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HomeMy Public PortalAbout1997/11/25 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. I 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. 2 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 3 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. 4 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, } ~L~~ kA THLEEN M. BARNEY, i~C Municipal Clerk KMB/apm NOVEMBER 25, 1997 RESOLUTION #97-362 ADOPTED ADJOURNED 5 NOVEMBER 25, 1997 Agenda Meeting 6