e thank you thank you Rafael good evening Council um council members who about to start this meeting um members of the public welcome to the people's house Welcome to our new renovated Council chamber um so good evening everyone on behalf of the pison municipal Council I
welcome you to the regular meeting of March 18 2025 at 7: p.m. the meeting is now called to order Madame clerk please call the rooll I email roll call for the regular meeting of March 18th
2025 councilwoman cotton councilwoman Davila councilman Jackson councilman khik councilwoman Mims I'm here and
ready to serve counc counc Omar here councilman Udin councilman valz welcome everyone I'm here council president president mad clerk seven here two absent the meeting
is now open council president um just a minute um U after the prayer the prayer CL okay all right thank you the prayer tonight will be rendered by Reverend
Dela McCall director of cultural Affairs followed by the flag salute led by honorable councilwoman Marissa daver the prayer I know let us all stand for the prayer hold second is she in the audience is she here is here
where is the parking okay sorry okay so so yeah we could sit for we could sit for a minute let's wait the guest that will handle the prayer for us just give
us a minute let's give uh Sun a few minutes no problem that's fine that's fine um mad clerk there's two there's two item that coun M send an email to just add on the consent agenda so I don't
know if uh but they are on the non-consent is that correct Council M yes item 64 and 65 are sent an email they should be on consent agenda yes 64 and 65 they're already on there they're on there huh 61 and 65 no 64 and 65 they're
on nonconsent but I sent an email yes I think they're already on oh S 4 okay I got you so council president when um Madame clerk is reading if these two items can be included
yes so mad cler on the record item 64 and 65 will be on the on the concern agenda so mhm mhm so which one you say everybody for now now this for
e e council president she's here okay so now the person that is um doing the prayer is uh our commissioner uh so please stand let us pray God our Father we thank you yet for another day that you have
blessed us a day that you have allowed us to see father we ask today that you would come into this chamber and that you would bless this city like never before God we ask you regulate the meeting tonight God we ask your power
and your will to come in this place to do City's business for your people now God I ask ask that you would continue to keep us clear give us a clear and give us a clear mind and Clarity of what it is that you want for your people God we
bind everything that's not like you God we ask that you would bless our police department and our fire departments and our DPW that they would be able to serve your people keep our streets safe oh God allow your spirit to move like never
before now God I ask that you would just be the ruler of all things allow your spirit God to move and to Hoover over this place allow yes shakana glory god to fill those that are anointed that
they may be an access to what we need in this city bless every Church bless every Pastor every Bishop every Apostle allow them to know when and how to come before you on our behalf
and father I ask now that you would even bless our schools bless our children cover them from the crowns of their heads to The Souls of their feet allow your spirit oh God to bless them and to keep them and to protect them now God I
charge your people to do as you say that if they are your people called by your name that they will humble themselves and seek your face and hear your voice Voice tonight God we bless you and we
give you all the honor and the glory we give you all praise that is to you I pray this prayer in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit in the name of Allah in the name of Jehovah because we know there is only one God
and you will get the glory at the end let all God's people give him praise amen thank you please remain stand now let's do a moment of silence for those I'm sorry flash
salute time careful Council of our country I delance to the flag of the unit United States ofer America and to the the Republic for which it stands one na nation under God indivisible liberty
and justice for all now let's remain stand do a moment of silence for those that lost a loved one in this community for the family of Abraham a young man that lost his life in the city of pison for our troop and for the city of pison a moment of silence
please thank you you may be seated yeah um Council uh council members uh and members of the public before we uh getting to our agenda so we have a presentation uh from councilwoman uh M sadava and councilwoman Ruby C councilwoman council president and
councilwoman M as well council president do you want me to do the statement of compliance first or um yes you got to do that sure until I getting ready mad clerk can you read the statement of compliance absolutely statement of compliance with the open public meeting law 202
24-22 meeting date March 18th 2025 at 7:00 p.m. adequate notice of this meeting was compiled and disseminated in accordance with the open public meetings law in the following manner one the annual notice of regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal
Council was compiled for the year 2024 2025 on or about July 1st 2024 two a schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2024 2025 was duly
transmitted on or about July 1st 2024 to the north Jersey Herald News the record the Arabic voice the Italian voice the B County pulse dominicano news Laisa International lisel the Patterson press the city post
news tap into Patterson the weekly bangal Patria in addition to any other publication duly requesting such notices three the schedule of the regular meetings and workshops sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2024 2025 was prominently posted in the lobby of
City Hall first floor and the place reserved for the announcements of this type four the schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2024 2025 was duly filed with the municipal clerk and five a copy of the schedule of
regular meetings of the municipal Council was mailed to any person who requested and paid the fee authorized by the open public record act council president thank you madam clerk um now let's proceed with a presentation from councilwoman marava councilwoman L Sam
and councilwoman Ruby K thank you so much good evening and blessings to all um I'm so happy to be here this evening uh and you know this resolution that was passed quite a few months ago um Council
woman KT and I you know we debated back and forth and you know we were not in the chambers and we felt that we wanted to do something special for this individual everyone is special especially when they're acknowledged you know through a resolution or C or
Council citation but this individual um was brought to my attention you know cuz I mean we're born in raising Patterson but we don't know everyone right and so you know I want to thank Miss Brenda Prince I don't know if she's in the room today but she reached out to me and she
said councilwoman do you know that we have a star amongst us do you know that we have a five time Grammy nominee do you know and she kept on and I said you know what well thank
you for letting me know please send all of her information let me review it brought it to council spoke to councilwoman cotton and to my colleagues and it was a unanimous support and um normally we we don't do this but for all
of you who do not know who she is I want her to stand and and that is Miss Chanel red so before you come up all right I want to read this resolution because I think it is very important for you to understand why on women's History Day
month we are acknowledging this lovely Soul who is a born and raised paronian from the Riverview Towers so you know with that said quickly whereas Chanel red uh red Irving born and raised in the
riview T Patterson New Jersey found her passion for music early on by immersing herself in the vibrant hip hop and R&B scenes at the CCP Recreation Center which significantly influenced her artistic journey and were as inspired by
the iconic sounds of the rappers delight by Sugar Hill Gang and do you want to rock by the sequence at the age of 14 Chanel set her size on becoming a rapper singer and songwriter with early support from her family marking the beginning of
her remarkable career and whereas Chanel's dedication to her craft led her from graduating Isa High School to pursuing music full-time after attending Florida amm University where she transitioned from journalism my degree
to her true calling in the music industry and whereas she traveled globally managing artists like ad Diva and krs1 formed a group thick and secured a record deal with pocket Town
Emi demonstrating her resilience and entrepreneural spirit despite early setbacks in her career and whereas in 2002 Chanel co-founded big draws music achieving significant success as a songw writing duo with Tanisha black and
became the first female writing duel to sign with Warner Chappelle music group contributing to the careers of numerous not artist and whereas Chanel expanded her talents to artist development and business management co-founding fat
House Entertainment and creating the writers Rumble a reality show on tub that educates and entertains audience audiances about the music industry and whereas Chanel's dedication to a community is evident through initiatives
Like Music in Motion which partners with local organizations to support Young musically talented individuals in Patterson while also participating in various community events to promote mental health awareness and Youth Empowerment and
whereas through her diverse talents as a songwriter producer artist developer and filmmaker Chanel has made significant contributions to the music industry and her community embodying the spirit of innovation and resilience making her a
revered figure and a secret weapon in a male dominated industry so now therefore let it be resolved on women's History Month that we are acknowledging okay this Municipal Council in the city of
patteron that the council hereby recognizes and honors five-time Grammy nominee chenel red Irving for her contributions and accomplishments congratulations come on thank you Council Council davala
please come up Chanel I have known Chanel for long time from Presidential Boulevard where my mom lived but you know what she has put this city on the map and I tell you every time you see Lieutenant Sharon e doing an event she's
in the background she's in the back bringing those artists here to our city she has a connection to the artists that we don't have connection to and I want to say congratulations I appreciate you you're going to go further you're in the mus music business you know we already
know it's a male dominant but you know females are getting in there we are getting in there we're going to get there and I want to say to you you got some people here in the Patterson who's sitting in the ordinance that's behind you 100% so we want to wish you a
happy uh Happy women's month Chanel red God bless you thank you thank you thank you Council woman MS and so there's many times in life that people whether they wanted to or didn't they never come back
to say thank you and the three women of the council and the men we wanted to make sure that you got your flowers while you can smell them thank you for always being here for artists that people have never heard of listening to music that you're like is probably not going to go anywhere but you're going to
help them anyway sitting in boob sitting in their home sitting in your car back in the day when they had VH tapes and all types of stuff you were there from that moment even until now but thank you for all the people that you touched that are now have turned to Gold you are a
woman who Rock we honor you we admire you and we respect you and thank you so much for staying in the great city city of Patterson we love you so at this time we want to we're going to go to the middle right but you have to say a few words all right and I
just want you to know I was looking forward to the red hair right but I also saw you said it's time for change so with that said congratulations and tears to you oh W um it's funny it's funny what you could
do on paper pen and music and not be able to do right here in front of you guys but I just want to say thank you I'm ter ey Cuz I wish my mother was here I know she's looking down upon me um and I I love working with young Talent
helping them do do and be great and what they do and I will continue to do that for the city patteron and just anybody that's looking to be great um so I'm here for the children um I just love I've been doing music
since I was 14 I'm 57 and I'm blessed to still be working with major artists um and I'm I'm just blessed and I thank you guys for acknowledging that thank you I got plants better than
flowers use the mic want a lot for everyone and sometimes people don't see and I say when people don't see that's because you ain't out there if you were out there you would see and we done seen you many many many many times and we want to present these flowers to you because you
have truly been out there helping our young people to achieve some of the goals that they want to achieve Chanel we appreciate you we appreciate you we appreciate and we love you dearly thank you uh-huh [Applause]
council member let's take our group picture with our a right now Rafael got to take YouTu you ready [Music] wow thank you patteron put let's put our hands together for our honores one more time let's celebrate
pison congratulations once again so let's start with this agenda council members uh and members of the public we have um 76 item in our agenda we have to add three more item let's start with payment of bills Council Davila payment of
bills oh yes um Corporation Council where is our CFO you put a blue pen on your desk sorry okay good evening once again um to my Council colleagues uh if you look uh this uh summary of dispersements uh is
for a total of 7,1 19298 7.91 um there was not not many computer checks the computer checks mostly were all uh pertaining to Westside Park in
addition um it was a payroll week uh of which 5 million of the 7 million 5,736 680 was for payroll um so my recommendation for this um summary of dispersements is uh for payment of Bills
second second thank you it was a motion for pay payment of Bill mov by councilwoman DAV and second by council member last and Council Ms roll call Mad cler on payment of bills roll call discuss discussion Council Jacks thank you council president so um
as questioned during the workshop um I think rapael you can probably turn the mics down just a little bit the uh we still haven't gotten an outline or I haven't received an outline which deep detailed description of why the Personnel director uh had received an
additional $115,000 pay increase um I'm still waiting for an outline uh description of why why she had received a pray pay increase some time ago which her which she uh failed
to render her Services as doing the payroll um and we had to hire and out Outsource a third- party company um as I notated before uh obviously in in the in the audience today we have Miss Hannibal
who was decorated two master's degrees um a a wealth of experience who was not only neglected a pay increase when she was when she held the same position but the city still owes her
money today here this person who was hired without a college degree who still doesn't have the credentials that Miss Hannibal possessed is just being privy to uh uh pay increases after pay increases after pay increases um without
an explanation to this Council who's supposed to be responsible for the spending of the city so can we get a uh um a uh detailed description of why this person received this uh substantial pay increase Council presid to
$105,000 councilwoman councilwoman D council president um uh once again as I stated in um last week's Workshop uh Whenever there is uh an individual being discussed specifically a personal matter I don't think it should be discussed
unless the person is right and I have no problems with those questions being asked but I think they should be done accordingly I think it's it's um I think it's incorrect to be making certain um comments that are incorrect um that were made last week and now you know making
the statements of asking for explanations I mean why don't you come to finance try to get your answers there if you are not okay with the answers given in a committee then you could bring it forth I'm that type of a person but you don't and should not discuss somebody's position
okay without the person being here I think that that's wrong and I think for anyone I'll stand for anyone that is being discussed and you're not saying the person's name but you're saying the person's title it is very easy to look up who that person is so with that said I just want to make that statement those
questions are asked that should be asked to the administration these things these um increases go through DCA through the state of New Jersey this is not something that the May can with this pen say here you go here's 15,000 here's
30,000 all of that is approved by DCA by a memo of understanding okay mou that DCA has to sign off the same thing with hiring if the person was hired without a degree at the time look at her credentials now there were statements made that the individual that the city
is paying for their master's degree that's uncalled for and it's incorrect and I think that we need to clarify and just stick to task and speak on truth thank you counes Jackson will be part of the finance committee on the next meeting before the
workshop that way you guys could have that discussion roll call clerk on payment of Bill roll call on the payment of bills in amount of7 m1929 18791 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman daver yes
councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk to the members of the public this is why if you see me consistently voting no this is an example of why first of all discussing I've never mentioned the person's name and we she went on and
outlined um some things that she felt was positive about the sit situation the DCA does not oversee spending in the city of Patterson the city council does the city council is responsible for the spending in the city of Patterson we're responsible for creating the budget
we're responsible for standing and making sure that the uh Administration is held accountable to the spending and every time we sit here and just simply vote Yes and be a blank yes vote it allows them to do whatever and then you have certain council members that
utiliz the excuse of DCA DC is the city of patteron is being run by who by the DCA or by the city council or by a rogue mayor who just puts in place whoever he wants to put in place you know um the fact of the matter is there's
individuals that I mean in various departments in the City that have a difficult time they're being paid way under the minimal uh uh uh the medium uh household income but yet are expected to do you know uh all kinds of jobs how
about the clerks who who have to work Relentless hours bringing forward these um uh uh these pieces of agendas and these articles and not one of them are making close to six figures this person
here is not not a resident of the city of Patterson lied in the resume I do not want to have a public a private conversation I want to have a a conversation so the public is fully aware of how the mayor is spending and how the council is not being responsible
in holding him account and because of that Madam clerk my vote is no thank you [Applause] councilman councilwoman Mims councilwoman Mims yes so
um 98% of this bills list on tonight is to pay our employees the remainder of this bills list is for um through a a program we had in this we have in the city where helps people with their rental assistance so I'm just going to advise the public sometimes just take a
look at what we're voting on cuz that's what we're voting on tonight this is not any of the whatever else has been mentioned tonight's bills list is very it's very short it's not detailed and long like some of the others in the past 98% is for employees and I know we have
a lot of employees sitting here because you're waiting on your contracts tonight we're voting to make sure you get paid the remainder of this is for people that have applied for rental assistance there are other things as far as cop of machine repair and repairs in the city if you look through that agenda I'm sure
you will vote in the same way we would the vote is yes we got to pay our employees they work hard they deserve to get their paychecks Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilman noar yes thank you um councilman bz I have learned something else since
I'm sitting here is that when I have any kind of discy or questions to the administration I use a method that one speak to the administration second send an email third if I don't get a respond then I have to put it in public to make
sure that there's Clarity in everything that we do so um saying that fiscal monitor the the DCA is the fiscal monitor of the city of Patterson so everything that we approve in every
resolution if it matters Finance or anything that DC had to look into it it says in the resolution or whatever it says pending DCA approval in this case about salary or whatever they brought on the table without consent of of the
whole entire Council um it could be discussed and then bring Clarity to the public when we get the real facts uh saying that um my V is yes to payment of bills thank you councilman um bz council president oh thank you madam clerk um
thank you madam Clerk and thank you to my Council Cali for that um just quick explanation we've received $27 million from the state to balance our budget um to balance the budget in the city of patteron and yes DCA is the entity that monitor every Financial move from the
city of patteron um and that's a the decision front Administration and this payment of Bill is important that the community just take a look at the payment of Bill not only payment for our employees that deserve to get payment but all the vendor that do business with the city of Pon and especially the home
the rental system program that is here it has nothing to do with that position that the council was alluded to about the increase I would recommend the councilman to be on the finance committee and also I would love I would love to invite the councilman to the next meeting with DCA that way he could ask question to the state since we meet
every month on the second floor uh with the VA and the administration so my vote is yes Madam clerk thank you council president the votes are six in favor one against two absent payment of bills is hereby adopted thank you madam clerk mad clerk can we do the consent agenda we have item 13 through 63 plus councilman
C let let's go through the consent agenda we have that later it later can you please sign yes can we do the consent agenda M clerk I don't 13- 63 plus 64 and 65 from Council MERS yes consent agenda items um number 13
through 65 with the exception of item number 48 that was taken off yes all matters listed under the consent agenda are considered to be routine by the council and will be enacted by one motion the items listed under the
consent agenda are numbers 13 through 65 what did I say 65 65 any item may be removed from the consent agenda by the request of any council member and if so removed will be treated as a separate matter so moved it was moved by Council
councilman BL councilwoman Mims and councilwoman Ruby Kon councilwoman DAV SEO by councilwoman Ruck an roll call M clerk on the consent agenda item 13- 65 roll call on the consent agenda councilwoman cotton yes
councilwoman Davila yes councilman Jackson yes councilwoman Mims so I just want to say in the item we're voting on there is the asme contract which is being voted on I know we have employees here I also want
to um to acknowledge two things one for a really really hardworking employee who's been with the city for 28 years very faithful and dedicated to the city of Patterson um Mr Clarence um Anderson thank you for your hard work and all
that you do from the library to everything you've done for our city we appreciate you um and then in the passing of my cousin Pastor Laura uh Jackson who we will funeralize on this Friday my condolences to um her husband
my cousin Bishop Coswell Jackson to their daughter um precious and the granddaughter Madison please keep our family in prayer Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilman Omar yes thank you councilman valz there's a lot of items here about three3
like one like one to four items that are very important and is the settlement of contract uh DPW call blue colors etc etc I would like to ask the administration as soon as they this is passed today uh
they look for the finance so if there's any retroactive to pay them to pay them quickly for they to at least get a decent vacation right with that money second I know there's a gentleman back there I want to stand up Ms uh the gentleman that used to work in retire
from DPW you know this gentleman used to work um what's his name Talent stand up for minute you see that gentleman back there 25 years in
DPW 25 years and and and let me say this um I asked him hey where you you haven't seen you in the recycling truck oh I retired about three 3 six months ago something
like that some some things that we don't know sometimes but listen thank you thank you for your dedication thank you for keeping Patterson clean thank for real it's not DPW for is the people for
okay so thank you for your service thank you for your service and you still look young if you want to get another parttime with us you could come out any problem Terren from the library always ACC always there in the library always taking care anybody that go to the
parking lot and and making those seniors comfortable when they go into that labrary thank you thank you thank you thank you for your service and saying this um um my vote is yet to the consent agenda thank you Council council
president thank you madam mad clerk thank you um Mr Sarah Anderson u i met I Met You in 2004 in front of the library and I used to see you picking up needles in front of the library and I mean you've been a
role model for the city of Pon I just want to say thank you for your 20 year 28 years of service to the city of pison those are the great things that we need to talk about people that giving their life to the city of pison working every single day I used to see you in the morning in the afternoon taking care of
the whole block making sure that our children on The RK on the way to school in the afternoon and as I mentioned picking up needles and all the stuff in front of the library you make that change on that Library God bless you and I'm looking forward to see to see you in front of the council with this citation
I know council members will do something nice for you and we all going to be right here behind you saying thank you for your great service God bless you brother thank you and to my brother from DPW thank you brother for your 25 years of service I used to stay here at 7 11
every morning at 8:00 and he always he tried to buy coffee I mean you're such a nice and beautiful person you have a great heart and every time I see you out there doing the work you're always smiling you're always kind with people you're always respectful with people
that's the kind of thing that we have to acknowledge and and and and definitely you are a role model we should follow you lead it doesn't matter behind the truck you're doing your work and you smiling to the people and you're just there to help the community God bless your brother and congratulations enjoy
your retirement my vote is yes M clerk thank you thank you council president votes are seven in favor council president absent the consent agenda is here by council president thank you uh councilwoman M so just quickly to um my secretary Sophia
for clarence's item can we do um frame it in blue and for pastor Laura frames and purple and I need them both by Thursday Pastor Laura purple Clarence blow thank you council president thank you council
president councilman Jackson thank you Council so council president I just want a brief moment to to place something on record um you know I I uh and I I want to say uh a huge thank you to my Council
colleagues for acknowledging you know those who need to be acknowledged CL your service through the years man it's been um Priceless um but I will be remiss if I didn't uh if I didn't address this this matter that's sitting heavy on my chest
so to the members of the public tonight on the consent agenda we have a resolution authorizing a cist city agreement between the city of Patterson New Jersey and the City of uh kitra
Morocco so and not not to say that you know maybe we should be CI sister cities with all kinds of cities all around the world but council president last at last week's uh uh Workshop agenda I introduced two pieces of legislation
that youve chose not to entertain not to have a discussion and you also chose not to include it in the agenda the one was a uh a requirement for buildings over four units for anyone that had more than
15% um senior citizens living in the building at would require for those buildings to to provide 24-hour security and 24-hour surveillance um I did all the work I did all the
research sent it to uh legal um it was placed on the uh Workshop agenda and clearly the operation of the council says that the count any council member shall place any item on the agenda the Friday before the workshop or
before for the workshop and that and such items shall move forward to the regular meeting obviously my item was here for the workshop um and you chose not to move forward now I want to say this and and to the public I I hope everyone um you
know at home would appreciate this um brother Omar and myself we we spoke outside we spoke on a few different occasions I don't want anyone to believe that this is a uh an attempt to assass assassinate the character of brother Omar just had a conversation with a
gentleman in the back of the room who talks about you know that that we all should allow Grace and I and I definitely agree with that but tonight in the audience I have a young lady who uh parked in front of McDonald's yesterday and when she went into
McDonald's cop came out and he addressed her very inappropriately in fact he started cursing at her he was very belligerent and the young lady said listen you don't have to talk to me that way now it just so happens that this young lady's black and uh within the
next 15 or so minutes her kid's father was in haircu he stated to the cop more than a dozen times I have a pacemaker I have a pacemaker I have something in my chest the cop slapped him punched him and forced him in handcuffs they were
slamming the two of them against the car and I want to ask anybody in here tonight if any any gentleman that is that's here you you walked up on your significant other and she was being issued a summons you asked the cop
officer what's the problem or whatever you ask them how many of us expect to be thrown in handcuffs and treated like a like a criminal we don't so this is the reason why it's it's important to me when a comment is made that refers the
black people to be to be similar to Batman as as they never leave without Robbin these are the types of things the stereotypes we know that if you were in South Patterson and it was somebody from South Patterson that that had an exchange with a cop he would not have been thrown in
handcuffs and if we if if if the incident happened in Clifton and it was an individual who addressed the cops in Clifton he would not be thrown in handcuffs and then if he Express to the cop that he has a pacemaker he would then be treated with care courtesy
and his and the uh uh abrasiveness from the officer would not continue you know just now somebody sent me something that talks about Trump erases black Latino and female veterans from the grave sites in um in Arlington
Cemetery you know and listen we all deal with these um inherent uh uh uh biases and prejudices my point that I was making council president that you that you arbitrarily through your arbitrary
unilateral decision making process which this council is not in in in being to to operate I was going to do what councilman valz did I was going to read the Ence but I'm not going to be so so childish so and so petty my point is I want to place it on
public record that I do not support any person that is appointed if you're elected that's fine Donald Trump has these views he was elected by the majority of the people of this country but to be appointed there's a higher standard and I'm going just say this last thing the problem with the city of
Patterson is that this council is not taking serious the city of Patterson is in the condition that it's in it looks the way it does because the voters believe that the seats that this Council hold are not that important they believe that anybody just because you're black
or just because you're Spanish or just because you're Arab you should you you're eligible to hold the Council seat the people that are here are making decisions on a $300 million budget and as you see we just go down the line vote yes yes yes yes yes $300 million we we don't hold the the administration
accountable we let them spend however they want to spend I want to know if the the successful businesses in the Sixth Ward would would have hired the appointed councilman to run their business these seats are running the
city so to to place somebody here with no experience or let me say shortage of experience I don't know even know what the experiences are just because they of a certain ethnic group is not how things are supposed to be acting uh conducted and I'm going to say this last thing
because I want to place this on record last week I was miscategorized just like the the the black man coming out of McDonald's was uh yesterday and I I'll plac the video on my Facebook page so all you guys can see this this kind of treatment that a innocent person would
receive and then they take him down and charge him with disorderly conduct we going to rough you up punch you in the chest we don't care you have a a a pacemaker we'll treat you at inhumane now G's not here tonight but many of you
are here you guys see Corporation counsel walk over and talk to every various people he's walked over to my desk and has spoken to me on a number of different occasions last week I walked over to him to talk to him about a the my items he refuses to talk to me
which by the way is his job to answer to the council I am a council person I then say to him I was elected by 30,000 people in my ward which I represent he says you weren't you were elected by 30,000 people asked to make jokes about
the the low voter turnout right I represent 30,000 individuals in this in the first Ward him refusing to speak to me is him not giving representation to the people that I represent lastly he says get out of my
face and I said make me get out your face not as a violent threat listen I'm here to speak to you professionally Council council president this council president point of order council members council members Council ja I'm going to place this on
record you will be of do you want to take aner you want to take a recess or you going to allow me to a lot to speak there's a lot of important on the agenda again my issue my issue with my item not making the agenda is a very
important item okay you arbitrarily and unilaterally making a decision to my Council what's the point of order okay the point of order is councilman Jackson that you're discussing a situation that occurred last week with Corporation Council so
what's the point of order I I believe councilman you have to State a law or measure to the to theor I think you are out of order okay you have to have a reason you just can't you can't just think we should maintain to our agenda and what we came to do today it seems
like every meeting all you want to do is argue every meeting meeting has to be disrupted can we stop it already can we stop it with the begin I'm a council person Meers I'm a counil person who I
placed items on the workshop agenda which was excl okay which was excluded from the regular meeting agenda and you can have that you have the right to have and I'm asking the question and you are you're you're getting in the way of me asking the question Jackson because I said point of
order because you're discussing a situation statements about call order by Ru you have to call a point of order by a rule coun councilwoman that's how this work that's there's a there's a rule you state a rule that's where the point of
we open the FL for for 20 minutes just allow the council it has been 20 minutes it's almost now let me let me close here let me respond to you now may I have your attention you can respond after I'm finished council president I had the floor I was not finished so yet again respectfully Dr it
up please Corporation counsel who chooses not to address my items not only is he not doing the work for me I did all the work I did I researched the items and you as the chair with the CU you just told me he sent me an email I
guess through his advice and consent excluded my items which is dis disenfranchising the voters in which I represent so I wanted to place this on record because there was several council members who then went on the line while they were speaking to say look atam
being disruptive I have the right to speak to Corporation counsel I'm a professional and just because he does not agree with the things that I'm talking about does not give him the right to not address my concerns and I'll rest it there dly noce now let me
let me respond to you before council members we have items here extremely important item that a lot of members of the public they just waiting for us to take action in those item item that will help the community but if we don't take action we will affect the community and
this our our main responsibility is to go the agenda let me answer to you now you are a member of the legal committee one of the main reason why I put you on the legal committee is because you constantly have problems with items and you blaming me as council president that
I don't Place item on the agenda let me respond to you my responsibility with the city of par and with this council is I would not put nothing on this agenda that was not been that has not been reviewed and signed by our Corporation Council he's the City lawyer my
recommendation to you is put a committee meeting together attend a meeting have those discussion with Corporation Council it's not true there's all item that after you have a discussion he place it on the agenda now when you asked me in the beginning I told you you have an email from Corporation Council
let's have a discussion and let's put it back on the workshop once it's get ready and review and give then and be signed by Corporation Council we've been Su to there's been so many laws to against the city and we have to protect the city as
a governing body thank you council president councilman bless oh thank you C just let's keep in mind you see those three little girls over there I'm looking at their faces and they look each other looking like what's going on
like what's going on so let's keep in mind we got people audience out there watching this meeting we got people here that uh want to see this agenda moving forward but more more important those little kids out there they watching and you know thank you councilman I
apologize thank you Council M clerk let's go let's do item 7 SE out of the non-consent agenda um sorry Corporation Council let me open the floor for a minute council president yes it's already on the agenda Council woman thank you council president so I won't get into uh what councilman Jackson's
allegations are other than to say they're um untrue but in regards to his item I will note for the record uh just a few points first I personally rewrote the last two or three pieces of legislation that councilman Jackson put
his name on and was passed second in terms of the item that he's referencing from the last agenda I sent him an email on January 3rd 2025 addressing this item I cced everyone in the council and the
email is rather lengthy but I ended it in the following way as such while the Law Department cannot sign off as to the legality of councilman Jackson's proposed ordinance subject to the foregoing the Law Department can approve
an ordinance that meets the above criteria please advise if the Law Department can be a further assistance unfortunately councilman Jackson didn't take me up on that I've never heard from him again about this legislation and I sent this email to him in January so any
statement that I'm am somehow not working with the people of the First Ward is categorically false and any statement that I'm not working directly with councilman Jackson not withstanding ending his actions is also categorically false thank you U thank you Corporation
Council I received that email and all the council member receive the email the response that legal send to councilman Jackson and we not lying he has a problem he doesn't want to work with Corporation Council my advice always being listen we're here to work together
if you have a project that help the city I'm here to work with all my Council c b cler let do item 76 on the non-c conern agenda I'm sorry council president was the number item 76 this resolution determining the lack for your affordable Village housing
project no it's not added it's already on the it's already on the agenda 76 17 is added 76 76 item number 76 is a resolution determining that the Lafayette affordable Village housing project meets
or will meet an existing an existing housing need in the city of Patterson it's from Economic Development resolution number 25 colon 17 second SM by councilwoman Davila councilwoman Val second by councilwoman
Mims councilwoman um okay Council R and idem 76 no no no a clarifier CL she can't second it she cannot no she she didn't second it was moved by councilwoman Davila Council and Council
Mims yes second by council president right roll call M item 76 roll call on item number 766 for adoption councilwoman cotton Council um Madam clerk let the record reflects that councilwoman cotton is rescuing herself
from this item recusing recusing thank you councilwoman dava uh so um as as someone who um let me rephrase what I was going to say as being part of the economic
development committee um it is very important that we review items and you know this item uh did come after we had our committee meeting but after further review and understanding through legal that this is specific to a letter of support uh that indicates that um
affordable housing is needed and in a project that's going to be established on Lafia AV and that different entities uh like jumpstar and other organizations are going to come together to partner up and have what's called um affordable housing not just for seniors or
grandparents raising grandchildren but also uh uh um young adults all right veterans so I think I have not seen this type of project within the city of patteron that combines all of that uh so I am looking forward and yes I do to
support uh this letter of support so they can go out and see if they're able to obtain those Monies to be able um to um move forward with the uh affordable housing uh Village project on Lafia app my vote is yes thank you councilwoman
councilman Jackson thank you um Madam clerk so I'm going just address uh Joe I I did receive the email the fact of the matter is it didn't have any legal context of why this thing was it was improperly written so whenever whenever
we're talking about legislation it has to be law that is accompanied by but we'll get into that later and um to the young ladies you're going to view me tonight being Starly different because I'm a firm believer that our city is
suffering our city is suffering it's so dirty yes uh a few days ago I got a phone call from Miss Cameo black as a Young Man Who Lost His Life on Market Street was shot eight times and and it's because of the decision making that's
happening here now this item which has to do with affordable housing is another noted failure of the city because many of you who grew up in here Joe Keys you being one right what does this sound
like programming that goes on within the building being being affordable it sounds like Christopher Columbus projects it sounds like the Alabama Avenue projects right but we have dropped the ball when it comes to affordable housing in our community we
have allowed third-party investors to take over our afford our housing we have sold out the patteron Housing Authority which this Council has the ability has the authority over we create we created the Housing Authority so you have a
reduction of inventory while them tearing down four large buildings and they put that which had over, 1500 units to put 300 units there of which those units there people that live there are being charged in excess close to $3,000
a month these are the Housing Authority properties this is the Patterson public housing units that this Council refuses I sat there I was a starch no on the Fifth Avenue project because the Fifth
Avenue project was the same the same did third- party developer who took that over who who built the subpar condition facilities who's charging Market rent market rate for rents in the housing projects so now we have a developer
who's coming forward to bring this project forward and luckily he's he's partnering with some of us but we're relying on the developers to do what the city's job is to provide lowincome affordable clean housing to give
families the opportunities to start to lift themselves up so I mean I have no other choice I'm I I'm actually happy to support this but I'm I will not do it without pointing out the fact that the city has dropped the ball this Council has dropped the
ball Madame clerk my vote is yes um councilwoman mens um so in our community there's a definite need for more housing we get calls every day we we send them to different um places to reach out and
there is definitely a need so when something comes before us where we can assist by just doing a letter of support is beneficial but I think this one goes beyond that this one where an entity reaches out to someone who has been a pillar in our community like Jamie Bland
who has saved so many of our young people's lives through her program her development work I see one of her guest speakers guest speakers here um and I don't like to one of the things I hate to hear when we muddy the
water with other stuff when we're trying to really uplift the great work of our community organizers and people that have been boots on the ground especially from the fourth ward like our Jamie Bland I just want to say I salute you for being someone that they have
partnered with to make sure that in this particular space that we can continue to save our lives of our young men and our young women um with that stated I'm not going to say anything further Community please read the items that we're voting on so
that you will be very clear as to what is being voted on and or supported on tonight there's needs in our community we are here to vote on Solutions and here's one on tonight Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilman
Omar there is definitely a need for affordable housing in all communities my vote is yes thank you councilman councilman Udin thank you madam Clark good evening Patterson and first of all my apologies for coming late to the council meeting
for breaking fast at 7 uh 10ish time uh so again um with housing uh crisis everywhere in the state and we definitely want to see affordable housing more affordable housing in the city of Patterson and it is absolutely
um my honor one second we don't have a I need Council counc we don't have any quot okay okay please continue councilman thank so it is it is absolutely the honor that we are here
with the project of 139 units where we are going to uh Place uh veterans senior citizens the grandparents single mothers and father fathers and I'd love to see more projects like this so with that being said I'm in full support of this
thank you my word is yes thank you councilman councilman valz thank you Madame clerk um first of all let me commend the person that put this resolution together sure Jamie BL also let me command Council womankind
for having AIDS that really care about the community and when we have Aid that care about the community you see positive results you see positive changes in our
city and to say that there's not a law in this resolution the body there is a law this njsa 55 colum 1481 based on that
law Jamie Bland put together this resolution now this resolution is nothing different from the one that we went and praised about a year ago or a year and a half ago two
years the M Street Square that's true all right the developers when developers and and the Partners came here we praise him they left pison came back to pison give back to the community
we praise him right now we have a developer in the city of pison have invested his money to put what the law allows him to do based on Market rent but now he thinking out of the box knowing that we
have a need in the city of patteron this resolution is to ask funding to make make sure that this project is for affordable housing and lwi income
individuals that's what we do does and not only that the land is there it's going to be utilized and everybody say in this city in this Council here and this side and and and and and when you hear people out there doing politics we need to
partnership we need to partnership so let's praise that we are partnership because I know whoever is going to be benefit on this is those that are struggling in the city of pass and they don't have nowhere to live and
probably we going to have less homeless probably going to have less people paying high rent out there that the law allows it because it's a law for it but saying this I am proud of you Jamie Bland putting this together and the
blessing of the council to that let's bring more project like this to City parents they encourage people developers to come to the city pan invest and not only that this developer have get back way before this resolution so my vote is yes to this thank you councilman
blz council president um thank thank you madam clerk I I always say that action speak louder than word um on Friday Friday afternoon I was I was at the hospital with my dad and Jimmy Bland received a phone call from Jimmy Bland talking about this item
talking about this project and explaining the urging of this project to be on this agenda and that's what teamw workk is councilman Ruby call right after speaking about the same project I reach out to Lego we put it together this is affordable housing for the
resident of the cityor patteron for grandparent raising grandchildren single parent you know you know so so veterans this is something great for the city of p and I know that we're not perfect I know that we have a lot of ch ahead of us but when we have great things like
this let's not mix it with what's going in our city Jamie thank you for your leadership you've been impacting the life of so many Resident of the city of Pon and the council woman of the fourth War she never stopped working she never stopped fighting for the fourth War
those two women they're powerful and this is important they see they reach out to me and my respon was is going to be on the agenda for Tuesday because this is good for patteron developer this developer he getting into affordable housing right now developers that are in
the private sector they like to stay in the private sector but we have to acknowledge that this developer is going into the affordable housing and he's doing the extra mile so we need to appreciate what he's doing what this developer is doing in collaboration with
the community with the councilwoman if we work together in approv Project like this Paris will be a different city congratulations to the developer to Jimmy Bland to my councilwoman Ruby C and my vot is yes M Clair thank you council president the votes are seven in favor
one recusal one absent resolution number 76 is hereby adapted um thank thank you madam clerk Madam clerk we have there's an item on second reading that we have some visitor here they waiting for this item and it's item number four on second reading can
we take item number four M Clerk sure yes item number four is a ordinance changing the traffic patterns on Carolton Drive street to improve Public Safety and accommodate the needs of St
Gerard Maha school and area residence Public Works item ordinance number 25-5 so moved it was moved by Council M Les Council Ms and second by woman Davila um Public public hearing is now opening members of the public that we
should speak on item number four call move to close by councilman Ms and second by councilman blessing Council mavila roll call M clerk to close the public hearing on item number four roll call to close the public hearing on item number four councilwoman
cotton I'm sorry I mean councilwoman daver sorry yes councilman dackson yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin so thank you very much um in in the
first reading the school uh teachers and the students showed up to the council meeting in support of this I believe I can see some of the uh members from the school they're here as well so again we are in full support and we like to see this is going to elevate the situation that's happening the our neighborhood so
my vot is yes thank you councilman nen councilman BZ thank you for uh the committee to revisit again this item I like this uh desire it's very important that we uh bring safety pest safety to the
surrounding every school and I know St Geral uh Mel school is going to be benefit of this u u safety pedestrian safety program that we have in the city of one thing I could advise to the resident when they see the change
please drive safely make sure that you don't speed and make sure you don't double park because we made this easy for avoid all that situation so saying that thank you I willj thank you councilman council president thank you man clerk I want to congratulate the
committee the DPW committee councilman for UD and members of the community that came together to address this matter to bring safety into this community uh my vote is yes M clerk thank you council president the are seven and in favor we closing the public the public hearing my
apologies mad cler public hearing is being closed yeah public hearing is being closed roll call mad cler now on item number four roll call on item number four for adoption councilwoman Davila uh so um I just want to say that um when the community comes together I know that these were requests by the
community I know that there's a few parents out here with their children um I see the sister here as well uh understanding that this is something that is needed for Public Safety okay for our children our seniors and for everyone in the area I am in full
support okay so my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk um St Gerard has been a staple for many many years in fact my cousin graduated from uh from the school many years ago our current sheriff is
actually a graduate of uh the school as well um and uh I'm glad that you guys are working collaboratively with the neighborhood the N the residents in that area have been requesting this for quite some time so um it's about time we got it done um Madam clerk my vote is yes
thank you councilman councilwoman Mims no so I just want to say to um I as an educator someone that um is a mom and a grandmother and works in the school system every day I really understand the importance of making sure
that there are safety and traffic patterns in place to ensure that our young people's lives are protected so I really respect this item being here I respect you um sister for being here and uh the youth and the adults that have come out on tonight um our priority is
to make sure that our students and our staff and the people in that area are safe and that's what this item represents you will always have my support when it comes to the Youth of this community my vote is yes Madam clerk thank you councilwoman councilman Omar yes thank you councilman Udin thank
you Madam Clark so all the members of the school I am also a chair in the DPW when I received this application we made it as uh quicker as possible and have all these traffic study done so I'd like to make sure that this you know uh our
DPW go after today's vote going to erase all the uh stop signs from both uh sides not to make it confusing also make it make sure that it looks one way also they put one way sign so this is my request to the the PW after today's vote and I believe that this is going to
elevate this uh situation and uh safety that was concerned of our students so my V is definitely yes the vote was yes councilman oh thank you councilman um VZ so I stated that um
to DPW committee to thank you for revisiting this um change on the street um I had to give credit to to the superintendent of traffic Bob studo Bob studo yeah was pushing for
this for a longest uhhuh for the longest when we was committee remember so but it's getting done the important thing is getting done now for the safety of those that go to that school
the the parish people that worship God and those that walk around the the the place so saying that listen I know that Robert studo Bobby had new signs he knows what to put out there I know it's going to be beautiful but once
again the parents that drive through there had to make it easy too so saying that my vot is yes thank you councilman council president thank you m clerk um great things happen with the community come together uh this request you know
is been it's been very the community has been very vocal about this being advocating for this project it is here um I want to congratulate councilman at the DPW committee Robert sto that was on top of this every step of the way uh and CH the children they are the future and
we got to make sure that every decision that we make that we make here impact our children in a positive way and safety is one of the top priority my vote is yes M cler thank you council president the votes are seven in favor two absent on ordinance number four is hereby adopted council president thank
you mad clerk um councilwoman so I just want to give Clarity to the school and the members that are here even after the vote on tonight per our our ordinance or our law it takes 20 days before we can move forward so I you know I heard our councilman who's the chair of DPW but I wanted to bring Clarity because I don't
want you to look for it tomorrow and it's not there so there is a process on our books it does take 20 to 21 days before they can start the work for our law so I just want you to be aware of that so you don't call and say what happened to what got voted on tonight
thank you so much council president um um councilman Jackson through the chair um there is a legal re remedy that allows the council to mitigate and um forego that process and Corporation
counsel my per personal recommendation is that we should um be very prudent and move move as quickly as possible they've waited long enough um we the the lives of these young people depend on it and it's not a normal process I doubt we'll get any protests from any of the
neighbors who live in the area um and the law does allow for us to mitigate that uh that that that the postponement week process all right councilman Jackson dly NOS in and if we have the signs ready we
could definitely add you know a a legislation just to expedite the process we could definitely do that councilman bz councilman work with public work and if everything is in place and we got the signs ready we expedite the process absolutely Council council president uh
council member council president Council just I'm sorry council member just a second cor very briefly um just addressing councilman Jackson's uh request I think it's a prudent request um but just to advise the councel that request requires um the city council to pass an
ordinance or a resolution forgive me I'm happy to draft it uh deeming that this is an emergency situation and dispensing with the 20 days notice I think the the only issue and I'm happy to draft that tonight if councilman Jackson uh would like me to proceed with that the only issue is that we don't have another
meeting until next month so Council would either have to have a special meeting or would it would we could theoretically have a special meeting at the next Workshop I'm willing to do whatever uh the council wants me to do my my recommendation council president is for us to for legal to take the
moment draft the resolution now we vote on it to add it to the agenda we need an unanimous vote to do so and we take action tonight when the signs do are made available uh the it could be done I mean this Council has been you know by moving
and changing the meetings the only once a month it doesn't give us an opportunity to address the public concerns as diligently as possible we should not have them wait the we have person who's fully capable of drafting that that resolution tonight drafted we
voted on we make it um to where Mr studo does not have to come back to the council and ask for any other further actions he can take take action as necessary okay um do c briefly let's be mindful please let's be
mindful um the ordinance already you high guys have been waiting almost a year and a half or two years for it let's be mindful that that division Traffic Division only has four employees to go 8.9 square miles dealing with
poles dealing with handicaps dealing let's do it right let's wait we have been waiting while we request this and then easy we don't need a resolution for that to um Mr VA please send a message to patteron P to give extra attention on
traffic while meanwhile the the sign out posted because we could to put more work for a crew that have four people dealing with other things in the city and I know that um I don't want to put what's going on also with Bobby but it will go it
will get done it will trust me we it's already passed so so it's already done so let's definitely work it out um Madam clct let's do item number eight uh on second reading before we get into public portion number what item number eight on second reading council member what about
number five number um there's yeah there number eight when we come back from public portion we do item number eight second reading ordinance establishing a 15minute parking Zone on each 16 Street between 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue Public Works
ordinance number 25-9 public is required it was moved by councilwoman Dr L and second by Council and cast public portion is now open for item number a members of the public that wish to speak on item number now move to
close see no move to close by Council M second by councilman Udin roll call clerk to close the public hearing on roll call to close the public hearing on item number eight Council councilman Jackson yes thank you councilwoman Mims
yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz thank you councilwoman Min for bringing this up to committee well needed and
also public oh public okay yes your vote councilman oh okay thank you council president my vote is yes to close to public hearing okay roll call M clerk on item number eight roll call on item number eight councilwoman Dava I mean
councilman Jackson yes councilwoman Mims so let me say to um Mom and the family that are watching um and in in that particular area there's a lot of congestion um and
we want to make sure that our businesses continue to thrive and do well in the city of Patterson when uh they reached out to me I went by the business I did see a lot of the congestion and the concerns at the business um and it did take a while so I want to thank our DPW
committee um our chair in the committee um for allowing and I know was like come on I got to get on it's been waiting for a long time so to uh this particular business bus thank you for staying in our city um and doing your business while you have these constraints but
after tonight after this is approved this should be able to help you my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilman Omar yes yes castman Udin thank you Madame Clark so again uh when I got the request from the uh from
my Council colleague uh councilman Ms that I try to make it as fast as possible we we did the traffic study and here we are in the second reading again uh we try to get connected with the people and hear their request and make it fast as possible we do have
shortcomings because of the shortage of employees uh you all know that but still we try our level best to make it faster my vote is yes thank you councilman councilman council president wait I didn't vote Yes Council BL is for years
I didn't vote Council oh you R in your seat I'm sorry huh you weren't in your seat so correct I was right there but I didn't vote I still get to vote okay well yeah councilman councilwoman DAV and this is to close I mean the public
hearing correct no we did that we're voting on the actual uh legislation item eight I wasn't standing there that long that yall did the closing anyway my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilman uh council president yes
thank you m clerk uh this uh business is being on the allocation for a while thank you Council women M uh for reaching out so that's I'm very familiar and it was uh it's definitely a pleasure for me to support our local business and to do what is right by our community my vote is yes M cler thank you the votes
are seven in favor two absent second reading ordinance number eight is hereby adopted U thank you mad clerk uh members of the public we have 23 speaker on the public portion um I will respectfully ask every members of the public that came to address the council to be
respectful of the three minutes rule that we have we have a clock in front of us right here and and we have one in the back I want you to use your time effectively um and and let's be respectful to the administration to the council and also to the public that we have here after the 3 minutes I would
respectfully ask you to move to the side and allow the next speaker to use their three minutes so M clerk um let's call the first Speaker first Speaker sherea arol you please state your name and address please
yeah ma'am ma'am uh get uh get closer to for two years I've been complaining to zoning I've been dealing with Zoning for two years now so let me list the uh zoning parking violations parking commercial Vans over 2 tons overnight in
Street code violation 10-54 tp9 double parking commercial van code violation 1054 DP uh parking commercial vans on sidewalk code violation home home home
business code violation 500 D5 D3 for another zoning violation 50071 illegal apartment and basement illegal apartment Min and garage total in a one family house 15 vehicles in a
6ot driveway so where are all these vehicles going to park and I've been complaining to Jesus Castro for 2 years I have an email of what he wrote he said please stop emailing this office regarding police Ms these are
zoning matters we are not law enforcement we have 12 people in the office that witness what was said and I repeat here again we do not work evening evening hours we don't work in tandem with neighbors to enforce ordinance the office will not be weaponized to address
dispute uh between neighbors you must cease parking commercial vehicles on your property I have no commercial commercial vehicles please report any criminal activities to the police department these are zoning matters not police matters please speak with your
elected officials or the mayor regarding street parking conditions again these our commercial Vans parked in the driveway and backyard at overnight we are dealing with hazardous living conditions as a prior priority of enforcement at this office we have
received your complaint and issue violations okay so now that's what he say I've been complaining for two years now what he did was um on November 4th 2024 he gave me a ticket for a shed in
the backyard which is not a zoning violation confirmed by another inspector and 11:24 is when he gave me the ticket he took me to court in one month but he can't seem to take a neighbor with so
many zoning violations and parking violations to court for two years it doesn't make sense I don't know who to do what to do who to go to because the problem is zoning zoning needs to take him to court I don't know why zoning
can't take him to court for 2 years but they took me to court for what was the outcome what was the outcome when you went to court the outcome it's I had to we had to prove that it was that we had to prove that it was not
a zoning violation and we did get an email confirmation from another for ours that is not a zon in violation at all council president so like I I don't understand why zonan can't take him to court for two years it to me it doesn't
make sense um okay so so I know this the beginning of the public portion I know you gave us some information but leave your information with the clerk I know Council y wants to address the issue and I know all the council member wants to and the councilman of the city also as well he's new in the position but he
definitely wants to get it but I think it it goes to the point where other council members have tried to help but then they call zoning then that's it I don't know what's going on with zoning once they call zoning I don't hear back from anybody I just don't know what's
going on with zoning yeah okay so counc president so we we we'll be with you make sure get his information that way he could start getting involved in the process and and we will definitely okay um I know this is the beginning of the public portion um council member so very quickly so council president I did put
it in request to um Castro he told me that there were summonses written so if Corporation Council can please provide a report from uh from that department of whether or not these matters for the young ladies being addressed um it is you know we as the council the
administration is responsible for providing US Reports on how they're handling constituent issues we should not just send her blindly we should get a report from the administration thank for trying to help no absolutely you're not going plan without any answer so
make sure you leave leave your information with cooperation counsel uh give it to the give to the to uh Sophia to our Clerk and and we will handle it we will make sure that we will get in touch with you okay thank you next speaker M clerk next speaker is Rebecca
Woodson please state your name and address Rebecca Woodson good evening Council good evening good evening my main concern tonight is how you treat one another when the
community is watching and listening you show no professionalism at all I would like to call out councilman Ms and councilman
the of how you treat your fellow counsilman you show no professionalism at all none at all you act just like a fifth grader every one of you especially when councilman Michael
Jackson is talking you meming you turning your face up because the public is watching you we listening at you we see you we put you in these positions and we can also move you we can easily
move you just remember that that we put you here and we can also move you Michael councilman Jackson has a right to voice his opinion just like everyone
else if it take five minutes if it take 10 minutes he has a right to do that so let's be professional at what we are doing not kids not being a fifth grader or third grader let's all be
professional at what we are doing thank you than you very much next speaker M CL the next speaker is Jamie Bland she left next speak next speak is cameo Black
come um Cameo black please state your name and address thank you C black um 444 Mar I came here for a couple of reasons one of the reasons why I came here I reached
out to a couple of the elect officials last week today makes a week um everybody scream holler they tired of they City looking dirty me and the team we got together we brought RS we brought shovels we brought garbage bags
everything that you need even it's to the point a guy from Washington Township reached out to donate to trucks to help clean up the city I've been asking only thing we're stuck at where do we take the trash after we pick it up because
we're not just talking about garbage bags we're talking about furniture like I told y'all before is at this point it's time for everybody to roll up their sleeves and do what they have to do I'm not looking for anything once again I'm not running for nothing I don't want no
votes I don't want anything but for our city to be clean we have kids we got grand kids that's who I'm looking out for don't put my I'm not and another thing and back of my house now I don't know wherever last went he
disappeared but I have pictures these people I've been living where I live at for 13 years the people that was in my backyard I cannot identify not one person that was back there but somebody came up with the brilliant idea to sit
up there and open up a damn supermarket and back of my building it was 30 people back there selling nasty dirty food from the pantry that was on the ground people knocking on my door because they know I give back to the community thinking I
organized it no way know how I wouldn't have never did anything like that I reached out to the Board of Health the Board of Health Joelle still haven't reached out to me yet the police I called 17 times almost got attacked in my backyard the because I asked the
people who are y'all the people can't tell me who they was yes I did go to defend myself but by the grace of God my mace was empty because I would have finished the dud but that shouldn't have never happened 17 times to call the police and they
don't come disgusting only way I was able to get somebody I had to reach out to Murray personally that sh be if it's a problem the cops don't want to come let me know but like I said once again I'm going to defend me and my kids by
all means necessary valz wherever you went like I told you you got to figure it out y'all got to straighten it out and the Board of Health need to come once again cuz they never came out 444 Market Street is a restaurant that same nasty dirty food that they had on the
ground they dropped it in the basement I got videos of them taking that food out the basement and selling it in that restaurant somebody going to have food poisoning and somebody going to die it's disgusting and I'm asking y'all get on it it's a lot going on in the fifth War
Mendes I already told you I'm in distress I knew that boy for 13 freaking years and I feel some type of way about that everybody bless is in everybody else War our war is at War and it's
going to be more bodies dropping if they don't do something I had to reach out to another person if you know a shooting took place on Saturday why wouldn't it be no units out there on Monday with these babies going to school it should be one on each Corner because on
Saturday when that guy got shut down you know how many kids was running from bullets I don't want it to be no more bodies please do something and that's all I ask y'all and please somebody get back in touch with me because we want to move forward and we want to get this
city cleaned up all I'm asking is where do we take the trash they said we can't take it to DBW we will have to take it to nort and pay for it per pound it's not going to happen this is our city we cleaning it up tell us where to take it that's all we need we don't need nothing
else thank you next speak about clerk yes next speaker is Cory [Applause] Teague please state your name and address all righty Cory teag Patterson New Jersey I'm just coming here tonight
to encourage the parents to please what get active in the school district and you guys know coming from me you guys see me all the time in the street and I'm always encouraging you to come out I really need you all to come out and participate in these meetings I know you guys are watching what's going on on the
national level but it's going to affect what's going on on the local level we have Title One funding that's going to be impacted full service Community Schools that's going to be impacted um monies that are used to you know bring in Grants for services that like special
education for one Ida individuals with disabilities and Education Act that's going to all of these different Federal programs that have been in place are all being slashed and cut they're even trying to cut the Watchdogs from the Department of Education whose responsibility was to
monitor school districts and make sure things are being done correctly all of those positions are being cut with my fingers like what we need now is the parents to be the Watchdogs because ultimately we are the only Watchdogs that our children have if we don't keep an eye on them who who else is going to
do it if we don't know what they're doing when I was growing up I didn't I was not allowed to lock my bedroom door I was not allowed to have privacy and secrets when I was growing up in my parents house if you're in our house and you come in here we need to see what you got in your book bag we need to see what
you got under your bed we need to see what you got in your drawer it's you're not just going to stay in our house and and we don't know what you're into MH MH so it's very important for us as parents to make sure that we keep up with what our children are doing if they're in our
house we need to know what they're doing right you shouldn't have to get a news a call from a a news reporter or someone in the street that your child shot and killed somebody and you're saying you had no idea they had a gun in the house how did they how were they able to be in your house that long with a weapon and
you didn't even know it was there so as parents we really have to step up and make sure that our households are being run correctly and make sure that God is first and make sure that the family is right there next to it and make sure that we're leading and guiding our families cuz if we're not doing it in
our own homes we can't do it in the city can't run a city we can't run our own homes which brings me to my next Point as the Bible said and I've said it over and over and I'm going keep saying it when the wicked are in Authority the people the people uh mourn but when the righteous beareth rule the people
Rejoice our city is mourning because the people that are in charge are wicked there was a prayer tonight by my one of my colleagues and I know they said it was uh she quoted I believe it was 2 Chronicles 7:14 right but she left out AP part she
left out a part and turned from your wicked ways that part was left out and we cannot leave that part out because God is very specific with what he said you can say you can do everything else but that turn from your Wicked Ways part that's serious business and he means
that the minute you do that that's when he said I'm going to hear from Heaven I for for give your sins and heal your land got to give up the evil thank you commissioner next speaker man cler next speaker is darling Morris
past T right Pastor thank you first let me make it perfectly clear that I do not live in patteron it was brought up the last time that I was here however I am patteron I was born and bred in patteron I work in patteron every single day of
my life today so I think that I have a right to say people accept money from others that are not in Patterson but I can't speak not that won't happen um the theme is the same tonight it seems like the same because what I wrote
is the real challenge Beyond visible filth the division and disparities across the city is that we are in the midst of a deeper struggle one that goes beyond po
politics and policies it's a spiritual battle we are in the midst of a spiritual warfare and people act like they don't see it the test of our willingness to truly see and care for one another we
lose sight of the bigger picture instead of seeking to understand to listen to find Solutions we often fall into cycles of criticism and judgment some areas seem to flourish While others struggle but we all are are part of the same city
the same whole when one Ward suffers the entire city Bears the weight yet rather than coming together to build a stronger future some would rather divide redrawing lines renaming communities Palestinian way and carving out pieces
for personal gain rather than Collective progress this is disheartening and for those who have sacrificed so much to build this city we have we have poured we this city who have poured their lives into making it a home we all know that
corruption runs deep in government not just in Patterson in government across the board and it's painful to witness it's frustrating to see systems fail and and the Very people they are meant to serve but rather than allowing the corruption to to drive us apart we must
find a way to come together to demand better and to rebuild something stronger regardless of political beliefs one thing is certain certain and true leadership requires courage not to tear down what is broken like Trump but he had the courage to do it but to rebuild
with Integrity ensuring that no one is Left Behind I hope that moving forward we can find put aside selfishness and personal ambition that's the personal ambition has no room here and embrace a
vision that uplifts everyone be because when we choose to care for one another we truly commute commit to Unity that is when that is when real change occurs and I would encourage every one of you to look into your heart because like Cory
said until we admit our wrong and turn from our Wicked Ways and there's wickedness here that God will not hear from we will not hear from Heaven God will not hear for heaven and turn around this city so
everybody need to go up in their war room and pray that their hearts be changed all of our hearts be changed to try to love one another thank you next speaker M CL the next speaker is Joseph Hart State your name Mr Hart and your
address please thank you I'm here to say a lot of things but I want you guys to see this um Jo speak this my city it's not the same like it used to be especially downtown I mean downtown used to be nice
and clean I se some rats because all this Recycling and garbage and all this stuff it's like why don't just take the garbage in one shot that's the what it used to be all that recycling crap to me is all still garbage and now I'm here
about other things nobody respect the yellow line for the buses I take transit buses all this double parked especially on Ellis Street I want to see one buses just file and cars out of the way I would love to see that cuz they ain't supposed to par if I did that back in
the days I would get a ticket and all down town they don't care we got people in this town don't give a damn this is my city and I hate the way it is especially downtown and I'm from 49 Prince Street
that's where I live at Patterson New Jersey apartment for I lost my job for 29 years when that Co crap came out so I'm stressed out of a lot of things I was working for a ballet maker something totally oh yeah when that Co crack came
out all the Broadway shows were closed all the dance schools were closed and I lost one they lied to us I hope they hear me too they lied to us so now I'm permanent disability now I take a lot of medications that I got to pend on I
don't sleep right I'm depressed yeah I go to the Harbor House for my mental illness I've been been right ever since when I leave that door whatever crap that's happened out here I don't think about that I think about cuz I've been disrespect a lot the time I've been
threatened too by morons out here cuz I ain't give a cigarette or or change and I ain't got it and I tell them off and when they do that the only thing that's in my head I lost a job of 29 years of my life my benefits everything I'm going
through hell right now but yeah this town it's not the same no more it's all crap it's not just the town that's crap it's the people that run this town is crap that's why I believe in it's not the same downtown used to be really
clean people got the stores with their merchandise there's some sidewalk supposed to be for the pedestrians I used to drive too got the motorbikes by McDonald's they don't care and one day something's going to happen now you know they see me swing this cane and mugs
want speed C you know make that that go past the red light and they supposed to stop I put this can up you stop I know I get cussed out somehow but we got a bunch of more on that's all I got to say I'll be back again you all be safe thank
you next speaker mad clerk next speaker is delva Rivera delva Riviera fig next figure is Princess Reeves oh she's back there right
[Music] here no princess said princess no a difference big p please state your name address please good evening good evening um always I'd
like to start out with our Council and members as when we come before this m with many concerns that we address to you let us all be mindful respectful towards one another I'd like to bring
the concern of the debris the trash the garbage before the city it should not be at this time of this year in this condition I have taken pictures and I know some of the council members they know I'll throw them on the
Facebook sometimes you got to shame a person in order for them to do the right thing we have ordinance that has been on the books for years of having those inspectors to go out to serve those tickets to say you're
a violation of we need to enforce that we need to put back off enforcers back into the city our city has no business especially within the heart of the city right downtown is filthy and if you have
a store you're a merchant Common Sense which we know everybody is not using common sense but if they utilize common sense and say wait a minute this is my store I want the members and many people of the community to come and shop for
the various things how do we shop in the midst of Filth we cannot do that no longer and we have to take a my next concern is we have to address these bully of this town it doesn't matter
what title they carry we have to address it we have to safeguard constantly our singers and our children that's before this town they're our number one constituents or we should be
safeguarding them at all times I don't understand when you come and you bring the concerns and then nothing is done we have to be willing to take that next concern and two I want to put it out
here be honest now we have a numerous amount of developers okay when you develop something here we go again Common Sense common sense is when you're putting up these tall buildings you start with
still beans you start with the proper material and because we don't have the zoning inspectors in which the city needs much they don't go out to inspect wait a minute let's see if you doing your job let me see if this building is
big enough that it has a backyard that a child if a child can't make it to a par that they have room enough in the backyard to play what do we do we cannot set aside these many concerns that has been addressed before this Council many
times over and I'm going to depart on that note thank you thank you prcess re next speaker mad clerk next speaker is Alan Daniel Jefferson Jr please state your name and address thank
you Allan Daniel Jefferson Jr 81 Savoy Place Apartment 2 Prospect Park New Jersey
now I came here in peace and love and joy for my fellow man but I'm feeling some kind of way and I'm praying and meditating that the council
will do its job and serve the community okay now I'm not going to talk about the stuff that happened last week okay I'm not going to talk about the stuff that happened to me on Friday but I'm going
to say this I love the kids I walk this town from 4 6:00 sometime in the morning I don't get home till 12:00 at night and I'm walking the streets I see the garbage I see the
filth I see the kids I see everything okay we got to do better better because if we don't nobody's going to be here
if they play you against me okay it's third world war spiritual war is mental physical spiritual are K everybody is suffering everybody's
under duress now you may not like me okay but as long I I was taught you had to have morals responsibility you love your family if
my neighbor lost her job I helped her till she got back on her feet okay I'm old school I'm not old gangster okay and I'm not sugar daddy or
Pimp Daddy I'm Allan Daniel Jefferson Jr now if you want me I walk these streets every day okay now we can do it like real men do or we can do it like we do it in the
hood okay because what's wrong is that we're taking people for granted and we got I'm not going to say what I want to say cuz you know what I want to say okay but I'm going to say
this and I'm going to say it and move on okay we we suffer because of lack of wisdom knowledge and understanding okay number one number
two you don't vote you don't count you don't work you don't eat you got to stay out the jail house next speaker M clerk thank you thank you next speaker is Henry Adamson
please state your name and address Henry Adamson Patterson what's up Casey um I came here I mean I know two weeks ago I spoke two or three weeks ago I spoke about the condition of downtown
P councilman all councel oh yeah councilman all councilman tomorrow during your time if you're not busy walk Market Street Market Street right here McDonald's walk Broadway during during the times of
being 10: and 1 p.m. and look at the conditions that's going on down there take time out your day to see what's going on um my father is opening up a business downtown and today he had to go clean up
human feces in front of his business this is unbelievable he not even open up yet and this is your first thing you're doing that's the that's the big issue the one another issue is you got all
these smoke shops again I spok about this before yeah so what's the difference from a smoke shop selling weed and a cat on the street selling weed both get drug charges right but one get a fine and the other one go to jail so it's it's a lot of problems
going on and I got to start standing up for them like is summer about to come the businesses how they going how the business is going to pay their rent downtown if all these conditions downtown is horrible you know what I mean so there a lot of big issu going on
trash everywhere I spoke on this plenty of times and we got to we got to fix these problems um another thing um councilman orar I know you had a situation that you said when you was 14 I get it apology
could have been everything you know what I mean if you apologize I I heard you apologize if you did salute I mean real talk if you apologize but I didn't hear it so but if you apologize I accept your apology you know
what I mean so but we got to we got to change as one in the city like you know everybody got to really actually work together we get stuff done like this is this is a real big problem for our youth for our businesses and also like
the housing and everything you know rent is high people can't afford it it's it's a struggle out here so yeah that's all I really got to say thank you next speaker M cler next speaker is V orz thank you good evening everyone good
evening um I came out of concern concern for two issues that I would like to address one is about that young man that was shot on Saturday on Saturday that 20y old man um I was on Markus Street and I just saw the police going up Market Street to Pennington as if it was
the Indianapolis 500 so I knew something bad happened and and of course I followed it on the news thereafter but once I read the article I mean obviously the young man in his family may he rest in peace and and and are my my condolences to the family uh um on
Monday I read I read the article and I don't know if those of us who read it it had a paragraph where I where it read and I quote in the previous month meaning February that just passed no one
was shot in the city of Patterson and listen to this it was the first time over 14 years in the city of Patterson that no one want shot in a particular month 14 years years and that to
me sums up what's going on in our city obviously from the garbage and everything else so it was the first time in 14 months some one was shot in the city of Patterson the last month and that was just alarming to me uh the other the other issue I would like to
address um is about Mr uh cman for the six War Ibrahim Omar on the issue that this man just this man just raised and the uh comment that he made when he was 14 years old I believe he's over 25 today so um I don't know his age but and
I met Omar and then I thought about the officer that was shot in nework by another 14year old he was 14 not 24 not 34 he was 14 years old and he obviously is going to get charged as a minor but you cannot charge
someone as an adult at that age in the in in the in the state of New Jersey but I make the connections then I said to the man to my myself let's go into history of the Bible Paul for example on his way to the
Damascus he changed his ways he had an opportunity to change his ways didn't he he did a a a Christian killer basically so he changes ways Redemption Reformation second chances I
believe in it you know marol X he changed his ways when he went to Mecca Redemption forgiveness reflection understanding he changes ways uh what's his name Amazing Grace something Newton John
Newton he was a slave trader changed his ways became an abolitionist so why if this man apologizes reflects understand that he that he does it wrong we have to embrace her and if
it comes from the heart we have to embrace that because that's what growth is is so in summation ladies and gentlemen yes we all human beings we make mistakes we reflect we move forward and I just
hope that's what Omar is bringing to the table and I just hope the city just comes together and understands that we have to have space to make mistakes and reflect and grow out of that thank you thank you next speaker mad cler next speaker is Eddie [Applause]
olivarez good evening uh last week um after I left uh there was some discussion with uh councilman bz on his excellent thank you for joining us uh on his uh reading and
writing abilities uh that's not really what I want to talk about but anyway he in essence said that um he's not a good writer or a good reader but he's a good legis later
and I want to tell you Mr VZ why it is important uh that you don't take that position and to the children that are here it is extremely important that you are well educated and you can communicate and you can read and you can write but again I don't want to talk
about that I just felt that you made light of it and it is very important for our kids to be well educated uh I I came here to talk about as I do every time I come here all of
you you run for office and when you win you seem to not know not have a clue on what to do every week I
hear woman uh cotton talk about how many people call her because they need help with this or that connecting to the resources of the city and you help them ma'am this is the job for a Ministry not for a
legislator um I hear coun woman Mims talk about how many people call her and she answers you don't answer me I've called you many times and you have promised that you would call me and set up a meeting but
you have never done it so that's not entirely true Mr valz has done the same thing councilman nudin bra about how many people call him and I am here to tell you guys that until you create the conditions here in
the city of parisan that you strengthen all of the different uh agencies here in the city of pan to the point that we don't have to call you for anything we don't need to call you guys let me tell you I lived in in in in uh
paramas for many years I didn't know who the the who was running the government I lived in tin for many years I don't know who was running the the government only here in Pon we have to know you guys and we have to call you it is your job to create the conditions here in the city
of patteron where we don't have to call you for anything if I need to get a permit I I call a a community Improvement if I need a low income housing I go to the Housing Authority
which is in the hands of the uh private SE sector now but that is your job guys is to create the conditions here in the city of pison where we don't need you for anything we don't need your help to live our lives thank you let's speaker M
clerk the next speaker is Eddie [Applause] Ruiz Eddie please state your name and address Edie P New Jersey I'm here to address Our concern over the past 6 years the board of education has raised
taxes multiple times 8% 11% 12% 15% and last year just 5% and yesterday there was just another discussion about raising taxes another 6% which was voted down but I'm pretty sure they're going to still raise taxes anywhere between 2 to
5% You know despite these tax hikes where's an improvement in our in our education for our kids our children are still underperforming and nothing seem seems to change last year they raised taxes 5% and on top of that all the superintendents got a a 3% salary
increase meanwhile we've been fighting for over 2 years against chronic ab absentees and only last week did the board finally come up with a plan to tackle this should have this been a priority from the beginning yes it's easy to point a finger at the parents but let's talk about harsh reality some
of these kids don't have parents who are present in their lives some are raised by grandparents doing the absolute best with the little that they have some kids are Lo parents are locked up some have passed away some of these parents are so deep into drugs they care less whether their kids go to school how do I know
this because I see it every single day I personally know kids in my kid school who parents are either jail in jail dead or have given up their rights these children are being raised by grandparents who are struggling just to make ends me and I'm not just talking
about um hypothetically here my own family is helping a family that's displaced right now a family who couldn't afford rent and had nowhere else to turn we're picking up their child from school feeding him clothing him making sure he gets to class and I'm not saying this to get an Applause I'm saying this to show you that this is
just one case and I know there's many more like this this is this isn't just about attendance this is the battles that these kids face every single day that many of us don't know the Board of Education keeps us saying they want more power and involvement but in a in a meeting on
March 5th we had nearly 150 parents show up divorcing concerns about a middle school model and you know what happened it felt like it went in through one year and went out the other this isn't about one part of town One race one religion this is about every single child every
single student who deserves a chance at a better future we're losing our kids every single day to drugs violence gangs suicide yet we sit back it's easy to point the finger and has blame to push people down but the real challenge is
lifting each other up we need to stand together as one family we need to stand together as our community for our kids and take action it's time for us to change our city deserves better and so do our kids and I'm going to leave this with this quote by Dr Martin Luther King
we may have all come on a different ship but we all are in the same boat and I'm going to add this and if we don't start working together that's right we our kids will continue to drown and our city will continue to drown thank
you thank you um Eric next speaker mad clerk next speaker is Joel Keys Jr state your name please and address freedom of speech happy birthday Casey Melvin [Applause]
yeah freedom of speech or Civil Disobedience at the last meeting councilman Udin spoke about the incident at assemblyman abdulaziz's black history celebration event where initially councilman Jackson was outside passing
out flyers containing racist posts and other obscene language from newly appointed six W councilman Ibrahim Omar councilman Udin objected to councilman Jackson's actions suggesting that because it was a private event an
assemblyman abdulaziz paid to rent The Brownstone councilman Jackson had no right to go inside and pass out flyers he stated quote freedom of speech does not mean disrespecting others expressing
your rights but he cannot disrespect others that's not what freedom of speech means unquote he can concluded by requesting that I speak about freedom of speech at the next meeting I mentioned that councilman Jackson was outside
passing out flyers initially and several guests asked him if he would come inside including some urging him to do so still councilman Jackson said no I wasn't invited and I'm not welcome he was demonstrating a freedom of speech
protest when assembly men abdulaziz arrived I approached him with a flyer asking him if Ibrahim Omar was a racist and if he supported this Behavior councilman Jackson intervened and engaged in a virent exchange with assemblyman abdulaziz in which the
assembly man denied supporting ibraim Omar and stated that councilman Jackson voted for him after that confrontation councilman Jackson said now I am going inside at this juncture the method of
the pro T has changed from freedom of speech to Civil Disobedience we went inside and spoke to many of the guests and were informed that we needed to leave or the police will be called moments later we were told the police
were on the way upon receiving that news councilman Jackson made his Civil Disobedience stance official when he said quote I'm going to wait downstairs for the police to come so I could bring more attention and publicity to this
egregious Injustice unquote so councilman Udin when councilman Jackson protest was about freedom of speech there were no violations so there was no need for me to speak about that on the other hand civil disobedience is defined
as a public nonviolent and conscientious breach of law in which the protesters are willing to accept the legal consequences of their actions two weeks ago on March fourth Congressman Alan Green broke theorum and interrupted
convicted felon Donald Trump while addressing Congress in an interview on 99.5 Fm WBAI non-corporate radio Congressman green said quote when you engage in peaceful protest you have to be disruptive I did it because I stood
on principle and when you stand on principle you're prepared to accept the consequences unquote those were councilman Jackson sentiments precisely thank you next speak man [Applause]
cler next speaker is Jaden epar J next speaker M Jordan Wilder next speaker Justice figeroa yeah Adrian Tuli yes Adrian's
here okay uh good evening good evening start yet okay good evening my name is uh Adrian uh Tuli I'm a longtime educator and a parent I'm here this evening on behalf of myself um mini Patterson students and parents we have a serious issue at hand
at Phillips Academy Charter School of Patterson located on 124 Madison Avenue Dr Dwayne Davis is the CEO and we are preparing a petition for the commissioner titled Philips Academy Charter School needs a new CEO Dr Davis
has to go Dr Davis has brazenly plastered inappropriate sexual social media posting where he has openly posted a 10-year-old child holding a blue lunchbox wearing a white T-shirt with black letters which read I fun unicorn
candle kettle on the first date I'll show the photo later Dr Davis has taken the postings down because I raised my voice to the board however the postings have been shared thousands of times s and remains a troubling reoccurring posting at large that has distorted the
image of the CEO who punishes any parent or student who shares their dismay of the posting which is Unforgettable and ever presentent this community needs leaders in the school who are not perverts our children deserve respectful plausible leaders um I ask this Council
to look into this matter and support the many parents and students who want a new CEO Dr Davis is rude runchy causing racial divide calling black people criminals and treating many of us like such um namely me to be honest and more
many more Philips Academy has no PTA and many parents and students who raise their voices are punished harassed restricted from school grounds alongside Davis harassment students who have parents um you know who raise their voice about him there is an online petition in the works by pad that's
parents against Dr Davis um we ask um that the city of Patterson resident signed a petition to get the commissioner's attention as many of you should remember many years ago a patteron teacher posted distasteful comments about being a Ward and watching criminals on her social media platform
which caused a Revolt prompting that this teacher consider other career options we need the same order of operation for Dr Dwayne Davis I want to be clear in saying that we need all hands on deck the children of Patterson need leaders who are plausible who are
respectful um this person is connected to some people in patteron and he's you know feels that he is Untouchable it's time for him to be touched he needs to be removed if it would happen any place else if I'm a teacher if I had a social
media posted a social media posting where I use the child to display something of this magnitude they would take my teaching certificate so the fact that he's affiliated with some people he thinks that he can get away with this it it cannot happen I'm going to be going to our Freeholder
I'm going to be going to the highest places he has to go there's no reason that he's there what does the Post say can you give the flyer to our secretary what does the Post say she's going to pass a flyer to us so we can see it um show it
because of the children thank you you could share the flyer with the council I know I know the council members want to look at the flyer next speaker M clerk next speaker is l Tori you can make good evening honorable members of
the council city of Patterson as a member I stood before you about a month ago asking for your support because of the Board of Education implementing a middle school model that was supposedly established in 2021 how parents and the community only learned about it for the
first time in early of February of this year the board claims they notified the public but the individuals they allegedly informed are now in high school where our kids that are in the lower grades are being affected and the parents are unaware of it the community
is unaware of it over 150 parents gathered at 90 Delaware app to petition against this model yet our concerns were completely disregarded we have personally gone before the board gathered signatures attended meetings and participated even in their Community form only to be told
that this was a hard pill to swallow and that the plan would move forward regardless of our objections since February the board has ignored our serious concerns concerns about student safety construction budgets and timelines Financial burdens on both the
parents and the district itself even though they're making cuts on teachers on their medical plans on our school program programs for special education um and the long-term impact on future Generations who will I apologize
Financial burdens on both the parents and the district the long-term impact on future Generations who will one day sit in these very seats that you're sitting on now instead of addressing these pressing issues parents continue to be dismissed just a few weeks ago a man was
struck by a car while waiting for the bus this is the same dangerous situation and the same exact road that our children will face when they are forced to walk longer distances under this model their safety is at risk and this is
unacceptable the schools involved school three which still has no building because they took the money and didn't give them a building the school N9 School 8 and Dr Han alaala which is our school have been mandated to reregister
our students for the upcoming school year their excuse for re-registering the students is that they needed to know where to place them for their new ESL classes which are geared into Arabic or Spanish speaking classes and which I
believe we all believe that students should not be segregated or separated in that way um they have man REM M mandated that we register our children if our children that have iips and special programs if they files follow them throughout their
lifetime why be we being asked to re-register this is a responsible way to inform families that their children will not be returning to the same school next year may I please continue sure thank you furthermore we have yet to see
official documentation no spending budgets no construction plans no data to support the claims that this model is effective how can we how can such a drastic change be implemented without providing Stak us with the necessary information instead of transparency
we're met with vague reassurances and empty promises upon reviewing public records from 2021 there is no evidence of a strategic plan supporting the data for this model when it was first introduced where is the
plan where is the proof Daniel how if this model is shy beneficial the lack of transparency only raises more doubts and Depends and deepens our con concerns we have repeatedly asked the Board of Education these questions but they continue to ignore us that is why I'm
here today as a concerned parent we're asking Patterson Council to stand with us we urge you demand accountability for the Board of Education and the superintendent to support our request to resend this model the truth is the superintendent and the board can resign
this model at any time so why won't they why are they choosing to push forward on a plan that lacks transparency this regarding safety concerns and places un unnecessary burdens on the families of District their refusal to reverse this is overwhelming position only raises
questions about their motives thank you next next speaker mad clerk next speaker is Deborah [Applause] Hannibal state your name and address please Deborah Hannibal Patterson New
Jersey good evening council president good even evening council members uh I want to send my love to Madame Clerk and then um the deputy and
Sophia um and to the administration I want to begin my remarks by apologizing for going over on the allotted time last week I do not apologize
for my comments Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere I'm very passionate about the issue of the treatment of blacks in this
community and believe that our concerns are not being properly addressed by this Administration candidates for employment have been allowed to use extremely offensive racial
remarks apologize and then they're giving a job it is not okay I I I too want to extend Grace to Mr Omar I I want to do that
however this isn't the first incident incidents of something like that happening in the city we all know that the council's presidents councilman Mendes's Aid called a city employe uh
effing and I don't want to say it but you know effing nword and then they the that person said it again effing NW they that person apologized came here
before this Council apolog oliz and then was placed on the city payroll again I'm going to say that choosing Ibrahim Omar as the six ward council person is a big problem because
he made racist social media posts that unfairly label black people as criminals so he's perpetuating that stereotype that's why we're having issues with police this this is going on and on
somebody has to say it's not okay the mayor and other leaders have not held him responsible they don't they don't hold anyone accountable if they're speaking against black people they're not taking our concerns
seriously if we want a fair and respectful City we need leaders who treat everyone with kindness and stand Against Racism thank you thank you that's speaking my cler next speaker I believe he left former councilman
Anthony Davis I don't think he's here um next speaker is G Greer C councilman David left and brother G here state your name please and address uh G Greer from the great city of patteron where everything is so
beautiful here all the trash is picked up uh there's no illegal dumping there's no boats left nowhere and everything is is just beautiful in the city right now I'm serious I'm here on the I'm I'm here on uh a matter East Main Street uh
councilwoman Mims made a statement last week and people called me and I don't think you was directing it to me when you say we call you for everything then you said you call both phones and I try to tell people she wasn't directed that to me cuz I only know one of her phone
numbers but anyway moving forward I will never well I'm going try not to ever call another counsel person for anything okay what I'm going to do Louis like you ain't going to call me what I'mma do what I'mma do is do what I
do I'mma blast it on social media I'm a uh the Patterson P plays patteron plus page I sent 111 East Main Street in 2020 to the
patteron plus and they said it was closed out if you go there right now the doors are still wide open there's garbage all in front of the building and those residents from North Side keep keep calling me about
that uh if you follow my page some of some of the council members chimed in on that page said we'll take care of it we'll get it done as of today it's still not done if any of you guys live in that
building you you'll make sure it's done and what's funny is that I I never wanted to believe this people used to say well things are not going to get done in the first Ward because Mike Jackson is the councilman of that Ward so as as I track
I'm seeing stuff in the First Ward that's been reported over and over and over again no disrespect to true and real in the Fifth Ward but true and real can get things done in his Ward I don't know if
you got a special connect with people or what but I'm giving you credit Louis valz get things done in the Fifth Ward in the same way people respond in the fifth Ward they need to respond in the
First Ward the fourth ward the third and so on it shouldn't be because I don't like a certain person and we get things done let's be about the people's business in the city and then we can make patteron great again everybody got
their little clicks and this and that when I post stuff on there I post it for the betterment of the residents in the city of Patterson I don't say well this the for forward I like Ruby better than you no let's just get it done that simple plain and simple en closing
council president you get things done in the Third Ward I don't know how but you do in the poor old First Ward suffer I got an email back from the city and I'll share with you guys private the email came back to me from the city of
Patterson in 2020 saying this property is going to be addressed and it's still not addressed in 20 what's this 25 I got the email still not addressed those folks down there they deserve better they really do and thank you for not
turning the mic off on me but councilman uh houd houdin you made a statement houd you made a statement about the homeless I just want you to know council president has been meeting with us since that incident with all the nonprofits
that came here that night so your state and you was kind of like pushing your chest up your statement last week was like well where they at they ain't doing nothing the council president has been meeting with us we we have been working behind the scenes trying to rectify the
situation so your statement last week it did it didn't sit well with me because we was crunched up in this room downstairs and the council president was was on top of it on that I want to say thank you thank you for allowing me a few extra minutes I appreciate it thank you next speaker on cler next speaker is
Daniel Mahia Daniel Daniel St your address please here that's right there you go hello
everyone okay you could stand was do you think I we could start the time right now okay okay it's already going all right um hello my name is Daniel Bergos May here first of all I would like to thank each and every one of you for your time today
um as CEO and owner of Silk City 1 I am proud to not only introduce the platform that looks to keep the community informed but also to uh in invest in initiatives that uh look to uplift our community uh one of the key features
that we are working on currently is the implementation of uh hydroponic Towers uh within the community uh this is uh by adding vertical Gardens within uh properties of homeowners um which would improve in the aesthetic of the property
itself it would uh uh add property value and help with the environment um I'm sorry I I've been working on this pitch to try to add it in three minutes uh so I would just read uh some of the
key points um so basically uh through uh I'm sorry it it was this whole time trying to learn this pitch to to present it to you um so I I would just read it as CEO and owner of Silk City 1 I am proud to not only provide a platform
that looks to keep our community informed but also personally invest in initiatives that look to uplift our community I am the first sponsor of Silk City 1 as a real estate sales ass associate for real T1 group Legend but I am looking for more investors and uh
sponsors that are willing to work with silk city1 and believe in the progress and innovation of Patterson uh one of the key projects that we are working on is the implementation of hydroponic Towers a sustainable and Visually appealing way uh to uh transform the
under under rized spaces in our community uh these towers will allow vertical uh vertical Gardens not for fruits but for uh beautiful flowers which would um I'm sorry which would
enhance the environment improve the air quality and add value to the property I am looking for land owners and investors uh willing to collaborate by allowing us to install and showcase a hydroponic tower on their property if you agree I
will personally present present you a design and the layout that it complement your space and enhances uh its Aesthetics these uh but I will have a list of plant that uh I have posted on the Facebook website for Silk City 1
these are plants that are that thrived in vertical Towers they're very low maintenance and also improv the Aesthetics in in the community um beyond the beautification and sustainability of uh patter of the city of Patterson just
30 more seconds wrap it up uh Silk City 1 looks to empower its citizens um which is why we implemented a feature called recall referendum uh this uh feature uh gives you the people the power to uh
basically hold each and every elect accountable um when their interest is not to serve when their best interest is not to serve the city Itself by supporting City 1 you're not just uh supporting a a news platform you're also
uh sponsoring and investing in innovation sustainability and government account thank thank you again and I'm sorry for the time thank you Daniel let's speak man we have no more close second motion move to close by
Council and second by councilwoman Al Dr Liss roll call cl to close our public portion roll call to close the public portion councilwoman cotton I'm a pass Council man CL councilwoman what go
ahead oh pass okay yeah councilwoman Dava passing oh man uh we heard all of the um all of the public uh there's there's a lot that was
said today uh I just want everyone to know that whatever needs to be addressed all right and specific to Cameo I know that you called me concern conning you know about the garbage and about you know you buying the rags and you know coming together as a team and even the
individuals who offered you know to pick up and were to drop off and as I shared with you that connect is directly with uh DPW director it go it can go to our uh um um oh my God what do you call the
the place for you City yard it could go to our city yard you don't have to be the ones to take it I also share with you that we as well like we appreciate you don't have to do this but the fact that you do it I know that you're letting us know we care all right I
think it has to be a bigger a bigger group of individuals that can be like-minded to say I should be cleaning in front of my property as well um because a lot of the garbage it is in our city workers all right it isn't it's sometimes and I've seen this I work for
pay County College I see the the students coming out of the school just toss just eating and just tossing and I've been cursed out because I've said young man young lady you shouldn't do that who the f do you think you are blah blah blah so I'm like listen I'm not going to go into this confrontation
right so we understand that we have a big issue um I know that you know there's this campaign going on which has been going on for years you know Patterson has to clean up and we have to take ownership so I want to thank you directly for what you're doing I want to thank Corey cuz I know you guys are
doing it as a team and everyone that has joined you but please no do not take money out of your pocket to do this all right there is uh um there's resources within our city and our department that when we do these Patterson clean sweeps we're able to provide that all right so
again any connect as I just shared with you uh uh commissioner Teague you're welcome also to you know pick up that phone and make that phone call to me all right um I'm that person that if I don't answer you text me and I respond all right so with that said and to everyone
else I know there's a lot of individuals here waiting for their items to be pass um I am going to let you all know that I do have to leave unfortunately I cannot stay for the full meeting if you see I keep getting up and down there is a reason for that okay so I don't want for anyone to think that there is a
disrespect so council president as I shared with you um I can't you know stay for the full meeting but with that said Madame clerk uh my vote is yes to close the public portion thank you councilwoman councilman Jackson thank you Madame clerk
um before I um begin to address the public I want to officially once again um place on record my objection to the style the format in which this Council has begun to adopt and the way in which IT addresses the public which was not
the way when I first got elected you know by us um waiting to the end to address the the the speaker concerns one it elongates our closure that's the first thing two it it um it
it it doesn't give the the concern of the of the person at the podium an opportunity to be fairly addressed the young lady loose who was speaking um she paused and if you go back and watch the video she paused because everyone was
moving around we had two council members over there speaking to another Resident about the other matter if we just took the time to address the previous speaker then the the person that's at the podium can get the council's undivided
attention but the reality of it is is that the school board and I'm not saying all of them because we know brother Teague as he's still sitting here the school board doesn't hear the community's concerns and cries the same way the city council
doesn't many times people come to the to the podium you feel as if your concerns are not being addressed there's many people came here tonight that addressed the council's concerns I mean for their their concerns about the schools and we just you know callously just move
forward um I've said it a long time ago I'm not a fan of the current superintendent um she made a move that I felt was detrimental to this community the moment she got here and um uh without his con consult removed one of
our brightest shining stars of the community that's Mr TI Moody who's now Dr Moody who uh was forced into another situation which uh forced his hand to just resign so here you have a steward of our community a lifelong resident of
the city a person that has made a monumentals impact on our community forced out of our district I I made every attempt to make a to meet with her to speak with her about this took me 6 months to get a meeting with her four months went by she
just totally ignored my calls her her response to me was well her secretary's response was what do I want to meet with her about here I'm duly elected and yet the parents that are that have concerns about their kids she is still failed to
address their concerns and M might I remind you that she makes close to $300,000 a year and the conditions of our schools the numbers haven't improved there's a lot of things that that that that we to be concerned about then
yesterday I I I found out a young lady who works at uh International was another Community member person who lives in a city who was uh unfairly U terminated no infractions like there's normally a
progressive disciplinary action this young lady was terminated come to find out she made $177,000 a year as a as a part-time well a person that dealt directly with with with with the youth in our community so when you continuously remove these people who
have a connection who understand the community then you you you're actually doing this a disservice shortly after Mr zati Moody was removed there was a a huge brawl at the school where his father's name is on the wall and over 20
plus units had to be dispatched at that that location and it speaks directly to her failure in not understanding his impact on those youth but I digress because the uh school board has
definitely the power to remove her but you know as a a whole by and large we we we choose not to and for those who said that you know I I I'm racially driven I'm unfairly motivated this young lady's black and personally I feel like our
children are not being serviced properly so if it's I don't care where it's coming from we're going to hold you accountable for the job that failing at but uh relative to um some of the the concerns about Market Street and Broadway and things of that nature let
me remind the community that I vote voted consistently against the downtown s which is terribly failing us which is you know there's a a sixf figure salary that's retied to that position and I got a phone call from Miss Linda Wilson uh
in with regard to the um illegal road closures before 9 a.m. you know again you know um although it's a law although it's on the books and it goes through my recommendation through the chair to the legal department we still
allow these laws to be broken and the community's best concerns to be ignored um Brother G I'll say this um I I appreciate your diligence um is is definitely um uh needed because I make the I make many
reports and and and the uh reports don't necessarily always get handled I don't subscribe to the to the notion that um the First Ward is ignored because councilman Jackson is there um I have very good relationship with the DPW
director the assistant director uh one of the assistant directors who we carry the same name and uh he's very diligent he he I I I would say he's very responsive what I would attribute it to is the fact that the department is grossly
undermanned they're overworked um when you look at the bulk pickup that has failed because they took the the um recycle division that was being grossly overworked and task them with the responsibilities of picking up
the uh the bulk and a lot of those guys although they would love to have the additional money they're chosen not to do it because they just can't handle that load so yet again which comes right back to this Council and the administration on its failures
so um although I appreciate and respect the uh perspective I think that um there's mirrored situations all over my my kids go to school in the six board my truck is taking taking a A desperate beating by all the potholes that are there the garbage that is over there is
just as equally um abundant and it wasn't until I put a a video up on Facebook myself um of that trash that was lined in the six Ward that there was an effort to pick that up so continue to do what you're doing because as you posted the
shamefulness would would cause the reaction and and and cause it to get picked up mad clerk um sorry to go go on but uh my vote is yes thank you councilman councilwoman Mims yes so I'm going to um put it back first of all let
me say this to the public viewing and present thank you for taking time away from your families your livelihood to be here to share your concerns or just to be present um in the meeting or watching but to the administration I'm going to bring it back every week that we're here
we have residents or people that come to the microphone in regards to different situations Andor concerns I would like it to be brought back when they come here that each of those items are printed and the response to whatever
their concern was is there and is left at this on the day is next to the agenda so that they are fully aware of the questions and or the answers that were um asked because a lot of times people come to the microphone they don't hear a response and no one says anything and
they leave and go home and they don't hear anything so I'm going to put it back we did it at one time so I'm putting it back on the record that we do it again there were many different calls and complaints one about 444 Market Street um and health inspector needs to
go and check out that restaurant I uh 444 Market Street where the food is being dropped on the ground and then being uh reused we need to have a health inspector check that out um also I commend Miss Black and so many others in
the community Mr te I saw him in the video as well as they were doing the cleanup um as you always do it's not you just did it you've always done it but I sent the text to CIA while we're sitting here just to let her know that we have a clean Corridor Pro program in the city
through DPW you if you call them ahead of time and tell them these are the days we'll be there they will give you the brooms the RS the shovels the garbage bags they'll give you everything and they will range the time of pickup so you don't have to spend anything out of your pocket it just takes calling DPW
setting that up and then they will make sure that you have everything you need and they will come and pick those items up cuz we you know we want to show our appreciation for the work that you're doing G I don't know who came back to you and said that was she talking to you I was talking in general in regards to
calls cuz we do get calls my both of my phones are listed onl line so it's not hard to get either one the city's number or my personal number but I'm going to say this I don't mind that things are posted on social media but I want the community to understand we as the
council body are the legislators if you really want it done send it to the mayor tag the mayor he is the one that has appointed all of the directors whether it's the DPW Health Department wherever I never see him tagged it's always
tagged Council people and we do respond we respond we reach out to those apartments but it'll be so much quicker if you tag the mayor because those individuals that get those things done they work directly for the mayor and that's who is supposed to give them
Direction the mayor although we have a working relationship with them and they do respond to us and sometimes things are uh posted we don't see them not that we're ignoring them um we don't see them because we're not on social media all day long waiting for somebody to post something or get their
complaints I don't mind that you give me a call cuz you know you the community calls me all the time I don't have an issue with that um so that we can move forward to Mr alas he mentioned that he's reached out to me multiple times it's not true I reached out to him to
have a conversation he reached back to me when I was on vacation when I came back from vacation I said I saw that you called me um we can set it up so I'm putting it on record Mr aloes whenever you're ready to meet I am available just just give me a call it wasn't multiple
times um because I would have definitely responded so just give me a call call me tomorrow call me tonight I'll meet you tonight call me tonight and we can have a conversation that's what it's about but let's keep doing the business of this community there are great things that
are happening Des despite all the other things I agree the city is filthy but the city is not just filthy because it's not being clean let's talk about the people that throw big bags of McDonald's out of their car window let's talk about the people that's illegally dumping all
over our community just think sometimes when you're in your car and you have sunflower seeds and you throw them out the window that's adding to the trash so we have to be able to identify who the perpetrators are we also have to address those people when we see them dumping
out banana pills and McDonald's and Kentucky bags and White Castle bags Pampers and Chinese food out of their Windows full bags of garbage out of their windows or if you see a can that's full don't put nothing else there it's
already filled you see it's filled so sometimes we have to work in in um collaboration to make sure that the city gets clean it needs to be clean and to the administration there needs to be a uh a look at uh the potholes I know they
have a list but ninth AV is like the Dukes of Hazard you start up they they did some filling at the top but if you come down starting on East 26 all the way down to Route 20 you can't even drive on one side of the street you have to go on the other side and then there's
potholes everywhere I could start listing areas locations wherever but I remember Mr Price giving that information out some months ago and so I want to put it on the record and to all the others I know they're definitely working on the request now that we have
the access to get um the payloader to get the streets refilled is starting to get warm so probably possibly in April or May the streets that are scheduled for repaving will start to get done thank you to this Council who has voted to make sure uh that those things are
done but to the community if you see something going on say something there's an area something you see that needs to be worked on reach out to us reach out to the administration reach out to the mayor's office and to make sure that those situations um get resolved to the family not just
the family but the families of a lot of the senseless violence that's going on in the community my heart goes out I got so many calls with the incident on Market Street I mean the videos were up people were calling some people sent me inboxes of the videos and I just want to
say in our community we have to find a way cuz what happens is when one thing happens it's going to keep keep happening over and over and over again so what is the answer to resolve it possibly a solution of piece I'm not sure what what the root is and that's
something we don't know but we are not the people that are responsible for these incidents we don't even know when they happen we have no clue unless we see it on social media somebody's texting and calling us or a family member is saying like this happened like help or they're screaming on the phone
uh I know Council mcot and myself we get so many calls and she used to go by herself I would go by myself now we've teamed up and we go together because we we don't want to be in those scenarios by oursel as females um female C Council
uh people so we we do that a lot so I want to say to the families of those that have lost their lives those that are uh disabled from the situation and those that are recovering um from these scenarios my heartfelt uh condolences and my prayers go out to you um it's a a
sad situation and I agree U Mr rues Mr ruis has been a very strong advocate in the district um for uh for our children and there was the uh woman that came to about the middle school project to my understanding in regards to the middle school project it started back in 2012
that's how long it's been going on the cam was kicked down the rooll for some years then it came back up on the council I was a former School Board commissioner came back and then finally it got voted on and now these scenarios are happening some have already started
and then this is the situation um we have Corey teag who um I used to serve with on the school board he's an excellent School Board commissioner and I'm sure as people are coming and conversating that if you'll talk to uh commissioner Teague and others on the
school board they will really get your answers resolved we can stand in solidarity and support but we have no um purview for school board school board and the city council are totally different entities as well as the housing board housing is
a totally different entity all of these entities have their own board they serve autonomously and when you have issues those are the individuals those Commissioners that can resolve and or help and or assist in these concerns you can always come to the mic we don't mind
but this is our area we're here we stand for children I work with children every day I'm an educator so I work with them every single day as a mom and a grandmother but I work at my building with kids every single day as some of you in this audience um very well know
and I want to say to our parents continue um the things that you're doing for for your children continue hugging on them and loving on them cuz those are some of the smallest things that sometimes we take for granted telling your child you love them
tell them I appreciate you how great of a job you're doing because that when they're young goes a long way when they become an adult and Clos Madam clerk it's okay not to like people is okay if you don't get along with people but in
order to move this city forward it has to be about the people has to be about the people it can't be about you I we're fighting you fight that that's not how the city moves forward please reach out to council members we have three that
are at large and the rest um Council represent Wards but please reach out to us if you have Solutions or ideas we're open to hear them because we understand that we can't do it by oursel reach out to us we will definitely work towards that and get it done together thank you
so much Madam clerk huh all right my vote is yes Madam clerk thank you councilwoman councilman Omar before I do vote I just want to let the residents know that we are listening and we will address your concerns but also I
want to commend Cameo black and commissioner Teague because you guys have taken time out of your day and apparently your money to clean up our city so I commend you guys for that thank you my vote is yes Madam clerk thank you Council
Manan s thank you madam Clark good evening patteron so uh thank you those who are still here and uh make your voice hard and those who are watching us live on uh TVs thank you for um your
participation uh to make sure that we address your concern as well so many many concerns were shared and let me address some of the important ones um as I'm also an educator at Patterson public schools and I I work with our children
last 11 plus years at Patterson Public Schools I know that tax hikes uh from the last year especially is is a it's a concern for our residents and I want to just talk about
the our side the municipal part people think that every time tax hikes that we the council members are responsible for everything that's not true though even last tax tax hike we
are talking about from from uh the municipal was only 2% initial one was 3.7% all the council members we we we denied we said we are not going to support the budget with more than
2% that's what we stated that's right until the adjustment comes we did not even entertain this in the council chamber that's right we have to raise two 2% because we receive we accept state transitional Aid even this year we
are are expecting $27 million from trans straight transition if we do not accept that we if we are self-dependent without state aid I believe that we are going to say no to any tax high from our side we
stay stood strongly past time that's why we did not even read or entertain this project in this chamber until it came down to the minimum percentage now pattern of public schools is is totally different entity is
totally different um board who supports or not support however as a resident of the C of Patterson as an educator as a council members we know the impact if the yesterday's meeting the uh
5 to 8% I think that was the initial proposed uh to tax hike from Patterson Public Schools if that would happen that would take about average of $250 to $300 per house increase in the taxes and I
request our community members that that way you are showing up here making your voice hard you need to show up to the patteron Public Schools Board of Education meetings regularly and also make your voice hard because this is going to impact all of us
equally now the concern about the quality of Education whether with this percentage high is it going to help our education or not this is again it's another part that patteron public school need to answer
that but I definitely would say that P public school need to come up with something strategic that how they could minimize their expenses we need teachers in the in the classroom to teach but I
feel that we have more administrators than teachers in the spatter public schools that that is a major concern and I believe that should be addressed you can hire three four teachers with one administrator's
salary so I think I think Patterson Community need to more involved to our school system and I would like to quote commissioner Cori that about your children and their education and your
involvement patters public school which is very important and I'm talking about my personal experience of calling parents cuz we do make phone calls every other day sometimes we call parents to let them know that how great their kids are
doing sometimes we call parents to address the concern that they need to help us out to fix sometimes we get call back saying that this is not my time to deal with this is your time to deal with if this happen we are not going to solve any
problem at all you should know and you must know that this is your child and what your child's doing giving birth is not becoming a parents giving birth is just giving
birth but becoming parents Tak more jobs to do you need to know what's your child doing and you need to know that what part of the issue that you need to add address with your child with the help of the teachers administrators P public
schools and I am very Optimist that with your support and help one day Patterson public schools and our children will Thrive let me go to the another um speaker
um my brother brother uh olivaris and uh I I I always like to see you here I'm not sure he's here or not and and one of the comedy said that we you don't have to call us or we don't
have to response to you um look if if our Council job is just to come into the meeting on every Tuesday I would say that counciling members should not get paid this is not only our job this is
just part of our job coming to the council meeting this is this is not only our job our job is to be connected with the constituents do our engagement with the community members this is this is part of our job it just come in here every
Tuesday and making your and getting attention is not only jobs and we this is why we the council members ask councilman Ruby last week mentioned that we are in 24/7 phone calls we are responding your call we are meeting you
in person and highlighting the important issue that every word every resident share with now here's an experience I have shared last week as well when I became councilman council member in the city of patteron back in 2020 May
2022 in June 20 May was election so July 1st I I took this uh oath and in July the members of the first war which to me about Rood Avenue resurfacing and if I share that with the
other council members that what should I do and if the response comes this is not my job this is DPW job then how am I going to highlight the concern of a particular residents so I am what I'm trying to say is that it is of course my duty to know the highlighted which is
the emergence urg urgence need of the residents and I need to be connected with the people in person and this is what exactly I as a council memb is doing and I believe that my my Council colleagues also try their level
best to be connected with the people this is why we feel that we need to response to your call you need to call us as well so that together Patterson can fix the problems that we are going through freedom of speech before I go to
the freedom of speech do I have to address anything else um no uh my brother from Prosper Park Danielle Jr I believe that we never stopped anybody speaking from anywhere um any any
municipalities even recently recently people came from New York to speak here in the council chamber I never saw that because of they are not from Patterson we did not allow anybody to speak that never happened in the council chamber however one thing
that was a major factor the last week that when you are threatening a council woman that you are going to see her outside this is a major concern and people feel that this is not a job of a man
that what he have done a council woman you are disrespecting forget about councilman he cannot disrespect as a man he cannot disrespect respect any woman and he cannot tell any woman okay I'm going to see you outside he can he can say that he can
anybody like this doesn't matter you're from PR Park you are from Patterson from anywhere in the world it cannot disrespect a woman like this that's all was matter so nobody stopped you from you that you are not living in city of
Patterson now freedom of speech my my brother uh yes okay so I am still stating that freedom of speech does not mean you are going to disrespect others and I as you quoted many things and I would like to quote as
well here that and two of my favorite ques from the Founding Father Benjamin Franklin who state that whoever would overthrow the liberty of a Nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech
while frankly support free of freedom of speech it implied that speech should serve to protect Liberty not disrupt order and harm others and my favorite quote from John stwart M a British philosopher he said the liberty
of the individuals must be thus far limited he must not make himself a nuisance the word a nuisance to other people it means that freedom of speech has moral and social limits where it
begins to harm others or disrupt social harmony so this is what freedoms of speech stand for and he reminded me something funny before I became a council member back in 2020 someone was doing graffity in a
private property and I I hold the person like this I said what are you doing here he said this is my freedom of expression I said you are not doing your freedom of expression in someone else's property you better do your freedom of expression in your bedroom not in someone's
someone's property by uh drawing illegal gravity so this is what you are reminding me today so again Patterson we are here with you 247 you should call us we should respon to you this is our job this is our duty whoever said this is
not our job to call us or to respond to you this is wrong Community constitute consent service Community engagement also part of our duty again we are always a phone call away and again
together we can move the city forward with that being said my V is yes Madam Clark okay you say yes your vote is yes okay thank you very much councilman FZ thank you thank you m clerk you're welcome
so um just quick I don't have to prove everybody what I do you see me out there follow me in my social media I got 6,691 contacts in my phone so they could call me they have an address they have
I'm easy to reach reach out my colleagues over here knows that when they call me for another wordss I called them and if they if they not you know because they got other jobs they got other things to do sometimes I take care of it I report it back to them so that's
teamwork right so those that came to the podium I respect the freedom of speech is your three minutes of of uh Public Act that we have by law so uh we will take note of anything that is concerning
the city of Patterson and uh address it accordingly you know those that express it I don't I didn't listen to a lot of them because I'm I was out there taking care of some situation but those that if express it negative about me sorry you
feel that way saying that my vote is just to close thank you councilman councilwoman cotton you was Council councilman Val that was really good thank you I'm going try my best to follow him I'm just there was a couple
comments I just want to try to respond all right um and clerk um so so oh you haven't voted Council woman I'm sorry don't apologize I just want to say to Kim you I know they're going to look into that situation I'm not quite
sure if they came back again I know they were there that one time so we'll make sure that uh we look into that for Cory T you are so correct um parents parents parents you got to got to got to get involved with your kids you got to get
in Bob and I'm so happy to see my Henry Addison back there he played four years with my son at Esau High School football four years Henry you saw me four years you saw me get off work at 6:00 in the
morning go home sleep sleep for 3 hours cook food on a Friday for y'all to play football on a Friday night and I look at you and I look at all the other young men that came through with my Eddie and I'm proud of you Henry because you came
through this and you know how difficult it was Henry coming Crossing Market Street back in 99 2000 2001 2002 and it seemed like it's still the same way but we we ourself if I help you at least I
help somebody you know what I mean you got to look at it that way put pick one pick two pick three and then then you Henry I know is helping people you may not think so but Henry you are helping people and so just continue to
do what you do you know I see you out there you un Mark street but just continue to do what you do and one thing I got to say is that you got to keep joy in your in your heart faith in your heart you got to keep it because when you spread goodness and good feelings
and positive energy all that all that rubs off from people that negative energy don't make make people feel good so let's keep let's keep it doing a positive um energy so I'm just say I want to say to you Hy I'm proud of you you know because I've known you for such
a long time and I know all those kids that came through there I see them they're all doing very well they're all doing very well I just also want to say to um they had made a comment about um our Geral is not to take phone calls
that lead them if I don't know where to go if I don't know to go to the housing if I don't know to go to community Improvement if I don't know to go to Community Development who I'm going to call to tell me to go there you got to call
us cuz sometimes they want to call everybody but sometimes we have to do our best to send them to the right department and what I always say and I've learned that back in the day from being involved with schools what I find is that when you travel you learn what other cities are doing when you travel
you see how how other school system are working when you travel you see what other towns are doing then you can bring their ideas back to your town so I would go to different places and you know and I want to say to my my Aid which is Jamie
Bland you know we can call somebody on the county we can call somebody on the state we can call somebody on the federal government Nelly Po's going to answer her phone Governor Phil murc is going to answer his phone because they see you at different events and they see you being
involved cuz I say when you don't show up and they don't see you then your name is not you don't see you when I told the artists back in the in the years the reason why Patterson didn't get no money for the Arts because we wasn't down
there Tre sitting in the room you got to be down there sitting in the room because they don't see you when they don't see you they don't think to give you anything and when I once I said that they realized that they needed to go down to these meetings when when Senator
U Wimberly have budget meetings we got to go sit in these budget meetings and and and say what we need to say and say tell them what we need to get because what's happening now I watch CNN every morning it like there's so much stuff going on I feel for people some of my
family members are federal workers they ain't got no job just like that just like that you know how that feels you don't know how you gonna make your next mortgage payment you know how it feel you you can't make make you can't make your next car payment you can't pay your electric bill you know
how that feels and you and you're doing good and all of a sudden and you didn't do nothing wrong but what they call that thing that that you can get fired at any at any time so let's just keep you know let's just do our best
to to share what we know and share our knowledge and share what we do you know because once we understand that and we can share that don't say look I go downstairs right now people come upstairs here you know what they say I don't care who here I just want to
talk to a counsel person I don't care who sitting upstairs I want to talk to a counsel person and most of the time it's me and I don't mind doing that I don't care what world they live in I'm I'm not going to tell you I'm not going to speak to you cuz I'm going to talk to you I'm going try to guide you to the best way
and I'm telling you you'll be surprised of of some of the things that people that seniors are not being taken care of by their children childrens are not being taken care of by their parents it's a lot and to say that they don't need to call
me sad sad sad for them to say that this they got to because everybody else is here and you know and there's all kind of things going on and I just want to say too that you know I have my onea no her no only thing she does is handle Public Service
stuff at least she know the man at public service she can pick up the phone he GNA answer her call cuz she don't call them so much for lights being out and trying to change lights so they know so it's you really need to try to get to know people too so if Joe Keys you need
to talk to somebody and Tren I can guide you to the person in Tren that you need to talk to about C whatever situation so I'm going to wrap it up um I just want to say that you know it's thank you I'm going to do what I need to do I'm I'm always a acceptable and I'm going to
leave on this last note I'm not going to sit up here and argue with nobody I'm not going to do it because you know what God Said Ruby do what you can for the people help them out as much as you can and and make
yourself be have joy in your life have faith in your heart because you know what for me to sit here and go back and forth and argue back and forth I'm not going to do it and I come up with this conclusion I got less years in front of me than behind me and I'm going to make my best shears in front of me and
whoever else I can bring with me to make it their best shears in front of them that's exactly what I'm going to do Madam clerk with that being said my vote is yes thank you councilwoman council president um thank thank you Madame clerk uh council members uh I will
definitely um let me address some members of the public that came in front of the p in front of this Council to address uh some of the concerns that are happening in our community uh first of all came black thank you for making a difference you you you you out there you
know you don't work for the city but you live in Pon and you really want to take pride of our city you're going you're spending your own resources and your energy to see our city clean that that that speak values from you I want to say thank you and um you know I want to make
sure the director Billy is in contact with you you don't have to spend your money that you know there's Resources with a clean uh community that we have for you to get the stuff that you need um to just do those clean up project to get members of the community involved we got to take pride of a city and I want
to say thank you if you want to see our city better we all have to work together to make our city clean uh you know definitely yes pison I mean it's filthy what we see that that's not the patteron that we want to see but I just want to say thank you I know brother G left uh but I know he going to see this on
YouTube brother je keep doing your work keep posting uh your picture keep posting your video uh you know we pay attention about the job that you're doing as C black is doing trying to make a different you making a different in the city because when you when you uh
post um a picture on Facebook count our Council Khali my Council KH they look at you post and we taking action and and you have three councilman we have three councilmen a large here councilman for a council Ms Council Davila they will
address any other issue in any different section and myself and I know counes on my Council KH I received phone call from the first war from the six War we don't we don't choose like which area no we just take action we make the call and we do what we have to do and brother G he
spoke about the meeting that I have with all those books on the ground institution um you know I put I put a legislation on the floor uh it wasn't the best legislation because I receed a lot of complaint but doing nothing is not an option I regret and I and I I
refuse to see my city with so many homeless people sleeping out there in the street uh people with addiction people with mental problem we got to we got to find a solution for those problem this is not the city that I want to see you don't see this in any other
municipality in P County I'm going to come back with a better legislation I'm going to have a conversation with my Council K once we have that done but we working on we working on um and as I mention I want to say thank you to all my Council Kali my Council council members are large and all the war
counsilman because you guys are involved sometime we have people speaking about our job and our responsibility you don't know what it means to be a councilman in the city of pison it's not your job to go to the grocery store and buy a100 or $200 Grocery and drop it at a Senor
because she doesn't have nothing to eat at the refrigerator it's not your job to find a shelter for a single mom that has been on a in in in a domestic violence situation and she running for her life with her two children is not our job but we got to do it that's the community
that we're serving commissioner T spoke on the public portion about how important is to get involved in in with our children parents please get involved in your children education if you get involved you would know what's going on with your house we have a parent living
with their children and they don't know they don't really know their children and the environment that they have in our community you have to pay attention because it's not about the school system it's not about the city as a parent it's your responsibility to get involved and stay on top of your children education
if we want a better City it's your job now we have many of the children that they have the the privilege to have their parents at home and we have to deal with that the school system have to deal with that situation and we as an elected official have to deal with that
every single day uh you know so so that time I hear this over and over the B situation people dumping garbage in our community and and and how filthy is that town and the administration have this information on the public portion every person that come in front of a public
portion the administration have that note they will have that note and the directors that's what we doing here so when you come in and speak on the mic because we don't address you immediately it's not true that nothing will happen they have that information and I want to say thank you to every resident of the
city P to come here and speak up what you saw in the first for what happened with the school when you saw on the new Redevelopment agree the reew development for affordable housing that's happening because people are getting involved and that's the only way that we're going to see a change in our city now I've been
mentioned this over and over har to the administration about the bul pick up and the scheduling we all know that that's not working we have more and more people dumping because they refuse to call making a schedule to uh to drop a table to uh you know put a table outside they
they did dumping garbage everywhere I'm being recommended to the administration to put a set a schedule for the bulk situation tell the community if we have one days out of the month or two days out of the month uh to put the table that we don't want the chair that we don't want outside and let's put a fixed
schedule to help our resident understand a lot of our senior they can they not computer savvy they cannot get into a computer to schedule a a bow pickup you know I could I could get on the phone to make an appointment with my doctor you know with my accountant not but not to
put a chair outside not to put a table outside that's not working let's change that out if we have to put more resources into our public work more manpower but we need to clean the city because it's filthy what I see here it's not it's not good now uh you know
enforcing the law in the city of patteron is key it really break my heart to see a street cleaning going out with no inspector in the front we living money at the table every single day people are now moving in their car because we have no inspector in front of the street sweeper it really break my
heart any street cleaning route could bring $4 to $5,000 in one day into the city of par if we have inspectors let's hire those inspector let's pay a decent salary to enforce the law pison is filthy absolutely we have
no inspector to go in front of the street sweeper $5,000 per route and now taxes are out of control you hear from the school board 6% tax increase by low we're going to have to increase to 2% because we're getting $27 million from
DCA so every everything go on the on the border of our taxpayer our homeowner are crying and it's hard but if we start enforcing the law that we have in the book the Traffic Division we we need to enfor our the Traffic Division need to go out
there people are speeding they driving reckless in the city of pison and when they go to win when they go to hton they slow down but in pison they speeding they go 50 60 MPH 11 time you by school 26 I pray every single day that our
children are you know are saved on that section because people they flying on that section knowing that we have a school there but guess what they know that we're not enforcing the law if we start enforcing the law we will have enough money to balance our budget and we will get our city clean and organized
so we have a lot of work to do thank you to jimy blown one more time for this phenomenal project thank you my Council C once again to the public everybody St within the 3 minutes 30 seconds to wrap it up and we got 23 speaker everybody present their complaint to the council
and to the administration and we're going to keep working let's pray for our children patteron let's pray for our community we going in a we live in a very difficult situation I want to express my deepest condolences to the family that lost that young man um this past weekend preparing we got to get
involved we can do it alone we can you know what's going out with your house if you stay on top of your child you know what's going to happen check the book back go to school take a day off and have a meeting with the principal with the teacher you will know what's going
to what happened with you some don't don't believe what you see at at home take one day out of the month meet with the principal meet with the teachers and that's your job as a parent that's not my job as an elected official it's not not my job our job as an elected
official is put the resources that Administration need to have enough police officer to have this that you know to have public work to have Economic Development our health department that's our job and we do more than that because our city need us but you as a parent not getting involved in
your child education don't come back here when something bad happened don't blame me I an elector I'm on top of my three children don't BL us do you job as a parent Patterson my vote
is yes M clerk thank you council president the votes yes Council I apologize I need to I have to re reconsider my vote for a brief moment um I cannot let this go past councilman udine I would normally not do this but I have to um I think
it's very um relevant and it's very improper I I'm I'm going to we going to have to sit down and talk I'm curious of what what what what role do you play in the Patterson Public Schools if you're a classroom teacher we could have that discussion later but let me explain something to you just because an
individual is black and he says let's go outside doesn't mean he's inviting somebody outside to fight this gentleman is 74 years old he's old older than my father and then he went outside without
any issues where there was officers he went out there with councilwoman Ms they were out there for an extensive period of time they had a conversation you stopped the meeting while you were speaking last week try to emphasize whether or not he there was a hostile or
violent intent as he tried to speak when the public portion was over like like we normally do he was he was stifled and muffled and he asked councilwoman to go outside she went outside for possibly 20
minutes with no issues here it is yet yet again again you're making comments on whether or not it's appropriate for a grown you can't say that he's a grown man he can ask anyone to talk to him outside come outside and speak to me as much as he wants to that's not a threat
that's not a threat and projecting that as as it was a threat his character was assassinated on social media and he went outside for 20 minutes and didn't have an issue I recall one day there was a day there was an in there was a there was a
a matter that was being was taking place in here there was a large number of people who were not black and it was a very H the meeting had to be stopped because there were people that was getting ready to get into a fight you didn't say anything about that you
didn't mention one thing about that but yet you still want to demoralize mischaracterize the gentleman as asking a woman to come outside and fight I'm sure he has better things to do than than attempt to uh uh uh um to threaten
a woman that's not what happened and if if he was if he was threatening her I'm sure she would not have gone outside with him and I'm sure the police officers would have went outside with them as well now now let me say this because
since I don't know you very well let me just correct another another piece of context this the parking authority and the Housing Authority Belong To The City of patteron the I I can give you the resolution it was in 51 when the
patteron Housing Authority was created by the city council it was created because the federal government brought forward programming to help the community bring forward affordable housing yes their board is autonomous
but they are overseen and directed by this Council that's why whenever they enter into an agreement those agreements must come back before this Council to be approved unlike the school board which is totally
autonomous patteron the city council has nothing to do with the resolutions that they approve but I want to you know dis disclaim this misnomer that we don't have anything to do with the housing and or parking authority we have complete
control in fact if this Council wants tonight we could bring forward a resolution to dissolve both entities because we own them we own them and furthermore furthermore the parcels that
they are over is owned by the city of pison meaning all the property that the Housing Authority oversees that the parking authority overseas is owned by the city of Patterson that's why they're not taxable that's why they're non-
taxable entities because it's owned by the city we wouldn't tax ourselves so now these agreements that have been entered into with thirdparty developers that have gotten all of the HUD money $40 million in on one single
project in uh developers fees is not being taxed it's not in full taxation because those properties are still owned by pison but managed by a third party uh entity just wanted to
bring that point of clarity because many times people will sit here and bring you false information then they'll say he's lying it's a lie it's a lie tell me where the LIE is I can show you in 51 the resolution that created the Patterson Housing Authority Madame clerk
my vote is no thank you thank you councilman um all right uh so council members um there's uh so we got to we have to continue with the agenda there's a few counc president M please do the votes please make anounce theot that's okay um
the votes are seven in favor one against one absent the public portion is closed thank you um so now uh there's two item um so I want to move those item item 68 man cler
let's go with item C8 because council members councilwoman councilwoman Dava got surgery she have to go and get him medication I want to get those two em that way she could leave and then we'll go quick with the agenda we'll move quick so item 68 M 68
item number 68 is resolution approving a sister city agreement between the city of Patterson New Jersey and Municipality of luano chosa Peru sponsored by councilwoman Marissa Davila city of
Patterson resolution number 25 col 168 second second okay move by councilwoman Dava second by councilman and councilman BL roll call 68 roll call item number 68 councilwoman cotton
yes councilwoman Dava I just want to quickly just say thank you to my colleagues I know I'm the second vote but I know that uh it did go through Comm um workshop and you know this is just uh um it it's some would say it's a feel-good resolution but um we just want
to acknowledge and recognize the contribution of the Peruvian community in the city of Patterson as we know that there's many residents from chosa and this is just a way of just showing you know that we want to come in solidarity and work together as a sister city uh so with that said you know uh my vote is
yes and I want to thank you before okay councilwoman Mims my vote is yes thank you um councilman uh Omar yes thank you councilman Udin my V is yes mam clerk
thank you yes councilman valz is yes council president my V is yes M clerk thank you the votes are seven in favor two absent coun uh item number 68 is adopted thank you thank you item number
11 on first reading 11 up Council put item number 11 an ordinance authorizing lease renewal and update for the patteron task
force 36 through 38th Circle Avenue also known as 12' ready go ahead Madam 12 11 do 11 12 it's going to go quick it's going to go quick just go ahead idle 11 then right after idle number 12
okay I just read it so second I did she say first okay on first reading item number 11 was SM by councilwoman Ruby no no right councilwoman
C absolutely councilwoman let me just uh it was mov by councilwoman um C SEC by council member councilwoman um DAV roll call M clerk um roll call on item number 11 for first reading councilwoman
cotton councilwoman C I'm sorry yes councilwoman daver yes councilman councilwoman rims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman bz this continue supporting the safe haven they do a lot of work my vote is yes
thank you council president my vote is yes M cler thank you the votes are seven in favor two absent second reading will be held at the regular meeting of April 15 2025 this ordinance is hereby adopted on
first reading thank you m cler item number 12 on first reading item number 12 on first reading ordinance amending and supplement Patterson code chapter 435 Article 4 entitled obstructions creating procedures to obtain a permit to park in
front of a driveway sponsored by councilwoman Marissa Dava co-sponsored by council president Alex Mendes councilman leis VZ and councilman MD Fort Udin second move it was moved by councilman Davila second by councilman
valz yeah council president councilwoman M uh and in the workshop councilwoman and Council woman K are also sponsors to this um ordinance make sure CU it wasn't updated thank you and yes okay I have you but I didn't have councilwoman
cotton okay and Council and also and also second by councilwoman coton yeah okay roll cler number 12 I trying to get the co-sponsors I'm sorry please add ibraim to co-sponsors councilwoman cotton and Council ma'am an Ibrahim Omar
pardon an ibraim Omar Omar okay thank you very good thank you okay uh okay uh roll call is councilman cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar
yes councilman Udin yes councilman VZ let's keep the record clear that this is only going to be homeowners rented from the same house address same house whatever it's not that everybody could block the driveways
coming from New York or whatever so you know it's first reading but I want to iterate it now because they could read and everybody think they could park everywhere and blocking driveways around but it's strict it's going to be enforced and it's going to be benefit for those homeowners that wishes to do
so my vote is yes thank you council president my vote is yes M thank you very much the votes are seven in favor two absent um item number 12 is hereby adopted on first reading second reading will be held at the regular meeting of April 15th thank you mad CL there's three item item
77 78 and 79 that need to be voting on the agenda so we need unanimous of vote on those three item council members so if we could add it and vote it right on those three and then we continue those three item for three taxi cap license
and there's the the other three more that we voted right away okay we include those three and then we vote on the rest of the three okay so let's mad CL let's call let's read into the into into the item to be voted in item 77 item numberb you could take three of them no you
can't no you got to be it's got to be one by one to the record got to vot independently yeah item number 7 77 to be voted on the agenda is a resolution approving renewal of 22 taxi cab registrations for silver
taxi LLC of 85 Marshall Street Patterson city clerk resolution number 25 col 177 so moves move by Council am second by councilwoman K uh and second by councilman ibraim uh roll call clerk on
item 77 to be voted into the agenda okay roll call on item number 77 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman daver yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman VZ
yes council president by V is yes thank you votes are seven in favor thank you roll call M cler to vote into this item oh I'm sorry you're right I'm sorry roll roll call on item number 77 Council mccarten what number
you said 77 yeah we voted it voting it onto the agenda we Ved into the agenda now we voting to pass the to pass the item 77 councilwoman councilwoman G yes councilwoman daver before I vote I just want to say that commissioner razac from
the task force did reach out to me to say thank you to all the council members for voting on the uh resolution for Hilltop okay uh Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you um councilwoman Ms yes councilman Omar I don't have 7 yes
councilman uden yes Council V this is the one on Marshall Street I'm going text her what's the address Marshall Street yes 855 Marshall what oh because it's in the
other side Marshall in aano later M okay to the owner M please be good neighbors and keep your taxi inside your property my vot is yes thank you councilman council president my vot is yes thank you votes are seven in favor
two absent item number 77 is hereby adopted so 77 is approved now let's re item 78 to the record item number 78 is a resolution approving renewal of 20 2 taxi cab registrations for 973 Car
Service LLC of 21-23 East 19th Street patter city clerk resolution number 25 17 move by Council move move by Council second by Council M Council Council and Council ibraim um roll call cler to
getting to the agenda item 78 okay councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilwoman m yes councilman Omar yes Council n yes councilman valz councilman valz councilman B yes
we're adding it Bess come on no I'm looking at the address that's why no we're just adding it to the agenda first oh to add it okay yes you said yes okay yes I council president by what is yes M clerk thank you okay um so R roll call
to vote into item 78 roll call to to to vote the item on the agenda item number 78 councilwoman cotton councilwoman cotton lord I can't believe this I can't I just what we vote we vote for right 78
we already voting on item 78a now it's on the agenda now we're going to my vote is yes thank you councilwoman Dava yes councilman councilwoman men councilman Omar yes councilman uden yes mam Clark councilman thank you
councilman valz this isn't the third war right 21 yep third war of course go ahead my what is yes thank you council president what do you mean of course C yes no it's it's in the third war yes I think definitely uh and
council president we support our local business and definitely my vote is yes on item 7 votes are seven in favor two absent item number 78 is hereby adap so we passed 78 now let's move item 79 into the agenda about a cler item number 79
to be uh voted on the agenda is a resolution approving renewal of taxi cab registrations for super green tax LLC of 886 East 24th Street Patterson mailon address and 471 East 25th Street Patterson parking location city clerk
resolution number 25 col 17 second move by Council mavila second by Council Ms uh councilman B and councilman ibraim roll call M clerk with idem 79 into the agenda respect no respect okay roll call um to add the
item onto the agenda councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman daver yes councilwoman M yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz to that honor thank you for being the fifth W being a good neighbor my vot
is yes thank you council president my vot is yes okay now we're voting into the item itself so roll call item 9 roll call on item number 79 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar
yes councilman Udin yes councilman Val yes council president my vot is yes M clerk thank you the votes are seven in favor two absent item number 79 is hereby adopted uh thank you mad clerk so let's continue with um with the
lady let's continue let's continue I don't number all the way 70 through 75 they all renew so let's start with item 70 man 70 yes 70 69 69 no not 69 item number 70 is a resolution approving 60 taxi cab
registration for taxi Patterson LLC of 468 Martin Market Street Patterson New Jersey 07501 mailing address 68 through 76 bar Clay Street and 27 North Straight Street parking location city clerk resolution
number 25 1 170 it was moved by council member last second by councilwoman Dava I it was moved by Council and councilwoman Dava second by Council abim and Council roll call cler on item number 70 was
he I'm sorry 68-76 Park barlay Street no I'm sorry we're 70 I'm this is he was asking me the address no because there's two address that they put in they put in the
mailing address I want to know the location operation it's 468 Market Street and then it's 68-76 bar Clay Street and 27 North Street let work make sure all
right more roll call on item number 70 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin my vot is yes M cler councilman
bz uh the fifth war is a award of opportunity adding more license we get more service thank you for being a good neighbor my vote is yes thank you council president my vote is yes M clerk thank you the count the votes are seven
in favor two absent item number 70 is adopted I'm clerk item number 71 now number 721 is resolution approve and renewal of taxi cab registrations for River Transportation taxi Corp 275 River
Street Patterson parking locations um Mill and address parking locations 275 River Street and 326 that's 330 East 16th Street Patterson 07524 city clerk resolution number 25
171 move by councilwoman DAV second by Council M and Council uh and councilwoman c as well um that's right on the border third war and fourth War my councilwoman Ruby C right there I pass by there every morning a roll call
cler call on item number 71 for adoption councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman daver yes councilwoman Mims just a point of uh reference these items in the future we should just put them right on consent they should go right on consent I don't know why they're listed here
that we're taking all this time and our business owners have to stay here through all this other stuff that's going on so I put that on the record that in the future these items unless there's an issue we could bring those business owners to the workshop all of these items should be on consent agenda and you could have been gone at 7:30
Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz you're in the F fourth W if you don't find another location come to the fifth word I accept you to so my vote is yes council president
thank you m clerk there's three there's there's all the license of consent the reason why you not a consent was because you didn't submit the document on time to be able to have it on consent but listen we support local business when they reach out to me I say you know what let's put it on the agenda we just want to make sure that you could keep
operating and keep doing business but the reason why you didn't submit the document in time but we voting to support and make sure you move forward my vote is yes thank you council president the votes are seven in favor two absent item number s 71 is adopted council president before you move
forward and now that we finished with the taxic cap no we haven't finished finish we got more we got more after we finished 72 73 and 7 yeah we got we got more we got four more to go item 72 M clerk item number 72 is a resolution
approving renewal of taxi cab registration for Vincent's cab service LLC of 30-34 1st Avenue Patterson New Jersey 07514 City clerk resolution number 25 172 no move it was moved by um Council M
Council DAV and second by councilman and councilwoman Mims roll call man cler that's the third word roll call it item number 72 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilwoman Mims I have been triloquist my vote is yes
councilwoman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilwoman I'm sorry councilman all right thanks God Trump eliminate my vote is yes thank you council president um um there you have a a huge parking spot please keep all the
cars inside I'm very familiar with the area but I just want to say thank you for your business and we're here to work with you and help you my vote is yes M cler thank you council president the votes are seven in favor two absent item number 72 is adopted thank you item 73 M
clerk item number 73 is a resolution approving renewal of 15 taxi C regist ations for jazz limo LLC ta comfortable taxi of 744 River Street Patterson 07524 city clerk resolution number 25 col 17
some move it was mooved by Council MAV second by councils Council IIM councilman roll clerk on item 73 and councilman as well thank you counc call cler on item 73 roll call on item number 73 Council woman cotton yes Council
councilwoman daver yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz yes council president yes thank you the votes are seven in favor two absent item number 73 is hereby adopted thank
you madam clerk item number 74 item number 74 resolution approving 11 taxi cab registrations for taxi Eric taxi LLC of 468 Market Street Patterson New Jersey
07501 mailing address and 27 North straight street parking location City cler resolution number 25 17 was move by Council and councilwoman Dava second by councilman ibraim and Council de roll call M
clerk roll call on item number 74 councilwoman DAV cotton I'm sorry councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman D councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes Council councilman Udin yes councilman valz yes council
president yes thank you the votes are seven in favor two absent item number 74 is hereby adopted thank you m clerk item 75 item number 75 is a resolution approving transfer of three taxi cab registrations for T Taxi Eric taxi LLC
to taxi Patterson LLC of 468 Market Street Patterson New Jersey Jersy 07501 mail and address 68-76 bar Clay Street and 27 North straight street parking location city clerk resolution number 25
175 move by councilman Dava second by Council BL and councilman a ibraim roll call M clerk on item 75 roll call on item number 75 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilman Moman
Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz so this is the last item for taxi yes so before I vote council president and my colleagues my colleagues I want to make this statement Corporation
Council um especially through the chair to Mr ba I would like to see a memorandum written to any taxing inspector to speak in behalf of the council they don't have that
authorization they don't have not even I don't know where they come with their ideas to put names in their words when they want to prove something or not for example there was a
rumors around okay and I get a little bit upset because they use my name councilman valz want to do this against the taxi cap or they want to approve this so they that no one no one and this is a legislator probably
requests no employees should be using no employees our names to send wrong message to the people out there okay and create a fiasco behind us without even noticing
us that we miss in a problem out there I I don't allow that nobody use my name I always say this if somebody say something that Louis valz said bring it in front of me I got an office we sit down and if I say it is it true or is a
lie so saying that please no employee especially the inspectors of that division to be spreading rumors out there that never exist saying that my vote is yes council president thank you m clerk I I um before my vote it's it's
extremely important that we um you know as a employee as a um and we're not we're an elected official but you know we have an inspector out there and with the taxi industry I just want to make this comment and I want to put on record I want I want to make sure that our inspector have a good relationship with
the taxi owner I want to make sure that they treat our Taxi Driver the owner with respect we we're here to enforce the law um but we're here to treat people with respect as well I hear some comment about some back and forth discussion uh with our inspector I want
to make sure that we from the city Side do our job and be respectful with a business owner we're here to work together one of the main reason why all those item are here is because we understand that you know you guys have to operate you're providing a service but you have to continue moving the
company forward and that's the reason why you have all this Idol you have this Gover body Bo in full support of uh all your legislation to make sure you guys get your license so my vote is yes thank you council president the votes are seven in favor two absent item number 75 is adopted thank you so we done with all
the taxi uh uh license so let's do let's finish the non consent agenda council member and let's go on second reading really quick I think we could make it happen so let's go to 66 M cler
66 thank you thank you yeah item number 66 have a good knif item number 66 is a resolution designating the week of March 23rd to
March 29th 2025 as Bangladesh Heritage week sponsored by councilman Udin MD Ford uden coun City Council resolution number 25 col 166 what item 66 that's councilman Forin Idol so
move discussion it was moved by councilman all Forin second by councilwoman Ruby Kon councilman B and Council IIM discussion councilwoman M so just points of reference I would like to be a co-sponsor on your item if possible can
we make all the C remaining C uh except one make all the all my council members in presence and uh councilman Davila as well to co-sponsors what our name spell what do you mean it say one no no can remaining or just cuz
councilman valz all right so let me just clarified councilman VZ also want to be a co-sponsor councilman council president uh also want to be co-sponsor how about rubby Harden
who how about fourth word councilman you want to join okay coun okay Ibrahim you going to add councilman colleague as sponsor and I also add councilman uh colleague as well co-sponsor okay so how
about councilman D so I cler so I please add her too yeah councilman Dila as well D okay yeah please 66 it's uh basically sponsor byoun the remaining council members and then co-sponsor by
councilman B Council IIM counc president Mendes um Council marava SP councilman KH and Council woman uh okay okay thank you so much
counc no problem roll I'm glad I was finished talking roll call on item number 66 councilwoman cotton councilwoman Mims councilwoman Mims yeah sorry my vote is yes thank you
councilman Omar yes councilman Udin so thank you uh to my Council colleagues as well so as we are recognizing the last week of March as the Bangladesh Heritage week because March 26 is the Bangladesh independent day and last week of March I
want to celebrate it since we are uh this is the month of Ramadan I uh decided to uh have the celebration sometimes in uh April so I'm going to let my Council colleagues to know in advance to make sure that they can celebrate and they can recognize their
uh favorite person from mangi Community as well so my V is yes mam clerk thank you Corporation Council for putting this together thank you um councilman I had the honor to choose a bang of course oh I already got it me on brother
no listen if it's to unite the community and celebrate all together let's we on board okay so my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson we're voting on item number 66 amazing resolution designating the week of March 23rd to March 29th as
Bangladesh heritage week yes thank you council president I'll thank you m clerk um uh great job councilman fudin let's continue celebrating diversity in our community my vot is yes thank you the votes are
seven in favor two absent item number 66 is hereby adopted thank you item 67 M cler item number 67 is a resolution honoring Mr Eugene Miller for his 25 years of dedicated service to the city of Patterson Department of Public Works
sponsored by councilman leis VZ councilwoman Lisa Ms and councilwoman Ruby cotton city council resolution number 25 167 so Mo also was mov by Council second by councilman M
councilman Ruby and councilman ibraim and councilman for also add councilman Mendes uh as a co-sponsor too yeah thank you councilman well hold on you you sp co-sponsor or sponsor uh put it as a sponsor too no co-sponsor
sorry who's the co-sponsor co-sponsor also Council Mendes I I didn't want to go over Mendes council president that's Co sponsor Co sponsor I'm sorry you have to somebody just coor
sponsor yes and you're the sponsor the the great councilman mes yeah roll7 number 67 councilwoman [Music] cotton councilman Jackson yes
councilwoman Mims C councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz so this is the gentleman that was in the back Miller I know I gave him the spe yes correct yeah
so retired yeah he he retired 6 months ago and um and um when we was talking say I miss you at DPW I say I I retired I said so we need to honor him and he was happy in the resolution he mentioned all the goals and and and and who he's
appreciated in that resolution thank you corporate Council for uh drafting this for be able to be on time for this meeting um thank you for that you guys work hard down there know with all the work that you guys have in the court
system and everything you guys work diligent with our request if we process it the right way thank you for that corporate Council so my vote is yes thank you council president um definitely I'm I'm very happy to vote on this item because Mr Miller he's such a
phenomenal person I mentioned during the in the beginning during the public portion that before he left uh that you know he used to see me at 7-Eleven you know we see each other you know he tried to invite me for a coffee I invite him for a coffee but he always smiling I was I was a little concerned because I I've
been see him lately but now I know that he's ready he's going to enjoy his retirement may God God continue blessing you and your family uh he's a very he's a phenomenal human being he did his job with respect with honor and and that's what we that's what we need in our city congratulations my vote is yes M cler
Raymond okay thank you council president the votes are seven in favor two absent item number 67 is adopted item number 69 M [Laughter] CL 69 yes okay
say pink yes counc councilman Jackson voted he left it's three oh no no no uh councilman Jackson voted and left you're right counc mam
Clark item number 69 is the resolution authorizing acceptance of a history project Grant from the B County cultural and Heritage Council Council County History partnership program for the installation of signage
Markin locations of safe houses of the Underground Railroad in Patterson New Jersey Economic Development resolution number 25 col 169 so it it was mov by it was moved by Council M and councilwoman
Ruby K and second by Council councilman F and councilman ibraim discussion and discussion councilwoman M so I just want to bring it to the public for those that possibly watch or did not watch last week uh there was a markup of the
signage that they wanted to utilized in these 13 locations we did not agree with them I had a conversation Mr um John Franco and myself and Council M Cott and we will be working with him um to make sure that that signage is reflective of
Harriet tutman and the real underground um accomplishments that happened um and that's a part of History so he agreed to that we be working with him to make sure that the signage um is reflective um and I do support this item on tonight thank
you roll call council president thank you roll call M CL on item 69 roll call on item number 69 councilwoman cotton thank you madam clerk I just want to say real quickly and thank you councilwoman members uh we did have an opportunity to speak to John Franco we wanted to accept
this grant that we G from the P County culture and Heritage Council but we also Council M and and myself we will be working with um our historian guy John Franco um with the signage and um with
the new logo that we have to do but Council M Ms thank you let's put let's put this together we'll meet pretty soon with John franker who's our historian guy with that being said Madam clerk U my vote is yes thank you councilwoman
councilwoman Mims yes councilwoman councilman Omar yes Council Udin yes M valz um you know beside this this is good this is going to send a message of history in patteron but let's not forget
that we approve here a a resolution to put the veteran banners please whoever no we're having a big thing for Veterans Way okay yeah for veteran way you know and I want to make sure that people don't that that we they
in top of it yes correct because then going to ask we put this where that at you know what I'm saying okay uh saying that um I encourage also that if they fix those put those signs beautiful signs if
they see that the street crossing sign is bad change them because is that going to be right all other the sign like the the the sign that say stop or whatever you know we put in signs do the whole thing beautify it whatever you know because
it's good stick out so my vote is yes thank you councilman council president um thank thank you um Madam clerk before my vote up the Underground Railroad and Patterson that's a big piece of history of the African-American community in our
city this is a very big important project um I know that we have John Franco we have the historian uh the gentleman working on he's phenomenal he's fantastic but also Council men make a good suggestion at the last meeting and is to make sure that the history of
each location go on the bottle so two plaque one plaque with the logo but on the bottom another plaque with the history of that specific location I want to reiterate that I want to make sure that John Franco that is in front of this project that get that clear so
because our children our future generation need to read this and need to know that this history uh this is part of African-American history into the city of Pon and into this nation so um so without being sa my votee is yes M clerk thank you council president the votes are six in favor three absent item
number 69 is adopted council president uh yes Council woman just a a request to Corporation councel and to our uh our acting ba um some time ago there was a a I think the governor made a mandate for
all of our cbles they were removed can you provide uh whatever if if it was a legislation or an or executive order removing all of our constables I also would like to get information because a lot of our cables um pay for uniforms
and bond insurance and things that equated possibly up to like $1,000 in some cases but I want to know like what can be done for those conses that were just appointed and then that mandate took place so if we can get some updates
I've been um reached out to by a couple of people and I just want to bring some clarity to the exact executive order or the language that um removed everybody um sent to all the council members as well as what can take place if anything
for the items that they purchased thank you um Council council president council president uh council member Les right after Council rooming even that and it's true the the based on a numerous investigation that the Department of Justice was doing over
the operation of the Constable it was not removed because the governor wants it it was removed because it was deep investigation um of the function or or um job Duty that the council was doing
that and then some of them you know not saying pison I'm not talking about P I'm talking about the state okay some of them was uh prosecute and everything so that's why the governor decide to remove all the con in the state of New Jersey
now uh I believe the corporate Council has the email when he sent it to us in the beginning when it was eliminated now now Council um cor Council also we should we should look
into to see we could create Municipal ordinance for Council if if if he eliminated from the state but we are own government right
yeah so if he eliminated for the state probably we could do a program special police we could we could do a lot of stuff because special police um cable they they fall into a volunteer program with the police department well train you know because a lot of them thought
that they was cops the first thing they got s they buy lights for the cars they go apply for a gun they no that's not the purpose accountable probably in in the Arizona and other states you know
were you know it works different right but here in the City Pass probably we could create a program that we could utilize uh um a different type of uh Public Safety um whatever they they could do right I don't know to just to
give it a benefit of the doubt and they're not going to buy a car they're not going to get a gun you know and stop people around but you know it it good to explore because they used to some not I'm not going to say all of them but a lot of them used to do a lot of
community service and and and you used to call them and um you know and they used to be out there with the community carrying bags all doing that stuff you know but if we could contemplate a local you know a local cable program
with training with training listen everything is training I I know that some people I know that Some People Want To Be Cops and they didn't got the chance to go to the academy and they look for that hey it's an idea it's just an idea
right so thank you thank you counc so council members so we have eight item on second reading let's start so only eight item uh just to finish this agenda on this meeting Madame clerk let's do item number one second reading let's go on that order item number one on second
reading it's an ordinance establishing chapter 434 entitled storm water and mobile car washes imposing regulations to prevent storm water contamination by mobile car wash businesses sponsored by councilman lisis VZ and council president Alex Mendes city council
ordinance number 25- 002 second move by council member and council president Mendes and second by councilwoman Mims heired huh and councilman fud second see no move to close um roll
call to close public hearing on item number one I'm I'm sorry I didn't get the motion in second it was motion it was moved by Council and council president second by councilman for counc Council for his second and Council
Ruby and mes too as well she she mov it too by clerk it was moved by councilman BL council president Mendes Council M second by councilman forine Council woman rob you cannot make memes upset
regardless sorry coun don't make memes opet it's okay so it was on that order so members of the public um you know public hearings are open move to close see one number to close by council member Les second
second by Council Ms roll call to close public hearing on item number one okay hold on okay councilwoman Cen yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar
yes councilman Udin to close the have to close question councilman blz yes council president yes CL thank you I know you was getting ready and now roll call M cler on item number one roll call
on item number one councilwoman cotton I mean like who's going to go over there Ellison Street to stop that guy from washing them cars who going to go there who going to go the guy Ellison street by the Walgreen and tell him he can't wash some cars over there no more who going to do it
huh well explain it because I don't see nobody do it who going to tell the guy on 9th Avenue that he can't wash some cars no more who going to do it who's going to tell them to do it well I'm going vote Yes because we got to get it done but I need to know who going to do it thank you councilwoman councilwoman
Mims yep yep okay councilman Omar yes councilman uden thank you thank you Madame Clark so uh this is a regular issue people are using our Street uh to clean their car
that's that's happening now how can we stop it and thank you to my Council colleague councilman valz for thinking about it and bringing this to the council for vote uh implementation is not our job our duty is to come up with
a new legislation which is the importance of the time and I believe that Patterson Police Department needs to inform the employees to make sure that address this concern and also stated in the ordinance stated defines comes along with it so I believe that
this is very important because people are using every single location to clean their sh clean their car which is uh first of all is is is is uh making our street Dy and also it comes up with uh Health concern as well so I'm in full
support thank you councilman valz uh for putting this um on the uh thank you councilman Council and Council uh thank you council president uh Madame clerk so there was a question the floor
and I know that we voting oh this is for vote for adoption right okay yeah so so this is this this was a tax um councilman Mendes received some concerns councilman councilman Mendes received some concern I reive some concern imp PL
of that we receive complaints from residents especially Council woman C and complains because there was nothing in place so they cannot enforce nothing so DPW cannot enforce it so uh police can enforce it so I I I brought I brought
the resolution the the ordinance from New York I brought the order from New York and I told corporate Council corporate Council can you do me a favor remember that I don't know how to read and write but I know how to direct
people how to do things right uh so I spoke to Corporation Council he put a uh the legal team to work to examinate what the EPA requirement are what is the requirement uh for the city of patteron and and storm water process and this and
that who was enforcing in New York who was enforcing in the city that allows a car mobile car was watch right and one of the things is councilwoman kind is that if you look at the ordinance okay it address every concern that you have
bring in so example the qualtity of of of of of of of of the mobile unit U equip them a matter of fact it has from A to Z that
will cover enforcement at the same time who's going to enforce it yes in the in the in the ordinance says H traffic and safety violations it says water disposal requirement record keeping requirement uh enforcement and penalty it says here
that police will enforc now the police has a tool to go to if they see a mobile car watch 25 days from now okay and if they don't have all the requirement here they cannot operate so now the police is
going to go to them and the first thing they have to go to buy a permit for $500 and then equip their mobile car watch with insurance registry and everything to be oper in the city of Patterson they cannot be in residential they could be
in light industrial and Industrial Area thank you brother you say about Edison Street that peace there is light industrial thank you brother and um and they have been they be clean come on they
they don't worry they will they will understand the ordinance um saying saying that that thank you council president for working uh uh with me along with this and listening to the concern now we coming to completing the
completing uh to enforce it and to make sure that they bring food to the table and um and I advise them if you get caught in East 18 and Penington or any residential Zone you're going to get tow
especially if you don't have your paperwork or whatever is here so you are free to come and if you don't understand the English language I will translate it for you but you need to follow this you need to follow this saying that Council
woman Council woman means thank you for for also telling me address it you need to address it but my vote is yes on this thank you coun councilman council president thank you madam clerk I mean this legislation was um it's important because it definitely will address a lot
of the concern for the public I remember I started working on this when we start seeing those mobile car wash you know uh getting into the city I reach out to Corporation Council he started doing some research and and we took a while then uh we joined force uh Council mess
and I to start putting things together uh we finally got the resolution draft is in front of us uh but this is this is going to help you know for those people that are in this business to stay in the business I hear a lot of their concern I hear their you know their cry um to be
uh to have something Le legal uh to be able to operate now you have it um so and and it's going to generate Revenue because the application cost $500 you have to renew that every year you have to renew your permit but it also specified that you cannot do business on
residen S you got to go to the industri you got to go to area you cannot be in front of business those are the biggest complaint that we're getting from those mobile car wash you got you got to get you license and you have to be uh straight according with this legislation and you're going to be able to
city so we hear the concern of the res and the legislation here my V is yes and only 10 LIC only thank thank you councilman that's president the votes are six in favor three absent item number one is adopted on second
reading thank you mad clerk item number uh number two on second reading it number two ordinance amending Patterson code chapter 483 zoning and Land Development to provide for additional penalties for illegal dumping of solid was sponsored by councilman leis VZ and
council president Alex public ordinance number 25-3 thank you was moov by councilman Bess and council president mes second by Council woman alarge Dr Lissa and councilman frein and councilman ibraim
uh Ro Comm um members of the public uh public hearing move to close see no move to close by councilwoman Ms and second by Council roll call to close the public hearing on item number two Council to close the public hearing councilwoman councilman
Omar yes councilman Udin I'm sorry okay s councilman valz just to keep it clear councilman Mendes I added uh increasing the fines of everybody that dump out in our city
now is penalty and community service obligated community service so you come to pison the dump or you are resident in pis and you get caught you had to do community service obligated obligated let let let me say
this quickly somebody got caught dumping on the rail tracks on 21st Avenue vland guess what they ran his plate number whatever live in patteron yeah so I'm not going to say where he live but that's okay and he got hit with $10,000
he got hit with $110,000 come on thank you for giving the come on come on Brother come on my vot is yes thank you councilman my vot is yes to close approv will hearing M clerk thank you council president roll
call on item number two M cler roll call on item number two for adoption councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman uden yes councilman nudin yes thank you
councilman valz yes yes council president yes M clerk votes are six I'm sorry six in favor three absent item number two is adopted hereby uh coun councilwoman I do you have your mic you don't have your mic
on cman um um it's hard to hear you didn't have your mic on um I know I have it on now but if I may um Madam Clerk and um um the ba I want to put it on record um I want to know uh find out from d PW when they going to start cleaning the
railroad track again cuz it's absolutely awful again God I'm sorry um I know they they clean a few times but they nobody's been cleaning it the building so can you find out from DPW they have a person I'm not quite
sure um um Mr ba but they have a person that connects to the railroad company that supposed to come clean the tracks thank you councilwoman thank you thank you uh mad clerk item number three on second reading item number three on second reading is an ordinance changing
the traffic patterns on a portion of nicobar Avenue and Lake six W Lake Avenue is lake lake view to improve Public Safety and accommodate the needs of Brothers produce and surrounding businesses and residential homes Public
Works ordinance number 25-4 so move second Omar it was moved by C ibraim councilwoman Mims and councilman and second by
Council and councilwoman roll cler item number members of the Public Public hearing not open cl cl this is for public hearing yes see no move to close by Council and councilman and councilman UD roll call M
clerk roll I'm sorry to close the public hearing to close the public hearing councilwoman carton yeah too fast councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman BL yes councilman council president yes all
right thank you now roll call Mon clerk roll call on item number three um for adoption councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar just real quick this isn't my ward and I'm actually glad that is going to happen so I'm saying this is
long overdue my vote is yes Madam cler thank you councilman Udin all right councilman that's right Council councilman Udin yes you councilman valz my councilman valz oh yeah n Press my my vot is yes thank you council president
my vot is yes M clerk the votes are six in favor three absent uh item number three is adopted on second reading thank you m clerk item number five on second reading item number five on second reading ordinance changing the traffic pattern on State Street and a portion of
Cedar Street to improve Public Safety and accommodate the needs of senior residents at Governor Towers Public Works ordinance number 25- second move by Council second by second by Council M and councilman for
uh members of the public you say second who move by Council BL second by councilman M and councilman for you no um she motion to she moved too okay mad let that record reflect that it's been moved by Council and Council
and second by coun for Also let's let record reflect since we started doing this on the first uh first reading I said I am sponsored with councilwoman Ms this resolution yes you number five councilwoman M sponsor I and Council
woman men are the sponsor of this change okay M clerk okay I'm the one does matter I got to tell you why we're in discussion I got to tell you why uh um I don't know you recall that a bunch of bunch of signatures that we brought here yes yes
and um and I asked Miss fley to send it to DPW to draft the resolution of changes yes so we did the foot workor we did the concern she was at a meeting with us and this and that and and this is way back when Mr Bill prisley was
alive when Bill was alive yes yeah I remember may he rest in peace roll call clerk okay um councilwoman cotton this is for the hearing for the public hearing this is to close the public hearing yes councilwoman thank
you councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes yes Council council president yes thank you roll call M clerk roll call on item number five for adoption councilwoman
cotton yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz yes councilman Mendes yes I'm sorry council president Mendes yes no problem the votes are
seven in favor six in favor three absent item number five is hereby adopted thank you m clerk item number six M clerk item number six is an ordinance changing the traffic pattern of Christopher Columbus Drive to improve Public Safety and accommodate the needs of area residents
Public Works ordinance number 25-7 so move second move by councilman B second by councilman Ms and councilman ibraim um members of the public um see now move to close U you know public hearings are open see no to close by councilman mes second by council
president roll command clerk to close the public hearing on item number six roll call to close the public hearing on item number six councilwoman cotton councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman
valz yes council president yes thank you thank you mad clerk now um roll call on item number six to be approved roll call on item number six for adoption councilwoman coton councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes
councilman valz yes councilman Mendes yes item uh yeah votes are six in favor three absent item number six is adopted thank you m clerk item number seven item number seven is an ordinance establishing always stop controll at the
intersection of 16th Avenue in Summer Street Public Works ordinance number 25- 008 public hearing is required so move second was move by Council second by Council Ms one move to close second see
now on the on the on the public hearing on this item move by Council Al and second by Council M call clerose the public hearing council president before you before also this is this is another item that I'm sponsoring um I'm being working
with that corner request for longest thank God we doing it now councilwoman cotton sponsor counc Warman you my vote is yes you sponsored this yes which seven and the one previous two there no you know I mean we're not supposed to be doing that but
you know it just we should be doing that what no let let me tell you let let me tell you what no no just we're in the middle of roll call council members so we have we just have a few more item council members so
before to finish the agenda let's continue the trend council members okay call cler Council woman C councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman valz what is this
for close supp close the public yes a and council president uh yes thank you roll call for adoption M roll call for adoption councilwoman cotton councilwoman Mims yes councilman
Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman VZ so there was a meor accident that that knocked down the pole that was a flashing light on the car washing 60 Avenue in summer in that corner so to be able to put that light
back I go to the I know I know that's your mic is off and saying to you you're not the only one that that you're not the only one that put this problem in that's all I'm saying we shouldn't be putting our name
on ordinance I know thank I I know where we at but I'm saying to council members we shouldn't be putting our names on ordinance and we all send in problems we all send in complaints we all do that that's what I'm saying this is an ordinance not a I understand
Council you know level of like you know she but we understood Council counc please continue we understood So based on the opinion of my colleague I would like to remove my name as
sponsor the more important things I listen to the concerns of everyone that goes through there and um is getting the four-way stop sign making sure the pedestrian safety there's a lot of people walking through there to back and forth to the school one of the things
that um um I want to say is that uh the zoning department should look into the corner car was watch because they've been going against the traffic to go into the car wash too so saying that my vote is yes okay all right just okay so
so I'm sorry ccil woman let me before my vote they stop the coun they stop cing I C let me let me just you keep saying stop but I'm saying that no no no I'm not saying stop we're not saying stop that I I understand you know
you're concern and you're uncomfortable because we all receive the same complaint I understand what you say that and because one council member wants to be I understand that we get the same complaint and you you understand that it's not fair that one name go into the into the legislation we we get it we get
it we you know but now council member let remove his name and and council members let's work together on this because we all receive most of the complaint my V is yes but clle thank you council president the vote six in favor three absent item number seven is
adopted on second reading thank you Council M we got two more item item number nine M clerk on second reading item number nine on second reading public hearing is required ordinance repealing establishment of handicap parking spaces at various locations
where is so move one one second please no she she have to read into the record oh she has she did but it don't it don't have a it don't she got to put Public Work put I know I don't have the ORD coration
read address yeah the address number nine hold on yeah one second please okay ordinance number 25-01
0 Public Works um no you have to read the item number n by cler all the address into the record yes oh okay street address is um 382 6 Avenue 171 North 7 Street 137
Alabama Avenue 126 North 3rd Street 87 North 7 Street 69 Chestnut Street 1053 East 22nd Street 115 Turner Street 472 East 31st Street 95 East 17th Street 60
Jane Street 123 17th Avenue 416 East 31st Street 61 hosan Street 151 Carlile Avenue 92-94 North 6 Street 105 East 17th Street 63 gry Street 713 East 24th
Street 184 17th Avenue 178 Beach Street 231 Temple Street 39 albian Avenue 75 George Street 94 Bloomfield Avenue 430 11th Avenue 330 East 26th Street three
Garrison Street 55 Manchester Avenue 88 north3r Street 87 North 7 Street 57 Day Street 640 East 25th Street 117 17 Avenue 139 North 9th Street 181
Montgomery Street 599 East 24th Street 67- 69 North 3rd Street 4 Jane Street 260 East 21st Street 239 edman Avenue 31 Dover Street 378 East 24th Street 444
East 24th Street 120 Franklin Avenue 400 99th Avenue 188-190 Caldwell Avenue and 69 Wayne Avenue so moved second sorry um it was moved by councilwoman M second by
councilman F de and councilman Abrahim members of the public item number nine open for public hearings see no move to close by councilman Ms second by councilman ibraim roll call clerk to close the public hearing on item number nine roll call on item number nine
councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman bz left room okay councilman council president yes thank you okay the votes are five in favor
four absent item number nine is adopted on second reading thank you mad clerk a roll call on the adoption of item number nine mad clerk H oh I forgot yes sir I'm sorry this was Clos public hearing yes now we're voting on the adoption ccom Cen
yes councilwoman rims yes councilwoman Omar yes councilwoman Udin so before I vote on this um and I would like to um state that we have so many applications for handicap signs especially from the
second word and first word I you say so I'd like to mention that this is what we are voting for repealing the signs that you had before for whatever reason whether you moved out whether you don't require anymore or you are not uh following the rules
regulation and also we are going to vote for so many of them to establishing so I'd like to mention that if you I don't want you to just misuse your uh signs cuz overnight I see so many handicap
signs are are empty there's no car it means that those cars are not actually staying there this is just reserved location so please because of the handicap so many handicap sence especially in second W there are uh
parking crisis so I want everyone to be mindful and supportive to your neighbor as well so my vote is yes Madam Kirk thank you councilman council president um thank you madam clerk uh we repealing 47 location of handicap on on this um
ordinance number nine uh let me just encourage the resident that have the privilege to have a handicap to use it properly do not park your your car outside the handicap to save a spot for somebody don't do that having a handicap
in front of your house it's a privilege that you have uh to be able to park in front of your house because you have you know your doctor gave you that prescription you you are handicapped and under the uh the um Disability Act we have to be in compliant and provide a
handicap but if you don't use it properly you could lose it so we repealing 40 7 there's a lot of complaint about people not using the handicap properly I want to encourage you to use it properly because if you don't use it you're going to lose it uh with that being said my vote is yes M
clerk thank you council president the votes are five in favor four absent item number nine is adopted on second reading thank you Madame clerk item number 10 on on second reading Madame clerk item number 10 on second reading is an ordinance establishing handicap parking
spaces at various locations on City Road item number 10 uh ordinance number 25- 0111 one second please and the streets are 1050 East 22nd Street West Side 400 East 32nd
Street wests side 41 North York Street Southside 85 4th Avenue North side 99 bur Street North Side 37 Mars Street East Side 3 1 Bloomfield Avenue West
Side 255 18th Avenue North Side 150 Warren Street Southside 193 North First Street North Side 119 Kerney Street wests side 382 Cosby a Crosby Avenue Southside 115 Ryon Avenue wests
side 53 Patterson Avenue wests side 33 Patterson Avenue wests side 99 Danforth Avenue Avenue North Side 235 Liberty Street north side and 151 Liberty Street north
side it was moved by Council M second by counc woman count um public hearing is now open for item number 10 move to close see now move to close by councilwoman Mims and second by councilwoman count roll call M cler to close the public hearing on item number 10 roll call to close the public portion
on item number 10 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar yes councilman Udin yes council president my vote is yes M clerk thank you the votes are four I'm sorry five in favor four absent item number 10 is
hereby adopted on no we we closing the the we closing the public hearing now voting on M vill are you with us with n it's a lot of work a lot of work you okay to my I'm sorry we we we closed
in the public hearing now now we voting on the item with the actual item okay item number 10 item number 10 councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Mims yes councilwoman Omar yes councilman Udin yes councilman
Mendes my vote is yes okay um the votes are five in favor four absent item number 10 is hereby adopted I have a motion to close this great meeting moveed by councilwoman M second councilman Forin councilman irim
and councilwoman of the fourth War former mayor of the great city of patteron Ruby CCT to close up um let's be brief oh roll call to Close the regular meeting
of March 18th 2025 councilwoman cotton it it's 11:47 let's fin before 12 I'm going to go real quick but first let me say um thank you to um uh my Corporation counselor amanushi um um for for for putting that um item together um for the
affordable housing I want to I appreciate you um Corporation Council um for doing that um you know and I said it before that um uh you know we we're here to get business done we're not here to um go
back and forth back and forth um one thing you must understand that you want to put an item on the agenda you better find Five counsil People You you look for people that will vote for Whatever item that you want to try to get pass through not just throw
items on the agenda and then hope that it get P um you got to have conversation with people you have to have conversation with all your Council colleagues things you know to be able to to get stuff things I mean you got to have the conversation and you know and I always said it yeah and I say it and I'm going
to keep saying it I'm going to travel I'm going to go to different cities I'm going to go to to the state I'm going to go down to the county I went to Alabama I met some people down there you better try to get around so you can meet people and then that's why the more people you meet the more you can try to get things
done and I want to say to you um Mr ba thank you Harry you know you know what we have department heads here and only thing we got to do is go talk to them that's right that's all we got to do if I don't understand something just go
talk to that department head you don't need to blast it here go talk to that department head and they'll explain everything and how it's supposed to work and how it goes to our to our Madam clerk phers thank you to our secretary Sophia
I thank you they have a lot of work to do and um Mr ba we they need some help so we need to we need to get some staff up in here for them so we got to get some staff to my Council colleagues it's about talking
to each other you know you know I think that we can't be Hypocrites you know what I mean you know we can't be we can't I knew how hard I fought for when we got the entry um New Jersey re-entry in momery Street in Patterson I knew how
hard I fought because I know that people deserve Second Chances you can't say somebody deserve a second chance and you don't give them a second chance how you do that how you how you fight for something I want to say itby Omar you know you did what you did you
apologize people deserve Second Chances because just think about it you had a child and nobody want to give them that second chance you people better remember you you got kids you got cousins you got Brothers you got sisters and when somebody out there don't want
to help them what do you say I always believe people deserve Second Chance Omar welcome to the city council here in city of patteron eie um to you all out there there a lot of things that we can get done and I know we can so let's just
work together um and see what we can do um because if I know somebody that I can refer you to why would I try to keep it to myself and not give it to you to to so they can help you cuz then this way you can then share it with someone else so everyone
out there thank you for watching our counsil meeting everyone God bless you all out there it's um there's a lot of stuff getting ready to go down the pipe there's a lot of stuff getting ready to go down the pipe with that being said Madam clerk God bless you all
out there have a good rest of the month we do not meet no more till April 5th 8th 8th no we'll meet before that but anyhow with that being said Madam clerk my vote is yes councilwoman Cen councilwoman Mims
so just a few announcements to the public tomorrow's an emergency school board meeting at 6 o'cl at 90 Delaware need to approve the bud hold on just holds
[Music] on Thursday the 20th I'm sorry um as you know this item they will be discussing the uh tax levy increase um it was voted down on last night they were looking to increase taxes by 6% homeowners please
be present um as you know here at the city we have a memorandum of understanding with the uh state for 2% so make sure you go to these other entities and make your voices heard that's on Thursday at 6:00 I'm Friday I
want to thank Miss ingret lansa she will be having a um event for domestic violence a Gala at The Brownstone at 7:00 uh tickets are $150 please keep our family in prayer my cousin's funeral is this Friday and then
this Saturday pay County African-American women will be having their Galla on this Saturday Saturday afternoon at 12:00 if you need tickets you can see myself or counil with M coton to our community at large let's keep praying for each other let's keep
walking in peace let's let's make sure that we walk in right standing and the best thing to do is give people their flowers while they can smell them God bless you I don't think we're going to violate the Sunshine Law tonight I think we'll be done before 12 Madam clerk
would that stated it my vote is yes thank you councilwoman Ms councilman Omar I'm going to speak for seven minutes to make sure they break the law your vote before I do vote um I just just want to wish because we won't have a meeting till April 8th I just want to wish everyone a Ramadan Kim and Mubarak
we'll see you guys April 8th and to also please keep uh people 5,000 miles away in your prayers specifically in Gaza let's pray for peace my vote is yes good night Patterson thank you Council councilman Udin thank you Madame car so Patterson
uh it's almost midnight um so we have voted for so many great things today in support of our city and um as my C colleag EV Ibrahim
wished everyone Ramadan Karim and this is the Ramadan time and I take the opportunity to go in different mask to say tari and meet the community members and um also to break fast with
uh different uh communities as well so this is a great and blessed month for all of us and since we are not going to see each other before the f I wished uh all the Muslims uh living the city of pisan Beyond uh it muar in advance um
let's pray for each other let's pray for our city with that being said my vot is yes Madam clerk thank you councilman councilman valz first of all I want to say thank you to all the women's that honor this pass
event huh they didn't give us our flowers menes not give us yeah Mendes and ying and allow I already gave my flowers in advance I want to say thank you to all
the um honores that attended also the employees and uh that attended the event it was a beautiful beautiful event and um listen I do it for the community and I think they everybody enjoy it trust me
people still talking about it and um and I think that God is good when he's in the midst thank you for those that allow me to honor them um and this is this is not going to be the last one so uh congratulation to all of you if you was
not honored this time there's other events that we going to honor you and uh moving forward we going to do this with the blessing of God I just want to also announce um the super I had a meeting I had a meeting today with the superintendent of schools uh we going to
have a forum at school number two um um the next next Thursday uh the 27th of March at 6 o' Sor at school number two the only thing item is going to be in
the agenda is to discuss the plans of school number three moving forward with the community input okay there's a lot of misinformation out there uh the uh registry of uh School number three have
gone down so we have to merge and well we going to speak about that there and I hope the parents comes the only thing we going to discuss is moving forward with school number three that's going to be beneficial to all the parents in the
area especially the residents of the Fifth Ward um yes uh Abrahim Omar and U corporate to council I I was today in my doctor's office and um as you know who you guys know who is he um you know
this morning about 7 6 o' in the morning I receive a breaking news you know and that breaking news was this air strike or the military action of uh uh yes and and it's sad 400
people di in one shot you know um we need to pray for Palestine we need to pray for the people of Gaza and let me tell you something I don't get four people easy threat you know I don't you
know I don't I don't care what the president of United States have in his mind but I know that I am a United States citizen I have freed to speech and I will stand what is Injustice and we going to pray we going to pray for
the people of Palestine also from the other side too because we need a seafire yes put the money where your mouth is you know what I'm saying for the real stuff you know they are suffering I don't even want to see my Island going
through what they going through trust me we don't want to see Dominican Republic we don't want to see any any osphere the earth going what this this is going through and um we pray we pray for you we pray for the family that are here in
the United States U it's not easy it's not easy um um yeah cooperation councel is not easy I imagine I just imagine so um saying that uh Madam clerk thank you for your diligent work uh working with
um our department our CS uh we still have opening well we still have the opening yes we still have opening and the uh two position a City Council secretary position and also in the clerk office please go
to oh it's Clos but just in case nobody won the salary probably they're not going to come but a minute left yes and so aminda thank you for being patient up there see aminda like to be up
there Council woman we're a roll call uh thank you uh Rafa Gonzalez for all the work you've done out there with this channel 77 and trying to keep us uh nice and KN have you noticed the floor was fixed council president thank you um
Harry saalo we keep on praying for your dad and your family um one question I had to just ask um ask a question where is the part-time ba we have okay that that you could you could write me
email you could write an email or whatever have a sidebar conversation but we want to know uh because it's a salary so saying that thank you to the two police officer and thank you for the community let's pray for peace in the city of patteron and making sure that uh
we move forward this city because this this city is really great trust me it's really great and we prove it Sunday we prove it Sunday Friday and Friday and this and Friday for your event and all the events that have been done since uh
the 27 and all that now this event that councilman will have this week also and moving forward we going to celebrate I excuse myself I already explain with him why um God bless you all um and just in
case to my lovely wife I love you I do thank you for making me a good man every day that's a history yes I am God bless you all my vot is yes thank you councilman council president uh don't don't break the quot council member let
me just vote but but you know but it's important to say thank you to the resident of the city of patteron today we have 23 speakers everybody's stupid in the 3 minutes you know and a few second and and and I want to say thank you um this is a proof that we could
definitely be effective in this Council chamber we have 70 plus item on the agenda we went through 76 item 23 speaker and it's 12:00 we finished our agenda and we finished City business I want to say thank you to our clerk
Madame clerk thank you Miss philis Sophia thank you all so we need those uh position fill uh we only have two secretary on this side and I know we are our Clerk and our secretary they working hard extremely hard Corporation Council thank you brother my big brother always
thank you for being there you know working hand in hand with us to do what is right drive for the city Mr Harry thank you uh I want to I want to put this into the record you are our VA at this moment I want to M that you get compensated as our VA during the day you
have another role which is our purchasing agent I was very clear with DCA that you need to be compensated with the role that you doing with the function that you're doing you are great you putting you uh you putting the city first uh and and let's keep you father
in our prayer God is great and I want to say thank you thank you for you know just giving so much to the city of patteron patteron let's pray for our community and I say in the beginning that as a council members our job is to legislate but when you are a councilman
in the city of patteron you have to pick up the phone and you have to address people in need there was one of my constituents a senior almost 6 67 years old nothing to eat sick is my job I got
got to do it I I went to the supermarket I did you know I I did I bought I got some grocery I delivered that's what we got to do this is our city we have a lot of people struggling sometime you have people that they come in front of the mic oh that's not your job giving
turkeys that your job asembly wimbley say something that I always I'm keeping this in my mind it's not about the turkey it's not about the gift it's about the hug that you could give to that person it's about being connected with that person a lot of people they complain what are you doing to make our
city better that's my question and there's always something that you could do to make our city better let's work together let's clean our city uh to the administration I gave my recommendation about the bulk pickup situation let's change that to clean our city and let's
pray for our community um C Kali thank you thank you we have a very effective meeting today very effective let's continue doing the work that we've been uh eled to do it and let's be the role model that our community need there's a lot of violence out there sometime the
you know the way you're conducting yourself here in the chamber that's what people are looking at that's the example that you're sending out you cannot talk about changing patteron make our city better when you don't reflect what you want to see in the community God bless you all my bud yes M
cler good I patteron thank you council president the votes are six in favor three absent the regular meeting of March 18th 2025 is here by your journ good night Patterson thank you Rafa Gonzalez thank you we finished early
emind thank you all right and Omar is back from Santo Domingo he's not allowed to travel in a year now you know he been banned from traveling for a year