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Oh my God, in the last five years I've sent about a hundred police officers in New Jersey. In the last five years I've had some hundred people going to the armed services that graduate. You know I'm on a corruption, I'm still on a DINA, but I want to talk about something else first. And I don't know if I'm going to give it to you, so I don't know if I'm going to get there to you. But anyway, what I want to talk about is the incident where up on University in Orange, Orange Street, the building, the 350 units, and I understood what was going on. And this conversation is directed to probably I think is the best public service nook ever seen. The Honorable Council Reverend Louise Scott. I don't know until you came later, Scott. And why I'm talking to you is because sometimes in life, and especially when you're a leader, you have to do things that you really don't want to do, but you have to do it. And what I want to talk about is this program. And in this program, what's so important about it was the tax credit called ASPR. When I came to the housing authorities, I got an education by March 1 on tax credits. The tax credits is the most important part of a lot of development in the urban. Now, the B.A. came out and he's a lawyer and Alex Addison, they're professionals. If he get $400,000 or she get $500,000 they gone. willing you're gonna die here you know nobody has went to more funerals nobody has went to more time to the hospital even me I remember he was eating at tops and you heard that somebody named Ali if you thought was my son you ran out of top stop eating and it wasn't my son of my grandson was my godson so what I'm saying to you the BA got up and said that the rule is 240 feet square feet that's how you have to notify people yes for planning board for zoning for Board of Health not this this is a special thing this say community so I broke it down community don't mean right around the corner or 20 feet it means the community that's why they given us so much so when he said it and then…
Oh my God, in the last five years I've sent about a hundred police officers in New Jersey. In the last five years I've had some hundred people going to the armed services that graduate. You know I'm on a corruption, I'm still on a DINA, but I want to talk about something else first. And I don't know if I'm going to give it to you, so I don't know if I'm going to get there to you. But anyway, what I want to talk about is the incident where up on University in Orange, Orange Street, the building, the 350 units, and I understood what was going on. And this conversation is directed to probably I think is the best public service nook ever seen. The Honorable Council Reverend Louise Scott. I don't know until you came later, Scott. And why I'm talking to you is because sometimes in life, and especially when you're a leader, you have to do things that you really don't want to do, but you have to do it. And what I want to talk about is this program. And in this program, what's so important about it was the tax credit called ASPR. When I came to the housing authorities, I got an education by March 1 on tax credits. The tax credits is the most important part of a lot of development in the urban. Now, the B.A. came out and he's a lawyer and Alex Addison, they're professionals. If he get $400,000 or she get $500,000 they gone. willing you're gonna die here you know nobody has went to more funerals nobody has went to more time to the hospital even me I remember he was eating at tops and you heard that somebody named Ali if you thought was my son you ran out of top stop eating and it wasn't my son of my grandson was my godson so what I'm saying to you the BA got up and said that the rule is 240 feet square feet that's how you have to notify people yes for planning board for zoning for Board of Health not this this is a special thing this say community so I broke it down community don't mean right around the corner or 20 feet it means the community that's why they given us so much so when he said it and then you jumped up and say oh it's only two people there they weren't talking about in the 240 residents that's for zoning they were talking about community and how the hell could James Street not be in James Street is the most expensive block in Newark and they wasn't included and what they did they set my baby up you and you jump up and say oh maybe there's only two people no it says community community so what I'm saying to you even let's take the BA's 240 people 240 focus that daughter him that's the arrogance but did the BA get up to say wait a minute they didn't do the focus but sometimes you got to do deals that deal I want that deal I know the only way to bring north back is you got to have a middle class just like they did with Jersey City North has 34,000 per person they made Jersey 50 went to 70 know why because they bought a middle class in that's why and with these bills they got to bring a middle class and then Allison get up oh they doing 20% no they got to do but 20% it's in the it's in the aspera you got to do it so what I'm saying to you I remember real quickly me and the stellar right deal and was that we are known as a 20 mean we should have been 3 million and Pat didn't want to do the management he was upset Pat was upset and I said Pat what happens if we don't do this they we lose three million dollars and we also lose the deal I say no brainer we got a vote for it you had to vote for it but you got to say never again that you're gonna let that happen that developer is arrogant he said the hell with focus and I know focus is great in north I love you don't let them take your soul baby don't let them take your soul thank you for your
comments next speaker Lisa Mitchelson Parker appearing good day criminal cult this run in our government I Lisa Parker resident of Newark and requesting from this body a forensic audit of all legal fees paid to law firms and audit of the law department there is no transparency from this body as to how mismanagement of our budget nor money spent for law firms contracts nor emergency appropriations to departments each elected has violated the public trust and not upheld the Constitution I'm talking all three of y'all council Gonzalez and Kelly but has allowed Baraka to control the executive the judicial and the legislative branch of our government resulting in corruption and cover-up you have two added starters today to expand legal fees for pipe replacement one of a New York firm that's getting a half a million dollars and one a willow a Willem borough firm that's getting a million dollars the city was subpoenaed in January of this year for pipe replacement of the contractors the Willem borough firm was retained to handle for one quarter of a million dollars why didn't the council members know what the subpoena was by the city clerk why didn't the council members know what professional services were for because every time y'all put up a piece of resolution you always word salad and never give the details as to what it's for the public has a right to know once again you elected have been cosigning these resolutions without questioning anything and some of you senior members know better what procurement process was in place for these law firms in Willie Parker case it started out as two hundred and fifty thousand dollars we wound up spending four million dollars those are our tax dollars where was the oversight by CDM Smith that was supposed to oversee the pipe replacement because you gave them a contract to make sure that we had quality assurance and they were putting the pipes in the ground and the workers were getting paid but thank God for those workers and laborers that went to the Department of Labor and told on y'all because y'all didn't have no oversight we know federal arrests were made for jazz and one contractor we need accountability because we are burdened with paying for your negligence your mismanagement and malfeasance paying allegiance to Baraka and not the people yesterday…
comments next speaker Lisa Mitchelson Parker appearing good day criminal cult this run in our government I Lisa Parker resident of Newark and requesting from this body a forensic audit of all legal fees paid to law firms and audit of the law department there is no transparency from this body as to how mismanagement of our budget nor money spent for law firms contracts nor emergency appropriations to departments each elected has violated the public trust and not upheld the Constitution I'm talking all three of y'all council Gonzalez and Kelly but has allowed Baraka to control the executive the judicial and the legislative branch of our government resulting in corruption and cover-up you have two added starters today to expand legal fees for pipe replacement one of a New York firm that's getting a half a million dollars and one a willow a Willem borough firm that's getting a million dollars the city was subpoenaed in January of this year for pipe replacement of the contractors the Willem borough firm was retained to handle for one quarter of a million dollars why didn't the council members know what the subpoena was by the city clerk why didn't the council members know what professional services were for because every time y'all put up a piece of resolution you always word salad and never give the details as to what it's for the public has a right to know once again you elected have been cosigning these resolutions without questioning anything and some of you senior members know better what procurement process was in place for these law firms in Willie Parker case it started out as two hundred and fifty thousand dollars we wound up spending four million dollars those are our tax dollars where was the oversight by CDM Smith that was supposed to oversee the pipe replacement because you gave them a contract to make sure that we had quality assurance and they were putting the pipes in the ground and the workers were getting paid but thank God for those workers and laborers that went to the Department of Labor and told on y'all because y'all didn't have no oversight we know federal arrests were made for jazz and one contractor we need accountability because we are burdened with paying for your negligence your mismanagement and malfeasance paying allegiance to Baraka and not the people yesterday the superior officers were here and they talked about how you denied a widow the benefit of her husband how dare you defend the Office of Violence Prevention that continue to promote their program that are not viable in our communities because I heard one of the council members say we got to give credit where it's due tell me how Baddie's University with tits ass and twerking is a benefit to our young girls objectifying our young girls in high school nothing but ass and Westside High School and over there at the Nance Center buns and basketball instead of training for coding and technology how is that a benefit you don't need to defund the police you need to refund the police because the OVP is nothing more than a slush fun for to anchor salaries of criminals and those that have a propensity to commit a crime the Union for the fire and the police should not be supporting campaigns of elected that do not honor your contract language that includes benefits for a widow how dare you every new worker you need to contact the FBI agent Delgado to report any corruption going on and here's his information we done we need change in accountability thank you
for your comments next speaker Felicia Austin Singleton appearing oh good evening evening you all know who I am the scroungy dog that girl couldn't look good as me on her worst day on her worst day this is nothing like a scroungy dog when you sit up here and listen to someone who's still behind you Larry stood behind you Louise and attack my deeds I sit on a phone with the White House I sit on a phone with Todd to me office that's her if you didn't know don't you ever let nobody disrespect me don't ever come for me unless I sent a tow truck tow truck for you Java okay I said what I said I called you Java but actually asked whoever told you I was talking about you what they said about you cuz I don't hold conversations by myself now down to business Lisa said Kenneth Brown pay him and it's no-brainer she was talking about you Pat she was talking about you it was a no-brainer the man worked for the city pay him you want your paycheck on Friday don't you you want your you want your days come on now a worker a decorated officer went over to the ground zero and worked in this city and you don't want to pay him that was a no-brainer I don't know what we went to executive session for on that I don't know what you hiring attorneys for what are y'all doing five hundred thousand dollars for pipeline replacements that's more money every last rain most one of empty will the Monica you should be ashamed of yourselves you sat here we appreciate the mayor we appreciate this waterman sewage yes yes yes for what you got us in court now Oh every penny ten he was resigned from Orange Manila because he didn't serve subpoenas from the court and they were gonna go lock them counsel people up they coming for y'all did not tell you didn't I tell you I told you why he came out of he had withheld them federal subpoenas for them information and every last one of y'all they come and I told you they were coming you thought I was lying I don't have to lie to nine none of y'all you ain't even worth a lot cuz you don't stand up for…
for your comments next speaker Felicia Austin Singleton appearing oh good evening evening you all know who I am the scroungy dog that girl couldn't look good as me on her worst day on her worst day this is nothing like a scroungy dog when you sit up here and listen to someone who's still behind you Larry stood behind you Louise and attack my deeds I sit on a phone with the White House I sit on a phone with Todd to me office that's her if you didn't know don't you ever let nobody disrespect me don't ever come for me unless I sent a tow truck tow truck for you Java okay I said what I said I called you Java but actually asked whoever told you I was talking about you what they said about you cuz I don't hold conversations by myself now down to business Lisa said Kenneth Brown pay him and it's no-brainer she was talking about you Pat she was talking about you it was a no-brainer the man worked for the city pay him you want your paycheck on Friday don't you you want your you want your days come on now a worker a decorated officer went over to the ground zero and worked in this city and you don't want to pay him that was a no-brainer I don't know what we went to executive session for on that I don't know what you hiring attorneys for what are y'all doing five hundred thousand dollars for pipeline replacements that's more money every last rain most one of empty will the Monica you should be ashamed of yourselves you sat here we appreciate the mayor we appreciate this waterman sewage yes yes yes for what you got us in court now Oh every penny ten he was resigned from Orange Manila because he didn't serve subpoenas from the court and they were gonna go lock them counsel people up they coming for y'all did not tell you didn't I tell you I told you why he came out of he had withheld them federal subpoenas for them information and every last one of y'all they come and I told you they were coming you thought I was lying I don't have to lie to nine none of y'all you ain't even worth a lot cuz you don't stand up for nothing nothing see them Smith I got emails on how they did the contractors do 25 lines per day and if you don't do a we taking your contract you think we should up here come up here waste our time with you we told we gave you addresses because Sandra Meneer release a gunner and myself came up here and gave you the addresses in 2021 that was not done not done and all we praise the mayor the clergy was outside God please Lord forgive them because they know not what they do they listening to demonic spirits demonic all of you and now you want to pay out to jazz group which who we know who husband that is come on let's be real I ain't gonna hold you that's a Dean of husband Ali big daddy that's a Dean's husband why didn't come get CDM Smith oh baby they looking at emails text messages and everything and I hope y'all know cuz I'm talking to them they look at my phone and baby I know they be hanging up the phone when I be talking to people the day they come for you you just raise your hand and say I know who sent you I'm never backing down but Java big Willie I know she gonna come up here but this my last time ever confronting anything that big floppy nothing always coming up here talking about residents and a now resident ever came up here said nothing about me but y'all supposed to be backing her and she's working with the city and you allow her to come talk about residents how dare you more money more money more money last week it was East Orange and this week is you all on Facebook but we already heard who Ted Green mm-hmm is I can't wait for somebody come out and bust all of y'all congratulations on streets is talking congratulations at the end of the day if you don't think but we know what y'all doing we do we do we come for results we come for answers and you never answer us but you answered that captain yesterday so I reserve my time to see what you got to say about
CDM Smith anybody thank you for your comments next speaker Jackson Jackson's appearing morning so we are yeah I'm sorry today definitely good morning North Municipal Council Baraka administration team Baraka because that's what unfortunately all of you are when you yes yes yes you're still on a team this city is the worst it has ever been the morale the motivation the citizenship the pride in this city for real norcas is hate for you it's hate you're scared to bring these meetings into the community because you know them homeowners coming out here and taxing all of y'all and if recall was a question if resignation was a question if voter no confidence was a question you'd all be out the sin is on your hand with this lead service line replacement because I told y'all when it first started they were not doing the job properly I told you they were not going into people's homes and changing those lines on the record so I pulled the record and sent it to the feds so they can now include the homeowners who I was speaking for you didn't have the right to take 120 million dollars from the county that you didn't need and then another hundred dollars hundred million dollars that came in from Donald Trump aka through pain because that's who did it hundred million so you could have left that hundred twenty million dollar bond up at the county but y'all greedy butts couldn't do that you had to take it all so you had a hundred twenty million dollars to play with with Montana and Roman we don't even want to talk about them two because that's where y'all really got the kickbacks at and I ain't said allegedly a damn thing because I'm not because when we run the records we don't know who got what and who sent the employee family member to pick up the check in the envelope and if you didn't you don't have an attitude but those of you who got one Donna don't care no more because you think it's alright for y'all to lie from them seats because y'all liars the people of the city know y'all liars they know when mr. P come up here they know when Kenyatta Stewart come up here not personal this business right now because I just heard Kenyatta…
CDM Smith anybody thank you for your comments next speaker Jackson Jackson's appearing morning so we are yeah I'm sorry today definitely good morning North Municipal Council Baraka administration team Baraka because that's what unfortunately all of you are when you yes yes yes you're still on a team this city is the worst it has ever been the morale the motivation the citizenship the pride in this city for real norcas is hate for you it's hate you're scared to bring these meetings into the community because you know them homeowners coming out here and taxing all of y'all and if recall was a question if resignation was a question if voter no confidence was a question you'd all be out the sin is on your hand with this lead service line replacement because I told y'all when it first started they were not doing the job properly I told you they were not going into people's homes and changing those lines on the record so I pulled the record and sent it to the feds so they can now include the homeowners who I was speaking for you didn't have the right to take 120 million dollars from the county that you didn't need and then another hundred dollars hundred million dollars that came in from Donald Trump aka through pain because that's who did it hundred million so you could have left that hundred twenty million dollar bond up at the county but y'all greedy butts couldn't do that you had to take it all so you had a hundred twenty million dollars to play with with Montana and Roman we don't even want to talk about them two because that's where y'all really got the kickbacks at and I ain't said allegedly a damn thing because I'm not because when we run the records we don't know who got what and who sent the employee family member to pick up the check in the envelope and if you didn't you don't have an attitude but those of you who got one Donna don't care no more because you think it's alright for y'all to lie from them seats because y'all liars the people of the city know y'all liars they know when mr. P come up here they know when Kenyatta Stewart come up here not personal this business right now because I just heard Kenyatta in the hallway this is business that's our liars they know y'all liars because everything that was presented to the people every agenda presented to us nothing but lies nothing but lies and y'all know that every one of you nobody is exempt right now or I didn't start running with the Barack a team don't matter you know fell in line yes yes yes yes yes we sit up here and deliberate for two or three hours and y'all still vote yes because you don't have the big boy drawers on in ladies to say no to that boy in the corner who is illiterate incapable of running this city and not the FOP shouldn't have stood here yesterday for only what they stood for they should have called for a vote of no confidence in this mayor who hired this incompetent police director and y'all signed off on it Fergie don't know a fire from a shooting from a stabbing from a domestic call or from a resident calling for a call fail he don't know the difference he ain't never here he out at lunch he roaming around he in New Brunswick he down in Trenton he in Camden check the mileage on my damn car he ain't never here y'all don't do your job everybody up there two three but I'm on this board I'm on that board oh look right right we all his horse ain't we and I don't care if you don't like it because see when y'all think y'all can respond to Donna and say I'm paid to say what I say on this mic y'all better watch it cuz that smack back come real I got 40 years on these streets 40 years being an advocate and never been disputed that's a record that's a record prove my case I stood here and told council president crump that 40 schools was gonna be closed oh darling that's not gonna happen and what happened she called me a liar on the mic the Sun doing the same thing who paid Larry for you to have that seat but you don't deserve it who paid Larry we paid this time just like we paid the last time and I said what I said at the last meeting and I mean it cuz you ain't tough you ain't tough Pat you ain't tough either but y'all barking now come on outside walk through the community go talk to residents cuz y'all don't do that once in a while y'all do which I don't do that talk to these people so they could tell you the seniors can't stand you the community can't stand you and the youth have lost all faith in you cuz your failures thank you for your comments next speaker the Sandra Doc this doc is appearing yes I am Cassandra Doc Malcolm says speak unpopular truth and prepare to be labeled the bad guy that's what we label the bad guy but we don't give a D a M we'll take that and so for those of you out there to get mad when we talk about rash J Baraka understand just like you get mad we get mad too mad and unfortunately young man that living in North Ward I tried I really tried to refrain from saying what you don't want me to say I tried to refrain from calling him what he is this Negro that's what he is we try we get mad and I get mad every time up South Orange Avenue and now they doing the demo between 11th and 12th though the little mini mall and I get mad every time I see that West Side is not getting its feel because this Negro is not even trying to let them get feel and see we don't just come to these means we go to other meetings so when I'm at the board meeting the board of education meeting and I see on the agenda that our building was sold for a dollar in 2016 to the housing authority I think about who was in office yeah this Negro right here to sit on the second floor cuz he did it Negro you're educator how dare you sell our builders for a dollar no one damn our kids deserve better cuz you know what rash you don't give a damn now you don't even care no more Negro you don't even care and it's unfortunate it's unfortunate see when you talk about you can you do the conference to talk about the jazz group Negro you connected to him huh you can't get to the jazz group who was it you connected to it through marriage huh Negro who you think you planned with I I came a stay here right now cuz I'm so mad every time and do you have a nerve to keep parading up and down this state you go to Neptune and they call us I get the calls oh yeah he was just down here in Neptune he was just down here in the free hole area and I said for what oh he'd be having like the coffee clutches I said well do me a favor if he ever call you for a coffee clutch hang up the phone on him remind him of the things that he do here in Newark if you're doing here in Newark just like everything everything and we have a nerve to be responsible we're responsible for you a lot of us sitting here responsible for you rallying and protesting go ahead bad you couldn't get a lot of chili than me and then you do what you do to us you put all those that don't look like us before us you know these people are here stuff but you don't even care no more cuz see your kids eat good at night you eat good at night as a matter of fact you and no not even you because now you say stay in the word Donna they did not think about those that supposed to be in the word we got somebody in the word that opened up a lounge over here on Broad Street and it's Franklin Street why pastor why are you in business why would you open up a such a thing don't go in there Pat Pat don't go in there I don't care how much you invite you don't go in there I love you Pat but I will talk about you on this mic Negro if I see you going in those doors cuz I'm waiting and I'm looking in fact go talk to him cuz he one of your counters talk to him Louise tell him you better have a conversation with him allow to sig all house pastor thank you for your comments this place me Chris Sanders I do not see mr. Sanders George Tillman jr. good evening George Tillman jr. I hope that you have the ordinances that I gave you yesterday and you looked over those ordinances regarding 6p SF dash C which repelled the Newark Employment Commission excuse me since we went through all of this time almost a year trying to figure out what's been going on no one gave me an answer to what's been going on and thank God for the clerk's office working with me and giving me this information in these ordinances and helping me to get Newark residents to to work in on these construction sites one of the things that under this new ordinance if you read it in 2015 there was quarterly reports and semi-annual reports that are to go to the office of the city clerk I put in an open request for those reports and that's what's been going on since 2015 there's also the duties of the mayor's office of employment and training went to the office of Newark Works and under Newark Works there's supposed to be a first source of register containing a detailed description of the job responsibilities and necessary qualification for all those jobs that are available on those construction sites now also under this ordinance Newark Works is supposed to be sending a list of qualified Newarkers for every construction site in development during pre-construction also under this ordinance Newark Works is supposed to be posting all of these construction jobs up on the city website and also their website that's not being done this is supposed these jobs this this let me be very clear what's going on there's thousands of jobs in the city with construction that that's supposed to be posted on the website the city website according to this ordinance we're not going to go back and try to figure out why stuff wasn't done we're gonna deal with what's supposed to be doing going on right now according to this ordinance so all of our conversations now Councilman De Silva because you're on this Commission because those duties of the enforcement and monitoring went to the affirmative action review council I checked with the clerk's office I also checked with one of the members they haven't even met this year now you can confirm that because you're here you're one of the members I have you here right here listen it's one of the members of the affirmative action review council so you can answer me tonight have you met and have you I've been compiling the record on these these developers and what's been going on these construction sites what the new residents are working and this information is supposed to be going to the clerk's office so now we've come to the point and we see and I've been saying that the administration is not compliant and that's why no residents aren't working and it's and the more that I dig and the more that dig and the more we see that we're not working because it's the administration because those jobs are supposed to be posted up on their website according to this ordinance so that new residents go up there and apply for those jobs so there's no excuses on why why why no residents aren't working they're not working because you're not posting the jobs for us even though to go out there and go get the jobs so we need to really address what's going on with this there's no more we're doing the amendments to these ordinances we need to do this here is the ordinance council president I gave it to you all yesterday it was done in 2015 by mayor Baraka and it's this administrative this this not this municipal council but that municipal council at that time Gonzalez was on that Kintana Ramos was on that and signed this this this ordinance not you Gonzalez you was absent but you aware this ordinance and so we need to address this this we need to address this councilwoman no residents aren't working they're not a part of these economic incentives the way they were designed there's no more excuses you can come up and say whatever you want to say they come up and say whatever they want to say again the fact of the matter is not being done
thank you thank you for your comments next speaker Linda McDonald Carter I do not see Emily Aiken's okay this Aiken's is appearing George your tall good evening I'm Emily Aiken's evening what are we going to do to get our people working that is a very good question a question I want to ask you all is do you work for the people or for the administration because we are not the same how is it that we have the people coming to this microphone to speak out against ordinances and beg you to say no and to consider the people only for you all to vote against the people it's either you are working for the public or you're working for this administration and clearly the line has been drawn and you are working for the administration so we the people requests a refund of our money and for you all to be paid by the mayor directly we are tired of this body not doing right by the people crump you said that your doors are always open and you were here to work for the people that's a bold-faced lie because Deborah Salters came to you for assistance with a very delicate matter and you told her it was above your pay grade that's not something and at large to say to a constituent round tree and I thank you for what you have been doing and all that you do do all you need to say is simply yes or no anything beyond this comes from the evil one I thank you for trying to help us but you can't you can't work both sides either you are here for the people or you are not there are plenty of times when you should have said no and kept it as a note instead of changing it to a yes we need you to keep your counsel is it true you're a pastor you are in a conflicting position you claim to be a public servant but you service your service is to the Baraka administration you sit there and give no value to the seat you are in but you're a pastor shouldn't you do what's in the eyes of our Lord let's go back to pop Warner because you said that there were rules so why are people not following the rules our…
thank you thank you for your comments next speaker Linda McDonald Carter I do not see Emily Aiken's okay this Aiken's is appearing George your tall good evening I'm Emily Aiken's evening what are we going to do to get our people working that is a very good question a question I want to ask you all is do you work for the people or for the administration because we are not the same how is it that we have the people coming to this microphone to speak out against ordinances and beg you to say no and to consider the people only for you all to vote against the people it's either you are working for the public or you're working for this administration and clearly the line has been drawn and you are working for the administration so we the people requests a refund of our money and for you all to be paid by the mayor directly we are tired of this body not doing right by the people crump you said that your doors are always open and you were here to work for the people that's a bold-faced lie because Deborah Salters came to you for assistance with a very delicate matter and you told her it was above your pay grade that's not something and at large to say to a constituent round tree and I thank you for what you have been doing and all that you do do all you need to say is simply yes or no anything beyond this comes from the evil one I thank you for trying to help us but you can't you can't work both sides either you are here for the people or you are not there are plenty of times when you should have said no and kept it as a note instead of changing it to a yes we need you to keep your counsel is it true you're a pastor you are in a conflicting position you claim to be a public servant but you service your service is to the Baraka administration you sit there and give no value to the seat you are in but you're a pastor shouldn't you do what's in the eyes of our Lord let's go back to pop Warner because you said that there were rules so why are people not following the rules our ten you team was cheated in their last game which is why they were given another game which the coaches had to fight for they were cheated by the refs which they all seem to play from the same book the flyers came out for the next games and somehow ironically the down bottom teams logo was left off they said it was accidental and that wasn't true it was on purpose how these are your people that do this as a parent this is very disturbing how many other teams have been cheated or mistreated because of your people our teams the Bears and the Falcons are set to reunite reunite on Sunday and at the same home location why is that the last game they played was sped up which was unfair to the players how does the game start in the five minutes later we're in halftime is someone going to make sure that that board actually works so we can see the time and score why is it our children don't get the sick the fair share of treatment that is given to your beloved bears you are a pastor right are you in the business of picking and choosing who gets a blessing I am publicly requesting a meeting with you councilman not pastor to have a conversation about my concerns lastly public safety we have someone there was an accident over by our tie I came to this body and I asked you all to come up with something to protect our children our schoolchildren from the time they're in school starting in September all the way up to June where are we with that what's the progress that has been made because you have had time to sit down and have a conversation to protect our kids I asked for protection for a group of kids walk in the school the cop was there once in a while and that was the people that come into the city they drive erratically our kids are always fighting to get across the street safely many parents let their kids walk to in front I'm pretty sure they want their kids home safely and they want their kids to be in school safely so what are we doing we want a report card you all need to let us know what's going on and if you're not here for us then resign thank you thank you for your comments next speaker never Salters never saw this is appearing never Salters worry for the people you know I'm gonna start with what y'all said number one the focus that that this this Orange Street project and I see Allison like came up here yesterday and changed her tune after we made it all that noise last week because we weren't getting anything but a sign and and art on a building but the lie was told that there was no one around that area again community is the people right in the actual definition it talks about the people that are connected in a certain area if you go 500 feet to the left or to the right you see townhomes you've got the tall builders over there you've got so and then she had to nerve to say and I'm gonna keep saying this when we brought this to her she stood up and said well it's between the city and the developers it's not for the people and when she first got here her first day in the meeting I said y'all needed to send her back where you got her from because at that time there was an ordinance that said we would get 50% in the housing she stood up and stood up here and said oh that's too much let's take it down to 30 she's from the DMV area she's not even from here then she tried to convince us that she was broke at one time and had to struggle to get a house lady please but anyway it's so much wrong in this city and I want the people to pay attention and and notice and I know yesterday I said when I stood up here that crump was and I and I said correct me and I did that on purpose correct me if I'm wrong but he didn't correct me just said he didn't work for the watershed but he is a commissioner on the Pasek Valley Commission and you get a stipend of about 12,000 a year so that's still another check on top of the 175 and the 120 yeah you took your mother's seat again the you know yeah all of these things even our BA with the brick city peace collective all these millions that are flowing out of you guys's hands back and forth it's like money in a cup oh this way that way that way um you all voted you stood up and got upset when we talked about this Orange Street project and you literally said no the BA was like oh I'm trying to encourage you to please look at it y'all said no and we knew that you were gonna come back and say yes because that's what you do and I understand that you say oh I don't listen to nobody no the mayor tells you what to do and you do it but the part of this is you all have forgotten that you are supposed to be you are the council who are supposed to be directing the mayor not the other way around you all actually have the power to make him a mayor in name only where he wouldn't be able to make any decisions but you all have laid down and gotten down because you know most of you wouldn't even been able to get in that seat without being on the ticket with him and again you're holding seats that you don't deserve you don't care for the people everything you vote on is for the developer you have yet to show us one ordinance that you have passed to benefit we the people and see I gave roundtree a somewhat of an assignment with one of the developers the from Mellon and all these people she was so shocked at the prices that a rent she was yes and this is why when we come to you and say why would you just vote yes on an ordinance that gives these slumlords and landlords the right to raise our rents five percent per year simply because they can you said yes to this you are creating the homelessness in this city but your families live well your mothers live very well with just a two paycheck sir you're making 300,000 almost four million a year you know for 400,000 a year and for what what do we get for the bang for our buck you bleed us dry the BA is supposed to be bringing finances into the city and creating a budget for two hundred ninety five thousand dollars a year and we have none of it since he's been here we've been in a deficit and thank you and how are we benefiting but he's the head guy of the Brick City Peace Collective collecting millions from that it's millions every we got a bunch of millionaires in nine years off the backs of the people and we have nothing to show for it we have no housing that our people can afford to live in and no jobs thank you for your comments next speaker the dear of Brown is Brown appearing this dog please this doc please do not call out miss Brown please everybody ready for miss Brown hi now dear a Brown North New Jersey oh they started the time on time we come here every month well let me start off I live near Osborne I was there when they all pulled up firefighters the police didn't know what was going on because I didn't even see the smoke and condolences to the family but I did come up here and tell you about the missing fire hydrant that never got replaced firefighters did a wonderful job that night getting things done but that fire hydrant that stolen cars keep hitting never got replaced and someone up here told me that's a good idea you brought up but just never replaced it so you know I think you have to understand we come up here every month to talk about things but it's so tight right now you still got the shield up everyone has their concerns they're passionate just like yesterday's pre-meeting Councilman silver you were passionate with that question are we doing this to the employees because of what was going on but we've been doing it to a lot of employees EPW I ran into a guy didn't get paid I said were you gonna make a complaint he said well why I'm supposed to tell the landlord he won his money now we gotta follow up I don't understand your job I'm not all in your shoes but I do understand that we keep coming to you like maybe for next month let's not play the game we already know you're gonna take your trip just let us know now if we're gonna have a meeting or not because last year you played with us you told us at the last minute oh we're not gonna have it so if you're not gonna have a meeting with us can you at least talk to some of the elected officials down there you know part is business and part is fun but let them know we got some things going on that we need to get some answers to this housing is serious you did an ordinance to tell landlords not to raise the rent but they still raised it because it seemed like they tripled during that time quote-unquote when they weren't supposed to raise it because rent went from 1600 to 3,000 and I don't even make enough but I need to move but yet nobody's looking into that I don't want to hear about we created affordable housing this girl right here don't qualify for affordable housing and I don't make enough for market rate rent so please try to understand that low-income affordable is all the same it goes by income of the girls some of us has made it and have a little higher salary even though we need more but we need to look at the longshoremen they got together they stood together and they got what they needed even though it's not finished they still got what they needed and North residents we need to stick together we need to get together because at the same time the individuals that's up here you voted in so it's not even all their fault even with the administration that work here you let them bring them in and keep them here and I want counsel to understand that when these administration and different departments come up here and need to give you a report I do not want to hear again I need to get back to you respect that respect they knew they were coming before you they know they had to give you a report they need to give you the answers but at the same time you allow them or come back later we need to stop 25 is about to be here 24 exposed a lot of things accountability but I think also you need to understand and I learned this to Q tip quit taking it we are all humans we all have our things somebody says something about us woo-woo play the violin get in the corner wow wow end of the day this is business and it's about the people you took a oath you got sworn in do the job I have a lot more to say but my child is watching I made sure she watched tonight so she could understand how the residents come up here well I had to leave her to come bring the concerns to see if maybe people would listen but you got to understand stop taking it personal start having meetings with the people we can't get everything out in five minutes they already told me you bring on a lot listen I'm trying to get everything in five minutes but we can't you have to figure out a way to communicate with the people in order to lead the people we don't have to like each other just respect the fact that we need to get some things done because the city of Newark we look crazy we really do but thank you for your time
thank you for your comments next speaker who near a elbow mine this Belmont is appearing all right everybody please let's get some quiet so we can hear miss Belmont yes because there's so much to say so good day fail leadership that's running our government let me just break some stuff down so we got Razz Baraka who's almost a millionaire off the backs of bilking and selling our city to his campaign donors and special interest groups we got most of our council members who work two jobs and sit on these paid commissions and committees on behalf of the city supposedly representing us double triple dipping has got to stop here and who gonna stop it since nobody else is raising the alarm we're gonna make sure we put a stop to it one way or another political greed corporate greed no other way to describe it Razz Baraka is robbing the bank and the city council members are driving the getaway car that's what y'all doing so the message to the streets they go off their social blinders Newarkers never trust apollo tricksters and their followers who promised to do what they could do tomorrow what they could do today now the housing issue we got a latest report that came out to say homelessness continues climbing in New Jersey under the new annual count report and it shows that's Essex County leave north the highest in the county of Essex in the state of New Jersey with all the bill city it is this acceptable but he is the worst form of violence and if you're not building housing jobs like tell me keep coming up here talking about ordinance that y'all need to follow that y'all pass that y'all violating your own ordinances if you ain't creating those jobs and wealth in the economic growth for the constituents of new then what the hell are you talking about what are you talking about and what is new in the car in the crisis and we are in need of real sustainable plan not just ineffective policies and programs that we keep coming up here year after year after year talking about build those fair share housing for low-income residents is homelessness not containers not hotels like I keep telling you when are you gonna start building housing quota that is required by just this…
thank you for your comments next speaker who near a elbow mine this Belmont is appearing all right everybody please let's get some quiet so we can hear miss Belmont yes because there's so much to say so good day fail leadership that's running our government let me just break some stuff down so we got Razz Baraka who's almost a millionaire off the backs of bilking and selling our city to his campaign donors and special interest groups we got most of our council members who work two jobs and sit on these paid commissions and committees on behalf of the city supposedly representing us double triple dipping has got to stop here and who gonna stop it since nobody else is raising the alarm we're gonna make sure we put a stop to it one way or another political greed corporate greed no other way to describe it Razz Baraka is robbing the bank and the city council members are driving the getaway car that's what y'all doing so the message to the streets they go off their social blinders Newarkers never trust apollo tricksters and their followers who promised to do what they could do tomorrow what they could do today now the housing issue we got a latest report that came out to say homelessness continues climbing in New Jersey under the new annual count report and it shows that's Essex County leave north the highest in the county of Essex in the state of New Jersey with all the bill city it is this acceptable but he is the worst form of violence and if you're not building housing jobs like tell me keep coming up here talking about ordinance that y'all need to follow that y'all pass that y'all violating your own ordinances if you ain't creating those jobs and wealth in the economic growth for the constituents of new then what the hell are you talking about what are you talking about and what is new in the car in the crisis and we are in need of real sustainable plan not just ineffective policies and programs that we keep coming up here year after year after year talking about build those fair share housing for low-income residents is homelessness not containers not hotels like I keep telling you when are you gonna start building housing quota that is required by just this was passed when are you gonna start doing that when are you gonna start building the housing that was recommended by Rutgers cloud report what are you gonna start doing that now director lad we came to your meeting and we kind of pleased to hear that you made some changes to that proposed or plan that you came up because it was no way in hell with a federal program that says that is aimed towards identifying and removing the barriers to affordable housing production preservation and lowering the cost that we face in our rent high rents and high foreclosures is what we're facing here in the city and you got to turn and you're gonna give this money extract this money to other people are you kidding me not on our watch you got that now pet council Lord have mercy condolences to the family no you should be making a request to this Baraka administration and the New York City Council to send that damn money to that officer's wife and family it is unacceptable and then you got to come here and talk about oh the other programs when you ran a rec center that was drugs guns and gang now we see the correlation is next acceptable you say for your comments next speaker you said a Shavaz mr. Shabazz appearing documents I would like council members that sly name you such a badge my issue is with a university hospital and the courses if I really need help with the council members I went to the hospital and it was misdiagnosed subjected to medical neglect malpractice and deviations didn't care they performed the surgery on me that I didn't need and and then when I bought it to the person's attention you know it says the ball blow and I had to go to another house to rectify area that was caused by that then I went back to university to get a corrective surgery done but I said I submitted all the documents to patient advocacy they acknowledge it but they didn't do anything about it so I found litigation nobody UCLA Rutgers scene hall so bar Association legal service nobody would help me so I did a pro se and if you know the procedures with the court system I found my litigation acknowledging their lamb and to proceed at a pro se litigant so when I submitted request for productive documents and interrogatory they called me in court two weeks later and dismissed part of the case but kept the nurse and to the doctors out so when did I say at that time can you allow me to make my complaint to put a university hospital by wood Johnson bond of his health and Rutgers University they allowed me to do that then when I've seen interrogatories again they called me in court about a month and a half later and dismissed it but I didn't know it I had went to the court how to find it was the status of my case because I didn't hear anything I was informed that was dismissed so at that time I went to the ombudsman she informed me that I could read secret seat reconsideration so when she said that I got right on it within that within a week I had to people I typed in the paper had it done submitted it to a court but what happened when I went to the ombudsman I showed her so I dropped it in mail just like a Thursday some Monday morning Monday morning I got him said go to the court and get his stamp and inside the package that I gave you was a docket sheet is like outlining the procedure the court case and uh when I got his stamp we're friend them out of right right amount of time on a docket sheet it says I found the consideration out of time I would like to have council members help me to get this case heard I'm not trying to close no hospital just trying to rectify the errors that happened to me and people coming behind I would like to have help from the counselor possible that's it all right well thank you for your comments okay now speak to somebody after this pertaining to it stick around afterwards okay thank you thank you next speaker by carrier Bradley Bradley appear good evening council members good evening my name is for Kira Bradley a high-risk interventionist a proud high-risk interventionist who is now a productive member of society I am also PCT I certified at a level three professionally certified a lifelong residence at Texas County North New Jersey I come to the mercy of the city please expedite an emergency inspection on my new unit I am currently homeless with the Mella address at 200 Georgia King Village apartment 4g which in fact I have no access to my mailbox because the mailbox key have been changed deliberately purposely with the malicious intent by the management at 250 Georgia King Village Sierra Thomas Daisy Rubio de Kisha chemists justine La Bay also security a security breach lieutenant fortune what the Mexicans in my dwelling place were not 27 and my cogent use was stolen my bookbag as of 1015 24 I had to vacate the premises at 200 Georgia King Village by 4 I was out by 5 p.m. I left forever grateful I came back to GKB spoke to Kisha chemists on 16 22 24 just to return my keys my original key I had four and a half years to obtain my security deposit and also to attain obtain my anchor benefit check to know about my anchor check was missing my court documentation because I have a court date coming missing out my mailbox they tampered with my mail I hope you can be present reservation fully responsible for my hardship my current situation because of greed embezzlement shiesty grimy ways everyone involved will be held accountable for my pain and suffering barely able to eat for I am with the child homeless in need of my rebate check my anchor check tampering with mail is a federal offense and this problem will be rectified please I'm asking the city to help me because I am being provoked by a number of people I seek I am gonna seek counsel and I'm still seeking I'm figuring it out now anything I do good or bad is done with a wholeheartedly without malicious intent I'm gonna do it with my whole I mean it without blemish right hmm I am now the productive member of society so I will not handle things how I used to how I did them previously I will now see everybody in court I am seeking jail time for my offenders stick-up kids productive hoodlums white-collar criminals whoo who day is coming please reduce my mail Georgia King village my stolen credentials I will not provide GKV with my new address I do not trust anyone I will not let anyone harm me any further I also stand to be corrected when wrong not when provoked know the difference I do comprehend very well I know you do too whenever I did a crime I did the time I do have an extensive record I did do things I will not decide that I just got caught for my y'all and get yours it's coming right so and whoever did me wrong is going to jail I also know betrayal is a part of the plan amen I will see you all in everything is documented laws will never kill the truth I will continue to use my intelligence it works better I use my knuckles enough they hurt so I'm a keep praying for giving applying pressure I am for Kara Bradley a high-risk interventionist loving caring understanding compassionate long suffering blessed quote professor Toby D sender said for Kara you could have been a professor I am thank you for your comments next speaker Lorenzo Hall Mr. Hall not appearing Arion how how not appearing has said nicely nicely not appearing while we Elmore this stock please this talk this doc and mr. but money okay we can hear you up here so the crowd can hear you if you continue to talk you can talk outside miss but money you ready to talk outside next week all right miss right appearing yes good evening my name is opal alright I reside at the underpulled Street in Newark New Jersey I'm just here about the implementation of the law dot Frank Wall Street reform and consumer protection act I would like to begin with title nine investor protection and improvement to the regulation of securities sure title is investor protection and securities reform act of 2010 section 954 recovery of enormously reward I'm sorry it's recovery of erroneously awarded compensation it says that the securities exchange act of 1934 is amended by inserting after section 10c as added by section 952 the following it's a section 10d recovery of erroneously awarded compensation policy listing standards the commission shall by rule direct the national securities exchange and national securities association to prohibit the listing of any securities or any securities of an issuer that does not comply with the requirements of this section be that sec that recovery of far recovery of funds the rules of the commission and the subsection a shall require each issuer to develop and implement a policy providing one Ford disclosure of the policy of the issuer and incentive based compensation that is based on financial information required to be under the securities laws and to that the event that the issuer is required to prepare an accounting we statement due to material non-compliance of the issuer if any financial reporting requirement under under the securities law the issuer will recover from any current there of the issuer who received incentive based compensation including such options awarded as compensation during the three-year period preceding the date on which the issuer is required to required in prepare an accounting we statement based on the erroneous data in excess of what would have been paid to the executive officer under the accounting restatement and that's for a title 10 there's the Bureau of consumer protection and there is the prohibition unfair deceptive of abusive acts or practices and as a title 11 here's the Federal Reserve System provisions and I would just like to state before in case we have not haven't the this act is basically thank you thank you for your comments miss right inflexible thank you next speaker Debra maps in I do not see miss maps in not appearing in that Kenya it's Kenya not appearing G curitin she texts she's not here in town not appearing Latoya Jackson Tucker I do not see her not appearing Tammy Holloway do not see her either not appearing Cherie smiles miss smiles appearing my name Cherie smiles and I'm I'm here about 265 new community I have complaining about that building every since I've been living there okay I don't live there no more but every time I come to see my friends I brought them with me they're threatened to have me locked up if I step in the building and it's somebody need to come out there I have a friend that was beaten almost to death in the building and they threatened to keep me out I've been complaining all them years that I've been living there ten years and nobody haven't done nothing the Monica just pushed me off so what do y'all gonna do about that we seniors they treat and they got them locked in they can't use a community room they can't don't go to none of y'all events they don't do nothing they have no social worker security is poor and management is messed up too they need help so what are y'all gonna do for that them what are y'all gonna do we seniors we need to be protected we protect job we vote for y'all and now votes count so I'm angry yeah I am angry because it took for me to come here because I was threatened to be put out of a building that I used to live in I have not done anything wrong nothing I even had to file a complaint against the security they need help help them please help them and help me too because I can't go no jail for something I ain't do because I stepped foot in a building to help people y'all looking at me like I'm crazy I ain't crazy miss miles we just waiting for you to finish your comments before we say anything all right I'm finished go ahead so I'm gonna just ask you to speak to my chief of staff James Blaney over in the corner you see what James raise your hand please right there and speak to him and we'll follow up with you that's it council president council members that concludes the hearing of citizens all right thank you madam clerk any comments from the council any comments from the council councilman silver yes so I just want to two things we were talking about the affirmative action we've met about three times this year we've met with mr. Baptiste who's in charge of affirmative action one of the things that came out of the meeting from him that the councilwoman and my other council colleague think we gave him resources that he didn't have to enable him to be able to do his job he was short staffed he didn't have what he needed and we advocated for him to get him the resources that he needed we're gonna meet again on Monday at 11 a.m. but we have met at least three times in the year of 2024 with mr. Baptiste who runs the affirmative action committee and again from the first meeting when we met him he advised us that he was short staffed didn't have the resources that he need and we were able to get him the people that he needed we know development is through the roof here maybe Monday's meeting will reveal that he needs more people which that's what I anticipate to be able to work effectively but we have met two or three times this year already with the affirmative action committee the last thing was yesterday miss Salters so the reason that there is permit parking in the east of Penn Station was there was a parking study done for about seven months and now the parking authority put in an RFQ to do a parking study in that Mulberry Street Market Street all those side street area so it takes a couple of months to do a parking study to find out where we're gonna place those permit parking signs but an RFQ was put out by the parking authority and a study of that area will take place shortly but it took the that's the East Ward one meaning the ironbound one about seven months to complete to get the report in and to figure out where the permit parking signs were going to be located to help the residents again park closer to where they live Councilwoman Scott Browntree. Yes Mr. Scott will you please see Mr. Yusef
regarding the situation with the hospital Mr. Shabazz please I'm not sure whether we'll be able to because it is a legal matter and we don't get involved with litigation but we can at least talk to you. I think Mr. Scott stood oh he's over here. You hear me? I didn't see him I thought he had stepped out I didn't see him. Oh no he's here. Thank you. In reference to and I just want to piggyback off of what my colleague Mr. Silva stated regarding us meeting with the affirmative action with the affirmative action team there were a lot of things and this is really a work in progress because there are some things that we discovered we've been meeting as he stated there's some new things that you brought to our attention that we really really need to address the website there's so many things Mr. Shulman that you have brought to our attention and that's what the first meetings were about to address the ordinance now there's some other things that we need to address regarding the website so we meet on Monday and I have asked other people to sit in that meeting because I'm not an affirmative action specialist but we have workforce development we have Corporation Council we have a BA and we have all of these players that are part of the administration so on the legislative part what we're going to do is see what it is we need to address and what it is that we can make sure is taking care of the first thing was staffing and we did find out that there was an issue with administrative staff in that office so while I could state it that everything is a work in progress it's not that we're ignoring it and it's not that maybe it's not happening fast enough but we are making sure that we stay on top of it when you're looking for results that's what we want we want to be able to come back with a resolution or results from your request whatever we can do legitimately and ethically so Monday we'll be meeting prayerfully we can talk to you after the meeting and bring you into a meeting to discuss some of the things that it is that we are working on getting a resolution to and just wanted…
regarding the situation with the hospital Mr. Shabazz please I'm not sure whether we'll be able to because it is a legal matter and we don't get involved with litigation but we can at least talk to you. I think Mr. Scott stood oh he's over here. You hear me? I didn't see him I thought he had stepped out I didn't see him. Oh no he's here. Thank you. In reference to and I just want to piggyback off of what my colleague Mr. Silva stated regarding us meeting with the affirmative action with the affirmative action team there were a lot of things and this is really a work in progress because there are some things that we discovered we've been meeting as he stated there's some new things that you brought to our attention that we really really need to address the website there's so many things Mr. Shulman that you have brought to our attention and that's what the first meetings were about to address the ordinance now there's some other things that we need to address regarding the website so we meet on Monday and I have asked other people to sit in that meeting because I'm not an affirmative action specialist but we have workforce development we have Corporation Council we have a BA and we have all of these players that are part of the administration so on the legislative part what we're going to do is see what it is we need to address and what it is that we can make sure is taking care of the first thing was staffing and we did find out that there was an issue with administrative staff in that office so while I could state it that everything is a work in progress it's not that we're ignoring it and it's not that maybe it's not happening fast enough but we are making sure that we stay on top of it when you're looking for results that's what we want we want to be able to come back with a resolution or results from your request whatever we can do legitimately and ethically so Monday we'll be meeting prayerfully we can talk to you after the meeting and bring you into a meeting to discuss some of the things that it is that we are working on getting a resolution to and just wanted to address that in reference to I think someone stated something oh yes miss Salters so in reference to the apartment and the development miss Brown and miss Salters have addressed the pricing with development I'm not going to stop working on that situation it's just where you asked me to do the investigation so I'm going to continue to work on that situation as well I didn't I'm not dropping it I was just a little shocked when I did make the first phone call yeah but it's okay we're going to work through that too because I believe that when something when a door is shut or something can't be done there's always another door that we can walk through to assist if it's if it's there and it's there so we're going to work on that not that's all I have council president thank you so much thank you councilwoman it councilman Gonzalez right your mic is off he's invited you all the meetings all the meeting meetings are public so mr. Tillman you are invited to that to go to that meeting on Monday at what time is the meeting so that's so the meeting that we're having was not it was actually an informative we're requesting information so that mr. Tillman could come into the meeting with the committee it's beyond the committee so I've called some other people into the meeting to address his concerns and then give him a schedule to come in after the meeting so I mean I don't want to go back and forth about that but say this is a committee meeting all the committee meetings are open to the right he knows that he's aware of that he knows every committee every commission he probably can tell you some commissioners that you might he's he's very familiar with the whole process so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna talk to as I stated the people that are supposed to be meeting and maybe we can meet either before after or even during I don't know I'm going to talk to Corporation Council Deputy Mayor and let's get mr. Tillman at the table one way or the other okay thank you thank you councilman any council members so let me say a couple things before administration comes up number one the comment about me not helping miss Salters was made or not being open my door is open and always has been in fact a while ago when miss Salters had come to me asked a question I directed her to the right office and in fact even today when she didn't see me walk by I stopped and said miss Salters are you being helped so I think it's disingenuous to say that I'm not there I'm not open without really knowing the facts when you come to me I respond and I try to do the best I can and if someone else said something about attending meetings in the community and I say this for myself but also say this for the council my council colleagues because I see them in these meetings I attend regular community meetings I go to development meetings I go to district district leader community meetings I go to tenant association meetings homeowners Association meetings block Association meetings precinct Association precinct captains meetings meetings are scheduled online or virtual meetings in person phone calls a return so I think it's just it really but I don't publicize that I don't say it all the time and none of us really say that to all the time but we are out there we're in the community and we're having these meetings and we're resolving issues you know you may not see that here in front of the you know the live audience but we are doing our job and we are doing it to help our residents of this city and we will continue to do so you know just because you don't see it doesn't mean we're not working and I also say this if I'm not at a meeting my staff is at the meeting and if my staff isn't at the meeting 99.9% of the time we didn't get an invitation to the meeting so I always say email me let me know what's going on if you're having a community meeting because don't assume that I know automatically because maybe one of the other council members and that's it Kenyan City of North Corporation Council so I'll just address some of the comments that were made by some of the speakers first I know there was some comments about the added starters that we have here first I was going to thank madam clerk for working with me in my office in reference to even allowing the adder starter to come on as many of you know I've been out of the country dealing with death in the family madam clerk was able to put more on the council's agenda but more importantly though I think the details of some questions that have been asked about the actual contractors themselves the firm from Williamsboro is the Armstrong firm Mike Armstrong is a Nork born and bred person who happened to move to South Jersey he is in Nork all of the time he preaches how he grown and he's grown up in Nork he talks about all the time what Nork has done for him and he has been a contractor with the city for years and it's done an outstanding job mr. Armstrong's firm is involved in some of the serious cases that we have and some of which are gone to trial and going through that process now and that's why there was a need to increase his his contract he has gone through the RFP process like most of the other firms that we have on our list the second firm here that we have from New York there was some questions about if we have have the city law department process been fair and open and things of that nature and that's I know there was some comments yesterday about the council not knowing information about the last service line issue that we had that's the direct opposite of what happened here the mayor came in here himself had an executive session with the council about the information in reference to what was going on and at that point we can only give you that amount of information because of course it was a subpoena that was given to us and it was to be kept confidential so we gave as much information as we could soon thereafter the mayor also had a community meeting I believe with with the state to give a little more information because again at that point we were allowed to give that amount of information and we were specifically told not to share certain information because of how detailed that the investigation was this firm here I have that you see here the main person that's involved in this case here to involve with helping the city has been involved with us working with the US Attorney's Office going through that process as we got to where we are now and then we also thought it was important for them to be involved in going after the develop with the bond because the city is entitled to reimbursement for all of the money that we spent for replacing the lines for the legal representation so forth and so on so that's why we have them involved and that's why it says here it's a 2025 because we expect their bond company to have somewhat of a fight because it's a criminal case that we're talking about I just think it's also sad to hear that folks come to the mic sometimes and make comments about you know council members and members of the administration having connections to people that we know they don't have connections to someone made a comment that the mayor is has a marital connection to the jazz group not everyone in this room knows that's not true even a person saying it knows it's not true when unfortunately sometimes we come up in here make comments because we think that the members of the public who are watching or the members of the public that are in this room when no better and we all know better I know there was also some comments about people here receiving kickbacks from Montana and Roman again right another example of folks who come to this microphone make comments and know doing well that that's not true we know it and the worst part about it is in this specific situation with the federal government being involved that would have been the first part they would have grabbed us on right you're saying about something else you know I know people come up here all the time they talk about the feds and things of that nature but the federal government is involved in this project and they investigated every part of project the process that we gave out the contracts who was involved in the evaluation process who was involved in picking the people who the people were who the the main contractors were who the workers were the people who evaluated that process from the start to the finish this last service line contract had been evaluated by the federal government for months so for someone to walk in here to say that any council member of any any city employee had received any kickbacks from anything to do with the last service line they should be ashamed themselves because quite frankly I'm gonna tell you that the federal government was impressed by how much detail went into the process I'm also going to say that I know there was some comments about law firms and how much money is getting paid to law firms and someone said there was four million dollars spent on the Willie Parker case again another example another example of making comments that we know is not true the person knows is not true but they come here make these comments for members of the audience and members of the of the Washington viewing audience because they just want I guess get a like or two or three I know there was some comments I didn't really understand the comment but someone said that the business administrators the business administrator is receiving money from BCPC again another example right unfortunately you know people make these comments knowing that BCPC is has been involved with helping the Office of Violence Prevention helping the police department with combating violence it's a nonprofit that is doing outstanding work right and that's and that's the sad part about it right you know you got folks who get calls in the middle of the night to go deal with things you got folks who leave their homes when everybody else asleep when something happens they go to the scene similar to police similar to fire but yeah folks come here to make comments and try to you know smudge what they do now I know there was some comments yesterday and I'm gonna try my best to do the best job I can on not going into deep with the comments that were made about the officer you know recognizing that first of all it's a legal matter but the unfortunate part about it is that the folks who came here yesterday to make the comments just had a meeting in reference to this situation on August October 10th like literally a week ago they had a meeting about it and then they come here to ask the council to get involved knowing that that's against the rules when it comes to when you're negotiating with folks in reference to a grievance of this nature but then they go a little further and they say well you know they don't want to give you know this family money but they're giving and they called him a cop killer again another example all three of them know that that young man was never convicted of killing the cop right frankly yes is be honest if he was convicted of killing the cop we would never see him again it just be realistic about that right and it's unfortunate it's unfortunate again that folks come here to make those type of comments one of them compared this young man to show me are you gotta be kidding me like you have to be kidding me right you're going to compare someone who is again doing the best job he can in supporting the community to combat violence to support the police and to compare him to someone who literally killed a person while wearing a police uniform I mean like I'm gonna tell you sometimes I hear the comments and I think to myself they cannot be realistic about the impact that the words that they say have on the rest of the community how sad it is to hear some of these comments knowing again that it's not true finally I know there's there has been some comments about this bad a university situation and the bad University is listen I can appreciate the fact that the names are very very close so I will say that but there was comments about the city funding the group that had the inappropriate promotion again the city had nothing to do with that and oh by the way I will say that there is a group called bad University not again not the bad University but the point is the nonprofit group that the city does fun is started by two young ladies one of which went to University High School and then also a Howard University alum so again the names are close but again we know the folks in this room know the folks who come to this microphone know the difference between the two when they continue to do things to and try to smudge or put cast a bad light on folks they know are doing good work council members I appreciate the time thank you corporation council that we said let's go to the agenda council president council members we are on page four of the agenda item five reports and recommendations of city officers boards and commissions council as a whole to adopt local council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Kintana yes Ramos absent Scott Rountree yes Silva yes president Krump yes ordinances on first reading 6FA is an ordinance amending public safety personnel to add definition to the basic training course when hiring entry-level law enforcement officers without an examination council's a whole to adopt local council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Kintana yes Ramos absent Scott Rountree yes Silva yes president Krump yes your missus adopted today on first reading will be advertised in accordance with law and a public hearing will be held at a regular meeting on November 7th 2024 or soon thereafter as practical public hearing second reading and final passage 6 PSFA is an ordinance amending parking by permit only and designated residential areas by adding Adams Street between Oliver Street and Walnut Street on the west side of Adams Street daily from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the East Ward sponsored by Councilman Silva second by Councilman Gonzalez is there anyone present wishing to be heard on this ordinance yes Deborah Salters so I know that a few moments ago is this the one where you were talking about okay so and and I'm glad you're saying no so this is what I'm talking about when it comes to the parking and I know when you first got in office we spoke and the first couple months you fought from talking to Councilman silver fought for you and round she fought for our parking permits and we had already had the discussion about there was no need for parking studies because we went through that with the BA and all of those things so with this particular ordinance I don't believe there was a parking study done if there was please let me know along with the other streets that received parking permits within a week's time of them being put up here we had a special meeting one week about new Street the next week they had their parking permits the studies have already been done on this particular situation here it's just it's here so I don't see the difference other than those not wanting us to have it and again the streets that were named in that particular area are all on the same ordinances so if there was no parking study for this one in the busy area where we are then why do we have to wait yet another year for parking study when it's not even necessary so there's something a ride here those who you want to have these things get them and those of us who don't who have had our our petitions on the floor for years and have been promised parking permits and you know the situation all of you know the situation and yet we're put on hold and people get their ordinances or their parking permits a week later two weeks later and the following month so this is just flat-out blatant discrimination because we should have our parking ordinance our parking decals by now to the point where even the people who pay for parking and are living attached paying the 18% surcharges as the out-of-towners and they said that they would bring the prices down if you all would give them a parking decal but we still don't have them but here we have an ordinance yet another ordinance for someone else to get parking permits when this is after I've come up here the fourth year fifth year what are we going to do about it we don't need a parking study we just need our passes thank you for your comments anyone else seeing none councilman yeah just to respond so the parking study was done for the entire ironbound section not solely the street but the parking study did show that the areas between Union and merchant were most affected by outsiders and that's why I suggested creating parking in those areas but Adam Street and other streets were part of the entire parking study that was done and like I said it took around seven months to complete to make sure that we were doing this right because once the signs go up we want to make sure that they're in the proper places making sure that they're most affected and to make sure that we're doing the right thing because eventually eventually I would like to see instead of street by street that's why I did from Union all the way to merchant Street which is approximately ten blocks doing street by street is not as effective as doing entire areas so again that's what I'd like to see at least for the East Ward I think it's effective I think some time down the line maybe the city should look into the other wards as well of doing permit parking because it does help the residents of the city find a parking space closer to their home and so that was what the parking study revealed that 500 cars a week are parking in the ironbound section in those streets from Union to merchant and taking up the spaces of our residents and so that's why this created anybody else roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Donna Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump upstate resolutions 7r1 a and B are both budget insertions a is for the workforce innovation and Opportunity Act data reporting analysis and B is to fund the enhancement of the national preparedness capabilities council as a whole to adopt 7r1 a and B roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Hannah yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r1 see through e our use of state contracts C is for the traffic signal controllers D is to purchase tires tubes and services and ease to purchase microscopes micro microscopes and additional services council's a whole to adopt 7r1 see through e roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Tana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r2 a is a private sale redevelopment to provide for new construction of a two-family home and rehabilitation of a three-family home to sell at market rate to city of Newark employees in the South Board council is a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez abstain Kelly yes Tana name Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver same president krump yes I don't fail to adopt 7r2 B is acceptance of grant funds to provide for the acceptance of weird data reporting and analysis funds council's a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Tana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r3 a is professional services contract for change order for Delancey street drainage traffic and roadway improvements council's a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Tana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r3 B and C of both requests for extensions from the Jersey Department of Transportation amending a request yes for street resurfacing B is for the year 2022 and C is for the year 2023 council's a whole to adopt B and C roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Tana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r5 a and B are contracts with sub recipients for Ryan White HIV health services a is for the city of East Orange Health Services and B is for positive health care incorporated council's a whole to adopt A and B roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Tana yes Ramos absent got round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r5 C through F our application acceptance of grant funds C is for the supplemental nutrition program D is sustaining public health infrastructure E is to enhance the emergency volunteer response and F is additional funding for COVID-19 council's a whole to adopt C through F roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Tana yes Ramos absent got round tree yes silver yes president yes 7r6 a through C are contracts with the law department a is a pre litigation settlement B is to provide legal services on matters of special counsel and C is to provide legal matters on special counsel councils a whole to adopt a through C roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Tana yes Ramos absent got round tree yes silver yes president krump yes on all except extending on 6c noted 7r7 a is a professional service contract for the visiting judges to over court sessions council's a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Tana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r8 a and B are both ceremonial street designations a is for James and Mary Rohn sponsored by Councilman Quintana second by Councilman Gonzalez and B is for Reverend Joe D McLean sponsored by Councilwoman Scott round tree second by council president krump council's a whole for a and B roll call with the noted sponsors council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes present krump yes 7r8c is cancelled no action will be taken and no roll call required 7r8 D is waiving special event permit application fee for the trunk-a-treat harvest celebration sponsored by council president krump second by Councilman Ramos council president krump and Councilman Gonzalez council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree silver yes president krump yes 7r8e is recognizing and commending resolutions and 7r8f is expressing profound sorrow and regret roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r9a is application acceptance of grant funds to enhance the city of Newark and the urban area security initiative UASI region's ability to build maintain and sustain national preparedness capabilities council's a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 7r11a is a memorandum of understanding with Rutgers University to provide computer training programs for city senior citizens sponsored by Councilman council second by Councilwoman Scott round tree council to adopt local council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent got round tree yes silver yes president krump yes communications items 8a through D are reappointments to the lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning advisory Commission a is for Jennifer Moore B is for Susu Stewart C is for Taquan a Williams and D is for Della Walker council's a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent got round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 8e and F are reappointments to the Newark Parking Authority E is for Tasha E. Prindle and F is for Andre Hollis council's a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent got round tree yes silver yes president krump abstain on both 8g through J are appointments to the lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning advisory Commission G is all dress be tourists sponsored by Councilman Gonzalez second by Councilman Quintana H is Tiana Marie Santos sponsored by Councilwoman Scott round tree second by Councilman Quintana I is Joy Black sponsored by Councilwoman Scott round tree second by Councilman Gonzalez and J is Jason Bunkley sponsored by Councilman Kelly and second by Councilman Scott round tree council to adopt roll call with the noted sponsors council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly absent Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 8k and L are both to defer council's a whole to defer roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly absent Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes 8m is an appointment to the African Commission Ibrahim Hamza sponsored by Councilwoman Scott round tree second by Councilman Kelly council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly absent in Tana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes I was gonna say he's coming back so we can probably get him councilman Kelly or 8m seconded 8m but you can also well let's do 8m right now 8n is an ordinance amending the honorary and ceremonial street designations by providing additional requirements for eligibility sponsored by council president krump second by Councilwoman Scott round tree I'd like to advance and adopt on this my apologies council so 8n is a motion to advance and adopt on first reading sponsored by council president krump second by Councilwoman Scott round tree roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree silver yes president krump yes this ordinance adopted today on first reading will be advertised in accordance with law and the public hearing will be held at a regular meeting on November 7th and this item is now known for the record as 6fb council president council members we have before we go to the added starter we can go back to 8j councilman Kelly you would be sponsor on that from page 30 yes thank you duly noted council president council members to the added starters first one is 7r6das which is a professional services contract for the first amendment to the agreement to provide legal services concerning litigation defense matters council as a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana stay Ramos absent Scott round tree silver yes president krump yes 7r12as is professional service contract to provide legal services concerning the lead pipe replacement litigation council's a whole to adopt roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana stay Ramos absent Scott round tree silver yes president krump yes council president council members that concludes the agenda items all right motions let's start councilman council yeah thank you so just want to you know pray for the art teacher that was a an accident today and Eastwood Elementary as well as the board of education that is going through at difficult times also want to pray for the family that was involved in a fire on Eckerd Avenue as well as those individuals that were displaced Montgomery Street when folks assumed it was in the south but in Irvington and also want to have a motion commending the Newark Fire Department for their quick response and assisting our Irvington on Montgomery Street as well as their quick response on Eckerd even though we had the tragic loss of two young ladies second second by councilman Gonzalez roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes silver yes president krump yes councilman silver yes no motions just a couple of announcements one is this weekend is my cancer walk on Sunday begins at 10 a.m. we meet at Peter Francisco Park end up at Eastside where we'll have testing we'll have food it's a great walk it's a great event a great cause so I'm sure we've all and somehow been touched by somebody with cancer and just come out and support this event for everybody in the city of Newark to come out also Friday next Friday or Thursday I'm sorry Halloween we're having a parade we haven't had it since 2013 it's coming back after 11 years we're bringing back the parade to the East Ward and again it's open to everybody at the end we finish up at on st. Charles at the rec center where we'll have pony rides and food and games for kids and bouncy houses and what stuff so it's again it's open to everybody in the city this Friday at 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. ice cream with public safety at Nastos Councilman roundtree I know was gonna be first in line there so 3 p.m. bring your kids to 5 p.m. we'll have fire trucks we'll have the horses we'll have the motorcycles we'll have public safety there to to make sure that you know your kids get to see the heroes of this city and all the hard work they do like Councilman council was mentioning their quick response to that fire on Eckerd Street and the last thing I just want to say is November 5th is Election Day and I just want to implore everybody that's at the sound of my voice on TV or wherever you're you're at watching to go out and vote don't let anybody persuade you or dictate who to vote for at the end of the day you vote for who is best for you and your family that's who you vote for okay so you please this is how your voice is heard I know people say sometimes all politicians it's not they're always saying nothing ever happens this is your voice this is your moment go out and make a difference so I'm asking every Newark resident to go out and vote on November 5th it's important that you get out and you get your voice heard thank you thank you councilman councilman Gonzalez congratulations to Ashley Laurenco for winning a national debate competition in New York this past weekend she goes to Science Park High and she apparently was also the winner of the oratory competition someone that deserves to be recognized by by the city thank you I'll second that roll call council yes Gonzalez yes Kelly yes Quintana yes Ramos absent Scott round tree yes sova yes President yes just to remind that vote beginning Saturday let's say a early voting starts on the 26 so you can vote from a early voting from the 26 to the third to the third of November thank you councilman councilwoman Scott round tree so I have several announcements thank you council president a beginning with tomorrow tomorrow evening at 4 p.m. at 140 Bergen Street there will be a clergy employment campaign we had over a hundred and hundred plus people at the last one they are already conducting interviews and someone some individuals have start dates I didn't get the complete data today but I will have it by tomorrow morning so that can report out at the next meeting or either on social media or somewhere to let you know that these clergy employment campaigns are working University Hospital has 500 jobs but I wanted to make sure that we saw some results from the campaign before we had another one and we have seen results and there are individuals with start dates that will be tomorrow again on-site interviews views and job coaching October 24 tomorrow 4 p.m. 140 Bergen Street 140 Bergen Street North New Jersey I want to shout out for our Muslim community there's a day of dignity happening on October 26 that the Islamic Relief USA plus the Amasjid Community Center has been doing for years I partner with them they have similar to what sister Amina Bay does with our residents without addresses they have doctors they have food they have all types of services for our not just residents without addresses there's some people with addresses that are struggling that might need some assistance so on October 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Lincoln Park you can go out and see or share that information with someone who might need if not medical services food clothing school supplies will also be distributed also from 12 to 4 there is a fall festival happening on at 328 South 6th Street free entry street parking there will be face painting games free haircuts personal hygiene kits and many of the giveaways and that will be on Saturday as well from 12 to 4 p.m. there is a most all of our residents matter we have a pastor that is producing plays we believe in the arts wholeheartedly and what is really a great thing is that the subject matters the pastor Michael Carr and initials entertainment have are matters that we need to probably focus on like bullying these messages are very important loss of loved ones people that feel like they don't matter and learning to love yourself these issues in some circumstances that people should be able to support or get the message from them that would be at Cityplex on Springfield Avenue
October 27th from at 330 VIP and welcome reception is 330 the showtime is 5 p.m. sponsoring along with the University Hospital once again the six annual mammogram and masquerade ball you can have a mammogram or a pap smear you don't have to have insurance all you have to do is show up with your information if you have insurance that's fine but if you don't you will not be refused service for either one of these tests it will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the mammogram mobile will pull up on the side of Kruger Scott mansion there will be that the theme this year is a Bridgerton edition and they're gonna have all whatever it goes with being a masquerade I'll be running around all day so I won't I already have on my costume Councilman Council my mask is already on in my gloves too so but I'm asking those of you who know someone to please share that information with them at Kruger Scott mansion 601 Martin Luther King Boulevard on the Court Street entrance there will be a mammogram mobile and you will be able to have a share information with the residents free mammograms free pap smears if you don't have insurance you will not be refused service and that is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. all of my colleagues have spoken about voting our voice is our vote and many people have many things to say about those who are running and those who have run and those who have won but this is a very critical time and we've stood in long long long lines I can't I have to do just like our dear beloved a Councilman Silver said being directed of who is not something we can do but we sure can push that it is imperative that you vote we cannot tell our young people about how to make a difference when we have people that come in that talk about voting and we're not talking to them civically but so anyway just to say there will be a prayer rally held on October 29th for one hour to pray for our people to get out to vote at Zion Hill Baptist Church 152 Osborne Terrace North Jersey the mayor and myself of course the North Missile Council are inviting everyone to come out as…
October 27th from at 330 VIP and welcome reception is 330 the showtime is 5 p.m. sponsoring along with the University Hospital once again the six annual mammogram and masquerade ball you can have a mammogram or a pap smear you don't have to have insurance all you have to do is show up with your information if you have insurance that's fine but if you don't you will not be refused service for either one of these tests it will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the mammogram mobile will pull up on the side of Kruger Scott mansion there will be that the theme this year is a Bridgerton edition and they're gonna have all whatever it goes with being a masquerade I'll be running around all day so I won't I already have on my costume Councilman Council my mask is already on in my gloves too so but I'm asking those of you who know someone to please share that information with them at Kruger Scott mansion 601 Martin Luther King Boulevard on the Court Street entrance there will be a mammogram mobile and you will be able to have a share information with the residents free mammograms free pap smears if you don't have insurance you will not be refused service and that is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. all of my colleagues have spoken about voting our voice is our vote and many people have many things to say about those who are running and those who have run and those who have won but this is a very critical time and we've stood in long long long lines I can't I have to do just like our dear beloved a Councilman Silver said being directed of who is not something we can do but we sure can push that it is imperative that you vote we cannot tell our young people about how to make a difference when we have people that come in that talk about voting and we're not talking to them civically but so anyway just to say there will be a prayer rally held on October 29th for one hour to pray for our people to get out to vote at Zion Hill Baptist Church 152 Osborne Terrace North Jersey the mayor and myself of course the North Missile Council are inviting everyone to come out as we pray for the minds of our people to get out and vote for the many lives that were sacrificed for the many civil rights we've been through Jim Crow we've been through all of these things and then we still will sit home on a school board election and not even vote for our children so I'm just saying please ma'am please sir exercise your right to vote and let's show they know our vote counts they know that we we make a difference with these numbers so don't sit home thinking that your voice will not make a difference make your choice and let your voice be your vote last but not least there is going to be a grand opening on a ribbon-cutting the office has been open for a month for our veterans service office we will be honoring some veterans that have served our country and there will be a light lunch a grab-and-go and then we will lay the wreath down at Military Park this is going to happen on November 8th at 1130 a.m. because we know there are many events happening on Veterans Day so we wanted to make sure that the grand grand opening we did a soft opening so we're inviting all veterans non-veterans supporters of veterans families of veterans to please come out and for this office is open has been every day from 830 to 330 with the exception of Friday it's 9 to 12 but the city of Norquist a full-running office where someone is in there a VSO or an administrative assistant to make sure that whatever services you need that we will be able to accommodate you if you are eligible for those services and last but not least there was a young lady and I call it young First Lady Annie Green she's the First Lady of Tabernacle church on in the West Ward Herb Green I know you know him very well past council Herb Green passed and that passed as I say pastor Larry Crump council president Lady Green transitioned so we want to express profound sorrow and regret on the record for Lady Green and for those who came out to pay their respects to the Honorable Dr. Emily Sissy Houston we still stand in solidarity to express once again profound sorrow and regret for Dr. Houston who made an impact not just in the music industry for philanthropy she did a lot and it wasn't always you'd have to read her bio to actually know the contributions that she made not just to the music industry but to community as a whole so we thank her family for sharing with us because they could have done it anywhere but they did it in Newark New Jersey and we were able to share in that experience once again a council president I want to thank the city of Newark I want to thank the residents of Newark who came and they spoke and they expressed their concerns I want to thank you for allowing me to serve and I want to thank my colleagues for keeping me included in the things that we do for the people of this city God bless you Lord and have a wonderful wonderful weekend thank you councilwoman good second second by councilman Kelly roll call second correct Kelly Kelly council yes it was ours absent Kelly yes he found a yes Ramos absent Scott Brown tree yes silver yes president krump yes councilman Kelly your council president I just want to say my can my condolences to the family like councilman council said of the little girls and send my prayers up to the educators who were involved in the accident to the to the young girls one of the young girls was from a Westport school called Mount Vernon elementary school and believe it or not the whole entire school is impacted by by this tragedy her father's in critical condition as well a brother just went back to school yesterday and he's dealing with it I just want to thank everybody who's been sending donations to the families from clothes to monetary to you know and and thank the staff at Mount Vernon school for acting quickly going to the hospital being supportive just being there for for the students in the city of North so I just want to just reiterate with what everybody feels up here and just say we send our blessings to everyone that's involved I also want to just make a couple of announcements I know that this is the Halloween season and we get out and we go and we do trunk-and-trees and in all of that just be safe just please make sure that you be safe out there and we do have an event coming up at pain tech in pain text parking lot on so October 26 which is Saturday there's going to be a movie monster ink shown candy and face painting so please take your families out there in the parking lot it will be safe there's a free entry and don't forget to wear your costumes even though some of them you wear them all year and it's open to everyone also there is another trunk-and-treat that is happening at the retail pods which is 400 West Market Street right across from GKV in the West Ward so please join us for that and thank you to all of the participants the cars that are dressing their cars up for the youth and the families like I said that's 400 West Market Street Newark New Jersey and thank you to partnership West Inc. for partnering with us with that I do this series called men talk Sundays and we do it probably every other every other Sunday or at least once a month and it has been going very very well it is a place that men in our community can come and be vulnerable you know it's a men's discussion session to inform to inspire and develop mindsets and it's been so powerful it's been therapy for myself even we have some really really heavy conversation I know that the mayor has a great men's talks meetings this is just a little different it's a little more vulnerable it's speaking to the men we have a special guest speaker and I stopped saying who the keynote speakers were because people would just come for the celebrity of the speaker and we really want the space to remain genuine so I stopped telling people who the speaker is but this Sunday it's gonna be a very special one I'm not gonna say who the speaker is but it's gonna be good and we're talking about personal transformation and the importance of self-forgiveness and healing for the past or from the past so all men throughout the city you know I usually do it for West Ward at Westside Park entrance 600 South 17th Street Newark New Jersey but the entire city is is invited because it's a really a special event and parents when you go to door-to-door if you're going door-to-door to get to collect that candy for your children make sure you check the candy beforehand make sure that you view the bags you just don't let them eat anything that is put in the bags because our children's safety is very very important and one last thing I want to thank the staff of University Hospital Miss Brooke Tippins I want to thank Chief of Staff at the hospital doctor I've always messed his last name with doctor what's his last name Councilwoman Hickey yes what she said oh I just want to thank our CEO for coming into the community Mr. Ed Jimenez for coming into the community last night and I want to thank you to Councilwoman for coming out to talk about jobs at a University Hospital to talk about the new hospital campus that will be going up to talk about health care inside our community it's not often that you can get the CEO of a hospital to come to your community I want to thank you VSO and all of the people involved and I just want to encourage the people to really take advantage of these type of opportunities that we are creating and presenting to our residents and our community and that's it thank you very much thank you all right next week Councilman Tintana we need a roll call for that thank you I'm sorry I'm told I need a roll call a second I'll second it roll call council Gonzalez absent Kelly yes he Donna yes Ramos absent Scott roundtree yes silver yes president krump yes Councilman Tintana over the three days we had a a feast of st. Gerard 125 years of the st. Gerard feast here in the city of Newark approximately in those three days from Wednesday to Sunday approximately somewhere around 10,000 folks visited st. Gerard's feast which was a well attended and a lot of participation from within the city as far as Canada people who kept traditions in that area of st. Gerard so it's 125 just want to make a note to center a letter to st. Lucy's thanking them for the event that was well attended of the different venue the other matter is over the weekend I have I got received a lot of calls from the central ward North Ward and probably all over the city city clerk I need you to meet with the police director director of public safety you need to you know we do these ordinance here and there if we're gonna do ordinance they're not gonna be you know they're not gonna go to practice and what is the purpose and the barbershop ordinance police officers do not know because the command has not given an instruction to the police personnel so they're still reading the ordinance that's almost 40 50 years old so please can we have yourself meet with the business administrator with the director of public safety say here there's a red here's a resolution here's an ordinance please let the personnel and police department they were going to barbershops and closing barbershops over the weekend so please you could do that as I would urge you to do that the other matter is the I have a petition from parents from Rich Street school in terms of when they drop the children in the morning so when they pick them up after dismissal traffic is just on Clifton Avenue and on Rich Street to see if the police department have signatures here from most of the parents who have signed their signature so I'll give this to you I'll leave that with you and if we can help them with a traffic study or whatever may be for these young people so they we don't we don't want talk about that we didn't do something and then accidents to occur and problems to occur this coming Saturday we're having the annual Halloween and car show so far we have about 250 antique cars are between Berkeley all the way down to Elwood the parade for the children will start I Perona Avenue and Mont Prospect and and at Elwood this parade is for the general public it's for everyone it's going to be a great day because we're going all the way from Perona then we shut Perona down in a two block the bounties of the rest the event for the children will take place everyone is invited and we look forward to this participation so far as three I said to you before 250 cars and maybe more depending on the day but we're encouraged people to come support young people most of the schools in the area coming there's about ten floats are there our children are going to go on top of the floats and it's going to be a great day for our children thank you and again in terms of voting we're talking about it I'm going to be on election day I'm going to be in the battle states you know calling people are throughout the battle states or a cushion in Spanish to come out and vote and I'm going to urge that we do do the messaging of urging people to come out and vote in the different languages so that no one stays home your vote is your your power the voting is what makes the democracy exist whether we want one party or the other party but again you know in terms of what I'm doing I'm doing my civics I'm reaching people around this country our leaders around the country in Spanish and talking to them because this election is about the diversity and this this election will be decided in those states that are battle states like Pennsylvania and Florida and etc in Illinois where there is a community that will come through and we're going to I'm doing that as of my civic so I'm urging people to do the same with your civics utilize your civics and bring people out to the polling sites but I'm doing it as a national as a national event that I'm doing in terms of reaching people throughout the country and talking to them did you come out and vote so again if our vote is important and every vote counts thank you thank you we can second Councilwoman Scott Rowntree seconds roll call council yeah and I was absent Kelly yes and Donna Ramos absence Scott Rowntree yes silver yes president Crump yes I just have an announcement to make on I'm trying to open it up on November 6th Wednesday at lunches dinner served at 5 and there'll be a presentation at 6 o'clock the four at-large council members are doing an event with the with the University Hospital in the central ward at Abyssinian Baptist church it is a community meeting and as Councilman Kelly was saying Brooke Tippins is very much involved in making this happen as well as we're going to have the president's edge Jimenez there the meeting topics are going to be building a new hospital about building the new hospital campus workforce development EMS and development opportunities it will be again November 6th and the evening dinner provided at 5 and we will begin at 6 the presentation and again this is the at the four at-larges are co-sponsoring this event with the University Hospital in the central ward additionally I just want to take the opportunity to it too I think all of us have expressed the importance of voting and the necessity of it when we meet next time the election will be over and not saying who to vote for one way or the other but this election is going to affect generations come it's going to affect generations so make sure you get out and exercise your right to vote it's extremely important and I know it's far removed for some people that say that you know and I say this you know people have died for our right to vote and I take that very seriously very seriously and I hope those that do will convince those that haven't voted and take it very seriously and so with that being said either way the roll call to adjourn council yes Gonzalez absent Kelly yes King Donna Ramos absence got round trees yes sova yes president Crump yes thank you
Council President, Council Members, we are now in the hearing of citizens portion of this meeting where each speaker will have five minutes to speak. When your name is called, please approach the podium and address the council.