good afternoon good afternoon at approximately midnight Saturday March 4 15th a Ford pickup truck pulled up to this area and was
ready to dump 16 bags of construction material but thanks to our Police Department that indiv idual was caught in the act of illegal dumping that's right and that Ford pickup was seized as
well we are going to send a strong message that Patterson is not a Dumping Ground and we will continue to keep our eyes on individuals who are Brazen enough to try to continue to illegally
dump in our city sadly that individual was a Patterson resident I also would like to thank a regular citizen for catching yet another instance of illegal dumping on
camera and yes another Patterson resident this time on 21st Avenue and breelan as you can see caught in the act for those of you who may not remember or are too young there was a shown known as
candid camera right OIC where people were caught on camera but it wasn't necessarily illegal dumping but this is our version of candid camera so what we're going to do is we're going to name you and we're going to shame you so that everyone knows you don't care about your
community that you want to continue to dump on our city we are not going to tolerate that at all so to elaborate a little further on the fines that are being assessed and how much they'll cost is our Corporation Council who has
worked vigorously on this issue to prevent illegal dumping going forward in the city of Patterson ladies and gentlemen our law director aan abushi get thank you mayor um and I do want to thank you and your Administration as
well as police DPW um our inspectors for doing a tremendous job of not only monitoring the situation and cleaning it up but catching these individuals I also want to thank councilman valz as well as council president for amending our dumping ordinance recently to include a
component of community service the finds that we will be seeking in these matters are $110,000 but I want to remind the public that in addition to a $10,000 fine we we are entitled to seek jail time come on and going forward jail time
will be on the table for those who are caught dumping in our city we have a zero tolerance for dumping our residents deserve better our DPW uh director and employees deserve better and our city deserves better thank you very much good
job and we appreciate your leadership thank you Aman this some you talked about potentially putting these people in jail I want to hear from our public safety director who has a extensive career in law enforcement Jerry spal thank you
good afternoon mine is going to be very simple it's a message Patterson is picking up and Patterson is going to pick you up if you dare dump in this
city and not only are we picking up we are going to pick up your car and we are going to pick your wallets with the fine so that should be the message we are coming for you Patterson is picking up thank you
wow that was powerful spoken like a NYPD officer in the 80s it's incredible you know we will'll pick you up in fact I want to refresh your memories a few weeks ago OIC we picked up not one not
two but three boats that someone had the tarity to drop in two different sections of our city so at this time I want to call forward the gentleman that I will credit with launching the operation when I asked for him to have something here
at Governor Street our OIC our officer in charge Patrick Murray yeah go cap Chief thank you mayor good afternoon good afternoon illegal dumping is not just an eyesore it's a
serious issue that threatens our our City's health and safety and overall quality of life it burdens our City's resources and sends the wrong message about the pride we take in the city of Patterson here in
Patterson we are stepping up our efforts to combat illegal dumping through increased patrols surveillance operations and collaboration with the DPW and the community members we are holding offenders accountable and
working to keep our streets clean yes let me be clear if you choose to dump illegally in our city you will face consequences yes we are enhancing our enforcement measures issuing fines and ensuring that all those responsible are
held accountable for their actions but enforcement alone is not enough we need the community's help if you see a legal dumping happening please report it if you know of a problem area please let us know we can make Patterson a cleaner and
safer place for all residents thank you good job and all I say I want to thank you for your laser-like focus on this issue you know how important it is and you know how notorious this area has been as far as illegal dumping is concerned and you alluded to a
collaboration yes there is alignment between Public Safety and public works and our director of DPW is serious about cracking down on illegal dumping and I'd like to hear from him right now director Billy Rodriguez thank you mayor just like to
thank the patteron police um our Corporation Council um our inspectors from Department of Public Works for putting this effort together for stop IL legal dumping catching all that's involved with uh with dumping in our city U we're not going to stand for it anymore the pressure is on um we got to
change the narrative in patteron if our own residents are dumping on that City what are out town is going to think we have to start taking it serious and we you guys are going to be paying the fine so thank you yes yes step so also want to acknowledge from
DPW Juan Kelly VI Sosa thank you for joining us Anthony finga and of course our director of constituent Services Javier Fernandez when you talk about alignment both branches have to be on board and we have a strategic alignment
between the legislative branch and the executive branch as mentioned earlier by our Corporation Council we're going to continue to raise fines when necessary so that the message is sent and it does serve as a deterrent so ladies and gentlemen a councilman who's very serious about cleanliness the
representative from The Fifth Ward announcement Lewis a bz was the a for amazing accountability aming so first of all we are in Progressive
mode yeah tell them why because something that I learned from this gentleman behind me Jared Cal director and he said every ordinance have to have teeth yes that's true to be able to be enforced and our Police Department did the right thing
we in Progressive mode we want to see our city clean but at the same time we're going to make accountable those that want to dump in our city that's why last conference that we had we came up with putting community service to all of
those that dump in our city not only that instead of wearing orange suit they should wear blue and white letters I will not dump again in the city patteron for let them know that we going to expose them if they continue to
do what they doing if your city is clean don't come and dirty our city and if you live in our city love your city and treat it like it is with love ladies and gentlemen we not tired of working for
the community we are tired and we're not going to give up until we don't give the source the resources that they need to put him in jail if they need to be in jail for dumping in our street thank you corporate Council for listening to the council the mayor also for moving
forward in Progressive mode to keep our city clean de we have ordered hundreds of banners that could be found in our business districts that say keeping Patterson clean starts with you if you make a poor decision to
dump in your city then it ends with you too yes because we will not allow you to get away with trying to dirty our city we will name and we will shame you we will put out in public your vehicle that
you used to perform the illegal act will put your face and your name out in public so everyone can see what you're doing to our city the city that we love and you've heard that cleanliness is Next to
Godliness well there won't be any divine intervention here but there will be police intervention just so that I can reiterate what our public safety director said and I'm sure it will resonate with people Patterson is picking up but we will pick you up if
you decide to make that poor choice and dump in our city once again for everyone to see the shame of individuals who don't want to keep Patterson clean but we're here standing in solidarity to let you know that keeping Patterson clean
starts with you and all of us have a part to play in it thank you yes yes yeah I'm glad that you had that you asked that question we have a a yard oh sorry we do have a yard that's not too far from here it's actually at the end
of Lawrence place so there the for Patterson residents yes for Patterson residents only if you want to elaborate director yeah if you have you're getting rid of old furniture household items nothing as construction debris or Hazard material right down the street over here
402 e16 Street our city yard you can bring it there from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. at night thanks Scott for asking that question actually it was me because I take this road every day to drop my daughters off the school and noticed that this became a notorious site for
illegal dumping that's when I notified our Public Works director and that's when I notified our officer in charge and of course there was an operation and we were able to apprehend an individual who had a substantial amount of construction debris that he was ready to
dump of an undercover oper it was an undercover operation but I was the first individual to identify that this is an area that we need to keep a close watch on no there there isn't anyone facing any jail time but if our Corporation
Council wants to elaborate the the fine is significant it's $10,000 but Corporation councel you want to our anti-dumping ordinance provides a fine of up to $10,000 and up to 90 days in jail I think the message needs to be sent that if you get caught dumping in
our city we will considered in appropriate cases we will ask for the judge to impose jail in addition to the $10,000 F but is mandatory yes mandatory community service do you have a list where these D taking place so the two that we've just
caught one was here and then one was on 21st Avenue and breand we've also caught some downtown on Chans Street I haveg yes and not only Thea
okay we'll get to them as well I believe that our officer in charge also mentioned cameras so we'll be rolling out some new cameras relatively soon uh off topic sure I think I know where you're going with this one um the
homicide yes earlier you speak to the only thing I can tell you it is an ongoing investigation it's not the type of news that I want to wake up to nor does anyone in p so I will have more details hopefully by the end of today relative to the
homicide that occurred this morning yeah so the tragedy of of Naji C Brooks was a very painful period in Patterson a life was lost left a family to mourn in fact I ask that everyone keep his family
our city in prayer any other questions thanks very much and hopefully we won't see you too soon about this topic and if we do then that might be a good thing because we got somebody else we're going to name and shame them Yolanda and just so that everyone knows
this is all a part of what we call operation clean sweep for [Music] oh