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HomeMy Public PortalAbout1996/05/30 The Agenda Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Carteret preceding the Regular meeting of June 6, 1996, was held on Thursday, May 30, 1996,7:00 P.M., Council Office, Municipal Building, 61 Cooke Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey. The following were noted present: Mayor Peter 1.. Sica Councilmember Deborah Bialowarczuk " James F ailace " William Feingold " John 1. Vesey, Jr. Noted absent were Councilmembers Jack Fazekas and James O'Brien were noted absent. Also noted present was Borough Attorney Robert A. Hedesh. Mailed to The Home News & Tribune, The Star Ledger and posted on the bulletin board on May 24, 1996. MINUTES FOR APPROVAL: May 2 & 6, 1996 PUBLIC HEARING: Amendment to 1996 Local Municipal Budget. PROCLAMATIONS: a) Emergency Services Week TO ADDRESS GOVERNING BODY: a) Borough Engineer Pratap Parmar b) Fire Superintendent Richard Greenberg Superintendent Greenberg said this was a personnel matter. MAY 30, 1996 AGENDA MEETING PRESENT STATEMENT OF MEETING NOTICE MINUTES FOR APPROVAL PUBLIC HEARING PROCLAMATIONS TO ADDRESS GOVERNING BODY MAY 30, 1996 RESOLUTION #96-148 Closed Session i\dopted t1eeting Adjourned Into Closed Session ~1eeting Opened TO ADDRESS GOVERNING BODY Can't. Mayor Sica said we will go into Closed Session. RESOLUTION #96-148 was introduced by the Mayor and was referred to the Council for action Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Bialowarczuk and Vesey RESOLUTION #96-148 "RESOLUTION TO GO INTO CLOSED SESSION" was adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers Bialowarczuk, Failace, Feingold ana Vesey voted in the affirmative. Councilmembers Fazekas and O'Brien were noted absent. At approximately 7:02 P.M., the meeting was adjourned into Closed Session Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Bialowarczuk and Failace and unanimous affirmativp vote of the four (4) Councilmembers present, the meeting was opened at 7:10 P.M. Mayor Sica told Mr. Greenberg and Mr. Wright that they will be notified tomorrow on the decision. TO ADDRESS GOVERNING BODY con't. Borough Engineer Pratap Parmar read his report. Mayor Sica said this was on the corner, when you come down by the bridge where all the traffic was delayed. When they opened it up, they found they had to replace 50' of sewer line that was shot. They had to close it back up and the next day get the pipe and open it and do the job. Those are extras in West Carteret. Borough Engineer Pannar spoke about the Borough Parking lot. He said the county agreed to pave the lot. Mayor Sica said that was a $3,000.00 savings. He said they need a motion to authorize the resolution to sign the agreement for the paving. ~ k Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Vesey and Failace and unanimous affirmative vote of the four Councilmembers present, the Mayor was authorized to sign the agreement for paving of the Borough Hall Parking Lot with Middlesex County. Borough Attorney Hedesh said for the record, the Mayor called him and told him the situation. The guy wanted the contract signed right away so they could make their orders. The Mayor asked him if he should do it without a resolution. His advice to the Mayor was that it is under the bidding limit and they are saving a total of $3,000 so he thought he could go ahead. Borough Attorney Parmar spoke about a $18,000.00 grant from the Department of Transportation in regards to Lefferts Street. Mayor Sica said they would have to hire John Cilo to do the specifications and engineering work. He said to do a resolution, not to exceed m$3,000.00.. $18,000.00 is coming ITom the State. Borough Attorney Hedesh asked what this was for. Mayor Sica said surveying road project on Lefferts Street. Borough Engineer Parmar spoke about the generator at the sewer plant. Mayor Sica said at the Sewer Plant there is a 750 KV Caterpillar Generator, in case there is a power failure we can generate our own electricity and keep our pumps running. That cost $70,000.00. Ifwe don't maintain it properly we are going to have a problem. If it doesn't go on when we need it we will have a bigger problem. He said they are going to hire a company on a yearly maintenance program for $700.00 to make sure it's done right. Borough Engineer Parmar talked about the scrubber in Port Reading. Mayor Sica said the other thing Mr. Parmar was talking about is over in Port Reading there is an odor that comes out of our sewer, rather than argue as to who caused that problem, we don't feel we really caused it, we'll just hire a contractor to put a scrub system in and it takes away the odor and it has been working perfectly since. Mayor Sica said our sewer bill went down in Middlesex County by $120,000.00 ITom last year to this year because we are putting less water in the system. The more water we get out the more it will decrease. There are still some connections that are out there that shouldn't be out there. Borough Attorney Hedesh asked the Borough Attorney if the plans on the Wanskus Contract are okay. Borough Engineer Parmar said yes. Borough Attorney Hedesh said there have been some modifications and Mr. Parmar has approved vouchers that bring the cost to 54% of the 260 that we capped it off at. MAY 30, 1996 Paving of Borough Hall Parking Lot Lefferts Street Sewer Plant Scrubber Wanskus MAY 30, 1996 Wanskus Can't. Borough Attorney Hedesh said the contract calls to pay 80% upon the documents being placed for bid, but we agreed that some of the stuff has to be done yet. There are some approvals that he could not control and ITom the State, Parmar wants to make sure that the numbers are changed to his modifications. Parmar approved 54% which is 26% less. We are not at the stage where we would get 80%, but we are somewhere in the middle. Mayor Sica said we are having one hell of a war with the State over wetlands. There are no wetlands there and they keep arguing that we filled it in. ORDINANCES ORDINANCES - Public Hearing #96-13 Amending, RatifYing & Confirming Prior Ordinance Establishing Urban Enterprise Zone. #96-14 Amending, RatifYing & Confirming Prior Ordinance Establishing a Landfill Reclamation Improvement District. #96-15 Amending Ordinance #94-23, Providing for the Abatement and/or Exemption from Local Property Taxes for the Improvement to or the Construction of Commercial or Industrial Structures. Rite-Aid Mayor Sica said at last night's Planning Board Meeting we approved the application ITom Rite-Aid. Rite-Aid is going to take down that whole building and they are going to put up a brand new building. He said why they are doing it is because it is in an Enterprise Zone. They are going to have a Drive - Thru Pharmacy. RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTIONS: 1. Adoption of 1996 Local Municipal Budget. 2. Authorizing Mayor to Execute Revised Consent Form for NJPDES & TW A Permits for Amoco Oil, Re: Resolution #94-306. 3. Refund of Tax and/or Sewer Fees. 4. Amendment to 1996 Temporary Budget. 5. Authorizing Application for & Execution of Contract - Comprehensive Recreation Grant. 6. Authorizing Public Auction for Abandoned Vehicles. REPORTS REPORTS: 1. Board of Health - April 1996. 2. Fire - April 1996. 3. Treasurer - April 1996. 4 At approximately 7:25 P.M., Councilmember James O'Brien was noted present and took his seat at the conference table. -- COMMUNICATIONS: I. BOROUGH OF NEW PROVIDENCE - Resolution supporting New Jersey League of Municipalities Annual Conference. Put Resolution on for Meeting. 2. CARTERET VOLUNTEER FIRE CO. #2 - Resignation of Wayne Balla. 3. TWP. OF PISCATAWAY - Opposition to S-193 which would exempt municipal and government owned facilities ITom the existing 25 ABC temporary permits per year limitation. 4. AJV ENGINEERING - Public Notice of Waterfront Development Permit Application, Re: SD&G Aggregates - Bl, L 3.2. 5. AJV ENGINEERING - Public Notice ofWatemont Development Permit Application, Re: SD&G Aggregates - B 5.2, L 1.2. -' MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION: I. SGT. WURST - Requesting attorney Re: Complaint. Mayor Sica asked what the complaint was about. Councilmember Vesey said it was an argument over a ticket Mayor Sica directed the Assistant Clerk to turn this over to the Borough Attorney because we have an insurance company that handles this. 2. NEGOTIATION COMMITTEE - Appointment to Vacancy. Mayor Sica said he will do this at the Council Meeting. 3. LIBRARY BOARD - Appointment to vacancy of Mayor's Alternate. Mayor Sica said he appoints Deborah Bialowarczuk. 4. N.J. DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL - Titles of Communications Operators must be changed to Public Safety Telecommunicators and Trainees for permanent and provisional employees. Put on for Council Meeting. 5 5. WILLIAM KOLIBAS - Personnel matter. Closed Session. 6. CHIEF SICA - a) Request to hire Telecommunication Trainee. Closed Session MAY 30, 1996 Councilmembec O'Brien Noted Present CO~1!'1UNICATIONS N.J. League of Municipalities Wayne Balla ABC Licenses SD&G SD&G Sgt. Wurst Negotiating Corrmit tee Appointment to Library Board Public Safety Telecorrmunicators Personnel Hiring Re: Telecommunicator Trainee · ,,<AAî. MAY 30, 1996 Police Chaplain 6. (b) Recommending Reverend Chubenko for position of Chaplain to Carteret Police Department. Borough Attorney Hedesh will do the Resolution. Roosevelt Village Apartments 7. PATRICIA SAMPLE - Roosevelt Avenue Village Apartments She is requesting support in assisting them to acquire monies to deter crime and drug activity. Mayor Sica sent a letter of support, along with Councilmembers O'Brien and Vesey.. De~1arino 8. AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL RECOVERY - Requesting payment of$25,000.00 Re: DeMarino. Mayor Sica said we are going to fight this one Borough Attorney Hedesh said to hold this. PEOSH Complaint 9. N.J. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - PEOSH Complaint. Borough Attorney Hedesh said this should be discussed in Closed Session. Tabled Ordinance 10. ORDINANCE - Providing for Tax Abatement and/or Exemption from Local Property Taxes for the Improvement to or Construction of Commercial or Industrial Structures. Put on for Council Meeting. Ne\, Hire - Clerk Typist 11. PURCHASING DEPARTMENT - Part-time Clerk Typist. Mayor Sica said he will make a recommendation at the Council Meeting. 45 t1cKinley Ave. 12. HEALTH DEPARTMENT - 45 McKinley Avenue. Mayor Sica said all the notices we send them keep coming back. He will fill in the swimming pool. Closed Session. BUSINESS TO BE ADDED ~1echanic COUNCILMEMBER F AILACE asked to put a resolution on hiring a mechanic. Mayor Sica said we are going to hire one. Dave Zullo. Bou' s SUII111er Basketball COUNCILMEMBER BIALOW ARCZUK said along with the Men's Summer Basketball they are creating a boy's summer basketball league. 6 LD.' s COUNCILMEMBER VESEY said Mr. Kolibas issued photo LD.'s to his employees and he thinks all the Borough Employees should have them. He asked if there was anything on the books regarding them. Mayor Sica said no,but we could put something on. Councilmember O'Brien said former Councilmember Pino tried to do it. The Assistant Clerk said we tried to do it, but no one would send their people over to Police Headquarters to get it done. Gloria Goodrich said there might be something on the books because we had to have one when she first started here. Mayor Sica said we will require everyone to do it. Borough Attorney Hedesh said the Volunteer Fire Company has a portable machine that makes the card right on the spot. He is not sure they will let the Borough borrow it. Mayor Sica said the Borough Employees want to trade the day after the Fourth of July for Election Day so they can have a four day weekend. He said he doesn't see a problem with that. Borough Attorney Hedesh said in his office they polled insurance companies and other companies and everybody is closed that day. 7 Mayor Sica said the other thing he wants to talk about is passing a Resolution demanding our Congressman, Mr. Menendez, and to all the Congressmen in the State of New Jersey and the two Senators, demand an immediate investigation of this price gauging at the pumps. He said he knows a little about oil refineries because that is what he has done. It takes approximately 13 Y2 million barrels of oil a day to run the United States of America. Oil is measured in 42 gallons to a barrel. Granted, you are not going to get 42 gallons of gasoline out of a barrel of crude oil. But you will get 42 gallons of something and that something has increased an average of25¢. If you take 13'/2 barrels times 42 gallons to a barrel, it comes up to 520 million gallons per day. He said remember we used 25¢ as the number. So it takes 4 quarters to make a dollar. Divide 520 million by 4 and it comes up to 140 million Dollars a day that is being robbed from the people in the United States by the giant oil companies. They arc going to do this for at least 90 days. 90 days equates out to 1,250,000,000.00 Dollars being taken out of the United States of America's economy. That's only the tip of the iceberg. A good portion of that 13.5 million barrels a day goes to running the big power plants that generate the electricity that runs the industries and the houses in this country. So, you are getting hit twice because all the utilities base their profit on the bottom line. If it cost the utility one dollar to run the plant for the year, they are allowed a certain percentage of that dollar to be added on as a percentage for overhead and profit. If the bottom line is bigger than a dollar they just add a bigger percentage of overhead and profit. They just keep generating money. All of these big giant corporations are ripping off the American people to the tune of billions of doJlars. The same thing holds tme for any product that is manufactured If they are making corn flakes and it cost them more money to nm the ovens to make the corn flakes, the corn flakes cost more money. You're getting hit twice and the asinine politicians in Washington decided they were going to take 4¢ off the tax on the gasoline. That 4¢ at least comes back to the people by way of road improvements. It puts people to work. MAY 30, 1996 LD. 's Can't. July !+th Opposing Gas Price Increases MAY 30, 1996 Opposing Gas Price Increases Con't. Meeting Adjourned Into Closed Session Meeting Opened ADJOURNED Mayor Sica said this money that is being robbed ITom the American taxpayers is being robbed by a select few people and it is his opinion that this happens about every four years, when you have big elections. No politician wants to take on the oil companies or the electric companies or anybody else in an election year because those are the companies that are going to pay $150 Million Dollars for the presidential candidate on each party. That $300 Million Dollars is going to come ITom somewhere. It's not going to come out of anybody's pocket, except the American Taxpayer. He is demanding that Mr. Menendez and our senators have an immediate investigation on this and if necessary, we nationalize the oil companies until it stops because it is out of hand. People are getting put out of work everyday because corporations have to cut costs. If people can't afford to buy their products, because of the price gauging that goes on. He read a statement in the paper that the reason why the price went up so high is that the refiners didn't expect such a cold winter and they didn't make gasoline all winter long so the reserves are depleted down. He said that's a line ofbull---t. He said when a barrel of oil is refine you get so many gallons of gasoline out it no matter what you do with it. This country has turned around in half their refining capabilities. They shut down refineries all over this country and they are now buying foreign and charging us. Something has to be done. It's time the American people start rioting in the streets on these oil companies to put a stop to this because we are going to go broke. That's all he has. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Vesey and Bialowarczuk and unanimous affirmative vote of the five (5) Councilmembers present, the meeting was adjourned into Closed Session at approximately 7:40 P.M. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Vesey and O'Brien and unanimous affirmative vote of the five (5) Councilmembers present, the meeting was opened at approximately 7:54 P.M.. Upon MMS&C, by Councilmembers Vesey and O'Brien and unanimous affirmative vote of the five (5) Councilmembers present, there being no further business or discussion, the meeting was adjourned at approximately 7:55 P.M. Respectfully submitted, S"'~ ~ ~~ V-'" SUSAN E. JAC , Assistant Municlpa Clerk 8