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The Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of
Carteret was called to order by Mayor James A. Failace
approximately 7:30 P.M. on Thursday, January 18,2001, Municipal
Court/Police Facility, 230 Roosevelt A venue, Carteret, New Jersey.
Upon individual roll call, the following were noted present:
Councilmember Jack Fazekas
" Remy Quinones
Daniel Reiman
Ronald Rios
Janet Santoro
Buddy Sohayda
Also noted present was Borough Attorney Craig Coughlin and
Business Administrator Nicholas Goldsack.
The meeting was opened with a moment of silent prayer and pledge
of allegiance led by Mayor James A. Failace.
The Clerk stated that on January 12,2001 in full compliance with the
Open Public Meetings Act, a notice of tonight's meeting was sent to
The Home News Tribune, The Star Ledger and posted on the bulletin
board.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers, Quinones and Fazekas and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present, the minutes
of November 2 & 14, & December 7, 2000 were approved as
transcribed and engrossed by the Clerk.
The Clerk stated that Ordinance #0 I-I was introduced and adopted
on First Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed same for
Public Hearing to be held on February I, 2001, upon MMS&C, by
Council members Fazekas and Quinones. Upon individual roll call
vote Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro, Sohayda voted in
the affirmati ve.
ORDINANCE # 01-1
1.
"AN ORDINANCE CREATING A CARTERET
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY"
Mayor Failace said, as you know we went down to Trenton on
January 10, 2001. It was approved overwhelmingly. He said the
Council needed to do this after they approved it. He said they have
approved it and need to move forward. He said he gave the Local
Finance Board the names that he had chosen. He said he gave it to
JANUARY 18, 2001
COUNCIL MEETING
ROLL CALL
PRAYER, PLEDGE
OF ALLEGIANCE
STATEMENT OF
MEETING NOTICE
MINUTES FOR
APPROVAL
ORDINANCE #01-1
CREATING A
CARTERET
REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY
COMMENTS
JANUARY 18, 2001
COMMENTS
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ORDINANCE #01-2
AMENDING CHAPTER 38,
SECTION 5 OF THE
CODE, RE:
RESIDENCY
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the Council last week and was hoping that they would do something
at the last meeting, but would wait for the next Agenda Meeting
because they might decide to put some names on it. He said he felt
the Council needed to move forward with this A.S.A.P. He felt the
Council should not to procrastinate.
The Clerk stated that Ordinance #01-2 was introduced and adopted
on First Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to advertise
same for Public Hearing to be held on February I, 2001, upon
MMS&C, by Council members Santoro and Rios. Upon individual
roll call vote, Councilmembers Fazekas, Reiman, Rios, Santoro,
Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Quinones voted
no.
ORDINANCE #01-02
"AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 38 SECTION 5 OF
THE CODE OF THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET."
Mayor Failace said you know that we had last year a change in the
residency. He said there was a residency requirement, an Ordinance
that said that the Borough Employees had to live in town, except for
the Fire and Police. He said the Council changed it so that they had to
live in town one year, since that's what they have on the books for
Police and Fire. He said the Council required employees to stay one
year; this Council has chosen to change it to five years. He said he
didn't feel it was the right thing to do.
Councilmember Quinones asked the Clerk what it would cost to
advertise an Ordinance and change Amendment.
The Clerk, Kathleen Barney stated it depends on how many words
and spaces.
Councilmember Quinones asked again approximately what it would
cost to advertise something like this.
The Clerk Kathleen Barney said about maybe $30.00 dollars.
Council member Quinones said when we first decided last year to
eliminate the residency requirement, the change was made really as a
result of a situation that arose from an individual who was offered a
job and subsequently thought she had a job. She said there was some
question as to her understanding of the offer which then turned into a
bit of a problem and made her reevaluate this Ordinance and the real
necessity for it. She said she felt it wasn't a good Ordinance and she
didn't see why the Council would require people to live here. She felt
a period of fi ve years was chosen with no logical explanation of that
amount of time. She said it seemed to her that the Council was
requiring people to act as indentured servants for a period that they
see fit. She reiterated there is no logical reason to change this, to
advertise this whether is cost $30.00 dollars or $300.00 dollars she
felt it was foolish. She said she felt there was potential for a lawsuit
and there has been lawsuits filed against Municipalities based on
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these residency requirements, which these Municipalities have lost
and she voted no.
Councilmember Reiman said he spoke to Councilmember Quinones
and the Mayor about this last year and they were opposed to
changing any Ordinance that point in time. He said they were both
supportive requiring Borough Employees to live in town I don't
know why this was changed last year. He said at the Agenda
Meeting Mr. Goldsack actually suggested the five years. He said
some members of the Council considered seven years, some thought
ten, some thought one or two. He said he supported the five years
and voted yes.
Councilmember Quinones asked for a clarification on the Ordinance
and said no one ever spoke to her on that Ordinance.
Councilmember Reiman was inaudible.
Councilmember Rios said he felt was a good Ordinance. He said the
Council is asking people to stay in Carteret for five years. He said
hopefully they stay longer and the money will stay in Carteret. He
said he thought it was a good Ordinance and didn't think it would be
challenged and voted yes.
Council member Santoro said again what you are trying to do is
respect those Carteret residents, the ones who were either born or
raised here and have lived in this town, or the ones who make their
homes in this town. She said the difference between the Fire and the
Police, who were allowed to leave after a year; we have no control
over that. She said that is by State statutes, or we would amend that
one also. She said she supported the five-year requirement and voted
yes.
Mayor Failace said this has nothing to do whether you are a life long
resident of Carteret. He said the old Ordinance said you still have to
live in Carteret in order to get the job that never changed that had
nothing to do with life long resident of Carteret or fairness of
residents of Carteret etc. He said he mentioned that at the Agenda
meeting, Councilman Rios asked three, four, six months ago, to
change the Ordinance before he was a Councilman he wanted to
know why residents needed to be required to live in Carteret. He said
he was against it at that time as Councilman Reiman was. He said
the more I thought about it, Councilman Sohayda brought it up at an
Agenda Meeting that that the Council should do something with this.
He said if the Council does it for Police and Fire, the fair thing for all
our residents, our employees was to allow them the opportunity to
move out of town.
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Councilmember Rios said the Mayor should understand you said that
you weren't going to change this for one person. He said the Mayor
asked if this was for one person, it wasn't for one person he had
received numerous calls from Borough Employees. He said it gives
them the opportunity to stay or go he didn't think they should be
locked in forever to stay here, but though they should have the
opportunity to move out. He felt a five-years was a good number.
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ORDINANCE #01-3
ESTABLISHING BENEFITS
FOR CERTAIN
BOROUGH EMPLOYEES
COMMENTS
The Clerk stated that Ordinance #01-3 was introduced and adopted
on First Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to advertise
same for Public Hearing to be held February I, 200 I, upon MMS&C,
by Councilmembers Reiman and Santoro. Upon individual roll call
vote, Council members Fazekas, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda
voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Quinones voted no.
ORDINANCE #01-3
"AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN
BOROUGH EMPLOYEES"
Councilmember Quinones said she has some questions before she
voted on this and asked if Councilmembers, who intend on taking the
benefits, please let me know now.
Councilmember Rios and Fazekas said they would not be taking the
benefits.
Councilmember Reiman said he doesn't see what bearing this has on
this.
Councilmember Quinones said it has a bearing on my vote.
Council member Reiman said you are going to be voting either yes or
no, if six people take it or if six people don't take it.
Mayor Failace said it is rather a simple question, you don't have to
answer if you choose not to.
Councilmember Santoro said she might.
Councilmember Sohayda said he was.
Councilmember Quinones asked if anyone knew if the new Borough
Attorney was going to take benefits.
Craig Coughlin, current Borough Attorney said he does.
Councilmember Quinones said she is going to pass on her vote. To
come back to her.
The Clerk called the roll.
Council member Quinones said she read in the newspaper today how
Councilwoman Santoro feels that the benefits are a good way to
entice people to run for Council. She said she finds it to be
extraordinarily arrogant and just plain stupid why we would we want
to offer benefits at the expense of the taxpayers just to encourage
people to run for Council is ridiculous. She said she certainly did not
run for Council with the intention that she was going to do so only
because she was going to reccive a paycheck, benefits or one or the
other or both. She said what she found even more fascinating about
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the position people are taking now, IS these very same
Councilmembers last year didn't want to vote to fix the sewers, they
didn't want to vote to buy playground equipment. She said they
complained about every possible expenditure and made an issue out
of the fact that a desk that had been sitting in storage for fifteen years
was destroyed and was somehow a waste of taxpayers dollars. She
said she didn't really know who was going to take benefits, whose
family is going to take them or who would be taking them even
though they can get them through their employers. She said the
Council potentially could be facing an increase of half a tax point.
She felt it made no sense to her particularly in light of the fact that as
Councilman Reiman pointed out during an Agenda Meeting the
potential insurance cost is going to increase this year in excess of
$400,000.00 dollars. She said she thought it was ludicrous and
hypocritical and voted no.
Councilmember Reiman says what is hypocritical is that you
accepted health care benefits for six months in 1999, he said I have
the report right here.
Councilmember Quinones said she accepted health benefits for thirty
days and it overlapped. She said why that shows six months is
inaccurate. She said she did inform the Borough Clerk to terminate
her insurance coverage, but being a person who is willing to put her
money where her mouth was, she will reimburse the Borough for
whatever time period those expenses were incurred.
5.
Mayor Failace said the bottom line was she thought it was a good
thing to take away those benefits. He said the Council does not need
to get benefits. He said Councilwoman Quinones had $50,000.00,
and maybe this Council could be $50,000.00, another Council and
Mayor who chose to take it with full family benefits could be at
$12,800.00 as Councilman Fazekas was originally before it was
taken away for family benefits. He said he felt they should not be
paying for family. He felt if they want to pay for the Council people,
take away the benefits for the family, the town shouldn't be paying
for the Council families. He said at the last Agenda Meeting, the
Council talked about $400,000.00 increase in medical expenses. He
said the town needs to do digital tax maps the last time they were
done was twenty years ago they are probably illegal. He said the cost
of that would be about $48,000.00 dollars he chose to hold off on
doing that because of the expense to this Borough. He said that
would bring us up to 2001. He said Councilman Fazekas was talking
to him today about prompters and cut holes in here and spend money
to do that. He felt it was great, it's a good idea, but said they have
other things they needed to do and benefits was not one of them. He
said this Council should be ashamed of themselves to put the benefits
back. He said Councilman Fazekas says he's not taking benefits,
Councilmember Rios says he's not taking them, Councilmember
Santoro says maybe, she was not sure. He said Councilmember
Reiman; we don't know, he won't tell us, Councilman Sohayda said
yes. He reiterated there is no reason to do this, there is no reason to
burden the tax payers with that and felt the Council could use that
money to get digital tax maps. He said we could move ourselves
forward to what we've done with Councilman Fazekas with
computers and what we've done with this Borough it was money
well spent, there's no doubt about it. He said he felt this is money
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wasted. He said the Council took it away because they thought it
was the right thing to do. He said they still believe it was the right
thing to do that we should not spend money on benefits on this
Council. He said any Councilmembers that take it should be ashamed
of themselves, because as the Councilwoman said we didn't
volunteer for this as you saw in the newspaper. He said as
Councilwoman Santoro said that it would bring more volunteers
back.
Councilmember Quinones said no one here volunteers, they get paid.
Mayor Failace continues saying now days, a lot of people aren't as
likely to volunteer. He said he got paid $10,000.00 and spends most
of his money; there is no doubt about that. He said he spends it in the
Borough and every where else that he can get. He said we don't
volunteer to do this that's not why he believed any member of this
Council ran, to get benefits. He said if most of the Council is not
taking benefits, he had no idea why they want to put it back unless
they are putting it back for a few members. He said quite honestly
that's outrageous, it's ludicrous if they wanted to say they wanted to
give it back to the Public Defender, he felt that was a good thing and
wouldn't mind that. He said he thought the Council was adjusting
the salary and thought since they were doing it they would take it out.
Councilmember Santoro said why would you remove it from the
Attorney if the old Attorney received it for four years.
Mayor Failace said that has nothing to do it you want to make it look
like that because we are losing a Borough Attorney or we are losing
Council people. He said all the Council people are still here and felt
it was the right thing to do. He said most of the people in this
audience would tell you it's the right thing to do. He said this
Borough should not be paying for benefits for this Council at a half a
tax point, a whole tax point. He said we have a problem as is and
quite honestly the Council should be donating that back and felt it
should be going back to the Borough residents.
Councilmember Rios said it is ironic how two months, a month
before the election the Council wants to do away with these benefits
for a few we are doing away with it for. He said he didn't understand
your logic when you've been up here in control for how many years.
Mayor Failace said as Mayor.
Councilmember Rios said your Administration, whether as Mayor
and Council.
Mayor Failace said well as Mayor it's two years, total of three years.
Council member Rios said three years, and you didn't change it in
those three years didn't you waste money then.
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Mayor Failace told Councilmember Rios he never thought about it
and said this was discussed long before an Agenda Meeting, long
before, long before an election or anything else. He said this Council
would tell you it was brought up at an Agenda Meeting with the prior
Council. He said they were going to look at it, talk about it, and
think about it. He said that was the bottom line and was long before
any election.
Councilmember Rios said it wasn't done until a month before the
election.
Mayor Failace said, because you believe it isn't the right thing to do,
bottom line is it is the right thing to do.
Councilmember Quinones said this isn't about rectifying what you
thought was a political injustice.
The Clerk stated that Ordinance #01-04 was introduced and adopted
on First Reading and Clerk authorized and directed to advertise same
for Public Hearing to be held on February I, 2001, upon MMS&C,
by Councilmembers Santoro and Rios.
Upon individual roll call vote, Council members Fazekas, Reiman,
Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Council member
Quinones voted no.
ORDINANCE #01-4
"ORDINANCE ELIMATING THE POSITION OF
DEPUTY MA YOR"
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Council member Quinones said this one baffles me I can't even
understand why we have to spend money to advertise to eliminate the
position of Deputy Mayor a position in which is non-salary, non-
tenured, non-classified. She said it is merely a position by Ordinance
gives an individual chosen by the Mayor certain duties. She said
there is nothing significant and said she could read you the
Ordinance. She said they have no powers to bind anybody or bind the
Borough. She said this came up because the Mayor and this is a third
party conversation, so I'll have to admit that it is hearsay. She said
the Mayor had a conversation with Dan Reiman they discussed Jeff
Pino, who is the Mayor's Aide. She said at the time, the Mayor is
being forthright and told him that he was considering giving him the
appropriate title under the Ordinance, which is Deputy Mayor. She
said at the next Agenda Meeting, low and behold what happens,
Councilwoman Santoro says she wants to introduce an Ordinance
eliminating a position, the reasoning for that is it could cause
confusion amongst the residents. She said they might not know that
the Deputy Mayor doesn't have the powers that certain people think
he has. She said the people of Carteret are not stupid, this Ordinance
is. She voted no.
Councilmember Reiman said he had a conversation with the Mayor
and explained to him that they wouldn't have a problem, if he
appointed; not only the Council would. He said he could appoint
anybody he wants as Mayor's Aide this Ordinance has been on the
books for some years. He said he knew Mr. Rios has voted against it,
when it was established some time back. He said the position of
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ORDINANCE #01-4
ELIMINATING
POSITION OF
DEPUTY MAYOR
COMMENTS
JANUARY 18, 2001
COMMENTS
(Continued)
Deputy Mayor doesn't exist in our form of government they are not
held accountable to this Council, under our form of government
every employee in the Borough were official is held accountable to
this Council.
Council member Quinones said the position is held accountable to the
Mayor.
Councilmember Reiman said exactly, and that's the problem with it.
Councilmember Quinones said that's the problem for you.
Councilmember Reiman said yes.
Mayor Failace goes on to read what the Deputy Mayor does and
thought you should know what they should get rid of. He said the
position of Deputy Mayor being here is created which appointment
shall be made by the Mayor. He said the position of Deputy Mayor
should be non-classified and non-salaried. The Deputy Mayor shall
serve at the will of the Mayor. The Deputy Mayor shall be
exclusively responsible directly to the Mayor, the responsibility of
the Deputy Mayor is as follows: To maintain communication levels
with County, State and Federal Government so as to express the
position of the Mayor. As to the governmental needs of the Borough
of Carteret at those times when the Mayor cannot personally express
such a position because of other committees. The Deputy Mayor is
not authorized to express the opinion or the thinking of any person
affiliated with the Carteret Government except that of the Mayor and
then only with the Mayor's expressed authority and direction. He
said what they have done is taken away Deputy Mayor and had no
Aide. He said there is no Ordinance creating an Aide. He said I am,
I have to admit even though I spend a lot of time in this Borough, I
am a part time Mayor. He said now I have no one to answer my
phone and I have no one to make calls for me when the residents call
me. He said my Deputy Mayor either responds to the residents or
responds to me if it is urgent enough, now I can't do that and the
residents will have to wait. He asked if the Council was planning to
give him an Aide.
Councilmember Reiman said Jim that's not true. Joe Gentile is the
Mayor's Aide.
Mayor Failace asked Councilmember Reiman where it was stated in
the Ordinance.
Councilmember Reiman continues saying the Mayor Aide position is
not there is a salary ordinance establishing it.
Mayor Failace said there is no Mayor's Aide position.
Councilmember Reiman said you have a Mayor's Aide.
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Council member Quinones said you don't have a problem with Joe
Gentile, but you have a specific problem with Jeff Pino.
Councilmember Reiman said he had no problem if you want to call
Mr. Pi no or Joe Gentile the Mayor's Aide. He said he did have a
problem with the Deputy Mayor's position it doesn't exist in our
form of government they are not held accountable to this Council.
He said everybody in the Borough, the Borough Officials or the
Borough Employees is accountable to this Council.
Councilmember Quinones say the Mayor's Aide should be
accountable to the Mayor.
Mayor Failace said he didn't understand, if the Mayor's Aide had the
same duties as the Deputy Mayor, why is the Council wasting
money. He said he felt this was stupid and the Council was only
doing this because it was him, because it's my Mayor's Aide, it's my
Deputy Mayor. He said there is nothing in this book that says there is
a position of Mayor's Aide. He asked the Council to at least draw up
an Ordinance that says he has a Mayor's Aide.
Councilmember Santoro said at the Agenda, absolutely.
Mayor Failace said we are going to do is we've spent money to get
rid of this position and we are going to create another position that
does the same thing.
Councilmember Santoro asked Mayor Failace what the Council did
last year.
Mayor Failace said a Mayor's Aide, let me explain to you why I had
a Mayor's Aide, because Pete Sica, God rest his soul, had a Mayor's
Aide. He said he was always under the assumption and the
impression that I had to have a Mayor's Aide and when you begun
being Mayor, you had an Aide, I never looked it up. He said he took
full credit for being stupid for thinking there really was one and not
looking in the book. He said when he looked in the book and saw
that it was, he mentioned it to Councilmember Reiman in his office
and told him he was going to name Jeff Pino and Joe Gentile Deputy
Mayor's.
Councilmember Santoro asked if the Mayor appointed the Mayor's
Aide on January first.
Mayor Failace said two Mayor's Aides, absolutely.
Councilmember Santoro said so all we have to do is create the
Ordinance since it was never done in the past.
9.
Mayor Failace said we need to spend more money to create another
position, all you would of have to do is allow me to say Joe Gentile,
Jeff Pino are Deputy Mayors. He said they answer to me, they speak
only for me. He asked what Councilmember Reiman was so worried
about; my Aides or my Deputy Mayors are not responsible to this
Council. He said what does he expect, they have to come back and
answer to him, no, they answer to me. He said he felt it was another
waste of money and a waste of time and as Councilmember Sohayda
said it is a waste of paper it is written on. He said he felt it was really
is a shame that Council members Reiman and Rios said that we are
going to do away with the petty politics, in their January 1st speech,
no petty politics. He said if this isn't petty politics, its garbage. He
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reiterated he felt this was a waste of time. He said why would
anybody think a Deputy Mayor could sign papers.
ORDINANCElOl-5
AMENDING SALARY
ORDINANCE #71-9,
RE: PLANNING
BOARD/ZONING
BOARD CLERK &
HOUSING/BUILDING
INSPECTOR
The Clerk stated that Ordinance #01-5 was introduced and adopted
on First Reading and Clerk authorized and directed to advertise same
for Public Hearing to be held on February I, 2001, upon MMS&C,
by Council members Fazekas and Rios a motion was made to table.
Upon individual roll call vote, Council members Fazekas, Quinones,
Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative.
ORDINANCE # 01-5
"AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE #71-9
ESTABLISHING SALARY SCHEDULES AND FIXING THE
MANNER OF PA YMENTS OF SALARŒS FOR THE VARIOUS
OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE BOROUGH OF
CARTERET"
COMMENTS
Councilmember Reiman said when we discussed this at the Agenda
Meeting this was at the recommendation of the Zoning and Planning
Board. He said he knew the Planning Board because he sat on the
Board as Chairman. He said the Planning Board recommended a
salary increase for the Clerk for $3000.00 from $2000.00 because of
the additional workload, it important to this position and it was
recommended by both boards. He said somehow on this Ordinance it
may have an automatic increase at the next year and the following
year and said he didn't really have a problem with it he just wanted
to address this to the Council.
Mayor Failace said it has always been a flat rate.
Councilmember Reiman said it's been a flat rate that's what he was
saying an automatic increase the way this Ordinance is reading.
Councilmember Santoro asked who put the increase in.
Councilmember Reiman said that's what he wanted to know.
Nicholas Goldsack, Business Administrator said historically the
increase, whatever kind of contractual increases are g1Ven,
historically they are given on the same....
Councilmember Reiman said that's not true.
Mayor Failace said not for this position, this position was a flat fee.
He said Councilmember Reiman said$3000, he said he thought it was
$2500.00 maybe it was $3000.
10.
Nicholas Goldsack, Business Administrator said he would check into
it. He said normally what happens is it is added to their base pay and
the contractual obligations are added to it.
Mayor Failace said it never was added in the past.
Nicholas Goldsack, Business Administrator said he would verify
that.
Mayor Failace said he thought maybe this should be tabled in order
to do it right.
A copy of each Resolution was placed on the table for public review
prior to the meeting in accordance with Rules of Council and upon
MMS&C, by Council members Rios and Quinones and unanimous
affirmative vote of the full Council present, the Mayor declared the
Public Hearing to be open for input on all Resolutions.
John Sudia, resident of Carteret has a question on 01-26 Professional
Services Weiner, Lesniak, Esq. regarding Makwinski arbitration in
fact it is basically the same that we paid the attorneys for at the last
meeting.
Craig Coughlin Borough Attorney said Weiner; Lesniak represented
the Borough in the same manner.
John Sudia asked if they would represent the Borough in the same
manner.
Mayor Failace and Craig Coughlin, Borough Attorney both said they
did.
There being no further comments or objections to the Resolutions,
the Mayor declared the Public Hearing to be closed upon MMS&C,
by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman and unanimous affirmative
vote of the full Council present.
RESOLUTION #01-17 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Quinones
RESOLUTON #01-17
11.
"DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF BINGO LICENSE TO
CARTERET JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
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MEETING OPENED
PUBLIC INPUT ON
ALL RESOLUTIONS
COMMENTS
MEETING CLOSED
RESOLUTION #01-17
DIRECTING THE
ISSUANCE OF
VARIOUS BINGO
LICENSES
ADOPTED
JANUARY 18, 2001
RESOLUTION #01-18
DIRECTING THE
ISSUANCE OF
V ARIOUS RAFFLE
LICENSES
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-19
AUTHORIZING
PURCHASES FROM
STATE CONTRACTORS
FOR 2001
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-20
AUTHORIZING MAYOR
TO EXECUTE
INTERLOCAL SERVICE
AGREEMENT-DOG WARDEN
SERVICES
II.DOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-18 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Quinones
RESOLUTION #01-18
"DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF RAFFLE LICENSES TO
CARTERET JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, HOLY FAMILY
R.C. CHURCH & ST. JOSEPH R.C. CHURCH"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Council members
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-19 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-19
"AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASING FROM STATE
CONTRACTORS BY THE BOROUGH OF
CARTERET FOR 2001"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
RESOLUTION #01-20 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-20
"AUTHORIZING MAYOR TO EXECUTE INTERLOCAL
SERVICE AGREEMENT FOR DOG WARDEN SERVICES"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Council members
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
12.
RESOLUTION #01-21 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-21
"PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR
C-3 SEWER OPERATOR"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Council members
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
RESOLUTION #01-22 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Council members Santoro and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-22
"APPOINTING COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES TO SERVE ON
THE CARTERET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative. Councilmember Quinones abstained.
RESOLUTION #01-23 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Sohayda
RESOLUTION #01-23
"RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT WITH
PREFERRED CLEANING SOLUTIONS"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
13.
JANUARY 18, 2001
RESOLUTION #01-21
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES, ALEXANDER
BIEL, JR. NOT TO
EXCEED $12,000.00,
RE: C3 OPERATOR
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-22
APPOINTMENT OF
COUNCIL REPRESENT-
ATIVE-COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-23
AUTHORIZING
AGREEMENT WITH
PREFERRED CLEANING
SOLUTIONS, RE:
BOROUGH HALL
AIR FILTERS
ADOPTED
JANUARY 18, 2001
RESOLUTION #01-24
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES-JOHN
LEBDUSKA, NOT TO
EXCEED $5,000.00,
RE: SAPERSTEIN V.
WANSKUS V. BOROUGH
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-25
APPOINTING
DENISE MAREK-
BOARD FOR THE
DISABLED
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-26
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES-WEINER
LESNIAK, ESQS., NOT
TO EXCEED $16,600.00,
RE: MAKWINSKI
ARBITRATION
TABLED
RESOLUTION # 01-24 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Santoro and Quinones
RESOLUTION #01-24
"PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR
ARCHlTECHTURAL CONSULTING SERVICES"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-25 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Santoro and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-25
"APPOINTING DENISE MAREK TO THE BOARD FOR THE
DISABLED FOR THE YEAR 2001"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
RESOLUTON #01-26 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Reiman and Santoro
RESOLUTION #01-26
"PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR LEGAL
SERVICES"
was tabled. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Reiman,
Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers
Fazekas and Quinones abstained.
14.
RESOLUTION #01-27 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-27
"APPOINTING A MUNICIPAL PROSECUTOR FOR THE
BOROUGH OF CARTERET"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Council members
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
RESOLUTION #01-28 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Counei1members Santoro and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-28
"RESOLUTION APPROVING CO-LOCATORS"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Council members
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-29 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Santoro and Rios
RESOLUTION # 01-29
"PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR
LEGAL SERVICES"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Couneilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
15.
JANUARY 18, 2001
RESOLUTION #01-27
APPOINTING A
MUNICIPAL PROSECUTOB
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-28
APPROVING CO-
LOCATOR, RE:
METRICOM & XM
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION #01-29
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES-CRAIG
COUGHLIN, ESQ., NOT
TO EXCEED $2,500.00,
RE: LEGAL SERVICES
ADOPTED
JANUARY 18, 2001
RESOLUTION #01-30
SUPPORT OF BOROUGH
OF METUCHEN'S ACTION
IN OPPOSITION TO THE
"GARBAGE TRAIN"
ADOPTED
COMMENTS
RESOLUTION #01-31
RENEWAL OF
AGREEMENT WITH
MID-STATE FEDERAL
CREDIT UNION,
RE: PARKING LOT
ADOPTED
RESOLUTION # 01-30 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Council members Santoro and Reiman
RESOLUTION #01-30
"RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE BOROUGH OF
METUCHEN'S ACTION IN OPPOSITION
TO THE "GARBAGE TRAIN"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Reiman, Santoro, Sohayda voted In the affirmative.
Councilmembers Quinones and Rios abstained.
Councilmember Reiman asked Craig Coughlin, Borough Attorney if
the Council contacted Metuchen about this.
Borough Attorney, Craig Coughlin said he reached out to their
Council today and he wasn't available. He said he put the Resolution
together. He said in the Resolution it directs the Borough Council to
investigate the possibility of actively participating (inaudible).
Councilmember Reiman said so we would have to adopt a second
resolution as far as (inaudible).
Borough Attorney, Craig Coughlin said you would have to do that,
you also want to have a sense of what the nature was and what the
likely hood of success and a budget in terms of proceeding forward.
He said you would need to adopt another Resolution to authorize the
formal action.
RESOLUTION #01-31 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Santoro and Fazekas
RESOLUTION # 01-31
"RENEWAL OF AGREEMENT WITH MID-STATE FEDERAL
CREDIT UNION RE: PARKING LOT"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative.
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RESOLUTION #01-32 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Council members Rios and Reiman
RESOLUTION #01-32
"PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR
LEGAL SERVICES"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmati ve.
Mayor Failace said he had a question on the Ordinance for benefits.
He said it says be it further ordained that this Ordinance shall be
effective January I, 2001. He said how are we paying for benefits
now for Council members have benefits right now.
Borough Attorney, Craig Coughlin said he thought the answer to that
question was that the way the period runs the payment last month
covers through the period that is now in existence. He said by
making it effective January first what you are doing is creating a
seamless coverage at no additional costs. He said they never ceased
on December 31 st, because that wasn't the policy period.
Mayor Failace asked if the members of the Council were covered this
month.
Craig Coughlin, Borough Attorney said correct anybody who was
eligible to receive it in December, when the December payment was
made, that carried through the middle of this month. He said if this
became effective back, then we will be able to cover it forward
without any interruption.
The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of a Communication from the
Township of MilItown, Re: Resolution opposing changes in Hazmat
Services as proposed by Middlesex County Board of Chosen
Freeholders.
17.
The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of NUl Elizabethtown Gas
Company Re: Notice of Public hearing dated January 29th, 7:30 P.M.
in Rahway. The review of Levelized Gas Adjustments Clause,
Review Demand Site Management Adjustment Clause Rate and
Revise its rates for Commercial and Industrial Air Conditioning
Service and Seasonal Delivery Service and Revised Weather
Normalization Clause.
JANUARY 18, 2001
RESOLUTION #01-32
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES-SPADORO &
HILSON, ESQS., NOT
TO EXCEED $15,000.0(
RE: SAPERSTEIN V.
WANSKUS V. THE
BOROUGH OF CARTERET
ADOPTED
COMMENTS
COMMUNICATIONS:
TOWNSHIP OF MILLTOW~
NUl ELIZABETHTOWN
GAS COMPANY
JANUARY 18, 2001
PAYMENT OF BILLS
REPORTS
DEPARTMENT
STANDING COMMITTEES
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Councilmembers present. All
Communications were ordered to be received and placed on file.
Upon MMS&C, by Council members Fazekas and Santoro all bilIs
appearing on the prepared bill list properly audited and signed were
order to be paid. Upon individual roll call vote, Council members
Fazekas, Quinones, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative. Councilmember Reiman abstained on the Shop-Rite and
JU Enterprise bills.
The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of the following reports:
I. Air Pollution - 2000 Annual Report.
2. Board of Health December 2000
3. Clerk's Office - December 2000
4. Inspection of Buildings - December 2000
5. Sewage Collection - November & December 2000
6. Social Service - November & December 2000
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Fazekas, Rios and unanimous
affirmative vote of the full Councilmembers present, all reports were
ordered to received and placed on file.
BUILDING & GROUNDS: Committee Chairperson Quinones said
last weekend Anthony Neibert injured himself, by falling down the
stairs at home and he tore some ligaments in his knee. She said he
had to undergo surgery today, and she understand from his daughter
who contacted the Borough that he was doing well and he sends
thanks to everyone who called his home and wished him well. She
said he has been really good over the past week he has constantly
been in contact with the Borough and Charlie Nagy and Cindy
DeCamp. She said the two people she would like to thank because
they went out of their way to come in on the weekend and cancel
appointments and reschedule for people who had scheduled
inspections wouldn't just be left hanging and it is certainly a tribute
she thanked their entire department. She said Kenny Krug who does
some of the electrical inspections is going to be filIing in for Tony.
She said they are going to have to ask that the public give us some
leeway and he won't be able to possibly operate under the same
timetable as Mr. Neibert, but he was going to try to schedule more
inspections. She said they thought Tony might be out for about six
(6) weeks on January 5th She said they had an audio system installed
in the new Community Center that contained six speakers, a hearing
assistance package, and wireless microphones. She said a
representative from one of the senior groups was there so he could
instruct them on how to use the equipment. She thanked John Riggio
for his work with the Community Development Block Grant, which
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helped us get the equipment. She said they were progressing in
moving the Office of the Disabled into the new Center. She said it
was to my understanding that JoAnn Kissleman had acquired as to
the status and was advised by Councilwoman Santoro that she didn't
know. She said she had to inquire as to some of the items that had
been done to move it along. She said they are now at a point where
we have set up a phone line, a desk and some other furniture so she is
ready to move in. She said she directed Mr. Brewer that he was
absolutely not to deny access to the Firehouse/Community Center to
any individuals who would like to utilize it, without checking with
her first. She said if there is anyone who has made an attempt to use
the Center and have been denied she would certainly would
appreciate it if people would contact her through the Borough Clerk's
office. She said there were some complaints in the past about
individuals who said they were denied access. She said the YMCA is
running some programs temporarily in the Community Center, until
we can move them over to the Firehouse Center. She said as for the
kitchen in the Senior/Community Center, she spoke to Gloria
Goodrich today she advised her of the post drawing of the bids from
Potter they sent out for some quotes two of which are returned. She
said the lowest is being $17,000.00 dollars, which has gone out today
and she understood included in that is a price of a stove, a microwave
and some cabinets and that only additional item we may have to
purchase above that is a refrigerator. She said she had been going
through a lot of paperwork, files, letters and trying to sort out some
things that need to be sorted out. She said over the next few weeks,
she'd be giving a more detailed report on some open items. She said
last thing she wanted to discuss was a letter that was in the
newspaper just this past week, regarding the fires that occurred on
News Year's Eve. She said she responded to it at an appropriate
fashion and wanted to say here today, that it was very discouraging
to see that someone who continuously looks to draw attention to
himself would engage in blatant lies and attacks against people who
have an ax to grind with. She said she checked police reports and
checked with Wayne Carrico, the former Chief of the Volunteer Fire
Department to confirm what had happened at the scene. She said she
went through the logs with Captain Pieczyski regarding exactly what
happened that evening, who was called and who was not called. She
said nowhere in those reports and at no time did Wayne Carrico
mention that anyone had reached out and made any attempt to
contact her. She said she certainly would never refuse assistance in
that situation and to imply that she would put people in jeopardy is
just absolutely disgraceful there is no truth to that. She said anyone
who wants to check the records can feel free to go and do that. She
said they could speak to the Captain and/or the former Chief of the
Volunteer Fire Department. She said they were also advised her that
he was very pleased with the support he received from everyone
including the Director of Public Works and John Riley who showed
up with some equipment to assist that evening.
Mayor Failace said he would like to add to that he would like to
assure the number of senior citizens that called his office worried. He
said he would like that lady to print that in the paper too he wanted
the people to understand that our volunteers and our Fire Department
do a great job. He said they don't need him to fight a fire or to give
them any kind of direction to fight a fire. He said he received about
six or seven phone calls wondering what happens if he was not
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around or out of town. He reiterated the Fire Fighters did a great job,
the Borough responded, the Garage responded, the Parks Department
responded. He said he did not hear the phone at 50' clock in the
morning, and was sorry for that, Councilman Fazekas was there. He
said he felt everything that was needed to be done was done.
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FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION: Committee Chairperson Reiman
said he attended a couple of meetings so far with Patrick DeBlasio &
Nicholas Goldsack in preparation of the 2001 Budget. He said he
knew they had been re-doing the Budget requests, department
requests with their wish list and their needs with the upcoming year.
He said he was going to call a finance meeting for next week with
Council members Sohayda Santoro and he would sit down with the
Business Administrator, Councilmember Quinones and the Chief
Financial Officer to review the budget requests and where the town
was. He said he directed Nick and Pat, contacted all the Department
Heads and put together an itemized list of old and unused equipment.
He said he also compiled a list of Borough property he felt could be
auctioned off. He said with that progress.
FIRE: Committee Chairperson Rios said he had some sad news, this
morning the 1st responders, Fire Department responded to a 911 call.
He said a long time Volunteer Fireman, former Fire Chief, John
Malyin past away today he said this was sad day; he was a really
dedicated volunteer Fireman. He said his sympathy and condolences
go out to the family. He said the 1" responders responded very well,
unfortunately they couldn't revive him. He said he met with the Fire
Superintendent Chief, Brian O'Connor for the first time,
approximately three or four days after he was sworn in. He said they
went over a few things about the Fire Department, toured both
firehouses and met with the Fire Fighters. He said on New Year's
Eve there was a large fire in an abandoned house on 64 Union Street.
He said it was another job well done by all our Firefighters, their
arrival was well advanced. He said the weather was very cold, and
was thankful it hadn't become worse. He said on January 12'h, there
was a bad accident on Industrial Road, the Firefighters responded
and they did a great job on extracting the victim from the car. He said
while they were working on that there were wires knocked down due
to the accident. He said there was a Volunteer's Chief's banquet, for
the former Chief on January 13th which he attended and felt it was a
nice affair and wished the former Chief well. He said on January
14th, he went to the swearing in of the new Volunteer Fire Chief
Scott Pine and the rest of his officers for the year 200 I, he
congratulated them and wished them luck. He said the computers are
being installed right now in the Fire Department and should be
completed soon and would be able to network with the rest of the
Borough. He said they received a few thanks from different people
who used the Fire Department for the morning Seniors who received
a thank you for our first responders for a rescue of a lady who broke
her collar bone and knee. He said they also received a thank you
from a teacher for a tour of the Fire Department for the month of
September and said he felt the Fire Department does a great job and
looked forward to working with them in the year 2001. He said with
that progress.
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PARKS & RECREATION: Committee Chairperson Santoro said we
will be having our first committee meeting next Tuesday, with Bob
Kately and Beverly Hedesh and by the next meeting they would have
more to report for the upcoming year.
POLICE: Committee Chairperson Santoro said on January 11th,
Detectives Connolly, Singura and Stroka were engaged in a narcotics
foot patrol in plain clothes. She commended each one of the
Detectives for the continuing efforts not only in reducing the drugs,
but also for their creative approach and determination of making
apprehensions when possible. She said they do this without incident
or injury, which seems to occur at other times. She agreed with
Councilmember Rios about the Friday, January 12th, there was a
severe accident. She said the driver was knocked unconscious after a
head on collision and suffered life threatening internal injuries. She
said Officer (inaudible) and Patrolman James Csmbok were first on
the scene, immediately after securing the scene, to prevent further
acceleration they rendered first aid to the victim until the victim was
able to be removed, by cutting open a severely damaged car. She
said due to the degree of injuries, the victim was then flown to
University Trauma Center by the North Star helicopter. She said she
would like to commend the Carteret First Aid Squad, Medic 10 and
Carteret Fire Department personnel who responded to the scene for
another excellent professional effort. She felt it may have well saved
a young man's life and prevented bigger problems in a dangerous
situation. She also commended the actions of the officers of the
EMF for responding that evening for their excellent work and
particularly commended Dispatcher Margaret Grotski, Patrolman
James Csmbok and Lt. Barry Auker she said she was sure the
Council all share the same sense of pride and the professional effort
of these Officers in the extreme circumstances they faced that
evening. She said anybody, who saw the accident knew it was a very
dangerous situation with the wires, of our services worked well
together to eliminate any other problems. She again commended all
involved.
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PUBLIC WORKS: Councilmember Sohayda said the end of last
year, he was told he didn't talk about all the departments. He said it
was true and thanked everybody for bringing that to his attention. He
said this year he would talk about the Municipal Garage, Sewage,
Recycling and Streets and Roads Department. He said so far for the
New Year they department dealt with the snowstorm as best they
could and asked everybody if you could, please remove all cars from
the street when it is snowing this will enable the department to do a
better job on your street. He said if it keeps snowing and the plow
comes down your block and keeps on snowing some more, yes the
plow is going to come back and your driveway is going to get
plowed in, which is what's going to happen and always does. He
said the Municipal Garage has been doing a great job keeping the
equipment updated and felt they were trying the best we could for the
level of equipment we have with the amount of manpower we have.
He said from that point on, we have been doing preventive
maintenance on a regular basis on the fleet of the town and believed
the fleet for the town of Carteret is up to or close to 100 vehicles. He
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said the Recycling Department has been doing their best to catch up
on the leaf bag program and are entering information into the
computer system so next year we know who showed up and who
didn't. He said the Recyclable Department has been maintaining a
good schedule even during the snowstorm and commended them. He
said if anybody is having a problem with his or her garbage, please
don't hesitate to call 541-3881. He said they are missing a few
streets from time to time and the Manella Sanitation Company seems
to have a problem with finding the streets where they belong and
what day to pick up the resident's garbage. He said he felt they've
been here long enough to know where they are supposed to be. He
said for some good news, he was informed that the County
reorganization, and after a lot of yelling and screaming, Roosevelt
Avenue and Washington Avenue will be paved this Spring after the
Water Company dug it all up, the will be at no cost to the Borough of
Carteret. He said these roads would be paved from end to end on a
County level at no cost, other than that progress. He said was
brought to his attention at the Reorganization Meeting in Carteret
that he never talked about the Municipal Garage. He said, please,
everybody in the audience, I want everybody to know, the Municipal
Garage is a viable part of the town of Carteret they keep the cars
rolling, the Payloader moving and gassed as well as every other
department in Carteret. He said he overlooked thanking them for the
year 2000 for everything they've done for the Borough of Carteret
and would like to say publicly thank you to the Municipal Garage
employees for what they've done for us in the year 2000.
BOARD OF EDUCATION: Committee Fazekas said next week
would be the first meeting he would be having with the Board of
Education. He said at that meeting he would discuss shared services,
migrating or creating a computer center for the entire Borough and
would give the Council more information concerning that at the next
Agenda. He said for the past year, as Commissioner of the Fire
Department, he was called several times during the course of the year
at certain fires. He said he was at the New Year's Eve fire and no
one from the Council was there and they were called. He said there
were efforts by not only by the Carteret Fire Department, but also
other Fire Departments to a fire and they put out a fire which was
5:30, 6:30 in the morning. He said career and volunteers they put out
a fire there were about thirty people running around trying to put out
this fire. He said he felt it was unfortunate that in the paper the town
overlooked the efforts by somebody making a comment and that did
get highlighted. He said he did not think there was any
Council member, especially Ms. Quinones that would deny anyone or
would turn away any calls and he wanted to make sure everybody
knew that over the past years he was there if anybody from this
Mayor and Council was called they did react. He said if they were
called they did make decisions. He said if someone heard the report
from the Fire Commissioner, there is a new network in the Fire
Department. He said Ronny (inaudible) put in; we are migrating
programs over to the new fire systems one of the things that we plan
on doing is to integrate with the Police, the new Police system with
the Fire Department. He said the tax maps, which are the GIS stands
for Graphical Information Systems and was a very important and
vital system that Municipalities are migrating to concerning digital.
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He said it makes access and also provides the variety of features that
the GIS System provides. He said tax maps by law, have to be
updated, there's no delay, surveyor comes and they have to update
the tax maps. He said not all Municipalities have computerized the
tax maps, the tax maps have three systems one of the systems, that
have been proposed is x amount of dollars. He said we want to make
sure, and he was willing to make sure that the tax map or the GIS
System is compatible with the Police system. He said we are going to
proceed, which is the GPS system, which is the Global Positions
System, so that we can have MVP's located in the patrol cars. He
said the council wants to insure that they are compatible, if they are
not compatible, it's much more of a cost. He said a GIS System
could run a quarter of a million dollars depending on how it is
implemented. He reiterated that there are three different types of GIS
Systems he was looking at and would be giving information at the
next Agenda Meeting where he would make a recommendation. He
said he wanted to let everybody know that it is one system that was
proposed and wanted to make sure that it could integrate with not
only our vital system that we have the tax records, but also for the
Police System for the GPS System. He said with that moving along.
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Mayor Failace said he would like to read a letter that was sent to him
by a V. Pauli us. He said he felt the letter told how our Building
Department works and what they do up there. "Dear Mayor, during
the holiday season I find that spreading some cheer to others makes
life better to us all. I wanted to take this time to inform you of a
matter, which should do your heart some, good. As you may know,
our company is built all over the US and Canada. In that time, we
have become well educated in the inner dealings of local Coding
Officials. While in the State of New Jersey, our experience remains
positive, you should know that in the Borough of Carteret the
experience is second to none. My dealings with Anthony Neibert
and the rest of the inspectors over the past year or so are a true credit
to your Administration. While always remaining responsible Tony
has always been courteous and distinguished himself as a true
professional that he is. The entire staff continues to go beyond the
call of duty in assisting our building division. It has become a
pleasure to call, schedule and make arrangements for compliance in
your town. I thought a little good news about progress would lift
your spirits." He said it was good to hear. He said the department has
brought in, if you take the waved fees last year on the Building
Department, one million dollars. He said he felt that had to be a
record. He said this year we started out again with some good
monies coming in for construction in the Borough of Carteret they
have done a great job. He said, Council member Quinones, in talking
about Tony Neibert's accident, Mr. Neibert forgot to tell you he
tripped and he fell, I think that he broke a couple of toes and strained
his knee that was operated on. He said he called him during the
week to find out because he heard a rumor. He said the rumor in fact
was true, when they brought him to the hospital they put him on the
gurney, he fell off the gurney. He said he asked him to find out
exactly how he injured his knee whether it was from the gurney or
the accident at home. He said in the reference to Redevelopment,
there is not much to say, the Local Finance Board said in December
it was one of the finest and most concise plans ever given to them.
He said he was very proud of that fact and proud of the people that
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worked on that plan, John Riggio was one of the people in
Community Development. He said the town would move forward
and he would not tolerate it and hoped this Council would not
tolerate it either. He said in picking aides, picking the members of
the Agency and moving forward, he knew they would have a slight
battle, but it won't be a great battle. He said he believed this Council
wants to and would move forward as fast as possible and hoped it
would happen. He said he received some information and would ask
Councilmember Santoro and Councilmember Fazekas because it was
concerning the School Board budget. He said he was told in 1999-
2000 that the School Budget was over expended by $800,000.00
dollars and told Councilmember Santoro he heard this last year but
the Council never heard about this from her last year. He asked if
Council member Fazekas or Santoro knew anything about this.
Councilmembers Santoro and Councilmembers Fazekas both said no.
Mayor Failace said he was going to ask Council member Fazekas as
liaison to the Board of Education to research it to find out exactly.
He reiterated that he had some information and said he would pass it
on to him. He said he would not say anymore because he was not
sure exactly what happened and said he would be discussing this at
the next Agenda Meeting. He said as far as the digital tax maps go
he hoped that everyone was on the same line and would do this and
felt they should check what other Municipalities do. He felt they
would be wasting time checking into what other Municipalities do
and didn't care what they do in certain instances and this was one of
them. He said the town has tax maps that are illegal, and asked
Couneilmember Fazekas if that was correct. He said he thought the
last one that was done was done in the early 80's, 1979 was the last
changeable date.
Nicholas Goldsack, Business Administrator said 79.
Mayor Failace said the town originally hired E.KA. Associates and
gave them the members of last year's Council, he said some of the
members were on the Council today. He said he felt the town gave
them $5000.00 to put something together, the cost is $48,000.00. He
said what they put together, every Councilmember, I don't know if
Danny or Ronny had one, but every other Councilmember had a copy
of it. He said he looked his computer and felt it was great and
something that we should do. He said it was something that
Council member Fazekas said earlier. He said the Police can use this
the Fire can use it and could do so many things with that. He said he
felt it would be an enhancement to the Borough, a great enhancement
to the Police, the Fire Department and Construction Department. He
felt it was a small price to pay. He said the Council talks about giving
back benefits to this Council and felt they absolutely should be
thinking that, we could find the 48 grand to do this.
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PUBLIC DISCUSSION
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Sohayda and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Councilmembers present, the
meeting was opened to the public for discussion.
John Sudia said in regard to the Redevelopment Agency he hoped at
the next Agenda Meeting things would be in place and the Council
would have the final reading in the Ordinance to get this thing
movmg. He said he felt it was a necessary thing and it was
important. He said he had some people telling him with regard to
getting involved in businesses down in the Chrome area and he
would like to see that moved in a hurry. He said he was glad to see
the Makwinski action has been settled. He asked if the Mayor had
any idea, what that cost the Borough legally.
Mayor Failace said he didn't have those numbers off the top of his
head.
John Sudia suggested 40,50, $60,000.00.
Craig Coughlin, Borough Attorney said his guess would be
somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty.
John Sudia said he happened to attend an Administrative Law
Hearing two weeks ago, with regard to the Dennis Nagy situation and
understood there had been a settlement proposed.
Craig Coughlin, Borough Attorney said there was a tentative
agreement, the documents are being put together. He said he felt it
was best if the Council doesn't comment on it until they had a chance
to (inaudible)
Mayor Failace asked Mr. Sudia how he knew that information.
John Sudia said he was at the Administrative Hearing as a possible
witness. He asked how much money the Borough spend on the
Stowell case.
Craig Coughlin, Borough Attorney said $210,000.00.
John Sudia said he had a figure of $204,849.00 spent and committed
he asked if there would be any more for Stowell or was this it.
Mayor Failace said there shouldn't be any more money spent but
there may be still a couple of matters that are still under...
John Sudia he felt the town was spending money unnecessarily. He
said his feelings have been and still are that this $200,000.00 could
have been much better spent, for lack of persecution, in our Police
Department.
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Mayor Failaee told Mr. Sudia there was no persecution to the Police
Department but that was his opinion, it was certainly not his opinion,
he shouldn't speak for the Council.
Pastor Amos Dickerson said he is the Pastor of Peoples Ames Zion
Church of 77 Union Street in Carteret. He offered his
congratulations to the people who had been sworn in recently and
said Happy New Year to all everyone. He said he knew the Council
knew about the fire that took place on Union Street but his concern
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was if there would be a timetable for the removal of the debris that is
there and if so what was the timetable.
Mayor Failace said the debris would be removed and he knew there
was an investigation.
Council member Rios said he knew and they are going to try to get it
cleaned up.
Councilmember Sohayda asked if there were other issues.
Pastor Amos Dickerson asked it there was an investigation.
Councilmember Quinones said yes, that is a part of it.
Pastor Amos Dickerson said on Essex Street, it appears that there is a
lot of debris that's been moved somebody has actually moved the
debris to the curb. He said it has been there for at least three weeks
and he felt the debris has to remove, it is an eye sore in the
community. He said he would appreciate it very much if that could
be (inaudible)... He said there are several other items that are
incorrigible and not appeasing to the eye.
Council member Reiman asked Craig Coughlin, Borough Attorney, if
they could direct Borough personnel to clean it up and bill the owner
of the property. He asked if the Borough had an Ordinance that
allowed them to do that.
Mayor Failace and Craig Coughlin, Borough Attorney both said yes
we do.
Pastor Amos Dickerson said he understood that the town was talking
about street signs in the lower Carteret area and asked if there was
timetable for that.
Councilmember Sohayda said he thought Pastor Dickerson or
someone else asked the Council last year. He said he addressed that
issue and was waiting for the signs to come in. He said now that the
ground as hard as it is, it is a little more difficult to do put signs in
but assured Pastor Dickerson that in the spring, it would be a better
time to get that done.
Mayor Failace told Councilmember Sohayda he thought the signs
were in or most of them have come in. He said they would address it
as soon as possible.
Unidentified Lady said her concern was the lower Roosevelt Avenue,
they need some crossing guards on Pershing, Roosevelt and Edwin
Streets because of the heavy traffic in that area. She said there are no
stop signs, there's no traffic lights, there's no crossing guards, there's
nothing; kids have to cross that road to go to school.
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Councilmember Sohayda said at a previous meeting that was asked.
He said he met with Captain Hojecki, who is in charge of the
crossing guards and went over where the crossing guards were. He
suggested that after the meeting, she could speak to Capt. Hojecki
about her concerns and on which corner, because the Council did go
over each area and they are the ones to assign it. He said he has
brought up the concerns of the residents from a previous meeting and
suggested she speak to him about her actual concerns.
Unidentified Lady said you know that corner store, Soklers, we have
kids that have to walk all the way down...
Pat Tozzi said he wouldn't normally bring it up, but it is a historical
item, at our Board of Health meeting a week ago, on reorganization, I
withdrew my name as President of the Board of Health. He said he
nominated the first female for President of the Board of Health,
Yolanda Delgato, who served on the Board of Health for the past five
years in good fashion. He said you name it this week, you were
appointed, and felt it was a feather in our hat that we finally realized
that we have a good qualified woman that could head the Board of
Health. He asked what the status of the handicap accessible ramp at
the Board of Health was; it had been approved by the Architects. He
said everybody approved it, but there was still no ramp there. He said
they still have problems with the handicapped, the Health
Department can't give them mammograms, because they can't get in.
He felt it was a shame that we have to punish these people, because
our ramp is not available.
Mayor Failace said you know you are right, Pat it was completed
with Janet last year.
Councilmember Santoro said the Council has asked about that, and
thought it went back to Sam Gregorio... with the door, and Eric Betz,
you know is aware of it. She said they put the specs together so that
we can... (inaudible)...
Mayor Failace assured Mr. Tozzi that he knew they sent the Engineer
to the Board of Health meeting and they would move on that with
them.
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Pat Tozzi said for Councilmember Quinones' information, we have
two senior groups in this town that utilize the Community Center,
there is an afternoon group and evening group. He said he would
appreciate in the future any documentation or any information is
furnished to both of these groups. He said it seems even thought the
evening group, seems to be the adopted person around here, he
would appreciate it. He told Councilmember Fazekas that as far as
the computers for the seniors, he had been preaching about this for
the last six years. He said the town has a lot of computer illiterate
seniors who are computer illiterate like Regis on television, he said
he is illiterate too. He said he would appreciate it if you would set up
some sort of program, try to set up classes and so forth anywhere.
He said there are a lot of people who would like to get involved but
they are ashamed to go to a same meeting with somebody who
knows everything about the internet, and they don't know the
difference between the telephone and a computer.
Councilmember Fazekas said last year he took a tour of the building
and checked the cords. He said he believed there were about four to
six outlets he believed they had computers for in the new center that
could be hooked up. He said it's just a matter of making sure the two
systems, the Library systems, and the system that supports your
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activities are separate, once that is done, we can run programs and
that's one of the things he said he wants to sit down with the
Business Administrator about. He said it is a program he wants to try
to get for this year for all Borough employees, it is actually a
computer based training that you can run yourself. He said you could
choose the program that you want for the seniors; you can do that
with or without an instructor, there are different types of programs.
He said it not only the Internet; there's Microsoft Word, Excel.
Pat Tozzi said we just want to start from scratch, just send us some
pre-kindergarten kids to get us help. He said last but not least,
AARP as you know, is furnishing income tax help again for the
seniors, the handicapped and people with low income, which would
be starting on February 15th through April 14th. He said this has
always taken place at the Community Center, where we are at now.
He said he informed them, they put it in the newspaper that again it
will be in the Community Center. He said he didn't know if the new
Community Center would be open in the ten years or what.
Councilmember Quinones said we are going to try to do that soon.
Pat Tozzi said last year they helped with 158 returns. He said
Carteret is the only community in Middlesex County that does PTR,
the majority of PTR that's Property Tax Relief for seniors, disabled
and Mobile Home owners. He said they had to give instructions on
income tax at a meeting in Woodbridge, they only did one return, and
we did 45 last year. This program has helped people save money on
their taxes since 1997.
Jim Mancuso, of Carteret said he wanted to say several things about
Board of Education. He said the Mayor brought up the subject of
$800,000.00. He said he was on the phone the last two days, with the
Attorney General there is an $800,000 over-expenditure, which he
was informed falls under a second-degree crime. He said he called
Dr. Vita last week about this and he said he wasn't aware of it. He
said he couldn't fathom that the Superintendent of Schools was not
aware that they over-expend $800,000. He said the Superintendant
couldn't explain it to him, but he would have someone get back to
me. He said no sooner did he put the phone down, it rang, and it was
the Business Administrator for the Board of Education. He said the
first words out of his mouth were this was before I got here. He said
all I'm asking is how the Board can spend $800,000 illegally and
now you are trying to replace it. He said he checked to see if it could
be paid with money form the 2000-2001 budget, which are eight tax
points, by the way. He said if you go over their budget, there is
nothing in there that states that they're paying an illegal amount of
money that they spent. He said he couldn't believe we are talking
about 10-$15,000.00. He said he checked with the board and no one
can fathom spending over $800,000.00. He said he would get the
information when it comes out for September, it was postponed
twice, and it's going to come up again. He said he also called the
State Board of Education on the last thing we got was the
construction where someone got injured. He said the County was lied
to by someone down at our Board of Education, He said the County
said they were going to fine the town for this. He said there had to
have been no fine, there had been no report received by the Board of
Education. He asked who committed the lie to the Board, to the
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State, to the County rather, there's been no action taken. He said
there is litigation against the School and the City, which are the
taxpayers but never get any information on this. He said no one
seems to be aware where the $800,000 went but yet they are looking
to pay it off which is nothing by law but a cover. He said he felt this
Council, this Board and the Board that represents us at the Board of
Education should find out why because a group as well as him self
would go further with this. He said this is not something you are
going to say we are going to fix he said he felt it is legally a crime,
and somebody better be aware of it and do something about it. He
told Councilmember Sohayda that he gave a great presentation but
wanted to correct him on one thing, the County is doing Washington
and Roosevelt A venue at no cost to us, this shouldn't cost us
anything; they are not our streets.
Mayor Failace said earlier you heard me tell Jack or ask Jack to get a
report to the Counci I.
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Tommy Lang, Colgan A venue said he wanted to wish everybody
good luck. He said he felt it was a healthy battle that is going on up
there and he hoped Carteret residents would get pretty well informed
as to what's going on. He said it looks like a catfight sometimes, but
nobody's vindictive or means anything, they are doing what they
actually believe in and he respected that. He said he believed his
name was mentioned to the Carteret Redevelopment Committee. He
said he wanted to let everybody know he doesn't lie, steal or cheat he
does the best he can with what he knows and if he doesn't know he
asks. He said there is one thing he would like to ask it is to agree to
disagree because he is not afraid to get up and say anything. He said
the Mayor, Remy and Janet know, he speaks his mind and if he is
wrong he will apologize. He said every time he gets up here
something is done, whether it was the Borough Attorney making a
call to the Turnpike, or asking, Buddy, he missed that meeting about
the guardrails it was taken care of. He asked Councilmember
Santoro, Parks & Recreation, to have the Parks Department take care
of the garbage cans he was tired of seeing in the lake, when the lake
gets frozen. He said he felt this sends a mixed signal to the
youngsters who are doing it, that one day it is okay, they are out there
ice skating within the next two days the garbage cans might still be
up, but the ice is thinning. He said he would like to see the Parks &
Recreation Department get some kind of concrete or some kind of
designer. He said the garbage cans we put inside; where it is locked
and we can't remove it we can only throw trash into it. He wished
Couneilmember Reiman good luck. He told Council member
Sohayda he was glad to see him coming out of his shell because he
really didn't give a lot of reports. He said he knows it is tough, but
he felt Councilmember Sohayda could get up there and speak
because he likes to hear everything that he has to say. He said as far
as the plowing goes, during the December 29th storm, on a scale of
one to ten, he felt they did a ten because they actually had seen them
come down the block more than once and they were actually getting
the snow. He said just a follow up, I know it was a holiday that
Monday, it went from a ten in my area and then it went to a one, so it
averages out to a five. He said he was just disappointed when the
kids went back to school on Monday and school was delayed or
cancelled. He said he forgot which one was which, Monday or
Tuesday, he thought it was a delayed opening on Monday, delayed
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opening on Tuesday, it was absolutely ridiculous. He said he
understand it is for the children's safety. He said he felt the Council
should bring it up about people who live on corners, to actually try to
make a path so that kids can cross the street, from corner to corner,
which is not really done. He said the delayed opening really
bothered him on Tuesday and he didn't understand why there was a
delayed opening on that Tuesday.
Unidentified person said the teachers couldn't get to school.
Tom Lang said he felt the teachers should get up a little bit earlier,
because he had to get up earlier to get to work to get to his job for 7
o'clock. He said he felt if you know it is going to snow, you get up a
half-hour earlier. He said if it is for the kid's safety, by all means
keep the delayed opening, if it is for the teachers to get their buts out
of bed to get to school, get up earlier he felt they were making plenty
of dough; they ought to get up earlier. He said they're doing their
job; they deserve their money, get up earlier. He said he didn't
understand why Council member Fazekas missed so many meetings
last year. He said without badgering Counci1member Fazekas, if it
was personal and private he said he would respect that, if it is work
related, then he understood that.
Councilmember Fazekas said he would try to improve that,
unfortunately, last year, toward the end of the year with the merger of
his company and what's happening now, it's very difficult. He said
he would try to inform everybody when he wouldn't be here and try
to keep up with the activities that are necessary. He said such as
being Commissioner of the Fire Department and working with the
technology, unfortunately, work does play an important part of his
family life. He said at times, with 24 by 7 coverage, he is not fully
able to attend all the times because he is working Saturday and
Sundays or working 3 to 12 o'clock in the morning. He said he
would try to make everybody aware and try to give everybody
information that is a consideration, this being his last year. He said
that was a consideration that he had throughout his two terms in
office. He said the Mayor and Council has been very, very
sympathetic with him and has worked with him on that. He said he
understood and would try to improve on it. He thanked Mr. Lang for
bringing it to his attention.
Tom Lang said he didn't mean to embarrass Councilmember Fazekas
that was not his intention. He said back to the crossing guards, on
the delayed opening, he had to stay home from work to get his
daughter to school. He said upon walking up to the school,
whoever's in charge of crossing guard, he didn't like pointing out
one or two, but felt you can't cross kids from sitting in cars. He said
he politely went over, knocked on the window, informed the person
that he felt you can not cross a child from the windshield of your car.
He said the next time he sees it; he is going to report it. He said he
gave the crossing guard his name and she politely said okay. He said
he felt some one should stay on top of the crossing guards. He said
he understood he gets cold, but they get paid to do a job but couldn't
understand how you could do it sitting in the car.
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Council member Santoro told Mr. Lang that he called her on that and
she did relay the information to Capt. Hojecki.
Councilmember Quinones said she felt for the most part the crossing
guards do not do that and if they do sit in their cars, they're pretty
aware of the children coming by.
Tom Lang said he agreed and it might have been once that the person
did it but felt it was the one time that the person did it when he had to
walk his kid to school. He said they were there and he pointed it out.
He said about two or three weeks ago at school, one of the classes
was held after school hours, several children missed the bus, several
walkers were late getting home. He said he looked for his children
ten to three the normal time, they didn't appear and he went to the
school. He said he was told the teacher delayed the whole class from
leaving at dismal time; several children missed the bus. He said the
parents were not notified by the company that the children left the
school late and he felt it was not tolerable. He said he didn't think
that teacher had the right or the authority unless it was for the safety
of the children and he asked whatever Council member is on the
Board of Education, the please find some information out for him.
He said the school did handle it, but they only called the parents of
the students who missed the bus, they didn't call everybody in that
class, the walkers especially, granted it was ten minutes. He said
they should not have kept any of the kids after school. He felt you
could do whatever you have to do the next day, but none of the kids
should miss the bus, because the teacher held them after school. He
said he called the school, they said they would take care of it. He said
he believed it was whatever happened he didn't know, he didn't
follow up on it, yet, and there hasn't been a Board of Education
meeting yet. He said he didn't know when the next Board of
Education meeting would be held and asked if anyone has any idea
when it would be.
Councilmember Santoro said it is usually a Wednesday night,
towards the end of the month, next week.
Tom Lang said he would be bringing that up and that that teacher
should be slightly disciplined maybe it was a mistake on her part and
felt it should at least be addressed. He said that should not happen
and asked if this was policy, he said he didn't know what the right
word was, but is that an okay thing to do, to keep a whole entire class
after school for whatever reason it might have been. He said it might
have been all of them cutting up or just some of them cutting up,
whatever it was, all the kids were detained ten minutes and they all
missed the bus several at least five of the kids missed the bus.
Councilmember Santoro told Mr. Lang he would have to ask the
principal and the Board of Education, they are the ones who set the
policy.
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Tom Lang said he just wanted to know who to go to with this
problem and thanked Councilmember Santoro.
Alfred Miles said he lives on a corner and he is not going to shovel
snow, that's what the snow plows are for. He said the plow piles the
snow on the corner and asked how anyone could shovel that. He said
the corner by St. Joe's school; you can't see anything from any
direction. He said if you did cross there, you would have to worry
about the next corner. He said he felt somebody was going to get
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killed there and then the Council would say we should have done
something about it. He said he felt at all the corners you could not
see while pulling out.
Mayor Failace said they shouldn't be parked up to the corner.
Alfred Miles said the streets have yellow lines but these yellow lines
don't mean anything to some people.
Mayor Failace said now that we know especially by your home.
Alfred Miles said there is money in the school budget and he would
not shovel the corner.
Vincent Basilici said do you know that years ago, when the Fire
Inspector came to the building they only charged $25.00 to $30.00
dollars but now we are paying $408.00 dollars. He said they told
him that they have to hire for the State Board Inspectors and a part of
that excess money would go back to the Borough for quality
equipment only, not for parts.
Mayor Failace asked Mr. Basilici if that was the Fire Inspector of the
VFW.
Vincent Basilici said no, for all the buildings in the Borough every
building by size; they have pay for the size of the building. He said
no one knows how much money is coming back to the Borough. He
said this was what he was trying to find out, because we are paying
more money than some other people with larger buildings are. He
said he couldn't see that, when he went to see Greenberg at one time
and asked him to see the books, he said I wasn't allowed to see the
books.
Councilmember Fazekas told Mr. Basilici he would check into that.
Vincent Basilici said every building is assessed for a certain amount
of money for the size of the building and we receive money from the
State.
Nicholas Goldsack, Business Administrator said Chico we receive
quarterly statements from the State based on the inspections. He said
of you would like to come in the Finance Office we will show you
the reports.
Brian O'Connor, Fire Superintendent said it is called Life Hazzard,
we don't set the fee it is set by the State we have no control over
what the fees are, but we do receive 70% back.
Vincent Basilici said but we don't get a report of how much money
the town gets.
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Mayor Failace said he was sure we could give Mr. Basilici that
information. He told Mr. Basilici to see Nicholas Goldsack,
Business Administrator tomorrow, he said he would tell you how
much money the town receives.
Bill Saudeak of Polk Avenue, said he has been a taxpayer in this
town for forty-four years. He said as far as the snow removal, which
Mr. Sohayda took a ten on, in his opinion he would give him a two.
He said after the third snow removal when he camc home from a
senior meeting he found a four-foot pile of snow in his driveway at
ten o'clock in the evening. He said he couldn't shovel this himself he
had to do his sidewalk, after the third time by himself. He said he
found that they came so close to the driveway it pushed all the snow
back into the sidewalk, and he thanked Mr. Sohayda and his
department but Mr. Sohayda would not be getting his vote next time.
Mayor Failace said in somewhat defense of Mr. Sohayda, we really
tried and he knew the guys doing snow removal really tried to do the
job right. He said he had to re-shovel his own driveway also. He
said when it did get close to the curb it did get on his sidewalk but he
didn't think they did it purposely. He said God willing we will do it
better during the next storm.
There bcing no further business or discussion, upon MMS&C, by
Councilmembers Fazekas and Rios, and unanimous affirmative vote
of the full Councilmembcrs present, the meeting was adjourned at
approximately 9: IOP.M.
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