these messages are going I had to record that off somebody else's phone that's getting these calls every single day so where how are these calls being paid for and that that is definitely a priority I've been asking for it for the last six years these calls have been going out and God knows how much um um we we've been spending on it and then some people talking about oh it's not important it's not relevant we're spending money we're spending money then people complain that we're on we're on ta and we're just being irresponsible and furthermore with the amount of dumping that's going on for him to get on there and make a rooc call about with this Zero Tolerance about about dumpings are you kidding me it's dumping on every every freaking corner and he's talking about zero tolerance in the city of patteron it's an embarrassment people that are getting these calls don't even live in the city anymore they getting calls in Georgia and North Carolina and how much are we spending I asked the question over and over again councilman valz finally sees that disability and then councilman Shaheen khik is saying that it's not important we shouldn't worry about this the election is a year away nobody's talking about an election anyway I council president just just a minute just a minute Council Council M um thank you Council colle so um so counc last thank you council president uh fairness is fairness across the board what I'm trying to put put a point here the other day I tried to put a a ad about inviting the the city employees to come and have a holiday gathering party appreciation and I requested to this Administration okay it don't says it don't says I'm running for something it don't say it says councilman Louis VZ invite the city employees to have a gathering and holiday party they prohibit me to put even an email blast through my office a email blast through it a to put it at the uh Channel 77 because it's not authorized it's not good because I'm a politician I'm a councilman and say okay so what's the different this is a municipal access Channel I supposed to use it the same way that the mayor Ed it I supposed to use that rooc call uh uh method like the mayor us it it's paid by the taxpayers why you only have the rights to use it and once again I don't need to use it if I had to pay $350 to do a rooc call I do so and I will be more effective because people not going to hear me every month every week every day right so what I'm saying is fair across the board I'm more concerned that if there an actual emergency and there's something going on in the city and it says mayor announcement a lot of people already cant to hear BS all through there and they're not going to pay attention and a lot of of people could lose their life for a real actual emergency use this system for the right purpose and the right time and I appreciate that if this tax man taxpayer money is being used use it the right way and I know the resident will appreciate it thank you and you could deliver the message so but you to be a today thank you so Council memb so we have item number six on the administration um going back into the agenda counc president um just a minute say yes the beginning of the agenda uh councilman Jackson very good so council president just for a point of clarity in in past practices when a council member makes a request through the chair the council president should be making a formal request to the administration and the reason that most of these reports or requests are not answered to is because you never follow up you never find it uh um necessary it doesn't matter if it's one if a council person request something here we are yet again because I mean I don't I don't completely agree with councilman Les none of us should be spending sending out uh uh Robo calls or or email blasts at the expense of the taxpayers we all have a fund May whether it's drawn from the $3,000 that we're allotted every year or reducing it from maybe where you're paying your eight but taxpayers should not be paying for rooc calls from whether it's coming from the mayor's office or not but that's the responsibility of the council president the reason but this deric ba has never held on these on these reports is because you have never pressed the issue here we are yet again this is I don't know maybe the over a dozen times I made this request I want to know where these where the funds are being derived how much we spending why do we not see a bill in the bills list every every week you guys blindly vote for the bills list I've asked over and over again how much are we spending on these rooc calls who's the company that's fulfilling the obligation and how much is it costing us why isn't it on the bills list and why isn't there a report if we're going to just continue to roll over it let council members sit here and talk and complain about it and then never show the public what how their money is being spent we're doing a disservice okay so and and and just for the record um you could go back into tape B Pass and Pass every time I make a request I make sure that the entire Council get the request and when there's a question I ask the director for report to share with the entire council with that being say Mr Sila there's been a question on the floor and there's been a request on the floor about roll call and the uh and the amount the funding that is being expending of that if you could give us a report not only to me but the Entre to the entire Council will deeply appreciate there's a former request on the floor thank you okay council members going back into the agenda so we have item number six which is the administration which is a the resolution authorizing the first opio year renewal contract for Prime Point LLC for payroll service for the city of Patterson RFP 2021 uh Mr Silva this is the administration it's yeah it's renewal of um our payroll system this is a renewal for the first year counc whoa this is going on regular I thought we uh yeah but we had wasn't the payroll supposed run ran through personnel and then we had extra Personnel that Mr Silva hired under him as well to help with uh with payroll no that's incorrect Council um perl's being ran through Finance they got Mr Silva can you speak a little close to the mic it's hard for me to hear um Perell Perell got moved to finance I believe two years ago two or three years ago um there's only two staff members there um nobody else was hired and we have the system for three years now so three years ago payroll if I'm not mistaken the gentleman Aaron was was rehired and came back on staff correct and we we discussed this thoroughly not to Outsource it that this was going to be handled in in inhouse the ba sat right there and promoted the fact that payroll was going to be handled in-house and and and prior to being removed to finance it was supposed to have been uh conducted in uh Personnel this is a renewal so we've had this system for 3 years no trust me I'm very much so aware where but what I'm talking about is initially payroll was supposed to be handled inh house and then when it was when it was in in when it was incapable of being handled it was outsourced just like this gentleman Aaron that was rehired he he wasn't that wasn't a part of the initial plan that was hired he was hired and not it wasn't informed the council wasn't properly informed just like this one here I have no idea what my assistant CFO has anything to do with this but again the peril system was 3 years ago we outsourced it and we're renewing the contract I'm not sure what your confusion is what my confusion is uh okay let me uh I I'll I'll try to find the uh video when the Ba's talk when you guys specifically talk about us handling payroll in house so I I I don't remember didn't you consent council members item number six huh let's add okay as as for two council member item number six go on regular okay so item number six councilman Jackson request on regular so item number seven is a resolution authorized in the first op respond year renewal contract to Millennium stry for the ground writing service for the city of P RFP 2021 Mr Silva consent consent um writing is a renewal for the ground writing council members okay okay council president Council just a minute Silva you have any comment on this and I request Mr Silva this is the first uh year renewal yes and this is something that we have to do in the city of pison when we renewal even though we've been working with this company for years but at the end when the council receive a renewal on any contract we should have a report on the performance of that company of any entity it's important to add the performance of that that will help us to make a informed decision about what are they doing and this is this go with the grant also we're getting a lot of Grant and because it's Grant we don't complain doesn't matter if we have entity getting paid by whoever the state the county and they doing it performing and providing a service into the city of Patterson we need to know the performance if they providing a service or they creating more problem in our city that's extremely important and this is the second time that I have this request every renewal we need performance added on the legislation so item number seven Council M council president and so made the request and they were doing it initially I don't know if it has not continued and it may be in place but they were supposed to do performance evaluation reviews on all contracts that was a request made some years ago to make sure that every contract that is new and or renewed that there is a performance evaluation attached to it so that this council is made aware so we're going to vote that we can see what their performance was so can we just look into that to see what has happened if we have not then Poss possibly start working towards doing that thank you council president counc president council members and let's let's try to be brief council member at 8:00 we have special counc yeah I'm trying to be brief but you know I'm not used to to two me two meetings a month I I'm not used to that that's why we have four um council president I know this is uh way back 2022 I'm not going to question the Millennium strategy uh performance because they have bring a lot of a lot of uh grant money to to fire department to PD to the administration and we have seen it but one thing uh uh Mr CF CFO through the chair CFO can you clarify the title it say The First Option year renewal and if the they off from 2022 this is we not we not approving the first option renewal First Option year renewal if we going to go first option renewal we should go to the amount that says instead of $288,000 we should go then for the first year renewal that will be uh that oneyear period of Mount next 108 so if if it's from 2022 the title is a little bit confusing here uh because it say The First Option year renewal so which one of the three amount will be renewed to them Mr Silva oh you don't want me to start all over just just before council members I have Council waiting for but there was a question on the floor about the renewal so if this is the first year renewal or the third year renewal it's a simple and a straight question before I move with cin corporate um Mr CFO it was a three-year contract with um two option years so this would be the first year renewal and then there's an OP there's an option year for next year as well so so this is from 2022 and we on 2025 yes so what we doing is a first year of renewal not the whole amount of 108 right 108,000 see the title is a little bit confusing is it is because it says the first option year and if it's 2022 that we started with them how in 2025 is going to be starting the first year again right we we awarded two year contract with additional of uh I think option of three more years or something so this is the first option here okay just a minute council members I have Council M Council so thank you council president um so when it comes to the uh renewal of any contract I'm not talking about just this one only we cannot just PE and choose but if we really look for performance report I think think we the council members have to State clearly if there is no performance report any renewal comes we are not going to move forward with this that should be stated clearly it's not just this contract only any renewal comes from any Department that should be stated we cannot just pick one that we like or we cannot just question the one we don't like that should not take place that's that's my point the performance report we are looking for as councilman Ms valz mentioned that we are looking for that how the confirmed that was requested previously if this is the case we are not just speaking about this contract renewal but any contract renewal performance report should be provided if not director should be aware aware that the council members are not going to entertain those items that should be cleared and so that we don't have to ask all these additional question by depending on who is introducing certain contract I feel this is unfair just picking one that would like or like I think that should be unique the the report should be provided if not the item should be removed from the items thank you councilman uh councilman k um actually I just want to clarify uh here it's clearly on the first word as he stated we awarded them a three-year contract with additional two years so three years has been gone I believe and this is the first additional year is clearly stated the first thank councilman K council members so Council well actually um council president actually it's really not the first option this is really like the second option cuz 22 to 23 23 to 24 24 to 25 so it's really the it's really not the first option so I think the resolution might it should have maybe say second option because it's going all the way to 202 it actually go to 27 yeah the title is wrong because it's a threee council woman and I think that it's three years splitting that's why is what now it's what three years three years and we know it's a three but it's not the first option that's what I'm saying it's not the first option that's right actually the only thing you had to do was like um when you present the resolution how much money grants that they did get for the city that's all we that's what that's what we're looking for we understand that but they need to put it tell us how much Grant was received with this with this company um how much grants did the city receive with with them that's what we're looking at that's what everybody's looking for no so council members we agre that's what no council president that's what most people would ask that's what most people would ask is how much did we how much were they able to secure for us period uh CFO thank you council president on once again and I last a language and a resolution or an ordinance is is very important when it says that is the first option and they are in existence since 2022 supposed to be the last option because we at the end of the contract and the contract should say for Renewal it's not like the new one now once again I'm not question the performance of millennial strategy we could I have seen we have approved grants that come the only grant that they haven't approved or get funding is the uh Bloomberg whatever is that's the only one they don't work but beside that we have done a lot of project in the city of passon based on the U grant that they go out there and and look for the city of P say Grand Rider okay so but but that language has to be clarified because they are in the last year if you go by if if if I go by the 2022 that was approved we are in the last year so it's the last payment of 8,000 contract right 108,000 the value of the next year contract not 288 thank you council member uh council members it's 8:00 let's do the last item that we have before we get into a executive section because we have the contract for DPW that is on the special meeting and we're excited to vote on that contract but resolution number eight is a resolution authorizing the world contract with certain approved State contract vendor for various Department division that's item number eight um Administration same same vendors we've had is about 16 or 21 on same exact vend consent councilwoman yes all right so thank you so um members of the public so car file is 8:00 we got to get ready to our special meeting we we have only there's two items for secr section and one item for for Action um council members so so clerk we'll suspend the workshop to get into counc council president so Mo 8 council president no no council president council president just a minute council member got I have councilman KH on councilman well on the special uh meeting we don't have any um attorneys or anybody here that we have to pay wa for them Corporation Council so now who who Corporation no that's the union but Corporation Council will represent so so corpor Corporation Council council president council president the the the reason the reason I said is we have a public here um we're going to go we're going to go to Executive session they have to get out of the of the building that's going to be an issue we don't have for them to be waiting anywhere out there so let's do the public portion first then go to the exec coun Council so I just have a request council president um when it comes to Union contract s if I'm asking if this we don't need to go into executive it could just go to vote as long as the contract is ratified and the vote is attached that we don't need to close for uh executive and just go right into vote if that is okay with you council president that way we can allow the public to speak um the item should be very clear it has been negotiated by the administration and the union leaders um and the vote has been ratified so can we just vote on the item so the public can go next I I I think um maybe maybe somebody here doesn't want us to vote for the contct just a minute I have I have counc said to me they just all gave the thumb you got do council members council members I have the union president here and even though I know that they they fully they agree with this contract President we have to go into a second section Council let me get let me let me get council members let me get advice from Lego I want to make sure if there's no discussion on this I know the the union president is in full support of this contract that's why they they they want to move forward and I see that they here in full support if if if we agree if we if it's okay for us to go into the voting section without going into a secutive section I need um a legal advice from you yes thank you council president um so the purpose of the executive session is really for the council to ask any questions that they may may have about this um we have um a sheet that uh has been prepared bil legal for Council uh to review and that that has the substantive changes of the contract if if Council feels comfortable with voting on this without asking uh any questions or they're comfortable with the with the contract um as stated then uh they can dispense with the executive session it really is just for Council and then for the record I'll not and I know the uh the president of the Union is here the vote was 50 in favor and four against oh uh for the ratification by the union so with that being said I received legal advice on this matter and and our Union president here for DPW contract so I'm ready council member counc president president will there be a motion to opening no hold on for a minute council president I made the motion I asked for the floor before you go to that little discussion regarding this this um this item but number eight that you say rustly you rustly to consent um the one for sting uh approve of State contract I'm I'm reading I'm reading I'm sorry counc sorry to cut you off we don't need to rush anything this is a workshop we could go back to number eight with no problem Madam clerk now you put it on consent I I asked I asked my Council C Council say it's concent no problem my Council C say concent I have no problem so we could go back if you have a question no let me let me kill it now let me kill it let me kill it now the it no no I ask for council president I ask listen you being ignoring you're being ignoring when I ask the floor and you continue Council there's a council member that also need the floor Council you need to you you the one that decided to have one meeting a month Workshop I didn't decide this so now we if we have to be all night clarifying bills here we going to do it okay we say all night that's right that's my time now number number eight council president is simple question you rush it to put it a based on two council member to put it on consent I'm looking at the list I want to know is Sila could answer me this quickly out of the contract that we have here this company number 12 data communication network service if that's related to the OEM or the r call I don't believe so no you don't believe so you believe so council president Let's Make Believe Let's Make Believe Let's Make Believe council president Council memb council member hey Council a minut council member last what what was your question so my question was and and it's simple the data communication network service contract there value for 165,000 of it is if this is part of of the contract to serve the robo CA and he says I don't believe so it could be yes and no with that I don't believe so just a second Mr Silva so it's no um the contract for the OEM is everb I'm not talking about the OEM I'm talking to the item contct for theoc 12 that say data communication network service so what's your answer Mr Silva the answer is no so okay so even even that the answer is no I want basic the answer is no I want edise bills explaining how we going to spend 100 um $160,000 detail Penny by Penny what was spent with that contract okay and if if I if I see Robo calls there then you lie okay now um mad clerk item number eight will be on regular and council members if you have any other question about item number eight we could definitely come back to item number eight this is a workshop and this a discussion here so now um Rafa we we're ready to get into a special meeting so mend move to suspend the workshop he was moved to suspend the workshop by councilwoman DAV and second by councilman oudin uh roll clerk to suspend the workshop roll call to suspend the workshop councilwoman abdell aiz yes councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman daver yes councilman Jackson councilman khle yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Udin yes counc valz okay councilman Mendes I mean um council president Aiden favor one absent the uh Workshop is suspended no keep going no we're going to continue no we just continue um so so um council members the uh we suspending the workshop now we're ready to start our special meeting uh so Rafael let us know when you're ready so we good uh thank you good evening everyone on behalf of the pison municipal Council we welcome you to the special meeting on Tuesday January 14th at 8:00 p.m. the meeting is now called to order Madam clerk please call the rooll okay roll call for the special meeting of January 14 2025 councilman abdell aiz councilwoman cotton councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson yes councilman khif here councilwoman MIM yes councilman uden yes council president Council valz council president my vot is yes M clerk all the four and nine in favor the uh special meeting is now open thank you Madame clerk Madame clerk now please read the 48 hour notice meeting covered by 48 hour notice notice of the time date location and agenda of this meeting was transmitted to the north J Jersey Herald News the record the Arabic voice the Italian voice the B County Post the menana news Laisa International l Fel the Patterson press the city post news tap into Patterson the weekly bang Patria in addition to any other publication duy requesting such notices at or about 11 a.m. on January 7 2025 such notices were posted on the bulletin board in the offices of the city clerk at City Hall council president thank you m clerk now now that we are on a special meeting members of the public we we voting only on one item which is resolution approving the memorandum of agreement between between the city of Patterson and the afscme council 63 local 2272 blue color unit um so let's read the item into the record before she no we reading the item into the record and we voting council members make you comment during the vote council president there a sec section no so we not we not we're not going to a sec section we M cler roll call item number two roll call I mean no not into the record into the record item number one resolution authorizing an executive a closed session in or joining the city council chambers to address the memorandum of agreement between the city of Patterson and afcm M M clerk so the only item that we voting on is on item number two because we're not doing a secutive session resolu we have the advice by the legal department that it's okay we could vote straight into the contract my apologies item number two is a resolution authorized approving the memorandum of of agreement between the city of Patterson afcme Council 63 local 2272 Blue Collar unit January 1st 2023 through December 31st 2026 contract a law item resolution number 25 colon 0 formal action will be taken it was it was moved by councilwoman Ms councilwoman Davila councilwoman Udin second by council president Mendes roll call and Council woman roll call clerk roll call M clerk yes sir roll call on item number two for adoption councilman abdalaziz my vote is yes councilwoman cotton thank you madam clerk I said I think that I mean to me I respect just for the union workers you know for them to be able to say a few words um we didn't know how you felt about the contract we didn't know anything about what we're able to read here but as the Corporation Council said it was 50 to 4 54 and four against um and you got to go with a majority and that's a way majority so you guys are happy with this contract show her hands because you know you do want to hear something from you guys that you know I know I do but with that being said you have everything and I'm happy that that we're able to get this done for you guys um um with this contract with this this is going back I'm not even going to say it but with that being said fellis I appreciate all the work that you do here in the city for DBW I truly appreciate you guys with that being said Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilwoman Dava so uh in finance we had a discussion uh about uh the ratification of your contract as someone that has been uh Union president where I work um we understand that we're not always going to have 100% you know be okay right because you know we want more and we should have more especially for our Blue Collar DPW workers which are the lowest paid um but with that said also understanding you know that the city is a cash trp City we don't have enough ratables right and that you were able to sit down with your union members and have 50 to four I mean that is something that is great so great job that you were able to come together with the administration and um you know move forward so um I'm not going to read the record what it is but um I I think this is pretty good we actually right now in my job we're doing the same thing uh we just on Friday ratified okay uh so with that said you know I wish that we could do more but for right now I'm going to support what the majority of the union members um have have decided so thank you very much for all your hard work my vote is yes thank you councilwoman DAV councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk um one I mean I have no choice but to rely on you all and and the clear understanding that you understand um and your members had an opportunity to vote on what you're actually receiving I'm not I can't say I'm disappointed I'm not surprised um there's no report from the CFO on uh the implications or impact that is going to have on the budget and projections neither was it um neither was it one for the last contract we just voted on but um you know I I have to rely on you all in in in in understanding what you guys have agreed to on another note before I do vote members of the public every meeting that we do um uh come come into session with is required to have a public portion as well so that means this session is required to have a public portion as well as the Workshop so uh make sure you sign this session's um uh list to speak that way you not you're not being placed on on hold and being required to wait extensive period of time any further Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman councilman k v is yes mam CL thank you councilwoman Mims so um I received a call I think about a month ago in regards to uh the contract and at that time the contract had been voted upon by the membership but what happens is after it's is voted on and ratified it has to go to DCA for approval then it comes to the council and we vote on it and then the next step is working on cutting the checks but when you have 54 members in the union and you have 50 people that vote Yes and four vote against 93% of the union or the workers in that particular um uh union labor agreed to what was in that language so I want to commend the hard work of the leadership and I see you're here of working diligently with the administration in the best interest of the workers that are working in that particular Department I know it gets tough out there sometimes and I'm going to say this because as much as you do you could get criticized and you get added to but I want to say thank you because the majority of uh DPW work force are Patterson residents probably if if not all of them work live live here and that's a good thing when we have people that live in our community because we get a great return on our investment so with that being stated you worked hard you deserve this raise you worked hard to negotiated um we're not in the negotiations but we are here to solidify it with that being stated Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman Council manin thank you madam clerk the most hardworking department is the PW we hear a lot of criticisms we have lackings that's true but the men and women in the department are working their heart and soul that's that's no question we know that we have to provide more tools you need more support from us and I believe that we are getting it soon at the same time we are so happy to award you at contract that I believe majority of you are happy and been voted in favor and I believe that with this you are going to get support financially and the demands you have and I like to see better one in the future as well so DPW just know this you are on song Heroes and we salute you for everything you do I'm some I'm respectfully saying yes to this thank you councilman councilman VZ let me start saying first of all Andy and your team thank you because you didn't be you know Glover and and that's why Andy and the team right president of the team they know their name good yeah but you know Clover and all of them they know who want talking to thank you for not bending for Less when you look at a contract from 2% to 2. a half when you look at a contract from 2% to 3% and when you look that they increase even the days that you are morning and carry vacation days or sick days whatever it is to cover those times of loss that means that you didn't B for less like I stated before you don't settle for less because if you settle for less they give you lesser at this time I am praising you guys because you guys didn't give up you hold a nice communication with the administration even that sometime was great but you stand up for the man and woman of the DPW of the blue color so I commend you guys now this is up to December 2026 so let's talk to rumble hopefully they do continue doing right for the man and woman from the DPW and this is across the board you know I heard the word that the city is stranded uh financially and this and that we've been like that for many many many many years but from the C 6868 million that you guys get penis and has to pay risking your life no matter what we strander our responsibility is to approve a fair contract our responsibility is to give the city workers what they deserve the responsibility of that gentleman over there and the mayor and the uh ba and everybody above that is under dis ministration is to bring the revenues to be sure that we are not sure to our city employees because you guys deserve better than that saying that I'm proud of this contract because you fight for it because you deserve it because you did the right thing and you keep a head up even that they trying to turn your morale down but you did it right you did it right don't settle never for Less they will find the money no matter where they will find it that's right to comply with this now as CFO the remaining is in your hands please do not wait a year to get the retracted money in their pocket in the bank account we want to see in the next paycheck come on the next payment of bills come on find the money let's not play piggy bank with it and let's make sure they get the money that they deserve because they've been waiting for longest for the longest you got city employees losing their homes going homeless they cannot pay the rent for peanuts no Step Up For Those city employees let's prove that they are valuable and they don't deserve a dollar they deserve a lot of money let's put the money where your mouth is my vote is yes to this my vote is yes thank you councilman valz council president thank you thank you mad clerk I was definitely um I was rushing this into this moment because I mean it it's been it's been way too long and I just want to congratulate the leadership you know the union president and and the team for this negotiation you you know you work hard and you went you went all the way into the end in support of the all men and women and the at the department of public work during the negotiation I I asked a few question to some members of the DPW committee how you guys feeling how do you see the thing how you see things going and I saw the the the satisfaction based on the number that you guys achiev so from the bottom of my heart I want to congratulate you you guys are the hard the hardest working department is Senor P you're dealing with all the issues in Fr in the front line with dumping the garbage in our community every problem is on top of public work every every problem you deserve to get paid a disal to be able to put food at the table and provide a good life for your family and that's the least that we could do that's the least that we could do so I want to say once again congratulations to all the department and and we have you back you know um you know we'll have you back you know um so my vote is yes M CL thank you council president the votes are nine in favor none against item number two is hereby adopted any words any words conratulations congratulations well deserved thank you thank you I will open the fra to our Union president if you want to say a few words so please M M M you could repeat it again this point on go I want to thank the council the members of council CFO corporate councel Catherine long she's not here we worked every day with we got with them they did what we asked for it they gave it to us with no problem there was no speed no hiccups nothing our director Billy Rodriguez another one was behind us so like once again I want to tell you guys thank you Meers are very happy you can see as the votes 50 to four beautiful this contract is this contract is was wellth for them beautiful thank you to our Union president and and members of the vice president he want the VP we want to hear from the VP okay and T as well once again thank everybody Council thank Youk we have been working for a long time to get this I've been there 20 years wow this is the best contract we negotiated since I've been there and our president he did a hell of a job so thank you guys and we love you guys thank you thank you keep keep holding us down we'll hold you Amen to that Amen to that thank you thank you thank you we got your back we appreciate it thank you so very much thank you so now now um let's open let's combine all the public P I know some people speak on the both L let's get all list together and let's start calling everybody we have to close the special meeting um don't we have to close the special meeting no we have to do a public portion we'll do everything together let's do the public portion Madame clerk let's get the whole list that's I know Mr Dave you asked me forra minute yeah we have um cannot comine Corporation Council I need a legal advice on this matter on the um on the public portion Corporation Council um can we combine the um Corporation Council um thank you council president I'll defer to uh uh Madam clerk on this isue M clerk because we have a uh public portion on the special meeting on the special and also we have public portion on the workshop I'm want to combine so I'm going to do all all in once so to have so sounds right to me council president I'm sorry it sounds right to me thank you all right you say What speaker first Speaker council president actually when you have a special meeting you suppose the public portion is to be to talk about what's on a special meeting then the public portion on the regular meeting is to talk about the medium on regular under the regular meeting that's where it's supposed to be councilwoman count if you mind I'm sorry I mean that's how it's supposed to work can speak Council M council members my apologies there's no public portion for this special meeting okay was special meeting so let's close the special I was under the impression that we have public portion on this special meeting so Mo to close the special meeting point of order point of order Council ja do no according to first of all anytime there's a public session there is always a public portion of every session and they cannot only speak on what what the item is is referring to that's not that's not the case that's not show me where it is in Robert's Rules first of all even even from the standpoint of saying seeing none move to close it's not required for a list to be provided if you see none if there's any person who requests to speak during the public session the the the the permission to speak is supposed to be granted it's not it's not okay go ahead just a minute SC okay every single time we open up any special meeting or anything there's always a there's a requirement any public meeting that's in in fact this this meeting was was advertised there's a requirement to have a public portion anyone in the audience is is capable of signing up and in fact what it does is allows them to have two there there's two public portions that has to be held tonight you cannot combine public P thank you so C council members just just a minute councilman oh you next so council members Sophia Sophia Rich out the SEC Council can you allow me give me a minute I'll get back to you um sopia our secretary reach out to me and she said that there's no public portion because nobody signed on the special meeting public portion nobody we have no speaker for the public portion so let's do it was Paul okay yeah okay so you got you're definitely going to speak on the on the on the on the on the on uh on the public portion yes so has a motion to close the special meeting exactly but the statement of seeing none move to close means that if there's no one in the audience you can't just put restrictions oh you did not sign the list we're not going to allow you to speak they're here in attendance and if they if if they if they're if they request nobody signed on both of the signing sheet doesn't mean it doesn't mean that they can't move to close the public portion of this special meeting Council council president council president Council so there are always two this is nothing new there's always two lists it is clearly outlined on the top of the list special meeting public portion and then city council regular public portion it's always been that way for years when you are speaking and I'm going to bring I'm going to read the rule next week if you're want to speak during public a special meeting or after executive says to vote you are only to speak on that particular item you can't speak on other stuff that is the Robert rules of orders it is clearly written I will bring it and read it for those that are not familiar now in the no not you no not you I'm not speaking but um and then in public portion in public portion you can speak about anything you like in the regular public p but when it comes to special meetings there was only one item on there no one signed the list but but it's okay you could and you can still speak on the public but for for the special meeting no one signed the list number one and if anyone wants to speak they will have to speak on the Union contract for DPW saying that no one has done that um council president let's close it so the public can speak they're waiting president councilman Jackson very good okay what councilwoman is outlining is totally incorrect In fact in fact if it was the case then that means that we would be able to restrict the members of the public from speaking only on agenda items so we have a full agenda here toally it's not totally different again I didn't say anything while she was speaking and and and here and and yet still if there's a point that she's trying to make the the the the information what she's talking about is public she can look it up right now just as Corporation counsel does all the time you cannot restrict somebody to speaking on agenda items only it's not how public portion works it's a this is a special meeting that was called into session because there's again again now you're changing now you're Chang if anyone requests to speak they have the right to speak that's how this thing works and it's never restricted on agenda items it's not how it works it it might be some arbitrary ruling that the council tries to rule but it doesn't mean that that's legal give me a minute counc council members counc council member I have councilman UD on the floor after councilman Udin whoever wants to speak on their special meeting public portion it'll be open for after that we will close it and then we go back we go back to the workshop okay so Council m thank you council president so Patterson I believe that we have about 25 people here in this chamber and more than that uh people watching us live on YouTube our channels just know this this Workshop live on the TV regardless you miss the workshop I mean the special meeting it's not that you are catching the cameras because because of the special meeting you're going to lose the life be because of the workshop it's not happening because both sessions are on live the point that we are fighting and spending time and getting attention that does not make sense special meeting was just on one item public may have interested to speak about let them give a chance that's fine however it is very untrue that we are going to just open it like other public session that they can speak whatever they want that should be that I think public has Common Sense very good sense I believe patteron people are educated enough they understand that what they should talk I believe that whoever will speak on this special item special meeting time they will speak on this item I believe so that's my hope but I I believe that we council members should not take the opportunity of the people and play game here our people are educated enough they know what to speak if they speak in special portion time they will speak on the IDE if they don't speak now it means that they will wait for the workshop and they speak whatever the concern they have I have believe on Patterson members we have the first Speaker yeah council president you say up next yeah go ahead yeah so so council president we need to read up and down what public portion means Public Act Public Act means that you could speak free to speech you could bring any item topic to the public portion you cannot refrain them to speak the last time I know somebody tried to sue us because they removed somebody from the public portion because they was not speaking whatever it is so we need to be uh that was Keith Sano thank and uh we got to make sure they hey that's your time you got three minutes speak whatever you want thank you Council M now now members of the public so this is what we have so um members of the public that's what we have we have a special meeting up uh public portion on so you add your name so we got the first Pi make sure the mic is on and you're good you got three minutes testing 1 two three pH three minutes what ready uh the public portion on the special meeting okay ready yes we're ready um September 5th 2025 4 I moved to 111 putam Street Patterson New Jersey um they talk about dumping and stuff um as you see my shoes these are my walking shoes I know every area behind the train tracks why because I go to 147 Montgomery Street where we do whatever Outreach give out crack pipes this is and that whatever so we go to the train tracks and stuff today I went behind um that street uh Franklin Street straight across went through a whole Dumping Ground and everybody knows about it trust me because all four corners facing you side by side back everybody knows what's going on back there in a lot of places back there don't talk about graffiti graffiti is good excuse my language so if you want to get rid of dumping grounds start charging these businesses who are dumping behind their businesses they go to the backyards and dump their train tracks and dump all this garbage and people beside them have what cameras and Mom's the Word they say nothing but they see everything who's doing a lot of this crap are the crackheads and homeless people who claim they're homeless but they don't want to pay rent so they rather live live on the streets any way shape or form they dump check where the yellow excuse me check where the um orange and um black cones are orange and black cones if you find orange and black cones or you find red and yellow um um fire hydrants those are the markers where they dump behind if they don't dump behind they dump in your face and it's all around today I I was I was so aloof I was like Wow an open spuler of dumping everybody dumping right there airplanes up top they could see dumping all in there chairs brooms everything everything they use for their witchery they dump there dump there all of it I'm done thank you next speaker M cler next speaker is Cory t commissioner t no no the special the special meist I have oh there's no more there's no more there's no more I'll speak make it clear council president h no no there there's Council me all right just a minute members of the public in the beginning I ask who wants to speak who put the name there was only one speaker that add her name her name on the special meeting she asked her name on the special meeting there was nobody else Mr Dave so if you allow us to close this special meeting and then I I don't want you to close it I want to speak on this meeting and I want to speak on the next on the next meeting so after Mr Dave we close the special meeting and then we open the public person for everybody that way we cool I have you know we got children and and over here on the on the studio that that they have to go back home because they're school tomorrow Mr Dave good evening good evening rather than Mr Dave I'd rather be I'd rather be addressed as director Gil Moore director that's my title amen so um I earned it so at of on this special meeting Andor in regard to the DPW uh contract I think it's too low I mean they're happy because that's the best they could do but I think it's too low because they are the lowest paid and the hardest worked in the city and they I think they're being taking advantage of at 2 and 1/2% the best they ever had was two now they gave him 2 and 1/2 and everybody wants to have a party or talk about how grateful and and how happy they are that they gave them this and 2 and a half% is too low when you're making 30,000 excuse me you had your chance to speak right so as far as I'm concerned you have your opinion it's my turn to speak at this point in time I do believe that the the the line workers at DPW do not get enough money we asked them to do God damn please members of the go go ahead continue there so at the end of the day when you look at what's H what's really happening with the lack of performance and or what people are dissatisfied with I think it's the management it's not the line people they only go where they send them and they only as good as the the the supervision so not that I'm discounting what Andy and the guys did they did the best they could but as far as I'm concerned they should have got more than that and that's what I got to say about that contract thank you D to CL special meeting move by Council M second by council president call M clerk to close a special meeting roll call to close a special meeting yes Council councilwoman cotton yes councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk um just for a point of clarity most times when we're voting on second reading ordinances you're kind of restricted to speak about whatever is on that agenda if we take open a public session a public meeting and we take a vote we might sometimes times this time this special meetings we be voting on three four items five items that are all different the public is never restricted on what items they could talk about but just wanted to make sure that was clear Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman councilwoman Mims parliamentarian Robert Rules of Order that's all I'm going to say Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman Mims councilman um BZ sorry oh my time is up okay I'm just kidding um I I concurred with Council woman MS uh I would recommend council president after we adjourn the special meeting to go straight to the public portion that the workshop had my vote is yes thank you thank you councilman council president thank you Madame clerk so just let me congratulate once again the union from the DPW department they definitely have a good contract but they need a lot of support we have a mayor problem with the garbage in our community people dumping everywhere there's a lot of work to do in this city we're not in the best shape trust me and believe me my vote is yes M cler thank you council president the votes are five in favor four absent the special meeting is hereby closed thank you now members of the public uh we're going to get the list anybody that is on the list we're going to start calling the first speakers uh on the public portion list um you have three minutes to address the council um and we're going to hear from you what's that first speaker on CL first speaker is cameo black cam she's in the back there good evening good evening hey girl um I came down here I wanted to ask y'all y'all remember the lady that used to be outside the 86 year old lady do y'all know where she at do anybody know where she at let me give yall update she froze to death she's dead um I keep on asking y'all to do prevention to help these people some people say they don't want help but some people they do want help a guy another one at n Le place today I got pictures of him sleeping on the bed he said he been asking for help nobody wanted to help him so me high blood pressure me leaving the doctor about to pass out what do I do go to City Hall what can I do they told me oh go over there to real fix I don't get paid for none of this  none of it is a disgrace and MZ you just touched on something DPW doing an excellent job right when can we start rolling up our sleeves w't y'all sit up here y'all do all these reame Street renaming and all this other stuff why can't the council people roll up their sleeves take make make it something once out of a month where y'all go clean y' own WS cuz I'm tired of doing it I do y' job and know y'all giving out all these  Awards and honoring other people the people that's really out here doing the work I don't want y'all to acknowledge me because I get my blessings from the Lord I'm highly favored but at the same time it's getting ridiculous out here and another thing I want to know y'all Grant this money for these homeless shelters do y'all ever go there and really look at these shelters and see how these people living how the conditions are that's why some of them don't want to go into these shelters they're being abused and and used because y'all use these people to get this money but the money is not for these people y'all need to start investigating it they wouldn't let me out on West bro cuz I went to see myself it's trifling in here I went and let my dog reside in here and it said y'all got to stick them in there because it's cold we need to do better these people is out here do you see on City Hall what the vet said he been asking for help since 2021 he don't rote on y' building y'all seen it any of y'all seen with the the vet scene he's tired too that man crying out for help he walked up and down the street so when y'all keep saying everybody don't want help that's  some people want help and that man that I took today to real fix shout out to them because they definitely help that man so it's some people that want help I walk these streets I don't have surgery don't got hit by a bus I supposed to be home I do more than what y'all do it's time for y'all to step up everybody want these seats everybody want to get paid cut the and help these people out enough is enough we are in distress people is dying every single day valet the 16y old that just got shot when does it stop I'm tired of rest in peace sheets going up kles condolences to the family that let's all step up the community the council people obviously you see Administration ain't doing nothing everything always fall on DPW we or could rock out together everything shouldn't fall on them it takes a village y'all keep saying it take a village where the is The Village at cuz I'm sick of it I'm tired so I'm asking y'all for the last time I didn't even want to come to no more Council meetings I didn't I'm sick of it I'm tired of talking but like I said these people are out here freezing dying going in the dirt and if it was one of y' everybody went it is pick and choose it's no more picking and choosing it's everybody together one for all that's it and I'm thank you next speaker M cler next speaker speaker is Corey T commissioner T commissioner I'm sorry yeah commission good evening um you know just wanted to ducktail off of what Cameo was saying um when we talk about the people in this community that are suffering with homelessness um people who are struggling trying to survive we have employees that work for the city who can't even afford to live here and they're trying to get assistance trying to get Services trying to get help so the idea that everybody that's out there doesn't want help is just ridiculous you can probably get that off with people that are not out here but people who walk these streets every day like myself I can tell you you have veterans that are out there in those tents all of them aren't veterans but you have veterans out there you have people out there who want the help and about these programs I know there's there's been talk about rules that aren't followed I need this to be looked into there are some people that have told me and homeless folks that have told me when they go to some of these programs they require their social security check they require them to leave their belongings in the facility where other people steal their belongings you have people that get assaulted in these shelters so it's not just a matter of saying they don't want to follow the rules or they don't want to come inside at a certain time some of these shelters are not safe and I needed to be investigated and looked into I'm gonna give y'all a chance to do it before I contact the attorney general and have him do it but I'll give you all the opportunity to do that find out for me please what's going on in these shelters because from what I'm hearing from these homeless people there's saying Mr Teague we don't just want to stay out of there but when we're there our property isn't protected and we get assaulted I just wanted to leave that with you thank you commissioner next speaker Madam clerk the next speaker Chanel Phils she's here where is she now she's not here no can't do that she here so you would sure if she's on the line put him on put them on the speak put them on the mic and want to hear her her complaint as well chenil chenel hello CH can hear me get close y'all hear go ahead y'all turn the mic off go ahead come here like that yes I'm on the line council president yes good evening we could hear you uh before I speak I just want to say thank you council president I want to say thank you council president for allowing me to speak from afar it was my intention to be present tonight uh but due to death in the family um I thank you for the one time courtesy uh to present the concerns for tonight I want to petition you guys for a a option of compassion over punishment tonight's temperature is 26 degrees and this evening I come before you to address the issue as it affects uh the heart of humanity and the current treatment of our homeless individuals in our community I feel that penalizing the homeless people for sleeping on sidewalks and embankments is not only unjust but it also perpetuates harm let me share a few reasons why this practice is unacceptable and what we can do as a city to replace punishment with progress homelessness is not a crime but the lack of affordable housing and systemic failures that are the major root causes of our homelessness and penalizing the individual for circumstances beyond their control is inhumane it exacerbates poverty and the fines and illegal fees will only further burden individuals who are already struggling to survive hence adding to it a criminal record for homelessness will also hinder the recovery for the individual uting homeless individuals will divert funds away from services that could actually address the root causes of the homelessness for these displac individuals what I'm basically uh proposing you know is that as the council I'm asking you to create legislation that can lead to investing in more affordable and income based housing to be included in your current budget to ensure that everyone has access to safe and stable housing another option would be to expand the shelter options by creating more shelters with Supportive Services that are tailored to individual needs because not all needs are drug related or mental health based how about we provide more job training opportunities to equip them with the skills and connections needed for the homeless that will allow them to reenter or continue in the workforce with jobs that actually pay them enough to afford the rent there's so much more we can do besides punishing and PR our homeless for those in needs we can increase the mental health and Addiction Services address underlying issues that contribute to homelessness through implementing housing first programs that prioritize stable housing as a foundation for recovery and reintegration ladies and gentlemen homelessness is a human issue that Demands a human response and I'm asking us to work together to forer the city of Patterson to uplift it at its most vulnerable time rather than punishing them together we can create lasting change rooted in compassion equity and dignity thank you thank you um next speaker mad clerk next speaker is Eddie Olivares thank you Camille good evening all good evening today I want to talk not really to you guys I want to talk to the people of parison I guess this is the camera to you that are watching at home and to everyone the people of pisan this is really who I want to talk to tonight a very simple request let's raise the bar this city is in the hands of a pathetic Bunch year after year you talk about moving the city forward and it gets worse I'm going to give you two examples as to what I mean when I say pathetic uh lisis VZ is not sitting here but Lis valz it sounds as if he's already running for mayor this guy cannot even express a simple thought in proper English we have Alex if Alex applied at a bank as a teller he would be told my guest would be we're not looking for a bouncer this is not a club go home put on a jacket that is not to sizes too small that's not the reason that you guys are not fit for this office that you hold that's not the reason the reason is that people like you do not work for us you make what injection CL back room deals for your own benefit this is really what you're here for and so once again and I say to you people of Pon let's raise the bar let's start with 2026 with the three at large seats let's demand more from the people that we put in those offices let's do better because with the crowd that we have here we will never ever ever fix the city and I have a very simple rule of thumb to suggest whom we should support if the mayor is supporting a candidate vote against that candidate if Alex is supporting a candidate vote against him or her vote against that candidate because we know it's not good for the City eight of you the only person that is really always you know fighting for the right positions in the city of patteron is c m Jackson the rest of you talk about moving the city forward and the city gets worse the shootings are not going down the filth is not going down prostitution is not going down drugs is not going down and this is year after year after year and so I would say to you people of Paris I know as soon as my 3 minutes are up that that only means I know the video speaker man cler next speaker is ky Freeman Mr Freeman is in the back right I'm sorry I'm sorry the last one next speaker cler I miss Dave Gilmore um I'm sorry Mr Dave yes he left can me uh you know the list oh okay no no go ahead Mr B I beg your Indulgence I asked you in the beginning of the Mee to give me another meeting a minute please go ahead Mr bve okay so I want to start Dave Gilmore Patterson uh this year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of my enlisting in military service I serve this country served it proudly I would do it again but uh what I see and how I've been treated it's a damn shame uh it was mentioned earlier today uh that uh someone was suing for their First Amendment right I'm six years in in my filed lawsuit against the city for violating My First Amendment right to speak on the Art Factory when Mike Jackson was the only one that was allowing me the opportunity to speak other people were council president we had another Corporation Council and so forth but I'm suing the city for that amended my case three or four times already and looking to amend it again for the retaliation the vindictiveness the petty activities related out of the administration towards me for standing up for the community for the purpose of advancing develop velers they Advance they care more about the developers than they care about uh the people in the city of Patterson I represent if you will as the Director of community improvements I run the uccc housing and uh the building uh Department of which I've been relieved of some of my duties illegally unethically uh folks have uh inserted themselves into the process to support developers I don't support developers I support the process whatever that process is they they there and I came here last time and I happened to be in the civilian clo or sweatsuit because I had just gotten out of the hospital and I was represented that I was not speaking in my official capacity I speak in my official capacity whenever I speak I'm the director 24 hours a day if I'm not the director or not speaking as the Director I will let you know that but right now I'm speaking in the capacity of trying to represent the city and or the people that need help the most Public Safety is one of the one of the uh major components of my job we do that every day uh working without permits puts people's lives in danger they do it all the time but if it's your job to cheat it's my job to catch you and and and and when we see this in this activity we look for support I asked last meeting that I was here and nobody's come to me to to to volunteer and talk about punishing and or finding contractors the contractors are out of control they're doing all kind of work some of them are pocketing the the the the fee money for uh the um permits and there's nothing happening we have people in my department or in my division that are now not there anymore but they've been shaving fees not collecting money uh to the tunes of hundreds of thousands of dollars when the connection fees were almost $2 million not collected it's it's a problem and then the person moves into the developer's house and continues to to process uh uh paperwork uh uh DCA is monitoring the office right now doing a great job but at the end they don't prefer charges when are we going to prefer charges against these people doing these illegal activities they're getting away with it and I'm here to tell you that I'm going to keep pushing for that we need to we need to promote and protect the citizens of Patterson and some of them from themselves living one second living in illegal basements and atcts subject to burning up and getting CO2 poisoning and so forth and shoddy workmanship because they don't get the proper permits that's what I do okay and I don't expect and I'm going to fight back vehemently when people try to come come after me you know because I might say come to this meeting and say and talk about the uh discriminatory practices that some people have done and continue to do in the city of Patterson you you got a big problem if your poor andoor minority in this town thank you Mr Dave um um m m clerk uh Mr Freeman is here so I we call Mr Freeman before next speak so we called Mr Freeman he was outside so Mr Freeman come in you to three minutes and after that we'll continue with the G so next speaker is Kimmy Freeman Mr Freeman good evening uh good evening thank you guys I sign the first uh signning list but um I'm here today to talk about uh crime all right on November 15th last year two days before my birthday I was downtown Patterson and I was doing my regular stuff piece apologist and that and a guy got upset with me about a parking spot we had a little discussion the guy follows me into the picket store all right pulls a gun out of me first person I call councilman Jackson second person I call khik third person I call Brother UD and I think I talked to Marissa when I was at the school downtown Patterson is now a dangerous place to be Broadway in Maine I'm telling you it's dangerous all right we got a new vment R across the street there but a r across the street from that bar and in front of that bar if you sit there in your car for 10 minutes you will see all kind of shenanigans going on now let me tell you something I support the police and I told the mayor yesterday at that Economic Development uh for that they had what was fantastic all right anybody was there it's $200 million now for anybody who wants to be an entrepreneur right I've been an entrepreneur since I was eight years old if you want to solve the the homelessness the unemployment and all the shenan in there pison has a 30% poverty rate and Miss Fields talked about that she hit me up on Facebook and everything else councilman M I hit her up so I'm talking to people all the time at PCC we have a Workforce Development program there I just got feeling doing the welding and the so uh the solar program they are hiring installers $27 an hour so my thing is I want to create jobs I want want to educate people I'm real big on vocational education you know I've been educated to whoever you know I got so many acces I don't even want to talk about it no more oh go to school get do all that doesn't work you know how it works it's who you know it's to develop the people you have a relationship with and I I gotta say this I agree with Alex on on the homelessness thing I agree with I told the mayor yesterday I agree with that I talked to all my cop friends they agree with it now I want to help the homeless let me tell you something in 1999 I was homeless I lived in the homeless shelter St Paul's I was working for a mirac Corp and I was homeless because after you know school and everything like that doing stff I'm homeless college education whole night yards so anybody can be homeless I know the conditions that are in the homeless shels I've lived there I serviced these people the way we do this is these people got to get help and we need to get the churches and any other organizations to organize together and say look we have a situation where we have to house somebody do something like that look my mother didn't have any money six kids any one and her friends became homeless I wake up in the morning somebody sleeping on our couch and then she would take them down to Social Services and get them help I had a friend last year homeless home n yard bro I ain't going to have that you come and stay with me hard just parking in my driveway no problem took them down Social Services got TR F that he said Freeman let me give you something bro I don't want nothing I want you to be on your feet I'm one person and I told councilman M this I'm one person so any person we know people that oh most of these people are panonians well guess what we as panonians who know somebody is out there bro you okay cuz I get that Homeless lady the African woman that Liv behind the dent thing she was homeless for like six or seven years every morning I should go down there and they had a little breakfast thing there I give the lady a couple of dollars say make sure this lady eats I'm one person all these organizations all these churches all these attorneys all these sororities and I belong to all of them and I you're absolutely right thank you you're absolutely right know what you know what they do do something but they can do more thank you Mr f we can do more and we got all these smart people who are getting paid to do their job and brother UD you are doing a fantastic job those kids that are going to that program you're going to those kids going to be making over $100,000 every year thank you and you did it one person one council person you guys get it together thank you mrman next speaker man cler council president just before the speaker speaks I just want to say to the public I have to leave um out so if I'm able to come back yeah but I have to leave thank you okay next speaker mad clerk next speaker is G Greer good evening greetings uh M's leaving because I got up here to speak and she knew I was going to drop it on her uh listen uh real quick excuse me real quick uh pretty sure everybody know the mayor of north New Jersey R Barack I have petitions to place brother Barack on the ballot for governor of the great state of New Jersey if anybody would like to sign his petition if you are a registered Democrat I have petitions where you can sign you can reach me anytime hit me on Facebook call me most of you up there have my number anybody that's listening in the city of Patterson if you want to put this brother on the ballot uh to run for governor you can reach out to me he has a campaign office on Broadway and Auburn Street the same headquarters where Ruby cotton and I think Mims shared the headquarters there s in there sign your name to uh place a brother on the ballot uh um what I came here for uh brother Alex I post on Facebook what is the status of City Hall council chambers when I come in here tonight and I see these beautiful cameras mounted on the wall that's telling me that you going to be here a while okay uh I hope not because because okay but just so you know when it first happened it's supposed been 3 months it's been a long three months and all I want to say if we can't get the people house in order we in trouble I saw they had a event there they had everybody out in the hallway crunched up we better than that y'all we the third largest city by population in the state of New Jersey we should have a place for our residents to come to we really should even tonight you guys was caught in a little mix because you wanted to have a special meeting but you didn't want to put us all out that's crazy but anyway let me get I I got that and the other thing DPW came up here and they said the vote was 50 to4 no council person up here courau that 50 to four how many employees do we have no we don't no no no do me a favor go back and check and see how many employees did not even vote you're going to be amazed I'm just saying I I okay right that's what I'm trying to say go back and see because I'm pretty sure we have more than 54 and I was told tonight that we do and some people just didn't come vote so just look at that and when I saw the numbers that they're getting I'm not satisfied with the contract that they getting because I think that they deserve way more than two 2 and a half% I really do I mean if that's what they negotiated that's dumb but I'm speaking as a resident of this city in the amount of work that I see and and and and we always say that they don't do anything if people understood the operation they will have a better understanding be because because if you go to my Facebook page and I know where she's talking about with the where the dumping but that does not fall on DPW that falls on the miror and the administration putting cameras in the right places to catch these people around once again there are some cameras that's on order I don't know if they're here yet are they can anybody say yeah but what I'm trying to say is that DPW is not in place to catch I mean is not in place to to clean up to clean up dumping behind grown people what we need to do is get an enforcement team and put them out on those streets day and night and we need to start catching these people and you know what and and and and and and I hope well the ba is not here but somebody need to go back to the mayor I want to see who the 12 people that they caught the person that the is saying paid $115,000 in fine we need his picture and his name in the newspaper we need to see who's dumping in Patterson we need to see it we we really need to see it the other thing I came to talk about was okay I got the 50 to 41 city hall meeting the other thing is I get so many phone calls about dumping listen y'all if I was in your seats if I was a council person I wouldn't vote and approve nothing that comes across this table until we get a plan you guys and and the reason I'm saying this because somebody said it's not the council for it but you guys approved this sanitation contract you approved the ones that approved it I would have said Mr Mayor until you come up with a plan to address the bulk trash we not doing it and this is what people don't understand uh that burden was put on DPW to go pick it up DPW don't have the staff nor the equipment to go pick all of this up they really don't so the next time that when that contract expires you guys got to get tough with the May if he's the may still by then you know I don't know if he's going to be the M I don't even know if he's running but uh there's election that's coming up in 2026 you guys about to make me put my name in that hat for one of those counsel at large seats you know and I and I think I can win it I really do I mean it's three y' I can get one of those seats listen y'all have a good night enjoy yourself and get tough on on that illegal dumping please thank you brother G next speaker M clerk next speaker is Leah MOA Mr Leo MOA good evening good evening good evening honorable City Council Members I stand before you today as a concerned citizen of Paris my sister and I have been attending these meetings for some time now and we've noticed a disturbing pattern the same issues are brought up time and time again but nothing seems to change we've reviewed the minutes from previous meetings and it's clear that the concerns of Patterson residents have been ignored for far too long the lack of accountability is St is staggering this is a matter of justice and our wellbeing what's even more disturbing is that my mother addressed the issue pertaining to our home she was giving an insult insulting offer instead of receiving a Justified resolution this lack of respect and accountability is unacceptable as the scripture says in Proverbs 29:2 when the righteous Thrive the people rejoice when the wicked rule the people grown in the Quran chap 2:42 it states and do not mix the truth with falsehood or conceal the truth while you know it and in the Torah we are commanded you shall not pervert Justice you shall not show partiality nor take a bribe for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twist the words of the righteous these scriptures remind us that Justice accountability and transparency are essential for any Community to thread but we're not seeing that here in Patterson instead we're seeing corruption neglect and lack of concern for our well-being that's why I'm calling on you on you to bring in organizations like momentum education which my sister and I including my mother had the privilege of attending a workshop in New York they Pro they provide phenomenal training and education on social emotional learning conflict resolution and above all leadership we need leaders who understand the importance of empathy accountability and transparency we need leaders who prioritize our needs not just their own interests we need recreational centors we need safe schools we need leaders who will listen to our concerns and take action my sister and I went back on and watched several Old City Council meetings and we have learned and uncovered a lot of the same ongoing complaints and problems that have yet to be resolved we need real change from leaders who truly have Godly moral compasses not those who hide behind faith and or title we can't keep letting Injustice occur right before our eyes we can't keep ignoring the crisis of our community it's time for Real Change it's time for accountability I urge you to take immediate action to address the issues plaguing your city we deserve better we deserve to be heard and we deserve to be prioritized thank you next speaker M cler yes pardon me if I'm mispronouncing the name but I think it's viai MOA Victoria thank you oh Victoria oh okay good evening honorable City Council Members I stand before you today as a concerned 11-year-old C 11year old citizen of patteron urging you to address the pressing issues plaguing our city the persistent noise pollution after hours remains a significant problem that disrupt our peace and Qui I implore I implore our enforcement to enforce the existing noise ordinance more effectively further more I propose installing no honking and no loud music signs as seen in New York and New Jersey to combat this issue not only will this measure promote a more peaceful environment but it will also generate additional revenue for our city no resident should be subjected to in considerate noise pollution especially during late hours it's unacceptable that we're consistently woken up by vulgar violent and pornographic noise I'd also like to inquire about the protocol for law enforcement units stationed at intersections when cars failed to stop at a stop sign is the officer not permitted to leave their post to address the infraction moreover I am deeply troubled by the safety concerns in our school children in my area have expressed feeling unsafe and I have witnessed numerous fights near School 6 after dismissal how can we encourage pra participation in school programs when our children don't feel safe as Leaders you've taken an oath to Serve and Protect US it's time to take action and prioritize our safety over schools only worsen this issue it and it's imperative we recognize and address this problem I speak from personal experience having developed PTSD from the shootings in our town the recent incident with over 15 gunshots gunshots is a stark reminder of the sensus violence we face when will we take concrete steps to end this violence I urge you to move beyond words and take tangible action it's time to prioritize our safety and wellbeing we need leaders who will take a stand and make a difference as a wise leader said people need to see happy faces God has placed us in front of you how are you going to take it I ask you how will you take action to protect us thank you for your time thank you next figure M clar next figure is nil Samuels hi I'm here representing myself I'm Patronella Venice Samuels my intro because I have three points I tend to get off topic sometimes I talk a lot so I I just moved to the Third Ward in September I was living in white Wayne racist white Wayne for 18 years and I decided to move back to my community which I love okay so being that I'm from the Third Ward where I grew up now I live in the fourth ward where nobody likes to come but um I'm dressing I'm addressing Miss Mrs cotton Mrs cotton I know ways that that can really help you if you really need help cleaning up your fourth ward one one hit them where it hurts in their pockets all who's collecting monies hit them where it hurts for things they do that are illegal and um doesn't concern the community at all that's one number two get rid of nonproductive nonproductive not per not for-profit agencies what am I talking about tier one blma on Broadway and Mercer Street um pay which is also on Broadway at the corner of Broadway across the street from White Castle does absolutely nothing for the community he is set there to um give free showers to homeless people lies I pass there every day it's closed all right start investigating the Patterson Police Department it's filthy dirty cops we need to clean it up all right why I say that because um we need to involve Internal Affairs we need to have access to Internal Affairs when we go into the building and ask to speak to a detective we don't need them to guard the detectives the detective IV are there to help us for example a couple of years ago I got date raped around the corner from where my my brother used to have a house from a guy I was dating he put a a a a knife at my throat and lapped his foot around me and then had sex with me in the morning and put something in me and I didn't want to go you understand and my friend said let's go and I went and I got help there's help if you need it but the the the the dirty cops don't need to guard the help help you feel me number I'm done with the numbers so I say that to say this the pole ice the pole ice need to be there to protect and serve not to Serve and Protect we need them to protect and serve I.E today which is TNT known as TNT please give me my time today is known as TNT I didn't come out my house which is 111 putam street I'm on purpose today I thought because it was TNT which is Tuesdays and Thursdays the pole Ice come out raid survey whatever they do the community to help they're not helping they're protecting faith-based communities faith-based initiative people who are there the FBI the New FBI they're protecting them who Dr William Moody is holding my stuff he doesn't want me in this building anymore fine I don't want to be there I've been going there for four years wasting my time not even getting a job you understand why he doesn't want to hire me for anything I don't know I'm a Monclair State University graduate who is broke you understand I don't know what he's doing in my community but he needs to leave cuz he's not helping at all he's sucking the money from my school my school who donates to him big donations Monclair State University my alma givs to him but yet he disrespects me all the time he needs to leave and I need protection I need service I need police escort tomorrow to go to 147 Montgomery Street to reoccur my things that I tried to get today and the dirty cops one 111 was the sheriff he was in car11 that's the only office I picked up surrounded me and had the the ambulance the Patterson fire department ambulance who follows me around town with the fire truck come and surround me just like they did at Patterson um um Church on 26 when Capers was there and I went to Capers for help what he do call the ambulance to put me where in the hospital for what nothing I'm tired of being in the mental institutions I will speak about what what they do there I'm tired okay I have no money I have insurance stop milking our insurances Patterson stop milking us mental health people who are on the right track and have social security or SSDI our insurances don't want to pay for all the things that St Joseph's do to us and send us all these places they're releasing Crow patients from Greystone Hospital as we speak they're there for over 4050 60 years at graestone why because I sis made a law in 2021 if you don't have ID you cannot get out that is not right release US release the immigrants from graestone the crow patients across Please Release thank you next speaker M CL the next speaker is Joseph Hart Joseph good evening Council people I'm not here to bash anybody or whatever but I'm here because I complain about a few things that should be done done I mean city of Patterson especially downtown area it's not the same no more especially when I was a kid I mean used to be nice clean didn't have worry about things but it's all crap to me now and I'm quite sure some of you Council people that heard me call I don't call it City Hall no more when I take transit bus because they have problems when they make that turn especially on Ellison Street people don't give a damn how they parking when they park at they don't respect the yellow line that suppos to be for emergencies they don't care and it cuts me off when I'm disabled now and I res you know it's like no respect patteron people don't have no respect for each others no more very little and that sucks you know I shouldn't be some people say I need to mind my own business and don't complain nah I lost my job for 29 years when that Co came out my mind ain't been ever ain't been right ever since I go to the I got Council places I go to especially in Mar go to group meetings I haven't had a drink in now five years now sometime I feel like I want to because I used to go by the circle bar across the street from the city hall sing a Frank SRA song I think when Joey Torres was there he wanted to know the hell two guys singing out there but then were good days back then but now it's not the same no more it's like if you can't talk talk to anybody CU you don't know if they're going to shoot you or cut you you know and i' been close to that a couple times but then I'mma speak up where I got say this it's my weapon speaking up I got beat up when I was in grammar school high school all that crap I took a lot of crap growing up I was born in P I'm born and raised in patteron 1961 that's my that's the year I was born August the 24th I was born at St Joseph hpit that's when my name came from Joseph and it's like when the kids you know it's no respect they don't got too many people heavy footed on that pedal and they they'll run the red light I don't know what I don't even know what the the the speed limit is no more it it used to be 25 when I was driving but we respected people that were like senior citizens and people walking but when the transit bus is trying to make that turn especially on Ellis Street cuz I take in downtown they're double par they don't care police or fire department or or sheriff's department or tell BL the horn for them and come get out of Pizzeria and move your car cuz you know what's going to happen one day and you know go it happens but they want to still park there like down the corner stupid when them buses make that turn they got right up on the other sidewalk that's dangerous CU it could be some woman coming around with a cat and then it I I I just want to see one buses the transit buses make a domino effect and that's going to happen all cars going to get out way thank you you know all right you guys have a good night you too be back around be safe okay next speaker on CL next speaker is Jaden Jackson Mr Jackson good evening I'm not going to take up too much of your time most of us have been here for a while and I do believe that there was a woman on the phone came that that spoke and she gave a very eloquent um speech on what the plan should be I think that she did an awesome job outlining cleaning up our city is an awesome thought but the criminalization of homelessness is not the way to do it playing the blame game on organizations is also a misstep most of these organizations are underfunded and do not have the man power to do the amount of work that is needed in this city are unhoused are already have a hard time maintaining or even receiving the resources that they need and our shelters the ones that we said are no good it's not that they're no good they're too small they don't have enough beds there's too much people that need help when they call 211 they're put on a waiting list to be put on yet another waiting list to sit on yet another waiting list why are these people outside in tents taking up space on our sidewalks because we have nowhere to put them money needs to be funded or put into these empty buildings that we have all through the city of Patterson to house them they require shelter shelter is a need yes and I think somewhere along the line we decided that if someone is homeless that they are less than that is not the case shelter is a human need did we forget that they are human because it seems as though we did we talked a lot I heard a lot about dumping there was a lot spoken about dumping and the blame and the blame game continued for quite some time right in front of us dumping okay well how about we stop dumping the blame on the people that have been affected by an Antiquated system that has not done what needs to be done in order to protect them let's talk about that type of dumping how about we take accountability because when we're playing the blame game that's what we're not doing we're not taking accountability and obviously we are misinformed about what is important what is important protecting the people of Patterson so again cleaning up the city great thought it's definitely something that needs to be done but it needs to be done in a way that is Humane and protects the people that live here that's all I have to say thank you thank you thank you next next speaker M cler yes the last speaker is given yeah he left you know some just you know demat good afternoon good afternoon good evening good evening I have two questions but one statement and two questions to all my uh County committee folks I need to see you Thursday evening please be there Thursday evening be there good good good praise God my question when I was with the county we have had cold blue and we partnership with this the city with cold blue my question is that still in effect we still have that the church the the city the city still participate with the county in cold blue okay thank you my okay my second question in 1971 I bought my home in East Side East 37th Street and there was signs there for vehicles overweight Vehicles there was all the signs is gone council president why who moved the signs who moved the signs and on behalf of the East Side Association we will ask we asking for those sign to be restored back tractor and trailer all over the place so my question why will those sign move slash can we get it replaced smile con Jackson how you doing man good tell mom said hi can we can we get it replaced absolutely okay all right thank you all right take care God bless thank you thank you next speaker that's the last speaker motion to close see you none move to close move to close by Council Dava second second by councilman roll call by clerk to close the public portion of this Workshop roll call to close the public portion councilwoman cotton thank you Madame clerk I'm not GNA um I just want to um touch on a few of the speakers that were here um I had gotten several calls um regarding our last meeting I think January it might have been December regarding the um item that's going to come on the agenda next week regarding to the homeless and the tents and um it has to be voted on again uh for second reading um I said that we need to figure out how we can do and how we can help to help those that needs to be in shelters um I did get a call from a cou couple of shelters that that I haven't been able to visit yet but um one of the speakers spoke about um the shelters are are in bad shape and in bad condition I need to we as council members probably not all of them but maybe some of them um or maybe in bad condition I always say that if you're going to talk about somebody say the the name say the name cuz we got so many shelters not we don't have a lot of them but just say who had you heard that is not doing the right thing or is not doing the the thing that it should be so uh and I'm going to have a visit but I'm going to have a visit with them but I'm saying if I can go there and see what it looks like um also I want to just say that um um you know there's a I get the calls and I think all of our council members get the calls of trying to place people in in shelters or even trying to find um trying to find them uh housing based on income where their rent is based on income but also I just want to say also to um um that vote's coming up next year I mean next week for that sh um the homeless the um the fining and the jailing and that so make sure you come next week so this way you'll be able to see also I want to say too that um um I think that I'm just going to put it on record that I think that we need to um Corporation Council but because our ba is not here but sometimes we as council members get calls on the weekend and we're really not sure sometimes where to go what to do and you find I find myself going there you know I find myself I get a I got a couple calls this weekend about construction work and building on Sundays so I have to now I get in my car I don't have to but I do it anyhow and and and say to them you should not be banging on Sunday like the seventh Sunday is the Sabbath day for rest nobody don't want to work seven days six days a week and they got to listen to Somebody banging all day long so and I think that I want to say to you Corporation counsel so you can bring it up that sometimes there's things that come up that we really don't know who who we can call or how we can call to get something addressed and I know that um and and we need to know because we find oursel like going to those things or doing those things also um I just want to say that we I mean we get we got a lot of calls and one thing um I know myself I'm a people's person if you call me I'm going to answer the phone nobody can't say Ruby K don't answer the phone nobody can't say Ruby K don't call you back on a Sunday or a Saturday I do that because I know that when you call me you're calling me for a reason you're calling me because you're reaching out and I just want to say to Patricia that we need to have a conversation because some some of the things that vanilla right vanilla P vanilla because some of the um information that you had said you know um and you need to have a conversation because I always said that and we have actually uh another a new officer in charge um which is Patrick Murray who yeah but we will introduce you so we and we will make sure but I say we will have a conversation so so there's so many everybody's tired we all tired we all t wait a second we're all tired that's another conversation that me and you going to have separate and because and I just want to say also that you know there's plenty of things and and I hear Roger with The Dumping um I disagree with the Garbage Contract I did I disagree with it but it's here so we have to really figure out how we gonna how we gonna do it um to the young children over there miss MOA we have so many extra programs that I really want to get your kids your kids speak so elegantly I want to get your kids in some of these programs that the city is offering we have one on governor in C Street with Nancy Greer they take them down to school number six they they go on trips like American Dream they go to uh pumpkin picking they go to Alpha pink and they do all different stuff they go to museum so I want to get your children part of that because they they speak so elegantly and they need and they can train someone else so when we do that so with that being said and um um I know I heard Roger gri we need to find out about we got to get something with that dumping so when I get that but anyhow I'm going to I'm going to wrap it up because I you know it's some conversation I want to have with each and every every everyone but uh we all we all I'm telling you no no I'll get it I'll get it we all we we get the calls we go out there Corporation counsel please when I ask that you know sometimes we get a call we have no clue what we need to do and we go out and we try to figure it out um what we need to do and and sometimes it can get kind of violent or not violent they start cursing you out put it that way but any that being said madam thank you everyone thank you uh Community for coming out and speaking out Madame clerk U with that being said my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava yes thank you councilman Jackson thank you Madame clerk um the first thing I want to point out to the public is the absence of the B now the CFO um which is very disappointing and it's required for them to be in these meetings answer questions and council president quite frankly it speaks to your failure because people come to the microphone every single night asking having requests and asking questions and you and you as a council president failed to hold them accountable your that the the fact that you allow them to just be absent and not um uh make take issue with that it speaks volumes um but I on that note I want to say this and I want I want to point this out to the members of the public um every everyone knows that Mr olivarez is my um is my Aid everyone who doesn't know now be please be properly informed I never um knew who the gentleman was uh I've been elected now more than 10 years I've been in this community my entire life just about um never met him he served in the pison public school board in fact from what I from what I understand he he was formerly on the team of um councilman Mendes um and uh he came before the council one night to have some words of uh uh some uh scalding words to to me and I I reached out to him the next day sat down and had a conversation with him which which I'm willing to do with anyone who has a difference of opinion I don't run from from these situations and we you know as it turns out we aligned I don't uh direct his commentary I don't uh uh make an effort to to quill his commentary he's you know he has the right to say and express himself however he pleases so contrary to what some people have tried to to advertise I don't need to to promote anyone to come to the podium to to speak on my behalf those people who do they do that on their own recognizance I don't ever ever encourage anyone to do that so whatever it was that Mr olivar shared with the public tonight and any other night as his own personal opinion um is not is not um directed by me and I wanted to make that clear um another area in which the and brother G gr I hope you are serious with with regard to running for office because um we need some some new new uh BL okay all right so um because you know here's the thing we have people who have been coming here waving the red flag telling us Mr Gilmore's testimony every single night when he comes here what he did with the Art Factory and not only does this Council ignore him but the council makes a direct effort to derail and to um to to to disengage with him every single night even tonight he comes here he talks to about the inappropriate behaviors Within These various departments and it's just looked right over in the past G and I'm sure I'm sure you can acknowledge this in the past we would stopped and the and the ba was then made accountable to answer to these these issues which they're not um the the the the issue with the cameras right we spent Millions millions of dollars in 77 cameras I'm sure brother G you have photographed more than 77 locations in the city it is endless in countless areas in which dumping can take place and to assume that we're going to be able to post 77 cuz it wasn't even 70 it was like 50 some OD cameras and some 20 plus of them were like refurbished or something like that but to assume that we we can address the Citywide dumping issue with 7 7 cameras is absolutely crazy you know the the the the resolution that I wrote that same week was to empower the community to give them an opportunity put a dashboard camera in your in your car your vehicle if you driving you see somebody throw some out of the window and it's recording bring that in anonymously and we will share 50% of the uh of the proceeds or the fine with you and I guarantee you when doing something like that The Dumping will be be subsided but I'm trying to patiently wait for him to get here but I don't want to prolong this any longer just um as a matter of protocol right I wasn't in attendance and now I don't even recall if you were but I wasn't in attendance for the last meeting of the Year there was a meeting that we had that the council called as a special emergency meeting to approve in uh budget Appropriations someone asked the CFO why wasn't this item placed on the agenda prior to and he said that we you were unable to vote on the Budget prior to the uh the the end of the year which is totally incorrect 30 days prior and 30 days after you are eligible according to the njsa 30 days prior and 30 days after if you recall we've done this many times in the past and for a CFO he should be well versed in what the law is a temporary budget allowing municipalities to meet its obligations such as payroll debt Services until the budget is adopted a temporary Municipal budget can be adopted before the start of the new calendar year so and and what it is is just pointing out the fact of how information is provided falsely to misdirect the council it was it a big deal to have a meeting then no it wasn't but here's the last um uh uh caveat of another mistruth that the budget officer or CFO um gave out just today so and and and C C abdelaziz because you got a very good memory I'm sure I'm not sure if you recall this or not but not only was payroll then moved to Personnel but we gave that Personnel director a $115,000 pay increase because she was well-versed supposedly in the new system payroll was done inhouse in fact checks were cut inhouse um and this is you know yeah we we sent it out after they failed to process to be able to properly process it but they never we never res sended that $115,000 pay increase that she received yes yes keep shaking your head the payroll was how was in house with Edmonds talking about councilwoman and we printed the checks Etc in house H hard had to print all the reports payroll was outsourced to Prime point and and they printed the checks with W2s and reports um HHR used to used to handle all of that in fact when you even there's a in within the Ba's office some of the payroll for staff in the in the um clerk's office is being handled with those employees there so yet again we give out false information we we've already cut checks and we've already give pay increases to employees to do certain services and when they fail to do it we go out here and Outsource it and pay somebody else but we never took back that money so you know we got to mind we have to mind the kitchen we're sitting here allowing for things like this to continuously to happen and the community is being um taken advantage of and lastly I'll just say this um sis my school 21 my fellow School 21 graduate uh the the the uh recommendation for for hitting hitting them in the pockets you came to the podium and you talked about certain things within uh the 4 Ford councilman woman cotton almost every single item you spoke about falls under the purview of the mayor the ba and the administration the council council members don't have the ability to go out and find in fact they have to implement these findes they have to put these things in they have to actually put the things in place we create in fact Council councilman um uh Mendes amended the ordinance for $10,000 they haven't given us one report because nobody's been fine that amount no one has been fine but yet dumping is taking place all over the community anyway I digress uh Madam clerk I appreciate your patience my vote is yes thank you Council councilman Jackson um councilman Council nen thank you Madame Clark thank you Patterson good evening every everyone those who are here in the chamber those are watching us live on the our our TV I thank you all for your participation in our meeting here in person and virtually um many concerns were shared in the chamber and I believe that we need to speak about it many of our residents spoke about the illegal dumping and many of you know that those are even not here this is this something needs to be addressed and uh those who are involved to it I think that should be punished we have bul pickup situation in our city for last about a year or so and this is the reason we can see trash on our city street it does not mean that if we have if we solve the problem for B pickup this is going to solve illegal dumping this is this is not going to happen until the people who are uh doing this they are getting they're getting punishment now even today when I get to the council meeting I sent a video to the directors regarding a illegal dumping on Wayne Avenue that took place yesterday last week last month a few times tpw uh cleaned up the trust and so many of you saw the uh post from our res presidents especially jig Mr jiger is here we see the post on the social media but there is no there is no remedy though no permanent Solutions we see your request we request to our DPW and they go and clean that right after we see again repetition of the same action because there is no penalty or we are not catching them to for their uh you know uh wrongdoings so I are the Patterson Police Department they have to look at these videos regardless what source posted them whether on the social media or we council members or residents send them I think they have to get in action and catch those who are doing or or doing this kind of crime in our city otherwise solving bulk situation is not going to solve illegal dumping and I believe that our next project council president I think this should be our concentration that the bul pickup situation scheduling is it working you know very well I'm talking about my team and myself when we drive around the city when we see trash on on on the street what we do actually we stop and I make schedule for those locations I make schedule but point is let's say I schedule for Trust on Redwood Avenue day before yesterday I was driving by it's not that someone called me I was driving by a saw trash on the street I parked my car took picture and scheduled and scheduled for February uh 8th or so that that was the date were given online the point is the stash is going to sleep there until the DP go and pick them up so what's happening is first of all we are the residents are not familiar with scheduling or sometime they're ignoring the going through the process they're throwing their trash outside now you know we have this situation is not going to solve until the whether we have to uh come up with a better plan and if we place a better plan and people throw their trash outside on the day or uh they should not I think they should be ticketed that should some there should be some uh you know uh proper solution and permanent solution for B sitution now uh we also uh you know Mr director Gilmore uh spoke about the um construction takes place without permission I mean look what council members can do what we can say is that I think we need to hire more inspectors or whatever the department looks for to make sure that nobody does their construction without permission but again the resident have different uh experience I'm talking about today um Miss D is not here uh she made few of the um about two or three emails today for some my constituents regarding their uh permit for their construction they requested for the permit just a simple permit to uh renovate their houses is uh more than two months they have they did not hear anything back from the uh Community Improvement department whether it's it's approved or anything they have anything else they have to provide so how long people can just sit down and paying a mortgage and they are not even able to start their construction so we cannot just blame people also we have to be effective on our jobs as well that we cannot we have to make sure that those who purchase house especially one family two family houses our residents they are waiting for the renovation or whatever work should be done to get into the house so that at least they can rent the house or they can leave in the house by the time they are not renting or they are not leaving the house they are paying mortgage out of their pocket for nothing so we have to pay attention to this when people find out this our process is lengthy for no reason some people take the advantage that okay now let's not go for any process let's let's do whatever we want cuz they are not getting any punishment at all so we cannot just blame people we have to be effective from our our seat as well so this is this is this is my hope and again I believe that I have to uh walk to the I mean send another email to the community Improvement that what else we could have done to experti the process I mean council president just know this I have today Miss D uh emailed on my behalf today um one of the properties I said you know what's the update with the uh application the applicant is waiting he coming back and forth no response so email came back that the the application is processed on the January 7th they are reviewing the application but how long this rision process going to take place when it's going to be end nobody knows that's my email from Miss D so think about when you are blaming people they are not coming to the community Improvement for permission but when you're permission takes months why would they have to go there they rather would take the punishment punishment is less than the mortgage they are paying for nothing so exactly now this is what's going on I'm talking about just today's experience and this is the everyday experience of our people so I believe that every department needs to be um effective from their um on their jobs now Corporation Council one thing I need to mention right here about pla uh agreement um about the Dispatch Center uh Corporation Council you saw the uh news article yesterday about the dispat center and the pla um agreement when we voted last week on the December 30th uh for the dispat center and I and I I I I believe that that any project come five million or more the pla will be involved the news article covered that pla were removed from this uh uh you know project I'm not sure what's the rational behind it uh residents are calling so I believe that people need to hear back from the administration that if we we have I mean look this is the very first project pla um uh pla should get involved CU before that there was no pla uh all the project we did was less than uh $5 million so I I believe that we um the administration needs to provide the rational why they removed plf from this uh project as well so we council members can respond to the people as well uh with that being said again Patterson we all have to work hard just know this when you talk about illegal dumping when they talk about the trash on our street but just just know this cleanliness start from all of us sometimes we throw trash on our streets I have seen so many times in our city that people are driving and they are eating something maybe in the car and throwing their trash out of their uh you know from their car this is happening in our city if we really want to see our city clean we all have to be part of this we the city council members have to do better job on this Administration has to do better job on this and you and we all Havey to be part of this cuz this is our city if we make this city clean this is for us not for others so let's work together with having said my vote is yes to close the public person okay thank you um councilman uden um councilman abdelaziz thank you councilman valz thank you thank you uh assembly men thank you uh so um there's a lot of topic that being U brought up to this uh Podium I respect all of them um first of all I want to say I want to send my condolence to uh the family of Jose police police patrol officer Jose Valentine that um pass away this past weekend um good police officer good Patrol man you know um my condolence goes to the patteron police to the man and woman of Patterson Police for the family of patrol officer Jose Valentine can you open it wide U Rafael where's rapael Sor thank you thank you I I don't need to divide attention but I was paying attention to comments that was here so um thank you brother I know that um cman uh Udin stated that you know our we as a residents have to do what we have to do uh try to keep our community clean trying to make sure we cooperate making sure that we support the DPW workers etc etc one thing I could to say is to the residents of the Fifth Ward especially the Fifth Ward those that sent me textt with pictures of dumping those that sent me text of uh uh dumping in different areas in the Fifth Ward um I just want to remind you that I received a text uh make make sure that the text was delivered to any director in DPW uh they instructed me to not send no more text to send emails so I started doing that last week sending emails regarding the dumping and um other issues regarding cleaniness and things that happen in the city um don't believe if they're not going to get to it they will get to it accordingly when they receive the email and they schedule that pickup to clean it up all right just beer with uh DPW they have a 8.9 square mile um um city that they have to take care uh it's more dumping than ever we celebrating a year of dumping in the city of patteron because this all started in January 1st 2024 hopefully the administration C up and brings a real real plan how to keep our city clean uh if we put also a little bit effort to maintain a clean uh the resident of the fifth War knows that I am proactive I send I send taxes I send flyers I do what I have to do to educate my residents how to keep their front clean the business front clean uh they put out the recycling sometime recycling is behind let's be honest um especially when it's Monday especially when it's Friday there's a sometime some kind of culture to call out and sometimes so um the service is the one that um gets hurt here u in the city of P um those resident that um watch the news are a little bit wild back regarding a gentlemen uh and councilman uh listen to this part uh this gentleman was living in Roberto Clemente Park I don't know you you remember the article about the guy that was living inside the park Roberto Clemente um you know I reach out to him I tell him where to go to get help he did that so I received a update of the work being done by the city with this gentleman so Mr Rolando the gentleman that was uh living at Roberto Clemente park with a dog and a lizard right he don't have no place to go so he was at the Roberto Clemente Park but we we put fence at rerto Clemente Park we advised him that the park is going to be closed during the night so he had to leave the park I sent him to real fix okay so unfortunately the good news is that he went there the bad news is they cannot assist him because he got a dog and a lizard and the sad part is they cannot fix his real problem because he don't have no kind of addiction so to be able to be participant at the real fix you need to be a drug addict you have to have a dependent of drugs so when I received that I say well can you go a little bit extra mile for him because at least God bless he's not in drugs the only problem he has now he has a dog and a lizard is a is his family don't you think that the system will help somebody to get shelter no matter they got a dog a cat or lizard a horse or whatever right you know you want to get help for it right so I recommend to change the name of the program from real fix to addiction fix because the real fix word is misleading the needs of the people out there it's no real fix it's misleading people with homeless problem homeless problems home house problem apartment problem they go there they they don't get solution why because they don't have an addiction and that's wrong the case to help people you don't have to have a condition it's a problem and a situation to solve so I think that program should be changed the name from real fix to addiction fix because then the addicted will go there right addiction people so that's a recommendation uh they came back saying that the reason they put real fix is because the 1800 number the only thing they give us is that word real fix that's nice beautiful but but yes yeah I didn't do that yes but but I yes number yeah but if you have a problem you don't find a number I will give you a right number direct number 973 32110 160 that's the mayor's office no no anytime call him you want his phone number for his home I'll give it to you yeah no Hey listen they call me at 1:00 I don't have no problem I take a HS um Mr Gilmore uh stated about the construction um the construction permit is not getting done this and that I don't know why the stay is there they said it was working fine so that's one of the thing so I got three three seconds to go ladies and gentlemen um I'm ready to last but not least council president I love you brother goe last last but not least listen this is thank you for these young ladies coming here to learn about government amazing oh amazing yes you know yeah no and uh young lady I forgot to talk about that I always praise them because uh and the parent too because they bring him here to learn to bring the concern and I know H school I know I know them quite good uh forgive me if I have done something wrong okay but treat you like my daughters uh Patterson Police um Mr um Mr um what's his name g given Reverend giv I I heard back there that you were talking about cannabis yeah oh okay I thought Oh no just in case I just no no it's fine it's fine oh Shelton oh okay um the the administration had to get it right we they haven't kicked off you that yeah yeah yeah hey hey hey hey um I could live without it oh yeah that's a plan but nobody's going to do it for free the church had to pay light water resources no no hold on what I'm saying is if you want the FI base to get involved in helping the city with the shelters and homeless and this and that listen that cost money the same way the Administration spend money and other things give it to the F base get the placeat ready get personnel and put the money in churches they want churches to get involved listen they want churches to get involved for free for free and that's not fair they spend money in another organization and they don't invested on it start going back to the G come on yeah I get ready for I'm I'm sorry we we we we closing the public portion can we get back can we get back to B I'm sorry yes I know so no no yes now west brother is open so yeah it's open it's open uh and and YMCA is open and so on so forth I'm sorry Council that was a commercial from the re G yes council president my vote is yes okay um council president thank you thank you uh so so before we leave before my Council colge start leaving this uh uh meeting so let me let me just address uh some of the members of the public but once again I want to say thank you to our pison resident that com to our meeting every day every Tuesday during our meeting our Workshop regular meeting to express their concern now I'm all about I'm all about choice and and I'm just I make it as a joke but one of the speaker uh um he came in and he uh comment about my suit that is too tight that I look like a bouncer and so on and so forth he called me a bouncer tonight I was councilman Jackson hey but you know what when you come to a meeting and you have to pay attention to the way I dress I love the way I dress this my style um I I I I I I don't I don't think that you have much to offer to our city but now people speak about dumping I was the one that introduced the legislation to increase the fine to up to $10,000 for those people that are dumping in our community I was the one now uh so so with that being said Mr air buzzes so he the person in charge of real f we have $1 million grand for 77 cameras and the software to install it so I'm requesting a former presentation from Mr Ed boss in front of the council to see where are those camera they're not in Patterson yet that's one of the way that we got to control that because quite honestly people taking picture of other people dumping they will never go to court to testify against that person that's not going to happen we need those camera in those different location uh to stop dumping the legislation is there and $10,000 is a heavy fine I know people that they already been hit with that amount but that's is not enough we have a lot more people that are dumping in our community and we have to take action on that now the problem with a bulk pickup the bulk situation now Council Cali just give me a minute council members the situation with a ball pickup one of the main one of the easy solution of this is um people are not calling they not calling to uh schedule a a table a chair they're not doing that they called the doctor to schedule an appointment with the doctor it's not working now what the administration need to do is to set a fixed schedule let me know what day I have what day out of the month if it's one day out of the month or twice a month the time that I could put the chair that I'm not using outside let me know the exact day in the time the same way we have recycling throughout the city we have the schedule let's put the ball pickup on the schedule forget about calling people are not calling we fail on that and that need to be changed if we want to fix the problem with that you have a solution right there immediately and we don't have to go around and look into more coal and technology and data we don't need data for that we got to we got to clean the city pison is filthy and what we're doing now it's not working so what we got to do is that we have the legislation in place we need the cameras in those location and we need to fix the schedule of every area the three Zone that we have give one one day out of the month or twice a month for for those people to put those things that they not use in tables chairs sofa whatever they want to put out there just give them one day or two day that's about it it will help the public work department be more effective because they will keep control of the route but not calling not scheduling because it's not happening people are dumping that stuff everywhere they can that's what happened that's that's what really happened uh Truck Park overnight in in the third world I've been uh calling every single week uh Corporation Council please if we could reach out to our uh police department uh tomorrow I've been calling about those tractor trailer parking overnight in the third war and not only in the third world I drive around the city I see them Park everywhere commercial truck everywhere they take him uh parking away from our residents and if you own a business you need to have a yard for you to to park those trucks that's what you need to do you're going to be ticking and towing we have a law in place that you that that we're not enforcing enforcement is the problem in the city of pison um I think you know so I want to talk about we talk about a lot about homeless today and I'm just going to say this from the bottom of my heart this is my personal opinion our children don't have a choice our senior don't have a choice our females that and that come around the downtown and go out of the house they don't have a choice our children need to see homeless people sleeping and urinating and doing all kind of things in the morning and in the afternoon when they go back and forth from the school last week I visited two shelter I don't want to mention no name one of the shelter was the warming Center the capacity is for over a 100 people there was only eight people when I asked the person how many more or less we have they told me this is the most amount of people a sometime we have one and two and the capacity is for over 100 I went to another place it was over 50% empty we have location for those individuals in our community they're sick they have mental problem they have addiction problem we cannot leave it up to them right parison is the only city in this in the county and I guess in the state of New Jersey that you could come from everywhere and and build a tent on the sidewalk or build a tent right next to your house and you could stay there you could urinate there you could defecate that you could do whatever you one people they cannot come to downtown pison we have homeless in downtown pison harassing the customers our business owner are suffering in the downtown pison because downtown pison is filthy we have people sleeping on the street everywhere it look it look horrible and that need to stop and the only way that is going to stop if is for us to take action I count over 10 way more than 10 entity here in the city of Paro that their job and they found the is to help those people in need with addiction with homeless situation but guess what we have to step up into the plate we cannot allow people to come into our community and open a town and stay there and we cannot do nothing about it it's impossible you go to Wi you don't say that you go to Clifton you don't see that hton Pro Park any town around P County you would or Bergen County or exus County only in patteron why is that we have people coming from all over the state of New Jersey coming into patteron get getting into the red track getting into the downtown the alleyway of those business under the bridge and we're not taking action I refuse to live in a city like this I refuse to live in in a pel that I see right now we got to take action with this and I have a conversation with Lieutenant sh is she's fully on board they need help and we have to direct them but it it's not a choice that they stay in our in our street urinating defecating doing all the things that they doing harassing customer our business owner in downtown they losing business every day because people refuse to come to downtown so we got to take action patteron and it start right here it's not true that there's no help but they don't need it they don't need help they could go they ask for money they eat and they use to you know they they satisfy their needs so no they sick and they need help we have to direct them to those entity that have most of those bed empty and they have those services is to make sure that they get back into the community and they could go back to their town where they came from to get the help that's what need to be done so I hope that we could have a serious conversation about that because if we feel sorry about the homeless yes we have to feel sorry about our children that go in the morning and and go through there in the morning and go back to the school in the afternoon and they have to smell what's going on in the street they have to see things that they should not that they that they don't supposed to see our elderly our senior our females our taxpayer we have to worry about them because those entity that we have in the city of patteron they getting the funding and they're ready to serve but those people voluntarily they not going to go to those places it's our job to say I'm sorry you cannot sleep you cannot Camp over here I cross the street from City Hall I feel I feel embarrassing every time we have visi that they Park in a public parking and they have to cross to get into City Hall and see what they see I feel embarrassing I'm sorry I invite people to the city of patteron and when they come to Broadway when they get into on the highway the first thing is why they tell me council president you guys have a lot of work to do here there's a lot of problem in this city so we have a lot of work to do and we got to take action with that being said um Let me let me um I do apologize M clerk because I didn't mention that um our um uh at VA Captain lone was sick she got sick at the last meeting that's the reason why Mr Harris is not here that's the reason why we don't have anybody on her seat because she's supposed to be here with us but she got sick at the last minute and she went home I hope she feel okay I hope she's doing well I will follow over with fun tomorrow uh and hope she doing okay um with that being said let's pray for our city and let's definitely do what the right thing for our community my vot is yes B CL thank you councilor president the votes are seven in favor two absent uh the public portion for the workshop session is hereby closed uh council president sure so just just a minute Council council members I think uh uh Council M Le the item number eight uh going back going back to the workshop yeah um I know I put I asked um Miss Philip to put item number eight on regular but javel answer your question I believe no yeah I want I want to leave it in regular we're going to leave it on regular I want I want Javier uh Javier when if possible before sorry where's Mr CA Mr CA can you come back to you see please oh right um what I only want for jaier when um before Tuesday when we make the vote I want to see at admise um uh Bill uh how they spending this money in this telecommunication and the scope of work they doing or whatever to make my uh decision on it I want to see at Le bills how this spending uh uh um this contract what is the scope of work what are they doing with that with that contract the telecommunication um that Solutions correct huh yeah thata Solutions yeah okay yeah um also if you could come um I know councilman Jackson requested um how much uh we are paying for that you say taxpayer money paying uh for that uh rooc calls um from 2018 up to now that's when he started 2018 up to now um the other thing is council president um I know you mentioned that um other municipality like Clifton Wayne Uh hortor ELO Park don't have the uh problem that we have with homeless it's good to send them a letter to tell us how they do it I I would like to know without without an ordinance that they want to put in place without the enforcement that they we want to put like 2005 or whatever how this municipality are doing it because it has to be a secret how they doing it if they don't have homeless in the street they don't have squatters they don't have nothing and we have it all I want to know how they doing it how they doing that to prevent it in their City Elmo Park horor Pake Wayne Clifton helden I want to know how they do it right council president we want to know the secret how they do it secret to to to to no I want to know if they at least could come back saying we we keep it clean because we put him in the car and we drop it in patteron probably they going to come and say that but we need to know how they keep it like that I know but if if no hold on if you ask this homeless individual where the primary residence is they going to tell me they came from Clifton Elmo Park Wayne so I want to know how their cities are clean of free or homeless um right now no I don't want to go there right I just want to know if they have a plan in place over there that probably we could put it here and it probably works right s how correct but um I I hear you council president we have a big problem and you know and we have it but we need to see what's the roots of the problems of of creating this U uh people coming to Patterson and seeing that Patterson that um they don't they they only buy they don't only buy drugs so I I know I know people in tents I know people in tents that uh don't use drugs I know people in say they don't use drug perfect example this gentleman that live in Roberto Clemente Park he don't use drugs he only have a dog in Li lizard and he don't have a place to go with his dog in Liz so you know is is um you know don't confuse drug with a condition okay I know people that are walking like like dizzy and this and that they have probably a medical condition that make him walk dizzy so um so council president you know I just want to say that because they have to be a method there have to be a plan that they have in place that this city are free of homeless you know and having that conversation with them probably sending a letter listen we had noticed that you don't have homeless we have noticed that you don't have this in your city can you tell us what is your plan what you putting in place that you don't have it yeah thank you Council let me just uh I'll be brief I asked a person um that he very he been here for a while asking P handling and living under the bridge and I asked him listen I I let me ask you a few question if you don't mind and he told me I told him L why you choosing patteron his answer was because he told me because they don't bother me here in pison they don't bother me I stay here I ask for money I eat I sleep under the bridge and they don't bother me nobody say nothing to me the problem that what happened with all the municipality and the way they've been so effective is is because of this if you go to Clifton you go to hton and you stay on the corner and you try to you going to have somebody there you're going to have an officer if you have a problem with addiction they're going to direct you to a place if you don't have a place to leave they're going to send you to a shelter or they're going to send you to an institution but they're not going to leave you in the street what happened in pison is that nobody pay attention anybody could come to the city of pison and play like a homeless and you don't know what that what person that person that person could be any uh up from any any place in the state or in the country and they come to pison and we don't know who live in pison we don't know who's sleeping in the street of our city and that's that's a big problem in a surrounding area in P County you would never go to horon and stay on the corner and try to ask for money you will never build a tent on the park on horon or on any sidewalk you're going to have the health department the police department everybody what's going on what is your problem you don't have a place to stay we're going to direct you to a place to stay you have a family problem we have a mental problem we're going to address it he and pison we're not doing that we allow people to stay in the street to you do whatever want people in patteron we have people with mental problem in the downtown that they getting into a restaurant taking the food away from people and asking for money and being aggressive so that's a problem that need to be addressed and the best way to do it is is by paying attention putting this legisl in place I spoke with Shar inston she's in full support and she going to talk to us this coming week uh C thank thank you council president so Patterson I am very optimist about future of our city because you have seen that two young ladies spoke on the mic uh Leo MOA and uh Victoria MOA and Young Folks like moras are involved in in different activities in our city I'm grateful to my team because right now 55 children from different schools and universities are working with me voluntarily for different project in our city and I welcome Leo from this Saturday joining my team as well so this is why I'm very Optimist that Patterson will be on the right hand in the near future but we all Resident have to get together to make sure that we vote or we support the people who those who support the city of P the another thing I want to just speak about council president that from now every single thing I address to the uh different departments is going to be in written form because of the different frustration that I did for the community movement today this exactly same thing I'm going to do with the police department from now I live in Hare section of Patterson I'm talking about my personal experience and people calling for overweight uh truck parking right in front of my house I I used my address to Police Department for multiple times regarding truck parking in front of my own house um I am an elected official people call me for their problems and I'm dealing with my own problem I'm failing on myself I call police department almost every day I call police department for Tru parked on my street on my street I have seen few times that they are giving ticket and they're leaving St Park still there my point is whether they pay ticket or they find some other options to not to pay I don't know but the ordinance says they have to remove the truck from there tow it tow it that does not take place so tomorrow I'm sending another retain email to the police department just to make sure that whether they're going to remove it and I'm going to record everything from now cuz this is a frustration that every single individuals leaving the city of Patterson going through we have parking issue on top of this illegal parking on top of this the overweight truck parking Reverend um given spoke about that back then we had uh the sign on the street saying no overweight truck parking on the street we have to go back to our old facient way and we have to make sure we enforce I understand that we coming we are coming up with innovative ideas on the paper resolution new ordinances that's true council president we are talking about the uh enforcement for not to have uh tents on the street nothing is going to take place until there is enforcement so if departments from now I think this is what should be our commitment again it's not really anti mayor or in favor of meor that's not our stand that's not my stand I'm talking about the any Department we feel they are not supporting to our ordinances our resolution that we are giving in their hand we have to commit it to ourselves that we are not going to move forward with anything they comes up with until they enforce the ordinance or the resolution that we gave in their hand to enforce that should be our commitment if we really care about the St patterns because we are just look every day people com in here people calling us all the council members we all are doing our jobs there's no question question about anybody's job but point is that when people are calling for some issue we have no Solutions cuz you are reaching out to the department the department is failing to address this issue so I believe that we have to be committed it's not really we are speaking against maror that's not our person there nothing personal but point is anybody in any Department do not you know work you know properly we cannot hire them or fire them but we can stop them until they are active on their Duty so this is this is exactly my stand and from now I think I am going to stop calling my communication would be in written form from now my I'm not voting we need to be we need to be together on those kind of items council president and it's good to know listen since 2016 I've been sitting here you've been sitting here for a while all the council members here sitting for a while we have draft ordinance okay and I going to put you for an example councilman Jackson raing ordinance to not being panhandling and blocking the the the the McDonald's windows and all that stuff right and and and they're not enforcing it we draft an ordinance about panhandling on the traffic light they're not enforcing it the same girl is always panhandling on Market that every time that she see me she say he you again all right but if I see him 100 times the cops see him 200 times sure we have another uh uh ordinance we draft not sell expend gas to the uh illegal bikes and and and the illegal bikes in the city of patteron they still there it's just a Feelgood ordinance that they cannot enforce and it's in the books blocking the passage to the sidewalk is in the book uh uh noise in the street is in the book um you name it everything's in the book now I just want to know the secrets of the other cities thank you what they doing thank you councilman so C I know councilman is about to leave and councilman Jackson before we get break quar council members we there's honores that we have all the honores that we have on this section uh Madame clerk so we could add it into the consent agenda for making sure that no so okay so so let's get back don't leave council members so let's go through the honor because you have honor here no no no there's other item between 1113 okay no give me a second so let's go item number nine is a raffle that should go on consent item number 10 consent um council members resolution memorializing The Life and Legacy to Dr Mary um Dr Garner regular um if I could be add as a sponsor Dr GH was a good friend of mine and I could be add as a co-sponsor respectfully yeah she was a can I get out as a co-sponsor yes so Dr G can at as a co-sponsor um okay thank you thank you item number 12 council member resolution designated February 25th as a black history month that's a regular uh Black History Month celebration now um let let me make a quick announcement the celebration uh councilwoman count of February 21st is going to be at the council chamber the council chamber will be ready to celebrate the this great event at the uh at the council chair so Black History Month will be celebrated uh in City Hall so so we're looking forward uh on the 21st February February 21st February sure thank you so cwom let me let me continue item 13 resolution memorializing The Life and Legacy of Sami Tor uh that councilman Jackson uh Council regular um okay you counc Sami appreciate it council president if I may the flight raising is still scheduled for February 1st at 12:00 in front of the city hall the the award program is scheduled for February 21st will be will be back into the council chamber uh council chambers let's keep our finger crossed Council chamber will be ready on February to I order a special Chair for My Council C especially especially good thing we say about DPW I hope it be thereal and I have one special for councilman Jackson as well they all special for all of you guys they look beautiful by the way so item 13 will be on regular Finance item 14 the yard consent um motor vehicle young yard 15 consent 16 consent um coin operator 17 consent um laundry license uh 18 consent um coin operator laer license consent 19 see we go quick on this coun it9 resolution honor and memorializing The Life and Legacy of um Margaret Elizabeth Robinson sponsor by Council uh councilwoman Kon and Council MC Mims item 39 regular consent councilwoman you could it you could put it on consent and still it will it will show up as as uh that you are the sponsor as well so consent consent okay 39 before you go number 40 okay council president about 40 can I be Co yes uh 40 uh resolution emorial in the Muslim Heritage mon counil there is a mistake council president that um that should be sponsored by uh myself uh councilman khik and aliz and uh co-sponsored by reming council members mad clerk let the record reflect that item 39 will be sponsor also as well by councilman khik councilman um Alis and co-sponsor by the remaining Council and item number 40 will be a regular con and also uh council president can I just speak since we are speaking just 30 seconds yes that we are not just passing a resolution um just to celebrate Muslim Heritage Month also um uh by next two days I'm going to reach out to the council members that whether we can honor some of the um uh Muslim uh people that live in the city contributed religious way of any ethnic background just Muslim Heritage mod does not mean any ethnicity beautiful so I'm going to reach out to you every youone and I'm going to let you know the location so we can all sponsor uh the we have to support we have to support diversity my Council absolutely regular consent Council uh put it regular so you can regular okay um um uh council member so item number 41 um the resolution right in the world Contra consent council members thank you so um so let's move to item 45 which is resolution honoring interrogative LGE sponsored by councilman rubby Catlin councilman can we put in consent okay a resolution honoring um Teresa um on the black his 46 um Council M regular okay 47 Council mes 47 regular regular you H read okay can you please add me 40 uh 48 um Co sponsor uh uh no let meare that 47 is the resolution honor P County under Sheriff Alberto guad for his Trail blazing career and law enforcement and community service sponsored by the fifth councilor 48 48 consent 47 49 49 Council M you're honoring so item 49 you want a regular consent uh 47 as a as co-sponsor you sure item 49 you want to uh this is your honor uh my honor I would like to have it in uh cons uh regular please okay U okay regular perfect item number 50 um item number 50 councilman Jackson uh this is your item I spoke with uh councilman um uh with operation Council so even though do you copies and sign it but he going to put it on the on the format of the resolution and sign it so it will go on consent regular okay regular item number 50 hold on for a minute uh Council um I just want to clarify uh this goes as a resolution or a ordinance no it's a resolution remember the ordinance is enforceable uh no it's a resolution in corporation C is a memorizing coer Council went over the the resolution he went over and and and he will sign on he doesn't see any illegality or any wrong doing as a resolution as a resolution not ordinance okay go ahead go ahead H corporation councel uh yeah thank you council president so yeah uh we did review this and uh work with councilman Jackson to uh make the edits that we thought uh needed to be made and so we'll put this on uh resolution paper and sign off on it and have it ready uh this week for the for the next meeting so in other words this will be send message and this is for the record that Corporation Council doesn't work with Council M Jackson he do work with we put that aside the point is is we we we're happy to uh achieve help achieve this my question is would this serve the purpose to advise the board to um um or or to advise the counsel to them that they have to not charge parking because one thing is who who this resolution will give authority to to the boards or to whom because here says resolution urgent vigorous no one enforcement the word enforcement of sing codes so that's why I'm talking about the word enforcement so leave it leave it in leave it in regular regular yeah okay leave it in regular all right thank you councilman regular and and the last item council members the last item of this phenomenal agenda is item 51 which is resolution authorizing the war of country to floring Foundation for the purchase and installation of floring at the city clerk office yes we oh my God my our our clerk floor oh Lord yes I'm sorry our Deputy clerk that floor oh Lord Jesus yes yes we need it oh my God I feel so bad we need a kid kitchen we need a kitchen and City Hall for the staff a full kitchen where our staff they could take a break when you take a break when you have lunch and you're sitting on your desk and you have lunch on your desk you actually didn't went out for lunch you didn't you have to walk away from your desk and get into go outside go into a open space and have lunch and then come back that it it mentally that's really helpful for our employees so that's the next step but the floor have to be changed so this will go on consent council members and and and we finish with the agenda I have a motion to close move by councilman Jackson second by councilman Udin roll call to close a workshops uh this Workshop of January 14th roll call to close the workshop of January 14th 20125 councilman abdell aiz Madam clerk um everyone have a good night God bless my vote is yes yes it did it did okay okay okay no problem okay Council yeah um oh I'm sorry go ahead go ahead M roll call Madame CL oh I'm sorry the roll call too close I I roll call it was moved by councilman Jackson second by councilman yes roll call to close the workshop session of January 14 2025 councilman abdelaziz is he said okay councilman okay councilman cotton he said yes I just want to U make a few points um the discussions was in here uh regarding um regarding like the police department and stuff and and I just want to put it on record that everyone already knows that we're already 100 police officers short um they have so many uh calls that they're doing um there's so many things that they can do but I know they they go out and they do the best that they can I tell people all the time if you need to reach out to to the um uh to the police department um you know we have a new OIC but um they have been cracking down on illegal after hours I've gone to them to see myself they're all all up in Bunker Hill all in factories all in buildings all in all in U um mechanic shops so so so I Police Department hands is really full on with cracking down on different items and stuff and as I said before I will have a conversation with the young lady but um let me just say that I have worked with tier one I have worked with Evas um and I'm going to have a conversation with you but they have been me seeing them doing a good job they have been but we will have a conversation I just want to say that always and I'm a big believer of Second Chances I'm a big believer everyone deserves Second Chances and we must do our best to help them to to achieve those Second Chances we must do our best to do that so uh we will have a conversation with that um to you all out there um have a good night God bless you all um and as I said before I'm always only a phone call away everyone have a good night God bless you all thank you Council Madam P my vote is yes thank you Council mcut councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk I was just going to vote Yes but uh man I just realized it's the first time in ever councilman abdelaziz is closing out a meeting what the hell yo normally you slipping your shoes on real quick and running out of the off the off the off the screen that's what happens when you're not talking so much after meeing first time it must be something some something's going on something different is happening huh oh Lord okay Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson um councilman Udin thank you madam Clark thank you Patterson for the opportunity to serve you uh just know this I want the new generation to get involved in our City's business and this the reason so many of my volunteers involved in different activities and and I am offering now internship opportunities with my team from February 15th until May 15th it's three months of internship I uh my flyers out there different universities colleges promoting on their campuses and so many of the applicants we received but I want to see our Patterson children getting involved one day these children will lead this city and City all will be the right direction with that with that hope my buies will yes coun uden councilman valz councilman valz I just want to know if Ruby's okay do I haven't seen Ruby Khan getting out of her chair and argu at all listen Patterson good night uh thank you Madame clerk um uh Deputy clerk sorry um Sophia uh corpor Council thank you for your diligent work uh and and and your office to save us money and moving for um that's the legal department Rafael thank you I notice your hair getting more whiter than ever um let me see ades ades I wish you luck on Thursday um I wish you luck on Thursday and to the committee members of the pay County Democrat uh please come out uh U do what is right for the district 35th in this in the pay County and and and and the district let make sure we put the right people that really care about patteron and care about the district making sure that you cast your wise vote to make sure that we had the right representation in our district um it's important because the way Per County goes the whole state will go so uh putting the people that knows Patterson it will make a good assets for Patterson right councilman Mendes that's right um saying that I know it's called out there let's pray for everyone let's keep Madam clerk in your prayers yes and please let's you know as a good note we could agreed or disagreed remember we all in the same boat we need to work together even that you don't think that we are we are working together javel Silva thank you for being here and getting all the beat up that we give you today are just kidding just give me that report and we okay and let's pray for Madame ba I I was hoping to see her today today uh I don't know if this is one of the last meeting that we have with her no it was next one right I believe next next week um which one I know let's hope that they stay in Trenton they don't come to patteron all right Madam clerk thank you for your patience thank you you're a one of a woman of wisdom say that he can't do that anymore control I love youing you didn't sit down councilman uh Mendes thank you for your leadership thank you my vote is yes thank you councilman valz council president thank you uh Madame clerk our Deputy K Miss Phil is listening thank you so very much you're acting as a clerk our clerk Jackie uh We Wish You a speed recovery we got going to be praying for you we love you the city of Patterson love you and I know that you're going to be very soon you're going to be back with us we're going to pray God that you get back um you know full healthy and and ready to work with us and to do uh the work that you do for the city of patteron we love you um uh sopia thank you so very much Sophia she's a little bit under the weather and she's still here with us working I love Sophia she worked really hard for us Corporation Council thank you thank you so very much to my Council K with finish the agenda um so to pison let's pray for our city let's work together because we have a lot of work to do we have a lot of things to get done in the city of P so may God bless you all if you need to reach out to me my cell phone is 973 9301 436 let me remind everybody that commercial truck they should not be parking over now in our community I'm going to continue fighting to enforce that legislation because our public they deserve to park you know they deserve to have free parking space uh to park when they come back from work God bless you all and good night my vote is yes M cler thank you council president the votes are six in favor three absent the workshop session of January 14th 2025 is hereby adjourned