This meeting has been given in accordance with the open public meetings act pursuant to public laws 1975 chapter 231. This agenda is complete to the extent known and was sent to the Trenton
Times and Trentonian newspaper posted on the first floor bulletin board in city hall filed in the city clerk's office and posted on the city of Trenton website. Formal action will be taken. Uh
uh. Roll call. Councilwoman Josie Edwards. >> Present. >> Councilwoman Felicia. Councilwoman Crystal Feliciano. >> Present. >> Councilwoman Tesa. >> Present. >> Councilwoman Yasminelli Gonzalez.
>> Presente. >> Councilman Harrison. >> Council Vice President Jennifer Williams. Presidente. Council President Jenna Figareroa >> present.
>> Okay. Uh I Cleveland Thompson will be sitting in for Brandon Garcia, municipal clerk. Uh legislative council Edward Colloji >> and city attorney West Bridges.
Okay. Invocation. Madame President, >> you may proceed. Almighty God, who holds the faith and man of man and nation, we most humbly beseech thee to bless this our city, these deliberations, and these thy servants that they may act with
wisdom and understanding for the good of our community and thy greater glory. Amen. >> Amen. >> All right. Uh, council president, there are recognitions. Uh, would you like them to be heard first? Yes, there is one presentation
for recommendations at this time for NAACP act. So we may proceed. >> Are the members of council president? >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> Are the are the members of AXO here the NAACP AXO?
So thank you for standing. So tonight we have a select group of students that um competed in the recent um NAACP Afroacademic, Cultural, Technological
and Scientific Olympians Olympics and several were gold medalists and others were medalists. And so tonight we want to present you with certificates of recognition congratulating each and every one of you on the tremendous job that you did. Um, the council is proud
of you and wants to congratulate each and every one of you. Tonight we will be honoring Troy Phillips, London, London Harris, Henry Tharp, Sierra Owens, Isiah Davis,
Arthur AJ Esau, Destiny Weldon. Congratulations to you all. So, at this time, council president, are you do each of them come and say something or are we going to move to the photo? How do you want to
>> take each if if anyone would like to say a few words, you could come up at this time and just say a few words. >> Thank you. So if a representative from EXO wants to come while the rest of you stand with him or her, you could come to the center podium, press the button and turn the mic on and give a few words.
>> Press the button. >> Press the button, man. >> Oh, okay. >> All right. Greetings, Trenton Town Council. It is our absolute delight to represent this magnificent city. We, the Trenton branch of the Axo program,
represent students and educators that come from throughout the city. It is Foundation Academy. It is George School. It is Trenton Central High School. It is Mercer County Community College. This is
what we mean when we say Trenton makes the world takes. We will be proudly representing Trenton next week in Chicago, Illinois at the National Axo Competition. So, I would just briefly like to
acknowledge that we have students that are competing in the arts. Arthur Esau is a fourthyear Axo competitor and gold medalist. He is also a get clap clap.
>> He's also been in the governor's school and is transforming the world of music with his talent. London Harris is a rising senior from Foundation Academy who was presenting an original essay on
AI and whether or not it is killing creativity. Destin Wel Destiny Welden is a rising junior at Trenton Central High School who is presenting an original poem about
women's sports. Sierra Owen I had to go back and look. Sierra Owens is a rising junior who will be be presenting a chemistry project where she has examined alternate fats in chocolate.
Henry Thorp is a rising senior. He will be competing in biology where he is looking at shea butter and cocoa butter and men's health and texture. Troy Phillips. Troy Phillips. He
competed in the uh state competition with an architecture project around tiny homes in Trenton. And Aia Davis did a photo essay on her life here in Trenton. I want to firmly acknowledge
Thank you. I want to also acknowledge the contributions of my co-chair, Miss Karen Grooms, and Yes. Yes. and the support that we get from Christopher Smith and Darius Dove to do
this work. Thank you very much. Okay. At this time, I would allow my council colleagues to um give any comments. I would like to start. Um thank you so much. What I appreciate what you just did is that not only did you honor all of these students from
Trans Central High School, but you did it without reading from a paper. You know your students and you know their capabilities and what they're doing. And that is profound. That is profound in an educator and that is profound in what these students digest. As a Trent
Central High School student myself and Tren public schools my entire life, we live for anybody who was willing to pour into us and pour into us the extra so that we can go out into the real world and compete with some of the other
municipalities, some of the other schools, some of the other towns, some of the other cities and states and and be something better. We live for this. We live for the mentorships. We live for the programs. So, I am extremely excited
about this. Thank you so much. Thank you, Councilman Feliciano, for bringing this to council and and thank you, Corine Grooms, and yourself for pouring into these students because these are the future leaders of our country, of our world, and they're going to do amazing things. So, thank you so much.
Much appreciated, Councilman Frisbee. So, good evening everyone. So, I want to just say congratulations to all the students. I know that um Miss Groom said that there's a variety of high schools here. Um so, to each and every one of you in your respective high schools, we are so
very proud of you. Um each and I love the diversity. I love that there's a little bit of this and a little bit of that. And I heard had one of the parents over here. He was actually clapp Shea Butt. I was like, "Oh, okay." He's excited about this for the men. But I love that you are inclusive. That there
is no area that was taboo. So congratulations to you. Kudos to you for um doing what you do and doing it unapologetically, but doing it also in excellence. We are so proud of you. We are so excited for the work that you're doing. We're so excited to see what you're going to do as we are moving
forward and seeing your names in light, seeing your lays well lit and um boldly. I am so um grateful to say that uh you are Tranonians, that you are ours and that you are representing the best of the best. So keep doing what you're doing. Be encouraged. Know that we are here. I do want to thank Councilwoman
Feliciano for bringing this up and making sure that you are acknowledged in your accommodations. And I believe that there was another name. There's someone that is not here as well. So to all that competed and all that have achieved, congratulations to each and every single last one of you and um keep up the good
work. Come on back up for us again. >> C Vice President Williams. >> Thank you, Council President. I just want to say congratulations. Uh your projects so sound they just sound so darn interesting. So, uh, just a small request, maybe after you get past your
great visit to Chicago, if you could send, uh, copies of them to us on council if there's any slides to look at because they just really, you know, each one is different, but it sounds like something we should know about and read about. And I just want to u make sure you know when you go to Chicago, you're
taking Trenton with you, and that's really important. And, uh, Chicago is a great city. I hope you have a wonderful time there. Definitely try the deep dish pizza. It's not the same as tomato pie, but it's pretty darn good. And there's some I don't know if you get a chance to
visit any of the colleges out there. Some amazing institutions uh out there, too. And the world's going to be your oyster. And I'm a little envious. I didn't get to visit Chicago until I was a senior in college. So, good luck to all of you. God bless and congratulations. And thank you for your
wonderful leadership, ma'am. And go Thankful, Council President. Councilwoman Felicia, >> thank you. So, I just want to say again, congratulations to each and every one of you. Um, you are shining stars here in our city. Go forth and conquer. We are
excited for you. We are rooting for you. I also want to shout out Larry Trailer. He is one of our school board members that came in here tonight to support. It's always important when we have our school board members that look out and go above and beyond and and show up for the students. So, thank you, Mr.
Trailer, for being here with us tonight. We appreciate you. Our mayor is here tonight. So, thank you, mayor, for popping in and showing love to the kids. We appreciate you as well. So, again, to each and every one of you and to your mentors that oversee, thank you so much
for pouring in to our students. Thank you students for taking in what it is that they are giving to each each and every one of you. But then most importantly, thank you for sharing with the us and the world your wonderful and tremendous gifts. God bless you all. >> Councilman Gones,
>> um I'll be brief. I know some have to go to work, but um I just want to say thank you, Councilwoman Feliciano, for bringing them in front of council. Um and to all of the young people, I'm excited to see the gold medals come back. So once you get those gold medals down there in Chicago, make sure you bring it on back so that we can show off
here in city council for another uh celebration. But um proud of you all. Thank you. I'm excited for the diverse skill set that you guys are showing off to the world. So we are excited to see those gold medals come back. And thank you to all of the adults who are taking the time to pour into them. as mentioned
earlier. Congratulations, >> Councilman Harrison. >> Oh, thank you, Councilwoman Feliciano. And um as everyone has up here said, we're all team trend. We're wishing you the best. We know you're going to do great in Chicago. You are our next leaders of this great city. So, thank
you all so much. >> And Councilman Edwards, >> thank you. Um, I just want to say congratulations. Best of luck to you as you are on your endeavor in Chicago. I hope you bring home the medal and whether you do or not, we are so proud of you. Thank you
to um all the educators that's involved and especially as a a lifetime subscriber of the NAACP. I'm such a proud member sitting here today learning about your topics and what you're doing and your accomplishments. Please keep it up. please continue pouring into our
future. Um, it's much appreciated and we need you guys. Thank you so much. >> Thank you all. One more time. Again, thank you to the educators and um also thank you to Larry Larry Trailer who's here who's on the NAACP board and also acting president at this time and on the
board of education for the city of Trenton. Um, thank you for pouring into our children. So guys, thank you so much. Um, we'd like to take a quick picture if we can. We can move to the staircase, I think. Let's move out to the staircase. We'll do this very, very
quickly. We'll take a quick picture and then we'll resume the meeting. Thank you so much. Cleveland, we can proceed. >> All right, moving on. Council President, we have some presentations. >> Yes, we do. Um, our first presentation
is Ike Williams Foundation for Boxing. Cleveland, can you please um let them know how much time they have for the presentation? >> 10 minutes. >> All right, you will have uh 10 minutes for your presentation.
>> Ready? >> Good evening. Thank you. Should we begin? Okay. So, uh, we provided you with a hard copy of our presentation. Uh, the Ike Williams Foundation, which is a 501c3 nonprofit organization,
respectfully is requesting the council's support and our request for the acquisition and redevelopment of 450 Freeman Lane, a building that is currently uh, abandoned, dilapidated, and uh, not
being used. And our vision for it is what you see on the cover of the presentation. That's what we believe the building should look like. We want it to be a state-of-the-art first class youth boxing mentoring and community development center. Um we have we are
currently providing uh life skills development and boxing fitness training at 11 New York New Jersey Avenue. And um that building certainly we have outgrown and is we're looking at it as a
temporary space. Th this facility would certainly afford us the opportunity to have um administrative space, classroom space as well as the boxing fitness training space. Um part and our vision
also includes expansion of the current program we have going which we have a partnership with the uh attorney general's office the state athletic control board where we receive funding to direct our boxing youth towards
careers in law enforcement and emergency response. So, uh, I don't want to take up a lot of time because you have the presentation in front of you, but I want we wanted to be available to answer any questions you may have for the time if
and when it becomes part of your agenda to vote on whether or not we can acquire this property to move forward with our vision. >> Council President, >> um, I'm really I'm sorry. Is is that the
full presentation this evening? >> Uh if you'd like me to go on, I will. No, >> but I I wanted to know if you all had questions regarding >> We'd like you to continue your your presentation and then we can ask questions at the end if you don't mind. >> Okay. Certainly. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, I will move on with uh
more about our proposed vision of the pro of the uh project. Again, it's a dedicated boxing training and conditioning area, fitness and wellness programming. will also provide one-on-one and group mentoring, leadership and character development
classes, uh life skills and personal development activities, educational support and enrichment opportunities. Again, I mentioned the career exposure which per uh presently we have partnerships with uh law enforcement and
emergency response because certainly being physically fit, being trained in boxing and being drug and alcohol-f free puts our young people in a perfect position to be able to do those kinds of jobs. Um family and community engagement. So, you may want to ask why
450 Freeman Lane? Why that particular property? So, after we had the opportunity to tour and evaluate that property, we believe that it has the potential to support our long-term vision. It's got the potential to provide that permanent home for
expanding our programs. Uh we can organize distinct areas. There's enough space to have the boxing fitness, a ring, uh, a shower area, um, administrative office space, multi-purpose rooms, and also it's our
opportunity to reactivate a city-owned asset for a sustained public benefit. Uh we certainly see it as a potential to strengthen neighborhood activities and community pride and long-term stability that's really difficult to achieve through temporary or fragmented space
which is uh what we currently are operating in. Any final redevelopment plan will remain subject to due diligence, building and site assessments, zoning and land use reviews, code requirements, accessibility, environmental review
where applicable, and design and development permitting financial and formal city approvals from you all of course. Now the proposed programs and services that will be offered out of that space would be the youth boxing
development which will be age appropriate instruction in the fundamentals of boxing, conditioning, discipline, safety and goal setting. Um structured physical activity supporting strength, endurance, healthy habits and p personal accountability.
Um our coaches provide certainly a mentoring relationship as well as our volunteers and uh we would provide also leadership development. Uh and our life skills workshops that we currently offer
and certainly can uh begin to expand on include uh positive ways to have fun drug and alcohol-f free. uh budgeting skills, uh financial management, um anger management, because we certainly can't teach people how to
fight and not teach them how to control their anger. Uh improve decision-making skills, and just to name some. And again, as the community identifies their specific needs, we would be flexible in being able to provide additional um
types of workshops, certainly workforce readiness and health and wellness, you know, uh healthy habits, you know, nutrition and so on. We also would provide community and family engagement because though it is a
youth program. Um having the opportunity to bridge that uh digital divide with the elders and the young people certainly with AI and the using you know using computers and such. people will be able to come in and use our
administrative space to help help them fill out online applications, help them scan QR codes, the things that some of our elders have difficulty with doing. And we would be encouraging our young people to help them with that as well,
building the bridge between those two communities, the elders and the youth. So there would be a a great deal of community be benefit and impact if we are able to acquire this property and to redevelop it. Um we certainly will be
using measurable outcomes which we use now um measuring you know the number of unduplicated youth served how many boxing fitness participants how many life skills workshops we're offering how many community events we are uh planning
and we certainly would be using uh measurable um strategies and making sure that we use those um ways of of knowing that our our programs are effective. Um,
our implementation plan and timeline for this is we're looking at hopefully the city process and site control could be somewhere between now and 3 months from now and our due diligence and planning within within six months. Our design and
approval within nine months. Capital development to be concurrent with that and renovation and fit out within 15 months. operational readiness within 17 months and a launch in 18 months from the time we actually acquire the
property. So that is our dream and vision for 450 Freeman Lane. We hope that you all will um certainly support us in acquiring that property so that we can move forward with the services that we're providing on a smaller level but
we'd be able to expand. >> Any questions? Thank you so much, Council Member Felicia. At this time, would you like to ask your questions? >> Thank you. >> So, thank you for coming before us tonight. Appreciate seeing you all here.
Um, in look in in looking through everything, I mean, I think that the the concept and everything is is amazing. Um but as we're flipping through where we had the preliminary project budget summary um a lot is to be determined. So we
don't have any dollars per se uh that are listed here. And then when we talk about funding and sustainability strategy um a lot of it is coming from corporate sponsorships you're saying philanthropy capital campaign fundraising. What
monies do you actually have um of your own that would be put into this? And then without us having an exact dollar amount of what this would be, h how were we even supposed to know um the potential uh expenditures that are
expected to help this to be operational? Mhm. >> So, currently we have over $150,000 in funding for programs, >> 65,000 of which comes from the attorney general's office
>> um from the state and the additional monies are through private fundraising efforts. The actual building costs we did not have prepared for you tonight because our last visits to the property. We have had our construction folks come
out and look. Um we needed to know first of all if we would be eligible to acquire the property and we do um know that some of the costs for instance the roof alone to be repaired is over $60,000.
We are in position to get the monies to rehab the property. We're not asking the city for money to do anything to the building. What we need from the city is the building. We can get all of this done um through our organization.
>> Have you spoken to uh anyone from our housing and economic development department about this? >> Yes. I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Cotton and I'm sorry I didn't even introduce ourselves. Our names are in the proposal. I'm Roxan McElroy White. This is Larry Cotton and this is Eric O
O Jkins who is the director of Ike Williams. Well, I'll defer to Larry for you regarding the housing. >> Yes. Good evening, council. Um, as you all know, I'm a resident of Trenton since I was four years old. I'm 64 now. So, I've been 60 years. I grew up in
West Trenton. Went to Trenton Central High School, graduate 1981, went to Hampton, graduate 1986. Um, we have met with the mayor's office and the ATD on several occasions. Um, they are well aware. They have two proposals from us.
Um, I've been in the building four or five times now. The building is what we need. And to see a building like that sitting in the community that's needed, that's vacant, it kind of bothers me because this the city needs what they used to do. Um, as far as the finances,
we're not worried about the money. We just worry about the building. So the um HD I um Mr. Rodriguez I've met with him three times. He's aware of it. Um the mayor's aware of it. So we're just here for the council to the support of the building. We know what the know we know.
If you come out building now and see these kids in there boxing, you'd be amazed to see these little girls 8 years old, nine, 10 years old boxing, putting their heart into this this game we call boxing. And the kids are so excited to be there. We got to put them out at night. So, but the space is just
too small for us now. So, we're trying to expand our program and we can't expand it in the building that we're in. >> So, did you put in an application for the building? >> Yes. >> Okay. So,
um again, all of this is great. So, typically the way it works is once people put in their applications with um the housing and economic development part, if they're ready to present it up to the council for us to consider or
whatever, we have a HD subcommittee and then they would meet to discuss um proposed properties and what's going on and everything like that. And then once it moves through that, then it would go and council president and them if they wanted to put it on the docket for it to come forward for us and then
we would render a decision on it. So I'm just asking what steps have been done because >> um >> understand >> in my mind while I think again this is great, I would have thought that some of those steps would would have happened first and then when we're ready to go
because we simply vote yes or no once it's presented and everything to us. But until it goes through those phases and moves forward, >> I mean, this is great again, but >> without all due respect, >> we can't tell the administration go
ahead and give it to them is what I'm saying. We have to say yes or no once they present it to us. >> What I'm saying, we're here because we just didn't come in the door. We got invited to come here because HD knew about this program. We just didn't come out off the street say you going to come here tonight and put some on the table. >> Right. >> HD, we have be I said three times
already. So they're aware of what of so the process beyond that we're not aware of. We was asked to come here to present our program to the council tonight. So anything in between that process we don't know but we told we was told to be here and that's what we did. >> The administration asked you to come here tonight? >> Yes. We was invited to be here to
present the hour. Yes. >> Okay. >> So I don't know how the council how the city hall works with their acquisitions and stuff like that. Okay, >> Council Fis, >> I think that our expectation was this was just an introduction of what our
vision is going to be and then as we learn what the additional steps in the process so that we can provide all of the additional information. >> Thank you. I just trying to explain to Councilwoman Feliciano what the process was. >> Counciloman Feliano, um this um proposal was brought to me by Councilwoman
Frisbee for a presentation. At the time it was about the program itself and not about um the building and housing and what it would be that they were looking to acquire. So that was this came to us as a proposal about the actual Yeah. the programming. Correct.
>> Yes. >> Yeah. Yeah. This was not brought to council or HD or anybody else about the purchasing of a property or anything at that. Yes. Yes. >> Right. So Yes. So, we just wanted you to understand what we do and what our vision is moving forward and how this
particular property would be perfect for our bigger vision. That's really the whole pro purpose. Any additional questions? >> Yes, Council Vice President um Williams. >> Thank you very much, ma'am. And, uh, thank you, Councilwoman Feliciano, for your questions because they're going to
be questions that need to be answered in the future. Certainly. Um, so I just want to uh say welcome and thank you for coming. Uh, I'm fortunate to live in a neighborhood uh, Milalth section has the great Williams Center. Uh, so we're, you know, it's a name that
a lot of people know, but particularly in the city roots have been put down. So I'm really glad that this uh, is going to be put together as a program. I'm hopeful that uh, everything will come to fruition. Uh, but just have a couple questions. Um and kind of geared towards
the future kind of where uh Council Fiana was asking her questions. >> Uh are you already working with a like a real estate lawyer for municipal land use law or anything to make sure everything goes smooth >> or you can Okay. >> Not to my knowledge. Not yet.
>> Okay. That might be something maybe you might be able to find um a lawyer even as a nonprofit that could help you proono just to make sure um with this uh it may not need a change of use or a variance which would mean you'd have to go to zoning board. So uh that's just
something to think about as you go forward. But um >> this is a very thorough presentation um outside you know the numbers are things you have to find as you go along. And I was wondering if you also with pursuing grants for something like this, is that
something I'm sure you looked into it already, but is there maybe um different ways to try to find more funding like uh I don't know if the WBA or the WBC or any of the international boxing federations offer. >> Yes, we we are we are well aware of a
number of funding sources. We just need to be able to tell them where what they would be funding and where. >> Okay. And then what ages uh would you be working with the children? >> Uh 8 to 18. >> 8 to 18. Okay, great. Because I I am familiar with your program over on
Jersey Avenue and uh Michael Hilton is a phenomenal ambassador. So I with that I just want to wish you good luck. Thank you for coming to council. Uh count thank you council Frisbee for encouraging. >> Michael Hilton's trainer, right? >> Oh, I did not know. Well, you did a very
great job. He's very big. and uh also um and trying to uh build the program. He's done a great job, I know, going to a lot of different groups and different individuals to try to, you know, recruit uh people to try to support what you're doing and spread the
word of mouth. So, >> absolutely >> with that, good luck and God bless. >> Thank you very much. Thank you for your time. >> Thank sorry. >> Um so, really quickly, uh I had written down attempts to acquire property. Guys, answer that. that I had written down age
group. Um I wanted to know who the trainers are and what the cost is to the consumers once this is up and running. >> So currently with the funding we receive it is free for the youth. >> Okay. >> For adult if adults want to come and do
boxing fitness training there may be a small fee but we certainly would look at pe uh famil family's income their ability to pay and so forth. >> Okay. And then um can you tell us a little bit about the trainers?
>> Okay, I I'll turn it over to the head the head >> I hate talking to crowds. How you doing? I'm Eric Jkins. Um I'm the head trainer of Ike Williams Boxing Academy. Um it's myself and my cousin Joe Tucker Jr. former correctional officer. He's the assistant head coach and we have a bunch
of um former fighters that came up through the program that's helping coach as well. So, we'll all be training the kids and adults in the program in just an everyday operation. >> Okay. Thank you so much, Mr. President.
>> Just to um tell you, I I just wanted to add that we do have one awesome success story, a young lady Santi Booth, who trained with Ike Williams, who has is in her final year of law school. she would become an attorney and she's currently
the boxing fitness trainer for the National Guard in Virginia. >> Thank you. Wonderful. Okay, Councilwoman Frisbee, Councilman Harrison, and Council Edwards. >> So, one, I want to thank you again for coming out this evening and um sharing with the council and the rest of the
community all that you do. I have a couple of questions. I think you answered one, but I just missed it. The first one is where are you currently loc um located out of? >> 11 New Jersey Avenue. And how many youth are you currently ser serving there? >> 20 unduplicated in the funded program,
but at any given time there could be 30, 40. There's there's the open door policy. Any kids that come through can can come. >> And what is the goal? What are you trying what the number of students youth are you trying to reach?
Well, in the facility that we have now, we can accommodate at least 40 at a time, but we'd certainly be would like to be able to accommodate at least 100. >> And you you my our council president just asked you about your staff. So,
that's um that's uh >> in addition to the trainers that Mr. Judkins told you about. We also have uh two retired police officers who serve as mentors. One is uh Mr. Bryce Dower's retired Lawrence Township police officer
and also Mr. Phillip. Phillip was Phillip's last Mr. Phil Detective Phil. I I can't I'm sorry my blame it on my age. I can't recall his last name. But we have two retired officers as well who provide mentoring. >> Excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you,
Council President. Councilman Harrison. >> Yeah, I have I've had the honor of going to Ike Williams and um seeing like you said 40 kids um building's not big much bigger than that. So, I hope this happens because I think uh there's so
many youth in this great city that need this mentorship and the ability to have somebody there help guide them and move them forward. So, I I hope and I pray that this gets done because this is another um thing that could help the
youth of our great city. So, thank you for all your hard work. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilwoman Edwards. >> Thank you, Madam President. Um thank you so much for this presentation. Um all of you I know separately and individually
you all do such tremendous work in our community and collectively I know this program is going to you know um provide so many different services and just a refuge for our youth to be able to have a safe space mentoring discipline that
discipline is is what's key right now for our upcoming youth um as a former boxer myself having gone through goss and goss for many years I used to practice this offense on on beast Mike Hilton. So, um I I know for a fact that
it works. I know for a fact that it takes our our youth off of the streets and and Mike is a testament to that and he has a testimony that he shares often with our with our community. So, um I'm very glad for this especially for its
location being in Wilbur section for those of us from Wilbur section. Very proud. Um and in the close proximity to the schools as well, that area right there needs some some tender loving care. So, I'm so glad to see that, you
know, not only is a a city-owned property being beautified, that you're attempting to bring a program that can bring, you know, life back to the neighborhood and to our youth and give them something to do and take them off the street. So, um, kudos to you all and I wish you the best of luck on this. I'm
looking forward to seeing this on our HED docket for our ad hoc committee. Um, I would just say that please prepare for that because we're going to hold you guys to the same standard as we hold all the other applicants. So, be prepared with to provide a budget estimate for
the construction, okay, >> from a licensed and insured contractor or contractors, whomever is going to do the renovations and repairs on the building. And um you seem to have everything else that we're looking for on what you intend to do, the purpose,
the youth, uh the use of it, your target audience, your measurements. Like this is an excellent presentation. Um, the only thing we're missing is the the cost estimates because we just want to make sure you have proof of funds and and you're prepared to take on the
renovations and the cost of renovations and with the contingency as well because those of us that are in development once you start opening walls, you may be surprised about what you find. So, prepare for a contingency as well. So, those are the things that we're looking for um from this council for all of our
applicants that intend on purchasing city own property and um you'll be good. >> Okay. >> So, I look forward to supporting this in the near future. >> Thank you. And we'll be prepared when we come back. >> CPA Gonzalez.
>> Yeah. I just want to say everything has been already asked. Um the main question was about the funding and you guys have answered that. But I just want to say thank you for all of the work that you are doing with our young people. Um as we know our kids need an outlet and this is always an outlet that kind of lets them get that steam off and and let that
energy out. And I just want to say thank you so much for all of the work that you are doing. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you all so much. Thank you for presenting. I wish you all the best of luck and acquiring the building and um the establishment that you guys are looking to do. This is obviously a
great thing for our youth. So, thank you all so much. We appreciate it. >> Thank you. And you're >> Thank you. >> Cleveland. Next up, we have another presentation um from Vessel Technologies and Bridgeoint Development LLC um
regarding ordinance 26-066. All right, you have 10 minutes. >> Absolutely. >> Good evening. Uh, good evening, members of council. Thank you for having us here this evening. Um, I'm Josh Levy. With me tonight is Joseph
Deacon. Um, you may know him as he's a captain in your local fire department. Um very excited to be able to present to you tonight about a vision that we have for uh currently uh vacant sites in Trenton. Um and the reason I'm excited
about it is because I think it's the first of its kind that I know of at least where uh members of a local fire department are coming together to reinvest in their community and create housing for it. And when Joe told me
about his vision for this and what he wanted to do, we were, you know, thrilled to be able to be part of it, um, and to, uh, you know, be able to do something else in Trenton, uh, after, uh, the redevelopment of, uh, our Perry
Street property. Um, good evening, uh, members of council, mayor, residents. uh I think I know each of you personally for the most part for a lot of our own um community events and things that we've done together. Um tonight we're here to present an
opportunity to partner with the city along with our first responders to move forth with an opportunity to provide uh 48 homes within a three parcel lot that is currently vacant and has been sitting vacant for quite some time. Uh we're
looking forward to returning those uh vacant lots into city-owned parcels that will be productive use in addition to homes that will be operated owned uh by our own first responders here within the city.
As you take a look here, this is our ownership team. Um this is uh firefighter Malivan Melendez, myself, Captain Deacon, Captain Theodore Williams, and Captain uh Angel Castillo. We are all members of the fire department. We've all served for 15
years so far within our career time frame. And I'm going to ask each member to stand because I think you'll know them as well. Could you please stand, gentlemen? Uh us four are members of the Bridge Point uh development group and we look forward to partner with Vessel as the um
expertise and also mentorship within this process to be able to deliver uh another building similar to what we were able to do on Perry Street. Uh that that particular building has been a beacon of hope. Uh I think you might know it very well. it it stands out, but it also
brings uh a vision of what modern and sustainable and attainable housing could look like within our community. So, we look forward to partner with the city and move forward with doing something similar uh much on a much larger scale on Third Street and also activate the
Third Street Park because that park is very underused. Jenna, as you know, you're the council uh person for that particular district. that that park uh is is not used. It's not fulfilling its its full capabilities and that's because of the the lack of residential homes
within that region and that vacant property that sits directly across from that. Um, speaking from the heart here, uh, we we've been firefighters for 15 years and we we go into a lot of vacant buildings in a lot of in addition to, uh, a lot of properties that doesn't
have the best upkeep from their landlord or maintenance. And us as first responders, we look at ourselves that we operate with honor, integrity, and pride. Uh, we are the some of the most dependable people you can count on
within the city. Uh, god forbid anyone should be in an accident going home tonight, but odds are we would be the same people responding to you to ensure that you're safe. We take care of your grandparents. We take care of your parents. In fact, uh, some of our members here are mentors for your your
your children in our um, junior academy program as well. So, we're asking for you to entrust with us with the opportunity at a seat at the table to become developers as well. I think we've proven ourselves not only from our content of character, but from our uh
proven development that we've done on Perry Street. So, you're not betting on an idea, you're betting on a proven concept with the same people you've come to trust with your lives. Uh some of the challenges that we face obviously within the region, Trenton
struggles to find very high quality homes that are affordable uh for the members who serve the city. Uh we do have a difficulty with attainable housing for workforce especially a lot of our members who are entering into the fire department at a entry level salary.
It it does cause an issue for us. It caused an issue with retaining the members who can be um productive in assisting our our current neighborhoods not only in safety but also in the sense of um stimulating our economy. uh
unfortunately a lot of our members find themselves living outside of the city just because of the high quality of housing or the inability to be able to afford the housing. So I I want you to take that into great consideration as we move forward
and um we'll speak a little bit about Vessel and what they're able to deliver as well. So to to reintroduce uh vessel as a concept um we uh we came here initially during uh I think it was 2020 or 2021 in
the midst of COVID. So it was a a virtual meeting. We didn't get to do it in person. Uh but we're a mission-based housing company. Um I spent my entire career um in the affordable housing industry um on the development and
finance side uh doing everything from hope six redevelopments to um new construction of uh buildings. And what became clear to me um and to my partner was that there was a a huge hole in the market um and that there were tons of
people who wanted to build very expensive, you know, luxury housing and there were people who would build um tax credit housing that was subsidized, but there wasn't anything that could be delivered to communities um that was
unsubsidized housing for the workforce. And so we went about trying to create something that would be both healthy, sustainable, um, energy efficient, and safe so that we could provide communities with an opportunity to have additional housing
where they needed it, when they needed it. Um, and so part of what we're able to do is to produce something that is safer. It's 100% steel. It's called type 2B non-combustible construction. Um, we can do something that is alarmed and
sprinklered throughout the building. All of our materials are hypoallergenic and antimicrobial and healthy. Um, all of our units are incredibly energy efficient with LED lighting and all the most advanced uh systems and uh and everything is built around
the idea of universal accessibility and design so it's available to people of all different abilities. Um, and part of the vision behind this was that housing would be available within communities but owned and operated by people that were from the community and lived in the
community like Joe and his uh partners. The uh the units when you go into them are built around the idea of, you know, being luxury quality. 9 foot ceilings, floor to ceiling windows, cove lighting, uh speakers in the units that uh
residents can stream their music to. Um the whole building and the units are integrated with uh custom building technologies that we've created so that you can control your individually control your HVAC's. You can control your lights. We have light therapy built
into the units. Um we have air monitoring and purification. Um all the walls that you see in our units are made of something that's hypoallergenic and antimicrobial. There's no paint. There's no offging of our materials. And we can deliver this faster. So a typical vessel
building from the time uh that a foundation is done is going to take about seven months in order to complete. Um so we can deliver housing quickly and efficiently so you put housing units on the ground when you need them and we're not waiting years and years for uh for
that housing to be uh provided. And all this is done also at a minimal disruption to the neighborhood. We are part of what we do is pre-fabricated. And so we deliver wall panels to the site and floor panels. So the actual erection of the building uh takes about
six weeks. Um and it's a there's there's relatively no dumpsters or waste on the site. So it's a much cleaner, quieter construction process during the uh process. Um this is a little bit about you know sort of vessel versus conventional
multif family. You know uh among the other things we're also 100% electric. We have no fossil fuels in the building. Um, and so we're and we're set up to, you know, accept solar, um, and, uh, and be able to operate at net zero basis,
uh, net zero basis, um, but faster, more efficient, more costefficient, and lower operating expenses so we can keep the quality high, but keep the rents at a level that people can actually afford. Um, this is a picture of actually a building being delivered. Um, just to
give you a sense of what it looks like as it's coming on the site. Behind it is the actual building that's erected. Those are panels that are getting delivered about one truck per day. Um, and it takes about six weeks to to finish. Once on site, we fit out the site.
>> All right, sir. I'm sorry. That is your time. >> All right. At this time, if there's any questions from your presentation that council would like to ask, this is the time. Council Gonzalez. >> Yes. I have um just a couple questions.
One, is it going to provide parking? >> Yes. for each. Okay. And then two, I see there's like different locations. Are you looking to do the same model in each location that's listed? >> Combining three different lots into one site. >> Just making it all one. Okay. >> Yep. And then ancillary space for
parking and for uh plantings and recreation space. >> Okay. That that was it for right now. Thanks. Okay. So, >> Council President, >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Thank you. So, the parking is going to be on site. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. So it's not going to disrupt
the neighborhood and the people. How many parking spaces per unit are you looking to a lot? >> We're we're targeting one to one parking ratio. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you, council president. The the Thank you. The units that you're
um creating, are they one-bedroom apartments, twobedroom, so on and so forth? >> Mix of ones and twos. And you're only offering one parking spot per unit. >> Yeah, we have three. So there there will be two to three twobedrooms and the rest will be one.
>> Yeah, speaking the mic, please. >> Oh, sorry. There will be two to three two bedrooms and the remainder will be one bedrooms. >> Okay. So, how many units total? >> Right now, we're targeting 48, but we'll work on that with the planning and zoning commission and the members of the
staff to determine what the right number is ultimately based on uh their guidelines. So with 48 units, the potential for with the one to two-bedroom apartments, there's a large potential for a lot of other vehicles in that area.
>> We've generally found that um the onebedrooms carry one parking space, you know, for operational purposes. And then we'll have a couple of extra spaces for both guest parking as well as for the two bedrooms for overflow for the twos. >> So you will have extra spots for them.
Okay. Um I I'm just I'm really happy that this is happening. Like Third Street Park has been a park that we've gone to like since I was a kid. Um and generally, you know, given the neighborhood, parents
don't really let their kids go there by themselves anymore. >> Yep. >> You know, like we used to go there and come home by the time the street lights came on and that's just not a that's not a thing anymore. Um so I'm really really excited for this. I know those lots I've had the departments come out and clean
up those lots several times. I don't see director in the audience. Um but he's done a phenomenal job of doing that a million times. So I'm really really appreciative that these um areas are going to get built up and I do hope that it um helps with the the property across
the street that used to be Richie and Paige. I hope that they start to maintain their property now with this redevelopment. So, thank you for bringing this to us. Thank you so much. Um, Council Vice President, um, Williams. >> Thank you, ma'am. Uh, good to see you,
gentlemen. Um, and congratulations on your starting your project. So, I just have a few questions. Uh, the design is very exciting, very interesting, but I was curious and I must I might have missed it. Uh, what would be the square footage for the one and two bedrooms? The square footage of the onebedrooms is
about 600 square feet. The square bedroom of the two bedrooms is about uh 9 875 ft. >> 875. Okay. So, they'll be a little little small, but that's how you fit so many units. And then fitting 48 that will be on the first lot or the only
lot. Correct. Or is that >> the combined lots? >> Pardon me. >> The combined lots. >> So, to be combined. Okay. All right. And then as far as uh construction, how far out do you have a timeline for that if everything goes the way you want it to go? >> We would expect to be uh in the ground
by next year and completed by next year. >> Oh, completed by end of 27. >> Okay. And would you uh as far as uh you mentioned section 8 earlier, I believe or affordable housing. Uh this would be market rate or affordable or a mix if I
missed. We're we're targeting uh what we've always called like attainable housing or workforce housing. Okay. So, not subsidized, you know, by tax credits or other developments, but uh at a price that people in the workforce can afford. So, lower than the new construction,
highly amenitized uh very expensive uh stuff that's been uh provided. >> Okay. And does it qualify for the Aspire program or is it because of the threshold? >> I don't know the answer to that. We could check. >> Okay. But I do want to just clearly say
uh council uh one of our main concerns was being able to retain a lot of our workforce within the city. That was our primary concern to have uh attainable housing that meets that. Not so much. Uh obviously uh we support affordable housing, but one of our largest concern
that we notice on the fire department and police department is that most of our new entry levelvel firefighters are not staying within the city because they're unable to find that same highquality housing that meets their uh their salary at that time frame. So, we're really looking forward to to being
able to retain those members so that they can uh stimulate our economy more so and that's the reason why we're targeting that particular scale as opposed to affordable. >> Okay, that sounds very smart to me and I've heard that complaint from a a lot of folks, not just in the fire department. So, I'm glad you're
targeting it. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. And uh I having four, you know, fire captains, I'm sure this will probably be the safest building in Trenton. So I give you >> all right. Well, thank you very much for coming and good luck with everything. Take care. Thank you, Council President,
>> Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Thank you, Council President. So, Captain Doug Degan, and to the other fire uh uh department uh captains and members that are here. And to you, sir, I apologize. I forgot your your name. I didn't write it. >> Josh. >> Josh. Thank you. So, thank you for
coming forward. I love the idea that you were investing one in our city, investing in each other. No one knows what you want better than you do. So, I really love that. I love that you are looking to stay here within the community that you serve. So, I think that is brilliant. I I am in love with
the idea that you're taking matters into your own hands instead of waiting for others to take on and tell you what you need. So, that I think is absolutely um great. You're taking a black property and developing it into a healthy, useful space. Um, and the fact that you took
into account um that uh parking so that you're not infringing on the community and hindering that is um is fantastic. I would like to ask for a copy of the um the PowerPoint. Um I always like to I like to just reread things. Um,
and as we're going as the more I'm thinking about it and I'm just thinking about that, you know, you guys have these long nights and these long early mornings that you need a place where you can rest your head when you come in from a traumatic situation and having a home um that you know is like uh uh council
vich said that I had in here it'll be one of the safest places um in the city. So, um we probably will try and get some of us to try to we'll probably ask you to help us with our properties when we're um building it so we can have up the code and then some. Um I do have one question and that is um how long will
the members be allowed to stay in the facility in the homes? Is there a timeline? Was it while they're there or how was that? Uh well there there's not necessarily a transition period because this isn't specifically uh targeting just let's say
entry level um civil servants. We are we vessel has an initiative. Vessel the name is because it's a launching pad. And the reason for that is we've we've we've worked very hard to ensure that we've able to keep the rents low so that our members will graduate into home
ownership within you know maybe three to five years or so. We're not looking for lifetime residents. We're looking for them to be able to launch out from our uh our homes and our units and basically leave that void so that the next generation can actually uh find proper
housing as well. So um our our entire initiative was to have very high quality housing but keep a a a very minimal um uh seamless let's say modern layout. The reason for that is to reduce clutter and and and
assume that these members will spend their funds traveling, experiencing the rural and saving it to buy another house as opposed to spending it on rent. So, we've purposely went out of our way to to sort of set a standard of high quality amenities to ensure that those
standards are set, but we're not looking for lifetime residents. We would like for them to launch from the vessel pad. >> So, that's great. but they're going to have a reality check once they leave there and get into the real world and know what the prices of homes and um things are. But I really love the concept. Congratulations on this and
thank you for bringing it before us. Thank you, Council President. >> Thank you, >> Council President. >> Council Luciano, >> I just have one more question. Sorry. So, this is going to be housing for first responders only? >> No, not at all. Not at all.
We're using them as an example of a low salary entry point of a group of people that would be very valuable to our community that we're unable currently to attain. >> Anybody can apply to live there. Okay. Thank you, Council President. Thank you, >> Councilman Harrison.
>> Um my question is, um like you said, uh this is a stepping point. Are you planning on doing like you said home ownership? Are you planning on doing other projects throughout the city? Uh yeah, the answer is we we'd love to do more uh projects throughout the city. Uh
our Perry Street project was the first one um and was a was the first of its kind. Um we you know we view this as you know uh just the next one, not the last one. Um and uh we're really excited about you know our our partnership with
the city and our ability to um keep being part of it. Um, so we, you know, uh, part of what we we are as a as a company is a a housing solutions provider and we work with different developers and so some of them may elect
to do home ownership in the future. Um, some of them will do rentals. Um, but we certainly support both of those. Um, and the the units themselves actually have the ability to be combined and decombined with them. They can be for home ownership purposes. They can be made larger into, you know, two and
three bedrooms um for those kinds of projects in the in the future. >> Do you have a price range yet for the single bedroom, two, three bedrooms yet or no? >> Um you've been for sale. No, not not at this time. >> Thank you, Council President. >> May I chime in because I just want to
answer something for Joseph. Uh just speaking of future buildouts, um there's a variety of lots that we look into from a variety of districts, not just the southside. I grew up in Wilbur section as well, but I didn't fight Mike. He was a bully. Um, wanted to point just wanted
to point that out. Uh, however, there's a parcel uh located at uh East State and Chambers, a little bit down from what used to be the Mart House, the CYO right now, and we we look at those sort of lots because they fit our trajectory at least uh 60 by 100 or by 80, something
in that space. So, even though we're not specifically targeting as many um single family or maybe home ownerships, we have been looking at many blank parcels in each district that would fit this same exact model. And it's it would still be the same timeline to erect. And we look
forward to partnering uh more with the city and to obviously, you know, bring a larger group within uh our civil servants to be able to, you know, extend that same reach. Just >> thank you for your investment in a great city. Thank you, >> Counciloman Frisbee. >> Thank you. I just have one other
question. So, again, I love the concept. Will there be financial guidance that you will be providing also to those that were interested? You said you're going to they'll be you're trying to the goal is to get them into their own home ownership um out of this. Will you be providing that? Because like we have had
projects here where people have purchased properties. They said they're going to help them move from renter into home ownership, but they have failed. And that's because they don't have the proper Okay, it's primarily because they have not had p um guidance on how to actually you not just your mortgage,
you've got rent, you've got you have water, you have utilities, you have all different types of things that come along with this, insurance, and so on and so forth. Will you be providing that type of guidance as well? >> Um that is not something that we had planned specifically. Obviously, if it's a request and something you suggest,
we're obviously we would tie into that. Um just to take it uh a step further as an overarching goal uh many of our members also uh we look forward to purchasing and rehabing city-owned properties. So if that's something that we can partner with the city with as
well to transition some of our uh members or renters out of those properties but also not only to place them into new construction homes but rehabilitated properties that are currently within the vacant uh lot structure that we have here in the city. I I think it would be a wonderful
partnership for us not only to be able to provide them with the financial literacy necessary to manage their household, but if we could also partner to be a part of the team to provide those same houses by rehabbing these properties because we have so many. And
I think uh us as fire captains, we have the bandwidth to be able to take on that and and manage the capacity of that. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. It would be great if you could if you did have that. not required but it would just be good good to help them for sustainability.
>> Absolutely. And based on your suggestion that we would absolutely not only take that in consideration but obviously provide something that would be suitable to the chamber. >> Thank you so much gentlemen. I appreciate your presentation this evening. Appreciate you. Thank you so
much. >> Thank you for having us. >> Yes. Um, >> Cleveland, at this time ahead of uh public comment for agenda items only, I would like to bring one ordinance. It's up for second reading up first. Um,
ordinance um 26071. And I'd like to see if anybody from the public would like to speak to this agenda item um prior to reading uh after reading it into record and prior to the council voting. >> All right. Uh when I need a motion to
move to ordinance 71. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Uh Councilwoman Edwards. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes.
>> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Jenna Figueroa Henberg, >> yes. Can you please read that ordinance title into the record? >> All right. Ordinance 26071.
Ordinance designing designating the tree plaza located at the Blacksmith Triangle at North Olden Avenue and Lawrence Street as the Kenneth Kenny Bullock Grove. Would there are there any members of the
public who wish to speak to this ordinance? Please come forward. This is just >> Oh, sorry. There's no comment on public. All right. I'm >> I'm sorry, Mr. Mr.
>> Colloji. I was asking that um >> because we would have uh public comment for agenda items only first. So that's why I was I was asking for uh public to speak to that. >> Thank you.
All right. So you come forward. >> Thank you. Good evening, council members. My name is David Parton. My address is 861 Bear Avenue, City of Trenton. Um, I was born and raised in the community where they're going to name this after Kenny
Bullock. Um, I need to let you know that Kenny Bulock was my first cousin. He would always say, "We are two sisters chilling." Because his mother and my mother were sisters. But Kenny was more than just the first cousin to me. Kenny
was a brother to me. Kenny helped raise me when my mom passed away. Kenny was always there for me and my family. But when Kenny got older, Kenny did the fish fry over there every
year. every year. He fed hundreds of people fish, um, size. He didn't charge anybody anything. Not one dime did he charge. And I think this is befitting for him
for this to be named after him. And I want to thank this council for doing that. But Kenny did more than just a fish fry. Kenny also gave food to people who needed it. Kenny also did a toy drive every Christmas and gave toys to
kids every Christmas. And Kenny never once asked for any recognition while he was doing these things. And I think this is an honor to him. Um I appreciate that you guys are doing this for him. I thank you for this. I'm I'm quite sure his
family that's here thank you for this as well. Um and they probably have something to say um on this as well. So, I just want to thank you for this and I am honored. I am honored that you're doing this in my cousin's name. Bless
you. >> All right. out there. Any uh members of the public who wish to speak please state your name and address for the record. Please >> my name is Lenor Bullock. I'm Kenny Bullock's wife.
I just want to thank y'all for I just want to thank the mayor for this opportunity for what you're proud to do. I thank you. I thank you all. It means a lot to us.
Thank you for me and my kids, my grandkids. We appreciate y'all. Means a lot. He enjoyed what he did, feeding the community.
He enjoyed getting up every from May from October to May going fishing, catching the fish himself to feed the community. He enjoyed it so much. It meant a lot to him. People would say, "You want us to donate?" He said, "I
don't mean nothing for none of y'all. Me and my wife is going to this. We got this. Our kids appreciate it so much. Means a lot. Did you state the address? >> They asked you to state your address.
>> I didn't hear your address. >> I'm sorry. We live 222 Dickens Street. We've been there for over 20 something years. And um our neighborhood means a lot to us.
The community meant a lot to Kenny and us. We appreciate you much. Thank you. All right. Are there any more any other members of the public wish to speak to this ordinance? All right. Seeing none. Uh, Council President, can I have a motion to
approve that ordinance? >> May we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Okay. On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Williams, >> heck yes. Council President Jennifer Figueroa Kentenberg. >> Yes.
>> All right. Motion carried. >> All right. Moving on. Uh, council president, we have public comment for agenda items only. >> That is correct. Let's proceed. >> All right, we have none. Uh, moving on.
We have approval of communications, petitions, and reports. Can I have a motion of approval? >> May we have a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. Reading the vote. Uh, Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President, Jennifer Goa Kenberg, >> yes.
>> All right, moving on. Uh the old business, we got second reading ordinances. Uh starting off with ordinance 2650. Ordinance authorizing the sale of
cityowned properties commonly known as 18 Asbury Street, 20 Asbury Street, 22 Asbury Street, 26 Asbury Street, 28 Asbury Street, 213 Ferry Street, 217
Ferry Street, 219 223 Ferry Street, 227 Ferry Street, 229 Ferry Street, 231 1 to 235 Ferry Street, 237 Ferry Street, 403-45
Bridge Street, 407-49 Bridge Street, 411 Bridge Street and 413 Bridge Street and identified on the city tax map as block 11,03, lots 34.01, 01
33 32 31 30 35 36 37 38 40 41 42 and 43 and block 11,04 lots 30 32 and 33
pursuant to NJSA 4A colon 12-313 C to Kyle Casey and Sima Gross for the sale price of $40,000.
There any member of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance? Seeing that there's none, council president, can I have a motion to approve? >> So second. >> Okay. Uh, Councilwoman Edwards.
>> Yes. Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harris, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President Jenna Figeroa
Katber, >> yes. >> Motion approved. All right, moving on. Ordinance number 26059, an ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property. commonly known as
413 Lambertton Street and identified on the city tax map as block 11,02 lot 29 pursuant to NJSA48 colon 12-13C to Vladimir Castillo for the sale price
of $7,770. Are there any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance? Seeing none, Council President, can I have a motion to approve? >> So approved. So moved. >> Second.
>> All right. On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Counciloman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams,
>> yes. Council President Jennifera Kentberg. Motion carried. Moving on to ordinance 26-060, an ordinance requiring the display of identification, reporting information,
and digital reporting QR code, and unique vehicle identification numbers on all city- owned vehicles to promote accountability and public safety. Are there any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance?
Seeing none, Council President, can I have a motion to approve? >> Second. >> All right. Uh, on to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. Councilman Harrison. >> Yes. >> Council Vice President Williams. >> Yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Goa Kenberg. >> Yes. >> Right. Moving. Motion carried. Moving on
to 2661, an ordinance authorizing and designating department directors as sub custodian of government records pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Records Act NJSA
471A-1 under the supervision of the municipal clerk. Are there any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance? Seeing none, can I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second.
>> On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Jenna Figueroa
Kentberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Moving on to 26-062, an ordinance of the city of Trenton establishing penalties for landlords who pay failed to pay water utilities
included in rent resulting in the disconnection of water service. Are there any members of the public who choose to speak to this ordinance? Seeing none, can I can I have a motion to approve? Council vice council president. >> Yes. May we have a motion to approve? So
moved. >> Second. All right, on to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes.
>> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Kentber, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Moving on to ordinance 26-063,
an ordinance establishing a policy for early closure of municipal offices during state of New Jersey holiday early dismissals. There any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance?
Seeing none, >> may we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. Council President, Counciloman Frisbee, >> I would just say question. Um it the second to the last paragraph it
talks about um when the city of Trenton shall hereby designated Thanksgiving, Christmas, Junth. If it the only place I area I think it needs to be added is if it falls on a Sunday it doesn't say
uh what we should do what they what the departments do then >> I I I would just venture to say I believe it it would fall on that following Monday and if it falls on a Saturday or Thursday it would be that Friday but I would like somebody from administration. >> Right. It speaks to the Thursday. It
speaks to the Friday. It speaks to all of that, but it just doesn't speak to whether when it falls on a Sunday. So, can we have that addressed? >> Richardson. >> Good evening. Maria Richardson, business administrator. Yes. Usually when um any
holiday, if it falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the city would usually schedule that or on Friday or Monday. So we usually would not have um the actual day off but on a weekday. So that should be just
any >> any regular holiday, right? So I know that we they get off if it's a Sunday default if they get off that Monday that Monday, but I'm saying for the early dismissal portion of it. So they don't get that Friday off too early.
>> Usually we let's say that it's on a Friday, right? The early dismissal will be on the Thursday. Um only um I think it's Labor Day and Memorial Day are Mondays. So they will leave earlier on
Friday. So it's the work day before the holiday. The working day before the holiday. So there. So I'm I'm just making sure the early dismissal if the holiday falls on a Sunday they have we know they have off that Monday but will
they have early dismissal on that? >> The early dismissal will be on Friday and Friday. >> It will be the working day before uh the holiday. So if it's on the Monday they will leave earlier on Friday. Okay.
So, can we have that just added in here because it talks about Mondays. If the holidays fall on a Monday, the Friday before will be the day for early dismissal. Um, I think I thought I saw um other places as well talks about the dismissals if it's early and the same thing. I know
for a Saturday if it's a Saturday, but the Sunday was the only one that I did not see that was addressed in this um Or maybe we just >> even if the holiday falls on a Saturday, right? We would not the day off would
not be the Saturday because not everybody has to work on a Saturday. That would be probably overtime for those that have to work on that day. But usually if a holiday like um the recent Independence Day fell on a Saturday, the
day off was Friday. The day for early dismissal will have been Thursday. >> Okay. Thank you, >> President. >> Council President, Director Riches, >> as I understand the the the ordinance, wouldn't we be following whatever the
state is doing? I mean, if we're following their their their early clos, wouldn't Wouldn't it be the same that the state is doing? I I guess I'm confused by it now. >> No. Um after I think that the sponsor for this ordinance is councilwoman
Feliciano and uh the original ordinance was mirroring the state holidays but after further conversation we agreed that it would be four holidays that are
in the city's uh collective bargaining agreements. So we have 13 days. We picked four of those uh for early dismissals and they are uh detailed in the body of the of the ordinance.
>> Council President, >> Council Luciano, >> thank you. So to answer Councilwoman Frisbee's point, I get what you're saying about if it's on a Sunday, but this is based on the day that the city or state would actually recognize the
holiday. So Sundays really wouldn't be taken into account because we would recognize if the holiday fell on Sunday, they would recognize it on the Monday. So >> I'm clear on that part. >> Yeah. that's the case, then it would be the Friday that they would then leave
early because it's the Monday. So maybe you would want to see if the holiday falls on or is recognized on a Monday or the language I'm really looking for is if whatever day the holiday falls on that previous work day, they have early
dismissal in there. So that covers all of it, whether it's a Friday, whether it's a Saturday, whether or if it's a Sunday. And I only say that because we are it's addressing the Monday in there. >> But if it's a Saturday or a Sunday, you know, if if they again, if they're trying to plan their life around
whatever they're going to do, >> it should be I would like for it to be a given that whatever the holiday whatever date falls on the previous, if I'm understand this correctly, whatever the previous workday is, they get early
dismissal on that. Is that correct? Am I saying that right? >> Yes. is the previous the previous week work day. >> Previous day though, >> council president. >> Yes, absolutely. Senator,
>> but but the thing is and I I get where you're where you're going with it. But even if it if the holiday fell on a Saturday, >> the city's going to recognize it on the Friday. They're not going to recognize it on the Saturday. The city's going to recognize it on the Friday. So that
Thursday they'll get out early. If it fell on the Sunday, they're going to recognize it on the Monday, >> which means that the Friday they would get out. Yeah. Early. So it's not about a Saturday or Sunday because the city
doesn't recognize the Saturday or Sunday. They recognize the Friday or the Monday. They they only have You understand what I'm saying? like they only with the city only recognizes the Friday or the Monday for the holiday when they're giving off. They're not
recognizing they know it's Saturday or Sunday, but we're recognizing the Friday. >> So I think it's the language it so maybe the >> right the day it's observed Friday. the more whatever day the holiday falls on, it's the previous working day. And I
think that's the language. Um >> the day that the holiday is observed by the city on, not the day that it falls on, it's observed. >> I said observed on. Right. >> So that's that's what I'm looking for. The the day that the holiday is observed on, whatever the previous day is,
previous day, previous working day, that's the day that they get have the early dismissal. >> Yes. So, it says that that's the line that I'm looking for. >> So, Councilwoman Frisy, are you asking for that language to be added um into the ordinance?
>> I am. >> Okay. Councilwoman Edwards, did you have a question? >> Okay. No. Okay. So, um, if if that's what we're looking for, can we have a motion to amend the ordinance uh 26063
to state Counciloman Frisbee that whatever whatever day the holiday is observed, that previous work day, they have early dismissal will be the day of early dismissal. So
the early dismissal for the city of Trenton would come the day before the observed holiday. Exactly. Observed working day. >> Yes. A week day actually it is. >> Here you go. Yes. Exactly.
>> Mhm. Mhm. Mr. Clo, can you say that into the record, please? >> Yeah. I'm ju I'm just going to uh put on the record the verbiage I think would be okay. Um, if a holiday
falls on a weekend, >> weekday, >> the early dismissal will take place the previous work day. >> Is that good? Okay. Thank you. That's so
that's going to be the motion to amend to add that in. Madam President, >> Councilwoman Edwards, >> I don't mean to further complicate things, but shall it say that the excuse >> shall it say that the that the early
dismissal day should fall on the business day preceding the observed holiday because it sometimes it is an observed day rather than the actual day. >> Okay? >> So if it's observed on Monday, it would be Friday early dismissal. If it's observed on Friday, it would be Thursday
early dismissal and so so forth and so on >> excluding weekends. >> Okay. So, can you >> council president Councilman Feliciano? >> Thank you. So, all we're changing is we're saying if the observed holiday that word
>> Yes. >> If the observed holiday falls on a weekend, the early dismissal will take place the previous work day. >> Yes. >> Yes. Okay. Thank you. Wait, I'm sorry, council, but I thought we just said if it fell on a Sunday,
then Okay. Yes. Yeah. Okay, sounds good. Do we have that Cleveland? >> Right. >> All right. So, can I have a motion to approve the ordinance as amended?
>> So, moved. >> Second. >> Yes. >> All right. So, sorry. This is a motion to amend the ordinance first. >> Yes, correct. >> Amen. >> All right. >> And who so moved that? >> Frisbee. >> And who was the second?
>> Feliciano. >> Okay. Well, to the vote, Councilwoman Edwards. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Oh, yes. Thank you. >> Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes.
>> Councilman Harrison. Yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> may I ask a quick question before I go? >> What happens if it's a leap year? >> I'm just kidding. Yeah. >> Okay. Uh
and Council President Jennifer Kenberg. >> Yes. Cleveland, please don't get distracted. >> Okay. Uh now we need a motion to adopt this a this ordinance as amended. Uh, can I have a motion? >> So moved to second.
>> All right. Going to the vote. >> Uh, Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams,
>> yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Figareroa Kentberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. Moving on to ordinance 26-064, an ordinance authorizing the sale of city owned property commonly known as
259 Church Street and identified on the city tax map, block 213, lot 47, pursuant to NJSA 48 colon 12-13
C to Glenn Patterson for the sale price of 1 500. Are there any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance? Seeing none, can I have a motion to approve? >> So move. Second.
>> Right. On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. Council Vice President Williams.
>> Yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Kettenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Moving on to ordinance 26065. an ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned properties commonly known as
167 Wayne Avenue and 69 Edgemeir Avenue and identified on the city tax map block 68 lot 22 block 6102 lot one pursuant to NJSA 4A col 12-13C
to William Hajj for the sale price of $15,000. Are there any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance? Seeing none, can I have a motion to approve? >> Some moved. Second.
>> All right, on to the vote. Uh, Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Felixiano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Tesca Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Williams,
>> yes. >> And Council President, Jennifer Figureroa Kettenburg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Uh, moving on to ordinance number 26067, an ordinance authorizing the sale of
cityowned properties commonly known as 30 and 32 Binmar Avenue identified on the city tax map, block 620, lots 41 and 42, pursuant to NJSA 4A
colon 12-13C to Enrique K a >> US Mendes for the sale price of $50,000. There any members of the public who choose to speak to this ordinance?
Seeing none, can I have a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Fellaciano, >> yes. Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Goa Kettenberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Moving on. Ordinance 26068,
an ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 30 North Hermitage Avenue and identified on the city tax map block 2604, lot 14, pursuant to NJSA4A12-13
C to Rosa Hermina Espanol Liz for the sale price of $13,00 600. Are there any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance? Seeing none, may I have a motion to approve?
>> So moved. >> Second. >> On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison,
>> yes. Council Vice President Williams. >> Yes. >> And Council President Jenna Figareroa Kenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-069, an ordinance authorizing the sale of
city-owned property commonly known as 65 Mechanics Avenue and identified on the city tax map, block 22401, lot 15 pursuant to NJSA 48 col2-13C
to Carmen Madira for the sale price of $6,200. Are there any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance? Seeing none, may I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second.
>> All right, moving on to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. Councilman Harrison, >> yes.
>> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Goa Kettenberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Next, we have ordinance through 6-070, an ordinance of the city of Trenton
amending and restating city code 21-47 of chapter 21 animals to prohibit the breeding of dogs and cats in the city of Trenton. Are there any members of the public who chooses to speak to this ordinance? Seeing none, may I have a
motion to approve? >> So moved. Second on to the vote. Uh, Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes.
>> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President Jennifera Kenberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. All right, that is the end of ordinances.
Um, moving on to new businesses. We have resolutions. >> All right. Uh, Cleveland, at this time, I'd like to ask my council colleagues or what resolutions that they have that they'd like to discuss. >> Council President,
>> Council Feliciano. >> Uh, 26262. >> Okay. Um, I think that's it for me. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else?
>> Yes. Council member Frisbee, >> the lead are resolution 26-66 266. >> Okay. Uh, I think that might be it for me. Okay.
Yes. Anyone else? >> Madam President, >> Councilwoman Edwards, >> 26-239. >> Uh 239. One second. Okay. I think that that's it for me.
>> Beautiful. All right. Seeing none others, let's proceed. Councilman Feliciano, please. Um, what do you have for 26262? >> Thank you. Just a quick question on this. So, what do we know where this um
did did Brandon did Mr. Garcia write this ordinance? >> No, that's Council President. >> Yes. >> Um, I was just going to say that before we even started that um Mr. Garcia didn't put my name on that one. So we can add that name or Mr. Cleveland
prior to any signatures on it. >> Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman. >> Thank you. >> So the questions I have are um I I think this is very interesting. >> Um and it's it's
good, but is I mean isn't this something that the state is already working on? like there's things that we're asking for that if I'm not mistaken in hearing Assemblywoman Verina Reynolds Jackson speak often about uh affordability, transparency, and then I actually was
looking up some of the policies that she was looking to put forward and all of this stuff like that. I feel like this may be something um not necessarily above the council, but I'm just curious as to the thought process
behind why we would entertain this and then it's they're doing this independent commission. They're reviewing like aren't they are they looking into that already >> holding public hearings and stuff? like isn't aren't these things that are already being um looked into to be done?
>> Yes. So my uh thought process behind this was obviously a resolution of just us supporting this moving forward on a state level because with us having just one hospital now >> hopefully I know the community is advocating for another emergency or
healthc care services coming to the city that we support this and honor you know just so that our residents if we get another emergency services that they are being transparent with the funds the cost of services that they receive. So that was just the purpose. It was just a resolution of support, nothing that
we're implementing it. >> Okay. So then the on that because I'm just reading where it says we're call we're calling on them to develop it and we're calling on them to do this. So yeah, I guess the difference of what I'm trying to understand is if there if
she's already looking to do this, then like you're saying about the support, we we would we would support this >> support >> not call on them to do it. you call on them to support the actions of the state
legislature to do AB C and D. I think she's like I said I was looking I think she already like we're calling on them and then when she does it it's like oh we told you and you did it. Um it's a matter of we're supporting the initiatives that are
being put forward. So to ask that we make a to change where it says we're calling the state legislature in those different places um to say you know we're we support the state
legislature blah blah blah. >> Okay. >> I'm writing on yours is okay. >> That's hers. It's okay. >> Okay. >> It's fine. So we may we have a motion to amend where we have calling on and change the wording to in support of
>> Mr. Cleveland. You got that? >> Yes, ma'am. I do. May I have a motion to amend resolution number 26262? >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. Um on to the vote.
Councilwoman Edwards. Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Councilman Harrison. >> Yes.
>> Council Vice President Williams. >> Yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Kentberg. >> Yes. >> Okay. Motion carried. This resolution has been amended. consent. Consent. >> Thank you.
>> Okay. >> Yep. Thank you very much. Um, resolution 26-266, Councilwoman Frisbee. Um, just have a quick question on this. >> Steve Wilson, police director. >> Good evening, sir. I just have a um quick question is I see that we're
getting these from Pamis. Do we have a contract with the with them in that area or is there can we try and find the these items the vehicles locally? >> Oh well they're they're part they're on a state contract. So we're purchasing
this with a JAG grant that we received in 2023. Um there was a little bit delay on the county end. The the uh Jag grant is through the county and uh we are purchasing them right off the lot.
>> So these are all on lots and so we don't have them closer to us um on the we couldn't find them on the lot I should say. >> Well, we have purchased through state contract. >> We have it's with the state contract that we have with in Paramis with that dealership. >> Yeah, I think they are. Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. That's all I was
asking. >> Okay. Thank you, Councilwoman said. >> Awesome. All right, moving right on. Councilwoman Edwards, uh, resolution 26-239. >> Thank you. Um, I just wanted to just hear from the
administration for an update on this on this resolution to transfer. Um, I still have some concerns about this. So, has there been any agreement with the between the administration and the new owners to transfer this pilot?
>> There is not being any agreement to my knowledge. This um resolution was tabled before and uh it was put back on the docket assuming that the council received the
information that you requested. Um to my knowledge administration has not received any different administration. I think that the attorneys for this uh group are here. They might be able to provide additional information but to my knowledge administration didn't receive
any additional information. >> So what is the administration stance on this pilot agreement in terms of transferring it? Well, we actually agreed with some of your uh requests during the last meeting about some social benefits for the city, but to my
knowledge, we haven't received any information on it. I was doing one last search of my email and I don't recall receiving any of the information that I had requested in terms of the original pilot agreement. um if there's been any community
benefits agreement at all, any upgrades expected to the property, anything of the nature. I we have not >> We haven't received any information, Councilwoman Edwards. And uh at this point, I would not have any problem if you would like to table it until you've received the information that you've
requested. So that is up to the council. I'll um defer to my colleagues, but I expected this to be brought forth to the HED ad hoc committee for us to review all of this with the administration so that we can go over the terms of the contract and any type of negotiations
that we may have in terms of community benefits, any modifications, upgrades, renovations or repairs to the property that we could be, you know, asking for in, you know, just negotiation just in good faith. for the res
>> comments to Jolanda, director of HD on that. >> Thank you. >> The subcommittee Vasquez is interim director housing and economic development. Um, actually during the subcommittee meeting, I mentioned that I wasn't the one that put it back on the docket and I asked if it
was okay that it was on the docket and nobody said it to pull it so that it remained on the docket. >> Okay. I know I had some technical issues that day, so I don't recall
that part of the meeting, but um I would appreciate if we can just get all of the things that I had asked for and allowed this to be reviewed by the ad hoc committee um just to make sure that we are moving forward with the best interest of the residents um first
before we transfer anything over to the new owners. I would hate to further delay this, but we didn't get any of that information. >> So, I I will contend that it was mentioned in ad hoc meeting. Um I don't
have the notes in front of me about what it was. I know that there was the AI notes in ad hoc committee councilwoman. Um but at this time um you know given your um concern with what you don't know about this which um I don't know if
there's something specific that you're you're seeking that uh dire can answer at this time there's something truly specific at this time that that you can ask her otherwise you know >> what I'm specifically seeking is as we
are going over pilot agreements or applications for pilots or tax abatements that we are negotiating good faith with the people that are requesting them so that the the needs are reflective of the community and not just of the the owners of these
properties. Just for example, the shopping centers that we had went over for those piloted agreements um on Pennington Avenue and Llayer a uh Llayer Street. We this the man the administration as well as the city council had sought out, you know, um
just community benefits, adding in green spaces to the parking lots, upgrading base lifts and things like that, renovations to the Pendington Avenue shopping center for the the uh owners over there, the grocery store over there, as well as Layer. We had
negotiated with them. The administration negotiated that. So, we didn't just give them a pilot. We made sure that the the neighborhood itself was benefiting from it. So if we're giving out pilots, then we should be benefiting from giving out
decreased taxes. So like I said, the residents over there are living in somewhat of deplorable conditions. If you were to make a Facebook post about the property, I'm sure you would get hundreds of comments on there about what needs to be changed. you know, whether
it would be, you know, uh facade improvements or property and grounds improvements, security, a playground, you know, so those are the type of, you know, uh concessions that I'm looking for that I'm advocating for on behalf of
the residents that live there, if that makes sense. >> Council President, if I may, um yes, >> just a brief point of clarification. Um >> and thank you for the question, Councilwoman um Edwards. My recollection of that colloqui during um this was that
um you were there was a question with respect to whether the transfer of the pilot was proper and legal and um uh I discussed the prior um matter exe were raised and and I articulated that it was my understanding for the
request of additional information was that you wanted to see the original pilot um I think the one previous to the one that we're transferring now to to make a comparison to it. Um um I will also um
for the entity um seeking transfer is here should they have any question but what I recall of the additional information needed was you wanted an original of something and I don't know what what specifically that was but I know in terms of your question of whether the transfer was was proper I
believe I answered that question um during the meeting that this last was uh discussed. So, I don't know what what any additional information that anyone could articulate that was requested or not received. I I'm not saying she didn't. I just don't I don't know what other
information to gather and the council, you know, impart some information regarding. >> Thank you, director. >> Yes. To my recollection, you requested information regarding the community benefits and you also requested a plan for renovations because of the
deplorable conditions. I haven't seen it. Um, obviously the HD interim director have not received it and it is my recommendation that you table it until you've received the information you requested.
>> What's the general behind? >> Yeah, I wouldn't mind giving it the counselor. >> Will you I'm so sorry. >> I said I wouldn't mind giving the representative a chance to just speak on behalf of the company. That's what I was going to ask. we if we can have any type of reassurances that there will be
upgrades in the near future of the property. What are the plans for the property? >> Thank you, Council Councilwoman. One thing I could speak to is security at the building. Um it is mentioned in the ordinance. Um, my client has they paid for a crime study
to be done uh on the property and one of the recommendations was that they uh purchase and implement a camera system. And so with the camera system, they've worked with Trenton Police Department. Um, they've uh installed over
I think 240 cameras. Uh 54 of them being in stairwells, others being at different entrances. These uh cameras can see uh can have face recognition. They have with respect to reading license plates. On multiple occasions, the Trenton Police Department has reached out for
information about certain crimes and our client has been able to provide that information to them through these cameras. Those cameras are also um monitored 24/7 by security. And so one of I know the main issue, you know, years ago that was spoken with between the administration and my client was
security. And I think that's one of the things, one of the measures that my clients took. >> Sorry, I'm sorry. Can you just introduce yourself, please? >> Oh, sorry about that. Apologies. Omar Brento from Marter and English in New Jersey. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. That
everything that you said is is very much needed in the area. Um, and I appreciate that and also the cooperation with the police department because it is a high crime area. So, I do appreciate um you know, your your willingness to do a crime study and the installation of the
cameras. Do you have any plans? Are there any plans for quality of life upgrades, perhaps interior upgrades or exterior upgrades in terms of recreation or community? Anything like that for the youth and young adults in the area?
>> Admittedly, Councilwoman, I don't have that information in front of me. I'm my client does strive to improve the building year on and year out and we'd be happy to hear any suggestions that your office has with respect to any renovations you like to be seen at the property or in the exterior of the property.
>> Okay. So, right now there are no plans to modify or upgrade the property. >> I I I don't want to say that there isn't. I just I haven't been candidly councilwoman with respect to this transfer. It's more of I was here more in a legal capacity to talk about why
the transfer is just and why we're entitled to it by being an assign assenee of the sponsor of the tax abatement. Um so I wasn't prepared here to talk about future projects in which they may hold. I did talk about the one of the reasons why I did know about the security at the project. That's something that was discussed with the
administration previously and that was an issue that was raised and that was spoken uh that my client um made action on. But in terms of future projects, I wasn't prepared to speak about that. >> Okay. All right. >> Okay. Thank you for that information.
>> Thank you, Council. >> I don't have any further questions. >> Thank you, >> Councilwoman Edwards. At this time, do you want to table this or do you want to go to roll call? Council President, >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> I'd like to make a motion to table this
until we receive the information that was requested um by Councilwoman Edwards and Council President. >> Council Vice President Williams. >> Just want to follow up. I uh had previously asked what the exact address of this was and if you could just give us the street address just for the
record. >> Yeah. 160 Oakland Street. >> 160. >> Well, 160 Oakland Street. Yep. >> All right. Thank you so much, sir. push it up. >> All right. >> So, there's a motion on the floor. >> Yeah. Like, yeah, there's a motion on the floor. >> We have a motion on the floor to table.
Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Right. On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards. There's a motion to table resolution 26 239.
>> Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> do we have a date when this is the next which is >> Yes. The next meeting which is August in August. August. >> The next meeting. >> Yes.
>> The next meeting. I'm sorry for the record. It's August. >> Right. So, >> do I have to amend that to say till August 2nd? >> I don't think it's August 6, ma'am. So, we want to
table it to August 6th. >> August 6th. >> Yes. >> Up until the next council meeting. Yes. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. So, Councilwoman Frisbee, your vote >> is yes for table until August 6th. >> Okay. Councilwoman Gonzalez,
>> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Kettenberg, >> yes. >> This resolution has been tabled. I I I do have one question just so I can
clarify before a meeting on August and so I'm prepared. What exact information were you guys seeking outside of the language of the pilot agreement? Um I know you said you wanted to see the actual pilot of the agreement. >> Thank you. Um >> Councilwoman Edwards,
>> thank you. Um I'm looking for an original copy of the pilot. I'm not sure if that falls on you or the onus is on the administration to provide. I know it's from the 80s, but we should have the record somewhere within the administration. I'm looking for, you
know, um the quality of life, any type of upgrades, if there's any plans from the owners to do any renovations or anything like that. I would love to see something um formal with in terms of the security upgrades and the things that
were already done. I'm just looking for justification to renew the pilot because the public does not, you know, there are members of the public that are kind of reluctant towards pilots and just giving them out to anyone without receiving any
type of community benefits in return. So, I'm advocating for the residents over there to for upgrades to this property. and we would like to see some type of written agreement or any future plans even if it's not in the next
couple of years something down the line that would justify needing this pilot in the first place. So if there's anything you could provide if we can have this before it comes to council that would be great so that we can thoroughly look
through this. Um, my apologies for any lack of communication on my part that may have happened that ended ended up here today back at square one from the last conversation, but just hopefully we'll have some documentation so that we can review this thoroughly um, and
justify the pilot. >> Understood, council woman. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. >> All right, council president. Um, seeing that there's no more questions to any more of the resolutions, do we have a
motion to approving a a consent agenda including resolutions 262 26-262 26-263 26-26 286
26-264 26-265 Resolution 26-266 Resolution 26-267 Resolution 26-268
Resolution 26-269 Resolution 26-270 Resolution 26-271 Resolution 26-272 Resolution 26-287 Resolution 26-2 273
Resolution 26-274 Resolution 26-275 26-276 26-277 26-278 26-279
26-280 26-281 26-2882 26-283 3 26-284 26-285.
>> May we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> All right, on to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Fellaciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez,
>> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. and council president Jennifera Kenberg. >> Yes. >> All right. Consent agenda. Uh, Council President, there is a
walk-on uh that was presented. >> Yes, >> it should be in the back of your package. The clip Oh, okay. Thank you, Cleveland. Can we read the walk in walk on into the record, please?
>> All right. We have uh a resolution accepting a bid and awarding a contract to Walter R. Earl Burlington Incorporated for the furnishing of asphalt materials for road maintenance for the city of Trenton, Department of
Public Works, Division of Streets for a period of one year from the date of the award in an amount not to exceed $400,000, $74.50
per ton. bid 206-72. Can I have a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. Going to the vote. Uh, Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. Council Vice President Williams. >> Yes. >> And Council Vice President Jenna
Figareroa Kettenberg. >> Yes. >> Resolution carried. >> Um uh Council President, do we have a number for that? Or maybe I missed it. >> Yes. 072, I think. Wait, no. No, hold on. Uh 072. Yes.
>> 072. Thank you. >> 26. >> All right. Moving on to ordinance uh first reading and introduction. Uh, ordinance number 26-046,
an ordinance establishing requirements for registration, approval, and the establishment and operation of recovery homes, group homes, transitional homes, andor community living within the city of Trenton in compliance with federal
and state fair housing laws and certifications. May I have a motion to approve first reading? Second. >> All right. On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> Council, >> Council President, Jennifer Kenberg, >> yes. >> Council President, >> Counciloman Feliciano,
>> can I ask a quick question? Yes. >> Thank you. So, I know we saw this before at one time. It's back again. What changed from the last time to this time? Why? Why did we What happened?
>> Um, do we know? Do we remember, >> Council Gonzalez? >> Um, I I it was just the language that I thought we were going to change some wording in it, but um we're not. It may be a separate one coming um in regards to something similar to
this, but no, it was just it was something I wanted to change, but it's it's fine. >> Okay. So then, thank you. Under section two, community engagement requirement. Letter A says that they shall conduct at least one, but then they have the number
two in parentheses, community meetings. So, how many meetings are we having? >> It should have been two. >> Okay. >> To begin with, hold on, let me check. Council Fel, I asked for that to be changed. I'm sorry, missed that. I was told it was edited, revised. >> Okay. Thank you.
>> Yeah, it should have been two. >> Okay. >> I was told in Docker review that was revised. I apologize. >> And it may have been. I'm just looking at what I had gotten. I didn't I didn't realize you had asked. My apologies. >> So, um, and with this currently, they
don't have community engagement requirements, right? Mm- No. >> And I know that there was a big stink, right, about some different places that were coming up. So, this is smart. Thank you for putting this together to make it happen. But this is because we don't currently do this. Right.
>> Right. Just so that you know if someone does because by law we can't tell someone that they can't open up, but if they want to purchase a property for this use that at least they give the community a heads up, have a discussion and see what the community input is
prior to doing that. of course was following all of the state laws and regulations as well. >> Okay, good. Thank you. Thank you, Councilwoman. Thank you, Council President. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Um Cleveland, can you just um put a note on there that that was uh advised that that was
changed in docker review, the the number in the parenthesis versus the actual number. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, moving on to ordinance 26-066, an ordinance authorizing the sale of
city own property commonly known as 2413rd Street, 114-118 Shank Street and 111-119 Temple Street and identified on the city
tax map block 11603, lots two and 9-13 pursuant to NJSA48 colon 12-13C to Vessel Technologies and Bridgeoint
Development LLC for the sale price of $33,560. May I have a motion to approve? >> Second. >> Second. >> All right. Now on to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards. Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes.
>> Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Councilman Harrison. >> Yes. >> Council Vice President Williams. >> Yes. >> And Council President Jenna Figueroa Ketenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried.
>> Uh next we have ordinance number 26-072. An ordinance amending ordinance 255074 authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 900 Indiana Avenue and identified on the city tax
map block 23903 lot 21 pursuant to NJSA 48-128-12 of $25,000. May I have a motion to approve >> sum of six? Second.
>> All right. Councilwoman uh Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. Council Vice President Williams.
>> Yes. >> And Council President Jenna Figareroa Kenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Council President. >> Council F. >> Just a quick question just to refresh my memory. I thought we did this on >> I did too. >> I did
>> for Sherwood and stuff cuz I remember >> I did too. >> There was they wanted it to be a park and then it wasn't the park and now we're >> I thought we approved. We voted on this already. No. >> Council President. C the vice president. >> Um HD could come up and answer, but it's
a change of use uh from um what was going to be a rental or sale property to a single family that the actual um Mr. Brown and his wife will be living in apparently. >> Got it. >> Okay. You know what? I'm sorry, Council
President. The word amending the ordinance. My bad. Okay. I just wanted to make sure y'all was awake up here. Thank you. Sorry about that. Thank you. But to your point, Councilwoman, yes, we still need a park in that neighborhood, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> Okay,
>> please proceed, Cleveland. >> All right, moving on. Ordinance number 26075, an ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 116 Home Avenue and identified on the
city tax map block M17301 lot 15 pursuant to NJSA 40SA colon 12-13C to Ulissiz Fernandez Hernandez for the
sale price of $8,000. 675. May I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. On to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harris, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. and council president Jennifera Kenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried.
>> Right. Moving on. 26-076. Ordinance authorizing the sale of cityowned property commonly known as 438 West Hover Street and identified on the city tax map block 2302
lot 21 pursuant to NJ S. It should be SA 44A col 12-13C to Santa Cra for the price sale price of $3,000.
I have a motion to approve. >> So move second. >> Right. Uh Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. and Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Councilman Harrison,
>> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President Jennifera Kettinberg, >> yes. >> Moving on to ordinance number 26077. Ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property common commonly
known as 1523 South Clinton Avenue and identified on the city tax map block 201102 lot 10 pursuant to NJSA 40A colon 12-13C
to Samuel Marmole Santana for the sale price of $16. $15,000. May I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> All right. Councilwoman Edwards,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Goa
Kittenberg. >> Yes. All right, moving on to Ordinance 26-078, an ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property property commonly known as 60 Laurel Avenue and identified
on the city tax map block 6306, lot 61, pursuant to NJSA 48 col 12-13C to Jennifer Ezimma Barbosa Castro for
the sale price of $20,000. May I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Uh on to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. and council president Jennifera Kentenberg. >> Yes. >> All right. Moving on. Ordinance 26079,
ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 272 Walnut Avenue and 409 Walnut Avenue and identified on the city tax map. Block 26402,
lot 26 and block 2731, lot 32, pursuant to NJSA 40A colon 12-13C to Diego Barios for the sale price of
$17,000. May I have a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second. >> All right. Uh, Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Council President Frisbee. >> Councilwoman Frisbee.
>> Oh, Councilwoman Frisbee, I'm so sorry. Have your vote, ma'am. Again, I'm sorry. I didn't hear it. >> Yes. >> All right. Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes.
>> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. and Council President Jenna Figeroa Kentenberg. >> Yes. >> Moving on. Ordinance 26-080, an ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as
682 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and identified on the city tax map block 8502 block 21 pursuant to NJSA 48 col 12-13C
to Ahmed Kamar the sale of $45. May I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Councilwoman Edwards. >> Yes. Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Jennifera Kentenberg, >> yes.
>> Next, we have 26081. An ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 130 Chamber Street and identified on the city tax map block 27602 lots 23 24 2526
pursuant to NJFA 40A col2-13C to Riot Associates for the sale price of $28,800. May I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Right. On to the vote. Councilwoman
Edwards. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. >> Council Vice President Williams,
>> yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Kittenberg, >> yes. Right. Next, we have ordinance 26-082, an ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property, commonly known as
1047 South Broad Street, and identified on the city tax block 17901, lot 12, pursuant to NJSA 48 col 12-13C
to Yomi J. Vasquez for the sale price of $1,000. May I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Right on to the vote. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Councilman Harrison, >> yes. Council Vice President Williams. >> Yes. >> And Council President Jennifer Kentenberg.
>> Yes. >> All right. That would be all of the first reading ordinance. >> Council President. >> Council D. >> Can I just ask a quick question? >> Yes. >> I'm sorry. So only because it just clicked in my in my brain looking at this. anywhere on
these applications. Do we have where they have to indicate if they are related to any um members of the administration or um the elected body? And I only asked
that because the the last name and as I'm clicking and thinking and just looking at this um I don't think we >> no yeah >> I think that moving forward as we move
through these processes we need to have something put where they have to indicate and again it's no offense or anything it's just it just clicked my brain when I saw the the name and everything just to make sure right as we're looking through if it were um by
relation or by a close affiliation or anything like that, we would just kind of look at that and have maybe somebody else sign off >> um just so there's no conflict. >> So kind it would be like without penalization, but more so for knowledge and for recordeping and for trends that >> Yes. Yeah. Not for not nothing to
penalize, but just so that anybody signing off on it, nobody could say, "Oh, you did that because that was XYZ." Right. Right. Um, and we're good. Okay. >> Is that something that can be included in the applications moving forward? I know we haven't started new applications
yet. VA Richardson. >> Yes. >> Just seeking clarification. You want that statement to ask if they are related to who specifically? >> So like on this one here, right? And again, the the the name just caught my
attention. Right. >> I'm sorry. Could you please tell me the name? >> Vasquez. >> Okay. So the question that I had was do we have something on there that says because ultimately if you're the person overseeing it or we're the people voting on it or just anything like that just to
indicate if there's any relation or close affiliation to anybody that would make the determination as to how this moves forward or not. >> But the only individuals making determination on the sale is the council. So it would be to the council.
What I'm saying is when we're agreeing like when this stuff is coming in, right, >> the director sees and signs off on certain parts of it. >> No. Yes. >> Um, >> so sign the
>> it's just a simple disclosure. >> Okay. >> No, just a simple disclosure that you said. >> I just want to know if we should be saying, you know, that it's up to the council or the >> to any of us to be honest. Okay. >> To any of us are related to you know
what I'm saying? Is there relation or just so and I'm only saying that because >> of of just questions and things that are that have just um been arising for different reasons and everything just to make sure that just everybody is good
with it. That's all. It's not >> consider it and then probably bring it to the subcommittee meeting to see and then to the rest of the council. But I just don't see how we can do that. But definitely we will consider it.
>> Yeah. I think it's a transparency thing. I see where she's coming from with it. >> Yes. Yes. >> Yeah. And I I was just going to clarify as well if I may, Council President. I think the the question being not that there is a relation here, but that's that spawned the thought as to whether or not that was something that was being disclosed and the and the followup
question being can that be something that's added to the application process simply disclose whether or not I think the question was there related to any uh directors or elected officials being council as well. So it wasn't anything offensive. It was something that spawned the thought of is that something that's
being vetted during the application process. So since the director of the law department has so clear I am going to ask him for his advice in in putting that statement together for the application. >> You you put an application are you
related to any employees or elected officials for the state of >> I don't I don't have any problem with this. >> We'll work on it but I think it's a good question something that can be ad amended. Yes, >> council president. >> Thank you council vice president Williams. So I just want to make sure my understanding from following the
conversation is that someone could be related to a member of administration or council and stole purchased the property. Correct. Okay. Thank you. And just in case there's any confusion, um the last uh ordinance 082 was Yonyi
Vasquez and I believe that is no relation to director Vasquez and she's nodding her head that that is correct. There's no relation. All right. Thank you very much, >> Council President. Councilwoman. >> So again, thank you, Council Vice President. I didn't I'm not saying that
they were related. Thank you for clearing that up. I just said like the the director said it clicked. I said that that it just clicked in my head. Are we asking that question? Um just to make sure everybody is covered all the way around. That's all. I just it just
>> I'm sorry, director. You did it. It's your fault. >> Council President, >> thank you. Uh C. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. I I appreciate that you're doing that because that is something in the mind of the public that everything is kosher and on the clear and was as someone with the
last name of Williams I would appre especially much appreciate this. >> Thank you uh Cleveland we can proceed at this point to public comment I believe. >> All right moving on to public comment. Any members of the public like to
comment? All right, first up we have Anthony Johnson. Uh, please come up and state your name for the record and there is a three minute time limit. >> Yes, sir. Uh Anthony Johnson, 737
Hamilton Avenue, New Jersey. I lived in the city for more than 50 years. Uh my comments is going to be very brief. I used to work for the city of TR. I actually used to work security for the
city of TR. And for members of this city to put their hands on disabled people is ridiculous. for to be ignored by this administration, especially the directors is ridiculous. Um, I plan on putting
this out more and more. I chose not to put it on Facebook yet. I will be doing that very soon um because I have a video. They need to be trained and they need to be trained correctly. understand that there's a United States amendment
first amendment right that a person can videotape public employees doing in the mess of their duties that's a federal law not city and if you invade with that that cause a civil complaint and I just think that you know for you
guys not to do anything about it like it's going to be a cover up which I'm not going to allow to happen I think this whoever is the security director should be Well, public works director should be removed. I feel that the security supervisor should be moved. And
in closing, uh, this is going to switch switch over. Uh, Miss Edwards, I would say to you that I thank you for making that comment about Roger Gardens because I grew up in West Nine area. That's a very dangerous area. It's been dangerous
for a very long time. It's been ignored by so many people for so long. They need security out there. They need security in all Trenton Housing Authority, including Roger Gardens. I know Roger Guards, not Trenton Housing Authority, but they need security out there 24
hours a day. That place is dangerous. It's still hot outside. People are going to get killed, and I that's all I got to say. I'm done. >> All right. Next, we have Victor uh Isari. Uh, Victor Rari, 19 Morland Avenue,
Trenton, New Jersey. I say, uh, Miss Edwards, uh, you long-winded, but I like the way, uh, you express yourself and your views and, uh, understanding what's going on, real deep, and wide, and broad. And uh I would know that you were
what we were considered a hood rat at one time but uh you come from the same part of same part of same you know we we grew up in trend New Jersey and that's what that's why that's what we males of some of us consider females
they grew up alongside of of us and uh for some particular reason they stop being hood rats when they get married to these individuals and they're the same people we grew up with. My point is that uh I look forward to
having you as mayor as number one. Uh cuz you can relate and uh like this the gentleman was just saying uh our president is being looked at uh as a a a philosopher king or a king ruler of
America. Understand that. But if we allow the status quo to continue, then the criminals of the underground underground criminals like uh Jay Gahoo and uh the mafia and uh Joe Kennedy and all those individuals they will continue
to govern the country and the planet earth. So there has to be a change. So my suggestion was, you know, uh thinking out loud. I said to a few people that if the if we as the people of color because the Aryans, they can't do anymore. Uh
they supposed they should look they supposed to look out for their race and their families and so forth. And uh the president of United States uh like I made this not a joke, but I said he didn't he didn't see the light. He heard the light. He almost died. He almost got
killed. He murdered. and uh he he's a human being. He's a family man. He's a businessman before he became president. So therefore, he just don't like me. Uh I'm a Trentonian. I've been in the military, you know, corrections and so forth, Nation of Islam and all that. But
I'm not going away and and my thing is Trenton made me the person that I am now today. All right. So that's a background foundation. So I'm not going to go somewhere else which I have done and help those areas there advance or whatever I did with the military and
then neglect my city. So I'm here back in some kind of way trying to get back uh and help out in any kind of way that I had part in uh messing up and said you know coming up. So um but going uh thinking about the arens I was tell
telling to I was talking to a Christian woman one day and she said if I ask her this question if somebody came to and told you uh not only in America it soon will be but all over the planet you outnumbered like 8:1 9:1
you do anyway my point is uh we should advoc uh uh repeal 11727 and we won't have Uh, next up we have Paul Shore. Uh, good evening members of council.
Paul Shore, 425 Greenwood Whitney Avenue in Trenton. I am very appreciative of the stamina that you guys show uh without glasses of water. Well, a little glass of water here and there, but uh the the theme of this evening appeared
to be education and it started off with a wonderful introduction of the NAACP awards and the students going to Chicago. I would like to echo the STEM aspects of that education. as a licensed
professional engineer, having children who've grown up in uh and attended Parker School as well as done middle school um and gone on to higher education. I want to emphasize that the one missing element in the city of
Trenton is higher education. It was here with Ryder College. It was here with Trenton State College. But both of those institutions have moved on. And to support the uh unique aspects
of higher education in the city of Trenton, I had to offer that you look behind you and see the engineering and work ethic that was built that built this city, the great mural that you have
behind you. And in 2000, for the last 40 years, I've been supportive of education, whether it was with the gifted and talented educational society back in 1980 for my daughter, whether it was for the infrastructure programs that
are unique to the city of Trenton, for the water and sewer department, for the public works department. Those agencies, those departments have a unique aspect in the city of Trenton because they're here. Very few cities in the city of
Trent, in the new state of New Jersey have both water, sewer, roads, county, city, state, and even at one point in time federal government agencies. And those
are the attributes that the educational component, higher educational component can utilize. I built a program on infrastructure in the middle of the 2000 and Mayor Palmer persisted uh helped us
with that. We went from 24hour uh it was a actually a 365 day educational program under the school board to the present which is
not 365 days but we filled in a summertime gap and we help focus that on Ruters Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Engineering, Mercer County Community College
Engineering. I welcome your support. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh next up we have RC Cosby. Good evening. I just wanted to come to the council meeting and just um give a commend to
the recreation department for the fishing derby that they had and I um councilwoman Feliciano was there. My council woman was there. I'm going to call you back. I promise. And um so just kudos to the department. I know that the hooked on fishing has morphed into
something that it used. It's not what it was before, but it was just delightful to see all of the children there. We didn't catch anything, but it was still fun. So, thanks to the recreation department for that. >> All right, Council President, seeing that there's no more members of the
public for comment, um we can move on to civic comment. >> Yes, we can. Uh, Councilman Edwards, you want to lead us off? >> Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Um, I don't really have a lot to say
tonight, but I definitely um want to piggy back off of the last constituent's remarks and just give kudos to the administration. Um, not not just the recreation department, but every department um just for the the great work that you've been doing, you know, with the fishing derby to take it to the
streets, the the aftermath of the thunderstorms and the all the things and issues that we've been dealing with around that. Um happy I guess uh belated Fourth of July to everyone and um just to give remarks
on uh Mr. Victor, I I always appreciate you and your encouragement and just highlighting the work that I do. Um I guess at some point in my life, I was not involved in politics and was more on the street side. So I guess you would
refer to that as a hood rat, huh? So, um, but though I wasn't politically savvy or or educated back in my younger years, I definitely pride myself in just being that bridge between the youth and and the older generations and the the
what my fiance calls the underworld, those that might not be aware of how to be civically engaged. So, I wear that with pride with being able to reach those that are unreachable and being able to re represent those that are unreachable. Um, so, uh, I definitely
clutch my pearls for a second there, but I appreciate it, uh, very much because I get the sentiment behind your remarks and I don't I don't take offense to it. So, but, um, I do appreciate it and thank you all again for all the great work you do. Thank you to my colleagues.
We are moving with selling these properties and in the next couple of years we'll have prayerfully millions of dollars in tax revenue that can hopefully provide some relief for those of us that's been carrying the burden beautify our neighborhoods at the same time as we're giving people residents of
Trenton an opportunity to um purchase city owned property get into home ownership commercial or business ownership and provide generational wealth for their families at the same time. So, I appreciate um the HD director and all of those involved in
that and the ad hoc committee for our due diligence as we're vetting these applications bi-weekly. And I hope to hope that we can, you know, catch up on this backlog and open up these applications very soon. So, we'll see
next month what that's looking like. But, thank you so much for attending and for participating in your civic duties. Have a good evening. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Frisbe uh Feliciano.
>> Thank you, Council President. So, good evening everyone. Thank you for coming out and for joining us and for those that stayed with us. Thank you for staying and for those that speak um spoke already. Thank you for bringing forth your comments.
Um, Councilwoman Edwards, I just want to say to you, I um, watching the the growth in you and your responses to things, I got to give it to you. I got to give it to her cuz you
called me a hood red man. We in the hallway. And so I just I just want to say kudos to you. Um, yeah, there's a lot going on in the city. Thank you to the mayor, to the administration for the good works
that we've been doing and moving around. Take it to the streets are happening. They have art in the city. They have music in the city. They have so many things that are coming um for the children and adults alike. So, I just want to commend the administration and say that this is not being it's not just
happening just to happen this year. It's been happening every year. And so I encourage everyone to participate and take part and to come out and be a part of the good things that are happening in the city. I know that they had to cancel the Fourth of July parade, but they're
going to they actually postponed it. We should be hearing about a new date uh in time that will be forthcoming. So we can look forward to that. So kudos to the Kowanas Club and the city for partnering together to help make that happen and for every Tronian that wants to be a
part of. I also noticed online that there's a group of young entrepreneurs, the Dreamfest crew, who um Councilwoman Edwards fiance is actually a part of and one of the heads of and they're actually doing like a restaurant week in the city of Trenton that's coming up partnering
with the UEE program which I think is excellent. I would love to have a restaurant week here in the city. And I say that to say that I appreciate the young innovative minds and the people in the city coming forward to look to help us to make things better for us. We all
are tasked with different responsibilities and helping make our community better. And I love to see organizations like Dreamfest, like seeing um Tyrell Smith in the Trenttown Market, everybody coming forward to do their part to say here I am. Let me help
you to help us. And that is what true community is all about. So, I commend everyone that comes forward and puts his or her foot forward to help make things better in this city. Thank you again for coming out. I wish everybody traveling mercy's going home and God bless.
Thank you, Council President. So, good evening everyone and thank you to all of you who stayed this evening. I want to say kudos to Cleveland for setting sitting in this evening. you're doing an absolutely fantastic job on tonight. Um I did want to acknowledge um the
students who came who were honored um this evening by Councilwoman Feliciano um with the NAACP. I want to just say congratulations to them again and to their representatives. I also want to acknowledge again acting NAACP president um Larry Trailer for being out here to
make sure that they knew that they had his support um the support of the NAACP as well. I want to make mention that my uh Westward community conversation meeting will be happening this Thursday 5:30 at the Westward uh police station.
Um it is our last one until uh the September. We are on hiatus for the month I'm until October. We will not be meeting during the month of August nor during the month of September. We will reach soon during the month of October.
Um, congratulations to the not not only for the city with the fishing derby. I'm so glad that you came to say thank you. It is so nice to hear those two beautiful words to come together. So, thank you for coming out and acknowledging the good work that the city is doing. Um, we know it, but we'd
like to know them when others see the work that we're doing as well. I also want to commend um, interim director Paul Harris as well. He has been doing an absolutely phenomenal job. his department has been on rollerblades for the last few um months now with the
summer. They've just been cranking things out and making sure that no one can say that there's nothing going on in the city of Trenton for not only us our youth but for our seniors and for our community as a whole. So kudos to you for all that you're doing um to other departments as well because there are we
are cranking out I know with the with our seniors and even with the animals and all the rest of that we're cranking it out. Kudos also to um so that's to director uh Mica P um to uh interim director Yolanda Vazquez amazing job
with all these getting all these um these bu uh projects items on the properties thanks to what I'm looking for on the docket so we can get our city not just the property sold but so we could actually beautify our city so we can have
stopping all these empty blocks these empty lots these elaborated buildings is that people don't want to be in the midst of great work on doing that. So, please continue to do that. Uh director uh interim director waya he he's knocking out know with these streets he gets calls from our department. He gets
from our um my uh aid or our constituents and you guys are handling it with grace. So, thank you for that. Thank you for making sure that our city again is beautified. A clean city is a healthier city. So, thank you for making sure that we are doing all that we are
supposed to do. Um Sean um simple with getting our water. I'm so glad to have here to hear that the I'm glad to not hear all the mumble about the water department. I'm so glad that is dying down and people are seeing that we have been doing the work are doing the work
and that our water is should be will be remaining in the city of Trenton. So kudos and keep up the good work with that for to our fire director. It is amazing how your team you guys were working together. I'm sorry. Um yeah, just making sure that everybody's taken
care of, but just the uh fire um smoke detectives and doing different trainings. If you don't know, you're not getting trainings done. Our fire department really EMS, they work together beautifully to do
trainings in the community. ask the director about it to our police director. Um getting making sure that crime is going down in our communities and that our um sergeants, our captains, everybody is being heard and work. And I just love seeing how everybody is working together to make this a better,
a safer, stronger city. So with that, I just want to say also to our young to the sir who came here, um hands on anybody. I'm a mother of a child who's differently aabled. So you have my undivided attention when you talk about putting hands on anyone, but I always want to make sure that I get all the
facts first. But we should not be putting our hands on anyone with if if it is not in the proper manner if you're not that person who is in authority and even that should be done respectfully. Um, everybody should be honored as a
human being. Um, Councilman Edwards, you you're a much better better person than me because somebody called me a hood rat. We got major issues. Love you. Mean it but really would be having issues with you. Um, and with that, I'm going to close out. I'm not even reading my
mission statement. Everybody get home safely and uh have an incredible evening on purpose. Thank you, Councilwoman. Councilwoman Gonzalez, I'm going to be extremely brief. Um, one, congratulations to the young people who are doing well and representing Trenton all over the world. But we just want to say another congratulations. We're proud
of you. Um and so thank you Councilman Feliciano for bringing them in front of council today to be recognized. Um to everyone who spoke and shared their um concerns, thoughts, and ideas, I just want to say thank you, especially for staying this late um to share. And
especially um for the young lady who actually said thank you. You stayed this entire time just to say thank you. So I just want to say thank you for being here this late. Um um to the young people who I see who are investing in our community, uh the firefighters, I
think that was just incredible that they came together and wanted to do something that bridges the gap not just for low low income and not for the market rate, but somewhere in between which we are um you know where that's an issue across the state, across the world at this
moment, how the um prices are hiking. So I'm just excited to see what they're going to bring to the city of Trenton. Um, and just a couple of announcements. Tomorrow, um, will be the reading of the declaration on Front Street. That's at 5:30. Um, I know it was mentioned already, we have a bunch of Take It to
the Street block parties that are coming up. So, if you haven't, um, seen the dates and the times and locations. You can look at the uh, city's Facebook page um, to get that information. And also, there will be a dinner and a movie at the Rescue Mission on July 13th. Um, and
just a lot of fun stuff. A shout out to Gier Brown Tig from 49ers who also has his events coming up. Um he has a fun day at the park on July 19th. So we just want to say thank you to everyone that continues to invest and pour into our young people. Have a good evening,
>> Councilman Harrison. >> Well, first I would hope that we can um work out things with Ike Williams. Uh they've been wonderful for this great city. um they're helping bridge the gap for these young kids in this great city.
I hope that works out. Um also would like to thank uh Diego Diego Mcipelli uh the fire director uh Councilwoman Feliciano, Council Williams, the mayor um for being a Trent Center. They had no
air conditioning there. It was great to see all all working trying to help those seniors in that building. It was a true blessing. Um, let's see what else. Um, director Vasquez, if you could uh talk
about Cook School, if any update on the Cook School. Thank you, Mr. President. Um the owner of Cook School, we reached out to them because we found that the
general contractor submitted a letter withdrawing themselves from the project. So, they will not be working on the project. Once I spoke to the owner, he now has a new general contractor. They're going to submit updated reports, I'm sorry, updated permits and update uh
plans because there were some denials that were given by the sub codes. So hopefully soon that will be all submitted but the permits are not issued yet. >> Okay. So that'll probably be in the next couple months. I guess that will be the process. >> Yes.
>> Cuz once he gives the plans and the submitt once they submit the updates it's just a matter of being reviewed again and any corrections that they made to the plans they'll be reviewed. Then once the permits will be issued then they can start the work. Do you have any idea what they're planning so far or are they having elaborate?
>> Multi is a multi multi-residential >> multi-residential. Okay. >> All right. Thank you, council president. Wish everybody the best. >> Oh, happy 4th of July. >> Excuse me. >> Oh, happy 4th of July. Sorry. >> Thank you, Councilman Council Vice President Williams.
>> Thank you, Council President. Uh I just want to say uh first uh thank you Councilwoman Feliciano for bringing uh the NAACP uh AXO uh group tonight with us. That was very inspirational. I see some really good things happening in the
city. And then uh also regarding the fishing derby, thank you for your thank you. As my colleague said, uh it was a great event. I'm looking forward to it next year. It was a lot of fun to see. Uh, also uh coming up hopefully in April uh we might have an item uh that will
benefit our Liberian community and I just I know uh on the 26th is Liberian Independence Day. So I just want to say happy Liberian Independence Day to all our residents who of Liberian descent. Uh regarding transenist Councilman
Harrison uh hit it on the head. Uh it was a big crisis with the lack of air conditioning and such a big building. Uh it was a great team effort. Um one of the things unfortunately that is a truism is that in the state of New Jersey there is no legal requirement for
apartment buildings to provide air conditioning. It's considered a luxury. Uh that's something that has to change. Uh Senator Turner does have a bill she's tried this before uh to try to get passed uh regarding that issue and
making it a requirement. Um, so hopefully we can help uh her with that in in the future. I'll be reaching out to try to get the bill number and see if we can do a resolution of support, but that's something all of us would want on council. Uh, additionally, uh, Councilwoman
Gonzalez spoke about the reading tomorrow of the Declaration of Independence at, um, six o'clock and then the other one 11, I think, uh, 5:30 and and also there's one at 12. Uh there's also additionally if you meet at one west state street they have a
history fest uh going on nearby on Warren Street but at one west state street at 3 pm there's a walking tour of historic downtown Trenton that is free so please uh join that. And then um just wanted to say how happy I am about the animal breeding ordinance passing
tonight uh that's going to help our city and our four-legged family members. And finally, um before I say, uh one of my favorite seasons of the year is paving season. And I'm really glad that that's come started this time because we really need it in a bad way. And hopefully
we'll have more with the asphalt that got approved. Uh tonight was a great night uh to see the Bullock family and Mr. Kenneth Bullock be honored with the uh Kenny Bulock Grove. uh they have done a lot for this city, have done a lot in that neighborhood and I couldn't think
of someone uh more deserving of it. Uh finally, the last thing is uh there will be no Northward CPAC meeting this month. Uh we're going to take this uh month off and we'll see everybody on August 19th next month. Thank you very much and have a great evening and stay cool.
>> Thank you, Council Vice President. And finally, good evening everybody. Um just uh I echo my colleague sentiments tonight. You know, everybody pretty much said everything that needs to be said. Uh Mr. Shore, thank you for you know coming to the meeting with your innovations and your engineering ideas
for the city and I really hope that something gets adopted because it it is forward thinking. So thank you for taking the time. Really appreciate that. Uh Miss Cosby, I look forward to bringing my son to the fishing expeditions moving forward. He's learning how to fish now in bathtub and
in his baby pool. So definitely look forward to that. Um, you know, and for thinking outside the box, you know, for for different ideas for the city of Trenton. That's something that we definitely need. Um, uh, other than that, we had a great program. I had an anchor program at the Senior South
Village um, in South Trenton. I try to do it annually, and it's really, really good because seniors don't often know that they need to renew um, their applications annually. So, please let your loved ones know if they're seniors that you have to renew um, for your anchor program to get your benefits. um
if you're a senior citizen. Um finally, um I have my Southboard community meeting this July 23rd at 8:24 Adeline Street at Holy Trinity Church. And just so you guys know, kudos to the council members who do these meetings. They are
so important such that my last meeting for June had to be cancelled because it was my mother's week and I actually had constituents yell at me for not having the meeting. So, um, with that though, I I think it's
just it's it's it I guess it showed I had to put aside my feelings and just see that it actually showed that these meetings do make a difference. We can bring directors, we could bring different people to the meetings to give information. Um, and it does um have
value for the community. Um, other than that, you know, this morning woke up to an email that our clerk would not be able to um to be here with us this evening. Um, but we pulled it together and I really want to say Cleveland, you did a phenomenal job. Jorge, you did a
phenomenal job as well. Thank you guys both. >> You know, you guys made sure that the the meeting ran smoothly. We had sound, we had Zoom, and thank you guys so much for pulling that off for us. It's it's really valued and important. Um, so with that I want to wish everybody a
wonderful evening. Get home. God bless and good night. Thank you. May we have a motion to adjourn. So move >> second. Hi. >> Hi. >> Hi. >> Yes, sir. >> Hi. Hi.