vice president figero kenberg present councilwoman frisbee present councilwoman Gonzalez pres councilwoman Harrison all right councilwoman Williams pres and council president Feliciano president and myself Brandon Garcia municipal clerk present legislative councel Mr Edward kogi present and Mr West Bridges law director is present as well thank you on your call Madam president proceed with the invocation please certainly almighty God who holds the faith of man and Nation we most humbly beseech thee to bless this our city these deliberations and these thy servants that they may act with wisdom and understanding for the good of our community and th greater and thy greater glory amen amen we can continue with public comment certainly are there any members of oh thank you very much we'll take the public comment clipboard and in the meantime just so anybody knows who has signed up public comment is 5 minutes you may address anything that you wish do understand that the that the council is does not have to respond to you so please do feel free to address anything you wish I have one member here for public comments signed Chris Hutton all righty I'm drunk moving the Sho around guess what I can't find my IRS check excuse me if you would please mute mute yourself we're having a public meeting and we do not need the commentary just mute whoever that one was thank you all right sorry about that y'all I believe so go right ahead sir please state your name and address for the record please uh it's Christopher Hutton I'm going to use 225 North Clinton Avenue TR New Jersey good evening council president and council members my name is Christopher Hutton I am a retired Trenton police officer and speaking on behalf of myself and many other retired officers still waiting to be paid our retro pay from the city as you all know a few of us were here for the last city council meeting on March 21st uh to get an answer as to why we have not been paid yet most of you said that you were under the impression that we were already paid or that the paperwork was completed so as of last council meeting we all came to the conclusion that the member members of the police department lied to you about the outcome of the paperwork and Status at the end of last council meeting the business administrator Mr Cruz spoke to us in a uh assumed that the paperwork and information needed was sent to the accountant we advised him that as of 3M on that day the accountant still has not received the proper paperwork needed to complete her job and get us paid Mr Cruz even went as far as showing us the email sent to the accountant however upon looking closer at the email in question it was just a list of names of the retired officers and not the finan cial figures and information needed for the accountant to complete her job Mr Cruz did promise to us that tomorrow after his haircut he would speak to gief and Captain slack as to why the information still not has not been sent from what I hear Mr Cruz did speak to jeie but the only thing she told him was that it was being taken care of and that she was in contact with us this is another lie she has told Mr Cruz because she has no contact with us nor is any of the needed paperwork completed and sent to the accountant so Mr Cruz I don't even know if he's here today so with this new information provided what is your next course of action to get this resolved Madame President and Council to this date we have spoken to the internal affairs Department specifically detective Garcia detective Captain pacillo about this matter who have spoken to jeev several times both in person and on the phone each time gief had told detective Garcia and detective captain picillo that the paperwork was done most recently that we were getting paid on March 28th we also tried getting information from PBA president presid Mike shereet who has also been dodging us and lying to us most recently he has told us that he was in communication with the accountant and that the information uh that they he confirmed that he received the paval information needed to complete the calculation we just learned yesterday April 1st that that information Mike sheready gave us was another boldface and blatant lie before you is a copy of the email between retired Canan officer Matthew bledo and Michelle swisser who is the assigned accountant in charge of doing our calculations in the email Miss sser states that they are still waiting for an official list of retirees uh resigned officers also before you is a copy of two emails to jev's supervisor Captain slack and also Police director Steve Wilson asking them why we still have not received our retro checks despite the active officers suspended officers and officers that left to go to other departments already being paid those emails still have not been answered by either individuals so director Wilson what is your next course of action to get this resolved council members despite what you have been told or what you think the emails I have provided proof uh is proof that the city has not moved forward with any payments for the retirees however they have already paid the active members back in December they also paid the suspended officers and those that moved to other departments on February 15 so why after several years of dedicated service to the city are myself and other retirees being pushed aside lied to and not paid this doesn't is what is it now want to turn the volume up on them I I I would I would respectfully council president recommend not responding to this um obviously there is a dispute there's an issue that could wind up in potential litigation that deals with personal matters I defer to Mr Cruz if he's comfortable answering it but I would refrain from getting involved in anything you know I I I didn't hear her uh I heard my name but I didn't hear what she what you asked Madam president she she asked for a resp I'm sorry no I asked if it would be all right to ask you to give a re a response or to tell us an update as to what is going on regarding the Retro payments for the retirees if you can but they're suggesting it not because it could end up in litigation so I'll strike the question if you don't feel comfortable as and and that's actually what I was going to say because when I met with the group um by the way Adam Cruz business administrator um good evening everyone uh Madame President thank you um vice president um when I met with them at the after the last council meeting they also mentioned that there is possible litigation um that they are seeking legal guidance and I would much rather not answer that question at this time I would in in the over bunch of caution council president I'd ask um council's um legal representative to weigh in that that'd be you to whether or not um this is a proper this is this is prop in terms of answering the question whether or not that's proper on your call Madam president you get your paycheck don't stare don't stare at me you get your don't stare at staring at me shaking your head don't stare we're not going to debate we're not going to debate we've already settled your lawsuit don't fa me director Bridges is okay can we have order please gentlemen we discuss like keep St you taking okay okay y y West man come on Madam president we'll begin with councilwoman Edwards please councilwoman Edwards thank you council president um I wanted to make a comment on that situation but I don't think we can because we have already released all the information that is available was already given so I'm just going to move past that and allow Personnel to continue to do their due diligence with that so um I I don't really have any comments to make this evening so all right okay councilwoman frisbee good evening everyone so um I wasn't expecting that just quick but that's okay um I have a couple of announcements on this evening not responding as well but um there are couple events that are coming up as I mentioned at the last one the 2024 Gayla pastor's theater where our very young Maria Richardson is being um honored is uh this Saturday and that's going to be at the Trenton Country Club at on April 6th doors open at 6 pm on at M Elementary they're having their first ever dress up career day for second and third graders and that's going to be on Wednesday May 15th from 9:45 to 11:45 all are invited and this is hosted by m School along with campfire as I mentioned last time there's also a healthy kids run that's going to be for five consecutive Sundays that will begin on uh Sunday April the 14th and one consecutively for every um five weeks after that I have a form here if anyone wants to scan um it is $5 per child for all five weeks total um if you would like to sponsor a child that would be greatly appreciated and this is help um sponsored by healthy kids run running uh series finally um let's get this flyer up on April 27th at Greater Mount Zion there's going to be a pre-mother's Day celebration sisters sewing into Sisters for moms to be this is H um being sponsored by NCB ncbw 100 Central Jersey chapter along with a great Mount Zion Amy Church children's future and Mercer Street friends for anyone who would like to know more you can either see me or go on my page on Facebook and it will be circulating on social media that is all I have along with our uh City's uh it's not Mission thank you mission statement I'm mixed up there it is a lot going on thank you our City's mission statement is recognizing that the people of Trenton have made us Guardians of the public Trust we are committed to govern with integrity and fiscal responsibility to seek excellence in the city's operations and to serve all the city's people with respect and compassion thank you everyone for coming out and we'll have join the rest thank you madam president thank you councilwoman Gonzalez yes thank you thank you everyone for being present um I'm just going to make a couple of announcements there are some free um acting classes that are going be going on from April 10th through April 17th April 3rd April 10th April 17th April 24th um and that will be held at merca County College and hosted by the Puerto Rican community and friends if anyone would like to sign their kids up um their AG is 10 through 17 Richard please come out and support that we also have um Trenton Local eats which will be at candelight on April 20th supporting candl light lounge if anyone is available to come out um and just for the um some of my residents who have been reaching out to me on some of the concerns um we are working very very hard about this rent stabilization and so hopefully that you will see that come forth uh really really soon hope prayerfully on this next uh meeting agenda if they can get it in on time um as far as all of the people that express interest on being um on the rent stabilization board so hopefully you'll see that come forth very very soon and I just want to say um happy autism month April is autism month and um shout out to all of my students and all of our other students and anyone else who um has autism have a good evening thank you councilwoman councilwoman Williams Council vice president figuroa cber uh good evening everybody um I really don't have anything this evening thank you all for coming out despite the weather um just remember that this Saturday myself um council president Feliciano and um councilman at large cha Edwards are hosting um let's talk South Trenton at one up one down on cast street from starting beginning at 1:30 so please come out and just see you know what's going on um particular to the South Ward everybody have a great night thank you councilwoman Williams thank you Council presid of your patience uh so I have a couple announcements uh and a statement so uh first one is uh I'd like to remind everybody of our next Northwood CPAC meeting two Wednesdays from now on April 17th at Galilee Baptist Church uh please come it is a a very good meeting exchange of information between the police department and the citizenry and a lot of good has come from that and I also want to announce uh tomorrow if folks don't already know uh slam and Brew will be having it's grand opening at uh probably somewhere between 11:30 and 12 o'clock I've gotten two different times but I've been told by Mr Sasso it's 12 o'clock uh at 24 South Warren Street it's a great new business that's opening up so please do come out and support it also uh wanted to announce this a little early but on April 2 6 at 6:30 at Westminster Presbyterian Church uh the Trenton project which is a collaboration between uh Princeton University students uh we're taking a history class uh doing uh creating documentary films on Trenton itself and I I had a chance to meet with some of the students today at The Trentonian collection and uh the great thing is council president they are really doing some excellent research on our city trying to find a history talk to a lot of uh folks to really get it right so to should be a great event hopefully uh everyone can attend and uh some of the subjects they're talking about is uh Prairie Street the history of taverns in the city uh M Hill uh to the directory of the judicial system in the city of Trenton uh being a Puerto Rican youth in the six 1960s as well as today um and some other great ones uh on Reverend Woodson as well as uh the uh Spring Street and some of the areas of our city so uh please please uh make sure to try to attend to that event and uh another thing that's come up um many different ways I know my colleagues have heard from uh constituents about this particular issue is not having enough inspectors in our city and it's really coming to a head with trying to advance our city with uh having um different departments be able to actually inspect properties so they can finish being developed as well as having enough inspectors to make sure that our City's safe so what I'd like to ask is if um you know our friends at DCA um and Communications with our city I I know uh they can't hire people to have them be deputized as city employees but perhaps they could uh work with our city Administration to be able to have the funds to hire more inspectors throughout our departments um it is getting pretty bad even with um garbage inspections so this is something that's very very much necessary and then another area of concern is finding another mechanic to help in the fire department which I've been told by a number of uh Personnel in the past that they would really like to have another mechanic uh that would be very much helpful to makeing sure our City's safe as well as uh Trenton bravest who are protecting us so thank you very much everybody for joining us this evening and thank you uh council president thank you councilwoman councilman Harrison okay thank you yeah you're welcome all right so good evening everyone thank you for being here tonight um thank you to those that came and and um and spoke tonight um and we don't have too much to say except that on Friday from oh I got you on Friday from 9ine to 11 um councilwoman Williams councilwoman Edwards and I are doing um coffee with our Trent fire department and First Responders at slam and Brew so if you're available and around come on and and hang out with us for a little while as we have a good time with them um and then on Saturday as as Council vice president said um CVP councilwoman Edwards and I will be at one up one down uh talking about South Trenton and what's going on um I so I wasn't I I was toying back and forth with this see okay I was toying back and forth with this about whether I was going to say something or not um and I am GNA say it um the the message that I would like to give to our constituents and residents in the city is to be careful about what you read or what messages are being brought forward to you by media so-called media um because many times people like to sensationalize things that are not so I would like to commend my colleagues on the work that we do collectively whether the media chooses to pick it up and come out for all of us rather than a few of us to highlight what is actually being done when you have media Outlets that try to be divisive or divide and conquer I'm here to let you know it's Not Gon to work because we're doing the work and just because you may not see us all in one place together does not mean that they we do not support the works that are being done City council's job is to be the checks and balances to the administration when we decide to go out should our schedules allow it we will be where we can be in support who we can support it is not that we're not we don't care or we're not doing the work councilman Harrison does a lot of stuff that many of us will never see from helping elderly people with their lawns or helping people um getting issues done out East Trenton but it's not about calling the newspapers to say hey look at me I'm over here doing it he does it councilwoman Williams has her CPAC meetings where she has the police come out and talk to the residents and she has her own other meetings that she has with her northw constituents that the media may not get a call to come out for and if they do get a call they choose not to come we have councilwoman Edward who is out and about with her young professionals network doing things and moving through the community embracing and talking to her constituents again media being selective in who they choose to support we have councilwoman Jenna figuroa kenberg who is out and about doing things constantly for those that are on Facebook you'll see what's going on she's potholes picking up this picking up that animals this and that all over the place again the media is selective councilwoman frisbee she's been having her community meetings and everything and walking and talking through her Ward going and seeing people media picks and chooses what they do and me myself oh I'm doing the work it's all over the place we honoring cops and honoring everybody right where they are but that doesn't get picked up because it's selective media so well they picked up councilwoman Gonzalez they no no no I'm talking about media and people being selective on on what they read and what they listen to and councilwoman Gonzalez does work as well I'm talking about selective media and how people need to watch and pay attention to the media and what is being highlighted we are all doing the work and if I can't be someplace or my colleagues we are a working Council that has full-time jobs so if we're not there it is not because we don't care it is because we just could not be present I hope I've made that Crystal Feliciano clear to those who would be interested thank you all for coming out tonight I appreciate your time Mr Garcia we can continue oh one more thing councilwoman frisbee has something that she um omitted when she did her announcements go ahead thank you council president um just a great night um I did want to make mention real quick that um the the month of April is also a Sexual Assault Awareness Month so we asked that you would be sensitive to those that are around those who may have are going through there's several people in this City that are being abused one way or the other and I um there are a lot of things that are going on to um highlight that so we ask that um not highlighted to bring attention to so I ask um if you know of someone and they need help please bring it to our attention and we can see about getting them help the other thing is on as Council um president didn't mention um next actually next Monday um is the west ward Community conversations uh at 5:30 p.m there will be the Hermitage um police command station there and the last thing is that Public Safety Public Safety appreciation day is April 20th and that's for um all of Mercer County for Trenton Hamilton Ying Lawrence Mercer County April 20th at 3 pm and it's going to be at the new station the station um tapis and bar and that's located downtown in the city of Trenton 14 South Warren thank you so much Madam president thank you Mr Garcia let's continue certainly madam pres moving on with the agenda we are at Old business and we'll go over uh go over our ordinances ordinance 24-13 Bond ordinance providing for phase four of the lead service line replacement program in the Trenton Waterworks service area by the city of Trenton in the county of Mercer state of New Jersey appropriating $10 million therefore and authorizing the is issuance of $10 million bonds or $10 million bonds or notes to the finance to finance the cost thereof excuse me and Madam president if there's no questions toward that ordinance I'll move on ordinance 24-20 ordinance supplementing and amending chapter 309 Water and Sewer of the code of the city of Trenton by adding article nine P mandatory replacement of lead service lines in conformance with New Jersey state law are there any questions yes Madam president I do have a couple questions on this um Mr director simple please um good evening good evening council president vice president council members Sean simple director of venur thank you Mr Simple I I have just a couple questions on this um I wanted to know how close are we to being on track with this project we have a couple of leadline projects going on at the same time they have the um the EPA grant that we just received the bid awards for we're reviewing it and we're about to award but this ordinance is given us permission to get all the lead lines out because safety of our constituents our water users I should say is most important to us I know some people have some questions concerning this ordinance and how strict it is but we have given some options here to the residents to you could do it yourself and provide us the proof If you don't want us to come into your houses we are offering it for free to run the service lines from the main to your meter in the house at no cost at all there's some people who don't want us in their houses you could do it yourself but we we have to protecting the people is was very very important to us because we don't want people come here with lead poisoning and they're going to blame us there's no lead coming out to that plant on Route 29 the lead starts from your service and within your household so we got to get it right thank you I appreciate that and to be very clear I am for this I am all for getting all the lines um switched out and I'm grateful that it is not costing our taxpayers anything that we are actually offering this service um my reason the reason for that question is because I see that there's a deadline that we have within this so I just want that's why that was the reason for the question so I just want to make sure that we have enough time to do everyone in the city of Trenton OH generally it's not just Trenton but look we turn our our surface area we have up to 20 T to complete all the leadline surfaces so this is just another phase that we we enter into and hopefully we can get more done without with l with least resistance as you know in Phase One and phase two most of the landlords didn't want to pay the ,000 so they said no some of the people didn't have the money to pay $1,000 so this would allow us to do more service lines um the phase four that's on here right now we are on a tight timeline to get it done with the $10 million that we just got and with the council help y'all could make this possible excellent um my next question is because I am the westw representative and seeing what PSG has done to our streets I'm not being shady I'm just saying how are we going to be ensure that these structures are either made the same or actually better than when they came in with um being smooth again well that will be inclusive of our bit package we have to restore in kind what we took out we going to make it make sure it's it's restored the way it is excellent thank you so much um oh and then my last question how does this affect renters and owners who are not um those renters who are not um own not the um owner will it be that if the owner does not respond to the request well the because I was reading that it says that the person collecting the funds so it's not always the person who's collecting the rent that is actually the owner that is the landlord and they have no say so about the property will that suffice if we say will a landlord be able to sign off on this if they cannot if we cannot get an owner to respond it's a good question um let me see how I can answer this to best um we have some Provisions in here that the landlord we have to reach we have to get to the owners regardless to get their permission I don't think they're going to have a problem they don't have to pay so I don't anticipate having any problem the people that given us the problems right now is the people who's been stealing water over the years they don't want to I to be honest with you we've caught over 137 people without meters in the house for 2023 these are the peoples that these are the people that avoid in us um between this and the meter program they're going to get found out so those are the people that we we just a little bit concerned about but we have to get in because yeah the first case we have of lead poison and come from our water system why yall didn't change my lines and we don't want to go through that I thank you sir this um it was helpful I just want to give some food for thought as I was reading through the ordinance these were some things that came to mind but I thank you for your thoroughness and I look forward to everybody getting their lines uh switched over I'm looking forward to the cooperation so thank you very much thank you sir there any other questions regarding the ordinance councilwoman Williams thank you ma'am uh have Mrs uh SLE Dr SLE I have a couple questions uh first of which is um when this was originally introduced I believe uh the estimate was either 1,000 Replacements or 1,700 Replacements and I was wondering if there's been any closure on an estimated number of that would actually be able to be done with this uh $10 million Bond well this $10 million we have to get a little over a th Replacements okay so it's it's we still have a great variance between 1,000 and 1700 I mean that's pretty wide there's two um bids out one with a um Federal grant that's going to give us 750 Replacements and to make our quarter of 10% for the year we need an additional a th th000 this why we went for the $10 million to cover that cost so is okay 17 around 1,700 to the 1,000 will be from the $10 million yes Bond okay that that clears that up for me thank you yes and then uh other question to uh follow up on my colleague uh councilwoman Frisbee's question a chief complaint I do get is when service comes out people are thankful but then they do not get their sidewalk replaced and I know I know she did ask about that previously can you guarantee us that they will not get an ask asph fault patch going forward because that is really really bothersome that even when it's done in the past it takes forever to get it fixed back to a sidewalk yes there is guarantees that once the is part of the bid process that the restoration is done okay I know we've had some issues with at least one of our two of our contractors in the past that we still holding their their money because they're not haven't completed restoration but it's guaranteed that it'll be part of the bid process and it's up to us to hold it foot to the fire to have it done well please use gasoline with that fire because that' make a lot of my constituents much happier yes thank you very much sir thank you ma'am any more questions thank you director simple thank you Mr Garcia certainly moving on to ordinance 24-21 ordinance amending ordinance 2008 entitled an ordinance continuing certain positions fixing salary ranges therefore and setting forth certain regulations for the implementation of these ranges for asme local 2286 senior radio dispatcher are there any questions okay Mr Garcia certainly ordinance uh 24-22 an ordinance of the city of Trenton in the county of Mercer New Jersey amending ordinances to resend special assessment in connection with lead service line replacement project Council so president if my interject with your permission yes um just to go back um being at the second reading we need to confirm whether or not there are any public questions or comments with respect to those ordinances I believe we do that on Thursday for voting day no okay or yeah you're actually you're right you're are correct I I'm I'm I'm incorrect sorry thank you any questions I have a question is is this where I can ask the question about if there was going to be an increase in our water rates can I ask that now okay so I have a question thank you director thank you hello hello welcome back simple question um with us resending this special assessment based on what it was saying there it says um the LA the the the last word is on the first page where it says um uh the law njsa authorizes Tren Water Works to recoup the cost of the lead service line replacement project from all subscribers of the public water system I.E through the water system rates rather than through a special assessment imposed against particular Property Owners is there going to be an increase in water or sewer rates so I will make it very simple we serve outside of Trent I know we we cannot do assessment outside of Trend in terms of their water rates so the answer to that is no it w affect the um water rates at this point okay so what so by by eliminating this though so I guess let me be more specific for you because I I understand what you said at this time will there be an increase because we're not getting the special assessment from the outside townships will there be a water rate increase within the next year um Madame President good evening Adam Cruz business administrator Madame President if your question is regarding this very specific ordinance this will not trigger a rate increase this specific action will not now is there a need to increase rates for water and sewer absolutely but that would this would not be the cause of that okay yes thank you thank you Mr Garcia certainly moving on to what are we ordinance 24-23 an ordinance authorizing the additional name of Joseph and Mary Ravenel way to new Roose Street any questions oh I'm sorry for Mr Ki okay so Mr Garcia uh yes it's my understanding Madam president per the solicitor that uh like to see if you be to ask for a motion to amend ordinance 24-23 to read the honorary name of Joseph and Mary Ravenel way as opposed to the additional name is that correct yes thank you yes I'd like to make a motion to do that so moved second we're calling it honorary instead of additional that's that's the change per Mr Ki he we listed as co-sponsors on the original because count law director does not have that that what that we're listed as co-sponsors of this resolution okay that's fine so are we calling the role on this we have a motion in a second I have a move I do have a motion in a second okay so we can call the RO certainly councilwoman Edwards yes vice president Figaro kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee yes councilwoman Gonzalez yes councilman Harrison yes and councilwoman Williams yes and council president bisano yes motion carried on your call Madam President we can continue thank you certainly mam president that's all the ordinances for excuse me for second reading uh that we have at this time and looking at the resolu onto resolutions are there any items that the council would like to extract from a consent agenda at this time give it a few minutes please if any council member has any resolutions that you would like to be pulled from consent agenda for discussion now would be the time to um to say say so council president yes councilwoman Edwards I believe 24-19 is a roll call Item yes right that's correct thank you as well as 24 and 2417 yes I just have not it as well I'm sorry um Madam president I have a question about um 24-18 not that I necessarily wanted to be pulled for call I just have a question that I'd like to ask okay let's get everybody's um so 2418 okay thank you anyone else have any council president yes just a quick question um for uh 24126 24126 thank you yes um 24125 24125 so please note we're on these when we do this we're going to ask the questions today since we have the directors present and then we'll decide if we're going to move them to consent agenda I'm sorry 2122 24122 yes ma'am thank you um that's what she just said2 she she wants to be pulled out to be oh okay um 24128 I'm not sure if we called that one or not 24128 yes pleas no but I'll include that thank you that's it for me thank you thank you on your call Madam president I'm just looking okay so the ones that we are pulling at this time that we have questions on are 118 122 125 126 and 128 I have pulled just to be clear 117 118 119 122 125 126 and 128 and that is all of them correct um 24 130 I do have a question on it is that to be pulled from a consent agenda or no 24130 yes she has questions just questions is that it everybody okay right Madam president if it's your wish you want to proceed with questions and have the directors address these items now at this time or would you like me to continue with the uh yes but before we begin with that I just want to make it known to the public just for public consumption the reason why um councilwoman uh Council vice president figuroa kenberg and I typically don't have too many questions when we're here at this time is because we have our questions answer at docket review so we don't want anyone to think that we're not asking any questions we're asking very detailed questions but based upon the results that we get from Administration there's no need for US unless it's just further clarification of something held over then we would be brought forward to ask additional questions just so you know that so we can begin with um 24118 please good evening Madame President Adam Cruz business administrator and Madame President for the record uh when you do go to docket review and ask questions you also have questions uh for the entire docket that we then ask directors to share their answer uh we send it to you and then I believe you disseminate to the entire Council as well sometimes we have sometimes we have not okay all right but but yes you do get your questions answer in writing well yes but I also think it's good too that the council can come up with their own if they have additional questions as well to show that we are a thinking Council and they're independent in their thoughts and questions okay thank you so I'm ready to answer the question for 118 Madam president yes ma'am so that was um me um director Cruz my question is um ba excuse me um the it says that for this it's temporary services for a full-time mail Clerk and we were using someone out of um a a business out of Somerset New Jersey my question is there's no one local that we can use for part-time whe to get um AIDS like this for part-time companies that we needed to go to Somerset I know there used to be one in uh Rolland pots old building right here on Broad Street are we looking or is it just not there for to deal local locally so um um Madam president this is actually a state contract that is actually procured by the state of New Jersey for other municipalities to actually share uh and if they wish to um use it then every municipality goes and you know goes and and uses the contract uh that gives us the ability for us to choose from the company um someone without us having to go out to bid ourselves to get it because it's not just going to the actual um place we would have because it's above a certain amount of money we would then have to put it out to bids okay thank you and and so that's why and uh the reason why we choose to stick with a uh season uh for someone working at a temp agency is because the city actually uh saves money saves about $35,000 a year in uh not hiring someone so thank you for that and then the other part of that question is is the individual when we're going through these different uh agencies are they required to be a resident of the city if they are this individual is going to be working as a a full-time mail clerk that SM the question right so if the individual was to become a permanent employee of the city they would be required but because this is a contract just like every professional contract in the city or a bid contractors are not required to move into the city when they provide services so that's why they're not required to to move to the city thank you appreciate you sir thank you can we move that to consent agenda yes thank yes noted thank you 24122 council president yes yeah I just have a quick question um hopefully for Police director regarding 24122 good evening Steve Wilson Trent Police director thank you director um I know this resolution is pretty straightforward the situation with donating to dog which I think is an outstanding idea and I fully support this I was just curious has the dog actually been formally retired or is there a ceremony for that if they been in the city service U there's no ceremony um typically um the hand he was promoted and when he was promoted the dog was retired after several years of service and so the city normally offers uh the Handler to adopt a dog since he's been with the Handler and the family for so long and the Handler is an approved owner with a good home and everything that we would hope that a dog uh would be living in and they assume all the expenses that the city covered before okay um if a dog was retired due to um some type of incident you know on the street or something then we certainly have a ceremony but normally they just go off into the sunset with their handlers all right thank you sometimes I recently uh saw a ceremony at a different department uh they had and then people in the public were allowed to come to it Etc and then the military does that too thank you sir you're welcome C can it move to consent agenda yes ma'am thank you noted 24125 good evening Madame President good evening councel Jim Beach Chief of Staff uh I do want to point out that while these matters concern the housing and economic development department our new director who's here with us tonight uh marel Ferrara uh these matters preceded her but she will certainly have the privilege and pleasure of appearing before you in the near future thank you Rich and welcome Miss farar to council um just wanted to ask one quick question because a question may come up for members of the public as far as uh with the contest for business plan Etc who are the judges or how will the decision be made if you happen to know that uh the there's a committee that's formed with the uee leader uh Mr mayir and that committee will then be judging who the winners are okay and there's criteria that comes down through the uvz okay understood all right thank you very much thank you can this move to consent agenda thank you yes 24126 yes Madam president thank you um I asked this question in docket review um Mr Beach um regarding um that last property on St Joe's 325 that kind of standing alone at the end yes did we look into that like what are we doing with that property is it owned by somebody are they keeping it is just going to be a standalone not being I didn't hear that whatever that question was not posed to me um my understanding the developer came to my office personally and showed me some videotapes they are in sad shape I think at this point they may just be knocked down and then you know he's going to redevelop all those lots in succession yeah but 325 was not specifically added to the resolution and it's just the only house left is kind of shorter than the other houses and kind of just stand it's it's attached um to the the other houses but it's the only one so I'm just curious what but that's not part of the purchase it's not part of the yeah okay I'm assuming councilwoman or Council vice president that it's privately owned I can confirm that but it shouldn't impact this resolution though okay yeah I was just curious like whether that was just going to Standalone or because I know it is attached so to the other ones that are coming down understood thank you I'll confirm for you perfect thank you thank you is this going on consent agenda or roll call it is thank you 24128 bless you good evening press button to turn your mic on please thank you Mr yeah I'm W director of Public Works I'm here for any questions yes C thank you madam president um Mr honary I just have a it's a real simple question I wanted to know um this is for the recycling part um plan and I wanted to know are we going to be doing anything we used to do this before I haven't seen it over the past few years where we actually include the school systems to recycle there's a lot that they are doing now and it would be great to get them Incorporated and I say that because one of the organizations that I um am involved with we recycle plastic bags still and we have gotten two benches um donated because of that we get the waight and then you can get free items actually done so just asking to see whether or not that's something we're going to incorporate and I it would be actually a good teaching tool as well for our students uh yes Council pres I mean council president uh yes we are working with M count right now because we noticed that there's a lot of uh slack off in the residents not Recycling and we are going back to the schools because the schools the students they help us a lot at home with their parents to encourage them to do Recycling and right now we are working with the Mas count who is responsible for our Recycling and we're working with them to get it back to the school to educational wise and some pamphlets that's what our goal is right now excellent thank you thank you so much sir yes sir thank you madam president thank you can we put that on consent agenda yes ma'am thank you 24130 thank you yes ma'am uh so my question is do you mind elaborating on exactly what this is this project is um I know it's federal aid agreement to uh with the Department of Transportation for the DNR connect to create the bike lanes and things like that on Union Street and fer Street in that whole area um can we get a little can I have some information on when this is going to begin our residents going to be notified um and also I wanted to bring to your attention again and I know this is a question for santur but that that area over there is horrible with traffic and as we're talking about creating these bike lanes and things like that I want to urge you to consider um that intersection of Bridge Street and fery Street and also um Ferry Street and Center Street those are highly dangerous intersections that not even motorists let alone bicyclists can cross safely you could forget pedestrians because it's it's ridiculous so it's that going to be addressed a part of this plan I will let uh Recreation directors speak on that okay thank you thank you so much Maria Richardson um we have been working on this project for a little while with the federal government with the OT and uh basically the idea is to connect um the health loop from the battle manent to Route One and then route one and then to Cooper that will connect with another project that we have that will take the the loop from Cooper from Union Street to um to the marine terminal and so this is uh basically this part this resolution is basically to allow us to to do the beat because this is federal um money right um the construction aspect of it we will have to come back to the council for that but for this part we have been in having public meetings and yes your concerns have been considered and will continue to be considered for the development of this project thank you thank you council president councilwoman Williams thank you um M Mr Terry don't don't don't go she she came she she rose up out of the the left hand side I was actually I wasn't gonna uh say go ahead Council woman so colleague uh Miss Edwards brought up a good question so since last summer I've requested a study for those streets that she mened Bridge Ferry as well as Center that whole area under the bridge particularly coming out with that triangle because it is extremely dangerous it's it's Frogger on steroids so uh as recently as last month Mr sentor uh said it is on immediate list but the issue is with capital city funding and finding more funding to um provide for that study which is integral for that area of our city so do you have any more news that you could share on the funding I know it might be tough because we're still developing a budget I you just said it once we have the money we need definitely that's on the plan because we had a conversation about this last week you know exactly what you're saying but again it's the funding but once we have it is part of the plan we're going to move forward with it we already have everything in line so what we need is just that uh account number to use and we move forward okay would you have any guesstimate when we would find out when that Aid and that funding will be available to us uh that's something I don't know I don't know when the funding will be available okay because that would be Capital City a would provide for that that's correct okay thank you very much sir thank you for asking the question M Edwards appreciate thank you um we're done with you thank you um I mean thank you run now sorry I just would like to um make an amendment to this we discussed it in docket review in the title where it says um authorizing the mayor and the city clerk um I'd like to strike and the city clerk it is actually the mayor that executes this document not the mayor and the clerk the clerk attests to the mayor executing it he doesn't execute it so I'd like to make a motion to amend the wording to strike and the city clerk so move second thank you Mr Garcia yeah roll call councilwoman Edwards yes vice president Figaro kenberg yes councilwoman frisbee yes councilwoman Gonzalez oh I'm sorry thank you I have my head turned uh councilman Harrison yes councilwoman Williams yes and Council president frisbee Feliciano I apologize I don't know why I do that um motion carried so councilwoman right is the fs at least he's saying that and not Council um Edwards so we can move this to consent agenda this one say it say it yes thank you all right Mr Garcia we ready so that's on consent agenda yes all right and and moving on Madame President to oh we have no other ordinances thank you um that being the case I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session so move second moving second I'll call the role councilwoman Edwards yes vice president figuro kenberg yes councilwoman Frisby yes councilwoman Gonzalez still not here counc Council har hear her screaming yes from wherever she is councilwoman Williams yes council president Pisano yes thank you and we're not expecting any we do not accept the I don't know Mr Mr Bridges director bridges are we expecting a vote out of this tonight thank you let's go e e e e