good evening everyone on behalf of the municipal Council I welcome you to the workshop of today's sessions February 11th uh 6:30 it is now I'm sorry have phone it is now 6:39 and we'll begin the
meeting uh Madam clerk I'd like you to call the role as I indicated please everyone that's signing that sheet uh you're signing the sheet if it's for the special meeting that's going to be after uh we have a closed executive session okay uh Madame clerk roll call roll call
for the workshop session of February 11th 2025 councilwoman cotton councilman Jackson here councilman Mims here I'm ready to serve councilman valz same my councilwoman Mims ready to serve welcome everyone
council president presid thank you Madam clerk at this time if you can please read the statement of compliance sure totals are five that are present statement of compliance for the open public meetings law 2024
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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 very much Madam clerk uh to everyone here council president is not here today
as he is in Washington uh he wanted me to share that you know his apologies I know there's there's a presentation today uh um honoring someone who I believe well actually there's two uh that I believe have given the city so much so you know on behalf of council
president uh he apologizes for not being here today uh at this time uh councilman VES I understand that you have a presentation but before we do that before we do that I'd like to do the payment of bills okay councilwoman Mims thank you council president tonight's
payment of bills will be in the total of 44,45 540 46 out of this total 77771 1556 is payroll 14,63
5621 is open space and our general government we have uh payments for our health benefits third party insurance and our Capital uh Road resurfacing program I move for uh payment of bills on tonight counc have a second second
discussion councilman V discussion thank you council president um through the chair um CFO is still here where you at oh please Mr C CFO um the past meeting we
uh every time that we look at a payment of bills uh the question is going to come up for the past two month now we receive a notice that the Professionals of the board of adjustment and of planning are not going to meet because they're not getting paid any of this payment that we
see here any reflect payment to them for weu resume meetings yes there was payments to the professionals um last week uh PCI got paid um and I believe three of the professionals got
paid from which board I believe all of them you believe leave yeah again there was I I want to say Gary um aquavia and uh Mr laa I think
Marco Okay so can uh through the through the chair acting ba uh I would like to have a u a email from Mike dorge if they go resume the meeting based on that payment that
was already uh given to them uh because we have a lot of project pending those meetings and we don't want to delay the development in the city of Patterson uh that was a big big question the pass and the past meeting so we want to make sure that that those payment got to them and
the meeting will resume back as normal uh thank you thank you Madame President council president thank you very much councilwoman Mims and councilman Jackson so I want to put it on the record again um I made a request um based on an ordinance that this
Council put forward uh it it's stated in the ordinance that anytime a new development will come forward those monies will be put into escrow um and that money will be utilized to make sure that the Professional Services are paid I made a request um in regards to
identifying how much money is in the escrow account how much money has been utilized and what is um there so um CFO I know I made this request before I know you've been busy but I just want to put it on the record because I have asked
for this information this will help um offset some of this and avoid us from having these occurrences um I know that we have uh people that want to do business in the city and because of this delay and them not meeting is causing um Patterson not to receive the uh residual
income so can you speak to that um Mr CFO please to the request I'll I'll follow up with the request um it would have to be through Economic Development cuz they're the ones that do all the projects so I I'll follow up with the Department okay well I made the request
last week so or yeah two the last meeting so and it has not been done so I'm not sure what that looks like so I hope our economic development director is watching Mr be U Mr ba um could you make sure that this information is sent
out this week to all the council members because we waited a couple weeks at this point and still have not gotten that information so um um um council president thank you thank you very much councilman Jackson thank you council president just a note there's dozens of
requests that have gone unanswered and um you know just being uh uh meticulous about that that those payments is not necessarily um finan fiscally prudent on our part to make sure all of the the line items in the budget are properly
noted uh with that being said Mr CFO depart under statutory expenditures $1.5 million to departments can you outline what what uh what encompasses departments you're talking about the 9,000 the 2.6 million other statutory
expenditures Council it's the total is 2.6 but the Departments specifically you have tax refunds I understand what that is County open space taxes 294,000 I understand what that is but it just say departments it's on the second page
CFO after the first general ledger page so the other the other parts of it are solid waste um street light payments tax appeals and utilities the tax refund are there
885,000 but the point I'm making I Solid Waste we have a line on them for solid waste why are we paying for solid weights under statutory expenditures that's part of um Solid Waste is part of statutory expenditures we don't have a line item for for solid
weight is part of that so you see 9,000 on the first page 9,000 is part of solid waste is 93 utility Solid Waste that's part of statutory expenditures so the point I'm making is when we going back
to you know to reference the spending or doing the audit it's here presented as Department expenditures and um uh it it it it needs to be better classified than that and also what's the status on the um the
payment for the uh health insurance benefits last I asked for a report on that at the last meeting last month which which was an excess of $3 million and um I still haven't received any any proof of payment do are is have those bills been satisfied for the health
benefits we pay them every month yes how is it that we had a we had an expenditure or a bill from them for over $3 million if we paid every month so maybe there's a little confusion there because we're on a two a two-month lag so um we pay we pay for we're in
February we're paying for December right so there's a two-month lack so now we're paying for December so maybe maybe that's what you mean that we're behind but no we weren't behind what what are we paying monthly allog together $4.7 $4.5 million monthly yes all right can you send that to me please this the
second time making that request thank you council president one thing I would like to note there's a lot of things that we are um not satisfied or not happy with our current president in doing but one thing that we have to acknowledge is that all of the spending that's been that's been outlined and
noted and it's the same thing here in the city the spending the spending is out of control we don't have any idea what a lot of this money is being spent on we still haven't gotten any of the reports for the expenditures of the one $140 million in tax credits as well as
the uh 80 plus million do in um in cares act money the council president was asked the other day where is the money where has it been spent on he's telling the community we don't know this Council should not ever have to tell the community we don't know what we're spending money on so I I I would urge
council members to to uh let's continue to press on the administration to uh get us this information thank you CC president thank you very much councilman Jackson councilwoman cotton then again councilman V I thank you um council
president I just have a question um about the health benefits um I think maybe a couple weeks ago maybe three or four weeks ago I think employees was like overcharged uh extra money was taken out of that check that um should not have been taken out um it was like I
know it's a percentage of it's a it's at the ceiling now it's at the ceiling so everybody it go it's based on salaries how much comes out so had that been rectified that one week um they took out too much yes out of there out of their
paycheck for whatever reason I don't know what happened yes the first pay um what what happened was the first pay um when the company did did the calculation they did it based on 24 pays instead of 26 pays it has been rectified it was rectified the next B so they we gave everybody back so those employees was
giving their money back or refund back and the next question I have for you is probably for um Corporation counsel um um the overseers for the planning board and the board of adjustment um you still have a lot of cases that have not been
heard that has been waiting for a year or more so who's really in charge of looking to make sure some of these cases get heard or people who have put in who want to change CH their house from one family to two family uh put an extension on their business uh it could be
anything uh but some of them have been waiting over a year already just to get on one of the boards whether it's the board of adjustment or whether it's the planning board so who's looking into making sure that these businesses are able to get on the board um on the
meeting I mean go ahead thank you madam chair would you like to respond Corporation Council thank you good evening uh Madam chair Council colleagues councilman cotton the boards that you're referring to the zoning board and the planning
board are statutory boards your M CL it's a green light so the boards are both uh planning board and Zoning Board are statutory boards and they're considered semi-autonomous so in that case
essentially the chairperson of each board is responsible for making sure that there's an agenda that is addressed timely um they're both housed in the economic development department but that's really for purposes of um it's
administrative purposes the applications need to get ushered through the board by the secretary and the chair in a timely fashion thank you okay then then actually then I need to address it to
the chair of the board both and to the secretaries to making sure applications who put in it's been a year um but they have not been able to get on the agenda that's all so I'll I'll I'll direct my questions to to those two um cheers and those two secretaries thank
you thank you thank you councilwoman and councilman velis thank you council president um CFO I I probably you don't need to go back into uh the office and get this information for the health of the public that watching on TV and those that are
here and especially us that being asking the uh the the question every time we talk about the ordinance that we enacted in 2018 regarding the sewer utility um that was enacted in
2018 top of your head how much we have collected in that account in that line item are you referring to sewer connection fees correct not sewer utility or sewer connection connection
fees okay um SE connection fees last year we collected 1.5 million since since when was enacted last year just calendar 24 so approximately how much we approximately 1.5 million last year and this year um the year the year before
780,000 I would have to look at all the other years I would say somewhere around between 700 and a million two so you're going to add it all you talk about $5 million we could say roughly roughly okay so if if if roughly you know you
know I just got to go roughly um was that was that Mo that money was moved to General funds no that money goes to cover the super utility and which one was moved to Fed uh to General funds any any of those money regarding sewer or
any ordinance that we enacted or the uh scroll fee was moved to general fund no we don't have a stor we don't have a storm free but no okay do you have any idea where we have
Council Council respectfully I'm going to say if you ask him a question and he answers you no you don't ask the question again I really I really I really want us to be mindful there president I got I got the floor
Flor have children here and parents we have honores here so I'd like you to please you know finish with your statement so okay I got to finish my statement but you know can't question me if I going to go back and forth and question me because they in the same line of of of of of question so I want
to know how much was collected totally since the ordinance I want to know if they s still sit in the account if they're not still sit in account I want to know where was suspended spended okay that's that's that's one thing the last
thing is that we approved the contract for the police department okay and they submitted all the retroactive payments you know the total why they receive peanuts and not all of
it um counc uh director CFO no no yes CFO he managed when we approved contracts here and uh we the last meeting that we approved the contract for the police I say get the numbers right I don't want
to and that was back in December get the number right get the money pay out to them before December ends and they get half of it or a quar of it the salaries are all correct um there's a disagreement on the on part of the Retro
so you gave part of the Retro well there's we're coming up with different numbers so when do you going to finalize that they need that retro they need to pay car they need to pay rent they need to pay mortgage when they going to get that RR well then it it depends councilman because I believe my numbers are correct and they believe their
numbers are correct so this this is the thing when I'm in the street right I'm interacting with a fine officer of the patteron police department they are protecting us day in day out and the perceptive is that why the council holding the payout or or the
recor and we tell them we just pay my bills we pay we approve contract but the administration is supposed to do that accordingly based on the contract you know they already work for that money
they already went to agreement for that money and we honor the contract based on the agreement their vote so I don't want to hear next month that we still calculating and putting the right numbers when they are waiting for that money they already work for it so you
know please I'm asking please again maybe I'm not I'm not explaining it correctly correct there's a disagreement on the calculation so I don't know how quickly it's going to get resolved I can't answer that right now there's a I did a calculation they disagree with it they have their own
calculation I disagree with their numbers um they just called me about it on Friday I did not get a chance to call them back yet um we are going to sit we're going to talk about it and then we're going to get wherever we get and then it's going to go from there but I don't have an answer for you right now
all right thank you of right now I I don't believe they owed anything they owe nothing I don't believe so no oh so guess thank you they know how to count uh that's okay thank you council president thank you very much Madam
clerk roll call on payment of bills roll call for the payment of bills in the amount of 44,45 n, 540 46 councilwoman cotton yes councilman Jackson thank you
madam clerk there's a few item few things I would like to comment on but I'll refrain I see this quite a few people here for a ceremony but I will say this uh Mr Sone and not to uh in indict a uh debate but
um despite the the concept of those boards being quasi um autonomous um it's absolutely incorrect all of the scheduling all of the uh uh
um administrative functions the direction yeah these board members have limited access to City resources they don't have their own um um autonomous secretary their secretary answers to a department headed within
the within the within the ranks of the administration and the fact of the matter is um the vast majority of them have been complaining greatly because they feel as if that the uh there's been a um uh hijacking of their board so to
speak to where incapable of answering or or hearing some of these cases that's um or um applications that's been presented before the city so um and I understand your your your response and um you know
I'm not um particularly um in favor of it because this board does not have the ability to operate on and isolate themselves from the municipality these applications for uh uh for construction or for um
development projects they're presented to the administration they're presented to the city and the fact that they're not having these meetings is not as simple as just having a conversation with the chairperson the chairperson does not have the Liberty to facilitate the functions of the administration and
the fact that they that that they have not met in several months whether it's from professionals not being paid whether it's from clerical errors within the ranks that is a serious issue that the administration needs to look at and um we cannot just allow for the buck to
be passed and say well you know the chairpersons have the ability to do so they do not they don't have the ability to F to function without the uh uh Direction and oversight from the administration they don't have access to facilities they don't have access to
scheduling to security and all of the necessary necessary things that go along with putting a meeting together and the administration needs to take this serious ly and and make sure that these applicants that's bringing the projects here before the city are are are fairly
heard so I wanted to put that on record and make that um be known and Madame clerk my vote is no thank you councilman councilwoman Mims thank you so I find it alarming because I was not
aware that there was a discrepancy with the payment for the police department so I was like full disclosure to be sent out to all the council members so that we can gain an understanding of what the expectation of what the police department is saying they should have
and then what you're saying that they should not have and what is the variance because if we the last thing our community needs is our Police Department to say we if we don't get paid we're not going to protect and serve so we need to
ensure whatever that discrepancy is that is fixed sooner than later whatever the differences and I don't know how much it is but that's a very big concern because we approved that contract it was negotiated by the administration and their Union you agreed to it we voted on
it based on the ratification and the vote and so they deserve to get whatever it is that so rightfully deserves to be paid so I would like to get that information as soon as possible especially to all the council members so that we can gain an understanding as to what that is and why there is a
difference and if there is something that is um there is something that's wrong we need to fix it immediately because we need to make sure that our our men and women in blue get get their pay if if that's what what it is um also
the documents that I requested um based on the um the escro fees that are being paid by um uh these developers that are coming in for new projects we've had a lot of projects since this Council has approved it and I want to see how much
money is in there cuz to me it's a little egregious to find out that we have a board of adjustments not operating because of lack of payment when this Council approved an ordinance for fees to go into escro every time
they they got a new project that would pay them so the money so my question is where is the money there was a commercial that used to say where's the beef so it's a problem when we can't see the money that's been approved that's supposed to be in the escore account so
that these people get paid paid and now we're hearing that not only have they not been paid they have not been meeting so we need to rectify that as soon as possible um I'm going to vote on this because these are services rendered but before next week's meeting we need to have some answers my vote is yes Madam
president thank you councilwoman Mims councilman Udin good evening everyone those are here um so uh we are voting for the uh bills of course I always support that because we need to continuation of the services and people need to get paid but I we don't want to
see the request is dying just in request cuz uh the councilman mentioned and we we are speaking about Board of adjustment that conversation started last month we did not hear back from the administration at all so we want to see that why the meeting is not taking place
so many of the agenda are still on the hang people are calling for their for their items they're they're waiting on the long just years so we have to make sure that we have to be welcoming for the developers so as you were saying not just developers our local people one
family two family houses they want to renovate their house or change it changes but they are just waiting years paying their mortgage out of their pocket so we have to consider those small things instead of uh when I I I didn't actually support that when we
supported um s our connection uh the uh the project could be started without paying s connection fee and they can pay at the end just to make it easier but we are making it harder but not having the meeting on times so we have to make sure that we are paying the uh the payment
that should be paid and Council should be aware of what's happening to the the boards that are the soul of the city of Patterson so we cannot just support you but you have to support the people on time as well at the Patterson Police Department we are so happy when we
approved the contracts and we we we we we cannot just hear from them today they're just waiting on their on their ret so I think we need uh clarification on this matter and Council need need to be aware of this so with that being said my vote is yes thank you councilman Newton councilman valz thank you Madame
clerk uh see when it comes out to core service of the city of patteron I get passion passionate was going on when it comes out to police fire DPW and other court service of the city I get passionate why because for example
the police have been five or six years without a contract a fair contract the police department of patteron New Jersey is the lowest pay in the whole state of New Jersey you understand where I'm coming from not only that we lost a lot of
police officer because they didn't get the fair Pay Here in the city of patteron now they come back trusting that new contract that they approve you know you don't think it's fair that the number should be right in their
behalf for the the administration could say you know what let's pay them they deserve that and this is only police I imagine the other contract we approved from DPW that hopefully they come back and they don't say they don't agree on payment when they are also the
loway department in the city of patteron and let's not count the other departments like Board of Health and other issues in the city of patteron so you know and this is a question that we put out there every meetings every meetings you know and and I don't like
to repeat myself I don't know if my colleague like to do that with the administration but it's time to put the foot down and bring the right answer to the community and especially for those that work in the city of Patterson those that work in the city of Patterson you
know low pay five years six years without contract they don't agree in the payment retroactive something that they even in overtime I hope the state is not watching that part that they don't agree
with the payment or the numbers because then the state going to say see that's why we went in now they want it back so hopefully they get this Square out and they get the payment unless we had to call Alam M to fix the finance of
the city of patteron come on councilman you like that part all right um saying that it's a joke I know you're Democrat but it's true we need to fix the finance of the city of patteron and you keep on
looking you could be surprised Madame clerk my vote is yes to the payment of bills thank councilman council president so I'm not going to speak as long as my Council colleagues as you've heard their concerns i' like to keep to the agenda right and what we're discussing and
we're getting out of you know uh the conversation although it does correlate and relate you know to payment of bills uh I will say this we had a public safety committee meeting and that was not bought up to us as you just heard the CFO and asked not to defend him he
just found out Friday okay that there was a discrepancy let him do his job and the police department has a chief and OIC see and a director all right we had a meeting we were all in that meeting we were in that meeting that was not bought
us to us if it was bought out to a council member okay fine but it should go through the proper channels so with that said I'm in full support that yes we have to pay our officers I am die hard I believe blue everyone knows it right but I also understand that we're
not the administration we are not they do the day-to-day operations not us when we request things yes they should come to the council and not just to the person requesting it it should come to the body to the entire Council so with that said I'm going leave it there you wanted to say something yeah after you
vote okay um and and so so with that said you know um um just putting it on record that the CFO will have to leave after this payment of bills he's going to still be here unfortunately or fortunately however we want to put it he has arbitration tomorrow we want to make
sure that we can come to a conclusion with fire okay because police and fire are very important as everyone in this room today and every department is important to to us as a council and as a people um my vote is yes thank you council president the votes are five in
favor one against three absent the payment of bills is hereby adopted okay thank you very much so so Mr CFO the discrepancy we found out about the discrepancy after we made the payment um I reached out to um both uh PBA president and their lawyer and their
lawyer just got back to me this last week and PBA president called me on Friday okay and again just because of um mediation and arbitration I didn't get a chance to call back but again we have a I believe my numbers are correct so it
is a discrepancy on numbers and I just have to figure out how they got to their numbers well let's just get it fixed council president forward let me just say something real quick um counc I can't believe that counc if I may Council you mean to tell me you made a payment and there was no amount written
beforehand to see okay Jim Blow gets 2,000 Eddie whatever get 5,000 there was no figure written before that that that that you both agreed you just made a payment and you didn't agree we never do a figure for retro we yes you do no I
was I'm a union person this is what I'm getting I mean it's never it's never yeah you're getting 2% no no but I'm saying it's never like you're going to get 10,000 or 5,000 you never see that in any contract okay you're going to get for 5 years or whatever it is no no no
you're missing a point the point is okay before we s issue out the checks Jim Blow gets 2,000 Eddie whatever get 4,000 you don't have that written out already like who gets how much that's all I'm saying don't isn't it written out before hmer and then that's when they could
agree said no that's not right I'm not supposed to get this and then you wouldn't have cut no checks you wouldn't have cut anything because it's not you you're not agreeing that's all I'm just saying I can't believe how you going to do a retro check and you don't let them know ahead of time this is the amount of money you getting you just cutting the
check I just can't we do the calculations and then we send it to them and then they came back with their own calculations okay counc president all right thank you very much so I'm sorry I'd like to amend the roll call it's
five in favor one at one against and two absent okay that's okay on record thank you and for the record councilman C is out s today so that's why he is not here Council before um Mr C just two points
of uh one point of recommendation and then the question point of recommendation in the future if there's something that goes on with the discrepancy please make sure Finance is aware of it so that we're not we're blindsided when we come here to the Zas
that's one and two I know you have to leave for whatever reason but there's some other items on here that may have some questions so please watch the meeting because we're going to be asking so that we can get some answers by next week okay thank you just so you know he's remaining in City Hall okay all
right thank you very much all right so at this time I'm going to call on councilman velis I know there's a lot of people there's people outside waiting as well but we are up to capacity in here uh we are like I said honoring two individuals um very well respected and
so I will now give the words to councilman VES thank you Madame Madame President Madam clerk uh public in the audience uh thank you for being here you're patient this is business so we are here to honor two individuals I call it today the
honoraries of Law and Order law and order it came up with that because it's true it's a law and order but first I get to call the law I want to call forward a gentlemen
that have paav the road for a lot of people in the city of patteron not only Latinos across the board everyone everyone and um this resolution I'm not going to read it all
right but is a long history of Paving the road for others and um when I came up with this resolution all my colleagues agree on
it resolution honoring the distinguished career and contribution of Judge Miguel de laera [Applause] your
honor you may approach the bench I just just just give a round of applause for Miguel laera Miguel deera uh once again uh you know we are proud your honor stand by him so we can see your face and not your back you know how many time we look at
him front and front now of Patterson can see you thank he is Miguel deera Josh honorable Miguel deera Miguel carera when um you know you mean a lot to the community even we don't talk to you a
lot the Lord do not allows us to talk to you a lot but we see your work and um enjoy enjoy your retirement you have paid the role for all of us and you have made us proud to be a
Latino and um and from Patterson miguela God bless you I had to say that in Spanish God bless you Reed this in behalf of the council and um some words or
I I want to thank everyone here I want to thank the entire Council it's nice to see faces I don't get to see very often and uh I am honored by this moment I uh I've served because I wanted to I've
tried to be tough but fair I've tried to do the right thing even when it was tough to do and I'm grateful for the opportunities to do it Bill pascrell appointed me to the Municipal Court bench back in
93 and I was there for seven years until I went over to Superior Court uh I thank all of you and I'm I have to say it's very crowded here tonight I don't know how much of it is for quadrado would be I don't think that much of it which
means there's some real civic participation going on in this city that so many people were turning out for a council meeting so I applaud them I applaud you for the work you do I know it's tough but uh this Council comes together and gets things done and that's
that's [Music] [Music] important okay I've now regained my First Amendment right so you never know when I may shoot off my mouth one of these days I didn't used to be able thank you
Miguel you could shake hands with all the members please and we shake hands with all of them and now we going to move forward to take a picture with him and uh and then we could do the switch meanwhile the
people that came with him loud the one waiting for quadal to come in all right councilman Council take a picture sorry let's give him a round of applause before he leave and to the family thank
you for allow us Miguel deara so meanwhile we do the switch here for the next honory we could move forward right okay thank you all right so yeah correct yes
yeah so I got in the middle I'm not going to perform a song but that's okay I just got to wait until they gave me the order uh from PD because there's some people still waiting Nows to come up here for Mr Umberto under Sheriff
Umberto cuad let's give him a round of applause to Roberto [Applause] guado well this is a big one so the first time I met Mr Umberto guad was in River Street in the 90s early
early 90s I believe late 80 when we used to do karoke together right I'm not wait until I call you brother let me say some good news from you so for yes [Applause] Umberto you know I could read all this
tonight but one thing that really caught my attention is that if you talk or you talk with quadr over the phone or in person there's something that he always going to
say in Spanish he say GA he said God bless you that is the beginning of conversation with cuad and that means a lot he's a man of God he served in the military he served as the Patterson Police Department he went and served as
the Director in Pay County Sheriff Department then he moved forward uh to be the under Sheriff Latino in the pay County Sheriff Department [Applause]
Umberto quad means a lot for everyone that knows Umberto you know and those that knowto knows that have a true true true friend always humble never look no one over the
shoulder and this words I going to say from bottom of my heart I don't have a lot of brothers in the state of New Jersey they all scatter in the state in the United States but you are my brother you and my brother thank you for being my friend I cannot do two things at the same
time thank you for being my friend and um and behalf of the city council and behalf of council president all the colleagues that voted in affirmative of this resolution World Des serve you know I always say when we give
resolution when you want to give up just look at what you have done don't give up don't give up no matter they step out out they want to run over us do not give up you are jury in the city of Patterson
and you are always make us proud always make us proud I going to have councel President I got to have council president say some words on behalf of her and council president so so yes I I I actually was sitting there and I said you know hold
up a minute I've known Umberto right for many years way before I was an elected official and you know he was a detective and I don't want to how I don't want to say how I met him because it was a very sad moment he was doing an investigation
uh but all I can say is this Umberto has been someone that I've looked up to he has his better half standing over there all right Carol cuadrado his beautiful entire family is here we appreciate all of the work that you did for the city of
Patterson we appreciate what you did for the county it does sadden me to see that you no longer there okay but I do believe cuz the star is align and there's something else that you're going to be doing and we're going to be right there in support of you but I want you
to take some time for you for your family go away live that retired life just a little bit right and then come right back because we need you and you know how I refer to him as the Elvis of Patterson so congratulations for all of
your hard work on behalf of the entire higher Council we love you we respect you the county has lost a good man but that's okay cuz he's still here with us so we love you congratulations you I want to hear some words from the man of
the hour too Umberto qu come on thank you all right I had a speech because I you know I get nervous but anyway I just want to thank
L fell Marissa thank you Davila every every member of the coun of the paron council city council um I had a something written but you know I'm too nervous to read right now so I'm going to speak from the heart
you know I'm going to speak from the heart so um I just want to say that I appreciate everything you did uh the Council people and and and I I'm humble for honoring me
thank you uh councilman Lis bz um council president thank you um I just want to say that I retire I I did 27 years in pison police I don't know who knows me yes but I did 27 years in the
pison police department I work from uh traffic all the way to walking post downtown motorcycle Squad but and but the the longer I was it's 22 years in major crimes and when you ad made your crimes
you see a lot of stuff that other people don't see you know and and it's a lot of stress it's stressful for a detective when you go to a to a house and and somebody's dead and you have to console the family you have to you know try to
find out what happened to this person so this happened uh you know through all this years uh I learned to cope with with that stress by singing and that's why you hear me
say because this is the way I cope with that you know and I every time I went home right I I never I never talk about my cases with my wife and if you read a lot of my cases on in the newspaper but
you don't know there are my cases but my wife you know I never talked to her about it but singing was where I found the door for that stress and I
believe mental health with officers is a line of duty de when they commit suicide all right I believe on that anyway I don't want to talk about that no more I'm sorry I it went the other way that's okay but I I just want to thank you from
the bottom of my heart the community my friends that came over thank you I appreciate it I love you my kids my daughters my sons my wife Carol thank you very much
for your waving uh uh support at everything I do I love you with the from the bottom of my heart to the top of my heart so it's all the way like uh the hamburgers all the way so thank you thank you everybody and
and I guess I got to let go of the mic cuz I had less written let let's give a round of applause to guad we're going to take a picture Cassie wom said that she see him doing other stuff director I'm not going to
fire you when I be a mayor I'm going to keep in a deputy director don't worry I'm just kidding just kidding I'm just kidding right you love that everybody hey he want to say something Spanish is fair go ahead
gracias amen thank you council president thank you very much Council colleagues please let's get back to the days all right so Council colleagues um we have a long agenda and if we can
please it's difficult right to try to get everything done if if you want to move to the side and take pictures but we're going to have to proceed with our agenda Council colleagues please have a seat uh Madame
clerk we are going to um start items uh 29-33 64-67 which is police can we just put oh I was just going to put them on consent so that's this one I got a copy of each okay they're all
numbered 2930 so the next one is yours too is the behavior okay so the first two get ready L guys going good please good thank you thank you let's go let's
go let's do it Louie let's do it let's do it I I did not meet with him um and I tried to ask Kathleen long but she's not no longer so just go with it and we'll figure it out I don't know if they're
going to pick up on it okay okay got it got it got it what's up you're you're honor we're honored to honor you all right all right so uh council members if we can please um I'm
respectfully asking we have a lot of items to take care of all right we have our director of police we have our lieutenants um you and and our officers so it's really important if you have a question if you do not and you agree the
items go on consent I know councilwoman uh my vice chair I know you we went over items in um Public Safety all right so Madame clerk we're going to begin with items 29 to 33 which is titled police and the first
one is a resolution authorizing the application to the US Department of justices 2025 comprehensive opio stimulant and substance use site based program that's for kup all right and so this is just for an application this is not accepting a grant so council members
are you okay with it going on consent yes okay 29 consent U let me ask if I may do you know how much the application is for the money amount 1.3 million 1.3 million yes okay okay all right the the
second item item 30 item 30 is the resolution authorizing the application for another United States Department of Justice is 2025 contract protect law enforcement Behavioral Health responses Grant so this is
another application council members are you okay with it going on consent yes this was discussed in committee yes it was all right resolution 31 yes authorizing the award of contract to lawmen Supply Company of New Jersey Inc for the purchase of ammunition under the
New Jersey state contract for the police department so we all know that our Police Department this is our annual qualification ammo that's what this is so council members are you okay for this to go on consent yes okay item 32 resolution authorizing the award of
contract to All-American Ford for the purchase of two 2024 Ford Transit 350 Mr pass XL rwd 148 vehicles under the Bergen County cooperative contract bid number bc2
24 uh comma 4 I mean 43 for the police department consent this also will go on consent this is also we I think we discussed that that this comes from forfeiture fund it's a grant this is coming from the grant anti bance yes okay I'm sorry Council councilman
Jackson this is going to be uh appropriated from the from the the anti violence from item number 29 to 30 no no no 29 that's that's a different Grant this is Sharon's Grant the community policing
Grant okay that she gets that she operates no I understand that totally this is for two Vans I think it's to transport kids right yes okay can can you um uh L LT can you forward me forward me the expenditures list the
budget from last year for the grant yes sir all right yes send it to the entire Council absolutely thank you much so is everyone okay for it to go on yes yeah it's fine for consent okay 33 resolution authorizing an application to the 2025 antiviolence out of school
Community Police and Grant this is you're applying once again to see if we get the grant again for $2 million correct yes okay council members is that okay to go on consent consent yeah 32 was for the council president I want to say one
second 33 is the one I just read which is them going back again to apply for the yeah but I thought we said before I thought that's what no 33 was for four two vehicles okay council president council president so councilwoman Ms councilman um I just it's something
different can I can I talk uh it's regarding the matters the students are here so I can let them go no but we're on item we weren't on item right now we can't do that Council no no no once we're done with this we could defin so um consent um Madam president but I just want to
commend the great work that you have done from the Inception of applying for the grants and all the activities that you're doing I think you're doing a phenomenal job of bringing the different talents into the community very Diversified and making sure that our community can see things that they watch
on television brought right here into the city of Patterson so I just want to say thank you for that thank you so much councilwoman Mims all right so we have two no we have 64 through 67 we have four more items so councilman Udin um you stated that there are students here
I know that there's a certain cause I know that some people have talked to me but it's about school board uh no really so thank you council president so when I saw the students are sitting on the floor I said let me take the opportunity to talk to them and I found out that they are here for the item number seven
which is uh changing the traffic pattern of the school of the street um Carlon drive from two-way to one oneway and the students and the educators are from St Gerald's but I want to just tell you someone informed that we are going to
votee on this item and that should be here so whoever informed I don't know but can I please know what council member invited you group because it would have been great to know because I would have had you know I would have been able to kind of like do this differently so you know my apologies I actually thought that all of the
individuals that were here were here on behalf of what's going on with some of the changes with the school board so council president so I want to clarify if someone from different matters there different matters but those are here for from St Geral school just to thank the council members for taking your request
in consideration uh as a chair of the DPW I want to state that when I received the request we discuss this matter in the uh committee and then this items on the agenda however today is a workshop session we are not going to vote for any
item we are going to vote next Tuesday so I I'm extremely sorry that whoever sent you message to be here today and all the Young Scholars um I apologize for and and you know nothing to do but if you want to come next Tuesday uh let
us know in advance so that we can have some flowers for our youngstar right here for just joining the council meeting but you don't have to come here cuz there was no complaint against this uh this matter so so councilman Udin thank you very much for those words and thank you for volunteering to have food
and flowers for the children next week but just so you understand this is just a first reading all right it would have a discussion today then there'll be um a second reading okay there's going to be a public uh portion okay so today we're
not voting just so you know the first reading the first vote would be next week okay um you know thank you so much um I embrace this beautiful young lady I know her and you know you really today touch my heart with what you said to me all right so um thank you and you know
my apologies uh it's getting late the children have to get ready for bed okay so I'm looking forward to seeing you guys next week okay councilwoman M and actually to the parents that are here the final vote is not until March 18th
yeah so as an educator I would not want you to continue to bring your CH your uh children out in the cold so I would suggest if you want to come March 18th would be the meeting to come when we're finally voting to approve this matter so next week you're not here and then
you're here again in March the final vote is on March 18th and then upon approval if it's approved 21 days after it will go into effect so just remember March 18th is the meeting to come so our students could go home and get some rest
before Friday half a day okay thank you councilman Jackson councilman Jackson thank you so council president and just to the to the the um the members from St Gerard's from the school I'm sorry excuse me so just for a
point of reference many of the residents there's residents that are here from the area tonight we've been making an attempt to get that road changed for quite some time but council president what I would ask since they are here tonight you should allow when we should take that
item next and at least have one representative if there's any concerns they would like to voice so they don't have to come out um on subsequent nights especially from the from the school if there's anyone that has any um concerns you know we should we should
allow them a a quick moment to uh to to voice their perspectives and all right thank you very much okay so um council members we are going to proceed with item 64 and item
64 is a resolution authorizing the city of Patterson to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the New Jersey Department law and public safety for Network infrastructure improvements at the internal affairs site concern
consent council members consent 64 I'm doing all of police items and once again all of these items were discussed and approved in our uh in our committee yes all right so Madam clerk
64 will go on consent okay uh resolution 65 resolution authorizing the city of Patterson to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the New Jersey Department of Law and public safety for funding related to renovations to the patteron police department uh Operation
Center consent consent consent yes and I understand that there needs to be a memorandum of understanding that we're in acceptance all right council member 65 will go on consent as well 65 resolution authorizing the city of Patterson to
enter into a memorandum of understanding with the New Jersey Department of Law and public safety for reimbursement of cost associated with equipment and services from axon Enterprise Inc consent council members no questions no
questions consent and the last item for police resolution authorizing the city of patteron to enter that's item 67 resolution authorizing the city of patteron to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the New Jersey Department of Law and public safety for
supplemental funding to support Police Operations strategic initiatives and professional development trainings consent council members I'm I'm fine with 67 can we get a brief description of the uh equipment and services from
from Exon Enterprises yeah if you looked at 66 I'm sorry wait when for for our clerk Madame clerk 67 is consent we're going back to 67 councilman Jackson has a question 66 right uh 66 is for new
body cams upgrading the body cams and that they're going to pay for and also going to less than lethal force with tasers tasers yeah we we paid for tasers quite some time ago I all the all the
officers were outfitted with tasers not all the officers but now with this here we will be doing much much better because this is in the amount of 67 this is 66 I'm sorry I apolog guys
this is in the amount for 350,000 that's a lot of tasers and it's a lot of body cams all right for the for during the meeting just have an outline directive sure I can send you sure I can send you what I you know what I could do I can
give you an estimate of what I feel get all right very good I'll send it thank you very much all items for police um have you reviewed and are all going on consent uh fire you have three items come on CU I want to open up the public portion
and just so you all know we do have a special meeting correct we're going to go into executive session so I'm trying to that's going to be a little difficult with all these people that are here all right so council members we are
now going to go to items 52 53 and 54 okay item 52 is a resolution authorizing Award of contract to ve Ralph and Sons Inc under Educational Services Commission of New Jersey Co-op 65 MCE
scps bid number escj 23-24 uh- 29 for the purchase of medical supplies for the fire department consent these items were discussed in committee yes councilwoman anyone else have any questions Madame Kirk item 52 will go on
consent item 53 is a resolution authorizing contracts with certain approved State contract vendors for specialized firefighter equipment and services for the fire department consent consent council
members consent consent and 54 consent and 54 is a resolution authorizing the award of contract to AT&T Mobility for wireless devices and Services Under New Jersey state contract for the fire department consent yes okay they've
saved a lot of money changing from AT&T uh those are your three items yeah do you have anything you want to say director um that's all right the uh OEM coordinator Troy SS was asked to be here tonight but he had a family emergency so I'm going to answer if anyone has any questions regarding the flood plane of
the Pennsylvania Avenue building uh I'm ready to answer anything any concerns the flood plan the flood for the new Dispatch Center on Pennsylvania Avenue correct there was a a no uh there was a question as to was it whether or
not it's a flood area I have anybody has any concerns I'll answer I know I invited the council to come visit the building I gave a tour yes some went some didn't um this is some time ago U but if there's any concerns regarding the uh flood plane which has been discussed lately I believe in the media
I'm I'm ready to answer any questions okay so Council woman kind is your is your microphone on sorry I'm I'm I'm gonna make sure I get over there because I mean I've been waiting for 12 years for
the state-ofthe-art um TR um Dispatch Center where I can see where my ambulance are I can see where my police cars are I can see where how long they gonna get before they get to somebody's house or how long it is I got three minutes here I'm waiting for that okay chief I am waiting for that because we
so dearly dearly need it badly to say to someone he'll be there in 2 minutes he'll be there in 3 minutes you can stay on the phone with the dispatcher they so dearly needed thank you chief counc president thank you very much councilwoman cotton councilwoman Mims um and I'm GNA make sure I reach out to do
a a tour but can you send a detailed um review of what that plan uh what it looks like so that we can have the facts versus whatever is written sometimes we don't see information until it's in the newspaper okay so can you just provide it to the council so we can be more proactive in case we're asked any
questions we'll do thank you thank you very much you can also also bring it to our committee we sit all in people that are asking you know so thank you very much Chief have a good night thank you thank you thank you all right um so at this
time um in terms of the um City you have a library director library is here okay which is your idol I know but director my my dear let me just tell
you something you have the most items okay and and huh they got a storm coming tonight we have a storm coming but that's at 11 o' I'll get you out of here by like 8:30 you know what exactly and you're
correct so I want everyone to understand that I'm very mindful okay that we have a full room we have an executive session where people going to have to leave and we still have quite a few items so I'm not trying to rush things a lot of the the conver ation that we've had we've
had in committee but now we bring it to workshop for the rest of the council members that are not part of those committees so they can hear it as a whole if they have questions we received our packets at home over the weekend we review them and sometimes there's questions that are asked even before
coming to the to the meeting okay so um I do want to be mindful uh councilwoman cotton I know that um there are two items for Health and Human Services uh that we reviewed and we know that um our director is not
here today as he is in Washington in a retreat uh and he should be back uh with us tomorrow which is your item 47 okay okay hold on hold on I'm sorry oh yes and council members
please let the record reflect items 46 and 49 have been removed thereof as per our acting ba okay okay 46 uh 47 which items are removed 46 and 49 are removed 46 and 49 46 and 49 are removed as per
our act inba uh 47 and 48 director thank you for being here I overlooked that so my apologies okay uh so 47 is a resolution authorizing the purchase of 1225 Ford F-150 special service vehicle from
neelon Route 46 Inc uh neelson Chevrolet under the Cranford Cooperative pricing system 47- CP CPS for the Patterson Library what's the does anyone have any questions
pertaining to this item consent consent consent yeah actually I would have one question where is the monies coming from it's coming from uh Capital we have capital for that specific vehicle okay Capal for that vehicle yeah okay item 48
resolution authorizing the change of order numbers five for limited interior and exterior Rehabilitation of the Danforth Memorial Library bid number 22.8 Council president uh Council councilwoman Mims so I don't have an
issue with the item but I don't see the uh scope of work attached okay so before next week can you just make sure that scope work is sent out to all of the council members that's fine let's see um it's just a minor change to the electrical panel for the elevator okay but just so we can have it because it's not here so this is the fifth time
I'm sorry Council woman this is the fifth change yes this is the fifth change of that's why you don't see it okay okay just make sure you send it to the entire uh council president council president councilman vellis I believe uh director uh also um the elevator is
going to be performed by this one that yeah correct yes correct what you say about the elevator very good when is the elevator going to get done councilwoman cotton hopefully within the next two months the next two months thank you very much so
Madam so everyone's okay with this item going on consent yes as long as we get the information problem okay make sure that that's sent to us tomorrow okay all right consent okay very good uh Health and Human Services councilwoman cotton and I I
know have reviewed and we sent an email for this to move forward uh Madam clerk item 27 and 28 27 is a resolution authorizing the city of patteron to enter into a public health shared services agreement with Bloomingdale
Clifton Pake Ringwood Wayne and the county of Pake does anyone have any questions concerning 27 27 consent okay uh councilwoman do you have some questions you want to ask now the
director is not here so he's here so so we have he's here he's here is here on behalf of so I do I have questions so I know this item is for uh for tuberculosis control the reason why I'm questioning or have some ISS not
really concerns and I'm asking this to go on regular we have a lot of concerns with Fallout in the city of Patterson being that we are the county seat for the city of Patterson we have individuals that will come into our community receive our services and some
of them actually don't go back to their their point of residency and so that's why I want this to go on um Regular this particular item not for what it provides because I think we're sharing services with other uh municipalities but it definitely needs to be something
highlighted for the community to hear about so this item definitely needs to go on regular okay very council president um if you may direct it councilwoman what services are we sharing maybe you need to explain the services Dr pad right tuberculosis
testing um this is for TB care and treatment services what is it tuberculosis care and treatment TB test yes we've been doing this for decades now you've been doing it for decades no matter how many even someone trying to get into the shelter has to get a TB
test and your office they come to the health department cuz I don't send people there um if they're able to get into any type of shelter or anywhere but but this agreement is for TB testing TB Tre treatment and Care yes oh treatment
and testing yes okay so they can come I just want to make it clear for what this agreement is for yes TB testing and and um and and and and caring I mean um Services whatever you want to call it okay all right very thank you very much councilwoman cotton for making that
point um is it all right to proceed okay I I just councilwoman this is why I'm asking for it to go it says whereas the entities of Bloomingdale Clifton right Pake Ringwood Wayne includes pton links and total and County of Pake including
helden Prospect Park WQ West Milford and Willet are in need of tuberculosis control service for their respective residents and the residents of those municipalities within the county the reason why I'm saying it should go on regular is because we have we've been
dealing with our homeless situation in the community these are part of the reasons why we have individuals come into our community and stay here I'm going to say it again this item needs to go on regular it is something that's needed but it needs to be highlighted to the community thank you very much
councilwoman mes Madame clerk item 27 will go on regular councilwoman cotton I I I don't have the numbers off hand but when you come when you come next week okay with with with director okay thank you very much item 28
resolution authorizing the solicitation of bids for interior Renovations at the Board of Health building bid number 25.15 for the Department of Health and Human Services president yeah Madam president councilwoman Mims councilman
bis so same request I had for uh the item for director Fleming um please um attach the scope of work of what this item um details is not attached to the item so can we make sure so through Harry I believe because he has it all
right okay but we don't have it so I like we need and even I don't know how you can scale it down because I see the item is big I don't know what that looks like or make copies and send it to all the council members but anytime an item is brought before us we should be able to see the scope of work because we can't just vote on an item because you
want to get some interior work done even though we may know it needs to be done we should be able to see it so if we're questioned or asked as counsel we can speak respectively to it so if we can just get that information sent to us just to the scope of work so let me um
through the chair council president assistant being assistant I I do have the information because it was provided for me by the heal division but I will suggest only a description of the scope of services
what this bid will entitled because this is only the solicit okay so I would like to you know to keep this ER got it and decide for now until we advertise for bid so just a brief overview of because as you're soliciting there's still a
request for what the work looks like right that scope so that should be a part of this item we can't just vote blindly on a solicitation of bids like as a council we are a I mean and I get it you want things confidentially out there because bids are normally sealed so I don't know if it's a seal bid and
that's why you're trying to keep it under wraps which is fine but some level of scope or details should be provided to the counsel right so PAD as the architect to provide a narrative exactly as the council members want what
supposed to be done say minor minor ER construction so he most likely will be able to provide you that okay uh very well so that item is going to go on consent uh councilman Jackson is is he
WN I'm sorry councilman valz um I rise my question that's okay yeah council president so if hold on hold on hold on councilman you're passing your yeah councilman Jackson then councilman Udin
yeah so what said councilman Jackson then Udin I'm sorry I didn't hear you I'm going say this for the um Team time this Council has the responsibility as sitting as the Board
of Health this council is the Board of Health we're supposed to have a autonomous meeting serving as the Board of Health overseeing the functions of the Board of Health there this should not be a plan
that's presented to us or this is what we want to do no the Board of Health should have a complete outline of what our our communities and how our communities being in service we have people who serve our community who don't even understand the community so they're
bringing forward things and we're voting on it blindly without it being presented to the Board of Health the Board of Health as the Board of Health we should not just be voting on items we should be outlining no that's not fitting this is what we need to uh prescribe so this
definitely has to go on uh on uh regular okay very well uh point taken um councilman um Udin is he there he left okay so Madam clerk item 28 will go on regular councilman Jackson want that I'm regular okay very good thank you very
much Dr prad all right so um items 55 through 62 will all go on consent 55 through 62 will all go on consent these items
are uh council president uh will be holding a um Dominican Independence celebration and he has uh put forth honores if anyone has any issues I don't think you know I don't think we would
right the the I got a issue you do yeah uh okay c yeah M Madam councilman Jackson oh I mean Council that's okay we we call councilman V I don't have no issues with the honor
that he's choosing but is um it would be nice that we as a council also recommend people to honor because we does this with afroamerican we does it with the other celebration in the future if you
could allow us to present a honory right so I I would have to agree with you on that okay yeah because the program is a program it's done in our Chambers is in the council and we've done it in the past that we've had honores so I am in
agreement with you um what would happen if we decided not to move forward and remove these no we could we could put you so so so right now that would not be able to happen because then there would be no uh February 27th correct and just
uh to the record reflect on number 56 carelia Valdez it's not Valdez it's Valdez with a vs and Victor okay vs and Victor uh item 56 please let the record reflect the I know that's probably the resolution is correct but the maybe it's
a typo the resolution it should say Valdez with the v like Victor just just confirm with the with the recipient okay council president yes councilman Jackson so I I'm in disagreement with the councilman um
bz I mean everyone has the has the ability to put forward their own events if he had if councilman Mendes feels as if you know he wants to represent for his Dominican Community if I wanted to do an isolated African-American event that's right I have the right to do so
my only concern with it is how is it being funded now if if you know this is being is taking place on City grounds and and uh it's happening and security and other uh City resources is being utilized this
is not a council function the council functions as a body we don't function as individuals then councilman Mendes should be uh you know um footing the bill for everything that's happened for everything that's going on and and with that being said I would like to find you
know get an outline of those uh services that was used last year and how how were these individuals who work that night paid and um what was the plan for this year's function as well I don't have any issue with was supporting these individuals I don't I'm not sure I
didn't really dissect the list but um if council members are going to start doing their own functions then they should pay for them um and not take it out of taxpayers dollars thank you very much councilman Jackson that is duly noted Madam clerk uh please make sure that um
when uh council president Mendes comes back if we can please have and for the entire Council and it is correct we do function as a body not as one okay so um I am going
to 69 you want regular councilman V is nine 75th anniversary of the publication of the Antics the modern science of mental health put it regular regular yeah okay
so 69 will go regular uh 68 the resolution authorizing the application and accepting of fund funds from the New Jersey DCA 2025 recreational Improvement grant program for Patterson Recreation Center uh uh we
had an issue with that that's right okay so hold on so so councilman velis councilwoman Mims councilwoman cotton I have have MS first lady first no no you go first because I gotta I got to pull it up
First Council woman Council woman to go I got to uh Council count go first please I get something all right I open the discussion okay I got it all right Council council members council members please I've called who will speak first
councilman VES councilwoman Mims and councilwoman Coten that is the order as you spoke and you requested the floor that is how we're going to proceed okay thank you uh thank you uh the thing is that the resolution is is is have a lot of information that had nothing right
it's only a piece of paper but when we talk about grant for Grand program for the patteron recreation center um it's from DCA through the chair to uh
ba DCA this NBA we spent I think $700,000 I don't know it was that but some kind of amount to do and go around the city and do this tour and this
informational um tour that the mayor was doing with uh some outside resources and we PID for for take the opinion of the community where they want a recreation center now we spent the $68
million that supposedly there was some money there to uh for a recreation center they split the money for other projects you know it was it was it was time sensitive that we had to allocate that money for different projects
but we going to do an application to accept funds towards a recreation center that nobody know where it's going nobody knows what's going to be in there if the input of the community is going to be taken um or the money is going to be
sitting there to see if it's allocated for other things we you know we in the loop here you know because we getting all this money money money money and promising a recreation center that it's not going to happen no time soon no time
soon you know um this is questionable uh it's only one piece of paper it had no detail you know why are we going to go to do this application if if there's not a specific so one
second councilman VES you addressed our ba no yes I did and we have our director all right so so we have to give them the opportunity to answer you correct okay so I want the ba to answer and then director DPW Billy Rob rguez thank you
madam president this application for about believe $2 million now the question is you don't know why how the recreation center is going to look like it we not there yet we try to
put all the funding together and that way we can establish the size of the recreation center the rooms and the accommodations and the recreation center and so on and so forth but for more detail prot when it comes to that phase
director can answer to you thank you you're right it was uh we were supposed to use the art money but it the money was redirected to other projects this is the first um application that we're are using for for the rec center we do have to raise money we have to raise funds for the for the rec center this is our
first application uh through the state to start that funding um where the recreation center is going to go right now most likely is at the 111 Broadway that's that's probably where we're going to go but we don't know for sure yet but you know we're looking at what's going to go inside is it going to be a pool
there is it going to be um a a cooking room a nursing room homework room a computer room all that stuff is being talked about now to put into the center and this is the start of the the new funding that we've been talking so so director saying that
yes um I know you recall the uh Town Hall meetings yes um Mr Chris Co was there and all that stuff so we paid for that study already and they came up with
the the 111 Broadway yes okay so this $2 million is not to put more money into studies no okay all right thank you council president thank you very much councilwoman Mims uh cotton and then Udin so one one thing I believe
when money um when we apply for money we definitely should not give the money back once it's awarded however I do have very um very serious concerns when we say we're building if we if we really are concerned about the children of the
city of Patterson one recreational center is not the answer I agree there is just not the answer I agree $2 million is a lot of money to say we're going to utilize this money for one project at 111 Broadway now 111 Broadway for the uh audience and those that are
watching is currently the police station currently 111 Broadway I'm being told that it's not going to be directly now in the police station it's adjacent to the police station with a walk through a walkway here's my issue and I've I've
given these recommendations to the administration it would be so much easier and and more cost effective we have 54 schools Patterson public schools and then you have charter schools in the city why not partner with the schools
and build a recreational opportunities within every school so all over the city the kids can feel safe to go into schools and areas they're more familiar to be able to to play and this $2 million will be a shared service with with the community I know
this is an award of contract but I just think that see the the problem what's going to happen the project that they're looking to build is going to cost probably $70 million we're not going to get all that money and then it's going to go on the taxpayers the taxpayers can't some
people if you raise their taxes $50 more dollars they're out of here they're gone so we want rec centers we need them right I'm a mom and a grandmother we need rec centers but one recreational center is not the answer you have to
look at the crime that's going on in the community people are not even crossing the streets we're upgrading these parks and a lot of our kids are not even going to play in the Parks because they're afraid to play in the Parks so we have to be able to come to the table with our
school board our our educational system City coming together and really having a a real plan a sustainable plan that is not going to cost the taxpayers a lot of money this item this item here is a to receive the dollars from DCA I don't
have an issue with that but I just want to make sure with this item even with us receiving it that we're not saying because this first of all the item doesn't even have a plan I hear you saying 111 Broadway this is just a blanket item saying we're taking money right from DCA we're receiving $2
million where's the presentation to the council in regards to what plan you're saying cuz I mean some may agree to build a one Rec Center I don't agree with that that's not that doesn't I'm an educator there's no way I can say build one Rec
Center who is that for is that to appease to say you've done something that that does not I'm telling you is a recipe for disaster our children deserve better our parents deserve better our community deserves better we have schools that are paid for why are we
spending like $70 million on one recreational center in a city where you can't even find parking like we we have to like let's not let's not so I I just want to say count and close it and close it you know I'm a preacher so I have a few
closes and closing and closing and in this partic in and there needs to be more discussion I'm in a I'm okay with this and it needs to go on on regular because there's some language amendments that I'm going to add to this item we're
going to amend this language cuz I want to make sure even with the receptive of the money that we don't find later that the money was reallocated for something else outside of the rec center so I'm going to make sure I send that language over to Corporation Council and to um to
our ba um acting or the the woman who City that acting the lady that's coming and the lady that's coming I'm going to send that language because I want to protect I want to protect this Council and I want to Pro protect our city because we
do a lot on this side in good faith but our residents they they don't receive the benefits of it and I think we have to stop it so this item should be on regular council president I'm going to make it clear next week I'm going to amend the language I'm telling you right now the floor and I will bring it to
present it this language in this item to make sure we protect the residents of this community and our taxpayers cuz I'm telling you that one uh Rec Center is going to um increase our taxes and I'm telling every resident as we get closer to that right now you're not hearing it
but as we get closer you will definitely hear that conversation so I'm regular Madam president thank you I know director wanted to respond go ahead director let's not make it sound like we don't have recreational centers or or W or wreck at night for our children we do we have multiple School the way the way
it sounded sound like we don't have anything we have we have not let me go please we have multiple multiple schools multiple schools that's open at night we have multiple schools that are open on the weekend for recreational activities for our kids in patteron parents have to make an effort to put these kids in these programs they're there reach out
to Recreation we get you involved you there's something to do for CH for our children every day of the week so family I think you missed my point no you cannot educate me on what happens in the schools I work there every day understand I just want to make sure that I let let me just tell you there was a
time we had 21 evening centers we called them night gems M we don't have that we have about six it has been reduced drastically when Cuts came it's been reduced so it's not happening or over yep so I'm not Recreation is doing their thing I commend Recreation even though
they're getting 1% of the budget which should be increased let me not really go there but what I'm saying because I don't want my message to be consc screwed or miscommunicated we should be partnering with the School District stop wasting
taxpayer dollars stop G giving these Grand ideas and making it seem like oh we really want you P I'm for you're not $70 million in the midst of all the issues we have in the city with everything that's going on is absurd
collecting the money is great because we need is award awarded to us we need it but we need to make sure there's a plan in place there's a partnership Shar service agreement with the schools we can easily work with the schools and make sure that we have these things in place it's not that difficult like the
schools are there already I'll send I'll send the whole counil a list of what we have with the schools right now in place uh after school programs weekend programs I'm not see you're referring to after school programs that's not what I'm talking about are considered Rec sentence you said you want have no we we when you okay so in the schools when you
say after school programs after school programs are like basketball uh we have some of the programming like Omega teens we have those type of that's not what I'm talking about when you talk about a recreational opportunity for our students I'm saying when we partner with
them from whe whether it's 3: to 7 3 to 8 Saturdays Sundays what's going on in the schools on Sundays I don't I'm not so we don't have it what's going on I'm telling you we don't because I work there what's going on in schools on Saturday nights what's
going on in school Saturday afternoon I'm talking about recreational opportuni outside of the Sports um what outside of that what else is going on that we can partner with as a district to save our children that's the purpose if we really trying to save our children we have to
help or take this money and increase the recreational budget if you really want to do some Recreation increase the budget give them some more money okay that's my thing but I just want to put that put that on the record thank you thank you very much councilwoman cotton uden Jackson thank you um director I just
want to say I you know I'm looking at this and and I never I remember we talked about this before we didn't want you to put apply and accept and the same resolution we applying for it once we get it then we accept it which to me should be a separate resolution now
there's $2 million that they want to give us well it must be already known that they GNA give us 2 million is it already known that we're GNA get two million I don't know right so if we don't know so where did two million come from
D this this this Administration this grant was through done through the administration I was coming through there okay now the only issue I mean for me is that um we've been sitting I've been sitting here and they've been trying to have a meet with the board of AED for I don't know how long uh we
don't had a couple presidents we had a couple presidents over at the school board and it ain't been no meeting yet so when we going to have a meeting you know okay yes the school should be open and I remember back in the day the schools were open but then as you got
different superintendents then who's going to pay for security who's going to pay for to watch them who's going to pay for that now you're going to come back and you're going to meet but who's going to make sure that they do that and I think it's a great idea because my
daughter is a teacher we had a program called Century 21 Century 21 was a private Foundation that came into the city a private foundation and funded the after school program see we're not getting that private Foundation stuff no
more for some reason they're not coming to our city um to to do after school program but my thing is that we need to partnership with the schools to make sure and I already said 111 Broadway is not the answer but and I said it with
even when that money came down for Co we should have went after that y WCA the YWCA is in between the and Fifth Ward they went in there the place is renovated they got the the basketball they got the basement they got a second
floor they got so many rooms there so many rooms that nonprofits can even like you want to have a meeting in there you can have a meeting in there for any organization that you want to do so I think that once we can get that partnership going or or that relationship going with the school
district now I just want to remind you audience out there tomorrow's a school board meeting I went last week M it was hardly nobody in there I'm reminding you ordinance tomorrow night is a school board meeting February 12th I believe
it's at 90 Delaware oh they doing it virtual now well they supposed to do it virtual last week too and they didn't so it's a virtual r Treat the Tuesday no no it was a reg I was there it was a workshop on
11th but last week even if it's virtual you got to you got to come to the meetings you know I have a you know there's so many programs that we can do here um and I and I remember saying that I really love to have the YWCA on C Street right now is just sitting there
they got the parking they got everything that's needed um be able to um go after the YW board I'm not pretty sure I think they're out of Washington DC but in order to but the partnership is when do we have and you're not the president
Madam president but they've been trying to put a meeting for I don't know how long with the school board the only person that responded and myself right been trying to put it together meeting so we need the recreation we need the programs we need
the um we need all of that for our kids and I always say that um the that there's some program I have a group called interface Performing Arts Center she does a program at school number 13 and she does a program at um uh just K
not killpatrick Alexander I mean there's programs around but we have to put like look I always say at the end of the day you know we as parents has to sacrifice for our children we have to do all that we can we have to do all that we can I remember
not hly getting no sleep making sure that my kids was in a program and making sure I took them where were I mean I had some excellent coaches for my children they were excellent they were part of the community um so we we need to try to do our best Madame President to get that meeting with that school board we need
to school district to open up these doors but now we got to figure out who's going to pay for the security who's going to pay for the maintenance who's going to pay for all of that cuz that's going to all come into play thank you so much Council councilman Udin thank you council president so director um when
the council members are speaking about $2 million just know this this frustration is not from $2 million it's started from $20 million otherwise these kind of things we never ask question when we had $20 million for the center and we had so
many Town Hall meetings around the city we are given false hope to the people now what we did do we have any money left from 20 million I don't think so we thrown money in different project just to utilize this money on time cuz we we
our plan was not ready at that point that frustration came from that $20 million when you're talking about $2 million so that's why Council looking for something concrete idea should be there nothing Vu nothing nothing bibbit
so you know uh that whatever we have currently this is not enough for our children we need Rec Center no question however the $22 million we are we are we are just asking question today because
we are kind of in doubt that you might use this money somewhere else that's that's our frustration now I think we have to have clear plan ready whether we get into the shared service with Patterson School District or not doesn't
matter but our plan should be clear that are we providing these services are we ready for rec center or where is it going to be one recor Center is not the solution for the recreation opportunities so I think this is why you
have to have the plan ready that we are going to have six Rec Center or 10 rec center around the city whether in school building or totally different location however how much you're going to spend for each of them instead of thinking
that we need $30 million or $40 million what happened last time if you remember and we had $20 million our metam ba mentioned that we have to get into the agreement with the private investors to get more money we don't want to do that we definitely we need the grant money
for the r Center but we have to have the plan ready that we can be covered and which or where we are starting from so this is this is important uh director so it's nothing that we are against applying for uh $2 million Grant we want to get into it but why are we getting
into it are we getting this money to use somewhere else and giving our people our children the hope that is not going to come true so that should be clarified uh uh director and administrators my favorite um harriso that should be in
concrete on the paper and that should be clear that this money is going to be for rec center is not going to use for here and there so I believe that should been regular and there should be wording out that this is going to be saved for the rec center and the plan should be plan
should be ready that how we are going to make provide uh rec centers around the city whether in school building but we cannot just say uh that we we have to get into share service if I recall council president in 2022 2023 we have
received so many emails from the uh Board of head Commissioners they want to sit down with us I don't know why we're not able to sit down why was it so hard to sit down huh there was no enough cheer that's
absolutely right that's true that's true councilman bz but why we are not able to do that because if we really care about our people care about our children because these children are going to Patterson Public Schools if we really care about them I think we need to get
into uh sit down itms and how uh cooperatively we can serve our children so whatever should be done should be done however that money how we going to use it that should be cleared and that money cannot be used somewhere else that's that's that should be on the
record uh I'm done Council presid thank thank you very much uh councilman Udin just so you're aware that item is unregular okay so I'm I'm in agreement that it should be unregular all right councilman Jackson and then we have to move on very good I'm going to be brief director yes sir you already know I roll
up my sleeves with you I go out there and do the work out there as your coaching and and we and in fact I'm looking forward to our joint um or to the uh soft girl softball Clinic we're going to do next year but um absolutely not man there was no way that I would be
able to support this uh this item and I have no clue about what councilman udine is talking about $20 million that's because this Council has been the most deric Council probably in the history of the city how about the $110 million at the stadium where now we're just giving
it away for other people to consistently make money on it how about now we're bringing in another professional team that has absolutely nothing to do with the kids in the city of Patterson but we spent all Patterson money with no possible report on the spending that this Council has not held anybody
accountable before now we want to make a fuss over $2 million how about the trailer park that we spent over 1.4 Million Dollar on is still not being utilized is not a recreational center that was the last recreational center they they proposed to us and the video takee shows councilman blz clearly
saying beautifying the First Ward it was a piece of garbage to begin with and it's still a piece of garbage how about the 80 plus million dollars in cares act money that we still don't know where that money's been spent now we we have $2 million being presented to us with
absolutely no plan because they're used to you being their rubber stand I would have liked to use another selection of words but there's still some young kids in the in the building and we're being televised but this is a council that has not been responsible nothing should be
spent without the council's approval if you as long as you're you're going to lay down and continue to just give it give it away for free they're not going to be accountable for it and how the $500,000 that we spent on a small little Shack over at at Commons park that
should have cost about $50,000 to build we are wasting money in this community and and and I I can't help but to agree um director with all the programming that you are running if the mayor spent half of the money that he
spends on rooc calls promoting what he's doing cutting ribbons and promoting your programming then kids in the community will be aware then Council woman memb would be more aware of the programming that you do have going on in schools but instead we got rooc calls going on every
day about the the salting that you're doing we know you're going to Salt it's snowing but how about promoting some of the program so more kids could be involved and then actually you know making sure that there's programming for kids to be involved with instead of promoting opportunities for for groups
outside of the city The Jackal and them are laying in the home field on $110 million that we spent all the money that's being made over there we still don't have reports on obviously council members don't they're trying to you know duck down and act like if we hold the the
administration accountable just simply starting with that $110 million where's the money now anyway I I I I digress it doesn't make any sense because we're sitting here talking about the same thing and uh director I support every
you do I will get out there with shovels I'll get out whatever you're doing but this right here more money for them to squander pay more professionals overpaid professionals now I I won't I won't be supporting it but yet I'll be the only no voting on on this on this item as I've been on all those other items that
I outlined thank you council president council president uh you're the final comment okay councilwoman Mims so I just want to give to um Madame ba and to Corporation counsel um I like to amend this item to include in here that we
will not accept any public or private partnership with for this project and the reason why I want to put that on the record to the public sitting and viewing without this language being included the money that we do not find
will be on the back of the taxpayers so I'm amending this language and any language pertaining to these this recreational center project or item that we will will not um accept it it will not be tied to any public or uh private
partnership I got a question for that one second councilwoman M so I I I'm understanding what you're saying about the public but the whole purpose of this is to be able to go out there you want to get together with private funding to be able to do this no we want
I'm not saying not the funding no you no but you said public or private so I understand what you're say with public partnership I didn't say funding I said partn ships see is the difference if we do public and private funding that means dollars will come in to offset the cost if we say public and private partnership
that means we're partnering with someone and we still have to find the money and the money will be on the back of the taxpayers so that's why I made it clear Partnerships so Corporation Council um because I guess it's a it's an
interpretation and I see what you're saying in terms of partnership CU there are people I know I know what second council members when you speak I I'm quiet so please I'm trying to make a point here I'm just trying to clarify and
understand you know um people partner up but they don't partner up just with a name there's money attached to it okay and so not always what money was attached to the people who partner with at the stadium how much did they give that was a different that was a give no
that see that's her that's the point that she's trying to make cuz we got we got destroyed we got our Tails kicked on this deal at the stadium they put no money in and they're they're the only Partners winning they're the only ones making money out of this situation our kids are getting exed out of it so
Corporation Council so all we got to do is first we should be starting with the stadium we wearing about $2 million about the $110 million council president thank you very much so okay thank you um I I'm I'm going to have to do something here because I I'm looking at the crowd and honestly you know we we want to be
respect F of the time um director I know you looking at me I want to say that all your items right like for first reading like no they but there's still some other stuff as well they got it okay
so you want to get through it all right director just come back council president wait wait wait wait wait wait okay director yes councilman Jackson on this it you know very seldom you know and right now he's sing to me he said you're up there let's go through
this a lot of these items in DPW council members I think that for the first reading ordinances I know there's a question on seven right um and I know that there's uh uh changes on five so um let's go in that order and in terms of
the handicap the establishing you know we know that that's going to go to First reading you know 12 and 13 are going no discussion needed on that no discussion needed on 12 13 what yeah 12 and 13 but there is
discussion so um number five I see that it has a sponsored by councilman V council president and council president Mendes mes so councilman V on item number one amending the Patterson code uh first of all uh number one um is uh
to add on top of the fine they getting for dumping they going to also do community service mandatory okay uh 90 days so before we table it because we're not tbling it who said we before last time last Mee last
me to correct the word an instead of or so we took the word or out and we is and so if you get caught dumping and you get the fine no matter what you're going to do community service no matter what okay all right I just want let you know that
council president is a co-sponsor okay hold up you can all speak um Co sponsor so number five is going to go for first reading okay uh number six is an ordinance changing the traffic patterns on a portion of nicob baka Avenue and Lake Avenue to improve Public
Safety and accommodate the needs of Brothers produce and surrounding businesses and residential homes that's good I actually I I put my glasses in I think I see Mr Brothers out there right both how are you I thought I saw him somewhere back there both brothers my brother Brothers All right so they good
they're all our brothers we go shop there all the time all right so U Can you just quickly just tell us what um that traffic pattern portion is going to be council president what okay so 6 78 and nine all of them are about traffic PN why why doesn't he discuss all four
of them one at a time Council councilman Udin I have a question so that's why I put it on all right because if you saw half the room was filled for number seven who are against this traffic pattern I should have the right to ask the question that is it goes on record
this is on first reading no seven is no they in they in favor they in favor four came from something else okay I was told by someone that they were against it just so you know but I'm not talking about seven I'm talking about six okay the traffic pattern would be come off of East Railway if you're on nicob Bacher
from East Railway towards um dunde and then Lake Street will be from nicob Bacher towards um dundy so that it'll be that L instead of being two-way traffic it'll be a oneway coming from East Railway towards uh Wabash W and then make a um Lake Street from nickak to
dundy very well so that item will go for first reading second reading will be in our next um so first reading will vote will be on the 18th and then the second reading will be on on March 18th okay thank you very much so
seven council president councilman valis um this item number seven is all old item thanks God it came into conclusion now in the first reading this is to uh s Geral I don't know this a school middle school keeping two-way traffic is uh is
a problem uh people sometime they don't they don't even uh take consideration somebody's Park p uh dropping off a kit and they just speed through there whatever so um this is an all item um uh we moving forward we spoke up we spoke
about in committee um and and the residents and and the and the population of students and parents will appreciate this change okay very well thank you thank you very much councilman V for that clarification and our chair Udin that item will go on for first reading
correct it number eight number eight same thing number eight uh ordinance changing the traffic patterns of State Street and portion of Cedar Street and improve Public Safety and accommodation I'm sorry who's who who's who's chair oh no no no the chair but they to explain
it we have a director here no no because I I this is an all item from when I was when I was the future dep Governor Towers uh submitted about yeah he knows he knows so listen I really appreciate
the cocation director uh 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 and 13 are going for first reading okay any questions that you may have in between you can address okay uh is that it for you that was it
right the 13 oh no 34 oh 34 yes 34 is a resolution authorizing the award of contract to environment environmental renewal LLC for the disposal of vegetative waste bid number 2513 for the recycling division of the Department of Public Works does any
council member have any questions on this item discussed uh I think consent should be fine wanted in consent does anyone have any issues with consent council president please uh do we receive the trucks yeah we received three trucks good yeah thank okay so is
it okay to move forward with consent 34 okay Madam clerk 34 will go on consent how many veget will we have okay and oh my God you have I told you you have all these not it's going to be real quick okay so 35 resolution authorizing
the solicitation of bids for bus transportation services bid number 25.22 that should go on consent resolution 36 uh authorizing Award of contract to Continental Hardware Inc under Morris County Co-op pricing for the purchase of
lumber insulation and hardware for the Department of Public Works consent council members if everyone is okay item 36 will go on consent if this is a new one 37 resolution authorizing the renewal of contract with JX Management Group LLC for General and emergency
plumbing repairs and installation services for bid number 24.10 for the division of facilities of the Department of Public Work consent consent council members everyone's all right consent 375 wait so we're going back no you mean
36 35 35 and 37 bus transportation regular okay so Madam clerk 35 will be regular 36 consent 37 regular 38 resolution authorizing the submission
and endorsement of the njde application for CSO 023 separation of the storm water with the sanitary sewage system um C no uh I have a question this the tww application that we have to fill
out okay yeah we have to fill out I I have a question okay go ahead so this is dealing with and I know this is for the Madison second AB that particular area river river by the River Street right so I just have a um I just have a request
so for uh the New Jersey waterways bill you know we have the um the legislation that says that if we're not in compliance that we will pay I think it's up to $10,000 per day so I would like you to provide to the council an update to make sure that we are in compliance
with those requests okay um from that because this deals with that and also I would like to see an update on the Storm um the storm plan that was put together for all the flooded areas the CSO plan the CSO plan and see what we stand okay thank you very much counc so that that
item will go on consent okay 39 30 39 resolution authorizing submission of a Grant application and agreement to the New Jersey Department of Transportation local Freight impact
fund consent a question go ahead you have a question yeah um no no no you don't want it to go on consent no no I just I have a question now and then we could go uh director I see that I know it's the 44 sorry councilwoman for 44 but it says
between Leon lion Street or Leon lion lion what what this is a misspelling there yeah lion is l i o n uh on second 39 l y n 39 h l y n and weight Street
spe with Leon Leon Street and fif uh this is this this is tied up with uh to be able to continue with the project on River Street no okay okay all right okay very well 39 consent consent 40 endorsement
for NGP application that should go on consent as well yeah which one this one this was one of the ones that uh that we approved after the uh that day after the uh committee on on email hold on on this is one of the ones this one of the two that we
sent out I'm sorry but this was not in the meeting that we had and now what's the whole purpose this Transportation Company it's a realy company and what it supposed to do it's application it's for a St um application
to tap into our um our source system when you say tapan what you mean well hook up to our source system you got Leon we don't have no Leon street but anyhow lying yeah um I don't know they going to tap into it's a freight
company right it's a business so anytime somebody a new business or a new property goes up they have to get a a NJ DP application and permit and this is theirs yeah rning the the director the only problem I have is that okay I see how we do the application when they need
to tap in it it's never written like this yeah they are oh let me pull out another one but it's never written like this it's not written like this all the ones I've seen since I've been here I mean like somebody all the same like number 39
Harry right he's saying this is to this is to tap into our system you talking about 39 or 40 39 Oh 39 you said this came after we a gr application huh 39 is a Grant
application it says a Grant application to do what I'm sorry you put 39 onent already you went back on me let me 39 here 39 I thought we were on 40 but we're on 39 no no0 40 has a lot of questions we were going no I just
questioned it because I know I know that okay let me ask you something director on Wake Street they were doing a traffic study on Wake Street where because that's a heavily uh Road driven by traffic trailers right now this company here is on weake street too just to improve the
roadways on weake Street improve the roadways right but this is not that 39 is not to improve the roadways yes it is I'm looking at that's improve the roadway because it's heavily um and this is a grant that they're going to give us because weight Street is between Fifth
Avenue Fifth Avenue all the way down to maybe King Street or somewhere right so this is a grand application now I understand for W Street that's councilwoman W Street is a heavily travel Road for tractor trailers all
right okay thank you very much okay moving forward 41 no no council president we need to do 40 I need I you need to 40 and no no 39 consent or not no no 40 40
is going to be discuss whe 4 I'm sorry councilman just speaking to the microph what about the didn't we did 39 already but consent or regular that's what Madam CL is waiting for consent okay perfect yeah uh Council uh
Madame President number 40 right yes uh resolution endorsing authorized authorized endorsement of the njp application quality reality Corp and 152 Market Street now when you read the whereas it says has submitted a plan to
Pro to propose a project on 152 Market Street that is all office uh and say proposing to construct a 49 apartment in existing seven story mix since where we are the board since this supposed to go to the
board this is the appliation this is the application no no no no let me tell you why councilman councilman valis what I I respectfully ask is that when you ask a question you allow the director to respond back and then you continue I know what he's going to say this is the
application then why ask the question if you know what he's going to say no I know but the problem I have here is in the wareh says that the city that hold on that says here that we the council in other words are are blessing already
this project of 49 appointments in the city of patteron without even going to the board you know why they're going to go to the board they're going to go to the board and say you know the council blessed this to allow 49 apartment in front of city hall with no parking we don't know what's
going in there here so this this this this this whereas the second thought is you know it says here it's telling you the whole project if I go to ask somebody in that in that division economy development or the
zoning if they have an application in front of the board uh the applicant is required to submit a treatment work approval and we agree that but the project not even the board having even entertain the
project the board a zoning the zoning board because they going to do the the change of use from office to residential what about the parking and all that stuff you know this is come in front of us to bless them if you look at the you know this is a document that they going
to use they going to use in you didn't discuss this in committee you didn't get those questions answered no this this came in the last in the last um request came in the lastest to commit I'm going to respectfully you know listen we're going
to continue talking back and forth let's remove it bring it back to committee okay chairman that's what I wanted to request that let's have the disc item number 40 is removed the committee and then we can bring it back um before I know we're removing it but I just want to um give a point of reference
councilman of valz is correct this should be a part of the conditions um through the planner um on the board so this should not even be with us first have one seconds every here this should be a part of the uh board this should go to the planner Michael um D should be a
part of this and not the coun please so let's I I didn't want to say it incorrectly dor they're taping people misspelling names and saying things wrong all right councilwoman thank you so let's make sure Michael the plan mik we make sure
Mike gets it Mike Michel our planner okay thank you very much 41 chairman so uh resolution uh solicitation for bids yes um yes so I think it's good to go
consent yes wait a minute what 35th the surface and froze over there yeah but it's oh yeah resurfacing they go off for bid right yeah okay consent it's fine yes 42 all right so um director can you
please give us kind of uh this is the this is the repurpose of yes this is consent this is to fix the um yeah this the repurpose we taking the money from um L Castello Food Park we can't do it right now because of the renovations
that the S Valley water's doing so we just uh realloc they reating they replacing well whatever they're doing yeah are you all okay with it to is everyone okay with consent consent yeah very 43 consent sent as well so
this is another authorizing an application of accepting of funds from NJ DCH hold on east side park historic steps this has been waiting for a long time no but let me say this if council president will be here ladies and gentlemen and on
third war we got to get this uh thing so we had we had discussion in the committee as well so it's good to go this is going on consent Madam clerk item 43 will go on consent 44 you also had the discussion I think it's good to go for consent well we need to know what's going on here is a renewal for
our tur fi Mr chair that's too quick no I want him to go I know but the community needs to know what's going on you like rushing them out the door hold on hold on what is this 44 44 44 will go on consent wait one second hold on we
want to know where they put that 1 second on 44 syn synthetic a contract to sport care synthetic field maintenance under Educational Services Commission of New Jersey Co-op 65m C ccps bid number es cnj 22-
23-37 for maintenance services at various City Parks for the Department of Public Works so I have a question councilwoman M so I know there's various Parks um Ray life fil so first and foremost we have to make sure that we update the items listed because we have
it as putting them overal it is Ray life Phil so we got to make sure we do that properly what type of warranty is on um this work that's being done this is just a maintenance is the to clean the field like they get all the gum off the sunflower seeds stuff like that they do
it four times a year for us the actual Turf the the turf warranty that we got from the original installation yes is eight years is eight years okay so how so how have they been maintaining it uh maintenance has been good except for the two fires that we had on the fields that
we had to get done um they burn Pon Park and uh couple weeks ago they burned Rivers side over River Street Council thank you councilman jaon director when you say they burned do we have an idea who who was who burnt well we there's a
video of somebody jumping the fence at Riverside then a few minutes later you see the Flames there's no facial recognition nothing like that um peniton Park there's no video of nothing that just the fire department showed up and but it was done deliberately there was charcoal on the field there was a bottle
of acceler so was there an investigation uh through the fire through the peniton park one yes and there was nothing for uh uh Riverside they could there no facial recognition the PD did an investigation yes they were both they they were called the both scenes I'm sorry they were called to both scenes
but did they conduct an investigation did we get a report back from the inves I don't have it in my hand no I don't yeah we got we the director left right we need to get a report and see if they made an effort to look at whether or not they came in the vehicle whether or not
there's camera footage I mean when did this when did the incident at at pening happened oh this is over a year ago that's already done how about the other one the other one was a few weeks ago few weeks ago yeah and we also had a a car just run a a stop sign at 10,000 E6
Street and running right into yeah we got that we got that guy's Insurance we're going after his insurance to to pay for that field the damage he did last question this what is the projected value of this contract this bid it's in here $69 wait
wait a minute no if solicitation it's not a bid it's a it's a maintenance contract correct so what's the projected um cost can I talk 69 sorry 655 65,500 that's all the tur field
including Larry Doby that's not done yet but that it gives them four times a year cleaning and maintenance so this 65 is four times a year on every single on every single turfield we have understood very good okay thank you very much so that counc President I had a question council
president uh director so uh yeah you mentioned lovi so recently we approved lovi synthetic field who I think last month we approved for lar uh synthetic that worker has already started already started yes okay so is it the part of
the it's not part of this one yes the L do is on there got you okay okay thank you very much item 45 will go on consent as well that's another solicitation of bids and I believe director that those are all your items yep no
50 no more I no just an update can you provide an update I know there part um work being done in in some of the parks for example bear track they started the work um yeah all of them weather permitting all all our projects you got bear track that started ver um ver Ames
started you have uh Larry Dolby started wests side park started they all started so um whe they permitting they'll be out there so I know right now with the snow it's you know it's kind of they have to wait but do we have any change orders currently on any of those projects no
Okay so within scope of those projects okay thank you you're welcome we have project managers on those projects yes we do hire memes good hire me I'm PMP certified please all right thank you director thank you for your time no no no
okay thank you so much my apologies I'm getting okay 50 will go for first reading uh 51 will move um resolution appointing shabir regular Q shabin Esquire as a municipal court judge to
fill an unexpired term that'll go on regular um 63 63 regular this will go on regular does anyone have any questions it's a approving a notice in lie of deed notice for part of East 22nd Street in front of 436 450 East 22nd Street patter
recognizing used restrictions the city of Patterson's obligations and authorizing execution of related documents for remedial actions council president councilwoman M so uh for next meeting I'm not sure who can provide information but I would like to have who
whoever um from the administration to be here to talk about it it talks about possibly um some areas of contamination that's listed in the uh resolution itself so whoever from the administration that can speak to this for next week before we vote that would be great so it's going to go on regular
yes okay right all right police done all right so council members city clerk will go on consent 17 a minute uh I also want to take a moment and you know what I can't believe
there's so much people here today I want to take a moment one second a moment um one of our retired police sergeants someone that I worked with 31 years ago at P County Unity College who then became a police officer and
worked and just retired last year passed away over the weekend so if I can just please have a moment of silence I should have done this in the beginning but with so much commotion going on it just totally just you know went over me so if I could please for a moment just for a
quick moment have a moment of Silent for our retired Sergeant Tony Doo my condolences to all the family and to the Patterson Police Department all right I have a um councilwoman Mims for item number 17 as
you see it's on consent but I just wanted to highlight it normally when we do Raffles they're listed individually but I questioned this item when um Mr Sone was sitting um in Li of our Corporation Council uh this item is
actually listed with each of these particular um entities with the raffle number on there yeah we it's I've never seen it done like that it's always separate but this time is it's done this way so I just number 17 so if you could just take a
look at it actually seen that I've seen it done before I haven't seen it done see the consent that's consent right I've seen it I know it comes from the you're asking Corporation councel but it comes from the clerk right no I'm just saying I just
wanted to put it as a point of reference because what happens is when you apply for a raffle ticket they're wait the entities are waiting because they need the number that's assigned to it after approval so it's not listed but it's listed on the separate page but to me I
think it should be done separately I know it was done together here but each of them should be listed separately even if we put them on consent because the application numbers are totally different so just to cover us um as a city I think they should be
listed separately Co person that 17 okay okay did you hear my request you forgot to put sponsor by Louis number 18 and um
and M oh yes you m m have a problem mad Madam number number 17 number 18 and myself as well okay definitely all right
so so so just just just to complete or all right uh 17 is is consent 18 will go consent 19 no no no no no 18 is going to regular okay regular 19 can go on consent sponsored by Council Val we'll
put it on regular what is 19 20 uh Madam I I just wanted to hear council president okay one second council president one second Council um Madam clerk it's my understanding that before uh the exiting six wor councilman
abdulaziz has submitted this is his honor it has Shaheen khik as an honory right because I thought um Pastor cash was shahen K's honor no Antoine Wilson is an honor for the going six cour
councilman he's going to be here on the day so it says khik but that's not kik's hory his one is Pastor right that was last week this was right this was yeah okay since um uh council president since
um councilman khle is no longer a councilman I mean I'm sorry Council AB Del is no longer a councilman uh councilwoman cotton gave the Honore to councilman khle since he had not submitted a name no but he was
understood listen I I it's my understanding that he did it before we didn't have a pastor cash we didn't my understanding so I I I just want the record to reflect that that uh at the time councilman abdulaziz this was his Honore if councilwoman coton I don't
know if she spoke to the assemblyman now um but we and he did request he goes it's my last Honore as a going out councilman so um if that's what it is C was never submitted that name was never submitted to the office Corporation counil okay
with that I'm sorry as long as councilman khik is okay with that Honore oh he's he's going he's okay yeah she spoke with yeah yeah yeah uh coun in regards to an Honore um you certainly can submit a bio and a request uh from a
cting council member and the Law Department would be happy to draft it if any other council member wants to present that they can they can present it but you're not limited to one if you want to do more than one no right but that what that happens it it really that
was not let me just say this we are with this we have our program is already set for the 21st so I know that Council woman MS and cotton have been working Jackson so I'm I'm going to leave it at that so item 20 will go on C president
19 uh put in regular um it is 19 is UN regular I also I am a co-sponsor on this a sponsor on this co-sponsor a sponsor you're there oh yeah you're a sponsor as well okay 21 will go on consent CU we did that with all of our honor for Black
History Month and 22 will go on consent as well yes C so we want to just remind Madame Clark that make sure that when it says call by particular council members make sure it will have stated who sponsored it it will have stated it will be mov also moved by it will be moved by
them Council M so 23 if everyone and councilman Jackson is fine for this to go on consent 24 I don't know if anyone has any issues but these are all coin operated uh for um which one la licenses this can go on consent as
well uh 25 can go on consent as well as that's another renewal Point operated uh laundry license um and 26 this is in the six Ward us three council at large represent
the ward as well I am okay with this going on consent I'm okay too council at large keep it like that intern I said three you serve what three month three three I approved your message Council woman at large all right council member so I believe that that is the agenda in
terms ofuse of this agenda but we still have a special I'm going to open the public portion um how many um for the workshop8 huh he a 68 g g is here it was removed no he's not 68 is
removed regular we did that one all right so I am going to to say it no one else can be added to the list all right um it is 9:07 we still have a special meeting so um I know there were
two and as I began the meeting if I could please have your attention as I began the meeting I indicated that there were two different lists one for the workshop and the other uh for the special meeting where we're going to have an executive session at that time
we're going to ask everyone has to remove um so that's why I'm going to go ahead and I know that we have 8:00 but I'm going to open the public portion now okay uh Madame clerk how many um how many speakers okay so I want us to be very
mindful I think that some people probably have left and I'm going to respectfully just say this for those that this is your first time uh this is not our Chambers but this is our acting Chambers okay uh you're allowed for your three minutes uh I'm going to please request if there's a big group that that
is coming for the same cause and there's a speaker the whole group can come together and have the one speaker speak okay uh again it is uh 3 minutes the time will be set to three the clerk will handle the time and at the time you hear the buzzer at that time you will have to
wrap up all right just be mindful if you look at you said 20 21 21 and you multiply that if everyone keeps to their message that's over an hour so that's a little past 10 o'clock that we'll be leaving here okay so I want us to to just be mindful of that all right so
Madame clerk first Speaker the first speaker is sonan Ramadan sonad Ramadan I'm make sure that the microphone is is on please state your name and address
for the record okay um okay San Ramadan 169 genesy a New Jersey 07503 thank you and begin good evening council members thank you for taking the
time to hear our concerns we are we are here as Patterson residents who feel betrayed by our Board of Education and the Board of Education Commissioners and their members we're here to talk about our students our teachers and the future of our schools we refuse to stand by
while decisions are being made that put our profits over children efficiency over education and the wellbe of our children the proposed restructuring of our schools is not about improving education it's about cutting cost at the expense of our
children we as parents know what real investments in education looks like it means fully funding our schools supporting our Educators and making sure every child no matter their zip code has access to Quality to learning it means listening to teachers parents and
students not just administrators and politicians who don't see see the daily reality in our classrooms we are not here just to complain we are here to demand action we demand transparency we demand accountability we demand a seat at the table because there these are our
schools our communities and our children's Futures at stake we will not be ignored we will not be silenced we will fight for our schools for our children and for the future they deserve thank you thank you very much Madam C next speaker the next speaker is
lse I'm sorry repeat the name lse is there a last name no last name okay okay please state your name and address for the record hi my name is lose Torres of five Monclair app in Patterson I would like to first thank
you for your time my name is lose Torres and I am proud member of the Patterson Community my children have attended Patterson public schools for the past 10 years and during that time our family has actively participated in various school programs such as basketball fundraisers Special Olympics additionally I am a devout member of the
Church of House of Hope for the Nations and Patterson pastored by Abel and IET Marana and a leader of the Department of evangelism and Outreach though our involvement with the church we also support our community by contributing to Food donation drives and Outreach programs we as the concerned parents of the Patterson Public School District are
here to beg you to help us as you asked us for your votes we need your help with the Board of Ed commissions we we strongly oppose the Patterson Board of education's decisions to restructure several schools under our new Middle School model set to take place in September this change will negatively impact our children's education safety
and overall well-being disruption disruption of our education transitioning students to new schools new teachers and new classmates will cause unnecessary instability especially for students with individualized educational programs who require consistency and specialized support
without a staple Educational Foundation these youths are a significant disadvantage they may struggle to graduate on time lack the skills needed for employment or be unprepared for the responsibilities of adult life children who experience instability may be more likely to act out aggressively or
delinquently severe Staffing shortages many schools are many schools they want to restructure already severely underst staffed and will struggle to accommodate additional students leading to overcrowded classrooms diminish learning quality they need support why not unite
Force with the rest of the schools that are in need of teachers and help them by uniting their strength and making it better it doesn't make sense to destroy an established Driving School to try to recover another one increase commute burdens on families many parents will have to travel farther to drop off and
pick up their children yet may not qualify for school provided Transportation since they are within a TW mile radius additionally parents may have to adjust work schedules or arrange ultimate Transportation further increasing costs unsafe travel conditions for students many students
will be forced to walk longer distances or take public transportation increasing the risk of exposure to unsafe environments Transportation hazards and increased traffic affecting everyone in our community delays in implementation a major restructuring like this requires significant time resource and planning
giving the setbacks our children have already faced during the covid-19 pandemic another destrution could have long- lasting negative effects on their education and their personal growth financial burden on families many families in our community are already struggling to make ends meet this
restructuring would force parents to purchase new uniforms for different schools those with multiple children attend the different schools will have different uniform requirements and may have trouble may have to buy double adding unnecessary Financial stress we urge you to help us stop the Imp
implementation of this restructuring plan instead you can finalize your statement thank you I appreciate [Applause] that in said we call for a transparent and inclusive process that will involve parents Educators and the community an
assessment of alternative solutions that prioritize students educational stability and well-being a public forum to discuss the full impact of this transition before finalizing any decisions our children's future and our teacher stability should not be compromised by a rushed and ill-planned
changes we as a community stand together to demand a fair and thoughtful approach to our children's education and the well-being of all of them and everyone in our Community thank you very much thank you for your time Madame clerk next [Applause]
speaker next speaker is Rodney adderson Mr Addison are you still here Mr America please state your name your address please good evening good evening good evening Rodney Addison triangle Village
from W so here to talk about the juneth festival which will be June 21st Esa park at the Gazebo uh along with the African Heritage parade which will also be June 21st 10: a.m. starting at bonic Temple
leading to e side park for the festival I also want to you know make note to the community that you know this is our cultural event more importantly this is the first cultural event of the of the year in the city of patteron so we behoove the community to come out and support year after the year to make it
better each and every year uh this coming 22nd of February we have a black history paint sip at the Museum just as a fundraiser to help raise some of the funds for the festival I look forward to seeing my uh Council people especially
my black Council people at the festival hopefully I can make it to the honoring ceremony tomorrow at the museum at H CLP Stadium where I am myself and two other athletes here in the city of Patterson who are being honored for black history U by our mayor thank
you thank you very much next speaker next speaker is Ilia vinoa is she still in the room okay next speaker okay next speaker is Marbel
mza Marbel Mendoza looks like she's gone oh okay state your name and your address please U Marbel Mendoza 124 genesy a Patterson New Jersey
07503 um good evening everyone I'm here because um my brother martin mza jior is missing uh he was last seen Saturday February 8th in the morning we have an open case with the Patterson um police department but we ask the community to
please help us finding him um he is 20 years old height 83 has long hair and weighs about 200 lb he was last seen wearing a blue coat possible white sweater under his coat white jeans black shoes and black Nike backpack please if
you see him or if you have any information please let us know or contact the Patterson Police Patterson Police Department um he was also we were also able to get footage of him being in Dunkin Donuts on um Valley Road in
Clifton New Jersey um we were only able to get a small footage of him walking off we believe he might have gone to Garrett Mountain but after that we don't we're not sure where else he went we don't know if he's safe we he hasn't been seen like three days we don't know
where he is um so please you know do you have extra wait wait wait I wanted to add something so I am surprised I've never we've never been in this kind of situation but the response the communication between the police
department of detective with us has been appalling I've constantly had to try to contact them I um and when I call the office it says oh we're waiting for him to get um we're waiting for get to get inside and it feels like I have to wait for him to clock in to get any help our
family has been we we only go home to just eat and um shower and barely sleep and then we go out we've been out for hour for this the entirety of these last three days and I just I feel we feel helpless right now all right I'm going
to ask a favor um my assistant is is sitting right over there when you are done I need you to give her your contact both your names okay uh and as we sit on the Public Safety Committee we'll be talking to the chief to the OIC to the
director um I don't know you know we the council have to be very careful that we can't get involved in investigations but clearly to at least kind of put you at ease um I do do need to ask one question was this young man a student at the college at P County College yes okay so
just just a point of recommendation Council we normally don't do the rebuttal but this is something very can you give a flyer to our secretary please so it could be given out absolutely and I'll make sure it's posted on social media a lot of times social media gets more attention so if you'll just give it
to um one to our secretary here clerk our Clerk and then um it could be um copies could be made unless you have enough copies tonight that we can all take want to make one more point I really appreciate the community we have been posting it everywhere Facebook Instagram everywhere posting it outside
and the community has been sharing it everywhere no there's no time here ccil pres okay president very well um I I really quick are you going to start a conversation back and forth because I think we don't no this is not about back and forth this is a situation that the
family is going through we are extremely sorry for that and and uh here's my recommendation can we not advertise for the children through uh rapel and all the our our channels and also you can promote on the social media as well to make sure that we we can go through our clerk for that absolutely okay so that's
what we need so Rael please we need to advertise on the TV channels YouTube to make sure that we can be part of this family at this moment yeah this important thank you very much C president listen my my counc president as a mom okay having a son I I I
understand I can't say I can't put my myself in your position but we definitely as a council We Care all right and we're going to see what we can do okay to at least put some some at Le put you Ates council president um thank you very much council president uh
Raphael ask I asked Raphael sir ma'am just to councilman I that's why you cannot just ignore this part Raphael I spoke to Raphael he needs a digital one to be able to put it on the TV very good thank you very much
just just a minute I I spoke I speak to your sidebar it's better yeah I got different way to do things next speaker Madam clerk next speaker is a Roberson a Robinson Roberson that's what
it says here Robinson Roberson okay and next speaker Madam clerk next speaker is Victor orz Victor urz okay he's you passed okay thank you next speaker is
Leila no last name is there ilila okay Lea are you a student at uh Patterson Public Schools yes okay just say your name for the record you don't need to put your address okay okay my name's ilila um my name's ilila I'm currently a
seventh grade student at school number nine I am a part of the national junor artist Society SGA and the basketball team and many more curriculars I have been a part of the school Community since kindergarten and I will soon be entering the eighth grade as someone who has spent most of my educational life
here it is my dream to graduate from this very school but now I stand before you with a heavy heart as I as I feared that the decision to disrupt the stability could jeopardize my future and the futures of my classmates the plans that have been put into place by the Board of Ed failed to consider one
crucial element the social emotional well-being of students like me as a do needs of Educators it is deep it deeply saddens me to see the very people we trust with our education making decisions that view us not as individuals but as data points on a chart how is that fair and how is it
fair that after all my hard work and dreams for the eighth grade those opportunities have now been taken away I stand before you not just to voice my concerns but to ask for your help I ask that you help us with the situation because we the residents of Patterson deserve better we need to know that we
can rely on them not just as policy makers but as advocates for our futures stability in education is not a luxury it's a necessity when schools are disrupted it impacts everything our ability to learn our relationships with teachers and peers and our overall growth are all put at risk changing
schools are switching of plans frequently creates uncertainty making it harder to stay on track with our studies and takes away our chance to build the strong connections that are essential for Success a stable School environment isn't just about academics it's about a
community it's about a place where we feel safe where we feel seen and heard where we'll where we build um lasting friendships and where we learn how to navigate the world around us this isn't just my point of view this is a shared experience for of every student at our
school we are more than just students we're a family changing our community will deeply affect our emotional and social well-being when you move remove the place we love you're not just changing policies you're breaking the connections that Define Who We Are are you're taking away our sense of
belonging and support do you truly understand the impact this will have school is just more than academics it is about friendships trust and the family family we built here I urge you to think about the long-term effects on our students families and teachers the
future of each student goes beyond textbooks it includes their emotional and social growth please help us keep it the way it currently is thank you [Applause] wow H how how beautiful excuse me young lady did you did you present yourself in
front of the school board did you go down there to address your concerns with them as well so councilman Jackson that's where I was going that I want them all tomorrow is a school a school board meeting and everyone that's here and we we welcome you here we want to hear you and I mean just amazing to see
you know the the young ladies just come out here and be so articulate you know and on point okay so we really really want you all to express yourselves to the school board tomorrow okay thank you very much I'm sorry she was going to ask
answer the question um no I have not been to a board of bed meeting yet there hasn't been one that I've known about yet okay tomorrow and you're planning to go right yeah so oh it's virtual well I will go on Virtual but then I would go again because they have
to they have one live meeting so so yeah so Council women M so I'm just going to speak as a former Schoolboard member so here here are some tips anyone
that has a pen and paper take this number down it is the number to the superintendent's office when you're ready say I the superintendent's number is 973
321 09 80 I talk about the all the levels of power you have the power of the pen people that are here I uh the young lady who um ilila SGA she um is in a leadership role in
her school all of our students get them to write letters to the superintendent call the superintendent's office and bombard the phones about your concerns or dislikes also request from the superintendent's office that they
send you the calendar of all of the Schoolboard meetings whether they're virtual or in person if there is a meeting whether it's virtual in person you can always send your request that you would like to speak it has to be done in advance send it over but everything starts stops ends at the
superintendent's office reach out to them go on Patterson Public Schools when you go on Patterson public schools and you go to the drop down box go to the box that says Board of Education you will see listed all nine School Board members Click on each of their pictures
and email all of them separately there are nine members that um are voted in on your behalf send information to them as well so on those Pon Public Schools drop down Board of Ed there are nine school board members send them information and don't forget to call the school board
thank youson we normally don't do this but this this is important this is just a message to all of the parents um as I am a parent of of of children and in our district as well I understand why you're here you're here to solicit the support
of the council now it although I I do agree having those those contacts are very important you're here to solicit the the support of those that you've have elected to represent you and I will be 1,00% in support of whatever efforts
there are one mostly because I have dealt with the superintendent directly I'm a I'm an elected person chosen by you all to represent your concerns and I've dealt with her and she was very dismissive we have people who don't live in our community that are making very critical
decisions on how education is supposed to be distributed without the consult and consent of the community so I did hear one of the uh uh I I believe it was one of the parents the young lady in the back that talked about these decisions
being made and and I think you have a valid request there should be seminars there should be open discussions there should be um uh uh forums that the parents and the students are capable of participating so um I'm I'm available to
any of any of you I'm sure some of the other council members are but I can only speak for myself I will be I Am The Advocate that that will be there standing in support of you so please uh you know let me know how you you you require my my attention thank you very
much councilman Jackson next speaker Madam clerk next speaker is Eddie olivarez Mr Olivares good evening all um name and address he olivaris I you said it and I
live in the fourth Bo anyway okay um before I speak on some of the things that have been said here I want to ask uh if I may Corporation Council a question he just stepped out but I would like an answer um yesterday he attended
a um Democratic party uh political event with the mayor and so uh the mayor works for me you guys work for me he works for me and so as such I would like to know if he is the
mayor's uh political advisor is that what we pay him for did just for my own edification uh and so I would like an answer from me it's a yes or no answer it's a very simple answer but anyway I want to talk about it is sad you know
the people of this community they come over here and they bring very serious issues and we have to deal with this you look like a bunch of children I say this time and time again you guys don't know
anything you at the beginning of the uh the meeting asked the CFO I don't know how many questions he doesn't have the answer to one question you asked not one he doesn't know anything and so it was you uh uh
councilman councilwoman Dava who said we are not the administration sort of indicating that it's the fault of the administration well I never thought I I I would ever come to the rescue of the mayor but I must disagree with you it's
not his fault is your fault it is you who has to hold them accountable you you you you all of you and you don't do that that's why he gets
away with everything because you don't hold them accountable it appears as if you guys don't even know that you could get rid of any appointee by the mayor and there's not a damn thing he can do about
it you can get rid of these happenes ma'am if you shaking your head now it means it tells me that you don't know what you're doing you shouldn't be on that councel you can't get rid of any
appointing not thing the mayor can do but you have to do it as a body as a collective body not just you one person or you or you it's a collective body and it is sad every time that we have a meeting I
come over here and and it is so I see these people they come over here with their concerns you know when I was growing up we have three stoi over here we have this guy this question is is not for you Mr M Mr Jackson because I know you know the answer but do you even know
the power that you have you can remove you know if if if he's not serving the community remove him okay thank you very much get rid of coration get Madam clerk thank you very much foolishness next
speak next speaker is sah Aral sah yeah okay next speaker next speaker is Deborah Hannibal she's Miss Hannibal she oh see you good evening Council Madam Clerk and your Deputy for this
evening my name is zebah Hannibal Patterson New Jersey and uh I would like to extend prayers that Martin Mendoza Jr will be found safe amen so if anybody has seen him
please reach out that's just heartbreaking I did hear some good news today that the mayor has selected an experienced interim business administrator so hopefully and
prayerfully we will be able to move the city in the right direction we will be able to correct some of the wrongs that have happened uh I wish the former ba all the
best however while she was here she did not move the needle her Focus was on Parks and not people we need someone that is is concerned about the
residence and I found her to be and I could be wrong a vindictive and retaliative person her parting shots as she was leaving is that she moved her
two assistant Bas which the city had never had before she moved them to in a retaliatory effort to other department departments one of them is being moved to a department to do the payroll where her
family member Works where do they do that that that's just not good business so she it everything that she does proves that she doesn't know how to do business I would love someone to do an audit of the payroll to see who has been making changes in the payroll system
because when I talk about internal controls that's important uh and then now she's going to assign people that never worked in the Ba's office to the Ba's office make it make sense let's file this under make it
make sense none of this makes sense it's not how business is done it doesn't make any sense it's just sounds like retaliation who who who does it so I and and then now to say she's gonna come
back here one day per week when this mess is created by her she's going to audit her own mess no that doesn't make sense make it make sense we're not fools don't this couldn't happen anywhere else nowhere
else could this go down we're tired of it in Patterson don't play us don't play in our faces like that we don't want her back she left farewell thank you thank you very much um I I am going
to to uh respond just very quickly because um I need you to know that that was a question I was I sat in a DCA meeting okay uh as the finance chair and the council president it's a it's a monthly meeting and um I was very
specific in asking what is her duties going to be because she no longer is an employee of the city of Patterson she is not on the payroll as I was told by the DCA monitor who is actually the assistant commissioner Deputy Commissioner at the state um and she was
clear to say she is her only duly function once a week is to assist with DCA mou uh um situations or whatever has to do with thatou she is not here she's not to oversee Personnel just so you
know that okay she is not here to direct anyone what to do she's no longer the ba okay we have Harry as in acting because because the interim uh um ba will only be here 20 hours a week and you could imagine we've been here already quite a
few hours right um so understanding that but I needed to just clarify that because you know that was a question that was raised I raised it I asked it okay and she will be spe specific to budget and things with theou that it now
if that changes and we find out that's a different story but I can't believe that I've in a room with people that are supposed to be speaking truth and they're not so you know with that said I just wanted to just put that you know for the record just to clarify
what president see I didn't want to start this but I wanted to address her because you're going to leave before we can all speak you started it you started it council president started well listen you've been talking the whole night this is why we're here starting after 900
counc respectful as well respect to at the end of the Dayo for disc open the floor for discuss specific to what you were speaking point of order no well I don't want to speak before him but I'm just asking you to clarify your last
statement you said that you were in a room with people who weren't being honest or truthful no I said if I wasn't being in the room I have a problem with that that's what I said if I wasn't because I'm going to believe what the state is telling me they're telling me she no longer is on the payroll she does
not handle any type of personnel matters and the only duty that she is going to do has to do withou items understood I would like this Flor after thank you councelor president and and and I'm sorry but when when you stated that you want to you know address this before she
leave you know then you open the floor for other things so let let me let me clarify something I sent a detailed email to the mayor regarding the move of two employees from the experienced
employee from the um ba office every budget that was presented to us before they departed from that um um office was presented by them and then the ba comes here and present it to us lyia and the
other employee prepared the budget for presentation for that ba that's one thing second what coincidence that when the mayor want to search for a ba I did a statement on the newspaper that
she he should consider people locally especially her and and and and the chief of staff to be another person wow what coincidence that those two people was moved right now the other thing I I put on an email to the mayor okay that she
should not overseas the finest of the city okay because if she didn't want to be in our city and departed to the state why she have to put her nose in the budget okay why she had to put her nose in the operation of the city okay the
mayor respond me back first of all he want to clarify that her last day was the the day that they gave the this this buyout key okay now the I'm going to say like that because if there a key is given are she going to return her salary
back no right so the key was given to a person that got paid to do a job now third he told me that she going to overseas and she going to help with a budget let me tell you something what I
told the mayor mayor with all your respect if she didn't want to be in our city why she want to manage the budget of the city of patteron you know what's going to happen in my case if this recommendation budget comes to me I vote no it fails and we shut down the city
and I take no recommendation for a person that he want to be in our city okay now now another thing counc president pres the state here the state could tell you whatever they could tell you they
could turn around and do others okay other things what do you think is a conflict of interests right to hire a person in the state and then manage the finance that we have here she managed hold on she managed contract she managed
uh um um outside contract she manage the $68 million why she don't come to the council and say where's the $9 million missing why she don't tell us why they the the the medical health plan that she approved in is not working why uh she
don't tell us right a lot of things that she done the mistreatment that she did to the employees of the city of pison why she don't talk about the 10 uh AG griev that they have against her okay now but she leave all right and that's
why I had a resolution to honor her a g service here and they asked me to put it and I say no you know why because that don't represent what she's doing to our employees and to our city of Patterson and let me say this we should draft a
resolution on not working her at the city of passing and send it to the state and send it to the state and I ask I I ask a little bit more I ask you a little bit more I'm calling I'm calling the state senator and I'm calling the
legislative body to talk to DCA and to let her know that she's not welcome here to manage our finance Madam Kirk next speaker please yeah I mean you open open the door who's the name it's absolutely amazing very
disappointing that we wait till she leaves all right to give her these flowers to smell because she's been hurting this community since she since the Inception I've been blowing this whistle for many many for all the entire
tenure I was being Lo frowned upon as as being un unfair but what's very disheartening is that the mayor who absolutely does not care about this community would ask for DCA to do an
investigation on a director of CI because he's doing his job but yet where there's no accountability for the cares act money which is over $80 million with no accountability to the henu stadium dollars which is $110 million and then
the unfair targeting of these employees I as I explained to um uh many of you of my Council colleagues before Miss Hannibal has an opp an unfortunate opportunity to have a firsthand experience we were in a committee
meeting where the former ba felt as if she could speak to Miss Hannibal as if she was part of the servitude and then as I always do I came I I did not allow that to take place but if councilman valz if you want to draft a
piece of legislation that that deters the state from doing this and even a voted no confidence Are we more than happy to to support it I brought this piece of legislation before it for before and nobody wouldn't support it
now that she took a 30 took a a substantial pay cut to vacate the city as she had never previously made over $100,000 her former job she was making $70,000 pushed her own salary to 150,000
which this Council supported not not not not me and and her deric behavior in the two people who are doing the primary function who had also taken on other
responsibilities because they were being failed in other places because of the decisions that she made to to to utilize a different Payroll Company there's so many different decisions that's been detrimental to this community including the healthcare um situation
so Mr olivaris is absolutely correct this Council has the ability to make these changes we've sat here and and in the past some of those people who are who are giving her criticism now was offering a great deal of Praises every
time something happened and I I I'll say this me this last measure it's extremely disappointing to to witness the council president show up at every single location now cutting ribbons and kumbayah with the likes of the former ba
and the mayor when he was there was so much pressure to hold him accountable before I mean I think you know it's a it's a cycle those who fall in favor and and I have to you know what honestly I Andre I'll give you credit I'll give the M credit for being able to coorse
members of this council at various times to continue this uh this this you know these these deric practices I appreciate the time council president councilwoman cotton uh thank you um uh Madame
President um I I wanted to say that um I mean when I realized that IBA was leaving U and actually DCA comes here every week ain't no once a month no I don't care they come here every week I don't care who they meet
with but they come here every week and so I knew then that they were going to put her in that every week and take the lady who's come now now out and put her somewhere else so actually to me it's a
DCA who has decided to send her here or send the ba here every week or call the governor's office because director of DCA is swarz the director of DCA is s CH Wu a r
TZ she is the director voice concern that but I knew I just had a feeling I say I can't say I knew but I just had the feeling that once she started working for DCA that they were going to then move the lady that comes here now every week and put her
here it it could happen but it could ain't nobody saying nothing now all of a sudden everybody talking like okay but I'm just saying to me it shouldn't it shouldn't be but DCA DCA has the last say I hope they don't have the last say the governor cuz the governor is the
boss for the lady of DCA the governor and we can send a resolution to the senator to the two assembly people and let's see what they can do mhm let's see but it's the governor it's the governor thank you Council so Council woman uh
Council woman no no no no no you had enough time counc Council woman so you agree that we should do a resolution you you the one who brought it all up because yeah I I want to do let us not do this you should have F of order point of order
we we are still in the public portion Madam clerk next speaker you should have figured it out speak on this item because if we go on we're speaking on something different okay so so please Council woman because you see how it gets out of so I I just want to put on record and I think it's a good point of
reference that councilman valz brought up there should be a letter formulated yeah for I know you're saying a resolution but I think it should be a letter formulated from from this Council for who who wants to sign if everybody doesn't want to sign that's fine but those that do want to sign we need to
gain an understanding of what her role will be be because I do think it will be a conflict of interest you have sat and served here as the business administrator now you have an a role n DCA where you're coming to provide any level of oversight because you were the
one that formulated the the financial documents and the acument for the com for the city of Patterson so now that you've taken another role that's fine but I don't know how how do we accept that you're in a role now to provide
another level oversight to the work that you've done already in the city so I think there should be a letter um and it should be identified letter of concern regarding the appointment of Miss long and we need to ask those clear pointed
questions one what will be her Duty as it relates to the city of Patterson two is there a conflict of interest being that she was a former ba we should also ask is there any possibility she will become the fiscal monitor we need to ask those questions because we know that's
going to happen we know it but we need to put that in writing so that we can let them know that we have some concerns with this because how do you how do you go to a higher place and provide oversight to work that you've done it
just doesn't like something's wrong so I think there needs to be a letter that is formulated from this Council questioning the description of Duties how it will uh relate and if there is a conflict or not we need to see that and then we need to
ask very pointed and direct will she eventually become the fiscal monitor for Patterson we need to ask that and if the qu answer to that we can then make that request councilman Les to do a resolution and say no we're we're we're against it you we can make that request
so I want that on the record I want that to be presented at our next meeting so that we can put that letter together and we can send it have it certified and sent over over to uh whoever's in charge of director so that they can know that we have concerns and then we can also if
we need to get constituents to sign it we could get some of our employees to to sign it many of our employees election workers and different people have issues you have two employees that were sent to two different departments that never asked for help they didn't ask to say we
need additional resource or a staff person in our department they were sent there for what we still don't know why they were sent there right before you leave that's that's not you know I tell people like you got to be careful because there's a slippery slope of character and integrity so you have to
be very careful with that but I would like to see that letter formulated and ready so that for the council I would do it council members that would like to sign it they can sign it make sure my name is on there because I will be signing that letter thank you very much councilwoman I can draft it if you like
I can draft it we already we already acknowledge that it's going to be drafted we going to do it Madam clerk next speaker please FES Linda MOA and we going to do a vot no no we could speed it up next good evening good evening I just have a question because I'm still getting I'm
learning a lot from attending these meetings um there's a lot of accidents on Godwin um and unfortunately my neighbors have been victims of these accidents and I
looked at the report police reports and they have not done uis or tested them for anything uh the driver that caused the accident um I would like to know what's the process for Speed bumps or speed
cameras like they have in the Bronx the city excuse me councilwoman when there's a will there's a way if you're on your time um okay go ahead I wish we so I'm I'm here to ask those questions cuz um i' I've
spoken with my neighbors and that's a concern there's a lot of elderly there's a lot of children this is a disaster waiting to happen you know God forbid children so in cow we have some um God went and cow right y okay is that it is that it yeah
yeah okay thank you very much okay Madam clerk next next speaker is Melissa munise Melissa next speaker um you can't speak out please respectfully I'm saying you can't do that we're not going to answer the
question right now next speaker Madam clerk the next speaker is a bed Tata got like a little man no be careful be careful with the chair okay just okay okay hold them please name I am
mamad that's okay I am mamad from Patterson that there is no there's no parks for the for kids one time I went driving in the road and kids were just
playing soccer in the road okay okay and and people are literally like on the sidewalks a lot yes thank you thank you good job I don't know how I could follow that
up a bet theba 178 Michigan Avenue six W resident now we congratulate our former six Ward councilman Al abdill for his appointment up into the assembly seat but now we need the council's assistance in
providing us a representative for the six Ward that will fight for the Sixth Ward as Al fought for the Sixth Ward we did disagree on some aspects but we could agree that he sat up there and fought for the six W residence and represented us so we need somebody at
that same caliber that will do the same thing so I'm asking the council to actually expedite the process rather than prolong it because as we seen today this is probably the most six W residence this chamber has ever seen but we have no
representative up there to represent us you will soon hopefully we have three council at large three at large we are here it's not engaged it's happening you the council as a body it will so and also I came up here a couple months ago
for the speed bumps for the speed humps and it's still a it's a struggle to find out who there's nobody in contact I was instructed to contract DPW DP I actually drove down to dpw's office and they told me you're in the wrong place you got to go to Traffic Division that's that's
traffic because we have no no traffic engineer to do the study which is required according to the ordinance so if we don't have no traffic engineer to do the first step then you can't go past the first step and get the signatures or the petition signed by all the other residents or the homeowners so there's a
flaw in that in that ordinance I appreciate that it was passed but if we're passing ordinances that cannot actually be implemented then we're doing nothing it's a disservice to the city thank you okay okay very good uh next speaker next
speaker is G Greer Mr Greer uh good evening good evening uh just real quick I heard the three council at large just say that you guys represent the Sixth Ward actually you don't because you don't have a vote for the Sixth Ward you
have your vote but that seat still is vacant so that's that's an empty vote and and that's very important because what's going to happen it's going to be 44 there's no vote in that chair no vote at all it just like if the four4 was G that that's not a vote but that's not
why I came here uh the talk I came to speak about I was at a PR conference for Westside Park and you guys know I love to see any park get done but during the press conference I asked a question off
the Record that that big building there anybody know the name of it the one that caught on fire I can't think of it I can't remember the name okay well anyway you know that building burnt down some some years ago that building burnt down some years ago that's inside Westy Park
so I was like I'm more happy I'm like wow $15 million going to redo the park but then I found out it does not include that building are you guys aware of this I mean the council at large folks so you aware of this that's a that's
part of show me where that building is included it's not includ another okay okay then it's not included okay it's not included and then you have a bridge back there that's been
closed forever with the children from Kennedy can walk over that bridge that's not included okay and council members come on okay listen and if I'm wrong then show me the
documentation that show that those two items are going to be done at the same time now councilman of Val from what I understand that building is going to be addressed by the county is that correct okay right but this is what this is what
I'm trying to say to you folks all of that should be done together you're going to spend $15 million on refurbishing the park you're going to have a closed bridge and you're going to have a burnt up
building it to me it doesn't make sense uh the other thing I want to talk about I saw the Mir tonight posted this beautiful beautiful banner uh are you guys aware of that the clean the clean uh yeah let me let me put my
readers on it says keeping patteron clean starts with you beautiful banner I don't know I don't know who's paying for these beautiful banners and I went on the mayor post and and I told and I said to
the mayor on his post we need to have some type of enforcement if you don't have enforcement to penalize folks or to teach folks is a beautiful banner like those beautiful $44,000 trash
[Music] cans okay now my last thing as I walk away usually when there's Personnel issues in the city of Patterson over the years I heard you guys always say no comments that's a Personnel that's a
Personnel matter but I was shocked when I read today's paper and maritz Mims and Lewis all three had comments concerning uh my friend director Dave Gilmore brother Dave wrong or right when
I saw those comments I was taken back a little bit because normally okay it's in the newspaper no no it's in the newspaper today okay if you go on my page I even
sh shared the article okay let me just finish whether you said him or not whether you said him or not is published in the newspaper where you were saying yeah there should be investigation blah blah blah okay all I'm saying I read it in the paper and you guys know when I
come up here it's fact I got facts now my thing is this and I'm not defending the left and I'm not defending the right but I'm pretty sure some of you guys have called director more off hours for for anything over the over the course of
his uh time here in Patterson you had to my thing is this director Gilmore has been a friend of mine uh when I had situations in the city of Patterson he addressed them for me I had I have no issues I have no
issues with uh D Gilmore that other fighting stuff or whatever you guys need to go on the retreat with your mayor before this course the taxpayers a lot of money a lot of
money okay a lot of money whatever whatever it is resolve it let's move forward it's supposed to be about patteron you guys High director Gilmore to do a job I'm not sure what he's doing
I don't follow him every day but but it but read the newspaper I shared it on my page all I'm saying is that I'm I'm just saying what the newspaper said you know okay you articles all right we we're
having a back and forth dialogue we're not having that not you thank you uh I will be going on your page to check out what article that I spoke against cuz I don't get involved in personal matter right that's what I'm saying no we'll do that all right thank you
very much thank you appreciate it um and I do have some answers for you pertaining G on the side I do some have some answers I actually got some messages that building is historic and it goes through historic preservation and there's additional monies and the bid is being done by the county um my
last thing I just make one one announcement uh we we're trying not trying we are planning a Easter event uh this year in the new and approved Barb's Park uh we're working on the details for that I think we want to keep it between
5 and 12 years old uh so if you guys want to donate some prizes to us some baskets for those children we would definitely appreciate it thank you okay next speaker next speaker is Ira
Chappelle who Ira Chappelle Ira Chappelle is there an iris Chappelle okay next speaker Kimmy Freeman Kimmy Freeman are you passing something out give it to uh give it to drra uh before I begin
um uh sister Marissa uh I want to make a uh public a poliy to Ruby cotton um I was a little bit harsh on her and I said some things I shouldn't said but before I did that I met Ruby
about a week or so ago coming out of City Hall and I said Ruby I'm so sorry D and when she smiled that that everything was W right clear I love her smile and uh I guess
the reason why uh I'm kind of hard rovie because I really really want to help her and I grew up in the fourth War I grew up on Governor Street and uh I saw all the good things that our husband did so I want to apologize to her her family
and to Ed who was watching me from Heaven all right um I want to talk about um I want to talk about uh what we're doing education Parks like that as you
know I used to work for the board of ad I work with atrisk kids I keep telling people about Pro 2000 prob 2000 kept hundreds of at risk boys out of jail out of prison and we need to readdress that
another thing you guys are talking about Recreation right when I ran for calil at large I said we should have uh a recreation center community center in every single Ward I said that in
2008 I said that in 2008 and I have worked with I gave out my resume to let people know because my brother abar tried to embarrassed me before the me before the meeting started and said Kimmy all you do is talk you
don't do nothing all right I wanted him to be here so he can look at this resume all right you go I want you to look at that resume and I left some things off like my internship at the UN that the battering Center the women battering Center at St Paul's I left that off and
the miracor I have given this city 36 years of community service 36 and I started at Pake County Community College with the organization of African
ancestry from 1988 to 1992 while I was there the students at PCC did the K Quanza celebration and let me hear this I don't know who's running the Black History Month thing I complained last year the
students at PCC and Marissa is my witness we did more black history uh programs than you guys have done in the past eight years and we did it in four years students we raised our own money we gave our
scholarships we did all kind of things the first police brutality things I don't know about black lives matter but we did it in 1989 when they shot Lawrence Myers we were the ones protesting we were the ones on on on on the news and everything
the students at PCC so when I look at these new Jack guys and I say okay you do everything like that you guys have done nothing compared to
poor broke students who've done the Black History Month celebration thing than you guys have done and thank God Nancy Greer back in the day did the calendar because what happened was we
could we hooked over with PCC the city William Patterson and every black organization in the city of patteron and we had it on a calendar I don't know how much you guys need for the calendar but I'll donate the money so you guys can have a
calendar nobody knows what's going on in black history I don't know who's on the committee you need to look at my resume all right because maybe I can help you okay maybe I can help you cuz the black history month program for the city of
patteron is a disgrace you guys get a f besides for the few events that you're doing okay you guys got to do better Mr frean you got to do you guys get paid to do it better thank you Mr Freeman next speaker yes Council council president I overlooked the name
Miss Anna Martinez my apologies okay please state your name we are sorry for that over thank you thank you okay um may I ask uh councilman man VZ to go to the seat if it's possible please have a
SE to address all of us I live in his uh no problem I live live in your uh fifth War you yes I do okay your name please Anna Martinez
okay thank you she said fifth word blessings I'm here as a designer mixed media and textile Artist as an appointed art commissioner
and an art Advocate and as a creative leader and founder of Peace Society art community of the historic district of partisan note peace stands for partisan
education art and culture empowerment on behalf of Peace Society Miss Wells and I would like to thank artists and art enthusiasts for participating in a meet and greet creative networking event on February
2nd 2025 at Patterson Museum we had 17 art displays one of the art displays featured 32 artists total artists
49 we had six performances featuring dancing singing poetry film and animation we had about 150 guests total number about 200
people thank you creatives and guests you all have embodied the meet the heart and greet the art through your Artistry promotion and advocacy and Through Your Enthusiasm and
support thank you to the influencers that have showed up and participated to to all the volunteers for making this event a reality to Pon museum for giving us a historic and cultural platform for the art display Network and
performance I spoke at the council meeting on January 21st 2025 left a short message about the importance of education art and culture in seeking solutions for better quality
of life for the homeless community and extended an invitation to all to a great cultural art initiative on February 2nd 2025 council members I suggest to have
at least one member as a representative to show up and support all cultural art initiatives happening in the city or excuse yourselves to respect the cause the First Lady and the mayor have
genuinely excused themselves this meet and greet creative networking event was a cultural Outreach and your presence will have represented the city support and welcome our communities from parisan Mills art
community and prototype and artists from hon Wayne Gutenberg Union City hackensac and so on representing Mastery and emerging Artistry to the creatives and people of
pison and Beyond I ask you to bring your creativity to a Citywide level and bring forth much needed self-expression and communication for social Improvement and quality of life to ensure order and
Humanity in the representation of the city and to ensure creative lasting and Humane Solutions and actions in our communities okay ma'am your time your you need to wrap up your time is is
over lastly it is not about saving parison in the worst of times it's about recognizing and owning the history the historic and the Innovative Spirit of partisan through education it's about cultivating and nurturing the data
driven and Visionary empowerment to bring forth heart and soul of Pon through ART and and it's about leading and serving the Multicultural multidisciplinary mindset and drive of Patterson through culture to obtain
obtain the best of times thank you thank you very much Madam clerk our last speaker is patrel Samuels who patrel Samuels okay I pronounce that correctly okay please state your
name my name is patr Samuels good evening um sorry didn't know I was next okay like I said good evening my name is Patronella V Samuels I am an afro Caribbean female who migrated to
the US in 1978 I'm a proud new jerseyite but at this time I'm not proud to be an American naturalized citizen the system has failed me ever since my embarkment to the US I attended
various dayc carees which I was kicked out of and I attended School 21 at age F at age five and I was bullied and ridiculed so much forcing my mom to make the decision to send me back to school in Jamaica West Indies I came back on
vacations every year in 1991 I attended and graduated from pcti in Wayne New Jersey in 1994 I started MSU in Montclair State New Jersey 14 years later I graduated with a BS in sociology
and criminology I have various other accolades which I will not mention at this this time my reason for speaking today is because the system is set up the system that is set up for our inner city youth is and has been failing us
and is continu continuously failing us we must stop the bleeding I will continue to come to town hall meetings and take my three minutes of fame to speak out on the injustices of the
judicial executive and leg legislative branches of this government in the United States of America that is failing our inner city youth thank you thank you very much Madam clerk that's it can I have a motion to close I
had signed in wasn't working no it didn't work no okay you arrived at 10: all right we started this public okay I just have a question I'm
go ahead thank you Frank filipelli second ward good evening everyone good evening uh I just have a question like everyone that sits up here you work for us you're supposed to help the community right we
all put on our Flyers we're going to save taxes we're going to be safe and then when we get to these chairs all we hear is I'm one vote I'm only one vote that's not my Al's not longer here but we're just legislators
you never put that in your flyers I save them all I never seen a flyer come to my door and say I'm just a legislator and I'm going to sit there and I'm going to vote against the mayor or vote with the mayor mostly is so my question is what are is doing to really impact our
community as a positive impact not what you say you do I've been living here my entire life the city's gotten nothing but worse so my question to you is this I'm going to just hit you with a quick easy one right and this is to the Harry good to see you man be wow what a great
ba great stay there here's my question maybe you know I believe it's Spruce in Market we have a museum on the corner there I think a museum right that museum I'm gonna go back because my
memory doesn't serve me well but I'm gonna say at least 15 years how long's Andre been in two terms three terms two two terms I'm going to say Joe I think Joey put it there the roof was caving in the blocks
were caving in yeah bad right so as a contractor I know what it costs to put up a structural um uh pedestrian protection which is a scaffold and if you drive by at the end
of market you'll see this scaffold it's so cold it's starting to Decay but guess what Mr I like to take pictures everywhere all over the city that cost the taxpayers dollars every single year
I'm sure that poster that's up there that scaffold company out of New York City didn't just give it to Patterson because they love us I doubt they said keep it Joey and when you get the roof fixed you bring it on back I doubt they
did that I'm dying to no because I am in the union and I I wrecked scaffolds like that for a living I did the dream ohap there it goes I did the dream uh the uh the dream
Mall 100 100,000 planks I I don't want to get into that but the bottom line is 10 15 I'm going to say 15 years what did that scaffold cost what did that scaffold C and that's a I'm coming back
next month and I want the ba to tell me what is that scaffold costing the taxpayers every year for and I want to know when it was put up and I want to know how long we intend to keep it up because as you know Andre took me off the youth guidance commission right you
know how much I could do for the Youth with the money you guys wasted cuz you all drive by it you all see it which you think it's there for free thank you very much Mr thank you I want to know how much I'm coming back I want to know how much
thank you very much motion to close motion to close the public portion motion to close the public portion move by councilman Jackson do I have a second second second by councilman councilwoman cotton and VES
and I think UD yes counc president all right roll call Madam clerk to close the public portion call to close the public portion for the workshop session uh councilwoman cotton thank you madam clerk I just want to say um there was a group of people here I'm
not quite sure what was happening at school number nine I'm really not sure if they were closing the school down but um I just want to make sure that um they they get they get connected to the the Board of Education also um yeah she said
she yeah she's also I just want to say to the uh m also I want to say to the meno of family please um pass out all your information that we can so um I would call um Corporation councel will be able to help
you if I may uh have a set up a meeting with what's happening you have it so Corporation counsel to the family of Mendoza that he will set up a meeting for you to try to to meet with the uh police department um also I want to say to um Deborah Hannibal to Deborah
Hannibal about that DCA um if I was you and and we all going to question it uh it's the governor's office coming down from the DCA yeah that's where but I but I'll be able to talk to you U for Linda she I know she talked about the accidents on
um no no but I'm just saying people you know what my thing is I'm G send you to the right person I'm G send you to where you need to go to like I want to send you to the person that you need to go to um also I know I want to say to um Kimmy
Freeman um I accept your apology and you know sometimes I know how how it feels because uh my big Eddie was part of project 2000 where he followed the children from second from first grade all the way through 8th grade um so that was a really wonderful project but what
I found is that it wasn't a city doing those project it was individual organizations we don't have those organizations like we had back then and we need to get them back and there out there but we need to get our organizations back that want to do good things for our community um councilwoman
also I just want to say to um councilwoman it's snoring outside so if you're going to address every person I'm not addressing you know what I don't stop nobody I don't say nothing I let people talk I sit down here and I don't say nothing I don't interrupt nobody
that's all you know but I'm just saying there's so much stuff I done been here with seven superintendant I done been here and for that for those people to come down you know I would just reach out to the superintendent because each school has an assistant superintendent
that oversees each school I can tell you who's the high school I can tell you who's the grammar schools and we need to know who is over I think school nine that they were talking um also to um I think Roger had talked about Barbara
Park I'm looking forward to East egg hunt but I want to say too sometimes you know I may have a tendency to speak or or or but I know I work seven days a week I work seven days a week I call people on Saturday and Sunday and they
be surprised when they said oh wow you calling me on Sunday at 4:00 this is the chance I get to call you so my line is always open I'm always open for people I'm always here whatever I can send you wherever I can guide you that's what I'm here to do I'm here to steal you right
I'm here to do the right thing I'm here to take care of people I'm here to help out you know I done been here with four or five Mayors um so with that being said Madam clerk I have more but you said there snowing outside uh and I got people's numbers
down so and Linda we're going to make sure we take care of your two girls I'm looking forward to that program I really am it's going to be very helpful we have programs and I know what what we need to do is guide you when I know there's a program going on
or something is home and I know councilwoman m does a lot of stuff at school 21 with with her programs we do a lot of stuff so people can't say we're not out here trying to put stuff together we are putting stuff together with that being said Madam clerk my vote
is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilman Jackson councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk you're welcome I don't know what we putting together but it don't reflect it outside in the street I could
say that but um you know uh multiple things Miss Hannibal she left for the day I want to make sure that I um you know uh continue to Spotlight some of the issues that she was she has concerns about um she's absolutely correct and it's unfortunate
that um um this Council has waited until the ba has resigned found another job the exit strategy she gave herself a raise didn't make any improvements on the community and then pulled the cord jumped out the plane while the rest of
us are getting ready to crash and burn more importantly as the you saw we see there was a discrepancy with the the uh the raises there was no projections given on on the raises that was given these were
precedented raises that have that have been the largest increases that any Department have seen since I've been sitting here and probably well before that it was done on the on when she's already knew when she already knew she was on her way out and
this Council was singing her Praises I'm I'm I was so surprised today to hear the amount the amount of scrutiny you know just talk about double standards so anyway um there there was an announcement and
I'm hoping that some of the um the the young children and parents who was here earlier um it is there is a requirement for you to sign up one of the school board members sent me a message um they must you must sign up to speech speak on
a virtual meeting um they register on this website which is Public public patterson. k2. nj. us so it's public at patterson.
k12.us you have to sign up um for this uh on on the website in order to speak at the public portion I will be there tomorrow as well um well I'll be I'll be virtual with everyone else and and I stand firm on my
statement from earlier I I went to address some issues with this with the um superintendent she doesn't live in this community and she doesn't feel like she needs to answer to anyone in this community and school board members that's your responsibility your responsibility is to hold these
employees accountable that you guys hire for for the students I mean for for for the community when you have students that feel it feel the need they have to come forward and voice their opinion about you know the conditions being changed and the school board members not being willing to address that that's a
that's a concern um uh there there was a few other items but I'm not going to prolong it um any further Madam clerk I appreciate U the opportunity my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson councilwoman Mims so what I say every week to the public that
come out to the microphone or actually just comes to sit and to those viewing I just want to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule and away from your families to come down to uh want to definitely make um our city better and
to bring Solutions and or to alert us on things that are going on I want to commend all of the youth and the parents that showed up tonight whether you are in support of the uh traffic uh shift that's going to happen by St Gerard's or the various schools that came out in
regards to um the uh Middle School changes that are um in the W in the works for uh the public schools um I'm not going to speak in totality on what's happening but this is something that
started in 2021 uh the audit came back and those were some of the recommendations but as parents and and students please as I stated before reach out to your school board members to the superintendent's office even um within the schools and
rally and come together one um I Heard It stated in the last Schoolboard meeting that they will be doing community forums around the city to be able to um answer questions and to give true Clarity to what they're doing um I think there needs to be an understanding
of why this audit came forth and what um these findings are and perhaps I'm not sure if this is a part of the corrective action plan that was recommended based on that audit but it started in 2021 so those are that's stuff that you need to find out directly from the school board
from the superintendent's office to identify what that's about but I commend everybody that came out um I know Miss MOA uh talked about the accidents on Godwin um we definitely need to do a traffic study because we have to identify how many accidents so I I heard
it stated but a traffic study will will definitely identify how many and then they can provide some solutions to that I want to say congratulations Mr Addison I know you um forgot to mention it but you did post that you're going to be
recognized um by for Mr America um in May so I think it's May or March I can't think what date you said on social media but I just want to uh commend you for another honor as well as uh what's going to happen um on juneth I want to commend
uh myself cotton and in Jackson every year uh for the last few years we've just taken the stand to do Black History Month here in the city of Patterson we had our flag raising on February the 1st on the 21st at 5 o'cl we will be doing
our celebration and honoring um different individuals that were selected by the council and the mayor um and then we'll have a set program with people that will sing and do different things on that program looking forward to that there are different things that are happening all over the city I always
tell people if you want to do a program for Black History Month you don't need to wait on the city council we have a structured set of how we do things here it doesn't stop you from doing whatever you want to do get a venue rent a school whatever you want to do you could do whatever you like today I want to
commend uh Ross Thompson for coming to uh our school school 21 as a feature guest and doing a presentation on Ruby Bridges which is an awesome uh presentation uh Ruby Bridges is actually uh just got approved through the Senate
and the assembly it is now an official day it talks about a young girl who was in the school um where uh the students did not look like her and she pushed to ensure that no matter what kids look like they still were able to come and be in a school and learn together without
anybody getting different treatment so we appreciate when our students take a stand and then we rally behind them so I want to commend all the activities that that are going on we know um it is Black History Month but I want to um say this
in closing we have to um as a community and and as a people with the times we're living in we have to do more praying than criticizing complaining and causing
division we have a very serious situ situation going on from the White House all the way down we don't know if funding is going to be cut all over the place we don't know what programs will be in place or not as these people are being confirmed um these new uh
positions cabinet positions that are being picked and I don't know if you've watched some of these cabinet hearings but it's very scary what's going on um in our country right now and so I I um implore everyone to please love more
than you hate reach out to people family members friends even if it's someone that you feel they have an issue with you reach out and and and resolve it stop holding grudges reach out and pray for people reach out and and um give a
lending hand people may need help and or support people are going through they're sick people are dealing with death and all types of things and you know what love should always supersede hate Miss Anna Martinez I am going to make a recommendation when you have your events
please send it to our secretary that way it could be disseminated it because one thing you can charge us for not coming to something but you can't charge us when we don't know so I'm going to say give it to our secretary and even if we don't come it does not mean we don't
support our support could mean that we send a representative we can make a donation or whatever that looks like but please I I say to everyone send it out to our secretary and that way we'll get it I'll do a point of this point of
reference if there are different press conferences in the daytime for ribbon cuttings and all that I may not make it to them because there are a lot of them and I'm not going to all those press conferences I work in the daytime and um unfortunately well fortunately I am with
these wonderful students in our in our city I am not going to be leaving the school every five minutes for a press conference I'm just not going to do it I sat here and voted on those items those items were approved and I was a yes vote so that's me at a press conference but I
refused to be at press press conferences every single day I'm just not going to do it I think it's just excessive it's too much and I when I can make it I will make it but um I'm not going to be um held responsible that I didn't show up to cut a ribbon I'm sorry I cut the
ribbon when I voted yes yes here at the Dan so with that stated I don't I hope I hit everybody that came up and spoken if I didn't charge it to my head not my heart Madam clerk my vote is yes to close public por thank you councilwoman
um councilman bz thank you Madame clerk uh first of all I just want to I don't know councilman Jackson is here uh all the respect councilman Jackson uh the reason I'm I'm I want to clarify
something in the past I know you have made valid valid points regarding the ba conduct the ba work um and I agree some people call me you
know councilman Jackson point this oh it's true councilman Jackson brought some facts sometimes people don't listen in this side but he put it this way he put it this way we never minimize what you brought to the
council regarding Administration it was the way that you was doing it you know you you was doing your way and I'm not going to criticize your way but it's not what you was saying it's how you say things so um probably the Hostile moment
or whatever it it probably throw away the purpose of your statement or comments approaching things so you know you you're a grown up man you're responsible of what you said and your actions but uh I could analyze all the
points that you bring some of them was with facts and some of them we had to look look for more facts to see if it's true you know down the road the down the road everything will come on light now uh what's going on in the city
regarding the ba departure you know unfortunately you you know you're not going to criticize the way that other people does but I have my way to do things totally different um we don't agreed that some stuff that
I find out as a councilman the employee used to tell me but as councilwoman D say we don't get involved in Personnel we always refer to the uh to the union we always refer it to other individual that works for that you know um because
it was a matter of fact Council Min created the Personnel committee no I did oh who was hold on okay hold sorry the legal committee the legal committee um councilwoman uh Davila created the personal committee that you are part of
that committee I believe so if not mistaken the personnel and and a lot of things could be vetted through there and then come to consensus to legitly in that whatever has come to us but um but what's going on now is so important
because right now the table is missing two legs the table of the city is missing two legs two important legs the ba and the chief of staff let's be
honest that's four legs no interim now you're going to hire somebody interim right for $150 $150 for 20 hour so an hour for 20 hours
when this city needs a full-time VA needs a full-time ba and um I believe she started yesterday but you know she got a a big
tax because right now we need to resolve the bul situation we need to resolve the garbage situation the crime situation they take over the police department
contracts that's still pending you know I don't think as a part-time she could fulfill all the answer for the council the ba the ba ba listen
right she not going to pick up garbage but what I'm saying is she can I can I can I please it's almost 11:00 councilman all right so the time is 11:00 almost so in in other
words we demand that the ba look for a solution with Administration to resolve the B situation we demand to the ba to resolve other issue in the city of patteron she's the operator manager from the city so if you don't see it like
that then we going to be in problem now I just want to make I I was calling the president of the uh board education uh listen up I was calling the president of the Board of Education uh
uh handful of parents came here regarding and expressing their s about the Middle School plan okay unfortunately tomorrow is going to be snowing according to them and that's why they go visual right something like
that no no that's vir is they say this viral now councilman villis can you please wrap up I heard that can you please wrap up in a video from Jackson I know I know
but you've been speaking for more than six minutes councilman and I just told you right now minutes we have to complete agenda and the special meeting so Madam Madame President you interrupt my my my I want to finish if you don't interrupt me but I want to I want to I
was calling the president of the Board of Education to see if that item of that they going to they going to vote on the Middle School plan uh to be postponed until they go to a presential meeting that the parents could go personal and
speak on it because I know how good is the zoom meeting with when we are in visual here so I imagine those parent cannot a lot of them cannot call in to express their self so if if the board education could postpone that item to a
meeting that uh parent could go attend in in PR and express theirself there's a lot of concern in there especially when the parents don't have a full plan of that of that Middle School plan that they are trying to put together uh to the young lady that came here about
Carol and gwin uh regarding the um the speeding you know uh we could request um um Mr ba uh you could please uh direct Mr statuto with the traffic engineering to see if uh uh some kind of uh stop
sign or or whatever could be placed on well so let let me I'm giving more ideas the other thing is you know we draft the ordinance for the speed humps and this and that um this this road was paved I don't know when they should take
the opportunity to put speed hump at the same time right um the the ordinance there so um they should make it happen because right now you saw that uh accident fatal accident in Alabama all
right it was speeding it's a wi Street and people use that role and Alabama to go to rout 80 and come back and forth you know and um it um Mr ba to see if it's possible that um the traffic
engineer in could look into how to install speed speed humps or speed bump in Alabama Avenue from from front up and down what was
that okay so um I'm taking my time the people yes correct and and regarding the uh cameras for speeding um I know the director special spoke about um camera that detect um um plates when they go
here over there probably they could find the police department could find some kind of device to do the same job right yes like in the Bronx or whatever they they you know they send the ticket automatically but some people don't want to take a you know hard hard decision here
um you know Mr Mr G Greer came here and uh stated that councilman valis you're speaking out for 10 minutes I just told you we have legal council here we still have items on the agenda 11:00 come on so if you let me finish we
probably let you finish you're rambling right now so you sure about that ma' you you interrupt me my report here because I had to report to them God Mr Mr G Greer I bet you when she she had to speak she speak all night um Mr G GRE
spoke about a statement I did in the newspaper listen I agree that if any developer out there need to pay their SE fee or anything they own the city of course they have to pay they need to pay and we will bring them to the payment situations right process
but at the same time if any of us elected official or any employees are breaking the law are steing taxpayer money are stealing time they should be investigated and be processed at the
same time and that's not Personnel that is a statement doing my First Amendment right um Mrs Anna montz I already spoke to her and I gave her sheina got my number
um and once again um I think that um I did wrap up everything the comments I he young lady back there you surprised me today you did your education and I know we're not going to take it for granted
keep on coming keep keep on coming I will not take it for granted all right and and if you have any ideas that can improve this quality of life of the city Bring It Forward we will not disregard that and I know some council person here
will agree with me saying that Madame clerk yes councilman so oh I forgot one important thing I know she could agree with me I want to send a warm happy birthday to Christoper Singa
her birthday was today is today okay and she still got an hour to celebrate but we going to continue to celebrate Saturday happy birthday Christoper Singa and uh thank you for being patient with us in the council and I miss you the
whole week saying that Madame President I know you want to be president but you know uh my vote is my vote is yes thank you coun CL councilman Udin we're closing the public portion thank you madam Clark good
evening Patterson those who are here those who are still here and those are watching us live so um Patterson as he have viewed today that the council chambers was flooded with the residents especially the Educators and this college from
Patterson public schools and they were here regarding the arish Tor um plan that Patterson Board of Education came up with um and I know that we do not have the solution here how however
we cannot just ignore the fact that uh we have to listen to our residents our students and our community members and we have to take that in consideration before we are come Implement any plan so I am fully with the community and I
believe that the Patterson Board of education the Commissioners the superintendent and all the admins they will take this request in consideration some of the um some of the speakers mentioned that they were try to reach out in different methods they have used
uh however they were ignored or they were not answered so I believe that uh we have to work together to make sure that we serve our children uh that way supposed to so that's my hope and I we are going to work together on this
matter um speed bumps and speed humps that request uh came from two different speakers today and previously multiple times the ordinance is there I don't think with that ordinance we have implemented any speed bombs or HS in the
city of patters not at all not at all just to restra it it just feel so this ordinance was not implemented at all why am I saying it because when it request the first time
they said the majority or all the Resident has to uh agree on speed bump's request and my personal experience that I have walked every single door on Cumberland a if pad hil's watching me
and other former educator of Patterson Public Schools she was with me and we're knocking at the every single door collected signatures that we all want speed bumps on cand app that did not take place half why
not what do you mean now what do you mean now come on no no no council members no no no do not okay what you are saying is that you are actually the the message that we're sending you are just ref phrasing in certain where it's
losing its meaning over the time so we requested we request last year last year the beginning of 2023 we by the time we approved the ordinance right after that that request came let me finish this is my time
consan I never bothers anyone because I I I respect and I follow the kurum and I I am a professional and I maintain my professionalism every single place so I don't want anybody to just distrct my one it's my time so uh we have submitted the
request in second phase when we have approved the black of Cumberland app to be repaved right before that we requested can we add speed bombs along with the resurfacing and that request also was
toen take taken place here in the council chamber but did not happen so my point is that this ordinance is just staying there which is giving the residents a chance to request us but it's not going anywhere so if it does
not take place then I think we should remove that ordinance and giving people the hope that it can take place if that happens if this ordinance can be implemented then we should Implement if we need to go with the
traffic study we have to why you cannot we cannot just say that we don't have traffic engineer that cannot be excuses today today we have approved three or four Street are the traffic patterns
right that traffic study was done we have approved four-way stop sign today I mean not approved I you say we we spoke about and that was done by traffic study we cannot just use the idea that oh traffic study was not done and things
like that if we really care the speech bomb should be placed in some of these streets then we have to take in serious consideration and if this does not happen the ordinance should not should not be there so that this is important now also uh we spoke about
Westside Park renovation and other Parks we do support that at the same time we like to see that that's giving opportunity to our children to um you know recreational facilities as well so we looking forward to it and we spoke in details while we're talking about $2
million uh Grant request um and with the family of missing um uh Missing uh Mar Martin Mendoza I think we all need to help this family to make sure that we flood our social media with the advertisement to make sure that if any
anyone can witness and help the family so yes it's important and also I believe Rafael is going to assist advertising that if anyone can um see this uh missing person and help the family as well so everyone um uh those who are
here just know this uh when you come here year any matter small or big matter it it makes us be accountable it means that we have to do our job because you care and this is this is what I believe that this this is my hope for the future
that Patterson will run in the right direction in the near future because you do care and you count on every single decision we make so with that being said my vote is yes to close the public ption thank you councilman Udin council president so I'm just going to make this statement because I think it's really
important and this statement is for the community we have work to do and every person that comes here it's very important but if every council member here addresses every issue and repeats themselves we have almost an hour trying to close a public portion and not being
mindful so we talk about protecting the taxpayer dollars right but we have lawyers sitting here on the clock when we were supposed to have a meeting at 8:00 understanding the Dynamics and everything that's going on we have to be mindful all I ask is to be mindful when
being asked to wrap up please do that so today I'm not going to address anything but one thing okay you know when they speak about the inm ba okay that 20 hours for 150 that we need full time there's a reason why she's inm because
there is a process they are doing interviews there's many applicants so while you do that you can't have an empty seat there's a lot of projects in in place that need to be taken care of through Harry we totally respect you okay I'm happy that you're there and I
made sure and asked that you need to be compensated this is not your job you're doing an additional duty okay and you should be paid out of title so just bringing it back that is the reason why there's an inim someone with so many years of experience you just spoke you
saw how uh Miss Hannibal spoke so highly of her she comes highly recommended look at her resume and the amount of municipalities that she's worked out of and she's a product of Patterson she worked on the mayor x Graves I mean
Frank XG Graves so all I'm saying is you know let us be mindful and not put this message out there that we're just wasting time that we're not doing anything that that we H have our hands and obviously we don't do the hiring but I do know this to be true that there's a process and there's many applicant and
the interviews began today so I just wanted to just say that and can't address everything everyone else because I think the council members your we're body all right and I'm with councilwoman Mims what she said about um I think I wrote your
name was it Martinez okay Miss Martinez please make sure when you want the council or someone at least a representative come you know my age she's sitting right by you share your number so that way you can send her directly and you can also do it through
the Council Office all right and to everyone else here and Mr G Greer just so you know I know you put it on record and I'm going to address you in terms I spoke no ill against any director all I said is there's a process okay if there's wrongdoing then it has to go
through its process all right I'm not addressing anyone at the end of the day I I believe myself to be someone who is fair all right and when asked the question Joe malano was what do you think about what's going on and I said I know nothing about it I said but if
there's something it has to go through it process and that's that comment no names were were were I didn't address the person by name I addressed the situation okay so with that said thank you very much my vote is yes thank you Council the votes are six in favor two
absent the public portion of the workshop session is closed thank you so item 14 will go on consent item um 15 resolution authorizing the use of competitive contract process to solicit proposals
for the private collection of Municipal Court debt uh for the city of Patterson that will go on consent as well and item 16 which is the last item which I see did not know that he was here this item I do have some issues with so please
come AB board right to the podium this resolution is to award a contract under the competitive contract to HSN Outreach Services for the comprehensive addiction wraparound services for the city of Patterson real fix program I'm going to tell you what the issue that I have okay
okay because I've witnessed it mhm because I've experienced it I think that you not in the correct location oh 125 Ellison street is not the correct location to house that program you have a lot of people coming in and out people
have been found in bathrooms urine it stinks like like you have all these people coming into the the the one Department all right and then you have others that are coming to try to do business through zoning and and going all the way to up it's I don't think it's the correct place I really think
that we need to it's it's something that I believe we need I would welcome that but we definitely need to really rethink and I don't know how you guys feel or if you've gotten any complaint about where this um his program is located I'm
sorry no I was put there I it's not like I you know you was in City Hall I was in no no no off and they and they like me bringing people into City Hall even less so yeah so it was a rough it's it's uh doing it in City Hall was rough doing it
in where I am is better but not ideal uh I I have to I do have to say this though it does help working uh above Human Services because a lot of the homeless that we serve need ID need documentation and so that worked out pretty well CU I
can escort them downstairs to get the ID that's pretty instrumental of course I see them walking around you know that's not what I've seen while I've been there yeah no I it's it's uh it's it's a
tough to serve our a t population to serve and the people that work in that building in all the floors yep I understand that council president just just give me a second no I know that and that's why I just said I've seen nobody sitting there just yep councilman
Jackson how many daily unique impressions do you have unique impressions you mean how many people how many Unique Individuals do you see in a daily basis well that's a Unique Individuals I would say we probably see
about seven to eight Unique Individuals we probably have one or two new brand new clients a day uh we have had about 520 unique indiv indviduals admitted into treatment I'm
not saying referred into treatment that's anybody can say call here you know we've had 520 people where's the report admitted into treatment excuse me where's the report I'm telling you right now 520 I I have a report that goes out every
month so yeah I we I've asked for the you have not asked me for the report if you did I would absolutely give it to you and I will give it to you to the council oh absolutely by the way I mean 520 studies show that for every person
that you get into medicated medication assisted treatment you save Society $120,000 so we've saved $64 million on the budget that we've spent now I grant you a lot of that is State money right
it's incarceration it's court costs it's things like that which is why I think that this needs to go to the state level and and hopefully that's what where will go but it started here in Patterson other cities are asking us how we did what we did when we're in Mexico City I
have cities from across the country that are asking us how we're doing what we're doing and it's from Patterson and I always stress this is a Patterson born solution so yeah we're doing really well uh this wraparound service contract is
because we need to focus more on delivering addiction treatment services and have somebody else take care of the things like signing people up for Medicaid like buying them a bus ticket to back to the town where they
came from uh you know getting them um their birth certificate from New York City these are things that we need a third-party organization to do because frankly we're not even allowed to incur the incidental expenses of that without
doing it through through a third party what is he here for council president if I may council president I'm sorry very quickly no council president no I understand that but but that's my point he's here for a
solicitation to go back out to re renew no no this is true for him they already did the bidding it went through its process to be award application to do Outreach in the community realr yeah through the services that this will
provide if you don't mind I if yeah I mean yes it is Outreach it's 6 hours of Outreach a week and one of the things I liked about the vendor that we chose is that they said that they were going to go out to the encampments right they're not setting up a table and serving peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and
cups of coffee and waiting for people to just wander by no they're going out to I'm directing them to I know people are camped out here I know people are camped out there and we're sending them there uh also helping people sign up for Medicaid um they're helping people sign
up for SSA these are essential services to getting our homeless uh clients with addiction off the street uh they're helping us purchase train tickets and bus tickets so we can transport people back this is things that my staff we've
actually paid out of our own pocket because there's no because DCA doesn't allow us to have any Petty expense accounts so we kind of like try these things out ourselves out of our own pocket and then we they're like hey you know what uh we can't continue paying
this out of our literally I mean our own wallets and and we need a third party organization to basically invoice us that's that's just the financial uh that we're under you you come here very callous each and every time you have no
written report where's a copy of these um these train tickets that you guys have purchased out of your by the way but there's really no sense because I'm not allowed to them I want the receipts to be included in the written report where's the report of your performance
of all these things you come here pontificating and talking about all of these grand um experiences that you're that you're encompassing council president is is is is is accounting to something completely different where you
have people sleeping and urinating in the bathrooms on stairs that you're supposed to to be responsible for that is not what you show up is not what she said excuse me sir I sat here and listened to you pontificate you can at least listen to what I'm requesting so
you can show up here with a full outline report on the services that you offer absolutely that you have rendered now you may have to redact names but all of these this this account of these people who've been transported these plane T train tickets and things of that nature
that you claim that you've purchased I've been speaking to some of the employees that's been doing doing some of the driving they're not getting paid they're calling me to complain that they're not getting paid I don't pay them and they're talking about and they talking about city council pays them not me sir once again please understand the
decorum I'm listening to you ramble on about whatever I'm asking you for things you continuously disrupting me and talking over me I'm where's the written report where's you you you've been coming here where do you
show up what at what um uh uh private sector board meeting do you show up but they they've been tting that you have all of this experience in the private sector you show up empty-handed no report no presentation no um outline
description of all of the services that you rendered you're making accusations that you and your employees are coming out of your pocket paying for train tickets and plane tickets without any proof so when are we when do we when should we see this in years five or once the mayor loses the next election I have
reports written up every six months so you're Happ body that you're supposed to be reporting to you have yet to show up here with a report or did you show up and I just missed the meeting uh explain that to me you had a report the last like that
would be presented at a at a committee meeting not at a city council meeting if you wanted a report presented at the city council talk on the agenda whatever ised to the counil for the's consumption you're not just going to have a private
meeting behind closed doors in committee meeting only without the public having access to it this is tax dollars that we're spending and I'd be happy to present you a report all right so I'll patiently wait for um before the next meeting is going on the agenda it's
going to go regular okay it's going to go regular we're not going to I'm not going to remove it but if we don't have the information yet again yet another item that I talked about before and and this whatever we we're getting we're we're being hit over the head with more
more M um Power nonsense pontification no let me ask you a question no no no councilwoman Mims is first and councilwoman cotton hi so I'm glad that it's going on regular uh one uh the first question was a needs based assessment done in regards
to these wraparound services that we went out to bid for uh um I'm doing this assessment based upon the fact that we are spending a lot of time on these services and no that's not there better no my question
was was there a needs based assessment done I'm not sure what kind of report you're looking for when you say a needs based assessment I know the number of people that we're providing these services to and we can't continue to do that so so let me let me explain so anytime you're saying that there is a
need for Services we're going out to bid because we feel based on the population or of unhoused or whatever we're looking for I don't deal with too many we are soliciting bids for these particular
programs based on these needs we find that like as you said 40 people needed bus tickets we didn't have the money people need mental health the uh behavioral um whatever the issues are right a psychiat psychologist based on
those needs now we've done a cost benefit analysis which was my next question which I'm I doubt that wasn't done but a cost benefit analysis right next and then you present to say here we're going out to bid for this
particular item so the answer to my first two are already well actually I do have an answer to that because I I should have explain this UPF front I completely agree with you that I am not in favor of spending money and like giving a chunk of money over to an organization and say hey do this because
there are a lot of you know nonprofits are very well-intentioned and I I love the people that work for them but they don't always get the job done right they don't so this is a fee for service contract it's like if I send somebody to this organization to help them get their
ID from the state of New York I pay them if I help them get if I send them person to get signed up for Medicaid I pay them if I get send them something that needs a bus ticket I pay them if they're not doing the work I don't send anybody to
them and they don't get paid so we won't wind up paying for anything that we don't get that we don't need so we'll only send somebody to them when they need the service and we'll only pay them when they get the service so with what you just stated there is no scope of
work or anything that details or outlines that in this particular document stating it talks about wraparound Services there's no detailed outline of what those Services look like what was the needs based assessment that was done to identify the key performance
indicators that says we want this to be we want this contract because of XYZ we've identified this is a the need based on these needs we need to go out to bid to make sure that we provide resolution or solution for these particular items there's no scope of
work attached so I'm going to ask because it's unregular before next week's meeting meting that you clearly identify what those needs are and the rationale behind it um for it what was the estimated cost that you have um that you
have uh expended in the past based on whatever you've provided how many people that you've serviced um and what will be the need for service or what that that number will look like um the other thing I'm looking at that I'm a little concerned about I I want to get a
description so if you could get a bio of HS and H I would like to see who they really are um because they scored higher than Eva's Village who is already a partner in the city and I'm trying to understand why they were selected so I'm making a request for the uh the EV the
scoring system I would like to get a copy of the scoring system or everything I'm asking is for all council members I want to see uh the scoring system that was utilized um you can anonymously put whoever and I want to know who the scorers were like how many scorers what
their names were and what their titles were that scored um these these two uh people that went out to bid okay also [Music] um I may not leave any questions for you bless yeah that's no problem I I have
that that's that's not a problem at all okay so also um it talk about what rank the rank the scope of work so make sure the ranking for the evaluation committee identifies the scope of work what you're looking for I like I just
and I don't want to be the person that says this needs to be pulled until this is really done and come back at another time the reason why I'm saying it is I find it very hard to I I know we went out to bit and Harry I'm gonna ask you to tell me like if we need to pull it
and bring it back from March will it like cause any issues the reason why is because if there how do you present a need how do you present something without doing a needs based assessment like you have to present to the council
or to anyone these we went out based on these needs and we assessed it based on this we have identified that we need to have XXXX and this is the cost this is the benefit this is the analysis we've done
and now we're going out to bid based on that and here's the scope of work that will be required here are the the wraparound programs that will be attached to it and this is not a foolproof document I'm I'm I think this should be pulled I'm only one council
member until all of that information is attached for March if it's not time sensitive Harry you can let us know but we need to know that like I don't know how we as a council can approve approve this it's not it's not it is actually
time sensitive in that the grand money first first of all this is all paid for by Grant right so when is the grant what what's the timeline of the Grant and the grant the the end of the grant is June 30th got when we when we you know when we went out there and you know and and
you know this right uh we encounter people that are homeless that have been attracted into Patterson from other towns and other municipalities right and they wind up here with an addiction and stranded in Patterson we know and then I know I know we spoke
about this like years ago and I heard you and and so when we get them treated like we always ask them where do you come from do you have family there do you have friends there do you have a job that you might reclaim there we can get
you there anywhere in the country and we didn't really have the the mechanism because the way that DCA oversees us we can't like put out money in Petty of cash and get reimbursed no I understand we have to do I and so now what we're
really trying to do is use that remaining money and get as many people back home as we can because once they're treated they belong back home I I agree with that because that's been something I've said since 2018 but I'm just going
to say it again you have till June March is right around on the corner no no he has to spent the rest of the money no he has until spend the money by it won't be hard for him to spend it cuz he's been giving it away anyway yes it look you can approve it or not I'm just saying
okay the work you do I I think you're doing some good work but I'm just saying when we get items before us they have to be fullprof all the information has to be and you agree you know I'm no no I'm totally in agree with you and and I don't I don't worry about it cuz I have
it I have it I got it that's why look me and you are on the same page on the same page all of this stuff not just for the now but every time it comes it every item before it should be fullprof right I think they're probably we're going out for some money
I want to know why you're going out for the money whether it's a grant or not we need to know what it's for it doesn't talk about the details it could be a great thing that you're trying to do but this doesn't tell the story and that's why there's always these additional questions so what I'm doing is trying to assist
what you're doing to make it so you come before us you don't have these elongated sessions and all that now if you can provide all of that by next week and have it detailed and that's what you feel like you need to do with the true all that for next week and fine but for
me Harry these items Mr ba Corporation counsel any items that are not foolproof should not come before the council because it needs to be foolproof we need to see why are you going out for this money what what is it for we need to
know that what the evaluation of of the people that did the scoring we need to see the scoring how did they pick this HSN whoever they are how did they HSN whatever I I have some of that details for you right now they were like 35%
cheaper than Eva on certain on certain things they were giving it to us for free because they had grants that they were doing it for already yeah but that that should not be that should not and here's the problem just because these people have done whatever in the past should not allow them to get a a higher
score because that's who you've utilized no no no they didn't do it for us I'm just saying they had there were certain services that we we solicited of them and they gave us a price for each service and some of those Services they said no charge because we have a grant that covers so you've done it with them
you just said it that was that was The Proposal in in their bid that's what they said no you said that you have put some things out some items bids to bid no but you said but they done them and they didn't charge you no no they're doing it for
somebody else so they're not doing it for you no no they got a they got a grant from some else for somebody else and that's why I'm asking the question to see the evaluation so if you're saying you seen them do whatever for other people and based on what they've
done and they didn't charge them that is why they have score that's a problem inform that's problem that's a problem it's problematic you cannot when you're doing a scoring for someone it should not be anything based on your own
personal reference of somebody it should be this is a clearcut score this is a clear-cut scoring system based on evaluation based on the needs of what we we what is the needs of this community this is what we need and this
is what we're scoring that that's what should have been in place we don't even have a needs based assessment here there's no cost benefit analysis attached we need that stuff and now you're telling me you've seen these people do this and do that look it's like Oprah winfy you get a car you get
the money you get the car you get like come on we got to do better we we have to we got to do better and this is not just to you anybody that comes before with this item like this I'm always going to challenge but we got to make sure that stuff is in there present it
before us and and um all right thank you councilwoman count thank you councilwoman Mims Council woman cotton and Jackson yeah only thing um Mr bossy um I know we talk I already have on the
list first of all on the list ask let me ask you in your department how many people you got working uh we have three and a half three people plus plus me three and a half you got half a part time yeah we got a half part time and now at in the
beginning you were going out there or you were sending the other group out there to to to reach out to these people that that are out there in the beginning it was just me and my car going around right just you right no I didn't understand it because I know I'm in front of BP I'm in
front of the white couns I see I see I see Margaritas Deli and breakfast and and they're out there now what you're trying to do is that and I I don't ran across people they got nothing they got
nothing Y no ID no birth certificate no social security card don't even have an address don't even know what to put down now and we're starting from scratch yeah trying to get a Social Security card yeah two three weeks at
least you can go downstairs and get an ID at 1225 you can go get an ID there you can but you need but you need documentation but saying it was three and A2 people and the two years you've been doing this three years uh two yeah about two years two and a half years you
done you done you done dealt with 500 you done dealt with 500 people 520 520 people now and I had brought the question up before with the police department yeah I said why we can't take people back to their Community I love it
they said they can't do it not say they can't do it but if they don't have a summons if don't have this they don't have that they're not but at least you now you know what I'm really from Willingboro South Carolina and I you know I came up here I was I was up there straight an hour it didn't work out I'm
walking down the street my suitcase now you can get them on the bus and S them back yep yeah with this grant you can send them back and where before nobody was before I was no nobody was sending them nowhere even though they might come back people myself for like hours to get
them where they needed to go in my car I know I I I know what it is and let me just say Mr Boss and I had someone that help me boss bie b and I knew what it took to get somebody in a
shelter I knew how many days it was just to get them in there and hope that he would be all right until he was able to get in there yeah and so now you and this this is the first time you're using this company uh they've been doing it but not
yeah but no they they're they're headquartered in Patterson okay they are so they've been doing this uh but you know now we are like hey we have people we need you to treat our people you know it's like not just you know out being nice or something I know how difficult it is Mr Boss you know and you do your
best you sit outside you be there you know I know you got to go there but you need to like we want to try to help people you know even just getting them started um you know if they can get somewhere to live they get a ID you know try to get them somewhere to live um get
them into a studio get them somewhere so at least they can start getting their life back together that's what we're trying to do get people lives back together you know I could throw a Ida in there I can throw that but you know three people with a city of all the
people that we got in this city three people is not enough people we don't you know I wish we could be like nor where they have a crew on the weekend trying to help people get into different situations but we don't have that we got the organizations
but I know I'll be I'll be trying yes you do councilwoman councilman thank you Council councilwoman uh president let's go for the real stuff uh before I vote on this I want to see no before we vote on this
next week or whatever it's going to go on regular but before we vote on this I want to see the incorporation paper when this nonprofit was created come on oh okay all right when was created second
well you know them oh no I'm I'm doing my homework here okay meanwhile you guys speaking I'm doing a lot of stuff um the the 900 Main Street this place was the grand opening of this Pharmacy and
Surgical Supply was grand opening on the summer of this 2024 past 20 24 um is I went there myself okay to that Pharmacy I know the
owners okay I never saw a sign that says that H H SNH Outreach service operate from there so I Google the HH thing and you
say that they haven't not done work for you before but their page is is promoting real fix is promoting a message from the mayor they they on hold on hold on hold on Sir hold on Sir hold on
[Music] Sir Hey listen not that you have the procurement person sitting right there he does into the procur he does but hold on I'm not saying and know his job I'm not I'm not saying I'm doing his
job I'm saying I'm requesting yeah I want I want uh Harry understand I'm not putting in procurement your job okay but we want we want to see I want to see with all the respect and I'm not saying
that you do not doing your job because you have a license you holding a license that is more is more is more important whatever we do here right and you're going to protect your job but we have the right to ask we want to know the day
of Corporation the this 5013c okay and who are the partnership of this of this U uh 5013c okay when it was created when they got the
5013c okay they got all those paper to put into a contract right so we want to see that now the other thing is here is I want to see who is the evaluation committee yep
okay right you say that got that because we want to know who in inhouse is being devaluation committee now second once again I know I know this 900
Main Street property is a whole Pharmacy okay and is in the sixth W is in South patteron okay business district and I know who are the owner they not Jose
Juan Pedro they not Morris they not Baker listen they listen let me tell you something let me tell you something I I don't have I don't I don't I don't I
don't I I have doubts okay I have doubts listen listen to me I have doubts that that even Village in their building yeah have all the needs for
homeless to take them to house them tream in and everything they score less only for a company that's going to go out and try to see where they could send people for
$90,000 and this is for me it's like somebody sit down with somebody in the Administration MH and say you know what we need to boost to South patteron I'm going to have we need to you you you as
a new business owner you have to no listen I got a free of speech prove me wrong prove me wrong have you walked into this Pharmacy councilwoman have you Pro have you walked into this Pharmacy no I don't go let me tell you something
councilwoman this individual in this Pharmacy them you know them he said he knows I got to tell you I I got to tell you I know them as a pharmacist okay that came in and Grant opening in summer
that they closed the whole block that we had approv the block to be closed because they have to do a pnic and they want to do only Hala food because of community and all that stuff okay they he had this operation there that's why I
want to see when they started being profit because now everybody's going to submit paper and then the real people that doing the job in the city Mr Mr Ed bosi boie boie boo uh you know how many
how many buildings EV Village have yeah I by the way I'm very familiar with Eva's Village you know there are reasons and I and I have the comparison and I have the rating that that the councilwoman Mims asked for so yeah we did go through that uh yeah there
they're great organization I will say one thing that really weighed a lot on me is that even Village has done Outreach but they do that model where they set up a table and they give out coffee and they give out sandwiches and they hope that you're wrong they're not
what they counil councilman tell you councilman if you ask a question let him respond yeah but to say they only give coffee and sit in a table you're wrong no no no what I'm saying is that I needed people to go on the tracks I needed people to go into
the woods I need them to go into these encampments by the river that are hidden that people don't go to that those people stay there and they just stay there and they don't wind up wandering down and if they do they not necessarily stop at your table somebody that was going to go out and get them so let me
tell you Ed I I I I speak a lot with every village I see their program and they and they spend the money that they get directly from the state not from the city from the state to invest in the community now you want you want these things to work that the same way you go
to the bushes to the river this and that why you don't create a homeless service office and hire black black Liv matters because if you go to the river they're going to run you know why they're going to think is immigration all right let me
tell you something you had to put people that really looks like you like like other people because they not going to go They're not going to go now that's what I'm saying I'm just saying I have to Street I do pretty well
counil woman that's what I'm saying we need to hire organization in the city of Patterson that deal day and night with this homeless situation and and we have nonprofit in the city of patteron have been longest in the city of patteron look patteron cares patteron cares
patteron k Mr G Greer patteron K how long you been assisting how long yeah and at 14 years I bet you if you hire Pon care to work under your office and he will go to the bushes he
will go to the river coun councilman it was an open bid process to put in for it did they gave him the they gave him the right to participate did they announce to them to participate yeah it was publicly announced just when you put out how he don't know about it well that's
just the way that you guys ow I want to see how you score how you score I want to see how how the committee went into this evaluation committee into 148 to 176 176 to a person don't have a bed a
organization don't have a bed I already put it on record yeah okay so I'm going to just say this because again we're not being mindful what you're asking for you have the right to ask for but I'm asking you to be mindful you're becoming repetitive it's 11:32 we have councel
here we have not got into executive session and I'm asking you to please listen okay he already knows okay I all I'm going to say is this okay I told you from the beginning that I have some issues right but I really feel that we have to be really careful like Council
woman said what we say what spews out of our mouth cuz you just right now have the sitting qualified in the state of New Jersey purchasing agent who does the process so you just question that process do you have the right to ask who's the scorer I want to know were you
a scorer yes okay who else was a scorer Dr monks okay so just two who Dr monks Dr monks is the uh the he's the program monitor okay he's a senior program monitor wait wait wait wait the uh Mr boy one second I'm going to
allow for Mr salval our acting ba to please he's been wanting to say a few words and I think he has the right to do so thank you cons president they how things work here in the city of parison cons woman you're correct if the
department or division find a need to go out to be a requ proposal so and Professional Service they put together the scope of services what we're expecting for the bodyy to do for the city when it comes to construction couple
work everything that is required from them now when it comes to request for proposals and the proposal that we send out is a criteria Incorporated so how the proposal will be
evaluated I am never participate in those because obvious I'm saying I cannot of course so it goes we receive the proposals we look at the paperwork that purchasing need to have in order to have the vendor
approved one of those being the ownership statement in which they have to disclosed anybody had 10% or the of the business or more they had to disclosed under the state regulations I don't know so much about that I don't I don't know if we
requested to provide if why1 see or whatever but that probably would be a requirement that Ed has to ask but for what it comes to purchasing nothing leave my office until all the required document has been
checked in fact when the someone called my office to say oh who who was the apparent law beer that's exactly what it thought the apparent law beer why not the law be because I have to look at the paperwork D might might be right but
miss any the required documents guess what so when it comes to the department receiving the results of the request for proposal they set a committee so they do individually I had
Rec I had recommended to be a three or a five and that way if they need to you know the break they had so that's their job so to my office come back a reading
recommendation specifically in this type of contract has to be more than this company company we found that they're doing this good they're doing this so so and this so analysis or what the
findings and then they score next to it so what we do is like a will look which is open to the public after we open the bit any single paperwork if for public consumption so we they do have I don't
have on my record the the T sheets and everything so but they come like a the first first participant have 50 and this 59 and the other one so what I do I T all make sure that the numbers are correct and that he presented on the
resolution I think the second page so anything that can I mean that's the reason we bringing this every single cont from the city council for consideration if I if I any questions
more than what have being already established you're more than welcome but who had 500 9 whatever the address is things like that you know it's like I will I mean I just want to live a
because it's like we going beond what we supposed to I mean you have all the right ccil member to ask all the questions but you have to show ask in a certain way like when this was done or who the guy I was
in the party right thank you thank you very much Mr B so so I have the right to ask for the 513 certification uh what when they was well if that's a requirement under the bid you have all rights to ask
if there's a 501c3 absolutely of course that's why that's why this is because this right I want to know how we got to the score and that and based on that score and we're going to get that information because I and the other thing is not a problem I I don't know if
this is a recommendation or or legal could tell me how a director of a program could score a a a a contract and then I thought the committee would be five six people seven but you're
talking about two you and the doctor that for you it might have been the certified peer recovery specialist I didn't see her score but okay no but you just stated comedian the other guy I I know I saw Dr monks' score I saw my own score I think that uh the certified peer
recovery specialist might have scored so um let us move on uh councilman Jackson and we'll end with UD okay really I I thought I asked first no he asked for it first no it was after the that's what I point I was driving Council M that's what I'm saying it's
invalid so invalid very good ouncil ja Mr savales and and obviously as usual we appreciate your input um obviously you've been doing this quite some time if the fact of the matter is the gentleman is past even if when we talk
about organizations like uh Mr Greer if you are in fact being a part of this community and getting to know you should know or by now you've been here for several years you have not you failed to bring any reports here and you chuckle
but you've been here you've been coming to before this Council for quite some time I'm glad that now finally other council members are starting to see you know the council who understands the community better
than council members what aspect of the the the the process have council members been a part of when you're looking at servicing this community it's it obviously feels as if you've only addressed those people who come from
outside this community so the the community I don't know how you got once again I'm going through the context of what you just described you talked about you driving people from far away distances you talked about people coming in from outside of the community from
various communities you talked about Evas and their lack of uh uh uh extent of the the services that they render we have a there's over 300 and some OD different uh um nonprofit agencies in here in fact a good amount of them were
here just a few weeks ago when when it was an issue about the homeless you could have easily come here and to take your notes and and how many of them did you go out to solicit did you go out and solicit uh uh the Shanda Roberts's organization did you go out and solicit
some of these org who who renders showers who who actually know these individuals you did not you did not you only you you you put out a RFP you got four back of which none of them are from the community outside of uh Eva Village
or whomever this one's from the community this one who who is it HS and H yeah and Evas too who and Evas too and Evas too they both in the community okay Evas has been a beneficiary of the community but and and they they hire from the people that they've serviced
throughout but they're not g Greer they're not Shira Roberts people who actually live here people who have actually have family members that are impacted by it but you know I I can see from your callous responses that that's not a concern of yours I I'm please
provide the uh the the reports and I I want to I want to make this this this note to council members when we we talk about this because I I've been complaining about this for quite some time and everyone is say oh you know it's a grant well if you look at the the the latest um Endeavor that this
Administration is pulling $150 an hour for 20 hours that's a part-time employee 150 hours is $3,000 a week by 52 weeks is $156,000 is more than the ba was making a full-time salary so you know the the
the the setup is on the wall these people come in here you know they they make a claim that it's Grant monies that we don't have to be accountable which one of you were a proud of this process which one of you was a part of the setup process and how we're looking for our
community to be serviced they come here and present these these things in front of us as if we're as if we're stupid because we haven't held him accountable he's there laughing and you know some of the questions that I've asked who goes to a to to a board
meeting without a full detailed report of their performance well I understand the first few years he was here where is his performance evaluations we don't even know some of the things he service he's he's making claims that he's buying train tickets
plane tickets and all of these hotels without any proof of that anyway I digress thank thank very 156 ,000 for a parttime that now they're going to have to pay two additional employees that's
going to get moved into the Ba's office as an assistant ba that's going to have to get out of title pay while the other two are being played full-time I see why we pay councilman Jackson just so you know and if you read the article she's not going to be here for a year she's
inm while the interviews are in process so please let us not and FYI I did the calculations Myself and I saw exactly those numbers but I know $156,000 per year she worked here for years matter we're only paying her for two months we're paying more than we
paying for a full-time employee you don't understand the point benefits if she's making and pension okay it doesn't matter coun making more than the ba was making councilman Udin all right thank you uh council
president so um Patterson and uh m that uh you saw last month we had um kind of I would say um long discussion regarding homelessness in the
city of Patterson MH when we were given draft or whatever we came up with an a resolution to um uh to uh punish I'm not saying punish
but oh yeah I know what you're talking about you remember that right you mean the camping on the street absolutely absolutely so we we are talking about camping on the city street mhm now when we are giving the idea that the people on the street we have enough housing
facility available in in different nonprofits in our city that that we have enough what enough housing facility available gotcha uhhuh and that was answered by the director of human um
resources and and we and we felt this is right and when the next meeting in the regular meeting the people showed up from the city of Patterson different nonprofits showed up
here with their data stating that we do not have enough bed for the uh people that living on the city street we had nobody from the administration to back us up we are ourselves
right and we had to remove this item from the list am I correct now real fix could be a very blastings oh my God I I cannot speak if I if on the left side right side
everyone speaks now if real fix really want to fix this problem you should have clear data that how many homelessness or unhoused people
on our street yeah how many of them are from the city of Patterson how many of them are coming from out of outside uh City M as you have stated that um some of your are daily basis you
are providing Services we the city council needs to know that how many of them average coming for the service to the real fix I'm last that last part how many how many unhoused people okay
coming to you average per day or per week or monthly so that we have kind of idea that how many people are seeking for the service when people seeking for the service not everyone coming for just the same issue can be M different types of
issues mhm it could be mental health issue it could be Financial issue any kind of issue that that should be recorded as well mhm so that we could find the proper solution for homelessness yeah if we just go with
like without any dat recorded data or we kind of uh without any um investigation that was happening on the street that we can just provide real fix for whole life but no solution is going to come permanently mhm you can send people to
New York for their ID whether you're out of your pocket or could be from the grant money that we are receiving that person might come back doesn't matter they leave on nearby town or not they might come back here
because this is again welcoming so I think there should be a database presentation from the real fix okay that this is what's happening that many people lives on the city street and that percentage is not is from the from
Patterson that percentage from out of Patterson so that we can sit down with the other nonprofit there are backing up or they are against the or ordinance that we wanted to pass so that we can come together and find real solution M
for that problem who's doing that oh so we we need that here in the presentation trust me yeah no actually that was part of when I willix cannot be there just to serve and and keep on
serving without without thinking that when this is going to end absolutely and as a resident of the city of Patterson as a council member we are seeking to stop this problem here the unhoused pattersonan should have a house to leave
the unhoused ponan should have a service where they can leave live on their live on their own feet a certain period of Time how we can train them to make sure they can get a job so we need to have like clarification that this that many people
need or that percentage of people need mental health services that many people needs financial support that many people need to go back to their home that whatever crisis that they're taking place in their home so that should be there uh so so that that could be called
real fix yeah I I love I love data I have data please come up with this yeah no that would be great and we can also sit down with the nonprofit that came here so that we can find real solution for that problem because we don't want that Services just for the sake of services because it's not just it's not
just addiction there's a whole EXA exactly there are so many so many other factors involved that's true so we need your help on this absolutely I don't want you to feel that if we are against each other no real fix could be a blessing for the city of P if we work together
and if we work properly thank you very much I'm done council president I'm on topic always so here's another topic that came that whether we are hiring the people are they ready to provide the services that request from from C came
from the council members and our favorite uh purchasing person you know that we all love him because of his um you know professionalism that he he's providing services C Patterson saos mentioned you you heard about this so we
need to know the real the two organization that that he mentioned here we all know about evil age the other individual other organization may not be familiar with we cannot just go with Google picture cannot just claim this however we need real um description of
the organization that whether they are ready to provide services or not and how better Services we can provide so we need the help and also I want I would say that you also need to uh make sure that how can we stop this problem or find proper solution if you come up with
data we can provide this data to the human uh resources services and we can see what other nonprofits can hand you know shake hands with us and and give houses facilities to our patteron and unhoused people so with that being said we are seeking we are looking forward to
the data you will be presented on the next council meeting if you think you need some time for presentation I think you should you should request do you think that we should have a is there time for a committee meeting between now and next city council so here's the difference between committee
meetings and the workshop session committee meetings like let's say I I'm in DPW committee right so you discuss in the committee and get pass to the come to the workshop session and have the discussion here as well committee meeting cannot really stop the
discussion to take place in the in in the council chamber that is why he needs to send an email to all of us with all the information please do so and also uh if you do thata in advance and if you think you have B data to be presented I think can request the council president he can do the
presentation here because we the we not only we the council members patter needs to know how many of their own people living on the street and how many of them are coming from out of towns so we cannot just invite problems from out of towns we have to solve our problem we
have to just deal with our own problems at this moment so again thank you for your time thank you very much this item is going on regular thank you very night good night thank you uh before I I I close this Workshop because I'm going to need a motion but we don't have a a quorum for the motion um I do want to
put on record council president has um addressed he sent me a message uh I guess um somebody must have told him about the meeting or he was probably watching it on his way back um and he expressed that the program this is not the first time that he does a program to
celebrate Dominican heritage um Independence and that the it is a private event in terms of he's not using City resources and he is providing whatever it is uh uh at his cost so he wanted me to put that on record as that
was a question about you know this event you know so with that said um can I have a motion to uh close the workshop councilwoman if cotton is out there she needs to come in um we we need five I'm gonna we're
gonna close the the the workshop because we are done with the workshop agenda and then we're going to go open uh the special meeting and go into executive session I know she's walking over all right so can
I have a motion to close the work move move by councilman Udin do I have a second second second by councilman VES uh roll call uh Madam clerk to close the workshop of
Tuesday uh February 11th close the workshop session of Tuesday February 11 2025 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Mims
yes okay councilman Udin yes yes okay councilman valz we're closing the workshop thank you coun uh council president yes thank
you council president we have how many have five in favor three absent three yeah the workshop session is here is closed three thank you very much now uh we're going to go into the special
meeting uh and can I good evening everyone we're we're on right good morning good evening everyone on behalf of the pis Municipal Council I welcome you to the special meeting on Tuesday February 11th 2025 it should have been
at 8:00 pm it is now 1155 uh Madame clerk roll call please roll call for the special meeting of February 11 no can leave the council we need to have quorum to continue this meeting councilwoman cotton
councilwoman Mims yes councilman Udin I'm here Madame clerk councilman VZ oh yes council president yes thank you five in favor three absent the uh special meeting is
open um Madam clerk just for the record also St one vacancy one vacancy I'm sorry okay thank you thank you all right very well uh so Madam clerk thank you very much please read the uh 48 hour notice yes I
will 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 Jersey Herold news the record the Arabic voice the Italian voice the county pulse Domin
count news Laisa International LL the Patterson press the city post news tap into Patterson the weekly bangala Patria in addition to any other publication duly requesting such notices
at about 11 a.m. on February 4th 2025 such notices were posted on the bulletin board in the offices of the city clerk at City Hall council president thank you very much Madam clerk can you please read the uh special meeting notice
yes city of Patterson notice pursuant to the open public meetings act be advised that the municipal Council of the city of Patterson has scheduled a special meeting for Tuesday February 11 2025 at 8:00 pm to be held at 77 Ellison Street
Patterson New Jersey for the purpose of discussing the following matters resolution resolution authorizing a municipal Council executive or closed session in or joining the city council chambers 77 Ellison Street to discuss
pendent litigation in a matter of o alada versus city of Patterson um and others law resolution number 25 col 050 formal action will be taken number two resolution authorizing
the municipal Council executive or closed session in or joining the city council chambers 77 Ellison Street to discuss pending litigation in the matter of estate Soo versus city of Patterson and others law
resolution number 25 call 051 formal action will be taken three resolution authorizing a municipal Council executive a Clos session in or joining the city council chambers 77 Ellison Street to discuss pending workers
compensation in the manner of FY Abed abedin Noki abedin noi versus city of patteron law resolution number 25 052 formal action will be taken four
resolution authorizing the municipal Council executive or closed session in or joining the city council chambers 77 Ellison Street to discuss pendent litigation in the matter of Connie glass versus city of Patterson Law resolution
number 25 colon 053 executive session executive or Clos session in or joining the city council chambers 155 Market Street to discuss pending litigation claim in the manner of Osama assadi versus city of Patterson no
formal action will be taken executive of closed session in or join in the city council chambers 155 Market Street to discuss pending litigation claim in a matter of estate sto versus city of Patterson no formal action will be taken
executive or closed session in or join in the city council chambers 77 Market Street I'm sorry 77 Ellison Street to discuss pending workers compensation claim in a matter of FY Abed Den noo Noy versus city of
Patterson no formal action will be taken executive or close session in or joining the city council chambers 77 Ellison Street to discuss pendent litigation claim in a matter of Connie glass versus city of Patterson no formal
action will be taken resolutions resolution number five resolution authorizing settlement of pendent litigation claim in the matter of Osama alidi versus city of Patterson and others law resolution number 25 054
formal action will be taken six resolution authorizing settlement of pending litigation claim in a matter of estate of SoDo and others versus city of Patterson and others law resolution number 25
colon 055 number seven resolution authorizing settlement of pending workers compensation claim in the matter of fery Abed noi versus city of Patterson Law resolution number
24056 number eight resolution authorizing settlement of pending litigation claim in the manner of County Glass versus city of Patterson Law resolution number 25 call 057 formal action will be taken council
president thank you thank you very much uh Madame clerk um I'd like a motion for items 1 to8 to go into executive session second move by councilman VES second by councilwoman
Mims roll call of Madame clerk to go items 1 through eight to go into executive session roll call to go into executive session councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Ms
yes councilman valz yes councilman Udin oh I'm sorry thank you council president council president yes all right thank you one two three four is that
it one two three four no who's the other one oh yeah okay the votes are five in favor three absent one vacancy thank you uh Madam clerk can you yeah the
executive session is okay so anyone that is not affiliated with the executive session must exit the chambers well I'm sorry I'm sorry I got choked it's okay that's why I said it anyone not affiliated with the executive
session must exit the chambers at this time and may return following the conclusion of the session yeah you did yes please we're going into executive session