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A Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of
Cmteret was called to order by Mayor Daniel J. Reiman at 6:00
P.M., Thursday, June 18, 2009, Council Chambers, Memorial
Municipal Building, 61 Cooke Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey.
Upon individual roll call vote the following were noted present:
Councilmember Vincent Bellino
" Iris Colon
" Randy Krum
" Susan Naples
Noted Absent were Councilmembers Jorge Diaz and Joseph W.
Sitarz and Borough Attorney Robelt Bergen.
Also noted present was Municipal Clerk, Kathleen M. Barney.
The meeting was opened with a minute of silent prayer and the
Pledge of Allegiance led by Mayor Daniel J. Reiman.
The Clerk stated that on January 5, 2009 the 2009 Annual Notice
was mailed to The Home News Tribune, The Star Ledger and
posted on the bulletin board. It was published on January 8, 2009.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Naples and Bellino and
unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers
present, the Minutes of May 19, 2009, were approved and
transcribed and engrossed by the Clerk.
JUNE 18, 2009
REGUlAR MEETING
June 18, 2009
ROLL CALL
Minute of Silent Prayer!
Pledge of Allegiance
STATEMENT OF MEETING
NOTICE
MINUTES FOR APPROVAL
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COMMENDATION
Re: Robert Talalai
Robelt Talalai.
Mayor Reimatl asked Robert Talalai to come forward. He went on
to say that he served the residents of Carteret for close to three (3)
decades and in his twenty-nine (29) years of police work he rose to
the rank of Captain in charge of the administrative division.. He
said he will be missed and spoke of his commitment and service to .
our Police Department and our community commending him as a
role model for the young officers that joined the department in the
last few years. He then presented him with his commendation.
Robelt Talalai then thanked everyone, and spoke about how he
enjoyed serving the town.
PRESENTATION CHS Scholarships.
Re: CHSScholarships
Mayor Reimatl explained we will be making presentations to
graduating seniors going off to college, from Carteret High School
and some parochial and private schools. He said the scholarships
will be presented on behalf of the Mayor's Childrens Chm'ity Fund
which over the past seven (7) years we have raised money for the
charity to SUPPOlt scholarships and academic and athletic activities
in the Borough and also do the Holiday Festival and Carnival and
many other programs. He said the checks will be in the amount of
$500.00 each and asked as each child comes forward they
amlOunce what school or program they are graduating from and
what school they will be going to.
The recipient's are:
Amanda Repollet
Hope Geltsler
Samantha Andrejcisk
Emily Banz
Meghan McFadden
Kinny Nahal
Harprreet Athwal
Michelle DiMascio
Joanna Kaskiw
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Kelly Kurdyla
Anthony SanFlippo
Caroline Sanchez
Brittany Wutkowski
Daniel Croson, Jr.
Samantha Spiga
Jocslyn Thomas
Mayor Reiman congratulated the recipients and then asked for a
five (5) minute recess.
At approximately 6:15 P.M. the meeting was recessed and was re-
convened at approximately 6:20 P.M.
John Ferguson ~ Middlesex County OEM, Pre-Disaster Mitigation
Plan.
Mayor Reiman explained this is going to be a presentation from
the Middlesex County Department of Emergency Management,
relative to a pre-disaster and mitigation plan and it is our official
public hearing.
Mayor Reiman said before getting stmted on this presentation they
would go on to do a few business items.
ORDINANCE #09-09 was introduced and adopted on First
Reading and the Clerk authorized and directed to adveltise same
for Public Hearing to be held on July 9, 2009, 6:00 P.M., upon
MMS&C by Councilmembers Krum and Bellino. Upon individual
roll call vote Councilmembers Bellino, Colon, Krum and Naples
voted in the Affirmative. Councilmembers Diaz and Sitarz were
noted Absent.
"AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE #71-9
ESTABLISHING SALARY SCHEDULES AND FIXING THE
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CHS Scholarships Cont:
Meeting Recessed and
Reconvened
PRESENTATION:
John Ferguson-
Middlesex County OEM,
Pre-Disaster Mitigation
Plan
Mayor Reiman
ORDINANCE #09-09
"Amending Salary
Ordinance #71-9, Re:
School Guards &
Various Others"
First Reading
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Public Portion
Public Portion
Closed
RESOLUTIONS
CONSENT AGENDA
RESOLUTION #09-144
"Directing the
Issuance of Various
Raffle Licenses"
RESOLUTION #09-145
"Creating Handicapped
ParkinR-99 Daniel
Street
MANNER OF PAYMENTS OF SALARIES FOR VARIOUS
OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE BOROUGH OF
CARTERET"
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Naples and Krum and
unanimous affilmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers
present, the public portion on Resolutions/Agenda Items and New
Business was opened to the public.
There was no discussion from the public.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Bellino and Krum and
unanimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers
present, the public pOltion was closed.
Mayor Reiman read the titles of the Resolutions into the record and
then asked for a motion on the Consent Agenda.
Resolutions #09-144 thru #09-149 were introduced by the Mayor
and referred to the Council for action:
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Bellino and Naples:
RESOLUTION #09-144
"DIRECTING THE ISSUANCE OF VARIOUS RAFFLE
LICENSES"
RESOLUTION #09-145
"CREATING HANDICAPPED PARKING - 90 DANIEL
STREET"
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RESOLUTION #09-146
"PROFESSIONAL SERVICES -JOSEPH AMBROSIO, ESQ.
/THOMAS DOWNS, ESQ.
RESOLUTION #09-147
"AMENDMENT TO THE TEMPORARY BUDGET"
RESOLULTION #09-148
"APPROVING ABC LICENSE RENEWALS FOR THE 2009-
2010 LICENSE TERM"
RESOLUTION #09-149
"REJECTING BIDS AND AUTHORIZING REBID OF SEWER
SYSTEM EMERGENCY SERVICES CONTRACT"
were Adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Bellino, Colon, Krum and Naples voted in the Affirmative.
Councilmembers Diaz and Sitarz were noted Absent.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Krum and Bellino, all bills
appem'ing on the prepaid list, properly audited and signed, were
ordered to be paid. Upon individual roll call vote, Councilmembers
Bellino, Colon, Krum and Naples voted in the Affirmative.
Councilmembers Diaz atld Sitarz were noted Absent.
COMMITTEES:
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS: Committee Chairperson Naples
reported that she had two letters, one from a home that was
ticketed by Mr. Neibelt, informing us that it had been taken care
of. She went on to say another letter that was from Mr. Ron
McFee, praising the work that the Buildings and Grounds
Department did on re-building the stage in the Community Center
saying it is an asset to the concerts.
JUNE 18, 2009
RESOLUTION #09-146
"Professional
Services-Joseph
Ambrosio, Esq./Thomas
Downs Esq.
RESOLUTION #09-147
"Amendment to the
Temporary Budget"
RESOLUTION #09-148
"Approving ABC License
Renewals for the 2009-
2010 License Term"
RESOLUTION #O9~149
"Rejecting Bids and
Authorizing Rebid of
Sewer System ElnerRency
Services Contract
ADOPTED
PAYMENT OF BILLS
COMMITTEES
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COMMITTEES Cont:
John Ferguson -
Middlesex County
OEM, Pre-Disaster
Mitigation Plan
FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION: Committee Chairperson Diaz
was noted Absent.
. FIRE & DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS - Committee Chairperson
Krum repOlted the Fire Depattment and EMS assisted the Mayor's
Office in distributing bicycle helmets to children and also
educating them on bicycle safety and the Fire Depattment
participated in the first annual Career Day at the Middle School,
visiting classrooms atld educating the children on what it takes to
become a firefighter and on June 13th the Fire Department
patticipated in Kinder Morgan's large scale drill which simulated a
tank fire and a high angle rescue and a testing of the reverse 911
system was also patt of the exercise. Progress.
PARKS, RECREATION & DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS
Committee Chairperson Bellino reported Progress.
POLICE- In the absence of Committee Chairperson Sitarz,
Council President Naples reported, Tuesday's graduation of the
cadets went very well and on June 26th our graduates will be
graduating from Somerset Police Academy at 9:00 A.M. She
wished them well.
PUBLIC WORKS: Committee Chairperson Colon repOlted the
Helmann Avenue construction project, which is to re-build
Hermann A venue by the High School. She went on to report that
they are going out to bid on the emergency sewer contract for
2009/2010 and are working to install the new recycling containers
in all the Borough parks. Progress.
BOARD OF EDUCATION: Committee Chairperson Naples
reported that Middle School's promotional exercise will be on
June 22nd and the High Schools will be on June 23rd at the football
stadium at 6:30 P.M.
John Ferguson-Middlesex County OEM, Pre-Disaster Mitigation
Plan - Mr. Ferguson read his name into the record and announced
his title of Assistant County Coordinator for OEM in Middlesex
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County and he said he would be speaking about a project he has
been in charge of since about 2004. He explained the physical
project actually stalted in 2006, when they actually applied for the
grant explaining they wrote to FEMA and it was a fOlty (40) page
grant request that they turned in and they asked that all twenty-five
(25) municipalities and the county agree that they could actually
put this plan in and all the mayor's of the twenty-five (25)
municipalities did put it in and the grant was submitted and issued
in 2007. He said the amount was seventy five twenty five, max so
they asked for $267,000.00 explaining the federal government is
going to pick up $200,000.00 and the county and the municipality
are responsible for the $67,000.00. He said our $67,000.00 will be
done as in time services, so all municipalities have to put in about
ninety (90) hours over two and one half years.
Mayor Reiman said they will document our Chief Beasley and his
department to ninety (90) hours.
Mr. Ferguson said so far they have about $300.00 out of the
$2400.00 that they documented. He went on to say that officially
the project began by umpiring James Lee Witt Associates,
commenting Mr. Witt was a FEMA Director and explained they
are effectuating the plans for us. He said they began working in
February 2008 with the kickoff meeting for the steering committee,
which is made up of seven chosen people who help gather all the
data and later discuss what is actually important and that everyone
had everything in and is received on the final deadline of
November 2009. He went on to explain that Hazard Mitigation is
deciding if there is any way they can actually get rid of any
hazards that are out there. He said this plan is a requirement that
we have from every municipality and on the county level they can
have a multi-jurisdictional plan, where each municipality has to
have its own plan. He went on to say if there should be a declared
emergency and we do not have a plan registered with FEMA the
Federal Government does not have to give us the funding. He said
the major driving factor is that we can get funding to do other
projects, which he commented, is the most impOltant thing we
need to do and he explained various projects, referring everyone to
the pamphlet, which listed structural and non-structural changes
and public awareness. He said what you have to understand is for
hazardous mitigation, it is actually trying to reduce the
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John Ferguson Cont:
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John Ferguson
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community's risk to any kind of hazards and we are looking at
natural hazards now. He reminded everyone that we have an
Emergency Action Plan which is required by each municipality,
county and state and we should look at all possible things that
could happen and a plan to address that. He spoke fulther on
potential mitigation projects, acquisition, elevation, hardening or
retrofitting of critical facilities, drainage improvements, wet
floodproofing, dry floodproofing, 5% initiative mitigation projects,
hazard identification, hazard ranking, risk assessment, plans, goals
atld objectives atld consideration in SUPPOlt of goals. He then went
on to explain that under the grant requirements they must have two
(2) public meetings, saying they had one (I) official in July of last
year. He said they turned the plan into the state and it came back
for some revisions and they are currently working on it atld at the
other public meeting for the towns, he is going to ask them to go to
the county website and view the plan and if there is any questions
his Email is there. He went on to say once the plan is officially
accepted by the state they will turn it into FEMA and once they say
it is okay, any municipality can apply for anyone of the FEMA
Grants under mitigation JUles and commented there is about
nineteen (19) different sections, some of them are 100%, that you
don't have to worry about, which is hard to get, but, most of them
are seventy five, twenty five. He then asked if there were any
questions or concerns.
Datl Beasley said he was working with the county.
Mayor Reiman asked Mr. Ferguson if the report on the web was a
draft report.
Mr. Ferguson said it is the official repOlt they sent to the state but
does not have the official updates, but, they are working on them
and they have to be completed by the end of August.
Mayor Reiman told Mr. Ferguson that he referenced the storm
water management drainage portion of Catteret and asked if he
identified a patticular road.
Dan Beasley said when they first started the feasibility, because of
Carteret being below sea level, because of the elevation, the back
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patt of Catteret Park, that whole area to the Marina, could possibly
flood, but, since this has statted it is helping the problem.
Mayor Reiman commented that would be Meridian Square and
Terrace, Grant Avenue and the new detention pond in the Hill
Section.
Mayor Reiman then asked if there were any questions or
comments.
Kevin Urban then questioned the 100 year flood zone.
Mayor Reiman told Mr. Urban that the flood map was completely
different from the 100 year or 50 year flood zone. He explained that
FEMA just re-wrote those and that is in draft form and they put a
good pOltion of Catteret into a lower flood zone and we have
appealed that because it will affect many of our residents home
insurance rates.
Mayor Reiman then thanked John Ferguson for coming and then
asked the Municipal Clerk to scan in the images and put it under
John's presentation on our website and we can put a link to the
county OEM site to download the document if anyone is interested
in it.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Naples and Bellino and
unatlimous affirmative vote of the four (4) Councilmembers
present, after no further discussion, this meeting was Adjourned at
approximately 6:45 P.M.
JUNE 18, 2009
John Ferguson Cont:
Kevin Urban
Mayor Reiman
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