on your call Madam president yes begin I'm sorry trendon city council meeting March 4th 2025 is now called the order please stand and salute the flag I Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic
for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] stand adequate notice of this meeting has been given in accordance with the open public meetings act pursuant to
public laws 1975 chapter 231 this agenda is complete to the extent known and was sent to the Trenton Times and tonan newspapers posted on the first floor bolon board in City Hall filed with the city clerk's office and posted on the city of trendon website formal action
will be taken roll call vice president Edwards president councilwoman Feliciano president and also councilwoman figeroa kenberg asked that you have to take her off of mute please uh certainly my
moment please thank you [Music] and Council woman yes okay councilwoman Figo kenberg present thank you councilman frisbee
present councilman [Music] Harrison okay councilman Williams present present council president Gonzalez present myself Brandon Garcia municipal clerk
present Mr Edward cogi legislative counsel and Mr Wesley Bridges City attorney thank you and Madame President if you'd like I will attempt to recite an invocation okay you sure not councilwoman Feliciano would do a quick
prayer I will defer to councilwoman Feliciano at this time thanks thank you council president Lord we thank you for this day and we thank you for the time we ask that you guide us through the deliberations bless the Council Bless the community bless us all in Jesus name
amen amen amen thank you and Madame President at this time I believe uh we have the may we have a presentation of the mayor's remarks for advice and consent for Carlos Diego minacapelli yes yes intern director of Health and Human
Services Depart of Health and Human Services Department yes yes really quick Mr Garcia did you did statement right I'm sorry did you do the statement I think I did okay I missed it that's thank you good evening mayor good evening good evening uh Council
distinguished members and council president and the new mom Jenna Figaroa kenberg congratulations on your child um uh I'm here tonight to uh ask
for your consent uh for Dr Carlos Diego minacapelli as permanent director of the Health and Human Services um Dr Minik Capelli uh has an extensive background in um research and biology of cancers
through a postdoctorate fellowship at Ruckers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a completed Advanced Training and clinical research at Harvard Medical School uh since day one Dr Min Capelli has uh taken deis of action as interm
director and uh he took an immediate assessment of all the divisions within the department and bringing structure and direction to ensure that critical services for Trenton residents remain un interrupted among them he took uh stock
of upgrading the workspaces acquiring vehicles for inspectors and nurses updating computer systems and software and providing staff with NE Neary equipment to ensure a professional and well equipped
Workforce um Dr mapelli has been involved in the ESG program which is emergency Solutions Grant has provided vital services to 2114 residents including Street Outreach
rapid housing and emergency shelter assistance as you know we've had a number of emergencies in the city and uh it's through his Department and uh under leadership of Dr Min Capelli and Ruth Carter I see she's in here has helped uh
many U people seek emergency uh shelter Services he's also in charge of the continuity of care system um his team has assisted 306 individuals leveraging about $1.6 million in federal funds to
provide critical housing and support services at the Trenton animal shelter Dr Minik Capelli and his team have recognized the management structure has reorganized the management structure and now is produced 247 surveillance at the
animal shelter to help improve oversight especially during intake crisis on the good news in the last two months alone approximately 72 77 dogs have entered the S system while
approximately 110 dogs were aded adopted transferred to rescues or reclaimed by their owners these are numbers that have never been seen before and and his commitment should be loaded to the public education responsible pet
ownership and help stabilize the city's dog population he's also in charge of the uh cdbg projects Community Development block grants and he has worked diligently to stabilize the program and move key initiatives forward
Major Street uh repaving projects that have been funded through cdbg and also demolitions have also Advanced uh also receiving cdbg uh funding uh the reading Senior Center Rehabilitation is now in the
bidding phase so we're excited about that project and upcoming projects include the improvements to the South Ward Senior Center and the Skelton Library I know councilwoman uh figuro kenberg uh has been uh
diligent about getting the South Ward um senior center in the skeleton Library back on line and Dr Min Capelli is working diligently to have that effectuated it's also working with the fire department to um update equipment
utilizing cdbg funding so the Department of Health is moving forward and under Dr menil's leadership will continue to expand and innovate and serve the residents of Trenton with Excellence if anyone has any questions be more than
happy to answer them are there any council members who would like to ask questions um the council I say council member Frisbee and then councilman Williams um well thank you thank you mayor for being here I don't have any questions at all I just really wanted to
say that I am thankful for this day I have been in anticipation of um doc director Dr man Capelli coming before us I think he's done exceptional work in our community the funds that he has done the Outreach that he has um provided to our
Clinic um I have had the uh luxury of being a recipient my dog with it um and then spreading that out into the community seeing how he goes to the clinics how he goes out to the various um areas to not just uh he doesn't sit
behind the desk he's out there in the community and he's actually doing the work to find out where um need is so I just wanted to say thank you for all that he has done I think he you're making an excellent selection on this evening um the animal shelter is better for him being here so I'm in
anticipation and excited to vote Yes on the appointment thank you thank you Council woman thank you councilman Williams and thank you council president so mayor um I want to just EO I think uh the director's done a very very good job being out there in the community
answering questions trying to uh simply tell uh the public and us uh what's actually going on without you know bring a medical jargon that makes things you know sometimes confusing and also postco uh trying to make sure our
messaging when we disseminate to our constituents is appropriate and right but uh I do have just a question uh as far as goals for the future I mean I know we are are committed to getting a new animal shelter certainly we want uh Columbus to be brought online and looks
like we're just a few months away from that happening uh but are there any specific goals that you've set for uh the director to come over the next say year now that he's been in this role for a few months now yeah I think that would be appropriate to ask him that question
but um I I get a stab of it um we are currently housing uh dogs in a shelter that's long out of use and we're um hoping to expand the shelter here in Trenton it's been a challenge because of
property and to uh find a location and um had a number of challenges in that regard we have an overflow shelter and a kennel in in Bucks County we don't think that that's wise or coste effective it's his goal to
um uh phase that out and um when we do expand the shelter the reason why we got the uh Columbus shelter um was to have a displacement place that we can keep animals while we're either exam
expanding the shelter in its current location or expanding Services um so it's a good thing that we have that Columbus facility um right now we're doing the finishing Renovations we hope to have that open within the next couple
of months but that will be critical in our ability uh to be able to close down this shelter temporarily the animal shelter on eer street so that we could either expand it there or um um take
some other options of of creating a new animal shelter for the for Trenton okay and just my only other question uh outside of for the director would be um I think he's done a great job also I'm very appreciative of the physical improvements that you're making
to the health building for the workers there Etc and are there any additional um improvements coming up HVAC or any other systems that you for see on Horizon that again is a question for Dr Min Capelli but um I didn't mean to stump you mayor but um he went over to
the health clinic as as you may have visited it's in your ward and it's wholly inadequate and needs new equipment needs new furnishings and he's in the process of doing that well thank you very much and I will also be voting
yes council president yes I was going to let okay go ahead Council fig r k it was all right okay thank you I mean so was in front of me they can speak it's okay she's okay great uh thank you mayor um
my questions are more for um director M Capelli but I don't know if you can answer them or not but just the ongoing concerns um regarding the shelter that I just would like to um put on the record of asking the question tonight ahead of
um uh making him permanent um ahead of this vote um there's still been a lot of much influx of issues with after hour calls coming into the shelter and there being no answer um there has been uh an influx of
um people not being invited at the shelter when they want to come and and and in look or browse um to see what animals they might be interested in in adopting um there has been an influx of um issues
with Hilo um Hilo not you know cooperating with the shelter or um just not catering to animals that are you know sickly or being abused that you know need to be pulled from homes um when the community is making
reports and I also would like to know where Dr minicipal is with um the breeding ordinance and enforcement of it um in regards to uh spaying and neutering and um cracking down on a lot of this breeding in the city to um kind
of breach the deficit that we have with our you know with so such influx of animals in the shelter but I also want to praise um The Works of the shelter as well as the many volunteers who have worked so tirelessly to get these animals off the kill list um the last
two times around and I really want to applaud all the efforts that have gone into that yeah I think he's he's been very proactive on that and it's and it's a continuing consternation with all of us um uh and it's a matter of resources
uh first of all Hilo officers are at in the department of police and um he is working as best he can uh to coordinate uh their uh their role in in animal uh
control enforcement um it's also a highly stressful job if you ever had and I see a lot of the animal control folks are here themselves and they'll be able to tell you that it's a stressful job and it's um it's something that they're
dedicated to but um it's they do with what the resources they have it does not help um when uh well-intentioned people make their job difficult and I don't even have to get into that but um they're doing the best they can 10 and I
think uh they're all working as a team together uh to make things better um I would actually suggest that Council form a subcommittee because that's probably one of the most questions that you know uh people contact us about um but the
the city has to decide based on priorities we have people needs and we don't have the resources for that for to completely take care of of of all the things we need to do um but we do the best we can at the animal shelter we're
I I believe things are moving forward as I stated before more dogs are going out than coming in and that's unprecedented and um uh uh regarding cats uh we don't have any cats in the
shelter um we have a organization we work with Trenton cats.org and they're doing a spectacular job of working with the animal control folks to make sure that the cats are taken care of um and
so that's it but uh regarding the breeding ordinance that takes enforcement and also it's complicated you can't just knock on somebody's door and say are you breeding and when they say no then I want to come in and I want to look in your basement it's really
difficult to um uh do enforcement uh they try the best they can they do uh they do uh follow up up on tips um but it it takes a lot of skill and perseverance to enforce one place that's
overbreeding dogs and we accept uh tips and we follow up on them I know people get a little impatient that we're not working 247 on one tip uh but we just don't have the resources to do that he thank you mayor I mean I know
that if we have to go back to the drawing board to make things less complicated or to make it make sense um with regards to the breeding ordinance I do think that that can definitely help in um cracking down on the number of animals that do go into the shelter which I think it's you know it's it's
really just tackling the issue um from where it starts so I'm I'm definitely welcoming that um if Dr melli wants to do that um I know the last time that we did that I thought that we had some type of resolution to how we were going to operate with that breeding ordinance but I wanted to make sense for everybody
across the board um and finally um where are we at with the animal Advisory Board I know some people had interviews um where are we at and what does that look like I think that's a question appropriate for Dr Min Capelli I don't mean to rush it off it's just that he is
working with that and I know they had interviews um but I think that's a question for him sorry thank you no no worries thank you are you done yes coun councilwoman Feliciano thank you council president so
good evening mayor thank you for joining us tonight um councilwoman figuro kber and Williams actually asked several of the questions that that I um that I had but what did pique my interest in addition to that was when you were saying that maybe Council should form a
subc commmittee but you'll have the you'll have The Advisory Board um already from your standpoint um yeah and I don't mean to cut you off um but I think you know well that a lot of
your emails that you get are related to the animal shelter right and um yes there is an Advisory Board and they uh advise the administration but I think it would be helpful for even Council either to have one session on
the animal shelter um that would be that probably be most helpful for you to gain the information that you need but it's just trying to cover all the basis right okay cuz I was even thinking um maybe a a council Lea on to that board that
would be fantastic that would be good rather than forming another y piece of that we just have a council Lea onto that Advisory Board you're right I agree with you thank you so to that end um I just wanted to say so I'll Echo some of the sentiments of
councilwoman Frisbee and then I'll be done Dr Manelli came in during a trying time picked up the reins and went with the with the hand that he was dealt um considering everything that's been happening with the shelter um everything that's been happening in the city with
health and and everything overall I think he's done a good job um in picking up the pieces and trying to put things together and working with everybody to make things happen I can speak from the standpoint of him even communicating with the high school we're bringing him and his team in to actually talk to our
students and everything to give them a realistic look about you know what they do here and opportunities that they could have so we're excited for that to happen as well um nothing is going to be fixed overnight and we understand that but we are looking forward to him um continuing to push the charge forward
and getting the work done I've personally seen him um at work and asking the questions and challenging the employees and making sure that he gets down to the bottom of it um and holding people accountable and is very important and he takes this position very
seriously um and I can appreciate that so I'm hopeful that as we move along um yes we do need a resolve to the shelter yes we do need to get these animals out of Pennsylvania yes we do need Columbus to be resolved yes there are still things that we need to be done but I
think that um under his leadership we're moving better in the direction that we need to be going in so thank you I look forward to voting yes for him tonight thank you thank you thank you councilman fiano councilman Harrison I'll be short mayor um I just want to say that he has
been a blessing in the community um the Happ Outreach where they're giving food to the cats and dogs in the community he's he's always got a smile on his face so like I said he's working hard we're trying to get the city moving forward he's doing a great job I'll definitely be voting for him thank you thank you
thank you all so I also just want to Echo some of the sentiments my colleague said and also just to I know the question was asked about goals and if we could get the animal shelter as we all know and we discussed previously that that's the main goal hopefully within
this year or this year um to make that happen but I also wanted to offer the opportunity um for Mr Diego if he wanted to come up and possibly say a few words or maybe even answer some of the questions that were not answered thank you thank you Council
I'll I'll leave it in better hands than I could [Music] good evening Madame President Madame vice president Council Diego mapelli interim director of Health and Human
Services any questions that you may have I believe the the question was on The Advisory board that wasn't able to answer as far as where we were I think that came from Council Jen yes fig roll yes Advisory Board we um selected a few
candidates we went through the first interview um then we selected from that uh cohort we selected a second set of people for a secondary uh interview and that happened on Friday so um I still have uh two candidates to go to the
secondary interview and then I can make my recommendation to the mayor thank you councilwoman Williams had something to ask also thank you yeah I just have a a couple questions I'll REM mind um just uh actually one quick question regarding the uh welfare board advisory Council how many members will
the be at this point uh according to the executive order uh there are five five members thank you but I would like to have uh additional members as um um uh alternates okay that sounds like fair
fair idea thank you uh so just my my couple questions were um regarding goals for the next year I know we've talked a lot about animal welfare and that's certainly important but as far as other goals you may be have for the Department I know you one challenge that keeps
coming in the media is you know with the H1N1 um coming up U not that that is a pandemic or anything but as far as like other goals and responsibilities what do you see the next year looking like um if when you're confirmed tonight thank you for asking that the Department of Health
and Human Services has has 11 units uh the Department of Health is not just about the animal shelter but thank you thank you for for saying that um um I just want to bring it up a little bit you ask about HBS and what we're doing to the clinic so we um we are going to
replace the agback systems flooring and a few other things for for the clinic the clinic has to work as a clinic um we're working our team the health promotion teams are here um in order to
enhance our uh Services particularly for things like that uh vaccination and and um primary care things like that so um The Hope is that in the next year we can bring the services back to the clinic um and uh maybe through
Partnerships we can reach out to more um residents of the city and then just the other question was um regarding um you just to follow up with with goals are there any goals as far as Outreach into the community
and anything you'd like to see over the next year too absolutely that is part of the health promotion teams that we have and so we're creating this uh outreach program that we can start in the summer and then throughout the fall regarding different diseases lead is very
important um and of course uh diseases that are more prevalent within time so so yes all right that's my last question thank you very much sir you're welcome thank you maam council president councilwoman fig thank you uh good evening Dr mapelli
um one quick question with regards to the animal Advisory Board um what is the what is and and in jumping off of um councilwoman Williams points what is the goal of this board what are these members what are you looking to achieve
from these members and what input um are we are we hoping to get from them and take and you know apply h they will help me with the ordinances that you already implemented some of them need revision uh also Outreach to
the community uh they will have no um operational say of the shelter just on the policies and ordinances okay and how often is this Advisory Board to meet um um they should meet
quarter but because of the pring issues with the animal shelter we should start probably by weekly and just curious were there any restrictions on who was able to apply um for this board um there were no restrictions but
um um city of Trenton residents has have a priority okay okay thank you you're welcome thank you think Madam president thank you m Miss Diego
direct okay thank you so much you're welcome um sorry madam president one more thing Council vice president my apolog thank you um I have a a couple of questions regarding some of the the
issues going around the city so Tren has high rates of poverty homelessness and food insecurity what is your strategy for addressing these critical social determinants of health so as you know Council woman we have the COC system the Comm uh the
Continuum of Care System we partner with a lot of different organizations um to reach out to the community and make sure that we bring services to the community when it comes to homelessness poverty everything uh um
uh rehousing people making sure that families and single individuals are able to find a home um mental health um it is a system that we can we can help our our residents so we do it through the COC
system through the Department of Health and Human Services then we have ESG the emergency Solutions grant that Grant through the city we partner with organizations in order to reach all of our residents in order to in order to
help them out um further so the goal that we can set for the next year is reaching to other organizations to expound our reach within the city oh thank you because that was one of my next questions was how do you plan
to strengthen Partnerships with hospitals nonprofits and Community organizations to enhance Services yes so thank you for that um what specific steps will you take to increase access to mental Mental Health Services is in our
community so we have it is the Department of Health and Human Services and we have here the Director of Human Services the um Ruth cter what we're doing with Ruth uh Miss Ruth cter it is increasing the capacity of Health um
healthcare workers um social workers so we can reach out to more residents of our community but of course we're limited with our budgets um but that will be ideal thank you and my last question I promise um
the lead how do you plan to address the lead testing and treatment and high levels that we're seeing in the city um what is your plan to do that we already so we already have a plan um and that plan has been going on since before I
got here I'm just continuing the plan and make sure that I enhance it that it is through the health promotions um unit um which are here um and uh what we did as soon as I got into the position we
started doing um um Outreach to the community making sure that we went to different parts of Trenton in order to disseminate the information making sure that we reach out to the community and tell those moms those dads to make sure that the children are being tested uh
they themselves they should be tested um and we should continue that that is part of the plan that we're going to start now in the spring summer and the fall to make sure that we have those events that we can reach out to the community that is very important lead is is is very dangerous in in a developing child so
yes and I should have said and have and what type of success have you been seeing with the plan that has been implemented already well with those events we were my first event we tested 10 in the next one we tested 50 in the next one we
tested 100 so it is increasing that is the success that I'm seeing the more we reach out the more we are getting to people awesome thank you so much really appreciate it thank you Mr Diego really quickly because it just came to my mind because of the uncertainty with
everything that's going on as far as um possibly not getting as much funding from you know with the new Administration that we have do we have a plan in place if we don't get as much money for the ESG grants or the ESG funds
um well um that would be the administration answer but definitely we always have a plan B and so far we have not heard anything yeah I know I just wanted to put that out so we can have a plan in place in the event of because we don't know what happens every day as we
wake up so thank you so much absolutely I just want to say that all of the success that I had is because of our teams your workers for the city and they are here and I want you to thank them yes Health promotions is here vital sta itics is here uh the nurses right
communicable diseases the nurse for the sea center the ca Center staff here the animal shelter staff is here the uh Office of the director they are here um and I'm forgetting somebody no and of course the
administrator for the COC and the lead person for the ESG uh grants they're all here so you should thank them without them I'm nothing so thank you so so much thank [Music] you so Council or Mr Garcia if we can
move um get a motion to to vote on resolution 25- 078 so okay it's been moved is there a second noted roll call call vice president
Edwards yes councilwoman Feliciano yes councilwoman figuro kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee yes councilman Harrison
yes councilwoman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes beautiful motion carried thank you congratulations director and on your call Madame President we may proceed certainly uh
Madam president at this time uh we've reached the point of public comment for agenda items only that's for agenda items only and I'll call a last call for public comment for agenda items only once again public comment will
be Madame President at this time we do not have anybody listed for public comment for agenda items only uh so with that being said if you'd like to move on we can move to approval of the minutes
for January 2nd 2025 January 7th 2025 and January 28th [Music] 2025 and mam president if you want to ask for a motion to approve may I have a motion um really quick though Mr Garcia on mine I don't have it listed as January 28th I know you sent it but I
don't have it listed on here just FY I don't know okay on your copy you wouldn't we did distribute uh you may have another copy on your on your desk there and on that one it's been [Music] updated I don't have all right may I have a motion to approve um the minutes
so moved thank you I'm sorry who was that moved by Chris B thank you and that was second by Harrison correct correct thank you sir roll call vice president Edwards
yes Council Feliciano yes councilwoman Figaro kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee yes councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes motion
carried thank you and Madame President if you want to ask for a motion to approve Communications petitions and reports a motion to approve Communications peions and reports so move second thank you roll call vice
president Edwards yes councilwoman Feliciano yes councilwoman Figaro kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee yes councilman Harrison yes councilman Williams yes council president Gonzalez
yes motion carried moving on two ordinances for second reading and public hearing ordinance 25-7 an ordinance amending the code of the city of Trenton chapter 113 food
handling Article 1 retail food establishment code 113 D4 fees section 114 13 13-4 fees 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 we have a motion to approve so move second roll call vice president Edwards yes Council Feliciano yes councilman Figaro kenberg yes
councilwoman frisbee yes councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams council president Gonzalez yes motion carried ordinance 25-8 ordinance authorizing the sale of city-owned property commonly known as
196 Pennington Avenue and identified on the city tax map block 6705 Lot 4 pursuant to njsa 40a 12-13 C to Charles C Lewis for the sale price of $5,000
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 vice president Edwards yes councilwoman
Feliciano yes councilwoman Figo kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee absolutely yes councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes motion
carried and Madame President we've reached the point of resolutions it is my understanding that there are two walk-on resolutions that we received today and if you'd like I can read those titles now or at the end of uh any possible questions um you can read them
in now please certainly we've marked these 24- 84 and 85 I'll start with 84 resolution authorizing the city of Trenton to exercise the option to extend shared services agreement entered with the county of
Mercer pursuant to resolution 24-42 to provide Public Health Services and ensure Public Health practice standards of performance for local board for local Board of Health in New Jersey number 85 is
resolution authorizing the execution of a shared services agreement between the city of Trenton and the Mercer County Improvement Authority mcia for work at the Eagle Tavern and Madame President are there
any items any resolutions that you or the council wish to ask questions and discuss at this time or would you like to go about putting creating a potential consent agenda Madam president or to extract there any council members so
councilwoman Feliciano thank you um I have questions on 2485 to walk on um I don't have 2580 it uh my it wasn't in my packet resolution okay and that's
it you umis yes um 25 82 [Music] 2581 and that's it um Council vice
president oh sorry yeah no no your legs on as well councilwoman Williams thank you ma'am uh 2530 25075 2576 and then also uh
25082 and 083 082 and 083 yes ma'am and 083 all righty so can we start with um councilwoman Williams for 25 I'm sorry madam president I apologize I don't mean to interrupt the pece councilwoman fig
kber apologies I'm sorry some question that's okay just 25005 please z z five got it that's an ordinance but okay oh okay apologize never [Music] mind no
resolutions okay thank [Music] you we ready Mr Garcia can I keep certainly so the first one um Council Williams for 25-30 yes ma'am so I just uh us have a
question just want to make a statement so uh with this one um I would did not uh initially get any type of an answer to my question regarding uh potential conflicts of interest with the UE program particularly with the vendor that would be hired but I did get an
answer today finally from uh Mr Eric wear who uh handles the uee program or mayir rather as well as I did have a very brief conversation with Mr Bridge as a law director so I am satisfied uh by their answers that there would not be
a conflict of interest to be concerned with yeah yeah I would like to say this on consent I'm fine with that ma'am consent thank [Music] you um councilman Williams as far as the appointing of Mr Mark Matson yeah so I was uh curious if he is
here tonight yeah I don't think he came in because we were waiting for him to walk in so he's not present so I would like to suggest that we remove him from consideration we I would like to suggest I mean can we motion that right now just take it off is that a motion to pull the
resolution to pull it understood permanently I have a motion to pull 25-75 second who's the motion she motioned me thank you and the second that was motion
by Williams Williams thank you roll call vice president Edwards yes councilwoman Feliciano just to be clear we're removing him from consideration we're P he's done correct yes
yes noted councilwoman Figaro kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee yes councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes motion
carried thank you and just for record he has been invited several times so that's the reason why um councilman Williams 25- 076 thank you ma'am um so my question just has to do with u more uh for
dissemination for the public because this um I don't know how unusual this is in overall municipal government but at least in my experience here uh this is unusual for us so if you could just uh explain the situation with the back pay for this officer as much as you can
ma'am um Yes actually I would prefer to defer to the law director um 076 about the payment for the officer Drew himman um this was U an officer who was
um brought up on charges by the uh lovely Department of Justice us attorneys um he uh was indicted for um violating uh folks rights with respect to excessive force um the decision was
made by the prior law director not to afford them with a City attorney under the statute is very clear that if a Public Employee is uh brought up on charges and the employer does not um afford them with an attorney if that employee is ultimately successful and
their defenses of those charges um the municipality employer in this instance the city is obligated to um pay that individual's not only uh his attorney's fees but um uh back payment back uh
contribution in this instance um just being very candid this officer the charges against him were questionable at best um and and that was question when the charges were even brought not only did this off was this officer successful in being EXO by a jury uh once but uh
then was exonerated a second time by a federal jury of his peers in addition to that the federal district judge gave a very scathing opinion of the actions of not only the agent that investigated this but also how it was prosecuted and
uh the the jury essentially let him off on all the charts but one the judge in that opinion dismissed that count as well and this officer was returned to work and our review of it in conjunction with with uh business administrator Maria richeson and the Police director
um we we obviously looked at the statute and wanted to comply with it and that's the payment to make this officer whole who is back on the job and all indications are performing properly um just by way of background for this council's consideration there was another officer who had parallel charges
um that officer was also um found innocent by a jury his appear however that officer were not coming before this Council for that officer's back pay because because and and contribut because that officer was um ultimately relieved of Duty for uh separate administrative um uh charges so this is
essentially us complying with the statute that requires us to pay for um making this officer whole having now gotten off of uh not one but two jury trials and really being exonerated by a federal district judge who said that the um the prosecutorial unit was almost uh
almost engag in prosecutor on misconduct so that's the reason why we're here today to make this officer whole and and um and and keep it pushing thank you so clearly we're legally required absolutely legally required there's no um negotiation with this if we were not
to do this they would sue us citing that statute and we would not be successful and ultimately um in this instance it's the right thing to do to for this officer thank you sir thank you man thank you consent thank you and I believe the next one is C
woman Frisbee with a 25- 082 thank you council president so this is actually um it's 2582 which is um the I guess partnering with 25- 083 I just
curious as to why we are act uh we are why it was denied um and why we are accepting the one that that was there what was the uh what was the difference in that 25 08225 to
083 good evening Maria Richardson business administrator um one of the resolutions we are rejecting um the the beats that we receive um because I needed a little bit
more than other elements to consider aside from from the price to be able to pick the right firm to provide training for the police officers so we receive five or six uh bats we are rejecting
them and then the following resolution it's basically allowing us to use competitive Contracting um to select uh to procure the services by using um competitive
Contracting we would be able to engage with a a firm based not only uh in price but also in experience and other elements that we would like to score but also would allow us time we know that we
are not going to be able to assess um needs for training and Implement training within a year right so we are um using competitive contract cont in because he will allow us uh to use up to
five years and we could have a contract for two years and then three uh options to extend as we need it thank you and so does that mean that we get to now give them what we want or they do they come in with a package and is that package uh
conform does it um fit for our Police Department or is there's a package that they give that we have to fit ourselves into no what what this resolution is doing is giving me the authority to use competitive
contract because competitive contract is not um we should be procuring most of our services using a bid right if um we are trying to hire uh individuals that
need a license to perform those Services then we will be procuring Professional Services and that would be enough FP with Professional Services we can only uh issue contracts for one year no more not not over a year we need a little bit
more for a competitive contract we first need a permission of the um DCA commissioner okay in order to even try and then I need to get the authority from the council to procure as a
competitive contract and so once you adopt this resolution if you decide to do so then we will be uh advertising the services as a competitive contract thank you ma'am sure councilwoman Williams um
actually councilwoman frisbee did a good job asking the same things I wanted okay um so what about for 2583 that's cons that's you're good so can we put on consent consent yes thank you um next Council Feliciano
25-80 you said it wasn't in your packet right president be I'm fine consent consent you didn't give me that one do you want that we can add it um councilwoman frisbee on
2579 so Madame President thank you president I I this is really not a uh a question but I for clarification for the public I just want to make sure that the public knows that this resolution is not pertaining to our
current municipal clerk um I just want to make because it it is back saying from 2021 that this is not pertaining to I'm sorry I'm in the wrong one not I was thinking of the M on the other one that's not it I apologize um you're up
for 81 so 79 is good yes ma'am so 79 will be consent so you did have a question on 25 - 081 yes 081 um actually no I'm sorry I that I had the two um mixed up so I have no
question on that I'm good thank you sir that consent yes all right Mr Garcia looks like we have a consent council president Council woman Feliciano I'm sorry yes question yeah I had a question on
remember the walk on to 20 oh sorry 85 that's okay thank you let me add these down here thank you this is about the Eagle [Music]
Tavern good evening good evening C woman Feliciano thank you y Richardson just a couple quick questions um mcia is going to serve as the property manager overseeing the operations right and ensuring the routine maintenance and
everything when we get on page two item number 10 um just asking it says that mcia is going to provide the following right they're going to do the RFP for The Operators of the project in the food industry so they're going to send
something out to get someone in who's going to provide the food services in the Eagle Tavern they're going to control that well they they would uh they will put the um the proposals for uh looking for
interest of uh potential um I would say vendors um for the place but you know the city really holds the the um the last decision of who we want to have
there okay because number 11 says and in addition they're going to vet the potential operators and enter into the agreement with the one that's financially able to carry out the project so um and then after they number 12 says
when they have the operator then they'll enter into negotiations with the city for a management agreement to allow them mcia to manage the building operation including collecting rent correct so I don't see anything here that says that
the city will have any say in any of this I mean it says the county is going to mcia is going to issue the RFP they are going to vet the potential operators and enter into the agreement it doesn't say vet and then present to
the city the list and then they will um each talk about who it doesn't say that the city is the final Choice here that that they will make the final Choice yeah the I'm sorry for interrupting you um when we do actually the management
agreement that's when we really agree to what we will agree to right so um I guess that not to repeat the same thing but the management agreement is what will really dictate who is responsible
for what and what uh agreements what Clauses are we agreeing to but that will have to be brought up to council again right okay when the management agreement is is formed right because just again it says
here mcia will manage the building operation including collecting rent blah blah blah so who gets the rent oh well if we decide that we want to do that they collect the rent but the rent comes to us and and the reason for
for doing this is because mcia and the county are already doing that with um the golf course and other um uh the places that they actually run the
city really doesn't have the experience doing that right and uh we really don't want to engage in that okay and then it says here that they'll give us monthly progress reports and Ines so I think then as long as when the um the rental
or when the when the proposals go out and everything when you all draw up whatever that agreement looks like the council will be able to see that as well absolutely okay so as long as really doesn't have the authority to enter into any agreement without the council
approval agreement of this type okay all right that's fine as long as we get to see that and to make sure that it says what it what we're looking for it to say yes okay thank you I appreciate that I don't have any more questions on this one that be would that be concent
councilwoman Williams I just has two very quick questions thank you um ma'am as far as uh ownership I my knowledge through this whole process has been the city of Trenton will retain ownership at even absolutely and do you have a time frame for the project and a start date
roughly in mind well right now we don't even have all the money that we need for the project so I really don't want to give you a time frame right now we what we are trying to do is have all the the
documentation that Eda is requesting in order to um issue the contract for to disperse the $3.5 million that we are getting from Eda so this is part of the documentation that we need to provide
but until we get the money and start moving with the specifications the prices that we have Paul correct me if I am wrong is uh close to $4 million but that was two years ago and so we
probably need to go back to the drawing board and determine how much more how much more we really need to bring this project to completion thank you very much thank you are we good with consent thank thank
you thank you ba [Music] rich on your call Madam president um we can proceed uh Madam president if you want to ask for a motion to approve a consent agenda consisting of and and if I'm
correct we don't have any other than the 078 that were extracted from consent agenda is that correct 0 not 078 075 oh I'm sorry 075 you said
yes okay with that in mind you should have a consent for 25 030 right so that's what I'm saying excluding 078 and 075 no noted thank you where you see
78 78 was done right oh right we did a yes you're right my apologies okay it was we pulled pulled period yes so we have a c at this time I would have a potential consent agenda list uh
consisting of 25-30 25076 25 25077 25082 083 079 081 excuse me 080 080
081 084 and 085 yes may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda no moved second thank you roll [Music] call vice president Edwards yes councilwoman Feliciano yes
councilwoman Figo kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes motion carried and Madam president moving on to
ordinances for first reading and introduction ordinance 25-5 an ordinance establishing the appointment duties responsibilities and functions of city council member liaison to certain boards and commissions of the city of
Trenton may we have a motion yes Madam M president if you want have the motion to approve so move second my second if there's no discussion I'll pull the role
Council something yes um so in review of this ordinance I we had a discussion at the last council meeting um and some things that were asked to be omitted or changed it does not seem like those things were omitted change unless that
was not um the decision and I um it's my mistake um but I believe a certain things like the appointment of liaison liaison positions being a two-year term I thought that that was um changed I could be mistaken but um for Section seven
compliance and accountability failure to perform Lea on duties including the submission of reports may result in reassignment by council president I thought we asked to Omit that as well um it just seems like the same ordinance was resubmitted tonight for approval
without any of the discussion points Madam president Council vice president thank you I just wanted to respond so um unfortunately I did not get the chance to Circle back to this and left it um on the agenda for open
discussion today for amendments on the floor today so I want to um conly ask again what your amendments were I do know that you said section seven number two you wanted extract that one from the
ordinance and were there any other ones that you had an issue with you mentioned for a two-year term did you want to change that one yeah I thought that that should be that should remain a one-year term onee term correct okay to
stand out to me uh CVP um okay so councilwoman figuro kenberg Madam president um is it okay that you know Council women fero kenberg asked for a motion to amend those to um
reflect the changes if that's okay with everyone else it's okay with me um and then we can move on if anyone else has any questions to their amendments I are there any others just so that like keeping up with it one at a time yeah councilwoman Williams had something also
okay myself we we spent a lot of time on this at the last meeting and respectfully I really would like to urge that we table it so it could be gone through and really uh have everything that was supposed to be fixed last time fixed for anything we're going to vote
on because I have this I share those concerns but uh that my colleague just stated but having gone through all this and that's why you know even that night I think it was suggested at one point the table I think it would be good so then um the sponsor can make sure it
goes through it takes in everyone concerns and then we're voting on a clean copy thank you councilwoman Williams council president Council woman for Luciano thank you uh I still take this standpoint that I had when when this was first um
introduced and I and I commented on it then um the the boards and commissions they have chair people uh that will report out the minutes and everything
are on the city website if they're not they should be um I think that the chair people can deliver whatever uh is is necessary to the clerk to have that done um I don't think that we need extra time added on
the agenda to report out about a meeting um that we would attend as a liaison uh I I think that if anything while while the council you know we go out as liaison and sit in the meetings and
stuff yes we are supposed to do these things and you know um be present if they have questions and and the like I think that if any thing the chairs or whomever should come before the council themselves and tell us things if they
want us to know things I think that we need to hold them more accountable to report to us about what's happening or come forward to the council in that regard I don't I don't think that well and I understand the spirit of it and and
that's nice but I don't think that um I don't I don't think that that this is necess necessary at this time Madam president Council vice president I may respond thank you um is it fair for you for uh as a concession instead of to
your point for the chairs to come speak at the meetings but as a concession to us reporting at the meetings which is the each Council member's own prerogative this does not this is not a mandatory thing but a suggestion but as a concession
[Music] as our roles as a liaison would it be fair to ask each person each member of council that is serving as a liaison to make sure that the chairs of these boards that we are are leign to is
updating their information on the website the reports the minutes the agendas the meeting schedules and things like that because a lot of these things are very much lacking on our on our City's website so you know in terms of like who is overseeing all of these boards would
that fall on the clerk to make sure and contact all of them or or as we as liaison going to pick up the slack with that Madam president Council woman fana that's the clerk's job okay so then we can strike out
section five I'm fine with that five or three you mean three that was section um five four so the the liaison report agenda item I was I got you got yeah I was suggesting that adding on a
section for us to report but so we're going to strike this if that is the consensus of the entire Council to strike that then I have that as removed are there any further amendments there any discussions that anyone would
like to recommend because um I would like to you know at least try to amend this on the floor that so that it doesn't die anyone else I think Madam president uh Council Felician I'm sorry I think in align with that section five that under
section four number three the reporting Council updates the verbal report during the Le on report section that needs to go noted all right section four number three is be taken out section five completely will be taken out and then
also um number two under section two under Section seven huh section seven number two oh section seven number two hold on and then there's also an amendment on section three number three for a one-year term right I got that one
okay and then one year so we want to make a motion to amend this on the floor Madam pres councilman figal cber um I I just want to concur with um councilwoman Williams on this I do feel
like we spent an extensive amount of time um going through this ordinance on the last meeting and I think it's in the best interest of all of us um to get those notes and to see exactly what was being trusted in not and and kind of uh
compare that with tonight's notes um and then if we need to see this through on another night table tonight I think that that is best case scenario at this point I think that's in all fairness um we went through this with a fting tooth comb we all put our input into it for it
not to you know to come before us with none of those um responses or changes um I just think that we're doing it the service at this time I I I would want this to be tabled Madame President
Council vice president since there not there is not a motion on the floor to table as of yet I would like to motion to amend this and um I just want to say for for to expound on this I had a conversation with our city council
attorney earlier today in regards to this ordinance and this is first reading so this is not something that's going to pass tonight and we have a chance after if we do choose to amend this we do have a few more weeks to go over this if
there's any further discussions that need to be had I will make phone calls and I will do my due diligence to follow up with everyone to go over any further amendments or discussions any concerns or suggestions that anyone may have but this is first reading so this is not
something that's going to pass tonight per se but move on to a second reading at the next meeting so I don't see a NE necess a need foring but I would at least appreciate being allowed to a motion motion to amend first before
tbling Madam president councilwoman feliciana thank you so to that so when we met the last time at the last meeting and this was before us uh Mr clerk
yes it was first reading at that time right it was supposed to be first reading at that time it was first reading at that time and then table right so then to that point about that we we read it we went through all these
changes or suggested changes at that time and then we said let's table it so that when we came back this time it that so I would have thought too that the the suggested changes at that time would
have been reflected on the document that's in front of us tonight um for us to see it because there was adequate time between the um between that meeting and this meeting for us to to see where it was for us to have proceeded
forward um in light of it not I mean I I agree too that we should have had a clean copy tonight with that for us to be able to work from so that we canot have to go through this yet again in I do think that we should table
it as well thank you madam president councilwoman did you want a response from me or was that just Madam president who me Council vice president you talking about me Mr Garcia no council Feliciano oh did you oh was that just a
suggestion or was that a to for my response a question to Garcia not a motion Council um thank you I I would like to amend it and then we can motion to table it for the next meeting but I would like to amend it so that Mr Garcia
could at least get these notes and get this amended for the next meeting for this to come back with the corrections that we discussed today okay council president yes Council vice president with all due respect with all due
respect this should have already been done before it came back this time I mean the minutes are the minutes um this is your ordinance um he had it on the he has it on the record already that it that it should have been done um when we got
it right um I I just and that and this just goes back to when we were looking at the other ordinance that we worked through the last time and the comment was made that we had enough time that we could have looked at it to have figured all of
this out you had two weeks to to do this to to have a clean cop to us and I understand that life happens and everything and we all are busy and everything like that but I would have expected as well that we would have had a clean copy here in front of us tonight and so that we could move this forward
um in the way that it should be I think that in all fairness we should table it it should be a clean copy when it's presented to us and then we can either vote it up or vote it down and I I I'm sorry I'm I was going to say um from what I just heard um Council vice
president say you are willing said let's make an amendment on the floor and table it to the next I I Madam president I assume that the changes would be made but that was my error and I did Apologize in my earlier comments that that was an oversight of mine simple human error but
I did think that it was amended based on the discussions that we had at the last meeting so this was an oversight of mine and I again would like to apologize but uh I would like to also amend this and if there is still a decision to table
then that supersedes all else who made the motion to approve all right so we need a motion I'm sorry madam president could I uh prior to prior to anybody making an additional motion at this time I know we had a motion in a second for approval of this ordinance as it was
written now prior to this as I understand it there was a motion to table the originally written ordinance so from the tabling I can only imagine that it would come back as it was if there were no amendments that were motioned then agreed upon at the previous meeting when was the motion to
table that you're mentioning when was that table I imagine I believe February 18th there you go at the I'm sorry February 18th meeting okay and it was taed until when until 34 day I imagine to this meeting yeah 34 okay so it was
tabled to this date until this date okay so it's on this stage for introduction correct now there was one motion that was to approve a second and it was discussion but now then there was a second motion there hasn't been any other motion has been we've been in
discussion from that motion to approve so the motion there would have to be a motion to resend the motion to approve and change it to a motion to amend that would be the first vote and then the Amendments that have been discussed would then come back the third that's go
ahead okay so the first vote would have to be in response to the motion to amend um it would have to be to resend the motion to approve there and instead a motion to amend as the council woman
indicated she wanted it amended so there has to be a vote on whether we're going to resend resend the motion to approve and replace it with the motion to amend so that would be the that would be the framed motion that that's the first vote we have to take first motion and then we
can go to then there will be a second vote on the motion to amend and then if there is a vote I don't understand was there a vote to table as well um suggestion well there was proposal to to table we just we took a
motion in a second why don't we do it one at a time we're really sounds like a plan why don't we try to resend first a motion to resend the motion to approve and convert it to a motion to amend so let's a mo may I have a motion to resend
the approval second thank you roll call vice president Edwards yes councilwoman Feliciano just to resend it right correct yes councilwoman Figo kenberg yes
councilwoman frisbe yes councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes motion carried now as I understand a motion to amend as to amend to amend correct the
ordinance and those amendments being I think I don't know if the councilwoman spelled it out it had to do with the last line Madam president I would like to council vice president thank you I would like to motion to amend Mr Garcia section
three line three where it says liaison position shall be for twoyear term less amend that to Liaison position shall be for a one-year [Music] term one year from two here got it under
section 4 number three we are going to remove number three remove number three okay we're also removing the entire section five omit section five and lastly removing section 7 number
[Music] two and remove section 7 number two number two before gets voted on is there a second to that to those
amendments um SEC what we do a motion we motioned it already right yes it was motion to we rescinded the previous motion to approve we are now uh amending the ordinance at this time second thank you roll
call vice president Edwards yes councilwoman Feliciano and then after we do this we still can motion to table correct if it's your choice yes my question what earlier I heard the
word table but I didn't know I think it was in conversation we should table was there a formal motion to table no no okay yeah around back and forth well the the motion that
is on the floor right now is a motion to amend the ordinance as indicated by the council vice president so that's the vote that we just started to take and we have to finish that vote Yes with this being the first reading if
it's going to Ted then they be brought back as amended I don't I'm confused by the that's what I'm saying I'm confused by the amending it and then table it that's what I'm saying well yeah I'm just suggesting we take one vote at a time because the votes have to pass so right is there a vote to
amend Council woman I know you took her vote Edwards said yes I don't know if you took the rest of the role yet this is on a motion to amend it yes okay with all du respect I think I think that if the
so I'mma have to abstain then if that's the case from this vote I I guess not think I don't know why we're voting if if I mean another Mo another motion is going to come to table this so that it can come back to us amend it I don't understand why we're amending it to
table it that that to me makes no sense along with director Bridges so I think that it it I think it should have been clean when we got no I councilwoman I understand that but right now there is a motion on the floor
to amend motion and a vote was cast on it which means the clerk has to finish taking the role on the motion to amend and then when we get done with that we'll we'll go further if we need to okay so councilwoman is that an
abstention noted councilman Figaro kenberg no [Music] councilwoman frisbee if we vote on this now are we going to moving on the amendment it comes back for a second reading Amendment comes
back for a second it will come back for comes back for a second oh yeah no we're does it come back for a second is my question first time comes back second time so it will the so the answer is yes
it will come back as a second time this is considered first reading yes my answer is yes councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams council president Gonzalez I'm going to say
yes thank you I have four yeses that will be a majority motion carried okay so now the original ordinance has been amended now now we need a vote to introduce the original ordinance as
amended there we go to approve it upon introduction as amended cor I'm sorry approval upon introduction as amended correct right we now we're voting to take the amended ordinance and introduce it tonight and it would be subject to a second reading and a public hearing at
the next meeting assumedly and it would return with the Amendments listed correct thank you council president motion Council Williams thank you ma'am um my understanding is that we were going to table this for further review um incorporating all the changes been
made over the past well next month it'll be a month um so what it do sounded like to me is we would be introducing it for the first reading and approving it for the first reading so as is would come back for a second reading so I would like to
suggest that we table this so it comes back for a first reading and a few weeks uh sponsoring councilwoman can review everything make sure all the notes followed from the last meeting all the work that was put in is incorporated officially we can also have the chance
to do that and make sure everything's Incorporated to a clean copy okay if so you made a motion to table councilwoman i' like to make a formal motion to table well a motion to table takes precedence over all other motions
and it's not debatable so now the clerk will take the role on whether the introduction of this ordinance should be tabled if it is it will be tabled and did you say until the next meeting or did you add a I I'll say may play it
safe and say I'll table it until um minimally the next meeting or uh for reintroduction at a later date okay so the first vote is whether it should be tabled it's non debatable it's a vote if it passes it will be tabled if it
doesn't pass we'll come back to it again for approval so now it's a vote to table Mr clerk so is there a second second roll call vice president Edwards
yes councilwoman Feliciano yes councilwoman Figaro kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee um she had to leave oh I'm so sorry uh noted councilman Harrison yes
councilwoman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes motion carried item is tabled until the next public meeting yes nothing right council president if I may just ask a logistical question here and I'll ask it on my colleague Mr K so
we've amended it on the floor and we've tabled it what happens if we amend the amended ordinance that we amended on the floor that we tabled that comes back to us well the ordinance has been amended right it's been amended so what happens when it's tabled and it's amended again
and it comes back again amended after we just amended it on the floor well as of right now without any further amendments because I don't know if that's going to happen or not there will be further amendments what happens when there are further amendments the ordinance as amended will be on for the next meeting unless there's further amendments
director I'll you thank you director Bridges following the we thank you for that clarification so the matter is table till the next public meeting yes moving on from this ordinance to ordinance
25-9 ordinance approving the application of financial agreement for a long-term tax exemption and authorizing a settlement agreement with ler urban renewal limited partnership for Block 18202 lot one on the official tax map of
the city of Trenton can I have a motion to approve so move second roll call Council vice president Edwards
yes councilwoman Feliciano yes councilman Figaro kenberg yes councilman frisbee oh excuse me Council councilman Harrison yes councilman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes motion
carried ordinance 25-10 an ordinance approving the application of financial agreement for a long-term tax exemption with realy management Trenton urban renewal LLC and IOP Pennington urban renewal LLC for
Block 4201 lot one on the official tax map of the city of Trenton M president one has for a motion to approve may we have a motion to approve so move second roll call vice president Edwards yes councilwoman Feliciano yes Council Figo
kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee oh I apologize councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams yes council president Gonzalez yes motion carried
and from there Madame President I believe we've reached to point of public comment if I could have the public comment clipboard please I will ask for one last call if there is anyone else who wishes to sign up for public comment at this time to the Public Public comment will
be five minutes for each individual um you may you may uh reference any item that you wish you can speak about anything that you'd like the council is not obligated to respond our first individual listed for public comment is wemar ronio
please state your name and address for the record sir yeah my name is wo 223 hon Rome Robinsville New Jersey um I'm here behalf of business owner and she didn't speak English so I commit to transer but she bring somebody
to transer for her U I like to I very well 669 my name is es FES 669 Chamber Street Chamber Street okay we had an incident yesterday with one of our customers came into our store with
do uh transfers to to make payments and they were advised they were asked that they wanted to make the payment in cash and then they changed it to credit card when we advised them that there was a search charge they refused to make the payment but it had already been sent and
there was uh no way for us to delete it um whenever a payment is made we require identification so we we they had provided a US passport and they when they refused to pay we held the passport
until the police arrived actually a couple of hours later and instead of the police uh assisting us they were actually working on behalf of in this case the criminals and um they were to uh they even told them that they can sue
us um I'm sorry the officer said told them that they go SU for holding the [Music] passport before the police arrived they were very aggressive and they were throwing uh items at us over over the
counter uh they also became very aggressive with our clients the clients that were there they were told that they were going to call Immigration on them and us and it was very threatening so the reason you're here my concern is the fact that the police
was uh on on helping them rather than as the victim and we provided a service to them we expected to get payment for that this is probably a motor op parandas of these people who already know how monogram works that it's where once it's
sent they're we're enable to cancel and we're just our concern is we think the police should be on on as well helping us not the criminals and we wanted to make it public it thank you that's
it so you can wait they're going to have a discussion with you outside in hallway thank you and just for the record my name is Veronica Theon in 669 Chamber Street as well and also we know that in the future we can also um seek
assistance with internal affairs for the police department thank you thank you yeah Walter [Music] Mason how you doing uh my name Walter Mason 44 Pennsylvania Avenue uh I own a
company in Trenton and uh ra Street Redevelopment LLC and GLC Management LLC and I they made me put an application in last year no matter of fact December 27th of 23 to register my company as a redeveloper I've been
coming here trying to get this this properties next to my property to tear my property up and it's I just be coming here and they keep telling me to come back every week every week but my whole objective is to create housing for people that can't really afford it so
that's basically all I really have to say I don't want to say too much but I just need you guys assistance on that if y'all can help me with these properties and Dr thank you so much Mr Mason thanks
um Lewis Brady good evening um Lewis Brady 618 Franklin Street um we have been I have been on the phone with the Department of Public Works with the street cleaning back and
forth and I understand they only have one street cleaner available but and then I'm hearing heing that now on the days that we have the
street cleaning on Thursdays and Mondays they're only coming one day out of the week which is on a Monday but they haven't been down on a Monday and they have't and on
Thursday we have to move our car back and all the neighbors are complaining that they're not coming down our street which they are supposed to to come down on Monday and Thursday on one side on
Tuesdays and Fridays on the other they have not come down on our street this past week and last week I don't know what's going on I understand they only have one sweeper
available out of four sweepers they only have one I understand they break down you know maintenance and everything but come on you have to let know that you're coming down because people are tired of moving their cars back and forth from
one side to the other and they're asking me I said I I I'll find out from the council see what they see what they say and I'll call the city again but I'm not getting
anywhere thank you thank you Mr Brady Victor irisari now good evening Victor rary 19 Mor than Avenue uh my concern again is uh well I'm I'm keeping up with local politics I understand now that uh the
official language for America is English and um to me uh that's a squeeze play on particularly since I'm a Puerto Rican American on the Puerto Rican uh Community uh where it's going to provide well it's a continuation of the crime in
Trenton New Jersey that's affected uh which BR started with african-amer and then uh uh way the Puerto Ricans got mixed with the africanamerican communities and is affecting us both and uh I understand that uh Trenton has the issue with uh
policing where uh like I said a few uh maybe two months ago three months ago some officers do not like you know the job is a job so I remember one time there was uh a Puerto Rican resident that was uh as
soon as he saw a Puerto Rican uh male he would uh encourage that individual to become a police officer and some uh not only uh I'm not saying though some Puerto Rican is not qualified I'm saying that some police officers regardless of race are not qualified and I have this
book here by uh police in the future by David H Bailey it says that uh the myth of the policing just to read right quick something it says uh the police do not prevent crime this is one of the last Kept Secrets of the Modern Life experts
know it the police know it but the public does not know it yet the police pretend that they are society's best defense against Crime and Contin argue that if they are given more resources especially personnel they will be able
to protect communities against Crime this is a myth all right this is a study okay this is a study uh it's like a theory but it's a theory that been going on since uh ban became modern and I believe was Britain by the Bobby Bobby
boys or something like that they brought up police into a point where police abuse was not necessary like back in olden days and I'm taking I'm taking that as uh a reality and then that was along with the same study that uh
sometimes in the future it may be possible that we no longer uh need police in our communities but to make that happen and of course the resources should be available for uh social programs and education and so forth as
uh Mr Jeff Brown uh states that the canb commissions executive director and the agency has no control over where the money goes but collects uh recommendations from the public to deliver to the governor and legislature he said the hearings are crucial in
deciding where and how State officials will invest cannabis revenues cannabis has brought in 62 million in total tax revenu since 2020 to and that's according to the tax then now they're trying to raise the tax up there's another 3.1 added to that but uh the
social Equity fee is set aside in a fund that can be used for legal services of apprenticeships financial assistance Workforce Development and other programs now this is the part the state shares some information on where the Canabis V
funds go have gone and it's gone to uh specifically uh antiviolence groups and cannabis training acmy or among the recipients but there isn't an accessible breakdown of where all the money goes
now I understand that the money has to go somewhere and I believe it's a fiscal the city's fiscal official uh financial officer supposed to take care of that and who is that I don't know and how like you was asking before ma'am excuse me by pointing that uh what if the money
is coming in where is allocated to or how it's being spent and uh if that's the case and earlier Miss uh Miss Edward was saying asking uh the doctor about the social programs that it seems to me that dogs are more important than
homeless people and how uh social programs are being handled here in Trenton New Jersey uh I've been here like three or four times and then the dogs are more important from uh where is it Columbus back to train or where else you got to go instead of people having a
place to go that comfortable for them and feel not being to feel that they're not being will be abuse of disrespected in these called the socalled rehabilitation homes my thing is that uh we I would like to know where the money is coming to entr trening so maybe as M
was now uh uh for promoting uh the what CCC board that uh I may be able to help in some kind of way thank you very much that's my comment thank you so much Mr aari Merle cherry uh Merkel
Cherry Second Street Trenton New Jersey good evening council president Council vice president and uh council members I just want to bring something to your attention that you may or may not be aware of uh in the last uh week and a half
twice I've had to reach out to psng to ask them not to uh move my uh utility service to one of the thirdparty uh service providers I'm not sure what
the criteria is for psng when they moved it when I've spoken to them they told me that these uh uh in this industry is not regulated that they don't have a choice that they give them information and basically say move the service and they
move it now we I was notified got about six or seven letters from both the uh the two third party vendors I don't know either one one was uh median and the other one was Vista and my concern
is that they may be doing this I mean I happen to be still relatively uh cognitively aware of things um but I if you're they're doing this with senior citizens individuals
who may not be paying attention that that's a problem and I don't know if Council has any um purview over these uh uh vendors I'm not sure if they're regulated by whom I'm not sure if they
are regulated but I would ask that you look into what's happening uh again when I'm I inquired a psng they've said well they provide us a number now I know that no one in my
household has given permission to any third-party Service uh provider to uh move transfer my service to them and it may be a good thing but you shouldn't have to opt out of this as a resident
you should be opted in if you choose to do so so I would ask that someone take a look at whether there are any regulations or guidelines for these uh vendors and if there are aren't maybe
take a look at uh the possibility of of implementing some sort of guidelines or ordinances to see if we can control it and I would suspect that there are many citizens who had their services switched without their knowledge because the bill
still comes from psng and it looks pretty much like the bill you've been receiving from psng so if you're not aware of it please please be cognizant of this um and see if there are things that we can do CU I
should I don't want to keep uh either going down to psng or having to reach out to them every other week to say no please uh don't move my service without my permission thank you thank you Mr Cherry is this Robin or uh last name
Washington thank [Music] you good evening uh my name is Robin Washington I was here at the last meeting and I miss I'm Sorry Miss Washington don't mean to interrupt and I have not started your time yet if you could just state your name and address
for the record okay thank you you ready I am my name is Robin S Washington I live at 447 West Hanover Street thank you so much um I was here at the last meeting in regards to uh the city owned vacant
properties located at 449 I'm sorry 4 44 and 446 West Hanover Street I was waiting for someone to get back to me um about those
properties I'm going to read from here so I don't miss anything uh my name is Robin Washington I'm a lifelong resident of the city of Trenton the area which I'm interested in purchasing is located across the street from my place of residence where I live I've been trying
to purchase these properties for some time now five years to be exact and have appeared before you before to plead my case last month while I do understand home ownership as the Director Mr Liston has conveyed to myself however I also
understand we need to provide affordable housing for all some of our residents are not ready for home ownership are and are looking for safe healthy and sanitary housing for themselves and their families I truly understand this as I was raising my own children and
rebalancing through their lives that housing here in the city of Trenton is not suitable for all and we as residents who have the ability to have this opportunity should be afforded the prospects I have been in conversation with all staff over the last 5 years in
housing and economic development and come up to closed doors and I want to know why I'm proposing to build new uh build new with parking attached to the development so that we have mitigated those issues and will be working with the civil engineer and architect to
support this development I am not the one who will build and leave I am here to protect my investment as I live directly across the street from what I am proposing I am pleading with the council to allow this hill to be transferred from the city to myself so that I can get to work to develop this
housing model I ask again why not me we have a development that is about to take place at the corner of West State Street I was one of the residents who was invited to attend the meeting and am encouraging this development the difference is that I am a resident and
these developers do not live here this is a plus for the C city as it shows that we are are able to provide space for good sound development for all uh I was here earlier today and got a copy of this resolution from a
25-28 uh which was listed on the last meeting uh agenda in regards to uh the goal now for the city is affordable housing but there's still people as I said earlier who need housing who don't want to buy a house
who can't afford to go into a house and with folks getting laid off every day every day around the country you know a uh lease might be the best option I and I invite you all out to see where I am speaking so you can see where
my home is in reference to what I'm proposing directly across the street the two vacant Lots again I ask that you grant this opportunity for residents like myself to be able to show that we are able to develop our city along with the other development taking place um as
I said uh in the previous meeting I've been trying to do this for since September of uh 2019 I've submitted I I provided a copy for the council woman uh Gonzalez today
but I provided copies of the same thing at the last meeting for the other council members um and I'm just trying to figure out over the last five years that I've been coming down here consistently each time I'm told a different thing oh this this this is going to be voted on this is going to be
voted on and here today you know I come down and I get a copy of this resolution that now it's something else and the the only thing that I want to do is to help build my community where I live where my children grew up and where I have
retired and I'm still living in the area thank you for your time I appreciate it and please can somebody just give me an answer thank you Miss Washington um up is this apara is that chry thank [Music]
you you need me to State my name and address right yes uh m p CH 946 Greenwood Avenue yes go ahead um first of all I wanted to mention how much I support the efforts to have a ccrb here um for police uh all
the efforts of reforms all the protesting it actually had a result here which is so nice to see I'm sorry I couldn't make the meeting the other day um but it's really nice to see that I think uh licensure is so important for police so that they're held to the same standards other professions are um as a teacher I have to report even when I get
mild tickets so it's really nice to see that kind of progress actually happen here and we hope that it you know actually takes root and you know some improvement can happen I also agree with um making some of our uh resident facing uh what should I call them uh
things on our website uh more robust people talked about that and having like better communication but the main reason I came here is because I cannot agree more with Miss Washington it is so difficult to supposedly access all the houses that
Trenton keeps claiming that they are trying to get investors to come and purchase and I can I can give you example after example after example but I'm trying to remain calm um I brought an application here if I can give it to the council members I didn't make copies this is an application with names and
addresses redacted this came from someone I know who has real estate experience has real estate license Trenton born Trenton raised and turn this application in can I give it to you guys but this person is more than qualified more than interested has trend's best
interest in mind turned in the application a couple of years ago it sat for six months after he chased down a response he was told it it was quote backlogged I think Miss Washington's experience her frustration I can't imagine the position she's in I am not a Trenton resident but I do have uh real
estate here um I think that I'm so frustrated at the lack of urgency the lack of alacrity with whatever is happening in these quote real estate offices uh someone here last time I think Mr Charles or it might have been with Washington but someone mentioned how hard it is to get through to Daniel
roach's office you can't get a call back you can't get an email back I would like Daniel roach to send me personally and I will send him my contact information a list of all these quote available properties I do think they should of course go to Trenton residents first but something is keeping it from happening there's some kind of blockage there's
some kind of red tape and the thing that disturbs me most about that is because I think it's I think there's a lot of Insidious manners in which racism occurs and I think in the value of Housing and the ability to gain housing is one of them redlining um inabilities to gain
loans um all these things thing these and other factors have held back people from being able to uh grow their own properties their own neighborhoods and when people are being kept from obtaining these properties I feel like something else is happening here I don't
know what corruption is happening I don't understand the reasons that qualified people can't get their applications through I have at least six people I know that have tried to obtain these houses if Trenton really cares about this blight and constantly complains that they're trying to get
investors in why haven't any of these applications moved forward um the other thing I wanted to mention is correct me on my statistics if I'm incorrect my understanding is there's about 30,000 households in Trenton
15,000 of them are are rentals from landlords my suggestion to you is to start charging landlords more I'm a Trenton landlord if there's any landlord out there who cannot pay a small amount more to be able to rent in Trenton I think they're lying to you I would
suggest if you have 15,000 households that are landlord run house not landlord owned households that you charge them an extra $100 on their application fee or on their landlord license it cost about $140 depending how many units someone
has to get that landlord license I would suggest you add $100 I think this is a situ first of all I think landlords should be responsible for this secondly I don't feel that landlords it's what it's a rare situation to me where you get benefit all around the residents benefit Trenton
benefits and the landlords will benefit because the neighborhoods get a little nicer and I would suggest that's 1.5 million every 12 months with a $100 additional charge that 1.5 million can be used to clean these properties and the other thing I would uh encourage you
to do is start finding landlords my neighboring landlords have a shed that's falling down their roof is going to collapse into my roof their basement is a mess it's attracting rodents and insects and I've reported it multiple times nothing's happened I can't reach to my neighboring landlord because his
number is an LLC it keeps going to some voicemail you need to start finding the landlords it'll benefit Trenton um and I think it'll deal with at least one of the residential problems thank you thank you Mr child I have pictures of my um neighboring landlord's property if
anybody wants she's 9:46 right um Miss charre if you don't mind repeating the address that has the roof um your neighboring property that you said [Music]
944 thank you on your call Madam president is that it oh thank you um we can move on to S comment certainly me ask start with any individual you wish yes we can go um councilwoman Williams uh thank you ma'am
uh just first before I have some announcements uh just want to um say Mr Mason he's not here but I will be visiting him to find out more about the issues heeds uh mentioned uh Mr Cherry I'd like to catch up with you after the meeting uh to learn more about this
particularly um if you've been able to reach out to uh Board of Public Utilities because this is uh something that we have to worry about there's been recent stories about PS announcing rate increases for the early summer so we'd like to get on top so so thank you very
much for bringing that to our attention um and then also uh Miss chalry uh thank you for bringing that up uh I have heard complaints about folks uh trying to reach uh Mr roach's office that it is very difficult so thank you for bringing those up uh but also uh
regarding the home ownership rate uh as of the 2020 United States census it's only 39% in the city whereas uh roughly in 2000 was 55% so we have a lot of catching up to do um so I have some announcements uh
the next uh northward C police advisory council meeting will be on Wednesday March 19th at 5:30 Galilee Baptist Church uh 440 MLK Boulevard uh please join us if you can um also I want to thank uh business administrator Maria
Richardson interm uh director for natural resources Recreation and culture uh Mr Paul haris for their work and out of their uh departments particularly natural resources shade tree uh for trimming all the trees on MLK Junior Boulevard I know I mentioned this before
but recently we've been able to complete everything from MLK where connects to Princeton Avenue all the way up to North alen so if you go up you'll see the trees trm it looks so much better uh safer particularly at night to get the street light to come down so again thank
you so much for making that happen um this has been a rough winter for public works also so thank you also and the water department with many broken Mains um I know you get a lot of calls but thank you for being there for us it's important um secondly thirdly there's
been I noticed an increase in graffiti uh we talked about this at the CPAC meeting um so uh well we're very fortunate Mr um onary director onary joined us so what we need to do if you can if you see graffiti particularly on public property uh roadways street
lights please call them into our uh our uh public works department at 609 989 3175 at 609 989 3175 uh unfortunately we can't do anything about privately owned property that has graffiti but we can definitely
try to send a graffiti blasting team out to either try to remove or paint over graffiti some of it uh is vulgar some of it you know is whatever it is but um we need to make sure we get ahead of this because it's gotten worse uh up you know during this winter time and we're all in
this together uh finally uh this Friday uh this is a happy announcement we'll be having a St Patrick's Day uh flag raising for on Ireland for St Patrick's Day I want to thank uh mayor gusciora uh
ba Richardson U Mr Beach and U Mr Harris for putting us together it'll be at 4:30 uh this Friday afternoon uh to honor um the holiday for St Patrick's Day but also to honor a Trentonian uh who will be the Grand Marshall for the St
Patrick's Day Parade uh which is actually in Hamilton since say of sconed with our parade but that's my only political statement of the night um but uh this will be honoring uh the uh gentleman named Todd fauler uh he is the heart of soul behind Trenton's iconic
tiranog uh establishment if you ever been there uh in the past and and he of course as I mentioned will be the TW 20 2025 Grand Marshal of the parade I am told we will have a bagpiper so if you like to hear bag pipes please join us
around 4:15 4:30 on Friday afternoon here on the city steps so God bless everybody have a great week and I hope that you can come back to our next meeting and congratul ations again to director thank you thank you councilman
Harrison I like to congratulate the director um for all his hard work he's been getting like I said um cat and dog food out in the community him and Ruth Carter are actually actually helping people with clothing drive so thank you so much uh thank you director simple for
uh Pier sa getting that fire hydron somebody had backed into it and destroyed it so thank you so much and um that's about it thank you very much have a great evening everybody thank you councilman Harrison um councilwoman of frisbee is on Zoom I
believe um Mr Garcia yes one moment we'll tell we'll ask her to unmute councilman frisbee this does take a moment councilman frisbee are you able to turn on your microphone we need you to unmute
yourself for civic comment [Music] ah oh yeah she's on can you hear me yes can you excellent okay so good evening everyone um I uh I did want to have Civic comic there were a couple of
things that I wanted to address one of the items was uh there was a lot of discussion in the community in the last couple of days in regarding the removal of a Brinson um signage in the community
um in response to a arrest that was made I wanted to make sure that the community knows that their sign was removed but it was not because of the arrest that sign was due to be removed years ago and it was not in honoring the son that sign
was put up to honor the father and the mother and so that's why that sign was up there but the sign was only supposed to be up for one year and um it was up there for far longer than that but the sign has since been removed but I want to make sure that everyone understands
it was not um because of the arrest it was simply because it was supposed to have been removed years ago and we are not dishonoring the memory of um Mr and Mrs Brenson that's um that comment I also wanted to say happy um women's History Month to
everyone and and also um there's a lot the city hall has done a incredible display they did downstairs I hope folks will come by and take a look at that um there was one oh one other comment um I'm not telling folks we know that we are in the midst of a
um gorial gorial um election I would ask you folks that everyone would pay attention to what is going on there was a comment and I will not say who made the comment um a couple of weeks two about two weeks back that someone was talking about taking the water out of
the city of Trenton and that it will be met better taken care of once that person becomes Governor I ask people be diligent and paying attention to who you are voting for make sure you do your homework make sure you you do your history if she's saying that she's going
to take it out of the city of Trenton once it has once she be that person becomes Governor I need you to make sure that you are paying attention to that and vote so for people who are trying to make sure that we keep what belongs in Trenton actually stays here in the city of Trenton with that I am done and I
wish everybody a good evening congratulations once again to director Min Capelli you are welld deserving of that position and the the city is building a really strong team I'm loving the directors and how they are working together and so I'm excited about that and I wish you well thank
you thank you councilwoman frisbee U councilwoman Figo kber good evening everybody um I'm gonna make this brief you see I'm not in the camera by myself um basically I just wanted to just uh
thank all all supporters um I know that you know we had an election November 5th we had a runoff on December 3rd a recount was ordered results were given on December 30 and yet I was still taken to court um but we we prevailed yesterday um for my seat for councel so
I just want to thank all the supporters um as I continue to serve as your councilwoman in the South board um C I just wanted to say I I just applaud you for standing up and um stating on the record how you know homeowners need to
be held accountable I'm all for that um thank you for that and as we try to work together to move the city forward to um you know better who our um homeowners are and we you know have better um
situations for tenants and and the like um with regards to Mr Brady um I just want to say I did have a meeting on the 19th with the uh director of Public Works and um supervisors uh with regard specifically to the street sweeping situation I
understand your frustrations of us having one street sweeper um there to my to my knowled what I was informed of there's one and one that was kind of broken down that one has been put in the shop council did approve additional street sweepers which should be on the road as I'm being told this month um
anytime that I have left if is Mr hotary present tonight yes uh if Miss hotary can please just come forward and just um just give a quick briefing about the situation in the South Ward with the street sweepers as it was explained to me in the meeting
um Mr all right so you're deferring your last two minutes to Mr okay yes ma'am thank you council president you're welcome two minutes Mr oh okay good evening counc president than um the
complaint about the sweepers yes we've had it but we have three sweepers as of today we have three sweepers in the city and we are expecting two more by Friday the two new ones we ordered for the past two years we're just getting it this Friday this is just completely beyond our
control with what we have and like the gentleman said yes sometimes our sweepers do break down and one of the reason I we say is that we try to cover the whole city with what we have we have no choice but to try to shovel all these
whoopers around but in the next one week everything will be back to normal thank you yes ma'am um councilwoman Feliciano thank you council president good evening everybody thank you for coming out and joining us here on tonight happy women's
History Month to all the women in the city of Trenton and beyond happy women's History Month to my Council colleagues here um certainly I would say that we are a bunch of uh interesting Trend Setters in our own like right in our own way so shout out to each and every one
of you and to the to the phenomenal women that are employed in the city of Trenton we appreciate you and everything I also want to shout out Trenton High School senior Johnny Edwards who won this year's 2025 Boys and Girls Club of merca County Youth Of The Year
competition on Friday so he gets to go on to the state competition um and compete for funding for his um educational development just want to bring to everybody's attention um those may know may not know may pay attention
or not people uh especially around well the Island area I'm in other parts I'm sure but on the island area cars are being broken into um items are being taken out cars are being rooted through so I
encourage everyone in the city wherever you live just watch what you leave in your cars please make sure you lock your car doors um day or night right I know a lot of times you might just get out and want to throw your jacket or leave something in the car what you may not
pay attention to someone else may be paying paying attention to so let us not make ourselves targets um where we don't need to be just make sure you take your stuff out of the car um when it comes to oh congratulations again Dr Manelli
looking forward to great things happening so thank you for that um excuse me I would like to say too I've been asking some questions when it comes to the Trent Waterworks and um just different things that are happening with
that I did add ask for some statistics about um the the annual revenue over a spread of time just so we can see um the numbers over a period of time of what the asset does bring into the city I've
also asked for several contracts um about a certain vendor that has done work in the city that I'm still waiting for that as well so I'm waiting for those two items um I have questions about um what's happening with the intake system the current status dealing
with that um where we are what's going to happen I know that DP required the Waterworks to do certain things but then DCA didn't allow certain things to happen so there's a concern about that so basically what it comes down to is
this um as you all know the the idea has been put out there that we uh make a municipal Utility Authority um with other municipalities that want Parts with Trent Waterworks and and I am not
with us just giving up without looking and exercising all avenues possible so I am looking into that um I'm also looking into different um contracts with other towns that we actually have or with other water suppliers that actually are
getting their water from Trenton Waterworks and supplying it to those municipalities so there's different things that we want to look into and want to see if there's any debt um owed by any other municipalities um looking into there's a certain municipality where I was told that poosha was in
there they got a couple of fines for water issues about $62,000 each so it's not all Trent and Waterworks that's having a problem and I know they said $660 million over 10 years I just think that we need just to look a little bit closer into everything
and exercise our ability um to to investigate just a little bit more so that when we do have to make a final decision whenever that decision comes um we will be equipped to do that I'm not saying that it's not something that may have to happen I don't know the answer
to that but what I am saying is is that I am not a fan of giving up the Waterworks without a fight thank you good night thank you councilman felici Council vice president uh thank you council president
um good evening everyone thank you for coming um I want to first start off by saying congrat congratulations to Dr Dr Mana Pell on your appointment today and I also want to say thank you because about a month ago I had sent a request
for a detailed report or response to a series of questions and you um answered them very very thoroughly I recently reported it to the city council this evening um after I had received a response and I I definitely appreciate
all of your efforts and um what you're doing with the health and human services department and specifically the um animal shelter I want to say thank you to director um West Bridges and our uh city council attorney Mr kogi for obliging my
request or I guess paying attention to the matter of what which I was reaching out about with Trenton Waterworks and entertaining my ideas about what we can possibly do like I'm on a re uh I'm in a process of researching exactly what our
roles are as city council being the governing body of TR and Waterworks and also some options in which you know the city of Tron can pursue um and what that could mean for us so I did um introduce to them in conversation about uh the
possibility of forming an authority in um in the way that Trenton Housen Authority is having its own bonding power having its own board and things with different appointments by different entities um and and that being able to free up our bonding power with the city
and and and giving us the opportunity to divert that bonding power to other things say as our housing stock that um multiple people always have mentioned at our meetings um we do have a large stock of abandoned and dilapidated properties that we're not collecting taxers from
we're not collecting water or sewer revenue from and we could be putting more efforts towards that if we didn't have to put so much bonding power behind a Trent Water Works utility that's going to require upwards of of more than a
half a billion dollars in infrastructure repairs to bring it up to par so I would um I'm interested in in following up with the administration and with the mayor as I understand that the mayors of the service municipality along with our mayor and the D commissioner recently
met um uh last week on the 26 so so I'm looking forward to some updates and some better understanding and I also understand there was conversations about putting out a RFQ uh a request for qualifications is that what the Q stands
for uh to hire a law firm that specializes and analyzing things like Trent and Waterworks um with the it's an uh analyzing the creation of it its history how did it come to be um what uh the formation is and what roles the
administration plays in in that and what roles the governing body of city council plays into that and up to its current state of being and also I have requested um a fiscal analysis to be done to see how Trenton wood of Works affects our uh
General operating budget they do have they do operate on their own budget by by State Statute we get the city gets 2% or up to 2% of the profits or Surplus from Trent Waterworks for his General operating budget so if we were to form an authority how would that fect us and
can we still um receive up to that 2% or the 2% so I want to say thank you again I want to say thank you to all of those that had came out to my recent public safety Community meetings um this is a six Monon series that I fail to mention at the last couple of Council meetings
as we only get five minutes so I try to roll through as quickly as possible so I dropped the ball on that but I want to say thank you um for those that attended and I'm looking forward to the next one um we are going to be partnering with the board of educ I'm looking forward to um partnering
with several of my Council colleagues as I rotate around the city to educate the community on what a Civilian Complaint review board is thank you Miss Sher for your comments earlier I do believe that the city needs the Civilian Complaint review board this not only provides
oversight for the police department but it provides a safe space for our residents to come together and to be able to help one another out when injustices happen because they do happen and they have happened so um I'm also on that note I'm excited to start the
police civilian Academy tomorrow um that is a weekly Wednesday night and that's going to be adding on to my plate because I already go to classes two nights a week but I'm looking forward to it and to learn more about our police department and that would be helpful for
me as we discuss these Civilian Complaint review boards it'll help be helpful for me to have more insight into the police department and so um and so that we can foster better collaboration in the community is that my time oh yes
okay thank you and thank you for coming thank you counc Council vice president really quick I know um Council Williams you had a quick announcement like quick super fast uh we have many uh ukrainians living in North Trenton I just wanted to
make sure uh that uh they know that we support them and as is often said if you see a blue and yellow flag Slava ukraini which means glory to Ukraine in these times thank you um so I'll be quick
congratulations to director Diego we are excited to have you on board officially I'm looking forward to fill in the other um intern positions as soon as possible also shout out to Trenton High's basketball team I know they they lost the State game yesterday but they went
all the way to the second round so we want to shot them out um as mentioned earlier um uh for women's History Month happy women's history month we are showcasing our beautiful sority uh councilwoman Feliciano and myself of Delta Sigma Theta sority Incorporated
downstairs in the atrium so please come by and look at that um throughout the month of March congratulations to our councilwoman figuro kenberg on her new addition to her family he looks adorable I see him on the camera so um congratulations to her um as far as the
sweet uh the sweet the street sweepers um it is unfair that people are getting ticketed when they're not coming down the street so I would really really wish that we can collaborate with the two departments and possibly not ticket
people if the street sweepers are not coming down the streets um I understand we only have the one or what you know they're supposed to be working ones but it just doesn't make sense it's it's really frustrating um to everyone that that people are getting
ticketed when those are not coming down the street so it would be great to see a collaboration between the two departments um as far as the HED department and buying properties I truly understand your frustration um as as it's it's been a process um I will say
that we do know that there is a backlog right but we I can say for certain that we just hired if I'm not mistaken we have a real estate attorney now who is trying to tackle as much as that as possible I know she's only been on for probably like two weeks I think maybe
right like two weeks um so she is trying to and I'm only saying that cuz I had the conversation today because of the frustration that you all are feeling um and so um just to find out that she is trying to move that backlog down as as
much as possible so please be patient I know it's a lot and the whole goal is for us to have our own residents purchase these properties we don't want Outsiders coming in who are going to become slum Lords so the that is the goal so I understand um I believe it was
Miss Washington and Miss charry and Mr Mason who spoke upon that um and just real quick uh make sure um just an update as far as bre stabilization um I know January they had a meet and greet
February they had the attorney tab at the CLK come in from Central New Jersey Legal Services to train them um and March will be the first time that they actually sit and hear some cases so I want to acknowledge Stephanie register who was taking the lead on the rent stabiliz board looking forward to our
residents having some of these cases heard and um some solutions for them as well uh just a quick announcement Community conversations that is held by the police department um along with the Trenton South W neighborhood association
lde um and myself who will be at the Boys and Girls Club on March 11th um providing some insight and knowing your rights and certain things to do um also I know the mayor did announce a city stat program that we will be begin shortly so um hopefully that date will
come soon where our residents can talk directly to our directors and get some solutions a little bit quicker I believe that's all I have for tonight I hope that's what I have thank you so all thank you so much for being here this evening and Madam president if that is
everything I believe we've reached the end of our agenda this evening if you would like to you could ask for a motion to a journ motion to adjourn moved second thank you roll call vice president Edwards yes Council
felano councilwoman Figo kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee gonna hope that was a yes count yes even if it's that councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams yes and council
president Gonzalez yes motion carried meeting adjourned thank you so much