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NOVEMBER 25, 1997
An Agenda Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of
Carteret preceding the Regular Meeting of December 4, 1997, was
held on November 25, 1997, 7:00 P.M., Municipal CourtlPolice
Facility, 230 Roosevelt Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey.
AGENDA
MEETING
The following were noted present:
ROLL CALL
Mayor Peter J. Sica
Councilmember Bialowarczuk
" DuPont
" Failace
" Fazekas
" Gutowski
Noted absent were Councilmember Feingold and Borough Attorney
Craig Coughlin.
NOTED ABSENT
Statement of Meeting Notice was mailed to the Home News &
Tribune, The Star Ledger and posted on the bulletin board on
November 20,1997.
STATEMENT OF
MEETING NOTICE
TO ADDRESS GOVERNING BODY:
a) Tom Watkinson
b) Borough Engineer
ENGINEER'S REPORT:
ENGINEER'S
REPORT
The Main on Ethridge Drive failed again near Roosevelt Avenue.
B&W Construction was recommended as the yearly sewer
maintenance contractor. They found clay pipe sections connecting the
Main underneath optic fiber telephone duck banks. The sewage had to
be pumped away with the help of tankers. The repair was done by
Monday and traffic was again flowing freely. Although the Main is
function again it may fail at any time. B&W submitted an invoice for
$16,896.00 and bids for Sabo Street and Ethridge Drive are on the
way. Councilmember John DuPont called a meeting to discuss the
project and Engineer Tom Watkinson also attended. The RFP will be
prepared by December 8th, 1997 and Engineer Tom Watkinson will
also participate in this process. Architect Tom Potter was contacted for
the Library and Senior Citizens project. He was notified that he would
need guidelines from the Borough. Mr. Parmar requested that he give
us a letter outlining his needs.
Councilmember Failace asked the Mayor what this had to do with the
Telephone Company.
COMMENTS
Mayor Sica said they had gotten all kinds of pictures. Someone
changed the pipe and put a clay pipe in there. There was a fiber optic
line put in and they may have taken that line and cut it. That would
change the structural integrity of it . The Mayor said once he reviews
the reports and if at that point he feels that happened then he would ask
the Council's permission to sue them. It is a County road but it is the
Borough's pipes.
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FEBRUARY 25,1997
NOTED PRESENT
MINUTES FOR
APPROVAL
ORDINANCES
PUBLIC HEARING
RESOLUTIONS
COMMUNICATIONS
REPORTS
MATTERS FOR
DISCUSSION
COMMENT
At approximately 7:10 P.M. Borough Attorney Craig Coughlin was
noted present.
Minutes for approval: June 5th and 9th 1997.
ORDINANCES: Public Hearing-
1. #97-38 Appropriating $150,000.00 from the Capital Improvement
Fund - Reserve for Sewer Improvements.
2. #97-39 Amending Salary Ordinance #71-9, Re: Fall Soccer
Program.
3. #97-40 Amending Salary Ordinance #71-9, Re: School Guards.
4. #97-41 Amending Code, Chapter 235, Entitled 'Taxicabs".
5. #97-42 Appropriating $65,000.00 from the Capital Improvement
Fund for Re-Roofing of Police and Fire Headquarters.
6. #97-43 Amending Salary Ordinance #71-9, Re: Handicapped
Recreation Leaders.
RESOLUTIONS:
1. Directing the Issuance of Various Bingo Licenses.
2. Directing the Issuance of Various Raffle Licenses.
3. Requesting Installation of Bus Shelters.
4. Establishing No Parking Bus Stop Zones.
5. Transfer of Budget Appropriations.
6. Refund of Tax and/or Sewer Fee Overpayments.
COMMUNICATIONS:
I. PSE&G - Notice of Motion for Approval to Increase of Levelized
Gas Adjustment Charge & Changes in the Tariff for Gas Service.
2. Elizabethtown Gas - Various Public Hearings, Re: Rates.
REPORTS:
I. Board of Health - October 1997
2. Clerk's Office - November 1997.
MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION:
I. Parking Attendant - Temporary appointment expires 12/97.
2. AFSCME Local #2291 - Requesting to work Christmas Eve and
the holiday on 12/26/97.
3. Supt. Greenberg - Requesting Borough call for a Captain's test.
2. DSG. Ronald Bennett - Charges, Re: Xisles.
Mayor Sica said he would like to discuss numbers one through four in
Closed Session.
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3. Scottsdale Insurance Co. - Requesting payments for the following:
a) Osipovitch - $6482.08
b) Nix $3453.20
Mayor Sica said to turn this over to the Borough Attorney. He said
he doesn't know why we should pay Osipovitch anything because
we did not do anything.
4. MCUA - Asking towns to enter into voluntary agreement, Re:
Solid Waste Disposal.
Mayor Sica said he thought they should hold off on that because he is
doing some research. We may be able to save some money.
Councilmember Failace asked what are they asking us to do.
Mayor Sica said if we sign up MCUA to dump our garbage in
Edgeboro and they will only charge us $48.00 a ton. We may be able
to take it to Rahway at $40.00 a ton. Or we may take into
consideration to rebid the garbage. We were lucky enough to save
money last year; we transferred $70,000.00 out of that account to help
some of the overages. There are some major companies that are
looking to put transfer stations in where they would be shipping
garbage as far away as Pennsylvania. They shouldn't sign any
agreement with the MCUA. What they are doing is a violation of the
law. If you sign you pay one price and if you don't you pay another.
They are discriminating against us because we won't sign the
agreement. You can only charge one price for everybody; you can't
show favoritism under any circumstance.
Tom Watkinson was noted present.
Tom Watkinson spoke about the Billboard Ordinance that has been
mandated by the Courts.
Mayor Sica said they should not discuss this now it should be
discussed in Closed Session.
Tom Watkinson said he would wait.
Mayor Sica said he went to look at this house on Hagaman Street
about one month ago and it appears as if they were putting a sidewalk
in. The contractor just cut the roots of the trees. No landscaper or tree
trimmer or anybody else has the right to do that. He said the Council
should all look at it and they should bring the contractor up on charges.
We should fine him and force him to take the tree down. The Mayor
than asked what the street number was.
Willie Kolibas said he thought it was 89 Hagaman Street.
Mayor Sica said he went to the house and spoke to the lady and she
just contracted with someone to put in a sidewalk and they contracted
with a tree trimmer to just cut these trees. He would like the Council to
go there and see the damage that was done to those trees.
Councilmember Failace asked if the woman called the Mayor.
NOVEMBER 25, 1997
MATTERS FOR
DISCUSSION -
(Continued)
COMMENTS
NOTED PRESENT
RE: BILLBOARD
ORDINANCE
COMMENTS
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NOVEMBER 25, 1997
DISCUSSION
(CONTINUED)
RE: MT. LAUREL
Mayor Sica said he went there and he then read the letter she wrote
him. We have to take them down and have the Parks Department do it
and we'll send the bill to the guy that did the damage. The Mayor said
he spoke to the minister that wants Blocks one through six. He said he
went to look and if we give them all the blocks there will still be
enough room in there if the Housing Authority wants to put in a Day
Care. The Mayor said this is a Church from Perth Amboy that now has
one hundred members from Carteret. From his discussions with the
officials in Perth Amboy they are probably the most progressive
Church in Perth Amboy. They have a lot of youth activities and they
bought the Majestic Theatre and converted it into housing for low
income people. We could lease them the land similar to what we do
with the Churches in Carteret for $1.00. If they don't start the project
in one year than it is null and void. He said he met with the Little
League and they have some problems over there with the heat. They
gave him a list of some of the things they would like done over there.
He said he told them that what they can do.. .the Mayor told the
Borough Attorney he had to look into this... We should put the
building up for sale and in the interim we could do all the things they
want us to do at Little League Field out of our Bond money and the
money we get from the Little League Building we can reimburse the
Bond. The Sportsman have a basketball program for the handicapped
children and other kids can use it. The Mayor said they have smoke
detectors and Plexiglass on the doors. The Mayor said he was sure
everyone heard the rumors that CVS was going in where Robert's
Chevrolet used to be and that is a fact. They contacted St Joseph
Church because the school is right next to it. What St. Joseph would
like to do there, Wedgewood Drive, is to take the curb out (the Mayor
then demonstrated what they wanted). The Mayor said he got CVS on
a Good Neighbor Policy, to donate some of the money to do this. St.
Joseph will put in the rest of the money to finish it. He then asked if
anyone had any argument against something like this. CVS offered to
donate $7500.00 towards construction. The Mayor said he thinks
$10,000.00 is more like it and he doesn't think they will balk at that. If
they make it half as nice as Rite Aid we have a pretty nice project
going there. When it comes up before the Planning Board they are
going to have to inform them they have to leave ten feet by the
Turnpike. The Mayor then said he had only two more things to discuss
Raia and Wolfe. We are going to have to start doing something on this
so these guys can get started on their projects.
Borough Attorney Craig Coughlin said he spoke to Frank Leanza and
we agreed to use the language from the previous agreement with
regard to the financial conditions (inaudible) that he is going to do to
describe the project. He should have that tomorrow and by Thursday
night's meeting (inaudible). Mr. Wolfe had an agreement (inaudible).
Councilmember Gutowski asked about the Wolfe deal and the concern
with their finances.
Mayor Sica said they came to Hill/Wallach who do a lot of work for
building contractors in reference to Mt. Laurel. They have offered to
come here and bring representatives that have a vast amount of
experience. Robert Dato, the former attorney of Woodbridge, John
Spoganetz, Robert Hedesh and Remy Quinones have offered to help.
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The Mayor said to cure the ills of this Country you have to give people
and incentive and a decent place to live.
RESOLUTION #97-362 was introduced by the Mayor and referred to
the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Bialowarczuk and Failace
RESOLUTION #97-362
"RESOLUTION TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION"
was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Bialowarczuk, DuPont, Failace, Fazekas and Gutowski voted in the
affirmative. Councilmember Feingold was noted absent.
At approximately 7:30 P.M. a Closed Session was held.
At approximately 7:52 P.M., upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers
Failace and Bialowarczuk and unanimous affirmative vote of the five
members present, this meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully Submitted,
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kA THLEEN M. BARNEY, i~C
Municipal Clerk
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NOVEMBER 25, 1997
RESOLUTION #97-362
ADOPTED
ADJOURNED
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NOVEMBER 25, 1997
Agenda Meeting
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