present. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> she's here. She's in the res. >> I know she is present in the building. She doesn't happen to be present in the room. That's okay. Um, however, she is here. Councilwoman Frisbee, >> present. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez,
>> presente. >> Councilman Harrison is excused from this meeting this evening. Vice President Williams >> present. You presente >> Council President Figureroa Kenberg. myself, Brandon Garcia, municipal clerk, present. Mr. Edward Colloji, legislative
council. Thank you. And Mr. Bridges is excused from this meeting this evening. And Madame President, at this time, if you'd like, I can read the invocation. >> Please do, sir. >> Certainly. Almighty God, who holds the fate 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. >> And Madame President, as I understand
it, you do have a wish to amend the agenda this evening. >> Yes, sir. if you want to go ahead and explain that amendment very quickly. >> Yes. Um for this evening, I would like to amend the agenda. We will not no
longer have the space for public comment for agenda items only. Instead, public comment will be moved up to that very spot, which is uh spot eight on the agenda after presentations. >> Understood.
And Madam President, if you want to take a motion to amend the agenda this evening as you just mentioned. >> May I have a motion, please, to amend the agenda as I just stated? >> So moved. Second. >> Thank you. Roll call.
Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. Council President Figueroa Keinberg. >> Yes.
>> Motion carried. We will move public comment to come take place directly after presentations. Correct. >> Yes. >> Thank you. And Madam President, at this time then as I I believe we have some recognitions. Correct. >> Correct.
>> Thank you. And if uh I'll leave it to you and the council to introduce those recognitions. >> Uh Councilwoman um Gonzalez, please proceed. Thank you, Council President. Thank you, everyone. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being present. Um today we just wish to recognize and
honor the senior Kappa affairs committee of Trenton alumni chapter of Kappa Alphasai Fraternity Incorporated. And just a background um I'm going to read a little bit about the work that they do. But these young men I'm going to call them young men um do a lot of work in
our schools with our children. Um most are retired but they do not see they do not take their time just to be you know have leisure time. They are actually in the community doing work and especially with some of our elders and our young people. So I just want to personally say
thank you for all of the work that you all do. Um as my D9 brothers, I'm honored. Um June is Father's Day. We normally celebrate Father's Day in the month of June. So I figured it'd be only right that we recognize these men um at the top of our June meeting. So with
that being said, we're going to say Trenton City Council special recognition honoring the senior Kappa affairs of Trenton Alumni Chapter Trenton Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alphasside Fraternity Incorporated. Whereas the Trenton Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alphasai Fraternity Incorporated, chartered on April 6, 1949
has for more than 77 years exemplified the fraternity's guiding principle of achievement in every field of human endeavor. serving as a steadf steadfast pillar of leadership, scholarship, and community advancement throughout the city of Trenton and beyond. And whereas
under the leadership of Paul Mark Aminish Robinson, the chapter continues to uplift youth, families, and seniors through mentoring, educational enrichment, civic engagement, and service initiatives that strengthen the social and cultural fab fabric of our
city. And whereas the chapter senior cap affairs committee chaired with distinction by brother Bernard Smootz provides purposeful engagement fellowship and leadership opportunities for fraternity members aged 60 and above honoring these esteemed legends of Kappa
whose wisdom mentorship and lifelong commitment continue to inspire the next generation. And whereas senior Kappa week observed from May 11th through May 16th is dedicated is a dedicated celebration recognizing extraordinary contributions of these distinguished men
who historically have volunteered more than a thousand hours annually and who in the current fraternal year have surpassed all previous benchmarks with more than 3,000 hours of service year to date demonstrating a commitment to the betterment of Trenton and Mercer County.
And whereas the chapter's outreach efforts supporting North 25 Senior Housing Complex have resulted in the packing and delivering of more than 6,000 bags of non-p perishable perishable food through the partnership with Mercer Street Friends and Mercer
Street Friends Food Bank, excuse me. And whereas this year the committee provided exceptional educational enrichments at the Dr. Cro Dr. Copeland Junior Elementary School, where 65 students participated in hands-on learning experiences, including mock trials,
drone navigation, flight simulation, and a chess tournament, expanding critical thinking, confidence, and exposure to future focused career pathways. Now, therefore, it be resolved that the city council of the city of Trenton, county of Mercer, hereby congratulates and
honors the senior men of Kappa Alphasai Fraternity Incorporated during their way. during their May week, May 11th through 16, 2026 for your leadership, extraordinary service, and enduring commitment to uplifting the community. So, we just want to personally say thank
you. We're going to um take a quick photo with you all. It's not that many, so we could probably go in the corner, right? Want to do corner? I don't know if anyone else would like to say anything, but we just want to say congratulations. If the pole mark wants to say a thank you really quickly,
Paulark. like short. >> Thank you. Thank you for this recognition. It's an honor to serve with these men, the uh senior campus. I'm nine months away from becoming a senior cap, so I got a lot to look up to. Um
it's amazing the work that they do on the on a weekly basis. I'm always chasing them around trying to figure out where they're at. They could be at North 25. They could be over at the Copeland School. They could be helping with our guy right program. So, hats off to these
gentlemen and thank you for the work that you do on behalf of the Trenton Alumni Chapter Capside and thank you to the uh council for your recognition. >> Thank you. >> Want to say anything or no? Anyone like?
So, we're just going to beach in this corner to take a quick photo. I can't really see. Second. Praise God. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Garcia, we can proceed. Certainly, Madam President, at this time
um well, Madam President, would you like to deal with the zoning board member that we have that wish to speak to the count that to come before council or should we go to the presentation this evening? >> Let's go ahead and go to the zoning board member. I believe um certainly we
have uh Mr. Michael Herertado who was a an alternate for zoning board and I believe somebody has stepped down and he is interested in moving up in the space as he is the first alternate. >> Correct. >> Please >> Mr. Herzado if you'd like to come to the
podium and at the council president's wish or when council president says you can open the floor for any questions or if there's any comments that you'd like to address to council. >> Mr. Herzado just very briefly under a minute please just let us know why you
are um interested why you why you were interested in proceeding to be a zoning board member moving up from uh an alternate at this time please. >> Sure. Uh Madame President, members of the council, thank you for your time. Uh last year when this body appointed me as first alternate, I approached it with a
sense of responsibility for helping foster economic development as well as acting as a steward of the things that make our different neighborhoods and zones unique. All while following the municipal land use law and the goals of
the city's master plan. I've approached every meeting, every application, and every witness with the same standard, and that is compliance with the law and an awareness of the consequences of our decisions. My appointment as a regular member would ensure continuity as well
as a seamless transition. And I have demonstrated that commitment by attending every meeting, even when all seven members are present, by reviewing and noting material, and when possible, visiting the sites of applications. and I have never been apprehensive to ask
any question of any witness in the pursuit of clarity and what is in the best interests of the people. My experience as first alternate will allow me to step into the role of a regular member without interruption to the board's work. And as a public administration graduate and a fourth
generation Trantonian with no plans to leave, I have an appreciation for the law and an affection for this city that informs every decision I make. and I thank this body once again for consideration and I would be honored to continue my service to the city. >> Thank you, Mr. Herado. And at this time,
do any council colleagues have any questions for Mr. Herado? >> Uh, Councilwoman Fris, >> good evening. Thank you, um, Council President. So, Mr. Gado, I don't have any questions. I actually just wanted to commend you. I've had the opportunity to sit in on some of the meetings that you
have um actually been taking part of and I thank you for your expertise, your exper experiences and your professionalism. Uh you are really uh very knowledgeable in this area and I'm grateful for it. We are at a benefit with having you on this uh board. So,
thank you. >> Thank you very much, Councilwoman. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Hat. We will vote on this this evening. Um but thank you very much for your interest, your continued um support of the city of Trenton and your tireless efforts. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Madam President.
>> Thank you, >> Mr. Garcia. We may proceed to the presentation um of alpha shredding at this time. >> Certainly. Uh if the presenters There they are and they are approaching. >> For the record for the council members,
this is an agenda item tonight. This is a resolution, >> Madam President. Just to make sure that the uh presenters know exactly how much time they are going to have this evening. >> 10 minutes. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Arnold Lake.
I'm with the law firm of ChaMan Lake and Bloomstein and Blader. And I'm here this evening on behalf of Alpha Shredding. I'm here with uh Ken Woodruff who is our environmental consultant. Uh very briefly, Alpha Shredding currently
operates at 301 Enterprise Avenue where it has operated since March of 2020. It is a metal recycling facility. Metal recycling took place at that location since the 1950s.
Originally uh owned by Trenton Iron and Metal. Currently, Alpha Shredding is the largest recycler in Mercen Mercer County and a large part of the Mercer County solid waste management plan. We employ
80 individuals, most of whom reside in Trenton. This evening, we are asking for the approval of a resolution to permit us to buy a joining property 299 Enterprise Avenue. The property at 299 Enterprise
Avenue was owned by Federated Metals and uh the the city acquired it in connection with a tax sale. We were previously approved to acquire this property, but it was contingent on getting a variety of zoning permits for
our property, which we have done before uh the board of adjustment. The property has been appraised. The city has approved the appraisal amount which is approximately $450,000. The proposed use of the property is to
add warehouse space uh for the storage of metal and to move a rail siding which is currently across Enterprise Avenue onto the property to minimize the need to cross Enterprise Avenue. Um, we
currently have all of the environmental permits for the current use and we understand our obligation to acquire any environmental permits that might be necessary if the acquisition is approved. Um, again, we had been
designated as the redeveloper, but that redevelopment designation uh expired on its own because we hadn't completed all of our permitting. So, we're here today to ask that uh actually we're here today because Mr. Bridges told us to come
because you might have some questions uh particularly with regard to environmental issues and that's the reason Mr. Woodruff is here. Happy to answer any other questions you might have. >> Mr. Garcia, can you please remind council which um which resolution number
this is? Madam President, I'll look now. >> Yes, please. 219 26 219. Thank you. >> Yep. >> And what was the other one? >> Um, at this time, do any of my >> Madam President is 219 and 20 and 26
221. >> 26 219 and 221. Okay. At this point, um, given the presentation, any council colleagues have any questions? Council President, >> Council Vice President, um Williams. >> Thank you, ma'am. So, uh, Mr. Lincoln, I
was actually expecting a little bit more information, but I have a number of questions. So, regarding this project mentions precious metals. So, I would like for you to explain uh what that exactly is going to mean and the process by which they will be
separated. And then I'll follow up with a question regarding what that means environmentally for the community particularly with emissions uh any degradation into the soil and so forth. >> Yes. Um those are the kind of questions Mr. Woodruff can answer better than
>> Okay. He's going to come up after. >> Yes, he is. And um it's the precious metals was a misprint. They're not so precious. Uh >> yeah, because I know particularly the issues with uh carburetors. >> Correct. And um we uh and Mr. Woodruff will explain in more detail how all
liquids are trucked off site and uh and the fact that the property if we acquire it will be fully paved so there there won't be any sort of groundwater intrusion. But if I could ask Mr. Woodruff to come up >> that would be perfect. Thank you. >> Ken, will you just uh tell the council
what your role is with the threading and how long you've been associated with them? >> Uh my name is Kenneth L. Woodruff and I am an environmental consultant. I've actually been um involved with this facility since the mid 1980s.
Um actually um provide services to Trenton Iron and Metal prior to Alpha Shredding. Uh I've handled all their permitting matters and um environmental compliance issues. this property that we're uh trying to
acquire. Uh I handed it there. I believe everybody should have a handout that just it's a conceptual plan that we're proposing to put in a 30,000 square foot warehouse and rail siding.
Um the this current facility is is off to the right upper upper right hand corner of this u photo aerial photo. Uh so it's it's immediately adjacent. Anyhow, the purpose of this warehouse is
actually to handle catalytic converters to remove the um honeycomb substrate that contains the the platinum group metals.
We are all we really do is open the canisters and remove the honeycomb material and basically repackage it into drums. We do no melting, no smelting. Um
the um uh only thing would be potentially generated is a little bit of dust, but that is all controlled inside the building with HEPA filters. So it's almost like a hospital room clean room scenario because the dust contains the
platinum group metals. The finished product then gets shipped out in 55gallon drums. Again, it's all dry material and gets shipped out primarily to Montana where it it uh the refinery
smelter and so forth is is located that then, you know, recovers the metals and and for reuse. So we're not using chemicals. We're not using again there's no melting, there's no smelting.
So it's effectively a just a warehouse and there's two two loading docks. Um so it's it's not a high volume again, it's not a high volume operation because it's small quantities.
>> So that that thank you. That answers uh that portion of my questions for sure. Um some other questions that came up um and these would be important is regarding uh truck traffic coming in and out uh over time. When this uh project
was initially proposed to us and we had learned about it, there was some issues with maybe having vastly increased truck traffic coming in and out that would necessitate some right away uh changing. Is that incorrect or correct? >> That's incorrect.
>> Okay, good to hear. No, there's there's the traffic involved in this particular site is is minimal. It's just a handful of trucks a day. I mean, you're talking about, you know, less
than less than five or six, okay, >> that would be added. And actually, because of the rail siding, we're going to have much less impact on Enterprise Avenue than we currently have when we load rail cars.
um on the siding. You know, we currently lease from Conrail the rail siding immediately across the street which runs parallel to Enterprise Avenue. So to load those cars, we need to run trucks on the street
and this will completely eliminate that. >> Okay. Um so with that, two more questions. One of which is regarding the rail car line. How often did uh does rail actually run on that? So my understanding it it was defunct for the
most part >> at this point it's probably once a week. >> Once a week. Okay. >> I mean I was out there a week ago today and I believe there were four rail cars staged there.
So it's it's you know it's I believe it's once a week is the turnaround. And do you expect u much more of an increase in number of rail cars? I know we won't be seeing mile long rail cars like they do out west. So, but people usually do not see rail cars in the city. That's
why we're asking, >> right? >> So, >> um I mean there would be an increase because again that will help us take truck traffic, you know, away because the more we can ship by rail, you know, the less trucks.
I mean, each a rail car holds the equivalent of four or five truckloads. >> Okay. So, are there any improvements that need to be made by Conrail for you to be able to utilize this more often? So, I know some of it's overgrown and that has to be taken care of on
occasion. >> Uh, I believe for the most part the work that has to be done it will be paid for funded by Alpha. >> Okay. >> Because it'll be on private property. um you know, Conra Rail may do do a
little bit of improved maintenance on a part of that um the existing rail. >> Okay. And last question. So, this comes directly from a constituent. Uh being that you will be working with the catalytic converters and it's uh there's been a lot of thievery around the
country for those pieces. You will not be purchasing catalytic converters off the street. These will be ones that get sent to you. >> Absolutely. Absolutely correct. No, we do not purchase converters from somebody coming in with a shopping cart or
whatever. No, it's it's got to be from um you know, licensed uh properly um approved uh uh auto record facilities that that remove them. >> Thank you very much. Answers all my
questions. Appreciate that. Thank you, Council President. >> Thank you, Council. Anybody else? Right. Thank you all so much. I appreciate your time this evening. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Will you act on the resolution at some point in the next >> Excuse me. I I You have to speak into my
phone. >> I was just wondering when the the council may act on the resolution. >> We're going to vote tonight. >> Oh, okay. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Garcia. We may proceed at this time. >> Certainly, Madam President. At this
time, with the amendment to the agenda, we will now take to have public comment. Yes, let's proceed. >> If I could have the public comment clipboard, please. And also, sir, if you would please just give me the sign that's posted back there as well. If I could just have that
very quickly. >> Mr. Garcia. >> Yes, Madam President. >> You please let us know how many sign up for public comment tonight. Certainly we have at this time 12 23 24 individuals listed for public comment
at this time. Thank you. >> Okay, Mr. Garcia, I'd like to make a motion to change public comment from 5 minutes to 3 minutes at this time. >> All right, that's a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Moment, please. I'll call the
role. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes.
>> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figueroa Kevin, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Mr. Garcia, can you please proceed with the um rules of decorum for public comment? >> Certainly. Yes. Posted in the front of the room uh prior to coming into the
room and right by public comments uh clipboard the rule of the quorum under city code chapter 8316 rule I'm sorry rule 15 11B. Any person making impertinent or
slanderous remarks or who shall become boisterous while addressing the council shall forthwith be barred from further audience before the council by presiding officer unless permission to continue or again address the council be granted by
majority vote of the council. >> Council president. >> Yes, Councilwoman. >> And I'd like to make a motion that um we have I think you said 24, Mr. I see individuals >> for this evening. >> Can we move the um find out if there are
those in the >> in here um in the U council chambers that are not here for the same item. I know there's several individuals here. Um but if there are those here from the community who have actually community issues that they wanted to speak about,
if we could move them to the front of that agenda of the uh list. >> Um okay. I would have to then call names and find out which individuals will be speaking regarding
what matters. We don't we can't just um I guess let's just ask if there's anyone here that's not here um for ICE. So I see one two three about four hands. So I have Miss Sten
>> and if you could identify yourselves then who are not here to speak regarding the same ICE ordinance. >> I say yeah go on order and then seeing >> right >> at the same time that's a motion. Was there you were making a motion correct?
>> I am making a motion. Yes. >> All right. Is there a second to that motion? >> Second. >> Thank you. And I'll call the role again. Uh, Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Fel Figuro Edenberg, excuse me. >> Yeah. >> Thank you.
And then for that matter, we have one individual. Are there any other individuals that are not speaking regarding the ICE ordinance this evening? Please raise your hand. Identify yourselves. Thank you. If you could tell me your names, please.
Second. >> I didn't. >> Martin. Got it. Thank you. Other individual. I'm sorry. Calvin O'Hill.
Got it. Anyone else? Yes, sir. >> Thank you. Thank you. All right. Yes. Fan Pearson.
>> Yep. Mr. Garcia, if you could just go by name by name. If they are here to address something about ICE, then they're here to address something about ICE and immigration. If they are not, then they may come up to speak as you go down the list, please. And cross them off the list as we go. >> Sounds good.
>> Thank you. >> Glenn Patterson, >> please come to the mic. >> And are you addressing any matter outside of an ICE? Understood. Hello, my name is Glenn Patterson. I want to say hello to all the council
women and council men. I'm here once again um speaking on a matter of trying to purchase a lot that's next to my mom house, 261 Church Street. The lot is 259. That's the address. Been applying
for that lot for a long period of time. It's probably been about six, seven, eight years. Um, I've been putting in applications for that lot and I don't still know why I'm being denied. Um, I was here the
last meeting and I did ask again why for some reason nothing is happening with me and trying to purchase that lot. Um, I was given someone went out and talked to me. um
she didn't really give a true answer on what's going on with it. Um the purchase of that lot is also for the protection of my mother's house that is six next to. My mother's 97 years old,
her last child. I take care of her. Church Street is a street where cars come down like a racing track. My mother right now she's bedritten. So there's other there's other reasons why
I want to want the lot. And one of the most important things is too to provide safety for her because when I have to bring her out the house the porch is small trying to get her into the vehicle.
Cars coming down fast. is dangerous for both of us where if I had that lot, I can back up into that lot, bring my mother out the back, put her into the vehicle, and everything would be much more safer. But that's not only the reason why I want that lot. I want that
lot because years ago, the person who owned it, Mr. Oliver, we were very, very good friends. He was good friends with my family. My mother has been in that house, I want to say, about more than 80 years.
Um, and we've been taking care of that lot. There was a program um, a couple of years ago, it may still be now adopt a lot and I was on that several times. So,
I'm here once again applying for it. I would like to have it. Um, and can someone tell me is there any reason why I'm I'm I'm just being denied or it's like I'm getting no answers.
>> Mr. Patterson, can you leave your your email? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Patterson, just so you understand, and this is another matter after I read the rules of the quorum, uh the council is not obligated to respond to you at this time during the public comments. So, they've taken in what
you've had what you've had to tell them, and they'll respond accordingly, either via email or some other form when they speak to you. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Okay. >> And that goes for all the public at this time. Our next individual listed is Martin
Sloin, excuse me, Slinsky. Thank you. Good evening, council members and members of administration. >> My name is Martin Sloinski. I live on 823 Pi Street. Along with many of neighbors, I am
strongly opposed to establishing a uh wedding venue on former um firehouse on 1100 Brunswick Avenue. Our primary concern are extensive noise from music and
events and severe parking shortages. The venue plans for 60 80 guests yet provides only 19 20 val parking spaces somewhere. We don't really know where. Most residents on our streets do
not have driveways. Even if the owner secures additional off-site parkings, there is no guarantee that guests will use it. They will likely park on our residential streets instead. On weekends, after a week of hard work,
we all have rights to rest peacefully at night. However, our streets is already full of our own cars on weekends because we are all at home. Additional guests cars will create safety risks, traffic problems, and major disruption for our
neighborhood. Regardless on final outcome for the firehouse project, we demand that city establish resident parking only on zone on our street. No, no resident vehicles should be
allowed to park on our street if the firehouse become whatever they want. Uh we respectfully ask city council and the administration to act quickly. This resident parking protection. Our
neighborhood should not bear burden of commercial events we never asked for. Thank you for your time and attention. Cal O'Neal. Good evening. You all look so much different than y'all do when I like see y'all out. Like
some of y'all like cool stuff. Um I I basically just wanted to talk about the process of purchasing homes from the city, right? I've been in this process for like a year. It's been up, it's been down, it's been yay, it's been nay. And
I just feel like it needs to be a little bit more transparency, right? I feel like there should be like a seminar once a month so we understand the process because I'm going to be honest once I did LLC's then I use my name cuz the hook the neighborhood is telling me one
thing but then there's another thing and then it changes and then it changes and just I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a Trenton native. Some of you, like I said, some of you guys I know, some of you guys I work with. I'm right to pump your gas, bro. Um, your family had sto you know, I'm wasting my time here. I know. But,
um, I just want to see us win, right? I don't like that like I look at some of y'all like friends and I don't like when people say things like, "Oh, only the Latinos get the houses." I don't believe that's true. When I hear thing and then you go to the office and it just happens you see like three or four Latino
people, right? And it and it and it gives the perception that that might be true. But I grew up with Latinos on 700 block of Center Street. Some of them people are the salt of the earth. They're not holding houses. They don't care. They're doing their jobs. So I feel like we need a level of transparency so that we can get this
done because the things that I hear even when I hear stuff about the council when I'm like literally cool with like five of y'all, right? Joe's not here, but that's my guy, right? I don't want people to think that it's a leadership thing. I believe that it's just communication. I believe that it's just
somewhere if we can iron out the kinks and make the process more like more simple, then everybody will be appreciated more, you know, where cuz it's like stuff like racism being thrown around. Um, I don't believe that there's a Latino sitting somewhere getting super
rich or it's a black person somewhere getting super rich. What I believe is a lot of people don't understand the process. I'm going to be I'm going to be honest with you guys. I'm an entrepreneur. Got a lot of different ventures. This was one of the hardest things I had to do in the last year. And I do some pretty hard stuff. So, I'm
just challenging you as leaders, right? Some of you guys have aspirations to do stuff past city council. People are going to they say people don't care what you did for them. They they remember how you made them feel, right? Um, shout out to Housing and Development. What? They made
me feel special. I went up there. This was like my seventh or eighth time and I said, "I'm not leaving until I speak to somebody." They made me feel special. But then I had to reflect on the relationships I had with some of you guys personally. And I know that if I came to you crying about it or complaining, you would make me feel
special. I just want everybody who's a part of this process to feel special. Thank you guys. Thank you ladies. Tell I said hi. Tam Tamara Kousmix. Good evening everyone. Uh, my name is Tamara Kousmich and I live at 911
Indiana Avenue. Martin is my neighbor on Pine Street. The firehouse that is on 1100 Brunswick Avenue. Uh the owner wants to convert that the basement to an adult medical daycare, the first floor
to a reception hall, and the second floor to a multi-purpose room. The parking spaces in the back we believe will only fit eight or nine vehicles. The daycare is going to use a
van to pick up the patients or adults to bring there daily. They're going to be Monday to Friday, 9 to 7 p.m. Friday 700 p.m. to 1000 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
10:00 a.m. to 1000 p.m. There's going to be events going on. Again, 60 to 80 people are they estimated to be at these weddings or engagement parties. And we don't have
driveways. we park on the street and he said that the owner was say stating at the planning board meeting that they're going to have valet parking. The church which is next door next to the firehouse St. Michaels said absolutely they are
not letting them park there in the parking lot. The the owner said he was going to reach out to the laundromat which is on Brunswick Avenue. There is a huge sign on the laundromat that says warning private parking and they have
one of them roll gates that close. So, we're worried about our parking. We're worried about the noise till 10 p.m. and the garbage. We asked him, he said he's not using city garbage, which they pick
up on Wednesdays and Saturdays there. He said he's going to have private garbage pickup. How can we like assure that he's going to do that? We don't know. He said they're going to pick the garbage up the next day. Okay.
There is already a reception hall on New York Avenue that has weddings and parking and it's only what two two blocks up, three blocks up from there. That should be the wedding hall, not the
firehouse. We want something in that firehouse. We're not against the adult medical daycare, but the reception hall, we don't want that there. Um there's also broken curbs and um cracked
sidewalks. Are they going to repair the black top in the parking area there and repair the curbs and sidewalks? Uh there's only also one entry to that parking lot behind the firehouse which is on Pine Street.
>> Thank you ma'am. That is your time. >> Okay. There's no exit on Brunswick Avenue for that. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Lewis Brady. Would your comment be No. Okay. Understood. And this is Joanna
Lloyd. Would your comment be for an ICE ordinance or would this be for something outside of that? Understood. I will go to Mr. Victory Rosari. Uh good evening, Mr. Pledge again. Uh hope you become mayor. uh change the
status quo. I'm uh addressing this article again by uh L A Parker and uh making a big issue about ice cream on uh June 6th I believe it is where uh the what is His Hispanic community Puerto Rican community in France and Old Mill
Society Garden Tour will having a annual event. Now, this man right here, uh he has a way of uh uh uh stirring out our emotions in every article he has, how he downplays the city, the people involved in the city, the leadership, and at the
end, he has a way of making it a racial issue again without uh any uh solutions. Now I again say I'm going keep saying that the solution is to repeal executive order 11727 that Jahoo put in place to destroy the black community in search of the black
messiah where he found it or not found it or not I don't know and Richard Nixon's drug uh drug war that's 1727 is Richard Nixon but prior to that was a a counter uh uh counter intelligence program to destroy the black community
and search black black messiah that's still going on today if that was If that is repealed, and I say hopefully Trenton, New Jersey be the first city to advocate this as a sanctuary city. You won't have ICE pro uh problems, you won't have a high incarcer incarceration
rate uh in New Jersey. Uh the Puerto Ricans, Hispanics, and then the African-Americans, and then black people, which you see the separation, four sections right there. There's more to it. There's more sections, but these are two main sections can get along in peace uh in this city. and honors to the
Puerto Rican community and uh this uh the center of the community that is stepping forward and I believe Puerto Ricans going to make a big uh uh can contribute a large part in making uh Trenton a better place and safe uh city to live in along with sharing our
experience with the Hispanics and uh uh uh relationships that we have with the black and/ African-American community. Now this man uh he brought up the fact that uh Mr. Trent uh uh was a slave owner, so forth. All right. So, uh that was that was the game back then. He
played it well. He was the last one to become uh to abolish slavery in New Jersey. And uh but somehow this place is still up and running. And I remember when I was a child, I asked one of my teachers, we went on trip is uh the Trent something about Trent, the name of Trent. Trent
said he he told me was the Mr. Trent was uh the one that established somehow Trenton uh Trenton, New Jersey. So, it goes back when I was a child. I understand is still up and running and there's events there every year that brings people together and we don't need this man to continue to make everything
so emotional but in favor of slavery in f so-cal in favor of the black community but yet he does not address the dragon which is the system put in place to keep us apart and uh and poverty stricken and that go back to the kind of money that's coming to New Jersey that the uh
financial officer is distributing to the other departments already that have money and not directed that money to the poverty I mean poverty stricken people >> Mr. Thank you. >> Cordelia Stton. >> Good evening, council. Cordelia Stton,
310 Gardner Avenue. I want to speak to a couple of things. One is the two resolutions that are on here. one is 224 which is um HUD funds uh to the various communities. I am glad to see that um we've applied for those funds and we're
going to get them to provide the supportive services and planning and planning activities for the homeless, disabled and individuals and families in the city of Trenton. I'm also glad to see and support 225, which is where the city was intentional in providing in
applying for funds to provide breakfast and lunch for the students while they're um out of school. Now, back to this agenda. This is so crazy. Let me tell you, the agenda that I get in the mail has public comment for docket items only. Now, I see that you changed that
today here. What I would say to you is that before you make those decisions, they can't just be to the convenience of council. They have to be uh something that is to the convenience of the public. You meet twice a month. Sometimes individuals schedule their time to come to these meetings to speak
on docket items. They're not they're not looking for a change. They're not looking to speak at the end of the meeting. They're not looking to get queried about what their subject is. You know, you you have a system. Stay stick to it. I know there's um there you're
you're expecting a big conversation this evening on ICE or whatever, but you can't you shouldn't change the docket. The docket is what it is. And if you are going to change it, then you need to give enough um uh notification to the
public. And I'm part of the public and I didn't get it till I got in this room. That's not fair to me. That's not fair to any of the residents that um come here to speak on docket items and then find out at the last minute the schedule has been rearranged to the to the
convenience of council and not to the public. I would just ask that you be intentional in the work that you do. Please be mindful that you have changed your meeting to two times a month and you need to be more cognizant of the people and the the people that you serve and the public that comes to speak. They
need to have adequate time to speak and you need to be more considerate of their time. Thank you very much. >> Beam Pearson. >> Good evening, council. Um, real quick, this uh Oh, in 2013, I
had uh noticed that traveling up and down Enterprise Avenue across from what was Trenton Recycling Plant, there were railroad tracks and they used the hop railroad hoppers to move this the shredded stuff over, which is nice, but
they had a claw apparatus. So every time I'd go by and they were using it, you saw these white pads which they used to call diapers to absorb the oils and stuff that was leaking from this apparatus. And this is was going on for
some time. Um I know that now this new company has a different idea in a different area. So I am hoping that with this uh new company that will save the uh abilities to have
the machine dribble the hydraulic fluid onto the soil and this and also having them being more responsible for seeing to it that all of the um shredded material from the
automobiles are taken care of and handled properly without having the uh D or EPA become involved. Thank you, >> Patrice Lavender. And ma'am, would this be for an immigration ordinance or something
different? >> Is this for an immigration ordinance or something different other than that? for ICE >> for this is for ICE ordinance. Okay. Um if I could have you hold for a moment. Let me see if there are any other individuals. >> No problem.
>> that are interested in anything else. Let's see who's this Paula T. Is that a understood? Thank you. Jessica Defalco. Thank you. Gustavo de la Cruz.
Jacob Hamr, Dawn Cohen, is this Johnny? Who Who's on Who's from Chadwick? Or is that Danny? I'm sorry. I can't even write. I can't read this.
>> Thank you. >> I'm speaking for >> You're I'm sorry. >> I'm not speaking for >> Not speaking for ICE. Come right forward. No worries. >> Uh, thank you so much. Um, I have some
of I have some illustration I'd like to share with you if it does not that's not a problem. If you give them to my colleague here, we'll be happy to uh pass those out to council. Uh, good afternoon.
Thank you for having me. My name is >> I'm so sorry. >> I'm kind of nervous. My name is Consuelo Cruz. Um, I came here um because uh a a partner of mine introduced me to this project. It's
located in 15 Chadwick Street and um three years ago uh literally I sold my apartment and trying to invest into trend. My background is in the movie industry. Uh, I worked for 16 years into the movie
industry and see that I had the opportunity to to own a land and open a business on my own and bring the the movie industry to Trenton. It just um it was really good for me and for my
personal experience. Uh, I've been trying to get guidance from the city and because in the beginning I didn't have the the experience with um what I need for
for trying to get the LS next to this property. It was an issue for me to trying to get the zoning chain because I don't have parking. Now I solve this problem fortunately. Um, if you see the page in this in this package right here,
you see the page the first page. Um, my property is right 15 is the one that is the whole the whole roof is 30,000 square feet. Um, and I'm trying to purchase the lot
next to it is is shadow on red. And the parking that I just got listed uh recently last week is the one the green field that you will see highlighted on red. So my reason with this you will see in the
second page I put a little highlighting that's the land that I'm trying to purchase from the city. I've been trying to get this land for the last two years. I I had different meetings with the mayor when Mr. uh uh Jim Bish with Mrs.
Jolanda Basquez with every single one and I'm pretty sure every single one of you have my email. I've been trying I had the appraisal from from from the city. I offer I have done absolutely everything that you guys asked me for. I
spent over $50,000 just in site plans because you asked for it, the city asked for and architects, engineers. uh absolutely everything that you guys uh asked for I have done it and you guys
keep saying nothing absolutely nothing there is no answer for you I go there they go I'm like a bouncing ball for the second floor to the third floor and if you see in the third page some of you
guys going to have like double uh side those are the lat That is your time. >> Anyway, I just wanted to show you. Thank you. >> No time to explain.
Mr. Garcia, please call the next person. >> Certainly. One moment, please. Thank you. Uh let's see. We have Victoria Payne >> on ice. >> Thank you.
Vina Calamber Genevieve D. Thank you. David Bomb. My topic is >> Brian is that Blisski
Asma Elhouni Samir Kan. Thank you. Moving on. I will go back to the beginning of the list. That's uh let's see. Is that Joanna Lloyd?
Sounds good. Okay. Um, my name is Joanna Lloyd. I live in Robinsville and I'm a rapid responder who patrols Trenton. I had a different speech prepared to give to you guys tonight. But today has changed what
my focus was. I responded this morning to a call from a terrified community member. When I arrived, the area was taped off. I asked some of the people there if they had been allowed to cross the yellow tape and they said yes, so I followed them. I
was immediately chased down by a police officer and forced back behind the yellow line. I told him that I would stand with my neighbors and he told me they are not your neighbors. I told him, "You don't get to tell me
who my neighbors are. My community doesn't stop at the edge of my street. How can Trenton police protect and serve a community they deny exists? I'm going to ask that Trenton police protect my neighbors and not help
disappear them. Do not let local custody become an ICE pipeline without a judicial warrant. Do not honor detainer requests from ICE without a judicial warrant for the person they are looking for. Clarity and operating parameters
protects our law enforcement as well. Removing ambiguity in what they are allowed to do matters. Please help me protect my neighbors because they are my neighbors. >> Patrice Lavaner. Leaventure. Good evening, council.
My name is Patrice Levanter. I live, work, worship, and own a business in Trenton. I'm also a rapid responsor, a rapid responder serving Trenton families. A city can't claim to value all
residents while continuing practices that make large portions of the Latino community feel targeted, disposable, or unsafe. Honoring detainers sends a message to immigrant families that the city is
willing to help separate them from their loved ones without judicial warrant. It tells our Latino residents, "Your rights matter less here." I'm respectfully demanding that you do not honor detainer requests from ICE
without judicial warrant. Let us uphold the Trenton City Council's prayer from the beginning of the city council meeting for the good of our community and for God's greater good.
Thank you for your time. >> Paula, is that a Abel? Abe >> Alex. >> Al. Okay. Allison. >> Alexen. A l e ks o n. Thank you. I scribbled. Uh, Madame President, Madame Vice President, members of the council,
my name is Paula Alexson and I live on Broom Street in the Franklin Park neighborhood, a vibrant historical immigrant community in the South Ward. I too am a rapid responder with Resistencia and Axion because I want to
stand up for the constitutional rights of my neighbors. While I'm very grateful for the ordinance overall, including the most recent revisions, my concern is an echo of my wife Patrice, who just spoke, and
it remains the issue on detainers. Detainers are especially harmful because they often rely on accusations or pending charges rather than convictions. Continuing to honor detainers which are not judicial warrants, denies due
process and communicates to all the immigrant residents that they are viewed as guilty before proven innocent in our city. If our city truly believes in due process in equal uh protections
and the values of the true values of community policing, then it should not voluntarily transfer people to immigration authorities without judicial oversight. I ask you to address this issue still outstanding in the ordinance
ordinance. Um and with my respect, thank you so very much. Jessica Defalco. >> Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Guys can't see me, but Okay. Jessica Defalco. I'm a um Mercer County resident
and a rapid responder with Resistencia. Um the Trenton City Council introduced the ICE ordinance at the previous meeting while negotiations with community organizations were still going on. The ordinance now contains dangerous loopholes that would still allow
cooperation with ICE detainers for people in custody. Detainers are not judicial warrants. They're administrative ICE requests. under the immigrant trust act, it specifically states that
um it hold on under the immigrant trust act, they you cannot honor ICE requests to hold a person past their scheduled release time, the 48 hour hold. So, um like I said, detainers are not judicial warrants. They're administrative ICE
requests. the city has the power to refuse cooperation without a judicial warrant. But instead, you introduced language preserving this pipeline to detention and deportation. Our organizers negotiated in good faith, believing the discussions were continuing. Instead, protections our
community fought for were weakened behind closed doors. I would like to specifically reference the ordinance in section 3A paragraph 4 specifically saying that nothing in this section shall prohibit participation
um with uh sorry it's the next paragraph. It's about creating perimeters. You're still giving Trenton police the opportunity to create a perimeter for ICE. That is collaboration with ICE. It needs to
specifically say in this ordinance that Trenton police cannot collaborate with ICE. Specifically creating a perimeter. Um there's no accountability in this ordinance for what happens if Trenton police does collaborate with ICE. What
happens if they go against this ordinance or the immigrant trust act? Um the next section in section 4 documentation and also the entire ordinance itself there is nothing specifically discussing detainers. It
needs to specifically say that Trenton police will not honor the detainers. It's not mentioned in here at all. Also in section 4A about documentation um saying that Trenton police will um take
the requests from ICE and provide it to a point of contact under section five of this ordinance. There is no contact in section five of this ordinance. So while this was a good start, this this still needs a lot of work. So, um I know I
have 15 seconds left, but once again, due process does not stop at the jail door. Everyone is entitled to due process. When you step foot on this, when you step foot on US land, you are
entitled to due process. Point blank per. >> Thank you, ma'am. That is your time. Gustavo de la Cruz. Good evening, council council members here to speak about threatens
um police department's collaboration with ICE. We've witnesses, we have videos, it needs to stop. You don't have to assess them. It is irresponsible for your police department
to assess immigration. It is wrong. It is immoral. It needs to stop. Forget the laws and forget everything else. It's just immoral. We're letting immigration target
apparently a small group of of your community, our community, right? letting an agency come in with a piece of paper that's worth pennies what what is worth the paper.
It's opening up the door for any other community to be taken. It doesn't make sense that we let today this group of people be taken because it's already happening. They are taking just anybody they want, not just
immigrants, right? We know they're taking US citizens. They'd be taking our Parkour students, Princeton students, students from all over the country only because they speak their mind,
right? They become political opponents and they will be taken by this agency. This agency has no accountability. We see it over and over all over the state, all over the
country. There are murderers. They have killed people on the ground. The people that die in these jails, it's out of control. This is an opportunity for this council
to do something about it. You take it or you don't. Right? We are all here asking you to do something with the powers that you have. It is your responsibility to use those powers. And if you don't have the
powers, then figure out how we're going to do this. Because letting our neighbors be taken is just wrong, right? They're abused. Some of them are losing their lives inside these jails. And again, they're
going to come for a small group today. They're going to come for all of us. So, let's just figure out how we do this. This group has no accountability. What's happening newer this last 10 days,
you know, it's it's incredible. It's it's mindboggling. That's stuff that I've never seen. I ask that you >> Thank you so much time >> what powers you have and use them the
best you can. Thank you so much. Jacob Hammer. >> All right. Good evening. So, I'm Dr. Jacob Hammer. I'm a state worker. I work at the New Jersey State Museum and I live just a little further down State Street at 395 West State Street here in
Trenton. I'm an educator. I'm doing my best to serve the people of Trenton and New Jersey to foster their curiosity and teach them about our place in the universe. But I can only teach people uh who feel safe enough to learn. I can
only teach kids who haven't had their parents stolen away from them by ICE. uh kids who still have their caretakers and Trenton must do everything it can to make sure that families in Trenton remain intact so I can continue to serve those families.
And Trenton can do this by refusing to comply with ICE detainers or holds that are not associated with a judicial warrant. And I recognize that this ordinance is a step forward, but it must pass in its strongest form possible. And the ordinance must provide a plan for
when police violate the ordinance and ensure that there are consequ con consequences for violating it as we see that police are continuing to comply with ICE and assist them by resetting up those perimeters. And anything else is Trenton letting down its families and failing to protect uh residents right to
due process. Thank you for your time. Go on, Cohen. >> Good evening. Thank you. Uh, I'm also here this evening to urge this body to strengthen this ordinance. Um, I appreciate that uh you are trying to make an effort to protect the community,
but um I specifically do urge you to remove this very significant uh loophole which would allow city law enforcement to honor detainers without judicial warrants. Uh, as a member of the community with
many immigrant friends, I'm terrified of the possibility that a friend who happened to have a frivolous pending ICE action could find themselves accidentally in police custody for a minor infraction and uh, an ICE detainer
could end up meaning a meaningless outcome. Uh, we know that ICE shows zero respect for facts and Trenton law enforcement could be the last best hope for due process for someone like that
for a vulnerable person. And I urge you not to abdicate your responsibility to support due process because we know that handing people over to ICE is a one-way door. Thank you.
V Victoria Pain. Hello. Good evening. My name is Tori Payne. I'm a nurse and a proud resident of District 12 in the Garden State. New Jersey has a weird rap in this country, but it is a great place to live. Uh we have the fourth smallest,
we may be the fourth smallest state, but we pack one hell of a punch. We're one of the top contributors for the nation's supply of fresh fruits and vegetables. We have some of the best schools in the country, and our shores are known throughout the world. We are
ranked seventh in diversity in the nation, which is fitting because Lady Lady Liberty stands proudly in New Jersey waters welcoming immigrants to our famous shores. And we put a concentration camp behind her.
It's unacceptable. People are being taken from their from the streets, from their jobs, from their homes, away from their families with no end in sight. It's the legislative branch. It's the
It's the a big part of the legislative branch is a big power you have is investigation. I'm sick of hearing that people are being denied access to Delaney Hall. You are government officials and this is
your home turf. You own the building as far as I'm concerned. I'm sick of hearing Mikey Cheryl say that she can't get into Delini Hall, that no one can see what the conditions are, but we can get a letter out hearing about how horrible it is. They're being
fed rancid rotten food filled with maggots. They're being denied medical care. And now the the the concentration camp isn't even letting them see their families. This is unbelievably unAmerican. And I
don't know how anyone in government goes home at the end of the night knowing that this is going on. I'm a nurse. It's my responsibility to provide medical care to anyone who comes through the doors of my clinic. I don't care what their papers. I don't care if
they have papers. I don't care who they are or what they've done. That's not the point. And all of these people, by ISIS's own admission, are there without charges. By their own admission, it's almost laughable. They're not even
trying to hide what they're doing, and we're allowing it. The longer this goes on, the more lives will be lost. And you're going to have to turn to your children and your grandchildren and tell them what you did to stop this or what
you didn't do. And I appreciate the time for this ordinance. I truly do. I think it's progress. >> But until everyone in there is free, it is not enough. Uh, Vina Vina Calamber. >> Good evening, council. My name is Vina.
I live in Lawrenceville and my husband has worked here for seven years and our friends live here. We shop and dine here regularly. So even if we don't live here, we do feel like we're part of the community. And I'm here to speak on like everyone else to ask that you amend the
ordinance to remove the dangerous loopholes that would still allow cooperation with ICE detainers for people with custody. Uh back when I was in school, I did some human subject research. So, as per all the IRB training, we got to learn a lot about um
how do you treat vulnerable populations during research? And so, even though I worked with children, we also learned about research with prisoners. And explicitly federal regulations recognize that prisoners uh in particular occupy uniquely constrained environment uh
where ideas about consent and choice break down. These populations are especially vulnerable to coercion, exploitation, or undue influence both in research settings. But I think that exact same principle applies when they are in custody. When immigrants are
being targeted and being swept off the streets, this is not just this is just a nightmare. This is a terrible for the economy. It's terrible for our moral sense of justice. And I want to make sure that my our local government is doing everything it can to shut down
such loopholes because just as I as a researcher was accountable for the vulnerable populations, US city council as the local government are responsible for those very people's safety and lives when they are in custody. And you know that police handing over people to ICE,
especially if it's not tied to a judicial warrant, you know the conditions that they're going to be walking into. It's it's just inhumane. It is tragic. It is so infuriating to see our state government failing to shut this down. And I look to you as leaders
to step up when we're not seeing leaders step up to take care of the most vulnerable in our community. Thank you. Genevieve Dulio DJ Julio. Thank >> Hello, council members. I'm Genevie De
Julio. I've worked in Trenton for 15 years. I'm a longtime participant of the Trenton art and bicycle scene here in Trenton. I spend my free time in Trenton um for the culture that its residents provide.
I've been rooting for Trenton for a very long time and I see the beauty here in Trenton. My hope is for Trenton. Oh, sorry guys. My hope is for Trenton to operate with dignity, a dignity for all of its residents.
All residents should feel safe and be able to use the services provided by the city without fear. Community trust improves public safety. Keep trying safe. I urge the city to strengthen the ordinance and do not support um the
federal um immigration and customs without a judicial a judicial warrant. I echo the statements by all presenters here today. Thank you for your time, David Vom. Good evening, council.
Uh, I'm David Bomb. I work in Trenton, I think probably in one of the converted factory buildings in the beautiful mural here. It's the first time I've been in the chambers. I appreciate the opportunity to address the needed improvements to the ICE ordinance. Um, I know, of course, that you care about the community you serve, and I
know your job often involves balancing competing needs. I'm here to address the need to be sure that one key risk that affects us all isn't overlooked. You of course recognize that community health, including public safety, depends on trust between government and
residents. In the city's ICE ordinance, I strongly urge the council to explicitly preclude any possibility of honoring detainer requests from ICE without a judicial warrant. These administrative requests, they do not provide due process. They
can rely, for example, solely on accusations. This failure to assure constitutionally guaranteed rights creates a risk that deters community participation and therefore the effectiveness and efficiency of services provided by clinics and other organizations serving
community members in ways that improve individual and public health across Trenton. Residents who are entitled to seek services or accompany family members obtaining services fear becoming the subject of a federal administrative
request whose enforcement is facilitated by local officials. When community members fear interacting with the city's health infrastructure, that jeopardizes their own and everyone else's health. If Trenton sets the wrong example on
this point, that increases the risk that surrounding communities and other municipalities across the state follow suit and further compromise health services in ways that affect both those communities and also Trenton. Thank you,
Brian Bilski. Hello, thank you for your time. My name is Brian Bilski. I used to deliver critical thinking, writing workshops, and therapeutic music instruction to your youth detention facilities here. And um love coming to Trenton for any event
because of your in uh diversity. So, uh I'd like to talk about integrity. Somebody told, "Well, I've had several mentors say, if you want integrity, live a life of rigorous honesty. ICE has no integrity." They lie.
You've heard about this for some time, so we don't need to go through it because it's all out there. If you're not, you have to be aware of it. The number of cases making their way through the courts where the video proves the lies. The lies from the top. Three days
after we saw Kilar Brago Garcia in that video off to uh >> El Salvador. >> El Salvador. We knew his entire life story and it's still an issue here. So no integrity there from the top. There's
no integrity in the entire operation. a legitimate operation would say, "Hey, we've had decades of loss and this insane backlog and uh now there's not enough room for the people, so we need to move them." So, you'd say, "Hey, okay, where are you in the process?" And do it smooth, right? Like any
professional uh the whole operation has no integrity and it's because it's for profit. We're taking taxpayer money. I used to be deep in this and I can't believe we're back here. But when it's a profit motive for a body in a bed and
you have the corporations writing the laws for the you know through the lobby system, uh it's it's disgusting. So therefore, our constitution mentions due
process. Due process for all. Due process for all is the only way that due process protects the innocent. You take away due process for some and it's going to disappear for more and all. So, um
that must be in there. And along with integrity comes accountability. So any sort of lip service may be nice, but without accountability, you're not going to have any integrity and you're not
going to have trust from the community. So I'd like to encourage, demand, plead that you restore due process for all and put in some
mechanism of accountability and use the judicial warrants. Thank you. Asma eli. >> Uh hello. I just want to start off before my time. Uh there are people here
who want to speak and the signup sheet was was taken away. Could we put a signup sheet for those who still want to speak? Is that possible? Including families. You're just taking the signup sheet away. No one else is allowed to sign up to speak. Is that correct? >> Nobody's allowed to speak.
>> Okay. So, you're just taking that away. >> Okay. So, >> I'm sorry. What was that now? >> Make no They're not allowing anyone else to speak. This is the first >> signing sheet once it's in my possession here. No, we don't typically put uh allow additional people to come and sign any after that point. Um, I'll defer to
the attorney and if there's anything regarding the code and those rules outside of that, you do have the time of the hearing of the ordinance. >> Okay. >> Excuse me. >> Um, >> first, please, Mr. Garcia.
>> Oh, can we restart my time? I was asking about procedures here. Can you restart my time? Yeah, I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm sorry. I woke up at 4:00 a.m.
I've been out a lot for the people. I'm willing to lose sleep. I'm willing to lose sleep for my community members to be safe. So, I want to start off. I'm sticking to my notes because I know I have time. Um, there are two issues with the
ordinance. One is the detainers are continuing to be allowed to happen. We don't want that to happen. And the second is there's no accountability factor in the ordinance. So those are the two major issues that we're hoping to get fixed and we'd love
to have this passed. So those are the two. So I want to be very clear. The current state law is the floor on how to treat detainer requests. Local governments can choose not to accept detainers. So detainers are voluntary.
You are deciding to choose to accept detainers, to choose to erase due process from immigrants. There is litigation across the country because of these requests. We are keeping ourselves at risk and opening
the door to lawsuits by allowing ourselves to accept these. City Council's responsibility is not to simply approve what law enforcement is comfortable with. The role role of elect Go ahead. The role of elected officials
is to protect the rights, safety, and trust of the entire community, especially when constitutional rights are at stake. Police departments are not independent governments. They are public agencies accountable to the people through
civilian leadership. If council only pass policies police agree with, then meaningful oversight will be lost. The second problem is the accountability piece. There is absolutely none. Why
even have an ordinance when there's absolutely no accountability factor? The Trenton, it says literally in the in the ordinance, the Trenton Police Department or its members shall not be subject to retaliation, adverse employment action, demotion, discipline, or discharge for
refusing to participate in activities prohibited in the ordinance. Not understanding why. So, public accountability often requires elected officials to lead, not just follow. Due process protections are not anti- police. They are constitutional guard
rails designed to ensure fairness, accountability, and transparency. A person should not lose their liberty through informal requests, backdoor coordination, or administrative shortcuts without judicial oversight.
City council should consider long-term legal and financial risks to the city. So, I'm just going to say I'm tired. Today in the morning, I'm going to tell you why. And I hope I don't have time. Yes. >> I just don't have time. Is it okay if somebody gives me their time to just
share why it's important due process? No. Thank you. >> Unfortunately, we can't yield time to others or >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> So, due process and please due process and accountability. >> Samir Katan Good evening. Um,
I would like to ask that everyone up here take 15 seconds and stare at the images. If all three of those images could be held up, please. You see this? This happened outside of Delaney Hall. And this is three out of
maybe a million images and videos that we've seen. You know what happened to these people? ICE agents came forward acting completely unhinged and we're seeing these blatant images
and video of these agents who apparently were trained for about 30 40 days singling people out having personal grudges acting with total impunity. You see you see that image right there? That's me.
Do you see that? I was standing peacefully protesting, videotaping something. An agent comes up to me and says, "Come here." He grabs me around the shoulder, flips me on the ground,
stands over me, right? And then both sides, they drag inside. because they've actually determined I didn't do anything wrong. >> And you know what? I'm one person.
This is what they're doing in the open. In the open with no accountability. The person was right. What the hell is the point of laws? I don't I get that there's something on the books. That's great. The person said
it right. Without accountability, who gives a damn if we have laws? The laws this starts at the top. And the only way that could stop is people power. It's not just a law. Every single
politician across the state of New Jersey should be on the front lines right now. Right now. Because that happened to me. That happened to me. They're doing that in the open. the families inside what they're doing behind closed doors.
God knows what they're doing. >> Excuse me. Hold on. We have read rules of decorum. We have asked that everybody do not have outbursts while people are speaking. I will have persons removed. Thank you very much. >> I wish that I wish that that same energy
was showed to build everything that people are asking into this into this legislation. And I wish you would show that same energy and bring your ass up to Delaney Hall. all of you. I don't care if you're not new. You're a politician in New Jersey. What are we
doing here? That's the only way this stops. You think ICE is going to follow your law when when Cheryl goes up there and escorts ICE and and basically Madam President, those are all the individuals that I have for public comment at this time.
>> Thank you. >> Um, >> moving on with the agenda at this time. >> No, no, Mr. Garcia, I would like to make a quick statement. >> Certainly. I I want to be very clear. Federal government supersedes state
government and municipal government. Okay? As I've stated at the last meeting and and before I say anything, we have worked very very hard with the organizations. We have worked very very hard, council, administration, police and legal to get an ordinance drafted
that was given to us that was presented to us to say we need this. And we did that. We took that and we did that and we put everything into that ordinance. We rem we kept everything into that ordinance that we were able to
legally keep into that ordinance. We have done our due diligence. There's not another municipality in the state of New Jersey that has put an ordinance forward for this. We initially said we will issue a resolution in support of
the state statute and we were told that wasn't enough and we respected that. And here we are weeks and weeks into trying to draft an ordinance that made sense that is protecting those that you all are trying to
protect. We have put that forward and here it is. And is it perfect? No. Were we able to get everything in there that you all asked for? Absolutely not. But we got 85%
of what you all asked for in there and and and our police director was called out for acting inappropriately for assisting ICE. And yet our police director came to the table to help negotiate with this ordinance that we
have put forward. This may not be everything that you all are asking for, but it is a step in the right direction. This is an ordinance in the state of New Jersey. the very first one that will set a precedent for other ordinances to move forward in the state
of New Jersey. No, it is is and things can be changed and things could be amended as we move forward. It's not perfect, but we can get right as we move forward. I'm not asking anybody to call out. I
will have you removed, ma'am. Thank you. No. Uh security can you please start removing those who are shouting out please please so having said that having said that at this time
Mr. Garcia I would like to uh move on at this time with our agenda. Thank you. Very well, Madam President. At this time, uh, if you want to ask for a motion to approve minutes of April 7th
and April 21st, 2026. >> May we have motions to approve. So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards. >> Yes. Councilwoman Feliciano. Okay.
>> I said yes. >> Oh, thank you. Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Vice President Williams. >> Council President Figuro Edenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. And Madame President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve
communications and petitions. >> May we have a motion to approve communications and petitions. So move. Second. Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figuro Edenberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. And at this time, Madame President, that that that brings
us to ordinances for second reading and public hearing. >> Yes. >> Ordinance 26-41. Ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned properties commonly known as 240, 242, and 244 Walnut Avenue, and
identified on the city tax map as block 26402, lots 10, 11, and 12. pursuant to NJSA 481213C to Trenton Redevelopment 2026 for the sale price of $28,000.
Are there any members of the public that wish to speak to this ordinance at this time? >> Seeing none, Madam President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve. >> May we have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. >> Thank you. Roll call.
Councilwoman Edwards. Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Vice President Williams. >> Yes. >> Council President Figuro Kettinberg.
>> Yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-42. Ordinance authorizing the sale of city- owned property commonly known as 7 and11 Chambers Street and identified on the city tax map is block 12901
lots 2 and 4 pursuant to NJSA 481213C to Adrien Chalice for the sale price of $15,000. Are there any members of the public that wish to speak to this ordinance at this time? Seeing none, Madam President, if you
want to ask for a motion to approve. Then we have a motion to approve. So move. >> Second. >> Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez,
>> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figuro Keber, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-043. Ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 13 Chambers Street identified on city tax
map. It's block 1212901 lot 5 pursuant to NJSA 481213C to Chioma Ugorgi for the sale price of $10,000. Are there any members of the public that wish to speak to this ordinance at this time?
Seeing none, Madam President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve. >> May we have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee.
>> Yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Vice President Williams. >> Yes. >> Council President Figo Kenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Ordinance 26-44. >> Mr. >> That ordinance is pulled. I'm sorry.
>> Sorry. Was this one pulled? Yes. Yes. >> Thank you. Which one? >> Ordinance 2. It's pulled. Ordinance 26-45. Ordinance authorizing the sale of city own property commonly known as 39 Oak Street and identified on the city tax
map is block 1803 lot 72 pursuant to NJSA4A1213C to Glennis S for the sale price of $6,425. Are there any members of the public that wish to speak to this ordinance at this time? >> Seeing none, Madam President, if you
want to ask for a motion to approve. >> May we have a motion to approve. So moved. Second. >> Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes.
>> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figueroa Edenberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-48, ordinance establishing local implementation mechanisms, individual rights of notification and accountability protocols, supplementing
state law, excuse me, supplementing state law limitations on local civil immigration enforcement cooperation. Are there any members of the public that wish to speak to this ordinance at this time? Please come forward, ma'am. >> Thank you, Mr.
Thank you. Gonna I'm gonna kind of bring it over here so I can look at you guys. Um, so I I want to come back to the part about detainers and about the fact that >> ma'am this is about the ordinance. I'm sorry.
>> It is about the ordinance. This is about >> the ordinance does not specifically mention not >> ma'am this is about 26046 this yes specific >> I'm sorry I heard 48 >> I mean 48 I apologize right it is 48 this is
>> okay so >> oh I am I apologize >> the ordinance does not specifically say anything about detainers the Immigrant Trust Act specifically says that police departments in New Jersey do not have to
abide by detainers. We want you to acknowledge that you will change the ordinance to specifically say Trenton Police Department will not honor detainers whether it's federal law or
not. Our state law says that we do not have to abide by detainers. I wanted to come up here and say that again considering that you cut our time from 5 minutes to 3 minutes. Thank you. >> Are there any other members of the public that wish to speak to this at
this time? Yes, ma'am. >> Yeah. I just um want to make a correction. I heard Jenny, you said that you did everything legally possible that you're allowed to do. So, you are it's voluntary when you have detainers. It's actually voluntary requests. They're
administrative requests. You do not actually have to accept. So legally, you are allowed. Local jurisdictions are allowed to decide for themselves whether they're going to honor them or not. Now, we said all we wanted was do not honor them if they do not come with judicial
warrants. That's all it was. So, you actually are legally, but you are choosing to erase due process. So, I just want to make that clear. You said we did what we're legally allowed to do, but no, you are legally allowed to do that. The ACLU has told you you are legally allowed to. You are choosing to
remove due process from immigrants. I just want to make that very clear to the public and to everyone on here. And then I have one question. Can I just know from every single one of you, how many people actually believe in abolish ICE? I just want to know just for the record if you could just clearly say where you stand on abolish ICE. Thank you. I think
>> that's not a question. Are there any other members of the public that wish to speak to this ordinance at this time? See? Okay. >> Good evening. Um, I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Fernas. I'm
with Resistencia. Uh, we've been at Delaney Hall for pretty much the entire time. There are people on a hunger strike, labor strike. So, a lot of us in this room have seen some of the worst of the worst. Like, we've been pepper-sprayed, teargassed, beaten on.
You probably heard about it all night. So, I just hope you guys know like there's multiple of us. And actually, we're not even all here right now. There's still people over there because we care so much about our community. So, I just want to reiterate what Asma just
said. This is optional. You don't have to allow ICE agents to carry out what the police says. says, "Oh, we want to take these people or we want to take them over here to immigration and have them deported possibly." That's not something you really have to do if it's
an administrative warrant. So, I don't get why this is something that's considered like nuanced or complicated. I think this is pretty straightforward. If there's no judicial warrant, then why is it that police collaborates with ICE,
who we know to be extremely violent? We know them to be extremely aggressive. Why is this the image and the the idea that you want to put forth for us? Like we know how it is firsthand. So what are you guys telling us that the
these are people you want to protect? You want to abide by them. You want to collaborate with them? Because that's pretty much the sentiment that I'm getting and a lot of us are getting. like we appreciate the ordinance, but if there's something in there that you technically don't have to allow, which
is very violent and harmful, then why are you allowing it? There's no good reason for it. I don't know. I hope that you guys are thinking, I hope you guys are wondering the same thing. If there's no judicial warrant, why does police collaborate
with ICE? Shouldn't exist. It really shouldn't exist. And I think it was a great question that Asma just asked. How many people here actually believe in abolishing ICE because they've only really been around for like several decades. That's about it. ICE didn't
used to exist before. This is the land of immigrants, the land of freedom. I mean, this is what it's supposed to be. We don't have to live like this. And you guys can actually say, "We stand with you. We want to protect others. We want to protect immigrants." You're all here because of immigrants. You might be
yourselves. A lot of us are. So, this is stolen land from natives. No one owns this land. Really? Definitely not. ICE. Why are they put in charge? I mean, I I think I'm just going on and on saying the same things, but I really hope if
you're going to take anything away from this, it's that you do have more power than you are exerting right now. You do. You have way more power than you're choosing to exert. Thank you.
>> Uh, I just want to speak to what the city council president said earlier. Even though she's left, I'll say it anyway. Um, >> council president has not left. She's commiserating right now. So, please be respectful. Sir, >> I did not mean to be disrespectful. I meant I want her to know that I'm
speaking to what she had said earlier. I hear what she's saying that this is an opportunity to set a precedent and I'm glad that she sees that opportunity to set a precedent. Uh and so when we say that it's not enough, I just want to say that it's dangerous to set a precedent
that doesn't go far enough because then other uh local municipalities may follow our precedent, but they may follow us in not going far enough. And so I appreciate that she sees that this is a precedent and that she's excited at that precedent, but when the community says
it's not enough, then we are only encouraging her to set the strongest precedent possible. And I apologize. I did not mean to be disrespectful. Thank you. >> Hi. Uh, I wasn't intending to come up and speak today and I see that you're
all trying to do the right thing, but I want to remind you that there are many people here that were on the front lines at Delaney Hall, including the detainees and their families that are giving 110% of themselves to preventing future harm
to get their message out. And I'm hearing that 85% is good enough. And I feel like that's an unfair 85% is nothing. Those folks are out there. The detainees are not eating, not working
for a reason. Their families are suffering. They can't see them. There are folks that are getting beaten up by New Jersey State Police. That's 100% 120%. 85% is not enough. And I'm encouraging you. I know you all care
about your community. You're all here for a reason. This is a hard job that you're doing, but you have got to do more. 85% in any line of work, 85% doesn't cut it. So, I don't know why it should here. So, I'm reminding you and
encouraging you to please, please find the strength within and pass this ordinance with without those loopholes. This is really, really, really important that you set the right president precedent as this gentleman just before me said so that you can really take the
stand and say we did the right thing when it really counted. So 10 years, 20 years from now, people don't look back and say, "Well, they were cowards. They did 85%." Let's not do that. Let's do a hundred or more% please. Thank you so much.
Hello. >> One moment, ma'am. One ma'am. I'm sorry. Go right ahead. >> Hello, everyone. I just wanted to echo what everybody else is saying. I am here with um President AON who are on the ground every day fighting for um
constitutional rights that we all have. And I wanted to say that yes, 85% it sounds good, but to me that sounds like you get what you get and you don't get upset. And if you are not upset, if you are not angry, then what are you doing?
Because people's rights are getting violated and just because it might be seem like it's too far away from us, that could be us tomorrow. That could be you. Once we set a precedent that
violating someone's rights is okay, then that is going to follow everyone and then nobody's going to be safe. So until everybody's safe, nobody is. There's people out there, imagine how desperate you have to be to go on a hunger strike.
And that's their only choice at this point. And that's why we are here to make sure that their voices are heard because it's not right. It's not fair just because somebody decided I like what somebody said that oh there isn't enough space anymore. So now we're going
to start making up stuff. That is not okay. This nation was built by immigrants and immigrants is what make this great. So please pass the ordinance without the loopholes. Make sure there is accountability and make sure there is
absolutely no room for collaboration between police and ICE because they lie. They are liars and you have the opportunity to set a precedence to the nation. Don't miss that opportunity
because history is going to remember this and you are part of it. So don't miss the opportunity to make it right and make it 100%. Because 85 is just not cutting it. Thank you. Yeah. So, I just want to reiterate one
point about effectiveness and enforcability. These are bullies. Okay. These are bullies. I understand that it's a good start. But if you think that ICE agents and this administration overall is going
to follow a sheet of paper, that's crazy to me. And I cannot believe we're still talking about this. I appreciate that there's legislation, but as I said before, bullies respond to strength. That's what they respond to. So, all of you that are that are doing this good work that you say that you're hearing us
and you put everything that you wanted, what do you want? We need you to be out there. We need you to be vocal and we need you to show your faces and stand up. We need we need strength. We need leaders to show and and to stand up with
their voice because outside of that all of these laws are meaningless are meaningless. They've already said that. They've already shown that they're they're willing to override everything. So I don't understand why an ordinance which isn't even complete is good enough
in your eyes. I just don't understand it when we have literal Nazis walking our streets. Why? And that that's why I say we don't just need legislation. We need every single one of you on every platform you have to boldly state this
is not going to happen here cuz that's all bullies respond to. They don't give a damn otherwise. So please keep that in mind because one ordinance is not going to do anything if they come down here and decide what they're going to do anyway. Thank you. Again,
I want to say that I do think that the ordinance is a good start and I am glad that you are taking action and as I stated before, I don't believe it's enough. I pepper-sprayed a US senator.
You think that they're going to care about a piece of paper? It's laughable. Truly, what we're dealing with, these are not people who follow the rules. They don't care about decorum. They don't care about reput reputation. They don't care. They are in
it for the money. And they are in it because of some misplaced anger at their own situation. And they're taking it out on innocent people. And I know that you guys have a very difficult job. State employees. You have
how many people here every couple of weeks yelling at you about anything and everything. We've all seen parks and wreck. We know what that's like. I know that you must have a difficult job. I'm a nurse. I respect that. And serving the public is not easy. And the
public does not make it easy. But you chose to be here. I chose to be a nurse. You chose to serve on the city council to help people. And what we're asking you to do is to take out this loophole to help protect
the people that you promised to serve. Trenton makes the world takes. It's on the freaking bridge. So Trenton should be making an example
and then the world can take the hint. This behavior is not okay. I appreciate your efforts, but we need to do more. Thank you. Um, is it okay that I translate for her?
She's going to be speaking in Spanish. Is that okay? Um, sorry. Uh, good afternoon. My name is Leticia Gomez. I am from Guatemala and I'm here to testify about what I have lived through. I have been here in Transcendent, New Jersey for 4 years and
I have a 10-month-old and a 9-year-old and my husband who is detained. forch. persona. >> Uh, I worked at a bakery here in Trenton where I was constantly harassed by one of the supervisors. Honestly, I did not know what to do. I was afraid to tell
anyone because I feared I would lose my job until one day I decided to tell my dad and as expected, he went to confront that person and got into a fight with him. Um, Um, then my workplace called the police, but
we had already left the place and I was fired a few days later. The police arrested my husband, but he went to court and was declared innocent. However, that did not matter because immigration officers were waiting for him outside. They took him to the
Elizabeth Detention Center. Guatemala. Currently, he is in Louisiana waiting to be deported to Guatemala. Today, thanks to Resistencia, I'm here telling his story of injustice that destroyed my family because of because they helped me
find the courage to speak up. We do not want more collaboration between the time. >> This separates and destroys family. Now I'm left alone with my daughter and continue fighting for dignity. >> Thank you. Hello, my name is Emry Capala and I'm a
rapid responder resistencia. I was also up at Delaney Hall this past week and I would urge any of you or all of you to go up to Delaney Hall because what I saw of ICE was beyond atrocious. I mean, they are extremely aggressive. They're violent. They're violating their
oath. They're actually transgressing the property line, but they're supposed to remain within. They're targeting people. I saw them tear people's goggles off. I saw them spray people in the eyes. They intimidate. They bully. They're completely untrained. They're unqualified. I can speak from
experience. I know these people are not up to the job. It's been reported widespreadly. And yet at the same time, we're allowing them to come in our community and terrorize our people. And it's not just about the fact they're deporting, abducting people, they're also doing severe psychological harm to people. I
know of one nine-year-old girl who is thinking suicidal thoughts. I've spoken to the parents who say their children are terrified to go to school, not because they're afraid of being taken, because they're afraid that they're going to come home to an empty house with no parents. So I think that it's
and when we speak of the community, I'm not speaking just of Hispanic people. Haitian people also targets. Anyone in this community who they think may or may not be legal in this country, there are targets. So I urge you to do everything you can to make this community as safe
as possible. I know you've worked very hard on what you've done so far. We appreciate that. But anything you can do to strengthen this will be much appreciated. And I can tell you the community as a whole, not just psychologically, they're suffering physically and for whatever it's worth, the economy is also suffering because
people are afraid to go out and purchase and people are just afraid for their lives. So I hope that you take this in consideration and um act according. I thank you for your time. Good evening, council. Hi, um pre madame
president. Um we met at a meeting where I held your baby just like this one. Um this is a 10-month old baby that you just heard about two speakers ago. I will fix that. Um I
want to speak as many things here but I think what's hasn't left my mind was since Friday I visited with my little baby um her father at Elizabeth Detention Center. Elizabeth Detention
Center is owned by Core Civic. Delaney Hall is owned by Geog Group. I don't think that's new news to everyone here. I teach a course on human rights law and in it we discuss disaster capitalism and how for-profit multinational
corporations profit off of either natural disasters or disasters that are created. And the immigration crisis that has been created is one that is being dealt with
through the now more than 80% owned by private corporation prisons that we have. So why am I here pleading to you? Oh, that's better. Sorry about the fuzziness. Um that is go basically to
echo what Elizabeth said um about collaboration with ICE. You are, and I know you are here to serve the people, serve the population. You are on the side of us. And I know you're not on the
side of for-profit industries that dictate the way that federal detention facilities operate and the way that ICE officers and agents operate every morning when they rip families apart. I know that you are not on that side. So,
please when considering this ordinance, and I am very grateful that you are, um, please remember whose side you're on and who you represent. It is not Geo and Core Civic. It is the people. Thank you.
Good evening. Thank you. Uh my name is Dave Shreger. I am a member of the executive board of Resistencia Axion New Jersey. For 15 more than 15 years, we've
been fighting to stop deportations. Um, and I want to thank you for uh what you're doing. Um, I believe that uh I proceed from the position that you're
acting in good faith. Uh I don't expect that none of us are perfect and uh ordinances are not perfect but we would hope at a minimum you would take into account that
anybody taken by ICE has to be given due process. I'm not an attorney but I know this much. All persons in the United States
are entitled to due process, including undocumented immigrants. And due process means that you only arrest someone with a judicial warrant.
I would ask that you ensure that the Trenton Police Department does not cooperate in arresting people without a judicial warrant. That's all we're
asking for. I I I believe that's all we're asking for. I mean, well, I'd like to shut down ICE completely, but uh but I don't think the Trenton City Council has the power to do that. But um anyway,
thank you. Good evening. My name is Darius Sarrace Capula. I'm a resident of Mammoth County, but I received my education here in Mercer. I've spent a lot of time in the city and with its people, and they were both very dear to me. Tonight, I would like to make a moral
appeal to council. Because at the end of the day, you're going to pass what resolution you will. And I think that you need to hope and pray that what you do is good enough. Because if it isn't, the blood of everyone taken by ICE and brutalized by ICE is going to be on your hands. This is a city of over 100,000 immigrants,
and each and every one of them is at risk under these conditions, and they are looking to you as Republic leaders to protect them. That's all I have to say. Thank you. No. Um, I'm just
I I'm so upset about the resurgence of white supremacy that we are seeing under this president. It's a resurgence that really needs to be stopped before it goes any further than it already has.
It's I I think I know the people that are in ICE. I think they're my people in a way because my family has been in this country since before the revolution
and they have a sense of entitlement and they're scared that they're losing their power and we can't give in to them. We really can't. If we don't stop it now, I don't know where it's going to go. So, please
do whatever you can. >> Hi there. My name is Christy Chandler. I've been a medic on the front lines at Delaney Hall. And I just want to say that if you've had the same public education that I've had, we all had that
those books we read that uh Number the Stars, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and we all thought, I hope you did. I hope you thought, what would I do in that moment? Would I do the right thing? Would I do everything in my power to stop that from happening? And this
moment is here for us. Are you doing everything? Are you giving everything you've got? We're here. This is it. What are you doing? >> Thank you. >> Are there any other members of the public that wish to speak to this ordinance at this time?
Seeing none, Madam President, if you'll give if you'll humor me one moment, I'm just going to speak with the attorney. Thank you, Mr. Garcia. I believe some amendments needed to be announced. >> Very well, Madam President, if you would like to ask for a motion to
approve the sordance at this time. >> Do we have a motion on this ordinance at this time? >> We did. Mr. Garcia, I just want to I have a question. I know some amendments um some minor amendments were made after the meeting. How do we address those? I'll defer to the attorney momentarily.
Um, but I do have those amendments as we as we're discussed. Want to do it now? I'm I've been instructed to ask, Madam President, I've been instructed to ask you to ask for a motion to amend some clerical errors within the ordinance.
And uh, at this time, shall I read those? Yes, please move. I'll read those particular clearable errors at this time that we have discovered >> and the changes in section 3A of ordinance of ordinance 26-48 section 3A
shall not to change to shall in the third that's the third paragraph section 3A in section 3B shall to be changed to shall not in section 3D shall to be
changed to shall Not in section four under the area that says scope and I believe that's scope of scope and description >> that is a change of afforded by with a comma to eliminate to eliminate that
comma to read afforded by those law those state law requirements. And in section 5A shall to be changed to shall not That's the extent of the changes that I have of the late latest changes to the
ordinance. Madam President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve those changes and amend the ordinance. >> May we have a motion to approve those changes? >> So moved. >> Second. But Mr. Garcia, can you repeat?
>> I'm sorry cuz I I missed some of it. >> Sure. >> Three. I I I got like the first three I missed. >> Certainly. Um, Councilwoman Gonzalez, if you could give me one moment, I'll be right with you. >> There was a print out given to council, too, that was left on a day.
>> I'm sorry. >> There was a print out for all the council that was left on the day. >> Yes. Uh, council, you can you can um follow along with me and I'll uh I'll go over these one more time. >> Okay. So under section 3A
in the third paragraph of 3A shall not would be changed to shall. Everyone with me? >> Yes. >> Under section 3B >> shall
>> to be changed to shall not. >> The head shall not. >> Shall I continue? >> No. >> Not very. No. right here. >> That's cuz you have a corrected version in front of you. >> Shall not.
>> 3D. Same thing. Shall to shall not. And section four under the uh in the first portion under scope and what does that say, Mr. Collic? Scope and description. I believe
>> scope and relationship >> scope in relationship to state law it says afforded by we're eliminating a comma behind the words afforded by just taking out the comma and under section 5A
shall will be changed to shall not. Any questions regarding the from the council? Any questions regarding the amendments? Madame President, I ask for any questions to the council, not to the public right now.
>> We need to we need to vote on an amendment. >> We reposted. >> Thank you. >> Yes, >> we had to, >> Mr. Colli. >> Yeah. Um, just so everyone understands, all of these changes reflect exactly what the citizen groups wanted. There was some mix up with shalls and shall
nots because this thing had undergone so many revisions and so many changes. Just for example, um we're changing I just want to the third paragraph it says nothing in this section shall not
prohibit well it shouldn't have read that. It said nothing in this section shall prohibit the police department from responding to emergencies etc. So, there were like four changes that had to be made, but they don't um do anything other than support what the citizens
groups have wanted in this ordinance. And just so everybody's clear, in the time that we went spent time that we spent over this ordinance, I do have each stage of this saved so I can show when these changes, you know, that these changes were not going over that were missed.
>> So, now we need a vote. We need a motion to amend. Madame President, uh, at this time if you'd like to ask a motion to amend as, uh, we've just illustrated. >> I'd like to mo make a motion to approve the amendments. >> So moved. >> Second.
>> I believe. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Roll call. >> Madam, I'm sorry, Madam President. So with these changes for the shells to the shell not and inserting the knots in
there is this are we looking to do other amendments to this >> to ordinance >> at this point council amend there's no other amendments that we will be making this evening other than this portion we can come back to the table because there
is a section that I want to discuss that they'd like to discuss and we can come back to the table with but right Now, these shall and shall nots are the ones that need to be changed. >> So, this is >> to speak to the correct language. >> Everything else from what I understand is in agreement except for one critical
part with regards to detainers that we could come back and revisit. >> So, is that Mr. Garcia? You can proceed. Is there any other discussion reg I'm sorry >> council >> Luciano >> council president >> thank you
>> I just want to be clear we're just voting on these amendments right now that you just said >> correct at this time it doesn't determine whether the ordinance passes or not correct is just to amend and correct the language in the >> still here now thank you >> yes
>> I'm still council >> Gonzalez your lights on >> oh I'm just very confused No. Anybody else? >> I do have >> Councilwoman Edwards. >> Thank you. Um
the amendments are great. Um my concern is whether this satisfies the group's you know um inquiries and things like that. I know detainment is not in here and and but it does sound like the these amendments are addressing the needs and
wants of restia and anyone that is opposing ICE. So is there still a conflict with this ordinance? Are we going to come back with amendments? Should we just wait until we have the amendments and then
bring the ordinance back? Well, council basically has a couple of options, councilwoman. Number one, these amendments are just to clean up the language. These are more clerical, ministerial, almost like you would say, quote, typos, end quote. It
wasn't meant to be drafted that way. But again, everything in there is positive in the context of what the citizens have been looking for. So, the first vote would be to amend it to clean up the ordinance. The second vote will be, do we pass the ordinance? And if we pass
the ordinance, it becomes an ordinance. It becomes law. But there's nothing to preclude us from considering further additions to it down the road. Or if the council decides not to pass it, then nothing is going to be enacted, you
know. So, it's really a judgment call. Do we want to get a lot of the stuff out there and get it on the books and then maybe possibly discuss additions in the future or do we if we vote it down then nothing gets put out there. So it's
really a question of what's the better choice? >> Mr. Cloji, if this fails tonight then what? >> I'm sorry. >> If this fails tonight, then what? >> Well, if it fails, it's it's a dead issue. it can be reintroduced at the next meeting which of course you know is
several weeks away and obviously the whole process would then start all over again >> but it requires four council votes to pass it >> Mr. Closure I'm sorry I thought it was I thought it was more than I thought it was some time before ordinance can be reintroduced after it fails
>> one year at an old rule about uh if you brought up an issue it couldn't be brought up for a year we killed that with an ordinance last year Mr. clerk. That was the Robin Bourne >> issue. Yeah, that's that's not an issue. CP,
>> right? So So we amend this right now with with the shalls and shall nots, but there's still going to be further amendments to this. So do we just we amend this as it is and vote on this? It
sounds like it's a split vote because it doesn't sound like the people in attendance are agre in agreement with this ordinance. I my judgment I don't want to vote yes on something that they're not satisfied with. I would
rather us get this right before we go to vote on it. So, can we amend this? I'm fine with the amendments, but should we do the second reading after we amend and, you know, go through all of that because I just I don't want people in
here with with pitchforks and torches because we approved an 85% ordinance. Let's let's get this right. Um cuz we do want to work with the community on this. No one up here is is anti-immigration. No one up here is trying to assist ICE
or anything like that. So I don't want that to be misconstrued with what we're going to take action on tonight. So does it make sense to eliminate any redundancies of approving this just to bring it back to amend it again? So let's amend it tonight, but I don't I
don't want this to die and then the public says we didn't do anything about it and just bring it back when it's ready. >> So Councilwoman Edwards, would you like to make an amendment to to table this after we um approve the amendments? >> Sure. Well, there is a there's a motion pending now to pass it after.
>> Yes, there's a motion to amend. So that that sort of said after that. Yes. >> And then we could motion. Does it come back for second reading or does it start all the way over with first reading? >> If we were to table first, >> not if we table it, it could come back. >> Move to table the ordinance to a date
specific and then it would have to be revertised etc. And we would have to have a new hearing. If if we if you don't pass amendments tonight, we would have to amend it at that time. The language changes and anything else we decide to put in there
>> and then we advertise those changes. >> Right. Council President. >> Yes, Council Vice President. >> Hey, I thank you, ma'am. Um I think clearly we need to have a vote on these amendments, but additionally, uh we worked very hard on this. We met several times with the organization. They do
represent uh some of the community. don't represent all the community. Uh there were a number of issues including a th00and foot buffer that was requested uh to cover TPD responding to incidences uh providing uh perimeter barriers. Uh
also we had to discuss uh use of TPD for task forces uh with federal government, state government. Uh we had many many issues. Um a lot of things were contested. Uh I think we've come to a very very good place for this. Uh the
issue with detainers, we have to also hear the legal side of that and have a full determination. Our understanding is that Trenton Police Department is not honoring detainers and they are not collaborating with ISO. They've been asked uh on our Zoom calls to provide evidence of collaboration. They've been
unable to provide collaboration including an accusation to use restrooms at the Trenton Police Department. So while we are all very empathetic uh to this issue, we all want to solve this issue as best we can within the
limitations of municipal government best versus the role of federal government. Um I don't want to use this the phrase we can't pay for the sins of Newark, but we can't. Uh Delaney Hall is an aberration. Delaney Hall is a disgusting place.
what's happening there. We all know that uh the conduct there but we cannot do anything with Newark is Newark. Delaney Hall is Delaney Hall. This or this body took an extremely strong position in February with 26046 a resolution stating
that the city of Trenton did not want need or desire a detention center in our city. Uh particularly with Geoglobal and the other group but Geoglobal previously owned that when it was operated as a Bo Robinson center. So, we've been at the forefront. We've been at the tip of the
spear on this issue more than any other municipality, I would say, in the state of New Jersey. So, I would encourage my colleagues to pass this tonight. And if there are improvements to made, and there may be an adjustments, and it might be on this one point of detainer,
and hopefully it is only on point of detainer, then we can come back and improve. But we need to get something in place tonight because I I I will say this as someone I've heard the word concentration camp. I visited the concentration camp. I've been to DACA in Munich, Germany.
We are not there yet. But we want to make sure we never get to that place. But this ordinance tonight is a start to make sure and to be an example and as council president Wisley indicated a beacon to other towns to other parts of
this country. After Roxberry had their issue with the detention center Trenton was the first municipality to say heck no we don't want an a detention center here. We have the eyes of the federal
government on us, too. I promise you. And I'm going to add one more statement. When the Proud Boys came to H Home Depot in Euing, and I know a bunch of you were out there doing a good job, making good trouble.
My wife and I were in the parking lot when they showed up. You guys didn't see them yet. We were the ones that warned you. We were the ones that called the Euing Police Department and we're also the ones that documented it for the Trenton newspaper so the rest of the county, the
rest of the state would know that the Proud Boys were doing what they were doing and trying to cause problems for you. And trust me, I'm on their list for other reasons. So, please don't ever think that anyone on this council
doesn't have the concern of undocumented folks in our community. doesn't care about them and isn't trying their best. And every single person on this council I know is invested and no, we won't have blood on our hands. We've done the work.
We've put our necks out. We verbalize. We have said everything that needs to be said. So, please let us continue doing our job because we're at risk, too. Not in the same exact way, but we are doing our
job. and you keep doing your job because that's important also. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council Vice President. >> Council President, >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. So, I just want to say a few words to um in regard to this um most of the things that have mentioned um on both
sides listening to the to the audience, listening to the the resistencia and all of the other community members who came and spoke. Um, my colleague just said it, council vice president very well. Most all of us on this council have
fought against ICE in some way, shape or form. I teach in the city of Trenton. I've been teaching for 23 years and a lot of my kids are a lot of my families are undocumented. I have spent hours hours at Homeland Security fighting for
my families. I have visited different places advocating for my families. So when this issue came up, when most people didn't want us to do an ordinance to agree with any of the things that you all were saying, we took the time out to
work diligently and include you in this ordinance. So it's almost it it I'm trying to be careful with what do I say but I also want to acknowledge really quick Mr. Colloji who we have one
of the best attorneys in the city in the state of New Jersey. And this man since the very first time you all came here, he was very impressed with the work that you have done. And he worked tirelessly to make sure that we included all of
your wants and needs into this ordinance to the most that we could do legally. I understand that it may not be everything that you want, but as stated before, this is a step in the right direction where we are trying to put things in place. None of us I do not want our
Trent Police Department uh uh helping ICE at all. We have been in the front lines with you all. We have been there with some of you have been arrested. We have fought for you to not be arrested. And I'm speaking for myself personally. So, you know, just the fact that, you
know, some people are saying we'll have blood on our hands. No, I will not have blood on my hands. I continue to fight for our families and not just the Latino. I'm a proud Latina here, the one who represents the Latina community. So, don't tell me that I don't I'm going to
have blood on my hands for not representing. I had my my Haitian brothers and sisters that live next door to me get taken away from um by ICE this past summer and I'm out there fighting with them. So don't tell me that I don't care about the undocumented people. It's
a slap in my face for someone to say that when I work tires tire tirelessly all the time for everyone in this city and beyond. So I just wanted to state that for the record. um the work that put we put into this I I I really feel
like it's a good step in the right direction. Um and if there are other amendments that we do want to revisit, I'm all for listening and including that also. But I just wanted to let that be known. I do not have blood on my hands. I am actually fighting for the people
when you don't see me fighting for them. Thank you. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Council Frisbee. Thank you, Council President. So, I'm going to echo a lot of what my colleagues have said. Um,
you don't know. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean that we're not doing it. We have been out. We have ran out when we heard that there was an issue going on in our I have left my job, my 9-to-five job. This is not my
nine-to-five job. I've left my 9-to-five job to go out and protect my Latino brothers and sisters and my Haitian brothers and sisters. What happened literally right outside of my job? You don't know the work that we are also doing. And again, there is going to be
no blood on my hands. Absolutely not. Cuz I know that I'm doing all that I can do. I'm very clear on that. I And you may not know it from looking. I'm I am a proud partial Cubano. But you don't know that. You judge by what you see on the you don't know who
we are. You don't know where we go. You don't know where we go where we go home to our families, our friends, our loved ones. And for you to say that all this work that has been done and you've gotten 85%
and you say that it's not enough even not even as a start. So if it's voted down then you don't you get 85% of nothing. And so we're trying to work with you, but that's just it. It work it's called give and it's called take. You don't get
to have everything that you want. It is working together and it's not okay well we don't get 100% of what we want then we don't get anything. So if we say okay it fails tonight. you're starting from scratch
and and person after person after person has come up here to this microphone and I've been making little tick marks. The majority of you have told me you don't want this ordinance. So, I'm I'm letting you know I will I'm I'm going to I will oblige. I will not give my vote for the
ordinance and then we can do it and we can start however you want to start it over again. We're trying to work with you. I I don't want anyone to be mistreated. I adv I've been I've been an
advocate for over 10 years over 10 doing the work out in the streets going into places that I know most most you may not have even been to or maybe you've gone to on during this period. I've been doing it for over 10 years now.
I see a woman with a baby that that you don't want parents separated. You don't want to worry about whether or not a father is going to be taken while he's on his way to work. You don't want a child to leave for school and not know whether or not when they come back home, is mommy going to be there? Is daddy going to be there? Am I going to make it
back home? These are things that keep us awake at night. These are things that we're trying to do better. We're watching. We're having conversations with everyone that we can, including our officers. Making sure that they understand the law and that they're doing what they're
supposed to do. reporting back, making sure the director is made aware when there are issues, making sure I'm not This is You had You had your turn. Thank you. It's You had your turn. You can go. >> Security, please. >> You can go. >> I was respectful and didn't interrupt
you. Be respectful back. >> So any and and I will continue. >> So if the answer is that you don't want this, then you don't want it. Okay. We voted down, but we're trying.
We're trying here. And there's no other municipal. There's I I I dare you to go to and tell me about what other municipality is doing half what we're doing here. 85% or more. Those are my remarks.
>> Council President, >> Council Feliciano, >> thank you. So in listening to my colleagues um I just want to echo the sentiments um about who I am right I've stood with
Lstencia I'm not for anyone being mistreated minora by way of her father I teach at Trenton Central High School I deal with our students each and every
day from when I first started back when The whole ICE situation started when Trump was first in office, sitting in classrooms, fearful with my students, watching and hearing on the news of the mistreatment of the people, trying to
make sure that these kids were safe, getting to school, being in school, going home from school. Now, here we are all over again living in a in a crazy time. There will be no blood on Crystal Feliciano's hands. there will not be. I
work with my colleagues. I appreciate them all taking the time to even entertain the ordinance that you brought to them. I I appreciate that. I appreciate Mr. Colli and everybody and them plugging away and plugging away and plugging away. But what I don't
appreciate is that when you come here and then you say it's not enough when you say, "Yeah, it's this but that." It's not fair to us. We we talk about the Laney Hall and certain things and Mikey Sher, y'all need to take that to the state house, right? Give it to where
it's due. We can help from our perspective, from where we are. I'm in full agreement with Councilwoman Frisbee. Look, I want y'all to be happy. I want us to be legal and right. So, I'mma vote no as well because you don't want it. And I don't want to give We
can't talk back and forth right now. So, you don't want it. So, I'mma vote no to it right along with her and then y'all all can figure it out. Because here's the thing. Mr. Colli said it. He said
there could be conversations of change. It's possible. They didn't say that it was going to be and that it was going to happen. I listen and I hear. And I'm not here to sell a pipe dream and I'm not saying that he is either. But what I'm saying
is is that in my opinion respectfully, any conversations that y'all was going to have about this to get this together, you should have had it. It should have been given to us full and complete so that way we could sit here assured in what it is that we're going to say. And
so I'm going to be very honest and very very very transparent with all of you. It sounds to me you don't want it. So, no, you can't. So, that that that's what it sounds like to me based on what
you've all said. And so, I will cast my vote accordingly to what I've heard here tonight. Thank you, Council President. Look, listen. Hey, hey, hey, you guys. Hey, this is not the time for that, okay? We've heard I've heard my colleagues. I'm saddened by how people
feel at this point in time, but it is clear by by a lot of the comments that were made that this is not enough. So, I can understand their sentiments. I am not with I am not there. I have worked really really hard with some of my colleagues on this and the administration. It is true. We work
part-time and this is a part-time job that is actually a full-time job. I have spent endless hours having meetings um talking to our attorneys, talking to our police director and and captains and and and the administration to try to make
this work. I'm I'm saddened by where we are right now. We are going to move to a vote. The vote is the vote and that is that everybody is entitled to how they feel. I myself and nobody else can control how people are going to vote tonight. So, Mr. Garcia, please at this
time, could we move to a vote on this? Uh, Madam President, I believe at this time we still have to vote on the amendments. So, okay. Please. >> Um, there was motion and second, so I'll call a roll. >> Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> This is to the amendments.
>> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes to the amendments. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes to the amendments. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes to the amendments. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figuroa Kenberg, to the amendments. Yes.
>> Thank you. Motion carried. And now, Madam President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve ordinance 26- >> 048 table or you want to vote >> at this at at this point in time, Mr. Garcia? >> Yes. >> As I understand, this this ordinance is
likely to die if we vote now. I would like to propose a motion to table this. >> Is that a motion that you're making? >> Yes. I'd like a motion to a table. Do we have a second? >> Second >> until a specific time or >> and until is is there any specific time for that?
>> Excuse me. We have order. Can we please have order? >> Can we please have order in council? >> Stop. >> I'll wait. >> You if if you're being asked to leave, you need to leave. May we have order, please?
>> Well, she needs she's not Madame President, shall I continue? >> Yes. Can we please proceed? >> Thank you. Um, it's been moved and second. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes.
>> Council Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. Council President Figueroa Kenberg. >> And to be clear, this is being tabled. It is not failing.
>> And this is tabled until until what specific date? >> We are tableabling this to two weeks from today, Mr. Garcia. >> Two weeks. >> Uh well, the next Tuesday meeting. >> Excuse me. The next public meeting. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Tabled to the next public meeting. >> Thank you. My my vote is yes. >> Thank you.
>> Yeah. >> Moving on. Ordinance 26-49. An ordinance amending and supplementing chapter 14 of the code of the city of Trenton traffic as it applies to parking restrictions for vans and trucks in residential areas. >> No. Go ahead, Mr.
>> Are there any members of the public that wish to speak to this ordinance at this time? Seeing none, Madam President, if one ask for a motion to approve. >> May we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> I'm I'm sorry. Who was the second? Thank
you. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards. >> She stepped away. >> Sorry. Thank you. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Vice President Williams.
>> Yes. >> Council President Figuroa Kevinberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Ordinance. Oh, wait. Excuse me. That brings us to resolutions. Madam President, are there any resolutions that you or the council wish to extract from potential consent agenda this evening?
>> Any any of you all have questions or resolutions at this time? >> None. Seeing none, we have none, Mr. Garcia. >> Okay. If there are none at this time, then unless there are any items that require, and I don't see any items that
require a roll call vote, if you want to ask for a motion to approve a consent agenda. I would like a motion to approve agenda of >> ordinances 26-233. >> No, no. Or resolutions, sir. >> Excuse me. Resolence. Thank you. >> Resolutions. It's been a bit of a long
night. Um or resolutions 26-233 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225
226 227 229 230 231 232 and Madam President we do have a walk-on resolution um at this time which would be 234 and that is a resolution recognizing June as
pride month in the city of Trenton. >> That is correct. Mr. Garcia, I just have a quick question. Um was 26 22 28 pulled? >> I believe so. >> Okay. I know you didn't mention. I just wanted to be clear.
>> Oh yes. >> Okay. >> It's not listed. It's not listed here. So in that case, it must not have made it past docket review. >> Perfect. May we have a motion to approve those resolutions at this time. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman
Edwards. >> Oh, wait. I'm so sorry. Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. Yes. >> Thank you, Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Vice President Williams.
>> Yes. Council President Figuro Kenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried on to excuse me. Ordinances for first reading and introduction. Ordinance 26-046 has been pulled. >> Thank you.
>> Ordinance 26-50 has also been pulled. Ordinance 26-51. An ordinance authorizing the sale of city- owned property commonly known as 20 Binmar Avenue and identified on the city tax map as block 6202 lot 36
pursuant to NJSA 4A 1213C to Claudia Marcella Castro Nemi for the sale price of $16,000. And Madam President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve. >> Yeah, we have a motion to approve. >> So moved.
>> Second. Mhm. >> Thank you. It's been moved and second. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Thank you, Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes.
>> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figueroa Kenberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-052. Ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as
1550 1562 1572 to 1574 Edgewood Avenue and identified on the city tax maps block 3660 lot 5 block 360601 lot excuse me lot 36060
1.01 01 lot 5 and block 3606601.01 lot 1 pursuant to NJSA 481213C to Trenton Opportunity 6 LLC for the sale price of $76,000. Madam President want to ask for a motion to approve.
>> May we have a motion to approve? So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards. Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Vice President Williams.
>> Yes. >> Council President Figenberg. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-53. The ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 42 General Green Avenue and identified on the city tax map as block 3202 lot 44
pursuant to NJSA 481213C to Pa Esmeralda Alante Cabrera for the sale price of $12,725. Madam President want for a motion to approve. May >> we have a motion to approve? So moved.
Second. >> Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figuro Kenberg,
>> yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-54, Ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 17 Jarvis Place and identify on the city tax map as block 2201, lot 25 pursuant to NJSA 481213C
to Ronell Cabrera Cruz for the sale price of $7,500. Madam President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve the ordinance. >> May we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards,
>> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figuroa Kevinberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-55, ordinance authorizing the sale of
city-owned property commonly known as 51 Laurel Avenue identified on the city tax maps block 6303 L 4 pursuant to NJSA 481 1213C to Marcus Palmer for the sale price of $14,000.
Madam President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve. >> May we have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. >> Thank you. Councilwoman Edwards. >> Yes. Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes.
>> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figuroa Kevin, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-56, Ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 62 North Stockton Street and identified on the city tax map as block 603, lot 24
pursuant to NJSA4A1213C to Marcus Palmer for the sale price of $1,500. Madam President, if you want to ask for a motion to approve. >> May we have a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second.
>> Thank you. >> Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figuro Kenberg, >> yes.
>> Motion carried. Ordinance 26-57, Ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as 279 Walnut Avenue, identifying the city tax map is block 27601,
lot 3 pursuant to NJSA4A 1213C to Daryl Brown for the sale price of $14,000. >> May we have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you. Roll call. Councilwoman Edwards, >> yes.
>> Councilwoman Feliciano, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Council President Figueroa Kevinberg, >> yes. >> Motion carried. And
me is no longer still yours. And madam president, that brings us to the point now. We have amended agenda. So public comment is done. You may move on to any individual you list for civic comment.
>> Yes, sir. Starting with Councilwoman Edwards. Thank you, Madam President. >> Clarify, Madam President, just so I know, what is the time limit for the C city council this evening? >> Five minutes, sir. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, everyone. Um, well,
tonight was very eventful. Um, I appreciate working with this council. I think we are one of the best councils this city has seen by far in a long, long time. We operate with efficacy. We
operate with passion. We operate with good faith for our community and representation of everyone no matter where they come from or what they look like or what language they speak. This council is very very diverse in so
many different ways and we reflect the community that we live in. Our work reflects the voices of the people that we represent. I think that as we are working on legislation, it's important to remember
that we are on the same side and that we should work together with that first and foremost. We may not always get things right the first shot,
but we can always amend things. So, let's have respect for one another. Let's be patient with each other. Let's get this right. Um, I will say that what we're seeing
with this whole immigration thing, the way that the police are handling peaceful protests, that is not something that we stand for. As an organizer myself of marches and protests and rallies from a number of things, I stand for
peaceful protests. I have been on the front lines of a lot of issues, even against our very own police department. A lot of council members up here have been on the front line. We are the front line of the people.
So, I appreciate you all for all of the hours of work that you put in towards this ordinance, taking into consideration every advocate's voice, every immigrant's voice,
and we will get it right. So, I'm looking forward to this coming back. I'm looking forward to a resolution of this issue um in a peaceful peaceful manner. It is never acceptable to attack or shout or
interrupt a formal meeting. We do have decorum rules in here. And so as we are reminding you of that as you're attending these meetings, just please keep that in mind to carry yourself with respect with with
professionalism. I've heard profanity shouted out loud at this mic throughout the room throughout the night. That is unacceptable. is disrespectful especially when we are we have been nothing but allies to resistencia in the
immigration issues that our country is facing right now. So again, this is a touchy subject and it has impacted us all in one way or
another. Whether it's a family member, a friend, a colleague, or just a member of our community, a neighbor, or just as a representative, whether you know an immigrate or not,
it has affected us. It has impacted us. We are human. We have the same feelings you have. We feel the same way you feel. This is why this ordinance even exist in the first place or is
coming into existence. So with that said, that's that's all I have to say. Um just have a good night. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Um I'd actually like to go next if that's okay. Um, good evening everybody. I want to go
next just because I'm I'm disheartened by what happened tonight. Um, myself and some of my colleagues did work really really hard on this ordinance. We really tried to make it to where it was something that we could come to an agreement on. It was a step
in the right direction. It was something that we were hoping that would set a precedent for other ordinances throughout the state of New Jersey. And I'm really really saddened that, you know, we came to a a point where it was going to fail. It was it was a split vote. I respect my colleagues. I respect
their opinions. Um I think somebody from the organization said, "Well, I thought you said you were going to make it pass and then we could do amendments." I can't make my colleagues do anything. They have to be clear. I've voted I've been a I've been the odd man out voting
no to a a a 61 vote many times. So, I understand I'm hoping that I can get to a place we can get to a place where we can make the necessary amendments and provisions that make everybody happy and makes this make sense. Now, let me be
clear, okay? My father is proud Puerto Rican. I am half Latina, okay? But that doesn't matter in the end of the day or the grand scheme of things. I look the way I look and people may question who I am. My son is black and brown. He looks
just like me. Skin color the same. Same blue eyes. It does not matter how we look, but how we feel. I am Trenton through and through. Born and raised. 1981 Trenton South Trenton. Lambertton Street. 542 Lambertton Street. Okay. I
am for this city and everybody in this city. And I will fight. And if nobody understands that or if people didn't see that tonight that I will stand and fight for those people of the city of Trenton in every capacity that I'm sorry you're
reading me the wrong way. I am here because you all voted for me. I am in this seat because I chose to serve the city and I do believe that my colleagues want the same things and I don't fault them.
There were holes in this ordinance and I get it and everybody that stood up here to speak to this ordinance tonight instead of praising it and say this is a step in the right direction, it was shot down like this is not what we want and this is not good. So I I understand where my colleagues came from tonight.
So let's get this right moving forward. Let's get this right because we all want the same thing. We do. So with that being said, um thank you all for staying. Um, I apologize for anybody that needs to be removed from council
chambers anybody any time, but I'm not tolerating disrespect. We are all here to do a service and we should all be respecting one another's times. Um, and when one another speaks. When everybody spoke tonight, we stayed quiet and we listened. When I got up at one point in
time, I think somebody that came to the speaker said, "Oh, I left." No, I was in the back of the room speaking to Osma about this ordinance. So, I just want to be clear with that. So, thank you all again. Um, with that, I will yield to Councilwoman Frisbee. >> Thank you, Council President. So, I want
to thank everyone for coming out here this evening. I want to address u Mr. Patterson. I am sorry that he still has to keep coming out here about the property um that he's trying to protect his mother. I have the utmost respect for you and I am hoping that we can get
that rectified. Um, I also want to acknowledge our co um our constituents who came out regarding the firehouse. Um, I I hear you. I understand. I would not want to have to have that. And knowing that there is
another place where they can actually have a banquet hall and a meeting place, a reception hall that's like two miles away or two blocks up. Um, that's something to take into consideration. And again, the parking is of course um a great of importance over there.
Uh before I go on to anything else I'm going to talk about this weekend, um I'm a member of Mom's Demand Action for Gunsense in America and have been so for over nine years now. I currently serve as the leader of the Mercy County Moms Demand Action for
Gunsense in America. This Saturday is our party in orange, we're orange, where we advocate for those for stronger gun laws, gun safety. We want you to be safe. We want our communities to be safe. We want our children, our elders, all of them. So, this Saturday at 10:00
a.m. to 12:00, we invite you to come out to Cat Walder Park um and help us as we wrap our arms around those who have been impacted, those families that have been impacted by gun um vi gun violence. I ask you to save the date for Wednesday,
June 10th. That's at 5:30 at the Cure Arena. That's 81 Hamilton Avenue. The Boys and Girls Club is having the Souped Up Sandwich uh showdown and that's going to be um with our children. They're going to be out there uh displaying their wares and having a little bit of a
fun contest where everybody wins. Now, with my remaining time, I do want to address um what was going on in here this evening. One, I respect everyone that came in here and I I demand respect. I don't find myself to be disrespectful. I don't interrupt people.
At least I try not try my best not to. And I give what I want back. I don't curse at people. I don't use profanity. I think that is disrespectful. And we're big enough. We're adult enough to use our big boy and big girl words without using profanity to get your message
across. Um when it comes to protecting our neighbors, not having detainers, um being penalized for um having our residents being penalized with speaking their mind, being pepper-sprayed, um having the separation of family.
Everyone deserves respect. Everyone should be treated like like the human being that we all are. And I ask ICE, what would they feel like? What would it look like if they unmasked someone and they found that it was their family member that they were kneeling on? It was their family member that they pepper
sprayed or someone else that they knew, their loved one. Behind every single door, every individual is a human being and we should be treated and um with that with with that same respect. I appreciate the passion that was in this
room this evening. I promise you I do. I go out, I advocate when I can and when I'm not supposed to. I get permission from my own employer to let her know that there are things going on and it and it tugs at my heart. I was there when they told that a a young girl
didn't have a place to go because her parents were taken. She came home from school and there was no one there. I am a mother. I'm a mother of a child who's differently aabled. I never want that the idea of my child coming home and my myself or my son not knowing where their
next um place is they're going to lay their heads. My heart goes out with you. We are doing what we can here. But I also ask you to give us grace. We are I don't know of anybody. This is not the norm for you to write an ordinance, bring it to us and for us to put it on
the floor. That is grace. You have no idea. That is not the norm for what we what we are doing here and which is why we were all for like madam president I respect that that is what you she chose to do that because she's a mother a new mother. She doesn't want a child to be separated no
more than she would want her own. So I ask you to hear us and remember again it is a give and take. You don't get everything you want but we do have to work together and like they said we could have there there are amendments that can be done but I ask you to work with us and not against us so we can get
to the the same goal and that's to get our families to be safe. Get ICE the heck up out of our community. They don't belong here. They weren't invited here. We want them out of our community. And we want all the individuals, the eyes that you see, and I'm so sorry, sir, that you were treated with the disrespect that you were treated with.
You should not have been treated that way. No one deserves to be retreated that way, whether you're an immigrant or not. You're a human being. I wouldn't want it. So, my heart goes to you and I apologize on behalf of all those who did you wrong. Um, with that, I'm going to use my last few seconds that I just ran
out of and just say that the city of Trenton portion of our mission statement is recognizing that the people of Trenton have made us guardians of the public trust. We are committed to government with integrity and fiscal responsibility to seek excellence in the city's operations and to serve all the p
city's people with respect and compassion. I wish everybody safety getting home and blessings. Thank you, Councilwoman Frisbee. Councilwoman Gonzalez. >> Yes. I'm going to be short. I don't have much to say. Um most have been said already, but I do want to acknowledge
our um community members who did come out. Um the young man, uh Mr. P, all of the ones who spoke about the concerns with the fire department and also about the purchasing of properties. If you could just make sure you email us um
your concerns so that way we can try to help you get it addressed. Also, we do have a city staff meeting um where you can speak to our directors in person June 17th at 10 a.m. here in the chambers uh the city council chambers.
Um there are some events coming up too this Saturday as mentioned the moms of man action. They have uh we're also launching a fishing derby for our kids. Um that begins I believe at 9:00 a.m. at the Stacy the Stacy Pond. Um, I know Mercer County is having a multicultural
festival. So, there's a lot of things going on um throughout our county. So, please go out and support if you wish. Um, to Sencia, I just want to say, you know, thank you for continuing to fight for people. Um, thank you for continuing to do the work every single day in the,
you know, wee hours of the morning. But this is u a sad day for us here on council to see what occurred um tonight because for all of us here who work really really hard to help um you all as
much as possible. I meant to be disrespected in a way that we were disrespected tonight. It's just a sad situation. But um with that being said, I'm going to say good night. Thank you for being present. >> Thank you, Councilwoman. Um really really quickly uh I know Councilman
Gonzalez honored them but again another um honor recognition to senior uh Kappa affairs of the Trenton alumni chapter Kappa Alphasai fraternity again who council Gonzalez honored tonight and also congratulations to Michael Herado on your appointment to the um to the
board. Thank you so much. Uh CVP Williams. >> Thank you council president. Uh I'm gonna just I'll just say uh my colleagues are very eloquent. I said what I said earlier. Hopefully some folks retain what I said and I am glad
that uh I said it because it's important. We move forward. It's not in the way we were hoping to but we move forward. I want to first say congratulations Mr. Herado for his reappointment to become a full member for four years. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did during my time
on zoning. Sir, I also want to thank um my constituents, our constituents, uh Councilwoman Gonzalez, Councilwoman Edwards, uh Miss Kousmich, and also uh Mr. uh Shuiski Sitzky. Uh regarding the
firehouse, uh it is a problem. It's going to be a problem. We had to figure out a way. It was approved by planning board, which is their want. That's their mission. Uh but I hopefully we can find some type of solution because parking will be terrible and there's a lot of
unanswered questions. Also want to thank the residents of Easton uh particularly uh Miss Pearson came to speak tonight regarding concerns her neighborhood with Alpha Shreddy. We got answers uh to questions that were important for the community and thankful
for that. And just some things happening. Uh we have uh on the 17th going to be our northward sis police advisory council meeting. Galley Baptist Church for 40 MLK. Please join us. Uh I got word today we will be having uh
interim public works director believe uh she will be interim at that point possibly. uh Rea Sigora with us tonight and Anton Director Paul Harris at our meeting uh to discuss initiatives uh issues uh that the administration will be bringing forth later this year. Uh
also we continue uh the partnership city council uh Kowanas Club of Trenton and Trenttown Market with the 250 flags for 250 years campaign. Uh the goal is to get 250 American flags up in the city by
Patriots week. Uh right now I believe uh the 30 flags have been distributed. If anyone would like a free flag, they come with a bracket. Easy peasy to install. If you need help, let us know. Uh please email Trenton Kowanas Clubgmail.com.
That's truanas kiwis club lugmail.com. I also want to thank public works on natural resources and administration for several cleanups that have been requested in the past few weeks. Uh but
most particularly for all the great work you've done in the Milh Hill neighborhood for the upcoming garden tour this Saturday from 12:00 to 5:00 that people can attend. Uh you get tickets at artworks. Uh but also for cleaning up the huge lot behind the tra the Trenton Quaker meeting house on
Montgomery uh near handover. was in really bad shape and that will be uh a really nice space for the neighborhood and uh for that area. It's a it's a massive difference. This Saturday, as was mentioned by my colleague, uh we
have the fishing derby from 9 to 1:30 p.m. It's located at Stacy Pond, 1399 Riverview Drive, uh along the river. There's no admission fee. So, if you have any young ones, uh, just want to have a good time watching some kids
having a great time fishing, please bring them and spread the word. This is a great annual event that the city does and it's this coming Saturday. And then, uh, finally, I just want to say thank you for attending this meeting. Thank you for your citizenship. Thank you for
being concerned. And please spread the word to other Trentonians to come. Uh there are a lot of good things happen and this is a great council. We've made a great difference together and we need to keep Trenton's train moving forward. God bless.
>> Thank you council vice president. Mr. Garcia, at this time may we have a motion to adjourn. So move. >> Thank you. I'll call the role. Councilwoman Edwards. >> Yes. >> Councilwoman Feliciano.
Oh, excuse me. Councilwoman Frisbee, >> yes. >> Councilwoman Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Vice President Williams, >> yes. >> Good night. >> Council President Vigoro Keber, >> yes. >> Motion carried. Thank you all for coming out. Good night everybody.