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HomeMy Public PortalAbout2002/11/07 NOVEMBER 7, 2002 The Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of COUNCIL MEETING Carteret was called to order by Council President Janet Santoro approximately 7:30 P.M. on Thursday, November 7, 2002, Municipal Court/Police Facility, 230 Roosevelt Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey. ROLL CALL Upon individual roll call, the following were noted present: Council President Janet Santoro Councilmember Frank Parisi .... Daniel Reiman " Ronald Rios Also noted present was Borough Attorney Robert J. Bergen, Esq. Noted absent were Mayor James A. Failace, Councilmembers Sohayda NOTED ABSENT and Sosnowski. The meeting was opened with a moment of Silent Prayer and The PRAYER, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Pledge of Allegiance led by Council President Janet Santoro. The Clerk stated that on November 1, 2002, in full compliance with STATEMENT OF the Open Public Meetings Act, a notice of tonight's meeting was sent MEETING NOTICE to The Home News Tribune, The Star-Ledger and posted on the bulletin board. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman and unanimous APPROVAL OF MINUTES affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, the minutes of October 17, 2002 were approved as transcribed and engrossed by the Clerk. Councilmember Santoro suggested they wait to see if Councilmember COMMENTS Sohayda would be attending tonight to present the commendations to the Fire Department Poster Contest Winners. The Clerk stated Ordinance #02-22 was introduced and passed upon ORDINANCE 5[02-22 First Reading at a Regular Meeting of the Borough Council held on AMENDING ARTICLE I- TRAFFIC AND PARKING October 17, 2002. It was duly published in the Home News Tribune RE: LEFFERTS STREE'I on October 22, 2002 with notice that it will be considered for final passage after Public Hearing to be held on November 7, 2002 at approximately 7:30 P.M. The Ordinance was posted on the bulletin board and copies were made available to the general public and according to law, she read the Ordinance by title. }VEMBER ?~ 2002 UBLIC HEARING Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman and unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, Council President Santoro declared the Public Hearing to be open: tEARING CLOSED There being no comments or objections to the Ordinance, Council President Santoro declared the Public Hearing to be closed, upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Reiman and Parisi and unanimous affirmative vote of the (4) Councilmembers present. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios ORDiNANCE #02-22 "AN ORDiNANCE AMENDiNG ARTICLE I, 'GENERA,L F PROVISIONS; TRAFFIC AND pARKING REGULATIONS , O CHAPTER 254 ENTITLED VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC.OF THE CODE OF THE BO-ROUGH OF CARTERET" ADOPTED was finally adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. Approved and Adopted: November 7, 2002 -- October_~qfj~l 7 2002 Introduced: Advertised as adopted on First Reading with notice of Public Hearing: Oc~tober 22, 2002 -- November 7, 2002 Hearing held: -- Approved by:_ __ Mayor James A. Failace Advertised as finally adopted:___ November 12, 2002 The Clerk stated Ordinance #02-23 was introduced and passed upon ORDINANCE #02-23 First Reading at a Regular Meeting of the Borough Council held on ESTABLISHING October 17, 2002. It was duly published in the Home News Tribune CARTERET EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES on October 22, 2002 with notice that it will be considered for final passage after Public Hearing to be held on November 7, 2002 at approximately 7:30 P.M. The Ordinance was posted on the bulletin board and copies were made available to the general public an according to law, she read the Ordinance by title. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Parisi and Rios and unanimous PUBLIC HEARING affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, Council President Santoro declared the Public Hearing to be open: NOVEMBER ?~ 2002 There being no comments or objections to the Ordinance, Council HEARING CLOSED President Santoro declared the Public Hearing to be closed, upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman and unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman ORDINANCE #02-23 "ESTABLISHING THE CARTERET EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES" was finally adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers ADOPTED Parisi, Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. Approved and Adopted: November 7, 2002 Introduced: October 17, 2002 Advertised as adopted on First Reading with notice of Public Hearing:_ October 22, 2002 Heating held: November 7, 2002 Approved by: Ma/or James A. Failace Advertised as finally adopted: November 12, 2002 Councilmember Rios said he felt this was something long coming to COMMENTS Carteret, the First Aid Squad did a lot of volunteer work for the community for many years. He said they were understaffed in the daytime hours because of personal commitments. He said that was understandable, then they went to Rural Metro and now the town is establishing the Carteret Emergency Medical Services. He said they looked at this last year and felt it is needed. He said they started to implement the EMS from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. seven days a week starting this past Monday. He said there was a new staff of EMT's and he was very proud to be part of this. Councilmember Santoro said she echoed Councilmember Rios' remarks on this and felt it was done to ensure the residents of Carteret get a response when they are calling 911 between the hours of 6 A.M. and 6 P.M. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios and unanimous AGENDA AMENDED affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, the agenda TO INCLUDE RESOLDTIONS #02-37~ was amended to include Resolution #02-376 and Resolution #02-377. AND #02-377 Councilmember Reiman said Resolution #02-376 was for Professional Services for Borough Attorney Robert J. Bergen for title work on the sale of Borough property. He said Resolution #02-377 was for the temporary appointment of Hadiyah Muhammad to the Office on Aging since the County took over Social Services. ~VEHBER ?, 2002 EETING OPENED A copy of each Resolution was placed on the table for public review UBLIC INPUT prior to the meeting in accordance with the Rules of Council and upon N ALL RESOLUTIONS MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman and unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, the meeting was opened for public input on all Resolutions. [EETING CLOSED There being no comments or objections to the Resolutions, Council President Santoro declared the Public Hearing to be closed, upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios and unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present. 3LOCK AGENDA The Borough Clerk asked if any Councilmembers wanted any Resolutions to be taken off the Block Agenda and asked for a motion. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman and unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, Resolutions #02-370 to #02-377 were approved. RESOLUTION #02-370 RESOLUTION #02-370 was introduced by Council President Santoro~ DIRECTING THE and referred to the Council for action. ISSUANCE OF VARIOUS RAFFLE LICENSES Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman "DIRECTiNG THE ISSUANCE OF VARIOUS RAFFLE LICENSES" ADOPTED was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. RESOLUTION #02-371 was introduced by Council President Santoro RESOLUTION #02-371 and referred to the Council for action. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES HARRISON A~ PIR. IP STATItI~I REPI_A~ Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman "PROFESSIONAL SERVICES-T&M ASSOCIATES RE: HARRISON AVENUE PUMP STATION REPLACEMENT" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, ADOPTED Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. NOVEMBER ?~ 2002 RESOLUTION #02-372 was introduced by Council President Santoro RESOLUTION #02-372 and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman "PROVIDING FOR THE TRANSFER OF SURPLUS FUNDS" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Padsi, ADOPTED Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. RESOLUTION #02-373 was introduced by Council President Santoro RESOLUTION #02-3?3 PROPI~'P/ TAX and referred to the Council for action. CANc~ IATION Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman "PROPERTY TAX CANCELLATION" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, ADOPTED Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. RESOLUTION #02-374 was introduced by Council President Santoro RESOLUTION #02-374 and referred to the Council for action. TO ~ RE~Ca.nqG DEPlm'II'~fl? Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman "TRANSFERRING LOIS LARAIA TO THE RECYCLING DEPARTMENT" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, ADOPTED Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. }VEMBER 7, 2002 ESOLUTION #02-375 RESOLUTION #02-375 was intro, duced by Council President Santoro UTHORIZING and referred to the Council for action. AYOR TO EXECUTE EVELOPER ' S .GREEMENT Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman "AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE ~ DEVELOPER'S AGREEMENT" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, ~,DOPTED Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. RESOLUTION #02-376 RESOLUTION #02-376 was introduced by Council President Santoro AUTHORIZING and referred to the Council for action. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SALE OF BOROUGH OWNED PROPERTY Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman "AUTHORIZING A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT- SALE OF BOROUGH PROPERTY" ADOPTED was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers -~ Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. RESOLUTION #02-377 RESOLUTION #02-377 was introduced by Council President Santoro APPOINTING and referred to the Council for action. i~ DIRlmaBR OF SlItE OFFICE Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman "APPOINTING HADIYAH IViUHAMMAD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE ON AGING" ADOPOTED was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Parisi all bills pAYMENT OF appearing on the prepared list properly audited and signed were BILLS ordered to be paid. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Parisi, Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. NOVEMBER 7, 2002 The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of the following report: REPORTS DEPARTMENT 1. Clerk's Office-October 2002 Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Reiman and Parisi and unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, all reports were ordered to be received and placed on file. Council President Santoro asked Councilmember Ronald Rios to COMMENDATIONS: present the commendations for the Fire Department Poster Contest FIRE DEP~.RTMENT POSTER O3NTEST ~ Winners. Councilmember Rios said every year the career Fire Department holds a poster contest for school children in the Borough, which is held during Fire Prevention Week and is on fire safety. He said this year's theme was "Team Up for Fire Safety." He commended all the students who participated in the poster contest. He said he felt fire safety was very important and everyone should be focused on it and said it gave him great pleasure to make the presentation to the winners. He said the first place winners were at the meeting and first prize was a three hundred dollar savings bond and a ride to school in the fire truck; second prize was a hundred dollar savings bond and third prize was a fifty dollar savings bond. He read the names of the winners, showed their posters and gave out the commendations, the winners were ICristine Mamanta from Nathan Hale School, Megan Meyer from Columbus School, Katelyn Baez from Carteret Middle School, Jillian Higgins from St. Joseph's School and Meghan Valdes from Minne School. He congratulated all the winners. Council President Santoro thanked all the winners and everyone who participated and said she felt it was a great event. She said the Mayor, Council and the Fire Department thank everyone who participated and suggested the Council take a five-minute recess. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Parisi and unanimous RECESS affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present the meeting was in recess at approximately 7:48 P.M. At approximately 7:52 P.M., the meeting was reconvened. Upon MEETING RECONVENED individual roll call, the following were noted present, Councilmembers Parisi, Reiman, Rios and Santoro. Councilmembers Sohayda and Sosnowski were noted absent. 7 )VEMBER 7, 2002 TANDING COMMITTEES BUILDINGS & GROUNDS: Councilmember Reiman in the absence of Committee Chairperson Sosnowski said the ramp at the Board of Health has been installed. He said they are working on getting quotes for some minor repairs at the Library/Community Center and Borough Hall. He said they would have to redo some of the steps at the Board of Health Building. He reported progress. --., F1NANCE & ADMINISTRATION: Committee Chairperson Reiman said he asked the Council and Department Heads to finalize the budgets for the next two months so that no major expenditures are made. He said the projected deficit for next year is two and half to three million dollars. He said the increased costs for insurance for next year is a half a million dollars. He said they would be shopping around to try to cut costs and they have to cut costs. He congratulated Susan Naples and Randy Kmm, Councilmembers Elect and wished them good luck. FIRE: Councilmember Rios in the absence of Committee Chairperson Sohayda said Sunday there will be a Firemen's Memorial Service at St. Joseph's Church. He said they will dedicate the ambulances on Saturday, he gave the details on both. He said on November 17th there would be a disaster drill held by the Office of Emergency Management that would be done with the cooperation of the Police, Fire, First Aid and all the Borough's Emergency Services. He said this was something that must be done to keep the Borough's emergency services in tune with today's disasters, this has been done in the past and would continue to be done. He reported continued progress in Fire. pARKS & RECREATION: Committee Chairperson Rios thanked the Recreation Commission for the Soap Box Derby and Halloween Parade. He said there were twenty-five children and six adults who participated in the Soap Box Derby. He said Nicole Valerios, eleven years old was the children's Queen of the Hill and the adult Champ of the Hill was Jack Valenti. He spoke about how much fun he had at the Soap Box Derby. He spoke about the Halloween Parade and said it was the biggest parade yet. He thanked the Recreation Committee and Michelle Grandell for volunteering their time. He said the Holiday Tree Lighting would be on December 7t~ 6:00 P.M. at Carteret Park. He said the Holiday House Lighting Contest would be held on December 15, 16 and 17t~ and entries are at Borough Hall and the Annex and gave the details. He said the annual Senior House Light Tour/Social would be held on December 17th. He thanked the PBA for the Ragamuffin Parade that was held on Halloween. He said they hired a new bus driver for the Senior Citizens. He said they have consolidated some duties to cut costs to save some money. He said NOVEMBER ?, 2002 there are now two full timers and they did away with the part time STANDING COMMITYEES position to save money for next year's budget. He said there would be ' a a Veteran s D y service in Carteret Park on Monday, November 11th at eleven o'clock. He reported continued progress in Parks. POLICE: Committee Chairperson Santoro said she was proud to announce they would have the anonymous phone line call within the next two weeks. She said it would be advertised and it would be a new number and explained how it would work. She said there were transfers out of the police budget. She said they are going to be purchasing two new police cars and a speed tracker that would track the speed limits on the roads. She congratulated Dan Reiman on his success in the Mayoral election and Sue Naples and Randy Krum. She wished them a lot of luck in the future. She said she felt Carteret is on a cusp of doing great and wondrous things and she hoped they would continue on the direction that has been taken, and felt under the direction of Dan Reiman they will. She said there was a drug arrest by Jake Klimek at a West Carteret gas station. She said he is on vacation this week so he couldn't get a commendation tonight. She said there was a tentative agreement with the PBA that she felt would be advertised within the next two weeks. She said the Fire Department and the Blue Collar workers have also reached out to the Council to have meetings and give their proposals. She said she hoped to settle these contracts before they expired for the first time. PUBLIC WORKS: Committee Chairperson Parisi said the Leaf Bag Program was still in effect until November 27th, and urged residents to pickup their leaf bags at the Recycling Department. He said the traffic light at the bottom of the bridge in West Carteret has no delay between the red and green. He said many trucks go through the light and since there is a school at the end of Post Blvd. it is dangerous. He said he spoke to Don Norbut and since Roosevelt Avenue is a County Road it would take awhile. He spoke about the continuing paving project that should be going on for the next three weeks. He said two other concerns were the street sweepers and the lights on the bridge but he would have to turn it over to the Borough Attorney since he would do a much better j ob o f explaining them. Borough Attorney Bergen said at the last meeting he was asked to find out about the street sweeping in Middlesex County he said he spoke to the County and found out that because of the drought no streets are being paved in the County except before a paving project. He said the County would be implementing a schedule in March, which would be zoned. He said they would be faxing him a schedule so that Carteret would be aware of it. He said Carteret would be placed in Zone One, which included Woodbridge and Perth Amboy. He said the County only has two sweepers for the entire County. He explained that Woodbridge and Edison have the same orange colored sweepers as the County. He said concerning the lights going over Roosevelt Avenue, 9 ~VEHBER 7~ 2002 T~.blDIIqG COPINITTEES after having a meeting with NJ Turnpike representatives, they agree that the lights are the responsibility of Middlesex County. He said he is trying to get access into boxes to see who is paying the electric bills. He said he hoped to do this very shortly to get this resolved. BOARD OF EDUCATION: Committee Chairperson Parisi said they had a liaison meeting last night. He said some of the concerns were still the zoning fees that were being handled by Borough Attorney Bergen. He said there was also concerns about Columbus School pick-up and drop off of children. He said the next negotiation meeting would be held on November 21 with an arbitrator, and the next School Board Meeting would be on November 26th which would be an Agenda Meeting and the Regular Meeting. He said he sent his best wishes to the woman on the Recreation Commission who had a slight accident before the parade started. Councilmember Santoro said the Councilmembers received Lower COIIIIEItTS Roosevelt Avenue Redevelopment Plan and understood that last night the Redevelopment Agency adopted this plan. She said the Council has to forward the plan to the Planning Board. She asked the '-" Councilmembers to submit their remarks and comments for the Agenda Meeting so that it could be ready for the December Planning Board Meeting. Councilmember Rios asked if the Council could have more time to review the plan since he did not want to feel he was under the gun and may get some opinions on this from the residents. Councilmember Santoro said they have done this for a year and was against delaying it. She said the Redevelopment Agency has been open to all comments and anyone who took the time to be involved have been welcomed by this agency. She felt if someone was interested they would have reached out to them and it should not be delayed. She said the plan has only minor changes and she felt the town has waited a long time for this and a month would not change anything. Councilmember Reiman said they have it scheduled for the December Planning Board Meeting so they need this before then. Councilmember Santoro said the Planning Board advertises all of their meetings and the public could attend if they wanted to make comments. She said she was asking the Council to be ready with their comments. Councilmember Rios said he didn't want anyone to think that he was trying to hold up any kind of progress that was not his intent. He said his only intent was to review this and make a serious, educated comment if there has to be any comments on this. 10 NOVEMBER ?, 2002 Borough Attorney Bergen suggested that if they want to move forward COMMENTS the plan should be referred back to Schoor DePalma. He said since this plan incorporates by reference the initial plan and makes amendments thereto, it would be just to make sure they don't have any comments as to the changes that are made are still viable in relationship to their plan. He said this could be done by motion. Councilmember Santoro made a motion to send the plan to Schoor DePalma for review and comments to come back to the Borough Council's next Agenda Meeting. Councilmember Reiman asked if there was any additional money left on that line item. Borough Attorney Bergen said he understood there was plenty of money left for their initial appropriation to the Redevelopment Board and they could ftmd Schoor DePalma looking at the plan. He said since it was a combination of two plans they might have to bring two engineers to the Planning Board to talk about the specs of the plans and explained. He said the plan that is being presented is a combination of both plans and he may have to go before the Planning Board and since an amendment was never adopted, they may need some input from both planners to say why both documents are combined. Councilmember Santoro asked if this would be included in the original professional fees. She asked if the Council could argue the point that this is the final stage. She asked if Borough Attorney Bergen was telling the Council they needed to do this to move forward regardless of where the money came from to do this. Borough Attorney Bergen said the Council should authorize him to take a look at this if they want some response by the Council's next meeting. He said he would talk to the planners to see if that really needs to be done. Councilmember Santoro asked if they could send it to the Planning Board and at a later date ask for input from Schoor DePalma before the Council adopts the plan. Borough Attorney Bergen said they could but the problem was they are going to be presenting the plan to the Planning Board but someone would have to bring a planner to the Planning Board to give testimony. He said the original plan was to present the Schoor DePalma plan to the Planning Board but it never got presented to them. He said that is an amendment to this plan and some presentation may be needed as to what they did initially and why it is still viable today and how this plan makes it better. Councilmember Santoro asked what Mr. Bergen recommended the Council do. Borough Attorney Bergen said he needed time to meet with the Finance Chairman to make sure that money was available. 11 )VEHBER 7~ 2002 Councilmember Santoro said the Finance Committee; the Finance ,OlqlqENTS Committee is present here tonight. She asked if there were any objections. She said she had no objections. Councilmember parisi said okay. Councilmember Reiman asked if CME or Schoor DePalma have to appear before the Redevelopment Agency. He said this is the final plan he understood that is presented to the Council and he felt CME would have to present the plan. Borough Attorney Bergen said the Council's plan is what is to be presented to the Planning Board, once it is approved it would be up to the Redevelopment Agency to implement it. He wanted to make sure Schoor DePalma agrees that the new document conforms to their original document. He said it would be fine if they do it with a simple letter to the Council. Councilmember Reiman suggested they forward the document to Dave Roberts of Schoor DePalma and Don Norbut ofT & M Associates. Councilmember Santoro asked if Mr. Bergen needed a motion. Borough Attorney Bergen said he did not think a motion was really needed, as long as it was the consent of the Council. Councilmember Santoro asked if the Council was in favor. The Council agreed and Councilmember Santoro directed Borough Clerk Barney to forward it. Council President Santoro read the following proclamation: PROCLAHATION: BIBLE WEEK "BIBLE WEEK" WHEREAS, the Bible has been a constant source of moral and spiritual guidance for many people throughout the centuries; and WHEREAS, the Bible has profoundly influenced art, literature, music and codes of law; and WHEREAS, the Bible has motivated many acts of compassion and charity; and WHEREAS, the Bible continues to provide inspiration, hope and comfort for millions of Americans today; and WHEREAS, for sixty-two years, women and men of many faiths have banned together with the National Bible Association to sponsor 12 NOVEMBER 7, 2002 National Bible Week as a time to -be reminded of the Bible's unique BIBLE WEEK place in American life; and PROCLAMATION (Con' WHEREAS, Bible Week is an annual celebration that encourages the reading of the Bible; -- NOW, THEREFORE, I James A. Failace, Mayor of the Borough of Carteret do hereby proclaim the week of NOVEMBER 24-DECEMBER 1, 2002 "BIBLE WEEK" in the Borough of Carteret and encourage interested citizens to participate in this observance. Council President Santoro read the following proclamation: PROCLAMATION: "VETERAN'S DAY" VETERAN'S DAY WHEREAS, we Americans hold freedom as our birthright, cherishing it as the basic condition to our way of life; and WHEREAS, our freedom was won in the agony of armed conflict and has since been preserved through the willingness of gallant Americans, men and women, to risk their lives for the perpetuation of the American way of life; and WHEREAS, there are millions of men and women in all walks of life today who have met the greatest demand of citizenship, honorable military service in time of war; and WHEREAS, the services performed by these millions of American Veterans have demonstrated the willingness of our Nation to met the challenge of armed aggressors who have threatened our freedom and the cause of individual determination throughout the world; and WHEREAS, the Nation and the free world are eternally grateful for __ the contributions of American Veterans to the advancement of the cause of an honorable world peace; and WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that a day be set aside to honor those who have served our Nation honorably in time of war; NOW, THEREFORE, I, James A. Failace, Mayor of the Borough of Carteret do hereby call upon all citizens to observe. 13 ~VEMBER 7, 2002 ETERAN'S DAY Monday, Novemberll, 2002 ROCLAMATION as Continued) VETERAN'S DAY and ask that the day be observed with appropriate ceremonies in honor of those who have served on behalf of the national purpose to preserve the principles of Justice, Freedom and Democracy. I FURTHER CALL UPON all citizens and business firms to mark this day with the proud display of the Flag of the United States in reaffirmation of our national unity and pride and in rededication of our national ideals. IN WITNESS THEREFORE, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the official seal of the Borough of Carteret, in the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey on this 11th day of November 2002. PUBLIC Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman and unanimous DISCtlSSION affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, the meeting was opened to the public for discussion. Lou Mangieri asked what the Redevelopment Project would cost. COMMENTS Councilmember Santoro said it would not cost anything right now and her understanding was... Lou Mangieri said the Council was going to adopt plans and asked if there was an mount of money that would be involved in that. Councilmember Santoro said there is a separate entity where they have allocated seventy five thousand dollars for the agency to set up this agency. She said as far as the Borough is concerned that is a separate entity and Mr. Mangieri should go to their meetings for his questions. Councilmember Reiman said ultimately it would not cost the taxpayers anything. He said there are four developers who have submitted proposals with plans that range from twenty five to forty million dollars of private capital money and explained. Councilmember Santoro said the only cost right now is the Executive Director, the Secretary and the basic funds to run the agency. Councilmember Reiman said currently the Borough is funding the agency for part of last year and this year, which is currently seventy- five to ninety thousand dollars. He said once they enter into an agreement with a developer the developer will provide the funds and the agency will use some of those funds for the costs. Lou Mangieri asked if the Council felt it would be better to let the Council-Elect review the plans. 14 NOVEMBER /) zuuz Councilmember Santoro said the two new Councilmembers would be COMMENTS the ones that would vote on this plan. She said right now all this Council is doing is sending the plan forth to the Planning Board. She said when a Councilmember becomes Council-Elect they are eligible to receive any information for the two months after they are elected and be included in Closed Sessions. She said they would be fully informed. There being no further business or discussion, upon MMS&C, by ADJOURNED Councilmembers Parisi and Rios and unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:25 P.M. Respectfully submitted, Municipal Clerk KMB/cp 15 ,vE~BER 7~ 2002 OUNCYL ~EE~1NG 16