--------- members Good evening everyone On behalf of the Paris Municipal Council we welcome you to the regular meeting of April 15 at 2025 7:20 p.m The meeting is now called to order Manker please call the role Yes Council President Roll call for the
regular meeting of April 15 2015 Councilwoman Cotton here Councilwoman Dava present Councilman Jackson Councilman Khalik present Councilwoman Mims Councilman Omar Councilman Uden
Councilman President Madam Clerk Council President President Clerk Amen The um I'm sorry Seven are present Two are absent at this time Let's continue Madam clerk
I'm sorry Oh okay Um tonight's prayer will be rendered by Minister Ashley Mley of Reborn Deliverance Center followed by the flag salute by honorable Councilwoman Ruby N Cotton
Minister Mley tested Good evening everyone My name is Minister Ashley Mley and as she stated I am coming from Reborn Deliverance Center I am a Patterson native It's good to see you all tonight I am here to render the prayer Before I
do that I would like to read a scripture that is relative 2 Chronicles 7:14 says "If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven and I will
forgive their sin and will heal their land." Amen A moment of prayer Everyone bow your heads please God we come to you as humble as we know how We thank you for this opportunity to be amongst the land of the living God we ask you to
forgive us for everything that we've done everything that we've said and thought that was wrong Your eyesight Lord forgive us God We're asking you even in this setting to visit us Lord we need your presence tonight God we're asking that you heal our community Lord
heal everyone who is in here who is in need of healing God we ask that you give us unity in this community God we pray for peace God we come against anything that is not like you Lord we come against the spirit of depression We come against the spirit of suicide We come
against poverty in the name of Jesus Lord we thank you for giving us another chance And God please touch every council person in this room tonight Lord touch their minds Lord Touch their hearts Let them know that you are there to comfort them even in their homes God
let them return to them as better than they were Lord we thank you right now for your anointing We thank you for your Holy Spirit We ask all these blessings in Jesus' name And it is so Amen Amen Amen Amen
Council woman Please remain standing We We're going to now do the FL salute I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands One nation under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for all Please remain stand Now we're going to do a moment of silence for those that lost a loved one in our community for our troop and for the great city of Patterson A moment of silence please Thank you You may be
seated Now at this time we have a presentation uh by our councilwoman of the fourth board Councilwoman Ruby Kton Thank you Council President I would just like to um I had the opportunity to go to uh
Minister Ashley Mley um trial sermon and it was absolutely outstanding and she spoke about God would take you through tragedy before you get to triumph and I can clearly see that for
everyone and I want to say to you Minister Mley you did an outstanding job on your initial trial sermon at Rebirth Deliverance Center And so what I did was I asked her to please give us a song cuz we need God up in
here As a Ash Minister Ashley it's on you now Thank you Thank you for coming and thank you for running the prayer for me It was my turn the month of April for the prayer and the salute Thank you Ashley You're welcome I hope that
everyone is blessed by my selection My soul loves Jesus My soul loves Jesus My
soul loves Jesus Bless his name My soul loves Jesus My
soul loves Jesus My soul loves Jesus Bless bless his name
He's a wonder in my soul He's a wonder in my soul He a
wonder in my soul Bless his name Oh yes the Lord is he's a wonder Yeah In my
soul Bless his name I need we need you I need thee Every hour
Oh Lord we need you Lord Oh bless bless us now My savior my savior we come Hallelujah Jesus we
come We come to thee Amen God bless Wow Thank you so very much Minister [Applause] Ashley As everyone know Ash Minister
Ashley Mley is a gospel singer She has performed at Eastside Park u with Jamie Bland Jumpstart National Action Network and we have it every year at East Side Park The last Sunday in August is our gospel fest and it's free So when you
see come out please everyone come out Thank you Thank you so much Minister Ashley Mley Thank you Beautiful Thank you Councilwoman What a beautiful voice Let's put our hands together one more time What a phenomena She make us proud She make Patterson proud Now we have a
great presentation for our councilwoman at large Dr Lissa Mins has a presentation I know our great senator uh Benji Wimbley will he will be joined our counciloman at large It's great to have our senator here in the house tonight It's great to have you Senator Thank you
Councilwoman Thank you Council President Is the mic on it is Okay Thank you Council President To my council colleagues um it is an honor and a privilege to stand before you Um I have actually two presentations and they're walking in So
I'll do uh the first ones first Um so for those that know me and those that don't they know I love they know I love our youth not just in the city of Patterson but just all over I'm a mom and a grandmother And when I heard about
these phenomenal champions from school number 13 under the leadership of one of my good friends Mr Sweets Mr um McCullum and Johnson I thought in robbery that we
would bring these champions to the city council chambers and that we would honor them Let's give it up for our top Dolby um NIT champions from school number 13 Let's give it up for them Everybody clapping And as I call their names if
they will come forward and get a presentation um you'll come this way shake everyone's hand take the presentation and just line up right here Okay we're good We're sweets Hey sweets Coach Elijah
[Applause] McCullum And I want to give a special shout out to Sebastian Mahia for reaching out He knows u my soror Miss Booker is a phenomenal principal there and it's an honor to um celebrate our [Applause]
youth Congratulations coach Lamal Sweets [Applause] Coach Brittany Johnson Darl
Standovo Hey sweets Hi darling How are you darling Sandova Sando sorry about that Na [Applause]
Travis great job Justin Dixon great job My man not here Giovanni [Applause]
Henriquez Jadelle Bolar Congratulations Jadel Balar Hey great job Congratulations Yuri Dela Cruz We can do better than that These are the youth of the city Michael Michael Septean
[Applause] Good job Congratulations Ariel Sappova
[Applause] Carlos Torres Kaim J [Applause] G I thought y'all going to hit some baskets when y'all walked up
like and last well last and not certainly not least Jaair Martinez Congratulations Do we miss a student everyone's name was called Okay So if we can all stand here and my commitment suite I'm going to take these names Please send me the
jacket sizes I will be sponsoring um championship jackets for all of your team Uh council members if we could just take a quick photo Let's take a group picture [Applause]
[Music] Sebastian [Music] How about our future [Applause] [Music] leader congratulations [Applause]
[Music] Coach sweets [Music] God bless Okay Yes You know what the sanitizers are i don't know what the what hand sanitizers are I
don't I don't know where they are They packed away Oh my god I don't know Especially since they moved everything I know And so I know we're excited but we have one more presentation in the overhead and everywhere
[Music] We have one more presentation If I can have your attention Come on brother Uh come on brother Huh we have we have another presentation Councilman Bless So we have Councilman Bless
We have one more presentation and um I um I want to call up I was the sponsor of this this presentation but I want to call up Councilwoman Cotton and Councilman Blesz who served as
co-sponsors on this item This item is for as in the natural I don't have natural brothers It is me and my sister I'm the oldest but throughout life God has blessed me to be able to to gain
many brothers in the community through different organizations things I'm a part of and being a part of the city of Patterson and going to the library Many times I was able to meet I'm going to call him a
young man who served faithfully anytime there were issues at the library Anytime there was a need for cleanup removal sun up to sun down when we had um my extra events he was there If you needed a flag
for the African-American parade or anything going on he made sure you took care of your sister You made sure no matter what goes on in life in this chamber wherever
you're always texting me sis you good i got your back You served 28 years in the city of Patterson But I want to talk about one day when you were in my headquarters You came in my headquarters
and you took my hands and you looked at my eyes and you said "Sis you got this You're going to win Can I pray for you?" I think this was in 2018 And we've been inseparable ever since So I want to say to you even
though you're retiring from the city of Patterson there's no retirement as my brother There's no retirement in your service There's no retirement in your heart and the good things that you do for everyone all the time Whether people
are looking or not looking you love people genuinely And in this day and time we don't have many people that are consistent and that are authentic And I want to be able to give you your flowers while you can smell them So this is a resolution that will honor you Clarence
Anderson for 28 years of faithful dedicated service to the city of Patterson [Applause] Sponsored sponsored by Councilwoman Dr
Mims co-sponsor by Councilwoman Ruby Cotton and Councilman VeZ Before I give you the mic I'm gonna have Councilwoman Cotton speak and then Councilman BZ and then I'm also going to call our senator our great senator up because he has a special presentation as well Thank you
Councilwoman Ms Let me say congratulations to Clarence Let me just say congratulations to you Clarence You gave us 28 years 28 years and you still going to be around And as councilwoman me say you at
the parades when I go to the library whatever I need you there you have always been a good heart a faithful servant continue to be that faithful servant for the community we need people like you to be faithful to the community and you have shown that and you will
continue and I know you will continue to do that So congratulation I know you're going to retire but you're going to be right here with us somewhere doing something for our community I know you will be doing that So once again congratulation Enjoy your retirement and you know you're going to see us again
Thank you Councilman Bles Thank you Councilwoman Cotton Um see um a lot of us uh jump in resolution because some sometime they want to jump in resolution and and and and second and third whatever But when I
jump in this one it means a lot for me The library is the second house of a lot of youth and a lot of kids in the city of Patterson And this young man here take care all of them coming in and
coming out And if you drive around the public library in the city of Patterson you can see him outside dressing all those individual out there doing drugs prostitution or whatever
He's the cop in that area And you know what when you love the house where you live and and you work sorry where you work you love Patterson And he took care of the library in and out Clarence I got good experience with
you and I could continue having it I know where you live You know that you call me anytime I be there Yes So let's just pray for him that the remaining of what he do from the bottom of her heart will be a
prosper one and God give you health to you and your mom your family your sister sorry Councilwoman M Councilwoman Mims before he speaks Councilwoman Mims before our senator speaks um I I wanted to take a point of
privilege um and just say thank you uh for sponsoring along you you know with my colleagues Um but I had to say a few words Uh as a council woman before our senator's speech with all due respect um I've known Clarence for many many years
and that passion and love that he brought to the Patterson Library he also brought to Pose County Community College We worked together Uh I'm saddened that I'm not part of but that's okay cuz it's all about the love here All right Um and
I wish you well uh you know that you can count on us You know you have a direct connect with me as well and I just look forward to seeing you just having a good time because I've known you all your 30 years working All right So thank you for all that you did also at Pay County
Community College and for the city of Patterson Congratulations Much love Thank you And this item was unanimously approved by the city council But I want to introduce you know you're special when one of the legends come to the city council
our great recreational director my mentor my big brah former councilman at large former assemblyman and now the first African-American senator in the 35th legislative district none
other than my big brother Senator Benji Wimberly Good evening Uh this is indeed an honor Clarence if you're in Patterson you know Clarence Not just the library Everybody know Clarence everywhere And I really love Clarence fits because when Clarence
gets dressed when he got them light blue shoes on and them suits on and he back in the day when we were younger these dudes were the dudes So uh Clarence it's a distinct honor to honor you from uh the uh New Jersey Senate and the General
Assembly I have a uh proclamation that is going to be rated read in the record and it is signed uh and it was sponsored by myself Assemblywoman Siobhan Sumpter Assemblyman Al Albaziz and it will be signed by the governor Yes Phil Murphy
Yes in the proclamation Senate Senate President Nick Scataryi and Speaker Craig Coughlin acknowledging Clarence for his outstanding service to the library for 28 years So congratulations God bless
[Applause] Good good evening everyone Good evening to brother First I'd like to take this time out I like to thank God Very emotional evening for me You're looking at what God can do
because I want to share something with you These tears of joy I came to Patterson 28 years ago My mother she's watching over me Her
and my sister here Elder Mary dropped me off at Eva Village I was on drugs for 20 over 28 30 years Today through God's grace and mercy I've
been clean 27 years 160 days And I want to say something to you right i came here right i only been to the ninth grade My mother and Mary dropped me off I didn't have no clothes Benji I had a
black and white checkerboard suit So did she tell you She said my mother said "Let me take care of you Let me bring you clothes." I said "No my God got me." She said "You ain't got no
job." I said "God got me." I only been to the ninth grade right but I want to thank Mayor Barnes that's up in heaven Yeah I want to thank him because I came to that man through city hall and I got
put out village 1:30 in the morning but no matter what I didn't use because if I know if I went back to north right I would have died but I stayed here and I came to May bars I told him what I went through he said go
to that library I said but I don't been to the ninth grade I said I got different things that's against me He said "Go to that library." I've been there ever since And I want to say something
right through this journey right i have traveled all over many places Benji around the world Speaking through this 27 years y'all and 160 days right pam my sponsor Please
stand up Pam See that's been my support group I want to thank my family Can you please stand up thank you Well thank you Nancy And I want to say to the family right the power family I didn't have nowhere to go
but God would send a stranger in the we hours to cover you I didn't have nowhere to go A family that I didn't know took me in 1:30 in the morning and I've been in their house ever since
I want to I want to do something I want to present my sister Dr Liz with something Can everybody please stand while I give her this please because she deserved this to my
sister I present this plaque to you with praying hands in the Bible Present to Dr Lisa Men's Woman of the Year Award Okay Woman of the year award Woman of the year award Can we
give her standing ovation y'all woman of the year award You rock You rock every minute every hour on the hour I want to thank you and say thank you for all your love and support from Clarence Anderson
And I'm going to let my sister Elder Mary speak my family behalf Mary please speak my in family behalf Um I just thank God cuz my brother Clarence he was terrible
I'm going tell you one thing what he did to me He took my red and I had an iron and we was on the third floor pl But God saved you out the door I said "Clarence you know God saved you." I said "Cuz if this iron hit you you would have been dead." But I'm glad he got
itself together So if anybody is going through drugs they don't have to go through it It's too many places to to help you So if you got if you got anybody in your family on drugs don't be embarrassed of them Help
them Help them If you got to take them there leave them Don't feel sorry for them Just leave them there Okay just leave them there But but everybody has someone in your family who's on drugs So just help them Don't feel embarrassed of them cuz that's not
helping them none Just help them and God will do the rest Amen God bless you Thank you This is for you my thank you all And council Lisa Mens I spoke a couple months
ago Me and Pam we spoke to over 5,000 people at NA convention Me and Pam we spoke The top was coming to believe that
a God greater than you I want to present my first CD to you from me and Pam Pam this is for me and you to her It's honor giving this to you and the rest of councilmen We will make copies and give
you guys something Thank you Thank you Yeah Let's say Clarence came to the middle of the chamber Let's take a group picture with our great brother
[Applause] in the house Hold on [Music] [Applause] Yes good job
That's it It's 8:00 already Evie you got me You got me Evie What the B [Laughter] i'm right in the middle Councilman how are you good to see you Good to see you
too Thank you I'm statement compliance Um yes No haven't done it You ain't do No we jump into the presentation right away Um thank you Um thank you council members
Thank you Councilman Ms for those two uh phenomenal presentation And um you know I I I think that Clarence may God continue blessing you brother Uh we've been friends since 2010 we became great friends I remember when I was in front
of the library with with Victoria Alendo picking up needles and and every time I passed by the library I used to see you out there working cleaning the library in the morning the front the back when nobody see you you was there when they when when there was no camera you was
there cleaning the library I just want to say thank you for your great service in the city of Patterson We appreciate you brother May God continue blessing you brother And to our the the football team Councilwoman great presentation Congratulations to all the honores to
all the children We got to work hard We have to let our children know how great they are every single day We have to put a lot of effort to let our children and teach our children how important they are how great they are in order for them to succeed in the society We have so
many great kids in our community They're phenomenal great students but we have to work hard and promote the positive thing that getting out of our great city of Patterson So let's start with the meeting Madame Clerk can you read the statement of compliance before we start with statement of bill mr President
statement of compliance of the open public meetings law 2024 2025 April 15 2025 It is now 7:47 p.m Is the microphone on we can't hear you Yeah it's on
We got to put the volume Adequate notice of the meeting was compiled and disseminated in accordance with the open public meetings law in the following manner One just give me a minute Mh Rafael can uh can you put the volume up of the uh
inside the It's on So the volume madame clerk volume the mic up Huh go ahead m just speak a little closer the mic Sure Statement of compliance with the open public meetings law 2024
2025 meeting date April 15 2025 The time is 7:48 p.m Adequate notice of this meeting was compiled and disseminated in accordance with the open public meetings law in the following manner Number one the annual meeting notice 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 the record the Arabic voice the Italian voice the Vay County Post Dominicano News Laiskea International Ellis Basiel the Patterson
Press the City Post News Tap into Patterson the weekly Bangla Patria in addition to any other publication duly requesting ing such notices Three the schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council for the year 2024 2025 was
prominently posted in the lobby of city hall first floor in the place reserved for the announcements of this type Four the schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal council for the year 2024 2025 was duly filed with the municipal clerk And five
the a copy of the schedule of regular meetings of the municipal council was mailed to any person who requested and paid the fee authorized by the open public records act Council President thank you Thank you Madam Clerk Now we're going to start with payment of
bills Councilwoman Davina Thank you very much Council President Good evening Patterson Uh council colleagues Uh we have the summary of dispersements um totaling uh
12,57,745.71 Uh this was a payroll week uh which totaled 5,61,75829 In addition the computer checks were a total of 6 million4 6,455,98742 I do want to make reference that out of the computer checks uh the
majority of the 6,455 were for health insurance for our current employees as well as our retirees And there also was a 300,000 payment uh for workers comp So once again the total of summary of
dispersements is for the amount of $12,57,745 and 71 cents My motion is for payment of bills Second motion moved by Councilwoman Davlin second by Council M Roll for payment of bills Discussion Discussion Council member Le I don't know
Uh thank you Council President Uh first of all I want to apologize that I was not in the workshop on last Tuesday Um as you're aware I have my brother passed away So I had to go to Puerto Rico and
um give him the last uh through the chair Javier CFO is any payment and and when you answer me back I just then I will bring
my statement all depends on your answer I don't know if this is low or it's me but okay Um yeah volume uh Raphael please Thank you So thank you out of this payments that we paying here
Uh is any retroactive payment for police um DPW um contract that was uh settled and um sorry it was signed and awarded by us u retroactive payments on it or no it's the CFO on this payment I don't
think so I think um all DPW uh all DPW and all supervisors has been paid out um all the other ones have been paid out um there's just uh a dispute um like uh we spoke last time with the police and
that's going to mediation and it's going through that process So So the um that's still pending the police one that's that's still pending Yes The discrepancy uh between you and that it's so big that you cannot you know if that's five gallons of water and there's only four
and a half we going to cost the city more money and in the stipulation and fighting for some simple things These officers have been waiting for more than five years for that contract to come through and now the retroactive sorry
the retroactive I know there's some discrepancy but that's how bad that is delaying them these people need to pay their rent car mortgage going on vacation can can we expedite this or you know because the numbers are there one
week one day you know half hour should not delay something that they've been waiting for six It is a big discrepancy What was that it is a big discrepancy between the two sides Can can if it's not illegality can you bring me a a wrestle
you know a synopsis of how big is that because you've been saying this for almost 3 four months already and um and they still have been waiting 6 years and more months to get that retroactive and it's not fair for the men and women of
the Patterson Police Department Yeah I can send it to you council Thank you council president Thank you Roll call ML clerk Roll call on the payment of bills Um just a minute I'm sorry Okay council Jackson Thank you Council President So
as we're getting ready to go into our uh our customary um um no question approval of the bills list I can't help but to reflect and it was brought to my attention um earlier this week the the
audit that was recently um paid for the fire department union I believe it was And um this audit outlined some very interesting things And as I pointed out to the public last week how the responsibility the main priority
responsibility of the council is to make sure that we're being finance financially prudent And it just uh is it's puzzling to me that none of no other no none of this this council has not addressed or asked to um have an a
uh a discussion and outline what was found by the audit When I first got elected we had more responsible council people We made sure that we had frequent audits It was done every several years This council has neglected to uh to
actually be responsible and and and conduct audits We don't have a clue on what the administration has done with COVID money We have no clue on how the spending went The reports for for spending at Hinscliff Stadium still hasn't been divulged And now this audit
that has some very good information um is still not being addressed by the council So um I mean I don't think it's it's a it's a uh surprise to the public that I will not be supporting this bills list but council president you're sitting in the
in the presidency What are we doing to address the the findings of a professional audit company that did an audit to find out that we're mismanaging funds in the city what are we doing sir that discussion will take place at the finance committee and then is and then
it's going to come back at the workshop for us to have a very sensitive discussion after we have the discussion on the finance committee If that's your question we can continue with payment bills Well I mean and even though and even though council member let me be clear I know there's a lot of question there's a lot of concern about different
aspect in terms of the finance of the city Uh but that's not being reflect on this payment of bill just to be clear on that But we definitely have to we could definitely have that conversation and I will invite you to the finance committee meeting as well that you could be that way you could be part of the conversation at the finance committee meeting and then at the workshop and
open photo So is there is there some some secret information that's going to be stuck is going to be discussed in finance committee that there's there's no secret information Why wouldn't we meet as a committee of the whole to address it so the public can have a clear view of what the findings are if if you hear me clearly the second uh
discussion is going to be right here in the public in the open public I'm not saying that we're going to have that We're going to stay on the finance as well So again just to be clear to the public the finance committee is made up of three members four members of the council and obviously members of the administration That discussion should
have should take place as a committee of the whole in the public session There should not be a prerequisite or a charge to you know come up with significant answers We should have those discussions in the public You should call the
corporation council the BA or whatever uh you want to address him as tonight the CFO obviously you know and and this gross failure We're we're we we're supposed to be responsible to the public We want to
have these private conversations about very sensitive information It doesn't pertain to anyone's you know uh uh employee status personal status This is financial information It should take place in a public session It should not take place I don't I do not want to take
part in a in a finance discussion Totally understo totally understood Just just councilman Totally understood This is the people's house This is the chamber and we are elected by the people So we should be open to the public We will have that conversation moving forward But now let's continue with
payment of bills M clerk Roll call M clerk Roll call on the payment of bills in the amount of 12,57,745.71 Councilwoman Cotton Madame Clerk let the record reflect that I am rescuing myself from this vote Thank you
Okay Thank you Councilwoman Dava My vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Councilman Jackson Thank you Madam Clerk So to the members of the public let's be clear Whenever you vote on the bills list is it an
accumulative effort to reach whatever you discuss or determine your uh budget is going to be if you have a finance financial institution a professional institution that comes in and does an audit of your spending and it's telling
you clearly you do not have control or a clear sound oversight of your spending then why would it have why not why would the bills list not have an impact on that it clearly shows you don't understand what the bill's list is about
The bills list is one effect in many series of effects that ultimately accumulate to what your your overall spending is So if each time you go to the store well you know it's just $5 I'm going buy
Snickers then ultimately you're going to you're going to overspend what you've budgeted to spend And this this it should it should be in an emergency discussion We know the city's in duress We're we're we're callously without even
questioning getting ready to impact the taxpayers Everybody's promoting this tax increase and with with a straight face like well hey you just got to deal with it While the mayor has touted more building in this city over the past five
six years where the only beneficiaries have been developers So here you have a professional institution that did an audit and well we're going to discuss that behind closed doors Councilman You don't have to talk about it today You didn't have
to put me out there that way Councilman because we want to talk about that and get our story straight before we come out here and tell the public what it is No How what we norm what we used to do in the in the past we'll have a table set up right there We'll have the company who did the audit come forward
and they'll do a presentation They'll outline it right in front of the public Full transparency This is not transparency This is buddy buddy excursions You know we're going to do the hookup That's what this is Oh Oh wait
You want me to keep you quiet i'mma give your wife a job Okay Madam clerk my vote is no Thank you Council Councilman Councilman Pique [Applause] thank you I was I wasn't going to go
back and forth but this payment of bill reflect the payroll also insurance payment That's one thing And another thing this audit that we're talking about speaking about council president clearly said it
We're going to have a finance meeting Then we're going to have a open discussion on the public setting at the workshop So there's nothing uh going on behind the scene That's the process He was exactly same way he was done in
previous years like councilman Jackson that said remember those guys used to come in in front of the council and discuss those audit The same that's exactly what um our council president said the the that's exactly what but but
he has it he has to be scheduled I'm speaking Okay Um yeah he it has to be he has to be scheduled That's all Uh my vote is yes to for uh payment of bills Thank you Councilman Councilwoman Mims
My vote is yes madam clerk Thank you councilwoman Councilman Omar Yes Thank you Councilman Uden Yes Councilwoman Thank you Coun Councilman [Music]
I just you know I I I got to be proactive Councilman Jackson brought some questions and it directly to the U finance committee I believe the madam
clerk had take notes of those questions So when it's discussed in committee there's something the agenda calls council committee reports out of that council out of that committee at the committee meetings They
should come next meeting and do a council committee report and bringing forward in the public whatever was discussed if it's necessary to discuss Saying that my vote is yes to Paul Thank you Councilman Council President Bills
Thank you Madam Clerk Um it's extremely important for and I I I take a lot of respect for council members that take their time to attend committee meetings It's very easy to come here with a mic is on when the TV is on when the camera is on to talk about a payment of bill and bash the
payment of bill On page two out of three we pay 55 vouchers for rental assistance 55 families So you're telling me that I should vote no on 55 families to receive the
vouchers so that kind of things and all the things and people company that supply us services So you telling me to vote no that's being real irresponsible This is a public document If any person from the city from our city has any question you could ask the question you
could pull the information and it's the administration responsibility to give that information to the public and and that's the reason why we're here I take this serious Those are families that waiting for us to approve this payment of bill for that money to get there So
with that being said my vote is seven Okay Thank you Council President The votes are seven in favor one recusal one nay Payment of bills is hereby adopted Thank you Madam Clerk Can we do the consent
agenda Madam Clerk item 7246 Sure Okay Consent agenda 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 items
number 7 through 46 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 move second Moved by council counciloman Davlin counciloman Mims and
second by councilman K Second Uh council president and councilman second as well I would like to remove item number 16 I'm sorry council member Which item you want to remove 16 Item number 16 Madam Clerk 17 16
You have two items 16 and 17 No hold on Uh 16 is the one of UEI's Yes Economic development 15 and 16 votes separately Okay Okay Okay So madame clerk item 16 and uh 17 Council President 15 and 16
will be out of the consent agenda Will be treated separately So let's vote on the consent agenda Council President once again President Council just a minute Council member Council So uh item number 13 Uh can you please add uh Councilman uh Khalik as a co-sponsor uh
he was also connected to the family as well Okay So item what's item number item number 13 Item 13 You want Councilman Khalik to be also a sponsor Co-sponsor if we could make that correction Item number 13 13 Yes 13 and
and make sure that whoever sponsored u the item make sure that uh you know motion by that person should be mentioned it's all not really because last time I noticed that one of my agenda came up the motion there was a motion moved by
council dava council mess and and second by councilman and also please yeah uh council and council member thank you very much um so councilman David you have a request well yes um council president um I as well was not here in the workshop Uh these items were
discussed in committee Um it is my understanding there was a discussion in workshop I see uh director Delaney here I see director Diptoroy Um so my question was um to Councilman um
um if there was something that was not um discussed or any questions asked I'm just trying to understand because we have a tendency of removing items and putting them on non-consent when it comes time for a vote There is no
discussion and we vote on it So I just wanted to ask I understand council but right now at this moment out of all the items council member wants to treat 15 and 16 separately So let's vote on the consent agenda and we could come back to those items 13 15 and 16 are being
removed too No no 15 and 16 only two and 13 Councilman Odin wants Councilman Khalik as a sponsor as well Roll call open clerk on item on the consent agenda And also also also before you move forward to roll call once again um at
703 or 710 I said I was not in a workshop Okay And um and and there's another one that you know probably need clarification before if I decide not to remove it from the consent agenda is number 41 Why we have to do an author is an
extension of time for substantial competition of the beaver age park community park Why we had to do a resolution council president to extend uh number 41 to extend the completion because unless the company is getting a
a the contractor is getting a bond back or more money because they completed early whatever if I may I know councilwoman just and counciloman Mim also but this is very simple they took more than the the building department took more than the time that it's
supposed to to get the permit It was a very hard time for that company to get the permit from the building department That's the reason why they asking for an extension because they couldn't get you know those because the money that you was used to it was Hold on Hold on Go ahead Go ahead
The money that was used to do the park has a time to spend it No no no Okay It just it's a time window It's a time window to finish the project The engineer has a had a conversation with us They told her "Listen can you stand the time?" because the building department took longer little longer to
give us the permit to start working It's all about timing not funding So So but I I will let So still if if they have to hold one month two months of permit and they continue doing the work after the permits after the
permits right what do what do it had a date to finish the project so council project because we're not doing this for River Street We're not doing this for other projects If I may council we know uh my condolences You had death in a family You were not here So this item
the permit is now we have the permit But as a former project man well a project manage licensed professional I think it's always prudent when you have engineers that say let's make sure in the scope of the work that we finish it within the time that it's allocated I
think this was very very advantageous of the engineering department to make sure that they give this time to us It doesn't mean that there's any issues with the work There's absolutely none But they're making sure that we have this done within a specified time so we could get back in the park So this is a
good thing That's why we want it on consent not to be voting separately and making um comments that are not true This is to make sure that this part gets done That's all that's um this is doing making sure that the park that is named after Vera Ames is done We've spoken to
her as well She's fully aware of what's going on Uh our director and our engineer um is here and last week I made the request that this goes on consent So just a minute So so so yeah because councilwoman council woman dav let's say
about any issue of 15 and 16 before we remove it and we don't that's justation which would have helped council president I was going to give an explanation which may help to avoid it going there if I may council president
Go ahead council On item number 15 if you remember we have two pocket parks in the six ward when council um assemblyman Abdelaziz was here Those parks are already been given some dollars There's some extra money that is being allocated and this is the final piece of that
project which you know we all supported That's item 15 And then item 16 is the same work that's been done The streetscaping they've done it over the last few years and now it's a new year and it's the same project So so so you're telling me that council me
telling me that number 15 17 years we approved that that those two parked before to put money on it This this we if we approved it Okay Who who approved it we did You voted yes too Huh you voted yes as well to the two project to
Yes Yes I want to see that because let me tell you something No let I had the conversation I had the conversation Let me just finish council And it's also so with the ARP dollars there is a report that we all have Every
last one of us has the report It is clearly outlined all the $65 million of that money Every council member has it in your possession whether you read your email whatever But we all know exactly to every project that money has been
allocated that and I agree and I agree This is uee money going to a park The one that we approve and we move forward was with the ARP money Councilwoman No no no You I wanted to No
no I wanted what you're saying open that way We should add maybe that will help you I wanted and and councilwoman thank you very much Um but I did you know as as we did indicate you know we had or if I shall say I had and
the directors both are here director Delaney and director of ueiz uh diptoroy we had a meeting in that committee meeting there was the engineer along with other entities from the urban
enterprise enterprise zone um office the engineer brought in the uh the the renderings right that go back to 2019 2020 that they they were approved then okay but because there was a stop on
some uee funding okay the monies now is there and it's now being allocated but these item these two have been approved all right um those renderings were provided um I don't know um u director Delaney if uh the engineer provided that
to the clerk and it was scanned that it should be part of 2021 in the middle of the pandemic We was approving No I believe it was 2019 or 2020 My my apologies for not remembering the exact pandemic started
November 2019 and ended in in 2020 So council president let's just separate them So this is this counc I I like you know where we going but let's do this right let's do this Since we only have those two item and the director of USC is here and we could vote on the consent
agenda We could take care list 16 on the consent agenda and we going to discuss the 15 Move forward then move forward Okay So this item 15 so stay tuned director We come back to you to just take care item 15 Let's vote of the consent agenda and council president We come back with that item Councilman
Jackson you keeping it on the consent Surprised the BA hasn't had any feedback on these items Consent The mayor sent you I figured you'd be well verssed in what's going on Well I'm sure she's getting ready to do so but BA's office should be rep well
represented And um that is not just pointing that out to the public No shade on you I'm I'm I'm sure if I ask you a question on your your department I'll be hopeful that you can answer but you're sitting in the BA seat The BA should be able to answer these things as we understand how our government works And
that's that's shade to the mayor Obviously he's sent you here unprepared Are you being paid extra for this so you want to speak to it are you being paid to for the tonight separately in the part from your regular
role okay Must be nice So council president on on a on another note council members go ahead My concern going back to the Vera Ames Park
situation and the fact that and I'm glad we have the director here because and again this is not a direct jab at the director because I already know her staff is very well under under um under
man But if we have a contractor who's working for the city who's being paid by the city who's having a difficult time obtaining permits what do you think the average person is going through i got a gentleman I've been reaching out to the director for
about a week He's been trying to close in on the house since last Tuesday trying to get a simple inspection for a a oil tank he's possibly going to lose his his HMFA funding for for the purch purchase of his first home And this
council has yet again without a surprise callously moved past the fact that a contractor who's hired by the city has had a difficult time getting permits out of office instead of this council being responsible and say "Wait a minute stop
Hold the hold everything Why why is there an issue with getting permits out of the building department why not look at the staffing that's there we just allowed the mayor to create new positions There was just a
new hire for community service uh uh uh personnel or something like that But we have critical positions that are not being filled We still have two only two Correct me if I'm wrong madam Um uh clerk deputy clerk have we had the the
those vacancies filled in the clerk's in in the council's office as of yet not as of yet but we have interviewed Okay We have interviewed So there's shortages downstairs in the tax office These normally where there's nine to 10
employees there's a handful This is a this is becoming more of a habit This administration is poorly running the city And when you have contractors that's clearly having a difficult time getting permits one that's been
contracted by the city that now has to file for an extension So therefore that's our alarm But we're going to we're not going to listen to the alarm It's like having a patient and them heart monitor goes off You just ignore it Eventually there's going to be a
cardiac arrest So I think that um when the director comes we should have an outline at least a brief synopsis and it should be again another day when we have an outline of where these these uh departments are with with staffing and
how the services are not being rendered I had a gentleman call me 30 times today because his drivers his handicap was was blocked I mean we cannot just continue to allow the the residents not to get services We just keep giving them money
giving them money voting yes voting yes proving this stack everything in the consent agenda Yeah no problem No problem And they just run away with all the cash and we're not getting what we paying for So uh I don't know I I I
guess I'm different Roll call Madam Clerk Okay Um what are we on are we on the consent agenda okay Where is it roll call on the consent agenda Councilwoman Davo this is excluding 15
and 16 correct including Excluding only 15 Only 15 Okay my vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Councilman Jackson Thank you Madam Clerk Um and by the way I think I neglected to mention that these most of these positions are revenue
generating positions inspectors that are not out here just writing tickets for people leaving their garbage and refuge in front of their house You know it's very critical It's very critical and and this is why I really just cannot just continue to vote for things blindly you
know and um so I I I won't prolong I'll read this letter in a second but Madam Clerk my vote is no Thank you Councilman Councilman Khalif Thank you Madame Clerk There are some great items on this uh consent agend
agenda For example look at item number 13 Patterson born a outstanding student constituents of mine He got accepted to almost every I believe school in in United States from
Harvard to Yale to UPEN Thank you Councilman Woodin for uh bringing this resolution up for honoring him We need to encourage our youngster in instead of arguing in city council Also if you look
at item number 18 money for Patterson Habitat of Humanity for building the houses for our residents You look at item number 16 21st Councilman Albaz when he was here
he fought there after day meeting after meeting for those projects You you look at um you look at um item number 41 bars park We're just making sure this project
is get getting get done That's basically it So I I don't see I mean these are some great items on this consent agenda I'm gladly supporting this consent agenda as well My vote is yes madam
Thank you Councilman Council Councilwoman Mims So Councilman Khalik I agree but I have to I have to put it on record with all of the housing issues in our community And as someone who's born and
raised in the fourth ward of the city of Patterson see I don't for me it's about doing the work And we're voting on a consent agenda with a whole bunch of great stuff in it Councilman Khalik alluded to a lot of the stuff We have um a great event that the new um family
destiny center which you know does a great job for a lot of our people that are in desperate need Um they have issues but this is a great item number 18 Number 18 Anybody knows anything about Patterson Habitat for Humanity in the fourth ward they will be
building uh housing in the amount of 2 million not to exceed 2,31,000 and the four ward of the great city of Patterson The good thing about this there's so many people that want housing they can't afford it There's
people that are looking to build you get some sweat equity in into it where you're you're hanging up your own pictures and all that stuff Habitat has been doing a phenomenal job If you go into all of the areas which they've rebuilt it was blighted It was desolate
There was nothing there And if you go through and you ride through the fourth ward we have them now in the first ward I've been working with them helping them in the f for first ward because it was a struggle to get them there but now they're in the first ward and we're happy about that But these great items
are on the agenda And for me there's a lot of other issues that go on in the city We agree But we're not voting on that stuff right now We're voting on what's before us And I can't say no when I know people that are going to be wanting to move
192-194 Hamilton Street People that are looking for houses that are very low income They have a nice place to live and and different amenities there And as a person that's from the fourth ward born and raised I'm always going to rep for the city that I love so much With
that being stated Madame Clerk my vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Councilman Omar Yes Thank you Councilman Newton Thank you Madame Clerk So uh my council members um council colleagues mentioned about the important items in the agenda
especially in the consent items uh when we put items on the consent pattern you should know that it means that we are satisfied we are ready to move forward again if you have the satisfaction we always uh move item from the consent agenda and we vote separately what we have done for item
number 15 we requested by councilman Valz but we cannot really go against the items like this but again um let me focus on the uh public works items as I am uh holding the chair for the the uh committee
Um item number 41 was discussed but I want to state that we were expecting Vera as community park will be renovated by uh July 30th August but August 15th my bad Yeah thank you very much Now we
are expecting with the uh new uh resolution we are expecting to be done by November 13th but the total number is not changing even for the delay we are on the same sum up is the same still on the same amount of money we are spending on it Um also uh item
number 13 as um uh councilman uh colleague mentioned uh uh the uh the uh student from Patterson public school he attended uh school number 28 gift and talented went to PCTI and got acceptance
at all the um uh uh you uh what do you call um Ivy League universities and I'm going to bring him to the council meeting in the next meeting and of course I like to encourage our young stars that here's an
example you live in Patterson you went to Patterson public schools is not a limitation for you to go uh and and and meet your dreams so I like to see this young man come to the council and and present himself as well cuz these are the these are the leadership that we
Patterson is waiting for our youth we need to empower them so you cannot really just go against everything but support and encourage um our youngsters So I say the uh consent items are are the items that we we believe that is is
is is for our our city our community With that being said my vote is yes Uh Madame Carter Thank you Councilman Councilman Vz Wow My answer this question later on but I don't know Mr Ba
Um I don't know if your time here in last meeting this one is is compensated to be here or you know No for real What's that have to do with that are you getting compensated to be here mr Anybody oh he said yes Okay All
right Yeah Nothing different than Harry or anyone that No it's like listen let me let me say this and let me say it loud and clear When I sent a letter to the mayor regarding the BA position and they just going around and
around and around and not bringing the the right answer to us and they just putting a a a director a fine director from another division here he's getting compensated plus 84,000 a part-time BA that nowhere to find the city h the city of Patterson
nowhere to find and to tell me and to tell me that to be able to see if I want to meet the BA nothing personal because now they they could turn it racial right somebody go oh it's is because it's this
to tell me after the letter if I want to meet the BA that she's available one day or two in the second floor meanwhile the city has a lot of issues Meanwhile the city has a lot of question
not answered Now you think it will sound good Ernest Walker that I told the new BA or part-time BA come and meet me Yes please In the middle of Roberto Clemente Park you I am the councilman of the fifth
ward Come and meet me at the Roberto Clemente Park because I want to know what you're doing with the taxpayer money at the city of Patterson She's broken Now we know we in the consent agenda All items
of consent agenda as council president has stated before it makes the meeting faster Put things that are already repeatable and and we done it back and forth every year every day That's good But when they want to hide things under
the rug sometimes you have to be diligent to ask question And this number 15 I already I already listened that this this was approved in the middle 29 19 20 whatever whatever I got to prove you
that this is an item that came into the table and let's repair two parks in the six work I'm going to put you with this documents right here No I'm going to I'm going to approve you later on when I speak about this document Saying that all the items in consent agenda are
always good in one vote My vote is yes Thank you Councilman And we could jump to 15 after this one Councilwoman Cotton would they Thank you Madam Clerk What they took off number 15 Yes No I didn't
took it to vote separated Yes You took it off You took it off consent and put it on it off to vote Council members yes item 15 is being removed I just want to um uh piggy back on um uh Councilw woman mess and and some of the council members
Dava and Shahid that um there's a lot of good items here in the consent Habitat Habitat just did eight housing We call them Harrison 8 Harrison 8 brand new homes
in the fourth ward This $2 million that we're voting on too for one of another project is for the Summer Street Hamilton Avenue area to change that complete area to change it completely But in order to do
that to get money from FHA to get money they want to make sure that the city of Patterson is in support of these projects The same way with the project with um jumpstart training and an
um management a letter of support That's what they're looking for that they want to and we need to build more and more affordable housing Um we got to get HUD and all them other
agencies to to donate money because to to help build affordable housing to be able to get the vouchers uh for affordable housing So there's some plenty of and and and then we talked about Councilman they got these packets on
their desk on Friday Here it is Tuesday and you just looking at it Two weeks ago You get it on Friday no That's right Councilwoman two weeks ago they had the stuff on their desk and they're not reading it They're not even looking through the paperwork at all to question
anything And so with the with um Ver as community park uh to me it's about good faith the contractor had problems getting permits and not only that company many companies many many many
companies The Sake Valley Water has a major project coming up um covering Levine Reservoir $45 million project having a hard time slow time getting permit My suggestion back then was let's
hire perdm day licensed contractors licensed electrician licensed carpenters licensed building inspectors You have to do them per day You can do that But it wasn't done So with this being said madam clerk there's a lot of good items on here that we need to move forward
with And I'm looking forward to more homes that they get ready to get built for affordable housing We're talking about affordable you know So Madame Clerk with that being said my vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Council President
Uh thank you Madam Clerk and and council members Thank you for highlighting item number 18 about you know have Patteradison Habitat for Humanity 2,31,000 for for more housing for the city of Patterson And everybody knows we all know how desperate we are in term of
affordable housing Our community they're crying There's an accessory And on this consent agenda we got that item also item 17 with a UC money We buying two new police two new police car We have public work a lot of item on public work on the consent agenda And I'm when you
vote just not on the agenda I'm like I feel bad but you're not doing the work You're not doing your homework This is a lot of item that we voting him But nevertheless I I I think that when it comes to item 15 and 16 with the US we didn't have the US didn't have any funding back then because the governor
took all the funding away from US Everybody knows this Everybody knows that go the governor removed every dollar from the UAE Now the UC department have money I'm okay with that because that's not the taxpayer dollars and at least we could use it When I see that we buying two police car director I
mean great job We're not getting uh t taxpayer dollar to buy those new car The situ they don't have any park Honestly I I'm I'm getting a lot of work done at aside park I'm getting all my part done And I'm not because the situ have two parker part that have been utilizing
with us money and I like to have those discussion at the city council and let's be clear any council member could remove any item from the consent agenda There's nothing wrong with that If you feel that you want to have more discussion you have the right to do it in order for you
to make a smart decision Let's not feel bad about I feel great when we spend time talking about the agenda that we have in front of us um you know and I and at the end for the uh the building department item 41 I was the one that got I spoke about the item at the last
meeting I had a conversation with the engineer and the director know my level of frustration with a with a building department that building department is on their staff and they it's just out of control the the the Calvary Baptist Church since last year in September they been tried to renew to re to fix the
roof and they haven't be able to do it and they lost the file three times at that department there's people waiting for years to get the permit and that's the reason why I have a legislation on the floor called Pressure Council has it and I I hope to have the discussion on the next workshop to correct that
problem So so that was my topic Just check the check the council meeting the workshop at the last meeting My vote is yes Madam Clerk Thank you Council President The votes are eight in favor one against the consent agenda with the exception of item number 15 is hereby adopted
Thank you Madam Clerk Now let's take item number 15 which is the mad clerk Let's take item 15 Let's read it into the record Let's have a if everybody have discussion I know council I have I want to do a motion a motion to amend No
Why not i could do a motion Read it into the minute Council me council members M clerk will read the item into the record Then we open a discussion If you have an amendment you put them on the floor and we can m clerk Item 15 Sure Item number 15 is a resolution of the city of
Patterson authorizing the submission of a request to the New Jersey urban enterprise zone authority for Patterson UE urban parks improvement project in the city's urban enterprise zone in an amount not to
exceed 971,93184 So moved So moved Moved by council me second by counciloman dabila Motion to move discussion and second by councilman Ibrahim and councilman for real So we get discussion Councilman bless and council me
Um at the beginning I stated that I don't have no problem about the two pocket parks Right The two parkets parks exist there way way way before I came into Patterson 37 years ago
But when they said that this was approved since 2019 and 21 and I see a document here Patterson green space improvement and it stamp from can't really see the date
dated March 5th 2025 No Absolutely not What is this what is this what what is this council members let council member
start Let council member finish Then I have councilman and then you next and then the director will speak Director you you know come in Come to the podium Prove me Prove me the paperwork from 2021 that this was drawn on 2021 Oh I can't even believe He says
right here the day that they did this Okay Made this Okay So so be director before before before uh they bring you up here we had a conversation and still I don't buy
it One one day and that conversation you came up calling in support of UE money to this project I question you and you tell me this is way way back and that you're a
new director now Now the only document that tells me when you guys started working in this two pocket part and this pocket park specifically the Pacific Main Street and Pacific and Main Street and Eagle Avenue is the
date that they say they did the document and it's there okay is March 5th 2025 and okay but I just Okay Um just a minute So council members director we're going to open the floor for you Then I
have council mess and councilman Council president are you on no I got you And then and then council member let's open because you open the discussion and then we come back to you No I I open I haven't finished it Right So so the only document that I have is a PL preliminary
design concept plan of this two triangle park pocket part here in the body is not saying that it was a a plan made before whatever
whatever okay right so my understanding is in the document I have here because I didn't I didn't heard this in the workshop and in the previous one nobody spoke about it Nobody spoke about this in um um DPW
committee Okay we're talking about two parks unless you guys unless you guys have conversation without the committee but I didn't heard about it Okay I I I spoke to you counsel and and
let me tell you something and this is P uh perception is something real real important for me Okay Two weeks ago the mayor of city Patterson say that the Patterson the city's Patter
the city of Patterson is Palestine city and it was all over the news and all that stuff Now we doing two parks in one section South Patterson I spoke to you and I say listen zone Listen Okay I got two UE
zone You want just no council members You're right You had your discussion but listen let the director answer that way we could be more effective No Let me finish We might say he could answer No No So you call me Councilman Khalik Councilman colleagues say that is UEE
zone and UEZ money Correct Correct Let's take 21st Avenue Colombian Park is in UE zone Let's take the the Pan-American Park Yes Pan American Park it is And it's also in the fifth floor and the sixth floor And I said and I said to the
director they don't let me spin it You know why they want to stick it No and they say this is what you're getting and I don't care This is what you're getting I got the votes We go there
So when I finish you answer why UDI took my recommendation If you want to put uee money in this two pocket park give one to the six ward fix the
one Colombian quarter park The Colombian park over there in the corner of you um the YMCA um Boys and Girls Club That's a pocket park [Music] Huh council members it isn't a UE zone
Council members So 21st Avenue is not UE zone No council So why we have why we had cows walking with uee funding it's a uee zone Okay And then you have the Pan-American Park that is in a UEZ zone Why you didn't you didn't split your
project in two section of the city and everybody will be happy on it okay So now once again I don't have no problem with the two parks I I have the poor planning that this division had to spend $9 something,000 in two small parks Okay
So directors are easy money So you got the floor So director No no So so so you're there director So I have two council members So let me start with counciloman Davila Yes That will conclude Go ahead Councilman Dav And thank you very much Council President and to
uh director uh you recall well both of you but you recall that I made these statements in that committee meeting specific and I mentioned each park that the councilman mentioned All right We already know that there's plans in place for that but I want to just take it back
and and and this is for Councilman Okay You you you talk about that you you're not aware about this right but there's an article where you're quoted saying how this is much
needed It's there City council considering this is five years ago 21st Avenue streetscaping project No problem Okay And so you're quoted So So when you make statements like "Oh this was just done 2025." No it it it hasn't And so
you also stated that you had a conversation with Director Roy You know what I don't understand is how do you not the questions that you're asking are the same ones then now So I I'm really confused and I just wanted to put it out
there that these items were already they came through the council monies wasn't there This was a streetscaping project that was considered then it went through the the uh renderings were paid through um I forget the the the company at the
time Nagel I I believe it was no the the the whole thing here is and you can all go back okay and look in 2020 all right that this was um a consideration then and it was brought to the council so the council is aware of
it all right and you were quoted by saying and I'm going to put it yeah please repeat that quote and you indicated I am happy to see this on the agenda what what agenda councilman Abdelaziz And you indicated 21st A needs more
improvement to catch up right 21st A Yeah Okay These monies okay 21st A UZ zones Main Street all of these monies okay have been Councilman discussed already That's what President I just
want to clarify something This is 21st by We already done with 21st Just for the record just for the members to all my colleagues I'll come back to you in in the committee meeting Okay In the committee meeting it was discussed We were discussing 21st We were discussing
Main Street We're discussing UEIZ enterprise zones The monies have to be specific So please the Sixwood right now does not have any parks None Okay these monies are allocated Okay and and and when we talk about the UE funding those
businesses want to see I'm going they want also to input in addition um he talked about the Pan-American Park which is fifth six there has been monies that has been put there but I let it be known that in that meeting I indicated that we
need to do the same way we're doing on Main Street we should be doing to that for that park as well and once the monies is there for that that will be occurring So I just wanted to put it Thank you Councilwoman I have Councilwoman Mims on So I'm going to be brief right
some some items should not require an elongated discussion No we're talking about a w every ward in the city has parks except for the sixth ward right residents have come to this microphone We go into the schools school 25 school
nine The parents everyone in that area has complained that there's no parks They've come and yelled at us at the microphone We heard them five years ago There was the money was there back then We know the governor removed them um
item from there The money is here now right the six ward needs parks It's not about sticking it to anybody is they the children need a place to play Parents need recreation When only 1% of the city's budget is going to recreation
anytime we can creatively find ways to develop more recreation for our children let's do it We don't need to have the directors here Director could you explain why when you called you said we have money This is where the money's
going We have Vera Ames Park $4.2 $2 million is being spent on that park Barbber's Park over a million We have parks that have gotten so much money all over the city and the sixth ward has nothing This is a way for anyone cuz
it's not just for the sixth ward Any child that wants to play is open The parks are open to everybody Okay so any child that wants to play school is there And as an educator that works in the system it's always positive when the schools can have resource or field trips
to take their students to the park And now this will help them do that Council President I don't know if we need to hear from the directors If they want to speak this is too much conversation If people want to vote yes let them vote yes They vote no they vote no But this is a no-brainer The residents are here
to speak on other issues Let's just vote this up or down Council Thank you Councilwoman So it's 8:49 I really want to open the public portion but I have two council members that want to speak I have councilman Khalik and Councilman Odin And right after that we will do the roll call directors Just give a second Thank you I I just want to clarify
something about this resolution and the money The money this money is specifically for only U easy zone That's right Improvements Right In our city of Patterson Ue UE zone we have only three
parks Those two pocket parks and the paname park there's a plan American park already I spoke to the I spoke to the uh director DPW director already about it and these are the that this money we
only could use it for those three parks and and unfortunately or fortunately these two parks is located located in the sixth world that's why this talking going on in here this argument going on in here and and I mean we cannot use
this money for uh say Roberto Clemente Park or Westside Park any other park because it is specifically allocated for this EU easy zone park That's that's all I'm going to say Thank you Council President Thank you Councilman Khal Councilman for Dean That's nothing
Council President Um I'm sorry Councilman Dean Right after Councilman Uh thank you Thank you If you want to speak down Thank you Council President Yes Go ahead All right So when we are talking about uh moving
Patterson forward we cannot really go against each other like this We are when we are talking about $4.2 million for Vera Ames community park We do not debate like this There are more parks in forward We are always supportive to the parks Um Roberto Clemente Park even I'm
talking about recent fencing We are highly supportive toward it We still want more cameras in Alberto Clemente Park cuz this is also part of the city of Patterson Fifth one is not out of the city So we want every single section of the city of Patterson to to thrive move forward Second word uh Westside Park
over $15 million project nobody debated against What's the what's the debate about the $970 some,000 that we are speaking about the very first project in the six word tennis court we talking about school number uh 25 That's that's school's property We invested because we
wanted to give the children some space to play and we got another part small space This is a very small space We talking about one small block the greenerary we are trying to improve it with uh use money I think we should be supportive to to each other instead of
uh standing against each other and I I think this kind of debate is very um does not make sense at all So I think I think we need to we need to work out together Come on you know So I on behalf of my councilman from six word he'll speak up when he'll vote but I think we
should we should be supportive to each other any signal any other section that need to be improved I think we have to come together instead of just fighting against each other if any section of p fifth word as councilman is mentioning we need to improve let's let's bring it to the consideration of the last next
future project uh the section he's talking about um uh by um boys and girls club this small pocket park over there Let let's talk about in the next future items You know if we can uh have some money from anywhere uh let's let's improve that We want we want to give
space to our children in every single section of the city of Patterson Roll call council president Um thank you council member So So council member let's so let's let's vote and make your comment at the end What a quite a conversation about roll call 15
Roll call on item number 15 for adoption Councilwoman Cotton Thank you Madame Clerk I just wanted everyone to know that um just accused Huh no What are you talking about i want everyone to know out there that
with the UEE coming back forward uh the late Sheil Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver had a lot to do with bringing that money back for that UEE It was Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver who was then in
charge of that DCA who was able to put that money back in there because the governor before that took it away Yep So we need to thank she's no longer with us but she did many many many good deeds for the state and for us here in the city of Patterson So I just want to
share that with you that it was her who put this money back where the governor came in Governor Murphy came in With that being said madame clerk my vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Councilwoman Dava I am looking forward okay uh for
this coming to fruition It's been a long time waiting over 5 years All right And um you know once again understanding that these monies must go to the urban enterprise zones I'm in full support I'm looking forward though um not 21st Well
yeah 21st half as well but specific to the Pan-American Park Uh madame clerk my vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Dava Councilwoman Jackson they just playing with it Yes Thank you Councilman Council Khalik Councilwoman M Our vote is for the
children Yes Thank you Councilman Omar So before I do vote I just want to state facts There are no parks There are no parks in the six ward besides these two pocket parks And the only field that we have that we do utilize is school 25 Literally that's it And over the past
two years over a dozen parks have been improved have been improved beautified by the administration And it's only right that these two pocket parks get their get get their fair share Like they said it's a long time coming Thank you to all my council colleagues for defending this
and for supporting this And I can't wait to see it My vote is yes A resounding yes Thank you Councilman Omar Councilman Nen good job 64 council Oh so thank thank you madam card Before I vote
I want to remind um uh director Billy Rodrias the with the update for the 77 cameras was the update But I want to remind when we spoke about the 77 cameras around the city of Patterson in different parks Um I mentioned to the
director to make sure that he use um uh robetic clement park as a sample for the camera locations everything I'm supportive to every single sections of the city of Patterson Six word is waiting for this project and with the
hand of our new council member uh Ibrahim Omore I think we can do reborn cutting for this pocket park With that being said my vote is yes Thank you council council So the statement that councilwoman Dava
stated about reading the article it was one single item that day It was the 21st Avenue quarters that we was going to vote on it And of course I say yes it's good for the area It's good for the 21st Avenue quarter That was item number 16
We moving forward We voted in the consent agenda But raising his concern it's not an I'm against to the park It's not that you know I could say a no to the poor planning I could say no to the poor
communication that they had with this situation I could say no for other things that I don't think is fair I have two parks that are in the UE zone That's Roberto Clemente Park and
Paname Park Moving forward the conversation even that I have a lot of nos with this situation here I will give you a to use the funding to those two pocket parks Are you ready for something else
i just say I say yes for use the funding to the two pocket parks I say I had a lot of nos but I give yes to the funding Yeah that's your vote Thank you Councilman Council President
so I just wanted to present my notes So council members so so I I think that um so before my um just before my vote I I I got to tell you I those I know that we the discussion was a little longer but I like those discussion because this item
is on the agenda We we having a conversation about the community Um and but it when it come to park I got to be honest like in the third war in my war Brilland Avenue has been totally renovated Brilland park state-of-the-art east side park the playground the tennis
court Larry Doby the roller ring all my park in the third world they've been renovated Now I'm jumping into the resurfacing So we have to support um you know councilman and council deliz put a lot of effort into the corridor So it's
fair to support her I'm very pleased because counciloman uh Kton spoke about our lieutenant former lieutenant governor may she rest in peace She was the one that put the funding back into the UE zone in order for us to have that additional dollars to improve our
community So we got to use that money wisely We got to be smart about that and and that's the reason why I'm saying yes to this project we're using to buy police two police car this and the three project that we have So we got to just continue working I'll hope and pray that
we could get the building department back on track I'm not I'm I'm just gonna keep stay I'm going to stay on top of director It's been it's it's been too long I mean that department is out of control We got to work to fix it So with that being said my vote is yes in the
two parker park Thank you council president The votes are nine in favor none against Item number 15 is hereby adopted Thank you So so before members of the public so we're going to start the public portion Uh please respectfully council president we have
respectfully I will ask everybody you have three minutes to address the council and address administration and address the community let's be just a minute let's be respectful there's no need for us to curse you remember in the beginning of the meeting there was a lot of children here let's be that role
model that our children need us are the leaders and they need to see us as a leader in this community so you have three minutes to address the council right after the three minute I respectfully ask you to move and allow the next person to use the three minutes So before I start with a public portion
I have council member quick and council mess Uh council president um um I know that we get excited all these parks all the uh street that got paved in the city passing You could agree with me all that
have been done without taxpayer money Everything has been done with grant funding So you imagine the surplus that this city this city should have not using taxpayer money and using everything with grand funding
Uh my council members um so just quickly I know the public is gearing up to speak but I just want Mr but I just want to acknowledge fire only has one item on um our chief battalion is here He only has one item item number
56 and it's for uh protective clothing for our firefighters He has one item on the agenda and I'm just asking the public I know you've been waiting but can we just take that for the fire so so council me council me thank you so very much Let's get the list of our uh
speaker ready and let's jump at item 5C Our chief he's here He definitely have to get back into this row and be ready for tomorrow work So let's take care item 56 So only one item Um there's a need for there's no need for a lot of discussion So we have a very discussion on on the workshop Bad clerk Let's do
item 56 before the public portion 56 Item 56 Okay That went to committee It it was in committee Should have No it was added after It was added No I know But it was a it was a item number 56 resolution
authorizing a contract with New Jersey Fire Department under New Jersey state contract for the purchase of firefighter protective clothing and equipment for the fire department fire number 25 calling to 30 So move second It was it
was moved by Councilman Fudin Councilwoman M Council It was moved by me He did before Okay It was moved by Councilman Councilman Davila and Councilman Fios as well and second by Councilman Ibraim for
and Councilman Cotton We agree Roll call 56 Okay Roll call on item number 56 for adoption Councilwoman Cotton Thank you Madam Clerk This is for our deputy chief um Hall who's here today Uh
this is about u equipment for our fire department um they need that safety equipment on Um Madame Clerk my vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Councilwoman Davala as chair of the public safety committee and my colleagues here Councilwoman Mims and Councilwoman
um Cotton and Council President part of the committee Uh we did not have a committee meeting It was done through email and this item did come as a request because of the timing and the uh how it came through uh legal Uh so uh
the committee uh through email said that it was okay to move forward So I'm happy that it was added it was able to be added on and because we understand the severity and the need and because we fully support you know our uh fire department So you know with that said uh
my vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Councilman Jackson Yes Thank you Councilman Khik Yes Thank you Councilwoman Mens I was with your mom on Sunday so I just felt being nice tonight My vote is yes Thank you
Councilman Omar yes Councilman Newton Before I vote for this item since I'm voting for the fire department item I want to invite the Pattersonians to uh come to the fire fire department headquarters at 300 Magpite Avenue on
Saturday at 12 p.m I'm hosting a Easter basket giveaway along with our firefighters So I invite everyone to join My second hosting would be at the library on the Broadway at 2 pm So uh I invite all the uh children to come uh for the Easter basket giveaway My vote
is yes Thank you council president Yes Thank you The votes are eight in favor one absent Item number 56 is hereby adopted Thank you chief You take care President M clerk how many speaker we have we have 21 speakers 21 speaker
Let's call the first speaker President Um Councilman Jackson Thank you Council President So I mean I asked for the floor alongside of VeZ and and Mims When they did uh after the item that we voted on for the parks uh just
making note that uh from last meeting that I did receive pictures from East Side Park various parks In fact on Ralph Avenue it's not necessarily a park but mountain side there's a there's a mobile home if you will that that exists there
The dumping that's taking place all throughout the city including these parks that we're spending a great deal of money on So I would be remissed uh the two young ladies these beautiful young ladies that always come to the council and have and enlighten us on
many different things have presented me with an action that has that's been taken by them and a group that they belong to So very quickly an act relating to the re rewarding whistleblowers reporting illegal dumping in majority major cities be it enacted
by the youth model legislature of the state of New Jersey that now that the owners of vehicles that are caught illegally dumping will be charged and fined and the person reporting the crime will receive a monetary reward Who here
likes trash anyone me either I'm sure no one wants to see trash in their city streets neighbors But yet that's exactly the reality of our great city of Patterson We are consistently surrounded by waste garbage anywhere we go Our
public trash cans can can help reduce the waste of for pedestrians and our street sweepers remove most of the of the rest But when someone dumps drops an entire couch or by a dumpster there isn't much policing to stop it Our police are too busy handling more
important issues On that note I wanted to one applaud the young ladies for their effort but I also wanted to point light on the legislation that I wrote that still has not been shown why it's not it's not legal If we don't allow the
public to take place in blowing the whistle on these these heinous acts of just dumping we're never going to get dumping under control 77 cameras is not going to stop dumping in our community We have to allow the public to receive a
portion of the reward and trust me the the uh the whist the the the uh footage will will be rolling in So I applaud this I know I know I said I read it who was written from Correct So um but she
presented it So we're giving her credit for that But anyway the this is a youth organization that's that's clearly sees that there's value in allowing the public to help and I wanted to make note of that before we go into our public portion I appreciate the time Thank you
Thank you Councilman Next speaker Mad Let's go to the first speaker The first speaker is Miss Eva Razak Commissioner Good evening everyone [Music]
First of all you know what I wanted to say i'm not going to distract the judgment that was being awarded earlier Miss Mims Yeah I got to say something by him acknowledging the fact of Mr Marty Barnes That got it because a lot of people have forgotten what that man has
done because it's easy I got something to say Ladies and gentlemen who I am today has been because of my blacks I say it all the time That's why I am so loyal to you guys and I really appreciate everything you do What a smart it is And you can't bite a hand
that fed you And a lot of people forgot about Marty Barnes I don't because March 5th is his birthday and December 27th once when he passed away And you know Mr Mendes that I was there not too long ago I showed you the video I never stopped going ladies and gentlemen because he
fed me and my family And I have to say that also I'm going to get in trouble for this but here it is You council members up there is a good talk but you know what really needs to do besides the talk the walk Because these youths are
really looking at what's happening in our city and they don't even know what's going to happen with them They're lost They see the streets and the streets are dirty But I have something to say and I'm going to say it in English and I'm
going to say it in Spanish All the residents that are in Patterson that are moving in here new you don't have to clean your house because you're not the owner You should clean your front of your house because you live there
The Hispanics here it is My Latinos the community ones who own the businesses because I got something to say ladies and gentlemen I may look like an underdog in Patterson but I think I'm going to have to reintroduce myself
because I've been here for many years and I've never come up on here to ask you guys for something for me Never And I don't need it You know why cuz the man up there supplies it Yes he doesn't lie I don't need to ask you because you guys are going to say no to me and you know
who you are when you say no to me But that's okay because your no is yes Another thing I wanted to congratulate um the event that Mr Benji Wimbley had because let me tell you something You looked gorgeous I had a blast and I have
to say something as a Hispanic I feel so comfortable when I'm around my blacks cuz I'm not just tolerated I'm love and I really mean that I really mean that Also another thing to the Gleon family
My condolences to them because I was the person who was taking care of the gentlemen and called them and I didn't know they were the one who reached out to me and told me you were the one who helped It's a small world But I got to say something ladies and gentlemen I'm going to close with this All the money
that whoever is getting it There it is Whoever is getting it in the city there's billions and thousands of dollars that can keep two minutes Poppy one money I I leave Let's wrap it up please 21 Oh don't say that word Wrap it up to me I don't like it Go ahead What
I'm trying to say is all the money that's coming let's stop playing games with the money and let's start doing what we need to do in this city because you guys um fight with each other but the residents are feeling it We all are We're hurting And if people are here
sitting today it's because they care They could be at home doing something else Another thing that I wanted to say recently I've experienced this twice and this is a disgrace So mayor this is for you Listen up You have people that are
coming I saw this If I didn't see it I wouldn't say it Literally pulling down their pants and pooping on the street They did it right there with by the Modella where it got fired A Korean lady and then a Peruvian gentleman across the street in the bank Are you kidding me
guys wait Bobby I was this I'm here I'm here as the commissioner I'm here to serve our city I get a lot of complaints about different things and I know if I come Hold on Bobby if I come up here Mr Mendes I got to say something When we
really talking give me give me my chance But but you realize what we say in the beginning Hold on What I'm trying to say is let's all instead of arguing with each other let's do what we need to do for this city because regarding of all the parks and all this stuff these kids
are dying out here These kids need the help So if you guys don't think you can do it then you need to step off your seat and please look at me when I'm talking because I give the other the next speaker Thank you Next speaker please The next speaker uh
council president is Mr Alexander Green aka the white wolf [Music] The White Wolf Alexander How's everybody doing i hope everything is good with our y'all Good name of the brother Y'all
know for me to be up on this mic You know there's a reason Yes And I have a very very particular reason of what's going on as far as Patterson's concerned in general You know you go to Helden you go to Wayne you go to Hawthorne you can
go Elma Park you go to these places your Patterson police is not doing their job I live in the four I live in the fire not the frying pan I have a tenant that lives across the street me in a hut house I'm I I'm I'm really you know
shocked at the fact that all the hutouses in Fort Worth basically are predominantly Dominican when you had all black people in that area and then you hear this y pushing the issue for some more houses to be made When are these people in Patterson
that need homes we'll get it All these rental places all these apartments first of all if you look at what Patterson is supposed to represent it's said industrial city There's no jobs here So how can a person afford an apartment
if then ain't having no job i mean like I've been here off and on all my life I am a product of Patterson I am proud of Patterson I done travel 48 states You have some kids in my neighborhood haven't even been to New
York And it's sad to see that we as the adults that supposed to be leading the way are not doing our job It's not the kids got to look at yourself first or on
the middle And then you worry about what the problem is God this God that No he gave you what you need Yes You have to get off your asses and push the issue We go back You know that Now my
issue today is what I talked to you earlier about Miss Cotton You already know about it I have a tenant who came from Santa Domingo I had no problem with Spanish- speakaking people cuz I am Puerto Rican myself Call me prejudice because I told
him he could not open a mechanic service in his garage which he actually bolted into a hard house particular that y'all spoke about today a HUD house Now which I understand
under their contract indicates that if you deface their property not own it that's grounds to break the contract Plus in general what I understand is the zoning laws indicate residential
I never once in my life seen a mechanic shop on Auburn Street Wow Now I'm looking at the safety aspects of that The safety aspects If that place blow up I'm in a building right across the street from
it That's a lot of innocent people will get hurt Yeah On that note I actually had to get something done about it ASAP There's been several complaints Thank you brother And speaker madam clerk can you can white whitewolf can you give
us the address of where that's located just give the address to the give your information to the secretary please brother Let's speak mad Next speaker is Miss Patricia McNeel Oh there she is That's me Patricia McNeel 38 North Third Street Patterson
New Jersey I have three items I need to speak on I guess I need to speak on 47 which is on the agenda I just want I'm going to speak on that but I have a couple other ones I want to get to
first I'm hoping and I'm praying I'm doing a Oprah report that this council is not giving entertainment licenses to apartment buildings I'm going to do my
Oprah report I'm gonna do my research first because most times when they having a meeting and I'm watching them I go to sleep Okay I have an abandoned lot Beverly I'm
here We We have on our in our on our block Um it's this has been reported 27 times It's going to be reported tonight This will make 28 times
in two years Two years that they take this Well you know the deal They take them to court they pay the fines and then they throw them out And then this is the most important
thing You really need to think about what you're doing with these taxes because you're running people out of the neighborhood You're making people sell their homes and it's not the right thing
to do The school system is I'm sorry The school system is going to be taxing us The county is going to be taxing us And now the city's going to be doing double taxes sewer and regular taxes That's not
right You need to think about that And um that's the only thing I came down because every one of my friends on my block in my neighborhood is my block cuz I take pride of where I live at and um have
sold their homes I'm trying to stay Thank you Thank you Uh next speaker ML clerk Yes Next speaker is Mr Ernest Rucker [Applause] Ernest Rucker Patterson Ernest Rucker
Patterson and I'm going to ask uh since I haven't been in quite a while for just a little leadway here as far as time is concerned Let's let me dive into it The city taxes are going up 5 something%
Sewer taxes are going up 2% Board of education taxes are going up 4% State county taxes is going up 8% That's 20% in taxes Now I heard you when you
originally stated about cursing but let me just do this I won't do my normal get you But when you slip in it and you smell it is The the fire department and the police
department had an audit done on Patterson's financial status in the year of 2023 We had a surplus of 24,000 I'm sorry $24 million
At the end of this year fiscal year we have a surplus of $23 million Now if you have and and and and I'm looking at uh the the chair of finance and I I see the puzzle look on
your face I will give copies to this Yeah Well bottom line is this The robocalls the press conferences for All of that needs to stop You have millions sitting on a table
from fines that are not being collected Millions Millions But yet this was pulled off the agenda to talk about these increases and the hikes in
taxes Well you need to bring it back because this needs a fullthroated conversation when you're asking people to bear the blunt of almost 20% in taxes across the board Let's let's let's go into this I
stated in 20 in in in 2023 we had $24 million Where is this money before you talk about asking the state for more money before you ask the citizens for more money where is the $24 million
that is so called excess along with that I'm a little you know I I I started to block all of the mayor's rooc calls Who the hell is paying for these campaign ads through
robocall this is not about giving me information This is a campaign trip that somebody's paying for it It's not the mayor I am going to ask this question Mr Ba of the individual which you probably
won't have the answer uh that's sitting as BA Do we not have two assistant BAS that's being paid in this city then why are we paying anybody extra money to do their job and you're
talking about taxing the taxpayer Everybody sitting up there is looking at me saying "Well what's what 24 million are you talking about?" It's right here It's right here Where is this money before you ask
a a dollar from the taxpayer you need to explain to me where this money is Where's the money where's the money the mayor can continuously us
with his tricks his smoking mirrors but I want to know where that $24 million And let's get some clear If you're asking for transitional aid from the
governor from the governor additional was it 5 million 6 million that you're asking for why aren't we not dipping into his so-called slush fund that he has pushed on the side
and you talk about corruption Let's talk about corruption When you're hiding money that could be used not to raise taxes on 2,000
homeowners who cannot afford it Seniors that are barely keeping up with their mortgages cuz they had to refinance But yet this was pulled off the agenda Oh I'm back Ladies and gentlemen I'm back And you got a problem
Gotcha Thank you No no enclosing Yeah Don't you remember my old enclosing trick t Let's look at this from a realistic point of view You can't ask me for money
and you've been hiding money And if this council has no idea about this 24 million other $23 million shame on you And instead of asking us for money stop
talking about firing or not hiring more inspectors that bring in money You talk about the mayor and administration talk about a billion dollars worth investment no revenue $100 million stadium no revenue
Fines that are not being collected no revenue But you want revenue from us Come on I don't think so And do me a favor Next time it's time for public portion don't make me wait no longer
Get to public portion Stop all that talking cuz you're not saying nothing Have a good day And speaker The next speaker is Mr Elvis Durham And closing Go back It's gone Go back Next
speaker is Mr Joel Oh Oh I'm sorry Go ahead [Music] I heard someone say king Yes The king of patter How everybody doing great Okay Before I
get into my announcement about my birthday celebration the downtown Patterson New Jersey need to be clean And I'm looking at the I ain't looking at the city council I'm looking at the mayor the the administration Downtown Patterson New
Jersey is dirty We got a lot of new businesses coming A lot of new businesses is opening up People want to come here but they don't want to step in dog doodoo or human
doodoo It's time to clean up Also we got businesses coming inside center city mall jobs Everybody want to talk about oh ain't that many black businesses here well hey what's good y'all black businesses is coming to
Center City Mall Are you going to support it it's going to be a Black Wall Street inside Center City Mall come the month of June It's all kicking off in June Okay I ain't going to say no more but I
can name one business Fast Break Cafe is coming soon Fast Break Cafe black own But black the black community we got to to support one another Talk is
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it again My YouTube channel Patterson NJ good news God bless you and good night Happy birthday Next speaker Michael Next speaker is Mr Joel Keys Jr Yeah Um Joe Keys Patterson
testing Last week Councilman Jackson explained the protocol regarding the payment of bills He said "Our form of government is equal power." The mayor has control over hiring employees who render the business contracts for
services such as garbage pickup recycling and servicing the roads to name a few If those services are derelic the mayor is to be held responsible Councilman Jackson explained quote "The
council's ultimate authority and ultimate power lies in our ability to withhold payment and to pay bills," unquote He asserted that they forfeit their power when they approve every bill
they vote on Councilman Jackson's following statement was the most enlightening revelation I have received since attending and participating in the council meetings He said quote "We have the ability to separate those items not
pay the non-essential items and hold those items non-payment until the things we're asking for are done." unquote It was the most enlightening revelation because council members Mims Udin and
Menddees reinforced what Councilman Jackson said The way each of them presented that information was the most enlightening revelation They all put the onus on Councilman Jackson to propose
separating the bills so that those suspect payments could be exposed and denied Moreover they have ridiculed Councilman Jackson for his diligence in this regard Due to these actions I have
the following questions Why is Councilman Jackson exclusively accountable for separating the payment of bills to expose corruption if the answer is because he is the only one who is suspicious and
complaining then my next question is why is he the only one suspicious and complaining the public has been answering that question for months Let me give you a hint as to what that answer is It is the primary reason so
many speakers have said that Councilman Jackson is the only council member doing something for the people The rest of you aren't doing anything That brings me to my next question Why are you all surprised that so many members of the
public find the charges of corruption tenable that Councilman Jackson makes against you why aren't the rest of you eager to separate payments of suspect bills when you fail to do that and demonize Councilman Jackson because he
does it you all look suspicious The public is more interested in seeing the council members address the corruption committed by this administration than they are with all of the other accomplishment you other council members
so egotistically brag about speaker clerk Next speaker is Mr Eddie Oliver Me is going to curse tonight I'm cursing tonight Boy that's a hard act to follow
my friend Um what please [Music] can you please restart i mean there was something else
Thank you Thank you I'm sorry It's already done Thank you Mr Oliviveres Step away from the microphone please until it's reset I did I just did the council president negating or saying no That's
unacceptable Other people was there He gave an extensive period of time Mr Olivaris the council's talking Can you please step back madam clerk I'm sorry Can you please re reset the clock again madam clerk you res the clock You reset
the clock This is I did and then I You could stay there I reset it when he comes to the podium You reset it and we all saw that you reset it I did and council Jackson jumping I'll reset it again Mr Mr Olivar If you Thank you
Um you know at the very beginning of this uh meeting I heard uh Councilwoman Cotton said that we need God in these chambers Ma'am you're right But all the prayers in the world will do
nothing until we get people with integrity on on that council That's what we really need Um Alex is celebrating our children So did uh
Councilman Wooden And I say to you if you really care about our children give them a safe city That's what I ask Give them a safe city Give them a a a safe environment
where they can thrive They don't have that So let's not celebrate It's too soon to celebrate Um and I see all the celebration about the parks here in the city And anybody that does not know the reality of this
city would think that we have passed beyond the big problems the crime You would think with all the celebration with the parks that we have no problems with crime That you already took care of that with the prostitution
with the drugs with the shootings with all of that It is too early to celebrate We have a lot of problems here in the city of Patterson We can't even clean it Yes guys This is basic cleaning a city Anyway everything that I am going to do
from now on is coming out of this report that you all should read all of you Uh and very briefly I am going to read from this report and I quote the mayor has the executive power but the
council serves as an independent critic You're not supposed to be his ally That doesn't mean any means You can work with him but you are supposed to hold him accountable That's what critic means You're supposed to hold him accountable
That's where you guys have a problem um from the report under the Fortnite Act and all of these are quotes Under the Forner Act citizens have the opportunity to
review policies which affect the government as a whole What is important here is that this interaction takes place during the formulation of policy rather uh than
when it is about to be adopted So the this document calls for us to be involved in the formulation of the policy Oh 3 minutes is not nearly enough Thank you speaker M
clerk The next speaker is Miss Sandra Miller Good afternoon everyone Good evening Um I'm imploring all of you to please look into your heart and don't be taxing the seniors because you're going to put us
on the street Um I I can't keep raising my tenants rent cuz they on a fixed income Okay So um I'm one step from close to being homeless So I don't want to be homeless because of the taxes Okay
My second concern is that this new garbage company that you the city gave us is full of mess They don't empty the garbage cans they have empty them or they leave the garbage on the street And
then um this also the problem with them call tell you to call to pick up the bulk trash is a bunch of BS because you can't get they tell you you have to go online You can't even get through to the
system to tell them to come pick it up Then when you call the call down to the city the people get smart with you telling you well oh well you just just have to go online You can't go online because there's nowhere to to to to put your information at Okay so I'm
just asking you you know you want to go up on taxes but we're not getting no services and and and so it it makes no sense to just keep um and another thing you you um they could the police don't
do what they're supposed to do because you go to any town outside of Patterson and nobody's panhandling You can't even go a block around here without somebody asking for money or you have to be in fair of who's going to walk up on you So
I'm just you know saying what it is what it is Please look in your heart and don't tax us Thank Thank you Next speaker Madam Clerk The next speaker is Mr Anthony Wheeler
Again no paper no phone or raw I'mma start by going I I never know I'm coming ma'am ma'am ma'am ma'am ma'am ma'am ma'am I'm invited to attention citizens are here and that's what y I do a lot of
back talking you yo yo yo I want attention bro I'm a citizen you don't even have regard look at this who voted for him who voted for you 100 people that's how y'all getting in here ain't no Ain't nobody getting over 2,000 votes
I'm sorry I'm I'm sorry Just just be just before you continue Um the council members that we have here they pay fully attention to you sometime They take note No I want undivided attention I'm a citizen sovereign I understand that I understand that But listen I understand
that But hear me out for a minute With all due respect it's hard for me to allow you just to talk I mean no no no Just listen They all pay attention to you There's no need for that Listen we have full attention Some of us are taking
note So we're going to reset the clock and and we want to hear you out Spend you three minute Listen Respect Go both go way Respect Go both way You hear that out right way You government go both way Listen That's by council ki That's by
council ki You at here No No You at here I hear you Listen And I'm here You know what at here means Please do not We do So this is this respect both go way I cannot allow you to speak to my council colle They're not degrading you Now what we going to do council member just a
minute I got a counciloman Council president when people come first of all we are sitting here as council people We sit here We have no issues You can come to the mic It's an open way to council president One second We are
not let me say we are not going to allow anyone from the public to disrespect us There was an emergency going on which you're not familiar with and you're like "Ma'am ma'am turn around You're not my father and I'm not going to turn around I have an emergency going on and I'm
going to address it I'm going to address it I'm going to address it." We hear you You're at the microphone We don't But you're talking Stop being disrespectful Thank you Stop it So so now point of order council president we got to do madam cl we're
going to restart it's no point order you three minutes we're going to listen to you respectfully point of order first of all we're going to listen to you respect not as council people you do not have the authority to direct public right now dictatorship
antagonizing dictatorship stop inciting not a dictatorship he's a male and counciloman every black person that comes to the podium is not a threat Every black man that comes to the podium raises his voice is not a threat Get yourself together All right I am
together You get yourself together I am together Every black man that comes to the podium is not a threat He just disrespected me So sir disrespected me and you ignored it Cut it out Thank you Cut it out sir So
we got to restart nobody He's not going to disrespect me and you sit there and allow it as a man You need to be checked I need to be checked You need to be checked You need to
public and speak how taken up for heaven What did he say to you you need to be checked What did he say to you what are you so so unconfident about so self-conscious about you didn't hear him say "Ma'am ma'am I'm talking Turn around." So that's disrespectful That's disrespectful That's disrespectful
That's disrespectful All right So first of all you work for the public He him coming to the point of order It's not a point of order That's disrespectful It's not disrespectful So we're in the middle of the portful He has a first amendment right in the
middle of the express himself how he pleases He has a first amendment right however he wants to however he wants to present himself No he has the right Yes he does Nobody else could take that from me No
he doesn't We don't have to talk We don't have to look at him Okay Let's just look at anybody We don't have to look at Council President Council President I got you I got you I will get back to you council members Sir so so we
got the You got your three minutes I'm sorry Let's continue with the public portion So madame clerk please restart the clock The gentleman have three minutes We're going to hear from him Thank you I'm sorry Let's continue the public portion
He said more than your mic Your mic is on What I'm doing hold on Your mic is overall politics I'm giving y'all I'm showing y'all to exercise how you exercise the Constitution What y'all saying I really don't care for Politics
is for us to come up here in this mic and for y'all to execute what we saying not what y'all saying which when I speak upon budget I ain't speaking upon paying the bill I'm talking about them contracts that go out to them developers to get them projects that only benefit
but like a hundred people when you giving them hundreds and millions of dollars Who you who you working for that's what we want to know So what we going to do we going to start affordable commerce out here in Patterson We going to be the first city to lead for affordable commerce with us subsidizing
centrals and stuff like that And I want y'all to hear me Don't use that Try to talk that of using my language and how I'm coming as a distraction I got liberty Let my liberty ring How it wants Just like you got freedom Let my liberty
be That's all I'm showing you Y so focused on trying to control behavior You don't even control your own You don't control your own man And you quick to say doctor doctor That come Stop disrespecting me Stop disrespecting me
Point of order Council President control the meeting I want control the meeting Council President don't disrespect me I want Don't disrespect me I respect you but you're not council
members Council president using a distraction Sir we got starvation going We got eviction going on We got starvation going on Subsidize essentials
in Patterson Get these local supermarkets to buy in We got a housing crisis Let's use our power and threaten confiscation to all multi-developments who don't want to buy into our system Let's confiscate that so we can get Pison citizens a chance And how you get
Patterson citizenship and using a birth certificate If they birth certificate don't say Patterson New Jersey you not entitled to our programs You not entitled to nothing in this city I'm not with none of that Let's work for Patterson How you work for Patterson is using that birth certificate that saves
Patterson New Jersey So let's institute affordable commerce If you want to know how it works you can work with me Talk to me and get it done Let's not use the distractions of how people liberty ring Let's use the truth how we starving and getting evicted out here Mhm Next
speaker Madam Clerk Uh Council President before we go to the next speaker um the next speaker is Madam Clerk Madam Clerk Madam Clerk I just want to speak Let's Let's finish up All right Go ahead SA And I believe everyone's aware what I've been complaining about for the past two
years So I actually spoke to zoning right now And my situation is my neighbor runs a 7 to10 commercial van plumbing business from a 6-ft driveway in a one family house in a residential area throughout the day Then he parked
his commercial vans in the driveway overnight Zoning zoning just confirmed parking commercial vans in driveway overnight is a zoning violation Madam sir sir she had to weigh out there She can but but because zoning does not work
after five and zoning cannot confirm because I'm sorry zoning confirm parking commercial vans and driveway overnight is a zoning violation but because zoning does not work after five zoning cannot confirm my neighbor is parking commercial vans and driveway overnight
and zoning cannot accept my time and date stamp pictures as proof then zoning does not take time and date stamp pictures as proof and zoning does not work after five Please explain how zoning can enforce zoning violations
That's my question to anybody So there's a zoning violation but because zoning violation does not work after five Yeah but I I do have a question to somebody anybody how I can resolve my situation This is for the question for
the BA council president Who can I Who can I speak to yeah that's why just C council members I'm sorry So we're not going to interrupt you So once you finish your three minutes I know you've been here before Question was I explained my situation for two years
have been complaining and I spoke to Tiffany right now who's not even paying attention and she was laughing when she said that because they don't work after five and they don't take my pictures as proof there's nothing that can be done about my the zoning violation of my
neighbor He runs commercial plumbing business from a six-foot driveway 7 to 12 throughout the day and then he parks them in the driveway at night It is a vi it's a zoning violation to park them at night
but zoning because they don't work after 5 They can't prove like they say that they can't they can't prove that there's zone zoning violation To me that doesn't make sense So what can be done i do have a question I'm hoping somebody can answer
Is anyone listening to me okay So I understand I understand that that's a court matter and that matter is being is being in court at this time That's the only information that I have Let me I know I don't want to interrupt you your time So I after the three minute because I want to make sure that you come every
week I want to make sure that you get the right response So because right now I feel like even of the courts they're trying to shut me down Okay The court So I cannot interfere with it after you came here All I know when I did my investigation it was a court matter and
it was handled in court Once it's handled in court let me just finish Once it's handled in court So none of us can we have to let the court ruling whether support or against but I want to make sure that you get the information because I want to make sure that the administration get back to you as well
But what I'm trying to say there is a clear zoning violation but it's being in court That's what I hear and that's what we both agree that the court is a court matter so that we got to wait for the judge But you know what let's get your information I really want to have a one-on-one conversation with you Next
speaker information yet again for what next court matter Miss Chanel fails Chanel it's not a court matter It's a It's a court question Why is he not getting a ticket to ask before
I begin I would like to um lift up Miss Before my time starts Before my time starts Miss Phyllis Before I begin I would like to lift up Miss Jackie Mary in prayer and I ask that this council and our
Patterson community do so as well And I thank you in advance for this community Over the past few months I have observed that Miss Mary has not been here for some time I have not heard this council make any mention of her name at all but the absence of her love
humility and kindness has absolutely been missed So Miss Mary if you are watching I know we as a city have not always made it easy for you but we sincerely thank you for all that you have done to keep Patterson up to speed
Miss Mary you are thought of often We love you and we the community lift you up in prayer now We send hugs and prayers of healing for you in a speedy recovery as we eagerly await your return Can you start my time
reasons why we must unite Patterson The African-American community needs each other more than ever There is power and unity and there is liberty and victory and healing Patterson needs
healing Patterson needs honest and good leadership For far too long division division and Patterson has slowed our progress When we look around Patterson we observe how weakened our community
has become I'm caused to wonder has our strength in the community even become diluted or can we regain our rightful position in the city of Patterson or be lost as a black community altogether black community I'm speaking to you
tonight Last week's council displayed something horrific that truly must be stopped And we saw a little bit again tonight I was asked by several residents and young black people to please speak on this tonight And as promised guys I'm
here I have observed many other nationalities come into this chamber and be outraged and receive concessions that the black community never receives I promise I'm not making this a black thing but truly calling this level of
disproportion towards the black community into a needed observation by our people We can't keep ignoring mistreatment of our people Our young black men have a hard enough job just being black Many of us feel as though
when we leave the house daily we leave with an imaginary target on our back already When we come into this council chamber this should be one of the places where we ought to feel respected and not scrutinized for being black When Alan Jefferson Jr made his comments
assumptions were falsely made but I was actually present in the midst of Mims and Jefferson in the hallway when the actual conversation took place No one was met with violent or threatening language at any time Then on last week Anthony
Wheeler came before this council as he did tonight very raw very direct and very passionate again thereafter immediately became suggested that we start getting tighter with security We have to be mindful that not only are
adults watching but young boys and young men are watching My very own 17-year-old son asked me "Mom does she want them to kill us?" Because we're black One would ask "Why does he feel like that?"
And I had four black sons He was talking about you mess I feel like blacks are targeting the black community and it has to stop We are only harming each other and poisoning the minds of those in observance when we create negative
narratives like this that perpetuate fear in the hearts of our young boys in our community And I know that many think that we come into this mic and all we do is fight But we show up and we cuss and sometimes we cuss because we care all
the time We might cuss sometime but we care all the time Imagine what could be possible if we chose to uplift each other rather than tear each other down Imagine if we embrace one another with love respect and pride instead of shame
hatred impartiality jealousy and competition Yes The truth is we need each other We all need each other as a city more than ever I'm almost done I took the liberty of writing a few powerful reasons why the African-Amean
community and the community as a whole must come together now Why now because it's time to stop putting unnecessary effort into harming and embarrassing one another and start rising as one There is
strength in numbers I'm almost done Stop it No I'm not stopping I'm not stopping I'm not You put a prayer in the beginning We allow you You stop the clock I'm respectfully asking you You have your three minutes I'm respectfully asking you Okay You let other people
come here and write and respectfully additional I'm giving you additional time Can you wrap it up thank you When it was him just when it was Aaron Rucker you knew better No I give the time Thank you Just wrap it up When we were alone
when we are alone we are vulnerable But together we're unstoppable Unity multiplies Unity multiplies And our influence and impact socially and economically and politically multiplies We owe it to ourselves to redefine the
narrative Just know we provide safer communities not when we suggest tightening up security when black men speak but when we protect uplift and look out for one another We create safer environments for our children our families and our future leaders We've
been mislabeled and misrepresented for centuries By standing together we reclaim our story and how the world will see us So let us come together Council President stop being a puppet and let's make Patterson better
Wow Next speaker man Next speaker is Mr G Greer You Oh G Oh there he is Oh yeah He's here Bring it back home At least he's a Yankee fan Good evening Good evening everyone How we doing tonight uh good All right brother G
Right Good United together Listen uh man I don't know what to say But listen I I came here in in good spirits and I expect to leave in good spirits Yes Uh Easter is upon us Uh Barbber's Park is having
a nice little mini Easter egg hunt I want to thank everyone who's had who donated so far Uh still some items that we need and hopefully that cash app will be ringing and uh tomorrow we can go get
them Uh Councilwoman Mims I believe have some items for me Uh the council woman of the fourth ward She just show up with some of everything And I do believe she's donating bicycles
as well I want to thank former councilman Al who uh and I told this al you have never donated anything uh to me before and he made it clear to
me he was like gee I'm no longer six w council manor I'm running for the 35th and uh he expect to expand uh throughout the 35th district and I was more than happy to receive receive his donations
of two bicycles So I'm asking the rest of you council folks and elected officials to match that And I I I purchased the two bikes today And remember I never come up here and ask for anything for myself Everything is
for the children That's right Uh I I just saw a fly from the good councilman over here that he's having a a basket giveaway This one yeah And I'm and I'm gonna call on that councilman to shoot some of those baskets to Barbber's Park as well uh for
the children that plays in uh Barbber's Park Uh I attended a press conference this morning and I was shocked that Lewis was not there cuz he's usually at those press conference and there's a road that was paved on
by the church by the church They're great They're great And from what I read in the paper well what I learned from the press conference is that that was some emergency money that was given just to pave that road Are you guys aware of this no Okay I
wasn't And and and you know what i'm always happy when I see roads get paved But again when I look at the lower end of Governor Street a street that has never been paved before and I'm constantly seeing roads getting paved
and this administration said that they did not want to see Jesus trip on that road because you know they do that that every year Yeah Well let me tell you something I rode on the lower end of
Governor Street and I had to do this this this and this Mr Mayor Jesus does not walk on earth anymore Okay He does not walk on earth anymore And I'm I'm hoping he's watching this
and I'm hoping the ministration takes it back to him Uh when I saw that it just took me back to like Sunday school And I was like "So Jesus don't trip." How about Miss Lucy from Governor Street that's right How about Miss Mary from
Summer Street how about Miss James from wherever yes I I was a little taken back by that and I didn't get a chance to really talk to him at the press conference but I did mention to him that I knew a lot of roads that's not getting paid And you know he named a few roads
that is getting paid But when he said Jesus so Jesus does not trip that kind of like that kind of like didn't sit well with me Uh council president I know my time is up and I just want to say one other
thing I just see you just awarded a contract for uh downtown areas to be clean We didn't do that Oh you didn't do that yet but it's on your agenda right I just want to make a suggestion to to the company that gets it in companies that's moving
forward get some of those jobs to some young people for the summertime and let's clean it And also if the city can create some type of program for these young adults to clean the city streets
and to clean the parks And as I back away there's a beautiful home that's built in East Side Park I don't know if anybody saw it yet I saw it's beautiful That lady got skills in there Mhm I don't know if it's going to stay there Are you guys aware of that yes Because
she invited me inside and I told her no I wasn't going in there But on that note happy Easter everybody Have a a wonderful day Uh to my good friend Joelle acting business
administrator Congratulations uh to you N serious I I watched this young man you know school board you know and I told him the first time I met him I told him I said "It's bigger things are waiting for you."
Thank you brother G Wait wait for my donation Next speaker ML Next speaker is A Robertson Next speaker Next speaker is Oh a good She can get five Yeah I'm going stand here before the clock start all you
really and truly I want to commend you guys for wanting to serve this city This is a tumultuous job Somebody has to do it Guys you got to keep the
very It's tough I This is going to take a few minutes So put the microphone down Get close to the mic Put the microphone Put the microphone down Some of my time to me myself And I'm going to take some of her a sign that she got a couple of weeks Try to
stick with your three minute We'll help you out Let's work this out Let's work it out and truly thank you Um this is a old agenda because I missed several council meeting only because of the scheduling of the meeting but I'm going to proceed with it anyway So the push back not to pass the ordinance to p
penalize the homeless population uh was relevant However it continues to erode the community and is massive So I came up with some ideas collaboration with uh municipalities and the shared responsibilities to take care of those impacted by homelessness Meet with
officials from other townships because you got to collaborate and find out who these individuals are where they're from Several weeks ago on Mer uh Mil Street uh approaching Market Street on a Saturday I stopped a homeless person to
offer some moral support and suggest a shelter And his response to me this was his response um that he owned his own home in Wayne And I asked him I said "So why are you panhandling?" His response was "I need
to pay my bills." Now this person live in Wayne but he's on Mill Street Okay Is there a way we can create emergency services through the county to help people with social determinance for from each municipality like collaborate with other municipalities like if you
approach me on Market Street in front of city hall what's your name dada da da where you're from So this type of collaboration Um the other thing the traffic lesson and Main Street the crosswalk those signal lights they're not working Uh uh recently they put a
sheriff officer on the corner uh at the uh hour of school closing Oliver Street Um the school safety traffic buildup it impas uh I uh I would um uh uh ask that you
guys are out there at 7:00 to see what it looks like Uh uh 3:15 uh dismissal time to see what it looks like block the block Ward and Main Street Ward and Memorial Drive It's hideous at the three uh
o'clock hour Okay And the fact that Smith Street was made a one way to go out to Ward Street So you either got to go right or left and going right or left at the 3:00 hour 3:15 hour It's hideous The block to block the block block the
box is being blocked There's no traffic for tra uh to uh issue tickets Uh signage Okay Give me a few more minutes Okay Market street Market um Market Street on to Main Street at the 3:00
hours Uh even sometimes in the morning it's difficult for the transit bus to make the right turn onto Main Street because we got the taxi that is lacing the curb Not fair to transit Okay The same thing with Broadway onto Main
Street with the construction that's going on on the corner to try to make the right turn because then you have cars that are parked at the corner the scooters the electric bikes We need to do a registry when these items are being
sold There's no accountability Okay Who's going to be responsible now for when you're you know at a red light these scooters you don't even know that they're coming they scratch the car they're not going to stop They're going
to keep uh going So we have the onus of the responsibility for the uh the impact that these scooters or electric bikes will have on you know automobiles going down the road the road repair Curtis
Place Railroad AB the streets are in dire need of repair The other thing I heard just the over the weekend towing occurred in the fourth war because cars were parked on the corners Okay not fair
We are allowing these construction sites to go up and that impacts parking in peace parking Just recently actually I spoke to Paul from Department of the Public Works with 11121 Belmont AB Um I had to call the
city in December Actually I had to call the county because the ADA curbwalk was uh cooling with water Then we had icy condition Come to find out that the county owned Belmont a so they took care
of that Then on North 9inth Street we had the manhole cover that was separating from the manhole cover I called uh Ben He sent Sean out Me and whole cover was replaced Did this work
in December okay Um wait hold up one more time Oh we need to which would what we should consider This has been about two months and after this here I won't be back down here But anyway we need to
consider delayed traffic lights especially at War and Memorial Drive Mhm If we're not going to do anything about that traffic and then also at Maine and War if we're not going to
do anything about the traffic Thank you Very valuable information Very valuable Very important Thank you if you have some of the information you're going to share But that way uh for you Dean is the chair the chairman of public work if you could give some other information or
all of it to him that way we could have that discussion at the next DPW committee meeting all those item they're public work item and we could have that discussion council ding is outside for real de but then you know I did pass that ordinance sure but you give it to
the secretary so okay then we can make copies the ordinance for I did give Paul some pictures of someone dumping air conditioners No actually they were releasing freons That's the freon I made
a U-turn and I got the license plate number So I gave that to Paul So if the ordinance ever pass for the rewards thank you Next speaker Madame Clerk You're great You're great The next
speaker is Justice Re She can make coffee Hello everyone Y my voice is loud so I'm not angry but it just comes out that way Just like the perception of the gentleman People say that to me all the time It's your tone but it's the way I speak So I'm not
going to change the way I speak because this is just me So we have to start looking at things differently We know we live in America right we're in America Nothing's changed for us Okay Everyone here in this room is African If you don't know that you don't know what what
happened It's our history You don't know our history cuz we're all African And we are the ones that they're after But we need to fight for our community We black people never fought for women's rights We never fought for LGBT We never fought
for Asian We fought for human But we can't get anyone to stick with us You come to this country you hang your flag out and you can be proud of that But our flag the red white the red black and green our flag we have to be afraid to
hang out right because we don't know the history It's nobody's fault It's the indoctrination of this country It's what they do And you all went to these schools so you know you got certain books The Color of Law You know you got read certain books that other people
don't know about But to solve simple problems right a wheel has to turn That means the employees the citizens the taxpayers the consumers have to have a living wage paying job It's not mathematical surgery I meant to bring it
up It's a job and a good paying job No matter what it is it has to be a living wage to cover God's law Food shelter clothing healthcare and education And now the damn internet If you want to say everybody's on AI but everybody can't
afford that And then like they said too I'm not mad with anybody from whatever island I want us all to come together and fight together But we got things going on in countries like Palestine right we got things going on there If you come together with the black
community now we more powerful right this is what we have to do cuz we're not just fighting the city and it corrupt We're fighting America So the time has come that we stand together and we really put our foot down
My other thing is Menendez you got my phone call the other day about the people putting the trash outside and it's been out there for 3 weeks That garbage people are not going to take it They're not going to take that wood and stuff And I'm sick of running down the street for people boxes I knock on doors
okay they weren't home but I left a message The city needs to print up the rules about trash music and you need to visit your wards every single um quarter and pass it out because we can't
continue to live like this cuz we're going to start fighting each other The other thing is your zoning committee that makes me question who's doing the hiring around here If the zoning committee didn't know them apartment buildings were one way in and one way out was going to be a problem Who
wouldn't know that the streets are already crowded How could you just have one way in and one way out if it's a fire and everybody trying to get out what's going to happen so it's simple stuff like that that we're not doing If you're going to hire people to clean up the streets why don't you do a work
program for the youth right let's start doing some things that make that make a difference And guess what else the taxes in May My people what I'm saying is we put our taxes in some kind of escrow or something because we need a forensic
audit All right cuz we don't trust these people no damn more How you got four positions it's only 24 hours in the damn day Come on now Stop it That's when you know you've been bought and paid for cuz you took the positions and you could have declined them You could have said
"No I'm not going to have the opportunity to focus." So it's not about the position it's not about the change it's about the money Power to the next speaker man The next speaker is Adrien Lester Good evening Thank you for the opportunity Good evening I was here last
month and um I I brought to the attention an issue at Philips Academy uh Charter School And at first um you know it kind of was received well that I would get a little bit of assistance because a number of uh representatives for the council you council folks uh you
know met me to the side and um you know that was a nice warm regard but you know in the buying by it didn't work out that way So once I made my presentation um the the charter school CEO you know apparently um reviewed that and didn't like that and retaliated and he put my
daughter out of the school Um the Lord and the Lord put her back in the school and Yeah Yeah And I have been receiving a lot of help from Mr Michael Jackson So I want to say thank you for being an
advocate for my child in the midst of the storm And Mr Jackson was very concerned about this child being barred from the school about her parents being barred from the ground standing behind bars standing behind the gates He was
very concerned about the arrow bent for my child Now I I did reach out to a number of the council um you know members here I didn't reach out to Miss Cotton I didn't reach out to Mr Khik I didn't reach out to Mr Omar or Mr Uden
Um everybody else I did reach out to and they uh vehemently ignored me Um I'm appalled I I I am appalled about that because in front of the public eye there was a routine that you know you would assist with the matter and it's not
assisting me it would be advocating for a child and I I reached out to you Mr Mendes a number of times and you ignored me a number of times I reached out to Dr means uh she did uh make a quick phone call Um there was some empowerment words
of encouragement But when we're talking about children when you look to the Honorable Reverend Dr Martin Luther King when he says injustice anywhere is a threat to injustice everywhere you would think that when you hear about a child being barred from entering the school
that council members would step up here Okay and I I don't expect any special treatment because of the color of my skin because I I know the the backside of that when I'm dealing with people that look like me So I I'm not looking for anything special for me I was looking for an advocate um for my child
and I I didn't get that and I I just wanted to bring that to the public because there were many u members from this community that have you know uh rallied with me and in the essence of trying to get this person removed So um Mr Council President I I I want to
express my dismay because I reached out to you a number of times and you have a rapport with this school in particular Dr Means was there um you know for a woman's history There's some kind of rapport I spoke to well I didn't speak to Miss Dilla She sent a text and it was
a text of opposition and that is not who I am I'm an advocate for my child I'm a person who stands up for what is right So what the text that she sent me was crazy And I I did have to tell her I'm going to stay on guard because when we're talking about a child no adult
should have a bent arrow attacking a child And only member up here that cared about that little child was Councilman Michael Jackson So I I want to say to you thank you I thank you for rolling up your sleeves And I'm not a council
person I I'm an educator But if I was and a parent came here with a concern like I had and the concern seemed to be exacerbating and you you you spent your time to look into it you spent your time to reach out for that child I I'm that kind of person Being council members is
not about going places taking nice pictures smiling making sure your teeth are white It's about interacting with your community So when a parent comes to you and they say they need you to advocate for their child it is not a time to sit down and turn a blind eye
and say "Well I rub elbows with that person I get along with that person." Because the only person courageous enough brave enough was Councilman Michael Jackson and that is a concern So I I apologizing to the ones that I didn't uh reach out to Miss Cotton and
there uh Mr Omar I'm not trying to you know make you guys look bad but for the people that I did contact you you owe it to the citizens of Patterson if they reach out to you about a matter concerning their child that about and a CEO has a bent arrow and he's attacking
a child you owe it to stand up It doesn't hurt to make a call It doesn't hurt to visit the school You've been there You've taken pictures It doesn't hurt to stand guard Thank you again Mr Jackson I I I appreciate you I celebrate you because you don't walk on the curb
You walk on the sidewalk And I hope that you continue to do that because you're sitting around people they are walking the curbs and they are rubbing elbows with other people and they really don't care about certain agendas So I I wish and I hope God continues to be with you
because being in the midst of a storm like that where people are divided it's it's it's definitely a fight But thank you Mr Jackson Thank you Mr Speaker A man of course The next speaker is Joseph Hart Mr
Joseph Hart Is he here next speaker is Miss Francis Harrison Phyis Good evening everyone Sorry What are you talking about in the bathroom Veles is still in my thunder Start me over No no just
black is on I mean just go ahead Uh good evening everyone It's really disheartening to come up here and listen to the same same complaints of the citizens of this city So I don't have to go over and numerate
all the concerns that we have of not getting the service that we're paying for It is really really sad And just sitting here and listening and watching the council me uh meetings online it's the same
complaints the lack of empathy concern consideration for the people that come before us And we talk about being disrespectful I'm going to talk about those who do come up here and are
disrespectful Freedom of speech does not allow you to get up in front and curse and holler and scream at people That's right If you're an adult have your thoughts together Come up and say what you want to say That's right But these people are not whipping boys That's
right And there's a lot of information for you to digest from this city to understand what really is going on It's not about what you think what you feel who said so and so and what said that You need to educate yourself And there's
a the quorum about meetings that you come to a meeting and you have your say but you don't have to be disrespectful That's right Okay I'm up here as the president of East Side Neighborhood Association 2.0 and I'm up here to talk about the
stairs that are going to be repaired in the park at East Side We are happy that those stairs are going to be repaired But there's a lot of issues in that park that we've asked for over the years that have not been addressed Okay the barnyard that's in that in that
park It's been refurbished as a historical spot for more than 15 years It would have been an ideal place for satellite police It would have helped keep the park safe clean and and and
some some uh services done Still not even a conversation among this council And I understand that our mayor is about parks parks parks parks But you're doing parks for the homeless to do what to add
uh dealing with the homeless Here we understand that a grant was given for the uh health and human services to go out and do re uh do outreach There's many uh boots on the ground organizations out there that are doing
this work but we understand that that grant is being kept inside a health and human services to someone who is already getting a paycheck from the city So there's a lot of stuff in this city that they need to address Uh we're happy
about the steps but you guys we're just not getting our bang for the buck There is too much hanging fruit in this city to help the taxpayers and increasing our taxes again is shameful Thank you Mr
Speaker Min clerk Yes sir Next speaker is Daniel Mahia Hello Hello community Hello How are you again my name is Daniel Mah and I am the CEO of Silk City 1 What is the community waiting for at the end of the day I've
presented I've talked on topics that uh concerns the the the public and the well the people and the council elects Uh for example on War Street and um Ellison you would have on high high traffic times uh
officers stand there to give tickets to people who don't see the sign on the far right side and other issues within the city that I've addressed within the Silk City1 Facebook page At the end of the day who in the community would step forward to take the position of the
person that's elected right now what's the definition of insanity thank you Thank you Next speaker Madam Clerk Next speaker is Mr Keith Watson [Music]
Good evening everyone My taxes and taxes taxes taxes taxes taxes taxes taxes taxes taxes Come on Exactly And I was I wasn't even going to come down here but when I watched Vela's
status and I saw him the tax increase and X Oh close Get close to my the mic Keith tax increase And he put a big X on
it And my phone has been ringing left to right up and down because I have a large community that depend on me to make right choices to bring them someone who is going to help them and not hurt them
you know But when I look at my tax and I was just getting happy the other day my hazard insurance went down and I had the opportunity to raise the rent on two of my tenants So I was
okay My wife also got a raise But then looking at my taxes and it says $500 increase Now that takes away everything So me getting
happy about my hazard insurance going down I had the opportunity to raise the rent and my wife got a raise But all of that was wiped away
Now my phone has been ringing with all the people that who I have to call them up and rally them up engage them and mobilize them to go to vote for somebody who I believe
in But then what do I tell them now when election times come around let me leave that alone But I got to say this a vote for Kenya Stewart is not a vote
against a Democrat A vote for Al I believe is not a vote against black Now we got to be very prudent when we make our choices There is a vote for special interests
And there's votes for your interest Kenyatta Stewart is my black cousin and I believe he's a strong Democrat who mean the city well and I believe that the all the
other candidates mean the city well mean the county well But please weigh your option weigh your option when you go to the poll to vote I'm black and I'm proud Thank you
Uh next speaker Madam Clerk Next speaker is Brian Russo Brian Russo Hello Thanks for this opportunity to speak My name is Brian Russo Um I used to work for an insurance company where I saw firsthand the amount of waste and
emissions from transportation Working for that insurance company I also saw firsthand how the emissions was affecting the profit margin that the insurance companies were making In fact emissions from transportation emissions from other
other things as well are affecting uh the cost of living for everything So as the temperatures warm we're seeing more and more climate destruction occur We're seeing it occur causing more damage to property We're seeing hundredyear storms
happening once a year It's occurring more regularly Insurance companies are are less profitable now Rates are going up People were concerned about the cost of gas while vehicle maintenance is going up Insurance is going
up Everything is going up The emissions from these businesses is causing pollution to our air pollution to our water slowing photosynthesis causing health effects So the public is paying we're paying subsidies to the fossil fuel
industry The public is paying to deal with the cleanups of their mess The public is dealing with the health consequences from their emissions As our resources become scarce the cost of everything is going up Right so here we are in Patterson So I'm talking to you
guys because I'm giving you guys an opportunity to show you to show us who you stand with because legislation has been introduced in several states against the fossil fuel industry for their known deception against the public for emissions Internal documents show
that the fossil fuel industry knew the impact of burning fossil fuels since the 50s but invested in decadesl long campaign to spread misinformation lobby our politicians to spread misinformation and prevent transitioning to renewable
energy and decarbonization So there's legislation in several states against the fossil fuel industry for this deception It's called the New Jersey Climate Super Fund Act has been introduced in New Jersey but there's also other states that are doing it as well Now the idea is to put
a cost on carbon to charge the industries most of the big oil companies that were aware of the impact of burning fossil fuels for the emissions that they're omitting into the environment for damaging our our habitat Because the
climate crisis is a health care crisis the climate crisis is an insurance crisis Everything is going up and right now the federal government would like to roll back protections on our water Roll back They want to bring back PAS They think PAS is okay They think lead is
okay They want to say that methane is good They want to increase logging They want to take our natural resources and sell it to the biggest bidder at the expense of the taxpayers Now while the taxpayers or while the
fossil fuel industry is making record profits we're all struggling We're we're paying with it with our lives we're paying with it with our healthcare So I I I have a one-page summary of the Climate Super Fund Act And what I'm asking for is is pretty
much demonstrative Are you guys going to stand with the people of Patterson and stand with the workingclass people are you going to stand with the fascist government and the oil garks so I'm going to email you uh Mr Council President on the Climate Super Fund Act
and I'm going to ask that you guys read it and consider what's being said in the Columbus Super Fund Act and I'm going to come back next month if that's okay and I'm going to ask for you guys to vote on it because the idea is basically rather than the fossil industry continue to
contaminate our environment they should be paying for the damages the money will go to directly affect those that are affected Thank you Thank you Mr Speaker Mad Next speaker is Mr Kimmy Freeman
It's good to hear from environmentalists I'm sorry I work for PSCG so I guess I'm part of the problem Really oh well Oh well I worked and paid for it and I took care of my family
Uh I I'm agreeing with this lady over here that we definitely need a forensic audit I said this a couple years ago and I made a joke and say you know what El must need to come to pass cuz it don't seem like you know how to manage money or you know do what we supposed to do
and send you know years ago we sending back HUD money 5 million 5 million We got to stop this All right Because when you're asking me as a property taxpayer and I've already hit a couple of you guys up already uh I'm already paying
14,000 I did the math here I want to thank Dr Seco because if you adding up this 5.6 the 2% So tax and then the 4% tax on the board of ed you're talking about 11.6
So I did my math wrong Yeah I did my math wrong I thought it was $20,000 but it's over $30,000 All right I live on East 40th Street I have two lives All right Now we need more ratables You cannot Joey was
right You cannot have 22,000 people paying the taxes for 200,000 people That's right That is not right That is not good math for me All right And you know what i heard something last meeting
cuz I didn't come My back's really bothering me cuz I'm going through something You guys said "Oh we need to raise more revenue Let's get more inspectors to do street cleaning and all this kind of stuff." Now Miss L Francis I don't agree with her all the time but
she knows where we live Yes All right Uh they said last week not quote not quote "Oh we need a 100 more violations." So that mean we need 100 more victims to pay that $56 ticket
Right now I tell me a lot of stuff right but somebody wrote me a book ticket street cleaning Run in front of Mr Nelson's house I lived in that community for 35 years
I've never ever parked in front of anybody's house much less than Mr Nelson I have a driveway and I have a hand parking in front of my house So the street clean guy he don't like me
And we had words one time whatever like that because what he does you know I have a neighbor he's handicapped I'm yelling Say "Look the guy can't come downstairs." We arguing back and forth The lady next door to me she's Jamaica She cuts them out because you know
what we're on a fixed income I'm retired Most of the people live on my block Mr Nelson and other people BCG uh people that worked here What's that and school I worked at school next door
the gardeners Mr Nelson across the street Everybody in that block's retired I'm retired All right Now I've come before to talk about you guys told my view And then he says "Oh let's tell all the
commercial vehicles." So I took about 50 pictures of all the commercial vehicles parked all around my house but I had to look far across the street from my house And I like you Alex and I need your
help Commercial vehicle every single day And his van has not been touched That's not fair Mhm If I did something wrong I'll pay the ticket Yeah But you towing my my U-Haul on New Year's Eve
and I had to pay $650 to get it out And I had appliances in there cuz I'm remodeling my house and doing all kind of stuff Right That's not right I can't afford $600 I can't afford I'm already paying 145
I'm going to be paying about 20 thou between 20 and 25,000 Which comes out to an extra $300 a month So I don't know what y'all know I'm going to have to go back out and start jing cabin I told M I'm going to go out of town and start driving because
they're not going to give me no job here mess I thank you very very much You work for the board of ed They're not going to give me a job here because guess what unlike lean on me when I say go to PTA meeting and say you know what the board of education is full of crap The
principal is full of crap because what you're doing to these kids is criminalizing them And I worked at school six I worked at all all the rights passing program everything Oh one thing before I leave Mr Mayor I want to
do the Cub Scouts All right I was scout I did at St Luke's I did it the YMCA All right Cub Scouts taught me how to shoot man Besides my uncles Cub Scout is a good program That's a proactive program rather than us Frederick Dun said it
first Thank you bro He said it It's easier to mold a kid a boy than it is to repair a man and that's what we're doing All we doing is repairing a much we can repair We got to save the kid like what men are doing I did that 30 years ago
Thank you brother All right Speaker madam clerk there are no more speakers See I move to close Second See no move to close by counciloman Mims and uh moved by Councilwoman Mims and second by Councilwoman Davila Roll call on the clerk to close the public portion Roll
call to close the public portion Councilwoman Cotton Thank you Madam Clerk I'm not going to um speak for very long because we still got quite a few items that we need to um u get through the with our agenda but I just want to say that um they was talking about the
tax increase and um which is not going to be for now Um you know I hear people the guy said something about about God I said "Now did anybody hear Clarence 27 years of being
drug-free did you hear him did you thought that God didn't help him get through that that he did it on his that he didn't have family member God helped him to get to be clean for for so and when because I said when I
brought the the lady to say the prayer we need more than God How dare you say that like for you to say God is not important God is what i don't I'm trying to understand what he what he what he meant But you know um I just
want to answer some of the other questions that was said and I'm going to just try to be real quick Um my daughter's a softball coach for Kennedy High School first black female varsity What the school been in effect since 1965
What i go to her game yesterday at Common Field and you got more parents from the other school than the people from Patterson That's awful that you got more parents from County Tech than you have from the city of Patterson And I always
said we must support our children I don't have to need a child to be on a team to support our community Our children need us to support them regardless of what they play Basketball softball even if they're in a club you
know they have a nice club for young girls now at International High School but our community and our kids need to see us support each other And when my daughter said to them "Well that's the snack lady right there meaning me cuz I
always make sure she got snacks in her room." Yes she does and for them kids to come in there because when you play my kids play sports I made sure that the whole team ate I made sure that everybody had something cuz that's just
how I was raised But but we must bring them in support our children all the time and we must do stuff like that And you know I got to say that sometimes you know I don't want to talk about our employees and we
shouldn't And we have been in touch with our deputy clerk I mean our madam clerk but a private person You're not going to stand here and talk about madame clerk Correct You're not going to talk about
what her you just can't cuz she doesn't want that But we have been in contact I think all of us all of us has So we have done that Um but but what I what I find is that um sometimes you know you don't
really have to say everything that you do or or or or you know like I said people really don't know I have my aid Jamie Bland She goes to these schools all the time to help
parents How you have a a parent how you have a child sending you a picture with a gun that's dangerous That is dangerous And your child you're worried Everybody's worried Like you don't know what's going to happen And
you got to say when people really don't know when they listen to people at the mic we'll go home tonight and somebody could be waiting for me in my driveway because they don't know what's going on They just hear the conversation They really don't understand like like
like like what's happening And you know sometimes I find that people um are private They don't want to I'm not gonna talk about you in public I'm not going to do that I'm not going to tell everything And I understand And we're looking out for seniors and we're
looking out for everybody And our phone is constantly ringing And I can sit up here and my two ladies over there my deputy clerk and my secretary know that when I sit up here in this office people come upstairs and they don't care who they see They want to see a council
person They don't care who it is So when they expect you to see you and you and you have to talk with them but there's so much stuff that's going on um we have a lot more things that we need to to to get done And I just um I just want to
share you know what I find is that I don't know what's going on in your mind in your home I don't know if you feel good if you don't feel good but sometimes words hurt real bad
They hurt real bad Especially when you don't know who the you don't know who they are When you don't know who people are you don't know what you don't know And it's just But I just say let's continue And you said let's support our kids Let's support our community I will support
everything And I want to say that we are doing a Easter egg hunt at Barbara Park on October 19th I hope to get at least about four more bikes and we got two coming Maybe we might We might You said October April April 19th we might have about 10 bikes Roger That'll be like
besides the other stuff So there's a lot of activities going on this Easter egg hunt all throughout the entire city Um I know at Janette Thompson Park they're having one I know they're having one at East Side Park I know that they're um you know having one But you know le
let's let's let's support our our community Let's support our children let's support There's so many different organizations out here that we can all support um and and help and do with and like Elvis Dorm he's always talking about the businesses
in Center City Mall like all the time But um be careful what you say cuz you don't know who's watching and you don't know what they going to do You know I think about like because I I I wanted to get um a voter registration list and they
were talking about not They still haven't been able to do it yet but they haven't been able to figure out how they going to suppress this list that it doesn't include judges and prosecutors and police officers cuz they know people are coming for them because they're
going by what somebody's saying like they hear somebody talking about that But um I just want to say Madame Clerk um thank you I got more to say but I'll talk about it later Okay but you know what i'm going to get you tonight Let me tell you that right
now Go ahead Tell cuz we're not finished with you I can tell you that now Go ahead Yeah you right Okay All right Madam Clerk I'm sorry My vote is yes Thank you Councilwoman Councilwoman Davin I'm sorry So if I address every Well you
can't I know Constituent that came before us today um I would be here a long time but I am going to make a statement There are many times that people stand on that side and say things and they're not true
So there's always your version I'm going to put myself as my version then the truth But the truth isn't a message If I if someone calls me and wants me to
assist them with something and I do some research and I am told to be very careful because there is a process during litigation or whatever the case may be and it is not within our jurisdiction specific to uh uh Miss
Adrian who who you know addressed every council member that she approached She did call various times Unfortunately I could not answer She sent me a message I have it right here I was not disrespectful nor condescending I said "I'm sorry you're going through this."
And I was very specific in saying because there is a process and it's in litigation I cannot assist I said I referred her to the entity right because if you're talking about a principal in an academy you come before someone before us as a council to talk about an
entity that has nothing to do with the Patterson Board of Education Okay and within that there is a board that you would go to in a superintendent In this case I directed her to who I should direct her to to the commission within the state that handlesmies I did nothing
wrong by doing that I was not disrespectful But to come here and address the counselor and make it seem like you know we don't want to help you know it it's it's really it just makes me sad It really does You know um there
are times that you may not like things that we say or I'll speak for myself maybe something that I've said or maybe the approach and I've I've I I look and I say you know what I apologize I didn't mean it that way you know but constantly
to come here and just get bashed by individuals making statements that aren't true is just truly disheartening And so I've taken a different stance and I said I want to be the change that I want to see So I'm not going to allow
anyone to take me out of my character I get it that there are people that are upset but when I hear the lies when I hear about oh the tax increases I see messages I see emails there is no tax increases My god yes we are doing
nothing like we didn't do last year There is a proposed budget There has to be an introduction It is by state statute So what is it that the people are talking about increases the conversation is specific to last year by
state statute You must uh not adopt in the adoption is when you see the increase And I can tell you right now as a chair of finance I have to do my fidiciary responsibility I can't say that I don't read anou and that we don't
get transitional aid and I'm just going to say what I'm going to say just so the people can believe that I'm standing with you I'm standing with you all the time but I have a responsibility So stop it with the tax increases There is no tax increases There will be a tax
increase Okay there will be a tax increase when there's an adoption to a budget There is no adoption to a budget right now So please let us know Is there is there um other increases that are coming up the way is there school board is there county absolutely But I'm going
to keep it right now to the city of Patterson What was discussed in workshop was to have a discussion about an introduced budget which we have to do Okay Now it was pulled off the agenda We're not discussing that anymore But I
had to say that because we had various individuals come before us put out there that this council is in support of a tax increase and that is not the case Anyone that knows knows that as by theou we have to have a tax levy no more than two
no less than 2% Um lastly you know and I'll say this anyone can come there and you know Miss Harrison I just want you to I I really today you said something that really like touched me It is so true Everyone has freedom of speech You have the right to speak but you don't
have the right to disrespect me And if you think that I'm going to sit here and allow you to disrespect me and I'm going to hear it I'm not So I am going to turn around I am going to walk away because that's the best thing my mom said If you have nothing good to say keep your mouth shut Keep your mouth shut And I know
that we are elected by the people So we're here to listen But I'm not here or my colleagues And we have to stand as a body We're a body We shouldn't allow no one because today it's Mims Tomorrow it's me The next day it's cotton Then it'll be Jackson and it'll continue on
We are a body of one We are elected by the people Every ward gets to elect their ward representative There's three at large with the entire city And guess what council at large if you got 2,000 votes you ain't getting in We all got at
least 5,000 votes to get in So with that said all I'm going to say is this because you know it's just when I when I hear the yelling when I hear you know what's going on I sat back today and I just closed my eyes and I just prayed and I said "God we need Jesus We need to
really look at ourselves when we're talking and we should be the change We should be the change that we want to see and it starts at home." So with that said you know the other comments about about the clerk our deputy clerk knows
we ask but we don't have to come here and make conversation When somebody is out on leave they're out on leave By law you're not supposed to even address the person You're not supposed to call them up Personnel deals with them You can't
even ask when are they coming back what is their situation is it health is it not we're not supposed to do that And we this body hires the clerk That's the only employee of the entire city that this council hires and we can't even
call her to say when are you coming back we wish her well through our deputy clerk you know you've been holding down the fort and I really thank you for that because I know that within that it's it's also very difficult on you and the staff which we know is also very you
have very little staff and elections are coming and you know we know when elections are coming cuz that's when the attacks come the most But with that said it's okay because you know what I always um think about David Yeah and Goliath
And I'mma leave it at that So I want to thank every person that comes here I want to wish everyone a happy Easter resurrection day It is not about the eggs And it is not about the candy It is about someone that God done sent here
died for us and was resurrected and he lives in all of us Okay So I want to thank everyone Councilwoman Cotton Councilman Udin Councilman Omar uh um Barbara Park G Greer thank you I know
Valerie Freeman's doing a big one as well Everyone that is doing something for our children I thank you from the bottom of my heart I will be working with councilman of the six ward as as our assemblyman now uh assemblyman Abdelaziz has has made it a point that
he will continue his legacy but now he has to do it throughout six municipalities So we're going to be holding down the four in the six ward So thank you Thank you uh madame clerk My vote is yes to close the public portion and sorry for the long wind No problem
Councilman Jackson Thank you Thank you Madam Clerk I was going to pause until the end but um I don't think it's required It's not a matter of whether or not it's proper protocol but you know as
people as human beings when you have people who you work with every day who takes care of your every needs who is often disrespected may may feel unappreciated when that person goes out in medical leave or any type of leave I
mean it is I mean I don't know which rules she's referring to but I've definitely reached out to the clerk I don't have any restrictions I reached out to her multiple times to find out you know how she's doing just to check on her and wish her well Um so I don't I
don't know what I I I guess I'm just different I don't you know people insinuate many things Oh you can't don't put me on a group text with everybody But yet seven members of the council will show up at a ribbon cutting We
can't be on a text with everybody cuz it's quorum breaking sunshine act law If you're not talking about business pertinent to the city you're not breaking any law But it's often the
misleading gestures that go on all the time and you know more further more misleading of the public and uh it speaks directly to people who hold seats hold positions that don't know what
their roles are and that's why I'm glad that Mr uh Olivaris and of course brother Joe Keys has been consistent with talking about the charter um last week and he says this often Councilman Menda said if an item isn't
approved by corporation council it will not go on an agenda That's not how a form of government works You can read the entire charter Now one part of the charter says corporation council must draft or must approve or must anything Yes he signs
off on a document that he has vetted and he gives sufficient legal reason not given an opinion that has no legal bearing Oh that item has no leg legal merit That's not a legal opinion It's not based on a statue or a law That's
just more condescending um rhetoric to keep things in line And then for the council president to say that let you know that basically he works for the mayor The mayor hires the corporation council Corporation council then tells
him no that doesn't get the agenda and he abides by the mayor's wishes by doing so So it's you got to watch how things happen right and um brother Greer all the proof is in the pudding
You just got to look at the circumstances If he's never donated to you in the past and now he's donating to you because he's on a ballot somewhere doesn't that make sense right there like listen I'm a first w council
person I get calls from all over the place I don't even know where that lady lives Matter of fact she lives in Clifton Her husband lives in Patterson with the daughter some place I believe in the fourth ward She got a matter of issue I'm gonna go and and do whatever I
can do That's possible But if this dude has never donated to your cause or a cause outside of his group of people or his and now
he's never shown up to black functions All of a sudden he's at every single function He's never come in the community In fact when Brooks Lope was fighting for he was an adamant no Wasn't trying to hear anything No I'm not doing
it But now he's he needs the black vote and he's dancing around the way the mayor has danced around for the last 13 years So brother Keith if you going to tell me that vote a vote for Al is not against
the black community Batman says otherwise He's listening and he will be listening So for me Kinyatta Stewart is definitely the person that as our community he has
supported every single community not just the black community He's been front and center He didn't walk out of the room when Naji's family was here He didn't walk out of the room when Felix De Jesus's family was consistently here
He didn't He came here He gave and supported every single candidacy and he's being turned over Why because he is not willing to lay down Now we know Al he made he's he has a bed
where he permanently lays down He shows up late because he was laying down and leaves early cuz he has to lay down more If you think voting for him is going to be a vote for our community you are sadly mistaken
And for me Orlando Cruz will be a much more suitable selection but Kenyatta should be your your first your first choice In many cases possibly your only choice
He is the person when you call him he's going to answer the question He's not going to say "Well you know got relationships I can't quite do that." If you call him he's going to respond And what else do you want see people come
and campaign just like Eddie Gonzalez Eddie Gonzalez has been a very very long time friend him His cousin and I have a very long relationship together where we've actually been in physical confrontations where I've supported his
family constantly I still love the brother but guess what it doesn't remove me from saying that he's completely wrong but what he's been doing on the school board but see other people who hold these positions they won't say that They
won't do that So we can't do that because our our community is getting abused So um Brother Greer hey take those two bikes Be happy cuz if he loses this election you may never see him
again You won't see him in the fourth He's he and he asked me and listen I look I like Al I love Al We joke around He asked me to walk in the First World War with him I told him absolutely I told him "Absolutely."
What's that now I just don't want you to make this this political and this is political No let me just say in Al defense Al has always reached out to me has always offered me stuff Maybe it was me I never followed up with with the brother You
know what I'm saying well you want to retract the statement and say he's donated to you in the past then that's fine But I mean no no no My statement holder All all I'm saying all I'm saying Mike I'm saying he get disrespect I I don't want you to use this this donation as Easter and and and
and you know beat up on the man he has always answered the phone for No problem no problem when I called and and I don't want to be in the middle of it one thing one thing the truth does the truth shall set you free and if he's never donated
to you in the past and he's donated to you now listen more power to him if he's going to util utilize what he's doing to manipulate the black community He's going to come through to that Easter egg hunt say "Yo how he gave up these bikes." Yo man listen I don't I'm not
hating on them I'm just giving this is political It's and it has a political impact on our community I'm I'm I'm proud of what he what he's managed to accomplish I just look at things differently I walk with integrity all the time not just part of the time and
uh to to to to say that he's been supportive of our community he has not been That's just the facts That's just the facts So you know take those two bikes and you know let him hand it out But anyway back to
Keith Keith you over here complaining about taxes you you you you're the aid to the council president who has done nothing but laid down for the administration Now if we we're going to complain about taxes then the council to say we don't have anything to do with
that Then to say a introduced budget that promotes a tax increase No there's no tax Yes that tax increase is going to be inevitable It's inevitable Now uh Kenny Freeman I I I got I have a
disagreement brother very quickly So when you ride down the West Side Highway and I know because you're a professional driver you do a lot of driving You ride down the West Side Highway if you look over to the left going downtown all those Trump Towers that buildings that are there right it's
probably about 12 15 of them They're all owned by one person There's one taxpayer He may have 12 or 15 different LLC's set up but on the books it might be 10 taxpayers It might be one but in there
there's thousands of people that live there Thousands So to say that to say that 25 uh uh 24 taxpayers 20 cuz it's 25 tax parcels It's not taxpayers 25,000
tax parcels Meaning that the towers that's one taxpayer and there's 1,500 2,000 people that live there So it is very well so possible I we can't have everybody be buting they g you can't we
could talk about it offline is people who are paying people who aren't pay or not that's what I'm saying all right okay break their own so so so what you what you're not okay so what you're not
saying understanding is those large buildings those those large buildings are not paying equivalent to what you're paying they're paying for the number of residents that they have in their building So it is possible to have a tax
base of 25 In fact um Mr CFO what what what's what's the uh the levy the tax levy 225 just real quick just right up 200 just people municipal levy [Music]
172 council members I mean we're in the process we're in the we're in the process of crossing the pie portion members of the public please it's my time very quickly uh uh uh brother Freeman $172 million that's our levy 2%
2% 3.43 $3.4 million divided by 25,000 $137 per taxpayer That's it Now don't get me wrong Per taxpayer two Listen listen See for the year divide that by four That's $34 a quarter You're not
Listen you had Listen brother No disrespect but I'm trying to explain so that the general public can understand this It's $35 a quarter It is much different than what's trying to be promoted Council members are saying we got no control over it There's a
mandatory 2% minimum increase because we're taking $32 million If you wasn't misappropriating and spending the taxes your tax bill won't go up$500 to $1,000 because the 2% equivalent to $34 a
quarter $137 a year So if your taxes went up beyond that there's other factors involved And yes there's other factors that's outside of the control of the of the uh the administration There's schools there's counties but but just for a point of clarity this large tax
increases are not because of the 2% increase And I'm going just say this last piece First of all first of all let me say this to the public And and brother Joe Keys I'm glad you you still you stayed brother because of the many years that we've known each other and we've had a great deal of respect for
each other I'm sure you can attest I've never called you I've never asked you to come down here In fact when I first saw you down here as a mentor for you mentor of mine person who I had a great deal of respect for I said "Whoa glad to see you here and you started coming more and
more." You started taking it upon yourself I've never had any conversation People are trying to project it as I'm having people come down here to speak on my behalf I never met the brother a he came on my so Facebook page said a few
things I I tried to correct him He didn't want to you know he had his own perspective He came to the podium with his own perspective This woman that came here about her child I didn't come I didn't ask her to come down here I don't have to pay somebody to buy flowers for me She said I helped her
Why you do I talk over anybody else see Darlene Moore said it best When you throw a stick in a crowd of dogs the one that yelp is the one that got hit And people come down here and say "Of all the council people here nobody has ever come to the podium to come for my head
like that Nobody has ever come to the podium." Wait I take that back Mr Eddie Olivaris did And now he works side by side with me because there's not one person that I won't have a conversation with There's not one And the proof is in
the pudding If people are coming down here I I went had a meeting with that principal It's nothing offline If she So what they have a they got their own school board This council had to vote for that charter school to be to do
business in our community This council took a vote for that charter school to come here and operate in our community This council has the ability to make sure we hold entities accountable that do business in our community And if
you're not if you don't have enough courage and you're not courageous enough to go out and defend and advocate for people then when they when they call upon you then why are you here why are you here and lastly every black p black man that
comes to the microphone that doesn't sing you praises is not the enemy of the state He's not a dangerous to society And just as you know Chanel so eloquently put it Black man got it enough Mr Allen did not threaten anybody
and for it to be projected that way is a is a disservice not just to him and his family but the entire black community Wow Wow Wow See they listen They can't even hold the corn You talk about the quorum Do I ever do that when anybody
else is speaking no That's childish right there That's childish But yet on social media my mother is so happy I got out of here safely and my life was in danger this brother comes to
the to the podium and now all of a sudden every person that comes through metal detector has to be hand patted down and they come with weapons when it's a black person that comes here and then the saddest part is black-on-black crime people and not one
time did he ever say anything that was threatening or attacking he said his constitutional right he spoke about his constitutional right of freedom of speech and this this is how he's treated The lawsuit that we should be worried
about is the fact that your wife just got a pay increase of $10,000 with somebody else who was a more qualified candidate for the job But yet the but but in in the health department council president in the health department council president in the health
department under the current sitting ba the council president was a director of health matter what he said I'm not mad what he said and his wife I'm blessed that my wife more prepared that this pay increase but we talking about
he didn't include he didn't include that in his letter to the attorney general that his wife was getting a my friend you You know what I included you know what I included in attorney general i wish Aba could come here and arrest you for for dealing all the stuff that you deal What about that dealing What about
that dealing what what about that my friend dealing what you want to go personal i go personal Dealing with personal Say it Say it Get personal Just say you know what for the first time in my life for for the first time in my life seek the Lord brother No no We on a
roll Come on Please council members please Please I got kids at home But negate the fact that his wife just got a a a new position Yeah Went from keyboarding clerk one making 35,000 Got a new a new position with a $10,000 pay
increase Doesn't speak English Wow Yo President will you stop him or I stop him will you stop him or I stop him why why you have the need if you if you don't stop it I stop it I don't have no problem You cancel I respect my wife all
the way I stop him if I have to stop him Why you have a knee i stop him If I have to stop him you coun If you don't stop him I stop him It's not degrading All right Why you have a need for my brother i'm not going person
I'm not going on person or him Why he had to pull in my wife in his mouth point of order Point of all well you get out of here You No you are the bullshitter brother Council members council members listen my brother I
don't I'm not afraid I'm holding my gun for you and for this guy over here Yes I don't have no problem N officer Joe Rock Joe Rock Joe Rock Don't do that
Go ahead Do it Council members with me Council members come on over here Come on over here Council president that was wrong Let's take five minutes Rafael Let's take five minutes break Come on over here Take five minutes He's starting You're
starting all that Let's take five minutes break Rafael cut it out It's a shame That's wrong It's a shame That's wrong It's the shame Part: 2
portion um Rafael let me know when we Okay we ready so so we're back from our five minutes break um so we are in the closing of the public portion council members please let's try to close this public portion to take care those 17 item they already published and it's our
job and our responsibility to take action on those item that need to be voted in today so let's continue with the public portion madam clerk who's um Councilman Jackson your vote please thank you Madam Clerk so first before I finish uh let me just say this because
obviously it's going to be taken everything that I was that I said is going to be taken out of context as if I'm being um racially discriminatory there was a gentleman worked in the city who spoke English his English was his primary and only language but he didn't
speak English well he spoke street jargon if you will he was incapable of writing clear profound sentences this gentleman was fired this gentleman was was fired because he could
not speak and write and uh uh communicate the language i'm not I don't care what the language is english is the city's primary language if you can't if you're in a customer service position you can't communicate with the public
that's the the point I'm making people are paid extra because they speak multiple languages that's what it that's the thing but in the end of the day English is the primary language when some when a person in high authority has
a family member that's getting preferential treatment on a job that's nepotism that's simple and you can say whatever you want to say you can get upset you could you could talk all you want to talk but I'm going to definitely stand on what it is that's the truth
so in relative to um to to to tonight's meeting and again I stand with very firm strong people i walk with with integrity i don't need to pay somebody to come here and speak on my behalf i don't have to
do that when people come here and speak because of things that they've called me on to do and I've done that's just because that's what I do and I'm not going to sit here and and watch a child be mistreated in any school and not be
willing to advocate for that person that's just what I do so if you're upset because people are coming here and they're saying what they personally feel that's that's what it is but what we should not be happy with is when somebody comes to the podium to
speak their mind everybody's treated differently let's be honest let's look at how council president who regulates and manages the meeting mr ernie Rucker went over a whole meet a whole minute maybe two oh and he's he scarfs at him
you already know I'm going to give my uh in closing but yet Mr olivaris comes there the moment 3minut bell went rings he's all on top of him getting ready to have security escort him out we have to have parody and if there
is going to be a certain kind of a a legal opinion that's given that's when corporation council should be stepping forward and saying the city's opening itself up for a possible litigation for unfair treatment we can't discriminate against people differently and say "Oh
it's 3 minutes." But yet when uh uh uh the first speaker came and spoke she said "I'm speaking serious so you're going to let me go further." And he lets her go further so when we talk about conducting the meeting in a certain fashion and handling a certain way that's the
furthest thing from what's been what's been taking place and if you're upset about the facts being stated hey so be it because that's what I'm here to do i'm here to expose the facts so I sorry you had to see that ladies but no
worries madame clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilman councilman Khalik well my council colleague will speak about all the issues in city of Patterson or whatnot my vote is yes to close the um public hearing thank you
Councilwoman Mims thanks Madam Clerk so first of all let me do what I do every week i want to thank the public that is watching um and have come in person and also apologize many people are texting we
school is out for the public schools and a lot of our students I wanted them to learn some civics and I'm just really saddened that they had to watch some of the things that went on tonight in this council chamber the disrespect uh the disregard for people and their
family members just so much that goes on when we're trying to have our youth emulate the behavior that the expected behavior that we should be operating in as adults so I want to apologize to all of those families that I've asked to have their youth watch as we're trying
as I'm trying to help and educate our youth on leadership and character and integrity and honesty so I want to apologize for that i know some of the uh people that were here has left but I want to address a comment that was made
um in regards to payments of bill payment of bills and separating items from the agenda it was stated that three names council people were mentioned mine was mentioned so I'm only going to mention mine i never mentioned any council person by name so I just want
that Mr keys said that I mentioned count Councilman Jackson that is not true if you go back and watch the tape you will hear I gave a a lesson on what should happen if any council person in general there were no names specifically
mentioned no one was mentioned that's one two as it relates to um this chamber i didn't talk about this chamber from the perspective of one individual or whatever came out came to this meeting if you watch the meeting tonight my
point was proven we need to make sure there are safety gu safety safeguards and parameters in this chamber and in the city in city hall as you view tonight whether you didn't like what I said thought it was crazy you saw
firsthand tonight why there has to be i'm appreciative every week we have two very capable police officers that are here but some of this stuff has to be addressed because someone's going to get hurt in this chamber and I've been saying it for a while i
put it on record last week tonight I was attacked about saying it and then right after that something broke out so that tells me that Mims can't be altogether wrong mims is it's like a warning before destruction happens we
got to make sure the the front as they come in they come through the metal detector it's not fully working it's not It has faults in it we have to fix it ba Corporation Council the cameras around the building we have to get some new
cameras immediately not next week not immediately for the protection not just when we're here on city council but just in case anything happens and I'm going to put that on the record for me it's about doing the work of the city it's
about sitting here and I feel bad because I'm out of work on my other job and this is my uh my elected office my daughter is in town with my grandbaby and so one of our speakers came to the microphone and my
legislative aid one of them Nancy Greer was here and after the person spoke normally she has cards to give out but she ran out she gave me the cue she needed cards for the for the resident i asked her to come to me to get the card
so I turned around as you know residents I'm always in my seat to the end of the meeting sometime I can't even go to the ladies room i am here i turned around just very briefly and I was disrespected because I was not looking at
someone we have to be very careful about wanting respect when we don't give it ourselves now my thing is when you're talking I can hear you i have two ears i hear very clear i don't have any obstructions in my ear passage i can hear you ve very clearly so if I turn
around that doesn't mean I'm ignoring you i'm trying to make sure that my aid gets what's needed for that particular resident and any resident that's in the chambers it's something I do every every single time but I'm my thing is and I'm going to say this I'm not going to let
anyone anyone disrespect me at the microphone at all whether female male I'm not and it's not you're coming here to express yourself it's not expressing yourself is one thing but when you're saying "Ma'am turn around look at me." And all this stuff that that's
disrespect cuz I don't have to look at you when you're talking if I'm s I'm maybe writing something people are texting us while we're in the chamber there's situations going on in the city so it's a lot of stuff going on so it doesn't mean we're not paying you attention and for the most part when you're at the mic one you're not even
here for city issues you're just here to yell and curse and go off which is you're right if that's what you want to do in three minutes and then most of your stuff is for the administration so we're here we take it you yell at the nine council members for the stuff you should be yelling at the administration
for we take it cuz we're you know we got some broad shoulders but we also have to let you know and I said it last week I gave a civics 101 lesson on who handles what i told you executive branch legislative and judicial i I laid out the carpet so that you'll know how to
address it when you come to the mic we don't mind but give it to the administration they sit there you got to give that fever over there because they're the ones that enforce if if enforcement's not happening it's on the administration not the council we're writing the laws we're amending the laws
we're working hard to give you what you're asking for and the stuff if we don't do it we're still working for that you got to talk to the admin administration and in closing um to to everyone that talked about um all the issues all the concerns you can
come out but there is on our books there's an ordinance that talks about the decorum in the council chambers so when people say I can say whatever I want it's not absolutely true because we have an ordinance about the professional decorum that is supposed to be set
inside of these chambers and next week I will bring well in in May I will bring copies and I will lay them on the podium to our secretary our deputy clerk if we can make copies of the decorum and have them on that deis because I want people to understand that we have a law in
place it's not you just come here and do whatever you want and people are telling you that it's not a fact we have a a ordinance on the book that talks about decorum and when decorum is not in place what authority the council president has so I think we need to make sure that um
that that is clearly um um outlined and then in um in this if I by tonight by defending myself I by defending myself if I like offended any of you it was not my my intention but I
can't sit here and allow someone to talk to me like I am their child or someone that is less than like you're stepping on me like do what I tell you and this is that's I'm not going to do that because I'm an adult i am not your child i'm not your spouse um none of the above
we are here as elected officials professional to do the job of the city that's why we're here and I don't mind that people come and say one person does this the community knows who does what we don't have to defend that that's something we don't have to defend but
when you come please and to anyone 17 15 if you say because I'm asking for security in the building that I'm putting your life in jeopardy i don't see how that can happen that's not putting That's bringing safety to every
person we have 1,400 employees in this city and we have to make sure every person is safe that is our responsibility if we have equipment in place and it's not working to its fullest extent we need to make sure I spoke to director I don't see him i think he's out of here spoke to director
um Neieves in regards to it we had a conversation and now I'm making sure I openly put it back on the record to the administration as I did last week to make sure those things are in place so with that being stated Madame Clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman
councilman Omar yes thank you Councilman Nuden good evening thank you councelor uh Madame Clark good evening Patterson those who are watching us live uh can I drink water quick what's
happening so um uh thank you Madame Clark one more time so as uh we are closing the public portion the um I'd like to thank all those who came here make your words hard and um also those who are watching us live um so many of
you spoke about the um uh potential tax raises and uh 5.6% and the introductory budget and so many of you spoke about the um other other items as well so um I would like to uh mention one more time
that last uh workshop session we had in-depth discussion um and I believe that almost every council member including myself we we we made our statement and again um I know that somewhere that this item is not on
the agenda today but I I want to still bring the topic um uh in clarification that uh The 5.6% is just introductory budget based
on a expected $33 million transitional aid and when we're expecting that and making a um u making a budget to me it is like a uh building a uh building
uh something on a shaky shaky sand because we are expecting something we are not even sure that we are we really getting it or not so I believe that the administration will come up with something uh that is affordable and
reasonable and also we're going to talk in details as well so I would say uh the people of Patterson just know this we are standing uh strongly on this matter it's not really uh administration against the council but I believe that we need to work on this uh together to
find proper solution depending on transitional aid is is not a solution for that is anything happening outside should I continue no so
paying and also here one of the one of one of the um a gentleman Joe key spoke about that um about last meeting we spoke about the paying bills why is important and he was addressing that I have mentioned one of
my council colleagues name and I'd like to restate that I don't like to mention any council members name and mention anything but I I I stated that it is important to to me it's very important to support paying of bills if any of us
believe that one of the items has any question we can remove this item we can question on this instead of just standing against it and and also I stated that when I'm going to support I'm going to vote against the paying bills I have to make
sure that I myself has to remove my paychecks from that bills so I I think people come in here with particular purpose and trying to just manipulate stuff and and wrongfully present it this is this is this is what happened here um
today as as Joki mentioned my name that I stated that uh one of the council members name uh second thing is um uh what else yeah unfortunately um the the incident that Patterson just noticed and two of the um children right
here we we council members has to know that and I I I stated before that when you're saying freedoms of speech it's not really breaking others freedom and we are we are actually just using the freedom of speech this this phrase and
actually mistreating each other that's this is totally wrong and particularly when you are when you are mentioning the one another council member's wife family members it is totally disrespect and we have to stop leadership team when you
were representing yourself is one of the person that representing city of patter is not like this we we we see a beautiful city where people are respectful to each other supportive to each other but this is what we don't see here so I think that we have to be the
example for the others and we expect the same thing from the public as well so decorum should take place here in the in the chamber with that being said my body is yes thank you council council Alz at the public portion it was at the public portion there was a lot of things
that was said I will take what is belong to this this side to us and whatever don't belong to us I'm sorry you feel that way but one thing I got to say and I got to say it loud and
clear I am human you come after my mother you come after my fa my father you come after my wife my kids i'm human i apologize to the audience out there watching this
meeting but put yourself in my position i'm the I think I'm the last individual here to insult anyone i'm the last individual here to disrespect anyone and sometime when you see me smiling it's because I don't care but
when you come after my personal life and my my family I'm human so saying that let's continue conducting the city business and God bless America my vote is yes to close this thank you
Councilman council President Council President thank you Madam Clerk um I I think that we always talk about all the issues that are affecting the city of Patterson and for me it's so sad
when we have to start attacking you council Khal's wife his her ability to speak or any ability it's just it's just sad and it's horrible for me on my watch and and that's it's hard for me to
tolerate it to sit here and see a council Khali that should respect the family of Uki and should not bring the family on this day as because we an elected official but my wife the councilman wise she's not an elected
official there's a line and for me it's very difficult it's very hard and it speak a lot about the person that used this data to do that speak a lot that is the reason why I I asked for the five minutes break i do apologize to the resident of the great senior pasel
because that's that's what not we should not be doing that and it's it's sad and if for me it is extremely horror as well to see a members of the public that come here and start harassing my council Kali a female council woman look at me what
are you doing she was on the sometime we get texts sometime we have to text our family sometime we have to get on the phone with a proceed to there's a lot of thing we stay here for six seven hours and we have to return phone calls take notes and but that doesn't mean that
we're not paying attention and having a person addressing my council woman like that if you agree and you support that you have you check yourself you have problem and I would not allow as council president anybody to come here and threat one of my council colle like that
I would not allow that to happen and if you see that I I never get our police officer involved I never get the police officer involved because I like to deal with the person and I know I'm capable and I have the ability to deal with people but for now
some people they don't deserve to be on this council chamber they don't so I would not allow that i don't feel I'm not I I I feel that I took the right decision to address that gentleman that came here the council woman was busy and
that's her right she paying attention um and it's really sad it's just really sad but at the same time it's it's election time it's election season you're going to see people using this chamber to do a lot of other things um we're going to be here and we're going to be here strong
this is a governing body and I'm here to work with all my council i'm here to work and protect my council colleague because if we're gonna have a discussion if we're gonna have a debate it have to be about the city business that has nothing to do with my wife or my council member's wife or the council woman has
nothing to do with that and if you telling me that you want to run for higher office I mean I don't understand that's a real problem for me the city has enough problem for us to pay attention to what happened in this city and if you have to get a family member
involved to call the attention you have a problem i believe that I did the right thing and from now on you come here you disrespect this chamber you respect the council we're going to ask you respectfully to leave the chamber because we here to
conduct city business and I understand that freedom of speech is all here but you know what that doesn't give you the right to disrespect people that's right doesn't give you the right to disrespect people and I want our Patonia that come to this chamber that does that doesn't give you the right to come here and
disrespect administration disrespect the council we could agree and disagree on any policy any legislation any action that the administration is taking that's government and that's policy now uh let me just I just want to say thank you for all the members of the
public that came to and and and used the three minutes at the public portion some of the some of the members of the committee they use a little they use a little bit more because they have a lot of legitimate information that need to address the council and the administration and um the the lady that
came in and spoke about Phillips Academy i went to Phillips Academy i met with the board uh I met with the board i did my part and they told me that they were handled i don't know what happened but I'm very happy that everything is being resolved um and and we're living on a
very difficult time right now in Patterson council members um and I understand that I mean all people are talking about is tax incuries even though we what we working is on the uh on on the um introduced budget but the community is very concerned people are
afraid homeowners are concerned because we our pace they going through a very difficult time with high taxes with the lack of service we got to we have a lot of work to do we got to do more with less in Patteradison and some members of the public they came in and they spoke
about uh commercial vehicle or parking overnight in the street that's a revenue right there let's enforce the law that we have in the book if we enforce the law that we have in the book we will not have to go to the taxpayer every time to increase the taxes there's a lot of work
to be done there's a lot of people i mean street cleaning going out without without inspector and any route you could fight 100 carters $5,000 right there i mean it's just a lot people are breaking the law every day and there's no consequences we have We have $1
million to buy 70 cameras i'm asking for the report i don't see those camera out there to stop people from dumping garbage in our community we're spending thousands of dollars to pick up those those garbage that people are dumping and Mr e bossi um based on what I
understand he's still in charge of the program uh um to the you know s uh uh Mr uh director Ramirez I know you acting as our our VA please uh send an email to director Abosi he deserve to come he
have to come in front of the council and give us an explanation about what happened with that million dollar grant that he's working on those 70 camera they should be out there there's only this that's the only way that we're going to stop people from dumping because our DPW they going around the
city dumping garbage at everybody coming in and just throwing out so we have to enforce a law and there's a lot of money in the table that we live in and then after that after we do that homework let's see how can we work that out with this budget that we're going to
that we're going to have very soon in front of us let's pray for our city let's pray for Patterson and before we take any action let's think about the children that came over on this chair to this to this council let's think about those children they watch those council meeting they
look at our meeting and they're sitting they watch you you know so so I mean with that being said uh uh congratulation to Clarence i mean great guy he's uh he's um he's out of the library but he did a phenomenal job
over there at the library we appreciate your job brother may God continue blessing you with long life and let's um let's pray for our city but let's work please let's concentrate on the city business that's all I'm asking respectfully let's concentrate on city business my vote is yes Madam Clerk
thank you Council President devosa nine in favor none against the public portion is now closed uh thank you thank you there's a um there's a none so there's item 48 on the agenda Madame Clerk yes so
yep um so item item 47 uh is out of is off the agenda it's off the calendar let's do item item 48 madam clerk item number 48 is a resolution authorizing calendar year 2025 emergency temporary appropriation April through May 2025
administration resolution number 25 col 222 so move second this moved by councilwoman David second by counciloman mince uh roll call clerk on item 48 council president council president yes council before uh discussion before
discussion council val and counciloman Cton um Councilwoman I'm sorry Council President um I know that we going to emergency preparation what that what that means for tax what that means any tax okay how you you
know we ain't got no tax and no appropriation for no money come on i could ask how you going to have a tax increase and appropriation CFO this is already in the previous budget right the balance appropriation yes okay that's what I
want to know it was in the previous I thought something new okay thank you council member roll call on clerk on item 48 councilwoman Cotton thank you Madam Clerk um this uh what we calling this emergency temporary appropriation for the month of April and
May madame Clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman Dava did you vote councilwoman Dava oh okay my vote is yes thank you Councilman Jackson no thank you Councilman Khalik yes thank
you Councilwoman Mims so I'm going to vote but to uh CFO I would like you to send a description because we have moved from fiscal to calendar year and I would really like to get some understanding as to why we're doing appropriations for May and June this should be in our
current budget i'm not sure why we need to do appropriations for these two months but if you can send that to us in writing to me it just doesn't make doesn't make sense so I I just want to get some clarity if you could just send that in writing why we're doing
appropriations um as it relates to um a temporary budget for a a calendar year because calendar year is January through December right we're applying for transitional aid which we won't find find out until about July or August so
we should already have money in the budget that will hold us for May and June why are we voting on a approach this is April and May for April and May so why would still is the same difference we're January through December so I'm just trying to understand why we would need to do
emergency appropriations for May and June if if our calendar year is January through December i'm I'm just I I just would like Right it doesn't make sense though uh Mr cfo can you answer that question so at
the beginning of the year we do we do a temporary budget for the first three months of the year which is all we're allowed to do um the first the first um budget is 72% it's I'm sorry 26% of last year's budget that's the first three months then we're supposed to introduce
and we wouldn't need any more temporaries but since we didn't introduce then we need temporaries for May and June if we don't introduce I'm sorry for April and May if we don't introduce by May we're going to need more temporaries to get us to introduction and then but the reason the
reason why I'm asking because the introduced was removed correct correct so the introduced budget had a working tax increase of 5.6% right which was a number that was
plugged in based on the the dollar amount that we have applied in transitional aid of up to 33 million correct correct so with that being stated for me I'm just trying to really gain understanding because if we were to
um if we had some guarantee from the state right or possibility of this is where we're looking possibly at 31 million or even if it's a 33 that money could be used as anticipated revenue
versus now we're doing appropriations so I'm just trying to understand why do we need to do appropriations where we're right in the the middle again again we at January 1st we did a three-month appropriation for 3 months which is 26%
of last year's budget that's three months right after the three months which is January February and March you need more appropriations so either you introduce a budget or you need to do temporary budgets to appropriate for So I'm going to the next phase because all
of this I I this is going somewhere so if if if the budget is introduced again and it's not passed we will still be able to do appropriations until the time of getting an actual letter from DCA saying that we will get Okay so I I'm
just putting it to the public and I wanted that um the clarity to be on record i was very clear as to what the process was but it's always good to have it out oh to have it outlined to the public
so as we're moving through this process of introducing the budget which it was removed today and it'll come back at at um some some point um I just want to make sure that there's room in case the percentage is not um feasible to our
taxpayers i've stated it and it was mentioned again tonight our taxpayer base is only approximately 20,000 used to be 23085 I believe is reduced at this point so about 20,000 people are carrying the weight for a population of
over 200,000 in this community which is really really sad it's a sad situation we know health care costs go up we know there's salaries there's lawsuits there's all type of things but we have to get raidables going in this community
and we need more enforcement if enforcement was like at 100% we would be able to fill a lot of gaps i also want to put on the record I voted no on the million dollars for the 77 cameras cuz I was uh at that point believing that we
would not see them and I see that I was accurate so I would like the administration to give a status as to where those cameras are and if we're not adding it that million dollars could be plugged in to this gap of the budget because if we have not ordered and nothing's been done and this council has
voted on it I just saved this I just saved a million dollars for the taxpayers so I we haven't used it that money could be plugged in um and then we only need 30 we only need five million instead of six and I'm sure there's other ways around it as well my vote
Madame Clerk on the appropriations because our city has to still move forward is yes thank you Councilman Omar yes thank you Councilman Newton so uh thank you Madame Clark um uh Patterson uh we last from the last two
weeks still speaking about the um uh expected raises the introductory budget came up with 5.6% 6% raise um tax hike and again the administration is expecting that if we receive $33 million from the state then we can go down to 2%
was the minimum um minimum we have to raise now I love to support there's no question about it uh we we this is our second time in this year we are going for u appropriations and for April and May we are we are uh
here with $80 million but I I like to see at the same time as councilman mentioned that why we are not go you know adding more months but I like to see that uh clear um the budget introduction coming as soon as possible
with uh w with wi with with more fiscally responsibly ly and want to see that um the tax introduction that's coming from with the expectation of $33 million i want to see something coming up with with less expectation from the state uh cuz what's happening at this
point I don't think we are receiving uh I don't know cuz you are more expert than me but I don't see we are receiving the the money that we we are expecting $33 million I see we receiving less than what we are we applied for so um I like to see uh the introductory budget come
in with uh it's a lowering uh the taxes at the same time so uh but still uh we'd like to see the city moving forward but one thing I'd like to uh state earlier that I don't want to see many appropriations coming one after another and and and we are not introduc introducing budget what's actually the
same time we are doing the same thing if you see the difference CFO um that for last three months from March um January uh February and March the appropriation that you introduced which uh which is $75 million and
$152,000 and but just for these two months for April and May we are here for the appropriation of $80,666,000 so 600 boarding you don't need to answer the question to me but again I like to see that introductory budget coming up with more uh more
strategic way um instead of just with expectation a budget cannot just depend on a hope it has to be depend on a strategy so that being said my body is yes thank you councilmanzman I There's a lot of a lot of so the budget had not been
introduced and we are doing temporary budget since January in other words they spending without being introduction budget that's what I get right councilwoman
they spending without right council woman councel they are spending from the budget correct correct so other words if I would budget if I would budget from
January to December is about 350 or 400 or $350 million we already spending $155 million from this budget without introducing the budget
and without knowing what we getting from the state and the reason I asked about the tax is because if we spending based on that budget somehow a tax increase is going to come in as councilwoman Davis
say yes tax increase is going to come in so knowing that this is tied up with the um introduction of the budget that they are talking about 5 point and a half tax increase or
levy i don't have no faith that this is going to go down even the tax to 2 point and a half i don't have no faith this is part of the budget what we approving here even it's appropriation emergency or whatever we have this will
send a sign that we are spending something without introduction of the budget so saying that I'm going to vote no no no okay thank you council council president oh thank you madam clerk um to the members of the public um what we're
doing exactly what we're doing here It's a temporary appropriation this is something that every every municipality go through so we are we are in a calendar year so our calendar year starting January to December from January through March we approve a
temporary appropriation of 75 million from April to through May this is the appropriation that we voting on now and we have to continue until we get a adopted budget now my recommendation and this is something normal well this is not a tax increase this this happen in
every municipality and if we don't approve this temporary appropriation the city will not have money to operate to function there will be no money for the police to pay our police department no money for public work we'll have no money to pay our electricity bill so
let's have that clear this is not a tax increase now my recommendation to the administration because as you see what's coming there's work to do and I've been saying this at the workshop and now this is the time for the appropriation to look for those additional radio that
need to come in into the city through all those permit through all those uh fees that we living on the table this is the time for us to do it now also it's important to look at the balance where where can we cut silver we have work to
do because as you see our taxpayer they cry i mean we're not we're not approving any tax increase and you see how the community feel i make a lot of phone calls and the biggest fear that people has is that that they're going to be hit with another tax increase plus a sewer
increase plus the school board already got 4% increase people we we're pushing people out of the town so um that's my recommendation to the administration um to just start working on that um but with that being said my vote is yes on
the temporary appropriation thank you Council President the votes are seven in favor two against the um item number 48 is adopted thank you Madam Cler item 49 item number 49 resolution honoring and memorializing the life and legacy of Dr
cecil Dicki sponsored by Councilwoman Dr lisa Lisa Mims and Councilwoman Ruby N Cotton City Council resolution number 25 col 223 second uh it was moved by Councilwoman Mims second by Councilwoman Ruby Cotton uh
roll call item 49 roll call on item number 49 councilwoman Cotton thank you thank you Madam Clerk i just want to say that um um honor and memorializing the life of Dr cecil Dicki
who ran the Head Start program that we had in the city of Patterson for many many many years um she was an outstanding lady in our community you can go and talk to her at any given time you will want to be around her because she was truly truly a community person
she loved life and so with that being said um honoring her and her legacy is truly an honor for me that I was able to be around her in my younger days too to see all the good work that she has done and it rubs off on people when you're
around good people when you're around good people good things rub off on you too remember that stay around good people and not evil and destructive people madame clerk with that being said my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman councilwoman Davala yes counciloman
Jackson yes counciloman Khalif yes councilwoman Ms when you think about education you think about Dr dicki um and I just want to say to her family um this will be framed and we will make sure that we send it and ship it to you my vote is yes thank you Councilman Omar
yes councilman Uden my vote is yes clerk councilman Vez my vote is yes council President vote is yes by the clerk thank you votes are nine in favor none against item number 49 is adopted thank you Madam Clerk item number 50
okay item number 50 resolution reappointing Jackal and Murray as acting municipal clerk pursuant to NJSA489-133C for an additional one-year term from December 1st 2024 through November 30th 2025 city Council
resolution number 25 col 22 so move moved by council dava council member less and second by counciloman proton um roll call discussion councilman Mims i would like
to amend this item to have her um have the date changed until May instead of November oh because the election is correct we need a second there's a motion on the second second i'm sorry there's a motion
on the floor uh by move by Councilman Mims and second by Councilman Veles and Councilman Jackson council President discuss Councilwoman U David discussion just real quick council um I know that there's a motion on the floor in a second for an
amendment to add an additional um is this something that is allowed through statute is this something that we can do yes I spoke to Go ahead explain yeah I corporation council corporation council thank you council president so my
understanding is that we need DCA's uh permission to extend uh the term of um the acting clerk uh they've given that permission up through November so any extension past that I believe would need the permission of DCA it would involve a
formal request from council president on behalf of the council and then they would take that request under adisement and advise the city whether or not DCA consents i could pull up the statute that requires DCA's consent but that's essentially how the process was and that's also a conversation we had with
our DCA monitor uh this morning okay so the reason for that that question and I wanted you know for legal uh uh to to uh clarify is because um I know that when we approved and I know that council president through you you wrote a letter
for the um second extension and I know that this has to be done and it was not done last year because she was not here all right um right she she she's been on medical leave so I know that this is something that has to be done um but I also know that the
resolution indicates the time frame so that's the reason I'm asking you know I do not want to be put in a position um because I remember being in a meeting that it was specific that this had to be done but that it was specific to these
dates and that any if any other uh extension would have to have an approval directly from DCA so even if we took action it wouldn't be valid council President council President council President i was first they wanted I was
first i know i know no no i'm waiting for him he's looking at you oh you didn't say oh okay so we are the legislative body of this city and we're grateful for the oversight that DCA provides us i am making the motion on
the floor that we you could vote it up or down and then DCA has to tell us and have it in writing that they do not want to extend her until May so I am standing on my motion we have to
use we as council members as the legislative body have to be sympathetic towards any person that has serious situations going on in their life whether we know what's happening or not we have to be able to utilize the power
that we have civics 101 again we are the legislative body dca cannot dictate to us that we cannot extend we have people I I don't want to I want So we can vote this up or down they can
come back and send it in writing and we'll bring it back in at another time but tonight I've got the motion on the floor i would like to extend madame clerk until May of 2026 just uh I have to I have two more council call so what we doing here thank
you Council President i just there's there's this legislation to extend um Madame Clerk um to give her a year extension until um November 1st which is now so there's a motion on the floor by Councilman Mims to extend it from now until next May um that will cover a
little longer so now I have I have uh bring Council Member Bles and then Council Dean right after okay okay correct so So that's good councilwoman um men's uh that we extend it to Maine and also should be another way as corporation council if we could extend
it to to uh to justify why we extending it for example on May 30 I believe the petition will come out or December will come out for mayor election there is there's another election that election is going to be crucial in our city and
we need the full staffing of uh of the clerk office i'm not saying that she cannot do the work but um knowing that the experience is also be there that she could be over working there if we could put a whereas the need of she be
extended because hiring another clerk no matter where is it right hiring another clerk will put time constraint in that person to hire to get on board and to jump into election right away understood
understood and that's real crucial and and and and also council I have council me um and also Hispanic clerk deputy clerk Phillips will be having that conversation about the hiding process and now our clerk department is very is very limited in term of staff I I feel I
feel really sorry for the amount of work that our clerk office have to go through it some today was only Sophia there until our secretary came in uh and it was it's bad it's difficult so we have to correct that before we get our cler
her back i know in I pray God that she'll be back with us soon so but we have to correct the the staff shortage that we have on the clerk department council me uh thank you council president so um as you all know that I was very supportive to um our madame
cler when we uh we we made her the um cler of the city i was I was highly supportive and I still want that but as councilman Veles just mentioned and this was the reason I'm speaking that as we are having an election in May
2026 and if we extend I just want to just let you know that if we extend until that time how do you prepare ourselves giving giving some more responsibility to prepare for the election i mean if we see that until my
point is if we give her this time and if we see she need additional times we definitely cannot bring another resolution like how we are doing today so that's all I want to mention and we both of us council president we mentioned and we personally spoke about
her situation as well that we we need to respect her and give her give her extension so I believe that this is what we have to keep in our head before emotionally we just keeping uh additional time toward the time that we are talking about that's all I need to talk about okay and just for clarity
council the date is May 31st 2026 okay all right so council president uh council all right um um the madam clerk um she's been out and I know that she she's not really doing well but the extension would be good but
um I had made a suggestion last meeting I believe it was is that when they do the posting for the city council office they need to make sure they put in there doing council meetings that that's part of being working in the office besides
just you doing the things do citation answering the phone you know everybody call the city council office for everything and they're constantly transferring them call to another department constantly transferring to the health department to DPW to the law
office they're constantly so I think that when they when they go put the posting out looking for someone to come in there they need to make it clear that they need to work in the council meetings
workshops and regular meetings it needs to be clear i'm not sure um madam Mr ba you know that could be clear because I looked at the posting and it's not clear of what the job title
is and what they have to do um it's more than just being a secretary it's more than just being a secretary so I think that if you don't mind u Mr ba the posting when they do put it out there needs to be more clear of what they need
uh in the city council um citations and it's a lot of stuff that that they need to do you know I bring in the newspaper for them because when they have articles uh ordinance that got to be published you know I bring the newspapers in for them so they can save it there's so much
stuff that they need to do to make sure so I just want to make sure that we um that we're able to do that that if you could take a little bit of my advice about that you know I I think I wrote some stuff down too what the requirements is besides that vague it's
just vague yeah so it's just I need to um do that so and we need to um extend it so and as I stated before and I'm going to say it again when they look at our council meeting you ain't get nobody to come in here to want to work cuz they
watch our meetings and I I you know what they keep saying is the money but it's about watching this and here it is almost 12:30 and and they expect them to be back at 8:30 in the morning working fully and ready to work no they're not ready to go to work at 8:30 in the
morning councilwoman thank you i'm sorry but I'm going to have to put it out there you you think what you want to think but I I worked at office for 20 years so I appreciate council no corporation council can you take my advice please Mr ba thank you corporation Castle ask for the floor right after the floor let's vote on
amendment it's 12:24 i don't want my council colleague to start leaving the chamber because I know that someone my council colleague they have work to do tomorrow but please let's uh cooperation council yes thank you council president i'll try to be very brief i just want to point out that uh
NJSA4A 9-133 governs the reappoint of a municipal clerk that does not have currently have the certification and pursuant to that code which is cited in the resolution um within 90 days of the occurrence of a
vacancy in the office of the m municipal clerk a reason of departure of a registered municipal clerk the governing body may appoint a person who does not hold a RMC certificate to serve as acting municipal clerk for a period not to exceed one year and commencing on the
date of vacancy any so any person soapp appointed may with the approval of the director of the division of local government services in the department of community affairs be reappointed as acting municipal clerk for a maximum of two subsequent one-year terms
following the uh termination of the temporary appointment no local unit shall fill the position of acting municipal clerk for more than three consecutive years so that's right from the state statute it's also cited in the resolution and so uh my uh advice to
council would be to uh proceed with the resolution as written um as I believe it complies with state law and council's uh extension for an additional 6 months beyond that without um DCA's explicit approval as required by the statute
would be in contradiction of the law thank you question council so based on that statement that you say there right that's what so based on that statement that you say it's three years conse how many this is second year third year okay
so this is the third year it will be the third year third year or second year this is second for me the third no this is the second this is second here says council members let me say this here says corporation
council this the third or the second based on your on your record this is the third uh thank you council president um so this is the third year and um the final year for the but here I'm reading whereas DCA okay the
2024 that was when the letter was sent for renewal and that was the first renewal the the date the date I'm sorry council president may I if it's helpful councilman the dates are laid out um in the resolution
um the acting clerk uh was appointed via a resolution March 28 2023 that was retroactive and so I think that's part of where the confusion stems from the appointments cover retroactivity so from December 1 2022 to November 30th 2023
then there was another one from December uh 1 uh 2023 to November 30th 2024 and then this one would cover the period of December 1 2024 through November 30th 2025 so now let's make believe up to November right because based on the law
right the law then it's up to December 1st 2020 no sorry November 30 2025 and she comes in next month but she got into the title of acting up to November
30 2025 correct from that point on she could serve as deputy clerk without no problem no no no hold on council President may I No council President may I address Just a minute council members this is a a
question for legal legal can you answer that question that way we could be quick and fast and effective go ahead thank you Council President thank you Councilman nothing herein impairs uh the acting clerk's uh responsibilities or duties as a deputy clerk this is just uh to comply with the state statute to have
a uh a registered someone who has a RMC uh fill the position of clerk so this doesn't impact her duties at all as a deputy clerk if that's the position she wanted to to come back to this is just dealing with the council's purview of appointing a municipal clerk and we
could have two deputy clerks and that's who go to bump who see things so no corporation council the question council let's ask if we could have two deputy clerk hold on she her was by
resolution too see we should have a second a second section on this because so council members council members so so hear about for a minute we all agree just we all agree that we really wants to support clerk a thousand% correct
there's no and we all agree that in this governing body we want our city clear back we want our city clerk to be in full in position with us and that's her sentiment now you hear what legal say right she's coming back she got the time to take another test in October she
still have the time to take it i believe that if we will help her by approving this resolution which is what the states say that we have to do and we could come back and support her for an additional one is if if that's what we wish so this is the second council this is the second
one the second no look look it says look look look it says it says here from December 1st 2023 to December 30 2024 is one year from December December
2024 to December November 30 it's two years no 25 it's two years corporation Council it's still two years here three right no because it's December council President may I may I make a
suggestion um we we verified the dates with uh DCA and in accordance with the previously uh passed resolutions but might I suggest to the council in its wisdom to perhaps uh proceed with this appointment for for the date specified
in the resolution and if council would like to meet with DCA directly and seek a further extension another six-month extension past that to cover the elections I would certainly support that and and be in favor of that and um I'm I'm a big fan of of uh our acting
municipal clerk and anything we can do to help her but at this point in time the way the resolution's written and the state statute I think um militates in favor of passing the resolution as is that doesn't prohibit the council from meeting with DCA and trying to get
additional time should DCA uh approve it in accordance with the state law so let the let the record reflect council president and corporate council that this is the second year it is sir look December 1st 2023 is
only one month from 24 december 2023 to November 3024 is 202 one year 23 December December December of 2024 to December to November 2025 is two
years it's come on it's not after which Well you guys content is the the 23 and 24 is the month okay time of month corporation council councilman here and a second here retroactive already from December there's a motion and a second
on the floor okay you can vote it up or down there's a motion council members okay the let's go by parliamentary rule so the motion is in the floor if we want to extend the clerk time until May correct um so we hear legal uh
recommendation with and what the law say i know that we all agree and we are in full support of the clerk so if the motion is on the floor let's let's uh let's let's go let's do a roll call for the motion um let's vote up and down um
and let's take this the next step i I do agree that uh today and before the vote today at 11:00 a.m councilman Cton and myself we met with DCA i disagree though don't say go ahead we met with We met
with Corporation Council met with him council we met with corporation council and we have that discussion about the clerk we've been fighting for the clerk for the longest to make sure that she stay with us so now the motion's on the floor roll call for the motion how long
you been fighting roll call that's your aid roll call to extend the term of um the acting city clerk Jacqueline Murray to May 31st 2026
25 Oh yeah 2026 26 may 31st 2026 may 26 okay um Councilwoman Cotton yes councilwoman Dav I'm going to put it on record uh understanding what we have before us understanding what corporation council
indicated uh but also understanding that you know we here as a council and it's it is obvious to me that there is you know the full support um I'm going to support in in in the positive okay
but understanding that there is a state statute before us so I don't know what DCA is going to do you know in terms of coming back to us but this this is a body um I would have agreed uh with
corporation counsel that he you know did give us legal advice that we should at least uh support the action the way that it was written and then meet with DCA but you know I I'm not going to not be
in support of of having you know an extension if it's by law you know um and also understanding that you know the clerk does work for us uh it is the only appointment that we this council has uh
so you know with that said you know I'll be in support of uh having or or supporting the extension um but understanding that you know this probably will be something that will not stand my vote is yes thank you
Councilwoman councilman Jackson there's always circumstances for everything and um in light of the current circumstances whether or not they approve or not is something that we should be fighting for because this um young lady has obviously
worked herself into the point to where she's her current condition could have been the ramifications of the stress that she was being put through the um excruciating work conditions where
construction was going on for certain parts of the building being abated we've already had a number of different um employees in the building that that had adverse medical conditions and I brought that to the attention of the administration and no better night than
have the BA who's also the health and human services director director I mean uh and and Mr ba there should be some type of report or some type of uh you know analysis done we should hire a professional to come in and find out we've had a number of different
employees who've been impacted and had um you know some uh adverse health conditions in this in the who all work in the same environment same building and we need to find out whether or not they're being impacted by the conditions we know the stress that add that's been
added to her plate um can possibly have been a contributing factor but the fact that we are not standing all in unison um you know it should not be this this this woman has put herself on the line has done you know shown her her u
professionalism her commitment and we should all stand with her in unison regardless even if it was a fifth year even whatever whatever it it takes um she should have an opportunity to continue to serve as long as she's um she desires to do so madame clerk my my
vote is yes thank you Council Councilman Khal thank you Madame Clerk um our corporation council he had read the statue state statue and I heard it from
him is allowed by DCA by statue for 3 years basically uh doing the job without the um certification i mean uh my vote
is no because of the statute mandate by the state that is up to three years and if there's an extension if state allows it definitely I'll be in support of it my this no vote
does not mean that I do not support our uh madame um madame clerk i'm going according to the statute according to the book uh corporation council explained it very well thank you
Councilwoman Mims yes so I want it on record so when you find out about it you won't be shocked i will be reaching out to Governor uh Phil Murphy who is our Democratic governor i will be calling his office tomorrow with this actual item because I'm going to the governor
not to DCA because if DCA is telling us with the extinuating circumstance that's going on that we are not allowed to do this then we have a problem we have a serious problem with what's
what with laws ordinances and the lack of compassion for people that have worked so hard for this community worked hard for this city and they don't even get the pay they deserve they don't get the pay they
deserve so I will be calling Governor Phil Murphy tomorrow with this resolution and I'm going to put it on the record and I want him to hear the me the meeting tonight that it was stated that she can't get until May it's only a
few more months after November gives the opportunity of the test from October or April i will be going straight to the governor's office and I'm grateful i I know we talk about it all the time we have relationships i will be using my relationship tomorrow morning because
I'm off and I got time and I'm gonna use it and I will be calling taking this item directly to the governor and I'm going to make sure that the governor himself makes sure that DCA does write by someone that has worked in the city for a long time i can't get into any
additional details because there we have not rights the employee but I am going to put it on the record that when it comes to situations and and people are going through per whatever this their personal private whatever it is we as the
legislative body have to show compassion and empathy and there's no way in the world I don't believe that the governor I don't believe the governor is going to say no he's going to call DCA and say give them till May cuz I'm going to call the governor the governor is over DCA
i'm calling the governor i'm gonna take this item to the governor tomorrow and have them send a letter to the city and I'm gonna say that was said on tonight's meeting please watch the meeting you'll get the details madame clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman councilman
Omar yes thank you Councilman Nuden thank you Madame Clark um so if Patterson and if um uh Madame Clark um Jackie uh Murray if you watch us live I want to state
that you know that how um supportive I was and I am until today I want to see you coming back with fully healthy and uh today we are speaking about year of
extension and uh But at this point we talking about another additional 5 6 months that's the fight about this council meeting takes place um twice twice a month if we need to extend we
definitely can extend at the end if if we notice that she's not coming back after this term's over so I am fully supportive toward the additional time however I feel this is I
don't I don't see is important at this point to just put uh more than a year at the same time um and and and this is the reason it's not just only the state statue i believe that um the with the time limit if she comes back which is
great if not and she request additional times and I would definitely support in the future but at this point additional five four five five six months I don't think this is this should be supportive so my vote is no madam clerk
councilman yeah because I voted no to be I'm I heard you that's so let me see if I could follow one thing here council president in the beginning says
council means u council president stated in the beginning of this uh reading this into the record that this is the only position that we are entitled to hire and dav oh dava say oh wasn't you okay
davala the council woman at large finaniator that sit down with DCA once in a while right stated that this is the only privilege that we have as a council to hire the clerk that's the only privilege
we have we are the hiring authority for the clerk's office what I don't understand is why DCA if it's our curfew our desire our willing and if it was somebody that was not
doing the job and they have the experience or whatever is another thing right but it's that that's what I'm trying to put in a balance councilwoman I'm not saying they wrong or not wrong i'm tell I'm trying to comp comprehend you know where's the balance and where's
the just the just and what's the law right now council woman uh D um Mim stated that she's going to the governor and that's a good thing I could follow you but do you think he could care he's out in November you know but any
decision made he could say you know what that's what DCA says that's what it is and that's what the law said right unless Unless unless the statute is amended for Patterson only then it's a different thing right based on law but I have
faith I have faith because one thing is faith is things that you don't see that comes in action you know and and I got faith that DCA understands the position of madame clerk
that understand the tribulation and the health situation nobody want to be sick and out of work okay let's be honest you know and I hope that they understand that the city of Patterson to
make a transition to hire a a clerk takes time now if we don't hire a clerk because those clerks that submitted they don't like the salary and we a whole year
looking and searching for somebody what's going to happen they going to sanction us because we didn't want to give them the money or they or you know they don't want to come for that money for Patterson so it is is is the things that we had to analyze so at this point
we'll taking uh the extension hopefully that the governor and and the communication that Dr listen will have with him uh make understand that six month is nothing six month is nothing okay and uh based
on the needs that from from November into May 26 ladies and gentlemen that we need a clerk and she's acting she knows how to certify she know how to do this she know how to work with teamwork i'm saying that this is a teamwork trust me
the clerk the deputy clerk every employee that city council and their clerk are the spine from the clerk or acting clerk and they work real good for me no problem i apologize corporation
council yes I find I find in the on the on the resolution the third year the third year was December 1st 2022 to th November 30 2023 i find it in the paper i was concentrating to keep it in two give me a second that's why I
didn't want to read up there but madame clerk madame clerk as I say um and I say when I call you that God give you health and I want to see you soon in this city chambers
u you being missed um saying that uh my vote is yes to this uh amendment council President thank you oh we have to vote again no no it's 12:47 council he's been for 10 minutes no it's two year now he
finally realized that it's three year but but I I but this is um the la the next text that it will be able to um that that it will be available it's going to be October and given this extension it will give the collect the
ability to have multiple chance to take the test and to get certified i'll pray every day for my clerk to feel better to get better to see her back him because she's a hardworking woman she work hard she work hard uh she's tireless she work
day you know she come in the morning and she's here at night doing her work so I'm praying that she came back soon um so having her into May it will give her more ability to be able to get certified because the idea of DCA was to open the
position now and start and start the process now i agree that we should give the her extension and if they don't agree we're going to come back and have a conversation with DCA i need three of my council colleague that come with me to have that conversation with DCA and continue the dialogue but for now we
voting on the sanction for from now all the way until May 2026 and my vote is yes thank you council president the votes are seven in favor two against resolution number 50 is hereby adopted
as amended it's adopted so we could continue as amended correct we we have to vote it on now oh that's right i'm sorry no so I'm sorry Council Member Corporation C yeah you'll see I'm on point corporation council i I'm on top of my game so we
did the amendment now we got Dr mim's helping you so I know you're So but before before we before Cooperation Council let's vote on this that way we could move on and I'll get back to you roll call Madam Clerk roll call for item number 50 for adoption now we voting on
um Councilwoman Cotton so because right with the amendment oh Councilwoman Cotton let's do it quick so we vote non madam clerk yes um it's 1250 um the extension to May 31st 2026 right
amendment corporation council was Yes okay yeah she um we need to do this ascension we'll see what the outcome be but um like I said you know uh hopefully she'll be back very soon i hope she will be you
know so she can get um ready but with that being said um Jackie we're looking forward to seeing you soon um just get well so you can get back here madame Clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman uh Councilwoman Dabler
so before I vote there were a few things that were said today and um I just want my deputy clerk to know that I am happy with all of the work that you have been doing
and I will not be in any support of trying to remove you because there were certain comments that were made bringing back people pushing absolutely not i don't know why even came up but I'm putting it on record um you are blessed you work hard and I'm sorry that we make
you nervous cuz I know I was calling you where's our stuff for the state but I thank you hopefully everybody got it right everybody got it yes yes yes good um you know but with that said like I said in in in the amendment you know
I'm I'm going to move forward i mean I I'm not going to stand here and say no you know I I believe that you know she deserves an opportunity um you know for the extension but you know I put it on record i know that it's state statute so this is not about the governor this is
it is state statute so in order to change state statute has to come on the floor by legislation and it has to be voted and I don't know that that would happen so there is no one that can come and say if there's a law that you know because you're the governor unless
you're the president but anyway with that said we're going to move forward you know I'm voting yes thank you very much um Councilman Jackson thank you Madam Clerk um I'm not sure uh
Councilwoman I've seen multiple times the governor's m making an executive order and uh that he's he's made an executive orders on on a few occasions that overrode stat state statutes but I mean
needless to say I think that um with with encouragement I know that if it took the the legislature we we would be able to get it through considering the circumstances but madame clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilman councilman Khalik thank you Madame Clerk i
explained my uh vote on the amendment and I stand by it this no vote does not mean that I'm not supporting the I don't support the uh madame clerk and um like I said before um is a statue on the book
which is a law our corporation council explained it before we put in uh carriage before the front of the horse now we should I think we should have gone to DC first and then come back with the with the with the resolution and
vote on it uh we are doing the other way around and my vote is no your vote is no councilman my vote is no thank you uh Councilwoman Mims so just before I vote I just want to put it on the record when you read the body of the
resolution it states prior to this amendment it stated if by November the clerk is not certified they can now well it wouldn't even wait they would start if we voted on the previous
item on the agenda just to November they would start the process right after the vote to start looking for someone certified just in case she doesn't pass it so that's why my thing is we have to amend it till May because we have I'm
not even go deeper i I'm just going to say this we have to be sympathetic cuz each one of us could be in the same scenario not even next week tomorrow at any time and I'm sure when I talk to the governor and share what's going on the
governor will have compassion i don't care if the governor is he's not leaving until uh the end of the year so he's still there and I'm sure once he hears it I mean look our first lady fought for maternal health i'm very sure they will
support this item i am going to make that call tomorrow and they will follow up and I will also talk to our senator to make sure that if there's something that needs to be done in addition to it will it's a no-brainer we're the
legislative body i Yes absolutely it's a no-brainer Council Member as you know we know better our vote is yes thank you Counciloman councilman Omar yes thank you Council uh Madame Clark thank you very much
um so initially I voted no because it's not that I'm not supportive to the uh Madame Clark she knows and everyone in the city of Patterson know that I'm very supportive to the uh madam clark uh Jacqueline Mor and um today we are speaking about as you talking about
sympathy we are uh we are talking about additional a year of extension and I was fully supportive toward it and since uh there was a uh amendment on the floor for additional uh 6 months and that
already approved and I believe since council members majority council members supported already um there's no point of voting no toward it um and but again I I'd like to mention that um we since in
so many items we we follow DCS um uh and state statues then why not for this one so um again Council uh Madame Clark uh respectfully um I again I'm going to stay on my route because I cannot just
pick and choose for this item i'm supporting and following SH statue and other items i'm following stat statue i cannot just play the role so I would stay on my same board that I voted earlier my vote is no thank you cast
move so I know a lot of have been saying about the state statue but state statue have A B C D E F and G yes mhm um and I heard today only the
AOB I probably there's some not loophole but it should be something out there that say you know what this is the exception that's right this is the exception if she was taking vacation going back and forth taking her time free time or
whatever but meanwhile she she's taking care of her health and that's the exception saying that I seen cases that the state statue says
something the argument have been proven and they take it to a higher court and they say you know what your state statute is good for that moment but this is an exception we could allow it and we're not breaking the law because every
case every statue every situation has an argument and those arguments could be heard and it could stand in her favor to move forward sometimes we want to predict
things that really is not going to happen and they put roadblocks before it happens so saying that if I need a pardon from the governor in the future I will use it for this one but I will I will I will go
forward to extend it to six more months after the day that we say there by voting and I stay strong and solid that she have been a bless when I need her and when she being here in the council also doing her work as a clerk working always with the the employees and
everyone in the city one thing I know is that she's not a puppet my word is yes thank you Councilman council President thank you Madam Clerk um you know our clerk Jackie she it's been a she's been a blessing for the city of Patterson as I mentioned before
she's a dedicated hardworking uh clerk that we have here and this extension will it will give her the ability to definitely um get certified and stay with us uh until she decide to um I'll pray that we get her back soon healthy
and ready to work with us ready to fight with us with those election that are coming that are in the pipeline so absolutely my vote is yes thank you the votes are seven in favor against item number 50 is hereby adopted as amended
thank you Mad item 51 Council members 1259 let's Let's get Let's get this quick item 59 council President just for clarity on that last item um I just want to confirm that the motion was made by myself is that correct yes what well the motion to amend well we the motion to
amend was made by you right yes and and I second it but the the thing is that that oversee that supersede the first motion the first the first one it was um council and then and then cotton it was moved by council mess second by
councilman Jackson and council bles and cotton and cotton and that's item 51 please item 51 thank you thank you my thank you um 51
second 51 I resolution to rename Carolton Drive to St gerard's Way in honor of the 60th anniversary of the St gerard Maha School sponsored by Councilwoman Marissa Davala City Council resolution number 2525
so moved second so moved it was moved by counciloman Davila second by council councilman Councilman Mims he knows why would you move it is moved by council counciloman Davila second by council mess council me and
council ro council president madam um council woman large I spoke to the congregation this is the same um um iography about the 60 years anniversary and this and that um that we councilman
this is to this is street naming I know but this is a street naming that we did okay way back oh yeah I think I think they sent me the resolution I thought that could sponsor two roll Council good sponsor to council it was moved by council members you could be a
co-sponsor okay thank you i could be co-sponsor all call okay it was moved by councilwoman Davala seconded by Councilman VeZ and Councilwoman Cotton no mim Counciloman Rubic Council Valz and I co-sponsor okay okay got it all right
thank you roll call for item number 51 for adoption councilwoman Cotton thank you um Madame Clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman Dava um to all that called uh I don't I'm not going to mention names uh but you know I I
think that this was something you know um that was requested you know by the community the second ward uh residents in that area uh in addition you know I appreciate all that San Gerard has done i mean we have family members who have
gone to school there um they also have always opened up their doors um in in regards to um uh supplying you know their their hall for different functions and you know
when you have parishioners and individuals reach out to you uh in in um commemoration of 60 years of existence um why not this is something that we do we've done it uh uh for others and I just felt compelled when asked and I'm
happy that the council moved it forward and it's here for a vote so congratulations my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman Jackson yes councilman Khalig yes councilwoman Mims yes councilman Omar
Councilman Omar yes councilman Uden oh okay so before I vote um I just want to state that Carlton Drive was a two-way street it came to the um comm uh DPW committee and we discussed we made it a one-way
street now um now we are talking about 60th years of anniversary and renaming the street i like to reme remind my council colleagues that since every council every item should go to the committee meetings then I like to see also street re renaming also going to
the committee discussion as well before it comes to the uh meetings so um and and so I'm fully supportive toward it but in the future I'd like to see committee has discussion before which comes to the meeting my vote is yes
thank you Councilman uh Councilman Vez Council President we had to do something my vote is yes ML my vote is yes thank you Councilman uh Council President my vote is yes i say yes item 52 Madam Cler nine in favor none against
resolution number 51 is hereby adopted thank you item 52 Madam Clerk item number 52 is a resolution authorizing the water contract to Wales Cleaning Company for the clean commercial corridors project bid number
25.11 for the division of urban enterprise zone of the department of economic development economic development resolution 256 second moved by councilman mess and councilman David Davilla moved it first and this came to committee and was put
forward I moved it council Councilwoman there's two there's two council woman that moving yes it's you and me and SEO by Councilman Bles let's make it peace you are right huh let's peace peace and
love roll call roll call on item number 52 for adoption councilwoman Cotton 53 councilwoman Cotton we on 52.2 no we on 53 52 oh oh she didn't vote where we at
we're 52 Madame oh 52 years okay let's go okay oh this is good yeah cuz I'm getting ready to vote um I'm looking at this resolution here for
Wells Cleaning Service uh this is you know what I'm not in economic development i'm looking at the quotas i'm looking at the the bids it's not even close i don't know what went down with that time what went down i have no idea how he going to do this for
that little bit of money how is he going to do that how he's going to clean this for that little bit of money you know it's for him i disagree that he can do it when I look at the other bid specs I can't I just don't understand it u my
vote is yes for Wells um cleaning thank you Councilwoman councilwoman Dler so before I vote I guess I I would probably have to you know kind of answer Councilwoman Cotton's um uh her statement um or her question uh uh I was
the only one that attended the committee meeting so I'm going to put that on record okay where there's four of us but I was the only one and these items were forward and exactly everything Councilwoman Cotton just questioned is what I put on and I asked the directors
both director uh economic development director and also UE director and um not always the lowest is the most responsible okay so we'll put that I'll say that first
um we understood it was specific to the UE zones uh there are 35 vox that they have to do uh when uh I reviewed and saw the amount of employees you know there was questions there as well um but
understanding that I was the only one in the committee I was not going to stop this item from coming and moving forward to workshop where and workshop um hopefully there was a discussion um and I put that on record just to say because um I know that Councilman Khik who is
the chair was away he was away um when that meeting was set um and and no I have to say it because it's been various meetings where I'm the only one sitting on that committee meeting um but this was the company that was put
forward i even think I saw the mayor post a picture that you know that that that um you know and I was like wow and I did say I said you're posting a picture and the council has not taken action yet to vote on it and his
statement was I did not vote on and saying that he got um the contract i voted I I posted a picture saying that he won the bid which is exactly what happened there were three and he was the
the lowest of the three um there was one that extended to which was a very very large amount um but I'm going to be in support i'm going to be in support it is a Patterson um
business i just hope that uh what was um what the specs were and what they say they're going to do they are going to do um it is important that you know our streets are clean and you know if uh this company says that they're able to
do the work and you know put it in writing then um who am I to question if they're not it went through a procurement process they won the bid it's before us so my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman councilman Jackson
um you know it's unfortunate but it's not a surprise um when Dela Fisher was hired to be the first uh um aid or whatever the position was that she filled she was paid significantly
less um and every time there seems to be you know someone black that gets a position here with this administration they're paid less and and this is just the uh it's been the track record you know
obviously I'm supporting brother Wells uh but I will be reaching out to him to find out how exactly and if he's being um required to fulfill the same per um uh uh the same uh uh amount of work
expected as the last vendor was madam clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilman councilman Kate well uh thank you Madame Clerk uh this company i know him very well i heard him for a couple of my events he
did a great job i usually do a event at the steady up every year so um and definitely my vote is yes and like every other contract is went through the same process thank you thank you Councilwoman Mims so Tashan you know
I fought for you the last time i'm glad we finally got it right this time you did a lot of work cleaning up downtown and um Henchin for us in the past and I'm glad to see that someone from Patterson um was able to go through the procurement process and win the bid my
vote is yes thank you Councilman Omar yes Councilman Omar yes thank you Councilman Nen thank you Mel Clark so um this is a Pattersonian uh owned uh cleaning company taan Wells owned this and he's
doing great job in the in the uh city of Newark for many last many years and also work in the Hin Cliff Stadium uh last time uh he um uh he was expecting a contract but he was not able to make it
but I love to see him back uh one more time and I like to see him working in our city so with that being said um Taan congratulations my vote is yes thank you Councilman Veles councilman Vez
um uh um CFO I know that I don't know who put this paper together who put this paper together what department you can ask question huh no no but who put this paperwork
this package this paper because because I'm looking at the paper and um the the resolution authorizing the wall contract to White and Sher Oh I'm in the
right place look it has a paper that belongs to another Thank you another resolution no I'm I'm I'm in Iden 52 but I'm I'm looking at a paper
the third paper the third read you got the same package he's right actually come on no I'm not looking forward that they the department they put a paper in here that is not belong to the uh item that we talking about it's a mistake that need
to be re Yeah yeah the cler the cler the cler will fix it council okay that it says department for uh HIV system and plumbing and all that stuff i just want to make sure yeah okay that should not
be there okay so the other thing is uh council president um I know we in voting but because we fast to jump to vote sometimes you know some question arise i don't know when this bid was performed okay anybody tell me was the bid was
performed the bid when when was the day was performed cfo when was the day the bid performed came in you got something in there that shouldn't be in there come on
did so no because let me say this i raised the Oh come on man i raised the same question to the mayor why you taking a picture and and embracing that he won the bit right and and and when he
is a true it's a truth okay it's a truth but he don't do it for everybody this one I don't know he make a big emotion and take a picture and I and I asked him why he does it when we haven't take action now today's what the 15th right
and nice picture having meeting with the person that um won the bid it's good but let I I put the same scenario to the mayor what about the what about the council
what about council members please council member it's 1:14 a.m so there's a few more items what about What about the council decide and rejected it fails right and he does all this celebration pictures and everything is a problem um
but you know I just want I just want to say in the record that this company have done performed a job in the past okay and he have done a great job but one of the things that you had to pay attention is councilwoman um whoever is in
economic development um uh to to work with this that it's not fair is not fair it's not fair the contract is fair for him but it's not fair the scope of work
um one and you say it was for uee right zone so one UE zone get 11 block clean and one get two you know and one you know it's not fair no no c council members we council
members we're in roll call and I understand that councilwoman uh councilwoman the um um men when we sat down in committee before we look at the list that they was going to cover and we added no in the past we added more
blocks for cops more blocks for this and more for that i don't think that four blocks from straight from summer street to straight street is not four blocks they call four block because it got a medium but it's only one block but I
know they do I know they're going to do a little bit more than what they supposed to you know that's a lot of 20 11 blocks 11 blocks in number one from Union Avenue to
Redwood but don't worry because I got the same length or shorter on UEZ zone i only get in four blocks well actually if you look at it it's not even four blocks it's two blocks but they put four straight street
from summer what is that nothing straight street from summer that's nothing it's u But Market Street is UZ all the way down to Madison Avenue and going around from Madison to the other side and coming back park Avenue i'm getting
two blocks look Park Avenue i'm getting from Carol to to Memorial oh my god ladies and gentlemen the contract will do the work they're going to do the job but one thing is they coming short in my
fifth ward i don't know if it's a payback from the mayor i don't know what it is my goodness but one thing we had to be diligent too i don't know if Councilman Jackson is going to agree on me on this we approve our budget to the SID when you have seen the SID working
cleaning up downtown the SID SID is the same thing sid SID is the same thing they have not clean it and we approved the budget for them increase the budget from 300 and something to
$350,000 and we haven't seen uh one of those bucket cleaning on on downtown from the SID in other words sit saying this congratulation to the gentleman that came back home a Pisonsonian i know he's going to go he's
going to go out of the way to keep our city clean my vote is yes thank you Councilman Council President um thank you um Mr well congratulation you're pass your Patterson resident i mean this is no brain this is not brainy i don't know why we spending so much time with
this the guy participated on the bid he was a responsible bidder he proved that he got record many company that we or many contract we approve here you don't see any record you don't see any history of of the company doing the work so at
least this company they have done the work and they have great record so congratulation um let's move forward my my vote is yes thank you Council President uh the votes are nine in favor none against item number 52 is adopted okay item 53 Madam Cler please council
President council members so I just want to bring to the public and to my colleagues that it is 1:18 in the morning my daughter and my grandbaby are here and they're leaving in the morning well they're leaving in a few hours so I am leaving i am I am leaving uh the
meeting um so that I can make sure that they get back home to where they live thank you council member so we only have three more items item 53 good night good night Patter yeah which item council president item 53 53
okay item number 53 is a resolution addressing an entertainment show license renewal for Costa Bar Restaurant and Lounge TA Bakadito bocaditos yeah bogoditos yes it tastes 7
uh 710-712 Madison Avenue Fifth Ward Finance Resolution number 25 second moved by council president and council and second by council me and council roll call did you say I second i
move it okay thank you come on seconded by um vote for me and council and second Mendes mudine right okay second they second okay um roll call on
item number 53 councilwoman Cotton yes councilwoman Davlin yes counciloman Jackson yes counciloman Khalik oh he's gone oh he's not oh Councilwoman Mens yes councilman Omar
yes councilman Uden my vote is yes Madame Clark okay councilman Vez if you want to visit a great place in the city of Paras is located both Kadito is located in Ellis Street and Madison 710 Madison Avenue
nice place marissa Davila always loved this place no he he vote yes councilman he said I just vote yes yes yes thank you councilman is good council my vote is
yes council one council item 54 m eight in favor one against I mean one absent I'm sorry item number 53 is hereby adopted what was the item again council president I'm sorry 54 madam clerk 54
good night um see Yeah 54 i understand oh I'm sorry item number 54 resolution amending resolution number 24 387 which is the 24-25 annual meeting notice for the municipal council of the city of
Patterson to correct the date of the 2025 June workshop session to state Wednesday June 11 2025 and to confirm that meetings have returned to the council chambers city clerk resolution number 2528 so move um u madame clerk
council president I'm sorry it was moved by Councilman Dav second by Councilman amendment cuz it's supposed to be Thursday it should be Thursday there's no way there's no way you can come back Wednesday after an election there's no way i'm sorry there's no way you can
come back on a Wednesday for a council meeting during an election on June 10th it's always the Thursday after the Tuesday primary the election is the Tuesday current the meeting is supposed to be meeting goes to Thursday exactly thursday it's never the day after never the day after never
it's over call you but council council president madam clerk okay all right madam clerk it has always been I mean at least while we've been here 12 years right she's been here 12 years that we never have a council
meeting the day after election it's always been the Thursday so Tuesday is normal election right so if it's primary or November or or May it's always the Thursday it's never we've never had it's
too much for the clerk it's too much for your office to come back when you're here till what we hours and then have to open back again so the it is a mistake so yeah there's a mistake you have to correct it yes but the correction should be Thursday exactly so it's always a
Thursday so we voted on it and and you correct it madam clerk if you could correct that and we could continue so motion to change mo we have to put a motion on the floor uh to change from Wednesday to Thursday yes so Thursday June 12th thursday June 12th second i
second it there's a motion by Counciloman Davilla second by Council Council Ibrahim roll call on correct on the amendment on the amendment of item 53 roll call on item number 54 as amended um I'm sorry yeah councilwoman
Cotton yes to amend i'm sorry councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson yes councilman Omar yes councilman Uden yes council council President council
President yes mad votes are six in favor three absent uh item number 54 is No I have to roll call okay roll call on item number 54 councilwoman Cotton yes
councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson yes council Noar yes councilman Uden yes council President yes madame Cler thank you the items are six in favor three absent item number 54 is hereby adopted
as amended thank you Madam Clerk item 55 madam cler 55 one second it's the last item you have a phone do I have it
one second please i don't see 55 do you need it no yeah come on thank you item number 55 is a resolution addressing the renewal of an entertainment show license for J&B Bar
and Liquors LLC 468-470 Broadway First W Finance Resolution number 25 so move second it was moved by Councilwoman Mandava and second by Councilman Kton roll call at item 55 okay one second
roll call on item number 55 for adoption councilwoman Cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson yes councilman um Omar yes councilman Uden yes council President my vote is yes Mad
thank you the items are six in favor three absent item number 55 is hereby adopted thank you Madam Cler this conclude our agenda may I have a motion to close no no we got second reading i'm sorry um
Oh my gosh yeah we have we have a few we have three yes on second reading yes and we have two first reading two first reading so stay tuned it's 127 don't stay tuned with those guys remember guys m let's start with our second reading ordinance let's do this mhm okay we
could do this quick where where you open the public hearing and close it come on item number one yes number one of the second reading my current right now item number one um it's an ordinance author second reading ordinance authorizing legal lease renewal and update for the
Patterson Task Force 36-38 Circle Avenue also known as Hilltop Haven Administration ordinance number 25-012 public hearing is required it was moved by counciloman Davila and second by councilwoman Kton and also council
Ibrahim also as well i don't know why because I was on it it was it was moved by m correctors was moved by council dav and counciloman k and second by council Ibrahim um public the public um so
public portion is now open for members of the public that wish to speak on item number one move to close second move to move to close for by counciloman Davlin and second by councilwoman Cton and council Ibrahim roll com to close the public hearing council
Councilwoman Cotton yes councilwoman Davlin yes councilman Jackson councilman Omar yes counciloman Uden yes council President yes mad clerk okay items are six in favor three absent
um to close the public portion thank you Madam Clerk roll call on on item number one on the clerk second roll call on item number one on second reading okay for adoption Councilwoman Cotton thank you Madam Clerk i just want to say to Eva because I know she's
watching um I have been on this for the renewal for the Hilltop Haven which is a shelter for women and children um we finally got the the lease agreement signed and I just want to say thank you to Corporation Council Aean Abushi and
Joelle for making sure they had not had a a lease for quite some time so thank you gentlemen for us pushing this forward quickly to get them so they can start getting more grant funding they needed this lease to get more grant funding absolutely with that being said
Madame Clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman councilwoman Dav I won't say much i think Councilwoman Cotton rounded it off said it best uh full support of the Patterson Task Force and Hilltop Haven and Councilman I'm sorry Corporation Council thank you so much
for all your due diligence on this my vote is yes on second reading thank you Councilwoman councilman Jackson yes councilman Omar yes councilman Uden yes council President my vote is yes but included thank you the votes are six in
favor three absent item number one is adopted on second reading thank you Madam Clerk item number number two item number two um ordinance amending and supplementing 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 Davala co-sponsored by Council President Alex Mendes Councilman Lewis VeZ Councilman
MD Ford Uden Councilwoman Ruby En Cotton Councilwoman Dr lisa Mims and Councilman Ibraham Omar second or number 25-013 sorry second moved by counciloman David
second by councilwoman Kton and counciling council and council Ibrahim um members of the public uh public portion public hear is now open for item number two see no move to close by councilwoman uh Cotton and second by Councilwoman Dava
and Councilman Ibrahim roll call on the clerk to close the public hearing on item number two call to close the public hearing on item number two councilwoman Cotton thank you madam clerk uh this is for you Victoria Aquendo um this is for you Madame Clerk my vote is yes thank
you Councilwoman councilwoman Dava Councilwoman Khan why you trying to steal my thunder i know so um I I need to definitely put this on record and I know that we're closing the public hearing but I I want to say this you know uh there was quite a few uh members
that came constituents that came complaining about getting tickets and they were parked in their driveway we know we got the situation going on with parking throughout the city um I believe that this is going to be a way of uh and obviously enforcement is important um
but this will alleviate and I really want to a special thanks to Victoria uh Okendo because through her and her due diligence and her doing her research and working with corporation council we were able to put this together and I know she
was on top of it she was calling me and I'm like "We're getting it done we're getting it done." Uh but Victoria we finally got it done and I'm looking forward you know to putting some type of alleviation to uh some of the uh
homeowners or constituents who have and get the permission um to be able to uh park in the driveways so with that said my vote is yes thank you Councilman the public hearing councilman Jackson yes councilman uh Omar yes councilman
Uden item number two thank you public hearing thank you Madame Clerk so we are voting on the item to um the owner can park uh blocking his
Oh closing public sorry my vote yes m Thank you yes councilman VeZ yes council President my vote is yes but I'm clerk thank you the votes are nine in favor three absent
item number two is close the public hearing okay no we close call on item number two for adoption councilwoman Cotton yes councilwoman Dava before I vote Before I vote Commissioner Razak is
still watching eva she's still watching and she wanted to thank the council for the vote on item number one uh but for item number two my vote is yes thank you Councilman Jackson yes councilman Omar
yes councilman Uden so uh thank you Madam Clerk um we are voting on an item that a owner can park blocking his driveway with a permit but at the same time I want to remind that and I want u madam cler to take notes
the parking on the commercial vehicle park overnight that's a regular issue in our city when you're talking about something like that that we need permit to park on our own driveways which is great and I'm one of the sponsors the problem that I myself is
experiencing for last about a year or so almost every night I call Patterson Police Department for two commercial vehicles parked on my own street that street that I live on even now the both commercial vehicle
parked on my street that belong to Park Avenue Foods their their location on Albian Avenue so I want to take notes on this uh to write it uh uh you know I'm going to send you the uh pictures
tomorrow morning or just now and I want to forward that to the department i believe that there is there is something something else is happening how come Patterson police department come they issue ticket and keep going the same things happening why not they are towing
the trucks in the repetition of the same action every day two trucks on the same street Lexington Avenue so I'm going to forward I'm going to send an email to tomorrow morning or just before I go to sleep i need action
on this cuz we are trying to improve ourselves and when we are introducing a a legislation that you can park on your own driveway with the permit people will feel that this is a joke to them because commercial vehicle parked on the street
no enforcement and we are talking about permit parking when I'm blocking my drive so uh we need to do better job on this as a legislative body we need to introduce the new and better uh legislation that's that's true but execution has to come from the ex
executive branch of the government so my body is yes madam clerk thank you councilman councilman VZ is it done thank you thank you madam clerk councilwoman uh David thank you for bringing this uh forward and uh have
a a thorough discussion with us and that's why we supporting it uh to the residents of Patterson homeowners and anybody that willing to take benefit on this read the whole ordinance please because we don't want this people
fighting for things that are not meant to fight with for this strict rules here there's some requirements there's some permits that you had to follow with uh applying for
and um hopefully this alleviate uh the call of service also uh for blocking driveways or whatever so if you follow the ordinance and and the requirement that is here everything will be okay
my vote is yes thank you Councilman council President my vote is yes Madam Clerk thank you okay the votes are um seven in favor all right now roll call on item number two now
we just did the roll call sorry item number three i'm sorry voting yeah the roll call no on item number two we voted mhm we're moving to item number three yeah item number three Madam Clerk on second reading i didn't announce the
votes the votes are seven in favor um two absent did he vote item number two is hereby adopted did he vote no yes he did you say item number three council president item number three yes madam cler item
number three is an ordinance updating chapter 433 of the Patterson code entitled storm water control to comply with current NJD standards public works ordinance number 25-01 so move so move second moved by
Councilwoman uh Davila uh and Councilwoman Kton and second by Councilwoman um public portion is now open for item number three members of the public that wish to speak on this item did not move to close uh Daniel is
here is here oh I'm sorry go ahead mr over here to speak uh when uh you guys were talking about the parking and uh me this is not that item though public hearing is for this item no no no he you know
just he was trying to speak on the last side of guard but just to summarize me and Mike Jackson I posted it on my uh fa Facebook for Silk City 1 where uh the people were also getting ticketed and told for parking near the the corners
and so on the on the state law you would be violating if you don't give the person the ticket but it doesn't state when could the vehicle uh be removed you have boats that were staying for longer than than 3 years 5 years in one position without being told so it's a
this that's one of the concern of the the people in general especially in the four forward where it's overpop populated and less sense and that's different that's that's basically what I'm saying thank you thank you thank you may see now move to close
move to close by counciloman Davila second by council Ira uh roll call man clerk to close public hearing on item number three okay roll call talk roll call um to close the public hearing on item number three councilwoman Dava um
Cotton I'm sorry yes councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson yes councilman Omar yes councilman Uden yes madame Clark councilman Veles there's no money involved in this right do which one come
on man it's a public hearing huh public hearing oh item number three is any comment coming closing okay all right oh I could comment his speech the discretion of police officers all depends if the
vehicle is causing any kind of hazard they could to it away oh my vote is yes to close thank you Council President my vote is yes ML to close appro hearing on item number three public hearing needs to close on item number three votes are
seven in favor two absent roll call roll call for item number three for adoption councilwoman Cotton councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson yes councilman Omar councilman Omar yes councilman Uden i'm
Yeah council right yes my vote is yes Madam Clark thank you Councilman BZ he said yes he did okay no not yet uh just uh take in consideration that the 44
433-18 has a violation and penalty just in case anybody don't want to follow this new uh ordinance on it my vote is yes still got three thank you Council President my vote is yes Madam Cler votes are seven in favor two absent item number three is hereby adopted thank you
Madam Clerk on first reading item number four Madam Clerk on first read we don't need public hearing on this item first reading no public hearing is required ordinance amending feed provisions in Patterson Code chapter 121 Animals chapter 227 Food and Beverage Vending
Machines chapter 231 Food Establishments Retail chapter 235 Food Handlers Certificate chapter 243 Food Vending Vehicles chapter 279 Sales of ICE chapter 349 outdoor cafes chapter 351
lead based paint chapter 417 slaughter houses chapter 427 solid waste and chapter 441 tattooing finance so move second moved by Councilman Davin a second by Councilman Ibrahim on first
reading roll call on the clerk i'm sorry roll call okay that's right i forgot roll call on item number item number four for first reading councilwoman Cotton yes councilwoman Dava yes councilman Jackson
no okay councilman Omar yes councilman Uden yes councilman this is good for um for um raising raising fee yes uh to
outdoors [Music] cafe th house solid waste full handler certificate all that retail food establishing retail
oh no I don't I I don't I don't feel comfortable raising right now they going through a lot of burden uh my vote is no okay thank you councilman Um Councilman my vote is yes but I council president
voted your vote is yes vote is yes okay thank you i mean yeah go ahead the votes are five in favor two against two absent and just before I continue council member listen four is adopted on first reading second
reading will be held second thank you it's even it's 143 but I need to say this this item has been it's been like for over a year we've been back and forth playing around with this item those are like fee that they haven't been raising in like 20 30
years it just just out of if you really if we really serious about doing business with the city this is the least that we could do uh item number five I don't click on first reading okay council president one moment second reading will be held at the May I believe it's 15th meeting i'm
not sure i don't have my form with me okay okay second reading will be held on the May 20th meeting regular meeting at 7:00 p.m for item number four item number five for first reading no public hearing required ordinance
authorizing the continuation of the city's municipal identification program and increasing the fees health and human services so move second moved by Councilwoman Dava second by Councilman Ibraim roll call on cl on item number five roll call on item number five
councilwoman Cotton councilwoman Dava yes counciloman Jackson yes councilman uh Omar yes councilman BZ yes mirk councilman Mendes
excuse me i'm sorry he sound like me but not me udin udin councilman Uden so um I understand I understand that um this some ordinance some ordinance had not been amended for more than 30 years but
when you see a license for public eating places sitting 300 people from 1500 to $2,000 it means a lot is it almost 100% or more than 50% raise in all those licenses 100% you know almost um
um council president I don't have a problem um some issues that we having with the border health um I don't know if the inspectors of border health are are being orientated the right way but I
have some some concerns from border health inspectors oh um going into establishments going to establishments and Um I know it's border say border health um and going to establishment and instead of
expecting for food or or out of date food or whatever they going to places and they and they telling they telling the store owner for example if they have a bathroom in the back that have been there for decades they tell them no I
don't want the bathroom back there I want the bathroom in the front and um and that's not is a a a a a construction official he's not the inspector is not a construction official individual to change bathroom when he wants to especially when it's not a
restaurant it's a grocery store so there some things that they going into the the new inspector I'm talking about they go into places and you need to change the council what does that have to do with increasing fees for IDs oh no because they say health and human services yes
that's under health that's a department we had a committee meeting but the director the same way that council woman started talking about the No but you're talking about something else we we're voting on on So So I the last item that's okay that's okay
council member good you're good council member get taken to look at that to see if they you know they don't exceed the power of inspecting but this is No we are voting this is this is uh what you want to be on this is I don't know how much revenue
we doing on this the IDs but I know the production of IDs have been going down since u all this immigration situation going down yes ID they don't even want to put their passport they're going to they're going to go for an ID um but
saying that as I said you know how much is the fee now all right no we started with seven i believe 15 council member let's try to 15 let's try to ask a question before during the
discussion when we enroll calls are we supposed to take action either vote up or down on any item but the uh director what's the fee on the on the on the ID the current fee is $15 1515 and it's going to what 15 now council
President go ahead d $20 huh it is going to $20 oh thank you and that's not a lot of power in the ID but Okay okay they don't set those IDs in motor vehicle they don't set those ID no way no they're important those I did they're
important but saying that at least let me give it $5 a raise on that the other one I didn't agree this one I agreed all right my vote is yours thank you Councilman council President thank you Madam Clerk i um I remember when former mayor Joy Toro was um that was his
initiative i was in full support i was a councilman at large when the ID when the municipal ID came on board there was a lot of requests we have a lot of a lot of residents in the city of Patterson that they need those ID unfortunately then now the legal status is not
organized and the ID means a lot for resident that we have here because you could come with you could go with a password from your country and with a picture and prove and you could get a city ID that's important director based on your comment on on on any any inspector if there's any inspector doing
any wrongdoing s so we not we're here to enforce a law we're not here to break people and hurt and hurt business so I I definitely know that you'll be handling that and And if everybody has a complaint the director is there because we got to make sure that our employees do the right thing with a business owner
my vote is yes madam clerk thank you council president the votes are seven in favor two absent item number five is adopted on first reading second reading will be held at the regular meeting of May 20th 2025 thank you madame clerk the
last item which is item number six item number six is a resolution authorizing an application to the Vaya County Open Space Farmland a historic preservation trust fund for the East Side Park Broadway Steps renovation project so move second administration resolution
number 25 180 so move so move move by council president Councilman Councilwoman Davilla second by Councilman Eie and Councilman Cton a roll call on the clerk on item number six okay roll call for item number six
um Councilwoman Cotton yes councilwoman Davlin yes councilman Jackson yes counciloman Omar yes councilman Uden yes councilman Vez oh okay councilman Veles no okay council
President my vote is yes I click thank you the votes are six in favor three absent item number six is hereby adopted thank you Madam Clerk may I have a motion to close so move motion to close moved by Councilwoman Davlin and second
by Councilman Eric council President before we close um this is something that's very important that I need to address um and I don't want to do it in closing because it's that important uh this afternoon um as I
um was approaching city hall uh my son was dropping me off and I happened to witness um we've received numerous complaints i personally I don't know how many other council members about the situation that's been going on in 125
Ellison Street i have had conversations uh with director Boosezie about his his program the real fix um but I saw firsthand today how there was a group that came out from from the program
stood right in front of 125 went on the side of of the steps as people are coming in and out constituents coming in and out um and I took a video of it because that is how concerning it was and specific that my son was able to
witness what was going on and nothing was done uh there was a gentleman who decided to take out his drugs roll up and the person who I don't want to mention but
works for the program who should be I guess the counselor whatever the person is did not say absolutely anything and it was a city employee who walked over and basically told what are told the
gentleman what are you doing now he wasn't the only one but he was the only one rolling up and uh this employee said "What are you doing?" And he says "Oh this is legal i could do this." He goes "Absolutely not it can be legal for you to consume in your own privacy but not
for you to do this in front of a municipal building and in open space." And so I have the videos i have said it numerous times to the mayor that program needs to be removed from 125 Ellison Street there are individuals that walk
into the first floor that go in there because they're in need of food or housing or situations rental assistance um you name it you know and the other departments also individuals going you know um uh to other
departments concerning economic development zoning and planning and and it's an embarrassment and it's truly uh disheartening to see that that is allowed and it's and nothing is being done and to have witnessed that the
person who works with that group Oh yeah allowed the person didn't say clear up go and I'm standing at that point i got out of the car cuz I wanted the gentleman to see that I witnessed it now I'm not going to put myself in a position to start arguing with someone
because I'm not going to put myself in harm's way okay but we need to do something about removing that program out of 125 Ellison Street and having it in another space once again I've put it on record i have here the videos and I
want something to be done and I think every council member here if you were there and you were with your child or forget it my child any child okay for that matter we have schools that are all three schools right literally not half half a block away and you know that's
being allowed so um I want to thank you and also I've gotten complaints from the employees they don't feel safe these individuals have gone to go into other floors using the other bathrooms there's feces on the floor there's urine we need
to stop it um with that said I'm sorry roll call Madam Clerk roll call uh to adjourn the meeting of April 15th 2025 councilwoman Cotton oh we didn't you didn't get a motion what are we doing Madam we closing the meeting as well we didn't get a motion
all right thank you Madam Cler i just wanted to before I close I just motion say that again we didn't get moved we did to close move the It was There was a motion the floor to close move by it's a roll call to close second you call Cotton yes there was a motion moved by
Councilwoman Davina and second by Councilwoman Cotton and Councilman Ibrahim roll call i said that I wanted to okay i didn't have it on my paper madame clerk okay so you have the motion to close to adjourn the meeting by counciloman Davilla and second by council and counciloman Ibraim correct
mhm okay so roll call now roll call to close the regular meeting of April 15 2025 councilwoman Cotton roll call [Music] yes yes council thank you Madam Clerk i just want to um
I just have a few things to to say to the audience watching and um thank you for watching um and I do want to apologize for what went down this evening and it should not have um you know our children are on spring break not everyone is but most public schools
are on spring break um what I would like to do is like make sure that especially our young people coming out of high school that are not going to go to college that we can encourage them to take a trade whether it be electrician or carpenter
um a construction worker um right now they're not looking for sweepers or laborers they're looking for people with some type of trade something that that they can do so let's let's do our best to encourage our children let's do our
best to um engage them in all different activities that that we can have here in the city because it it's really it's really really really important um and I know that and we had talked about this before that many people are watching our council meeting you know people may not
think so but they are watching and um we must always try to be on our best behavior because when you see young people out there um and I think what's happening with our young people out there they're looking at what the grown people are doing and
they see that they're not doing the right thing so please let's let's continue um I just want to also say that um the PC Valley Water Commission has now partnership with shears the program
shear does electric and gas and so PC valley water commission pic water commission has now partnership with shears that they will um pay portion of your bill i believe it's up to $200 there's 200 for electric 200 for gas uh
and two now 200 towards the water bill um like we said before there's still many many people out there um since co our um delinquent rates at the S Valley water is has doubled people are still
owing from from CO that they're not have not been able to um recuperate also I want to say I participate um in a lot of programs i donate to a lot of programs and that's because of my
husband we felt we needed to donate because we that's how we grew up and we donated and we support and we do that i just want to say and I want to put it out there on record you know it was said about Assemblyman Alman at the time but he has always
supported a lot of organizations he's never put it out there in public i don't put everything I do in public out there but Councilman Al but now he's an assemblyman has supported many many if I he sat next to me for seven years and so
if I say to him somebody's having an event he would say "Okay tell me who to make the check out to and who to give it to." So I just want to put that on record that he has donated he's donated to my organizations my egg cotton foundation my bicycle giveaway my
Christmas giveaway my Thanksgiving so and I know a lot of council people sitting up here have donated and you say "Okay this organization doing this this one is doing this." So but I always say you know if they if they say thank
you they say thank you if not then you know this there's something for a good cause and like I'm always trying to get stuff for children all the time raising things for children so if you're able to donate because it will come twofold
back as when I grew up as a kid my grandfather would say if you keep your hand closed nothing will come in it so you got to open it up if you open it up and you give from your heart and you and you'll get 10folds back and I've seen it
happen over and over for my life for my children's life for people that I know so I just want to put that out there there's so much stuff that we can do let's keep supporting each other let's keep you know we just had my organization Mercy African-American women we gave five we gave three
scholarships away our kids you know we're able to help them go to school let's do that so community I just want to apologize for what happened tonight it should not happen people are watching us and we must do our best to be our
best do our best to be our best with that being said um madame clerk I believe that's all I have it was something else but I can't remember but don't forget about the shield program water 973340430 the number again is
97334043 thank you thank you thank you everyone out there please have a good night have a happy Easter coming up enjoy um the rest of the spring break that the children have madame Clerk my vote is yes thank you Councilwoman councilwoman Davo it is now 2:01
a.m uh I want to um again uh Councilwoman always talks about and I always say and I'm going to say I always say that the best nation is a donation so I believe okay what Councilwoman Kotton has said having an open
handgiving okay I believe in helping hands and um I also want to also second what Councilwoman uh Cotton said about our previous colleague now Assemblyman Al Abdulaziz um he is that person uh to
all of us all right and um it's sad that you know they would put it out there that you know he uh only because now he's an assemblyman you know uh he's now uh doing uh uh or or or supporting you know different organizations when this is something that he has been doing for
quite some time in addition to that you know um no one can say that you know uh Albaziz our assemblyman you know he fought hard for the sixth ward and he he never ever you know was shamed about it you know he always stood ground with the
fifth ward but he also understands now he now represents the 35th legislative district with which represents six municipalities and so um you know I thank you uh Assemblyman for all that you do what you continue to do and I'm
happy to have you be uh a representative on our state legislation legislator uh yes on our state legislation am I say I'm I'm sorry i'm tired um the last thing that I'm going to say is you know happy Easter to everyone um have a safe
uh a safe uh uh holiday you know together with your family you know if it's church that you'll be visiting if it's you know um I know that right now um the city of Patterson also is in mourning as you know pis we lost a Psonian uh to the situation that
happened the tragedy that happened in the Dominican Republic uh in addition in PC as well we saw we lost um a the Patterson Peruvian Parade uh Inc uh 2016 uh uh teenage queen um passed away and
you know she was celebrating her birthday and getting a certification in the Dominican Republic and she passed away the day of her birthday so you know just 24 years old so you know my condolences to the entire family to the Peruvian community to the community as
as a whole in terms of the Dominican Republic to the constituent that we lost from the second ward i mean there's a lot of people in her so you know I know that there's mourning um going on uh and then there's the celebrations you know so with that said I stand you know in
solidarity uh with our Dominican community and to all the families and finally uh I do want to bring this up and I will be bringing it up in our May meetings is that P County Community College is going to be hosting a free
open event it's a community uh resource health day where they'll be providing um community resources um that there'll be uh different entities uh providing um um some um through medical doctors there'll
be some screenings done there'll be um some social agencies wick massage and so many other things um just promoting a community because we always talk about that the most import county community college is community and that'll be
happening on uh Saturday May 10th from 10 to 2 at the PIC Academic Center to Paulav in Pake and once again I'll be bringing this up back in our May meeting so with that said uh to my colleagues uh to everyone uh my vote is yes to close
the public portion and I stayed at my three minutes my vote is yes thank you Madam Clerk um a couple things um through the chair corporation council if I can get a report please on the status of of uh community court and the
$600,000 that was allocated or that was granted for the first session and I understand that there's going to be uh a request for for whatever can you can I please have a full report on that by next week um uh I forgot what it what what the other
thing was um relative to voting um listen if you're in this community and you understand the conditions of this this community and if you're from the um urban portions of this community you understand who's there who has been
there and Kenyatta Stewart is definitely a person that's been there i beg to differ there was a a uh community event put together with um all black churches that was the first I've never seen Abdelaziz at such an event um and he's
made it very clear in the past and taken strong stances on who he supports which groups he supports which outings he comes he's come he comes out for and if you're in this community if you casting that vote you're you're from my perspective you're making a grave
mistake um uh that there was Man I should have wrote it down um I don't even remember now i'm sorry Madam Clerk you know forget it my vote is yes
yes yes okay councilman Omar so before I vote I just want to say it's easy to throw a punch at someone when they're not in the room to defend themselves um I want to wish everyone a happy Easter and uh I don't even know why I'm saying it now it's
2006 but to uh to the residents that are watching specifically my six ward residents I do have an Easter egg hunt on Saturday April 19th at 12:00 p.m you're all invited uh happy Easter and good night Patterson thank you
Councilman all right c councilman Uden councilman did he get say yes he said yes i said yes yes yes madam cler thank you Madame Clark uh so uh good morning Patterson um and as we are
closing today's meeting um uh so many of our uh community members were just uh were waiting to see that what we do with the um budget that were in the comm in the meeting last workshop session before
Mr cfo leaves the chamber i want to just uh mention that today we have approved a um uh temporary appropriation for the next two months and we like to see the cities running but again
um we we definitely removed the item because somehow the feeling was that this is not going through because the council members are not going to support that tax hike it does not mean that we are going to have multiple
appropriations and and then end of the day we're going to find out that we expended more than what we expecting so I am telling in advance that we need a budget which is strategic not on the hope of um transitional aid and
depending on transitional aid is not a strong administration we have to find a path that where we can depend on ourselves that's the strategy we have to bring to the council so I want to just give you an advance um uh that in the
future I'm not going to support another appropriation i like to see from now on you're working on the budget and if we need to sit down as council president myself mentioned in the DCA meeting that we need to sit down we need to hear from not one or two council members you need
to hear from every single council members and take the suggestion in serious consideration so Patterson and Patterson very in a level that when we are talking about this budget just know this everything is very connected
Patterson board of education raised 4% taxes which I understand that we have nothing to do with it but Patterson people are getting patter the pe rest of the people of the city of Patterson has to pay these 4% raises came from the uh
public schools we are we are giving um and now we are talking about our own budget so let's let's let's let's sit multiple times before we uh bring the budget to the next workshop session uh uh Mr cfo so I think we need planning we need to have planning in advance we need
to have council meetings um if we need to sit down with the DCA we need to sit down with the DCA um we need to go out uh in every single items and I I'm not sure who's in the ad hoc committee we need to we need to have the meeting in advance not in the last meeting and and
and again I'm saying in advance that I'm not going to support in the future of another appropriation because I like to see the budget uh in front of us and and and have meetings before it comes to the council meeting so with that being said Patterson um and and just know this
every time I walk to the uh talking to the families this debate is between uh paying mortgage or rent versus uh going to the groceries that kind of situation Patterson is going through at this point so again as a council members the voice
of the people we have to stand together it's not again it's not about that administration versus council members it's about working together finding proper solutions so with that being said uh madame clerk my bodies thank you councilman councilman
first of all I want to say thank you to madame clerk council womans councilwoman I want to say thank you to Madame Clerk to the staff of the city council to the staff of the city clerk
for the hard work they did moving all the stuff that we have in our office to be able to have a nice beautiful floor and then put it back in place let's give a round of applause that they did a great job you know and to the DPW
workers that was involved on it too so you know we recognize that we recognize that and they and and they made it so possible that we could have our events here too right Council Mendes without no problem
um our heart goes to the victims of the tragedy jet set ladies and gentlemen let me say this um um I I went to Dominican Republic um on a
Friday to come back on a Wednesday on a t on a Wednesday meanwhile I was in Dominican Republic i received a call that my p my brother passed away right so it was hard for me not only that I go to Puerto Rico
to bury my brother and that same Tuesday that I went to Puerto Rico that same Sunday I went to Puerto Rico coming back Tuesday night okay we received a call about the tragedy in Dominican
Republic it hit home because beside that a lot of people died in that event there in Dominican Republic ruby Perez is second cousin of my wife so his family his home you know
and not having the chance to go there and travel and and and be with them it was hard for the side of the of the family of Ruby Paris so you know our heart goes to them uh we still mourning um this victims and um and we got to
stay strong but I always say the Dominican Republic will rise um at this situation also I encourage the government of Dominican Republic to be more strict in the coal enforcement and construction codes in the Dominican
Republic also those that uh somehow breaks the law in that aspect councilwoman Davila I know you know my wife councilman Mendes I know you have be with us and everyone that knows
my wife she's my diamond she's my diamond so those that do not know where she come from let me give you a little history she comes from a well-educated family the mother is a retired teacher
in the Dominican Republic her father is an accounting accounting did you know went to school for accounting his brother is a business administrator have a sister that is a
doctor my wife has two masters a business administrator and a economy master in economy international economy so she's well prepared i don't have to put a gun on her i don't have to tell
her where she had to go apply and that petition is when I'm the hiring authority and I hire a family member so in this case that don't apply for me and she's will qualify for the amount of money that she
received as an employee saying that and once again we're humans i'm a human person and if you come after my family my blood the reaction that's the lesson you
could receive from me argue and defend them saying that madame clerk let's um remaining the week that we call Holy Week be one that we really do not do it
by tradition that our actions speak by itself today we heard people talking about let's come together let's unite let's do this let's do that but when when they speak about that their actions are
different you know um and once again I'm the last person in this council proudly to offend someone with my actions i sometime I smile because I believe I had to smile because I don't want to take it to my heart anything that happened today
Councilwoman here I know happened for a reason but one thing I know is that that will not change my heart to say to serve the city of Patterson and the people of Patterson i'm genuine i could continue
serving the city of Patterson with all my strength and all my heart but putting God first and putting his strength over me thank you for the Patterson Police Department for being here and and all the staff and corporation council uh
thank you for everything you do mr ba um Mr ba thank you i I just said Mr ba thank you for being here and your knowledgement will be
proven down the road hector thank you my vote is yes to close oh uh thank you Mr bezos thank you thank you for being here council president uh my vote is yes to close the um the
meeting tonight good night and and and um what's his name melinda and Mr raphael Gonzalez thank you for all the work that you do and your patient with the cameras thank you council councilman council
president thank you Madam Clerk i I it's 27 a.m uh first of all thanks to all my council collei think of the council ki that still here i'm finishing this agenda and I'm going to say this i'm here I'm here to work with all my
council if you see me when you need me I'm there when you call me when you reach out to me I'm available i'm accessessible and I'm the type of person that I will work with you if you have a project to put them on the table and it's the same situation with our community uh but it's it's it's
definitely we have to be mindful of uh our action on this council chamber uh what happened today uh I definitely uh I asked for five minute break because for me it's it's it's impossible for me not to say anything and stay quiet when I
see a council members insulting all the council members family and and at this time his wife i mean it doesn't look good on us there's enough problem in our community and we have so many challenges for us to be attacking each other we're supposed to be working together and we could disagree there's a lot of thing
that we're going to disagree on and it's okay when I see my council colleague having discussion about idol that are on the agenda item that will help our city i I I take my time because that's what we should be doing but not talking about uh personal uh situation attacking p
attacking us at a personal level that's not what I want to see i'm looking forward to have a a a better relationship with all my council kali that's what I'm expecting to have uh and and I'm here to collaborate with all and work with all of them and and I'm the type of person that I could sit with any
person and that's what I'm doing when I have a problem I sit down with administration that's the only way that we're going to get things done in the city that's the only way that we're going to get things done in the city and uh somebody may make sure the real fix the the uh the data that we getting for real for real fix is not the reality
that we have in the community i mean the amount of homeless and people panhandling in our community is is alarming it's out of control people urinating defecating something have to be done i don't see that program I don't see that that program has been effective i would love to sit down with Mr bos i
request a presentation about the 77 camera we have $1 million grant that we allocated for that to make sure that to catch people that are dumping garbage in our community uh illegal uh commercial vehicle parking overnight in our community those are legislation that
will bring revenue to the city if we enforcing that that's our job the administration have to start thinking about additional revenue to be able to balance this budget let's put the work pis one day is going to be the great city in the state of New Jersey but we got to work for him let's pray for our city um let's stay together and let's
keep our Dominican Republic in prayer we have a lot of family here in the city of Patterson that lost a loved one um in in in that tragedy i lost u many great friends there there was a 231 people dead on that tragedy it was horrible and
the city's u the country is mourning and um and I want to thank u our congresswoman Nelly Po and Ko CuadraD her assistance last Thursday we worked really hard to make sure to get a passport a US passport to a resident
that live here in Patterson to go to Dominican Republic and and bear their family their loved one that lost their life in this in this uh tragedy so let's keep those family in prayer let's pray for the city of Patterson madame clerk thank you thank you for your job the
secretary thank you for your dedication um and our police departments as well Mr abushi our cooperation council commissioner Ramire and and we got work to do we just got work to do um with that being said Rafa thank you
so very much uh it was busy but we got it done we finished our agenda okay and to my third world resident Patterson please stop speeding we're putting a stop sign on 14th Avenue 33rd every other day there's an accident on that corner please slow down Patterson let's
slow down stop speeding my vote is yes good night Patterson thank you council president the votes are seven in favor two absent then regular meeting of April 15 2025 is now adjourned good morning Patterson good morning