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HomeMy Public PortalAbout2000/01/20 - A Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Council of th¡> Borough of Carteret was called to order by Mayor James A Failace at 7:30 P.M., Municipal CourtlPolice Facility, 230 Roosevelt Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey on January 20, 2000. Upon individual roll call the following were noted present: Mayor James A. Failace Councilmember Patrick Crilley " Jack Fazekas " James O'Brien Remy Quinones Janet Santoro Buddy Sohayda " Also noted present was Borough Attorr."j Craig Coughlin and Business Administrator Nick Goldsack. Silent Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance. Statement of Meeting Notice: Mailed to The Home News Tribune, The Star Ledger and posted on the bulletin board on January 14, 2000. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present the Minutes of December 16, 1999 were approved and transcribed and engrossed by the Clerk. ORDINANCE #00-1 was introduced and adopted on First Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to advertise same for Public Hearing to be held February 3, 2000, upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and O'Brien. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 254-20 OF THE CODE OF THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET TO CREATE NO PARKING ZONE ALONG TERMINAL A VENUE" ORDINANCE #00-2 was introduced and adopted on First Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to advertise same for Public Hearing to be held on February 3, 2000, upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and O'Brien. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien Quinones, and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Santoro voted no. 1 JANUARY 20, 2000 <JXJNCIL MEEITNG January 20, 2000 ROLL CAlL PRAYER, pLEDGE OF AI.LEX;IANCE SfA'l'EMI'Nf OF MEEITNG NonCE MlNUl'ES FUR APPROVAL ORDINANCE 4100-1 Amending Code, Section 25420 - No Parking Re: Terminal Avenue First Reading ORDINANCE 4100-2 Capital ImprovemPJlt Appropriating $250,000.00 RE: Various Sater Improvements JANUARY 20, 2000 First Reading Discussion "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR VARIOUS SEWER IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET, COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, NEW JERSEY, APPROPRIATING $250,000.00 FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND - RESERVE FOR SEWER IMPROVEMENTS OF THE BOROUGH FOR A COST THEREFOR" Councilmember Santoro said they had just had their Agenda last week and Killam and Associates had requested a Bond Ordinance. She questioned if this would be including the Capital Improvement for the sewers. Mayor Failace said this would pay for some of the items to be done right away. Councilmember Santoro questioned if we should know exactly what improvements they are voting on. Mayor Failace said in this case they are appropriating the money and as they need it for the sewer improvements they use it otherwise we would have to wait twenty (20) days every time they do a sewer improvement and that is counter-productive. Councilmember Santoro asked why this was not brought up at last week's Agenda Meeting when they were talking about the sewers. Mayor Failace said he was called by Patrick today saying we had to do this first in order to appropriate that money. - Councilmember Santoro asked if we had this money in the budget. Councilmember Crilley said it is a fully funded new one that is coming from the sewer reserves. Mayor Failace said we cannot stop or slow any sewer improvements or too much damage will be done and he spoke on some of them. He said we may have to go out and bond for another million to two (2) million dollars to keep this going or we will be in very bad shape. Councilmember Santoro when polled said she had understood the needs but she would like to know in what order we would be doing the repairs and after the report from Killam last week was $425,000.00 for Dorothy Street she is concerned what we are allotting and what work is being done. Mayor Failace said it was all in the report Killam gave us. He said it was approximately $37,000.000 for the design and he said approximately $3000.00 was knocked down by Killam after finding some information for that which was within the Borough. Councilmember Santoro voted no. 2 Mayor Failace said the bottom line is we have to continue with our sewer projects. We need ten (10) million dollars to fix the sewers. We are looking, we have talked to Congressman Menendez, Killam and Associates have people lobbying it for us in Washington but we cannot stop. We don't have the money in our sewer reserve anymore. We have used over two (2) million dollars in the last couple of years to fix our sewers. If we don't continue the DEP will add on to the fifty thousand dollar fine instead of abating that. He also commented that it is not this Council's fault that we have ten million dollars worth of sewer projects that needs to be done. 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 Quinones and Fazekas and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present the meeting was opened for public input on all resolutions. John Sudia questioned the Killam Resolutions. Mayor Failace said one is sewer work and one is engineering design. He said they are using UEZ money for the $54,000.00 project, Resolution #00-25, because if they don't do it within a year they will lose the UEZ money end of it and we want to finance something we can be proud of. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present the public portion on resolutions was closed. RESOLUTION #00-16 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Quinones and Fazekas RESOLUTION #00-16 "DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF BINGO LICENSES TO CARTERET JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-17 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. 3 JANUARY 20, 1999 Discussion Cant: MEEITNG 0PmID Public Input on Resolutions Public Portion Closed RESOUJITOO 4100-16 Directing the Issuance of Various Bingo Licenses. Adopted RESOUJITOO 4100-17 Directing the Issuance of Various Raffle Licenses. JANUARY 20, 2000 Upon MMS&C, by Council members Quinones and Fazekas RESOLUTION #00-17 "DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF RAFFLE LICENSES TO HOLY FAMILY SCHOOLH.S.A. & ST. JOSEPHR.C. CHURCH & ST. JOSEPH HOME SCHOOL ASSOCIATION" Adopted was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUITOO #00-18 Amerdnent to 2000 Temporary Bu:lget RESOLUTION #00-18 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Quinones and Fazekas RESOLUTION #00-18 "AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT TO THE 2000 TEMPORARY BUDGET" Adopted was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUITOO #00-19 Award of Bid - Stunp <lItter RESOLUTION #00-19 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Council members Fazekas and Quinones RESOLUTION #00-19 "AWARD OF BID - VERMEER 752 STUMP CUTTER" Adopted was adopted. Upon individual roll call votes Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOUJITOO #00-20 RESOLUTION #00-20 was introduced by the Mayor and referred Professional Servicesto the Council for action. Craig Coughlin Esq., nt not to exceed Upon MMS&C by Council members Quinones and Fazekas $60,000.00, Re: Legal Services RESOLUTION #00-20 4 "PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR LEGAL SERVICES" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Santoro questioned the Borough Attorney's salary. Borough Attorney Coughlin explained to her that his salary is $30,000.00 that is included in the ordinance. The rest of the money includes the work he does on an hourly basis so he can go ahead and do this work when he is directed to do it rather than wait until a separate resolution is passed for it. It may all be spent or it may not. RESOLUTION #00-21 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Crilley and Sohayda RESOLUTION #00-21 "AUTHORIZING MAYOR TO EXECUTE INTERLOCAL SERVICES AGREEMENT FOR DOG WARDEN SERVICES" was Tabled. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmember Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmati ve. RESOLUTION #00-22 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Council members Quinones and Fazekas RESOLUTION #00-22 "AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASING FROM STATE CONTRACTORS BY THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET FOR 2000" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-23 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones 5 JANUARY 20,2000 Resolution #00-20 Cant: Adopted RESOUJITOO fIOO-21 Authorizing Mayor to Execute Inter- local Services Agreement for Dog Warden Services Tabled RESOUJITOO 100-22 Approving State Contractors for Year 2000. Adopted RESOUJITOO 100-23 Authorizing Mayor to Execute AgreewJlt ~.1ith MIdllff'JI"'X G:mty fir I\.blk: IhIlth ~œs J.ðNR'{ 20, ID) Resolution 100-23 Continued RESOLUTION #00-23 "AUTHORIZING MA YOR TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH MIDDLESEX COUNTY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES." Adopted was adopted, Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohaya voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-24 RESOLUTION #00-24 was introduced by the Mayor and referred Renewal of Agree- œlhtCouncil for action. ment with Mid-State Federal Credit Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers O'Brien and Sohayda Union, Re: Parking Lot RESOLUTION #00-24 "RENEWAL OF AGREEMENT WITH MID-STATE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION RE: PARKING LOT" Thbled was Tabled. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUITOO #00-25 RESOLUTION #00-25 was introduced by the Mayor and referred Professional Services-to the Council for action. Killan Associates, not to exceed Upon MMS&C by Council members Fazekas and O'Brien $54,000,00, Re: Town Center Project RESOLUTION #00-25 "PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES" Adopted was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOUJITOO #00-26 RESOLUTION #00-26 was introduced by the Mayor and referred Creating Handicapped to the Council for action. Parking Space - Hagaman Street & tblberry Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Quinones and Sohayda Street RESOLUTION #00-26 "CREATING HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACE 75 HAGAMAN STREET" Adopted was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. ¡; RESOLUTION #00-27 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones RESOLUTION #00-27 "RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING PAYMENTS TO P&H CONSTRUCTION IN THE AMOUNT OF $7,801.02" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-28 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones RESOLUTION #00-28 "APPOINTING TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES FOR 2000 BASKETBALL PROGRAM" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-29 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and O'Brien RESOLUTION #00-29 "PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR LEGAL SERVICES" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Council member Santoro voted no. RESOLUTION #00-30 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Council members Fazekas and Santoro RESOLUTION #00-30 7 JANUARY 20, 2000 RESOLUITOO #00-27 Authorizing Payments to P&H Construction in the Amotmt of $7,801.02 Adopted RESOLUITOO 4100-28 Appointing SeasmJa1 Employees-Winter Basketball Progran Adopted RESOWITOO #00-29 Professional Services Genova, Burns & Venoia, not to exceed $25,000.00 Adopted RESOUJITOO #00-11 AgreenÈI1t . For Extraordinary Unspecified Services- Gartland & Cœq:m1y, Re: Insurance ~ JANUARY 20, 2000 RESOUJITOO #00-30 Coot: Adopted "AUTHORIZING AGREEMENT FOR EXTRAORDINARY UNSPECIFIED SERVICES" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOUJITOO #00-31 RESOLUTION #00-31 was introduced by the Mayor and referred Authorizing Revewal to the Council for action. of Junk. Dealers/Yard License - David R. ~ C "I b F k d S h d -Upon MMS&C by ounCl mem ers aze as an 0 ay a Adopted RESOLUTION #00-31 "RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE RENEWAL OF A JUNK DEALERS' /Y ARD LICENSE FOR THE YEAR 2000 TO DAVID R. BASS AT 1 BEVERLY STREET, CARTERET, N.J. 07008 was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Quinones abstained. RESOUJITOO #00-32 RESOLUTIION #00-32 was introduced by the Mayor and referred Requesting Relocation to the Council for action. Bus Stop Adjacent to Civic Center Park Adopted RESOUJITOO #00-33 Appointing Mary Jane Keratt - Temporary Clerk Typist Adopted Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and O'Brien RESOLUTION #00-32 "RESOLUTION REQUESTING RELOCATION OF BUS STOP" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-33 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Crilley RESOLUTION #00-33 "APPOINTING MARY JANE KERATT TO THE POSITION OF TEMPORARY CLERK TYPIST IN THE CONSTRUCTION OFFICE" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. 8 RESOLUTION #00-34 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Sohayda RESOLUTION #00-34 "PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT FOR C-3 SEWER OPERATOR" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-35 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Sohayda and Fazekas RESOLUTION #00-35 "RESOLUTION WAIVING ENGINEERING FEE-REVIVAL CENTER CHURCH" wasadoþted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-36 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Council members Quinones and Fazekas RESOLUTION #00-36 "APPOINTING A REPRESENTATIVE TO SERVE IN THE OFFICE ON AGING" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Fran Mancuso was appointed the representative to the Office on Aging. RESOLUTION #00-37 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by CounciJmembers Sohayda and Quinones RESOLUTION #00-37 q JANUARY 20, 2000 RESOUJITOO #00-34 Professional Services Alexander Biel Jr. not to exceed $12,000.00, Re: C-3 Operator Adopted RESOLUITOO #00-35 Waiving Engineering Fee - Revival Center Onn:ch Adopted RESOLUITOO 1100-36 Appointment to the Office on Aging Adopted RESOUJITOO #00-37 Appointing O1arles Heller -Board for the Disabled JANUARY 20, 2000 RESOUJITOO #00-37 Coot: Adopted "APPOINTING MEMBER TO THE CARTERET BOARD FOR THE DISABLED" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Charles Heller was appointed to the Board for the Disabled. RESOLUITOO #00-38 RESOLUTION #00-38 was introduced by the Mayor and referred Professional Service; to the Council for action. Killam Associates, not to exceed $65,000.00 Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones RE: Various Fngineering Matters RESOLUTION #00-38 Adopted "PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOUJITOO #00-39 RESOLUTION #00-39 was introduced by the Mayor and referred Professional Services"to the Council for action. KilIan Associates :~ :~t;;:t300-æon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones Puup Station Upgrades Adopted RESOUJITOO 100-0.40 Professional Services-KilIan Associates,not to exceed $35,000.00, Re: Various Matters Involving Borough's Sewers and Sewer System RESOLUTION #00-39 "PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-40 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Council members Fazekas and O'Brien RESOLUTION #00-40 "PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES" 10 was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-41 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones RESOLUTION #00-41 "PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers CrilJey, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Santoro voted no. RESOLUTION #00-42 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers CrilJey and Fazekas RESOLUTION #00-42 "RESOLUTION APPROVING CHANGE ORDER" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien and Quinones, voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Santoro voted no and Council member Sohayda abstained. Councilmember Santoro said her concern is going over the twenty percent change order. Mayor Failace said they did it as an emergency. Attorney Coughlin said the Borough Engineer declared it to be an emergency situation which would allow us to do that because there was a potential risk of sewage backing up in people's homes and there wasn't time to go out and re-bid the process and do the changes. He explained according to Al Beninato the potential for the surcharge of the station itself would have wiped out the entire station and additionally would have potentially resulted in discharges which would have constituted DEP violations which is particularly in light of the proposed penalty that exists. For all of those reasons they called on P&H and unfortunately the amount of the change order exceeded the twenty percent of the original contract. 11 JANUARY 20, 2000 Resolution #00-40 Adopted RESOUJITOO #00-41 Professional Services KilIan Associates, Not to Exceed $11,000.00, Re: Engineering Design Services, Re: Town Center Project Adopted RESOLUITOO #00-42 Approving OIange <kœi:' $28,292.5O,Re: P&H Construction Company Adopted JANUARY 20, 2000 Resolution 00-42 Coot: RESOUJITOO #00-43 Authorizing Rental and Maintenance Agreement with Preferred Cleaning Solutions Adopted Council member Santoro said the reason she is voting no is because she was not part of the original contract and then to be responsible for the change order to that contract, that is why she voted no. RESOLUTION #00-43 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones RESOLUTION #00-43 "RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING RENTAL AND MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT WITH PREFERRED CLEANING SOLUTIONS" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro ad Sohayda voted in the affirmative. RESOLUTION #00-44 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action. RESOUJITOO #00-44 Opposing "Q::.ean Routing" of Air Traffic and Urging Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and O'Brien a Redesign Initiative Adopted APPLICATIOOS CounciJmemþeI;, Santoro, Re: Recreation Appointments RESOLUTION #00-44 "RESOLUTION OPPOSING "OCEAN ROUTING" OF AIR TRAFFIC AND URGING A REDESIGN INITIATIVE" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of an application from St Joseph RC Church concerning the amendment of Raffle License RU550 to cancel it. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present it was ordered to be approved. Councilmember Santoro asked what happened to the Resolution for the Recreation Appointments. Mayor Failace said Beverly Hedesh had requested that we take that off. She believes that if anyone wants to help and volunteer she will certainly accept their help but she has to take it off right now and she will do it down the road. 12 Councilmember Santoro asked Attorney Coughlin about what power of authority can we remove something without tabling it. Attorney Coughlin said it IS not on this Agenda. Councilmember Santoro said we had discussed it during the Agenda to put on for this meeting. Attomey Coughlin agreed but then said as he recalled the Mayor had asked for names. It is his appointment with the Council's consent. Additionally there are any number of things that don't make it to the Agenda for action. It would only have to be Tabled if it were scheduled or listed and the Council had it before for consideration and they decided not to take any action. There was no motion or resolution before the Council to consider right now. Councilmember Santoro she questioned Attorney Coughlin that when they talk about it at the Agenda do they have to request that a resolution for it be put on for the Council Meeting by him. Attomey Coughlin said the Mayor would have to approve it. Mayor Failace said in his discussion with Beverly Hedesh she asked that he do not put it on the Agenda for a vote. She would prefer they just contact her and volunteer and work with her. Councilmember Santoro questioned why they didn't just table it. Mayor Failace said he never put it on. Attorney Coughlin said there was not need to put it on to table it. He explained that the appointment was the Mayors and if he choses not to advance names then there is no reason to do that. Councilmember Quinones asked if the matter was formally]isted. Attomey Coughlin said he was not sure. Mayor Failace said it might have been on and he asked for names. Attorney Coughlin said they are sub committee positions. The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of a Communication from the Township of Bloomfield concerning a resolution opposing reselling or trading obsolete weapons to manufacturers, brokers or dealers; Requesting grant funding to defray loss of revenue. The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of a Communication from MC Board of Chosen Freeholders concerning resolution adopting Integrated Pest Management. 13 JANUARY 20, 2000 Councilmember Santoro CantiIll.led ŒMtJNICATIOOS JANUARY 20, 2000 allMUNICATIOOS Continued PAYMENl'OF BILLS REPOKrS- Departments ~ The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of adJmmunication from the City of South Amboy concerning a resolution opposing S- 1742/A-2328, Re: Police & Fire Personnel Retirement Policy. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and O'Brien and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present these Communications were ordered to be received and placed on file. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones, all bills appearing on the prepared list, properly audited and signed, were ordered to be paid. Upon individual roll call vote Councilmembers Crilley, Fazekas, O'Brien, Quinones, Santoro and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. The Clerk stated that she was in receipt of the following reports: Board of Health - November & December 1999. Clerk's Office - December 1999. Inspection of Buildings - December 1999 Sewage Collection - December 1999. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones and unanimous affirmati ve vote of the full Counci I present all reports were ordered to be received and placed on file. BUILDINGS & GROUNDS: Committee Chairperson Santoro said on January 51h she met with Nick Goldsack and Jeff Pino to sit in on a meeting on the Library/Community Center Project. She said she spoke to Attomey Coughlin and said she would like a copy of the letter that puts Jeff Pi no in the capacity of the project. Attomey Coughlin explained he sent a letter to Serenity indicating that he would be overseeing the Library/Senior Citizen Project on behalf of the Borough. Committee Chairperson Santoro said during the meeting she asked what buildings would be under Buildings and Grounds and the Business Administrator advised her they were the Recreation Building, Borough Hall, the Annex, Fire House, Police Station, Welfare building, Board of Health, Borough Garage, Hot House, Sewer Plant Trailer and the new Community Center Library. Mr. Pino advised her that they have a temporary CO for the Library and Sections 1,3, 4, the Auditorium and the Vestibule. They estimate completion of the January 5th meeting at the end of January and the estimated completion of the building, the end of February the beginning of March. As of January 7th she had asked for a breakdown of the cost to the Library Project and then she 14 spoke on the different bonds totaling now, 5.4 million with a balance of 49,031. She also asked the Business Administrator if there was room in other buildings, if the time rose to move the employees out of Borough Hall. She then said there would be a Buildings and Grounds Meeting at 7:00 p.m., at Borough Hall at which time they wiJ] go over Buildings and Grounds at which time she would like a proposal of work that has to be done at Borough Hall. She also understood that tomorrow there would be a Job Meeting on the Library Project at noon and went on to say the Board of Education has their Agenda Meeting last night and their Regular Meeting is the 26th and she would like to meet with them the week of January 31st She said on Saturday night she attended a meeting for Mike Bucsak who was honored for his work as Chief and and she attended the Recreation Commission also. FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION: Committee Chairperson O'Brien said he met a couple of times with the Business Administrator and Patrick De Blasio and he commented that it is going to be a tough budget this year. He is meeting with the Department Heads next week and shortly after that the whole Council will be meeting with the Department Heads to go over their requests. The Business Administrator has informed everyone they have a zero based budget. In a separate matter with the census, last week Vince Manetta went to a meeting concerning it and he was supposed to meet with him this week but he had a close friend that passed away so they will be meeting tomorrow moming. He said in the next few weeks everyone will be getting mail concerning the census and he asked as soon as we get it to please fill it in completely and send it right back. He commented that the information is confidential but we need it to help get money from the State, from the Federal Government, and from various programs. With that progress. FIRE: Committee Chairperson Fazekas said he is updating the computer software in the Fire Department and he went on to say that the ADA cost should be included in the Infrastructure Budget and that Brian O'Connor would be meeting with Conrail on Monday regarding the homes on Jackson A venue and Monroe. PARKS & RECREATION: Committee Chairperson Crilley said before he got into Parks & Recreation he wanted to address a letter that was in the paper a couple of weeks ago right after the Re- Organization Meeting. He had spoke about the Rural Metro Ambulance Service. He commented that he didn't remember exactly everything he said but if he didn't say it, this ambulance service which serves the town between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., Monday thru Friday, was brought upon after meetings with Councilmembers, he and other Councilmembers and representatives from the Police Department, First Aid Squad and Fire Department. This was not done and pushed down anyone's throat' this was done because there was a need for coverage in this Borough that wasn't being done. He said people were sometimes 15 JANUARY 20, 2000 ~ Continued JANUARY 20, 2000 CXMITlTEI:S Continued Councilmember Pat Crilley, Re: Rural Metro waiting over an hour for Ambulance Services and anyone who has waited for an ambulance knows that every minute is an eternity. So we were asked to help address and solve the problem. He then went on to say that being a Councilman requires making hard decisions and you get help in making them by talking to the people outside in the lines and then he said right after the Re- Organization Meeting someone wrote a letter to the paper. He then read the letter aloud: During the Re-Organization Meeting said the Councilman Pat Crilley (Councilmember Crilley commented that they spelled his name wrong) how it was instrumental bringing Rural Metro Ambulance Service into Carteret. This was done to solve a problem many Communities are facing, the lack of volunteers. (Councilmember Crilley commented that was the only true statement in this letter). According to Crilley this paid service costs nothing to either the tax payers or the patients. The patients insurance company is responsible for any fees. Crilley is wrong and should not be proud of his alliance with Rural Metro. (Councilmember Crilley commented that he is right and he is very proud of his alliance with Rural Metro. He went on to say this has gone on for about seven (7) to eight (8) months now and he knows of no patient in Carteret who paid a dime to Rural Metro in Carteret and said if somebody does know of somebody please let him know and he will take care of it, but, at one point this was brought up and he spoke to Rural Metro and they assured him that the agreement that they had was they would bill the patient's insurance company and if the patient doesn't have insurance or whatever the insurance pays, they win take that as payment. They will not take payment from the patient. He had spoken to police officers and he spoke Friday to someone who had a need for this ambulance service and they spoke very highly of the men and women on the ambulance. One of the benefits of this besides that the service is available to us is that as a private contractor is required to have two (2) certified EMT's on the rig. The Carteret Volunteers only need one (I). He commented it has to be better. He then explained he is not disregarding our service, he said we have a lot of fine people volunteering and corning forward and doing a lot of work and they do a good job. They just can't cover a twenty four (24) hour day because they have responsibilities to their families and their jobs. He then again went on to read the letter) Rural Metro does charge the patient's primary provider but if the insurance company denies the claim the patient is responsible. (Councilmember Crilley said that was an out and out lie. The problem with this lie is that there is going to be patient out there, whether it be an elderly or a poor person that might not have insurance, that God forbid they should ever need an ambulance service, is not going to call and they may attempt to drive themselves and if somebody God Forbid should ever die or get really injured because they are afraid to call the ambulance service because they are afraid to pay the bill because of this letter then that is on his shoulders because that is an out and out lie. He commented the old English Teacher use to tell him something, some people have constipation of the brain and diarrhea of the 16 mouth. I don't know where he gets this. Either that or he has just got sucked down the Republican sewer. An unidentified voice commented that they won't even take a kidding. Councilmember Crilley responded saying thank you. The unidentified person said thank you. Councilmember Crilley went on to read the letter: Responsible for outstanding balances.( Councilmember Crilley said what is obscene is that this ambulance ride to Rahway Hospital costs $545.00. The particular invoice he referred to had a loan charge of $450.00 and a charge of $9.00 per mile and a disposable glove charge of $7.00 per pair. An ambulance service a doctor, anybody who bills you is going to charge to whatever you want but the insurance company has a system of paying what the fair market value for your area is. Whatever that is that is all they are going to pay whether they charge a thousand dollars, five hundred dollars, that is all they are going to pay. The Northern New Jersey area has a set fee for ambulance services and that is all they will pay and again they will not bill you for the difference. He again began reading the letter), the Council should condemn this company and remove it from our community.(Councilmember Crilley said the Council should condemn Fred Gerstler and condemn him from the community. He then went on to read the letter), either Crilley has not kept in touch with the system that he has put in place or he is not being truthful. (Someone inaudible said something inaudible) if your insurance company constantly invoices services, do you think that they would raise your rates. (Councilmember Crilley said you can't control that, but he offered, what would you rather have a quicker ambulance service or a potential that they are going to raise your rates, which he don't think happens, but he would still rather have an ambulance service that will respond in a timely matter. He then again began to read the letter), If you start submitting ambulance costs to your carrier then you will see the increase. You will be paying for your service. The Council should address the lack of daytime ambulance service with a plan to utilize the Fire Department. (Council member Crilley said he thinks the boot of this whole thing is involved in the Fire Department. A program has been used and you have heard us mention that they saved a life a couple of months ago with the First Response of the Fire Department. Their two (2) concerns with that program are, to fund it on a full time basis from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. would require having additional fire fighters and of course there would be a tax increase to the people. The second problem would be that firemen's first responsibility are to answer fires, so if there is a fire going on and a first aid call and this is your primary response you don't have a primary response. Then we are back to the problem we had, waiting for out of town services to come. So there are holes in that. Then he says and this is really a beauty and he again went on to read the letter), a strong 17 Jl'NW{'{ :3), 2aD Couocilmember Crille} Cont: JANUARY 20, 2000 Counci1member Crilley Cont: <XHITITEES Continued leader would solve this problem with the town's existing resources a Fire Department and the First Aid Squad) Councilmember Crilley said if the First Aid Squad would answer these calls we wouldn't have this problem, so he don't understand where he is coming from. He don't understand any of this. The only thing he is doing is putting the fear into the people of this town in using a perfectly legitimate ambulance service and he wished he was there tonight. He said he don't respond to letters in the paper by writing other letters. He don't agree with these spitting contests by writing letters in the paper, but he does respond when people don't tell the truth and try to put... and he said he doesn't know whether he is going to run for election again or whatever... and try to put fear into people to get himself elected and then Councilmember Crilley went on to read the letter), And he should say we use the existing towns resources, not throw other people's money at it. (Councilmember Crilley said we are not throwing anybody's money at it because it isn't costing the taxpayers anything and it isn't costing the patients anything. With that Progress in the Park). POLICE: Committee Chairperson Quinones said she was going to reserve most of her comments for the next Public Meeting. The Police Committee has its first official meeting with the Director tomorrow and there are a number of items they want to discuss, although she certainly has been in contact with him over the last few weeks over ongoing matters. She will tell the public at this point while the last Police Committee certainly focused on Administrative (inaudible) in the Department, which we believe and still believe are very important in moving the Department forward, this Police Committee, and certainly she intends to have a little bit of a different focus and that is one of addressing some of the issues that she thinks effect the quality of life of the people of Carteret, that being the drug, prostitution and the crime problems in general. They discussed at the last meeting, and she said she thinks all the Councilmembers are in agreement with her, to issue a Directive which would allow the publication of names of people who have been caught soJiciting prostitutes. She feels very strong about this issue and she has a number of ideas as to the other members of the Police Committee moving this forward and she will be updating us as things move along. Progress. Councilmember Santoro asked Councilmember Quinones about discussing the free drug testing policy. Councilmember Quinones said that is something that will be considered for all of the Borough, not just the Police Department. PUBLIC WORKS: Committee Chairperson Sohayda said as we could tell there is a snow storm going on out there and they have about a dozen people out there still finishing up. They have been salting and plowing all day long since about noon time and he didn't know of any major catastrophes that have taken place today. 18 He said they are pretty much done with cutting trees and they were patching roads prior to the snow storm and then commented if anybody needs a pothole in the road patched please call the Municipal Garage at 541-3881. They have a lot of sand and salt there in reserve so they are in pretty good shape. He then said on the 19th he met with Mr. Surick and Mr. Goldsack and they are looking into Interlocal Agreements with Woodbridge for different services. On the 26th they are going to have a meeting and any Councilmember is invited to come, during the daytime hours in Nick's office. They are looking into recycling collection of Middlesex County, utilization of their people. Progress. Mayor Failace told Councilmember Sohayda when he spoke about the meeting on the 26th, there could only be three (3) Counci]members present. Mayor Failace said he has contacted Congressman Mendez about our sewer problems and it looks like we will be put into a Federal Water Bill. He don't know how much. We are looking for a minimum of five million dollars, but he would like to get the whole ten million dollars. As part of that what we have also done is contacted the head of the Middlesex County Office of Emergency Management. After the last storm he heard about some of the problems we had he called him to tell him about some grant money that might be available, so at the meeting we called Al Beninato and Eric Betz of Killam and had them apply for it for all the flooded areas we are having problems with. These are not included in the regular sewer problems we had. We have another 2.1 million dollars to be done by the Industrial Road and we have applied for a grant for that. He said he will do whatever it takes to take care of these sewer projects and if it means in the interim we have to bond for a million or two million dollars, he urges this Council to agree with that. He doesn't like doing that but we have no other choice. We cannot stop what we are doing. Al Beninato told us at the last Agenda Meeting that the DEP had requested from him, when we would be starting Phase II of our sewer project. He commented that we hadn't finished Phase I because every time we open a door we find another problem. He also asked if anyone had any other ideas where we can get money. He spoke a little on privatizing the sewers. He then went on to speak about Conrail. They are trying to get them to get away from our backyards. He commented that they have not been good neighbors m in Jersey City they have to stay one hundred (JOO) feet away from the homes and in Carteret they are only seventy five (75) feet away. He said Woodbridge filed suit on this and won. Mayor Failace made a for a motion to have Attorney Coughlin either join in a Class Action Suit with other municipalities who are fighting Conrail or we will file our own suit and referred it to the Council for action. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Quinones and individual roll call vote, Council members Crilley, Fazekas, 19 JANUARY 20, 2000 ~ Continued Mayor Failace Sewer Problems Conrail Motion to File Suit Motion Made & Carried JANUARY 20, 2000 James Mancuso; Re: Conrail PUBLIC DISQJSSIOO Andy Tarrant, Re: Conrail O'Brien, Quinones and Sohayda voted in the affirmative. Councilmember Santoro voted no until she receives all the facts. James Mancuso spoke on Conrail. He explained it has nothing to do with the Turnpike. He said Conrail has the worst hazardous spills and accidents in the United States. Councilmember Santoro asked if we had inspectors in our town. Brian O'Connor, Acting Fire Superintendent said he has gone out there. Mayor Failace said they have a log on it and we file complaints. We have done everything we can and we have to stop this now. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Quinones and Sohayda and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Counci] present the meeting was declared open for public discussion. Andy Tarrant questioned the resolution for Conrail, if prior to the voting should it have been made open to the public for comments. Attorney Coughlin said the Mayor made a motion with regard to taking...... . Andy Tarrant interrupted again saying to make a resolution. Attorney Coughlin said to make a resolution. Andy Tarrant questioned what that resolution asked, because he did not know. Attorney Coughlin said what he has done is he had directed him to investigate bringing an action against Conrail with the purpose of addressing concerns that he is familiar with relative to issues of having trains that are essentially..... our position is that their warehouse behind the train, although there is no structure there, things are being left there unattended and things are stored there. Andy Tarrant asked if he also mentioned the fact that he spoke about entering with other communities with a Class Action Suit. Mayor Failace said he said to see if there was a Class Action Suit. Andy Tarrant asked him what they voted on because he didn't know and then he asked the Mayor if he had said money is no object. Mayor Failace agreed that money was no object to stop the problems in this town with the sewers. 20 Andy Tarrant again said it should have been open to the public prior to the resolution. Attorney Coughlin said he was directed to take action. The Mayor asked for a motion. There is no resolution pending. Andy Tarrant asked Attorney Coughlin if it was his understanding that there was no resolution. Attorney Coughlin said it was his understanding. Andy Tarrant asked Attorney Coughlin what his job was. Attorney Coughlin said his job is to investigate pursuing a lawsuit either individually in the sense that the community would stand alone or by becoming partners with other communities in actions that may be pending or may be contemplated to address the concems that the Borough has relative to the actions to Conrail. Andy Tarrant said Councilmember Santoro asked him questions conceming points of (inaudible), concerning what is placed on the Agenda on the Agenda Meeting and what actually comes to the Council Meeting. He questioned if you make a motion on the Agenda and it is second, it is put on the Agenda for the Council Meeting. Attorney Coughlin said no. Andy Tarrant then asked if anyone had the right to put on or take off what they want at the meeting. Attorney Coughlin said she would request an ordinance or resolution, which ever was appropriate, and it would be advanced for Council's consideration at the Council Meeting. Andy Tarrant asked if there was a vote at the Agenda Meeting to put it on the Council Meeting. Attorney Coughlin said no. He told him the law says that the Mayor controls the Agenda Meeting so if he wants it on for the Council Meeting it will go on. Andy Tarrant directed his questioning to Councilmember O'Brien since he is in charge of Finance. He said that at this meeting $199,000.00 was appropriated to Killam and he questioned how much was appropriated in the 2000 budget to go for engineering costs. Councilmember O'Brien said so far there is two (2) amounts, the $35,000.00 and the $60,000.00. They are automatically in the budget. The other items are beyond that. 21 JANUARY 20, 2000 Andy Tarrant Coot: Agendas Engineering Fees JANUARY 20, 2000 Andy Tarrant Continued Stanley Gutowski, Re: Rural Metro Andy Tarrant asked where that money comes out of, if it comes out of Capital Improvement. Councilmember O'Brien said the $50,000.00 bond is coming out of the Sewer Fund and the other items are coming out of UEZ money. Andy Tarrant asked if this was the anticipated expenses for the year 2000. Councilmember O'Brien said it was. Andy Tarrant asked how much was appropriated for engineering costs in the Temporary Budget. Councilmember Crilley said initially just the (inaudible) thousand. A lot of those figures come out project by project. Mayor Failace said the Engineering Budget that was prepared and given to us was eleven million dollars. That is for all the work and the engineering costs were $35,000.00 and $60,000.00. The rest comes out of Capital for the project, out of the Sewer Reserve. That is what is in there now. He believes that the $250,000.00 in Capital is from the $300,000.00 that was in the Sewer Reserve. He said there will be more money that is in Sewer Reserve Capital throughout the year. The money comes from the Sewer Tax payments from the citizens. Andy Tarrant asked if they could show him how much we spent in 1999 Engineering Fees. He then asked in reference to the Library he heard that it cost 3.8 million and we are at 5.4. Mayor Failace said he had to understand the double breakdown, the Library cost 3.4 million dollars to build. We purchased that property for 1.1 million dollars. The prior monies, money was spent to purchase the old Mobile Property which we have had numbers up to $600,000.00 if someone would like to purchase that. That is where that other monies went, in other work in the old Library. The actual cost of the Library was 3.4 to build and we spent 1.1 million to purchase property. He said you can go through all the numbers with Nick Goldsak. Andy Tarrant said so that meant when you are talking about the cost of the Library don't talk about what it cost to build or buy the property. Stanley Gutowski told Councilmember Crilley that he had to use Rural Metro and he got a bill and his insurance company didn't pay for it so he called Rural Metro and they said if the insurance company didn't cover it he wouldn't have to pay it. He said secondly as a former Chairman of the Building Committee he guesses he can explain some of what is going on here. The original ordinance back in 1995 for 2.8 million dollars also includes the Recreation Center the Health Dept. and numerous other things. 22 Only 2.3 million dollars of that was earmarked to do the Library. 1.1 million dollars was spent to purchase the property. $160,000.00 was spent on John Wanskus and they brought a Library Project here. We then passed two (2) Bond Ordinances. The bid came in at almost 2.8 and 2.9. He commented that we did a few change orders, so the construction ultimately wound up being 3.4 million dollars, construction project cost. The figures he has heard here for five or six million dollars, are so incorrect and inappropriate. We have not exceeded the 3.4 million dollars and we will not. Councilmember Santoro said possibly if this was expended before your time and before you had taken over on a committee then she would have read the same information at that time. In taking over at this time, seeing a heading on a piece of paper saying "Library Building Costs Purchase of Land and Buildings" totaling 5.4 million dollars that makes it different, so when someone comes across later on down the road if there is explanations for them that is fine but this is what the figures are that we expended on the total cost of the Library, whether it was previous land and previous building, we still have that on our Library Building costs. Stanley Gutowski said that was incorrect. Councilmember Santoro then asked him if he was saying that this computer and what it is charged to is incorrect. Stanley Gutowski said yes. A resident, Susan Loofty said she was speaking in reference to Andy Tarrant getting upset before when the Mayor was speaking about money being no object to fix the sewers for the residents and him complaining about the cost of the Library when he had been in favor of the Lease Purchase Agreement with the Board of Education. She said education and the Library go hand in hand. Councilmember Quinones said the Library issue had been beaten to death, but she feels it is a beautiful Library and the residents should all be proud of it. She also commented that even with the Library the taxes have been stabilized. A resident named George from 19 Byron Street spoke on how well Rural Metro helped his 83 year old sister in law on Emerson Street when she was bit by a pitbull. Rural Metro explained about being paid, if the insurance pays, that would be sufficient. He explained he would transport her to the Medi Center so they explained there would be no bill because they did not transport even though they assisted her. Daphne Miles spoke about Conrail. She said she thinks and Superintendent O'Connor can vouch for this, with her being an employee of GA TX she works around that stuff everyday and you get comfortable with it and it is dangerous. She said there should be no discussion the Council should just act on Conrail. 23 JANUARY 20, 2000 Stanley Gutowski Library Project Susan Loufty, Re: Library Geprge, Resident Re: Rural Metro Daphne Miles, Re: Conrail JANUARY 20, 2000 Counci1member Santoro, Re: Conrail Mr. Singh Bob Rosario, Zoning Board JæIeS Mancuso, Re: Canrail Tan Lang, Re: Blinking Traffic Light Stop Sign Plowing Councilmember Santoro said everybody knew this fight was going on about Conrail and that anytime they could move into a law suit to fight it. She explained her concern is she worries about the Amoco tanks and that Carteret is surrounded by a lot of different situations and all she asked for, if this was going to be brought up tonight, was to explain exactly what they are going to do. She is not against helping the people. Mr. Singh a resident of the town spoke saying the meeting disappointed him. He said everything was questioned and commented they should just do what is good for the town. Bob Rosario welcomed the two (2) new Zoning Board members. He then said he had a situation back in July involving Rural Metro and it worked out very well for him. He then addressed the Conrail issue. He said he lives only three blocks from there and he is afraid of letting his children out. He said he is in favor of the Class Action Lawsuit. He also commented that he could not understand why Councilmember Santoro would say no to this. Council member Santoro again commented that she didn't say no but she just wants more information on this before she says yes and then they argued back and forth for a short while. James Mancuso spoke about Conrail and all the problems the town has been having for the last eight (8) years with them and all the things they have done to fight them. Tom Lang of 5 Colgan Avenue asked about the traffic light that has been blinking at Roosevelt and Holmes Avenue for the last thirty (30) days and he asked who is responsible for getting it fixed. Councilmember Sohayda said the parts are on order. Tom Lang then asked about a stop sign that has been knocked down by CVS. He said it is always getting knocked down and he feels it is in the wrong place with the truck traffic, etc. He suggested to put a stop sign on all the corners there. Councilmember Sohayda said we cannot put stop SignS just anywhere it has to be legal. Nick Goldsack said that is on private property. He explained if the stop sign is a legal stop sign then it can be put up, if it is codified in the ordinance. The problem is that it is on private property and we have to check to see if the codification said it should be there. Tom Lang then asked why the plows don't go down to the black top when they plow. 24 Councilmember Sohayda said there is a wedge that keeps the plow up a little bit and the roads are not level, so they get down as much as possible. Tom Lang then commented that he had complained about the accessibility of the lanes and the tolls in the moming for the Turnpike. He asked if it is a law that there should be a reasonable amount of lanes open during the peak hours. Mayor Failace said he will check on it for him. Tom Lang then spoke about timing at the traffic light at CVS. You can only get about four (4) cars through there. He questioned if there is a set amount of time for a traffic light. Nick Goldsack told him that is set by the D.O.T. Tom Lang commented that he hadn't seen anything in The Home News Tribune about Carteret lately. Mayor Failace told him they hadn't had a reporter for a while until this evening. BOARD OF EDUCATION: Tom Lang said he was aware there was no heat in some classrooms in Colombus School for the last couple of days. Committee Chairperson Santoro said she hasn't met with the School Board yet and she wasn't aware of it. She suggested to go to their meeting next Wednesday night and she said she would also try to go. Councilmember Crilley there was no heat just on Tuesday. There had been a long cold weekend and the heat had some trouble starting up. Brian O'Connor, 63 Grant Avenue, said in reference to Rural Metro he feels it was necessary to have them come in because there was no one to do it. They are doing a good job. He then said they opened the door to the First Response and he would like to speak on it. He said it has nothing to do with the Rural Metro or Carteret First Aid. This would be just for additional men to respond or when the other ambulances were at the hospital they could respond. He said the cost of an extra man would be about 3 cents a day per household and he commented he will always be fighting for that additional man so we can better serve the public. Councilmember Crilley said there is no question that the First Response Program is a good legitimate program. He said it could be a backup but not the primary response to First Aid Calls. He 25 JANUARY 20, 2000 Plowing, Coot: Turnpike Long Traffic Light Newspaper Heat; Re: Coluob.Js School Brian O· Connor, Re: Rural Metro & First ResponSe JANUARY 20, 2000 Fred Burns, Re: Conrail Recyclables ADJOORNED also said he thought that Rural Metro should not be the final answer to the problem. A resident Mr. Fred Burns spoke saying he Jives on 63 Jackson Avenue and he is one of those poor people that has lived with Conrail for twenty eight (28) years and he is afraid to go to sleep at night for fear he won't wake up in the morning. Mr. Burns then spoke on trash collection. He said because of the Holidays he hasn't had a recyclable pickup in three (3) months. He asked if there could be an alternate day. Mayor Failace said he will look into this to see what can be done. There being no further business or discussion, upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Quinones an O'Brien and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 9:35 P.M. Respectfully submitted, ~~ KATHLEEN M. BARNEY Municipal Clerk KMB/lr