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HomeMy Public PortalAbout1997/06/12 The Agenda Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Carteret preceding the Regular Meeting June 19, 1997 was held on June 12, 1997, 7:00 P.M., Municipal Court/Police Facility, 230 Roosevelt Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey. The following were noted present: Mayor PeterJ. Sica Councilmember Bialowarczuk " DuPont " Failace " Fazekas " Feingold " Ciutowski Also noted present was Borough Attorney Craig Coughlin. Mailed to the Home News & Tribune, The Star Ledger and posted on the bulletin board on June 6, 1997. The Borough Engineer Parmar addressed the Cioverning Body: 1. He stated there was a Pre-Con Meeting for Federal Boulevard and Leffert Street road scheduled for June 13, 1997, at 9:30 A.M. at Borough Hall. He said D.O.T would be attending. 2. He spoke on the Survey and design works for Industrial Highway. He said as per D.O.T. the grant is in progress. 3. He said he spoke with the D.O.I. District 3 Engineer Michael Russo about getting a date for a meeting for Industrial highway. He said Mr. Russo would inform him next week about the date. 4. He spoke about all of the roads. He said as per the list received from the Road Department the roads have been inspected and the sections needing repairs have been listed and marked on the road map as attached. He said there are about 55 road crossings and 12000 .. .(inaudible)... road lengths needing repairs. He said the preliminary estimate for all these repairs is a little over $1,000,000.00. He said however, this may be phased out in the next four years setting priorities at the rate of $250,00.00 each year. He said he is requesting the Council to study this in more details for setting priorities. Councilmember Failace asked Borough Engineer Parmar if he was saying the entire area in red from one point to the next. Borough Engineer Parmar said yes from one crossing to another. 5. He said applications for applying for D.O.T. grant for 1998 is being prepared. He intends to apply for a grant in the amount of JUNE 12, 1997 AGENDA MEETI NG PRESENT STATEMENT OF MEETING NOTICE BOROUGH ENGINEER 1 JNE 12, 1997 GENDA MEETI NG :OROUGH ENGINEER CONTI NUED) $195,000.00. He said the deadline for the application is June 30, 1997. Councilmember Failace asked the Mayor if this grant could be used for any road in Carteret. Mayor Sica said it could not be for any road. He said it would have to be for a through street that other people use. 6. He said the Recreation Center is complete building wise. He said the only remaining work is external sit work. He said inspections are done and very minor punch list items are being attended. He said the contractor is requesting a final walk through inspection and handing over of the building to Borough. He said advice is requested from the Council with regard to this. Mayor Sica said as soon as the Contractor finishes the punch list the Council would go over, look at it, and accept it. Borough Engineer Parmar said the Building Department would not issue the Certificate of Occupancy if the work is not completed. Mayor Sica said that was all right. He said the tanks still have to be removed and the concrete has to be chiseled somewhere. Councilmember DuPont asked ifthere was a time frame on that yet. Mayor Sica said the guy is going to call Borough Engineer Parmar in a day or say and give him all the information and then the tanks can be taking out. He said he talked to Stanley about this today. He said he tentatively got an agreement with a company that he has done a favor for. He said the company does this kind of work and they are probably the biggest around. He said they would come in, supervise everything, make up the paper work, have it inspected, let the Council remove them. He said all the Council will have to do is pay for the testing. He said the company would not pay for the testing. 7. He said three messages have been left for Shalom for a meeting date. He said this meeting would be to discuss piece of land for Sabo. He said he is still waiting for a response. 8. He said a letter to D. E. P. regarding lifting of sewer ban is under preparation. He said Mr. Art Zoda ofD.E.P. is being consulted in this matter. Transcriber's notes there are two conversations going on at once conversation inaudible. Councilmember Failace stated he was just asking Borough Engineer Parmar about the light. He said he found out the light was a personal light. He said the light on the corner of Ciinda A venue and Capp Street. Councilmember Ciutowski said Public Service came down and took the light and said the Mayor's office requested to have the light shine on the Shorecrest Park. He told Public Service to put the light back up. 2 Councilmember Failace said Public Service is putting that light back up. He said the other light is a personal light. Mayor Sica said then there is nothing the Council can do about it. Councilmember Failace said he knows but he is hoping to get them to turn the light down some so it does not shine unto the next block. He said there are blinders that can be put around them. Transcriber's notes conversation totally inaudible to many people talking at once. Sergeant Ronald Bennett to Address the Cioverning Body. He said on the A.B. C. Renewals.. .(inaudible)... Mayor Sica said he requested a letter before the Council approved these A.B.C. Licenses. He said there is potential litigation here so this needs to be discussed in Closed Session. March 6, 19 &20,1997. Public Hearing #97-17 Amending Salary Ordinance #71-9, Re: Recreation Leader. #97-18 Capital Improvement, Appropriating $40,000.00 for improvements ofthe Borough Recreational Facility. Renewal of 1997 -1998 ABC Licenses. Appointing Temporary Summer Recreation Employees. Approving Settlement - Transtech. Appointing Advisory Board - Law Enforcement Cirant. Directing the Issuance of Various Raffle Licenses. Borough Clerk Kathleen Barney asked Councilmember Ciutowski if he had a list of names to put on the resolution for the temporary summer recreation employees. Councilmember Ciutowski said he would have the names by tomorrow. Planning Board - Recommending amendments to Land Development Ordinance. Township of Old Bridge - resolution opposmg A-2l88, Design Immunities Act. JUNE 12, 1997 AGENDA MEETING PUBLIC SERVICE TRANSCR I BER' S NOTES SERGEANT BENNETT A.B.C. MINUTES FOR APPROVAL ORDINANCES: PUBLIC HEARING RESOLUTI ONS COMMUN I CA TI ONS 3 IUtiE 12, 1997 IGÉNDA METTI NG :OMMUN I CA TI ONS (CONTINUED) Township of Pi sac at away - Ordinance providing for Inter - Municipal Police Assistance. REPORTS Air Pollution - April 1997 . Fire - April 1997. Inspection of Building - May 1997. Treasurer - May 1997. Welfare-May 1997. Theodore Surick - Public Works Manager. MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION Bid - Lease of Property, Municipal Ciarage Mayor Sica said to make a resolution awarding the bid to Spectrum. Councilmember Failace said he has a question. He said he had a question come to him on this. He asked if there was anything illegal about the way, the bid specs went out, specifically geared to this specific tower. Mayor Sica said absolutely not. He said he had someone else to check it out. Borough Attorney Coughlin said the reason this was done in addition was because the bid specs included the rights of the community to use that tower in connection with emergency services. He said there was a direct benefit to the community. He said he is almost certain the bid specs included that. Mayor Sica said yes it did. He said the reason he did that was because there are a lot of problems with the tower here. He said once the land over there is developed they could just run a cable across from their tower over to here and with there communication system the Borough will not have any problems. Councilmember Failace said the question he got was because the bid specs were specifically for this sprint tower. Mayor Sica said it could be for any bodies tower. Borough Attorney said it was not for the tower it was for that land for towers he said not for anything. He said if there was excess property, theoretically the Council could put out a bid that said bid whatever use you want and the Council will consider it. He said again the Borough is getting benefits from this because the Council could use the tower free of cost. Mayor said to create a resolution awarding the bid. Library/Senior Center - Architectural Report. Deborah Uhouse - Request to fill vacancy, Assistant Violations Clerk. 4 Councilmember Failace said he feels this should be tabled until all negotiations are finalized. Mayor Sica said he has no problems with tabling this until negotiations are finalized. Telecom Plus- Request to do telephone system audit. Borough Clerk Kathleen Barney said she spoke with Ciloria today and Ciloria said this is not need because it was just done last year. Mayor Sica said yes the Borough just had this done last year. AIR, Inc. _ Requesting payment of deductible, $648.40 - Re: Dotegowski. Mayor Sica said to put on resolution. Beverly Hedesh - Recreation Commission Appointments. Assistant Clerk - Personnel matter. Borough Clerk said this is just her assistant has been out. She said her assistant was only suppose to be out for two weeks and ended up being out for two and a half months and she never put the resolution on. She said she wanted to put a resolution on just to have the record clear. Superintended Cireenberg - Personnel matter. Councilmember Ciutowski stated he would like to put an ordinance on appropriating $50,000.00 for some park improvements out of the money that was transferred over. He said specifically the hockey rink, the basketball court in Short Crest and maybe do something down in Chrome Park because there are a lot of kids skating down there as well. He said he thinks a few thousand dollars would help to get things going. Mayor Sica stated something needs to be done with the sidewalk that runs along Carteret Avenue where the monument runs out. He said so maybe the ordinance should be for $60,000.00. He said he would like to have it done before Ethnic Day. Councilmember Feingold stated he would like to know what if anything was being done about the Police and Fire radios. Councilmember DuPont stated he has been pushing to replace. He said half of them have been replaced and by ...(inaudible)... will be replaced. Mayor Sica said he is going to bring up at the next UEZ Meeting... Councilmember DuPont said he has already had that approved. Mayor Sica said the Council could take it down to Trenton and see if they will give them a portion of the money. He said if 35% of Carteret JUNE 12, 1997 AGENDA MEETING MATERS FOR DISCUSSION (CONTINUED) BUSINESS TO BE ADDED COMMENTS 5 JUNE 12, 1997 AGENDA MEETI NG BUSINESS TO BE ADDED (CONTI NUED) RESOLUTION #97-193 RESOLUTI ON TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION ADOPTED MEETING CLOSED MEETI NG OPENED ADJOURNED is designated UEZ they will give the Borough 35% of the money. He said once that is approved there will be money to buy the rest of them out or take 35% this year and 35% next year. Councilmember Feingold said even though he is not on the Police Committee he has been getting complaints from all the Police. Councilmember Fazekas said the Fire Department has already submitted a proposal for UEZ funds to Pat Holden. Mayor Sica said he has two things to go over. He said one of the things is the Bellemead Project. He said he would like to go into Closed Session on that and then maybe go back into Open Session and put a resolution on. He said he would rather discuss it in Closed Session first. Borough Attorney Craig Coughlin said it is anticipated litigation. He said he would also like to talk about the East Amwell RCA in Closed Session because it has to go into negotiations. Mayor Sica asked for a motion to go into Closed Session to discuss Litigation, Personnel Matters and Contract Negotiation. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Failace and Fazekas RESOLUTION #97-193 "RESOLUTION TO CiO INTO CLOSED SESSION" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Bialowarczuk, DuPont, Failace, Fazekas, Feingold, and Ciutowski voted in the affirmative. At approximately 7:25 p.m. a Closed Session was held. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Failace and Fazekas and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Councilmembers present the Agenda Meeting was re-opened at approximately 8:23 p.m. Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Fazekas and Failace and unanimous affirmative vote of the full Councilmembers present, after no further discussion, this meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:24 p.m. Respectfully submitted, ~~'Ã"~ THLEEN M. BARNEY ~ C Municipal Clerk KMB/tr 6