who doesn't have an agenda. >> Okay. Good afternoon again. We are ready to begin. On behalf of the Patterson Municipal Council, I welcome you to the reorganization meeting of July 1, 2026.
It is 2:41 p.m. The meeting is now called to order. And I will now call the role. Councilwoman Alfred. Councilwoman Cotton here. >> Councilwoman Davila
>> present. >> Councilman Jackson is absent at this time. Councilman Khalik >> present. Madame clerk. >> Councilman Mendes. >> Good afternoon. Patterson present clerk. >> Councilwoman Mims
>> here. Madam clerk. >> Councilman Omar. >> Good afternoon. Patterson present. Madam clerk. Councilman Vez. >> Good afternoon, Madame Clerk and the public. I missed the procession. >> No. >> No. Okay. My vote is yes. Oh, sorry. Present.
>> Councilman Veles is present. >> It takes two minutes. >> This afternoon's prayer will be rendered by Dr. K. Banks, associate minister of Christ Temple Baptist Church, also president of the Pay County African-American Women, Inc., followed
with the flag salute led by Mrs. Marilyn Brown, first vice president of the P County AfricanAmerican Inc. and Councilwoman Ruby N. Cotton, second vice president of the P County African-American Women, Inc.
>> Let us pray. Eternal God, our father, we come humbly bowed before you just to give you thanks. We thank you, God, for another opportunity that we're allowed to come into this place. We're thanking you, God, for your son, God. We're thanking you for those who have
gathered. And as we lift these prayers up to a realm that we have not seen, God, but to a realm that we live in, our moral trajectory, God, we thanking you that we live in with the challenges that we have on today. We thanking you, God, that we can come together as a
community. And we ask right now that you would bless God what is going on in this place on this afternoon. We invite your spirit in God that you would hover over this place God and everything that would be done would be pleasing in your sight.
And as God these political people that have been elected, inaugurated, we thanking you God for their work. We're thanking you God for how you have strategically placed them that they would be the good for your people. that they would understand their assignment
and they would work together in love, humility, and with the integrity, God. And as they go forth, continue to bless them and that they would know that they're here to serve the people. And we're thanking you for those who continue to sit in these seats. Continue
to bless them as they go forward. These prayers that we ask in your son. Amen. Jesus name. Amen. >> Please remain standing for a moment of silence for our military troops and those who have lost loved ones. [clears throat]
Thank you. Flag salute. The flag salute will be led by Councilwoman Mrs. Marilyn Brown and Councilwoman Ruby Khan. I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Now, if we may remain for a moment of
silence. >> Thank you. of compliance in accordance with the open public meetings act NJSA 10 col4-6 EDSE adequate notice of this meeting of the Patterson Municipal Council has been
provided notice of the time and place was included in the annual meeting schedule adopted by council at its reorganization meeting held on July 1, 2025 and subsequently revised. Said notice was posted in the public place at
city hall's bulletin boards, transmitted to the official newspapers designated to receive such notices and filed with the office of the clerk in addition to any other publication duly requesting such notices. >> At this time, I call for nominations for
the office of council president of the municipal council. >> I nominate Councilwoman Mims. >> I nominate councilwoman Mims. We have a motion to nominate. Is there a second? >> Second.
>> Okay. There being no other motions on the floor, roll call for a motion to nominate. So move >> Councilwoman Mims as president. So move. Second. Second.
Doing the roll call. Councilwoman Alfred. >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Davila. >> Yes. >> Councilman Jackson. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. [clears throat]
To the public. I apologize for my tardiness. I just touched back down in New Jersey and um I didn't get the memo and the dress code anyway, but um my vote is yes. >> Councilman Khalik, >> yes.
>> Councilman Mendes, >> my vote is yes. >> Councilwoman Mims, >> yes. >> Councilman Omar, >> my vote is yes. Councilman VeZ. >> Madame Clerk, after having a deep conversation with Councilwoman uh Dr.
Delisa Mens, I stand with my words and my vote is yes. Motion has been adopted. Welcome back, Council President Mims. [applause] [cheering] >> [applause] [applause] >> before
before handing. >> Madam clerk, point of order. Madam clerk, >> I was under impression we were taking a vote to close the call for motions. We We can't We have to close it. >> There was a motion moved and seconded.
There were no other motions on the floor and I called for a roll call for that motion. >> Okay. So, from the point of practice, there's always a call for the motions and then there's a roll call to close the call of motions because if there's
no other call to motion, there's a roll call to close the motions. >> There were no other motions present. >> Very good. [clears throat] >> The roll call was closed for the motion. [applause] before >> I have to move on.
[laughter] >> Do I have to move? >> Do I have to get close? Just use my uh holder for tonight. You could have a seat. >> Thank you. Thank you. Before turning it over to
you, council president >> nomination, >> I would call for nominations for the office of council vice president. >> I would like to nominate Councilwoman Dava as my vice president. >> Second. >> Second. [applause]
[cheering] [applause] >> [applause] >> Do we have any other nominations on the floor? >> At this time, nominations are closed and I call for a roll call for a motion to appoint
council councilwoman Marissa Davila as council vice president. >> Roll call. [applause] Roll call on that nomination. Councilwoman Alfred, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Davila, >> yes. >> Councilman Jackson, >> Councilman Khalik, >> yes. >> Councilman Mendes,
[applause] they count. >> You said Mendes. >> Councilman Mendes. >> My body is Yes, madam clerk. Councilman Omar. >> My vote is yes, Madam Clerk. >> Councilman VeZ. >> Madam Madame Clerk, uh, and to the
public in present, after having a long conversation with Councilwoman Davila, I stand with my word and I continue word my vote is yes, [cheering] >> Council President Mims. [applause]
>> My vote is absolutely yes for my vice president, Davo. >> [applause] >> Motion to appoint Councilwoman Davila is hereby passed. Welcome council. [applause] >> Council vice president Davila. [cheering and applause]
[applause] [cheering] Oh my god. [cheering] >> God. >> God is so good. >> God is so good. So, at this time, we'll have a few uh words from council vice
president and myself and then we'll have um our mayor and we'll go right into the very uh short agenda. We have some very important items. We should get through this expeditiously um as possible. Council vice president. >> So, council president may with all
respect, we do have a new member, so she should also um share some words. Uh I just quickly I'm going to say this. Um I am just thankful thankful first and foremost to God for giving me the opportunity and the people of Patterson to be here for another term as your
first council woman at large Latina. And this is a historic first time ever, four terms. So I'm thankful. But to my colleagues, thank you for entrusting in me, understanding that I lead with love and that I am willing and able to work
with each and every one of you because that is who I am. Because I love Patterson is because I can work with all of you. So once again, colleagues, you know, to my council president, thank you so much. We ran a good race. We ran on a
theme, a team you can trust. And I'm going to tell you right now, this right here, nine members, is a team you can trust that will have the backs of the city of Patterson. [applause] Madame Clerk, I I can't just thank you enough. And to the entire team, Sophie, and everyone, Phyllis Riley, and
everyone from the council office who have worked very hard. And mayor, congratulations on your win. Congratulations. and and mayor, this message, as I shared privately with you, privately with the BA, I'm saying
it openly, this term will be all about cleaning up this city. This city needs to look better because we are better. And I know under your leadership and the guidance of our BA and I know that corporation council will be right there,
okay, to make sure that we ensure and do what's right for our citizens. to our citizens, help us help you. >> This is not just about a council. I don't think there's any council member here who tosses garbage in the streets. I want to thank DPW for all they do, but
we need to do more. I want to thank our Patterson Police Department, our fire department, once again, our DPW department, to every constituent, to team Davila. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mom. Thank you. Thank
you for instilling in me the fear of God and to make sure that you always listen more than you talk. So with that said, thank you. And Councilwoman Paula Alfred, we have had some good times together.
It's time for a new chapter and I'm willing to work here. As you shared, you are all about learning and understanding governance because one thing is looking on the outside and then having to sit here and make those difficult decisions
that sometimes may not be for and I'm just going to use a number 100, but if it's good for 99 pisonians, that's where we have to go. So, I'm looking forward to working with you, our dean of the council, Councilwoman Cotton. We are now the four leading ladies of this council.
to my men, [applause] to my councilmen, to my councilmen, all of you, and I'm going to start with Jackson because Councilman Jackson, I'm going to say something nice.
Councilman Jackson has been here the longest serving with me and under my leadership as president, he was vice president for two years. So, I'm thankful that you're back. I'm looking forward to working together
to Councilman Mendes. See, it doesn't People need to understand one thing is politics and I learned from somebody that taught me so much and I love him dearly. Not only was he at one point my partner, he's still my partner. He's my
partner in progress, he's my strategist, he is my campaign manager. He screams at me all the time because he wants better for me. And that is Henry Sosa. He taught me [applause] He taught me that in politics,
you have to be very careful. No permanent friends and no permanent enemies. If it's for the right of this city, you're going to work together. Now, we don't forget. We just say that when it's right for Patterson, it will be right with me. So, Councilman Mendes,
thank you. And to the team who stood by my back, has always had my back. Councilman Khalik, Councilman Omar, and Councilman. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you all. And I know I could say so
much more. Mr. BA, it's great having you here with us. I'm looking forward. So, Patterson, thank you. [applause] >> Thank you, Councilwoman Alfred. >> I want to thank um the city of Patterson
um for electing me to this seat. I am looking forward to working with the other members on this council um learning from them, growing and pushing the city forward as a team, as a unit. I'm feel very blessed to be in this position. Um, serving is not new to me.
I've been a servant here in this city for many years and I'm just uh very thankful to be here and ready to get started. It's time to work. [applause] >> So, I just want to say thank you first and foremost to God because we know that it is in him that we live and move and
have our being. I want to thank my council members for another opportunity to lead and to serve this great council and this great city. I believe that if we collaborate, unify, and we do teamwork, and we do committee work, this city will get the best of what it deserves. I will definitely be working
alongside of all my council colleagues. As they already know, I'm very fair and equitable amongst the council. We have to represent the city well. Whether it's in the meetings, whether it's in the community, whether it's our conversations, no matter where it is, we
represent you. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your wisdom. We are here for you. We are not here for ourselves. We're a seat at the table, but a voice cried out for you in the wilderness. Thank you so much and God bless. [applause] And at this time, uh, very few, uh,
brief words from our mayor and we're going to go right into the agenda. >> I noticed you emphasized brief with me. >> Good afternoon, Patterson. >> I'd like to start by expressing my appreciation to everyone who joined us at Vista Park and brave the heat.
>> It was a proud moment for the city of Patterson. In fact, if you saw in the background, our city skyline and blurred was the New York City skyline. But it speaks to what's on the horizon. And I'd be remiss if I didn't thank Audrey Cartwright from my office. >> Yes.
>> Because [applause] she's decorated City Hall, if you notice, all the decorations, and she decorated Vista Park with her team. Speaking of a team, the city of Patterson's counting on us to be a team >> for us to work together. And I invite
all council people to work with me because I'm humbled and honored to have an opportunity to serve as the mayor of my hometown. And we need to be measured. The way we're judged is in the next 100 days. What are we going to do in the next 100 days? Are we going to fight
with each other or we going to fight for them? That is the barometer. Are we going to fight each other or we're going to fight for them? [applause] And within the next 100 days, River Street should be completed. 25 more roads
should be resurfaced. We just hired 15 new police officers. They started today. We just started another foot patrol program. They started today. Another 16 police officers. And council VP, you're right about cleaning the city. >> But keeping Patterson clean starts with
all of us. And we'll do what we can with Ken Rosado and Urban Enterprise Zone. And with the clean communities, we're catching illegal dumpers. That amounts to over $100,000 in fines. We have cameras that we have yet to install, but the ones that we have, we've caught at
least 25 of these violators. And jobs. Pattersonians need jobs. I can't wait to break ground on this long awaited film studio, a $250 million project so that it will create internship opportunities for our students, career opportunities
for our residents and opportunities for aspiring actors and actresses in the city of Patterson. Work with me, city council, work with me, city of Patterson. And affordability corporation council and I've had this conversation. We want to introduce legislation to create more affordable
housing opportunities for our residents. And finally, we want to continue programs that have worked like the financial empowerment center, like Real Fix that is helping people with drug addiction. Our re-entry program helping people who have paid their debt to society reintegrate
into Patterson. So, council, I've told you this incessantly. If you share the vision, you share the victory and the win is for the city of Patterson. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, mayor. Madame clerk, item
number two on the agenda. >> Council President, before proceeding, um, traditionally there would be a uh, gavl that is present presented. And so, Councilwoman Cotton has something she'd like to present before we proceed with
the meeting. [applause] >> [applause] >> So that you keep that one. >> You want to give it to me? >> I'm going to call up my counciloman. As they said before, ladies going out going out and then the gav
will come in. Okay. Are you up here? Oh, thank you. >> You know, it's truly an honor for me. first given honor to God um to be able to be here and I say to everyone when I came in 2012 I was the only female on
the city council out of nine and it wasn't easy and I remember saying to my council colleagues council woman mess and council mavala all kind of things going to come at you but you going to learn how to deal with it because you got on your side
>> when you have God on your side no matter what anybody do you going to get through it and so for you counselor woman Alfa, you're going to be with us as the leading ladies. And not to say because you know we as women besides being elected official, we also are wives, we
have children, we grandmothers, we take care of houses, we take care of grandparents. We do so much, but God gives us the strength to be able to do that cuz actually we're here to serve and you are and we are to serve you. So,
Councilwoman Dr. The Lisa Mims, here's your plaque for being the outgoing president of the city council. And it reads, [applause] "Dedicated
to Honorable Dr. Lisa Mims, Councilwoman at large, council president for your dedication, service to the municipal council and the citizens of Patterson July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2026 by all
our council members of the city council. Thank you gentlemen for this and this is for you. [applause] And then I wanted to also even though that's a what they going what she do with that one. >> Uhhuh. >> No, no, that's her. She keeps this one. >> Oh, she keeps this one.
>> Oh, let me go ahead. >> Yeah. Go ahead. And then you do that one. See that? >> Yeah. Let Uhhuh. Yeah. Let pull a hold. Yeah. Okay. And we got And Councilwoman Dava, she came in in 2014
um as the second female on the city council. And you know, and she talked about her colleagues like Maria Magna, Sonia Rosado, Councilwoman Luna. I've been around all those women and you when you be around great women, you become great.
>> I don't care what anybody say, you become when you're around great women, you become great. And I love it. And I want you to present the ga to council president. It is an honor to stand before you and having
being able to hand this gavvel once again to our council president. You this past year endured a lot. You led the way we're supposed to lead with love. Sometimes love can be a little hard, but
it is important. The only thing that I ask the gabble is given to you and there's times you need to use it. This means something. This is not symbolic. >> Your presidency
>> is one where we put you here. So we expect >> to for you to continue keeping order >> and making sure that we are able to bring that agenda that needs to be covered for the city for our
constituency. So with that said, congratulations, council president. [laughter] Here you go. Your new gavvel. And the other gavvel, by the way, it's her gavvel because you keep a gavvel every year. And then you get, as Councilman
said, you get a gold one when you're out. [laughter] Here you go. Oh, yes. [applause] Just want to say thank um congratulations. Looking forward to uh being on the council. learning, growing,
um, and and really, um, prayerful about the leadership that we will have in the next coming year under you. Um, so congratulations. >> Thank you. [applause] >> Let's get to work. >> All right.
[applause] That's what they said. Everybody was on the 80s. beauty. >> All right, we ready. Jackson. [applause] That's a nice one. >> Oh, yeah.
>> I'm use the old one. I'm kick. >> That's too nice to >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Item number two on the agenda. Item number two is a resolution approving a new agreement with American Federation of County, State, and
Municipal Employees, AFSCME, local 3724. This is from the administration and is resolution 26306. >> So moved by Council President Mims and Dava, Vice President Dava, >> Madam President,
>> second by Councilman Vez, Councilman Mendes, >> Madam President. Madam President, >> um before uh Madame Clerk, this um vote was ratified 50 to one um by the union. I want to thank the union president and her her staff who's here so that
everyone's on the same page. This was a ratified vote. They met with their membership. 50 yes and one is no. >> Discussion. Councilman um Vez. >> Madame President, I would like to ask in the floor that if I could be co-sponsor as you are the sponsor to be co-sponsor
of this uh agreement with the uh city of Patterson. >> We don't we don't >> we don't we don't >> I see I see a sponsorship here. >> It should not be. That's a mistake. >> Oh, okay. >> There's no sponsor. >> So, uh keep the record clear that um no sponsor be should be in the paperwork.
>> Yeah, there's no sponsor. I'm not sure I will. So I will council president I will >> I will sponsor >> I have here >> it says it >> I'm not going to type it myself >> it yeah there's no >> so I just want to withdraw my my request okay
>> roll call madam clerk on item number uh two >> councilwoman Alfred >> yes >> councilwoman Cotton >> yes >> council vice president Davila >> I know you all have been waiting for
this. >> I know it is difficult and I need to put it out here. The council cannot negotiate your contracts, but we could definitely once you ratify it, right? And it comes back to us. If the majority, which we just heard from
council president, 50 yeses, one no, >> then we support it. I support it because I know you support it. My vote is yes. >> [applause] >> Councilman Jackson. >> Yes. >> Councilman Khalik.
>> Yes. >> Councilman Mendes. >> Uh, congratulations to the union president and the leadership. Um, the negotiations the negotiation is clear. 51 to1 and I'm very satisfied with this and we're long overdue. My vote is yes, Madam Clerk. >> Councilman Omar.
>> I want to thank the members of the union for their patience. My vote is yes, Madam Cler. >> Councilman Vez. So before I do I I I announce my vote. I want to congratulate all the members from the union of AMA. They be waiting
patient with the previous BA. I want to congratulate the mayor for bringing a BA that understand that understand the city employees. Thank you Mr. BA and corporation council. you how to do something with
this to be the mediator to get it done also to you. This is the type of literacy we want. A mayor cannot work if you don't have a good BA. Now, the mayor had to relieve the handcuff of the BA
for he could do his job. [laughter] So saying that, I hope all the U contract coming forward the employees are satisfied 50 or more. So congratulation and let's move the city forward. They deserve more. I always
said ask for more for they could give you what they want but ask always for more. God bless you. My vote is yes. >> Council President Mims. >> So now I see what Council Member Le said cuz my name was on as a sponsor. I could have really stayed on as much as I hope.
But um with that being stated, I'm excited um and I pray that you're on to speak um today. But thank you to our BA, to our mayor and the administration. As vice president already stated, we are not council members are not in negotiations. We're not a part of those
conversations. We respect the uh leadership of the union and then your ratified vote and then we support it after that. With that stated, madam clerk, my vote is yes. >> Nine yeses. This item passes. >> Item number three, madam clerk. Item
number three is a resolution setting the contents of the annual meeting notice pursuant to the open public meetings act, including the time and meetings of the municipal council as of August 2026 through July 1 of 2027 and addressing the virtual meeting and scope of
meetings and setting the location at city hall. This is resolution 26307. >> So move >> moved by council vice president Dava, second by councilman Mendes and VZ. Roll call on item number three. discussion. >> Discussion. Councilman Jackson.
>> So, I I want to make this clear and place this on record. You know, I did not support the reducing of of our uh monthly meetings from uh 2 to one, meaning two uh regular meetings and two workshops. There was a number of
different meetings this year that that very important information um that was not properly disseminated to the public had to be placed on a special meeting. And uh there this this should have been discussed further and considered to return back to the public
has showed us displeasure and and in and uh the inappropriate or inconsistent meeting schedules. I know that we're now looking to rush out of these meetings, but again I'm I want it to be made public that I'm I'm not in approval of
that. And why haven't we had a discussion or at least an evaluation on >> on the uh the the the success or failure of what last last year's schedule brought about.
>> Thank you. Roll call. Madam clerk. I'm tired. >> Councilwoman Alford. >> Uh my vote is yes. Um, but I do hope that there could be a discussion um about if >> I'll make a comment. >> Yeah. That if we could um add more
meetings. I do think that I agree with Councilman Jackson that the public um did show some concern about it there only being one meeting, but my vote is yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I think that um it's really not
um it it's a matter of the staffing that we really need here. Um I'm in here every day. I'm helping these secretaries out every day answering the phones is more in detail than we realize what's in detail of running these meetings and
after the meetings are done. What they have to do legally. Publish items in the newspaper. Look for the items in the newspaper. make sure they have it on record because if someone like you come and say I didn't see this notice this meeting published
then they have to produce the proof the stuff was published on time they got to have the 24 hours the 48 hours it's more in detail and council council president we will go in detail councilwoman Alfred if I'm not here every day maybe I can't
speak on it but I know I'm here every day and I see what these ladies go through of trying to put together a meeting, but somebody's sending paperwork up at 4:30 for a 6:00 meeting. You know, it's hard to get all that together. So, we will have more discussion on that. But, and I think
that we all need to know what Madame Clerk goes through and all the secretaries go through of putting together a council meeting that legally legally cuz if they operate, they better produce the proof that we did what we supposed to do. With that being said, Madame Clerk, my vote is yes.
>> Vice President Davila. So, Councilman Jackson is correct. We used to have two workshops. So, the meeting was one workshop, one regular, one workshop, one regular. Um, the workshops were not televised, only
the two regular meetings. When we decided because of exactly what our dino council, Councilwoman Khan stated, all right, it's more than just, oh, the community saying we need more meetings, right? >> You all watch the meetings. Yes, >> a lot goes on in the meetings and
nothing gets done. >> But people love, >> you know, TV time, right? We got to get business done. So, guess what? We did make a change and we the majority supported it. And that's what it's about. The majority.
And with that said, we do care about our community. But guess what? Now the community has the workshop televised where we can have all the discussions on the items and then regular should not be a workshop. Regular is where you come and you take action and unfortunately
that sometimes does not happen. There is no reason why we should be having meetings that we start at 6:30 and we're here till midnight or 1:00. Absolutely not. So, you know, I am in agreement, Madame Clerk, and I support I know that you sent the agenda. So when we talk
about not having discussions, we all receive the agenda beforehand. We look at it. We can make calls. We can call our colleagues. We can call the council president. We can email. We can do all those things. So I stand in full support of continuing having the two meetings a
month. And that way and you all know that the workshops now are televised. So, as we're doing the business, you know, uh doing the workshop, when we come take action, you are able. And listen, when we have to do special meetings, they're called and we do them. We're getting ready to have budget
hearings. We're going to call special meetings for that. Those are things that we do. And I'm just thankful that, you know, I now can speak a little more because I now understand the process. Madame Clerk, my vote is yes. >> Thank you, Councilman Jackson.
>> Thank you, Madam Clerk. So, I'm glad to hear, Councilwoman, that you've now understand the process because considering the city's been at a budget deficit over the last several years and we continue to do make this poor decisions that's impacting the public,
the purpose of having meetings is so the public can stay readily informed so that the public can have access to what's actually taking place, not having hiding things in in an agenda that's placed on a special meeting that wasn't properly discussed. If there was a discussion,
Councilwoman Alfred, there should have been a discussion allowed. No one else was asked. Was there a discussion? I'm obviously the only person that's going to bring opposition over the certain things that's happening. And I want everybody to be mindful. I'm not asking for anything in opposition of myself.
There's no selfbenefit here for me pushing for an additional meetings for the public to have access to what's what's taking place. So the fact that we have to have special meetings and then those meetings are then trans uh you know conveniently converted to virtual
meetings. The public is lacking access as our budget just some for some unforeseen reason there's a requirement to increase our budget to $70 million when in the past our request for transitional aid has only been 15 1920
million. there need there's a significant concern on what's taking place and it's really should be it's the concern is placed here on this council not on the administration on the council. So, the fact that we we we've minimized our meetings, we've reduced them by 50%. We've increased council
salaries, we've added AIDS and all these other things, and to say that things are getting done, I guess I'm the only one driving around the city. You can go outside city hall right now, there's people sleeping in front of the building. >> So, to talk about we're getting services and getting things done and all this
festive and all everybody wearing colorful outfits and things of that nature and acting as if we're we're accomplishing something. Look, I I don't know. I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. Madame Clerk, my vote is absolutely no. No. >> Councilman colleague.
>> Thank you, Madame Clerk. We are voting on the meeting schedule for next year. Couple of years ago with Councilman Mendes leadership, council as a body,
>> we switch it to two. We decided to have two meeting a month. I think it's working perfectly as it needed. We could add a meeting anytime special meeting it is advertise
with the even virtual meeting I think is very convenience for the community if they want to join just a phone call away. We could make all the um accusation and and and
um point fingering but the end of the day there's a lot of work for behind the meeting committee meetings we have committees various committees we should from now on I think we should
look at the attendance of the meeting where uh the committee meetings where works get done. Real works get done. >> Okay. So, I think we should coun council president from now on we should we should have have attendance from those
meeting. The people who >> talk to talk they should walk to walk as well. >> They should show up on this meeting and and and work for the community, fight for the community. That's where the real fights goes on.
That's all my vote is. This calendar is perfectly fine with me. Is working. If we need to add a meeting here and there, we could do that. Thank you. My vote is yes, Madame Clerk. [applause] >> Councilman Mendes.
>> Um, thank you, Madam Clerk. Um, I mean, just thank you, Councilman Colleague, because we're just voting on the scheduling of the meeting, the annual meeting. We cannot connect this resolution with the condition of the city or any lack of enforcement. Let's not misleading the
public. Let's speak about what we have in front of us. I I think my only concern is that council president you have a huge responsibility on your shoulder uh to assign all our council to the different committee but council member they they they have to attend
those committee meeting because a lot of people they talk about oh backroom deal that you know listen we got to get the job done at the committee meeting and then we have to come back to the council to take those action and to have a extensive disc discussion at the workshop and that's what should be done
so I agree and and that we took the decision back then and it's been working. My only recommendation is to have all those discussion at the at the workshop and then let's take action on the regular meeting. Now my only request council president is what once we have
legislation that uh needs second reading. Uh let's try not to add those u legislation on on virtual meeting. Let's make sure that people get the opportunity to speak out once we have a a uh public uh a a um discussion on
that. Let's make sure people get the opportunity to speak about any ordinance. Other than that, I think we're ready and move and ready to move forward. My vote is yes, Madam Clerk. >> Thank you, Councilman Omar. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. My vote is yes.
>> Councilman Vez, >> I guess um my colleague here is got the message, but I just want to say simple thing. Ladies and gentlemen, we have moved from four meeting to two meetings monthly, but the workflow had not been
reduced. >> Has have not been reduced. If you look at the agenda in the previous years when we change it from 4 to two, we got parks done. We got road resurfaced. We got River Street getting approved. We got
UEC funding for our community. We got more than 100 police officers hire in our city. We keep on doing the work, the work that the people wants. If we want to keep the city informed, please visit the second floor, the first floor, and
get the mayor's newsletter and you see how we work in collaborative to move the city forward. That is my statement. My vote is yes, [applause] >> President Mims. >> So, it's a lot of things has been stated, but I'll say this. This is not new. Every July 1st, we vote on the
yearly calendar. We're not voting to reduce meetings. We're not voting to add meetings. The only thing we're voting on is the yearly calendar. So, every council member can adjust their schedules to know what date the meetings are. talking about adding special
meetings and all that. If by chance the governor or any entity has money that can be allocated to Patterson and we have a deadline, we're going to call a special meeting because Patterson is not going to lose that money. >> We're not going to lose the funds. We're
not going to lose the resources to ensure that the work is done. reducing the uh the meetings previously which is not this item but reducing them was a bit was a benefit because when there were four meetings there was no televisions going except for twice a
month and sometimes the drama was less as soon as we reduced the meetings and had the cameras full blast that's when you saw the drama so to me it's about the work of the community and the work for the people it's not about the empty rhetoric because as stated and I did start it council man Khik and we're
going to go back to enforcing it you will know who attends their committee meetings. It will be duly noted and attached to the agenda that will be on the deis. So you will know those people that do a lot of talking and absolutely do nothing for the city of Patterson. I think it's important that you know and
understand that. Madame clerk, my vote is yes. >> Thank you. Eight yeses, one no. This item passes. >> Item four. Madam clerk, >> item four is the resolution designating newspapers to receive notice of council meetings under the sunshine law. This is
from our office and it's resolution 26 number 308. >> Moved by Councilman Mendes, second by Vice President Davala. Roll call on item number three for newspapers. >> Discussion. >> Discussion. Councilman Jackson. >> So I'm not going to talk much today. I
mean obviously if when when statements are made for those who do a lot of talking, I'm going to be and I'm straight clear with the public. one I have no inclination to participate in the committee process of which deals are
made and then when we come forward here changes are done. So when we talking about the other day for us pending uh paying out a close to a million dollar settlement to an employee that was illegally fired and
when we lost the case against that employee that was done in a special meeting. It's not just about when the governor comes here to give us money. It's not just about when the governor's here to come in here to give us money. It's about when decisions are made to pay out money that you guys don't know
anything about. Additionally, it truncates the public's opportunity to to address the council with their concerns. I made a motion to increase the public portion time even if we didn't double it, even if we didn't
do six minutes. In NORC, members of the public have five minutes to address the council. But what we're doing here, not only do we truncate the public's time, but we make sure that we have police guard ready to extract any member of the public that's in disagreement with what's going on here.
Listen, I have no no issue with what we're voting on is the calendar. It's not it's not about that. is about the public's access to the information. How many of you are aware that just last night, the night before last,
another 40 unit development got approved with 50% reduced parking. Their application required that they have more than 50% of the parking that they had available. But yet, these are the things that's getting done.
So, not allowing the public to have access. Yes, there someone's going to say that wasn't a council meeting. Absolutely. It was a planning board meeting of where all of where the city is being sold at. But who makes those decisions? >> Council president, oppose the question, please. >> Second
roll call and oppose the question to move on in the agenda. Madam clerk, >> that's not how call question works. >> Madam clerk, roll call. >> We need to do say >> roll call. That item, what your discussion is not on the agenda. Roll call to move forward. Madam clerk, >> roll call to move forward. Councilwoman
Alford, >> we're moving forward so we can vote >> for vote. >> We're voting on newspaper articles. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Vice President Davila.
>> There was a first and a second on designated newspapers to receive notice of council meetings. That is what we're voting on. >> Right. >> My vote is yes. Councilman Jackson. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. One one I I challenge the public. I challenge anyone
here, anyone sitting here. If there's any a time, any point in time where I where something a point that I bring forward does not have value or does not resonate with what the public's concerns are, then I I will yield. But in this anyway, Madame Clerk, my vote is no.
Thank you, >> Councilman. Colleague. Councilman just voted on no on notice of the publication for the meetings. He doesn't want the public to know when the meeting and the agenda was
going on there. That's what he just voted on. My vote is yes. >> Councilman Mendes, >> my vote is yes, Madam Clerk. >> Councilman Omar, >> my vote is yes, madam clerk. >> Councilman Vez, >> I say it in Spanish. If it wasn't for
these days and the day we don't get paid, I my life will be miserable. My my vote is yes to this. >> Council President Mims >> to the public, I just want to say to those that are sitting. We have 11 items. They're very easy items.
Renewals, entertainment, there's nothing on here except for we had the um item for the uh union contract. We're trying to move expeditiously. You've been sitting in the heat for hours. So we as a council, we will respect your time. We will move expeditiously. My vote is yes,
madam clerk. >> Motion passes. >> Item number five, madam clerk. >> We were on item number four. There was a mover in a secer seconder. Um I need the roll call for item four.
>> This is the roll call to adopt item four. Councilwoman Alfred, >> we already did. >> No, we did. >> That was the roll call on the motion. That was a roll call on a motion to call a question. This now we got a vote on the item. We got a vote. Okay. >> Now we're voting on item number four.
This is for the adoption of it. >> Roll call. >> Councilwoman Alford. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> Yes. >> Vice President Davila. >> Yes. >> Councilman Jackson. >> You the effort to try to discredit
>> is incredible. Listen, even though they're >> okay, congratulations. Congratulations. This is important business. The public's business is important. And how we squander money and how decisions are made to to mistreat misrepresent the
public is very important. It's very important. It's not something to just just pass over. So, I understand, you know, you're you're a fan and you you you know, you had your colors on, but but the these items are very important. We're not just going to glass over it. Madame clerk, my vote is yes. What you
say? >> Councilman colleague, >> my vote is yes, madam clerk. >> Councilman Mendes, >> so I'm voting on resol resolution number four decated in the newspaper. So let's be clear on that one. What is madam clerk? >> Councilman Omar.
>> My vote is yes, madam clerk. Thank you. >> Councilman Valenc. >> So resolution is you know official newspaper and online and whatever whatever whatever we already heard. But one thing I'm not going to allow please to disrespect a leader from this community have paved the road for us
here to be seated in this table. You will not do it for nobody that look like you. Don't do it to her. >> My vote is yes to this. >> President Mims, >> my vote is yes, madam clerk.
>> Resolution number four is adopted. >> Item number five, Madam Clerk. Item number five is a resolution reappointing Vivian Gaines to the city of Patterson Board of Adjustment. This is a reappointment sponsored by Council
President Mims. Resolution 26309. >> So moved by Council uh President Davis, second by Mims, Mendes, and Valz. Roll call on item number five. >> Councilwoman Alfred. My vote is yes. And
congratulations to Vivian Gaines on her reappoint. >> Councilwoman Cotton. Thank you, Madam Clerk. I just want to say also to um our um going to the board of adjustment Vivian Gains. Um congratulations. She was honored last night uh with um
National Action Network with my assembly woman Elise here, Elise Evans with me and myself uh and uh and deputy mayor Janet McDaniel. And we honored Vivian Gains last night. And I want to say congratulation. Thank you Jamie Bland for picking Vivian Gains to be honored
by National Action Network. Thank you madame clerk. My vote is yes. >> Vice President Davila, >> congratulations once again. My vote is yes. >> Councilman Jackson, >> yes. >> Councilman Khalik, >> yes. >> Councilman Mendes,
>> congratulations to my third war constituents, Miss Vivian G. My vote is yes. >> Councilman Omar. >> Congratulations, Commissioner. My vote is yes. >> Councilman Vez, >> congratulation Vivia Gains uh for your
reappoint for two years at turning one member from this board. By the way, I just want to say this. Yesterday I had a decision outside saying that we the council approved project. We the council approved project. We don't approve project. They meet in the same chambers
that we are here located. So if you see a meeting, they not councilman. They are commissioners. So, and they doing a great job. That's why uh the vision had to be shared and they moving the right direction the city. Uh congratulate Vivian and uh my vote is yes.
>> Council President Mims >> um to uh Miss Gaines, Commissioner Gaines who's watching, my vote is absolutely yes. >> Item number five is adopted. [snorts] >> Item number six, Madam Clerk. Item number six is a resolution addressing
the renewal of coin operated amusement device license for guarionex Liquors LLC at OnePool Table 467 Union A in the first ward. This is from finance resolution 26310. >> So move second. >> Move by Councilman, second by Councilman
Mendes. Roll call on item six. Madam clerk, >> councilwoman Alfred. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> Yes. Vice President Davila. >> No. >> Councilman Jackson.
>> Yes. >> Councilman Khalik. >> Item number six. >> Item number six. >> My vote is yes. >> Councilman Mendes. >> My vote is yes, Madam Clerk. >> Councilman Omar. >> My vote is yes, Madam Clerk. >> Councilman Vez.
>> Yes. >> President Mims. Yes, madame clerk. >> Common guesses when no. This item passes. >> Council vice president. >> Well, no. She already said it. >> She didn't call it. >> She didn't call it yet. >> She didn't finish it. Council vice president.
>> I sorry. I did. I said this item passes. >> I said no. And I want to I want to just be clear on on the no. >> I know that it's it's a pool table license. Okay. Uh but I have received >> I mean it's we're going to do the same.
How is she just speaking out of context? >> But she asked for the floor. I gave her the floor. >> Council vice president. >> So I just wanted to explain from the numerous complaints that I've received. All right. Um is the owner here? >> We asked the owner to come.
>> No, that's not the item. That's not this one. >> That's that's that's >> No, those were the other items that were moved. They're will be in the August meeting. >> Okay. So, Madame Clerk, if I may, if I'm able to change my vote, my vote is yes. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I've already called this item.
>> I asked. That's why I was speaking. >> She called. You called the vote. >> I did. >> Okay. >> I'm sorry. >> No problem. >> Item number seven, Madam Clerk. >> Item number seven is a resolution addressing the renewal of coin operated laundry licenses for the following
licenses. Best washroom transacting as best wash in the third ward. >> Mhm. I mispronounced this. Um, fasosis valotes transact acting as Omega laundromat in the fifth ward finance
resolution number 26311. >> So move. >> So move. >> Move by council vice president Davala and Valz. Second by Councilman Mendes. Roll call on item number seven. Madam clerk. >> Councilwoman Alford. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton.
>> Yes. >> Vice President Davila. >> Yes. Councilman Jackson, >> yes. >> Councilman Khalik, >> yes. >> Councilman Mendes, >> yes. >> Councilman Omar, >> yes. >> Councilman VeZ. >> President Mims.
>> Yes, Madam Clerk. >> This item passes. >> Item number eight, Madam Clerk. >> Item number eight is a resolution addressing the renewal of Flores license for St. Joseph University Medical Center gift shop at 703 Main Street in the second ward. Finance resolution number
26 through 312. >> So move. >> Moved by Councilman Colleague, second by Councilman Veles and Vice President Dava. Roll call on item number eight. Madam clerk. >> Councilwoman Alfred. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> Yes. >> Vice President Davila.
>> Yes. >> Councilman Jackson. >> Yes. >> Councilman Khalik. >> Yes. >> Mendes. Councilman Mendes. >> My vote is yes. >> Councilman Omar. >> My vote is yes. Yes, Madam Clerk. >> Councilman Vez. >> Yes. >> President Mims.
>> Yes. >> Yes. Madam Clerk, >> this item is adopted. >> Item number nine, Madam Clerk. >> Item number nine is a resolution under Patterson Code Chapter 129 entitled Bizaars for the National Council for Puerto Rican Heritage to conduct a carnival in Pennington Park. This is
from finance and it's a resolution 26330 move >> moved by council vice president Davala and me second by VeZ and Omar >> roll call on item number >> 10 madam cler item number uh nine
>> councilwoman Alfred seeing that this um has all of the attachments for EMS police um yes my vote is yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> Yes.
>> Vice President Davila. >> Before I vote, I I just want to thank the organizers, the National Council for Puerto Rican Heritage. >> Uh I know that my good friend Ela Vanova
for years was part of having the parade and festival uh the Puerto Rican parade and festival. And we have not had that in years. Yes. Bringing back this festival as there's many Puerto Ricans. When I hear people say, "Oh, Janoa,
absolutely not." The difference is, right, that Puerto Ricans have married Dominicans, Colombians, African-Americans, and so forth. And guess what? Even when my son, when you ask him, "Oh, what are you?" He goes, "I'm Dominican." I'm like, "Hello, you forgot about mama." Right? Uh, but with
that said, you know, I'm just so proud. I'm happy. I'm looking forward to seeing it. The Puerto Rican community is a vibrant community. It's a loving community and I'm just looking forward for the festivities and moving forward. I would love to see that parade come back. My vote is yes.
>> Councilman Jackson, >> yes. >> Councilman Khalik, >> yes. >> Councilman Mendes, >> yes on item number nine, Madam Clerk. >> Councilman Omar, >> I'm looking forward to August 21st. My vote is yes, Madam Clerk. Councilman VeZ.
>> So um I just was I want to commend there is two organization that always bring application a month or a month and a half or two months before it and that's Willie McCoy Foundation. Um and also um now yes give him a round of applause.
It's true. They give it on time. They go visit the uh police fire department on time because they they want to know what they expecting. I hope the administration could look for more funding to help this no nonprofit organization for probably one of this
day instead of charging they could have it free because this is part for the community. I I believe on that when we give back to the community but that's that's something that is a will that means that the whole council had to approve it right is me talking because I I have a I have a dream like Martin
Luther King that we could serve the community without having a dollar behind it. Uh but in this case uh uh Ilia Vanovva and the National Council Puerto Rican we are alive the Puerto Rican are in town is here in city and one thing I
say is this is a for a celebration for everyone from black Jamaican Puerto Rican if you feel Puerto Rican that day you are part of our celebration like we do celebrate others. So my vote is yes and I have the approval of the former
council uh clerk and mayor James Warren. >> My vote is yes. >> President Ms. >> My vote is yes, madame clerk. >> Item number nine is adopted. >> Item number 10, Madam Clerk. >> Item 10 is a resolution authorizing the
award of contract to Land Group LLC for renovations of Little Larry Doby Field bid number 25.27 27 for the engineering division of the department of public works. >> So >> resolution 26314 move second
>> move by councilman Mendes second by council vice president uh Davin Mims and roll call on item number 10. Madam clerk >> Councilwoman Alford. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. Thank you u Madam
Clerk. You know I have it in my office but they were supposed to include in here the scope of work that they're going to do. um on the little field over for Larry Doby. I don't see it on here, but when we had our committee meeting that Councilman Veles and I attended on
Monday, um they should have been there, but um this is to approve the library doy field, the little part, the other the other side of at the bottom of east side park. So, with that being said, um my vote is yes. I just text him. So, I'll
make sure that I make sure, madame clip, that I give all the council members um the scope of work that's getting done um for the little Labradory field. >> Thank you, Madame Clerk. My vote is yes.
>> Vice President Davila, >> yes. >> Councilman Jackson, >> yes. >> Councilman colleague, >> yes. >> Councilman Mendes, >> um thank you, Madam Clerk. There's a few project um in the third world right on East Side Park. Um you know one one of
the project is the gym that we're planning to allocate you know put on East Park. I'm very excited about that. I'm looking forward to do free training for my third world resident. If you want to lose some weight you know go to the park. I'll do free training. I got to lose some weight too. But I'm I'm very
excited about that because we got to be healthy. It's all about being healthy. I see so many people walking around the park. I'm excited. Every morning at 7 o'clock I go to East Side Park and I'm really excited to see our Patterson resident taking care themsel like walking and doing exercise and also with
the big Larry Doby. We did a phenomenal job. The that company did a beautiful job and I'm looking forward to see the little Larry Dobby um build the same way. So I'm excited about that. And uh with that being said, my vote is yes, Madam Clerk. >> Councilman Omar. >> My vote is yes, Madam Clerk.
>> Councilman VeZ. So um [laughter] >> no listen I have to I want the audience to please >> when we don't when we don't when they say we not do things replay this we be doing the work okay so this is the lower
portion latry park the one on the left side when you go to the park and uh we want to make sure >> the cororum in the chambers no one Second, Councilman, no speaking in the public. >> Please, if you notice, I'm the happy camper in this side. So, you should
enjoy that. Um, but um once again, this is a collaborative uh between the council and the administration. Uh thank you administration to listen to the council when we out here talking about we need this, we need this. Just please,
mayor, we had the conversation before. BA, we had the conversation before. If you go to invest in other parks, I also want to get invested in the in the fifth floor park, Roberto Clemente Park and the 16th Avenue park that we had the conversation to rebuild that park uh
with with money coming through. So saying that you didn't want me to shout out, right? I mentioned the 16th Avenue Park. Hey, I'm here already. But yes, my vote is yes for improvement. Yes, >> President Mims. >> My vote is yes, Madam Clerk.
>> Item number 10 is adopted. Item number 11, madam clerk. >> Item 11 is a resolution under Patterson code chapter 129 titled bazaars addressing a license for Charles Brown to conduct a picnic at East Side Park Upper Picnic area. This is from finance
and it's resolution 26 315. >> So moved by Council President Mim, second by Vice President Dav. Roll call on item 11. Madam Clerk, >> Council President, I did say move. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Second also by Councilman Vez. Roll call on item number 11. Madam clerk,
>> Councilwoman Alfred. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> As you can see, you you can't even get a chance to say move or second, but that's okay at all. Like sometimes when somebody do a resolution, let them be
the one to move it or second it. Anyhow, um my for this for this item here, I'm glad that it's getting off the ground. You know, people can stop talking. Uh it was never elected official fault. Exactly. >> Um at all. So, with that being said, I'm
happy to see it going forward. And that's what it is. You know, you know, I say that make sure before you talk, you understand what's going on and who's at fault and who's causing it and why they're doing it because sometimes they have you in the wrong place at the wrong
time and you worry about the wrong stuff and something bad over here is happening that we need to worry about and we not worrying about it. With that being said, madame clerk, my vote is yes, >> Vice President Davila and and clearly um I would agree and and just ask anyone
that wants to uh receive any permits, apply for permits, just ask what the process is. I would ask that, you know, social media could be a good thing, but it also could be a nasty thing. [snorts] and to go to social media and just put
out there, you know, that there were agendas and there were things. It it was very ugly. I I read it and I was like, "Wow." And I didn't even know, you know, that there were meetings going on, you know, concerning all of that. But with that said, you know, I am in support the paperwork, the application. I'm happy
that the applicant understood that there was a process that there's a new process. things change and you know, Councilwoman Cotton and I were part of uh sitting in those meetings with all of the departments to talk about the way that we handle uh bizaars or or uh um
festivals and all that stuff. So, you know, with that said, I'm happy that now everyone is sitting at the table, police, fire, DPW, Dela, everyone reviewing all applications right there and of proving it right and coming it forward to finance and to council workshop. So, with that said, today tier
on regular my vote is yes. Councilman Jackson. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Well, one, in this community, you wouldn't have to turn to social media at times if things weren't weren't being done unfairly. And
in fact, this is an exact uh uh uh uh example of that where they had to take it to social media in order to get the results that they that they potentially needed. How many times I mean, Councilman McCoy is back there. We've seen it where his event that he's had for years and years, all of a sudden
there's changes and there's a disparity in treatment. And that that's a fact. So, >> my hat goes off to uh uh to the organizers of this event, Mr. Brown, uh uh Miss Hunt for making sure that they didn't just take it in the face and they
took it to social media and as the public had had something to say about it. You see, people made changes to what what what the agenda has to be. This item probably would have never even made it to the agenda if it wasn't for social media. But anyway, Madam Kirk, my vote is yes.
>> Councilman Khalik, >> thank you, Council President, on getting top of the situation and corrected it and putting it on the agenda. Everybody's happy. My vote is yes. >> Councilman Mendes.
>> Um, thank you, Madam Clerk. I know we're voting on the bazaar uh addressing the license for Charles Brown for the festival and picking it at Eastside Park. I'm looking forward to be there. But let me just make this comment and to make sure that every resident in the city of Patterson understand uh the u
you know our situation at this council. We have no authority to decide whether how many police officer an event will be used. That's now under the police department. Take that decision. That's the decision for the police department. the job of public work is to decide how
many member they going to be they we they going to have to hire. We don't take that decision and it's important that the community understand that. So so that way so we got to stop politic because you know people they might think that any council member have any power of the police department or of a public
work that's not true that's a lie. And I just want to make sure that the resident understand that each department they have to do their job and they will decide this the stuff that they that that they need that they will request. My vote is yes. Madam clerk, >> thank you. Councilman Omar, >> my vote is yes. And thank you to
everyone who played a hand in getting this on the agenda. >> Councilman, >> um I don't know, but um I don't know, but you know, uh Mr. McCoy, uh Councilman, I never saw you taking your issues to social media >> uh in the past. never saw that. I know
that you have called us and say what we could do to help alleviate the situation. That's communication, action, and results. In this case, this is not just a picnic. People are missing something here. I'm looking at the word
healing soul through music. That's what attract me. So, let's all celebrate. My vote is yes, >> President Mims. So I just want to bring clarity because sometime things are stated and they are not true. So there was information that was posted on
social media. I reached out to the organizer to get some information, explained the process, worked with some other people in the community. They reached out to Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown therefore had another meeting with with our department heads to get to the
bottom of getting his uh contract and and work done. He signed the contracts once it was done. Um, I worked with him and made sure this came to the agenda today. It was not on the agenda, but I told him we would get it on as long as everything was signed. We got this on and madam clerk and the secretaries will
tell you at the ninth hour we have to get legal to come back into the office to do the resolution to make sure. So when it's stated that we don't do it is a lie. When it's stated that people have to go to social media, that is a lie. All you have to do is pick up the phone
and call council members and we can assist you. That's what we're here for. We don't approve, we approve the um when it comes to us after it goes through licensing. There's a process. But anything that you don't understand, please come to us. I did that. I didn't go on social media. I didn't say it was
a lie on social media. Didn't need to do that. I spoke to the organizers and I am happy and I will be at that event in August as some of us will be here. Mr. Brown, I know you're watching. I told you to watch around this time. Um, we're happy that this is approved. Please go
back on social media and say thank you. The R&B cookout is back on. My vote is yes, madam clerk. >> Item number 11 is adopted. >> Um, to the public, our agenda is completed. We will now open public
portion. We have 11 speakers for public portion. Uh, you have three minutes each. Please, we will in this year we will operate by the code as we've been doing. In our code, it says that you
cannot use profanity at the microphone. I will be enforcing it as the council president that profanity is not allowed in the chambers. There's a way to speak and get your point across, but if you use profanity, it will be addressed. You
only have one time to use it, and that is it. You will not disrespect the council and the council will not disrespect you as well. Madame clerk, first speaker um first speaker on the list um did not
print. So I apologize for if I misspell it. Ela e l a y I believe. >> I think they left. They left madam clerk. >> Next person on the list is Lorenzo Martinez.
Woo. >> Good afternoon. >> Wait one second. One second. >> It's on. Oh. Good afternoon, Mayor Seiya, council president, council vice president, members of the city council and elected officials, administration,
members of the public. Uh my name is Lorenzo Martinez. I'm the director of administration from the Hispanic Multi-Purpose Service Center located at 911 East 23rd Street in Patterson. And I'm also proud to stand here as the grandson of the cent's founder, the
Honorable Maria Magdo Keefe. This year, the center is celebrating 50 years of service to the Patterson community. For five decades, the Hispanic Multi-Purpose Service Center has served as a place of support, dignity, and hope for families, women, children, immigrants, and every
resident in need. Councilwoman Maria Magda was a trailblazer in Patterson's history and the first Latina ever elected to the Patterson City Council. She dedicated her life to public service and to building a center where our community could be seen, heard,
respected, and helped. And today, we continue that legacy with pride and responsibility. As part of our 50th anniversary celebration, we invite the entire community to join us for our community block party and resource fair, which is to be held on Saturday, August
8th, 2026 from 11 to 7:00 at the Hispanic Multi-Purpose Service Center. This will be a familyfriendly event open to the public with community partners, service providers, local organizations, resources, entertainment, and activities for families. It will also be an
opportunity for residents to learn more about the services the center provides and connect with the organization ready to serve them. We respectfully invite the mayor, city council, elected officials, all community organizations, neighbors, and families to join us on
August 8th as we celebrate 50 years of service, resilience, and community. The Hispanic MultiPurpose Service Center is still shining, still serving, and still serving with the people of Patterson. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Lorenzo.
Miss Il Ilia Villa Noeva. Next speaker. >> Good afternoon, members of the city council. Congratulations to the new elect and mayor, always at your side. I've been in this council
since the May of 1984 when he was not even born yet. I was the assistant, the legislative aid, administrative assistant and one of the workers in the campaign of the election of the honorable first Puerto Rican
elected to this city council, Maria Magda O'Keefe. That means that I have come to this council and this chamber even before with all that respect none of you were here. Now that I'm here, I want to thank
Councilman Bles which I've been in your um life of politics for many years. Thank you for standing for me and thank you for your support and your confidence and especially to the two ladies that
just came reelected. It was my honor to work with you to really believe in you and to every moment, every day, every action. And I was glad, Madame Council President Mims, to be Miss Daisy driving
you around during this campaign. I it don't mind. I don't mind. It don't mind. What mines was and what is important that we did it that the team you can trust prove one more time that they are supporting that this council
believes that the Puerto Rican community have their place in this city. Thank you very much for approving the Vasar license for this and I invite everybody everybody to be there with us. Thank you so much to the public. You're invited
>> guys. From the bottom of my heart, every time that I have worked for each and every one of you is been my honor. Thank you. >> We love you. Next speaker, Miss Andrea Flores. >> Andrea Flores.
Uh good afternoon everyone. I greet you in the mighty name of Jesus >> and I want to congratulate the mayor, presidentele, vice president and the entire council team. Um, I know I'm a
new voice that I need to listen out, but I'm here to bring awareness of a particular company that runs um, housing in the city. Um popular name Annay Anayas management
Florio new name prime construction and their unfair business practice that they have been running in the city and I know a lot of people are going through it where they put this guys fees in
their leasing agreement and it's not mentioned when you're normally renting a place you pay for deposit and rent and whatever fee. But they have a specific insurance that is mandatory that is
thousands of dollars that they don't mention in their lease agreement in addition to this socalled credit that you you're supposed to pay upfront. And when you when you think that that credit is deposit and they as
they mention it, it's totally not. And many people who are paying rent to them initially pay thousands of dollars. Some people end up paying $10,000 for a place that is initially $1,500.
And it's not mentioned in their in their in their lease agreement. Unfair. And it's almost a scam. They they took $2,000 from me as a this guy's credit. And when I asked if it was a deposit, they said yes.
Initially that was supposed to be $3,05. It turned out to be $7,500. When I asked back for my money, they told me that it's non-refundable. The court has ordered them to return the money and they have not.
>> Wow. >> And this is going on. You can check because people it it's most of us that who are not represented here that because we don't have that voice to speak out. So it gets covered up disguised. And so I'm asking that in any
future license that's granted to them cuz they keep changing their names for whatever reason. People should look we should look into that. And I'm asking for as an advocate for my own self that they return my money cuz it was ordered and if I ask it's on the record that um
all they have to do is pay it over to the court. They are aware of this. Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Next speaker. Madam clerk, next speaker we have Elvis Dorham. >> How everybody doing? >> Hello. >> Happy new year for the city of
Patterson. July 1st mean a new year, a new beginning, and it's time to work. Just came here to say that I'm willing to work with everybody that's up here. Okay. It's time to build a city. Mayor Andre Sya, you back in. We got work to
do. Listen, I said we got work to do. Um, Patterson, New Jersey, the third largest city in New Jersey. We need lowincome apartments. Okay. Lowincome apartments. We need a
performing arts center. Y'all seen the performance. We need that. We need a major hotel. We got a national park with no hotel. Let's make it make sense. Time to work. Okay. My YouTube channel, it's
37,000 people watching today. My YouTube channel is Patterson NJ Good News. Patterson NJ good news. My Facebook page is Elvis Good News. Dur
Ham. I am the promoter for the city. I am the real media for the city. >> I'm the legit media. It's nobody better than me. Everybody else is bootleg. [applause]
Elvis Dorm Outreach Music Production presents Gospel Summer Jam. Sunday, July 26, 2026. do. It starts at 4:00 p.m. and it's going to be at New Generation Kingdom of Power Ministry, 170 North
Main Street, Patterson, New Jersey. Pastor Thomas Prairie is the pastor. For more information, this is a free world donation event. For more information, everybody could call me at 8628233895. Patterson, I'm here. Anybody got
something to say negative about me, you can call me and find out about my stuff. Okay. 8628233895. God bless you. And yes, vote together. Let's bring this city back like never before in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen.
>> Next, next speaker. Next speaker, Mr. Eddie Alviveres. Good afternoon, council. Uh, Mr. Mayor, it's good to see you. >> And I am going to start with you. You know, I'm going to pretend that this is a private conversation the way that you
and I sometimes talk. And I tell you, you know, I really have no faith in you. I think the city uh eight years after you being in office is as bad as it was. But I do like you. I there's one thing I
love about you and that is the way that you use these buffoons here. You know, I am just going to use Louis V as an example. You kick him to the curve and as soon as he starts complaining, you get his wife a job and everything is fine. As soon as he, you know, he starts
complaining again, you give him a lollipop to suck on and everything is fine. But let me tell you, I do hope that I mean you you said that uh you need a council that you can work with. Um I doubt I I am being honest with you.
I doubt that you're going to do anything only because you had that within the last uh four years. You had eight of these council members at your feet at your service and you were not able to fix the city. I hope that in the next four years you can do something. I'm
going to move on to uh Miss Alfred. Miss Alfred, I have very little faith in you only because of the people that finance your campaign, but I hope and I pray that in the future I come to this microphone
and apologize and you make me eat my words. I hope that you do work for the community and that you help the the community. Today I am not going to extend it. I am going to cut it short and I am going to tell you that I am
disappointed. I am disappointed. I was expect I was hoping I was praying that they would uh appoint you Louisville to president of the council and Omar as
your vice president. Man, that would have been fun. It would have been an awful lot of fun watching the two of you who cannot string one sentence together. >> That wasn't >> Thank you. Next speaker,
Marte. Last name, Marte. >> Monte. >> Montio. Marte. >> Mont. Next speaker, Miss uh Robersonson. >> I don't have good afternoon. Congratulations to the newly elected uh council woman at large
and the reelection of Miss Mims and Dilla. And it's good Andre to see you at the meeting today. Um just a few um highlights. Um I'm going to make a recommendation to the council. um something that the Patterson Police
Department does, which is the community listen sessions. I think we need to have some of our department heads, DPW, traffic, um and whoever other entities in the ward so that they could hear from constituents their concerns with the
garbage, the parking, so on and so forth. She was here before me. Um the other thing is on uh Cliff Street Mike Belmont Towers is that Cliff Street
that's no coming up Belmont Towers that's on Belmont a coming up is that Cliff Street you can't answer anyway. So anyway, coming like West Broadway and Presidential Boulevard, there's a tree
right there. The branch is rotted, okay? And it's extended out to the street, okay? I have not seen any tree trimmings throughout the city during the summer, sewer cleanage and what have you. And on North 9th, there's a lot of sewage uh
and uh Belmanav in the sewer sewer drains. Also recently on North Ninth Street, there was a demo of a not a demo, there was some renovation done of a house. Okay. And I was in constant contact with uh constituent service. The
trash that was amounted out there for almost a month gradually being picked up. Um, I was told that if it wasn't on the sidewalk, it does not impede uh the constituents, but that if it's impacted on, you know, on the property, it's
okay. But if everybody had that same mindset, the street would be horrendous. Um, I sent uh footage to several of the council people to see it. It's a shame that, you know, people buy property in our city, they rent them out, multiple
families move in, and the landlords come by and collect the rent and have a disregard for the management of the property that belongs to him and what it does to the community and other residents that live there with the trash, the cardboard, the styrofoam
blowing all across the street. Um, and then the thing is I reported it numerous times to department heads and stuff and I think what we need to do if something like that is reported, we need to do followup to see what's going on with the
property because it should not take the constituent to make repeater calls to department heads to see about what's going on in the city. Okay, we talked about the taxis and the license to render another license. My hope is that
we get and make sure these uh delivery service [clears throat] have somewhere to park their vehicles. >> Thank you, Miss Robersonson. We want to apologize to Commissioner Razac. We cannot read her signature on here and after this watching, I noticed that this
is possibly her signature, but I know madam clerk would agree. We cannot read the writing on this paper. So, it wasn't uh to dismiss her and not allow her to speak, but the writing was not legible enough to see whose name it was, but I believe it is her name. If she is in the
hallway, if somebody can call her. Next speaker, Miss Francis Harrison. >> Hello everyone. Congratulations on this team that you could trust. Good to see the mayor. Let's talk about this fourtime BA.
Four times that you're the fourth BA under this mayor. There's a lot of work to be done. Uh there's several things I want to address. One is the tax uh sewer tax that was put into a special meeting
that nobody could get online and talk about. Okay. I understand that there are other municipalities that are supposed to be paying money into the city because they use our system. Sure. We'd like to know how much money that is. Can we get
a dollar amount because you came seem to keep coming back to the residents for money? Okay. The retired people that are in their homes need your help. mayor,
BA, legal, council, work on some things that apply to us as a community. We don't need no more parks. Did you ever get um what do they call um somebody to oversee the work that's being done?
Project manager. Okay. You're doing these parks right now. the engineering department, the planning or whatever. Montgomery Park plans. Whoever is saying, "Oh, good idea. We get another park. Maybe get all
the parks that he need in his ward." But it is wrong. Money got to go to the city, to the community, to the people who need it. Because those of us who are carrying this city, it's heavy.
Heavy. And something needs to be done. Now you got another term. Look at the things that apply to the community. Not another park, not another street sign. I've been trying to get the signs changed in the third ward east side for
over six years. One gentleman is in charge of signs. Uh we already got the list. Don't point at my councilman. My councilman does his work, but he is only one person. And when he comes before you guys or whoever
else he has to talk to, it seems to go on deaf ears because these signs are horrendous. Commercial parking It's crazy. And before I get off, I got 15 minutes. August 15th, East Side
Neighborhood Association 2.0 will be having their Jazz in the Park. This city, no matter how many festivals we have, is so divided. We don't Ernie Rucker. >> Mr. Rocker.
>> No. >> Uh, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. First, let me take this opportunity to thank each and every last one of you that run. Mayor, congratulations on your historic third year, third term, I'm sorry. But I what I want to talk about today because I have been purposely
staying away from this meeting. And not to be funny, I don't mind the strictness of co having cohesive on this side on decorum, but I need to have it on that side as well. You're asking us not to do
XYZ and I'm asking y'all stop the damn fighting every I mean and this started again today and this is your first reorganizational meeting people stop the planning board.
There is no way in the world we can continuously allow the planning board or any board of that that matter to give out these whatsoever. People are parking 8 n blocks from their homes.
People sometime have to leave what they're doing two hours early to get a parking spot. That is outrageous. But yet we will give a variance to cut off 25 or 35 parking spots which you shouldn't be doing. And you have your
zoning board operating differently than your planning board. We need to get both boards following the same rules because that's why everybody wants to go to planning. Second of all, the campaign's over. It is time now to govern.
[snorts] It is time for us all to get together. We've had our little thing on Facebook. We've had our campaign fights. We've done all that. Now it's time to govern. Now everything is business with me. So when I fight is business. When I
laugh is to see where we things beneficial to the community as a whole. As a whole not just convenient for the city. And I understand we're financially in debt. I know haveus they have responsible for to get certain monies
back but that situation where we're pricing the small group out of doing something free for the community has to stop. Thank you. >> Thank you Mr. Rucker. >> Thank you. >> Our last and final speaker is Miss Assemblywoman Alisa Evans.
I want to congratulate all of our new I'm going to say new because even though those those of you who were reelected, it's a new term. It's a new year. Welcome, Councilwoman Alfred. We are so glad that you're here. That
talent that you have can make a difference to all of you and sitting here listening sometime I listen on media and you need to maybe take a look at yourself.
Yes, both side needs to to conduct themsel in a manner out here as well as over there. And there's a lot of work to be done, but there's a lot of chattering going on up
there. And I think as you all work hard, as you go and attend your committee meetings and get all the information, because when you sit here, you come with answers, not questions. But when you sit
here, we come to you for answers, not you come to ask questions. Each council person is responsible for everything on the agenda. You should receive your packet early enough. Read it. If you don't have the
answers, get the answer. Because when you sit there, if I stand here and I ask each one of you a question about anything on the agenda, you're supposed to have the answer. You come with the answer, not with a question. But on behalf of all of the women
in the city of Patterson, this is so heavy. You mind if we bring it over there? I can't lift it. >> To congratulate you and hopefully that everything will continue. I think you all are making
some progress. You made a lot of progress last year and we hope you continue. Congratulation on being selected council president again and for all the women in the city of Patterson. I'm presenting this bouquet of flowers
to you. Councilwoman Mims, it's so heavy. It I'm I'm serious. It is so heavy I couldn't lift it and he offered to assist me. [applause] >> That's my queen right there. And that's all of the women in the city of
Patterson. And men, we thank you all as well. But let us not become continue to be the laughingtock of New Jersey. As a matter of fact, you're all over the country. So
please let us show that Patterson can is a class act and show that we can do better. And we can't and we don't have to chatter chatter on every little thing that comes up. It's just too much. And we've been sitting here. You had 11
hours. Y'all should have been out here an hour ago. Thank you so much. God bless. >> Thank you. There are no more speakers. [applause] Is there a motion to close? >> Move to close by Councilman Veles. Second by uh Councilman Mendes and
Councilman Omar. Roll call to close the uh inaugural July 1st reorg meeting of July 1st, 2020 of the public portion. I'm sorry. To close, you know, I'm ready to go. To close the public portion of July 1st. Roll call. Madam clerk. >> Councilwoman Alfred.
>> Yes. >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> Yes. >> Councilman Jackson. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. So, thank you to everyone who came out today. Um, uh, just some quick notes. I want to uh uh
thank my legal staff for successfully defending me and and having these charges, fictitious charges dropped two days after the election. How convenient. Um and I will be filing a civil rights lawsuit against the against the uh state
for that those false um charges. But anyway, I want to congratulate all those winners. The mayor, uh, Councilwoman Alfred, uh, Councilman woman and Davlin Mims. And, uh, you know, the mayor made a statement today. Oh, I'm here to work
with everyone and etc. And when the mayor won his seat 8 years ago, was very optimistic. I I don't know if optimism was a good word, but I had some some uh
uh belief that things may go well. He appointed some stellar people from our community, Mr. Von McCoy and Miss Khalifa Shabbaz, and I thought that, you know, his statement in which he made today of we working together, I thought that would definitely ring true. Since
then, we've watched over $150 million be squandered at the stadium where our children's time there has been reduced. We've watched the former BA parlay himself into a business arrangement with the stadium to make money off of this situation.
We've seen evictions at an all-time high. We've seen foreclosures at an all-time high. And I see Miss June left, but you know, when I get phone calls like from M people like Mrs. June and you know seniors who are on fixed
incomes who are in fear of losing their homes. Listen, I'm not here to be in opposition. Not one of you, anyone, no one here can can place a uh recollection on me asking for anything for myself.
Everything I fight for here is for the public. even when I was falsely charged, even when the mayor and his staff falsely came to my establishment and refused to to render my um my my health license. You know, I've never sat here, never asked for anything for myself. I'm
here to fight on behalf of the public. I'm going to continue to do so and I'm hoping that those who are newly elected will continue to do so as well. Madam clerk, my vote is yes. >> Councilman Khalik, >> yes, Madame Clerk. >> Councilman Mendes. >> Uh thank you, Madam Clerk. Let me just
take this quick time to congratulate our new councilwoman at large, Paul Arford. Welcome to the city council. I'm so excited uh to see you here. You you bring a lot to the table. Your knowledge about housing and how connected you are with the community. Uh definitely you're going to do an outstanding job and we're
here to work with you alongside. Also to our council vice president, congratulation on your new reelection and also as a VP. Uh and also to my council president, my constituents in the third war. Uh you one of the one of the reason I'm here. Police
congratulation. I want to say uh I wish you the best of luck and and and uh we have a lot of work ahead of us and to the administration as well. Uh the mayor knows that I'm the one we could have a lot of disagreement but I'm the my my heart is in the city of Patterson and I put politics aside to make the best
decision in on behalf of our city. I was sitting there as council president for two years in a row. I work with administration and I work with every council member. We have a lot of work ahead of us and and to the mayor and the administration, the resident of the city of Patterson expecting us to improve our services whether it's street cleaning,
whether it's garbage collection, the bowl pick out, they're expecting us to serve the city of Patterson a better in a better capacity and we have a huge challenge ahead of us financially. So this is the time for us to come together and take those tough decision to protect
our homeowners, to protect our taxpayer, and I'm looking forward to do that alongside with my council and work and make the best decision for the city of Patterson. Um also, uh to my third world resident, I'm excited. I'm ready to just to continue my work. Every morning at
7:00 in the morning, I'm driving around my third ward getting those call and I'm ready to continue advocating and fighting for my third war and for the entire city. We get call from everywhere. But I'm ready to address those quality of life issues that affected my third war and those phone call whether it's concern in term of the
garbage collection uh advocating for repaving of the road and and and and attending those call and serving my community. I've been blessed. I love to I love to do the job. I could do this job you know without pay at all because I've been blessed to have this job. And
last but not least, Patterson, let's keep Venezuela in our prayer. The earthquake took thousands of life away. It is devastating what we see in social media. I'm hosting a a um marathon on July 12th at 414 Broadway. Um so let's keep our brothers and sister and if you
have any donation, we have a plate that you could drop at 414 Broadway. God bless the city of Patterson and congratulation to all my council elect and council. My vote is yes, madam clerk. >> Thank you councilman Omar. >> Thank you madam clerk. I want to thank the members of the public for coming out
today and uh also the ones who came out and spoke. My vote is yes to close public portion. Madam clerk, >> who's going to officiate? >> Councilman Vez, >> I don't want a former assembly woman at least Evan get mad with me because I'm the last one to speak. But um there's some issues that comes to
the public portion. I try to address it quickly to the young lady that came talking about any uh developers or renting company out there. Um he she mentioned one is in the record. Um I just want to say that no matter who is it, uh you had the right to read the
lease. You had the right to um read it up and down. If you don't agreed, uh do not rent. And if you any chance that lease did not came representing what you want, there's a court called landlord and tenant court and you could bring the issue to landlord and they will address
it. They will address accordingly. If you have a good attorney and put the facts together, uh you probably win. Okay. So um that's my advice. So sometime people come here thinking that we could go and whip everybody out there but it's not the case. I know you exerc
exercise exercising your freedom of speech and I'm here to answer what I can't answer in this side. Um >> thank you la. Um I just uh in the audience is a a gentleman his name is Jay Zabriu. Uh he is the commissioner.
Commissioner Jay Sabreu please stand up for people who see you. He's the commissioner that I appointed at the housing authority. I'm not his boss. I don't tell him what to do. He's a free will and he knows what he doing. We and we have the whole entire community. He's
colorblind and I know he's going to do a good job in a housing authority to Mr. Olivar. He's the clown of the every council meeting. I'm not going to upset get upset whatever he said because everybody knows where he stand and I know where I stand to move this city forward. Mr. Mayor, please. There was a
request from one of the from the people that came here to talk uh I think is um forgot the name of requested a listening section uh the same way the police department does there. We should go back at least uh by war once a month and do
it all the way around. Last but not least, Miss Harris. Um, no mayor, no administration, no private company could get it right at the first time. If they got the four of one and the good one, he's going to move the city forward. My vote is yes to close the public portion.
>> Thank you, Councilwoman. Council Vice President Davila, you were away, but we're on roll call for public portion. >> Uh, President Mims, >> yes. >> Public portion is now closed. >> Motion to close the meeting. >> Second. >> Mo motion to close the meeting by
council vice president Davis. Second by Omar, Councilman Omar and Mendes and Veles. >> Roll call to close the meeting. It's time to go home and eat. >> Roll call, Madam Clerk. >> Councilwoman Alfred. >> Yes. I just want to close the meeting by
again saying thank you to the city of Patterson. I'm looking forward to working and serving and uh thank everybody that came and stood out in the heat with us. It is time to go. Yes, >> Councilwoman Cotton. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Just want to say congratulation again to Mayor Andre Seya
on your third term. I remember in 2018 when my big Eddie and we were downstairs. I want to say congratulations on your third term to our newly elected Councilwoman Paula Alfred. I look forward to working with you. I'm happy that you're sitting next
to me and not I'm happy you're sitting next to Councilwoman Cotton. Um to Councilwoman Mr. Dava, congratulations on your fourth term. You came in in 2014. Like I said before, you were the second female on
the city council. And to our council president, Dr. Lisa Ms. And you said it today, you know, we're we're here because of other great women that paved the way for us. And I want to even say to our gentlemen, you're sitting there because the men that paved the way for
you all to be there. You didn't get there on your own. You had to work with people to get to where you are. Uh and I can say that we get our packet on Friday. >> We should look at our packet. We got
Friday, we got Saturday, we got Sunday, we got Monday. We having our meeting on Tuesday. We should already know what's in our packet. And if you have any question and I want to make a suggestion to the council members, you know, go visit the different departments. I go to the BA office. I walk to the corporation
council legal department. I go over to the tax collector office. I go over to the community improvement. I go over there to the health and human services. They need to see us. When they see us, they know that we care. That's how I look at it. And they'll tell us some of the things that's going
on. But you don't sit here and tell you all what they said to you. and you gonna call out names. No, you don't do that. You don't. When they tell you something, you have to like say, "This is what I need to do, and I'mma do it this way." But I want to say congratulation. I'm going to continue to do what I need to
do. I want to thank my brothers from uh American Lodge number 33 for coming out and supporting us. And this is so important uh for all you. I want to thank my lady from National Council Negro Women. Thank you, Shirley Alexander, our president, for coming out. Thank you, Madame Mayor Jane
Warren. But thank you all. Thank you all who spoke today. We are listening. We are listening and we hear everybody. But I don't need to tell everybody when you call me what you telling me about. I don't need to. Everybody don't need to know your problem. Cuz why would I want
to tell your problem to the whole world out there? Let me work on your problem. Let me help you with your problem. With that being said, Madam Clerk, thank you. God bless you all. >> Have a happy 4th of July. Madam clerk, my vote is yes. >> Thank you, Council Vice President
Davila. >> So, once again, Patterson, thank you so much. Uh, congratulations again, Council President, on on your second term as council president and your third term as Councilwoman at large. Uh, to Councilwoman Alfred, I love how you
answered me earlier today when I said Councilwoman Le, you said in a few minutes I'll be councilwoman. Um, so, you know, once again, congratulations. And mayor, I've told you this over and over again. You know, we've had a great run. We've ran together. We've worked
hard. Um we'll continue doing that. But just know um that I this this term I'm I'm really going to be um on a different wave. A good wave, but on a different wave. And
I'm so looking forward again to working, you know, with uh Mr. Ba. uh we definitely there's so much that we need to do and we we got to get our finances in place and and I know that a lot has to do with the state. So, uh, understanding all of that, we'll be
working closely. And, uh, again, like I said, to [clears throat] team Davila, you know who you are. To team Omar, thank you. You're sitting right across from me, Commissioner. I so appreciate all of the work that the Rosado family,
that the Abrao family, that the Montia family, that so many team Mins, you know, everyone, team Khik, team Cotton, you know, and I have to say it that way because every one of you that supported my re-election came with a group of people that support you and that support
the cause. So, I truly truly appreciate that. Um, Miss McCoy, thank you. I know I know that I'm one of your fans and I know that you're one of my fans. So, thank you very much also for the support and the family as well. Um, Madame Mayor
Jane Warren Williams, you have been an inspiration and a guidance as well as our Assemblywoman Elise Evans who when I decided to run at that time and I'll be closing um was an assembly woman and along with Nelly Paul
was like assembly woman then not congresswoman [snorts] you know you should run for office and you know you were a guidance as well and just to everyone everyone in this room and again you know Phyllis This >> are you coming back to me? >> No council council VP.
>> I was with Phyllis. She worked as my assistant for 10 years and truly I appreciate working as our deputy. I understand. I'm sorry. So with that said, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you all. I'm going to have some dinner with my son. My vote is yes.
>> Councilman Jackson. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's get back to business. The elevator at 125 Presidential has been out for 6 months. Elevators nonfunctional and buildings that have the capacity of such is against not only
local law, it's against the state law. I want to congratulate the real winners in this election. All those that put the money up to pay $300 a day to all these people working on these campaign trails and all of those now who benefit from
being able to continue to charge residents illegally. That's against the city ordinance for parking that could continue to rake uh additional charges. And for the young lady that just left the room in the back, you know, she's not the only one.
So, I want to congratulate all those winners and uh you know, it's it's very unfortunate and it's it's I'm just hoping that the the the conditions for the residents are are soon to improve as we've watched rent
values skyrocket more than we've ever watched before. I mean, it's gotten to the point where I've not even bothered to call the administration, but I have. I called the corporation council as well as the director of health and human services. I have a a neighbor across the
street from my house, a single mother, four children. She's been living in a house with no g with no power for the last 5 months because the fire department came there and deemed the house to be inhabitable because of some
electrical issue. And they're required to place these people in in in in hotels. This woman with four children has been living in a house with no power, no electricity. And you would think that as a municipality, we would hold these people accountable. I want to
congratulate them again because as they have made these contributions to ensure certain situations, to allow them not to be enforced upon, to allow them to continue to charge residents for parking and things of that nature. You know, hat goes off. Not a loser. just
acknowledging the the real winners in this election. And unfortunately, we have to look at, you know, those of us who are homeowners who are taking, you know, uh the burden of carrying this tax burden and congratulate you as well as your taxes will start to increase. I
look forward to seeing you at that microphone. Madame Clerk, my vote is yes. Thank you, >> Councilman Colleague. >> Thank you, Madame Clerk. I want to welcome on board my second word constituents,
Councilwoman Paula Alfred, also our reelected council woman, Council President Mims, Council BP, um, Marisa Davula, as well as Mayor Andre SA. I'm looking forward to at
least this year to work with the administration and move the city forward. I want everyone here and whoever watching on TV just take a moment and go back eight years ago when our mayor
Andes Sai was elected and look at what's going on in city of Patterson. Eight years ago, as I recall, we had abandoned properties in every corner and some of the my council colleagues
talking about foreclosure houses in Syria. It's very hard to find one as far as I know. It's very hard to find one today. Eight years ago, there was a plenty of them in every corner.
Look at the parks. I know we are tired of talking about parks, but city of Patterson in the competition with the parks, you could bring any city out there. >> Any city in the United States, I think
we are up there with the recreation. We are up there. I recall playing at Pennington Park on the rocks. Make there was nothing but muddy and rocks. Not only Pennington Park, Buckley Park cuz I
grew up in that section. I don't know about I I did not play in any other sites in city of Patterson. I don't I want everyone to go visit them. Royal resurfacing. I sent an email to the
administration and the mayor about um I'm sorry, I'll take another uh 30 seconds. Out of all the roads in the second world, I found about seven or eight roads is not repaved yet since I've been
a councilman. You have the list may over 90 I think about 85% of the road in the second word I'm talking about specifically second word has been resurfaced within last eight years.
Hopefully the rest of it the eight or seven roles uh that I sent you will get done in upcoming years. I think positive I wait the all the negativity out there but the at the same time >> okay
>> we have a lot more to do >> specifically the cleaningness of the city. Let's clean up the city. Let's work together and let's make the move move the city forward. My vote is yes. >> Thank you, Councilman.
>> Councilman Mendes. >> Uh thank you, Madam Clerk. So, once again, uh congratulations to my council, uh and to the administration. Um to my third war resident. We just continue the work. I'm very excited to see 19th Avenue repave, but please slow down. Do
not speed now. We have a bunch of potholes. People was slowing down, but now I see people speeding around there. Uh and also um to uh I get getting a lot of calls from the consistent around East Side Park. The gate at Eastside Park is being opened because it was damaged uh
with an accident, but I spoke with the director Billy. So in in partnership with the county, we're looking forward to replacing uh and I'm going to continue advocating for more resurfacing in the third war. Uh to the administration, mayor East 24, you're getting a lot of calls from East 24,
from 4th Avenue all the way to 2nd Avenue, 4th Avenue, East 23rd. So, we're going to continue doing the work, checking the list and adding those streets that need to be repaved in those list. Happy 4th of July, Patterson. Enjoy this long weekend. Enjoy the great
fall festival. Let's be a good neighbor. I'm driving around the third war addressing quality of life music. I know there some resident that they love to do those party, but please be a good neighbor. Uh if you want to have a barbecue, invite your neighbor and let's have a great time. Let's treat each
other as a family. Let's enjoy this long weekend in Padison. Slow down. We're going to have a lot of senior a lot of family around our city enjoying our parks. So, let's slow down. Let's avoid any accident. Uh but and last but not least, when it comes to park and lighting, we need to improve our light
our lighting in a lot of the parks and also in a lot of the area. So, we should have a conversation. I know we using funding from CDBG to do um to improve the lighting in some of the commercial corridor, but we got to look into our parks. We have to we have to do that. Um
so I'm looking forward to have that conversation once again. It's nice to see our queen uh our assembly woman Evans here. We love you. You know we love you and you always you belong to Patterson and you always going to be my constitution. I don't care where you go.
All right Keith stop hugging. Uh God bless you Patterson. God bless the great city and let's enjoy this long weekend and let's keep Venezuela in our prayer. July 12 is our our marathon and if you have any donation 414 Broadway you could stop there and drop it over there. God
bless you all. Thank you madam clerk. My vote yes. >> Councilman Omar. >> Thank you madam clerk. Well first I want to congratulate Mayor Andre Syer Councilwoman Paul Alfred my council president Lisa Mims and our vice
president Marissa Davala. To you two I've worked I've worked I've had the pleasure of working with you over the past year and a half. and Miss Alfred, I'm looking forward to the next four years of working with you, Mr. Mayor. The progress you've made in eight years is tremendous. It's incredible, and we just want more of it. So, four more
years, and we're we're here to support you on this council. Um July 4th weekend, I want to wish everybody a happy 4th of July. Happy birthday, America 250 celebration. Uh make sure you guys get a chance to stop by at the Great Falls. Uh a lot of great things. I know I'll be there, Mr. Mayor. I know
you'll be there, and I hope to see some of my colleagues there. And um let's continue to pray for this city. >> With that being said, my vote is yes, madame clerk. Good night. Uh good evening, Patterson. >> Councilman Vez,
>> can I get a remain minute for him? I'm just kidding. Um first of all, I want to say madam madame clerk, uh thank you for being here and listening to us and always using your wisdom with your eyes. Thank you for for being here with us. Um
today was a great day. Um mayor um councilwoman M councilwoman um um Marissa Davila and Councilwoman elect and now Councilwoman Swin Paulo Arford. I noticed something today at the park
and I hope it's the only day I'm going to see it moving forward. We had a camp from Paula, a camp from Mims, a camp from Marissa Davila in a row, seat rolls, right? And it was nice because it's organized for the families, etc.,
etc. But in this side now coming, I hope all that camp get united to work with the city. Councilwoman Paula offered, "If your agenda is the community, you not by yourself. You got us.
And if the agenda is the community, don't feel by yourself. I'm at this end and it's good for the community. I got your back. I got your back in this side. You are part of us now. Whatever hurt
out there to you, it hurt us, too. So, we had to work together. um to move the city and congratulation and I know that yellow mean peace. So saying that I know that we going to
move the city forward. Um mayor as I stated before um you have a good ba he willing to work with you. Uh please romance >> uh remove the handcuff and if he give you advice take it from him. He see he's
he was a former councilman so he knows what we're looking for so he got the experience there. So um making sure that the city move for I know the communication there. Corporation counselor thank you what you do man clerk thank you for everything you guys do. Thank you for my secretary my wife
uh person I love a lot. She taught me that look good in green. I know a lot of people did not you know say that uh whatever color is this but it's beautiful. Last but not least, I want to send my deepest condolence to Reverend Donna Farra Warren and the loss of her
husband. Um that she lost her husband this past week. I know yesterday I was reviewing I believe so um my deepest condolenc uh tabernacle church in the fifth ward. Madame clerk, >> thank you.
You know, President, everyone, my vote is yes to close this meeting. >> Thank you, Council President. Mims, >> thank you for the amazing flowers. My vote is yes to close the meeting. >> Council President, great. Jasper, >> the reorganization meeting is hereby adjourned.