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HomeMy Public PortalAbout2000/05/11 The Agenda Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Carteret preceding the Regular Meeting, May 18, 2000, was held on May 11,2000,7:00 P.M., Municipal Court, Police Facility, 230 Roosevelt Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey. The following were noted present: Councilmember Crilley " Quinones " Santoro " Sohayda Noted Absent was Mayor James A. Failace and Councilmembers Fazekas and O'Brien and Borough Attorney Craig Coughlin. Mailed to the Home News Tribune, The Star Ledger and posted on the Bulletin Board on May 11, 2000. Borough Engineer - Albert Beninato gave his report on Municipal Projects. He said they received Bids for the Town Revitalization Project on May 9th. The low bidder was Marvec Construction, with a total bid of $336,800 and they are recommending the award of bid to them. He then went on to applications for restricted parking for use by a Handicapped Person in front of SGS Control Services, Inc. located at 20 Lafayette Street and he feels may be warranted following review and concurrence by the Police Department and the Mayor and Council. At approximately 7:07 p.m., Mayor Failace was noted present. Al Beninato then went on to talk about Carteret Park Tennis and Basketball Court hnprovements, that they have a revised construction cost estimate which includes several alternatives for improving the seven (7) courts in Carteret Park as requested by Councilman Crilley. After completing further research the costs will range from $67,500 to $107,000. He said Killam can provide the engineering design services including preparation of the contract bid documents and assistance during bidding for a lump sum design fee of $4,500 and we will provide construction administration and field inspection services during construction for a reimbursable not to exceed budget of 10% of the estimated 1 MAY n, 2000 AGEl'IDA MEE:rING May n, 2000 PRESENf SfATIMENl' OF MEE:rING OOl'ICE TO ~ OOVERNING BODY Borough Engineer Mayor Failace noted Present MAY 11. 2000 Borough Engineer Cont: Councilmm1ber Fazekas noted Present construction cost for the alternative selected by the Borough. He said for the Borough to please notify them on how they wish to proceed. He then went to speak on Sewer Facilities & Pershing Avenue Sewer Separation -Contract No. 00-02 - Bids were received on this project on Tuesday, May 9, 2002. The lowest bidder was Allstate Power Vac and their recommendation was to award the contract to the lowest responsive bidder, Allstate Power Vac. At approximately 7:20 p.m., Councilmember Fazekas was noted present. Al Beninato then went to speak on Roads Projects, about the Borough filed an application with the NJDOT for the Closure of Portion of Cooke Avenue between Pershing Avenue and Blanchard Street as part of the Town Center Revitalization Project and the NJDOT has approved it verbally and will follow up with a written approval in its "draft" form and the NJDOT has requested that the Borough pass an ordinance authorizing this and upon reCf';pt of this the NJDOT will issue a "final" approval confirmation. He then went on to speak about hnprovements to Liebig Lane/Police & Fire Parking Lots. They have investigated these and prepared a preliminary budget estimate for improvements to and possible configuration of the parking lot which may also include incorporation of Liebig Lane into the parking lot. A letter was attached for the Borough's review and for budgeting purposes. Upon direction from the Borough their office can provide budgets for preparing a conceptual plan coordination related to the possible road closure and preparing contract documents and a more detailed construction budget. Mayor Failace said while the Engineer was still there he explained that last night there was a Cap Meeting and he was not able to go. He asked Nick to go and Councilmember Santoro went. He has since talked to some of the companies, GA TX and Staflex. etc. in reference to the alternatives to the New Jersey Turnpike and the problems we have down there. He said he will meet with them again, with some of the businesses and let them know step by step exactly what they are doing. He said he will keep in touch with the Turnpike every couple of weeks. Councilmember Santoro said that the Businesses concern is that they come from a very large association and they want to know how to join and help. They even wanted to hire lawyers to fight their case. Mayor Failace said he wants to set up a meeting with the Businesses and then with the Turnpike. He is waiting on a call from Congressman Menendez, which he thinks is in reference to the article about the Turnpike in the newspaper. He commented that they keep missing each others call. He said he will do as much as he can to keep this going. First i~eading- #00-19 Amending Salary Ordinance #71-9, Re: AFL-COP Local #3850. #00-17 Bond Ordinance, Appropriating $1,211,000.00, Re: Various Capital hnprovements. #00-18 Regulating and Enforcing Towing, Road Service and Storage of Vehicles. Directing the Issuance of Various Raffle Licenses. Amendment to 2000 Temporary Budget. Refund of Tax and/or Sewer Fee Overpayments. Award of Bid - Town Center Project. Award of Bid - Cooke Avenue Sewer Rehabilitation and Pershing AvenlÍ~ Area Sewer Separation. Authorizing Application to NJ DCA for Grant/Loan, Re: Fire Rescue/Pumper. Appointing Temporary Seasonal Lawn Maintenance Workers. Creating Handicapped Parking Space - 20 Lafayette Street. Township of Woodbridge - Land Use and Development Ordinance Amendment, Re: Multifamily and Residential Zone. Boroughs of South River & Spotswood - Resolution urging the banning of the use ofMTBE as a gasoline additive. Borough of South Plainfield - Resolution urging one-time appropriation indexing it to the cost of living so as to hold municipalities harmless from the impact of Bell Atlantic's decision to acrelerate the depreciation of its Business Property. Borough of North Plainfield - Reaffirming resolution supporting live testing of ocean routing by the Federal Aviation Administration. Board of Health - March 2000. Inspection of Buildings - April 2000. Sewage Collection - April 2000. Treasurer - April 2000. Welfare - January, February & March, 2000. MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION: 3 HAY 11 , 2000 Borough Engineer Cant: ORDINANCES RE5OWflOOS <nHJNICATIOOS REtœl'S MATl'ERS FOR DIsaJSSlOO MAY 11, 2000 MATTERS FOR DIsaJSSlOO Cont: John Riggio Councilman Crilley Office on Aging Resolution 100-135 May Ian vs. Borough Welfare Department Police Records Clerk United Carteret Hebrew School PHK Group John Riggio - Requesting amending Resolution #00-32, Relocation of Bus Stop, Re: 'corner of Noe Street and Pershing Avenue'. The Clerk said there is two (2) different wordings and they have to change it and amend it to include. She said she will fax it to the attorney. Councilman Crilley - Resolution Authorizing Referendum, Re: Open Space Tax. Okay to be put on for a Resolution. Office on Aging - Personnel. This will be discussed in a Closed Session. Resolution #00-134, Tabled 4/24/00 - Re: Improvements to Carteret Park. This will be put on for a Resolution. Moylan vs. Borough of Carteret - Release. This will be discussed in a Closed Session. Welfare Department - Change of Name. The Clerk said they have to do that in an ordinance. This was okay to be put on. Police Records Clerk - Posting. This will be discussed in a Clos'ed Session. United Carteret Hebrew School - Cancellation of Parking Lot Lease. The Clerk explained that there is a little piece of pnperty by their parking lot that they leased to them for a dollar a year for all those years and now they don't want it anymore and now we will have to maintain it. He said the attorney will have to do a resolution to break the lease. This was okay to be put on. Mayor Failace said that was in his discussion with Mr. Thomas from MCEOC in reference to Head Start. He said they are looking at that because the Jewish Community Center has altered that building for Head Start or for possibly something to do for Head Start. He said when he met with Mr. Thomas about a week and one half ago they came to an agreement on a few things that they are looking for and he will discuss this with the Council. He said they would like a couple of pieces of property in Chrome to build homes on. They build them and pay the full taxes on it. They just want the property from the Borough. They want some low interest loans to possibly bring some minority businesses back to lower Roosevelt Avenue. They talked about setting up some sort of committee. He said it was a very good meeting. Attorney Coughlin said if in fact they are interested and he thinks they may be interested in having a piece of land next to it. Mayor Failace said he thought so. He said to hold off on this because he is having another meeting with them this week and he will talk to them about it and get back to us. PMK Group - Requesting additional appropriation, $1720.80. 4 The Clerk said this was a resolution from 66 and 70 Cooke Avenue, Engineering Services for proposed renovation/conversion. They decided to hold this. Durek & Harth, Esqs. - Request for additional appropriation, Re: Yolk vs. Borough. Attorney Coughlin said the residual amount that fell in excess of the resolution because the bulk in now settled. He said he had to check with Pat Ercolino for the amount that was originally appropriated. ABS Enterprises - Snack Machine. Councilmember Sohayda spoke on a snack machine that has no expense out of our pocket. It just gets plugged in the wall and they should get between $60.00 and $250.00 a month on snacks. Mayor Failace asked if they could do that or do you need quotes. Attorney Coughlin said it is always safer to do that. BUSINESS TO BE ADDED: Councilmember Fazekas said a while back he requested a Technical Committee. The Governing Body agreed to it. He then went on to say that he spoke with Comcast yesterday and they should have Internet access by June. Councilmember Santoro said she spoke with Potter today about the Library and she asked for an updated Punch List. She also called Tony Neibert and he wants outstanding issues for the Library. She then asked about the outstanding invoice for $52,000.00 for the Library. Nick Goldsack said that IS part of the original contract, not a change order. Attorney Coughlin said he wanted to know what their basis is for us to assume the obligation to pay it. Nick Goldsack said they received a Premium Bill for the Sportsman for the Little League and he found the correspondence confusing. Councilmember Crilley said if we assume a blanket policy to cover the Leagues it will cost half as much. Attorney Coughlin said our premium would be $14,000.00 and their would be $19,000.00. He said Gartland explained to him that we h .e to raise our levels significantly to match. They are now covering three (3) entities with higher levels ofliability. Councilmember Crilley asked the attorney if he could sit down with Nick Goldsack and Mr. Gartland to review these two (2) 5 MAY 11, 2000 PHK Group Cant: 1)trek !(, Harth. Esqs. ABS Enterprises BUSINESS 10 BE ADDED Technical Cœmittee Potter/libcary Little League Bill MAY 11, 2000 Little League Cant: Library Furniture Invoice Library Carpeting Fire Troc.ks Stop Sign by St. Joseph School items. They want to have it settled by the end of June. He asked to inform the leagues of what they will be doing and they will be setting up a meeting with them. Councilmember Santoro spoke on another invoice for payment for $4000.00 for furniture for the Library. She doesn't have a requisition and we don't know where to charge it back to. They called about payment. Nick Goldsack will check on it. Councilmember Santoro said there is two hundred (200) yards of carpeting left in the Library and rather than remove that carpeting, if the Borough is interested, at $7.50 per yard, half price, to take the remaining amount of carpeting. Mayor Failace said they have no use for it. Councilmember Quinones asked Brian O'Connor from the Fire Department, in the audience, if it were true that fire trucks keep getting brought here from West Carteret, because she is getting complaints. Brian O'Connor said they do come over between 9:00 and back before 3:00 for cleaning and First Aid Equipment has to be replaced and also for training. Councilmember Quinones spoke about the stop sign by St. Joes that needs to be put back and it is on private property and no one wants to take responsibility and she has had discussions back and forth with the Police Directors and if we put sign up there then we have to take responsibility for maintaining it. The Council hasn't decided if they want to do that. Mayor Failace said he thought we had to have a stop sign there. Councilmember Crilley said it is private property. They are opening a Pandora's Box. He thinks what we can do is shorten the width of that driveway so that it is for passenger cars only and not trucks. Mayor Failace asked what Pandora's Box they opened up. Attorney Coughlin said we should get the owners consent and make sure the sign is approved because he is sure this was never DOT approved. Then we should compel the property owner to take steps to make sure no one steps across their property if it is creating a problem. Councilmember Quinones asked what else they could do. Attorney Coughlin asked if they could block it off. Councilmember Crilley suggested closing it. It would be an inconvenience for some people but safety wise it would be the best. He commented that no sign put up will stay there. 6 Attorney Coughlin said he would come up with some options for them. Councilmember Quinones said she had a request to hire Ottavia , who had been hired on a part time basis for the Building Department, to be put on for full time because the office is extraordinarily busy and they need extra held. She said she is in support of that and she knows she is doing well. Mayor Failace said that department certainly funds itself and more. Coun"ilmember Santoro suggested to check with Patrick De Blasio and see how it fits in the budget. Councilmember Quinones asked if it is okay as far as the budget if anyone would have a problem with it and everyone present agreed it would be okay. She then went on to speak about the phone system in the Building Department and that the phone system they have at present does not support the phone calls at the volume they have. She requested if it is not that expensive could they at least consider putting the phone system in now for them. Mayor Failace asked Councilmember Fazekas if they are putting money in for the phone system. Cour.,:Jmember Failace said he had talked to Cindy and Tony about the phones. He said he has a meeting next week to come up with the quotes and if it is relatively cheap, he will present the figure and they can make a decision. He did mention that they will be moving and then said he thought we should be coming up with a timetable where we can start moving the people. Mayor Failace said we should wait a little while to see if there is any money coming from this........ Councilmember Santoro said she thought the major thing is if we get shut down when people come in and inspect. Mayor Failace said if in fact they do and we don't see any money coming in they have to make a decision as to wh¡:ther we want to go 01;' and bond and re-do this Borough Hall immediately because he doesn't think we could wait any longer than a couple of months. He said this town needs a good Borough Hall where everyone is together. Attorney Coughlin said in regard to the Drug and Alcohol Testing Policy, to Paul Mercatanti with regard to that. Andy Casey had some comments which he characterized as minor and relatively straight forward and he anticipates having them next week and he will run them by everybody and if no one has an objection on the phone then he will put on the policy on for adoption for the next 7 tlAY 11, 2000 Stop Sign Cont: Ottavis Kuroyla Phone System! Building Dept. Borough Hall Drug & Alochol Testing MAY 11, 2000 Library/Keys Q¡rane Park RESOUJITOO 100-151 Resolution to go into Closed Session Adopted meeting. He then went on to say that he was asked to look into the key situation for the library and he said apparently what happened was initially locks installed and then it was re-keyed and Avenel Locksmith did that. They delivered the keys to Jeff Pino "ad he turned them over to Arnold. Councilmember Santoro said they have all the keys, it is the parts on the doors that we are still missing. Attorney Coughlin said he was sorry, that he thought it was the keys and he would call them and say they have to come down here and re-set the locks. Mayor Failace said he met with the parents and the children in reference to the Little League and Softball Game in Chrome Park and the fight that broke out there. He said it was told there was a gun somewhere and the police told us there was no gun and at the meeting he was told no one saw a gun, someone had just said it. He said Nick Goldsack and Chris Elg, the Police Director was with him. He then commented that all last year they played down there and had no problems. He said they are going to have an off duty police officer with a car, down at the park and it would be good and when they brought it to the police they said they wouldn't do it as an off duty job, only with overtime. He said he thought that stinks and that the Council and the citizens of Carteret should be outraged by this. He said this is to make the children and their parents feel more comfortable. He suggested sending the PBA a letter telling them how we feel and it should be from the whole Council. He said they will have to do this in some other way. Councilmember Santoro asked the Mayor if he had heard from Assemblyman Wisniewski about him going to Trenton on the transfer. Mayor Failace said they keep missing each others phone cans but they will get in touch and we will find out what happened. He then asked for a motion to go into a Closed Session for Personnel and possible Litigation. RESOLUTION #00-151 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Quinones and Sohayda RESOLUTON #00-151 "RESOLUTION TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION" was Adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the Affirmative. Councilmember O'Brien was noted Absent. 8 At approximately 8:25 p.m., this meeting was this meeting was closed. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Crilley and Fazekas and unanimous affirmative vote of the five (5) Councilmembers present this meeting was open to the public at approximately 9:50 P.M. The Coverning Body discussed giving the Police and Fire off for the parade. Mayor Failace said if he checked with surrounding areas he asked what they wanted to do. Councilmember Fazekas said if they had surrounding areas doing it they will do the same thing. Councilmember Crilley said okay. Councilmember Sohayda said he had to think about it and the Mayor told him to call him at his job tomorrow. Councilmember Santoro said no. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Santoro and Sohayda and unanimous affirmative vote of the five (5) Councilmembers present, this meeting was adjourned at approximately 9:51 P.M. Respectfull submitted, ztz;¿éa~!~~ KA HLEEN M. 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