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A Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of
Carteret was called to order by Mayor James A. Failace, 7:30 P.M.,
Municipal Court, Police Facility, 230 Roosevelt Avenue, Carteret,
New Jersey, Thursday, AprilS, 2001.
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 were Robert Bergen, Borough Attorney and
Nick Goldsack, Business Administrator.
The meeting was opened with a minute of silent prayer and the
pledge of allegiance led by Mayor James A. Failace.
The Clerk stated that on March 30, 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 Fazekas and Rios and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present, the
Minutes of January 18, February 8 & 15, 2001 were approved,
transcribed and engrossed by the Clerk.
Mayor Failace then explained that he had a motion to Amend the
Agenda to move the Proclamation for the Catholic Daughters of
the Americas to the front of the meeting.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Sohayda and Fazekas and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present the Agenda
was Amended to move the Catholic Daughters of Americas
Proclamati on.
The Mayor read the following Proclamation into the record:
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APRIL 5, 2001
cooocn. MEErJ1¥;
April 5, 2001
ROLL CAlL
PRAYER, PLEDGE OF
AlLEJ;IANCE
srA'I»Imf OF ~
tVITCE
MINUI'ES FOR APPROVAL
Motion to Amend Agench
Re: Proclanation
Motion Made & Carried
PRQCUMATIOO
Catholic Daughters of
the Americas
APRIL 5, 2001
PRQCUMATIOO Cant:
ORDINANCE #01-20
Regulating and
Licensing Limousines
COURT FIDELIS NO. 636
CATMOLIC DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAS
CARTERET, NEW JERSEY 07008
WHEREAS, the organization, the Catholic Daughters of the
Americas was founded by the Knights of Columbus and was
incorporated in 1903. With a membership of approximately 1l0,000
this organization is established in fifty states, including Puerto
Rico, Cuba and the Canal Zone. There are approximately 100
Courts in New Jersey alone.
WHEREAS, Court Fidelis No. 636 of Carteret, has been a part of
the Catholic Daughters of Americas since April, 1921 and is
observing its eightieth year on April 22, 2001.
WHEREAS, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas aims to
enhance the spiritual life of its members and their families and to
educate for more apostolic work.
WHEREAS, the Catholic Daughters of the Americas aims to
enhance the spiritual life of its members and their families, to
educate for more apostolic action, to develop leadership abilities
and to intensify patriotism in our country. For eight decades it has
aided in the spiritual, material and moral development of our
woman. The Catholic Daughters of the Americas is well known for
its cooperation with the Hierarchy in meeting the demands of
charity and education.
WHEREAS, such programs are integral part of Court Fidelis No.
636 of Carteret, for eighty years, achieving its position of high
esteem, not only in this community, but in this state and nation;
and
THEREFORE, I, JAMES A. FAILACE, Mayor of the Borough of
Carteret, County of Middlesex, State of New Jersey, do hereby
proclaim the month of April, 2001 as COURT FIDELIS No. 636,
Catholic Daughters of the Americas Anniversary Month, and do
call upon citizens, places of worship, schools and organizations to
join with me in commending the good works of this Court as an
expression of our appreciation of their promotion of Unity and
Action and Love, which is the full meaning of their motto,
"UNITY and CHARITY".
ORDINANCE #01-20 was introduced and adopted on First
Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to advertise same
for Public Hearing to be held April 19, 2001, upon MMS&C by
Councilmembers Rios and Reiman. Upon individual roll call vote,
Councilmembers Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and
Sohayda voted in the affirmative.
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"AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING
CHAPTER 235 ENTITLED, "TAXI CABS" OF THE CODE OF
THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET CREATING A NEW
SECTION ENTITLED, "LIMOUSINES" AND ESTABLISHING
REGULATIONS FOR THE LICENSING AND OPERATIONS
OF LIMOUSINES WITHIN THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET"
ORDINANCE #01-21 was introduced and adopted on First
Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to advertise same
for Public Hearing to be held April 19, 2001, upon MMS&C by
Council members Reiman and Santoro. Upon individual roll call
vote Councilmembers Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the
affirmative. Councilmembers Fazekas and Sohayda Abstained and
Councilmember Quinones voted No.
"AN ORDINANCE ELIMINATING THE POSITION OF THE
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS"
Mayor Failace asked Attorney Bergen if this ordinance, as it
stands, is to amend the position plus salary.
Attorney Bergen said the salary would remain the same. It is a
different ordinance.
Mayor Failace asked if there was anyone on the Council that didn't
feel Mr. Surick has the credentials to be the Superintendent of
Public Works.
Councilmember Reiman told the Mayor that the pOSItIOn was
created last year after several attempts by the prior Council to
create a position to encompass all the Borough Departments. As
was discussed at the Agenda Meeting, it is nothing specific with
the individual, but the fact is the position does nothing more then
what the current position of the Superintendent of Public Works
does and it is an $8000.00 increase. They talked about the
additional duties that the individual in the prior position may be
doing and he thinks that is something they can discuss at the
Agenda Meeting. This position shouldn't have been created. It
doesn't have any additional responsibility, other than the
Superintendent of Streets and Roads.
Councilmember Quinones said that this is then like another Deputy
Mayor issue, where he is not really objecting, at least thus far, to
the salaries or the duties that this person hence would be taking,
but to the title of Director of Public Works.
Councilmember Santoro said then she would object to the salary
and the duties and that no, she does not feel it is necessary. If this
individual has been there over a course of years, why all of a
sudden is he going to be receiving a raise, an $8000.00 increase for
Recycling Coordinator which has nothing to do with Director.
Last week at the Agenda she read from the minutes where it was
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APRIL 5, 2001
OI:dinance #01-20
First Reading
ORDINANCE #01-21
Eliminating the Pœitim
of Director of Public
Works
First Reading
Cœments
APRIL 5, 2001
œDINANCE #01-21
Cœments Cant:
ORDINANCE #01-22
Amending Salary
OI:dinance 171-9, Re:
Police (bief
First Reading
Cœments
done incorrectly and we are not talking about the individual they
are talking about the position at this point and its being eliminated
and the salary along with it.
Councilmember Quinones said she thought we were talking about
the individual.
Councilmember Santoro told her she was talking about the
individual and they are talking about the position.
Mayor Failace said the duties on the Superintendent would start to
include the duties this thing has undertaken and will probably go
back to the other Department Heads.
Councilmember Santoro said what is grandfathered in is that he
was allowing him to do it before hand. She asked what had
changed with that.
Mayor Failace said what had changed is it was done as a favor in
order to get it done, it said nothing about grandfathered in.
Councilmember Santoro asked who it was done as a favor for.
Mayor Failace said he had asked him to do that, to take on those
things.
Councilmember Santoro said so then when he gave him this
position and this increase was that done as a favor in exchange.
Mayor Failace said this has nothing to do with favors,
ORDINANCE #01-22 was introduced and adopted on First
Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to advertise same
for Public Hearing to be held April 19, 2001, upon MMS&C by
Councilmembers Santoro and Rios. Upon individual roll call vote
Councilmembers Fazekas, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda
voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Quinones voted No,
"AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE #71-9
ESTABLISHING SALARY SCHEDULES AND FIXING THE
MANNER OF PAYMENTS OF SALARIES FOR VARIOUS
OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE BOROUGH OF
CARTERET"
Mayor Failace asked Councilmember Sohayda and asked him what
the intent of this is.
Councilmember Sohayda said his intent IS to have a Police
Department. . . . . .
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Mayor Failace told him he could not hear him.
Councilmember Santoro asked Attorney Bergen if this was
necessary at this time and asked him if they were only voting on a
Salary Ordinance and not the (inaudible) of this position.
Attorney Bergen said they are only voting on a Salary Ordinance.
Mayor Failace asked if they are saying he can't ask a question.
Councilmember Santoro said no, but they are just saying later on
when it comes to that question.......
Mayor Failace asked Attorney Bergen if he could ask question
now.
Attorney Bergen said yes.
Councilmember Sohayda said his intent purely is to have a high
ranking officer be in the Police Department at all times because it
seems like Mr. Elg is not around a lot.
Mayor Failace asked Attorney Bergen if that was also his position.
Councilmember Rios said he thought we need for the Police
Department to function, on a day to day basis, he questioned if
there was someone there full time.
Councilmember Fazekas said he believes this is part of the Police
Committee's initiative to have representation within the Police
Department. .
Councilmember Reiman said the Police Committee recommended
this at the last Agenda Meeting. He said he supports this and it
brings back stability in the Police Department by having someone
in the Police Department take over the day to day operations in the
Police Department, without having someone answering to Political
Appointments worry about running the Police Department. He
supports a Chief running the Police Department.
Councilmember Santoro said she supports a Police Chief. It is
something that people within the Police Department work up the
reins for and she feels that person has better knowledge of the town
and the department and she wants to make a motion to approve
this.
Councilmember Rios second the motion.
Mayor Failace said he thinks what they have done here is, and he
certainly looked at the files on both Captains and he sees there has
certainly been no interview process done for this position. He
commented neither Captains were interviewed or at least both of
them were interviewed, while he is against having a Chief in this
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œDINANCE #01-22
Cœments Coot:
APRil. 5, 2001
œDINANCE #01-22
Cœments Cant:
department and he certainly feels if they were going to do it, it
should have been done through an interview process instead of
saying that this person has been Captain six (6) months longer than
someone else. It should take something more than that and this
position takes away the duties from the Director who has a
Bachelor's Degree in Police Science and a Master's Degree in
Administration and is finishing off the second Master's Degree and
they are giving it to someone with not nearly those credentials and
the bottom line is that it is political and now we have someone
making $95,000.00 a year, who will set policy and do the budget.
He commented that is a waste of money.
Councilmember Rios said it seems like the Police Director position
might have been political because the contract for the Police
Director, he won't say the person, the position that was created,
might have been created for one person because it seems like it is
Carte Blanche.
Council member Quinones asked how he could say that bringing
someone that is totally removed from this environment...........
Mayor Failace said he thinks this is a terrible mistake being made
and they will discuss this later at another opportunity.
Councilmember Quinones asked Councilmember Fazekas if when
he voted to bring on the Police Director was it because it was
political to him at the time.
Councilmember Fazekas said it wasn't political.
Councilmember Quinones asked him then why did he have the
change of heart.
Councilmember Fazekas said it was not a change of heart. He just
looks at it as a natural progression and it is just a salary change.
The Police Chief salary change. It has nothing to do yet with the
resolution.
Councilmember Quinones said she thought that was pretty
disingenuous. . If you are going to put the salary in place it is
because you are going to create the position.
Councilmember Fazekas said he is hoping that the Police
Committee has done diligence and talked to them and if not they
will worry about that at the next Agenda Meeting.
Councilmember Quinones asked if "do diligence" would have
involved talking to the other officers in the department who may
have been eligible for the position.
Councilmember Reiman then commented to Attorney Bergen that
the Council was supposed to be polled.
Councilmember Quinones said she could ask a question.
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Councilmember Reiman said he didn't think they could have the
Councilmembers questioning each other.
Councilmember Quinones asked why they couldn't.
Councilmember Fazekas said that they were voting so they each
have a right to ask a question. He asked Councilmember Quinones
to restate the question.
Councilmember Quinones commented "never mind", she said they
know what the question was.
Mayor Failace said he had a question and then commented that
some of the Councilmembers are members of the Honorary PBA,
so that they would support the PBA so he believes in making this
position would certainly move up some of the officers in rank
which will entail a benefit for some members of the PBA. He
questioned if they could vote.
Councilmember Reiman said clearly that is not a direct conflict
that they can't vote on the issue. For instance if someone raised
that issue in regards to claims that there may be some ethical
violations, yes, people can always make those claims but if it
excludes them from voting, he would let Mr. Bergen handle it. He
said the Chief would have to be here. The fact that they are
Honorary PBA Members has nothing to do with the Chiefs
position.
Attorney Bergen said he didn't see any direct relationship with the
members of the PBA .
Councilmember Santoro said they were just voting and discussing
the Chief.
Attorney Bergen said he didn't think it would be any different if
they decided to become a member of the First Aid Squad
(inaudible).
Councilmember Reiman said as Mr. Fazekas said, it is just a
natural progression. A couple of years ago, the Council that was up
there at the time, decided to go with the Police Director's position
and he is not here to judge whether it is right or wrong. We are
simply moving at this point in time, at this point in the future. He
does think that the Borough is better served by having a Police
Chief who came from within the ranks as opposed to a political
appointee. He voted yes.
Councilmember Rios voted yes.
Councilmember Santoro said the Mayor asked a question about
Chief verses Director and we stated our opinion, being we are all
entitled to our opinions and we respect each others opinions that
we feel at this point a Chief is in the right direction and then he
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ORDINANCE #01-22
Cœments Cant:
APRIL 5, 2001
ORDINANCE #01-22
Cœments Cant:
ORDINANCE 101-23
Amending OI:dinance
100-18, Re: Towing
First Reading
jumped to the selection so she wasn't sure it was the Chief he was
concerned about or the selection. As far as with the selection,
understand this is the highest senior ranking individual. There will
be a call for a Chief's Test, there will be interviews put into place,
there will be certification of the test results and at that time there
will be a selection. At this point it was the highest ranking senior
officer.
Councilmember Quinones said they both have the same rank.
Councilmember Santoro told Councilmember Quinones that they
had been over this. She said there is seniority and that is when the
selection was and she voted yes.
Mayor Failace told Attorney Bergen, that he was reading in Civil
Service and he saw that it said that if three (3) or less can obtain
that position then Civil Service will not entertain a test.
Attorney Bergen said there will be a ranking process, ultimately,
not matter what. Whether they have a formal written test he cannot
tell us for sure at this particular time. He commented that the
Council can ask them for one, he thinks they might have
entertained that quite clearly. He said he understood they could
possibly open up the test farther ranks, he thinks the issue is how
many ranks you can go down to Chief in order to find a sufficient
number of people to take the test and even from his understanding
if you can't find enough people you can also add the scope of that
test, but that clearly would be some evaluative process that is going
to go on for Civil Service, either ranking them on that list from
which the Council would choose to do their evaluations, but he
cannot tell them for sure if they will choose to give them a formal
written test.
Mayor Failace said he read that if it was three (3) or less in any
Civil Service thing they won't entertain a test.
Attorney Bergen said not the formal written test.
ORDINANCE #01-23 was introduced and adopted on First
Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to advertise same
for Public Hearing to be held on April 19, 2001, upon MMS&C by
Councilmembers Rios and Santoro. Upon individual roll call vote
Councilmembers Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and
Sohayda voted in the affirmative.
"AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE #00-18 "THE
TOWING ORDINANCE" TO REVISE THE
COMMENCEMENT DATE AND LICENSE PERIOD OF THE
ORDINANCE"
The Clerk stated that Ordinance #01-19 was introduced and passed
upon First Reading at a Regular Meeting of the Borough Council
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of the Borough of Carteret held on March 15, 2001. It was duly
published in The Home News Tribune on March 20, 2001 with
notice that it will be considered for final passage after Public
Hearing to be held on AprilS, 2001 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.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Rios and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present, the Mayor
declared the Public Hearing to be open.
There being no further comments or objections to the Ordinance by
Mayor declared the Public Hearing to be closed upon MMS&C by
Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas and unanimous affirmative
vote of the full Council present.
Upon MMS&C Councilmembers Rios and Santoro
ORDINANCE #01-19
"AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE #71-9
ESTABLISHING SALARY SCHEDULES AND FIXING THE
MANNER OF PAYMENTS OF SALARIES FOR VARIOUS
OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE BOROUGH OF
CARTERET"
was finally adopted. Upon individual roll call vote,
Councilmembers Fazekas, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative. Councilmembers Quinones and Reiman Abstained.
Councilmember Reiman said he certainly supports this contract
and (inaudible) and said he found it ironic that Councilwoman
Quinones would vote to give a 14% raise to the Business
Administrative position and a 19% raise to other department heads
and is going to abstain on a contract for Blue Collar Workers
making $33,000.00 a year. He questioned how she could abstain
on this contract knowing that these men deserve this raise.
Councilmember Quinones said she would like to single out one (I)
indi vidual that received this raise. She could have abstained on this
contract for a number of reasons, including the fact that
Councilmember Reiman sat in on the first negotiations and he had
absolutely no right to do that being that his brother directly
benefited from this contract. Aside from that, his colleges on this
Council likewise voted for several high ranking individuals in the
Borough who received substantial raises this year. She commented
to stop singling out one (I) person. She said she did abstain and that
is her position.
Councilmember Reiman said unfortunately because he has a
relative in this union he is unable to vote on this. He said he does
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APRil. 5, 2001
ORDINANCE 100-19
Amending Salary
OI:dinance 171-9, Re:
AFSQIE Local 12291
Public Hearing
Hearing Closed
Adopted
APRil. 5, 2001
œDINANCE #01-19
Cantinued
MEEI'1}{; 0PmID
Public IU¡nt on
Resolutions
Resolution #01-109
Resolution #01-113
Resolution #01-106
support the contract, he thinks it is fair and equitable agreemen~
but he does abstain.
Councilmember Rios said this contract is long overdue. It stalled
for many years. He thinks the workers in this town deserve a fair
contract and fair negotiations. They have worked hard and
produced a lot for us and he does not think we should have a
double standard on certain individuals given an increase. He
supports this and he votes yes.
Councilmember Santoro said they are talking about three (3),
31/2% raises, not the absorbent 4% that was thrown out there that
would be given away (inaudible) and given away whatever
anybody wanted. These individuals work for their increases. They
do a hard days work every single day. They are not giving us
anything, they deserve this and she voted yes.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED: APRIL 5, 2001
INTRODUCED: MARCH 15, 2001
Advertised as Adopted on First Reading
with Notice of Public Hearing: MARCH 20, 2001
Hearing Held: APRIL 5,2001
Approved By: MAYOR JAMES A. FAILACE
Advertised as Finally Adopted: FRIDAY. APRIL 13,2001
A copy of each Resolution was placed upon the table for review
prior to the meeting in accordance with the Rules of Council and
upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios and
unanimous affirmati ve vote of the full Council present, the meeting
was opened for public input on all resolutions.
John Sudia, Cypress Street, spoke on 01-109 saying that Mr. Platt
was overlooked and skipped over.
Mayor Failace asked Attorney Bergen what our position is on this.
Attorney Bergen said we do not discuss the merits of the case, he
said he said he would only say that he would recognize to the
Council that this is a settlement that they will consider and he
thinks it is one that will save the taxpayers some money and there
is no cost to either side and their objection to this being on the list
because he is choosing to withdraw his name voluntarily.
John Sudia asked about Resolution 01-113, if we signed a general
release for Dennis Nagy.
Attorney Bergen said the Council should not make any comments
on that.
Dave Crudup, 48 Bergen Street, spoke on 01-106. He asked the
Council if they will have two (2) Crossing Guards stationed at the
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intersection of Pershing and Roosevelt and asked about the one on
Edward and...........
Councilmember Santoro said they are discussing a third one. He
said she had explained to him that they had put two (2) on for the
Agenda and that is what they are doing now and she had talked to
Captain Hojecki and they are still interviewing for a possible third.
Mr. Crudup said the last time he talked to the Council at the
Agenda Meeting someone told him it cost a lot to obtain that
traffic light at the intersection of Roosevelt and Pershing.
Mayor Failace said traffic lights cost a lot of money, but not a cost
to the Borough because it is a carryover.
Mr. Crudup asked if there is any way they can get that information
also so they could contact the County. He wants to ask they why
they wanted to move the traffic light.
Mayor Failace said he will give him the address showing who to
write to.
Mr. Crudup asked what the date is that the new crossing guards
should be on duty.
Councilmember Santoro said they have to go through a process of
hiring, which we are well aware of and they are going to be
starting at the earliest time that they can.
Mr. Crudup asked if she could give him an exact date.
Captain Hojecki said specifically what is going to happen is after
the appointments their official start date will be Monday and there
is no school Monday so it will allow him to get the background
and finishings up in line while school is out and get their training
started. He said they are talking about two (2) weeks.
Joe Gentile, Noe Street, Carteret spoke saying that in reference to
01-111, asking how they could amend an ordinance of a Police
Chief when we don't have a Police Chief. He said they are
appointing a Police Chief and Council person Santoro said they are
going to go after the fact to Civil Service to see who is best
qualified and on the resolution they have a name.
Councilmember Santoro said to Mr. Gentile that she never said
they were qualified, she just said for the appointment that Civil
Service rules and she is just going by the rules and that is what the
rules are, to let somebody in and call for a test and during that
process the appointment is made. They cannot bypass Civil Service
rules.
Joe Gentile asked her why they put a particular person's name here
appointing him as a Police Chief when they have to go to Civil
Service to see who is qualified.
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APRil. 5, 2001
Resolution 101-106
Cant:
Resolution 101-111
APRil. 5, 2001
Public Portion
Closed
RESOUJITOO #01-95
Directing the
Issuance of Various
Raffle Licenses
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-96
Amendnent to 2001
Temporary Budget
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-97
Authorizing
Execution of Cantract
- AFSQIE Local #2291
Councilmember Santoro said because they can, that is how it is
done all the time.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present the public
portion on resolutions was closed.
RESOLUTION #01-95 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-95
"DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF VARIOUS RAFFLE
LICENSES"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Council members
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-96 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-96
"AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT TO THE 2001 TEMPORARY
BUDGET"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios , Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOllJDQil #01-97 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Santoro
RESOLUTION #01-98
"AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF CONTRACT BETWEEN
THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET AND LOCAL 2291,
AFSCME, AFL-CIO"
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was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative.
Councilmembers Quinones and Reiman abstained.
RESOLUTION #01-98 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
ORDINANCE #01-98
"AUTHORIZING MAYOR TO EXECUTE MIDDLESEX
COUNTY 2000 URBAN FORESTRY AGREEMENT"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Counci1members
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-99 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Councilmember Reiman told the Clerk he wanted to make a
motion to Table this resolution until the Agenda Meeting. He had
a call out to John Riggio, there is a couple of details he wants to
discuss with him.
John Riggio told Councilmember Reiman if he Tables that we will
miss the deadline and we will not have a budget.
Councilmember Reiman told John Riggio he left a voice mail for
him this morning and he didn't have the courtesy to return his call.
John Riggio told him he is stopping the functioning of the UEZ.
He said the deadline was five (5) days.
Mayor Failace asked John Riggio if this is a percentage of the total
UEZ money that is normal standard operating.
John answered yes.
Councilmember Reiman withdrew his motion . This IS based
strictly on the percentage of the UEZ funds.
John Riggio said standard operating procedure is limited money
and all it pays for is a limited portion of the salary. All the
(inaudible) is funded by the UEZ. No Carteret money what-so-
ever.
Councilmember Reiman told John Riggio that he and Nick
Goldsack will sit down with him and then he said he withdrew his
motion.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman
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APRil. 5, 2001
RESOUJITOO #01-97
Adopted
RESOUJITOO 101-98
Authorizing Mayor to
Execute t«: 2000 Urban
Forestry Agreement
Adopted
RESOWITOO #01-99
Authorizing UEZ
Aàninistrative Budget
for 2001-2001
APRil. 5, 2001
RESOUJITOO 101-99
Cant:
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-100
Appointing John Moody-
Public Safety
Telecamamicator
Trainee
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-101
Authrozing Various
Cantractors to Perfm:m
REhabilitation of
Hanes Pursuant to
mAll
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-102
Authorizing
Application for
USEPA Special
Project (CSO) Grant
RESOLUTION #01-99
"AUTHORIZING ADMINISTRATION BUDGET FOR 2001-
2002"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
Mayor Failace told Councilmember Reiman that sometimes it is
difficult for everybody to get back as fastly as we would like.
Councilmembers don't call other Councilmembers, or him back.
You don't get the call in the same day. He explained it is standard
operating procedure that the job is done. There is nothing
outrageous or different.
Councilmember Reiman said he did not doubt that but there is just
one (I) question he and Nick Goldsack has for him about reviewing
the entire budget.
RESOLUTION #01-100 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Santoro
RESOLUTION #01-100
"APPOINTING FULL - TIME PUBLIC SAFETY
TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINEE"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-101 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-101
"AUTHORIZING PAYMENT TO VARIOUS CONTRACTORS
PERFORMING REHABILITATION OF HOMES PURSUANT
TO COUNCIL ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING (COAH)
REGULATIONS"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-102 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Sohayda
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RESOLUTION #01-102
"AUTHORIZING APPLICATION USEPA SPECIAL PROJECT
(CSO) GRANT"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Quinones, Reiman, Rios , Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative. Councilmember Fazekas abstained.
RESOLUTION #01-103 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-103
"AUTHORIZING MAYOR TO EXECUTE 2001 BOROUGH OF
CARTERET OFFICE ON AGING GRANT AGREEMENT WITH
MIDDLESEX COUNTY OFFICE ON AGING"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-104 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Sohayda and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-104
"APPOINTING A PERMIT CLERK IN THE INSPECTION OF
BUILDINGS DEPARTMENT"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-105 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Sohayda and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-105
"CERTIFYING NOLBERTO IRIZARRY TO THE POSITION
OF PUMPING STATION REPAIRER"
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APRil. 5, 2001
RESQLUITOO #01-102
Authorizing Application
for USEPA Special
Project (CSO) Grant
Adopted
RESOLUITOO #01-103
Authorizing Mayor to
Execute 2001 Office on
Aging Grant AGreement
Adopted
RESQLUITOO 101-104
Appointing Ottavia
Kurdyla - Pernri.t Clerk
Adopted
RESOLUITOO #01-105
Appointing School
Traffic Guards
APRIL 5, 2001
RESOUJITOO #01-105
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-106
Appointing School
Traffic Guards
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-107
Authorizing Exemption
fran Vendor's' License
Fee - Carteret First
Aid Squad
Adopted
RESOLUl'IOO #01-108
Professional Services
- Craig Coughlin, Esq.
not to exceed $5000.00
Transmission Fee
Adopted
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative. Councilmember Quinones abstained.
RESOLUTION #01-106 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Mayor Failace asked if we had the names of the Traffic Guards.
Councilmember Santoro said the names are Debra Muniz and
Alfred Aloisio.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-106
"APPOINTING SCHOOL TRAFFIC GUARDS"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-107 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Reiman
RESOLUTION #01-107
"RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXEMPTION FROM FEE
REQUIREMENT PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 186 OF THE
CODE OF THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-108 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-108
"APPOINTING CRAIG J. COUGHLIN, ESQ. AS SPECIAL
COUNSEL FOR TRANSITION MA TIERS"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
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RESOLUTION #01-109 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-109
"AUTHORIZING STIPULATION OF SETTLEMENT AND
DISMISSAL"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Council members
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios and Santoro voted in the
affirmative. Councilmember Sohayda abstained.
RESOLUTION #01-110 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-110
"RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES
WITH KILLAM ASSOCIATES"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-111 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Councilmember Fazekas asked Attorney Bergen if this would
generate a Provisional and inform Civil Service that we tested even
though there is two (2).
Attorney Bergen said he cannot guarantee that there is going to be
a test issued for this position, a formal written test, but, there will
be a ranking of the candidates and (inaudible). It is clearly a
provisional appointment.
Councilmember Fazekas asked Councilmember Santoro if this
means you are going to request a test.........
An unidentified man interrupted saying that "you people have
microphones and you don't use them."
Councilmember Fazekas asked the man if he could hear him at that
point.
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APRIL 5, 2001
RESQLUITOO #01-109
Authorizing StilUlatiœ
of Sett1mmt ad Disni.ssal
1è: M. PJatt
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-110
Professional Services -
Killan Associates,
Re: Various Projects
Adopted
RESOLUITOO 101-111
Appointing John
Pieczyski - Police
Otief
APRil. 5, 2001
RESOUJITOO #01-111
Cant:
The man said no.
Councilmember Fazekas told Councilmember Santoro as the
Police Commissioner he is going to recommend a Civil Service
Test. He voted yes.
Councilmember Quinones said she was having some trouble with
this appointment. She explained that one of the main things with
appointing a Police Director was there were a lot of problems in
the Department at the time and the Police (inaudible) that was in
charge just felt that bringing someone in that was from the outside
and neutral would help to alleviate some of that and regardless of
whether one supports a Chief verses a Police Director he doesn't
think there is anyone in the Police Department that can legitimately
deny that the Police Department is not better off today then a
couple of years ago. She thinks there has been a tremendous
amount of improvement. It is not just in the facilities here but to
the way the operations have to run and one of the things she feels
is most significant is when there were promotions to be made for
anything, people were given an opportunity to interview, put forth
their credentials and why they should be selected for a certain
position and that never happened. The person was essentially
selected, she did not know on what criteria, because this
announced at 12:30 at night at the last Agenda Meeting and
Councilmember Santoro basically said she was putting a resolution
on to appoint John Pieczyski, Acting Chief of Police, no
explanation as to what the criteria was, whether she even talked to
the other Captain, which she found out she did not. Actually she
asked her if she had paid him the courtesy of the phone call and
she said that she had not spoken to him yet and she believed did
not speak to him until this week. She finds this whole project to be
absolutely atrocious, that she would totally disregard another
member of the department that totally qualifies for the position and
possibly Lieutenants who may have also been considered for that
position and picked somebody with no rhyme or reason other than
that person has, in her mind, the highest ranking officer and
essentially because of that she cannot vote on this because then
that is ratifying a process that she does not believe in and she votes
No.
Councilmember Reiman said a couple of years the Police
Committee recommended the Council went with a Police Director.
This resolution brings back alive the position of Police Chief and
appoints somebody that served as the senior Captain in his
position. He commented that certainly both Captains they have are
well qualified. The Committee recommended last week at the
Agenda Meeting that the Council's choice based upon one being
the Senior individual until Civil Service can have the test and they
can make their determination then. Captains Pieczyski and
Hojecki are both well qualified respectful individuals. He voted
yes.
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Councilmember Santoro said if the Police Department is better off
today than it was years ago she commends the people within the
Police Department. It doesn't happen magically when an
individual walks in on the top and creates a new department. It
came from the people within the department that have always been
hard working and done their jobs. The person at the top should be
somebody that could be their leader, someone they could work
with and what better than someone they have worked with over
twenty (20) some odd years. As far as Remy questioning how they
selected and why they did it the way they did it. She said they felt
eliminating quote "politics", eliminating selectiveness because
there are so many individuals that can be considered for this
position, to wait for the actual testing that they picked the Senior
Ranking Officer and she told Councilmember Quinones that he is
the person, when she was on the Police Committee, that she
picked over another individual, so she commented that she guessed
they both agreed.
Councilmember Quinones said she had interviewed all of them and
gave then the opportunity to show her and all the people on the
committee why they deserved that position. She said
Councilmember Santoro had not even given the other candidate the
courtesy of phone call to let him know she was making that
decision. She questioned how she could do that.
Councilmember Santoro said that phone calls were made Friday
morning to all individuals........
Councilmember Quinones interrupted commenting that it was a
week before she was going to make a decision.
Councilmember Santoro commented to Councilmember Quinones
that when she was on that committee she did as she saw fit and
now they are doing as they see fit. She had based her decision on
her opinion and this is their opinion and their decision.
Councilmember Quinones said she took recommendations from
officers within the department, which she also did not do.
Councilmember Santoro voted yes.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Santoro and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-111
"APPOINTING JOHN PIECZYSKI TO THE POSITION OF
CHIEF OF POLICE IN THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative. Councilmember Quinones voted No.
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APRil. 5, 2001
RESOLUITOO 101-111
Cant:
Adopted
APRil. 5, 2001
RESOUJITOO #01-111
Cœments
Mayor Failace told the Clerk that once again they keep speaking
about this test that Civil Service is going to do and they will see.
He said number one, he goes with the Councilwoman that there
was no interview process. He said this was given to them at more
like 12:00 on a Thursday night. There is always the due process, so
we are looking at education, a young captain who has gone to one
of the most expedient schools. He believes a Command Officer,
Officer's Training right now, that wasn't addressed. Again quite
honestly, the Director has a Bachelor's and Master's Degree and a
possible finishing of another Master's Degree very shortly and he
did not get all of this at our expense. He commented that this
Council does not also realize that there is a Chain of Commands in
the Police Department. He said there was no interview process and
when he called one (I) of the Captains to talk about it he did not
know what he was talking about, he hadn't even heard about it and
he felt bad that he had broke the bad news to him. He thinks it is
kind of sad that we say we will wait until Civil Service possibly
gives or doesn't give the test and then they will interview. He said
he has looked at the files of both Captains.
Councilmember Santoro asked if that was when you also told him
you could remove them from the building.
Mayor Failace said yes.
Councilmember Reiman said something about calling the
Prosecutor's Office and having the Personnel Files sent into his
office.
Mayor Failace said they left the Police Building and then he gave
them right back to him. He said if anyone thinks it is not proper
what he did, he asked the Clerk originally, not that she is an
attorney, if he was allowed bring them back here and she said she
thought she could. When they were brought to him, it was
questioned as to whether he could and he called the attorney. He
followed everything that was proper, so he said not to make any
insinuations about what he did or what he didn't.
Councilmember Reiman said just to clarify they had left the Police
Department he believes the Captain (inaudible) get a hold of the
attorney so he asked the County Prosecutor if they could leave.
Mayor Failace said whether they did or not, he did not even go that
far. He said take them back he doesn't even want them, but the
bottom line is at least he thought to look and see and it is said that
the process was not done correctly or the right way.
Councilmember Santoro told him that was in his eyes and she said
the thing that is sad is that this is a positive thing for Carteret and
again he is going to sit there and look at a different side of it and
they are going to take an individual who is definitely qualified for
this position, must have the support of the people within that
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department and you are still looking for another reason to put
something wrong with it.
Mayor Failace said there is nothing quite amazing about that.
When they interviewed for a Director we opened it to the
Department and anyone that could have applied for it applied for it.
We interviewed.
Councilmember Rios said that he interviewed when he just said
prior to this that you wanted (inaudible) politics so you didn't want
anyone from within.
Mayor Failace said they were allowed to fill out an interview form
for that position.
Councilmember Rios said that he just said five (5) minutes
ago.......
Mayor Failace said he didn't say anything........
Councilmember Rios and Mayor Failace argued back and forth for
a short period of time.
Councilmember Rios said Ms. Quinones said she did not want
anyone from the Department.
Councilmember Quinones said she did not say that. She said that
there had been problems with the Chief of Police who was here
before and one way that they thought to resolve that was to bring
someone in from the outside, that is entirely different then not
giving them the opportunity to interview.
Councilmember Rios said they gave them the opportunity to
interview but they had their mind made up, where they pre-judged
their determination.......
Councilmember Quinones said just like he did when he picked
Captain Hojecki.
Councilmember Rios again mentioned that she did not want
anyone from the Department for the Director.
Councilmember Quinones said that is not what she said.
Mayor Failace said he thought the process is being done
backwards. We will give the test and then we will interview some
of the guys and right now there is only two (2) men that can sit for
that test. If you could only go down two (2) ranks he believes from
Deputy Chief, but he believes we have no Deputy Chief so we go
down to Captain. We will find out.
Councilmember Rios asked Mayor Failace if he is telling him he
never appointed a person to a position in this Borough and that
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APRIL 5, 2001
RESOLUITOO 101-111
Cœments
APRil. 5, 2001
RESOUJITOO #01-111
Cœments
RESOUJITOO #01-112
Appointing William
Richert - Temporary
Fire Prevention
Inspector, ICS
Adopted
RESOUJITOO #01-113
Authorizing Stip.Jlatim
of ~ arl (ße:lli.
Relœse, ~: D. ~
generated a Civil Service List and then appointed them
permanentl y.
Mayor Failace told Councilmember Rios that he is talking about
different levels. You don't talk about appointing a typist, etc.
There is a difference between your Chief of Police or Captain.
Councilmember Rios asked if that was backwards.
Mayor Failace told him no, he may not think so, he is saying you
can do that but there is a difference. He is saying when we did
Captain there is those who were interviewed first and then asked if
he was correct. They were also asked to give.........
Councilmember Rios asked the Mayor again if he has never
appointed a.........
Mayor Failace said absolutely, he has appointed a Clerk Typist, a
Laborer, etc.
Councilmember Rios said, then the tests went out and then you
formally appointed that position to that person.
Mayor Failace said he didn't think any of those tests were called
for.
Councilmember Rios asked him if he said he was doing it
backwards.
Mayor Failace said no. He once again commented that there is a
difference between a Chief of Police and other positions that he
may be talking about.
RESOLUTION #01-112 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-112
"APPOINTING WILLIAM RICHERT TO THE POSITION OF
FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTOR, ICS, FOR THE BOROUGH
OF CARTERET"
was adopted. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas,
Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-113 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
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Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Santoro
RESOLUTION #01-113
"AUTHORIZING STIPULATION OF SETTLEMENT AND
GENERAL RELEASE"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
RESOLUTION #01-114 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas
RESOLUTION #01-114
"ACCEPTING DOWNTOWN AND BUSINESS DISTRICT
IMPROVEMENT GRANT AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR
AND BOROUGH CLERK TO EXECUTE DOCUMENTS"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazekas, Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in
the affirmative.
Councilmember Reiman thanked Councilmember Santoro for
working hard on this grant with the county.
Mayor Failace thanked John Riggio for putting the whole thing
together and doing all the work.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Rios and Fazekas all bills
appearing upon prepared list, properly audited and signed were
ordered to be paid. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers
Fazkeas, Quinones, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative. Council member Reiman abstained because he doesn't
vote on anything with Shop Rite in it.
The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of the following reports:
Board of Health - February 2001
Clerk's Office - March 2001
Social Services - January & February 2001
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APRil. 5, 2001
RESOLUITOO 101-113
Cant:
Adopted
RESOLUITOO #01-114
Authorizing Mayor to
Execute Downtown
and Business District
:ünprovanent Fund
Grant Agreement
Adopted
PA'iMFNf OF BILL5
REPORl'S
Departments
AlRIL 5, :un
<XHm'l'EES
Cont:
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Fazekas and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present all reports
were ordered to be received and placed on File.
BUILDINGS & GROUNDS - Committee Chairperson Quinones
reported they had the opening of the Community Center and
Dedication. They are still ironing out some of the scheduling with
moving some people over. There is " Meals on Wheels" and there
is room for more people to participate. There was a new heating
service installed in the Social Services Building and she has asked
Tony Neibert to coordinate with our Engineer for following
through on it and the Emergency Exit Door for the Police Building
and some items in the Fire House that need to be addressed. They
have also retained a Cleaning Solution Specialist to abate any
problems in Borough Hall in the lower level, such as removing the
carpeting and sanitizing the area. She said as usual Jason and
Arnold are doing a good job. Progress.
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION: Committee Chairperson
Reiman said as the public mayor may not be aware the proposed
tax increase has been cut from eight (8) cents to four (4) cents, so
we are now awaiting numbers from a state agency. He went on to
say there was a letter and articles in the News Tribune and Ledger
yesterday about an issue with the Turnpike. The Board of Health
was asked to look into the issues. A Notice of Violation was
issued to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and they had a five
(5) man crew cleaning up yesterday part of Roosevelt Avenue and
the Turnpike Interchange in Carteret. He said that Tony Neibert is
back and is continuing his inspections. He said we have a list of
Borough owned land and equipment that they are going to auction
off. Then they will bring in some revenue to the Borough . He also
spoke of some landlocked property the Borough owns in Carteret.
Mayor Failace said he thinks we should talk about that at the
Council Meeting.
Councilmember Reiman said it is being itemized and turned over
for discussion at the Agenda Meeting.
Councilmember Rios asked Councilmember Quinones about the
progress on our microphones.
Councilmember Quinones said she gave him the report from the
individual that came in. It didn't seem like the Council was that
interested in proceeding about it. She said she would take another
look at it if he wanted her to.
Councilmember Rios said if she would and then bring it up at the
next Agenda Meeting.
Attorney Bergen asked if we are going in conjunction with the
courts to buy this.
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Councilmember Rios said yes.
FIRE: Committee Chairperson Rios spoke saying on March 18th
the Fire Department conducted a joint training drill with the
Woodbridge Fire Department for forceful entry techniques, etc.
He went on to say recently the Fire Department participated in a
"Reach Across America Program" in our schools and it was such a
success that the Firefighters have offered to visit the school on
weekly basis to read for the younger students. Five (5) Firefighters
have volunteered to attend a Pre-Juvenille Fire (Inaudible)
Training Program in Middlesex Fire Academy. It teaches
Firefighters how to interview and deal with children who set fires.
Our Fire Department has also started a new program called a "File
of Life" He said he hoped our newspapers would pick this up
because it is important. It is offered to any Carteret senior citizen
or any resident with special medical needs. They are required to fill
out a card listing their health information, medical history,
emergency contact numbers and other important information. The
card is placed in a magnetic holder on the refrigerator for easy
access. This program has been such a success that representative of
AARP have contacted firefighters to learn more about the program.
He said anyone interested in the program should contact Fire
Headquarters at 541-8000. Progress.
PARKS & RECREATION: Committee Chairperson Santoro said
this Sunday, April 8th at Carteret Park will be the annual Easter
Egg Hunt sponsored by the Honorary PBA and the PBA. It begins
at 2:00 p.m. At Veterans Field they have added an on deck area
for the players, which as a fenced in area it should eliminate a
potentially dangerous situation when the other players are
swinging the bats because they will be in a separated area. Opening
Day is scheduled for Saturday, April 21st and for information call
the Little League Office at 541-2999. She said last night she and
Mr. Kately met with the Little League and the Girls Softball
League. At the last Agenda there was a big discussion on the field,
boys verses girls and the mounds verses no mounds and they met
Wednesday night and they sat down and talked to each other and
they have come up with a terrific solution that they are both happy
with and then hopefully next year they will discuss it again. She
said they are looking at bringing in a portable mound in the fall.
POLICE: Committee Chairperson Santoro congratulated Chief
Pieczyski at this point and commented that he is a wonderful
individual and thinks he will do a fine job and looks for support for
him. She said in March there was many different courses of
training for the Officers. She said these are something that we are
dedicated to and will continue to do as the year progresses.
Councilmember Santoro said in reference to neither Parks or
Police, she did receive today, a call from Congressman
Menendez's Aide in Wasington, saying that the Congressman will
be formally requesting inclusion in the Appropriation Bill for
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aHIITl'EES Cant:
APRil. 5, 2001
~
Cont:
Carteret for $100,000.00 for improvements for Borough Hall. The
bill is the Veterans and Housing and Urban Development
Appropriation Bill. We do have money we are asking for in our
Assembly and Senate for Borough Hall for 2.4 million dollars, but
we can't stop until we do realize some of this money.
Congressman Menendez has always tried to help Carteret and
down in Washington he works very hard for the districts he
represents. She said she feels comfortable and confident that with
him behind us we will probably be able to get some money to help
us in the renovation of Borough Hall. She said we have to keep
looking because eventually one of them will come in.
Councilmember Rios suggested that it might be wise for us to try
to (unaudible) him or other Congressmen on that committee with
phone calls in support of that bill.
Councilmember Reiman said he would like to put a resolution on
in support of that bill.
Councilmember Santoro said they will discuss it at the Agenda.
PUBLIC WORKS: Committee Chairperson Sohayda said the
Recycling Department is keeping up with its normal tasks. Streets
and Roads and Recycling and also for the yard, they are putting in
for a new list for bringing the wood at the Recycling Center. They
are going to be asking for name and license plate. There is a large
amount of contractors who are dropping wood off and paying
significant dollars to have this wood removed. He said under
Mayor Sica we paid nothing for leaves and wood removal because
the place where it went also sold it after they got it from us and
didn't charge us for it. Now we have to keep a little better hand on
it. He went on to say in the Sewer Department we have two (2)
new trucks for the cleaning of the sewers. They have a third
coming in tomorrow morning to see the difference in these trucks.
They are pretty impressive. Councilman Reiman was there. There
is a significant dollar difference in each truck too. They have been
cleaning Bergen and Essex Streets regularly with these trucks to
see how they compare under what we believe is our hardest
conditions. We have leamed that there are a lot of recyclables in
the sewer and that the trees in the neighborhood are breaking
through these sewer lines and creating a large problem. These new
trucks have the capabilities of having tree rooters on the truck. As
far as Streets and Roads everybody has been patching and putting
up signs and if anybody has any notification of pot holes, etc. do
not hesitate to call 541-3881. He then went on to say he received a
letter from the Political Action Committee from the Zion Church
saying he was rude to Mr. Jones. He commented that Mr. Jones
was not in the audience this evening and he went on to ask the
members of his committee to accept his apology and he went on to
apologize. Other then that Progress.
BOARD OF EDUCATION - Committee Chairperson Fazekas
spoke saying he rescheduled the meeting with the Board of
Education for Wednesday and he is trying to get some agreements
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and hopefully some grant money he applied for and requested. He
had missed the last Council Meeting, he was meeting with County
Officials about a (CDC), which is a County Data Center. This was
just a rough draft. He was trying on a County level to do something
they could do on a Local level. Basically it tabled. Shared services
for technology and to consolidate it on a county level. It would
increase our buying power, consolidate some of our work, in terms
of what we could do with technology. It seems like he never
presented it correctly and he would have to do a better job at that.
He was successful though, with Comcast that he had pre-quoted
earlier concerning our cables and it appears that we will be able to
get one (I) of the channels of the three (3) that had been promised
to us in 1994. One of those would be available as a public bulletin
board that we can share as the Borough and also the Board of
Education until they get their own channel. He also was told at the
end of this year there will be a letter going out which is called 626,
which is a letter to notify the Borough that the Comcast Agreement
is due up in 2003. That is where we are suppose to establish a
Advisory Board to make recommendations on the next agreement
concerning fee, type of training, it could be what is owed to the
Borough. Other municipalities have divided this Advisory Board
and he thinks it is wise for us to probably pool with the other
Boroughs. He said he also has a Department Head meeting going
over our technology and also our ordinance concerning an Internet
Access and also went over the entire Borough IT Structure and
hopefully they will be able to implement the next phase which will
provide Email to the Borough employees and they had a little
trouble with Comcast and there seems to be a little difficulty with
the representing. Progress.
At approximately 8:50 p.m., Councilmember Fazekas was noted
absent.
Councilmember Reiman said he wanted to add to the Finance and
Administration. There was a question from the audience two (2)
weeks ago regarding Green Acres and John Street parking. He said
he has directed the Business Administrator and he knows he has
contacted Mr. Riggio to look into John Street parking from the old
Master Plan and he has also contacted the County. Apparently
some of the property now is Green Acres money, behind John
Street that is Green Acres Park and we have no clear title to this
but we are attempting to establish, at one point in time, the
Borough took over ownership of this property and they do need to
contact the County to do a Title Search and Deed Search of the
property. He just wanted to let the audience know that we are
investigating this.
Councilmember Rios spoke asking Councilmember Reiman to
speak about what they had done on Saturday, ttmSaturday was
Career Day at Liberty State Park and the Borough Council and
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Cant:
Cotmci1member Fazekas
noted absent
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aHITITEES
Cant:
PROCUMATIOO
Autism Awareness
Month 2001
Mayor had given permission for our committee to use one of the
Borough buses. They did take one of the teachers from the High
School and ten (10) students. He had sent a letter out to all the
Community Action Groups and Churches in the Borough inviting
them to attend this and they did get the ten (10) students and he
thanked Ms. Naples. The students learned a lot and it was a good
experience and he thanked Councilman Rios and again thanked the
Council for the bus.
Councilmember Rios said it was a good day and it showed students
that is trades available for the students who may not pursue a
college education. He thanked the Mayor and Council.
The Mayor read the following proclamation into the record:
AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH 2001
WHEREAS, autism is a pervasive developmental disorder
affecting the social, learning and behavioral skills of those affected
by it; and
WHEREAS, autism was once thought to be a relatively rare
disorder, affecting only one in 10,000 people; and
WHEREAS, as more and more health professionals become
proficient in diagnosing autism, more children are being diagnosed
on the autistic spectrum, resulting in rates as low as one in 500
children; and
WHEREAS, while there is no cure for autism, it is well-
documented that if an individual with autism receives treatment
early in their lives, it is often possible for that individual to make
significant improvement; and
WHEREAS, the New Jersey Center for Outreach and Services for
the Autism Community (COSAC) is spearheading an awareness
effort in order to educate parents, professionals and the general
public about autism and its effects; and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that I, MAYOR
JAMES A. FAILACE do hereby proclaim April, 2001 as AUTISM
AWARENESS MONTH in the BOROUGH OF CARTERET, and
urge all employees and residents to participate in our
municipality's Autism Awareness Month activities, in order to
become better educated on the subject of autistic spectrum
di sorders.
Mayor Failace then said on May 5th the area Special Olympics
would be held in Carteret. This is the second time in about ten (10)
years. It is a wonderful time for them and he would like to maybe
get the High School Band to play for it and get as many residents
as possible to attend it. After this they would move on to the
Special Olympics in Trenton.
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Mayor Failace then said that former Councilmember Jim Mancuso
had gotten some paint donated to us and he spoke to the Council
about it at the Agenda Meeting. He has to speak to the Supervisor
of Parks about the possibility of painting our Skate Park. It would
be organized graffiti by our young people to have it look as they
would like it to look.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios and
unanimous affirmative vote of the five (5) Councilmembers
present, the meeting was declared open for public discussion.
Jim Mancuso, Carteret A venue, said he spoke to Bob already and
he is all for the painting of the Skate Park if the Council okays it.
Another thing he questioned is in reference to the Industrial Road,
about two (2) years ago Mr. Giordiano dumped dirt on the back of
the road. He has been in and out of court and there was an arrest
warrant for him and he didn't get arrested. The just of the matter is
he has made over a couple of hundred thousand dollars dumping
the dirt there. So far he has been fined a thousand dollars. He was
told to remove it so many times and he has been back and forth in
court. That is the road where you are getting all the flooding on the
opposite side of the highway.
Councilmember Reiman asked where this has happened.
Mr. Mancuso said down the Industrial Road where the De Bella
property is, past the car wash. That property there was six (6) feet
below the road level and now is three (3) feet above the road level.
He said today he went by there and there is four (4) new piles. He
said it is contaminated clay that he cannot get rid of from
Woodbridge. They don't know if the dirt is contaminated. Our
engineers reported that it may be undermining the road because of
the pressure of the dirt up against the road when it rains hard and
the dirt gets wet, yet he is constantly putting dirt there. He
commented that he thought the man should be arrested.
Councilmember Reiman said that they could direct Borough
Attorney Bergen to talk to the DEP. He then went on to say just so
the Council is aware, Mr. Mancuso is the Chairman of the
Planning Board and the Mayor and himself had sat on the Planning
Board, going back about a year and change. South Shore Properties
is looking for an application for a site plan for bringing in the dirt
and he denied that and ordered them to remove it. It has been tied
up in court the last year and one half. He commented to Mr.
Mancuso that if what he said about them bringing in more dirt is
true then he imagined if the police see them, at the time, they could
cite them.
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PUBLIC DIsruSSIOO
Skate Park
GiOl:diano, Re:
Ibnping of Dirt
on Industrial Rd.
APRIL 5, 2001
Dirt Dunping
Cant:
AME Zion <1turch
Greg Denton
Private Entity
Grant
Housing Authority
Letter
Jim Mancuso said he did not see why someone cannot call the DEP
to come in there, when the place is contaminated He questioned
how he could just arbitrarily dump there.
Councilmember Reiman said they would contact the Board of
Health.
Councilmember Quinones asked Attorney Bergen if he would talk
to the Prosecutor about this.
Mary Fontaine then spoke saying she would like to correct
Councilmember Sohayda. The group that is down at the Peoples
AME Zion Church is not a political group. It is Carteret
Community Action Committee and it is open to anybody in
Carteret that would like to come. It is not political, it is
community.
Greg Denton, President of the PBA then spoke saying the PBA
supports the position of Chief, not so much the appointment of
John Pieczyski, but, appointing John Pieczyski is the fairest way to
have done it. It supports the senior and then one, two and three.
The highest ranking is the proper way and this is moving the
department forward.
Stanley Gutowski said at the last Council Meeting he asked the
administration about the Private Entity Grant and was asking if
there was any information on it.
Attorney Bergen said it is an outside grant and should be outside
police work and that is clearly what it is and it is presumable to
charge different rates.
Stan Gutowski said he has a question for the Council and said he
had spoken to Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones and asked
the other members of the Council if they were aware of the letter
that was sent to the Housing Authority. The letter represented
speaking on behalf of the Council. He said he had the letter present
and he read what the letter said, stating that "any member of the
Housing Authority wishing to come before this Council and
representing themselves as members of the Housing Authority
should request to be placed on the Agenda and notify the Council
on what they wish to talk about." He questioned if a letter like this
was sent to any other Board or unit in this town.
Councilmember Reiman told Mr. Gutowski that he stated that he
was there to speak on "behalf' of the Housing Authority.
Councilmember Quinones commented even if he did why did he
need permission to speak and give them prior notice.
Council member Reiman said they would simply need to know if
he showed up to express his views or the views of this actual
independent agency.
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Councilmember Quinones questioned if they would need prior
notice to make that determination.
Stanley Gutowski asked if this was sent to any other board in town.
Council member Reiman said certainly.
Stanley Gutowski asked if he sent it to the Planning Board because
people have come here and said they are from the Planning Board
and then asked if he sent it to the Board of Education.
Councilmember Reiman said no one was speaking on behalf of
them.
Councilmember Quinones said he sent that letter on behalf of her,
she is a Councilmember and he never told her about it.
Stanley Gutowski said he just asked the Council about the letter
and they knew nothing about it, so he hears that he is accusing
him, that he represented himself. . . . . .
Councilmember Reiman said something inaudible.
Stanley Gutowski asked Councilmember Reiman if he approved it.
Did he tell him to do it and then commented "Come on Dan, pass
the buck."
Councilmember Reiman said he just told him in the audience he
directed the Business Administrator to contact the Housing
Authority in letter form and ask them if they want to do a
presentation or someone wants to come in hear and speak.......
Stanley Gutowski said they want to deny him his right to stand
here and ask questions.
Councilmember Reiman said as a citizen, absolutely not.
Stanley Gutowski said he has an appointment and he has a job to
do at the Housing Authority. If he has a concern he will come here
and ask. He then asked who the Council was who wanted to be
notified and commented "you, Councilman Reiman." He
commented that the Council didn't even know he sent the letter.
Councilmember Reiman told Mr. Gutowski that he said he was
there to represent the Housing Authority but the only people who
could represent the Housing Authority are the Chairperson and the
Executi ve Director.
Stanley Gutowski said he is a member and he can talk about it.
Councilmember Reiman said he can talk about it but he cannot
represent it.
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Councilmember Quinones questioned who said that and asked
Attorney Bergen if there was a rule that they have to give prior
notice to a Council if they want to come and represent it.
Councilmember Reiman said that is a courtesy request asking if
they want to represent the Housing Authority on a specific issue or
news that they simply ask us and we will put them on the Agenda.
He told Mr. Gutowski that when he contacted the Executive
Director he told him he was not aware to his knowledge that the
Board of Commissioners never asked him to represent their views
so he was representing the views of Stanley Gutowski and that is
fine.
Councilmember Quinones said she thinks he said he was a member
but whether he said he was a member or not, she hates to get into
what she considers dangerous areas, telling people that they do not
have the right to come here...........
Councilmember Reiman told Councilmember Quinones that it was
not true and he asked her how she would dare say that.
Councilmember Quinones asked him how he would dare put her
name to a letter that she had no knowledge of and she certainly
would not support.
Councilmember Rios said he thinks the intent of Councilmember
Reiman was for anyone from any board, if they wish to come up
and speak before the Council, should have permission to do so
from the Council. He does not feel that is so bad.
Stanley Gutowski told Councilmember Rios that it may not be so
bad but to single out a single agency........this Borough was just
involved in a discrimination suit that was recently settled and this
borders on the same thing. If you do not send this to every board
and agency in town it is discriminating against the Carteret
Housing Authority and its membership by denying them the right
to come here and speak on an issue that involves the Housing
Authority.
A voice in audible to the transcriber said, "Absolutely not,
absolutely not."
Stanley Gutowski asked the person with the inaudible voice if
they even ran it by him and if they did the person would have told
him not to send it.
Councilmember Reiman asked if there was anything wrong with
(inaudible).
Attorney Bergen said there is nothing wrong with the Council
requesting (inaudible).
Councilmember Quinones said if in fact the Council discussed and
requested it, but certain members were not told about it.
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Stanley Gutowski asked if it was discussed at the last Agenda
Meeting.
Councilmember Quinones said no.
Stanley Gutowski commented that they mentioned prosecutor up
here and he knows Daphne Miles has something to say on behalf
of the Housing Authority but the Attorney General is involved
already for discrimination.
Mayor Failace said he listened to the tapes of the meeting and
certainly Mr. Gutowski did not say he was here representing, he
did say he is (inaudible) of.
Councilmember Reiman said when somebody comes on behalf of
an Agency or Commission, this Council needs to know that they
are speaking on behalf of that Agency or Commission or speaking
simply as an individual. That is the only point that is being made.
He questioned if the Council needs to send out a letter about that to
all the Agencies and Commissions.
Mayor Failace told Councilmember Reiman, first of all, that they
complained that they are members of the Board of Education, but
the issue is that anyone ftom one of the Boards or Commissions
can come up here, having every right to ask questions. He
personally would say not to send that letter to any of the Boards.
He commented that they haven't had any problems in the past with
it.
Councilmember Quinones said she wanted to say, for the record,
that if any Councilmember wants to send out a letter addressing
itself ftom the entire Council they should at least clear it with
everybody because she does not support that at all.
Daphne Miles, 25 Pulaski Avenue then spoke saying she is a
member of the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and if
she wasn't she would still say what she was going to say. She
directed this to the Mayor and Council that she just forwarded her
letter to the Attorney General because she wants him to give her a
ruling on this. She told Councilmember Reiman that she has been
coming here for about three (3) years and have seen many
organizations come and speak before the Governing Body and
address themselves representing their organizations. She will wait
for the ruling to come back and if it is in her favor she will maybe
take it to the next step.
Daphne Miles and Councilmember Reiman argued back and forth
shortly.
Daphne Miles then went on to say that she sits on the Housing
Authority as a Commissioner. It is not a paid position and she gets
phone calls every hour about something and some of those phone
calls don't allow her just to talk on the phone. Many times she gets
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Housing Authority Cant:
DapIme Hiles
APRil. 5, 2001
Daphne Miles
Cant:
up one or two or three o'clock in the morning that she would get
up and she does not get paid for it. She told Councilmember
Reiman that she will not allow him to think he has that much
power that he can tell her when or when she cannot speak, and on
behalf of who she cannot speak because every time she has come
up to the microphone she always said she is Daphne Miles, 25
Pulaski Street and if it pertains to the Housing Authority she will
speak on it because 99% of the times she is speaking on her
opinion. So she said it just makes you wonder why all of a sudden
the commissioners get a letter saying that when we want to speak
on the problems of the Housing Authority we have to get the
approval of this Council. She commented that was ridiculous. She
said she will wait for the ruling to come back. She said she talked
out to the DCA and they do not believe that the Council has the
right to send out that kind ofletter. She commented if that was the
case he should have sent it out to every Borough Official because
he is not going to tell her that they don't come up here and
represent and they don't always come to him. She told
Councilmember Reiman that he will never be able to stop her
because she is a resident and taxpayer of Carteret.
Councilmember Reiman asked Attorney Bergen if it is legal for a
member of authority, or a commission or agency to come up and
represent themselves in speaking on that organization without that
organization's consent.
Attorney Bergen said he didn't know of any particular law that
prohibits it. He went on to say one way to resolve it if they have a
problem if someone gets up instead of him, may want to ask him
if this is a position that the Board has formally taken either by vote
or by any other means to let you know it is a position the board has
taken and ask them to come up before the Council.
Councilmember Reiman asked Daphne Miles if the Housing
Authority has voted one way or another on that issue.
Daphen Miles questioned what issue.
Councilmember Reiman said the issue that Mr. Gutowski made
pertaining to police and security.
Daphne Miles said it is not an issue because we don't have that
kind of grant the Village and the Manor have. They have
(inaudible) as a set price.
Councilmember Reiman asked if that meant the Housing Authority
had no position on it.
Attorney Bergen said the grant that they are talking about has not
gone to the Housing Authority.
Councilmember Reiman said he understood that but asked if
someone would like to represent the Housing Authority on that
issue and asked if the Board had taken a stand one way or another.
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Daphne Miles said they have taken a stand saying that they cannot
pay the kind of money that the other part that connects us is getting
ready to pay.
Councilmember Reiman asked if the Board voted on that.
Daphne Miles said there is nothing to say. The money says it.
Patricia Rodriquez spoke saying she is a member of the Carteret
Community Action Council, the Police Watch and a member of St.
Joseph's Church. She went on to say on Saturday night her
seventeen (17) year old son was car jacked out of Carmen's
Pizzeria and held captive for three (3) hours. Even though the
crime took place at the township of Woodbridge there was great
response by the Carteret Police Department, Debbie the
Dispatcher, two (2) of our newer officers and all the men that were
out on the road helped resolve the situation on Roosevelt Avenue
and they received the safe return of her son. She thanked everyone
involved in the search for her son.
Frank Wall, 19 Wedgewood Drive. He said he is here on behalf of
the Maintenance people on the Turnpike to thank Councilmember
Reiman for sending the letter into the paper. There was twelve (12)
maintenance people held over last night on overtime to clean the
place up. He then went on to thank the Road Department for doing
a good job on the pot holes and then thanked the police for giving
out tickets by the light and slowing down the traffic.
A man whose name was inaudible to the transcriber said he was
from 30 Atlantic Street and he lived in Carteret for eleven (11)
years. He drives a taxi cab and he parks in his driveway all night.
He said he was told by the Police Department that he was not
allowed to drive into Carteret.
Attorney Bergen told him he could drive it from work to home in
Carteret. He said he is not sure but there may be an ordinance
prohibiting parking the taxi in a residential zone.
Mayor Failace told the man that Captain Hojecki will speak to him.
James Mancuso asked if anyone knew when the signs prohibiting
cell phones would be put in Carteret.
Councilmember Reiman said he will check on it.
Pat Tozzi said he is speaking as the AARP State Representative
Tax Aide. He said they have been doing taxes for the Senior
Citizens for the past eight (8) years in Carteret. He said they got
very good cooperation from the Tax Office for the past three (3)
years as they implemented the Property Tax Relief. He said thirty-
five (35) percent of their Senior Citizens are of low income and
they are entitled to this, but, they have to get documents signed by
the Tax Office and he thanked the people of the Tax Office.
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Daphne Hiles/Housing
Authority Cant:
Patricia Rodriquez
Frank Wall
Taxi Cabs
Signs, Re: Cell Phones
AARP State ~ve
Thx Aiœ
AmIL 5, 2001
Mr.Radwaan
Joe Gentile
Director of
Public Works
Police Director/
(bief
Mr. Radwaan thanked everyone for their support and he also
thanked Mr. Mangieri and the Board of Education. He asked
Councilmember Santoro how many years she was President and
Vice President of the Board of Education.
Councilmember Santoro said she was President one (I) year and
Vice President five (5) years during the years 1990 to 1996.
Attorney Bergen advised Councilmember Santoro not to speak any
further on this.
Joe Gentile, Oak Street, Carteret. He congratulated the Police
Chief and said he hopes he gets the Police Chief salary. His
question to the Council is that they said earlier that they would
save $8000.00 by getting rid of the Director of Public Works. They
are concerned about saving money and so is he, however he does
not see how they are going to save any money by making a Police
Chief and (inaudible) after the Chiefs pay. He commented that the
Director Elg had just signed a contract for three (3) years starting
in January. He questioned why they need two (2) people doing the
same job when they are trying to save money.
Mayor Failace told Mr. Gentile that they won't have two (2)
people for the same job. He explained that the Chief of Police will
run the day to day operations of the Borough. The Director will no
longer do that. He will do policy and budgets.
Mr. Gentile asked how that would save the Borough money.
Councilmember Santoro said she wanted to go back to the Director
of Streets and Roads and she commented that she didn't hear the
concerns of the saving of the money, as the position was done
incorrectly. At that point is that there was an ordinance disallowing
Parks to go under that position.
Mr. Gentile asked the Mayor how they would be saving the
$8000.00 and someone has to do this job, he is promoted to it.
Councilmember Reiman said what had happened is the Council
wanted to put Parks under the Borough Ordinance that is currently
effective, but, they weren't able to do that. They asked the
Borough Attorney and even the Mayor agreed that we had a couple
of options, one would have been to eliminate the position and he
would have been in support of that and one would have been to
restructure the Administrative Ordinance and allow (inaudible) for
a chain in commands.
Councilmember Santoro said as far as the Director and Chief, at
this point, we are paying two (2) salaries and he is right the Police
Committee will have to look and see if we are spending our money
the way we want to, or if there is different way they can possibly
save.
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Mr. Gentile commented that she keeps saying she is going to the
County and the State, so he asked why she doesn't go to the
Freeholders, especially Crabie1, who promised Carteret three (3)
years in a row, that he is going to get money into Carteret. He
commented to tell him that Joe Gentile is still waiting to get the
Exit 12 ........ the plans for that were already made up so they don't
have to spend anymore money to get more plans for Exit 12. He
said we don't need a 12A. It will only benefit Linden.
Mayor Failace said he spoke at the last meeting and he has spoken
to our Council already and our engineer and it said that Exit 12A is
nothing to Carteret.
Councilmember Rios said he believed that he had heard sentiment
from each Councilmember saying that they are against l2A.
Councilmember Reiman told Mr. Gentile, just to let him know that
the Borough Engineer got a look at this contract from the county
and he believes he has obtained copies of some of the plans for this
(inaudible) and he believes the Mayor is aware of, from a couple of
years ago, so, presenting it to the Council we can at least give our
input and we need to take out the county's input and we can go to
the state (inaudible).
Mayor Failace said a year ago the County, the Turnpike, etc. with
these alternatives, so everyone is aware of the alternatives that
were out there to fix the Turnpike and the problem with the
Turnpike.
Sam Lugo, 24 Fitch Street, Carteret. He wanted to thank the
Council that voted for the contract and settled with this finally. It
has been a long time coming. It is a fair contract on both sides and
he applauds them and thanks them on behalf of all the Borough
workers.
Kevin Urban, 33 Atlantic Street. His concern tonight is the deal
with the Turnpike. He said they fore stated that Roosevelt Avenue
is a county road. His question is to facilitate the flow of traffic off
the Turnpike through the Easy Pass, why can't the Council contact
the State Police and maybe a County Agency and have the police
direct traffic there.
Mayor Failace said they could maybe talk to the County to adjust
the time of the light.
Kevin Urban said the second part of the question is they have
heard a lot of discussion regarding the Turnpike and he questioned
if the Council could look into the budget to see if any money was
allocated by the Turnpike Authority for any future developments
on to that.
Mayor Failace said what they allocated money to is study and it
seems that what came out of the study is Exit 12A and to him and
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Joe Gentile
Exit 12
San ù.Jgo
Kevin Urban
APRil. 5, 2001
Mr.Raadwan
R&')(JUJl'IOO #01-115
Resolution to go
into Closed Session
Adopted
~ CLOSED
MEEI'll(; 0PmID
ADJOORNED
the Council that means nothing. He said they have alternatives that
the Engineer is working on.
Mr. Raadwan apologized to Councilmember Santoro for
questioning her earlier in the meeting.
RESOLUTION #01-115 was introduced by the Mayor and referred
to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Reiman and Rios
RESOLUTION #01-115
"RESOLUTION TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Quinones, Reiman, Rios, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the
affirmative. Councilmember Fazekas was noted absent.
At approximately 9:45 p.m., this meeting was closed.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmember by Councilmembers Sohayda
and Reiman and unanimous affirmative vote of the five (5)
Councilmembers present this meeting was opened to the public at
approximately 10:25 p.m.
There being no further business or discussion, upon MMS&C by
Councilmembers Sohayda and Reiman and unanimous affirmative
vote of the five (5) Councilmembers present, this meeting was
adjourned at approximately 10:26 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
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Municipal Clerk
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