e e e e uh pison good evening Council Cali good evening Welcome to our new renovated city council chamber welcome to the people's house um on behalf of the pis Municipal Council we welcome you to the
workshop section on March 11 2025 at 6 p.m. the meeting is now called to order Madame cler please call the role yes council president roll call for the workshop session of March 11 2025 at 6:30 p.m.
councilwoman cotton Council councilwoman Dava councilman Jackson councilman khik president Madame clerk councilwoman Mims here councilman Omar here councilman Udin councilman valz this is
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mailed to any person who requested and paid the fee authorized by the open public records act council president thank you madam clerk um members of the uh city council and members of the community before we start with our agenda with 71 item um we're going to 79
item before we start with payment of bills we have our Lieutenant Sharon in from our great Patterson Police Department who was who has a very important information for all of us Lieutenant good good evening even is button I push it's on oh you can hear
good evening first I want to say I would love I'd like to thank the whole city council and the mayor for are giving us the grant that we have in order for us to have all our programs we have our recruitment program that's going on now
and we really need the support of yourselves and the entire Community that's watching we are doing our recruitment it's a short period it's only from March 1st to March 31st and we would love for the community if you have
daughters Sons nieces nephew cousins best friends um anyone that you believe is interested or even if they aren't interested they may have an interest once they come and visit us we actually pay for the application fee we help you
through the whole process from the prep Tex to exercising to um the actual interview so I have a couple of officers here who are my mentees and I would like for him to say a few words and then we'll end with that thank
you um thank you Council thank you everybody for all your help especially with the programs that we have for the Youth um you know we think about polic and we think about just you know locking people up and throwing away the keys but I've never had so many keys to success to give the youth based on the help that
you've given us in the programs you know giving these kids resources Services chances choices options and opportunities you know with all the intervention and prevention programs that we have through the police department you know um it's just been a blessing I've worked in uh the school
system I've worked in with nonprofit organizations but like I said I never had this much resource to provide to my community and just um have the keys to Greatness for our youth like this so it's a blessing um I know that people
don't think of policing in this matter in this manner but you know we do a lot of great work with the intervention and prevention work and it's all a testment to you guys and your greatness and just supporting us and having our backs and uh for the people out there that's thinking about policing or becoming a police officer I will say this it's like
a job within a job right it's a lot of different divisions you can find your passion and a lot of different things right just try it out give it a chance and you know you can make a really big impact in your city and your community so thank you appreciate it coun Council
presid thank you for having us here my name is Officer Ahmed I've been with the Patterson Police Department for past 3 years and I love to serve this great Community Patterson Police Department and we encourage all of you guys to join the Patterson Police Department and make
a difference in our own Community thank you great job thank you so much you can um if you have anybody that's interested we're going to be we're in the malls we're in in the high schools um you can call us you can come to 9:30 Main Street
anytime between 88 and 6:00 just call me or call 973 321 um 17521 1572 we also left flyers and postcards out there for anybody that's interested
and for the audience here I know that someone has someone has family members everyone needs a police officer in their family everybody no matter what your feeling is about our police officer everyone and everybody in have here has somebody that they can pass that card
off to one of the cards off and give us a call they can do it and actually there's absolutely no excuses for anybody not to become a Patterson Police Officer thank you so much for your time we really appreciate all that the um city council and the mayor's office has
done for us thank you so much thank you lieutenant have a good counc K can we put our hands together for our great Patterson Police Department thank you lieutenant Sharon is thank you thank you so very much um Lieutenant please can you um can you
give me a second and to the to fine officer um so as a proud father a police officer in Orlando Florida because I had my son as a police officer well one of the things that I could say since I'm
sitting here and way before being a councilman uh from The Fifth Ward you know and colleag I guess you could agree with me on this every penny that this division receive is well invested in our
community absolutely so don't get fool when you say that the police department is not giving back is not helping it's not doing things they are putting every penny in our community that's one second
you know I commend the uh they they change the name now uh Community relation I believe it is Affairs right Community Affairs yes correct I I used to like the patteron community policing better than this name right it's more Community but the relation
that you guys have listen I'm out there I see it I stop in my car I interact with you guys because that's part of the community this side that side it could bring a positive uh atmosphere in our streets and especially that the summer is coming now um I know you guys going
to have your hand full of benefit for the community so when you see see that I'm reposting or posting things from the pison police one of the pages that I most post and chair is from this Division and the patteron police take advantage of it and this is for everyone
in the city of pison thank you council president I thank you cast and P when you see our police uh police officer greet them say hello you know engage with them because you're doing a phenomenal job I see our police department and moving on the right direction this governing body is in full
support of our Patterson Police Department Lieutenant you have done an amazing job yes and thank you and this is these amazing officers we have a program on Saturday and Sunday where they've hired close to 20 they'll be hiring 20 young men they're going out and clean up the communities on the
weekends you haven't really seen them there because they've been cleaning up the senior sites painting the benches um interacting with the seniors but you'll see a little more of them during the summer and if you have an area that you believe that needs some cleaning up contct officer Jordan Henry or myself
and we'll come to your area and we'll bring them young men with us are the Community Affairs because of all of you and what you give us we're able to do a plethora of things for the passing community and just so you know we do it with gladness we so happy I never seen a
bunch of happier police you do thank you thank you thank you thank you lieutenant uh thank you payment of bills councilwoman listen council president so um I'm sorry all right I just want to say one thing to um Lieutenant Sharon e uh and the community police and I think
they call it community community relationships now is that the name they they use but miss uh miss the lieutenant I just want to say I appreciate uh all the hard work that you have been doing in our community um especially with the grent that that you get every year um
that you do everybody in the community you it's not one-sided it's for everyone and I just want to say I appreciate all the work that you do in our community and to our police department and like I said sometimes when I see them Park cuz you know they're stationary in some areas and you know it's nice to say
hello how you doing I appreciate the work that you do actually I appreciate all the work that might city employees do because we they really work hard here in the city for us so I want to say thank you again to the young men which I know since he was a kid we partner with
every division right I just want to say I appreciate you thank you so much thank y'all again byebye thank love thank you councilwoman uh councilwoman count so payment of bills councilwoman M thank you council president and to our finance chair for payment of bills the
payment of bills for this week is 17,21 14,565 58 of that 5 uh 540 million is for payroll uh we have 5.2 for our active and retired employees we're
paying Medicaid B payments workman's comp liability we have 485,000 of solid waste we have tax for fund reimbursements um and waste drop off that is the bulk of our payment of bills I move payment of bills um for tonight council president there's um
there's a motion for a payment of Bill move by councilman Mims and second by Council DAV roll call cler Bill discussion yeah just quick just quick to the chair um to the CFO CFO um
very meeting now that we met we meet once a month or two uh the conversation that I generated uh regarding um even it's an payment bill but I don't know you got something here for that the
retroactive from the police department where we stand on that Mr CF there's an answer there's a question on the floor before we continue with the bill um we haven't met yet we still have to have a meeting we were supposed we were supposed to have a meeting to go over the numbers and we
haven't had been able to have a meeting yet it did did they file any kind of U paperwork uh yeah they filed for arbitration arbitration okay thank thank thank you councilman let let the record reflect that we' been joined by
councilman L Forin and councilman for the first war councilman Jackson roll call M cler on payment of Bill roll call on the payment of bills in the amount of 17,24 ,5 6558 councilwoman cotton yes
councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson councilman khik yes councilwoman Mims you skipped over councilman Jackson councilman Jackson I'm sorry I said Jackson but I didn't know he was in the seat I'm sorry councilman Jackson
thank you madam Clerk and I apologize for elongating it but um uh it's been brought to my attention and obviously was posted in a in an article with regard to some substantial um raises that was given what did the council just
addressed that those two uh employees who just got $155,000 raises and I guess we're just going to skip over that um well I guess they will I won't so um uh uh Mr Savalas I don't
know if you can entertain this because uh I I know that you're only standing the seat but what was the justification for the those uh actually I understand um Mr foot Mr foot has been you know he's been extremely
overworked for an enormous amount of time but the Personnel director who uh by the way was hired without having a college degree who uh received the $15,000 pay increase then is now what
but let me let me not skip over this she she received that initial pay increase for the purpose of her fulfilling the role of doing the payroll now we hired an outside company to do the payroll which we're paying an astronomical amount of money to and now I'm learning
recently that she just got another 105 another pay increase that's put over put up to $105,000 um uh do we have any any reason behind uh why this person received such a substantial pay increase
all right Harry so we're in the middle of roll calls Harry what we're going to do is right after we finish roll call you can answer the question to to councilman to councilman Jackson so mad clerk council president if I may Council should we be discussing someone's salary
an employee without having person I'm just saying I I know Mr Harry will know what to answer to that question um I just uh I don't want to get into the question itself a minut wait a minute roll call roll call roll call Mad cler let's continue roll after after that we have the discussion
thank you you know to the public and I'm I'm so happy to be back in here um with brother Malcolm Watching Over Us uh here we are again yet again we don't have to discuss the person's name but the position just got a substantial pay increase here we are paying bills where
we just write checks for millions and millions of dollars hundreds of millions of dollars with no level of accountability and here it is somebody got to pay why I have to be the person to walk in the room at this discuss it while you were in discussion somebody should have brought it up that there was
a substantial pay increase that here we have the taxpayers being burdened with and and where this where the responsibility of payroll was supposed to take place in that department was supposed to was tasked to this individual who's now gotten another
substantial pay increase who by the way let me let me not forget to mention who was hired without a college degree which the position requires a college degree she has since then acquired her degree but from what I understand we're also paying for her extended um education as
well she has not been employed in the city for over 5 years so if it needs to be a rice notice when is this Council going to be responsible when is this Council Council going to be responsible to the public when are we going to take accountability on our spending stop
bleeding the city out as we ride around and look at the deplorable conditions let me not ask she does not meet the the the residency requirement she lied on the job application she also then had another employee lie on her application
where she forged information on this person's personnel file where Corporation Council was giv that information and that was never answered to either when is this Council going to be responsible that's my question so as I'll do as I normally do I'll vote no
and everybody else to vote Yes and continue to allow these infractions to continue while the city of Patterson is is being bled Madame clerk my vote is no thank you councilman councilman [Applause]
khle councilman khik is your vote still yes back to I'm sorry no councilman khle I believe he voted yes before councilman of course he voted yes yes okay counc jackon my vote I vote that way I wanted to vote I wasn't talking to you you said
of course he he voted I wasn't talking to you you said something me out of it let me out of your mouth let me out of your mouth I wasn't talking you said it of course council members council members this is the beginning of the meeting talking you said of course he voted yes this is America to me this is
America know it's a free country I know I can say what I want to say I I know like I address youc members you turned around and address me I never said your name I still haven't said your name is not important to keep my name out of your mouth
council members we're in payment of bills please we have 79 item we have directors that are there we have a lot of important decision to make a lot of great discussion that's what going to do he's you know what he said that's what he said make me he he
like I say every time he whisper at me I say every time make me stop talking make me stop being truthful make me stop exposing make me keep your name out of your mouth you're a corrupt you're a
corrupt puppet of the mayor and I'm going to call you out every single time talk about corruption every single time you take a vote I will call you out every single not to call you out you want me not to call you council president point
of order do you make me do you make not call you out we going to have to call minute reception in do what you have to do if you can't control the meaning do what you have to do 79 79 councilwoman Mims so to the public
because a lot of times you know we don't really you know we can't go into details in regards to it but a lot of times we don't get information until sometimes it's in the newsp paper where sometime it's posted on social media but what can be done when you see those things you
can reach out to the CFO and to the administration to get some clarity because most times what's written in the paper is not all of what actually has taken place and what the facts are so you get sound bites of what I mean it's the purpose of writing papers right they
put sound bouts so you could take it and you can feed into it and then it cause sometimes chaos or and and eruption which I see a little bit of it on social media but once I saw that I reached out to our CFO into the administration there
was a clear reason why these individuals were given what was deserved the union was a part of the scenario with one of the individuals we support our Union when the union stands and fights for employees I'm not going to go against a union fighting for a worker that works
24/7 365 that's just I'm just going to put that on record I can't go into all the the details but when they stand and they fight and they Advocate and then they win for a worker I can't it would be hypocritical of me on this side to fight against what the union fought for so but in order to get that information
you have to reach out to the administration or we just came out of a committee um to talk about some of those things which can't be discussed openly into the public um and I just want to say that what we're voting on now is to pay our employees to pay our retirees
active and retired Medicaid B that is what we're voting on today do the other is that other information important yes but there are a lot of ways that we could resolve it and I'm going to say it once again we are looked at all over the
state arguing back and forth whether necessary or unnecessary so we got to find a way to keep a proper decorum which is a statute and an ordinance by law of the council that we have to keep in place so many people are watching and we have 79 items to get through on
tonight not that no question is not important or concerned I think it is but we also have to make sure that we don't just wait till we come to the public to express it you have ways to do it outside of just doing it here with that being stated this bills list is for the
majority our employees whether they are active or retired and that's what the bulk of this bills list is for I'm never going to stop our employees from getting paid um as a matter of fact our payment is in here so I'm not going to stop say you know I'm going to vote against
myself I'm never going to do that I always bet to win my vote is yes Madam clerk thank you councilwoman councilman noar yes thank you councilman councilman n you're doing good you're doing good for your first thank you madam Clark good evening Patterson so we need to get continue our get our services the
hardworking men and women of the Departments should get paid I you say no on the day the day I will decide not to get payment from the city otherwise I definitely will support that I cannot be double standard I have to expect that
every two weeks I'm going to get my paychecks at the same time I'm not going to support the paying of the bills and paying the payments of the employees of the city I can't do that I definitely want uh you know the definitely we have the questions about the raises we do but
it it does not mean we cannot stop paying for all the employees and all the services that the requirement for the city of Patterson so I believe that we have to keep our standard we keep ourself clean because I I believe that I
should get paid every two weeks and the day you think that you should not get paid then go ahead vote for no so I think that um this fight is just getting attention uh creating chaos to the community I don't see any productive discussion on this
uh with that being said I believe that this is the very first day we are back to the council chamber I think our council members the people the city of Patterson can see us as a model for them and then we can we can uh maintain the
decorum here in the chamber and uh with that uh request and respect to my Council colleagues my V is yes councilman councilman valz okay so yes is onz 5
million okay that's good so we are here on the sumar dispersement the payment of bills and um all the service that have been listed in different departments have been rented some of them and uh all of them actually because that's why they're getting pay p on what was
presented to us and also there's a payroll on it well councilman uh Udin was saying if I vote no I should not get paid that's what he's saying right so um in other case I always vote Yes because everything before gets here uh comes
through different department goes to the ba goes to uh different U uh scrutiny before they come and do Rand report of payment of bills uh ladies and gentlemen as you notice we are in the new Chambers uh the lights are new the
chairs are new the deck is refurnished um the walls are paint it looks beautiful one thing I have to say is we need to pray hard to at least to see we could take out of this chamber the demons and the evil things that
people come and bring to this Council because listen we need to send a message out there we need to send a message out there that we are working you could agree disagreed that's that's
fine but this is getting out of control every meeting that we have is a disrespect to our colleagues this is a slandering Stu statement is a a threat you know the other day I was watching a a uh the president of the United States
of America directing to the assembly uh of the Congress and the Senate and and and and and everybody knows somebody was not throw out was censored and was telling that he was breaking the Quorum and that's what happened so corporate to
council that's the Lord please bring some highlight because when this happened the president had to put his foot down it's the law hit the Gaggle go to a raw call if somebody's breaking the courtroom or breaking you know the peace in this Chambers had to be remove we
cannot continue like this we cannot continue like this and the public and this side had to have respect each other respect goes both ways from this side and that side um you know saying that uh payment of bills my vote is yes
thank you councilman counc council president thank you m clerk um me for my payment of Bill on payroll we have 5 million 539,000 for payroll only on payroll how nice it e to say oh let's be I'm responsible I'm
B know you've been very responsible now I challenge it and I encourage any person any of my colleague that wants to be responsible get involved in your committee ask question now for the public this is a public document ask questions send an email to the administration call us and we we we will
give you that information this is our city and the best way to fight is to fight together and if you need information ask for that information but let's be form and let's have a educated discussion and let's respect each other D in the public portion every person
here wants to speak the name is there the list is there you have three minutes but you got to be mindful do not disrespect this chamber do not disrespect the council and we not we don't want profanity this in this chamber we have two police officer and I would respectfully ask any person to
disrespect this chamber to leave this chamber because enough is enough we have 79 idols and only on payment of Bill we attacking each other like never before if we're going to ask question let's concentr to the agenda my vote is
yes M cler thank you council president the votes are eight in favor one against the payment of bills is hereby adopted I don't see Ste man clerk our fire um the officer fire department is on duty I need to take item 60 before we continue um so he's on duty and he just came for
that specific item M clerk number 60 uh councilwoman dava council president item number 16 is a uh police I mean a fire um item uh the uh Public Safety Committee met we went over um the
resolution uh there's a request uh by the chief um to solicit bids for the purchase and delivery of one a ladder truck bid number 25.25 for the fire department and this would be through
cdbg funding uh I believe it I'm sorry I believe it's 1 point is it 1.6 or 1 1.6 1.7 1.6 1.6 okay so 1.6 million uh
again this is a solit solicitation of bids if uh my colleagues are okay the committee was okay moving it Forward um I'd like it to go on consent thank you item number um 60 president um question on item
Jackson council president the chair failed to acknowledge me prior the councilwoman Dava asking a question um and I and I feel it was intentional uh I feel compelled to point out a few things based on your your your
commentary your statements and I I would have a question with that uh my my question so first of all just to answer the councilman valz the rules of theorum differ from from board to board the Congress US Congress they have different
rules than we have and therefore individuals who have stepped outside of the Quorum that's already outlined in their rules of the Quorum we have rules of theorum as well I want to urge the council president because you made a a a
a gross threat to the public if you watched the proceedings with the Congress recently there was a congresswoman I I can't tell you exactly from where she used profanity she was not chastised because in America there
is a such thing called freedom of speech you cannot you cannot tell someone at the podium how the manner in which they choose to let out their frustration I'm wait I'm patiently waiting for you to direct the police to
arrest someone or removed someone illegally this is the house of the people just because they come here and protest of you and they hold make an attempt to hold you accountable does not mean you can threaten the public by making statements about what they can
and cannot say at the podium people are adults if they choose to use language that expresses their frustration that's their prerogative if you want to explain to me and show me in the charter where it talks about someone having a choice of
language talks about being boisterous and loud but if they have the podium they have they have the podium it's their prerogative to speak how they choose to speak and lastly I I'll just say this last make this last statement and ask a question there's been many
items that I've requested you've been the chair the entire time for for quite a bit of the duration where's the reports on spending for the stadium I can go down the line of all the reports that I've requested that we could go through line by line that you as the chair have failed to hold the
administration accountable for presenting now you make a comment about whether or not we have to be responsible to employees you as the chair and every other councel person has the ability but unfortunately we have to work as a counsel I've requested on numerous
occasions to split the payment of bills you're talking about coming in here not being responsible obviously you're not driving around the city you're not driving around the city and seeing the the the the overwhelming amount of garbage and the conditions of the city that we're
in it doesn't matter what it if the council president if the chair chose to address me directly or indirectly I have an opportunity it it says it says within our Charter that I have an opportunity
to address whoever I have an opportunity to rebut it says it clear in our Charter so if you're going to make an address me or make a statement that speaks directly against what I'm saying that we should be responsible in doing I have an
opportunity to address that that's that's the matter of theorum in case you don't know I could point out the the the the the uh the statute and the charted line item that talks directly to that thank C so um councilman Ms we have two
item on community development director Barbara mlon yes so item 37 and 38 thank you council president so the Community Development um I'm sorry coun we were on my apologies but we didn't finish voting uh we don't vote no I don't mean voting I mean it's okay to that's what I meant
my apology so it's good consent so 37 and 38 um Madam director so uh these two items we met in our community development committee one of the items we have a program in the city for our residents so if you need Rehabilitation on your home I believe it's on
Wednesdays after 10 o'clock there's a a a gentleman that is always at 125 Ellison Street on the second floor where you can go and pick up the application whether it's um Windows Roofing different things that you need done you fill out the application they call you
in and then upon approval it comes before the council so this uh the one of the items is for one of the gentlemen um that lives in our fourth ward here in the city of Patterson that went through that process and I'm saying to the public that is available and open um and
I continue continue to push it through the community so that people can go on Wednesday after 10:00 to pick up that application if you need work done in your home so that's one of the items uh the other items is um on number 38 I
believe on number 38 38 and I would like that item to go on consent for uh Mr deol Number 38 and then the number 37 we had recommended in our community development committee uh maybe two years
ago with our non for-profits that come in to make their applications that we will have a program monitored that will assist to make sure that their applications are on target they give them consultation through that we have found that it's been very helpful for our non-for-profits where they able to
apply for money stay on task and do their due diligence and that's what the second item is for and I want to thank the Comm um our director and that department and our committee um for making sure that gets done this is the second item and I would like to see both items go on consent council president
thank councilwoman so 37 38 consent yes thank you um council president councilwoman right after Council mava okay if I may um director um Barbara McLendon I just want to say that this program has really really work good uh
in the city I I sent you many I sent many people to you and I know that they there on Wednesday uh I just say to the people when you go there you got to have all your paperwork in order if you got everything in order you don't want to have to come back and forth U bringing back paperwork so I
want to say to you um director uh and your staff for doing an excellent job um and believe me uh Community a lot of people have come through with this program and I hopefully by next year we can even increase that funding more from
CBG to for and this helps um homeowners through Improvement to their property there's a guideline but I find that a lot of them are included in that guideline so I just want to say thank you um director McLendon because many many I every now and then someone will
call me and say thank you councilwoman for directing me to that department for getting work done for my bathroom or getting getting me a boiler or getting me a roof or getting me something that I need have done in my house so I want to say director McLendon thank you so much and your staff for everything that you
do because many people have come through that thank you thank you councilwoman and um councilwoman DAV so uh council president to all my colle colleagues and to the viewers um I want to thank you um once again uh for all the phone calls
all the prayers um I am in in in my actually first week of stitches being removed so it's only been two weeks I'm happy I'm going to be returning back to work as I am here today I will not be able to stay for the full meeting as um
I cannot sit for long uh but I would ask respectfully to my colleagues and to council president if uh the items where I am chair since I have met we've done our meetings either through well I don't want to touch 15 if if I can only because I have director here um as uh we
had a Health and Human Services meeting uh virtually I want to be able to just if I can just move quickly um if if you see items 43 through 49 are Finance um all of them uh were discussed in finance
there are all renewals to uh motor vehicle junk junk card license if any council member doesn't have any issue with it I'd like 43 to 47 to go on consent 48 and 49 are new entertainment
show licenses I'd like them both to go on regular as um we do not know who the entities are um and I know um my vice chair of Finance sorry councilwoman item 47 we're going to pull item 47 for now 48 and 49 48
49 4 7 48 and and 49 all three of them would be go on regular these are new uh entertainment licenses and so I want to just make sure that we're we're going to bring them back for a workshop that's we're going to bring that's that's what I'm saying councilman for the next Workshop in APR for the next Workshop
they not going on the next meeting they will go on the next Workshop we will have time to have a conversation with the owner I have some concern about the um item 47 so it's in the third War I know some of my Council as well so council president you Madam clerk 4748
and 49 will go to April Workshop uh we need all the entities 49 is good for for because it's a is a poet license yeah I I understand that but I do not know the entity I'd like to have a discussion if that is okay
I consent all right so so these three items it's a paret license it's a young yard it's a young yard council member just a minute that's not that's not an entertainment 47 48 okay once again 47 and 48 Madam
clerk please call the entities to be here in our April Workshop okay uh and then 49 that that go consent thankk you uh council president if I may uh in terms of Finance uh it continues on to 62 63 64 and
65 uh those as well are parking parking license it's also coin operated Amusement device licenses if 62 63 64 and 65 can go on consent if my Council colleagues are
okay with that 62 Madame clerk 63 64 and 65 will go on consent if we can then council president I'm sorry if we can then move on to items 50 through 54 which are Health and Human
Services um we have the director here one which one okay we'll do library but this I'm only because I am going to be leaving that is the reason why I'm trying because we held I know we H I wanted to just I I do have to leave so I do apologize for that but uh the first
one item 50 is a resolution authorizing the acceptance of cold blue funding if that is okay with everyone um you know we can move that to consent item 51 is a resolution authorizing the applying and acceptance
of Family Court and state Community Partnership grants from the pay County Youth Services Commission for the Youth Services transitional special program all can go on consent because they're all I just want to make sure if anyone doesn't have any questions on these items that they did go home over the
weekend we were discussed we discussed it in committee as well expected to leave director 50 51 52 53 and 54 will all go on consent thank you yeah you can take the director with you know uh and then um the last items that I will discuss I know that there's more is
economic development we also held an economic development committee meeting uh with uh the um the director along we have our our assistant director here we were we also had um dipto Roy the
director of U as well as joh Franco I'm so sorry I'm looking at you and I'm like your name oh God joh Franco for historic preservation so if you can look at items 39 to 42 well those require some level of
discussion so I'm not going to rush through any of those all right so but this is what I and I'm okay with that um but I just want you to just so you understand all those items were discussed in committee and they move for the council absolutely further discussion it's going to be good discussion and you know I I for one can
say this9 I am okay for the items to be moved if you want to put them on reg there's two more exactly I want to give the opportunity for my coun over those item and hold on hold on hold on hold on on 39 could go to they were not in our packet
no we're not going to discuss if council president has indicated there's going to be further discussion I just want to make sure that you all understand that these items were and they did go through committee okay it was a two-hour committee meeting and but it was a good committee meeting uh where um it was
decided to move forward for the entire Council to then have a further discussion thank you councilman so let me 72 was removed um7 yeah so we're now there council members let's take item 59 that's the library I have the director here item 59 the resolution
authorizing and that's Council 59 one one one second and my apologies council president so I'll the last item that I'd like to discuss after we do library is item for first reading and then I'll be leaving okay president U
just because she's leaving the gentleman's here and I think we haven't done econom development the one he could not wait all night here that's why the one railroad remember every item is important so let's take it 59 then we'll go through the the library coun president just so Madam clerk in here 39
through 42 has not been decided yet okay n no thank you okay thought she said regular okay okay 39 thank you no no I'm talking about 39 yeah no9 item 59 Library Council
president councilman uh Jackson I mean she just went over almost half the uh the um the agenda there's some items that I don't want to over over continue to move past we talked about the
um and director the director already left which one Barbara be yeah but cuz we I was waiting to you know everybody talked and praised the the how how fantastic the program is going where's the report where's the
report on a number of houses that we a number of residents that that received assistance last year how much money from cdbg was designated last year you guys said you know what it is you gave all these Praises maybe she don't have the answer maybe some of you might have the
answer nobody here has it Council M so councilwoman that's a very Council M count as a chair councilman M that's a very legitimate question for c m Jackson for the next meeting all my questions are legitimate for the next meeting so let's go get a full report of all the
property and I'm just going to say this is one of the most effective program that I see and I would like to encourage everybody to please support this rehab program I've been helping a lot of people in the third world to to fix their property and all in the third world throughout the city President we all due respect all we need is the
report we don't need more um I already asked for the report councilman that's your question I asked for the report councilman will uh M will take care of that all right so so we have item 59 so um that's the statutory agency um
council members consent for library library consent thank you which one is the library 59 I have director Billy from public work um9 is consent 59 is consent
yes for the but my my question to the director is when the elevator going to get fixed director Flemings what director Flemings um item number 59 is going to go in consent but my question is when is
the elevator going to get fixed in the library the main library um hopefully the elevator gets fixed um this month this month the parts are coming in on uh on next Tuesday the 18th and shortly thereafter okay it's going to come in yes I just want to say
um if anybody had not gone to the library but the display is down I want to say to you director Fleming that you really put a nice um display for Black History Month on in the library on the second floor I just want to commend you and the staff that the young lady um it
was really nice um like she display and it it it displayed boxing uh people and referees in the boxing industry and I just want to say your staff did excellent job putting that together and I had said that to you before that she really U really I can see that she put
her heart in putting that together so let her know that I commend her for what she was doing for our black history month program thank you very much absolutely will there thank you director um thank you director there so yeah before before public work
with that there's one item first reading item number 15 um ordinance amending and supplementing Patterson C chapter 435 Article 4 Council M so so council president to all my colleagues uh and to the community and to everyone that's
present here today um for the last a little over a year ago um and this is about a year year and a half uh we had a young lady come here uh to complain and not the first one but one that was really prominent in indicating that she
got ticketed for uh parking in front of her driveway and so um through uh legal I started researching and seeing what other the municipalities had if any an ordinance in place where it allows them to be able to do that to block their
driveways right we have an issue in the city of Patterson with parking so you figure there are people that have their driveways that they'll be able you know to block but because of the state having a State statue that indicates that you can't do that right you can get ticketed
and so the only way that you don't get ticketed is if the city decides to move forward and have an ordinance in place a law that indicates that you're able to do that so with that through legal uh we research Pake has an ordinance in place
so does um I believe Hoboken um I did have a conversation with our DPW director um who um did not have any issues with the item whatsoever um you know we did have uh not an extensive but we had a conversation in finance as well
and so it's here before us um I believe that it's something that is needed um the um ordinance in place would indicate that the homeowner would be the individual that would be able to get up to three permits
and allow if there's a tenant or up to two uh to be able to get a permit and that permit will go on your dashboard and through the police department if they see that permit there that matches the license plate and you must have your
car registered at that place if you do not have your car registered to the address where that driveway is you cannot park there you will be ticketed and we get it we have some people that have their cars registered D through
their mom their dad a brother or sister and the car unfortunately you would not be able to have that permit the permit would be specific for the homeowner to be able to say who is able to park and you can only block your
driveway and so the ordinance here is in place um you know there can be further discussion there is not a monetary fee we figured that there's so many fees involved there's so much going on um that you know um through uh DPW it would
be issued there um if you can read if there's anyone that wants to add anything to this ordinance um but it is an ordinance that was looked upon through Pake and as well as Hoboken and so I hope that you know my colleagues I know that councilwoman Mims a Madam
clerk would also like to be a co-sponsor I know councilwoman cotton as well are requested also to be a co-sponsor and councilman colleag all right we all believe and and anyone else that wants to be able to be added as well I think this is a body although um I worked with
um Corporation counsil through legal um to to draft this I think it's important that we as a body decide that there is an issue in the city of Patterson with parking we do not want a constituency to get ticketed because they parked in their driveway because there's no parking around all right and because
maybe there are two cars that can fit in the driveway um and so um you know with that said I hope that this this Council and and I'd like it to go on regular it is a first well actually it's a first reading doesn't go on regular it's a first reading there is going to be a second reading and a public hearing
where the public can also come if they have any uh concerns or questions or maybe say hey this is a good thing for us in the city of Patterson thank you very much Madam M council president uh Council all right thank you uh councilwoman and I am fully in support I
believe that that could have done but my frustration is is that we have introduced so many legislation for different departments and this is particularly for Police Department to make sure that if anyone calls they cannot go and issue a ticket but I miss
a part which is how the our the new ordinances that we pass in the council chamber how they communicate with their employees this is where my frustration is I'm talking about my the block I live in on Lexington Avenue across from my
house and if you can recall Park Avenue Foods there's a company at the dead end of alvan Avenue they had an incident last year one of the one of the lady was uh in an accident I'm not sure if you can recall the situation one of those
trucks parked on my block for last many days even last night I called police police went there issued ticket and left is still there there's another guy living leaving his truck on on the on
the Block as well back in 2020 early 2023 we passed a uh we amended an ordinance that on our city street you cannot park any any vehicle or commercial vehicle which is over 2 tons
before it was 7 tons now we minimize it to 2 tons if if they do so that TR will be towed now my point is that when we passing those ordinances do you think the employees are concerned and aware
and knowledgeable about these ordinances and how do they communicate on the stuff so I want Madame Clark to take notes on this CU I cannot make phone calls to the police department every single day cuz this is this is this is kind of disrespect as I am a legislative body I
am a representative of the city and in front of my house is people are breaking the law the car Tru Park lasts many days every day call police they go 2 hours later issue uh uh tickets they leave they cannot let it go and continue like
this I don't know what's the connection they have with the court system whether they pay ticket or not I have no idea however the every single Department employees should have knowledgeable should have knowledge about any new ordinance comes I don't know what's the method of their communication with their
employees that I'm not knowledgeable however I think when let's say uh councilman uh Dava Council councilman valz and other Council colleagues they introduced something new today but if this this is just stays here if the police department
or whoever should enforce they are not fully fully aware of what we introduced today then this is not going to be implemented and this is exactly what's happening right in front of my house and I'm talking about the experience that happened last yest started last night so
can you please communicate with Patterson Police Department to make sure that they cannot just issue a ticket and leave and they cannot continue happen and there's no they don't even to this there's no consequences so what's the point of just throwing this paper for no
reason and we are I'm sorry councilman I'm I'm I'm talking for my frustration wa counc we are I understand our residents are sometimes are very frustrated and many things are happening people jumping charg on our street this and that but trust me as a legislative
body we have we have great ordinances on the paper implementation has to come from the executive bodies not from here so because of that you feel that we are just failing not really we do have everything on the paper but just a reality is failing there so uh I believe
that if we address anything not only the head of the department knows about what's happening but every single employee should be also have to have knowledge as what we introduce today in the council chamber all right Council mes and right after council member yes so I think it's a a good piece of
legislation but I would like to put put on the uh floor to amend it um to council woman DAV who who has who's a sponsor and we have agreed to co-sponsor but Corporation Council to amend it to a maximum of three cars each person as
they apply for a permit will be the the three just add the charge $25 fee per car so it's an allotment it's another way to help with um raising revenue and help helping the taxpayer cost base in the city of Patterson so that means if
you as a homeowner want want to allow someone cuz currently if you park course a driveway you get ticketed right so we this law that's being put in place says if you want to have someone Park AC course or driveway at night they can do it but they have to apply for a permit
um if it goes for for the $25 fee they'll have a signage in their window and they can park there and not worry about get ticketed and told so this is something to help we got a lot of people that have requested oh Miss Mara is here you mentioned um Miss Mara is here on tonight she mentioned it before and
other people have stated it as well I think it's a good way for people because we know parking is a serious concern in our community and I think this will help offset caution to the people that park across the driveway if I have to be at work at 700 in the morning please move
your car by 5:30 6 o'clock so I can get to work on time so homeowners please stress that to the people that you're allowing to park there um so that they will know and that may be have to be a stipulation cuz if you park there and then we need you tow and you're nowhere to be found then you should have the
flexibility to tow their car so I want to make sure that that stipulation is known and stated to um homeowners that are allowing this to happen and you don't have to allow it it's something as a homeowner you don't have to do it but if you want to do it it will be available and on the books thank you um
um for adding that Amendment Alo I have council member Le right after counc Jacks thank you president so just uh to uh tell my DPW chair that this is not a new paper
that we brought in today even it's signed if it's signed today on 11th means that we proceed to put it in the agenda today um but it was discuss it way way way back in committee the issues
that people was bringing and we took notice from the council and uh this coming to completion today uh one of the things that uh is good is that the person had to request a permit through
DPW it will bring revenues and the car had to be registered in New Jersey especially in Patterson okay it's not for people that come from out of state and you could block the driveways um the other thing is this is only give
permission to block the driveway of that particular house it's not to park in your neighbor's driveway is not to park in two blocks away neighbor driveway and the other thing is councilman there's a numerous High calls of people blocking
driveways and handicap CC councilman councilman councilman I just want to direct this clarification to you please councilwoman please we have to assign somebody to do that job the amount of calls that come councilman please continue counc yeah no
because he launches something and I want to clarify something yes the amount of calls that Patterson Police receive about blocking driveways blocking handicaps blocking um a car from another wall because it double Parks commercial
vehicle that's being enforced by PD and we could do a analysis to uh the court is a Mount and and especially when the amount of the fee went up to 750 uh we see we have seen minimum of trucks out there uh people are are
parking away from patteron and they even going to Pake that's why Pake asks me to send in the ordinance the overnight parking for they could be strict over there because everybody's going out to pay now um there's a word called
discretion probably the person says well cop gave a ticket you never know the cop the guy came out and say okay I got the ticket but please don't tow it so it's this discretion for the police department it could be 100 times the cop had the discretion you know um and and
no it's a discretion do you never know the person came out crying I don't have money to take out my card from from the from the pound I don't want to call councilman valz to take my card out you know things like that right so so this is a good a
good uh this is not a Feelgood ordinance this is good because it's going to bring revenues and it's going to put a little bit of order for people out there last but not least corpor Council this is not new item was related to this about two
years ago um I I think it was arbert of the one that resigned left uh the one that I bet back used to always be the type low arra arra yeah he arbert he draft for me and I brought in the comp
um example from nor Bergen and those section they have parking Citywide parking permits and he drafted I think now um the new guy that handled the uh the the DPW items he still has a I want
to bring it back to uh to the to the floor and uh count because it already was discussed it discussed in the um in committee to bring it the Citywide parking permits and um that also will alleviate also
people that have a car register in other City other states or whatever because there's a lot of people taking advantage of our street so to bring it to bring it to the next Workshop if it's possible uh because there already was discussed in in um in committee and the reason we
didn't wrote it back because the agenda was tight and we only was one meeting uh um uh two meetings a month okay thank you council member councilman councilman Jackson and right after no I just wanted to put something on the record cuz I want them duly noted that some of the
council members specifically uh our new councilman um Omar and councilman khik they're in the middle of the they're in the middle of Ramadan so they breaking fast so you're not seeing them because they have asked to be excused but I wanted to put it on the record so no one will question why they're not sitting
here they are breaking fast thank you councilman Mims uh councilman uh Jackson thank thank you council president so there's a few things obviously I think it's a it's a decent piece of legislation um it should be saving the
public from getting you know unnecessary charges but there's many many uh uh uh you know items that are on our books relative to ordinances that just get abused for example several years ago I
sponsored a residency parking ordinance that this Council approved and it's on Tyler and Patterson Street there was a few other play even on um 30 34th or 39th I forget what street it was the administration went there seven
years ago put signs up says permit parking only they never issued the permits never enforced it people continue to park there 7 years ago and we haven't had one positive action for the permit parking that this Council
approved on um on Tyler Street or on uh 34th or 37th I forget what street that is there's been no enforcement there's been no issuance of permits so we approve this thing these things and they don't get um uh uh fulfilled the
administration is failing this council is not holding them accountable for it this last snowstorm we had over 20 plus vehicles in the first world got told because they left the snow on the car more than two days all the crime going
on in the city your priority became Towing residences Vehicles who had left the to the snow on their vehicle and yeah that's that's on the books as well it's in the ordinance it was tough for me to to argue but this is where the
priority became you know what else is on the books let me remind the council is one of the first pieces of legislation I worked on when I got elected early morning road closures no closing RADS before 9:00 a.m. I sent pictures to the
chief just today they Clos the roads whenever they want to the ordinance says they shouldn't but now when we want to Target certain people listen I like the the legislation I'm I'm happy to support it
so long as there's no Associated fees the moment this becomes another fee for the residents I'm not in favor because here we are it's a money grab and the only people that's paying the price are the residents services are being poorly
distributed but we're being we're consistently adding on fees lastly I'll ask this as we do these things see when you have a responsible um Administration and a council that's astute and holding
the administration accountable this would have been accompanied by a report by how many people would have been impact imped by this how many summonses have been given out in the last year 2 years how many residents has actually
had of issue I do know it's an issue but where is the reporting we're just going by like we're guesstimating on what the problems are we put our finger in the water see if it's almost boiling this should be an this should be
a responsible report given to us so we know if the PD is not doing what they're supposed to be doing if they're targeting certain residents or certain situations cuz I know many many residents that call because their
driveway is being blocked and their thing is like listen it doesn't even make any point sense for me to call because PD doesn't show up for two hours and they say that block driveways are low on the priority list now we're giving them a permit to do it and you
know it without having the reports and without having a clear understanding of how this thing is going to be distributed how is it going to be implemented you know I'm I'm going to have a difficult time supporting it because this Administration has not been
able to out to fulfill one task and I'll just say this last last thing they questioned the elevators at the library the elevators at the new senior citizens building at at at heniff Stadium every other day I get a text I got a text
today we allowed the developer to spend $10 $10 million with no reports I know I'm going keep it's like a broken record I'm going to keep saying it and they use the worst the cheapest materials known to man up there Windows falling out within a month's time that people have
been living there the elevator there is only one elevator in the building and every other day you have a senior citizen building where the elevator is being broken down we have to hold the administration accountable for the things that we're doing this is just one
another example so I'm happy to support it if it doesn't have these uh this any Associated fees and also if we're going to have an outline CU I didn't read any place in here on how this is going to be implemented who's going to be
responsible for okay well DPW was responsible for Distributing the last um residency parking permits and it never got done so in this case how is it going to be implemented who's going to do the
enforcement how officer going to delineate whether or not the vehicle that has the tag in its window is actually the one that's registered to the system are they going to is there going to be a database that's driven there's a lot of factors or questions
that need to be answered so I'll rest it there and hopefully this these items will be presented before this is voted on okay um um council member so we have an economic development we have item 39 through 42 7878 let's start with item 39
which is a resolution authorizing the acceptance of the historic project ground from P County culture and Heritage Council um uh we have John Franco here so again council president these items went through committee and the first item is authorizing the
acceptance of a historic history project Grant um that uh is from the P County culture and Heritage Council County History partnership program for installation of signage so this grant is going to be specific to signage marking
locations of safe houses of the Underground Railroad in Patterson so uh John Franco um if you can please come forward and just quickly just um just present three or four points um that were discussed uh in committee and if
any council member has and let the record reflect councilman colleague is a chairperson and he's not is counil president that is why because I ran the meeting that is why I'm speaking upon this as he gave me um uh the ask to
please because he was in in prayer the time John Franco okay ladies and gentlemen council members uh this resolution is for the acceptance of a small Grant of $10,000 for a $115,000 project there's a
$5,000 matching requirement of which um $3,000 can the in kind which is Staff time and uh DPW time for the signage por portion and uh $2,000 in in cash match so it's um it means that the city would
would have to put $2,000 toward the the the grant project uh so this is the uh third the third Grant project toward uh our Underground Railroad site in Patterson the uh hunon van renier site on Broadway I'm sure most all of you all
of all of you are familiar with with it I'm sure uh but but people at home probably are as well uh the first grant was to uh pay researchers to do an application for the site to be put on the national park Services Network to
Freedom which it was designated and put on that um on that um uh Network and then the second Grant was to create a website to showcase the research that was done for the application the website exists it's up and running it's been up
and running for uh more than a year now this grant is to expand the website so that the additional research that was uh completed with the Underground Railroad application found different locations uh close by to our downtown
actually um that were involved with people that were involved with uh the Underground Railroad activities to expand on the story of hunon and Van renier at that one particular site so we thought that it would be important important to try to spread that um that
knowledge and that information and this would put uh signs uh like kind of like street signs basically metal street signs okay that have a QR code that anyone can scan and that will take them back to the website and it will explain
that location the people associated with it so forth uh so that's what the grant is for and that's what the resolution is asking for council president just a minute counc president just a minute uh councilwoman M so I saw so you put a
display but I do see the outline of about 13 locations that will be on the safe house passage correct yes that's right but you gave the um one for first Amy Zion church so so look I'm just looking out for people that don't know how to use QR codes is there a way that
we can possibly put like a small blurb of the historic um connection with the Underground Railroad on this signage I mean even if you want to do it in addition to the QR code I just would like if it say for myself as an educator
in our in this District that we can have like tours for our students that can go through these different sites and there is something that they could look at and to read possibly for a part of the um the learning and the reading aspect so I don't know if this could be amended to add that but I just wanted to put it on
the floor um that that could be done in addition QR codes are great but a lot of people do not know how to use QR codes and I think it would be great to have that um historic information listed on that signage and I think we probably could still do it cuz it look like it's
in in a working position correct that's correct uh I don't know if people can see this the council members have this in their package no I have it okay and I know when you zoom I did all that but that's why I'm asking in addition to this like I I got the packet at home so
I just want to be clear I read my packet when it comes to me that's why I'm asking in addition to what's on the signage that you put in the packet right cuz right here it just shows Amy Zion but there's another page that talks about 13 correct so I just want on all
of these signs a small verbiage that talks about the historic connection with the Underground Railroad in addition to the QR code added okay I see I was I was going to ask to clarify that I thought you were asking for some verbage to tell
people how to use the Cure no no no no no I want it in addition to QR code or for people that know QR code you know things change right things are fluid right now we use curac cod next time we're going to use something else but word the verbiage is used
consistently so I want to have the words there that will be stapled on these signs in addition to this QR code so I want it to become like a tour guide or a learning opportunity for residents of the community for our youth of our community I think it would be great and
since it's only in the working stage I don't think there should be a problem with adding that there that's correct and questionn Fran I definitely love that piece of information from Council do the uh Grant allow us to do that that's a question yeah they created so
it's it's something within the gr that we could do it we could add it the piece of history in writing on the on the science so my my initial thought is the the uh the sign with a QR code to Mark the Spot is is this going to be be designed and printed on a standard 18in
by 8 in like no parking size blank right so my thought right now is to add another one to the same sign poost underneath it that has the the writing on it so that will that will increase the cost of the production of the sign very you know by you're yeah but you're doubling
exactly it's very cheap you're doubling the the number of signs and we're only doing 13 signs so it's it's it's kind of a nominal amount Council so it's not it's not a problem yeah thank you councilman Jackson John Franco who who uh is is there a
committee that's working on this process this process the the researchers here were Jimmy Richardson and Dr Flavia liia um who was a paronian for 40 years before she moved down to brid she's a very old woman now and she's been doing
ongoing work with Jimmy over the years on this on this project okay all right I'm I'm I'm more comfortable I think think with that uh I was more concerned I was wondering whether or not councilwoman Mims or councilwoman cotton was a part of the process and and and
and listen I hope everybody understands and and and and takes this the way it's meant to be if an Irish American had something being presented here I would yield and say listen is your space just
as I would an Italian ameran just as I would a Arab American is there space space to be able to depict their history which closely fit to how the black
community and what I'm very dis dis uh displeased with is that whenever it's convenient is often advertised and and publicized and honestly uh uh unfairly
utilized to use the black community as an example what we're doing we talked about this Negro uh Museum forever the name on the door I don't recognize the name on the door at that museum I don't recognize and and I don't
know if maybe some of my colleagues had input on what went into that space But it it you know it's it's unfortunate that the committee that's doing this should be people who are descendants of
those who suffered and created the Underground Railroad now I will say this everybody has benefited from it and everybody clearly is descendants from that as well but it's unfortunate and and and uh again I don't mean any harm
because if it was a Jewish or Islamic I don't have any I don't have any knowledge of that I'm going to yield my input and every time I turn around this mayor and everybody else is touting what we're doing for black people while we have black people in this community
suffering and Etc so I would like to see and and I'm very comfortable Mr Jimmy Richards and both both individuals you talked about but there should be some Mr Ren wrestler his name his family name is is is a part of it was he considered to
be spoken to or consulted with even included on what his thoughts are because that's the respectful thing to do and I think it's rather disrespectful and disingenuous every time something's being presented for black people is
somebody else is carrying a torch the mayor feels like he needs to raise our flag the mayor feels like he needs to tout the uh uh history at the at the um Negro League but yet Johnny Briggs who is a prominent professional black
baseball player came into this Council and was severely disrespected by this Council where people say who is he there's a field that's named after this person here and he was disrespected so I think that the involvement for me to feel
comfortable uh uh the involvement of more people who actually uh um it impacted will be uh uh you know my request I'll just leave it at that thank you um counc so item 39 council member
um I I would agree consent long from councilman Ms um John Franco that request of in the additional science with the history is extremely important also councilman Jackson mention including all the peoples which that are part of our history which is important I
think that you still have time because we haven't take form action with this we haven't create the signs so we definitely could include all those people that are part of this great history so who will take it I council members on economic development are
there any African-Americans on that committee Economic Development I'm not sure so I don't have the but uh okay we'll look when is this V uh on the next meeting so we're going to consult all the planning has been done already we're
going to consult with all these people get their input let the the pertinent council members have give additional feedback in six days and then vote and then put it on consent that's what we're doing so y Frank a quick question how time sensitive this so I know we have a
gr and it's a matching Grant uh because I think including the people that are being part of this history for me is extremely important we could take those they will put great input into this project especially with the design with the signs and all of that so so how
how feasible that will be within the time window of getting the grant well I mean this is the resolution is just to accept the grant the work you know happens after so by AC in the ground so we could definitely include part of the uh you know people that are been part of
the history because we got make the signs on once we secure the ground so we're going to have we're going to work on the sign on the design and everything else so it's doable it's doable so council members I think item 39 could be in conscent Council M yeah I just want to ask a question where's this location
cuz I wasn't here the map is the map is in 13 locations where 13 locations 13 locations on item 35 is 13 places it's 13 locations yes and so now you have to decide what type of signs that go in here it's already done no no it's not
done yeah it is it no the signs no they haven't made the sign they have not made without they haven't done the signs they picked the spot but not the sign the sign in the design is in the on the body of the resolution Council woman but they haven't made the sign they haven't produced a sign we need to get the
ground first okay and then right after we get the ground so we could do the work uh let me ask you um John that's a picture of where is um the one the underground that's on Broadway by the college do you know why that closed do I know why it's closed yeah
why is why they not open it like they have been the the I understand that the parking authority is in control of opening and closing that on a daily basis oh was the parking authority that that that what I remember being the arrangement all the time it's that they were opening and closing on a daily
basis is that one of the spots yeah yes it's one that's one of the spots that they're going the spots and then across the street the location of Hunton Mill um right across the street where the colleges right I remember right across the
street um and then you have um oh okay all right now I see you know what um John um you have it you said it's 13 spots correct yes right do you have all
13 sites in here all 13 oh I can't see that that's L I can't see that you you don't have it written down the 13 sites yes there's a map and the and the addresses for each of the sites
are is on the map it's on the bottom right corner of the map there's a listing of the uh addresses for each of the sites oh right here yes okay this is the the the different
SES okay I see it all right John council president yes Council Jackson um I'm sorry councilman Jackson councilman mes was first and then I'll go with you councilman mes just very quick so who do who um decided on this design I'm just
trying to understand the logic behind this representing the Underground Railroad and I think this goes to councilman Jackson's point and this is just a point of observation I know it's a working progress I don't know who agreed on this I don't think this represents or
symbolizes uh the Underground Railroad I'm not sure what this is I don't know if you're is it a lantern I'm not sure but I don't even know if this needs to go on consent this is this time sensitive Ln is it time sensitive well
accepting the grant is can you let them answer accepting the grant is okay so I'm going to change I would like this on regular right cuz I consent just lumps it together I want it on regular because I really want the community to be able
to I mean it's a great opportunity right so I'm grateful that we are being awarded but I don't want us to be awarded to uh solidify or to to exemplify the historic nature of the
Underground Railroad and not give it as due justice so I think that we need to not think we should include I respect um you know Mr Richardson he's one of our historians but I think there needs to be possibly some counil representation that
can be present um and then others that can look at some of these designs to make a conscious decision on what this thingss to look like this Lantern I'm going to say it does not represent the Underground Railroad I'm not sure where this came from I'm not sure if it was just something to show it to us but
there could be a few ideas that could be passed around I would be more than happy to participate in that process but I do not want this to be on any signage on any location around this city stating that I was a part of approving something to represent my culture that looks like
this so I just want to put that I have Council man I have councilman Jackson then your net but you know what can you answer just just one second Council can you answer council's question who was responsible for the design because I know Mr richual so I mean he's amazing he's great but do that represent I mean
who was responsible for the design the design is a is a mockup for purposes of the uh application to give a a sample it wasn't anything to say this is what we're doing okay it's an example of of what uh the the concept was to put a
sign and to you know when you apply for a grant you want to try to show you know as much as you can demonstrate what it is you're trying to do so since this was assigned Grant we just mock this up uh you know this is not uh represent the final for example so all these repres
points are very valid we can all work together thank you Franco so I I have councilman Jackson n and right after Council woman thank you so um listen uh Mr John Franco if you can please you have my number reach out to
me and and I want to I want to know more about the process but I I must say it is uh it's disappointing that anytime something has to do with the African-American Community it's like it
was just something that was slapped together real quick cuz we wanted to and it's a small Grant it's nothing really you know substantial we spent more money on garbage cans quite frankly that by the way none of the Wi-Fi works on any
of the garbage cans and we didn't get a report on that so I I'll just say this this I mean it's rather it can be a sensitive issue because again like I try to be respectful to everyone's culture when
members of various cultures come in and they give us uh um scarves or things to wear I mean I'm try I try to always be extremely respectful to someone else's culture and it doesn't feel as if this was done and
and I'm not nothing personally against you it's it's historic with this Administration when it comes to the situation in our community it's never really taken very seriously so we're going to take $10,000
so we can do a press conference and say oh look what we did for the black people but while I have young men being shot on these same streets that we're putting these uh these signs so I would like to um I don't want to take over I
don't want to be a big part if you could just inform me I would yield to both either councilwoman M or cotton for their um input and and I I'll follow but I would like to be informed and I would like to to make sure that
those people who would like to have more input are being included because I mean it's it's just it's disrespectful I'll just leave it there but please you have my information just reach out to me let me know um yeah I want to know how how
and why this I'm sure if Jimmy was involved those sites were included because they were somehow included in the the Underground Railroad um uh uh uh you know assembly but to councilwoman ms's point that that Lantern even though a
lantern was a indicate you know um a uh a sign of it but that right there doesn't necessarily depict it in a in a fair light so please let let me be involved as much as possible councilman C thank you um I just want to say I can I can understand about the um the
lantern with Harriet tugman um ringing the slaves R and you know and I can say for myself person Rec l i was a sharecropper's niece I worked on a farm for like four or five years in the summer and you had The Farmhouse and
then you had the top house so they didn't want the top house to associate with The Farmhouse they don't want us to mingle together so what they used to do is a lantern when it was safe for us to come over the bridge so I can understand the lantern but I think the lantern need
to be differently because they use the L to say it's okay when they somebody did that it was okay then the move when you did not see that light you could not move you would not move until you saw a light and so I can see why they did the lantern but I would do a different type
thing that's all I need to say thank you um thank you guys I know Council M has another comment but this is my recommendation John Franco please um I know we we accepting the ground the signs are not done yet so you have time to include other people my
recommendation is to create a committee and a committee include please include councilman Ms councilman councilman Jackson and whoever El you need to include in the committee and people that have been part of the history is important that they are part of this conversation because the sign means a
lot that's the reason why Mr Richardson is amazing but that's the reason why that I asked you this question what does this design look but I understand what you say just the design now you you have to include you have to include that committee on the decision of the sign
that will be made so my that's my strong recommendation so this item will be in regular and we will take former action next week to get the ground but by next week please let us know who are part of this committee so I want to make sure that you include everybody because this is a very important piece of history for
the city of Patterson is that as a simple sign people that sign is going to stay there for years to come so you want to make sure that people come and see and read our history so this item will go on regular and I would like to open a public portion I see a lot of people it's 8:00 I don't want our uh pisoni to
stay lay in the chamber so Council Ms right after Council Ms we're going to start the public portion so I I'll be very quick quick because I already spoke but just a point of reference before you do any mockup of anything that represents any ethnicity make sure you
include the ethnicity before the mockup is sent for any type of applications just to avoid offensiveness or to be in a place where it could be to any Community it could be an embarrassment a mockup of of the Underground Railroad
without Harriet tutman is very offensive whether you have a lantern a torch whatever Underground Railroad Harriet tutman is always ass simulated so just in the future this is one example but I'm sure there will be many others in the future just make sure that when
those conversations are had and clue cuz sometimes I always tell people it takes more than one light up to light up a Christmas tree so the more people you have in the room the better Insight you'll have and the better the outcome will come before it comes before Council so regular is fine but just before the
mockup is completed let's have some dialogue uh thank you Council M Ms now members of the public we're going to start a public portion you have three minutes to address this councel and to add address Administration please let's be respectful you have a clock in front of you that way you could use your time effectively right after the 3 minute I
will respectfully ask you to give the opportunity to the next speaker uh Madam clerk let's call the first Speaker the first speaker is Li Lee l i is that a person I just see an l and an I I don't know that's someone's name what's that
name clerk l i is that someone's name okay the next person is Deborah Hannibal thank good evening [Music] I'm sorry um you Deborah Hannibal thank
you yes good evening Council council president uh I may need another additional 30 seconds because I'm not here tonight to talk about the VP position for the council I'm not here to
talk about the Retro pension monies that have not made it to my account since 2022 I'm not here to talk about the salary increases that were given that were not in the approved budget but I am here to talk
about my concerns about the appointment of Ibrahim Omar as the council person for the Sixth Ward I was hurt and offended when I learned of his racist
posts while reading a newspaper article in particular I was offended because his comments perpetuate a negative connotation of blacks as
criminals I am the grandmother of six teenagers aged 13 to 19 I shared Mr Omar's comments with my granddaughter and also with my mother who is her great grandmother and we all were angered hurt
and offended by these remarks my granddaughter said that it represents the comments who of someone who's bigoted and ignorant I was proud to learn that
councilman Jackson went privately he went privately to Mr Omar's political supporters and asked them to withdraw Mr Omar's nomination and recommend
that they give the residents someone else that did not come with this odious fragrance of bigotry and hatred towards blacks those are my words councilman
jackon understood as most all of us do that a person's understanding of racial insensitivity is based on their upbringing education and environment
councilman Jackson recognized that this comment had appeared on Mr Omar's page for a decade and it had not been corrected admonished called out by councilman
abdell aiz or as the article stated his mentor mayor Andre seya or anyone else in his this community at age 14 and 15 most young
people understand social norms and know the impact of their words and they know the difference between right and wrong so that's no excuse it is disappointing to see other Council people and this is what I'm going to be told to C and even
the mayor minimize how we as black people should feel about this situation the black Community is just supposed to accept unacceptable Behavior contrary to popular belief no
one knows better than we do how we feel our ancestors have had lifetimes of these experiences we are not going back thank you Mr we have played by the rules but continue to be hurt and
disrespected we cannot even express our anger without hearing phrases like they are playing the race card we are constantly being asked to get over slavery and all kinds of injustices such as false arrest and
false imprisonment our Jewish sisters and brothers are not being told to get over the Holocaust thank you m and As Americans we are not thank [Applause] you let's speak about cler
next speak M clerk next speak cler next speaker M [Music] clerk m is off [Music] off was enough to go to a black and call
the and then she was rewarded by being hired as the counil president's a thank you Miss Evra I know you want me to be quiet and I apologize but I'm tired of having to say we're s for what is done to us thank you not
turn next speaker M [Applause] [Music] cler cler can you call the next speaker next speaker is Chanel Fields people that Liv here didn't think that was
wrong let speak about [Applause] Chanel FS is the next speaker are of the hard fight of black council president the mic is off no no who's managing the cameras huh who's managing
the cameras the [Music] camera hisory that was and by former slave Rafa when youch meurt I'm hurt I
count Omar will be another example of City [Music] it CL speak CL [Applause]
the next speaker council president is Chanel Fields speaker members of the public I ALS I ask respectfully to stay within the 3 minute Mr House ask for pleas cler next speaker please state
your name and address please thank you thank you turn the microphone that was beautiful this guy turn the mic so tonight I want to say that enough is
enough let's lead and not bicker ladies and gentlemen of the city council I stand before you tonight not just to address you but to remind you I'd like to remind you of your responsibility you took when you were sworn in you all took
a oath to serve this city I want to keep I want you to keep in mind that these seats that you occupy are not the Thrones for your personal power they are not your platforms for ego battles and they're certainly not your stages for Endless bickering
tonight we have 79 items on the agenda there is no telling what time this Workshop will end your seats are simply seats of service and I feel like some of you often forget that this city does not belong to you alone it be belongs to all
of us all of the residents of the city of Patterson who wake up every morning hoping that their elected leaders will rise above personal conflicts and begin working together for the greater good don't just say you will do it start
working together because we the people that are suffering daily in this community are depending on you we're depending on all of you to govern yourselves accordingly in this Council chamber we are tired of seeing seeing a council that is divided it's time out
for being concerned with scoring points against each other rather than scoring wins for us in this community here's the hard truth every time you show us that you can't work together you fail this city councilman Jackson thank you for
always keeping the public up to speed on community concerns and to any other Council who keeps the community aware thank you as well just know that to those who do the opposite every time you hide corruption or distort the truth you
fail this city every wasted meeting you fail this city every Petty argument you fail this city every refusal to collaborate is a disservice to all the people here who trusted you with their votes stop disappointing us we did not
elect you to fight with each other you have only been elected to fight for us please remember that so how do we move forward well we shift from from personal to purposeful so please check your egos at the door this is not about who's
right anymore it's about what's right for the city of Patterson if an idea is good for the people support it regardless to whose name is attached to it establish a code of conduct no more undermining guys cuz we see you when you do it every debate must remain
professional and solution driven never forget that you are colleagues excuse me you are colleagues and not enemies I want to leave this council with my final thought and I will wrap it up let's move from bickering to building be a leader
be the leader that isn't about being the loudest voice in the room but be the leader that's about being the most effective one in the room if you came here to fight step aside but if you came here to serve then let's put the nonsense aside and get to work good
night speaker m I age next speaker is Joel keys I agree I agree good please state your name and address Joe Keys
Patterson I am campaigning for councilman Jackson to be our next mayor at the December 17th meeting I said quote I wrote The Following critique because I have seen two greater consistency of the ego defense mechanisms projection and projecting
narcissism unquote I proceeded to Define projection and projecting narcissism as exhibited by council members mendz baz khik and M I stated quote the projected narcissist perceives everything as a
personal attack whether real or imagin the projected narcissist is very defensive and then becomes very offensive next is projection projection is the ultimate put down through projection the
projecting party demotes and degrades their projective Target as they enhance their own self-perception and self-image for the projecting party reprehensible social behavior always belongs to the other the threat always comes from the
other this leaves the projecting party with a puritanical sense of ethical superiority and innocence unquote my next statement was quote I want to highlight ethical superiority and innocence because this is the most
frustrating and happens with too much consistency unquote the following quote from councilman Jackson illustrates evidence that the other council members are not innocent he said quote I get
eight individuals plus the administration taking shots at me every night when do I ever complain I don't ever complain unquote after reading quotes of the AFF forementioned council members exhibiting projection and
projecting narcissism I concluded quote total Distortion of reality it is the worst and most prolific characteristic of this Council unquote let me explain why that that is ego defense mechanisms are instincts and are learned and
practiced through unconscious conditioning and other words people are not aware that they are learning or practicing these behaviors I teach this in my classes and tell my students that I have studied ego defense mechanisms
for 28 years however because they are instincts no one can stop or cure them so specific triggers will cause my ego defense instincts to react the benefit of becoming familiar with the characteristics of the ego defense
mechanisms is that once the instinct is triggered you can recognize it and abort it quickly if you're unfamiliar with these characteristics you will exhibit most of the 14 subcategories that is what happens with the other council members because
councilman Jackson has a propensity for directing triggers at the other council members ego defense instincts he challenges them he contradicts them he criticizes them and most frustratingly he makes accusations
against them for corruption which are all infuriating triggers next speaker M CL the next speaker is William Smallwood he left he left okay I think he left next speaker is Erol Carr
commissioner Errol Carr I know Patterson Public Library good evening Council Mr President how are good evening commissioner commissioner happy to see you here commissioner yeah well I did not come here this evening to address this um ordinance but I I must
ask the question because I wasn't quite clear in terms of what was said earlier and ordinance number 15 the the ordinance um entitled obstructions what I would like to find
out um because to be honest with you the three most egregious things here in pison is barking garbage and taxes
yeah and I would like to know if homeowners will be charged a fee for parking across their driveway because no I'm you know I'm
just asking a question I'm I hope it's not I hope it's not I agree for the parking permits I'm down with you with the parking per but please don't add any more weight in terms of um
taxpayers regarding regarding that now let me just move to the reason why I'm here really okay and it's just to talk about um the library we are still facing some serious
challenges in able to present quality service that we should be presenting to the people of pison and the reason for this is funding you know the library is a statutory
body it has authority to control its budget and its employees what we find happening is that every year when we get an
increased um appropriation from the state whatever the the city is giving us whatever increase it is the city reduce their
amount um by the same measurement it means that we are fixed into one situation and we are not able to to employ the professional people that we need to have to effectively manage the library service so we'll be talking to
the council um going forward regarding this issue and we would like to get a decent hearing you know I I I want us to be engaged on this issue um so that we can work through it and we are able to
present the best quality service to the people of B thank you thank you commissioner next speaker M cler next speaker is Eddie Olivares my friend good evening all your name before you start the clock Madame clerk before you
start the clock please um you know I just want to say that uh point out that the first Speaker spoke for 6 minutes and 35 seconds second speaker spoke for 3 minutes 35 seconds third speaker 3
minutes 32 seconds uh the last speaker 3 minutes and 15 seconds uh Madame cler can you please restart clock just wanted to point out because I am I seem to be the only person he's using his three minutes
mon you know the the bouncer is coming for me you are such an idiot anyway I will say what you want to call the one of the police officers to remove me you think you have that power what is wrong with you anyway bottom line is I am the
only person that you really do not uh uh um allowed to speak for more than 3 minutes but I promise you that will change um what I want to talk about uh is uh
the new Council uh member Omar I hope and I pray that you prove me wrong you will be used as an example as to why it is that you guys can work
together The Only Exception we will be told is councilman Jackson he's the only one that we are told cannot work together with you guys I'll tell you why it is that you can work together and it is that the people that purchased the seat for you let
let's see what's purchased for you by people in the uh in the uh Middle Eastern Community and the reason is not that they believe you to be in your integrity they don't
really at least I don't think that they think you're an outstanding person which should be I mean for someone to be running the city part of the a group of people that is running the city it should be somebody pretty outstanding
that's not what they think of you the reason that they purchased that seat for you is that they know that you will fall right in line with seven of these council members you will be told what to do and you will do it that's it
so you will have no opinion and it is sad again I pray that you prove me wrong I hope that you prove me wrong that you show us that you work for the people of pison but you don't allow the mayor to
call the shot that you don't allow the bouncer here to tell you what to do which is essentially what happens we've seen it time and time again you know with these uh powerful you know the Power Players
here in the city of Patterson and they say to us you know this was written in newspaper articles it doesn't really matter what the people of pison say we have eight council members that would vote for the major that I want this was someone here in the city
of P thank you Mr next speaker M cler next speaker I hope next speaker M clerk next speaker is Alan [Applause] Jefferson Alan Jefferson please state
your name and address Mr Jefferson Allen Daniel Jefferson uh 81 Sao Place Prospect Park New Jersey 07508 or I'm in red form tonight okay so I'm going start
at the beginning history okay 1962 12 years old New Jersey Bank shorty undefeated 20 and0 Mike Jackson's grandfather coach Mr Fields you need some history lessons in here cuz you
don't know what's going on don't know what's going on and the kids are suffering everybody's under duress everybody okay and with sitting up here watching this clown show cuz that's what it
is get busy do your job if you can't do the job we're going to get you out UT by vote not with this okay now two man you hear me
at home you hear me at home wake up everybody wake up old young in between this city I I love this city I love the kids
I love everybody till you do me wrong when I was coming up God had to get a hold of me okay and I still want to play baseball at 74 with a Pac maker stand and the Herer cuz I didn't get the opportunity and you going to tell me
that black people are criminals I'm going take your seat I'm going to take your seat and I'm going to do it the right way now you want to talk about black people okay my family I'm going to talk
about my family my son just come back from kistan okay 20year Army veteran I'm a Vietnam veteran my dad was World War II okay don't play with me you sitting in that chair okay and
you smiling okay let me tell you something I ain't no joke I ain't no joke you can't sit here we're not doing the business of the city okay delapidated buildings girl garbage
everywhere I come down H in Avenue every day I walk 5 miles a day up and down that Hill Mike up and down that hill and when I get to North Fourth Street garbage everywhere Furniture know you know what I'm Mike
okay Mike let's stop arguing let's take care vage okay cuz I'm going to get some seats in here okay I'm [Applause]
coming next speaker is Marshall Wilder good evening everyone good evening brother I want to give honor to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I want to thank him for giving me amen this opportunity to speak before the um Council
first I want to start off with um I'm not an expert by any means um not adequate in speech but more police officers are greatly needed that we actually protect and serve the community we take a look around this
room we're all a part of this community no matter if you're black white you know just orange green whatever color you want to identify with we're all a part of this community my opinion if for for any other reason uh Patterson Police Department
isn't the job for you there are good officers and bad bad officers you need to go he's already on here time to get the corruption out of Patterson hold each other
accountable do your job no more bar and Li liquor or smoke shots here in Patterson thank you don't Patterson have enough already do we really need a new Lounge
here in Patterson also councilman Jackson keep speaking on those important issues that's not been brought up before the people God willing we need to know
what's going on so we can come together and clean up to move this city forward and this is for everyone no time for hidden [Applause] agendas and correct correct me if I'm
wrong correct me if I'm wrong um legisl y they make the law judicial judge the law um elect what's it ex executive executive they enforce the
law do we have an enforcer or enforcers here in Patterson that will actually enforce the laws no also loud music in community needs to stop if not many may it it may turn into
Bronx New York it's horrible on the weekend also what's been done about groups hanging out in front of businesses doing illegal activities believe it or not there's sex
trafficking that's going on here in Patterson a lot of it if Garrett mountain is part of Patterson please add Camerons more good law enforcements
presents as well and also the last one I don't call it don't matter what war that you represent I let's come together let's piig [Applause]
on next speaker is G Greer what's his name and address you got it your name and address sir okay yes council members Brother G good evening good evening good evening I did not know you guys turn the mic off after
3 minutes I recommend you turn the mic off for yourselves too when you go past your two minutes or whatever you do because remember when you come to me for votes there's no time limit how long I can talk but turning the mic off I just realized that that's like
disrespectful I understand you got we all got three minutes and uszi council president you let us go a little 30 seconds over don't turn the mic off off get some Decor in here this is your chamber run it right we going to take our 3 and 1/2
minutes but turning the mic off I was like Wow and then somebody told me they said well that's what nor do let me tell you what nor do nor has a program called path home for the homeless if we want to follow some of the work that nor do let's let's follow some of the work that
nor do and uh I I didn't want to talk about that but I but I want I want to get back to what I was came here for I came here for those illegal Park trucks on East 16 Street star laundry man when I saw brother Casey said his
car got to away for being parked on that street got toed in a ticket and then when I hear city employees on social media saying well they told me don't ticket these cars no more come on we got to get our house in order we really got
to get our house in order that same person that came on social media that said he was told not to give tickets that person gave me a ticket I was doing some Community work one day and I was parked on the street the street cleaner was
coming down and they gave me a ticket I went to the brother I said look man I said I was wrong and I came and I paid the ticket I'm pretty sure I could have went behind the scenes and spoke to some people and say look man I was out here
trying to clean the park up over here and I in the street cleaner okay but I went and paid the ticket star long G man has taken over East 16th Street you have a huge apartment building that's being built there okay wait until that thing is full somebody needs to check first of
all I want to know who approved the loading on there somebody need to look into that and then while I was sitting here I was just on social media and this picture popped up it's a picture of a former police officer it says officer
Joe White tick ticketing a a legal park car along with his mother who was a patteron meter made we need to get back to this type of enforcement because East 16th Street is crazy I got 15 seconds left the other
thing is the the trash y'all you know come on man it's I see the mayor now trying to do this but we don't need we don't need that type of the May needs to hire 100 Inspectors make them temporary
100 inspectors go out there hit these people bringing some revenue for the city and clean the city up thank you thank you brother G that's big cler the next speaker is is Princess Reeves here yes she is
she's okay princess re back there um I don't think she was F you got you have your name you have your I have a couple of things she's been quiet Wai I want you better watch your mouth I want everybody to get
comfortable I always start with knowing that when we come before this Podium without many concerns we ask that our leadership that we have put in office to take care of
those problems now councilman Mims yes I want to thank you because if we look out there on Curtis place and it could be verified by Mr G here that role has been
repair three times three times now it needs a fourth repair so something is clearly wrong either they're using cheap material because it's our Township or somebody's not holding in somebody accountable so I'd like to get that
cross and it like it has to be done we can't afford to sit out here and wait for our one of our senior drivers cuz I seen one his will did go in that hole and you feel sorry and you Tred to figure out what's the best help that you
can assist this person with when he didn't gone into shock mode because he can't grab hold of his tire to control hisself and his vehicle on that messed
up road that should not be that's very dangerous over there and something really truly needs to be done now I also bring a cross of some other concern patteron hope has been in this city for a numerous amount of time and I want to
be kind of Frank tonight now we sit here we have a lot of developers in our Township some good and I'm going to say some not but we have to be honest and true to ourself is what's coming before our
Township now it is not fair that we set into several meetings while we listen to these people as they say they get ready to start to do their renovation and so on it should have been done many moons
back I've been in 14 hton Street since 2015 without a problem and the little minor problem that we had we know who to pick up that phone and address our concerns so all of a sudden we get a a
new person that joins in on our meetings and I like to call it for what it is now we know the description of a tick now you know when a tick get a hold of you they hard to let loose you better find you some alcohol that's going to be my last out loud for
the night but I'm going to call it out and I'm going to call them out yes to Mr Rucker Mr Ernie Rucker I think it's a disadvantage that you come to a senior building and you present yourself as a
private vendor and talk our promoter and say that you're bringing in cheap labor for that person now evidently somebody was in vetted because had they vetted the person we
wouldn't have the person now we have crackheads that's on the outside we didn't know who was going to fall first the broom or the person we have a a cleaning lady we have one of the best cleaning ladies she was there during way
during Co time and when I tell you that woman came in I give her credit she came in she wrapped up and she took care of her assignment thank she if anything additional that she needed or she needed to do for some resident that was in that
building yes she did it so it's not fair that she got her contract cancelled because of that tick and I'm going call it again calling it out it's not right something needs to be done I think it's a conflict of interest that we have a
vendor and somebody that's sitting on a r Lev board and serving as two people it is a big conflict of interest and this matter needs to be addressed thank you thank you thank you let's speak on cler next speaker Sebastian Mahia Sebastian
Mahia Council good evening good evening um I would like to say that it feels good to be back on this side of the day is is my first time back in these council chambers since the renovation so it feels good to be back home you know because this does feels like a
second home to me mar so long um I want to extend my gratitude to councilwoman cotton who helped me out with an issue um earlier last week so thank you very much for being accessible and thank all of you for being accessible 24/7 I don't know what goes on with Y you know after
these meetings are over I'm sure your phones are off the hook all of you so thank y'all for it's a tough job and thank youall for you know providing that service to the community to the best of your abilities um I would like to start off by expressing my support my support to the Patterson Library and I want to
express that I hope that they get all the funding and more funding that's even on the books that is because they need it they need it they they provide a a safe haven to our community they have a teen Lounge that the teens go all the
time they get help with their homework they can hang out they have somewhere safe to go when I do go there I have Wi-Fi at home but I do go there cuz I want to be around people that are striving for Success so sometimes I'll go there I'll study I'll read I'll use my computer and I see people applying
for jobs I see people trying to improve themselves and and it it changed me as a young kid getting my first Patterson Library Card the white with the green it helped me out in my life you know and I I also wanted to say it's a sad
situation that it's easier for a child to get their hands on a vape than on a book in the city of Patterson and if it wasn't for the library I don't even know where they could get a book at besides their schools cuz we don't really have
bookstores so the the the book to vape shop ratio or smoke shop ratio was completely out of balance and we need to take a look at these ordinances that are on the books are we enforcing them why is there a smoke shop on every corner the kids are vaping in the
schools in the bathrooms in our schools and I'm not talking about High school okay um and and when it comes to trash you know I I I just don't believe it when it's an election season or election time when we're picking up
trash or it's our campaign to pick up trash pick up trash all the time May that should have been the priority of anybody trying to be mayor start off your Administration I believe they tried that what happened you know and it should we have
to take responsibility for our own lives every third Sunday of every month every paronian should sweep up in front of where they live whether you're a homeowner or a renter start taking
responsibility and and and I want to and I think councilman Jackson had a great idea when he mentioned some kind of a a reward tip line for people that are dumping if I miss misquoting you let me know but I think that's a great idea I believe in New York City if you park on
a bus lane take a picture of you you get the money okay pattersoni need money just like I'm pretty sure right so set that up set that up so we get some money in our pockets we could get and um and I and I remember counil you should blast
that guy's picture the one that was yeah yeah I swear to God because I don't I don't mean to swear to God but and I'm about to wrap up if you're dumping in the city of Patterson you should be shamed publicly no matter who you are yep and that's all I had to say thank
you Sebastian next speaker man clerk next speaker is Daniel Mahia Daniel Mia I agree yeah hello siia Patterson hello Dan uh my name is Daniel Bergos Mahia and I am the CEO of Silk City 1 I just
have uh three concerns that I want to address which is uh because it's been it affected me as well and this is why I'm noticing the first one is that on uh Ward Street Street when there's a turn
which I did by mistake well I did unknowing uh that there was a no turn uh no left turn towards Lee place on the far right side so the issue is is that the the the city police and the sheriff
department they tend to appear there within the time that it's a high traffic so you can't really notice the sign on the far right side and you also have to notice uh the the sign of on the left side which is stop for pedestrians so
the officer when he pulled me over he showed me the picture which is a sense of entrapment when I'm I'm in the process of fighting and in court but I feel like you guys should put a sign right above the uh uh sta for pedestrians so people could stop turning
especially on high traffic times and then the second concern uh is with the city uh legal department on May 22nd I had an issue uh with the officer where my vehicle was told and um I requested
for the full footage but they only provided me with a small portion where I was included only they did not show where uh the the uh Council elect which is on the second floor uh next to the legal department and the person who
works for the city roads um speaking with the off officer and then the officer coming to me and stopping me from pushing my vehicle into private property so um you know this is this raises the concern with the with the city um when it comes to the legal
department because they're giving you watered down responses or they just don't provide you know they give you small laws that if you don't read into it you just let it go as is and then you just blame the city for uh not doing their job right and no transparency at
all um which one was the third one I'm sorry my head is one second let me see one second one second I got 36 seconds left all right so yeah um when the
vehicle was sold it I I want to put into consideration uh let's say somebody that makes uh $20 an hour which is 30 uh 3200 a month after taxes well 15% is 480 and then you have to deduct uh the expenses
is on food uh let's say a $30 a day um uh insurance and uh you have the utilities which is 300 and traveling expenses which is 200 and let's say your rent if the landlord allows you um is
1,800 for a two-bedroom at the minimum so you're left with a deficit of 110 which the person who who let's say the mother or the father who who's constantly working trying to make ends meet once they get their vehicle tow
which is uh uh $60 just for for the 150 just for the toe and then $60 for every day that that passes is a burden upon them and then it becomes a burden for the city because they the people who are in need then they come to the city for assistance and thank thank you thank you
Sebastian let's me man clerk Daniel we have no more speakers motion to close a second move by Council Dr Lissa Miss second by council member roll call man to close the public portion call the public portion
councilwoman cotton thank you madam clerk I'm not going to be able to um speak on um everyone that spoke because I I've done it before but um motion you know as being a councilwoman one thing I always said that you need you need elected official that is approachable
you need elected official that your name don't show up on the phone but you answered it anyhow that's right you you need those kind of people sitting in the office because at any given time they ask for everything they ask for whatever I can help you with that's what people
calling for I I may not be able to answer it all but let me find where I can send you to let me make friends with the congressman let me make friends with the US senator let me make friends with the Freeholder let me make friends with everybody so when your issue come up I know where I can send you because
everything is not the city itself and then now now that what's happening and quite a few family members of my family members is got cut from the federal government just like that so it's an issue for everyone but my goal is to make sure that I'm approachable that I
can send you somewhere I can help you somewhere and I talked about it you know I worked on a farm I know what it is but my goal is to share information cuz what I know I'm going to share it with you and what you
know you going to share it with someone else and there's all kind of things that we want to be able to my son went to East Side in 1999 you couldn't cross Markus Street in 1999 my daughter my husband and myself made sure that we went over there to
East Side High School field house and took those kids home and I said to the community let's get back to helping each other I know everybody on my block I'm not trying to do something on my block that I should not be doing I need to you
to look after my house my children my kids I need you we need to look after everything and it's not easy but but I want you to and I try to help people who want want Second Chances everybody deserve a second
chance I know how hard it was to get that program in the fourth W uh for for that re-entry it wasn't easy but you know what people I find that and I tell tell young people you know look at doing a career they don't need moppers and
sweepers no more they're looking for people with some type of career model they're looking for something like that so when when you want to do that you got to like want to like help someone come volunteer with any of us all of us got
something going on all the time because I say to young people when they go before a judge the first thing he want to know is what have you done in a Community if you ain't done nothing you can't produce nothing you're not going to get it so
involve yourself with other people involve yourself with all the council members to do something in the community and you know and I talk about and and I'm going to be grief me be very I don't want to talk long but you know what maybe because I came through hard
times we didn't complain when we came through hard times we did what we had to do and we made oursel better we make sure I'm going to help you get yourself you know my baby sister went to college back in the day our our members our
parents didn't know college go to school and go to work go to school and go to work that's what they knew but that was that was okay cuz then as you get older you your whole generation starts changing so when my when I started talking college at my house both my kids
went to acbu because I was taught from a kindergarten teacher make sure you send your child to htpu college and that's what I did my daughter went to South Carolina state my son went to Virginia Union they needed those people we got to
do our best to share our information to share and I'm going to leave with this you know unless you really sit down and you talk with me don't say you know Ruby con you ain't never called me don't say you know Ruby cotton you don't know who
I've talked to you don't don't say I don't do nothing you know I try to help as many or lead them to the right place but I want to end with this that's right I want to end with this I took myself to sell my Alabama this weekend I took
myself to sell my Alabama to celebrate the 60th anniversary of walking across that bridge and as I started walking across that bridge tears came to my eyes cuz I started thinking about all my family members that struggle that struggle but I'm not going to let that
hold me down who struggle to get through and then you know what if I bring you up then you going to bring somebody else up I'm not going to keep you down I'm never going to keep nobody down it's up to you how you want to do and who you want to bring with you let's bring everybody with us let's bring everybody and as I
crossed that bridge I started crying because I know what it was to be on a farm I know what it was to bring home $25 a week I know what it was and so you know what you don't sit down crying no more you going to make it
better for yourself you don't sit down crying God said I didn't put you here to cry I put you here to see what you going to do I put you here to see who you going to help I put you here to see you are caretakers and not takers let's remember that and so I just when I
crossed that bridge it just something came over me because I thought about my family I thought about the cotton I thought about the whes I thought about McDaniels I thought about the Jenkin I thought the spin I thought about the my whole family we came from the south and you come to the north to get a
better life that's right that's right that's what we did we came to the north for a better life and whatever I can do I'm going help whoever I can help I don't need to know you to help you than stop it of not knowing somebody that you not going to help them I don't need to know you to help you you pick up the
phone and call me I'm going do my best to help you or lead you to the right place that's all I want to that's what we need to do thank you but I'm just saying I felt overwhelmed weekend I just felt overwhelmed Crossing that bridge I had the opportunity to see Jesse Jackson I had the opportunity to
see Reverend Al shop yeah and I saw people pushing in wheelchairs there were 80 90 years old people crossing that bridge in wheel cheers cuz they never forgot the struggle and they going to always remember with that being said Madam cler my votes are yes thank you councilwoman
councilman Jackson great job coun thank you madam clerk just a FYI councilwoman cotton the mayor not only does he not take your cause once you don't agree with him but he'll block you he'll block
your page and social media he won't take your cuse he won't he'll walk the other way when you see you I'm waiting for the day I get stuck in the elevator with him he's a he is a coward I me he's not a man he's not a person that should be in a leadership position because he's not
willing to answer he represents all the constituents and he's uh he's afraid to acknowledge them when when when it when it becomes a challenge um and G you said like disrespectful like
disrespectful the the the the measure of disrespect by turning Miss Hannibal's mic off is profound this is a woman who has dedicated herself to this community who sat in a position was
mistreated who who holds most multiple degrees master's degrees let alone was she overqualified for the position that she made far less than the person who's there now who's underqualified for the position but right here in this room she
was disrespected and she wasn't the only one you know Miss mcco when she took the position that was just recently held by the former ba she was paid substantially less the the fact that Miss Hannibal had something to say
and then the council president it just goes to talk about his lack of respect not just for you directly Miss Hannibal but your your issue that you had when the issue you had
isn't an doesn't yield enough concern they'll turn your mic off and that that is that is very disrespectful and it's concerning I want to say this so the gentleman can go ahead and step out first of all the taxpayers pay a certain
amount that's supposed to be designated specifically for the library if that money is being stolen from the library just because there's additional money we on every single Department in the city is being grossly underfunded but when the state steps up
and says listen we're going to make up for whatever deficiencies that the city can't carry and then the city turns around and cuts the portion that we're obligated to give because the taxpayers are paying that amount of money that goes to show yet
again the mayor's lack of consideration of what's important because if you don't understand that the people who are trying to educate your community specifically the young people if you don't understand how that's a direct correlation to changing the community
you don't understand what who you're serving and that's just the fact of the matter I'm hoping that council members will hear this because council members are ultimately in charge of the pur strings but if they continue to be a stamp a rubber stamp and a yes vote then
this is what we're going to get so you obviously you have my commitment I urge you to call the rest of the council members to see who's going to make that commitment then come here again brother Carr publicly and ask them who's going to stand firm on the commitment not to
cutting your budget cuz that's important um someone mentioned toe contract before I get on you tonight Corporation counsel because you're on my list um the contract for for for the tow and the
towing the tow company if they tow your car at 11:55 in the in the p.m. and you come there in the morning to pick it up they're charging you for a second day because the calendar date might say the 14th when you get there it could be six
hours five hours later but because it says the 15th they're charging the public for two days and that is Criminal that's a oversight on the administration for putting that contract forward and signing that contract to allow that I'm
I'm sure it's not an oversight I'm pretty sure it was done intentionally but I'm going get into this uh piece very briefly um Corporation Council yet again you don't surprise me but you do let me down you know I specifically
reached out to Corporation counsel and I sent messages through the through the uh the process through the the clerk's office to have a piece of res resolution drafted that I can have an opportunity to remove my support for brother Omar
now let me go on record to say this I have nothing personal against the brother we don't know each other well but I embraced them we shook hands the other day this is not anything personal you know what this is Brother Omar this is a life lesson A Life Lesson that sometimes you got to
take and to miss Hannibal's point I made every effort to do this quietly because I didn't think that the city or the brother should have gone through this level of scrutiny publicly I reached out
to those leaders in his community who consistently reach out to me when they want my support for something right so needless to say Corporation Council failed to answer he works for me he works for the council that's why I draft
all my own legislation because yet again two and a half weeks ago he has failed to draft the piece of legislation that I asked for well I need four more to fire him I would have fired his ass a long time ago because not only on this matter but
there was an illegal tax certificate that allowed for a a a church that's been in our community for 50 to 100 years their property was stolen and he sat he sat sat quiet on it let it sit on his sat under his hands and didn't do
anything and there's many other issues that I could talk about but let me not get too far derailed I reached out to these leaders who said to me councilmen cuz I said to them you consistent ly
come here you raise all kind of hell but when Naji C Brooks was shot you were absent when Deborah Hannibal was forced out of the position mistreated you are
absent but anytime there's an issue with an Arab or a Muslim you front and center and guess what so am I the vote for the Adon despite numerous black pastors coming here and claiming that it was a spiritual war
I supported this brother right here I supported him in fact I was the deciding vote everybody praised me thought I was the greatest guy then but yet when my people are compared to Batman and say that they they they don't
leave without robbing when a young lady who just left the council chambers and when a young lady who just left the council chambers at a very crowded voting night turns to
an employee who's working overtime who's a black dude and calls him a when it when it when she doubles down on it and he didn't hear her and she said that's right I said you a that was the
quote but then she apologizes fine everybody is entitled we accept your apology but when you're appointed is much different than when you're elected many people view Donald Trump as
having these views about various people but guess what Donald Trump was selected by the majority of the community he wasn't appointed when you're appointed you're you're held to a different measure when you're appointed the
expectations of so such a low perspective of the absolute majority of the voters or majority of the the potential voters in this community should be what should be higher than what it is when we look at
the prison rate of the the rate of incarceration against black people now you're appointed and you have the same indoctrination of the thought process of the rest of no that doesn't settle well with Me Now by no means am I Against
brother Omar holding a seat he could have the seat obviously it's already been done he's been voted on and he has been sworn in but I am relinquishing my support because even in the night of the of the
vote I told him very reluctantly because I didn't I had questions but yet I did cast the vter support and then when I went to address it with his people with his mentee who had him as an aid for all
these years I went to address him am be what what did he say you you the one voted for him you supported him I didn't he was supported based on his recommendation but yet he wants to relinquish the accountability for it see
that's a lack of integrity that's a lack that that shows that there's no real leadership that unfortunately Omar's actions is not a actions of it actions of his own it's a it's a lack of
mentorship and his leaders showed that because the same leaders that told me councilman when you have a problem and you need our support and the black community is directly insulted just call
us and we'll be there and I'm going call him by name brother Ibraham and brother diab said listen call us and we'll be there I called them the first time I heard about it I called them said what time are we meeting not when what time
it's Friday this is a serious matter what time are we meeting oh the first their first knee-jerk reaction to tell them the LIE this is not real can this be real oh councilman his page was
hacked now you're insulting my intelligence so I said look listen when are we going to meet again over the weekend again 3 days in when are we meeting they refuse to meet with me that's because they've already cut the deals with the various council members to override what councilman Jackson is
saying now that's fine because they're entitled to do so but I'm not lending my measure support now that doesn't mean I wouldn't be interested or willing to work with the brother and or be a firm real Mentor because that's what's lacking
I'm all the way willing for for that am I insulted absolutely is it ireverse irreversible no but the first thing is there's a level of accountability not even on his part but those who have stepped forward to put him into the place and now they're absent now they're
absent so the Viewpoint of black people is so low that when you when you have a church here for a number of years and your property stolen we don't take you seriously when you work here and you're over qualified you're 10 times more qualified than somebody else and and you
don't get the luxury of having that $25 $30,000 pay increase and they force you out nobody takes that seriously when other employees and see this is the part that I I just need brother Omar to hear
because the night that I went viral it wasn't because I I I I I ENT or I was looking to have a fight with the gentleman listen I've been teaching people to fight for 25 plus years I've been in real fights where I've been jumped by
multiple people guess what I wasn't the one that went to the hospital that wasn't something that I needed to entertain but the entire seab Brooks family was here and those young people was expressing their frustration and he took the time out to laugh in their faces scarf at them and then try to call
them out so that the police that were here that night could Target them because black people are continuously being targeted even after opening the floodgates for everybody else to benefit from and if you don't understand that then you don't understand how
insensitive it is just to talk about yeah it's a joke okay yeah you know how what black people have in common with black with Batman they don't leave without Robin I didn't see any other jokes I didn't see a joke about Palestinians up there I ain't see a joke about Arabs up there I ain't see jokes
about Jews up nobody else else just the black people and what's disappointing is that the black people say oh you know it's all right we got to let that go well I'm not that guy I'm not letting it go I'm a pitbull and I'mma keep coming
if I'm one against eight if I'm one against 12 if I'm one against 50 I'm going to keep on coming and I want my support removed and I'm asking the brother out of respect as I put the item on the agenda you can vote and speak your peace you can votee
in favor I'm asking for you to Second it because I know nobody else is going to do it show me that you're willing to make that progress second my motion on my on my resolution so I can so solely remove my support nobody else has to
remove their support I want to do it you want to show me that you that you you believe that what you did was wrong and you didn't it didn't it had didn't come with real intentions show me you mean it and second it next Tuesday as my resolution is brought forward and then
I'll be Satisfied on that note Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman councilman Kik thank you Madame clerk I want to thank council president for trying to run the
meeting efficiently yes you're trying although a lot of Destruction come in front of you uh many of the speakers spoke about many issues in our city we do have issues we do need
to solve them um Mr Greer mentioned about trust trust throughout the city all these thing happen when we switched the company also we brought in the B pickup inh housee that's right we don't
have enough manpower to um pick up all this B pickup so lot yeah I I said it too but you know and um the last time I spoke to the mayor I believe we are uh
looking to Outsource like before previously to get those uh B pickup picked up by the Outsource outside company um we we tried I think we fa on on the regard of B
pickup and um hopefully you work out in the future speaking about councilman Omar he was a 14 years old kill I don't remember what I did in years old I don't think please
continue the real hypocrisy I see is in councilman Jackson bullying abusing other council members anti-semitic
remarks and as an adult as an elected councilman if anything I don't I don't want to I don't want to go I don't want to mention any more stuff if I'm if I'm lying if I saying anything incorrect
yeah you made a remark anti-semitic remark sitting here also about Puerto Rican I think um um the picture what's his name Roberto Clemente I Believe come on as an adult elected
council member if anybody should resign is you if anybody should resign is you as an adult as an adult elect and sitting council member you made those those those remarks which is a fact and he was
he was he was 14 years old he apologized and that's see people do as a kid we do make mistake as a as a as a resp responsible adult when you make mistake you should take responsibility that's all my my vot is yes to close the
public portion thank you councilman councilwoman Mims so I'll do as I always do first of all I'm glad that we're back in the city council chambers and everything has been repaired and it is at a place of safety so I just want to commend the work um that was done in this Council for approving that work it
took a little bit of time but our safety and your safety is a priority I want to say thank you to the public that is present and those that are viewing and watching and and participating in the meting on tonight I want to say welcome councilman Ibraham Omar this is your
first time in our meeting and I want to welcome you I'm sure uh the Sixth Ward I have to say the Sixth Ward has a great structure of what they've already have in place with Town Halls they have a great business um momentum going on and
so it's funny that you are the councilman but you've always been a part of what has been going on so you're going to do a great job they've already invited you and they've accepted you and I just want to put it on record I didn't make any deals with anybody to support him I didn't need to when you know
someone that is out there in the community when you hear from their leaders and they say this is someone and we sit as council members there were many names that came before um this day that people were looking to have in the council we know that how happens when
you get to five that's who gets the vote on this side he got eight votes or seven votes was it eight he got eight votes eight votes he was voted in unanimously on this Council unanimous go back and
watch the tapes so I want to say to you as a mother a grandmother an educator for me I believe in grace and mercy things that are done when you're 14 and 15 if everybody take a look as Michael Jackson says the man or the woman in the
mirror I'm sure there's stuff you did at 14 and 15 that you may not even be proud of my thing is what are you doing now that's what we're going to look at cuz I'm not judging you none of us were judge based on what you did at 14 when you came to this Council or 15 what you
did on this Council and I'm not saying what was said or done was not as wherever but to me it is our responsibility before we vote to do our due diligence on who put in places whether we vote Yes or No we have to do that beforehand but to put someone
somewhere and then once to remove them after they have had not an opportunity to serve in that capacity I think is a slap in the face and I want to commend all of the leaders that are watching in the six War Community thank you for watching cuz I I have your text messages
thank you for watching and thank you for already supporting your councilman of the Sixth Ward you have a great person that will be representing you as you already know I'm always in the Sixth Ward I will be um supporting him and I have his back I'm sure the other council
at larges and other council members as well we want to work together there is a misnomer and I hear it sometimes stated at this microphone the council members do absolutely nothing and I want to say this we have
79 items on tonight's agenda this does not count for other agendas every time we sit here we do stuff when we vote yes we're doing stuff the people voting yes are doing stuff and I know sometime it's misc conscrew or miscommunicated outside
of the fact but when you go back and look at the agenda and look back at the items and the resolutions that are attached you look back at stuff that's happened in the community is as a result of those individuals that are voting yes some of this stuff we have advocated for
we have pushed forward in Wards or in different areas of the community because based on the needs based on Community um input or insight to say these are things we need to get done this is a solution possible uh potential recommendation for something to be done we take that in we
meet in committees we have a committee assignment we meet we conversate in committee we bring it to the administration because we work with the administration we're not puppeteers to the administration the administration will tell you fir hand Mims does not
always just vote behind the scenes look Corporation Council is telling you straight up I am not a puppeteer of anybody I fight strongly for the city of Patterson all the time I don't do it from here because it's not necessary the fight needs to happen behind the scene
in committee meetings emails coming into City Hall having conversate I had a conversation with the mayor today I walked in he was downstairs right councilman KH and I put him right on the spot this is what needs to be done this is it then councilman khik said M you know what you mentioned this a while ago
and I got to say you were right it was an idea I gave a while and he's now like yes we're going to bring it forward but it took sometime it takes a while but I'm not going to yell and scream across disas every single week about stuff that you could talk about behind the scene
you got to be able to build a working relationship they may not ever go to your house they may never drive in your vehicle whatever but we're here to do the people's business our agenda is the people's business sometimes when I hear things stated at the microphone we're
going to vote you out you got to go where we going the election is next year and some of the count six of the council members they not going nowhere for three more years cuz they just won so sometimes
when people are saying that it's based on information you're receiving and I want to put this on record I normally don't do it but I need to do it tonight someone called me and they said someone came to my house and met with me because a certain individual was putting together a slate they're running for
mayor they have a slate and the plan is to take you out Dava out and Udin out not knowing that they were my cousin they're my family member it was my cousin so I said to them you should
tell them yes you should tell them yes I'll support your slate I'll do whatever you want and as we win the election next year we'll go back and give them my high five for trying that's right we do a lot
of work in this community every day I don't care how many meetings you have with your private crew your open crew your midnight crew and your back door crew it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of effort to take people out of seats that really put the work in for
the City Underground I wish I had my fan tonight cuz ID be like where your fans at cuz Mims puts the boots on the ground it's going to take you a lot to take Mims out her seat keep meeting with my family members I applaud you keep meeting with my cousins family members
as that as they come back and tell me your plans and your ideas to run for mayor and win a mayor seat you got to have a relationship with the county with the state with the federal because it would be a sad state in Patterson that someone
wins the mayor's seat and you have no relationship Patterson would be in State Control we would be shut down so you have to be the presidency is different they control everything that's a totally different race so we have to
be clear very clear you don't know if you're going to be living by next year you don't know if you're going to be living in a couple of months your focus I am not speaking to you I have the floor I have the floor we closing the publicly portion please members of the
public and let me put this I got this let me put this on record as a as a granddaughter of a sharecropper who has migrated here from the south who has been in Patterson all of her life you cannot tell me about
history or quote anybody's name in the city that I would not be familiar with or have not had relationship or maybe related to because I've been here for all my life I've never moved I don't live in another town I don't visit other towns and come to the mic and rip people to shreds I don't do that because I live
here my goal and focus as I sit here is to help the residents in the city of Patterson that's what we're here for whether you believe is an agenda we're in a conspiracy theory we're operating in corruption some of us must be the brokest corruption people in the
world cuz I don't know where the corruption is we sit here we fight we come here 6:30 I'm on the finance committee tonight I led the committee meeting we're here an hour before the meeting fighting we had on the committee
meeting we had 14 items that we discussed as a committee and then we came out here to make sure any questions came up as a committee we knew if you attend committee meetings if you're a part of the process you will get it in
closing I keep hearing it talked about and I don't only respond because a lot of it we know is it's alternative facts it's not true but to hear it keep stating that we as a Council helped to steal property from a church is
absolutely not true councilwoman cotton and I when that first came forward we asked for every document from this city and the tax assessor office to get the details I have put it on the record if you go back
and watch the tape I said let's have an executive session with the pastors I reached out to the pastor's group so we could bring the pastor in the Pastor said no I am good because he knows we know what the real deal is we have the
prove we have the prove it is not a true statement at all and I'm not going to do the back and forth because me I deal with facts but to hear it keeps saying that we stole property from a church is absolutely not true and let me say and
I'll put it on record that Pastor if you believe we stole property from you please come to the microphone please show up to the city council meeting please please call councilwoman Ms 973 921 957 let me know when you want to meet and all that cuz I'm going to bring
every document that this city mailed out to the church in your attention please come because I'm so tired of hearing it I normally don't respond but to hear it again it makes this Council look like we are really really crazy that we were
still prop how can we still property from a church we did not do that and be careful of information that you're listening to and receiving and G I heard you talk about uh uh the microphone and all that
I'm sure council president will address it but I'm going to say this there is an ordinance on the book for the decorum that is supposed to be set in this Chambers the time is 3 minutes when you come to the microphone the council president has been lenient and he also
says okay wrap it up but if you continue to go on he got to bring some level of decorum he has said it he has banged the mic he said it openly that's enough wrap it up that and people have continued not just tonight many times some people speak for 26 minutes tonight 7 minutes
plus he said wrap it up time is up so we can't talk about the disrespect of the council president being a decorum when we're not talking about the disrespect of the people at the mic that don't want to listen and and and and we do not have two minutes two minutes is only when
we're going forward through vote when it comes to public portion which we're not voting on a particular item we're close a public portion there is no time limit there's no 2 minutes that is not the rule that's not the rule per the law and I'll give you the law in the books that is not the law but my thing is we have
to make sure the respect we want we have to give it as well let's bring this place to uh meeting to a place of decorum we have to work together to move this city forward it's going to take more than one person you may not like somebody I could care less if you don't
like me if you want something done call me I have many people I see them post on Facebook every council member needs to go everybody need to go and then they're on my phone calling me and cotton I call her to buy tickets and we still go cuz
you fix such and such we still fix it we still resolve it so how do you want if we go I'mma speak for me and cotton right now if we go who you going to call cuz y'all call us for everything the cat stuck in the tree the raccoon on my back pull this is not even stuff that pertain
gee I have the floor I have the floor because the system is brok but you you call us for everything and I don't mind because I take your calls 2 3 4:00 in the morning you call both of my phones and I respond but we have to be careful what we're saying you want to remove us
who you going to call who you going to call when you we out of this seat who are you going to call be careful be careful what you're saying you're say oh we got some people they're not going to win we not even worry cuz guess what some of us may not even be running so you're not
going to take us out of anywhere that we don't want whatever we want and wherever we want to be we're going to be there until God tells us our time is over not because you're trying to build some type of gallop to take people out be careful as in the scripture the gallop that you
plan to take somebody out may be the gallop that take yourself out be very careful Madam clerk with that stated life liong resident from the Fourth Ward born and raised in the
Fourth Ward born and raised of the fourth W oh I'll meet you out there you want me to take my jacket off I got you I got I got you you want me to bring somebody out cuz you're a man now I can handle you on my own but sir okay I'll meet you
outside I got you oh we could talk we need to talk about I could I can meet you in the hallway no problem because for me it's about conversation I want you to get I want you to for me it's about respect and you're
disrespecting me now so we will have a conversation we'll walk in the hallway absolutely so Patterson that's why you voted for Mims I see all y'all texting me Mims is walking with boots on the
ground as your councilwoman at large I'm not worried about nobody taking me out my seat not worried about going nowhere until I'm tired and when I get tired that's when I'mma go amen Billy DPW got my back police got my back fire got my
back councilwoman cotton got my back I ain't going nowhere my vote is just to close public P thank you councilwoman councilman Omar Madam clerk my vote is yes I love Council councilman uden is the
best very confusing all right good evening Patterson uh those are watching us live and those who are here thank you very much for joining us on the workshop session um so those who are here uh made your voice um just noce we are very
thankful that you came here and uh because because you care about patteron but one thing I wanted to just um address here that we have seen that we we do play a lot of lot of blame
games to uh show that the everyone else is wrong and I'm right but can you ask yourself a question the problems we do have shortcomings we do have shortcomings we have to work together to solve the
issues that we are going through there's no question however do you ever have seen that we came up with a productive idea that could be the possible solution of the problem instead of just blaming others recently have seen that in this chamber
so many of our community members came with a very empathy and sympathies that the we are communalized the unhoused people we have seen that the chamber was full the media the news coverage
everything was there set what was a solution is is is the unhoused people got their houses found a location to sleep sleep they're satisfied now but we don't talk about this now but everyone was here we try to
get attention from the people and the conversation died on the same day so it means that we don't really care about un House people we care about the issue that get attention we have seen so many
nonprofit Prophet Community leaders socalled leaders of the community came here and said that these council members are making the unhoused people criminal these unhoused people still unhoused still suffering and no one is talking
about it so it means that we don't want solution but we want attention if we really care about that kind of issues then we continue working on this until the solution comes and that happens every single time
time I make sure nothing happens out there police officer cuz I don't want to see any disrespect to any of the council members Patterson just should I stop and I should stop because I cannot let my council members
yeah no no sorry you could continue no I mean council members outside what's happening uh no no there's uh no just there just just just a conversation outside no I think we should we should we should
wait no we have quot we have five if we sit here and we sit here listen to the first one all the way down Jackson never get up and leave and leave her behind council members so let's just finish the public portion uh councilman khik went
to the bathroom so there I have some they're on the way back so you could continue councilman all right so thank you council president then this is what exactly happens in 2022 when I was elected and I was reach out to one of
the council members regarding one of these streets said hey councilman I want this this streets to be fixed last 10 plus years I never seen anything have done on the street the respon response was that this is not my
job this is dpw's job then what why am I elected for if I don't really represent the voice of the residents the problems of the resident this is should be divorce and this is why finally we got Redwood avenu is done Colonial Avenues
on the on the way to be fixed and all the Sal and all the small street should be fixed I'm not blaming anybody this is should be the Cooperative action to get things done now here we we just we just what I
try to do is I am better than others that's the game we we just play but tell tell me what he have what we have done which is better than other person can you set an example that I can follow you there's none there's none that there's no set
example I'm a new council person ibraim M judg got in here and I look up to my brothers and sister that are sitting here I believe that they could have set better example that we could have used it but I don't see that if we really use
them as a model for of us maybe I have to disrespectful to my people here and I have to be disrespectful to my colleagues here if I really follow them as of my role model and you talking about that you are great I don't know where's the greatness
coming from Patterson recently I have posted a video of a person dumping on our city street and that particular location I with the help of DPW clean three times
in last 2 months I went to a resident's house and made him agree you know request him can we uh you know put one of the cameras to this direction and he agreed and finally we were able to cut that
person some people are saying why did I put my video down but let me talk about why I since I put the video up and I said anybody you don't want to be put anybody's video send over to me I'll take care of this I'll do this but I
have the reason I put it down you should know this before we apprehend the person we apprehend this offender the family of the person reached out to me and the deput director who's here right now they as family they
are they are sorry and they are ready to pay whatever they need to pay so since they came them by themsel they could just hide they could just be silent and I felt we should show respect given chance that since the family came by
themselves we don't we did not really go and find the person I don't so this is why I believe that was effective shame or name I believe that should take place but again it's not really the reason of putting the video down is
showing a respect to the family and giving a chance to not to happen however we have to continue working together make sure that this kind of action doesn't repeat in our city now Sebastian Mahia who was here he
spoke about uh vaping products in our teenagers hand smoke shops every corner right next to the schools musk charges that's that's very true one of the ordinance that I was
last year it's about 78 months ago a group of Scholars from Monclair State University came here presented in the chamber and showed that if we adopt a new ordinance for the uh for licensing vaping products even we hire people for
enforcement we still can make about 500,000 per year and Corporation Council said he put everything together uh Marg uh blended with uh some new ideas with uh controlling the uh smoke shops however one of the committee is holding
it for for a while however I'm bringing this back for sure um that's the presentation will take place very soon I'll definitely announce and I believe the next out uh next uh regular meeting I'll ask uh coun council president to have his time for for uh bring this item
back for a presentation and make the people aware that what could have done that could be possible solution or anybody could give input toward it and that we can adopt as well now you are not here Mr gu I was talking
about the person that I posted the video and I'm not sure you hard not but the family reached out we did not actually cast the person the family reached out from themselves and they said this is my my father or my uncle and we are sorry
for that and we are ready to pay our punishment and then I connected them with deput director and all the inspectors they had a meeting yesterday morning and after the meeting when they confirmed me they all are in cont talk and this on on the on the hand of
solution um and they are already almost ready to pay the uh penalties and at that point I said that let's show the respect to the family member who reached out from themselves so that's why I put it down however I continue posting name or shame videos if you have anything to
send send over to me I'll take care of this so about ibraim Omar who has been voted by us recently and all of us those are sitting right here if I'm not satisfied with Ibrahim
omore I would vote no 100% why would I have to support him I'm no way uh you know uh committed that I have to vot support him for anything I supported I felt that he's the right person for the for the seat
and I voted um I'm still I believe that he is the right person now yes the the item just mentioned the frustration that we are talking about here but I have another thing to mention
here I have attended one of the event of former six councilman current assemblyman Allah Abdul aiz and which was in Brownstone and in his event if we send
the flers in his event of the posted of Ibrahim omore how fair it is is it freedom of speech that's is private event he rented he's paying for the event I cannot just
walk in and pass the literature there so when I'm blaming others I should know my protocol how much I can have done and do not please uh you know uh this term freedom
of speech at the prophecy is right there P County Community College next time I want you to speak about freedoms of speech freedom of speech does not mean disrespecting others expressing your rights but he cannot disrespect others
that's not what freedom of speech means so I believe the next time that you are going to talk about what freedom of speech exactly mean so again next meeting please cuz we need to we need to educate ourselves on those
items we cannot just use it for everything so Patterson I'm not saying I'm doing great but I'm I try to reach out I try to walk even today it's not my election time but
I still knock doors any area I go I knock doors sometimes I leave my letters that I was at your door anything I can do I I'll I'll call me I'll do my part and this is what exactly I think I think all council members are doing on their their way I have seen uh uh Brother G
posted two videos of councilman valz in two different spots walking in the neighborhood this is great so we all are trying our level best however your suggestion will be greatly appreciated but how if you just keep on
disrespecting and show that we are not doing anything how we going to take your suggestion so I'm always and I believe we we are always ready to take your suggestion to move improve ourselves and serve you
better way so Patterson thank you council president for giving this extended period of time uh thank you everyone for listening me Patterson I'm always available to you for any time anything I never say a time limit what time you can call me you can call me
anytime my phone number is 973 582 8195 and you believe me this is why 40 plus interns just join me for only for three months of spring internship because of your trust on me and on my leadership and I believe that if we were
cooperatively here without playing blame games I think we can give you back and better way and serve you better way so with that intention I believe patteron will be in right hand in the near future my vot is yes Madam clerk thank you
councilman councilman valz Disobedience oh thank you Professor um there was some concern the gentleman came here uh du the notice um first of all thank you for the blessing and the beginning of your conversation
and um everything that you stated is true that's why we here to legislate to make sure what you requested met the standard of the city about the vipingo the school district has policy on that
so you know they are responsible that kids don't walk into school with vipes or whatever you know eat cigarettes they even they even um we even put stores that are close to school that they not could dispense
those type of items to students if they go to the stores or whatever so you know we keep it especially we have uh safe quarters in the schools like high schools that patteron police um always taking care like Kennedy um e Side High
School and other schools that they Patrol twice in the morning and the afternoon to make sure the safety of the children's are met um you know um I Heard the word of of
Mr key about ego defense I I I listen to Mrs Jan Fields about and her message was in point respect Behavior Etc that's what we wanted the council set of the Quorum
that we could send a message from here out there and people could watch it and say you know what the council have improved the relation whatever we say through here after you say
it it's hard it's hard to correct it you have to have the right facts to correct it [Music] um Mr G spoke about issues in e16
street before he posted the pictures uh a former councilman well councilman McCoy uh called me uh Sunday saying that that you know he have notice he take that road through there to go to church and is a GRE loock in the
afternoon in the morning everybody like to go through there to cut traffic to Route uh 21 or whatever 20 and they like to go to 9 Avenue 10 Avenue so it comes a little bit well so what I did is I visit
uh Mr G Greer um before yeah before you posted um the pictures about the trucks um on the um on the sidewalk I was actually I missed you for a couple minutes probably because when I left and
I saw the post that's why I said I just spoke to the owner and the manager and this and that regarding the trucks on the sidewalk the trucks sticking out to the Cur to the curve and he acknowledged that he will correct uh that situation
unfortunately you know drivers sometime do whatever they want and the last thing that they know is that the manager don't know about it and so they don't pick outside so I told them you need to enforce it you he need to come out and enforce it so communication is is is a must beside that you you know you put it
out there and people Express theyel but I went there I spoke to the individual I told them I didn't put you on the spot but I told him that there's some kind of complaints you know and um and they had to be addressed right for pedestrian safety is one
um speeding um two two cars at the same time cannot go through there our will trucks go through there to go to the yard so you know pedestrian safety uh last last thing I don't want to do is to
put signs on no parking any time because then you're going to hurt the residents when they don't find parking right so talking to them to see how they improve and now we will we will issue enforcement more deeply into the area and already PD knows about it um in in
your case uh G Greer thank you for for exposing um things that we need to know sometimes we uh probably a step ahead right we had that conversation uh and you too when you report something sometime I call you I say I already reported it and that's communication you
know that's communication um um Curtis Street or whatever the street is over here by the Salvation Army it's a deep problem there so it's not just putting a black top and let's go you know there's other problem there there have to be
engineering um um engine engineering studies to make sure that when they build the pl the real black top don't come back again the the the problem right so so far DPW is is using the patch truck to alleviate the PO
holes around the city not only that one please understand that we have 8 9 million square fet in the city um all the request that this Council sent to DPW is due to notice and there's a list every time I send it to DPW to the
director or any councilman here they not ignoring remember is a crew I think it's only a crew of four or two people driving around that truck listen and and we are heavily traffic Road right heavily traffic road so um it takes time
to cover p and also the weather had to be permitted today it could be warm tomorrow you never know it's snow we still in Winter okay we're not even in Spring okay so we have to understand that part
um um Mr mahz uh the there's two M here came here um the one that um Mr Daniel M here um you know probably I understood why you say that they they said just a piece when he
CHS in the um uh on the video that's why when you opra something because sometimes the time that you given is off so you always have to opra theact approximately the time the date the
exact location so if your accident was in Mar Street and you know that you have the camera all the way down Main Street so try to give all the information so they could check all the area and they will follow any video they will submit
it to you to be more precise and what you asking for uh this is important um councilman of the sixth W um I know you're aware because um you you you are in the sixth W um Alabama Alabama Avenue has become a
racetrack you know everybody speeding through there to escape to Route 80 um we lost a gentleman in that street you know the family had request speed home or any speed reduction director if you could send the engineering department to
look into Alabama from Lake View all the way down to um Pennsylvania uh because it's too wide and it has it don't have a lot of stop signs so people speed through there to
go to Lake View avenue Route 80 or go back and forth to the city we lost a gentleman um um in that road so the Ames looking to see if we could uh put some kind of speed device or things like that that alert the people or P more stop
sign they could stop they don't have the opportunity to speed up to the other to the other one uh that's Alabama Avenue um this is a sad news uh you guys Rec recall when we was in 77 and um under
the studio last meeting um regarding Martin M DOA Junior the gentleman that was disappear around Clifton area you know uh I was working with the family uh since day one since they work uh unfortunately that he was fine without
no dead um on the mountains gon the sad part is that the family did the investigation their own right they went say listen this is the video the last time he came from ding Donna this is the video that he came out
from that street to that street the last last time he went up the hill to the mountain 17 days after they they finding yeah they find it in the um 100 feet away from the road so and this is the second case we have
uh people disappearing walking and uh 17 and 20 day they find them uh dead so uh I know the police department is doing investigation prosecutors doing investigation but we have to keep our eyes open you never know what's going out there Etc ETA so you know I know
everybody mentioned uh especially councilman Jackson um the legal department yes did respond to you on March 4 uh regarding your request uh not a removal uh resend
your vote regarding uh Mr uh Omar Abrahim Omar uh would love eie you know um I say I got your back my friend and I will keep my word and I could say that
the last person and other people here never sat down with nobody saying give me this give me that give me this give me that to put him in that chair first of all even the councilman of the sixth word say I'm staying away of it let you guys decide you're a
governor body all right there was other candidates and they was told too you need to lobby for your votes okay so we all voted for you you're here to represent the the people
the sixth war and sometimes people that are not for the sixth War because but always communication is a must if he get something from the fifth we go back and we help him nobody was born with a book of instruction that's right we learn day by day we
learn hour by hour minute by minutes and second Etc so they sent me this uh gummy bears and and it's not to shut up but let me say this and and and let me keep it clear this and he could do whatever he
wants he could put a resolution that pass it through legal he feel it to put in a paper and put in a workshop everybody got the right to do that but when it comes up to go to the real thing okay to vote for it on a regular it had to have the consensus of the council to
put on a regular it's a workshop so I was reading you know and let me say this I have since 2016 sitting in this days as a councilman in the Fifth
Ward way back I drafted a resolution okay and I say way back I drafted a resolution and in that time I discussed it with the
council president to bring it to the workshop and he say no council think about it I even told corporate Council to put it in legal paper okay and he still told me think
about it okay and I think about it and this was almost two years ago council president this was about two years so at least a year and a half or something like
that and the resolution say it resolution to censor councilman Michael Jackson sponsored by councilman Louis valz in that time I'll second it bring It Forward I'll second it there's not a
movement here bring It Forward I'm not I'm not moving here I interrupt you have respect had the Corum and listen to me I didn't interrupt you to when you were speaking your nouns please continue Council mes please so the way I as a municipal Council of the city of p and
and I want you guys I I just want you to listen to what I going to read and go back to all the meetings tapes of this Council and you told me if I'm not right and I going to read it council
president with all all respect whereas the municipal Council the city of Patterson and the legislative body personent njs 40691 sequence entrusted with acting to
the best interest of the city and his resident whereas in order to properly and efficiently carry out the duty the business of the legislative body the municipal Council require its
members all of us its members to act in a responsible professional and honest matter and whereas cman Jackson is a member of the municipal Council representing the First Ward of the city of Patterson and
whereas councilman Jackson had repeatedly made inflammatory statement at city council meeting which the soul proposed and dispar his Council colleagues without any factual basis for
those stat ments and whereas councilman Jackson has repeatedly made n knowly false statement about the city officials and employees again without any factual
basis for those statement which May subject to the city to a liability and unnecessary expenses and whereas councilman Jackson has repeatedly and irresponsibly excited a mob aorere at
the city council meeting by Levine accusation of racist and discrimination against City officials and employee again without any factual basis for those statement and with the sole purpose of causing alarm to his
colleagues and whereas councilman Jackson assaulted a police officer in the chambers whereas councilman Jackson has made made anti-semite remarks during council meeting where councilman Jackson
had made threat of physical arm to his colleagues on the council members and administration and others whereas councilman Jack use the council AIDS and others associate with him to attack council members with this disparen and
instruc remark during Council meetings whereas the municipal Council feels that the say be Behavior had brought chame scorn and this dispute open the municipal Council and citizen of the patteron and whereas the municipal
Council feels that a pattern of such willful violation of the law and the Corum per and make councilman Jackson unable toly to carry out the duties of the city councilman and whereas the municipal Council feel that if
councilman Michael Jackson continues as a member of certain Municipal Council committee it will it will distract this uh substantive uh business before the city council and whereas the municipal Council feel that it will be in the best
interest of the municipal Council and the citizens of Patterson of if councilman Jackson is stripped from his Council committee assignment and Etc whereas the municipal Council feel say action in appropriate and wishes to
ca cast an official vote of censure to councilman Michael Jackson and let me say this this was draft based on the action that have seen with Mr Jackson towards us and I didn't
mention here when he insulted me okay why because it's not personal it's his way of Conduct in in this side that Mrs pH ask it to everybody get aone everybody let's respect each other and
still continue continue continue continue if you think that everything that I put here is wrong go back to all the tapes of this Council and look at the action
councilman Jackson in video and you tell me if I right and I'm wrong all right so make your judgment I'm not putting this to a vote today is where when you point a finger like this you have to make sure you four I'm not pointed out to you you
pointed out something that this young man apologize okay to the community twice and continue saying when I was a kid when I was a kid let me tell
you something that's why the juvenile system if all those juveniles that committed mistakes there will not be no second chance to them when they will adult I know he's going to do a great job right I know and if he's not doing a
great job you know what I'm going to do I'm going to take him back to that office and I got to say you need to align you need to do the right thing that's why we colleag to defend each other to do the right thing we could have this conversation with a colleague
from the first war but sometimes he want to met in the middle and I don't have no personal problem God is up there no personal problem the problem that we have is the way they conduct here they think that we don't have
family he thinks that we don't have wife he thinks that we don't have children that we don't have a life out there a private life out there and then he don't think that people laugh at us the way that we are conducting here because other people promote that type of conduct saying that I apologize for
taking this time now to apologize for doing this my vote is yes to close this section thank you councilman Council mad cler I'd like to reconsider my vote please I can go after if he wants to Mad clerk I definitely want to make my
comment we're spending over two hours closing the public I'm speaking Madam clerk I'm speaking patteron and I'll be extremely brief first of all I want to say thank you to members of the DPW Department
that work really hard day and night to get this chamber done it look beautiful I want to say thank you to our to those DPW workers they deserve to be recognized and I'm looking forward director ability to recognize and right here on a regular meeting at the council
chamber those DPW workers that put a lot of time I will see every day in morning any in the afternoon having a conversation with Billy about things that need to be changed and done and look and it look beautiful this is the people's house and we welcome every resident of the great City to the
people's house um now we speaking about the chamber there's rule when I became the council president I put the three minute rule there is a three light on the front of the podium right there red yellow uh blue uh green yellow and red
and there's still there's a clock in front of in front of the chamber right here and there's a clock in the back that will help you to use use you 3 minutes effectively now at the end of the 3 minutes I give you 30 seconds just to wrap it up I give you 30 second uh
members members of the public please please please hear me out for a minute please so I'll give you three minutes you could speak about you you could address the counsil the administration after the 3 minutes I will give you 30 seconds to wrap it up respectfully after
30 second I'm not being respectful I I'm not disrespecting you if I cut your mic off and I will do it this is the chamber and there's rule here now you're not disrespecting me when you try to speak over the time you disrespecting yourself
I didn't disrespect Miss hanon she disrespecting herself because after the 3 minute I'll give her 30 second but she want to speak for five 7 8 minutes 10 minutes there's rule in this chamber and I'm as council president I'm putting the
rules that been abide by the rules now when I when I ask everybody be respectful the chamber we don't want profanity here listen we are on TV we're on YouTube listen if you love to see your pison conduct yourself the right
way you could have an intelligent conversation you don't need to curse to make your point across and I feel so sorry for you if for you to make your point across you need to insult your council member or your Council colleague the people that you elect them and you
have to put yourself on that position shame on you shame on you and they there they are the same people that every at every meeting they come in and they attack me they curse me I don't take I don't I don't mind at all you have three minutes and after the three minutes I
I'll give you the 30 second after that you have to move if we take 20 speaker roughly we we get between 20 15 and 30 speaker 20 speakers time three plus the 30 additional sequence one hour and 10 minutes over 1 hour hour and a
half after that closing the public section if every council members speak for 20 minutes it's 2 hours between public portion and closing the public and closing the public portion is 3 hours and 20 minutes plus 79 item that
we have to take care of the agenda how that sounds to you after midnight everybody wants to go home our main responsibility this council is to complete this agenda that's right and if you want to get involved if you want to take facts and you want to get educated
get the agenda and look what we voting for that's right don't come and attack me I'm okay with that I know what I'm doing I love this city and I want order in this chamber amen and I never get the police involved even though some council member or councilman want me to get the
police involved I know how to work in people and I and I know how to handle people very well trust me I've been in the private sector I own two business I deal with people every single day so with that being said I would like to encourage those people that come into the chamber because I love to see the
community here go over the agenda my there war resident complaining about the step in the east side section destroy they cannot use it they cannot exercise it we fixing over here I know we got FRC and some and some members of the community complaining about the tennis court that is not go we're fixing that
here res surfing a road that need to be fixed it's on here it iic development project they're on here and we voting our fire department they need equipment it's on here our Police Department it's on here U right here the library that
everybody talking about it's here the contract with two 2 and a half% increase and retroactive for the library and three and 3% in 2026 is here it's here so you vo know so what are you what are
you doing this cting here what are you doing you're wasting your time you should be in another place you're really wasting your time but now honestly the problem that I see is that some individual they they want to bring the race car they think that putting black
people against Latino they put putting black people against AR they think that they're going to get somewhere and I will tell you something my friend you saw wrong B is one of the most diverse City that I see in the nation and one of the thing that I love the most about the city is the diversity and how can we
work together as a brothers and sister I'm going to continue fighting to unite this community we we're better together as my councilwoman say and Council IIM welcome to the city council thank you I voted for you before you got elected I
see you everywhere with all the different communities always you apologize yes sometime when it's good for you you don't want to take other people's apology when counil Jacks insult the Dominican Community I reached
out to him I told I want to talk to you he insulted Dominican Community he called ju PA a dictator slav it was disgusting what he say I didn't use that's incorrect that's your opinion that's incre I I didn't use and he
listen and he being so racist with racist coming again myff that there's no I and I don't bring that because I don't operate that way but I call him and he's a witness of that I go and I said listen let's have a conversation and he apologized it's on TV I'm sorry get
bring the tape he apologized I didn't use this chamber to attack him I told him listen I think you making a mistake let me have a conversation with you all I'm asking pison is to guess what by putting people against each other together you're not going nowhere and
listen I'm black I could have this conversation with you and I know the history and I could sit down and debate for you 4 hours and I know what I'm working working and I know what I'm fighting for if you ask me I'm working every single day to make a city better when people are dumping I'm calling
Public Work cleaning Alabama Avenue cleaning all the debris there fighting for a million dollar Grand that we have to bring camera into the city to stop those people that are illegally dumping when I came back at the Council on my re-election I was the councilman that changed the legislation and increase the
fine to up to $10,000 for those people that I'm dumping I'm doing my work as a legisl I am an effective legislator but I love to serve the people as well I'm out there in the morning working with public work and that's not my job because I'm a legislator I should legislate but now I'm out there every
single morning because this is a great City but there's only a small group of people that I'm willing to sit down with each and every one of you and have a discussion I'm Not Afraid trust me believe me I'm not afraid you see me at 1:00 in some area of the first war
fourth War this is my city and I'm not going any anywhere and I'm willing to sit down with all of you those that try to put black people against Latino and all of that that bringing that RAC is coming I want to sit down because I want to prove you that you're wrong we're
better together and united we could make our city better you know how many people came to the city and those people they came with nothing and they have business that employ over 200 people in the city how could bring you those name you have to acknowledge when people are doing
good things for the city all I'm asking is let's be respectful this chamber people need to respect this chamber you come here you have your time to speak you have to the time to address the council but you don't need to curse you're looking horrible you're looking bad and you're
making pison look bad when you disrespecting the time you're not disrespecting me if you try to get into an altercation with the council president you're disrespecting yourself let's change parison but we're not going to change pison with the attitude and I'm not saying that
everything's Kumbaya everybody say everybody know that I'm running against mayo and I was the second highest B everybody know that we have everybody knows but guess what when I have to go to the second floor and sit down with here and tell listen this have
to get done we have a conversation and that's the way we moving our city forward that's the reason why I have the whole re side repa that's the reason why we have some of most of the area of the East Side area pave with my Council Cali and my support with
Administration and more East 34 on the list East 35 East 36 all the way on East 40 I even I was fighting for six different location in the first world for councilman Jackson he doesn't even know that those role are going to be repaid I was fighting for that and he
wasn't fighting for that I love the city and I'm not afraid to work with everybody this is not personal I don't hate people I love people and I could sit down with any person and I'm always say this God blessed me more than I deserve I came with nothing to the city
of pison I have my beautiful family business property so listen I want to give back to the city I could I could do this job for free every single day because p is a great City Bergen County haon County they already done they at the top now it's our time to clean our
city we're not perfect dumping is is out of control the city but we have the legislation in place we have $1 million grant that I'm requesting every for for those camera 70 camera to address the dumping issue but we got to we got to work together in order for us to get the
job done in the city that's all I'm going to say our our Public Library commissioner thank you for being here we have to support Public Library Corporation Council I make a recommendation to use funding the funding that we produce from filming in the city of P so we collect roughly over
60 70,000 roughly I make a recommendation to use that funding directly into Library the sum program that they have with the mobile Library it's amazing we have to do that so I'm going to put that request on the for Corporation Council I want to bring that
legislation back to formally direct those funding to the library and use any additional funding to support Library we have to be creative but we have to support our library my vote is yes M cler the fing thank you council president the votes are Madam clerk like
to reconsider my vote please yes council president thank you I'm a councilman Jackson so for a point of clarity because I'm always willing to stand firmly on whatever I do the statement that I made about Juan Pablo DTE was the
fact that he was a SK skin bleacher and I was mistaken because it was actually througho who was a skin bleacher I never stayed said anything derogatory I stated it was a
misstatement of a fact it wasn't saying that Dominican people are thieves and robbers it wasn't saying and even the comment relative to the to the the the anti-semitic comment with reference to
their ability to be Savvy uh uh negotiators how is that the same and equivalent from your Aid calling a city employee a how's that the same you making a comparison trying to make it seem like you know brother
Malcolm said it the best the media will make the victim look like the criminal and make the criminal look like the victim now I welcome councilman Val's legislation we all know he didn't write
it he could barely read it clearly we know he's not capable of writing such documentation I forget the word he used but it's not even in his vocab vocabulary so Corporation counsel wrote it for him and I applo because that's what he's supposed to do but yet when I
call him and ask him for something to be written he doesn't do it but that's fine now two things brother Greer that's you know I stand on facts and Truth all the time right I'mma start recording my phone calls because I call councilman
Council woman Mims myself I spoke to her and I called her about something else she then commenced to asking me did I know who I was going to support for the six I said no I'm not supporting she said no I'm not supporting nobody I'm
leaving it vac we going to leave we should leave it vacant I spoke the councilwoman cotton she said the same councilman VZ said the same we should leave it vacant he wanted to support Ilia and councilwoman Mims had nobody support out fact out of facts we I I
have the floor council president I have the floor council members after he finished got a closer meeting take recording the conversation she said we would leave it vacant now all of a sudden she was supporting him from the very beginning Al had no question he was
supporting him from the start Al always knew and it was always going back and forth Council councilman uh valz I mean I'm sorry council president Mendes wanted to support somebody different councilwoman uh uh daver wanted to support somebody different who didn't
her sidekick khik didn't want to support so they all was saying everybody's going different ways then it turns up I then they bring bring me the information at the final hour that this is who we going who they are supporting they already had the vote and I made it clear even if you go back to the tape like they said and
listen to my what I said reluctantly and I it's nothing personal against the brother I'm going go shake his hand hopefully he doesn't have an issue with that but lastly I'll say this lastly I'll say this G relative to the pastor in the church
you all know and you may not noce brother Addison this Council voted to purge tax um um certificates these tax sell certificates they were out there on a billboard that the co that the church
had on its property well before he came here Farah Irving and you could call Farah and ask her yourself G cuz I spoken to already Farah was the Corporation Council this Council voted the pur meaning we dissolv
those certificates that certificate number was utilized to foreclose on the property this Council already voted to dissolve it it was a unanimous vote we voted to purge those taxes that is a
fact so to say that the property was not illegally taken is inaccurate to then try to put pressure on the on the on the on the on the uh pastor I'll show you the text message from the Deacon of the church where he he and I are going to
meet with the attorney that they're hiring to defend the situation so if they if if they felt see yeah if they felt that the support was coming from this Council they won't do what they won't go to this measure but
these tax sales certificates that was already purged is illegally be illegal to be sold in a tax sale further G I'll say this last thing the tax the tax assessor this Council voted that it was
a nonprofit property he then puts it back on the tax roll and put that tax certificate that we that we already dissolved put it in the new one with those with the new tax certificates and if that's a lie I'll resign G you got my
commitment well why the pastor don't come here all this stuff she talking about lying bring the pastor here I don't lie I what what I got to bring them here for we know what happened we know we know that we those taxes we know we purg them
and we know that certificate is included I spoke to Corporation counsel and he acknowledged it and admitted it but yet we you still have illegal parking of those 18wheeler trucks going on in that property and who's doing something about
that g got we do so all of that they're saying listen councilman please bring the legislation forward I'll second it you can make the motion I don't have a problem with that but just like the censorship of me it's no different it's a it's a it's a uh a a resolution that
that means nothing oh yeah and I wouldn't even say that because just like we voted to um uh for a ceasefire in Palestine what did this council did didn't anybody take a phone call from us over there no it was
a saying we voted and supported that which I supported so all I'm saying is listen I'm not against brother Omar I'm going make this clear cuz they're trying to make it seem like I'm not making this a racial thing what I'm saying is the black community and specifically myself
I'm in support of every Community all the time 100% of the time and yet when the black community is sidelined nobody else wants to consider it being important nobody wants to consider when cob was called a by
somebody's personal a who's still in here not once but twice doubl down on it he doesn't have a daughter that plays sports that grew up in this community he doesn't have a family oh our families so all the other black families or black
people who had to read the comment and listen it's a joke it's over but I digress they're willing they're more than welcome to to support and put whoever there but I'm not putting my vote on that as I do every other item
that I don't believe in if I don't believe in it I say no and listen it why is it too late what does it mean what is it going to mean if it's a feel-good resolution we don't have the authority to remove him he's already been sworn in
but I don't want my my name on it that's all so all right let me ask let me say something I'm sorry wait a minute wait a minute my V is minute you know how many they got call let wait let's close the after you know you got the Flor
right after M clerk pleas I'm with you on this one I I'mma tell it what it is I'm sick of it now sick of it m cler and I gotta go the votes are seven in favor one no one
absent uh public portion is closed thank you m clerk right after Council mcon I'm going to uh put a motion to close this Workshop because we only have a few the two the the two Department I will take that I work I will just organize agenda with you my councilwoman councilwoman C
just ask for 61 C you want go to m Madam clerk item 61 could you just add um for my cousin Pastor Laura could you add councilwoman cotton as a a co-sponsor please councilwoman cotton you want to be a co-sponsor and councilman VZ I just want to make it
clear uh for the public you know I come to this city council almost practically every day and I work closely with the tax assessor office and they get loads of letters that they sent out to nonprofits to
churches cuz they're not returning the paperwork and they have a certain amount of time to return the paperwork to becoming you're going to be tax exempt but if you don't do this paperwork we're going to put you on tax roll I personally go to churches I
personally go right now I got two 100% disabled vet that their family has not filled out the form for them to be tax exempt and if they don't get an answer then they put them back on tax
row it's not hard to fill out a form why are they not returning these forms but you know I want to say to a church to a nonprofit to a disabled veteran you know we need you to do this form if you don't you're going to go back on tax road I
personally I personally take it upon myself other property I property take it upon myself and we don't sent the including including what they filled out the forms for all filled out the forms for all you got
forms to be filled up but don't include me and then now you going to say Council woman let me just say well why they didn't fill it out why coun why they did not fill it out that's thank form was being to that location
building my thing is that you know what probably if they would have gave it to councilwoman ctif she would she would she would have went she would have went to the church and knocked on the doors I need you I need to fill out motion to close I'm sorry council members we need
um Corporation Council need a minute to bring some um Clarity to one of the convers one of the discussion that we have Corporation Council thank you council president I'll try to be brief uh I just want to address a few things that were said in closing um first in regards to councilman Jackson's request
regarding uh councilman uh Omar uh I think it it has to be stated that councilman Jackson and and I'll give him the benefit of the doubt he might have been mistaken I know he's got a lot going on but his request came to us uh as a resolution um to
resend uh the resolution appointing Ibrahim Omar uh Sophia you know that I it in writing from you relaying his request so that was the request that we we received we didn't receive the request that I heard for the first time today which is to just remove councilman
Jackson's vote and again I give councilman Jackson the benefit of the DAT on that um the other thing is we did respond to councilman Jackson and out of an abundance of caution and to free myself in my office from any allegation
of sort of impropriety or um interest I had my second assistant research the issue that councilman Jackson requested my second assistant drafted a memorandum and sent that to councilman Jackson and to you council president on March 4th so we did respond expeditiously to
councilman Jackson's request and again maybe you were mistaken or or you didn't see the email and then finally um in regards to Mr Mahia I just uh first of all I want to thank the clerk's office because they work very closely with us
um in regard to Oprah requests there's a a voluminous amount of Oprah requests that uh the clerk's office receives and they're diligent about it and and we're diligent about it as well um but there was an email that was sent in regards to his request so first and foremost
there's a video of Mr Mia interacting with police uh that video was given to him uh we did a search there's no other body warant camera that captures any other discussions regarding that incident um to the extent that there
should have been officers who should have turned on their body camera and didn't that's an internal affairs issue and Mr Mahia should feel free to make a complaint about that but certainly the Law Department isn't withholding anything and I'll just briefly read an email that was sent in regards to this
issue Mr miia's request uh from my office on February 24th which it says good afternoon the results for case number provided only led to one video this video was sent to the requestor in July 2024 before and again earlier this month in an effort to obtain possible
additional videos that may exist multiple searches were performed for the video and filtered to those recordings during the time frame the requests are provided the results showed several videos however only one of the videos pertained to the requestor the remaining
uh were from other cases after the requestor inquired about additional video in February 2025 a call was placed to the Patterson PD on February 10 2025 and again today to review the date and time of the incident for any possible additional case numbers in an attempt to
obtain more video footage outside of the case number there are no additional case numbers provided for this incident please note research is outside the scope of Oprah nonetheless several hours were expended to conduct research to find a to find a possible additional
video with negative results there is no additional video for this Oprah so to the extent Mr Mahia believes that video should exist because of other officers presence and they didn't turn those body cameras on he should make a complaint to Internal Affairs but rest assured Council that the law department is not
withholding or selectively releasing video thank you for the opportunity to clarify thank you mtion to close move by Council second by Council roll call to close the workshop section roll call to close the workshop session
of March 11th 2025 councilwoman cotton yes Council woman com councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk to the public let me be clear to the council president made a comment earlier was also inacurate he doesn't understand the role and it it it is uh clear in the in the
um in our bylaws and in the charter any council person can bring any item forward to the workshop agenda any item that is on the workshop agenda is to be considered for a vote at
the following meeting the council president has arbitrarily been utilizing his his his un uh uh uteral authority to remove items it's not the case as long as the item is on the workshop agenda it's supposed to move forward he stated
in incorrect uh uh situation prior relative to my receiving that notice from Corporation Council I'm going have to look into it because I never saw such an email and he's correct my initial
request was to draft a a resolution to have him remove and understanding that the vote for him to be removed was not going to be uh favorable for what I was requesting but still as the item was brought forward I would be able to
remove my support he continued in fact you have an opportunity to vote on himself and vote himself in but it doesn't say that I was uh overwhelmed and too busy what happened was I had to then go do my own due diligence because
his office who was there tasked to be the legal arm and the research arm for the council failed to do so for me I had to go do my own research and find out that because he was sworn in I was incapable we were incapable of of
removing him but we still can call for the letter of the vote lastly um relative to M Mr Mahia see this is the type of stuff that lends to a dis trust in a community it is not a patteron code
or law that officers must utilize their body camera officers are required by State Statute by law to activate their body camera Mr Mahia filing a internal
affairs complaint is going to do what if the legal representative of the city who the chief of police answers to the mayor and everyone else is found that an officer neglected M how do you know that
how do we know that that's even the case how do we know he's not involved in actually making an attempt to keep video from going forward we're just supposed to trust all of the things that's happened I mean does naji's Family Trust
does Felix Deus Family Trust all of the information that was given to them they acknowledge he straight lied in their face and now we're supposed to believe him he's not under oath or being placed pressure put put on him to lose his law
license but automatically this should be disciplinary actions taken against any police officer that failed to put his body camera on it's a law it's in place why would a resident or a citizen be
asked one he makes the request for the video as Corporation counselor the city's attorney whose job is to protect who first the residents but what he does is he protects the political interests of the mayor and various council members that
will line up with with their agenda as the City attorney found out that the officer that there was multiple officers on the scene and they failed to put their body camera in action this should have been automatically disciplinary actions taken this Council should have got a report saying this date this
failed to happen and to mitigate that and get in the way of this happening again this is the action we taken but let me let me go a little further and I'll rest it here on his failure the state gave us $600,000 to create this whole thing he told me was supposed to
be this great thing to help the community this community Court thing they spent the money and what happened to the Community Court situation nothing now what he does is he gets up and leaves out when I'm addressing him instead of sitting here and how many
times you have to leave the room he's left the room multiple times went outside and negotiated it's the requirement for the ba who's not here by the way who Harry's doing a phenomenal job sing in for her the CFO if you look in the charter it's required for them to
be here required for them to be here but I digress and it's me I'm the I'm the I'm the one run because I'm saying something different again people may perceive or try to
perceive allow the media to perceive for the right thing to be the wrong thing but I'm going be on the right side of History all the time and I appreciate the opportunity Madam click I apologize my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson councilman k
thank you Madame clerk U thank you council president for controlling the agenda I think there one your perview when final voting comes in you are the one who control the agenda yeah you're the only one understanding you've been saying it for
years and your uh your statement doesn't exist when I was the council president used to repeatedly say the same thing over and and over and what happened at the end council president control the agenda that's the fact um that's because
read it's not what the legislation says that's a fact okay there all legisl ccent it does I'm not going to entertain and you could bark as much as you want I'm not Ling to you that's the fact
um what else I was going to say I know you wasn't going to supporting um the anyone from the sixth but somebody told you to do that and you did it uh my vote is yes to uh close the meeting I guess thank you thank you councilman
councilwoman Mims so uh Patterson uh as the the days um are getting warmer please make sure that you um uh ensure that you check on your children check on your environment if you're walking out in the in the night
time where light colored clothing um especially to those uh individuals that are on the bikes and the mopeds please wear light colored clothing as you're out there because when you're outside and it's dark people cannot see you this Friday
um I've been doing this for over two decades honoring women in the great city of Patterson this Friday at 5:00 I will have a free event here um honoring 20 amazing women who Rock right here in the
chambers of City Hall congratulations to all of those great women honores um one of our honores is Council M Cotton's daughter my soror Candace cotton is one of our honores and there's so many other honores I don't want to start naming
them because I'll miss some but please come out on Friday at uh 5:00 here at City Hall um we will be here to honor those amazing women it will be all about the women to my Council colleagues and everyone please come out so that we can celebrate them we have a DJ that will be
here and a lot of nice treats and plaques and stuff to give out so please come out um in closing life is so short please keep my family in prayer in the passing of one of my very very dear cousins uh Pastor
Laura Jackson which we will be funeralize um on next week so so C councilman Jackson councilman can you can you councilman can you just allow us to close the public no no but you're
interrupting the whole Council yeah we hear you from here Corporation Council just give us a minutes after we finish you could continue the conversation all I'm asking is be respectful uh please councilwoman continue um and so
like like um coun no no no but you're interrupting the councilman listen can you just just I'm right here just Rafa give me a minute just put the camera on me this is the problem and and
this really people need to see what really happening Rafa I mean I I want people to see this is what really happened we tried to close the workshop section councilman Jackson he finished speaking now he has
an altercation he has a discussion with our cooporation Council and he doesn't allow us to finish the meeting by closing this Workshop section councilman Jackson I want to ask you respectfully can you stop the conversation let us finish no no I cannot yes you could yes
you could you already vote you spend your time talking now listen to me for a minute can you listen to me for a minute can you do listen to me you spend 20 minutes talking now you don't allow you councel Cali to finish to close the the workshop You' been very you've been so
disrespectful you have to analyze yourself listen you are an elected official but listen to me what I'm telling you you are an elected official please conduct yourself that way Jes council member now not Rafa allow us to
close the meeting please Corporation Council don't worry I just want my Council Cali to vote and close the workshop section that's all I'm asking after that you could continue the conversation thank you counc woman please so just give us a minute councilman just
give us a minute Council woman just go ahead go ahead continue councilwoman please people watch our meetings that's what I'm saying I'm like almost in tears right now because people
watch our meetings from all over the state and it's very embarrassing it is embarrassing that we're here doing the city's business we can't complete it because of the back and forth the arguing the bickering and everything
that's going on the disrespect to people's communities and ethnicities bringing people to disrespect the council members and say things that are not true and give out information in all types of stuff it is so embarrassing and I'm saying to the
public I'm saying to you I apologize that you have to endure this every single week it is so embarrassing and there is a common denominator and you see it it is disrespectful it we
leave our various homes early in the morning to go to our jobs to come here to have to endure the fighting the bashing the calling of names and all of these things that go on in this in this chamber it is absolutely absurd we are
now closing and if you zoom to the right you will see we can't even close a meeting because there's a back and forth going on unnecessarily we're trying to close the meet and so we can go home and the council president could finish up this
agenda with the with Madam clerk so that we can continue with the city's business and I'm telling the public the when campaign season goes on you could tell it's happening and we are definitely in campaign mode for some and
it's absolutely embarrassing it is shameful it is shameful and I'm saying it to anyone watching anyone viewing it is shameful I would never have a mayor that is in confrontation never I will
never support anyone that Causes Chaos all the time I would never I want my my mayor to be a leader I want my mayor to represent and and operate in leadership even if they're not right all the time we can
agree to disagree but to have cause a chaotic divide on the city council and disruption where we can't do our work we get called out of our names we get called all types of stuff and then it doesn't just stop here it goes on social media it doesn't end here and we have to
deal with this foolishness we are parents we're grandparents we're grandfather we have people people are watching when they interaction got was happening people were ready to come here to make sure I was safe and I've been saying that every week when we come here
you may not think your comments are offensive or they are out of pocket they are out of pocket and people love and respect us and they're not going to let you do anything to hurt us you could call names you could say whatever and I tell people that's fine but as soon as
you touch one of us the limits are off and we have to stop it cuz it's unnecessary we get blamed for stuff that is not city council stuff you never blame the administration you don't look at the mayor but we get the brumpt because we're the people sitting here it is not
fair it is not fair and is unacceptable and it has to stop and from now on council president when someone comes to that mic and disrespects a council person you have to put a stop to it if they come to that microphone and curse out a councel person you have to put a
stop to it they call them out that name you have to put a stop to it yes it is a free country we have freedom of speech but there has to be a decorum here and if they do it and it's not stopped I will come on my mic and I will say something it is unacceptable enough is
enough we're here to do the city's business not to be called out of our name not to be disrespected so that you can prove a point or have a platform tonight your platform ends it is over enough is enough I'm sick of it and I
don't care who watching you could come the next meeting and say something at the mic I'mma say it again while you are present cut it out we're not the problem you're becoming the problem you're creating a cre a disruptive eruption in this
Council chamber and an embarrassment to the city of Patterson and throughout the state of New Jersey stop it stop embarrassing yourself stop embarrassing the city and stop embarrassing the chambers and I'm saying it this is
councilwoman Mims I said what I said it's time to go home and next week come with a better attitude come with a better in a better decorum and come with some respect you respect us we respect you back you disrespect us we're not
going to sit here and keep taking your disrespect no longer it's unacceptable and should never be tolerated enough is enough Madam clerk my vote is no I'm going going home I need to get some rest be with my family and be with your
children tomorrow at the schools we will no longer tolerate this foolishness that goes on in this Chambers enough is enough women who Rock I'll see you on Friday night God bless you Corporation counsel to our ba I'm praying for your family even you have to sit here through
that this was going on and you're dealing with something in your personal family shameful we're praying for you and your family praying for uh Hector you got a new baby coming and you're here through this you got another the police officers going through stuff
you're here Madame clerk deputy secretary Council colleagues Council woman you voted embarrassing humiliating disrespectful and uncalled for no longer to be said in
this Chambers people are in corruption and they're sold and brought sold and brought by who we still live here so we can't be sold and bought we still live right here in the city of Patterson everyone City here on this day is lives in the city of
Patterson and work here shameful Madam clerk you said no but you mean yes I didn't mean to say no I'm saying no to them and no to the foolishness but I'm saying yes to closed public portion God bless you Patterson and good night thank you Council and
councilman Omar I'm out wait before I do vote I just want to thank all my Council colleagues for giving me the chance to be up here and I sincerely appreciate it Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you Council
Manon thank you madam Clark so we are closing this Workshop today and just during this time on the side the disrespect that took place I believe that people of the city
understands that but we cannot just judge by our performance by the attendance of this chamber and the people who speaks I definitely know that people the C patters and understands and
the numbers of the vote says that but one thing that struck me and and again I'm saying that and sometimes I feel that it is really um as a as of your representation the people
of the city of Patterson I think we are failing in many ways first of all this is a beautiful city wonderful people live here but our character our presentation is such a
disrespectful we we cannot continue happen that here in the chamber and and I don't want to I never mention any council members name this is not my character and never ever disrespect anyone but we cannot allow that to
happen multiple times this is not the first time we are very famous on the Tik toks recently people are calling from other municipalities hey what happened to your your Council chamber and this is what we
are talking about and outside when I was going to the restroom right before this happened one of my brother who was here in the uh chamber spoke and I was I was telling him that we could do better job and show our side
and better person instead of just blaming others but we have to look myself at the mirror before I blame others and I know he used the example that he did I see any other Council meetings any from any other states
municipalities that is worse than us and my response was I don't really take a look at what's worse than us I look at what better than us so we have to we have to fix our standard whether we looking down or looking
up but again Corporation Council on the behalf of everyone like behalf of the particular council member we are sorry to you cuz this not your job to deal with with any council members for any particular reason your job is to see whether we are
on the track by laws and we are giving us all the paperwork before we come to the council meeting that's what you're doing and and and the particular uh resolution he was speaking about is is on the on the
email so and the council member was saying that he is in discussion we are adult we know what discussion means so again um it's nothing to say Patterson um uh thank you for the
opportunity to serve you and we always blessed always blessed um stay um stay safe and keep us in your blessings with that said my vote is uh yes to close Council councilman um first of all Harry
sabalos you know we we praying for you your family your dad yeah and thank you for the service that you give to the city yeah no yeah goad um M I'm sorry another thing I'm sorry to uh break the protocol Mame be
Kathleen long uh or past Mame be she lost her father so please um we sent Kathleen long Long's father passed away yes so we sent father yeah Captain father Captain long yeah so uh we sent
our um third condolences and uh everyone please keep uh the family of cathine long in your thoughts and prayers uh thank you uh councilman uh PES for giving giving up your don't worry it was important no
thank you very much thank you um and as I say U Harry salal you know before being councilman I know the hard work man you are in your Division and your department and the professionalist in work and uh being here as Council
women men's so say and I Echo that let's pray each other for your family take care of your family it's the the it's the the precious moment that God God gave us you know this could be gone in one day but your family you had to enjoy
it and we had to keep you strengthen raise your hands we going to help you to keep your hands up and pray for you and your family so um and please the public out there and employ the city p and pray for his family too this is a united
front that we doing um Also let's keep in prayer as councilman uh uh stated uh the father of our former ba Pastor well let keep the family and our deepest condolence to them and those that have lost a family in the city of pan
especially uh the mosa family are still struggling if you know them please reach out to them and assist them with uh any kind of donation to be able to bury his brother or his son [Music] um you know
he I don't to the public out there Madam Madam Deputy clerk also Madam Sophia secretary as you know that councilwoman could see us every day here
right but I don't know everything I don't know everything but one thing I could I could say is that when I reach out to Madame Clerk or any
secretary I come and tell them listen I want to put this in a letter I do the draft I want you to draft this for me and put in a letter with kind words and you could testify that and they put it all together for me but I do the draft
and they put it all together since I'm sitting here as a councilman when it was a different corporate Council there I draft things in Paper and say can you do me a favor can you look where the law stand with this right uh corpor counsil and he quotest on this
can you tell me where the law stands on this look at it and put it in a in a draft draft it for me but he has a draft from me so he put in an order so humbly
I say it I don't draft it I don't type it I have people that are more professional they could put the legal part on it and it's more clarity to the public now probably I don't know how to read
like they said right like he said not they hey he said probably I don't know how to write or probably I don't know how to express myself but one thing I could say is that I have drafted ordinance and
resolution to address more than him to address the quality of life of the city of Patterson and have been effective the fifth War residents have approved my work I got elected three times without
legal problems [Music] that's a good one it's true I know so and I go go on and on and on and let me say this a lot of people know me in the
fifth word even in his word people call me to address situation because he cannot be found so and also I supported the goals of my colleagues when they want to put something forward I stand with them and
I have a relationship we could have our yes our no but at the end of the day we doing everything for the residence of patteron so I don't know how to speak I don't know how to read but I
don't know how to govern I know how to work know how to work and I know how to work and from the beginning I we say this I'm true and real some people are true but they're not real and some of them are true are
real but they're not true and that's why the people of the city of Patterson put a nickname on me not because I ask it's because they see how I work and they call me the people's counsilman come
on SO saying that I want to thank all of you to watch this meeting but please forgive us because sometimes we want to have the Quorum and some people break the quum
right the Quorum sorry I want to invite uh the public uh this next we're going to be here Friday with you sister celebrating your your event also Sunday I will be honoring 31 uh womens um in this in in the
Classico or the Roomba sonana and everybody is invited um and let me say this I'm honoring all my females Council
women okay for you know all right I honoring Ruby Cen I'm honoring R um Dr lisin honoring Marissa Dava and also honoring Miss rally okay and also
thinking out of the box our wife had to wait a lot home taking care of the kids while we here they suffer when they beat us oh my God they they cry when they see us and I say why they do that to you can you resign I say no
they God called us to do this work so I'm honoring I'm honoring the wife of councilman uding oh also I'm honoring ing uh he didn't have a wife his mother's not available um I'm honoring
wife of Alex Mendes too correct I'm honor I I would I sent invitation to uh cman khib but his wife is is is don't like to be honored you know and I had to respect that but I say I still going to
give it to her all right um and let the record reflex I got the text here I sent a text to councilman Jackson saying if you have a wife or girlfriend let me honor her in this event so I didn't receive nothing
back for you can know it's not personal it's governance it's governance so that ccil M talking about leg but listen um if if God called me if
God calls me before any election in the future at least I want to leave in peace knowing that I did my job absolutely and knowing that what I God called me to do I did it with the wisdom
that he gave me so saying that God bless you all good night council president thank you for managing the meeting the way you did and um Madam oh let's keep in prayer Madame clerk yeah please that
she come back soon Council presid I miss her true truly I miss her thank you okay so counil president oh and let me clear this out last but not least this council members do not have a plan at all
because it was stated at the uh the Black History Month event this Council I don't know where he got that from that we trying to remove Madam clerk I don't know where he got that is a lie we are praying for her and we hope that she's
back soon you have done a great job trust me we have four position available two in the city clerk and two in the city CH in the city and the city council office is online please don't get
discouraged because this meeting is different when you work out in there so apply and go through the process and um give your best for the city of passel so saying that my vote is yes to close this meeting council president if I may um I
want to change my vote I'm going to be like everybody no I I ain't going to be like everybody you you don't have to change your vote just be brief just be brief I just want to say thank you council president I just want to say that um um probably 100,000 people is
watching our council meeting um and let me tell you something children are watching our council meeting um we're having all kind of problems in our schools M they're watching adults and when they Cur too acting like they
acting when they see an elected official not respect the police officers how do you think the kids are going to react they're not going to respect that man in that uniform or that female in that uniform when they see it so we have to do our best we look I'm not going to I I
didn't get here to be to disrespect the community I got here to to work for the community to to do what I can do to help as much I pass good laws pass everything but let me tell you something our school district is
struggling they're struggling when you go to a board Ed meeting and like you know kids now think they can cuss you out and nobody supposed to say nothing to them because you got people cussing us out counil
woman M and I we live on the same street but we make sure that we each get in our house at 1 or 2 o' in the morning or our kids my kids especially my son here's I have an alarm on my house and it say door open he waits for
that to go off so we have to be real careful like don't keep don't keep because they go to the schools our schools are struggling with children they're struggling with you know trying to keep them in school trying to keep them you know just right
um want them to come to school that's why you know itive parents get your children involved in as much activities as you possibly can I've been doing a a black art and essay contest for for the last 12 years you know and we have gotten this
year over 1,500 entries I said sometimes don't wait for the school to do it you do it as a parent research some St see what you can enter your child and see what that you can do so with that being said I don't want to say to um to my Corporation
counselor to uh uh ba uh to my Deputy Clerk philis and my secretary um Sophia it's not easy of being here it's not easy for them how do you think they feel sitting here at these meetings
trying to take notes trying to get stuff done working in the city clerk's office and the City Council Office it's not an easy task cuz they trying to write down notes take your complaint U send it to the right department they do they doing all of
that so with that being said I just want to say to Omar eie welcome aboard thank you welcome aboard it's about working together you know I always say you know what I can't say I don't like you cuz I
don't know you don't let somebody dislike you because somebody else dislike you exactly I have no clue you got to get to know who that person is exactly cuz it could be a good person it could be something very that's really that they don't really know why they don't like you they just need to but
never let no one I always say to my daughter she's at she's at Kennedy High School and I make sure I do snacks for my for kids children I didn't even mention it but we our people are watching this that one day I tried my
best not to do nothing but I went to School number six and the little boy said to me Miss cotton I was watching you last night and you got really upset how do a little boy in the school six like in the third grade watching
count those kids are watching the meeting because the parents are watching the meeting or the mother's watching the Mee the grandmother's watching the Mee so they ain't got no choice but to watch the meeting at my school every day they every day they said so with that being said let's not let's not pit each other against each other yep cuz we all got
good things we do for each other we all got good qualities in us and then we're all different thank you to my ladies I see what y'all go through next time we got to change the meeting we got to make it every other week and not do back to back we we'll
make that suggestion next time thank you councilwoman thank you madam clerk I'm sorry my vote is Yes again thank you councilwoman council president thank you um I thank you uh before I uh start with my two minute just in closing of this Workshop I want to thank Corporation Council I
just want to thank you I want to thank you because um you put it on record that you email that you sent the information to councilman Jackson ahead of time uh he sit there he lied to the people and say that I didn't get that information um you taking my item of the agenda as
council president I will never put nothing on the agenda that has not been approved by our Corporation Council he's the one that protect us every item that we voting on is a legal document and we need to protect our city as the legislator as a responsible legislator
the least that you could do is make sure that Corporation Council reviewed the document and sign on and because of that I put him on the uh on the committee on the on the legal Committee in order for him to have access to our copral Council
but he's still creating problem and just I'm not here to block any Council Cali for me it's a true honor to work with all my Council colleag when they have a project I was like Bring It On because I want to keep this Council United and I'm also want to keep the Corum of this
chamber you come here try to disrespect my Council C you'll be out of the room you try you try to disrupt the meeting you'll be out of the room this is this agenda we have 79 item and I'm so impressed we have Public Work project
Economic Development Public Safety fire there's so many project that people are requesting that are here that is incredible we spend hours at the meetings before we have this meeting so we take this job seriously and and and I
would like to encourage our community to please go through the agenda if you see any item that you want to comment on I welcome you to this chamber but when you have people that they come here just to disrupt the meeting to insult council members um you know listen it's s and
that speak about their character um the this this city is a great City but we must come together and work together to move my city forward to our third war resident thank you we've been working really hard against those commercial truck parking overnight in our street
day and night I'm out there thank you to our Patterson Police Department that they patrolling the third war and and other part of the city as well and my pH number is 973 9301 1436 I know that every all my constituent in and out of
the third world they got my number um the east side park tenis score is going to be resolved it's on the agenda the the the step in uh at East Side park it's already on the go so let's do the work that people want us to do but let's be a role model for our kids
councilwoman C thank you our children are watching this meeting you have people watching this meeting when you sitting here and I'm going to say this the way you act is a reflection of yourself and people are watching those people that elect you on that position or watching you you should be the role
model for our constituents uh and the people that elect you and put you in office office um to Kathleen love my deepest condolences to her family she love her father they live on the Ron Avenue in the third war um you know so we're going to pray for her family Harry thank you for putting Patterson first uh
regardless of your Challenger your family situation you father you always here and in a multiple roow wearing multiple hat kudos to you and I want to say thank you for such a phenomenal job that you have done you are a tremendous leader in this community and we appreciate you and we're going to pray
for you and your family Harry Corporation Council thank you Madame clerk uh sopia thank you let's keep our uh Madame clerk Jackie in our prayer we need her in Council Khali I I definitely believe Council Khali before I leave uh if we been mindful pay attention of the
time that we spending we could be more effective because I want to be calling all uh each of you council members to talk about committee report uh at the end of the meeting to give those committee report I see a lot of Comm Council M meeting Community Development Council be DPW a lot of item but I know
I want to give you the opportunity to speak about future project that are on the pipeline on the committee meeting and so in those committee report I'm on the next Workshop we're going to implement so we're going to have a conversation I really want to each uh member of this Council and charge of
those committee to talk about future project that are coming on the pipeline that way we could inform the public so that way they they could know ahead of time prior that are coming because we want the community to be fully involved the power is in the people if you get
involved the right way you ask question trust me and believe me that we will have a better City with that being said my vote is yes but thank you council president the votes are eight in favor one absent um the workshop session of March 11 2025 is hereby adjourn good
night Patterson thank you good night Patterson