let us know so we're ready to go live um so good evening everyone on behalf the of the Paris Municipal Council we welcome you to the regular meeting on April 9th 2024 at 7:19 p.m. good evening Patterson uh good evening my Council C Administration Madame clerk um please call the role Madam clerk yes Mr President roll call for municipal Council regular meeting of Tuesday April 9th 2024 the time is now 7:19 p.m. councilman abdalaziz okay president councilwoman cartton done with so we'll talk about okay yeah thank you councilwoman councilwoman DAV directoral directoral can you m hold on hold on I apologize I apologize but I'm having electrical problems here the lights go on the lights go off okay Fire Chief Fire Chief another job M Madam clerk I am present thank you councilwoman DAV councilman Jackson anyway you get it anyone councilman khik here thank you councilman councilwoman M good evening Madam uh clerk I am present thank you Dr Mims councilman Udin good evening Madame Clark yes I'm here thank you councilman councilman valz uh director special you need to put yourself in mute um I'm present you know what councilman really old computer let me president Mr President my v um pres clerk thank you Mr President this evening's prayer will be rendered by Reverend Phyllis Riley which has been followed by the flag salute led by councilman at large MD fored Odin let's pray phis God we thank you for your presence on tonight oh God we acknowledge you as God we acknowledge you as Lord oh God over the city of patteron and over the nations of the world oh god father God in spite of all of the fears all of the frustrations all of the chaos all of the misunderstandings all of the bickering all of the backbiting all of the the finger pointing all of the mistrust all of the disagreement all of the hatred all of the lawlessness within every sphere of influence in this city including government education religion Finance families social media and business you still have a plan for the city of Patterson your plan is a plan of prosperity your plan is to give her hope in a future in her final outcome not because she deserves it but because there are Watchmen on the walls of this city who continue to declare what you decree who will never never hold their peace nor give you any rest until Patterson becomes a praise in the earth and so we continue to cry out your righteous decrees because your word is and will always be the final Authority on all matters no matter what it looks like now you can turn things around if you have a people who will speak what you said and not relent or be moved by what they see but believe now unto you father God who is able to keep us from falling and present us Without Blame before the presence of Your Glory with great joy to you oh God the only wise God our savior be glory Majesty dominion and power both now and forever amen amen amen now let's do a moment of silence for a troop and for those that lost a loved one in our community blackag salute first salute sorry go ahead pledge allegiance to the FL the United States na Justice for thank you now let's do a moment of silence for those that lost a loved one in our community and for our troop and our nation thank you you may be seated you m clerk please read the statement of compliance yes Mr President statement of compliance with the open public meetings law for 2023 2024 today's meeting date is April 9th 2024 the time is now 723 p.m. adequate notice of this meeting was compiled disseminated in accordance with the open public meetings law in the following manner one the annual notice of regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council was compiled for the year 2023 2024 on our about July 1 2023 two a schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2023 2024 was duly transmitted on about July 1 2023 32 the north Jersey Herald News the record the Arabic voice the Italian voice the P County PS Dominicana news Laisa International Lal the partisan press the city post news tap to parison the weekly banga Patria in addition to any other publication duly requesting such notices three the schedule of the regular meeting me and workshop sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2023 2024 was prominently posted in the lobby of City Hall first floor in the place reserved for the announcements of this type four the schedule of the regular meetings and workshop sessions of the municipal Council for the year 2023 2024 was duly filed with the municipal clerk and five a copy of the schedule of regular meetings of the municipal Council was mailed to any person who requested and paid the fee authorized by the open public records act Mr President thank you Madame clerk uh council members so so let's start with our agenda with a with payment of bill before that let's please concentrate on the item that we have on the agenda any comment uh make sure that it's is reflected into the conversation that we're planning to have tonight and before we start our meeting with payment of Bill let me just uh give the number to the resident of the great city of Patterson that will like to speak on the public portion the number to call it's 973 3211 1579 meeting ID is 8326 press a star one to listen to the meeting and press a star three to be to be added into the speaking room and when we open the Public Public poral we're going to start with the amount of uh call that we have there uh it's 726 we're expecting to have public portion around 8:20 8:30 so let's do payment of Bill councilwoman Davila thank you very much council president president U once again good evening to my council member colleagues and to the administration Madame clerk thank you as well our Deputy clerk thank you for that prayer um to all the council members the bills list uh as you all know this was not a payroll week so the amount the total is 3,239 111221 uh if you look you can see that there was statutory payments which were um Solid Waste um and general government moved 1,62 8392 cents my recommendation is for payment of bills thank you councilwoman there was a it was moved by councilwoman Davila second by Council woman MS and Council roll call cler on payment of bill um who is the second person was second the second and Council M thank you roll call for payment of bills in the amount of 3, councilman colleague yes councilwoman Mims yes Madam cler thank you councilman urin yes mle clerk thank you councilman valz uh yes madame clerk thank you and Mr President my V is yes madame clerk you are in the thank you Mr President the votes are seven yeses one exstension one absent payment of bills in the amount of 3, motion the items listed on the consent agenda are numbers 5 through 24 any item may be removed from the consent agenda by the request of any council member and if so removed will be treated as a separate matter to move second it was moved by Council DAV by councilman second council member and councilwoman Ms roll call Mad clerk on the concern agenda yes Mr president roll call on the consent agenda councilman abdalaziz yes councilwoman carton yes'am councilwoman Dava yes councilman khik yes Madam clerk councilwoman Ms yes councilman Udin yes Madam Clark you councilman valz yes madame clerk thank you and Mr President my V is yes M cler thank you the votes are eight yeses one absent payment I'm sorry content agenda is hereby adopted thank you make sure we get some water to Madame clerk we got we got to take care our modern clerk we have to so council member we have um a mod clerk we have item 25 from the from 25 to 36 there a non nonon agenda item let's start with item 25 Madame clerk yes Mr President item number 25 just a item number 25 is a resolution honoring Chief John the candle senior for his 51-year tenure as the longest servant employee with the city of patteron it's sponsored by council president Alex Mendes co-sponsored by councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims and councilwoman Marissa daver it's a city council resolution 24 colon 247 it was moved by council president Mendes and second by councilwoman Davila councilwoman Lissa and councilman B Ro discussion discussion discussion Council mes just council president uh last meeting iquest to be also co-sponsor on it because I have a good relation also with uh Chief D and we work together when it comes up to um announce the uh vaccination and all that stuff and uh I would like to be co-sponsored too okay so let Madame clerk so at Council mes as a co-sponsor of um this resolution uh yes yes roll call Madame clerk yeah roll call and I item number 25 as amended to add councilman VZ as a co-sponsor councilman abdalaziz um yes Chief Dan has given his pretty much his entire life and not just him his family right the people behind the scenes that always support him um he's there for for everyone in the city especially the animals right that have no voice sometimes that he does goes above and beyond and you see more positive news that comes out of uh Chief the candle's office than most offices in the city so this is welld deserved God willing he's with us in this city for another 51 years and U hopefully you know and um you know keep up the great work Chief my vot is yes thank you councilman abdulaziz councilwoman cotton thank you madam cler I just want to say to John um Chief John Deo senior uh for his 51 years of service here to us in the city of Patterson known John probably the 51 years that he's been here in the city of Patterson so John congratulations may you continue to be able to function and still do your job and still help us out with the city because I know every time I call you you do respond gracefully with me so once again congratulations Chief Madam cler my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava Chief the candle um it is true all that has been said thus far what has been written about you I mean you cannot take away the service and your dedication to our city I know how you love our animals I know all that you've done and continue to do I'm not sure I want you to live another 51 because I believe right that right now we're acknowledging all your hard work but I also believe that there's some time to enjoy yourself and the family I also thank your family because I know that many of times on weekends you do all these clinics for our cats our dogs and you've advocated for our dog parks and you know uh animal Parks so I just just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you um for being a third ward resident who is dedicated to our city with that said you know I want to say congratulations my vote is yes thank you councilwoman DAV councilman colleague this is very well deserved my vote is yes thank you councilman colleag councilwoman Mims councilman colleag I love your short responses you're on the road tonight I love it so to uh Mr Deano I I think you're absolutely amazing I've always told you that privately and I've said it publicly many times when we have people in our community such as yourself who have number one have lived here for a very long time I think you live in one of the uh one of the greatest wards and there's many others that are great first second fourth fifth and six but you live in the third so I have to talk about the third tonight um I'm really grateful that you are um like The Ambassador in that particular Ward and you do great work for all of the communities at large when it comes to Animal Rescue Animal Control so many different things and I just have to highlight that your wife makes the best banana pudding so with that being stated I going to support this um tonight thank you council president for bringing this forward um to um honor someone that lives in the third W of of the city my vote is yes mam clerk thank you Dr memes councilman Udin CH D thank you so very much and kudos for your services and again this is a very well fitting respect toward your services and I completely 100% support this resolution my vote is yes thank you councilman urin councilman valz thank you Madame clerk um I have a special story to say uh he cares and I agree with all my colleagues he cares about animal no matter what gender the animal is or or breed he always care about every animal in the city of patteron especially those that knock their doors you know not animals people that knock the doors of the animal control Division and um always go with a request I need vaccination I need a a vegetarian uh to take care of my dog and he always looking for those nonprofit uh organization uh to um help the residents of pison when we named the door Park um John de condo on River Street you know it was a goal of him and he always was looking for Lobby for for those door park now we going to have a new door park on the sixth war and I know he Lobby for that too so John de condle there's a little story that I would never going to forget there was a a mother that has a son that autistic and he needed a support dog and I called John the condle John I need a dog to see how we could donate this dog to this family and hit the hit the news about not important thing that hitting the news it hit the heart of that family and the dog name is blue and um and he did that Goodwill and that family is always going to be happy about the way that he moved forward in the needs of the community John de condo you are a friend of the community you are friend of all of us the council people and those that passed through the 40 uh year that you've been working with us and any Administration that work with you so the public safety department should be proud of having an individual that is dedicated compassion and passion runs that department and I know his coworker will say the same thing congratulation John de candle my vot is yes thank you councilman valet Mr President thank you Madame clerk the city has been blessed by having John the candle dedicating his life to serve our community uh it was a great privilege for me to put this resolution together and I want to thanks to om my COK Cali for endorse and support this legislation and be co-sponsor because he truly deserves as our councilwoman alarge Dr Lis say he's one of our third world resident and councilwoman DAV as well and he's a human being a phenomenal human being people love John dle he the older uh employees in the city of pis so may got continue blessing you and I want to say thank you to your family thank you uh for just being there and allowing you serve this community 247 because those that know join the candle they could call in at any time during the day or during the weekend and he's always there for the people so it's a blessing I'm looking forward to have a ceremony here in City Hall to give you this resolution to you and your family as well God bless you and my vote is yes madame clerk thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item number 25 is hereby adopted as amended thank you m CL item number 26 item number 26 is a resolution Des nating roset Avenue from Chamberlain Avenue to the dead end to also be known as Dr Lugo way is sponsored by councilman Shaheen khik co-sponsored by councilman Lis valz and council president Alex Mendes count city council resolution 24 colon 248 second move second move by councilman KH second by councilman councilwoman Davila council president Alex mendz and councilwoman Lissa roll call clerk on item 26 roll call on item number 26 for approval councilman abdalaziz yes councilwoman carton yes councilwoman Dava yes okay councilman khik thank you Madame CL clerk um Dr Lugo gave his life to the children of patteron this is very welld deserved um I wish I had the honor of honoring him while he was living but he's as all of us know he passed away but at least his soul probably could see what we doing honor him him for his dedication and the service to City of patteron my vote is yes madame thank you councilman colleague councilwoman Mims thank you um for this great honor councilman colleague to honor Dr Lugo my vote is yes thank you um councilman Udin my vote is yes Madam CRA thank you councilman councilman valz Madame clerk thank you uh for the opportunity councilman colleag thank you um you know Dr Carlo lugos um he was teacher my son in school 15 he dedicated himself and teach others about other things um sexual orientation and other stuff in his profession and also orientate families beside teaching in school so Dr Lugo everybody call him but his name is Carlo Lugo um rest in peace um that let the record reflect I was trying to hit the button to say second if I had the opportunity to Second also the resolution I will appreciate I see councilwoman Dava shaking her head but there a request that I'm doing um thank you my vote is yes Carlo Lugo rest in peace you did a lot for us you paid the RO for a lot of Dominican leaders at this time that are are serving the city and also the leaders that work with the community at large so my vote is yes madame clerk thank you councilman valz Mr President thank you Madame Clerk and that's totally correct Dr Lugo gave his life to serve the children of pison we lost a lot of great uh leaders from the community uh through Co and he was one of then may he rest in peace um definitely in his family my deepest condolences to the family he has a phenomenal family that they still live in pison and they still giving back to the community with that being said M CL my vot is yes thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item number 26 is hereby adopted thank you m item number 27 item number 27 is a resolution designating Straight Street between 20th a to 21st a to also be known as Peter Ty way it's sponsored by councilman all Al abdulaziz co-sponsored by councilwoman Marissa daver councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims councilman lisis VZ councilman MD Ford Udin councilwoman Ruby n cotton council president Alex MZ and councilman shyen khik it's a city council resolution number 24 col 249 second second so move it was second mve by councilman abdal aiz a second by councilwoman Davila councilman Mims councilman uh bz and council president Mendes uh roll call M cler on item 27 roll call on item number 27 for approval councilman abdalaziz so pet Terry was a a longtime Union president for the Patterson Education Association that fought for many many many years for the rights of our our our Union uh teachers and uh AIDS and all the employee secretaries in the P public school system and this is a way for them to honor the person that you know put a lot of time fting for their rights I know many council members know him personally he represented them um council members before me that that was their union rep and the union president this is the least we could do for for um him and the union to recognize for all his uh sacrific he's given to the city of Patterson my vote is yes thank you councilman abdulaziz councilwoman cotton yes thank you councilwoman Dava oh yes I met t and let me tell you I've been part of the NGA this year will be my 30th year as a union member and I know all of the work that uh Peter uh has done that did you know in in um the educational Community but the most important thing that we have to know is this is a paronian a born and raised paronian so how nice it is to be able to honor someone that was born and raised and dedicated so many years to the city of Patterson through teaching because he was teaching first um um before he became the president so you know with that said congratulations my vot is yes thank you councilwoman Dava councilman Jackson yes thank you councilman councilman khik yes madame CL thank you councilman councilwoman Ms thank you so much thank you uh Council man abdalaziz um as it's already been stated ptii is the epitome of service especially to the educational um Excellence for our students and our um Educators um he was just in our school maybe a couple of weeks ago we had a long talk about his advocacy in school 21 which I am an alumni of school number 21 and I just want to thank Mr Terry for his hard work and dedication not just years ago but even to present helping to make sure things are structured uh they are priortize and making sure that our students continue to get a quality a quality and a thorough and efficient education Mr Terry well deserved my vote is yes thank you Dr memes councilman Udin councilman Udin maybe absent councilman vales yeah thank you Madame Clerk uh everything was saying about Mr f um he was a a warrior in education everybody knows that and those that always was looking for run for office always like to talk to him right uh to get that endorsement but we endorse his work we endorse his uh dedication to education and that's why this is not enough we could do more for him because he gave a lot for the community and to the education of our community the city of patteron and for those teachers and those that he always raise the voice and concern of of his membership in the union so uh my vote is yes thank you councilman valz Mr President I want is yes B clerk thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item number 27 is hereby adopted thank you Madame clerk item number 28 Madame clerk item number 28 is a resolution designating Straight Street between 21st Avenue between East 19th Street and Madison Avenue to also be known as Francisco and Elsa Mana away it's sponsored by councilman all Al abdulaziz co-sponsored by conwoman marit S Dava conwoman Dr Lisa Mims councilman lisis VZ councilman MD Ford urin councilwoman Ruby n cotton and council president Alex Mendes city council resolution 2 4 col 250 second it was Mo moved by councilman abdalaziz second by councilwoman Davila councilwoman M council president mes council president yes councilman before you go on roll call Corporation Council at our at our Workshop I stated that we are not renaming Straight Street we are renaming 21st Avenue between East 19th and Madison a please let the record reflect that this is not straight street that should be omitted from the from the title I just get confirmation uh coun president from legal yes uh Mr abushi un mute yourself yes thank you council president yes councilman um we did receive that note I was under the impression that the actual uh document was uh amended to reflect as such and um we will certainly take care of it for you thank you thank you president uh councilman uh colleague isn't this an amendment uh councilman abdulaziz uh just to add El name there yeah so stress of resolution just adding it yes but shouldn't it be just an amended resolution uh we're just read we're just it's I guess legal we're just gonna rame rename it yeah we're just gonna rename the whole thing yes thank you council member roll call CL on item 28 roll call and item number 28 which has been amended to read resolution designating 21st Avenue between East 19th Street and Madison Avenue to also be known as Francisco and Elsa Mona way councilman abdalaziz so um I'm going to take a couple minutes here council president um Elsa Mana is family to me right I met her at a young age and if you want to get involved in the sixth War you had to go visit um the chief Francisco and Elsa on 21st Avenue and they took me in as a son and Elsa everyone knows who Elsa is right you know she she's it's not just 21st da when it comes to to Elsa it's the city of Patterson goes County area right just talk Council M can you and the director please mute yourselves so her reach goes beyond Patterson and into the greater P County area and I'm gonna tell you guys right now we are lucky to have Elsa in the Sixth Ward right I am lucky to have Elsa in the Sixth Ward because she her her base her area is 21st her heart is there I know we spread her thin all around the city but 21st AV is where she is known she keeps me on on my toes and not just me the previous Council director deputy director councilman of the laiz can you please mute yourself thank you so Elsa if you ask any council person the Sixth Ward before me she was part of their team to make sure the Sixth Ward is as great as it is today right Andre SE before Andre SE Tom Rooney right if you call Tom Rooney today say Elsa Mantia he would say this should have been done years ago so um I'm glad that we're able to put this together for her and most importantly when you see Francisco and Elsa and and God willing you know my daughter one day it follows it does the great things that I'm doing look at her family look at her children right they're giving back to the community the Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree and that's when know the type of person um Elsa is and Francisco was and and and today and we're putting them back putting that sign what it should really say right Francisco Elsa man away congratulation Elsa I was by you this weekend you're you don't she's humble about it she know to talk about it but um as Council men says we're going to give you your roses while you can smell them and we're going to celebrate you at 21st St and the sixth Ward is going to celebrate you congratulations my vote is yes thank you councilman councilwoman cotton yes thank you madam clerk I just want to say to you out um to to add the wife to Francisco and put else's name to it I think that is just absolutely wonderful because people don't realize sometimes and some of them do behind Great Men or great women and they work together as a great team so it's really nice that you put this together and I want to say to Elsa I could call her at any time she would answer the phone she's a very Community minded person her kids are Community uh her her her her her son-in-laws so she has been contributing to this community for really a long time Al proba he wasn't even born yet when she was around contributing to this community and I want to say Elsa I appreciate you when I call you you answer when I have a question about something you answer and I want to say congratulations and out thank you for adding the wife to this resolution Madame clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava this right here is very special uh this is family this is a woman that I've known even before I was elected this is a woman that any woman would admire and look up to a classy lady a family Woman married for 50 years uh to her husband um I'm happy that we were able while he was alive we were able to do a dedication but now we're doing the dedication as we should have began it you know with both of you um councilman abdulaziz said it so well you know in terms of her dedication to the community let it be known that I believe she started in the third W first okay and um yes she has been um in the fourth in the sixth word I'm sorry for many many years um I love to sit down with her I visit her her um I I talk to her a lot her advice is important her family is important her children her grandchildren her great grandchildren um and they continue to give to this city so I can tell you that when um uh councilman AB D said hey through committee we need to you know do this renaming I said oh my God how perfect it was because it was a thought even when we were doing the the dedication the first time but you know she is a mother figure to me and to many uh she's gotten many accolades many accolades you know even uh um if I'm not mistaken just reading from here from president abuad um and um in 2021 and she's gotten so many others and you know um she is to be respected you know I love you as I call you Mamita thank you so much um for sharing your family as well I loved your husband dearly as well as I know he did me and um I'm just happy to be able to be alive and to be able to have you alive so we can dedicate this to you and you know there is a a um Fiesta PUO for councilman um abdelaziz where the community is supporting him and I'm looking forward to starting the party there so with that said um with all honor my vote is yes thank you councilwoman Dava councilman Jackson yes thank you councilman councilman khle uh yes madame clerk thank you councilman councilwoman Mims so as I affectionately call Mama and Pop um Mama Elsa made my prom dress when I was 13 14 years old we go way back it's been many many years since I've been connected to the Mia family and this is what deserve councilman abdelaziz when it comes to making sure we support people and give them their flowers while they can smell them is important to talk about the rich Legacy and Heritage that these individuals have and the impact that they make on the community at large welld deserved um I make sure I'm at that celebration I hope I'm in Jersey and not in Maryland that I will be able to participate but this is welld deserved and I definitely stand in full support my vote is yes thank you Dr memes councilman oudin think he's absent councilman valz yeah M CL give me just one second I just backing up here I'm sorry okay sir um just be with me for a minute sorry colleague um for that what I could say about Elsa Mantia you know I could say a lot I think I know and we have a relation with I have a relation with Ela Mana way way way before any politician probably in this in this setting have known her you know um we go so way back my son is 18 years old she was at at my way back we know with each other she started a resident in the fifth W then she went to the fourth W now she's in the great w of the sixth W um for me is like she's my heart you know Elsa Mantia is like a real mother for me I don't call her Mamita or Mama Pancha I call her mother and we have a good relation not only with her with her daughters her um in-law you know how you call it U the husband of the daughters and um and all of them so we have a good relation and I could say this when you talk about aluro you talk about business when you talk about Elsa Mantia you talk about culture and all she like to see is that the Dominican Community always be together with any other Community that's why she preached that's why she in her Galas and her um Dominican parade she honor every nationality honoring them with then with the with the Godfather title from the Bangladesh from the African-American any nationality in pison she honored them in the uh Statewide Dominican parade um um here in patteron New Jersey and when we talk about Ela Mantia we don't not just talk about 21st Avenue every time when you see that parade going on easter3 all the way down to downtown that means and by the way and go through the heart of patteron the fifth W that means that she sent a message of unity and that she loved everyone that she talk Cross or dedicates herself she a humanitarian you knock her door she give donation to people that have passed away that needs that fun to transport the body to any other part of the Dominican Republic or anywhere in the state I could say a lot of things from Elsa mana and and her family and the Legacy that that she being putting in the city of patteron D I love you Pap my is yes mad clerk thank you councilman valz Mr President thank you Madame CLA thank you it's uh this is a very special uh resolution as on my my colle mentioned before U Elsa Mana the president of the Dominican prey in the state of New Jersey um Elsa it's been a blessing for the city of pison I mean she's been every time you need Elsa Mantia she's always there not only with the Dominican Community but with all the community every time there's a problem not only in the US but outside the US uh in some cases with Haiti uh with any of the island uh so she's in the front line uh working with elected officials to collect donations to send those donation to other people so she's not only helping the resident of the great city of P she's helping other people um so this past uh um this past year so we put a a a beautiful event together to help the Dominican Republic and she was there in the front line collaborating with all of us we elected official leaders in the community so so she's always there helping others and uro Mana um it's a phenomenal human being uh you passed by 24 21st Avenue you always see uro Mana sitting in front in front of his business soita you call you my sister El has a beautiful family and they following their step you know the their business business owner and entrepreneur that Community creating job you know so it's been a bit Legacy behind the mantias family and it's a blessing for me to work with my Council college with councilman ades to rename this portion of the street welld deserved Elsa Mana welld deserved May gu continue blessing you with long life that way you can continue helping others not looking out race color or anybody you out there for everybody and that's all that's the way we all should be helping others without looking for race or ethnicity um because we your family this year P so just keep doing that amazing job that you're doing uh and with that being said mad cler my V is yes thank you Mr President the votes are a yes is one absent item number 28 is hereby adopted thank M clerk item number 29 item number 29 is a resolution honoring Dorothy Foxworth for decades of dedication commitment and loyalty to the city of Patterson is sponsored by councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims co-sponsored by councilwoman Ruby n carton and council president Alex Mendes city council resolution 24 col 251 so mov mov by councilwoman Dr L and second second president Alex Mendes and councilman Lis valz rooll com cler on item 29 yes Mr President roll call on item number 29 councilman abdulaziz yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman cotton she just said to give her a minute she's walk okay I didn't hear that I'm sorry councilwoman Dava let's go I'm sorry madam um which number we on please number 29 okay oh Miss Dorothy Foxworth uh let me just say if I may um I have known her for many many years and she has been so dedicated and committed to our community that councilwoman M this absolutely an honor um I've known them for many many years so it's she's absolutely wonderful and we as you always say councilwoman give flowers while they're still here say to them I truly truly appreciate everything you've done and everything that you do and everything that you're going to do Madame clerk that being said congratulations Miss Dorothy Foxworth Madame clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava congratulations my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilman Jackson yes thank you councilman councilman khik yes Madam clerk thank you councilman councilwoman Mims hi so before I vote I know our director is on Billy Rodriguez um I just got a text message on Ellison and Mill Street uh there's no light so if you can have somebody check that out uh between Ellison and Mill Street there's no light um I I just want to say this is to be able to honor such a great woman um of Faith strength and Community is an honor it is so important that we acknowledge people that are pillars in our community their families or Staples in our community and their lifelong residents in the city of Patterson to miss Foxworth I think I saw you I did I saw you on yesterday I was running into Walgreens from my mom and you are out waiting for your sister as you always do you're always assisting and serving someone in this great community and your church the Great Highway Church Bishop listen page uh senior and Junior who you've been under for a very very long time and to your family thank you for all that you do thank you for all that you've done and thank you for the blessing that you've been to so many people there's always in our life people that we never go back to say thank you we don't have the opportunity to buy a present or give a gift to them but I believe it's important when we have an opportunity in a platform to recognize people like yourself that we do it with Grace Integrity wisdom and strength thank you for the all that you do and I love you very very much Madame clerk my vote is yes thank you Dr M councilman valz I could say a lot of things about Margaret Johnson but my vote is yes at this time thank you councilman valz Mr President thank you so very a wrong name we don't know Margaret Johnson no Miss D congratulation well deserved well deserved um you know for you for your hard work in your church and especially the food pantry helping others um that that talk a lot you've been a blessing for the city of pison may God continue blessing you with your long life for you and your family that way you could continue serving the community and serving the city of p and helping those in need in our community my vot is yes B cler thank you Mr President the votes are eight yeses one absent item number 29 is hereby adopted item number 30 Madame clerk item number 30 is a resolution designating Straight Street between from 20th Avenue between Martin Street and State Street to be also known as William Priestly way is sponsored by councilman Lis valz co-sponsored by councilwoman Marissa daver councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims council president Alex Mendes councilman Al Al abdulaziz and councilman MD for Udin city council resolution 24 colon 252 second you're gonna have to right Council council members don't you have to don't you have to fix that council president I mean councilman VZ yes I had to his resolution designating Straight Street should say resolution designated 20th half yes correct members let me um let me just read into record who mve and was second it was moved by councilman valz it was second by councilwoman Ms um councilwoman um council president Mendes Council if I'm not mistaken no no no it was moved by V second by D and myself who else okay so M CL was moved by Council Council Les second by councilman Davila councilman Ms and council president Mendes yeah they have it that way okay let the record reflect is not spray street it's 20 Avenue between Martin and State Street okay so we'll make that change roll call Mad cler on item number 30 roll call on item number 30 as amended resolution designated 28th Avenue between Martin and State Street to be also known as will counc president council president uh before um we could do in discussion before before she read in the in in the section you know uh bill was no by Bill not by William but I I spoke to the family and they said there William Bill prisley okay okay so that correction will go on the resolution roll roll call on item number 30 is amended councilman abdulaziz yes councilwoman cotton uh Madam CL are we are we amending or are we voting we're voting okay I just want to say to um um I really I did not know William Presley way but I know that Francisco Nunez um looked after him um so I just want to say to to to the family um she said many great things about him and I just want to say to to the family is I'm happy that councilman VZ is recognizing him um for the amount of work that he has done in his community with that being said Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava so uh Mr priy was loved by many and he loved many and many were influenced and influential in his life as he was influential in others there's many to name I just want to thank councilman valis uh for putting this forward um he was a sweet man I'm thankful for all the help he gave me and you know with that said you know very sad of his passing my vote is yes thank you councilwoman DAV councilman Jackson yes thank you councilman Jackson councilman colleag councilman colleague councilwoman mes thank you madam clerk um for this particular item I you know I I always believe that we should give people their flowers while they can smell them but I am also grateful that Mr Priestley knew how much I loved him while was alive that is so important that you not only give them the flowers but they know how you feel about them as well while they are living I want to personally thank um Martha aronia and Miss Francisca Nunez and his family for the um being there and supporting even during his time of illness he was a great supporter and advocate for definitely for 20th a for the veterans and so many things so when it comes to people like Mr pre Priestley we're never going to forget him he made it his business to call all the time to make sure the things that were needed and necessary he stood on the front line and he made the phone calls to make sure it got done for the great city of Patterson with that being stated Madam clerk this is to you Mr priy my vote is yes thank you Dr Ms councilman valz uh thank you Madame clerk um I had to get some light here um Madame clerk um you know everybody has stated their peace I agreed uh every statement made by any councilman here uh Willam William Bill Presley was a friend way before being in politics okay way before being in politics William Presley was my friend I was aware of the conditions that he was going through I never sto him to Lobby to have a communication me as his councilman to get things done on 20 Avenue and for the seniors because he was the voice and he always delivered uh through my office if we have a b shelter is because he came to meet councilman we need a b shelter is there we need to paint around the 20 Avenue and sa Street and M Street to make sure the seniors have a crosswalk uh safe for them he used to call my office and we get the job done when he needed those flashing lights in front of the governor Towers we went to uh Mr Sato Mr tudo understood the needs of the area and we made it happen so there was a relation not only in politics also a personal relation with Bill Presley I was at his wake you know we was there uh in the moment of the earthquake was coming too so um our heart goes to the family while go cence to them and we're going to continue living the legacy of Bill prisley how he advocate for everyone in that building through the p through the pandemic he was my right-handed to make sure all those masks was in those doors in the building when they needed the food bill prisley was there caring boxes with me to serve those residents of 20th Avenue it's not political season it's Bill prisley was a friend way before being a council and I follow his steps and always listen to his concern and we'll continue doing that my vot is yes on this honoring for Bill pry rest in peace pleas pray for the family my V is yes thank you councilman Valance Mr President yes thank you m cler our senior and and the building of 20 l a a true leader he was there for every senior he was advocating for everybody I I have the opportunity to work really close also with Mr Bill um phenomenal human being he was there for everyone making sure that that the safety uh it was safety was his first prior priority for all the senior uh in the building in and outside the building I have the opportunity also to deliver a lot of food to the building for the senior he was there helping me every step of the way so may you rest in peace and also my deepest condolences to the family also as well with that being said my vot is yes P clerk thank you Mr President the votes are seven yeses two absences item number 30 is hereby adopted thank you mad CL I president council president councila um I am looking at my packet and I do not see items 31 nor 32 uh I don't see the resolutions council president if I May 31 is boobby Cotton's item 31 I'm reest just making a statement that we take it off for now because it's not correct and council president take number 32 supposed to be 32 supposed to be out of the agenda also um okay so council members 1 minute 32 will be out of the agenda and councilwoman um councilwoman Rubik on this resolution is resolution honor Margaret Johnson as the other resident of the city of patteron so I believe that if we could if we could email it the item um so uh it's up to you coun know it's resolution council president council president uh sorry I say so you know like that they had to be out of the agenda it's an explanation it's not out of we don't want to it's not it's not out of the agenda we we're not going to do it is we have to fix something that was uh um you know that we need to work we coun I thank you I would like to hear from councilwoman coun since this you this I'm talking I'm talking about 32 oh no no 32 is out 32 is out we president yes I'm explaining that I just said is out of the agenda now because we don't to go to do it so we had to fix some stuff on 32 and it's coming in the next meeting on the next meeting perfect Council councilwoman carton uh thank you madam thank you council president I I want to remove Margaret Johnson for now because it says that she's be honor her as the oldest resident of the city of pison Margaret Johnson is deceased now and I think that the resolution need to be memorializing the life of Margaret Johnson and I just want to say I know that she um she lived in um Dr Norman cotton senior uh housing uh and I went there probably for four or five her birthdays and one thing she loved was scratch offs and I would make sure that I bought her scratch off every time it was her birthday or or or and they always did parties and everything for it but so for now council president I want to remove Margaret Johnson because it has to be completely done over yes and I want to add councilwoman Dr Lisa Mims uh as a sponsor with me for Margaret Johnson make sure that it's done right I don't want to rush to do this uh i' I've gone over to Dr Norman cotton senior building um many many many times to celebrate her birthday uh before she was even 100 I remember going there and councilwoman Ms went with me uh to celebrate so we will put it on if you can U council president for the next Workshop I need for the next um Regular meeting thank you so item number 31 and 32 Madame CL will be adding on the next Workshop we're going to have a the opportunity to have a discussion and make sure that both item are correct before we take former action on following council president now that Ruby explain why I go to explain mine it's going to be it's going to be East 22nd it's going to be East 22nd between 17 and 18 because her house is Corner House so it's going to be East 22nd between East 18 and 17 correct because because in the future are going to be honoring the 18 Avenue that one block to the Montes brother Lis and Angel montes's brother uh that have been there for many many years so I have a lot of warriors in the fifth world thank you Council mes um and also while they're working on that for item 32 um Miss Ora Bell's name is spelled wrong it should be o r a AA Aura and then Jean is spelled wrong as well it should be o r a and then Gan is j a n thank you thank you coun Ms but council members thank you so we will have the opportunity to go over at the workshop on item 31 and 32 so we have Economic Development so item number 33 Economic Development by president dtive reflect that the typo did not came from councilman valz I did my ESL class it right all right I understood I no that's correct good evening folks I know what I'm saying it why I call you I call you so we have it number Council Members it's a typo it's not it's not from me that's why I took my right thank you council members we understand ESL and all that so let's let's get let's get into business so we have item 33 academic development mad clerk yes Mr President item number 33 is resolution authorizing the release of deed restrictions imposed by the city against properties sold by the city during the April 23 1999 auction Economic Development resolution 24 col 255 so move move move by councilwoman Davila second second second by councilman colleag uh let the record let the record reflect on them let the record reflect on recusing on both of them okay so Madame clerk let the record reflect that Council m is recusing on it 33 as this is the one that we treating right now so we have the the um members of the I call for discussion council president yes discussion Ms uh if I may so we have can we allow the assistant director to go and do an overview of item 33 question would that be fair wouldn't that be done okay so as we have assistant director C president let um the council ask her questions and then we go Ro we don't need overview um I believe will be important so but but because we have it 33 there similar Council Mees yeah I just wanted uh um him to just give a overview as to what these items are for and why they're presented at this time that's all okay the main reason is when these properties back in 1999 were dated and sold at auction there were certain restrictions on them specifically for them not to be demolished and or to be uh rebuilt to reset in a different form uh the owners have now passed away and these properties have been resold and granted to other individuals and the deed restrictions does not allow them to either do demolition or to move forward in rehabing into a more modern suitable building for current times that is the main objective is to allow uh these profits to be fully rehabed and Demolition and matter of fact one of the properties was actually demolished years ago so all we have is an empty parcel counc president thank you uh Council you finish yes council president thank you councilman um Jackson council president I'm not sure exactly um who is the person that was giv uh that testimony but this is a public meeting this is not like a a work uh or a um a company Zoom meeting I mean all persons who are presenting pertinent information to the public should be visible to the public uh they they they were not um visible on the screen okay there you go I'm Sor apologize sir no problem it's just a matter of the you know the public should have an opportunity to understand who's giving factual context on on items before on on in my apologies can you hear me well I'm just losing you now now we could hear you and now and we have you uh on the on the zoom on camera on the virtual meeting um Council Ms so I just want to um be clear I don't have issues with the items I just wanted to make sure that um the the details of what they were for was you know because sometime the public or just misinformation spirals out of control so I just want to make sure that the information is there I don't have issues with them because I'm very clear as to what they are I just want to put that on record thank you council president thank you Council m m I totally agree with you that's the reason why so I mean we both on the same page when I asked for an overview of this because this went it went through the core and so we have a a um so it's it's in front of us ready to take from an acual RO icil president councilman Jackson yes if I may so uh the there's always a reason why deed restriction was placed in the property I mean even the fact that the the the property Changing Hands doesn't necessarily mean that the use to the property or relative to the city's best interest um you know just saying that is changing hands and now you know um they may want to to do a demolition it still doesn't I think the a better overview especially on this public for format would be what exactly is the deed restriction um outlining uh uh uh was it the city's position to place these deed restrictions for a specific reason and then the request to the council is should be why these deed restrictions are being lifted I mean what we're doing here is we're making it a habit on just uh allowing for anything there's certain reasons why past council members or past um um uh officials had put certain Provisions in place and it wasun so giving an overview I mean on just on the facts I think it's okay but it should be what before we vote the public should have an outline on what exactly is the deed restriction being lifted and why is it why is the request being granted council president Council I I I believe um to um councilman Jackson's um statement I believe that that's what he did we had a workshop last week nobody had questions so now he gave you an overview pertaining to something that occurred what are you looking at 25 years ago right so yes at the time it was the purview of the council at the time to put or the city to put that deed restriction if you heard the deputy director he indicated that one of the it's it's just empty it's an empty lck so they're not able to do anything so I don't understand what more do you want from that um and I I just wanted to make that statement I thought that his clarification in terms of just a quick overview because these questions should have been asked last week counc president yes councilman Jackson very good so again this is uh the public this is a public meeting that the Public's interests are being voted on it's not about the individuals within the council seats that may have may or may not have um insight and or uh um uh an an objective to to to to to move these things along my statement is that the public should know what these restrictions um outlined what is the when you're looking at you sound like a robot you're coming in and out can you hear me now yes no councilman Jackson was speaking you can't really hear you you sound like a robot okay uh is am I more audible better now now it's better very good so again this is a public meeting and what I'm talking about is for the public consumption we voting on The public's best interest the public should be made aware of the details and further if those uh if the the workshop sessions were televised then I would agree there would be no reason to uh go further in the outline but since those meetings are not last week Council Council MERS yeah it was televised last week yes Council yet again again the public who's not accustomed to viewing Council meetings there may be people who are tuned in today because they received public notice on today's public meeting not a workshop session and I for the life of me listen you guys have the majority at hand if you decide if you feel as if the Public's interest isn't best to at least outline what the restrictions of have were placed on there for and why they're being um lifted what is the intent and what is the Public's best interest then I mean proceed but my point is these are matters that the public should have you know an an eye on and understand what the council's lifting a deed restriction for who is it for what's the intent moving forward I mean these are things that the public should be privy to supposed to be public information and I don't understand why people are are working so hard to keep information from the public coun ccil president just a second I have Council I'm not I'm not recusing myself on this item there's no need because I had to bring some facts on it okay okay I understand counc so you will have the floor you will have the floor and you will be voting on this item councilman Kon thank you thank you council president I just to uh bring to the attention that back in the late 1990s and the early 2000 there were properties that were built uh in the city um that um because they got funding from a resource another source that that's why they put the D restriction on them so they couldn't they couldn't buy a property and then try to sell it five years later or try to sell it 20 years later so they need to put the D restriction on it now I'm not finished it looks like looks like the they originally bought this property with the D restriction because it helped um like I said in the late '90s and early 2000 it helped people to be able to get property when when you had certain um limitations on it yes so they wouldn't move in and try to sell it they wouldn't move in and be out in 10 years they they had to stay there for some time now they bought this property in 1999 their wife dies so they was in there but we don't know know when the property got uh was demolished I don't know if it was demolished for a fire we don't know it was demolished for so in order to and I think that um our D deputy director can explain more um of how much the how much the D restriction was because they didn't want people buying property and they selling it right away they they going to sell it right away so that's the whole purpose but like um our deputy director just said that this piece of property is now an empty lot uh yeah so if you can um Mr Vero you can I'm saying that's my understanding because there was quite a bit of property build in the late 1990s and early 2000 in the city of patteron to help people get property and that's why they put the D restri because they didn't want them buying and then selling five years later selling them 10 years later they have to be there can you please um Je director so before the deputy director CC me if I may to my Council C and members of the public in our great city of p thetion is something is something it's a normal uh it's something normal like for example when you apply for a h rehab program that you get $155,000 per floor if you have a two family house you get $30,000 you're going to have a dis restriction for five years that you cannot sell your property for five years that's that's a different restriction when you get into a property from habitat for human there is a d restriction for 15 years after the 15 years they have to apply for a d uh for a d restriction to release those deep restriction this is something normal Council Cali um the the fair question is to make sure that the the assistant director give us an overview and a clarification of what is the about it and right after that I believe that we should move on but this is something normal when a property is getting into some type of deal uh some type of system there's always that when you get an assistant from the government from the city there's always a de restriction whether it's five years whether 15 years or 20 years at the end of those 20 years the city molds to a release of the this restriction because the responsibility is not there no more deputy director council president yeah I got the deputy director and I'll go with you councilman bless so deputy director good evening thank you for the time uh counc woman thank you very much you're absolutely correct regards to the D restrictions it was predominantly based on the form that the property was given to the the uh the gentleman and the woman and excuse me the the and her spouse back in 1999 and it was the distri was mainly based on the financial conditions that they received the property and the limitations where it cannot be sold it cannot be demolished it can only be rehab with very specific items to be done now since then as you mentioned earlier uh un fortunately his spouse has passed away the gentleman is also up there in in his in his years and has gone through a series of economic termoil throughout his lifetime where the properties can no longer be sustained one of the properties we do not know when have really been demolished and it must have happened years ago as there's nothing on site I mean there's not even a spec that anything ever existed and the other one is I also understand goodness the and the other property I understand is currently also uh been approved for demolition because it is actually considered a hazard to to a certain extent but the derestriction was just based on economic means of how the property was actually acquired back in 1999 okay and now the original owners are deceased so at least one of them thank you deputy director H Council thank you council president you know sometime when it comes out to the Restriction I I recuse myself uh thinking that transparency always is is a must but I don't have no interest in anything out there that have to De restriction but I want to say this and and and the director uh the assistant deputy director stated this did restriction was implemented way way way way way back before sorry before any council member was here and there was property there in that time it burned down and now we have we have to have a blessing always a blessing to say that we have a Redevelopment Zone in those areas that those property have been abandoned for decades okay now no Finance no Finance uh uh bank or whatever will give you no Finance for new project if you have a d restriction on it okay because they don't want no part with the government when it comes up to finance or whatever so is a benefit property is going to get redeveloped is in a Redevelopment Zone and we need to forward to move the city forward thank that's thank you cast I think that so we're clear enough with this uh so last Council mava before we do roll call and I don't that is so just just quickly in addition in in addition to to this and and as everyone has shared um these dist restrictions happen because you know they get cdbg monies okay and they get other monies involved it is my understanding and when this went through committee okay we had a committee meeting that we had a discussion about this and those items the reason for it moving forward is because they not have any of those types of monies involved no C no okay and um in addition one of them is ready for development but they can't do any developing in in the one proper property because of the deed restriction so you know I I'm okay with the information given and I'd like to proceed if we may on a vote thank you Ro mad cler on item 33 yes Mr President roll call on item number 33 councilman abdalaziz so I usually don't do this and I heard one of my colleagues talk about the public and you know the public access they hide from the public let me explain something about this item was on our agenda last week in workshop and the workshop was televised to the public right the public was aware of this item no questions were asked as councilman Dava stated during the public discussion of this item you know Johnny come lately a day late dollar short the day were're voting to to do this and then to mask it as or shoving this that no the the public it was the workshop was publicly advertised by law you have to advertise it the public could view so please let's not do that you know now that the that the workshop was televised now it has to be televised and in person like come on like everything we do it's it's starting to try to masate with something let's let's vote on items if you want to vote no vote no but don't make it look like there's some public uh like this council's hiding something yes it was fully public and no questions were asked my vote is yes thank you councilman councilwoman cotton thank you madam clerk um as the Director the deputy director had stated um um and I remember back in in the late 90s and the early 2000 where they were helping people to be able to get buy their own home this was the whole plan is to help people to buy their own home uh and that's why they came up with these deep restriction or came up with these plan so that we would be able to get our own home uh with that being said um Madam clerk m is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman daver um before I vote I also do want to uh uh make a notation that item 34 is the same exact thing all right so I'm just putting that on record um you know with that said I think I've said enough and I've I've um heard from our our deputy director I heard from the director last week about this you know so with that said my vote is yes thank you councilwoman daver councilwoman Jackson thank you madam clerk it's uh simply amazing you know how people need to point out uh we don't need to hide most more than likely this is just to the members of the public when somebody tells you that they don't need to hide something it's more it's possible is because exactly what they're trying to do is hide something and councilwoman C said it the best you know because then the Intentions by those who held the seats and those who were placed in positions of authority was to make sure that they helped the residents of the public to potentially become a homeowner because that's the real American dream so here you have a d restriction that's placed on a property for some reason or was everybody was reluctant to talk about why exactly this D restriction was placed in the property and obviously it was it was awh down the line was had received the benefit and notice in the last several years and decades so to speak we've made no home new homeowners we had this has not this Council we've never we have not put it put an effort into creating a firsttime home ownership in fact in the department where of housing where the young lady's specific task her only job is to uh uh you know help Section 8 voucher holders become firsttime homeowners where they can utilize the Section 8 voucher see this is reasons why you would put on a deed on put a a a deed restriction on the propert but everybody wants to give these hypotheticals well you know HUD May place it on well you know Habitat for Humanity and all these these other these other reasons what what what harm does it does it uh does it create to allow the person the gentleman to just outline what the specific deed restriction was for who is it being purchased by why is the request being uh uh made to to release the D restriction and more importantly is it going to continue on its previous use in allowing somebody an opportunity to become a homeowner this is where the municipality actually has its leverage to help people become homeowners but we don't have that those intentions here right here everything is geared towards helping developers I don't have an issue with helping Developers come in to create you know help create a better environment to help people residents in the community become homeowners where's those exam examples this is an opportunity to do that if the deed restriction was on the property it's possible for a reason the city could then put certain criteria no we want to let this maintain as but we're not doing that what we're doing is we're allowing people to come in and dictate to us what they want us to have and that's why our communities in this condition that it's in with that being said madam clerk my vote is no thank you councilman Jackson councilman khik is he back no yes I am I am back okay good Madam KK um thank you Madame Kirk I see first time home buyer every day every week in the second way is up to the resident to buy new house become a homeowner also as far as I know our our um Department of Community uh Barbara we even giving out fund for the first time home you have to apply you have to follow up the process and I don't know we keep talking about first time home buyer first time home buyer if somebody want to buy a house they will work hard they will make the money they will have a good credit to buy a house if any house go on sale in the second word people buying over the listing price and um I don't honestly I don't know what to tell you my vote is yes Madam thank you councilman khle councilwoman mimes so before I go into voting on this item I don't think I've ever shared this in this platform but I think it's important because people really need to see people that um benefited from the programs in Patterson so I was a part of the firsttime home buyers program with my very first home home I brought my very first home in Patterson next door to my mom's house I bought it from my relatives and I lived next door to um my mom and my grandparents I was a part and I just big shout out to Patricia alakar who still works in that department today I was a recipient of that program so I'm always advocating to individuals um to participate in that program where they're able to um you have to live in the in the house for a certain amount of years and all that so I mean I end up moving and buying a few other homes in the and different things in the community so I end up having to pay the money back because I moved before the time but that was because God's grace was sufficient and I needed a bigger uh space because I had another baby right but I just want to shout that out to Patterson residents those things are still available if you go right to 125 Ellison Street the program is still available you get even more money now back when I got it I think it was like $5,000 is like 25,000 and 30,000 whatever the numbers are now but there's a lot of money that's available you just have to follow the guidelines through the application process that is in that are available when it comes to deed restrictions deed restrictions they limit uh they limit what can be done on specific projects or or Properties or or whether it's deric or whatever's the situation in the particular address so when you're lifting it you're allowing progression to happen in the city I'm going to continue to keep saying it we have to continue to build and not battle this is a these are clear signs of building and progressively moving forward and not allowing limitations to be in place where we're not allowed to bring deric uh desolate or vacated properties off of off or to a place to be on the payroll and the tax roll for sustainability for our residents in one breath you can't say you're for the people and then not support items like this will that will bring sustainability to the community these items this one and the the next one that we'll vote on has the same Merit Patterson I'm gonna keep saying it we have to Bild and not battle it battle we have to make sure that we support the items that will bring money into our Revenue stream I know the less than 30,000 I can't even remember the number I used to know off the top of my head B tax-based entities that are paying for everyone in the community would appreciate that these things are done with that being stated Madame clerk uh my vote is absolutely yes thank you Dr Mims councilman valz Madam cler give me just a second U okay sir let me turn on the camera for they could see what I'm saying you know I'm happy to see all this Redevelopment in the city of patteron I'm happy to see that we cannot regulate in private properties okay what we could do is making sure that things run smoothly and that every war get the benefit of people bringing their money having faith in patteron and redeveloping the City of patteron um my vote is yes thank you councilman valz Mr President Mr President hello I'm sorry your vote sir thank thank you mad I'm sorry council members I still getting C from first of all before my vote let me take this moment to thank DPW director Billy thank E8 uh the garbage company uh filco didn't pick up the garbage yesterday but they just pick up the garbage on easa they working really late I just got a call and my block on this is clean so before my vote resident of the great city of patteron you heard this before the Restriction is the city responsibility to release the de restriction after the after the time with the time expired for like for example uh the there is a program very popular right now and it's the rehab program that you're getting $155,000 per floor um so if you want a single family you get $155,000 to re for Rehab you know to rehab your pro your property and if you have a two family 30,000 and if you have three family house it's 45,000 so you're GNA have a de restriction for five years after the five years to all the Resident just keep in mind that after the five years you have to request the release of the dis restriction of your property and it's the city responsibility to Grant the this restriction uh for example Habitat for Humanity as I mentioned before it's a 15 years D restriction if I'm not mistaken about 80 90% sure that it's 15 years right after the 15 years you have the right to uh request that the release of the de restriction and it's the city it's us as council member uh we are the responsible governing body to say yes to release you this because you pay you du the time expire you keep your property and you have to move on then you could sell your property you could build or you could do you could make any decision on your property and that's what we're doing right now being responsible for the community and the person that acquired a property to make sure that he do whatever he want to do for that property which is building selling or you know getting a new stateof thee apartment for our community so with that being said my vot is yes M cler thank you Mr President the votes are seven yeses one no one absent I item number 33 is hereby adopted thank you Madame clerk item 34 which is a semack item council members 34 yeah item number 34 is a resolution authorizing the release of De restrictions imposed by the city against various properties sold by the city during the March 15 2018 auction a motion please move move by Council second by Council mavila it second by Council rby as well roll call it 34 roll call on item number 34 councilman abdalaziz I don't see him on councilwoman cotton thank you madam clerk um you know um this is another deep restriction um um and I say that uh in order to um even help um other people help people in the city uh with um with that being said Madam plug my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman daver yes councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk so to the members of the public let Let's uh set the record straight this is not battling this is fighting for the Public's best interest this is uh taking issue with the current conditions of how our community is being overdeveloped yeah have many people who you know people who truly understand the conditions when you talk about you know the blighted conditions you talk about the crime the crime rate the violence in the community you talk about you know children being poorly educated because the classroom sizes are overcrowded talking about people who are are whose cars are being told um you know in the we hours of the night who didn't have to get up and find their cars missing because when when they have to you know at a critical moment when they have to take their children to school this is fighting for the Public's best interest we are not here to Kum just get along and allow people to take advantage of the public so to say that you know um uh to battle or to get along we want to build we should want to build we should want to build the right I mean listen I don't ever do that I don't ever you know speak over someone and try to convince or or override with the person is talking about when facts hit the hit the hit the frying pan the sizzle begins to cre begins to crackle and this is what's happening we without even without even having a clear understanding of what the intent is so we're going to sell these properties and mind you I ask you taxpayers how many of you have seen a reduction in your taxes of all this building and all this selling how many of you have seen that I've seen an instances where the where the intent is to you know outprice you where you you you you know the many of the residents don't have an opportunity to go to these auctions and and participate because they're being overt overrun by multi-millionaires who have uh uh hedge funds backing them but yet where the council has an opportunity to hold firm and at least try to find the Public's best interest when I drive through Franklin Lakes there they have signs of their their Lo in in the neighborhood saying stop overdevelopment and those here we we barely uh put water in and we're just allowing for everything to happen without holding people accountable and saying well wait a minute what's your intention what are your plans how does that fit in to what we're doing we we just allow it to go through our hands and then when the corrupt planning board approves it the council members come here and make excuses of well we didn't do that and have anything to do with us no it has everything to do with us because the council has the ability to weigh in on everything how we keep allowing for the master plan to be undermined it how we keep overpopulating certain parts of the community that just can't sustain that and I don't know if any of this is if this is true when it comes to this item but the fact of the matter is these are the critical questions that's supposed to be asked should be here talking about congratulating someone and how you know they get to come in here and take advantage of the community business as usual but it is that everyone business is usual Madam Kirk my vote is no thank you councilman Jackson councilman khle always love you my vote is yes madame clerk thank you councilman khle councilwoman Mims so I just want to do a little um a little as someone that is in education I want to do like a little uh school lesson real quick so when we talk about building building talks about teaching educating empowering we can Empower a community until we empower the people there are tools and resources that are available in this community we as legislative of individuals that have been elected by the people and for the people our job is to continue to build their capacity and their knowledge so that they can come together and move from where they are to where they they need to be whether they're in a position where they've never owned at any time but they want to own there are resources we have to educate them whether they live in a home and they're like I don't even I need a tax abatement is too much we have resources available so as we're building and expanding the knowledge and the capacity of the people that live in this community it helps us to grow it helps us to network and it helps us to live a more peaceful life without the chaos and the divisiveness when I talk about battling I mean not giving information not advocating not being in a position to understand and know that you can move from where you are to go somewhere else we've all come from somewhere else and the song and I believe Jay-Z wrote it we all started at the bottom and now we're here and we're still not at where we need to be but in order to go and to get to these places we have to do our homework this item was in our packet it came the details were there we had a workshop on last week we also have the capacity in in our in what we do to send emails or stop in the office and ask pertinent questions we all have the same right and ability to do that my goal and my focus Patterson is to continue to building and educating you on the process so that we can all win together it's not good enough for me to win by myself I want everybody to win Patterson we're in this together and I'm G to say it once again my role my goal and my story to you let's keep building and not battling Patterson we're better together Madam clerk my vote is absolutely yes thank you Dr Mims councilman valz give me a second mad clerk okay I had to say this that woman is on fire and rocking Council woman Dr Lissa Ms you hit it on the nail I cannot add it more because you spoke for all of us for eight council members that want to see this city move forward so I'm proud to vote yes thank you councilman VZ Mr President definitely I I do have to congratulate my councilwoman alar Dr Lissa you cover all the C I I really have to tell you and and and and and it very you know it make me even emotional you comment because it's defin it's our responsibility to help the city of pison it's our responsibility to empower our community through through information uh you know opening the door with information to make sure that that that they became the homeowner there's resource but as elected official we have to do our work I've been doing so many uh tax ayment in my office to resident of the city of piso and now I've been extremely busy helping people with a rehab program fill it up the application I know c i don't charge for none other the service I I do that for the people to help my community and I'm getting so excited with people like in Market Street that that the gentl in front of the gas station he got $45,000 to rehab his property on East 29 another $45,000 for three Family House $30,000 for two family house and I do this city wise I have no problem but you the money it's there we just have to help the people what I've been doing and that's the reason I get so excited C Miss with you comment uh is that that is correct you know to the resident of the city of pison we're making the right decision here it's our responsibility to go over those de restriction and after they they finish with a time is we have to release the property to make sure that they keep growing building and doing whatever they want to do with a property with that being said my vote is yes but cler thank you Mr President the votes are six yeses one no two absences item number 34 is hereby adopted thank Council council president if I may Council M thank you I just want to share with everyone I receive a text people sometimes don't realize how many people are watching us and my brother's in South Carolina he's watching me my sister's in Florida she's watching me but I just received a text um as a matter a couple of them um those houses that we just B on are firsttime home buyers yes that's right I want to share that with you all my council members and Council me said it we have to give the people the opportunity we needed to live this restriction and those houses down there are firsttime home buyers thank you council president thank you clear clear enough Council C so before item 35 so we have two more item 35 and 36 and right after that we're going to get into public portion let me remind the resident of the city of piso that if you would like to call uh the phone number is 973 32 1 1579 the meeting ID did is 8326 you press the star one to listen to the meeting and press the start three to be added into the speaker room and when we start a public portion we're going to start um by uh the people that are on the speaker room item 35 president president I may um item 35 is Health and Human Services as well as item uh for first reading which doesn't need an open hearing if we can take both those items um he has been fasting has not eaten and he's been in this meeting the whole time so I don't I don't I don't 30 I don't number uh item 35 is Health and Human Services okay and item for first reading is item uh number two the it first there's gonna be a lot of there's gonna be some discussion on the item I know there's going to be a lot of question on the item council members if you allow me to go to item 36 writing yes getting to public portion because it's 9:00 I don't want to do say that because it's only one for the police right after it's night of five council members right after item 36 we going I'm sorry Jerry we're going to a public portion let me repeat the number again if you want if you would like to speak of public portion please dial 973 3211 1579 the meeting I 8326 press the start one to listen to the meeting and press the start three to be added into the speaking room room um so to give you the opportunity to speak on the public portal CL can we do item 36 35 No 36 36 sorry yes item number 36 is resolution authorizing the solicitation of bids for the purchase and delivery of three tactical robot system SL throbot to or equal bid number 24.16 for the police department go move it's council members wait mad clerk read the whole uh resolution please it's a resolution 24 calling 258 move was by counc D second by council member Le and councilwoman memes uh council members uh if there's no question uh discussion discussion I have the director director Jerry speciali in the oh this item is police oh my God we should leave the director for the the last one I'm sorry I'm just kidding director how are you good how you doing wait until after uh Council Ms has a question discussion Council M Ms we have the director on the line thank thank you um council president director if you may if if you can can you provide an update on uh this item that is before us to vote on the Tactical equipment that will be utilized um in in our community if you could just give an overview while the Community is watching so that we can get clear information uh directly from the source as to what this item is for what what item are you talking about I have Anthony G avado our Technical Services Lieutenant he's on the line here Anthony if you want to come in this was about the server capacity that you were asking about the last time he's on the line right now Anthony would you no this item is item 36 this is for the Co equipment that would be thrown in thrown into areas Council unfortunately I spoke with the officer in charge they felt that it was law enforcement sensitive they would not provide as you see you have a lieutenant for the it stuff but as far as the robots go he is uncomfortable with discussing that matter having that in the open and he stated that he would not do that you could voted up or down that is up to the council's discretion I spoke with him at length about this and that is his decision on that matter council president counc president just a minute councilwoman councilwoman Ms yes so I then council president if that is the case right then we need to invite this item needs to be removed and we need to invite OIC to the meeting we just need an overview as to what I mean I'm not asking for the spe specifics on how it will be utilized but I just want to get an overview on what this is I can give you I can give you the overview on what this is I'm sorry if I may respectfully I wanted to say something to council woman M if I corre one second I just I'm just asking because there is a resolution and it gives details but the community at large doesn't they don't have that so I explained it in detail in the last meeting I understand it as well as the OIC does but certain things are law enforcement sensitive this is a device that for hostage situations you could go up to a window and you could break the window or breach the window put the item in and you could talk and communicate with the individual that's what the robot does it's not something that shoots somebody it's not something that harms somebody it's a robot that films what's going on and allows them to have like a FaceTime communication with them but as I said the OIC is not going to come on for this he G made that crystal clear and I just want you to know that he said you could vote it up or down either that or I can explain as I said as I said the last time he stated that and in under understanding the equipment and being in this for 40 years this is a piece of equipment that de escalates situations because you don't have to put police officers breaking Doors Down you have police officers that can put this device in a room and you can almost FaceTime with somebody see what's going on see if there's a threat see if anybody else is being threatened and also communicate with that person to try and get the counselors the police officers and the experts to talk that person down opposed to busting the door down and going in with guns of Blazing thank you director that's all I needed to be stated to the council I will go with you Dr councilman Dava director that's exactly the explanation that the community need to hear what is the reason why what is the purpose of this uh uh investing in this Rubble so so you you clearly it's explain on DET deta what need to be say within the community and to the resident of the City of Paris so I believe that we feel comfortable voting on that so thank you thank you thank you president thank you council members as I said hold minute one second so I just wanted to share because councilwoman Mims she did let us know that she was not going to be able to be in that meeting because she was away so councilwoman CAU and met with public in public safety coun were not able to be there and we discussed that so you are correct councilwoman that last week you know there he actually did somewhat say this last week not as in detail right now but part of that in the meeting was told to us that there was some sensitive things that couldn't be discussed in public and we understand it so thank you a director for you know clearing that up and I don't know if has any more questions but council president we council president uh just a minute council members I think council member with the director explanation was like it was right on point to make sure that every resident understand what is the reason why are we getting into this investment of this robot it was a it was a great explanation detail for the community council mes before we get into a vote Yes council president thank you um the main question that I will ask and um and I'm I'm positive in in this and probably the director will probably um uh agree with me we didn't have this equipment before before any incident in the city of patteron we didn't had this type of equipment probably the incident that happened before make Improvement to the police department to equip better our department for respond in critical situation that's correct director yes sir councilman and and look you know some of this technology as you know technology evolves every single day and as we look at new equipment that's why we look for different Avenues to try and deescalate situations rather than to escalate situations this allows us to have a counselor there that could talk you know you have a police officer there that could talk you have a a a crisis intervention officer that can speak you know this is a way to get people to come out whether it's a domestic whether it's a hostage whatever the situation is and it allows us to view what's going on to know that there is no danger so why go busting a door down when you have no danger and we can try and continue to communicate with the combative subject thank you so director so director the only part that a little bit uncomfortable it's probably the way it was said you could vot it up and down if he could only send a next time and memo saying cumman um this is a better equipment that we need um because we want a better the respond and the relation with the community that we have everything on Deck to save life at the same time so simple not just say oh you could vote it up and down or whatever it sound like rough for me it did sound like rough I don't know my colleague let me let me just say second because I'm listening but the the rough way that I know you probably didn't meant to say that way but if he if he if he sent the message that way it sounds like you know the council up is up to your choice vot it up and down but if he sent because we want a stet communication with the OIC we want a stet communication with the people that we serve and it will be nice in the future that I'm not going to say how he had to say do it but at least send a memorandum to the council we understand your concern there an equipment that we need to operate the police department better and to equip our officer better like he guarantee us that he's going to have transparency between the community and us and everybody around I just want to say that if I may have if I may have a word council president I just please go ahead director explained at the Public Safety Committee as our chairwoman goala said the the OIC and me have a relationship built on mutual respect trust and understanding and this is not about voting up or down the issue is that it's law enforcement sensitive we're trying to do things to deescalate situations and there's some frustration sometimes when we do that so I just wanted you to know it's not about up or down I wanted to explain it and that's my job councilman I have to bring it to the committee I explain it I try and bring you the information that you need from the OIC as his conduit to the Council and that's what I'm doing he's not somebody that's trying to be argumentative with you he's just trying to say we want to do the right thing for the community and if you need further we'll explain it in that public safety meeting and we'll get it and we'll get it washed out but this is something that's good for the community director you you explain it loud and C loud and clear and I was trying to make that I was trying to bring this uh on my voting on the voting section but the argument that situation that come between voting up and down is something that I take it was very sour to me uh this governing body is been in full support to the officer in charge ofi and to the police department and they cannot say otherwise and you you you could testify that every item related with the police department is a is positive for this government body for this Council I would say someone sometime n the N council members are in full support but we need we need to understand something director and the off Char the officer in charge but let me just say this director before we get into the voting section the officer in charge of the police department need to understand that we as an elected official we here spending taxpayer dollar and at least we want to make sure that a taxpayer understand the decision that we making why we investing money into this equipment for what is the reason why and you give a very clear explanation on detail that you don't need to add anymore but I believe that and I'm GNA say this I really hope that that we could definitely that the relationship within the officer in charge and the governing body and everybody else we get closer and and and and and and if we have to go into a section for anything moving forward in the future please let's put that on the table director as well if you need something for this governing body and it's time and it's sensitive that we could not have a discussion on public call for a a a secr close section and we will be that with you because we've been suppor dep but we need ship from the officer in charge and the Gover body in the police department president council president councilman Jackson um I'm think before I speak council president the director has been asking for to respond no he did respond all right very good so um director uh respecting it is your your opport your obligation to come before this Council body and explain the item uh the fact of the matter is when when it comes down to making these executive decisions on how this equipment is being utilized and decisions that that impact the community you're not the one at the Forefront making these decisions when ji Lowry was taken into that ambulance and it was questionable about the activity that took place we're talking about being transparent to the public well it's very unfortunate that the mayor decided that he didn't want toas information you're breaking up breaking up you're breaking up C we can't hear you you're breaking up you're stuck can you hear me better now yeah now we got can you hear me better now yes okay so again when Naji C books was was murdered there was other options on the table outside of deadly force but those options weren't decided and and those decisions aren't made by you director and lastly when uh uh when uh Mary Taylor was murdered and we had an officer telling this the asants it wasn't the wasn't you director that made the executive decision to call up the chase so it is very important that the decisions that we made that we make here are being answered to you know the Attorney General he uh he made a commitment when he came in and took over our Police Department that they was going to do a fullscale investigation regarding NJ and that still hasn't been done that still hasn't been done so the fact that you know um the O the OIC or whomever has the has the um the the the desire to tell his counsel well hey you know take it or leave it vote it up or down you know the public still deserves the public still deserves to understand how it's spending its money and more importantly uh what's going on with our Police Department like what what are we doing here where where is the investigation regarding nji when are we going to see these things put to bed when when is the Public's best interest you know in and in treatment and how uh uh the public is being treated by the PD while you know through a to ring that's taking place throughout the city councilor what I can say councilman is you know the police department receives first to go with the towing we receive complaints I receive complaints personally every day whether it be the food bank whether it be the grandmothers whether it be the different locations where driveways are blocked loading docks are blocked you know deliveries are blocked I get contacted every morning every day and what do I have to do if their food is being blocked to get to our community I have an obligation to call the police and tell the officers get over there and get that car out of there because they need to get the food to the people so it's not about you know trying to Target any specific area we director I apologize I apologize for interrupting you but with all due respect that's not why people calling people are being told for minor infractions when the law is being BL blatantly broken even to even I get a phone call today by by by a road um uh restriction on on uh helden Avenue when you know the state law requires that people are notified in a certain with a certain distance prior to a road closure and they're not doing it so you know there's a lot of other things this this law is being broken with people making illegal left-and turns and parking illegally on W Street there's a lot of things that we can understand but but to say that that these are calls from blocked driveways no these are people waking up with their cars being being uh stolen and guess what there is there is no disparity there is no discrimination because I can tell you that just last night we had someone that's part of the administration whose card was towed we had many people's cars towed my my car was to but I asked you I asked you for a report that you still have not provided me order council members give me a second after after director after you a council member I understand that we're talking about different topic here if we could we're not talking about different topics it's the same thing councilman Jackson give me a minute it's a police matter I understand it's a police matter let's wait to the director answer then I go you whenever councilman whenever councilman I come on this meeting I take my notes you make your questions I don't wait for your official request I go in the next morning I meet with the Personnel I meet with the officer in charge I notify him of the situation I was told today that you received a memo with regard to your requests so I was told today because I didn't want to come on this meeting and find out that you were not notified by Memo from the OIC I understand that Chief Hagerty and the OIC have notified You by memo and what that memo says I do not know I did not see it that was something from the OIC and the administration from the police department operational side that was to you so whether they answered your questions or they did not we are Towing C cars Citywide this is not one specific area there is no pattern this is what we tow by if you profile you you do it based on certain specifics when you don't profile you do it on excuse me no dises director no disrespect director point of order the item that that's not the item before us if we can vote on this item we can come back to that if we need to but director no disrespect to you but it's not even on the agenda so I don't want you council member so council members now item 36 let's get ready to vote and vote on item 36 and and and I'm I'm going to request a executive a close section with the director with the police department and our council members because I know there's a lot of sensitive question that we have we have a lot of question a a lot of discussion that cannot be you know cannot Tak it place in a regular meeting like this you will receive an email for a secret and a close section with all the council members to have a discussion about different police matter M cler and council president council president just quickly uh Mr uh gat so if you could just reach out to me tomorrow um regarding my bandwidth questions I had just call me on tomorrow we do thank you thank you item number 36 M clerk roll call yes Mr President roll call and item number 36 councilman abdulaziz councilwoman cartton thank you Madame clerk um I um I have heard with the director Spiel um I know um there was some we needed some items to be in place um I believe this is one of the ones that we really need to have that we do not have we need this item these items so with that being said um Madam my vote is yes thank you councilwoman KH councilwoman daver um I think we've had enough Health discussion my vote is I'm S I didn't hear you coun woman I said I believe that we've had a healthy discussion my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk first of all it's disappointing because it is relevant when you have the director come on here and say make comments saying that this this uh this this robot or apparatus will be utilized in the hostage situations and um uh potentially not uh uh going there guns blazing specific those those are the words that was used tonight not by me but by PD Personnel not going in there guns blazing to save people's lives is relative because it's part of the reason why the state attorney general has taken over our Police Department to begin with so to to scarf over you know uh these these scenarios on how um you know our community has been treated in the past you know it's just indicative on how we we continuously allow for the treatment to continue the community is deserving of an answer where you know on all these items on the investigation for nji the reason the Attorney General came here the press conference said that they would he was going to you know tell this community what is the outcome we hav we haven't heard anything from it so now while they here a decision is made by the person in charge to call up a Chase when someone from our community was has been murdered which could then you know begin to outline or start a new uh chapter in how you know uh gunshot of being you know um placed in in broad daylight but yet we're still dealing with these same conditions and and how now you know considering even all of that in in place the focus has then become you know overnight Towing so it it is relevant it is very relevant to me and and I don't understand how um you know my fellow council members don't don't find it to be relevant and and always want to continue to scarf past these things but but with that being said if this is an item that stop someone from being murdered um um on a on Decisions by the way that are made by those people in charge we can give you all the equipment all day long but if the decision making is not going to be sound then in the end of the day our community still um is paying the price so with that being said I'm willing to support this item to see how it moves forward but you know in the end of the day where's the level of accountability to the public that's paying for all of this stuff Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson councilwoman memes so I'm I'm gonna do another education I'm here I'm here M you're here now okay col I'm sorry it's okay my vote is yes madame clerk thank you councilman councilwoman Ms thank you for giving me your time I reclaimed some of your time councilman colleag so let me just start by saying this first and um foremost um my point of uh reference for the point of order was not in pertaining to the Tactical equipment that we're voting on that's what's in before us that's what we're voting on my point of order was the talk about violations with towing cars and all that that is not the item that we're voting on so it's trying to reel us back in to get back on track with the item so I want to be clear but let me to the public because people have texted me and I said see some commentary that's being posted about how much would it cost when it comes to the procurement process which is the process in order to purchase we're now in the second phase of that process and that phase is known here as the solicitation what a solicitation is the purchase is now created the solicitation method is selected and then the contract is created and from that it goes out to bid and then we get prices from different vendors and different individuals and then based on the scoring system we pick what is the best most coste effective most um uh the thing that would be in the best interest of what the police department is looking to acquire to meet this particular need so this is an early stage of of acquiring these these particular um this particular device or devices but it's called the solicitation a bit but if you go in and you Google uh RFP process or or procurement process it will clearly outline what that looks like so I just wanted to give Clarity to the community so the community understands that right now there is no dollar amount to this equipment it is called solicitation of bids we are now in the place of creating the contract we're sending it out and we're going to see they call it hits we'll see who takes the hit and then they put in their bid for how much their equipment cost and then internally through Administration there are people that are on the scoring team they score it based on the um the uh the the specifications that are in the request or the contract and then based on that at that point it comes back to the council to award the contract so that that's when you'll see what the dollar amount is one thing I have to commend uh the police and the fire department always on when it comes to these type of things they always find a grant I don't know how they do it but I have to commend them so most most I would say probably 90 95% of the time it does not come from taxpayers they find grants or whether is uh you know confiscated dollars or whatever that looks like and it covers the cost of these particular items so I just want to bring some clarity to the community with that stated there is a need this is something that was not in place um unfortunately based on situations this need a rol and I'm grateful to see that we're making um some strides to get those things that we need in place to avoid any further catastrophes in our community with that being stated uh Madam pres Madam Clerk and council president my vote is yes thank you Dr Mims councilman Valance yes give me a second I just ask okay so first of all director Jerry spal I want to commend you because you're always looking forward to equip our department thank you camera camera cars Personnel making sure our police officer have the support from the council and all those items I I want to commend the leadership of the lieutenant captain that works uh diligent to make sure our police officers are well equipped and not only that I want to commend the community because when they was doing the Tour all right around every War about how the police want to function with the community they requested more equipment to avoid other incidents with the police and the community I don't understand why if we had something in place right now to make better the police there's a problem we had it before now we are blessed that we equipping our police officer with the right equipment Bring it on I I and I was I was not comfortable to to hear up V up and down thanks God we have eight council members that knows what the need of the police that knows that we they need we need to equipment uh um in every as to better serve the community the toy thing and other things listen that's don't have to do nothing to equip our police officer the right way for they could serve us the proper way in our city so commend you director I commend the leadership of the police department and that's what we have to do threaten uh threaten the the relation between the community the police and us to make sure that the funding is in place for we could give more equipment to our police and I'm I'm I wanna I want to see more resolution to bring more cars more equipment to bring more motorcycle to bring everything that the police need and last but not least get a fair contract to the police department but they could stay in patteron and not move from patteron my vote is yes thank you thank you councilman valet Mr President thank you Madame clerk uh thank you just before my vote I definitely without a doubt this uh tactic equipment will save life and and that's the reason why we we are in full support and I and I mentioned that before I was very disappointed by here uh when I hear that that we could both up or down if we don't if we wish to do I was very disappointed and very disturbing with this because we've been in full support of of our Police Department as I mentioned before and since the officer in charge came to the city of Patterson I could speak about me and about many of my Council colleague we all be behind the officer in charge behind the police department supporting the police department on the equipment that that they need to bring safety into our community and we're going to continue to do that because we understand that our police department they need the right equipment to be out there protecting and serving the resident of our city they do an uh and it's it's a tough job and we have to be behind our Police Department a thousand per. but I do believe that we have to continue working to make a relationship better between the police department the officer in charge and the city council as I mentioned before we are responsible to make decision that will impact the community on a positive and a negative way that we we're responsible to spend taxpayer dollar to funding our Police Department so we're here to work with our Police Department uh uh and and I mentioned this before uh looking forward to having a secuity or in a close section meeting to have a discussion about different item related with the police department that we cannot have those uh that discussion on a open meeting like this but once again uh so we're looking forward to continue seeing more resolution uh about what a police department need whether it's camera whether it's equipment with it's vehicle and they know that we're here behind the police department th% we got to keep our residents safe in the city of pison uh and absolutely definitely I'm looking forward to make sure that we do a setlement a fair setlement of the contract of our Police Department because we're losing a lot of great police officer that going into other municipality because they don't have a contract it because the money that they're making it's not fair enough we cannot compete with the municipality and that's a conversation that we need to have we got to be honest the starting solity of our police department is something that we have to look at it and the contract it have to be done so with that being said M collect my votage yes thank you council president the votes are seven yes is two absences item number 36 is hereby adopted thank you m cler council members I want to so we're gonna start with a public portion council president council president if if I may um I I really think I I requested something because I let you know that our director was fasting and he has yet to eat but I also wanted because I know that there's two items uh one on which is um the accepting of the grant for the wick for seniors for their vegetables that was one and number two is the one which I believe information has been given out there to make it seem that we do not and that we want to charge and that you know there's a lot I wish the the director would have been able to speak before he will listen he will it's 9:39 I just want to check how many speaker we have on public portion because it's 939 if you council president what I'm trying to tell you I stood here today and heard a lot of the things that were re that were chanting out there pertaining to the item and it's not what it is and the public has been misinformed and I don't want it to be that they'll come back and say oh we made them change it no there has not been okay any attacks against entities from the city of Patterson from our entities that give out food you grandar I need to put that on record council president I'm sorry that I'm doing this but it is important it this was specific for outside entities and I'll leave it at that because it should that I have councilwoman Ms councilwoman kton and then you're next go ahead councilwoman okay councilwoman C Oh I thought you was calling Mims first that's what you said no no you the Flor before I mean I I was going to request that we remove this item because even when I looked at the second version of it it's still not specifically saying names it don't have names as a matter of fact it says anybody with five or more people in public including but not limit to Street and sidewalk that would put me in trouble because sometimes I open my back truck and my back of my car and I give up 20 10 people walk up to me and says that are you making a motion councilwoman I'll second it I make yes I making a motion that we remove it because it don't specific no I'm not finished I'm not finished it don't say it says proposed location but it don't say where collector what do that means I don't know what collector means it still doesn't say I'm saying when I looked at Seventh Day Adventist Church the other day and the porn down rain and that line was always from 11th Avenue all the way back to 10th Avenue and it was pouring down rain and when I look at it like but it don't specifically said they keep saying it's not for City resident it's not for City organization but their names are not in here their names are not I can go with food I can clearly go with food anybody should be coming here feeding they should not but you got non items CC I'm not finished counc president I'm not finished but I'm just saying that take some of this stuff out that it's not important that okay open ear I I'm trying to understand I you know I hear what they said that um some of the the food pantes leave mess I don't know not one food pantry that leave a mess they all clean up after they finish they all there's some mushroom no this okay thank youc council members let's do this councilwoman just give me a minute there's on the floor by councilwoman K and second by councilwoman M now I'm we're gonna take a let's take a look at this item because this is the most sensitive item of yes it item number two discussion are we in discussion council president yes we are in discussion so that's the reason I'm opening the discussion so Mar marry the item into record first please please minute this item is first reading it's on first reading MAD CL will read the item into the record and then we're going to open the discussion go ahead Madame clerk so the item is a first reading ordinance no public hearing is required it's an ordinance creating partisan code chapter 379 entitled resource distribution it's sponsored by Health and Human Services Department I have a motion byoun second by Council discussion Council right after counc I just want before I go into my discussion I want Clarity so is this she read it but now Council M needs to make her motion to remove it that's so to open I'm seconding her motion to remove it okay and then we can have a discussion a discussion if you remove it because that's fine coun let's have the discussion let's have the director involved in the discussion right after that if one of the council members no I mean we'll move forward with removing it we'll wait so Council Council councilman bz and right after that councilman Ruby Kon Council mavila and then director Jo Ram that is on the line will that is on the beating council president um I thought there's a motion on the floor so we have to vote so there's no discussion we have to vote what I understood councilwoman what I what I hear that you agree was to have the discussion right after that if you want to put a mushroom if you want to keep the mushroom on the floor you're ready to do so that's what I that's what that's what I understood from you no no that's not what I stated what I stated was there was a motion to read the item there was a counter to the motion by Council mton to remove it and I second it so at this point there should be a roll call to determine if we're removing it or not yes then after that we can open and go into discuss I was expecting I was suspecting to have a discussion since we have the director but let's take care of the motion if the the motion go through then we we're going to have the discussion on the workshop if the if if the item stay on the floor we will have an open discussion man clerk let's do a roll call to remove this item from the agenda um by councilwoman uh C second by councilwoman mes yes Mr President yeah yes roll call to remove item number two from the um meeting agenda of April 9th CW woman cotton let me hear you're mute you're muted councilwoman I'm sorry G director out please mute your mic director I'm requesting that this item be removed because it's not clearly stating what streets were being chosen that they can do distribution to it's not even telling us uh they want to know the details of how many people they're going to be servicing and most of the time sometimes you're really not sure how many people you are servicing uh when I was thinking that it was just food but it's more than just food I can go with food we shouldn't have people coming inside the city Distributing food and we're not sure who they are but this is going this is going way past food it's going to not Paris item can good um box of cereals um I mean we're going in and it says um once you reach once you reach five people then you then then you're breaking the law I mean I that's the case I open the back of my truck cuz I have stuff back there from from from from other food pantries that donate that I give out then I would be it don't they said that they were going to say this will not affect the people for the city of Patterson who wants to do community service who wants to help the community who wants to do things it's not specifically saying that it's not it's not saying no name and I think the most part to me is that the police has the power to go in and and and and just go in and search without for for whatever reason like why would you a police department is already working in overload with other things why would we want to put um police power in here to to be able to go into a building to stop what you're doing to take everything I can't I don't understand it I think this this this work I think this item this ordinance need to have a little bit more work on it I think it needs to be tweeted a little better if you're saying not pan vent then put pisan V in here if it's saying pison organizations are not going to be affected with this then you need to put Pon residents patteron organization nonprofits are not going to be effective with this um Madam clerk to remove is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman Dava well it is clear to me that there's a lot of information that some of my colleagues um are requesting um this did go through committee but with that said all right um I want to respect the fact that you know I heard even some other things today and so I think you know to director and I apologize that I almost at 10:00 while you're fasting you know this should have been removed from the beginning of our so just for future if there's something that you uh don't feel deemed for it to move forward we should do it in the beginning instead of having a director here for hours okay um but I am going to support the removal so it can go back to a bigger discussion and maybe some clarifications on some of the things that my colleagues are requesting so at the time I vote is yes to remove for first reading thank you coun woman councilman Jackson yes councilman khik conwoman mes and so as you go through and I know we're voting to remove it but I had a lot of concerns too one the fine being $22 another concern what inspectors would be out we don't really have weak inspectors were not fully staffed so would that require us to hire more people what would that budget look like would it be overtime what does that look like that's another concern um Also it talks about um the entities needing to put together a plan who will Monitor and review that plan is there a model of the plan that will be utilized so that entities will be able to do it right the first time where it talks about the location security Personnel um so what will that report looks like and then who will monitor that report for um the adherence and compliance to this new law the other piece is um it talks about the police department I don't I'm I don't think this went through Public Safety so I'm going to ask it not only goes through Health and Human Services it also needs to go through the Public Safety Committee because now we're putting on extra work to the police department where the police department under uh police Powers it says that the police department having the jurisdiction they're the ones that would have to go out and enter and inspect all of this stuff to make sure it's done and in or it's not done and then they also have the power to shut it down my thing is and I'll say this as we go to remove it and I want to make sure that if we put forth any legislation this or anything in the future whatever we put forward number one let's make sure that it's going to be enforced because legislation without enforcement means absolutely nothing number two let's make sure that the entities that will be involved in the process are fully on board and that if there's a situation that they can do it number three when it comes to the uh temperature of the food I made that request how many times do we check the food when we when someone comes and they pick up our permit who checks the temperature of the food there are many events that go on in the city and I just haven't seen not saying that it hasn't been done but I just don't see people periodically because that's how was supposed to happen checking the temperature of the food to ensure that no one gets sick so these are some of the concerns and I'm sure there are um many other concerns um and who will be our monitor to be at these locations and there will be many events at the same time so how would we do that so I'm grateful that we're putting this to remove it um and we got received many calls through this item um being put forward but I think we have to make sure that what we put in one Ward or with one group of people the shoe fits across the board we have to stop putting forth legislation that impacts the most uh the most impoverished parts of our community the people that are in need we know that they're coming to feed them because there's a need they're coming to clothe them because there's a need and we we have to be cautious and and pulling away from making sure that these people that have the need because if they didn't have the need they would not be sitting on the line some of them are onlines that are around the corner waiting and this may be the only meal maybe the only clothing items that these people will have so we have to be careful in our delivery um in this and as well who brought this forward because I mean they went to the administration the administration said a council person board forward I don't know who brought this forward I know Council MERS did not bring this forward but that's another question where they it was a point in fingers who did it was it the mayor was it this person and everybody's pointing the fingers so when it's brought back whoever is the person that's leading the charge that needs to be clear and stated that they're leading this charge so that we as the council if if it's not the council will not be blame for something we did not do to remove this item Madam clerk um I just believe that we need to um to do things right there's so many bigger issues I'm not saying that this is not but we have bigger issues in our community with major craters not potholes at this point all over the city we got to do that we got to clean the city and fix up some other stuff this item right here we should remove it bring it back at a later time when when the need is much greater Madam clerk my vote is yes to remove it thank you Dr mes councilman Valance thank you madam clerk um you know I was holding a little bit because um there was a lot of I received calls I don't know councila receive it um I know Council Ruby cotton probably receive it and and listen in but the call that I received was this one coun of somebody saying out there that you blocking to help homeless people that you you don't want people to feed the Homeless and that you blocking every every um um um how do you call it uh food distribution churches and all that stuff and I say come on please read the ordinance first because people put an interpretation that is not the right one now I respect my colleagues we I didn't brought this up the director has a committee that was discussing committee why they want to bring this up and and nobody have given the chance to director how this came up to us but now when we have people out there okay even you know that are feeding the rest uh feeding the homeless you don't know where they coming they don't they not registering no organization I'm talking to people out there not talking about F pan I'm not talking about churches that do their uh the work inside of churches as you know Council me council member every church that have a full Pantry in their church or serve to the community they have to go to S to the Border help and get the permits to be able to serve and they get inspected too to make sure that what they Distributing out there will not harm Les no resident now I sent uh I sent s the link of a story uh not a story of uh from Newark municipality uh uh uh the mayor um Ras Barack Baraka about why he took initiative to implement permit and the permit is free is that for example Ruby kind I know you give a lot of things from your car I know that and they are good and everybody go trust what you giveing okay you're the kinds of women you care if put things in my car and give it to the residents I know they're coming from somebody that is trustful but there's a lot of people coming from outside the city that don't have to do nothing with the city putting food out there they're not telling the Board of Health where they prepare the food they not telling the Board of Health the temperature they're not even asking the people that consuming that food if you suffer diabetes or whatever and they just giving that food and then you're going to have a problem out there and and somehow or whatever we going to be liable in one point or other um because we want to regulate not not to not to attack F Pantry like they say that we attack him there's somebody that say that councilman belet say don't don't give of close to people don't give um um something to cover to and that was you know we in political C everybody gonna say a lot of things I I agree but this subject cannot be discussed in in Zoom we need to sit down okay sit down and have a a a a a big discussion I understand the resolution where it comes from and where it's going and where are we going with this but this we are here to protect the people out there that comes people come on ourside and giving out things that listen you want to hear this I went to a place okay the person was giving out food and this is my experience was giving package and I took one it was out of date it was out of date so how we could prevent people coming here just dumping food everywhere and and and and putting food bags of boxes of of of boxes of food in the Parks and all that stuff and then we searching around why our parks are dirty we searching around who put that food there you know this respectful full pantry I have one in my in front of my house from that church uh uh the greatest uh Bible grader church and they serve the community with a big capacity and they do everything in order but the people that comes out in the street needs to register to say listen I'm doing this Goodwill okay and this is how it should go I don't know why if new could implement it uh mayor rasb Rock okay could implement it if any other mayor around the city of patteron are implementing things to just save you know and making sure that we are doing the right thing you know I don't see nothing wrong on it um I'm going to respect everybody position but we cannot discuss this in Zoom uh sometime the connection uh don't go through uh uh people talk over some people and we want to make sure that when we when we put this on the floor and discussion Workshop or whatever is is beted the right way and Corporation Council that wrote the ordinance and could explain the legal aspect of it and people could have a clarification what this mean and anybody that is out there we not against full Pantry we're not against churches doing what the call a service okay so let's keep it clear councilman valz is not against nobody that are doing a good will and give it back to the community uh saying that uh I going to respect this uh this motion my vote is yes for future conversation thank thank you councilman valz Mr President thank you mad CL councilman M clerk so so uh before I vote uh let me just say that you know I I definitely have uh confidence on the job the our director of joah R for Health and Human Services doing um I understand they intent um we have a lot of people as we hear before from some of my Council colleag that we don't know where they came from they just come into our city and they try to help but we have no idea where they came from what are they serving in the street and and that and that's a legitimate problem I also know that there's a lot of entity in our community that doing a phenomenal job helping the community and not only helping the homeless there's people with one and two job here that also need assistance with Grocery and we have so many great churches with food pantry that are doing the work and putting that additional grocery on and you know on the table for those family we we have to be mindful of that uh you know so and there's been a lot of misinformation on this piece of legislation but definitely um I also will acknowledge you know my Council College request to send it back to the workshop to have it to have more discussion on and also my recommendation to all my Council K is let's use this time uh to send a question to the director our opinion recommendation that way when we when we have the discussion again about this item all our input will be connected will be in the body of the resolution I hear a lot of great comments from my Council Cali and also the concern is you know the resident the churches the not for-profit the entity that we have in the city that we know that they doing a phenomenal job uh helping our community and we need them uh out there uh to continue doing the phenomenal work that they've been doing so I will also the uh table in this resolution sending back to a future time so with that being said uh my vote is yes mad clerk thank you Mr President the votes are six yeses three absences item number two has been removed from the regular meeting agenda yes madame clerk there's another item item 35 from the director and my apologies to director re meeting I was not aware that he was fasting and I know it's 10:00 already so let's take care this last item that way he go home and grab something to e so let's take care item 35 from Health and Human Service councilwoman uh M clerk item 35 is a resolution authorizing the accepting of a grant for the 2024 week Seniors Farmers Market nutrition program it's for Health and Human Services resolution 24 col 257 so moved move by councilman mes council president C discussion Council M Ms so um thank you to uh thank you council president to the viewing public to the director I think this is a phenomenal um item that is being brought forward um and I just want the director to come on to give an a overview of what this item is is because one of the uh one of the requests I made last week for this particular item is that it's opens up so more seniors can be able to receive the benefits of getting uh these vouchers to receive fruit um from our community so if uh council president director Ramirez he can um just give a brief overview and let our seniors know how they can go about receiving these vouchers so they can get some fresh produce and fruit from our community thank you thank you counc m we right in sync right on point and on the same page let let open the floor for director Joor RZ that way he could give us a detail on this great resolution number 35 director thank you council president thank you Dr Mims for your inquiry um as I mentioned during the workshop this is a program that we run during the Summers uh it is funded by the state uh they have a list of vendors that are pre-approved uh we have posted this um on the city's website and we will be sharing it in social media uh our senior services staff will be reaching out as they did last year to all of the senior buildings in the city uh they are a able to uh either come to senior services at Riverside vets or come to 125 Ellison Street uh at our office and we will uh fill out the application for them and we will immediately print the voucher uh there's a QR code that is issued uh last year we had over 700 QR codes issued uh for resident of the um of the city um there are criteria they have to be over 60 years of age and they do have an income criteria uh if they call my office at 973 3211 1242 again 973 3211 1242 we can give them more information uh and we can um start taking their name and number so that when the vouchers um are available we can start um issu issuing them um their vouchers uh with the names of the vendors they can actually um go purchase fruits and vegetables from beautiful thank you counc president one more and even can you speak to if they're not able to like be able to come to the office what what are the um accommodations that are in place for those seniors that may not have access to come to iride vet or to 125 Allison Street so Hilda and Diane at senior services will make accommodations um we will take the information over email text messages uh we do have to have proof of income uh so we'll make a accomodations we'll work with everyone um last year again we went to the senior buildings Diane went to the senior buildings we actually through the grant purchas a laptop and a mobile printer so we're able to go to the senior buildings and print right there beautiful thank you council president so to the viewing public um you've heard it this is a great program not all of our seniors participated so I wanted this item to be on regular so that our director could talk about this phenomenal program where you're able as seniors based on income requirements um and eligibility that you're able to receive this uh free fruit and produce from um through the state uh Grant fund thank you council president thank you um Council woman R call cler on item 36 uh if I may council president Council MCC I sorry I'm sorry director uh Ramirez um uh I remember some years ago um you had to go to the farmers market is this similar to that program uh um because I don't know when they started it at the uh Riverside vet when they started bringing the items over to riversid V how long they've been doing at the riversid vet now no so what we do is we issue the QR code at the Riverside vets or at my office we have the cap printing of printing here or at Riverside vets and then where they go now the state mandate that's why they provided us the funding for the laptops and the mobile printer they're daating that it's a digital application and then we issue the QR code so we can send it to their phone or we'll print it here in our offices so where do they go pick up the items there's a list of vendors like City Green City Green you know they set up those uh Community um shops downtown by the gry falls um or there are vendors at the farmers market who accept the wick program and and they are in the list the state gives us the list and we can provide that list and we do provide provide the list to everyone who applies oh so when they once you do the list because they're not picking it up at Riverside vet they have to put one of the they have to go um to one of the um vendors that's on the list correct okay thank you thank you R call clerk on item 36 council president council president sorry Council uh director when you get a chance uh can you email me the vendors you know I know you say the form Market by railroad East Railroad right correct yes sir okay so uh the reason I I I I wanted interject on this because we have a numerous of supermarket close to the seniors building right and uh some of them cannot drive down to the farmer market I want to see the list to we because we want to have more people participating and and closer to the houses um make sure that we had those vendors in place we got a you know I have I have four four senior complex in the in the fifth War you know SE uh site and um and you got more supermarket around the senior uh senior building than going driving into 1 or to the other side of the city agree agree Council mes director if you could provide the list of yes I will I will send the list that was uh given to us for the 2023 we have not received the one for 2024 but just to answer the councilman the list is given to us by the state they have to be approved by the state we can't just put vendors in there exactly we can work with City green and see if they can establish that mobile market near the senior buildings thank you so director yes once once the state approved the list it share the list with the entire governing body and it's our job to promote the list and let our senior know those are the location how to apply call the health department and you know and that's that's that's that's going to be our job right after the state approv the list and all council members should start calling and making sure that every constituent and your war and our large also as well get that information roll call on item 36 roll call on item number 35 for approval conoman cotton 35 yes thank you councilwoman Dava cilman Jackson yes Council councilman colleague is he no he's not there councilwoman mimes um and so just in closing and I'll do my vote this will be quick um that's why information is power to make sure that this great opportunity that is happening in our community our seniors are fully aware not just a portion of our seniors but all of our seniors are aware of this uh this fruit and produce that is available to the community at no Co at no cost based on income and verification eligibility so once we get that information to uh Madame ba I believe Madame ba is on Madame ba if we can have this rotating on our uh access Channel and our website um so that our community at large can see it and also if it could be published or do a robo call so that our seniors are are readily U made aware of great opportunity to provide them with fresh produce thank you my vote is yes mam clerk thank you Dr Ms councilman bz thank you madam Madame clerk I just want to commend uh the Department of Human Services uh for the diligent work they do with our CER Joel uh Hilda you know I know Hilda does a great job informing us at Council uh when they have event with the seniors out there uh yesterday I was with a group of seniors in a building and uh they mentioned about this bow show and they excited uh to receive it uh uh communication is the key um uh uh Joel ramir director sorry uh uh please utilize us for for examinate you know to put that information out there any time you want that's why we hear the voice of the people and you could call us uh when we we ready to uh uh make sure all our seniors uh get the Ben this will benefit not only in the senior building this is to benefit all our seniors in the city of patteron and according to AARP 55 years old up is a senior I believe so okay my vote is yes thank you councilman V councilwoman Dava so I want to begin first you know by apologizing to our director I I I really do um these items I know that you do your due diligence um you know councilwoman cotton who is part of the um committee these items go through a committee process then it's bought to Workshop discussions can be there um and definitely doing regular also we can you know make our statements or whatever but I want to apologize because you know what we have to respect everyone right and I requested a few times to take his items early because of his fasting but with that said we're here to do a job right and we're doing it and um you know clarifications have been made items have been removed and right now we're voting on something that I know that you know um from his directorship as long and his leadership along with everyone under his team they do their due diligence and as councilman VES and everyone has stated this is for all of our seniors and just to correct councilman VES uh you receive your double ARP card when you turn 50 okay so I don't think I'm a senior yet but um I'm I'm close close I'm close but that's okay because I'm blessed because I'm still alive um my my apologies to you um director um you know with that said you know my vote is yes thank you councilwoman DAV council president thank you thank you m CL Council MAV you're making me feel bad you're making me think that I keep the D I kept the director all night long here but direct the director's committed with his job he understand that we have serious business to take care and he know that we respect his job and let me start by say thank you director for your outstanding job uh the work that you've been doing with the city and this is a great program and what I'm saying like the best way to help the community is by giving the community the right information for them to take advantage and I'm going to tell you this director the director uh Barbara of uh the rehab program nobody was applying for that I do it just a quick video and I just put it on my social media and people start applying like never before we have 600 people on the list of the reab program that's what we should be doing and with this we have to be behind the director and the Health and Human Service and the health department to make sure that everybody knows because this is very important this is not only for senior of the Leb senior building this is for all senior in the city of patteron attention to my third world residents I have a lot of senior in the third world that they're homeowner but they live on a fit income and with the tax the constantly tax increases that we've been getting throughout the years and with the the cost of living that it going up up up and doesn't stop and and the fixed income it's almost impossible for some of the senior to be able to put food in the table so this program is for every senior in the city of pison I want to repeat the number uh for the director's office which is 973 321 1242 start calling once we get the list approved by the state all council member we should start promoting the list making sure that everybody take that the opportunity to be to have addition of food on the table with that being said my votage yes B thank you Mr President the the votes are six yeses three absences item number 35 is hereby adopted thank you if I if I may correct you council president actually we got over 750 applications in a community development for that program for that people need to be people that need work done on their property so it's 750 council president yes thank you coun it's keep growing Council I keep going I I keep sending to her somebody go to her every day that I send you be surprised you be surprised CC president Council colleagues what they do fix in the house oh the roof window roof window you name it it's amazing it's a blessing that's a great program and and and and I would like to encourage a resident to just keep applying and promoting this uh every day and it's uh and we we helping a lot of resident of the city of p and it's not alone it's a money that in five years you cannot sell your property in five years after five years we should release the dis restriction on your property so council members we're got to get into public portion let me remind the public if they want to participate on the public portion they could call the number 973 3211 1579 meeting ID it's 8326 press the start one to listen to the meeting and press the start three to be added into the speaker room it's 10:17 Madame CL do we have any uh speaker yes we do we have about 24 speakers oh 24 speakers so so council members we have 24 speaker are been repeating the number to call so they on the line so let me start by opening the public portion right now so we got we have 27 speaker so we're going to close the let's close the call and let's takeing care of those 27 speaker that we have let's call speaker number one mad clerk speaker you please state your name for the record and go ahead you're on member of the public please go ahead they're not there okay to the speaker come into the um line mad clerk let me remind everybody if you're waiting and you press the start one you have to press the start three to be added into the speaker room uh so the system work really well so we just have to do it properly 973 3211 1579 start one to be to listen and start three to be added yes is he there so while we wait again the number to call in for the meeting is 973 3211 1579 and enter meeting ID 8326 press one press star one to listen to the meeting and star three to be added to the speaker key yes once again members of the public 973 3211 1579 meeting ID is 8326 press the start one to listen to the meeting and if you want to speak on the poly portion press the start three to be added into the speaker room okay okay this is zy Thomas from please state your name for the record go ahead speaker yes this is zel Thomas from black Liv M Patterson first I want to say that nowhere in this ordinance does it say that this only applies to only outside organizations nowhere The Villa is lying to the public on that regard second instead of fighting poverty the mayor Patterson is fighting the poor his new ordinance regulates individuals and organizations that help community members in need the phrase cleaning up Patterson or cleaning up Broadway doesn't mean removing debris it means removing poor and unhoused people from the public view in rid of poor people is not the same as getting rid of poverty we all deserve a cleaner City but a cleaner City sorry we all deserve a clean a city it should REM it should mean removing litter not removing people ordinance like this hurt and already hurting Community the mayor wanted to hire a PR firm is part of a plan to Rebrand Patterson as a place for developers to invest in but we need to stop investing in buildings and start investing in people that live here the mayor and bz are keep talking talking about food this is not about food handling if it was the ordinance would just talk about the distribution of food but this ordinance regulates all tangible items which includes clothes socks ponchos hand warmers or even the lock Zone that used to reverse overdoses this is not about the garbage Patterson seas because it's so dumping is so widespread in the city that violence ordinances by selling furniture on sidewalks the irony of potentially going to jail for supporting people who may have been recently been released from jail this is about creating a burden to organizations and individuals supporting and ignore population and hopes that they stop but we refuse to ignore our community members despite the mental health issues despite their substance use disorders despite the choice of employment or lack of the only way we can address the real issues of patteron the systemic racism and poverty is not to sweep it under the rug or to push it to another block but to invest in the people and the organizations that help them vote no on ordinance in all variations vote for love vote for Humanity thank you thank you Sally Thomas next speak on CLK yes Mr put the next one through Ryan okay just a minute Mr President yeah there's no one there I can okay guys President we have more speakers on on que yes we have 23 speakers in 23 speaker in que okay it's a process for them to come on so they're being um that's that's that's a good number because my my clock says 10:23 oh boy okay I'm Community Development um council president if I may I'm getting text messages of people that says they're online but it's not letting them on and it says they're on Queue but it's not letting them on and is kicking some of them off as well oh okay so Ryan can you check that out just make sure that because we have the 23 speaker and they are they so they in the waiting room so we just we got to make sure that they're going to be able to connect with us um to be able to listen today while we're waiting I may just um announce that early voting for the municipal election is May 10th 11 and 12th 2024 so early voting for the municipal election of May 14th 2024 is on May 10th 11th and 12 the polling locations are the Heritage at Alexander Hamilton and the fire department 300 McBride Avenue that's for early voting only thank you thank uh thank you Madame clerk let's also repeat the phone number for the uh pass of Resident that we should speak on the public portion the phone number it's 973 3211 1579 the meeting ID is 8326 press a star one to listen to the meeting and press a star three to be added into the speaker room so uh we have 23 speaker man cler do we have anybody already there Ryan is having issues queing them up he said are they following the step other on so they Press Start three to be out in the speaker room right good good evening can you please St your name for the record and go ahead hello yes can you hear me yes I can you hear me take this phone hello here take that phone you're hello you hear me yes yes please state your name for the record bias go ahead Mr bias did we lose her Mr bias please go ahead for some reason it's knocking people off but I'm not sure what's going on she's not there right she was there for a minute but she's gone is someone else there not showing on my end while we're waiting I'm going to put the request back on the floor as I did last week U Madame ba we need to look into a system our system is Antiquated um and it's embarrassing that we're not able to allow our public to call in so I'll make another request that due to uh the lack of of us being in a modern technology stage with our equipment that council president we need to if we're going to continue to be in a place where we can't use the chambers that we will find another space to U utilize to sure our public has an opportunity to speak I I I agree with you uh Council Ms uh this you know we spoke about this we we have this request before uh and you know so I have zoom meeting virtual meeting every day on my business that we have enough technology up there uh and effective technology to speak with people uh in uh in the United States and out of the United States anywhere effectively I don't know why we got to we got to look into this I have a a consistent that is is telling me that he keep telling that he telling him that he's number one on the on the on the call so so president council president if I may and I'm going to say this because I think that councilwoman Mims would agree with me you as well and others that have a with zoom I don't know why we have all these difficulties when in Zoom we can we can go ahead and advertise the link of the meeting and once you and then the person who's handling the meeting will have an open room and then you will allow them one by one so to be part of the meeting so I'm not sure because I've been in meetings at the college with a lot of people all right and only the Selected Few will speak like the administration and then they allow us to come in so there is a way to do this that we do not have to spend any more money let us use zoom wisely because I think what it is is we're not using it to its fullest capacity I I agree with you I I that's the reason why I mentioned there's a different technology that we could use to allow 20 40 50 people no Zoom you can do it through Zoom council president member of the public yes yes what you do is you give everyone you advertise the link to everyone and then you only allow the individuals to come in once the meeting is over thank you give me give me a second speaker please go ahead we have we have a speaker on on the on the room they're not on so council president me while they come Council or let's get a school let's get a place you know and do the meeting because I don't want to get blamed that the zoom and this and that blah blah you know it's like let's get to school let's you know and we could do the meeting after after this meeting we have to look for speaker please go ahead please state your name I'm sorry yes yes yeah my name is James Brown from trth Christ incorporation the leader of faith and Patterson USA good evening and um I hear councilman valet saying that the food should be checked that the pantry food is being checked I work at like three pantries and I never seen them come check like maybe once or twice so the food that the pantries give out it's also outdated I just like to say that to you that the pantries the churches the Qs and all the other ones give out outdated food also I receive a lot of outdated food from some of these pantries so that cannot be the case of the situation or the problem about outdated food you don't say nothing about the people that's on main street blocking the sidewalks and causing traffic for all the vendors that be out there that's serving food and selling ices and all that stuff like that there that stuff being checked and just can't understand the reason why the people is speaking about feeding the homeless and saying they not against this they not against that but with this ordance you have to be against it because there's so many other places that serving fol and I don't see the health department going into these pantries checking to see if their food is frozen if their food is good or if they food is outdated so if you want to worry about those that's the small grassroot organization that's out there trying to feed the Homeless doing harm reduction and trying to get them to rehab and the move off the streets and stuff like that I think that you should go other places and look because the help is here and the Grassroots that's in patteron is doing a fantastic job and a lot of organizations out of patteron coming to patteron because patteron say they got all the grants in patteron because we are the third violent city in the state of New Jersey so they come in here to get the money not to help the people that's all I have to say thank you thank you Mr Brown um thank you next speak C yes Mr President just a moment council president next speaker comes up it's good that Joel Ramirez the Joel Ramirez the Director of Human Services okay clarify that they do inspections out there for all these facilities you know they go out there and never say that they don't yes have another good evening caller please go ahead please state your name and go ahead please state your name caller and go ahead hello yes please state your name can you hear me yes I'm hearing you yes my name is Timothy Tobias yes Mr Tobias yes Mr T you go hold on hello you hear me now now yes yes I am all right this is Michelle Tobias I want to know what happened last week when I was trying to speak when I heard the president say uh should we have any more speakers and Marissa said no and I want to know why what's going on I am the public and I am should be able to speak at this Podium I'm G let that one go now I would like to know when can we get the mayor to come in that seat and address some of these problems in this city it would be very nice I have another question for the shff hello yes hello yes I have another question sherff I hear him saying that he want to get drones or whatever thr Through the Windows and it'll help when somebody's in distress but I want to know can he get some of that money and put some more cameras on these poles in some areas where we live in senior buildings and other areas because I have a granddaughter that was shot and I haven't seen nothing done with that as of yet those are just some of my suggestions and I thank Miss cotton Mims and Mr Jackson for all these suggestions on these things that's important to the public and I want to tell the gentlemen who's in the boorder of Health who bringing those vouchers I thank him for those vouchers but the problem I had with the vouchers is that a lot of times we hold on to the vouchers and we didn't have nowhere to go redeem them because a lot of times when they came to our buildings we either we weren't home or I wasn't around and I lost a lot of those vouchers and I thank you for that program because I've been on it for many many years so those are my thoughts when my son want to say something here by city council again this is attempted by I'll be really really quick so I moved out of patteron 20 years ago came back to patteron I unfortunately still see some of the specifically some of the streets that need to be repaid I'm not gonna talk about that right now I I really do want to talk about there's a Street downtown patteron on the corner of Clark Street and Market Street to me I believe is a very unsafe intersection there looks like there used to be a a a traffic light there right but the traffic light is inoperable right now something has to be done about that intersection because it's very unsafe the other intersection too that I think is unsafe when you go across one of the bridges the last bridge I think was just remodeled on Bridge Street and Presidential Boulevard there's a three-way stop sign there which I think too is very unsafe it can be confusing we're familiar with two-way stop signs four-way stop signs but a three-way stop sign can be con can be extremely confusing and it can definitely be unsafe but those are my points thank you thank you next speak man cler yes Mr President just a minute a lot of people that are in the queue are being kicked off and they're calling back and being kicked off again and there's some people that are waiting they've been on for three hours so I'm a little bit over that so let's just be cognitive of that Ryan said they're in they're there they're you know he's just you're right Ryan said they're there they're not following the procedure then there's nothing he can do to get them into if they don't follow the procedure thank you mad CL let me let me just repeat the number and and also for the viewing public um in order for you to be into the speaker room you need to follow the whole process the phone number is 973 3211 1579 right after that you the meeting ID is 8326 then you press a star one to listen listen to the meeting and if you want to speak you need to press the start three to be added into the speaking room and from there what will open we'll bring you into the meeting so once again 973 3211 1579 meeting ID 8326 press the start one to listen and press the start three to be added into the speaker room so council president I I'm getting I mean many people are texting me that are online they're saying and they are doing it correct L they're saying that when they come in it tells them that they're on the speaker list and as soon as they get in the queue it's hanging them up then they call back the same message it's hanging them up and they keep calling back in but the system and that's why we know it's an Antiquated dinosaur system we have to get up to date we can use of Zoom we could use web ads we just have to publicize the link and then identify who the callers are and the caller by name and number and just reel them in like we have to if we can't be in another location we have to make that happen um next week it's embarrassing people are are viewing us all over the state and my phone is is on fire right now from people that can't call in and people that are watching it's very embarrassing I I totally agree Council last week we had 20 speaker and they all went through the process and it worked really well I I'm very sure that the the community knows the process we've been so we have another speaker finally please state your name for the record go ahead speaker go ahead please hello this is Deborah Hannibal can you hear me yes I'm hearing you go ahead miss hanal good evening council members council president Madame Clerk and the administration I have been holding for over three and a half hours to be dropped approximately six times so thankfully I'm not I don't give up easy so I would like to beg that you respect the time of the residents by starting the meetings on time and allowing the public to speak prior to 10 p.m. the low turnout and recent elections screamed to me that patter residents feel hopeless powerless and may even feel as if their vote does not count just like tonight fellow residents I beg you not to give up on yourselves or on the city we must turn out to vote like never before on May 14th you will have the opportunity to take your power back if you do not feel like your concerns are being represented represented you will have the opportunity to elect the council person for your a please go to vote411.org to learn more about what is important to those running for the council seats you will be able to register to vote on that site check to see if you're registered and uh you will also be able to sign up to be a poll worker I'm going to attempt to speak as respectfully as possible because I recognize the sensitivity of some when they are being called out by the lack of preparation during these meetings which should be considered business meetings even tonight the information the backup information was not there so rather than doing the business we have to pull items and come back to the table a thoughtful person will be able to discern that the matters that I come to this meeting to address our business related and express my concern for the state of this city a city that I love I have come here in the past to talk about P public safety concerns shootings us having to bury our children prematurely I even told the story of having to shout to my mom to get down because there were shooting outside of the place where we live she is someone who loves sitting outside in her backyard and last summer that was taken away from her something has to be done about this city I last there's so many issues I I I've talked about the sporting events for our youth there are no restrooms and no bleachers as a taxpayer I am concerned about how we are spending our monies and I will continue to draw attention to the ba receiving a $50,000 raise which amounts to almost $125,000 over the past two and A2 years and our children don't have bleachers when they are hosting tournaments and lastly I'm concerned about the attempts to S to silence opposing views eight versus one is not something to be proud of I'm someone who believes that I can learn three minutes is up mad clerk speaker mad clerk next speaker Ryan let me remind the public that it's not us um that we don't cut anybody after after the three minute it's the system that right after 3 minute finish the call and just open the system for the next call so so once again it's not us it's the system that open the um the time you know the space for new call yeah they're going to the process council president all right so while we wait the number to call to be a part of this meeting is 973 3211 1579 enter meeting ID 8326 press one if you want to listen to the meeting press star three to be added to the speaker key again press star one if you just want to listen to the meeting or press star three to be added to the speaker key thank you thank you m clerk so once again patteron 973 3211 1579 meeting ID 8326 press the star one to listen to the meeting but if you want to speak and participate on the public portion you have to press the start three to be added into the speaker room and to members of the public most of the time um I never had this um the public portion that stay please state your name speaker and go ahead go ahead good evening you're not there please state your name and go ahead member of the public coun president I'm going from my phone to my tablet can you let me in uh yes I'm I haven't touched anything counsilman so let me just um let me look for you on the uh yes um um perhaps just just a maybe a recommendation to the public perhaps people can call in maybe if they can call the council person we'll go off mute and then we can hear them through that way because they're not getting through the system and a lot of people are in que it's kicking them off they're back in que they've been waiting for a long time maybe it'll make it easier unfortunately for tonight that the people that are on hold or trying to call in can call council members and then we can allow through our phone we can bring them on so that they can be heard for the three minutes and then somebody could just time them that might be another option since we can't get them through this Antiquated system that's correct so so at the end of the meeting I would like to hear from Ryan because of the last meeting we have 20 speaker and the public portion was really smooth well with the with the difficulty that people need to understand that they have the three minutes but that the last Workshop it was really smooth now I see all the um difficulties all the problems so uh we definitely have to resolve this matter before we get into our next um virtual meeting you can't you still haven't let me in council president um uh so I see you I see you here so um there's one on my my phone then there's one says the host has joined we let them know you're here okay so I have Miss Francis Harrison do you want me to put her on speaker and let her speak while we're waiting for the queue please go ahead speaker on the line right now go ahead good evening good evening please state your name for the record I don't know which other I'm listening to Lisa because I started out at number 23 then I was number one then I was number 17 then I was one again so I'm on my cell phone and my house phone so which one am I talking on you're in the council queue now C with your phone so we send it to you har to turn one yes okay hello um she hung up the council queue and now the council que instead of counc you in already try get back in I lo there's another one I'm going to tell you any other speaker coun uh mad Clark yes there is a speaker queueing up very they're going through the menu Ryan said thank you Council you're in at the meeting so yeah back um so once again Patterson 973 3211 1579 is the number meeting ID 8326 press star one to be added in the list and press star three to be added on the speaker room uh so any any speaking about clerk not as yet not can you ask they're coming in right now Ryan said if we could have an explanation from it why why you know it's what what this is H why is happening that like this now so since the last meeting we had 20 20 speaker right when we went to we went through 20 speaker 23 right one after another one and now the whole system is is is collapsing collapsing so you can't get any call speaker are you there hi this is Jenna can you hear me yes I'm hearing you now please go ahead hi everyone so this is Jenna Miller from New Jersey harm reduction Coalition I really appreciate um everyone who has come on tonight to express their concerns about this ordinance I everything that I heard described um is not what I read in the draft ordinance so it was incredibly broad sweeping so broad sweeping that people could be arrested for giving out voter registration forms without a permit giving out nooo and the medicine that reverses an overdose without a permit giving out uh prepackaged Foods cooked Foods um really the thing that strikes home for me is I think about the um earthquake and if people had been hurt in that earthquake with the draft that I saw people if anyone had been hurt people could be arrested fined up to $2,000 and 90 days in jail for bringing food or water or toilet paper or a few dollars to buy groceries to other people this ordinance was shocking and appalling it would criminalize helping people and supporting those with the least and it is so fortunate that so many people on this call like zel Thomas from black lives matter and Bri azano from black lives matter Patterson who she's waiting to speak um James Brown so many Ruby so many people um can work with the city council to find uh answers to what the problems that you've raised like litter because Community is the answer to those problems and you have people here who want to help and so I I urge the council to scrap this entirely and take a different approach an approach that doesn't criminalize people but that works with your community to find Solutions because again Community is the answer thank you next speaker mad CL next speaker Ryan just a moment council president e e so while we wait for the speaker to come on I'll just remind callers that the number to call is 973 3211 1579 enter meeting ID 8326 press star one to listen to the meeting or Star three to be added to the speaker lineup person there I'd also like to remind our viewing public that early voting for the municipal election of May 14 2024 with um or May 10th 11 and 12th that's early voting will be conducted for the municipal election on May 10th 11th and 12th now the callers are receiving a m message say stating that it's an application error that's the message that they're receiving now hello hello hello please state your name and please state your name and go ahead sir can you hear me yes I'm hearing you go ahead yes this is Charles ferer yes Mr fer please go ahead good evening Mr CH okay so I'm sitting and I'm sitting here I was told I was number 20 and and now I'm the one speaking so I'm sitting here listening to this and this is like completely unacceptable so here's a suggestion you have shared services with the school district I don't know how long the city council chambers are going to be out of circulation take the meeting to East Side take the meeting to Kennedy they have the system set up they have mics and everything bring it to another venue this is not working but I have to agree with councilwoman Davila I've been on Zoom calls with a thousand people and we haven't had these issues I I I really don't know what's going on but but they have that you have to do better this is unacceptable if you can't get your Zoom system right you need to do some practice with whoever's doing it because it's not that difficult uh uh or give people the link now so that they can come on the zoom so that that they can do it that way for those that have the ability to do that uh because it it just makes no sense I'm really not going to get into this other situation but we have a homeless problem in the city of patteron and doing what I'm hearing that you're talking about doing that's not the answer what what you might want to do is set a designated area where people will receive food or or help or whatever and one or two areas so that you can have better control of it but deny people and some of the things when I'm hearing people complain because people were giving tents and stuff like that would we have rather had them out there sleeping and freezing on the streets there there's a problem uh you got all these developers building all kinds of building take a building and renovate it into a building designated for just homeless people I I I don't know but there's something that has to be done but put in something that's going to stop people from helping come on now if you do for the least of my brethren you do for all so so I I think you need to rethink that that's not the answer it's a bad recommendation and it's not a good look for pison and right and we we we spend our time in school teaching children to give and to help and then and they get to become adults like my former student zel Thomas and now you want to penalize them for doing just that make it make sense because right now you're not thank you have a good evening thank you Mr charge now let's pick him on clerk yes Mr President just a moment I'm GNA say what nobody probably will say this is embarrassing to be the third large largest City in the state of New Jersey and we can allow the public to to come on to the meeting at this point because there's so many issues we wasted uh almost an hour and a half public is frustrated they've been waiting on for three hours whatever that time limit is we need to come up with a way to allow the people that are trying to call in to to be gain access whether it's providing the zoom link to those individuals that are in q or allowing those Zoom the people inq to call a council member and we open up our line and let them speak so that this can be Council will appreciate this work expeditiously done but we have to do something because we're just sitting here and nothing's happening it's kicking people off they're getting System error messages consistently and it's just shameful that the public cannot speak they don't have access to call in so there needs to be an executive decision made because at this point whatever's Happ is not working so we need to make a decision council president to allow those people that are in queue to call in whe Zoom access or not please state your name and go ahead for go ahead please go ahead hello yes hello yes yes we're hearing go ahead sir yes we hear wow thank you guys thank you it's been about four or five hours listen this is Brother G president of patteron care most of you guys that's on that Council has been in the E with patteron Care at some point been to one of our functions donated in some form or fashion when I heard about this ordinance I was like wow these are the same Council people that help us so I'm happy that you guys are going to you know take this off the agender tonight and meet with the nonprofit organizations and you know Hammer this thing out but don't just come at us like you know you're gonna uh you're gonna find us put us in jail uh it's amazing that in the city of patteron you can refurbish a building without a permit but you're asking good hearted people to get a permit to do what Jesus did fed the poor went out into the communities in the neighborhoods this is what Jesus commanded us to do and now you want to put this permit thing on it and I mean I heard Lis valz mention nor if you want to take a page from nor and R Barack go visit the containers that they have over there for the hom you want to get them off the street get them a designated area like Charles F real just said let's make space for them I understand you know it's you know so many people out there that's that's doing good I I really understand that but don't penalize us for doing good do your job and provide housing for these individuals shelters for them and one other thing Mr Mayor I really I really like you Andre said it but if you really want to help the quality of life in this city find those cameras that was promised to us from the state to stop illegal dumping the illegal dumping in this city is out of control out of control I post almost daily I mean people call me the lest one AR Street uh Miss McNeil been screaming from the top of her lungs let's fix those things let's fix the flooding in patteron let's concentrate on on on on the bigger fish I want to say thank you thank you thank you I don't know whether to say good morning or good night because I've been on the phone for so long listen y'all y'all have a a blessed evening thank you thank you brother G um so council members uh and mad clerk Ryan came to my office and asked for uh to take a break he would check what what's wrong with the system so so so we have you know we went over to All N um so we went to the consent agenda I don't on the non consent agenda we have we have um two item on first reading and what is second reading those are the three last item that we have so so let's go back to let's wait for at least 10 minutes for Ryan to look at the system and see what's wrong with the system um let's give him that break and let's take care those two item on first reading and the one the one on second reading and then we'll open the the the line again to see if a problem because obviously there is a problem on the last meeting we have 20 speaker and all the 20 speaker came through with no problem everybody used the three minutes now uh out of the 23 speaker so we have just a few and it's almost impossible for them to connect that is a that is a legitimate problem that and we cannot continue having this virtual meeting if we're gonna have this situation we need to give a minute Council mes we need to allow the resident of the great city of Patterson to connect with us we need to hear from our resident so we got to fix this before the next meeting the next Workshop otherwise we're going to choose the plan b which is going to be a different venue for us to meet until we fix the chamber so with that being said council members please let's go to those three item and let's skip because we got 10 to 15 minutes for Ryan to find out what is the problem okay let's go to those two first raing item council members please yeah council president 117 very brief please yeah it's gonna be brief council president I I guess you have to take the first reading only first reading one because they don't need a public um input on it that's I mention and there was a there was a a a slash motion that councilwoman Ms uh did uh to get uh uh like farat I I said it before let's get another school let's get something so that motion is a motion so I I I will second that motion that without going to plan B let's do it next week in a school without going plan First Council Members First of all let's wait for Ryan to identify what is the problem with it I would I want to be able to see what's the problem because we're going to have at some point we need to utilize a virtual meeting for a secrity or close section and for future events we need to make sure that if we're going to utilize this virtual venue to conduct meeting and take form action on idem we need to make sure that the community is going to be able to get in touch with us and participate on the meeting in regardless if we go to a school next week so this it's on the table we need to hear what happened with the system and we need to invest in this system because I know in the future we're going to be we're going to have to use virtual meeting and then we're going to talk about a um different location for us to have a personal meeting so Madame clerk let's do item number two of number three I'm sorry on the on the first reading ordinance yes Mr President item number three is a first reading ordinance no public hearing is required it's an ordinance establishing a commercial loading zone on a portion of 21st Avenue for ganelli modern baking company thank you councilman abdalaziz we have a second second by Council counc roll on item number three yes Mr President roll call on item number three councilman abdulaziz yes councilwoman cotton yes thank you councilwoman Dava yes thank you councilman Jackson thank you madam clerk uh while we on the topic I mean I'm in support of this item but uh I just have to say this I mean the fact that is it's embarrassing is what I've been saying the last several years in fact when Mr fcal was was alive I took a 10 out to his block because he didn't have the the capacity to log in and um uh uh uh participate in the public portion which we all knew at that time he was very much so active and members of this current Council didn't want to allow that to happen I also went down to the library and North Main Street in the in the in the brick of cold when councilwoman um M you would sitting president at the time you did noted all those people an opportunity to speak I've been doing it even even the the current OIC had to make Provisions because council president would not allow uh constituents to come into my office because I've been saying that this is not a an adequate system for people to access and their faces should be allowed to be seen as well now all of a sudden years later just like most everything else the things that councilman Jackson was saying everybody's starting to Echo it the same way it's it's embarrassing that well it's a shame that our people have to have to deal with this in fact councilwoman Dava goes on the line to talk about how the director has to be inconvenience to wait so long he was fasting but yet the members of the public continue to get pushed to the side and here it is after 11:00 and we're still trying to get people on the public portion just some Fool For Thought uh to the members of the public just something to think about Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilman Jackson councilwoman Ms you're on mute oh okay to the viewing public we to the viewing public we're dealing with alternative facts on tonight the fact is when um I was sitting president for that particular meeting let me be clear it was not the same scenario we had access where people were to sign and to speak councilman Jackson refused to follow the process he was sitting under a tent in the dark had people lined up from a community and felt it necessary to bypass the process and want them to speak outside of the purview of the the bylaws and the outline of this Council constituency had nothing to do with what's going on tonight is a totally different scenario the goal of the city council president is to bring order and decorum to the council it was asked that they call in or sign their name up to speak that was not done it was in a place to cause disruption and divisiveness and as the cting council president at the time I had to bring order that is what happened tonight is totally different from that particular night the public knows how I feel about them and they know would never stop them from speaking so to put that out to the community is laughable and it's also alternative facts you know let's get it together here Madam clerk we're voting on uh the item for uh loading zone on 21st app let's make sure that our commercial cor Corridor um allows things to be loaded and unloaded Madam clerk with that being stated saying on task and staying on record my vote is yes thank you Dr memes councilman valz yeah just give me give me a second I I need I need some light here hold on because every time this happen I need to get some like all right so once again this's woman is on fire ladies and gentlemen I don't know it was the effect of the clips yesterday but she bringing a positive effect of the eclipse to the council today because let me say this people take time of this meeting that we need to move the agenda forward and the city forward to just look at eight council member they always wrong we do everything bad um Council uh council president in that time in that meeting you took control at that meeting also as council president is taking control of the meeting because we need to move forward the public out there call us text us and say you guys doing a great job in controlling the meeting and making the business of the city moving forward so uh saying that my V yes thank you councilman valz Mr President thank thank you madam Clerk and definitely Council m m this is the differ SC aror and we are here against our will is not is not our is we're not responsible for the chamber to for the steing of the chamber to collapse you know we're not responsible for that uh we cannot be in the chamber and uh and we expressed you know our idea to be in another location and just to double check why honestly last week we got T speaker as I mentioned before and they all participate on the public portal now the system now there's a problem with the system Ryan is is checking the system tomorrow I'll be in touch with the uh board president and the superintendent to start looking into a new facility and it might be one of the P public school to have our meeting in person with that being said mad clerk my vote is yet thank you Mr President the votes are seven yeses two absences item number three is adopted on first reading second reading and public hearing will be at the regular meeting of May 16 2024 thank you m item number four council president oh councilwoman C I just have a question and you know I I need to try to understand it um councilman bz is um DPW chair I thought that we passed uh I thought that we voted that we would not do loading zone in effect on Saturday I thought that it was just Monday through Friday and we wouldn't start at 6 o'clock in the morning that we would start at say 7 or 8:00 in the morning so when I'm looking at this now it says Monday through Saturday 6: a.m to 6: pm. why is that so so this is this is what's going on the operation of janella's uh Bakery receive 53 Footers all the way around the clock okay and uh this loading zone is going to be adjacent to next to the building that is not going to take residents parking it's not going to take meter parking and the tractor trailers cannot come from the time that we want right so um aliz knows about this uh we doing a setion on this one because they have 53 footer uh coming through 21st Avenue and they need that room uh almost um all day so um yes I can pick it back on you councilman councilwoman Jan Bakery Jan's Baker is a very very big busy Factory right it's not a store it's not they've been there for 30 years yeah and they expanded 30 years we put say they've been there for 30 years now I'm just asking a question that or is it call point of order fin call councilman abiz have the floor let them finish and then we can move on with the next item please it's going to go to Second councilman you can call me I'll give you more information it's on the 21st St they own the whole block there's no residential spots on there on that end there's not there's a lot of parking spots um and them having this loading zone is going to create better traffic pattern because those trucks are not double parking they're not taking the corners like Louis said our C said but Janella has gone from a little one building operation to a whole block from they got everything now over there and it's not open really to the public they have many trucks that coming in out of there thank you council members item number four council members uh mad clerk sorry yes Mr President item number four is also a first reading ordinance establishing a commercial loading zone for m and d Distribution Incorporated on a portion of Dover Street move second move by council member last second by Council roll call CL on item number four roll call on item number four first reading councilman abdalaziz yes councilwoman cotton thank you madam clerk um kelman um Al this is in your word correct uh is this a 24 hours operation too no that's this is the fifth W council members this the fifth word yes so they're doing Monday through Saturday from 8 to 5 correct and let me explain you Council woman discussion discussion Council mes yes so let me give you a little history on this uh loading zone uh the whole the whole block on the right side of DOA street is their loading dock what's going on is that I I don't know you recall that I put those the oneway street because it was too narrow to put two trucks going back and forth so the loading dock that they have is mainly is mainly being C C by cars so we need to put that loading zone for they could not uh uh people going block their the the loading docks and that's why is a we need to put a loading zone restriction on it thank you coun president Council M so I know we're in the middle of this item but I we said to the public 10 minutes it's been beyond that we I mean the public is waiting to speak so so right after we vote on item number four we come back so so we got item number four roll call roll call Mad cler on item number four please councilwoman conon yes councilwoman daver yes councilman Jackson yes councilwoman Ms yes yes councilman VZ yes Mr President by what is Yes Man clerk so the votes are seven yeses to absences item number four is approved on first reading public hearing and second reading will be on May 16th 2024 at the regular meeting thank you madam clerk members of the public let me just remind um then R you the number to call which is 973 3211 1579 the meeting ID is 8326 press the star one to listen to the meeting and press the star three to be added into the speaker room but clerk let's go back with Ryan to see if he correct the problem or if he identified a problem and how many speaker we have you're trying to get them through on the waiting room come here just to confirm council president there's only one item left on the agenda yes there's only one item left let me dou check if uh Madame clerk yeah we have one item left but Ryan is trying to call back the um the callers but they're not answering the telephone you said okay so let's go with a second reading item and right after that um so we council president council president if I may understand that you have to have a public hearing so if we're having issues with the public portion you have to open up the public hearing all right I need to let you know right now we are going under a major reation at colle have to I have to leave so I'm just letting you know that now got you I understand that so we have only one item and Ryan what he's doing is he tried to call the people that he has on the line back to see if they want to come back into the public portion that's what he's doing if they not picking up so so now council president I have a caller on the line they said that Ryan called them and gave him a number to call and the code that Ryan gave is not working can you put the speaker on can they use your phone to call yeah okay introduce yourself and speak can you hear him Mr little hello hello baby's trying to call back in yes Castle president I don't know can you ask legal because we have problem for the public portion for uh sorry um for the hearing public hearing if we could postpone this second reading for the next regular meeting it is that sensitive this is very time sensitive council member Le this uh this item is very very time sensitive for the Third World Wrestling extremely sensitive and the problem is and Ryan is reaching out to every everybody back into so the phone number is is working so we could go into the second reading and and since that's the last one we could just open the public portion and wait and try to get back to to people so council president Council mes on this last item I thought it had myself you sponsor myself as co-sponsor but it saying econom you are the co-sponsor of that yeah but it saying Economic Development it has no names on it no so that's uh M mad clerk that's not Economic Development that's city council no M mad clerk should be sponsored by council president Coons sponsor by councilwoman means let's please correct that right now on the uh before we before uh before and is it co-sponsored by council president this is a sponsored by council president and co-sponsor by Council women MERS okay I'll correct it and have it thank you let's read let's let's go you could you I got a recommendation for the public just if you can hear me out one second and Madam clerk we'll take this item what we should do is have residents email right email the clerk their name and phone number she takes it Ryan calls them up and puts them on here once we try to call them we have a record that we tried calling them yes so for example I could email Jackie Murray she puts the email alab Del is my phone number Ryan has that list call it connect us on get get them off then they go on the next email if we have 23 emails just like the list and it'll be right on her mailbox We call we call the resident right and we connect them on if that's possible thank you well done M cler let's let's do item number one on second reading item number one was just Don con president no second reading item number one uh this um amending sulting patterns of C chapter 275 title housings standed to be entered into the housing shortterm rental so that that's the last item so item number one the second reading ordinance sorry we have the public interjecting as well this must say this can be done better yeah council president if you're go have them email or we should have people we should have people email Jackie now put the her email out out there yes Mr President and councilman abdulaziz there's a caller right now on the phone can we accommodate them yes put them through Ryan please call if you're there please go ahead yes hello good evening good evening goad can you hear me yes yes hi K to little here black clouds matter Elizabeth um I don't even know what to say I don't know how to start off I'm just extremely disgusted by the leadership of both the ex um uh Branch as the mayor's office as well as his counsel for the continued lack of accessibility that should be provided ultimately to the public it is extremely disgusting that I was on this phone for five hours trying to make sure that I'm fully holding you accountable but yet your system you're so focused on your system and being robot that you're trying to allocate to the police department instead of making sure that the public has adequate accessibility to make sure that they can hold you accountable those that will actually elected or should I say selected to fill the seats and to do the business of the people I'm calling to urge you to vote no but first before I urge you to vote no I find it extremely appalling and disgusting that no one can seem to say that they don't know where this vote come from well we've seen the bill we excuse me we've seen the legislation we've seen the drafting the pre-draft of the legislation and we knew that it came from the mayor and we knew that the council some council members or yeah all of the council members are on board with this and I'm demanded that you vote no on trying to criminalize poverty you should not be trying to criminalize po poverty instead you should be trying to fight poverty and not the people and poverty you should be trying to allocate funds that's going to go to community allocate funds that's going to go into housing allocate funds that's going to go into Mental Health Services and room and shelter and not law enforcement in this country we are pouring millions of dollars by the months and by the weeks yet maybe every damn council meeting you are trying to focus on spending endless amount of more money into law enforce inste of the people but yet you want to implement a $2,000 fine and or 90day jail time and yet if you're still not clear Council M valz and other council members who state that oh this is not about me this is not stop being reactive and start being proactive and do what you need to do in full defense of the people in full defense of those who are hurting and suffering the most and instead trying to criminalized survival you should be decriminalizing survival in all aspects of life and you should be on a mandate to legislate in full defense of Lives who are directly impacted in full defense of Lives who have been ignored by your leadership ignored by you and your policies that are detrimental to survival so no I would not yield and I'm demanding that you vote no on this dumb ridiculous anti-p poor anti- Community anti- um uh um legislation it's a people legislation that is in the way of Liberation for black and brown communities I vote I I yield no thank you uh so M clerk let's do item number one on second reading and let's keep the public portion open to see if Ryan could keep connecting people and also the recommendation of of CIS with you email or the phone number that way we could call them back okay I don't know what a second reading so my recommendations meant nothing council president I was giving recommendations all night I'm sorry second reading ordinance and or amending and supplementing partisan code chapter 275 currently titled housing standards to be now entitled housing standards and short-term rentals it's sponsored by council president Alex Mendes and councilwoman Lisa Mims Mo um and before the vote Madame clerk is responsible by council president Alex Mendes and sponsored by Council meisa me it's co okay sir yeah members of the public the hearing is now open for item number one or second reading those to wish should speak on the public on the on this item um uh mic is now open uh so let's give it a minute if Ryan just a minute give it a minute if Ryan is uh have any any person on the on the line C council president just one minute Council let's hear from Ryan is there someone on the hello yes please say your name for the record go ahead sir hello can you hear me yes okay uh my name is Jonathan yelberton and um I'm with the new voices of black media we are the largest conglomerate um and we're on all media platforms um yes Patterson is the third largest uh city in New Jersey with approximately 157,000 uh population patinos being 63.1% two more races at 16.5% blacks at 12.7% and whites at 7.7% now in terms of income and poverty 23.7% live under the poverty line that 150,000 that's 37,2 people living beyond the poverty line it's a disgrace unpointed 10.5% and it has the trajectory of that since the history that data tells us that this has climbed climbed climbed year after year after year I drive my car through the city of Patterson I can't turn the block without hitting a crater stepping over homeless people people at every turn our group the new voices of black media was directly responsible for dismantling pela Harris's presidential campaign now imagine we take this to the state and local level that was the Federal level we are sweeping Across the Nation I sat here for almost three hours on the phone and listen to a bunch of word salad that's all you guys were talking it is a disgrace the way that the city of Patterson has become and these people that are in these positions in these chairs they're not even worth the paper that their W2s are printed on and then you had one caller had the nerve to call in and talk about vote vote vote vote for what that is the question and these anti-black policies are a bipartisan issue it's not that because you're a Republican or you're a Democrat it doesn't matter everyone knows that blacks are the number one targeted race of people in all areas of antiblackness when it comes to Health Care our babies are dying our mothers are dying when it comes to the economic Equity access we do not have when it comes to unemployment we are always at the bottom and we represent only 16% of the United States population how could that be we have the highest numbers in all of these areas that I just mentioned the school to prison pipeline full of black people in prison some of them don't even belong in there and you and I both know that it is an absolute disgrace that's how the leadership has handled these issues and it is only getting worse but guess what the good news is me and my team M clerk three minutes so um or up for the U Ryan is there any other speaker is there any other speaker okay there other speaker man cler Ryan is calling another speaker council president this speakers are for the item or this is the one that was waiting no no we just we just open since we have this problem I mean we just open we just open the public porch so make sure that whoever wants to speak you know this is a already it's a disgrace the system the way the way the system is is working this is unacceptable I mean at this time let's take whoever we need to take because we will not having another virtual meeting starting next week on the next Workshop we're going in public we're going in person and we're going to one of the school one of the facility I'll I'll be in contact with a superintendent tomorrow and with the board president to choose one of the two facility for us to have the meeting only they let us know when going to be able to use the chamber but this is a disgrace and it's unacceptable that we could have you know and as I mentioned before I've been in so many Zoom meeting with people from out of the country 20 50 people with no problem at all uh you know no problem at all and everybody participating here with uh all the amount of money that we investing in it and Technology we cannot have a virtual meeting and we cannot allow the people the public to speak I'm just you know it's just unacceptable my CL if we cannot get in contact with other speaker motion to close the public hearing president just a minute councilman uh Jackson no not just a minute people are still calling me that Miss wah Muhammad just called me no we're not we're not closing we're not closing the public portion councilman Jackson Michel is gonna still open so we're just waiting for Ryan to connect us we're gonna stay the public portion is gonna stay on until this meeting stay on because this is unacceptable this just to CLA the public on item number one M cler we close the public heting on item number one and the public portion stay open until the end of the meeting yes Mr President um to close CL before the before whoever wants to speak you stop and you let the person come in yes sir please thank you ra call Raw call to close a public hearing and item number one councilman abdalaziz yes councilwoman cotton yes councilwoman Dava I think she was there I'll go back to her cilman Jackson councilman Jackson councilwoman Mims you're muted Madam clerk do we have a qu yeah uh let me see council president one two yes we do I see councilman abdulaziz on council president to you councilwoman cotton councilman Jackson and councilman V but they're not responding so that's why I'm questioning councilwoman DAV is there as well she was just there she went back to the office we closing council members to close public hting on item number one yes okay thank you councilwoman DAV and yes Madam clerk I'm I'm just making sure thank you um Dr mes councilman valz yes Mr President yes hear mad CL number one I'm sorry um councilman Jackson are you there m CL the president already voted yeah I know councilman valz I just want to make sure that what I have on the paper is correct councilman Mendes thank you for your vote sir thank you so the votes are three absences six yes public hearing and item number one is hereby closed roll on item number one roll call on item number one for approval councilman AB polies councilman abdalaziz yes sorry councilwoman cartton Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman councilwoman Dava councilman Jackson no she's on the way C M I'll come back to her yeah okay I'm sorry I actually ran over here all right this this item okay um it's second reading right yes and it's uh amending the Patterson code chapter 275 right I need everyone want to know why I'm supporting this okay this is unacceptable what's been going on in the third W but it's not only in the third W it's happening in other areas as well it's affecting the quality of life you want to buy a beautiful home and you want to host a party that's definitely the pervie of anyone who wants to host a party but when you're basically having an after hour with hundreds of people and it's affecting the quality of life of the neighbors okay I can't and we cannot accept that so you know with that said I'm supporting this item my vote is yes thank you councilwoman daver councilman Jackson are it's absent councilman khle councilwoman Mims yes so this is what you call taking action in the Third Ward many residents complains that there were different properties being utilized for Airbnb uh with people that were in uh in their bathing suits like running across the lawn leaving garbage and trash everywhere so I'm really grateful uh there was a um meeting in that particular Ward and I know there were complaints through uh council president um in regards to that and I'm really happy to see that now we're at the final vote and this will be um completed within the next 20 days well 20 days after the vote on tonight and then we'll start taking action but I'm glad to see when when the residents make a complaint that the council person does take action on the item but that being stated Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman mes councilman valz I had a question this is going to be uh a large on the whole entire city no this is a third war it's going to be in the section of the third war and the section of the third war council M so so because the title do not say is going to be on the third world only that's why no the the body of the resolution on the body of the resolution specify the location they have a specific location where this going to be implemented and and and it's all in the third world not outside the third war right my word is yes thank you councilman valz Mr President thank you Madame cler and thank you Council C councilwoman Al large councilwoman Davila and and all my Council KH for the support of this legislation uh this is definitely need needed uh for for years and years uh you know property in the third war they've been purchases to do after hour to do Airbnb and to conduct business on a residential Zone that that's been affecting the quality of life of our resident that pay the highest taxes in the city of pison in the historical area and they can now just live in peace and enjoy their property in peace because you have people buying those property and converting those property into Airbnb and Club having party every weekend with that legis with this legislation this going to stop this is going to stop and it's going to be against the law to conduct that type of business in the third war bringing peace and bringing the quality of life back into the third war so I hear to my my constituents and as you mentioned councilman M there was a multiple meeting we came together and I got this legislation done for my third world resident quality of life is always going to be first and my top priority to all my third world resident and with that being said my vote is yes thank you Cali thank you council president the votes are six yeses three absences item number one is hereby adopted thank you council members we we that's the last item let's go back to Ryan uh if if Ryan is uh if there's any speaker on the line we have two speaker waiting two speakers waiting let's take care of those two speaker and I will get back to you Council C okay okay put put the first Speaker through please we have a speaker waiting put the person through it hello can you hear me yes I'm hearing you please state your name for the record and go ahead hello my name is Kelly labar um uh I just want to quickly say a couple things to start I have also been waiting since seven um I also want to thank councilwoman cotton for voting to remove the resource distribution ordinance and for councilwoman Mims who were seconding that and also councilwoman Mims who was saying that we are not doing things wrong on the public side um that there is obviously some sort of technical issue anyway this ordinance is not a resource resource distribution ordinance it's an ordinance against the poor people of Patterson against some of our most marginalized Community okay can you hear me yes we hear you sorry council member please yes go ahead um and I fully agree with a lot of things that the other community members had said um zelli James Brown uh Jenna Miller um I didn't catch their name but the other BLM Elizabeth um person with a lot of people said this shouldn't even be on an agenda um a lot of these organizations are volunteers uh they do it on their own time on their own dime and they're there to show up for people that need help and resources and it also takes away from the employees of Patterson and strains them to add another useless point in their job to try and enforce organizations they're just trying to help people and this again is not something that clean up the city or anything it's because they don't want to see folks that are in the most need in line it is so demeaning to have to wait in line to clothe yourself to clean yourself to get resources so you don't die if you're addicted or using drugs what these organizations do is help people and show up for people every day all the time and I don't care when this comes up and comes back up and what amendments or addendums or however it's phrased it should always be voted against there is no reason to come at organizations who are trying to help our people to fill a need that is not met they do not have adequate housing Health Care um substance use help mental health help and deployment none of those things but that's not being focused on it's focused on um the orgs that are trying to help folks and then covering it with saying that they leave garbage and it's unsanitary it's ridiculous and it's attack on our most marginalized communities and this is the most insane meeting I have ever been to to wait and it was absolutely disgraceful and again thanks to Ms for calling that out and saying it's embarrassing because you have to admit that and do a lot better thank you next speaker mad there's another speaker there on the C yes yes Mr President put the next speaker please right speaker please state your name and go ahead my name is Richard stman W DL good evening good evening uh first of all I've been a pisan resident for 43 years I spoke about a week ago week two weeks ago about the issue with U on Mor Street councilman valet said uh that he did it uh if I'm correct a couple of years ago took a video of it when he cleaned it but I don't think anything's been done since then because I've been here for almost three years and uh it's been the same so you know I just want to put that issue out there and another thing why would you put only in the Third Ward for that ordinance after our parties and stuff been going on for years in the bad Wars but nobody look at the bad Wars you beautifying something that's already stable soon as it happens in the third W oh boy it's a problem but it's been happening for years and years and years you in the bad Wards Mike Ward and all of that you know what I mean I don't understand that thank you guys I don't want to say too much more because I'm I'm just beat from waiting so long it's a disgrace you guys got to do better God bless you and have a great night and be safe thank you um so on clerk let's wait let's wait a couple of minutes until to see if we could get in touch with all the speakers and and I want I I I really want to apologize yes good evening oh hi yes hi can you you all hear me yes we please state your name and go ahead hi yes my name is Grace caralis I'm founder of a nonprofit organization Hands of Hope Ministries um we've been serving we've been in Patterson for about five years now and uh twice a week every week uh we have a hotline um and it was just I'm just really disheartened that I'm even here waiting to speak and defend what what I do what we all do and that's just to help help the community and it's so beyond handing out a tent or a sleeping bag or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich which I don't think creat such a mess it's the bonds we create it's the trust that's that we created and it's the friendships and it's we lost so many but our goal is to get them off the street and we've been successful with that and to be looked frowned on now and penalized and punished I I just I can't wrap my head around it I was absolutely floored when I heard this is even going on so before you sit in your workshop and discuss this just know it's so much more than food on the sidewalk get more garbage pales lock them down um you know you got one garbage pail in one area and I know I know it's a mess at times I know there's hot food given out temperatures don't need to be taken but yes there is a mess but let's work on cleaning that up and making more options to throw things out um not one garbage pil in a huge populated area where food is being served you know maybe simpler Solutions not fines of 2000 and locked up um I have to look over my back to to help and people and spread the word of Jesus and and just show love and and give and get and gain trust it's just unacceptable to me I'm sure to many you know it's just it's heartbreaking so just please think about it I'm tired I just wanted to hear wanted you to hear my voice for a minute for whatever ever it's worth so God bless good night just a moment okay thank you um please take your name for the record go ahead hi my name is Ares crackett can you hear me I can barely hear you go ahead hello my name is arnes p can you hear me now yes ma'am yes I'm a resident of the city of Patterson in the Third Ward um I've made several attempts to be on this this meeting this evening including trying to get into Zoom the reason why I called in um is because of my concerning regarding the several articles I read regarding the people coming in and providing services for people who otherwise would not receive help with feeding and things of that nature and the impact I'm glad to hear that it has been tabled at least for now but I wondered if you could have more input from us in the uh the community who are out there actually doing this uh there there are so many things that are and and if the paper is correct there are things that I'm concerned about I volunteer I'm I'm retired from my full-time job so it gives me the opportunity to volunteer in uh a many different areas and feeding I I don't always like this a homeless but feeding the community is one of the things that I get involved with and I am just really concern about this and how it's going to impact I don't ever call the council meeting even though I listen to it I'm one of those people in the community who even though I'm F I'm not working full-time that is I'm not getting paid I'm very involved within the community one of those quiet people in the community that's working and there just so many other things that I've been concerned about recently like the trash uh and and the things that are going on with that how today I had to take in take uh products and stuff from my home uh to the to the city whereas in the past uh we were able to get those things picking up for from our door we we we should be concerned about not uh things like that rather than having people come in and help us I'm concerned about the houses that are being built and with without and there's not a ample parking we already know that at each side High School uh and 16th Avenue in that area if there's a fire those buildings are going to burn down because the fire trucks can't get in there are other things that the uh priority should be given to and uh I know that this is probably going to shut off in a minute but uh I do appreciate uh councilman Jackson for clarifying the information regarding the restrictions I'm disappointed that it took so long to get through that particular area we know that there are restrictions put on deed I was actually a vice president of triangle Village when that was built and I was the lead person who filled all of those apartments I was on incor housing and I understand D restrictions and it it could have been said in a few words rather than going around and around so it's important to streamline conversations regarding it's important for us to know to understand we know that you have these meetings but tell us what's going on I do appreciate that the fact that you do work hard and there are a lot of areas to cover and that so many people bring so many concerns to you but these are some of the things that are on my particular heart and mind this evening I thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk and uh good night thank you any other caller Ryan is there another caller okay caller if you're there please say your name and go ahead hi good evening this is Karima green can you hear me yes we can hear you okay thank you so much councilman um and woman for taking this call this evening um my name is k mcgr I am the owner and operator of Joan's Joy where we see the homeless along with providing them hygiene products and um it's different for my company where we do not feed them hot foods per se any any longer um the majority of what we do in the city of pison what we have been doing for six years um on the street of Broadway is pro on Avenue of Broadway is providing um the homeless Community with hygiene products and um even I my company has even worked with the city um the mayor's office and helping um homeless people get apartments and then providing them the products that we're purchasing providing it for their apartments and so it's so discouraging to hear that you're now considering that people organizations that are outside of pison are was on a call and then I heard you say I I'm not sure what the um Council woman's name is excuse me and she said oh it's only for people um organizations that are outside the city of patteron where we're considered outside of the city of patteron because we I don't live in patteron and so my company is not created in patteron and so it's so discouraging that I am a we're a company that we work with the organization a nonprofit have you that works with the mayor's office and then they turn around and say oh we don't want to work with you now or now you're going to be fine to do these things and so it's just very discouraging and I would just hope that you guys would remove this off the do remove this um not even being an option that's something we be talking about I am sure I'm a member of the church inant where my pastor in the community of churches that we're involved in they do Great Mighty wonderful things in Patterson and for the people of Patterson and it's and we hear of the issues and the problems that you that you guys are having that the people are having and they're crying out for security and help and for this to be on the doet is such a slap in the face to those that have put their blood heart and tears and sweat into helping those that are forgotten and for for it to look like oh well we don't want your assistance we don't want your help and technically not you know this is for those that are crying out for our help and so it's you know I just hope that you guys would you know reconsider this this um this thing that you guys that was put together it's so unethical it's so immoral um and yeah I pray God can bless you guys and give you some wisdom concerning the matter thank you for your time I appreciate it speaker you there please go ahead you talking to me yes sir good evening this is Dave Gilmore how are you I'm doing great go ahead sir all right so listen I want to say unequivocally this is the worst uh experience I've ever had coming to uh the council meeting I missed the opportunity to weigh in on the Airbnb because I really wanted to say something about that and I hope another opportunity presents itself but let me uh go straight to the the the heart of the matter as far as I'm concerned on the I believe the discriminatory practices against poor people the most marginalized people in the town uh the economically challenged people of the town that are now being threatened with abominable abominable uh uh consequences for being poor and in need of services that are being given in these in this popup environments around the city at the same time uh you're looking at the people across town or downtown operating uh flea markets of furniture sales on on on on the city streets on the sidewalks I've been documenting this for six years or longer since May Janes was in we had that situation right outside there on the corner by the old Bank of the city hall three Market activity furniture sales it's just it's just crazy the electronic bikes and and the people selling food without permits and this and that whatever but the laws exist but they're not being executed now all of a sudden you're targeting these people it's a discriminatory act I think that uh some folks have had enough of looking at some the poor people but this is not the way to do it punishing them for being poor it's it's it's a damn shame and people need to be shamed at itself the ones that crafted this ill ill- fated uh of ordinance it's it's it's it's terrible but my thing is the disparity between what you're doing to the poor people and what you're allowing the business people to do downtown it's uh uh selective enforcement at its worst application and that's why why I think uh some of you need to go the the fact of the matter is of May 14th There's an opportunity to change some of the people in those seats uh from the top down uh the the the disparity of the things that we see this town is uh has a a hate a hate and or discriminatory practice throughout you fire people for going blind you fire people for speaking up in their First Amendment right to speak this is uh uh you you you promote and put people in positions I.E zoning office and overlooking well qualified minorities this these racist activities have got to be addressed and talked to and brought to bear this right now with the targeting the poor people is a damn shame and I think something needs to be done about it so I'm going leave it there I will be coming to more the council meetings to discuss other items of some of which you already know what I'm going to talk about but we're going to Showcase and highlight some of the inequities that are happening in this city good night thank you da good night is there any other caller uh Council caller if you're there please go ahead hello good evening good evening well good morning morning my name is espira Jenkins from HS Outreach Services and I'm calling in and I've held on for for the last almost six five six hours uh well five hours just to speak the piece of you know how I feel like the bill that you are you guys have removed and was proposing really did not truly do the Justice to the nonprofit organizations that um Serv as they in and out within the city of patters um it truly undermined um the the quality of life that we get to bring to people who have not been seen for so long um I really wish that you would take the position of doing what the city of Newark like Council um councilman uh bz has said um in regards to basically collaborating with nonprofits that are doing the work of the unsheltered within your city um we work with you know we got to we get to work with you know the mayor we get to work with um a whole demographic of a team that is specialized that helps with um homeless homeless teams right so they have what's called a hot team which actually goes out and actually Pro helps to provide resources and connect to many of the unsheltered population that we get to serve it as food but for so many that is such a valuable resource go pres that was less than three minutes and she got caught off did I get cut off no she's not off okay can you hear me yes oh okay um I wish you guys would really collaborate with a lot of the street Outreach teams and really understand the needs of your communities UMC president I know the biggest I I I I know that I know that you understand that there's a lot of trash around the city but most of those areas that we ride up and down and that we help people in they're not our hotpots and they are largely Trashed by areas that have not been let's let's wait for a minute when she finish her sentence and I the system should take her off after three minutes so that's the reason why I'm not interrupting her because are you guys talking to me or can I continue no just go ahead just go ahead okay um but there's there's a lot of improvements that can be done I know that there's been a lot of development but the developments have been discluding a lot of your lowincome um City members that those those are things that are really really needed I know affordable living has been such a big issue but we have completely negated that there is not a livable income for those that are live that are living at um fixed incomes that are below $2,000 there's a lot that you can do and work with us and it I really would hope that the city council the mayor would Embrace us and really work on to being able to provide a better way of living for all within the city of Patterson thank you thank you so before the next speak Madam clerk uh so the the last speaker spoke for way more more than three minutes is the system I don't see you Madame clerk is Ryan Madame clerk I mean she stepped away council president I'm here yes can R explain that to us I mean now that the three minutes not they're not working so until until mad cler came back and Ryan came back we finished all the item agenda council members after when we finish with the last speaker on public portion I will ask a motion to close and finish this meeting we conclude with the agenda and and I'm not I I I I will apologize to a pis resident because of the the disaster that we have tonight because this is a really this is a disaster and under my leadership I'm not expecting to have another meeting like this it's a disgrace we're investing so much uh so so many so much money on on it tax dollar and we cannot have our meeting now all the all the phone calls coming in last speaker spoke minute I don't really know so right after that council members so we'll beeting in person next week at the next Workshop because this is not gonna happen again M how many more speaker we have before we close the public portal we have two more in Cube after council members after the two speakers 1210 I'm going to ask for a motion to close um the public portion and we'll we will adjoin the meeting on that's the next speaker M clerk um speaker if you're there go ahead while we're waiting council president I know I announced for the public hearing and second reading on the ordinances for May it should have been April 23rd 2024 so items 3 and four public hearing and second reading will be on April 23rd 2024 for at the regular meeting thank you mad Clark next speaker uh speaker you're here go ahead please this is they're coming non C pres mad clerk while we get into the next speaker ask Ryan why the three minutes did it work for this speaker yeah Ryan he's on the phone with one of the callers comes pres well I'm not taking up for him I think maybe um the problem is he's the only one man in the system the last time he had um some assistance with him but he's only one here this evening that's unacceptable that is unacceptable if they know that we having we having a regular meeting virtual why is that Ryan doesn't have any assistant when I know that there's around four new uh members on the team of it it's just unacceptable that's a disgrace that Ryan is the only one taking calls and doing everything that's just unacceptable I don't that's not an excuse there is enough people there to be here taking taking care of the community the phone call all the calls last week at the last Workshop the meeting was perfectly fine now we cannot even attend the public when they call in and we have this virtual meeting against our will because we I would love to be on the chamber you know so it's not it's not our choice that we doing the meeting virtual but at least it's the administration responsibility to have the staff to take care the calls and I just see Ryan going back and for so once again I do apologize Patterson resident so we will look for a solution for a new venue for next week and we will leave this virtual meeting alone until they get it together because actually this is not it is is there anyone on the line is there another caller Mr President um please bear with us Ryan is trying to get another speaker um I guess the um the callers are becoming frustrated as well and are yelling at him so um member of the public are you there please state your name and go ahead yes Kathy Morgan hi Miss Morgan please go ahead good evening okay I have a couple of things I want to touch on okay I'mma start with the theming of the homeless and everybody that feels some kind of way about um what's being said first of all you don't live in patteron you don't know how unsafe it is you don't ride through the streets with your grandchildren in the car who gets terrified by someone walking up to your car tapping on your window let's start there and you're not helping patteron what you're helping us to do is the influx of every other County that throw away their people that are drug addicted and send them to patteron and then send them down here with their cell phones and their food cars to make sure that they're good living in cars on our street shooting drugs on our churches shooting drugs in our parks and in front of our children so you don't live here so you can only attest to coming down here doing your Good Samaritan work and thinking you're making the world a better place if you want to make the world a better place why don't you start out by finding out where these people are from and taking them home take them where they live take them around their family let their children see what our children is subjected to seeing every day and our days when their Church doors are closed it's a shame that now we have to put Gates and guards around our churches ride at night up by um United Presbyterian St Luke and excuse me and um as far as late night parties that go on all throughout every Ward I live in the First Ward and I on summer nights or nice nights I can't go to bed till after 2 am to some of my neighbors happen to decide that they're going to end their party and as far as the trash collection is concerned we need to do better with these um this company we have they pick up what they want they leave a whole lot more than they U pick up and if they drop trash in the street that's where it stays until one of us go outside and clean it up we have less trash pickup since we've had this new company and I need y'all to get on these taxi regulations cutting through um traffic and everything and there needs to be some sort of regulations with everybody on these scooters and these bikes I almost turned right and killed someone because they zip zip zipping all in between traffic and stuff with no no regard for traffic no regard for traffic rules and regulations I'm not being prejudiced I don't know if people that's coming over here are just acquiring license or just acquiring cars and driving people don't have B stop signs red lights nothing I almost got killed the other morning going to work where some guy was barrowing through in a big Nissan truck and almost ran right into me on Jefferson Hill but there's a lot of things that need to be taken in account in this city and as far as you're giving having the police ticket cards on the corners when you're overcrowded this city and you have built all these apartment buildings with no parking people have to pay for the parking in these buildings they make they make you can't is they should provide at least one car per household you have to park on the streets people that have driveways park on park all their cars on the streets so there's nowhere for you to park and if you park too close to a stop sign too close to a corner you're racking up tickets come on we got to do better you can't keep building this city up and busting out the corners with all these people and you you have No Reservations as far as parking how we're going to do this something needs to be done and I'm getting back to the homeless like I said before give me a van and a couple of knockout Kings let's take them back home these are not the people from patteron that are littering our streets these are people from up County Lower County all over Ocean County everywhere they're coming up here because the drugs are easily accessible and it's okay to live on the streets and passing if a little black or Hispanic boy is walking down the street and when I mean little I mean young man they'll get harassed by the police but you got these Lily whites that come up in here and they can do whatever they want get high right on the street the the cops are right by right by salute them and keep on going I mean make it make sense to me that's all I need to say thank you mad clerk thank you mad cler motion to close uh we have more people in waiting in the room how many more we have two two more council president I hear there was there was there was two more and now there's two more in addition to that how many two more that's it no more okay hello speaker you there please state your name and go ahead I'm here Madam cler this is uh Chanel Phils good morning good morning I am just absolutely frustrated with the whole process of this I can't tell you how many times the call was dropped how much anxiet iety this has breeded amongst the community uh it's ridiculous but I'm not going to spend my time on that first I want to salute uh Miss Deborah Hannibal for encouraging the public to continue to vote and no matter what was said tonight guys please continue to vote and I echo in solidarity with saying that stop silencing the opposing views the Aesthetics Don't Lie the moment councilman Jackson opposes he's often ostracized uh as the communal bandwagoning begins and we are so tired of this it has really gotten sadly much of what the black and brown Community is often received as com combative but the the Aesthetics of that highlight the same issues which is a sense of urgency being placed on it by selective racism with certain issues and I feel like when the I hate to say this when the white Community comes forth with an issue of food and security and so forth It's met with a sense of urgency when the black and brown Community says something we're combative this is disturbing to the public um what stage I want to know what stage is the council chambers in and the expected timeline for completion so that the public can return to the people's house the council is also is often situational and I ask that you all do a better job of being mindful of your evident disdain when former tragic mishaps are read dressed it could easily be one of your loved ones that receives no resolve and it feels like the only way it will ever truly matter to some of you is if that happens and that's terrible lastly on the food situation in this ordinance that has been written I feel like it's criminal and um from many of the pantries that um are in the city of pisan I have witnessed myself one of my aunts um she receives food from a pantry every week I'm going to let them remain name but a lot of them are like church pantries where the food is just before expiration or past expiration and the council need to be cognizant of this to verify the information before spewing it out to the public about what these pantries do and what they actually give there are some that do good deeds on with giving you know out food that they would actually eat and then there's some that really just don't give a you know what you know and they feel like they should take it with a grain of salt because it's better than having nothing and we have to change um the Dynamics of that lastly this right here as far as this um this method that you guys are using is all the more reason why we need to be public um we need to redeem the public portion we have to bring that back we have to bring back Workshop meetings this is outrageous we could have Echo whoever said it we could have had a zoom call and I'm gonna I'mma rest it right there because I'm so pissed off I don't want to say anything out of line you guys have a good morning thank you the next speaker please hello yes please stage your name and go ahead good morning can you hear me yes yes hi my name is Lex um I live in the city of Patterson and to start off I just wanted to say um houselessness and poverty are forms of State violence and the victims of this are fighting for their lives despite whatever anyone thinks and people like Jenna and Ruby Clark James Brown zelli uh Dwayne Bri Grace ESP Bron and so so so many others are actually saving people's lives on a daily basis with their work I've worked with all these organizations that I mentioned and like the members of and they are real life savers like that's what they do um this ordinance is just creating more barriers for care for our most vulnerable Neighbors in Patterson this is an attempt to not only disappear houses folks especially those who struggle with substance use and mental health but is further criminalization of the poor because they will suffer the most from this this ordinance has no Humanity a quick story I've been very quick I've been working with the houseless man for about five years and he asked me to take him to detox which I did he told me he wanted to go off substances and start working and get an apartment he was so determined that we got got turned down from the first two and we got him into the third this man was cleaning windshields in the streets but still had no money to give me for gas which I didn't ask for and he refused to go into detox until he cleaned my windshield he later completed detox and he couldn't get into a shelter or housing and ended up exactly where I picked him up in our city he ended up back on substances because you have to stay on substances on the street to stay awake and protect yourself and then the emotional pain and sometimes even the physical pain there's so much dehumanization and trauma and poverty there's cyclical abuse racism classism and more this ordinances is furthering those evils we need more resources to get to these folks not less talking about trash or kinds of food is just semantics the DPW has no problem throwing out houses people's belongings they can pick up the trash and if there needs to be more money for anything the police budget is huge enough to cover it this is about life or death the quality of life and the possibility of Futures and it would be shameful on so many levels to pass it I'm glad it got tabled food and housing are are human rights and uh thank you very much for your time and be well and uh no war but class war thank you the last we have one last caller Mr President there was still last speaker mad cler it's it's 12:25 so we got two last speak and then we added two more we have a I'm sorry speaker are you there go ahead cler after this one we close the public Port yes sir there Ryan there's there's no one on the line the person speaker are you there the person is not there council president motion to close public p council members can I have a motion to move move move by council member last second by council president M roll call M cler to close the public portion roll call to close the public portion of the regular meeting of April 9th 2024 councilwoman cartton I'm here councilman abdalaziz I'm sorry yes councilwoman M she's there councilwoman Dava cman Jackson councilman colleag councilwoman mes before I vote Madam Cor I think um we need to do a point of reference I I don't think we have a quorum I think we need to check check I don't think conney is here councilwoman Ms council president councilman abdulaziz is there yeah but you call Nam are there is there we have five they not responding so how many of of the names call how many of those individuals answer can you hear me hello public portion is closer I have been on here for five and a half hours trying to it is it is incredible let let the speaker I don't know what's going on this Ryan I don't know if we agree that the roll call and then another speaker coming in but this is I've been on the call for five and a half hours yes yes definitely we G to allow you to speak Patterson this is our virtual meeting and this is the way we handle a public portion with so many resources on it anyway so good evening I remove my motion to close the public portion my motion yes and I remove my motion let's allow the members of the public to speak thank you um my name is Joe Schultz I represent an organization City relief um I'm very grateful that you guys uh moves to not move forward on this ordinance right now um as as you guys have heard from many people it is just abysmal um I'd like to still share a couple points one thing I would like you guys to keep in mind as I'm sure you move forward on a new version of this is the Precedence set forward in 2021 in the case of Fort Lauderdale food not bombs versus the city of Fort Lauderdale that set a precedent of it being a violation of the First Amendment rights of individuals and organizations to express political and religious messages by regulating and requiring permits for resource sharing such as shed meals in public spaces um there have been countless people on here tonight who've stuck out the this zelli Jim Brown everybody from BLM Kelly labar Lex esparanza who do amazing work and who I can attest always clean up after themselves um it really is not uh the individuals the nonprofits churches and everybody coming out to serve the community that's creating the problems I completely understand the public nuisance of litter and that is a problem that needs to be addressed and I understand there may be outside individuals or organizations that come and leave a mess um I think rather than a penalization and criminalization of people coming to do helpful good things setting up a training system uh where people can be taught how to treat people like human beings um and serve in the most effective ways uh would be so beneficial for all um I think that there is so much room for collaboration between um individuals organizations uh Faith communities government organizations to find a way to solve this problem and I would love for there to be a conversation of us all brought together especially including people who are on the street rece receiving services and giving them a voice um to share how they can um help impact uh the problems that this ordinance is seeking to to address um it is the methods that it's speaking to use to address these issues is uh horrible and dehumanizing and terrible um but giving people the agency to participate in what's going on rather than dehumanizing them by making them be huddled indoors with security um because the fact that they are impoverished uh means that we think that they are dangerous um which isn't insane giving them the opportunity to participate in the city of Patterson as a much better solution um forgive me for being frustrated uh it's been a long night um City relief is more than willing and happy to help however we can um but I absolutely want to stand up for the the rights of those who are coming to serve and for those who are being served and that we in no way support uh this bill and are more than prepared to do any jail time that is decided upon because we don't plan to stop serving so thank you guys so much for your time I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day thank you do we you have any more callers Ryan Mr Mr President there are no more um callers M to close please I'm sorry president I still had two more people trying to get in and that would be it I'm sorry but it is what it is I remove my motion to close yeah I remove my motion to close do we have a list of the callers because people are texting me that they never received the call that that were on the line I have about five people that were on the line that never received a call Ryan said everyone who was on the list have been called the back Council woman that were in the C right also Council he did you can't get her back No in the future let's do the public for first because you know P back they have not yes call are you there go ahead please no Ryan said Miss waha called in he tried calling her back but she's not picking up council president are you here council president are you lock oh yes I I do apologize I thought that I was onl on mute council member this is uh I thought you was hearing me council members but this is uh it's just so much um M clerk I mean so if we have another speaker M cler just pass the speaker and and let's close this because this is the worst meting that I ever see and it's not because of me it's it's not because of my Council College it's because of the system there's no excuse for this the the excuse that Ryan is on his own no we have like five people on the it there's no every everybody know the administration everybody knows that we have this regular meeting and we and we have a responsibility with the resident to do this meeting virtual because we cannot be at the chamber but to let the community speak and be part of this meeting and today it's been impossible it look like somebody s before the three minutes on the three minute after three minute the phone automatically get disconnected now I see that people speak for over three minutes and nothing happened I don't even know what happened with the system but I I I would tell the resident on the city of patteron that you would not see me on on Virtual anytime soon that next week we're going back to in person meeting even though if we have to go on the hallway on the second or the third floor of City Hall we meeting in person this is an embarrassment to the resident of the city of pison we investing so much money and we in it we cannot even have a decent meeting let me know Madame clar if we have another another speaker if not I'm sorry there's no one else on the line con so are you sure are you sure before I move once once we start the roll call we will not We're not gonna allow any other person to speak if it Ryan said there is no one else on the line Thank you so there was a motion on the floor by councilman bz second by council president roll call to close this public portion roll call to close the public portion of the regular meeting of Tuesday April 9th 2024 councilman abdulaziz councilwoman cartton thank you madam clerk I know that I had s the call actually I sent about six or seven uh you said what council baz mute your phone yes uh I know I personally sent about six or seven so the two people that were not able to get on um was um brief from uh black lives matter and w comment they I sent them the number and the code but they were not able to get on yeah we have to do something council president of council members just was um uh absolutely um I don't know what the right word to say for it but terrible I help you terrible you help me councilwoman yeah uh and and there was a lot of things that that were on here tonight that um um should have you know should have not been on there I can only say that i' I I'm out here here in the in in the community uh and you know and everybody always is is is I mean we have the homeless we have the the addicts but I I I see people the Working Families Are online working people are online so it's not just homeless it's not just addicts uh especially when you know that you have a consisteny and I I want to say I know uh the grandparents Resource Center how they Lin so I know the 7day event church I know how Kanan Baptist Church I know how St Luke's is when when they have theirs uh and and and those are um families that that that coming for help I know how they um um um uh I was out there um with um abar McIntyre and and when he's he's consistent with his food uh and every Sunday they know that he has and I see parents come with the grandkids the grandkids come I see it so I think sometimes we have a wrong uh idea of what's happening and what's going on in the community and what's happening what people are needing uh I think that um I'm going to um make a suggestion to our Corporation Council um some of the items that I think that for that resolution about the resource um um that that should should not have been in there um and I can understand about you want to um you know for people who feed like okay we I can understand that but when you have um giving out other items like clothing and any everything it shouldn't be but I did do my best to try to send as much number I'm here in the city I'm here in my office up at city council for the for the council meeting that's why I was able to give Ryan some of the numbers um for people to call so we have to we have to do a better job we have to um figure out how we going to um it's about all of us working together doing what we need to do uh some of the language just wasn't good in that resolution uh and sometimes you really have to see everything but that being said Madam clerk um I'm absolutely beat down with that being said Madam clerk uh my vote is yes to close the public por thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman DAV left councilwoman Jackson councilwoman Mims Council Council motan the word for tonight was just terrible to the point I just doz off for a minute it was just it's like this is to the viewing public patteron you know I I just want to apologize I'm not sure what's who's at for whatever but is it was is embarrassing for it to last that way but I do want to give to Corporation councel if you can check into it um there possibly is a violation to the open open public meeting act regarding the signing in there were about we had announced there were 23 callers we kept announcing how many callers were in Q and there was an issue with them calling in so if we can just check into that and get an email in regards to that we possibly um have there is a possibility it could be a violation of the open public meeting act because those callers were not able to call in um or get through and quue and there was different uh access code issues there were um getting system uh address issues and all types of things so if we could check into that Corporation Council just to make sure all the work that was done outside of uh the situation that happened with the calling on tonight Patterson you know you know I've been out since 5:00 this morning so I'm to I'm exhausted at this point just waiting but um Madame clerk Corporation counil bam ba or Melinda Ryan and everyone else to my Council colleagues thank you for all you do um have a good night everybody my vote Madam clerk is yes thank you um Dr m councilman valz so Madame clerk how many vote you got for close this public portion so far I have councilman abdulaziz councilwoman cotton Dr Mims and I have you and council president so we'll have five yeah okay good so Madame clerk um you know I have heard the con uh the concern of the community regarding this ordinance that we table I will recommend um the administration does a public forum and call in all those nonprofit to he could explain what is this ordin all means and if there's something that they could put input to make it work it will be beneficial for everyone in the city especially us to take a a smart decision when they put um Administration put things on on the on on the floor you know we understand but sometimes we need to input of of those nonprofit that works out there day and night with uh with those that are disadvantage at this time so uh if if if the uh uh Director of Human Services could put a a forum or a meeting and call in all those nonprofit even those individuals that have uh um full Pantry or whatever for they could explain what it is all about at this time I and I got to repeat it and I going to repeat it again I am not against those individual that come out of their way to serve the community properly and to serve the community the right way so uh let the record reflect that uh counil president I know you're got to look for the a renue to we could uh do this meeting next week uh make sure that when that venue is available Madam clerk who advertise it to channel 77 channel 32 uh put a a a um a press release out there for the community could know the address and the location that this meeting is going to take place because we don't want no Community to feel this advantage that we are moving to a place to do the meeting presence and they don't have the address or uh the location that we going to do this meeting saying that to the conis the fifth board I took notes uh of of anything that was concerning the fifth board and if I had to call you or you don't have my number my number is 21496 882 feel free to call me anytime or text me anytime you want uh saying this council president my vote is yes to close the power portion thank you councilman valz Mr President uh thank you Madame clerk uh so uh let me take this moment to once again apologize to all the members of the public for this um for this chaos of this uh public portion um it was um it's very concerning to me um so I tomorrow I'm going to start looking for a new Vue for us to meet in person and to allow the people allow the community to be there and to hear um to hear for to hear their concern uh so I'll make sure that everybody get the information we're going to start working um about the new location first time tomorrow morning but I correct to all the members of the public thank you for um try to connect and some of those that that that are that had the opportunity to be on the line with us I hear that some members of the community have some problem with the uh with also the B pickup there was a resident from the third war that expressed their concern about the bow pickup my cell phone number it's 973 9301 1436 I didn't I don't have the number for that residing if I could get that information M clerk to reach out to her see what is the concern um I will deeply appreciate it and there's a lot of need in our community I know there's a lot of great uh organization that doing the great work in a community and counc woman me Council kind mention something extremely important and it's not only the homeless that need that need assist we have people that they are working that they have one and two job and they and you see they and in the line those food pantry there's a lot of need in this community we going we have a lot of resident of the city of patteron going going through a tough a tough tough time so we have we need to have an open dialogue about this situation um the administration need to sit down and have a a clear um uh meeting with this with all those know for-profits and entity that doing the work in the community uh also um so members of the public so once again just thank you thank you for being so patient and thank you for being in contact with us uh and C Kali once again thank you for the great support on this legislation for the Airbnb to stop those illegal activity in the third war and bringing back quality of life into the third war with this legislation so with that being said Madam cler my vote is yes thank you Mr President the votes are five yes is four absences the public portion of the regular meeting of April 9th 2024 is hereby closed motion to close move move to close move by council member last and second by counc MC you roll call to ajour the municipal Council regular meeting of Tuesday April 9 2024 councilman abdalaziz sleeping it's gone councilwoman cotton thank you madam I just want to say good night to you out there in the public um uh as council president said next week it will be a different type meeting uh this was really absolutely my brother done text me like five times like say what is going on with you my sister done text me uh like I said you people don't realize that this meeting is being watched all over the country and all over the world other people in other countries can see our meeting so we know we got to do better um I want to say good night to you all out there in TV land please forgive us for what happened tonight we got to make sure that it doesn't happen again all right council president um so we have to make sure but I want to say good night to all my Council colleagues that are still on to my Council Corporation counsel to my BA to our Melinda who does our stenography to of course my Madam Clerk and also to my Deputy Madam clerk um I want to wish you all a good night and to Ryan it was tough tonight Ryan we had to figure out what really went happen and I don't know what was going on for some reason it was just cutting off but I know you had said that when when when the when the public is talking we don't need to say nothing because they kind of dismiss stuff so we need to know as council members when the public come out we don't need to talk we don't need to say anything let Madam clerk be the only voice that anybody can hear it should be only coming from Madam clerk but that being said to you all out there um I want to wish you all a good night and I just want to remind you that I am running for my reelection vote onea uh 1A under ballot reelect councilwoman Ruby cotton dedicated committed and accessible to all everyone have a great night Madam clerk my vote is yes thank you councilwoman cotton councilwoman D that there y councilman Jackson councilwoman memes yes thank you coun councilman valz yes madame clerk I just want to read a statement that uh somebody tagged me on uh not Tagg me just put fifth war on Fifth War resident I say and I go to read it this way really Patterson my aunt waited for three hours speak during the public portion I fell asleep this is BS and I responded that's why I requested to go back into a school into the city hall Chambers is fixed and the person said the location had to do nothing with getting into the speak what I try to say to the person is I'm requesting to go live and presence in a school because this Zoom meeting or whatever is not working yeah we don't have a quorum and we don't have a quum yes we have a quorum everybody lock in S no um but but but that's what it is so saying that uh council president uh good night hopefully we find this place and we don't need to use zoom unless we want to use another method called WebEx or whatever because um this is this is uh this is ridiculous this give bad name to zoom trust me a bad name to zoom U saying that my vote is yet to close the public of the meeting tonight good night thank you councilman VZ Mr President uh thank you mad clerk I see my councilman uh Ruby Kon councilman Jackson councilman Lissa councilman Vala myself we got five on the meeting so so thank you Council Cali for staying to the last ining this meeting we we move we finish the agenda uh we have a lot of important item on the agenda and team work is what need to be is what need to happen in the council as you saw there was a very um uh there was a legislation on the floor um with a lot of questions so we table it um and this is not going to come back until the administration do the work with the non for-profit and have a conversation with the community about what really needs to be done so we we making a lot of critical critical decision as a council as a governing body to represent the community and it's it's my it's my intention and my hope to make sure that the people to hear people to hear the community that is the reason why I feel so my level of frustration was so high because I mean it's really sad and I am all my private uh uh sector I've been in Zoom meeting in virtual meeting with 20 40 50 people and it worked perfectly fine but today it was really horrible was really bad um I'm looking forward to have a a meeting in person next week so I'm going to start working on that mon clerk so we be will be in touch tomorrow uh so patter so once again thank you thank you for being there every step of the way to my to the resident of the third war um let's keep making progress with Alex mes as your third war councilman legislation for Airbnb is done uh so now the enforcement piece after 21 day that become a law it's now the next St uh and the administration I know they will jump on and we will stay on top to make sure that we enforce the law to bring quality of life back into the third War I want to say thank you to all the resident of the third war for the great support um that you showing me every time I I I go to any uh voter I meet any person in the third War Industry they clearly um give me that endorsement and I want to say thank you thank you for that uh don't forget so May 14 is around the corner Mendes 18 uh on the ballots to be your councilman of the third war again let's continue the progress in the third War I will say loud and proud and proud that the third war is one of the cleanest war in the city of patteron I've been educating all my constituents about the ball pickup knowing that you need to log in uh download the app pison Plus app uh schedule the ball pick app and it will tell you the day and time to pick it up if they if you schedule and they don't pick it up then you call Council m m a 973 9301 1436 I want to make sure that the street in the third W are clean I don't want to see furniture around and so far every morning I drive around my third W I'm not seeing furniture out there and I see that the work is been done and if you have leave or Recycling and that that's supposed to be picked up and they don't pick it up call me 973 93014 uh 36 I'm here to hold the administration accountable and every Department accountable for the services that we should provide to the resident of the city of patteron in this case my third world resident um so I want to say thank you once again and let's finish uh let's finish this election with a great success and I know it's going to happen so mes 1A to be your councilman the third war again good night patteron God bless you all thank you Mr President I just want to make sure our cman Jackson are you there I know he wasn't that Al that had said yes yes I'm here no who said yes before me wasn't that Al he yes cman ABD was so he yeah he was there he was absent yes he didn't answer no they're they're present but they mute then I vote so let's let's call the vote M cler the way we close the meeting she's trying she's trying to get a fifth person cilman um cilman Jackson are you there yeah he's um well there's no quum the meeting is over no that's not how it works councilman L I know that I know that but you know but I thought that I thought that um okay when we Clos the public portion wasn't Al there yes he was there when we Clos public portion yes he was there so we we got quau him by the time by why did he get off he know he shouldn't have off we we we don't have qu he don't answer that's the problem but he voted on the closing of the public portion he sure did why would he leave because we would go right in closing the public portion like why okay so he understood that the meeting was we just close the meeting so we could go go to bed we canot close the meeting because it's a me a minute we um the meeting isn't properly adjourned so we can go we don't have a quorum to close it uh hold on for a minute let me call Al call somebody please I am I am Al do me a favor you log in please vote no to close the meeting please because you log in by the record oh so sorry vote Yes by the record you log in in the yes please that's the only time I I I low you for a vote hello woman are you there yeah do we try to get councilman Al to L in can you log in to close the public PST to close the meeting join the meeting he was there oh madame clerk can you call Mike Jackson he's log in no no no councilman just give me a second Madame clerk I have councilwoman DAV on the line can you tell Ryan to send the link to council Davila the Ryan can you send the link to counil M Davila just for this pleas meeting and council member it just coun ABD is on okay councilman abdalaziz we're closing the municipal council meeting your V please sir yes thank you thank you good night Mr President the votes are five yeses four absences the meeting of April 9 20124 is hereby closed good morning everyone thank you and before we leave council member let's let's remember so when we got this case please let's not get disconnected before we properly close the meeting good night council Khali good night cler good night good good night council president