okay everyone good afternoon we're about to get started so if you can silence your cell phones please close the side and back doors if you close to it I greatly appreciate it with that being said good afternoon everyone we are on the record today is Monday the 10th day of June the year 2024 this is a city council Caucus meeting of the Jersey City municipal Council we had a scheduled 4 pm start the clock on my cell phone is showing 4:01 p.m. may we have a roll call for the commencement of this caucus council person Ridley council person priner here council person bajano council person Cay not here yet council person Solomon council person Gilmore not here yet council person Dees here council person Reber and council president Waterman here we have seven council members in attendance at 4:01 pm on behalf of council president wman and the members of the municipal Council in accordance with New Jersey public laws of 1975 chapter 231 the open public meetings act also known as the Sunshine Law adequate notice of this meeting has been provided on the posting on the bulletin board of the first floor City Hall the annual notice which is schedu schedule of meetings and caucuses of the municipal Council for the calendar year 2024 and filed the new office of the city clerk on Thursday November 30th 2023 in addition at its time of its preparation the agenda of this meeting was similarly disseminated on Friday June 7th 2024 at 6:15 p.m. to the mayor Municipal Council business administrator Corporation Council and the local newspapers and post it on the city's website so I can certify as to our total compliance with the Sunshine Law council president I'm going to turn it over to you good afternoon our first director director Shay good evening council president council members the Department of Public Safety has five resolutions on for you to consider this week the first item is item agenda number 10.26 resolution 24-44 n it's a resolution authorizing the award of a contract to Millennium Communications Group for the installation new fiber building for the East District Precinct Monet Street under the interlocal purchasing system the department of police it's in the amount of $146,000 6639 money's in the capital account but it's being paid for by the prosecutor forfeiture funds because this is going to provide the fiber for the new police district that we're building over there where we have all the public areas and areas where any can be on camera and also for the new Auto Pound that we're planning on building across the street sure sorry director um what's the Auto Pound and what can you say more about that uh well we're having problems when we tow cars with the contract of our previous vendor so we are going we are planning on taking that over we're planning on creating an autop pound and we'll take in the vehicles and return them to the citizens without using a third party vendor and that would be at that location on Mama Street it it would be yeah I don't have the exact location 13th in Mammoth okay I know that area um I've definitely heard the you know complaints from citizens about being unable to retrieve their cars on weekends and things like that that's the goal the goal is the goal is to have a in City operation where we have a more flexibility than using outside vendors who as you just said might shut down for the weekend might do all okay I just um I our city planning team is in the back I just uh at some point wanted to make sure we coordinate because I think there's some long-term goal to you know extend mmth Street all the way up to 18th Street it's not not happening in the short term but long term so I just want to make sure that whatever we do doesn't foreclose that possibility you know five to 10 years from now extends all the way up um the other uh um I guess is do you have a construction timeline on the the new East District Precinct uh it's under construction right now and we're on the inside almost done and I believe this is the last major thing we're waiting for is the wire for computers for cameras or everything else all right thank you do you do you have any updates on the North Precinct no I do not okay not on the agenda I don't have an update next agenda item 10.27 resolution 24550 it's a resolution awarding an award of contract to Safe Weare Incorporated for the purchase and delivery of a use of force simulator and accessories through the US community's government purchasing Alliance known as Omnia partners for the Department of Public Safety Division of police uh this is a training simulator it's being paid for by the federal government through their forfeiture grants and the total contract is 138,000 it's in the reserve account but again this cost us nothing they're paying for it and paying for installation uh this is similar to the simulator that we have that we use with our use of force team when one of our officers is involved in the use of force but this one is going to be at the new deescalation Center and is going to be a routine part of training for all of our officers as they go through there twice yearly and more specific training third uh agenda number 10.46 resolution 24569 this is a resolution ratifying an agreement with Robert Santilli Consulting for providing maintenance and support services for the police department's existing software applications created by Robert Santilli uh Consulting it's in the amount of uh I think it's 56 no 55,800 and it we're asking to have the contract drawn up and executed this is the standard software that we use for police personnel management they've been using it well before I got here it's always been Robert Santilli company uh that amount is so he can work on it and he can draw on it if he has to actually work it's not automatically 55,000 he draws out he provide services fourth agenda item number 10.47 resolution 24570 it's a resolution authorizing the award of a contract to Range Systems Incorporated for the purchase and delivery of simulator structures for our new training center under GSA contract this is under the federal GSA contract for the Department of Public Safety Division of police it's in the amount of $49,800 can use it down the road uh mostly it's used for deescalation training talking through doors talking to people inside apartments that are non-compliant finally uh 10.49 is the agenda number resolution 24572 it's a resolution authorizing the award of a competitively bid contract to mccab Institute of emergency preparedness to provide emergency medical response training to our firefighters Department of Public Safety Division of fire it's in the amount of $235,000 this is a two-year contract do this contract that 235 spread over two years and this is the fire uh the emergency medical training for our firefighters required uh we only had one bidder it went out for competitive bid they were the only people who bid on the uh training at the amounts we were willing to accept no Jim so uh the fir five that have had their uh I guess they didn't qualify because it lapsed would would they replace the BLS you know that they that has expired for them yes the fire chief assures me that this will bring everybody up to the previous standards that they were at so my next question I don't know if you can answer this do you think that in the near future we'll start seeing uh firefighters going into uh first responder calls again uh again that's going going to be a uh that's going to be a conversation we'll have to have with the fire leadership when they pulled out of those calls I know there was a lot of looking at how much we would bang for the buck we were getting whether we were depleting our fire response to go to first responder calls that were more appropriately answered by an ambulance instead of four firefighters on a million dooll truck with the wear and tear on the vehicles too so uh we're always open to talking about it but again the fire leadership would have to be in on that conversation director I would like to sit down with you this week concerning the parking authority because for the last three weeks there's no ticket givers following the trucks and people are just getting tired of it and uh it's a shame and there's other things going on and I'd like to sit down with you because if not I think the paring Authority should be disbanded because just let me know the time uh councilman like last time be I'm I have the dentist tomorrow morning I'm available the rest of the week all right because we have to sit down because thank you getting to be annoying and sorry what director here just in the administration I don't know if this would fall under Public Safety but I think we had said that with the U questions would be resolved by this meeting and I just wanted to ask if we had a quick update on that well director's still here before he goes from my what I'm aware of Rachel SE did meet with them they talked and the police did commit to providing the services to what at least the downtown and a few others have asked for and director on your end are things said I'm happy to talk what the exact question sir so the question is um are we ready to deploy the Off Duty Officers through the uee fund so the last meeting we had with the uee um and then I'll tell you a couple follow-up emails so the last meeting we had with the U the funds were in but were not Deployable yet okay so that that we'd have to speak to the U about why but the funds had been deposited in one account but were not Deployable there was some issues with some of the paperwork where some dates were slightly off that had to be cleaned up then I saw recent emails between the uee and a bid a neighborhood bid down here where they were approving two separate shifts for four days for that bid and I know they've also approved the ones for several others uh when it actually starts I'd have to ask the U when they're ready to okay spend that money but I can find that out probably probably tomorrow okay that'd be great okay I'm a fault with that for down here four officers Thursday through Sunday and uh two shifts 12: to 6: 8 to 8 p.m. to 2: a.m. the federal government did change the shifts I know that because the U told me from eight hours to six hours okay director you have any um update on the study the conclusion of the study that um they did I forget the company is and we haven't received we haven't paid them and we haven't received the written study yet when I I said the study they've given us the verbal response of what they found to director Moody I know she wasn't happy I believe she provided that list of steps that we've taken on our own without them who she provide the list to I was told she gave it to the council the council well before we say let me find out exactly because I saw the piece of paper and I don't think it was done just to drop at my office so I'll find that out also and I'll let you know but that's it but we do not have a written report from the nor have we paid them thank you so before director kce comes uh up we have I just want to Mark council person Cay president 403 p.m. and council person Gilmore present at 4:10 p.m. so we have all nine council members present director K thank you Sean good evening president water members of the council I have two resolutions pending uh the evening resolution number 1025 24448 resolution will authorize the award of a contract to Lime computer systems for the purchase of the Rave smart 11 annual license for the city's emergency notification system on the GSA contract total amount of the contract is $8,800 47 and is funded through the 2022 uasi Grant the next one is uh 1034 resolution 24557 resolution authorizing Award of openend contracts the plaza Automotive Incorporated and vavi's Auto Sales LLC to provide Collision repairs for the DPW Automotive Maintenance division under competitive bid for the period of one year effective June 13 2024 to June 12 2025 total cost associated with these contracts is Plaza 172,000 and vavi 240,000 with a 10,000 incumbrance for each vendor totaling which is available $20,000 which is available through the DPW operating account um no Greg I do have a question not related to this with regards to the sweepers um I've noticed as early as today I was following a sweeper during its route they literally wasn't picking up any Trash so I went I talked to the young lady in the above I'm not going to divulge any names but she said the sweeper was full why do we continue to operate the rest of the route if the sweeper is full so it's not doing its job can't hear direct is it a smaller sweeper or was it one of they call the Pelicans the big big gray ones the big gray ones yes right we uh that's I don't know we'll find out tell me the route and we'll have the driver you know respond to that uh we're still still awaiting I believe seven more additional the Elgin which are the big ones the smaller ravels are not really good for doing the type of work they do but we'll follow up on that if you give me the rules so is there any way like they can dump on or I know an issue was because of the timing it's it's certain times that it had to be done is there any way like a garbage Chuck I don't know if they could follow the route so they can empty it versus them have to leave from the route which take a time away from it is that a possibility what route was it no I'm just saying in general because it seems to be what we can do is in the past we have stage some of the poffs there 11 sweeper Roots depending on you know what end of the city up one the second route may be at the other end of the city based on their hours if you tell me what follow up with okay okay thank you thank you budget Danny did evening council president council members for your consideration I have one item it is resolution number 24- 424 agenda number 10.1 and is a resolution authorizing an emergency temporary appropriation this additional appropriation is needed for the continuation of city services without without any disruptions any questions thank you good evening council president members of the city council uh cultural Affairs has four items up for your consideration uh these are resolutions 10.21 10.22 23 and 24 I'll start with resolution 24- 444 this is a license agreement with 101 Hudson allowing the city of Jersey City to enter the property for the purposes of the July 4th festival and the next three resolutions are also property agreements allowing us to enter these various properties for the purpose of July 4th Christine we're not going to have fireworks this year are we yes we are planning to have New York is having them on our side of the river yes so why are we having them the fireworks that New York's having are actually going to be viewable pretty much from Hoboken North so our fireworks will be visible for Jersey City residents question is the uh is the scope of the Fourth of July celebration similar to Prior years it will uh we are planning the festival with a concert okay great questions thank you good afternoon council president members of the council uh for your consideration today we have agenda item 3.2 ordinance number 24- 049 uh which is an ordinance amending chapter 188 of the municipal code this ordinance will clar ify affordable housing compliance language for certain income restricted housing units this ordinance also establish a basis and structure for administrative fees and strengthens the division of affordable housing's enforcement capabilities um so to be a little bit more clear uh enforcement uh in Prior years when the division started used to be done through zoning but that was only if the developer was not giving us the unit once the unit was occupied and we began to have recertifications and annual reporting uh those kinds of activities zoning was not in a position to enforce so we work with the law Department to make sure that we could designate an enforcement officer within the division of affordable housing to issue violations and you know put people on notice that they were violating their affordable housing agreements so that's the first thing that we're amending uh the other thing is Administrative fees chapter 187 uh which is our sister ordinance uh for the inclusionary zoning or ordinance um provides that a developer has to pay $2,000 for the affordable housing agreement to draft it and record it at the county chapter 188 has no such fee so it didn't make any sense to only charge when someone was triggering chapter 187 and not any other time most of our affordable housing Agreements are all the other times uh and so we thought it would just make sense to be consistent with all of the ordinances uh we also are incorporating language uh to make sure that Vel opers understand that we uh Monitor and hold compliant units that are restricted for households between 80 and 120% of the Ami that uh that does not fall under necessarily the term affordable housing affordable housing is a term of Art and affordable housing definitely res typically I'm sorry not definitely typically is talking about moderate income housing low income housing and very low income housing 80 to 120% Ami Falls outside of that so we've amended chapter 188 to make sure that people understand that it's not a mystery that we're going to hold them compliant for those units in the same way that we hold them compliant to all the others uh so we had to incorporate that uh we're clarifying the prohibition of non-rental charges by developers and property owners and that means uh amenity fees pool fees uh you are not allowed to charge anything other than rent for affordable housing uh so none of our uh residents that occupy the those units should be paying for rooftop fees or any of those things they they are paying nothing than rent and they have access to all of the items in the building as part of the community um so we wanted to clarify that so it wasn't open to interpretation um we're also clarifying the unit type distribution requirements uh to be more precise about that uh there is a an income mix and a unit type mix that is required under our um ordinance uh there is a clause that says that the combined uh number of efficiencies in one bedrooms should be no more than a certain percentage and some developers were taking that to mean that they could choose either to give us a percentage of all Studios or a percentage of all one bedrooms and we clarified that to me no combined is what it means it means you need to give us half and half you can't just give us all Studios and no one bedrooms that doesn't work for anyone um we are protecting against multiple rent increases within standard 12-month lease so they're only allowed to recertify one time per year um and then we're enhancing developer obligations uh related to the administrative agent list and that they have to use them uh a lot of developers try to self um administer the units and they don't have the staff nor the expertise to really comply with all of our reporting and income certification requirements so we strengthened that language uh as well um and they need to keep a a copy of the contract with their administrative agent on file with us we've also clarified that that is a requirement um and that's about everything that there are any questions can I clarify anything for you so when when first um you're saying that there's there seems there seems to be a mixup as it relates to the language or the verbage for the affordable housing units right so what happens and I guess this probably more for legal what happens if a developer went under contract contingent upon what they perceive to have been with the rules were versus now that we're clarifying it not I'm sorry that I'm not really understanding the question I'm sorry so in essence oh oh yes I understand so you're talking about Legacy properties that were yes that was already done already their grandfathered into whatever is in their um usually what dictates their obligation is memorializing a planning or a zoning board so if there is absent an affordable housing agreement or if they were in existence before chapter 188 the planning board resolution is is the Bible for that is the guide and they are required to fulfill that obligation they don't have to do anything different yeah their grandfather in now who oversees the process of of the affordable units within the establishment to make sure I guess the individual is eligible then subsequently if someone and move out another person move in and they're still at this appropriate affordability threshold we we do we do that's why so usually what happens is um before I start Alexander mlan our chief policy and compliance officer is here with me he's more the technician so something gets a little granular I needed a mirr for those pieces um typically speaking once a lottery is run and once your first occupany happens let's say you have five units we've run the lottery you get your tenants they all move in anybody else who did not get their number called in the lottery that becomes the waiting list so if somebody moves out one of your five Apartments they have to look at the waiting list that they have on file and start calling those people first if they exhaust that list then they have to market the unit all over again so that's what I'm said who monitors that process right we do oh you guys monitor they have to to do it but they have to do it under our direction we get annual reporting uh twice a year so we look and see what they're vacancy rate is if a unit is vacant we can see that they've moved a tenant out moved a tenant in um and we oversee that entire process so we don't actually do it we're not placing the tenants into the units but we're the enforcer of the process and division of affordable housing for our units now DCd does their own now is it a point where they have to show you that they've done a due diligence as it relates to oh we've reached out to this person they're just not um accessible of they moved do we have a mechanism where we can double check to see if that's true so they have to hire an administrative agent and even though they're paying the administrative agent administrative agents are uh affordable housing professional uh C certified affordable housing professionals and they are bound by a code of following uh the uniform housing affordability control so they will keep the developer in check and they will report to us any problems they're sort of like that middleman that makes sure that the developer is doing everything right okay so it's it is a check it's not there's a lot ofces absolutely uh any other questions I can answer for the council today thank you Gigi thank you very much Owen good afternoon council president members of city council I have one item for your consideration this evening resolution 24443 item number 10.20 a resolution authorizing the renewal of a contract with witson food service for preparing senior hom delivered meals this is the second renewal option so after this we would go to bid next year one other item I've left you each a packet for the for a resolution for summer food service I asked what's that I just ask you to consider it for a walk on for Wednesday that's it good evening council members council president I have a very simple one I have 1019 resolution 24- 442 this is a resolution authorizing an execution of a memorandum of understanding between between the Department of Health and Human Services Division of senior fairs and the public health informations and technology program at Dominican University what happens with this is they applied and they have offered us an intern for 40 hours a week which they pay very happily have Chiago right here he is a brilliant computer scientist is so knowledgeable he's on a full academic and athletic scholarship and it has been such a pleasure to have him here and he wanted to learn about the council so I have him here thank you thank youal Court Jennifer Jennifer Dro from the Municipal Court have one resolution it's Jennifer put your mic down so we can hear you short uh it's resolution 24440 agenda 10.17 the resolution is to exercise the Court's second option to renew a one-year contract with Concept printing this is for our ATS mailers also known as our court notices for the court the total contract amount is $79,700 and the term is from June 1st through May 31st of 2025 the court will be utilizing funding from the parking offense adjudication act account for this a contract questions thank you thank you PA evening council president council members I have uh one item for your consideration this evening this is agenda number 10.18 resolution 24441 this is a resolution authorizing the execution of anou between the Department of Health and Human Services division of disease prevention and healthy MD essentially healthy MD is going to be assisting with our assisting HHS with our uh STI HIV testing Outreach and efforts again po you said what what they're going to be helping with our STI and HIV testing efforts through our mobile unit assist us with the uh with Ruby the Red Bus additional buses out on the street for your time good afternoon council president and council members uh tonight I have one resolution for your consideration agenda item 10.31 it's resolution 24554 um this is resolution rejecting the lowest bidder here construction and authorizing an award of second lowest responsible bidder spinello companies for City foundation work consisting of drainage excavation masonry Foundation repairs waterproofing um and tying into the uh storm system to help mitigate future flooding problems I didn't you say it Brian I'm sorry 21 oh 31 31 sorry 10.31 Brian I know you addressed this when this item was on the first time but uh can you just kind of reiterate again what the issues were with the low bidder absolutely um the first couple of red flags was that the apparent low better here construction um did not have a favorable uh financial report Upon Our review with our architect and there was some manipulation of the non- collusion form and we just didn't have a good feeling based upon ultimately the price that they submitted being that it was more than half below uh our architect's estimate we didn't feel comfortable at the job could proceed in a timely fashion and what was what was there um what did they bid come in at uh here construction came in at 800,000 and you guys assessed it to be about 1.6 1.9 1.9 and what is spello doing it for uh they came in low too um they came in at 1. uh 75 thank you okay thank you afternoon council president and council members I have one resolution in front of you today it's agenda number 10.36 resolution 24-55 n it's a resolution providing local support for green stop Wellness LLC to operate a class five retail count business at 516 Tunnell Avenue was approved by the CCB on March 27th 2023 the planning board on April 30th 2024 and they have two M us uh one with Stockton University and the other one with Canad demics thank you good afternoon council president and MERS of city council I have one item for you this evening this is agenda item 3.6 ordinance 2453 um this relates to an amendments to the Greenville industrial view development plan to create Lindon Avenue East for mediation and Improvement bonus um the amendments to this plan involve a property located at the intersection of Caven Point Road and Linton Avenue East in the Greenville Industrial Area um that is subject to the PPG paint consent order for the chromium cleanup the um amendments to the plan will facilitate the Redevelopment as viable industrial uses after the cleanup while providing safety improvements to the intersection via the dedication of rideway in coordination with the Department infrastructure and the provision of adequate green infrastructure um relating to the site's location in the 100-year flood plane any questions you it's on L lendon and Greenville what uh what's the cross street um it's lynen Avenue East and Caven Point Road so this is in the industrial area so is D it's by DPW okay yeah it's a I think yes it's word a any further questions oh thank you thank you Jennifer graffic good afternoon council president council members I have three ordinances one resolution to present first one is item 3.3 ordinance 2450 this is to prohibit right turns on red at the following intersections along Montgomery Street Montgomery and Baldwin Beacon way Floren Street Green Street Jersey a Marin Boulevard merceli Street m road and Summit F some of these already have no turn on red um on the side streets but not on Montgomery and some have new turn on red but only during school times these are all for all times are these because of the community or there a lot of accidents there like what's the is just expanding the no turn on red um expanding the no turn on red but also um we have received some requests from residents and then these locations are specifically near uh schools and also along protected bike lane gotcha next um item 3.4 ordinance 2451 this is to convert the following intersections into always stops on Griffith Street at Cambridge AV Hancock AV and sherev um we did conduct tra uh traffic studies for these intersections and and always stop is recommended it should be noted that um at the intersection of Griffith and Sherman there was a fatality really appreciate your work on this thank you director welcome um next one is item 3.5 ordinance 2452 um this is to establish all stops at the intersections of monacello and Fairmont and monel at and storms again we conducted a study and um all way stops are recommended at these two intersections and we did do that demonstration project along M uh monacello okay next um resolution sorry item 10 28 resolution 24551 this is just to amend existing bus stops they were listed as Far Side bus stops um and their their new location will be near side bus stops at the intersection of mallerie and igy it it thank you J thank you dick evening council president members of the council uh my name is Nick straser from law for mccamman Scotland and Balman I'm here on behalf of the jcra on resolution 24- 555 which is agenda item 10.32 this is an Aspire application in the canal Crossing Redevelopment area on behalf of Garfield phase 1A and 1B urban renewal LLC is a Hampshire borai joint uh vure project on the former PPG site it's the first site first development in that former PPG site um it's a it's for a 508 unit mix income uh development with 25,000 square feet of commercial space uh under the Redevelopment plan they're required currently to have one out of every 10 units be affordable uh the application for a Spire will allow that to up to 20% uh as described in the in the resolution 20% of the residential units in the product for affordable housing with units restricted for those earning no more than 60% of the area medium income so the Spire application will significantly increase the affordable housing in the project in addition this project also includes a build out of green space as well as that portion of the Morris Canal Greenway this is on Garfield by the park right it's on the opposite it's that that's that cartera parcel it's it's actually the PPG parcel so right now it's kind of gray and fenced in it's at the intersection of this this particular portion of it is the intersection of Garfield and Carteret Carterette yeah yeah there's there's nothing there right now there's nothing so it's that are it's clean already it's it's it's well it's clean already it's been clean been working on it for a very long time um it's been many many years so the soil contamination has been completely cleaned up and that's been certified too there's still groundwater contamination is being worked on and part of the development will be make sure those Wells are not interrupted what so basically the development will happen concurrently with the conclusion of the groundwater cleanup and testing and they're looking to do 20% at 60% AMR that's the plan oh and that that's that's the reason for the Aspire application in order to hit that number thank thanks thank you council president thank you V councel John mckenny okay um good evening everyone the the first one is ordinance 3.7 24-54 uh it's authorizing the sale of an easement uh and property ownership rights to city property located at block 287 lot 5 and block 149 lot 9 in Carney to the New Jersey Department of Transportation for about $1.1 million any questions still haven't cleaned up the graffiti counc I do have a call tomorrow on that um we'll table this item uh for second reading if they fail to um okay next is item 4.1 that's ordinance 24-38 we're actually going to be reintroducing this as a first read item because there's a couple amendments that have been made to it regarding senior and disabled facilities uh and potentially cleaning up some of the the language that was up for second read as well any questions on that one okay uh next is item 4.2 that's ordinance 24-39 um this is to supplement chapter 160 to provide fees for the use of the city's deescalation Center any questions on that great item 4.9 ordinance 24- 046 this is granting a temporary construction easement to the the do around the the same area of Route 7 for the the same one that's being sold for 1.1 mil councilman same uh same position that will table it unless we have a resolve tomorrow okay the next one is item 10.31 res oh wait sorry Brian already spoke about that one uh 10.39 resolution 244-5600 2 Lot 19 in Jersey City also known as spear Cemetery next is item number 10.40 resolution 24-5 63 that's authorizing the settlement of the action entitled American Financial exchange LLC successor to Plaza X urban renewal Associates LLC versus the city of Jersey City can I mean did can you give us give me a memo or something because I don't know like the full Intel of exactly what happened it's it's on its way okay in a nutshell it's um it's basically an overpayment on a pilot we're giving a tax credit to reflect their overpayment and John who who in our side did the numbers to make sure that you know we're all we're all in agreement on what they should be yes who on our side did the did the calculations we had uh our outside auditor and also uh John hav from our office and the tax collector that's it for me thanks okay all right so on to our first reading ordinance item 3.1 city ordinance 24- 047 it's a bond ordinance providing for various 2024 Capital Acquisitions and improvements by the and in the city of jerse Jersey City and the county of Hudson state of New Jersey appropriating 60 million therefore and authorizing the issuance of 57 million bonds or notes of the city to finance part of the course therefore items 3.2 through 3.7 were touched on earlier just a reminder we're going to have a public hearing on the municipal budget in between the uh first and second readings that also means that the clock will be set at 5 minutes um and then we'll set it back at three minutes alrighty on to our second reading ordinances item 4.1 and 4.2 were touched on earlier item 4.3 city ordinance 24- 040 is an ordinance of the city of Jersey City and the county of Hudson state of New Jersey authorizing the acceptance of real property identified on the tax map of the city of Jersey City as block 6004 lot 1.03 block 6005 lot 13 04 in a portion of the former 17th Street RightWay also known as Cole Street Park excuse me item 4.4 city ordinance 24- 041 is an ordinance of the city of the Jersey City municipal Council creating amendments to the Jackson Hill Redevelopment plan item 4.5 city ordinance 24- 042 is an ordinance at the city of the Jersey City municipal Council amending an Exchange Place North Redevelopment plan to allow for Hospital and long-term care facilities item 4.6 city ordinance 24- 043 is an ordinance authorizing the city of Jersey City to renew the lease with Brunswick community garden also known as Jersey City Community gardening Inc for the use of block 9905 Lots 8 and9 more commonly known as 174-176 Brunswick Street for a community garden item 4.7 city ordinance 24- 044 is an ordinance authorizing the city of Jersey City to renew a lease with greater neighborhood alliance for the use of block 3003 lot 45 more commonly known as 81 Garfield Avenue for community garden item 4.8 city ordinance 24 d045 is an ordinance authorizing the city of Jersey City to renew a lease with Mandela Garden sponsored by the greater neighborhood alliance for the use of block 1 19503 Lot 36 more commonly known as 446 Mont Luther King Drive for community garden item 4.9 was touched on earlier and item 4.10 city ordinance 24048 is an ordinance authorizing the lease of city-owned theater located at block 11506 lot 2.01 more commonly known as 151 Bay Street to the Provost Square Performing Arts company a New Jersey nonprofit corporation for the purpose of providing cultural enriching experiences to the Jersey City community Through arts and we have our public speakers right now we have 29 and on to our petitions and Communications any questions or comments on items 6.1 through 6.50 hearing none our office of communication 7.1 through 7.5 any questions or comments board of directors 8.1 through 8.5 any questions or comments we'll have we have our claims and on to our resolutions item 10.1 was touched on earlier item 10.2 City resolution 24- 425 is the resolution of the city of Jersey City and the county of Hudson state of New Jersey authorizing City officials to undertake certain actions in connection with the issuance and sale of not to exceed 17,200 th000 Bond anticipated note series 2024 a tax exempt B not to exceed 42,4 44685 special emergency notes Series 2 2024b federally taxable and c not to exceed 18, 720,000 tax appeal refunding notes series 2024 C Federal taxable uh Council just a reminder uh this was an item that we tabled from the previous meeting that we had to wait for local Finance board to review prior to taking action on a local level and ba that that meeting is going to take place in the morning of the of the council meeting correct yes the city engaged in a uh pre meeting and now uh the final vote will be on Wednesday thank you very much next item 10.3 City resolution 24- 426 is a resolution recognized in Melissa Floyd for her memory and celebration of life item 10.4 resolution 24- 427 is a resolution honoring independ and Beauty Supply Company for exemplary service 50 years of innovation job creation Community contributions in the ward F business community of the city of Jersey City New Jersey next item 10.5 City resolution 24- 428 is a resolution declaring the first Friday in June to be National Gun Violence Awareness Day item 10.6 resolution 24- 429 is a resolution recognizing Jersey City's day of fashion September 5th 2024 item 10.7 resolution 24- 430 is a resolution appointing James eock as a member of the Jersey City rent leveling board item 10.8 resolution 24-4 31 is a resolution reappointing danan Hill as an alternate member of the Jersey City rent leveling board item 10.9 resolution 24- 432 it's a resolution reappointing civan C Johnson the Third as a member of the Jersey City Redevelopment board excuse me rent leveling board item 10.10 resolution 24- 433 is a resolution reappointing Elder picnic um as a alternate member of the Jersey City rent leveling board and item 10.11 resolution 24- 434 is a resolution reappointing Joseph Williams as a member of the Jersey City rent leveling board all letters and resumés are attached to the res um resolution item 10.12 resolution 24- 435 is a resolution one introducing and approving the 2024 2025 budget of the Journal Square special improvement district directing the city clerk to publicly advertise the budget and schedule of public hearing and directing the tax assessor to prepare an assessment role of properties within the district based upon the budget next item 10.13 resolution 24436 is a resolution calling for the efficiency seeing collect in the collection of the Jersey City payroll tax fund Jersey to to fund Jersey City Public Schools sorry so just for a little bit of context um I had met with the legislative committee um in January with the new um board they've had some changes in leadership so we push pause on this now that they seem to have things in place this is just a commitment from the city council along with the Board of Education to make sure that things are being collected and that we are talking jointly with the state to support each other and in particular with payroll tax but other things with okay thank you item 10.14 resolution 24- 437 is a resolution ratifying the first of two renewals of a competitively bid contract with unicorn HR LC for payroll and Human Resource Services for the Departments of finance and human re resources item 10.15 resolution 24 4- 438 is a resolution ratifying the award of professional service agreement with welx and Company certify public accountants to assist the city in evaluating whether or not the city provided accurate compensation item 10.16 resolution 24- 439 is a resolution ratifying the award of a professional service contract to The Institute of forensic psychology for the psych psychological valuations of million employees for the fitness for Duty items 10.17 through 10.28 we covered earlier item 10.29 resolution 24- 552 is a resolution authorizing the award of a contract to Comcast business Communications LLC for data Communications Network under the escnj state Cooperative contract for the Department of administration division of Information Technology item 10.30 resolution 24533 is a resolution ratifying an agreement with management system Superion um LLC a Central Square technology company for providing maintenance and support services for the one solution payroll and Personnel items 10.31 and 32 we touched on earlier item 10.33 resolution 24-55 is a resolution of the city of Jersey City consenting to the undertaking of a sew sewer system Capital project by the Jersey City minicipal Utilities Authority sorry can do we have an explanation what's going on with this one Nick do you have this one this is the steward Authority one the steward already mua not sure no okay Council we'll table that one until there's representative that's proper we're going to withdraw that one right it did receive notification they're not here so we'll we'll pull it okay it's 10.33 Nick I think that's what we're doing for now so we'll move on and if Nick has some information we'll have him speak item 10.35 I'm sorry 10.34 was touched on earlier item 10.35 resolution 24558 is a resolution authorizing the use of competitive Contracting to procure a contract with a vendor to audit energy bills in accordance with njsa 4A col4 11-4 3A item 10.36 was touched on earlier item 10.37 resolution 24- 560 is a resolution authorizing the award of Professional Service contract to blow and blow attorneys Outlaw to act as outside Council to file affirmative tax appeals on behalf of the city of Jersey City for a term of one year in the year 2024 and ratifying Professional Service contract for identical services formed in the year 2023 um are they going to take on new cases or are they just Contin the existing case load finishing existing case load and Sean 1038 is not mine but for if you want to go through that one first and then I'll okay item 10.38 a resolution excuse me resolution 24561 is a resolution of the city of Jersey City authorized in an agreement pursuant to the uniform shared service services and consolidation Act njsa 48 col 65-1 exact between the city of Jersey City and the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority items 10.39 and 40 were touched on earlier and I'm going to turn it over to our Corporation Council sure and Sean for 1041 through 1045 I'll provide the council with an update as well as for uh the plaza x uh just letting everybody know where we're at in the litigation and then for 10:45 we talked about that with the council in closed session uh a few months ago but I'll uh provide the details again in a confidential memo hey John what did the MUA not day was supposed to be here because 38 is the MUA yeah they did receive one uh 38 is represented by uh Nick um that was the one that he was here for that was the confusion I knew there was one that uh Nick was representing 38 the co one that is represented with Nick and uh the other one we're going to carry they were notified they didn't attend so does anyone have any questions on 10.30 or Nick do you want to have some kind of summary I give a brief summary it's really cost sharing in order to both repair the sores as well as do the streetscaping on top so the MUA will put give a contribution to the city towards the streetscaping because M then does not have to close up with the work that it's done so basically it's a cost sh saving on on both sides so want of being kind of incorporated into one uniform project as opposed to mua doing our project and the city doing their project it winds up being money to the city for the project from the MUA anyone have any questions for Nick thanks Nick good to see you back item 10.46 was touched on earlier and 47 item 10.48 resolution 24 - 571 a resolution of the municipal Council of the city of Jersey City expressing its request that the administration Engage The City the Jersey City Board of Education and negotiations for an agreement to share a portion of the annual service charge established by the financial agreement between the city of Jersey City and Montgomery Gateway preservation LP with the Board of Education I can just say briefly this was um when the bayr abatement came it was our first abatement in a very long time um I think the guidance that we had gotten was to pass a resolution requesting basically the agreement so that we share that Revenue with the schools we just copied the agreement from bayron but applied it to this uh you know one that we passed the last meeting Council um so years back um through ordinance we established the cost share with the pilots for the schools however we were uh told legally for each project you have to pass a company resolution so that's this would be the resolution that would honors the ordinance and then codifies the certain project time we pass a time we get a tax evate you have to pass a resolution you pass the agreement via resolution to honor the ordinance it's a good safety measure for us as well to make sure that every it every project is cified within that ordinance okay item 10.49 was touched on earlier and last but not least item 1050 resolution 24-5 3 is a resolution supplementing the manual of loading zoning designation of the city of Jersey City designating loading zones at various locations along Second Street First Street Morgan Street Warren Street and Chris and Columbus Drive all days and times all the attachments are also with the resolution with that he hold on he John just just sort of record reflects um know the director was here earlier director Shay said that there was a memo that was supposed to be given out we haven't got that memo um it's going on about two months now so we don't know exactly what's going on with that also um what regards to the email as it relates to the repavement of MLK and that work I still haven't received answers on that so I just want the record to reflect that um those two things um I'm still wait in on uh councilman for the um I told the finance department not to bring back the um Grant until a we had the answers correctly and B that an external auditor reviewed it to make sure for accuracy um the second part is um I know Jim Shay was here earlier um we do have a memo that we're putting together for the council um explaining um practices that they did Implement there um but I want to defer to him on um the status ofp and and and the 911 that so we'll have that out tomorrow morning on what actions they've taken so far second I have a motion by council person Riva and a second by council person SLE to adjourn at 50:03 PM council members all council members present by acclamation police say I we are out of here at 50:03 p.m. thank you so much everybody present and everyone watching at home remember teamwork than the DreamWork have a great night stay safe