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The Agenda Meeting of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of
Carteret preceding the Regular Meeting, July 22, 2010 was held on
July 8, 2010, Council Chambers, Memorial Municipal Building, 61
Cooke Avenue, Carteret, New Jersey.
The following were noted present:
Councilmember Vincent Bellino
" Jorge Diaz
" Dennis DiMascio
" Randy Krum
" Susan Naples
" Joseph W. Sitarz
Also noted present was Linda A. Rivera, Assistant Municipal
Clerk and Robert J. Bergen, Borough Attorney.
Noted Absent was Kathleen M. Barney, Municipal Clerk.
The Assistant Clerk stated that on January 4, 2010, the 2010
Annual Notice was mailed to the Home News Tribune, The Star
Ledger and posted on the bulletin board. It was published in The
Home News Tribune on January 6, 2010 and in The Star Ledger on
January 8, 20 I O.
The meeting was opened with a minute of silent prayer and the
Pledge of Allegiance led by Mayor Daniel J. Reiman.
JULY 8, 2010
AGENDA NEETING
JULY 8, 2010
PRESENT
STAIDlENT OF ~lEETING
NOTICE
Silent Prayer and
Pledge of Allegiance
JULY 8, 2010
NINUTES FOR
APPROVAL
PRESENTATIONS
July 22, 2010
Nayor Reiman
,
Re: Ordinance
#10-11
ORDINANCE #10-11
"APPROPRIATING
$1,833,000 FRON
Tl-lE CAPITAL
INPROVENENT FUND,
FUND BALANCE
AND RESERVES FOR
TI-J.E 2010 ROAD
PROGRAN AND
VARIOUS CAPITAL
INPROVENENTS"
First Reading
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Sitarz and Krum and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present, the
Minutes of June 24, 2010 were approved and transcribed and
engrossed by the Clerk.
PRESENTATIONS: July 22, 2010 Council Meeting.
First Home Run - Lloyd Padmore.
Perfect Game - Tyler Baez.
Mayor Reiman then explained the First Reading Ordinance to
follow will be by title only and the text of the ordinance will
change prior to adoption. He said Mr. De Blasio, Chief Financial
Officer/Treasurer, will give the additional dollars that had come in
the County and State Grants. He went on to say it is a fully funded
Capital Ordinance for various Capital Improvements for roadway,
sewer, park and other work and it is a compilation of monies that
we acquired through state, county and/or federal grants or
endowments.
ORDINANCE #10-11 was introduced and adopted on First
Reading and the Assistant Clerk authorized and directed to
advertise same for Public Hearing to be held on August 5, 2010,
upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Diaz and Sitarz. Upon
individual roll call vote Councilmembers Bellino, Diaz, DiMascio,
Krum, Naples and Sitarz voted in the Affirmative.
"APPROPRIATING $1,833,000 FROM THE CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT FUND, FUND BALANCE AND RESERVES
FOR THE 2010 ROAD PROGRAM AND VARIOUS CAPITAL
IMPROVENlENTS"
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Mayor Reiman then said he had added resolution number G9 to the
Clerk's copy prior to the meeting. He said it is the conditional
designation of Royal Coffee of New York and RPM Warehouse,
Inc. Corporation as the conditional developer for Block 49.02 Lot
2. He explained this will give us the ability to negotiate a
redevelopment agreement and said it is not a redevelopment
agreement and said this is the old Ball Glass Facility that was shut
down approximately five (5) years ago and is part of the Minue
Street Redevelopment Project/ Redevelopment Zone and will
allow us to begin negotiations to re-locate Royal Coffee into a two
hundred and forty thousand square foot facility in Carteret and will
also look to put on a 200,000 square foot addition. He said this will
be a coffee company brewing show room and it is a high end
coffee and they would bring the beans to Carteret to brew and then
ship all over the world. He said he will ask for a conditional
designation of sixty (60) days and then he will repOlt back as to
whether or not we have an agreement.
Resolutions G 2 tlllU G 9, #10-162 thru #10-169 were introduced
by the Mayor and referred to the Council for action.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Diaz and Sitarz
RESOLUTION #10-162
"AUTHORIZING PURCHASES FROM STATE
CONTRACTORS FOR 2010"
RESOLUTION #10-163
"RESOLUTION INCREASING THE BID AND QUOTATION
THRESHOLD"
RESOLUTION #10-164
"AUTHORIZING THE RENEWAL OF VARIOUS ABC
LICENSES FOR THE 2010-2011 LICENSE TERM"
RESOLUTION #10-165
"AUTHORIZING INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT WITH
MIDDLESEX COUNTY FOR THE 2010 ROAD PROGRAM"
JULY 8, 2010
Nayor Reiman, Re:
Resolution G9 added
to Agenda
CONSENT AGENDA
RESOLUTION #10-162
"AUTHORIZING PURCHASES
FROM STATE CONTRACTORS
FOR 2010"
RESOLUTION #10-163
"RESOLUTION INCREASING
TI-J.E BID AND QUOTATION
THRESHOLD"
RESOLUTION #10-164
"AUTHORIZING TI-J.E
RENEI-IAL OF VARIOUS ABC
LICENSES FOR THE 2010-
2011 LICENSE TERN"
RESOLUTION #10-165
"AUTHORIZING INTER-
LOCAL AGREfrlENT \oJITH
MIDDLESEX COUNTY FOR
THE 2010 ROAD PROGRAN"
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RESOLUTION #10-166
"AUTHORIZING A RESOLUTION #10-166
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AUTHORIZING A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT
CONTRACT \VITH WITH APPRAISAL CONSULTANTS CORP"
APPRAISAL .
CONSULTANTS CORP"
RESOLUTION #10-167
"AUTHORIZING
~ND~NT TO THE
2010 TEMPORARY BUDGET"
RESOLUTION #10-168
"AUTHORIZING THE
ISSUANCE OF A NEI-I
TAXICAB DRIVER
LICENSE"
RESOLUTION #10-167
"AUTHORIZING AMENDMENT TO THE 2010 TEMPORARY
BUDGET"
RESOLUTION #10-168
"AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A NEW TAXICAB
DRIVER LICENSE FOR THE 2010-2011 LICENSE TERM TO
TORY JAMES SANDERS, RE: SAFEW A Y TAXI"
RESOLUTION #10-169
"RESOLUTION OF THE BOROUGH OF CARTERET
CONDITIONALL Y DESIGNATING ROYAL COFFEE AS THE
REDEVELOPER FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY LOCATED
WITHIN THE WEST CARTERET COMMERCIAL
REDEVELOPMENT AREA AND AUTHORIZING
AGREEMENT(S) RESULTING THEREFROM"
RESOLUTION #10-169
, 'CONDITIONALLY
DESIGNATING ROYAL
COFFEE AS THE
REDEVELOPER FOR
CERTAIN PROPERTY
LOCATED \VITHIN THE
\VEST CARTERET CONMERCIAL
REDEVELOPMENT AREA AND
AUTHORIZING were Adopted. Upon individual roll call vote, Councihnembers
AGRE~S(S) Bellino, Diaz, DiMascio, Knnn, Naples and Sitarz voted in the
RESULTING THEREFROM" Affirmative.
ADOPTED
Councilmember
Bellino
Mayor Reiman
Councilmember
Bellino
Before voting Councilmember Bellino questioned if Resolultion
#10-169 was a self funded project.
Mayor Reiman explained that it is self funded and explained we
had preliminary discussions to allow them to use some of the
ARRA Funding of which we received eleven million dollars as
part of the ARRA Designation, which allows then to borrow
money at a lower interest rate on Wall Street.
Council member Bellino asked if fhture ratables have been
determined yet.
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Mayor Reiman said it has not been determined as of yet,
explaining the building structure is still there, they made some
interior renovations so there would be an increase in the value of
the propelty and said once the new construction takes place it will
also increase, not only in job growth but the value of the propelty
with additional taxes. He said this will all be part of the
negotiations and said this does not give them the authority to do
anything, it just gives us the authority to negotiate with them.
Please note that Resolution G1 was removed from the Consent
Agenda.
Upon MMS&C by Councihnembers Diaz and Sitarz all bills
appearing on the prepared list, properly audited and signed were
ordered to be paid. Upon individual roll call vote Counci1members
Bellino, Diaz, DiMascio, Krum, Naples and Sitarz voted in the
Affirmative.
The Assistant Clerk stated that she was in receipt of an Application
from the Carteret Fire Rescue #3-Membership upon MMS&C by
Councilmembers Krum and Diaz. Upon individual roll call vote
Councilmembers Bellino, Diaz, DiMascio, Knul1, Naples and
Sitarz voted in the Affirmative to approve the applications.
Mayor Reiman explained this is for the career Fire Department
members to be part of the Firefighters Exempt Fund at the State
level, which does not cost us anything and said they need to have it
part of a Fire Rescue Squad #3. He went on to explain that
previously we had Fire Company #1 and #2, which were volunteer
companies but #3, although we have had paid career fire fighters
for one hundred (100) years technically was never created as a
Fire Rescue Squad.
JULY 8, 2010
Mayor'Reiman, Re:
Ordinance #10-11
Clerk's Note
PA~NT OF BILLS
APPLICATIONS
Carteret Fire Rescue
#3-Membership
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JULY 8, 2010
REPORTS
Clerk's Note
PRESENTATION,
OEN
Councilmember
Di Mascio
Clerk's Office- June 2010.
Construction Office - June 2010.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Diaz and Bellino and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present, all Reports
were ordered to be received and placed on file.
A presentation of an award would now take place which was not
listed on the Agenda.
Mayor Reiman then asked Dan Beasley, OEM and Councilmember
Bellino to come forward to present a special commendation to one
ofthe Deputy Directors Greg Gunther who has been with them for
eighteen (18) years and has been active and made many
contributions to the community.
BUSINESS TO BE ADDED:
Council member DiMascio reported he received complaints that
there is no light on the flag on McKinley and Laurel.
Mayor Reiman said the Parks Department would be having a
meeting with Mr. DuPont the next day and they should discuss
this, commenting there may be an issue with electricity or they
may just have to call PSE&G and let them know a flood light is
out.
Councilmember DiMascio said there was a complaint from 82
Daniel Street that the road is sinking in front of the house and the
curb is deteriorating.
Mayor Reiman directed him to call Engineering and also
commented that according to our code and statute the homeowner
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is responsible for the curb line and the sidewalks up to the street
line but ordinarily we do not enforce any issue with the curbs if we
are doing a street program and commented if there is a sink hole
there they may be some sewer issues so he will have John DuPont
with someone from the Sewer Department go out there tomorrow.
Council member DiMascio said people have requested paving for
some streets such as Whitman between Sunset and Longview and
Tenmyson between Sunset and Longview.
Mayor Reiman then directed the Asssistant Clerk to make a copy
of a Street Book produced about eight (8) or nine (9) years ago by
Killiam Associates or Hatch Mott MacDonald and identifies the
streets and lists them on evaluations and explained each year they
pave a few streets from that. He said this year they will be paving
approximately twelve (12) streets in the Tennyson Estates area and
the Redevelopment Agency will also be paving some streets within
the redevelopment zone using some of the proceeds from the
redevelopment agreements, so we should be paving approximately
twenty (20) to twenty-five (25) streets.
Councilmember DiMascio asked the Mayor about missing street
signs.
Mayor Reiman told him the Police Department evaluates them
every day and should be logging any street signs missing and
sending them on a daily basis to Public Works.
Council President Krum said he notified John DuPont about "Curb
Your Dog" signs in the Shorecrest Park area.
Mayor Reiman explained about small placards from the Board of
Health to put into your front lawn. He also suggested to see Jolm
DuPont.
Council President Knlll1 questioned a new law was passed for
signs for pedestrians at a cross walk to say
"Stop" and we still have "Yield" and commented that many towns
already have them.
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JULY 8, 2010
Councilmember
Di Mascio Cont:
Mayor Reiman
Councilmember
DiMascio
Council President
Krum
JULY 8, 2010
Councilmember
Sitarz
Mayor Reiman
Councilmember
Sitarz
PUBLIC
DISCUSSION
Councilmember Sitarz spoke on the roll off truck that was just
purchased.
Mayor Reiman said about two (2) hours ago we had our final
meeting with Kinder Morgan and they brought in their 1.3 million
dollar impact fee for the Phase 1 Redevelopment for the sixty (60)
million dollar construction project of the diesel blending facility.
He explained they pulled their permits today and they will be
starting construction very soon and one (I) million dollars will be
going towards the Health and Wellness Center or other Capital
Projects and $300,000.00 will go towards beautification projects
along their propelty fronting the Industrial Highway. He said he
will also begin negotiations with them on Phase II of their property
which will be another substantial redevelopment of what was
previously Bright Star, which was a chemical operation and the
site is now vacant.
Council member Sitarz commented we just put a lot of money into
putting guardrails on Industrial Road and asked if we could put
"No U-Turn" signs up along the Highway.
Mayor Reiman explained he has Mr. Norbut, the T&M engineer
for our project, looking at the "No U-Turn" signs as well as a
"Dedicated U-Turn" so the trucks know they can go down
Industrial Road and make a left onto Roosevelt A venue and wrap
around to get back to the Turnpike. He said we are also looking to
put three (3) foot high markers on the center of the highway. He
said the project has not been completed yet for the guard rails so
the contractor is still responsible for the guardrail until it is fully
complete.
Upon MMS&C by Councilmembers Sitarz and Diaz and
unanimous affirmative vote of the fhll Council present, the public
portion of the meeting was opened.
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There were no comments from the public.
Upon MMS&C by Councihl1embers Diaz and Kl'um and
unanimous affirmative vote of the full Council present the public
portion of the meeting was closed.
After no fmther discussion, upon MMS&C by Councilmembel's
Diaz and Bellino and unanimous affirmative vote of the full
Council present, the meeting was Adjourned at approximately 6: 17
P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
cY~ Q. ~
LINDA A. RIVERA
Assistant Municipal Clerk
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JULY 8, 2010
PUBLIC PORTION
CLOSED
ADJOURNED
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