Pre-Council Deliberations

town home style buildings consisting of 30 Market residential rental units eight affordable housing rental units in the South Ward questions or comments from Council rental units consisting of 71 market rate residential rental units 13 affordable housing rental units of which four units shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area median income Ami four units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% Ami and five units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% Ami in the central Ward questions or comments from Council from Council significantly rehabilitate an existing 17-story apartment building consisting of 279 affordable housing rental units for senior citizens in the north Ward sponsored by councilman Ramos second by senior citizen age restricted building consisting of 64 restricted 64 affor…

build two new two new two family dwellings with dwellings with dwellings with four affordable units at an income level ranging from 40 to 60% of area medium income in the South for questions or two2 family homes with the intent to sell one home at the current market rate and the other home at 50% of area median income in the South for questions or comments Cenna L new construction of a two family home designating one unit as affordable for individuals earning 80% of area median income in the west ward questions or comments a five-story mid-rise multif family building with 64 units 13 affordable housing units in the central Ward I just want to confirm for this item is this a part of the um Deputy Mayor La is this a part of the um affordable housing affordable housing affordable housing init…

application by the developer to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs affordable housing trust fund neighborhood partnership fund South for questions or questions or

with home funds W is to authorize the execution of a deed restrictive Home Affordable housing agreement in the East Ward and X is to authorize the execution of a deed in the west ward

reserved for homeless shall have a maximum rental income of up to 20% of area median income Ami two units shall have maximum rental income of up to 30% Ami and 56 units shall have a maximum rental income of up to 60% Ami okay let's let's do the the lar number again I'm sorry 24- 0926 and this is a tax abatement right yes what um what's the address on this the deputy mayor is here Madam Bayou okay questions Council mccon yeah thank you council president just just to confirm this is all affordable housing correct yes this project will be 100% affordable housing and as you can see the project is actually reaching even lower Amis um as evidenced by uh the statement that was read by the clerk uh there will be five units at 20% of Ami and there'll be also two units at 30% of Ami and that is real…

rental units consisting of 71 market rate residential rental units 13 affordable housing rental units of which four units shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area median income Ami four units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% Ami and five units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% Ami in the central the central the central Ward questions or comments from Council buildings consisting of 30 market rate residential rental units eight affordable housing rental units in accordance with the ordinance in the South Ward questions or comments from new four-story multif family senior citizens age restricted building consisting of 64 affordable housing rental units restricted to tenants at 60% of area median income in the South Ward questions or comments from Council Members mam CH sponsor …

for a project to construct 11 market rate residential rental units with one affordable housing rental unit which shall be restricted to tenants at 60% of the area median income located in the central Ward questions or comments from Council rental units 13 of aable housing rental units of which three units shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of the area median income Ami three units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% Ami and seven units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% Ami in the East W questions or comments from Council Members Cenna e is an ordinance amending parking prohibited at all times to

was part of the solicitation that we released was that it would be more affordable housing and and the replacement of Hope Village one in addition to complying with inclusionary

the city for a tax abatement and prior uh developments in the area I will note that his average rent is below 80% Ami which in theory would make the entirety of what he's built in that area affordable housing for that area um so he's not charging what we're seeing in some areas downtown um you can get a group with the desire to help the city with its mandate to have another thousand affordable units within the next 24 months um and Mr Gomes believe that he will be able to contribute to

The Rehabilitation of two existing buildings containing 76 affordable housing residential rental units questions or comments from Council

Item B is new construction of a three family home to provide one affordable unit and two market rate rentals in the west ward questions or comments from Crump next item e to rehabilitate property and sell to an owner occupant homeowner at 80% Ami or less in the central Ward questions or comments regarding this item actually I'm going to ask for this Crump next item G is to provide an office space for hcj construction with three residential units above with parking two units will be market rate rentals and one unit will be affordable at 80% Ami in the South board questions or comments I'd like to move this item forward he councilman Council wishes to

Kelly next item Kelly next item Jay is to rehabilitate property and sell to a NK firsttime home buyer at 120% Ami and to construct a new three family home to provide affordable rental units at 60 to 40% Ami in the South for questions or comments I Like to Move It Forward M move forward yes um do I have a second two family dwelling for rent with one unit at market rate in the other unit at 80% Ami in the South Ward 7 r2k any questions or comments councilman Council so Madam chair a after um going through

they have a CFO which means they're delaying the ability to lease out the units and even are affordable units so what we're asking for is to allow a TCO that will be specific about which

there um what one of the challenges that I see in the city is that we have a lot of tenants that you know English is not their primary language and I often find that you know amongst that Community they they tend to be victimized more than than other tenants because they're not even aware sometimes that we do have laws in the books that um you know restrict the amount that landlords could increase rents um then this is probably more for deputy mayor uh are there any you know we had a a French Creole family that we recently helped um you know his landlord was pretty much imposing double digigit increases on them uh and they weren't aware that nework was a rent

councilwoman Scott Roundtree I too want to thank you for not just um Citywide actually with the evictions that are taking place by landlords who are not registered so that that education piece is so very important because with the eviction rate being as high as it is some of the tenants don't even know their rights um they have illegal lockouts property owners are not

what's going on with the houseing authority um I thought it would be incumbent upon the housing authority to come before this body uh so you go hear directly from the house and authority of in front of you uh what you have here is our annual plan and our Five-Year Plan so every year the Housing Authority has to submit an annual plan to US Department housing Urban Development

pages okay so then we go to these specific areas that I touched on that the Housing Authority uh is going to be focusing on uh for the next year uh you can see some of the steam lines that

our physical conditions uh so we feel it is very likelihood that very likely that the Housing Authority uh scores will be close to 60 if not above 60 uh by the end of this calendar year which would a a blight on the agency we committed to doing something that the Housing Authority has not been able to fulfill that obligation we are going to fulfill it look to re-envision what those two communities look like in the future right so the housing authorities process is always to bring the professionals The Architects the engineers out to come and know that's come up a number of times in the last couple weeks uh the Housing Authority is not closing down Bradley courts uh we had specifically 12 that they wanted to move to that was not an a a development wide move that was a problem that the Housi…

Bradley Court to give them a stien to help clean up that Community long story short um a the Housing Authority can do better job of maintaining br courts um I'm always conscious of the the conditions I was

there a reason there a reason so it is on the list in we use terminology that HUD has and HUD has like five different ketchers and six different Seth boens so I would have to

real quick how many units as the parking dep par excuse me does the Housing Authority uh manage number two is how many vacant units and I don't know if plan I guess high level plan in terms of increasing the number of units that the par that that the Housing Authority uh manages controls so we have there are about 7,300 units physical units that we many units as you you can sustain uh so there are a number of housing authorities across the country that have expanded their footprint significantly so there's a a a formula uh that exists that allows us to expand our affordable housing footprint which is what I would like to do as always uh we understand there's a a 16,000 plus unit uh need affordable housing need in the city of New York um and I Envision the Housing Authority being the key pr…

the project is going to come to us uh for some type of um Financial incentive given the affordable housing component of the project um at this time no application has been submitted though they are going to sell the property to Residents whose income is at 60% of the Ami who who is going to determine whether those individuals qualify as a 60% Ami council president council member Gonzalez that's a great question um so in this uh in this case and with every ordinance that requires about 30 no sorry 50% of our properties to be sold for affordable housing purposes so we're actually tracking that now where before it was sold for any purpose that someone was interested in now we sell 50% of the properties for affordable housing so we have to track it uh differently and have the compliance held t…

units, and 10 two-bedroom units, of which four units shall be restricted to tenants at 30 35% of area median income, AMI. Two units shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of AMI. Six units shall be restricted to tenants at 50% AMI. Two units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% of AMI. and five units shall be restricted to tenants at 70% of AMI in the West Ward. the West Ward. the West Ward. Any questions? Any questions? rental building consisting of 206 residential rental units of which 165 residential units are market rate and 41 are affordable housing rental units of which 11 units shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area medium income AMI. 11 units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% of AMI and 19 units shall be restricted tenants at 80% AMI in the north ward. Any questions? Any…

initiatives right now is that we are going to be soon working with the housing authority. Um, and that's something you're going to be seeing on the agenda very soon of creating more

C is new construction of a 16 unit apartment building for individuals whose incomes is at 40 to 80% of AMI with commercial space in the south ward. I'm going to ask for it uh this be

25 residential rental units consisting of 20 market rate residential rental units five affordable housing rental units of which two units shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area medium income one unit shall be restricted to tenants at 60% of area medium income and two units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% area medium income in the north Ward any of 48 one-bedroom units 120 two bedroom units and 48 three-bedroom units and 26 units shall be affordable housing rental units of which 16 one-bedroom units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% of the area medium income five two-bedroom units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% of area medium income and five three bedroom units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% of area medium in income in the South Ward any questions seeing none …

second C is new construction of a 16 unit apartment building for individuals whose income is at 40 to 80% of Ami in the South Ward the South Ward the South Ward M chair I like to move that item I like

item spor oh Gonzalez will sponsor I I'll second that for now okay 7R 2N is to execute affordable housing agreement for home funds for the construction of five new two family shall be restricted to 30% area medium income income 37% will be restricted to 50% Ami 50% will be restricted to 60% Ami and a public hearing will be held at tomorrow night's council meeting night's council meeting city to enter into an agreement the mayor to execute all necessary documents with the Newark housing authority to provide up to 200 home units to qualified unhoused families and

Services uh just to speak to on the agenda item that's before you uh so the path home program uh actually named after the mayor's strategic plan that was released two years ago is a new initiative partnership with the Housing Authority uh it is going to designate 200 public housing units for some of the just to talk a little bit about the investment you know as we know historically public housing authorities have been receiving less Capital money from HUD as HUD shifts to other housing models uh like Section 8 so in our community we have too many units that renovate the units right uh once they become online it is the housing authorties responsibility to manage it and to uh to provide the property becomes this temporary resident of of this uh unit that's managed by the Housing Authority th…

financing necessary for the rehabilitation of property to create an East W affordable housing program any questions from the council seeing n next item C is new construction of three two family homes item D is to authorize the execution of a deed restrictive Home Affordable housing agreement with 449 Washington Street urban renewal company LLC for the construction of a new residential affordable housing building that will consist of 10 affordable rental units in the central council can we get the deputy mayor just actually exciting for us because we're going to be able to um build new residential affordable housing it'll be 10 affordable housing units and um the funding is home funding is home funding is home funds thank you is this Lincoln Park uh to be met um so for instance one it can't…

granting a 30-year tax abatement to 20 Branford urban renewal LLC for a project to construct 81 residential units which shall be comprised of 65 Market residential rental units and 16 affordable housing rental units of which two units shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area medium income Ami three units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% Ami and 11 units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% Ami in the central Ward any Ward any questions seeing none next Item B is an 20 residential rental units consisting of 16 market rate residential rental units four affordable housing rental units of which one unit shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area medium income one unit shall be restricted to tenants at 60% of Ami and two units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% Ami in the South…

rental units consisting of 16 market rate residential rental units four affordable housing rental units of which one unit shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area median income one unit shall be restricted to tenants at 60% of Ami and two units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% of Ami in the South Ward any questions from the council hearing none next Item B is an ordinance providing for the rehabilitation of housing units managed by the New York housing authority and other related expenses in and for the city and appropriating $6 million questions from

the Aspire program towards the construction of 25 story miuse highrise Tower with 333 residential units 20% of which shall be affordable in the central Ward and a public hearing will be held

Republican he also gave aund housing vouchers he also gave aund what million dollars to the water last service line replacement you ain't talking about none

and right both of you have good good morning I understand that fines are paid based on um how landlords do what they do once they have own property um The Corporation Council helped me find out so we dismiss just help me understand the process for the record someone goes to court a landlord they have a bunch of violations we find them and then it's

6PSFA is an ordinance providing for the rehabilitation of housing units managed by the Newark Housing Authority and other related expenses and appropriating $6 million. Any questions from the

relation to the $20 million loan that the city that provided to the New York Housing Authority last year in order for the purchase of the uh affordable housing uh complex in order to stay within uh control of the housing authority and still remain affordable. Uh we had anticipated last year that we allow it to roll over for an additional year. But within such times, we hope that the housing authority will then be able to complete their transactions, re seek the financing that they need, and

was with uh involved with also with Mary Sharp James and he worked at the housing authority and Jimmy Perola had one of those the first civic associations of a

specifically is regarding 1098 Broad Street. Um, the project will be 35 residential units, 2,000 square ft of commercial space. Um, and also have ground floor parking of 17 spaces. Um,

vacant lots as well as an apartment building containing 12 residential units. units. With the zoning changes, they had to uh

services, and conduct quarterly preventative maintenance at Newark Housing Authority properties. Housing Authority properties. Housing Authority properties. Any questions from the council? Hearing none, next item. to construct a new multi-family housing project consisting of 369 residential units, of which 316 are market rate residential rental units and of which 80 are affordable rental project to construct five-story mixed-use building with 23 two-bedroom residential units inclusive of 18 two-bedroom market rate residential rental units in the West Ward.

In that proposal, it talked about growing up on section 8, it talked about a providing affordable housing. How can I come and say we need to change it? And I know what rents are. How can I come And ultimately the goal is to continue to develop to develop affordable housing. This was just my project, my initial project to come to the city. So

All right, next item. E is an ordinance amending long-term tax exemptions affordable housing trust affordable housing trust affordable housing trust fund by expanding the guidelines for the expenditure of the affordable housing trust funds. trust funds. trust funds. All right, deputy mayor's working her ordinance in front of you um does have um a lot of information, but the purpose of it is to allow the affordable housing trust fund to finance affordable home ownership in New ownership in New Approximately how much money is in the trust fund uh right now? Uh, sure. So, um, in the affordable housing trust fund, um, I believe it's approximately $8 million at this time.

225 residential rental units consisting of 169 market rate and 29 affordable housing units in the east ward. Anything from the council? Yeah, I'd

Councilwoman Scott Roundtree. Councilwoman Scott Roundtree. Duly noted. F and G are to execute a deed restrictive affordable housing restrictive affordable housing restrictive affordable housing agreement. agreement. F is affordable housing agreement with New Community Homes development in the Central Ward. Central Ward. Central Ward. And G is affordable housing agreement with Dumas Corporation, also in the Central Ward. Mr. President. Councilman

Avenue, I mean. Yeah. Got it. Got it. H. Is the execute affordable housing agreement for home funds to construct a new five-story 63-unit by developer by developer to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Affordable Housing Trust Fund for the North Ward. And L submission of an application by developer to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Affordable Housing Trust Fund for property in the South Ward.

residential rental units consisting of 61 market rate residential rental units and 16 affordable housing rental units in the Central Ward and there's a motion to advance and adopt this item on first a project for a new four-story residential multi-family dwelling residential multi-family dwelling residential multi-family dwelling consisting of 25 affordable housing residential units in the South Ward. Questions from the council? Yes, sir. I would like to advance and construct a new five-story residential multi-family dwelling consisting of 25 affordable housing residential units in the North Ward. the North Ward. the North Ward. Mr. President. Mr. President.

Uh there will be affordably priced um there and there'll be 42 residential units and there'll also be co-living apartments uh consisting of 144 development because they will be more dormitory style than they will be individual units. Um the AMI will be up to 80% um of the area median income and um happy to take any questions if you have any.

commercial structure and construction of a new six-story multifamily building with 16 affordable housing rental units in the central ward. Sponsored by Councilwoman Scott Roundry, second by construct a new fourstory residential multif family dwelling consisting of 25 affordable housing rental units in the South Ward. Sponsored by Councilman Council. Second by Councilwoman Scott construct a new fivestory residential multif family dwelling consisting of 25 affordable housing residential units in the north ward. Sponsored by Councilman Ramos. Second by Councilman Gintana.

and occupancy agreement authorization to utilize the parking lot owned by the Newark Housing Authority located on Arlington Street for the health department. department.

Gomes Green Urban Renewal LLC to construct 28 residential rental units with six affordable housing rental units in the east ward. Any questions from the council? building consisting of 48 market rate residential rental units, eight affordable housing rental units, of which one unit shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area medium income or AMI. Two units shall be restricted attendance at 60% AMI. and five units shall be restricted attendance at 80% AMI in the central ward. Any questions from the council? Hearing none. Next item. D is an ordinance amending and

building consisting of 48 market rate residential rental units. One unit shall be restricted to tenants at 40% of area median income. Two units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% of AMI and five units shall be restricted to tenants at 80% of AMI in the central ward. ward. Questions from the council hearing?

Duly noted. Duly noted. D is new construction of a three family home to rent at 80% of area median income in the south ward. Sponsor Sponsor Fully noted. Fully noted. G is new construction of 77 affordable unit transitional housing development with a retail space in the south ward.

Seminar 111A is a memor I'm sorry, memorandum of understanding with Newark housing authority for the centers of hope programming. hope programming. hope programming. Any questions from the council?

Want to bring since you're up there, uh, director. Um, this is concerning our absentee landlords, especially in the West. Um, I know you've helped me out in se several situations where we have these absentee landlords who leave trash on the side in front of their properties and because of our 10day ticket, you know, or the fine that is attached to it, maybe these landlords can afford to pay it, so they don't care. And I've been having a lot of this going on in

building with 20 residential dwellings consisting of 16 market rate residential units with two one-bedroom units and 14 two-bedroom units, four affordable housing residential dwellings. housing residential dwellings. housing residential dwellings. with one two-bedroom unit which shall be restricted to tenants up to 40% of area medium income. Two units shall two units consisting of one bedroom unit and one two-bedroom unit both of which shall be one bedroom unit which shall be restricted to tenants up to 80% of AMI and the south ward and there's a motion by the department to advance and adopt for a project to construct a new four-story building comprising of 120 affordable units. The building will have 24 one-bedroom units, 72 two-bedroom units, and 24 three-bedroom units, of which 60 affor…

things are done in the correct way and and as always, you know, 100% affordable housing is very helpful for our community. So, Councilwoman Scott, the issues. There have been many many meetings and throughout the city there are issues um with landlords, with residents, with developments. Sometimes we just pick and choose what we want to matter is whatever gets to our desk and we are immediately aware of, we do our best to address and hold the landlords accountable. What we don't know about, we can do nothing about. Once it's councilman council and council president and new community for stepping up to the plate and all of the other landlords that we will be addressing when we receive complaints of the quality of units, six two-bedroom units, and one three-bedroom unit. 11 affordable housin…

have appointments. Starting on page 36, item 8A is an appointment to the Newark Housing Authority Board. Housing Authority Board. Housing Authority Board. Mr. Latif, are you in the audience? Please step to the podium. Good morning, uh, Mr. Latif. Morning. Uh the mayor has uh requested your appointment to the Nor Housing Authority Board. Uh do you have any opening statements you'd like to make? First of all, uh thank you very much. Uh city hall, especially in its chambers. Um, after reviewing the ordinances in the New York Housing Authority, um, I'm excited to work with the team to ensure every Newark family has access to safe has access to safe, dignified, and affordable housing. affordable housing. affordable housing. And also we'll work with the team to help the families help the familie…

construct a new four-story building comprising of comprising of comprising of 120 affordable units, of which 60 affordable housing rental units shall be rented to tenants at 60% of area medium income, AMI, or less. 44 affordable housing rental units to be rented to tenants at 60% AMI or less and 16 affordable housing rental units to be rented to tenants at 30% AMI or less in the central ward. the central ward. the central ward. Any questions, concerns from the quickly as we can so that our people in the central work and throughout the city of Newark have affordable housing of good quality. good quality. good quality. Thank you, council. Thank you, council. rental units consisting of 44 market rate residential rental units, 11 affordable housing rental units of which two one-bedroom units a…

Questions from the council. Next item Next item Next item N is application agreement with HUD for a one-year action plan. Any questions from the council?

is adjacent to their current operations. um they are also looking to provide affordable housing and housing for our residents without addresses. We know that in our city we are in need of all reason for that is is that it is not unusual. When we sell property for affordable housing purposes, oftent times the land subsidy is what is used to help make things affordable. And in have reduced the acquisition price so that this can be affordable not only to 60% 80% of AMI residents but also to residents without addresses who may not have an income and that is where we need cognizant of how we help and support those those for affordable housing and those who are uh without housing. And if this is an opportunity where we could do both for that project albeit it'll still be 100% affordable. Um, sec…

be needed for a project of this scale. You know, as is typical of projects that have affordable housing and temporary and transitional beds, it will need a complicated capital stack. So, we're

um that needed to happen and so that's why we are asking for this approval it's also um house affordable housing project council council or any other council members

They can pay even $1,000, some of them. I think that we need to make the fines for these uh these landlords who do this purposely purposely to the point that they can't they can't

abatement to Crown Village Urban Renewal, Inc. for a project to construct two residential affordable housing buildings consisting of 185 residential rental units where 108 senior affordable housing units of which 20 units shall be restricted to tenants at 50% of AMI. And the second building shall consist of 77 non senior affordable housing units, of which four units shall be restricted to tenants at 50% AMI. And 73 units shall be restricted to tenants at 60% AMI in the West Ward. Sponsored by Councilman Kelly, second by Councilwoman Scott abatement to South Orange Avenue 1 urban renewal, Inc. for a project to construct 144 non senior affordable housing residential rental units wherein 12 units shall be restricted to tenants at 50% of area median income and 132 units shall be restricted to …

D and E are both projects regarding Lincoln Park. D is approving amended and restated home affordable housing agreement and assignment and assumption agreement. And E is approving the parking into new development, which will allow us to ensure that we have affordable housing, more public realm as well as be able to raise tax revenue. And I think that we're very excited to

improves and and and as the deputy mayor saying, I know I've been in a number of discussions about the landlords and how we can uh we can uh I won't say make cuz that's too strong a word but encourage the landlords to beautify to um rehab those buildings particularly uh the spaces above and to

application by the developer to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Affordable Housing Trust Fund Municipal Settlement Fund. Settlement Fund. Settlement Fund. Questions from the council.

building and seven I'm sorry fourstory building with 28 market rate rental residential units and seven affordable housing units in the north ward. Any questions from council Ramos?

Street and Pes Peshon and Peshan Streets. Um they also have a agreement with HUD and they are also part of the green initiative use agreement because they are 100% affordable and it is the new owners. And once they once they get approval from the city, they will then go to HUD and the green initiative agreement for um approval for excuse me those agreements to be transferred to

were going to do it. But on the back end of that, these individuals and these landlords that own buildings that have six, four, 10 residents and families living in them should be doing something block. But no one is saying anything. we must start doing something about these landlords that are not providing garbage protection or garbage coverage for the residents. You got babies, you have all we will fulfill that commitment that we made. But at the same token, homeowners and building landlords, please do your part because some of you probably don't live where your residents are paying you

half story residential building. All units designated to households earning 60% to 80% of area median income. Questions from the council. Is uh Mr. Pichardo here? All right. Next item. D is new construction of a two-family home to be rented to Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Choice Voucher Choice Voucher I'm sorry, participants in the South Ward. Shall we defer that item, sir? All Place to Cottage Place Apartments for an affordable housing project. Can we get the someone from Economic Housing Development to just give a brief done um due to the state deadline. And nothing is changing in terms of the affordable housing. affordable housing. affordable housing. No, sir. It will still be an affordable building.

garbage and debris garbage and debris that not not only some of our residents and and tenants help to incur, but also some of the ownership of these facilities to give them time to abate, they'll never get that time to abate cuz they don't even follow up with their tenants to make sure that their tenants are keeping the property clean and respectful. And and there is going to be some time and pressure even in this ordinance that the tenants have to start being responsible for keeping in front of these properties clean and

anything. And so this gives us again another tool in our toolbox to hold landlords and tenants more accountable. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else from the council?

um, a new development team that is not only going to bring 100% affordable housing, they will also bring rental and home ownership. That is a new element and

management, but the the 100% uh affordable to 20 rentals, is that going to be between 30 to 50% AMI or uh what number does that look like? And I don't know if you cost out what the 12 just to find out what the um AMIs would be for the 20 apartments. Uh yes, the AMI for the whole project will be between 30% of AMI and 80% of AMI. Also like to note that um we do have two people within um economic and housing

development, 56 units, um and 40 of them will be market and 10 will be affordable at 50% of AMI. There will be 56 parking spaces as well, so that's one-for-one parking um

paid nobody's rent. We didn't go on Facebook and said we kept somebody from being evicted. We didn't go on Facebook and social media and tell people I don't I don't know whether it's a great idea hold people accountable for the man boards that they are. And then we have some tenants. God help them, that might have never lived in clean conditions, so they

our receipts, too. And God help those who are living in conditions that the landlords are not doing what they're supposed to do. And yes, we probably should have had a list 50 years ago, but

either. Um the reason for the discounted price is because of the affordable housing that will be um in the site. It is going to be 100% affordable, and so this entity to construct the the or to finish constructing the affordable housing? housing? I Yes, Council President, um there is $8 million to the city of Newark, and those funds will be used to offset the cost of the affordable housing development for families between I believe it's 30 and 80% of AMI. Is is the $8 million going to be applied to that property? Yes, sir. Councilman Ramos's question, uh yes, the funding from the late Congressman was dedicated just for affordable housing within the city of Newark. So, no daycare the development there connected again the uh condos that will be for affordable families, and also the affordabl…

half story residential building. All units designated to be households earning 60 to 80% of AMI in the North Ward. Ward. Mr. President Ramos. Mr. President Ramos. B is new construction of a two family home to be rented to section 8 housing choice voucher participants in the South Ward. Ward. Any questions from the council? Mr. I'm sorry this is going to be amended on the floor the floor to be sold at 80% AMI and below and four homes being sold at market rate in the South Ward. Mr. Chair, I'd defer this item. Uh Again, they're doing housing affordable housing at housing at 80% affordable let's say of the AMI. It's not that they are building at 40%. It's 80%. You have to make a hundred

I'll second it. Seconded by Councilman Gonzalez. Gonzalez. Next item. G is to execute an affordable housing agreement for home funds to develop and construct a new three family home in the three family residential dwelling consisting of three deed restricted affordable housing units pursuant to the city's affordable housing trust fund. Questions from the council. Yeah, Mr. Chair. Councilman Council. Just to go

the grant. The majority of the dollars are for preventing homelessness, people who are facing eviction, etc. And also providing housing support for those who are

floors consisting of 25 market rate residential rental units and seven affordable housing rental units. Quick question to Council President. Uh But uh so I I'm I'm pretty much comfortable with this with the project cost and the $39,000 going to affordable housing corresponding. corresponding. corresponding. So

Um they are going to develop a mixed-use development with 51 units of workforce and affordable housing and they're also going to include uh 12,500 square feet of ground floor commercial space that up that space. up that space. And just you said 51 units of affordable housing? Yes. housing? Yes. housing? Yes. I know Councilman Gonzalez has a

A is new construction of a two-family home to be rented to Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher participants in the South Ward. Next item. B is a new construction of two to be sold at an affordable rate affordable rate to income-qualified households earning 100% area median income in the West Ward. Any questions from the council? Yeah, this is the West Ward as well, Just one thing, Just one thing, Deputy Mayor, can can you explain the 100% AMI just for the record for the people at home since we deal with a lot of 40, 60, 80 home. Sure, Council member. So, Council President, President, currently the HUD area median income for at 100% is approximately 125,000 dollars for a family of four. It goes up know if they've reissued it in 2026, so my numbers might be 2025. And it's all done by HUD. We fo…

Central Ward. Central Ward. Any questions from the Council? Hearing none, next item. K is to execute an affordable housing agreement for home funds with Rise and Planes Urban Renewal LLC to develop and

West Ward to construct a new four-story mixed-use building with 11 residential units. units. Questions from the council? Councilman Kelly. Yes, I would like to

mixeduse building consisting of 53 market rate residential rental units and 13 affordable housing rental units. Any questions from the council? Hearing none. Next item, residential rental units consisting of 25 market rate residential rental units and seven affordable housing rental units. units. sponsored by Councilman Kelly. Second by

new fivestory mixeduse building with 36 residential dwellings, 28 at market rate, and eight affordable units. Any questions from the council? Next item. F is an ordinance granting a West Ward to construct a new fourstory mixeduse building with 11 residential units consisting of eight market rate and three affordable housing rental units. Sponsored by Councilman Kelly, second by Councilwoman Scott Roundtree.

financing for the construction of a 24 residential dwelling consisting of three deed restricted affordable housing restrictions for occupancy by qualified lowincome tenants pursuant to the city of Newark affordable housing trust fund in the west ward. Questions from the council Ramos. Ramos. Yeah. So just to be clear, only three out of the 24 are affordable units or they just the three are deeed restricted like what percentage is affordable here Good morning again. Brandy Daniel,

you may remember about four years ago, we had an ordinance that required the um registration of landlords for single family properties and it followed the state ordinance because the state has that now one to four units are under rent control. What we found is is that when you have to register under landlord registration and rent control, it's duplicative. So, what we're asking to do is combine the work of the landlord registration to the rent control ordinance such that you only have to go

2,000. And so it it sends it off and makes it seem like we're in support of bad landlords when we need to make sure that we have something punitive in place to to to deal with those individuals who

department around certificate of habitability. When the first law was enacted the one for landlord registration and then it followed on to this rent control ordinance. We actually that's talking about not being able to collect their rent and then there's the person who lives there, the tenant side. Unfortunately, I have experienced in the last few months whereby shouldn't be shouldn't be that I all they say I received the complaint from the from the landlord side, not from the from the tenant side. But I understand your point. Thank you. Thank you.

find them, we can't leave it there. It's they're putting out their whole they're evicting people and put out their whole house. It's not even bulk day today. It's regular garbage day. responsible to pay the the fine? The owner or is it the they say the the tenant? Because they say I'm the owner, absentee owner. I have a tenant and that tenant puts more than 10 items. Who is responsible? responsible? responsible? The owner. The owner. wanted to to ask. You know, in the West, we have building owners who allow their tenants who move out and they just leave all of the furniture on the sidewalk and it stays there for days. Um, we also

out. There's a lot of owners emptying apartments after tenants move and they throwing it out. throwing it out. throwing it out. Yeah. Yeah.

Lock Street. Um, if you know, a couple years ago, we secured the old housing authority property for some uh back dudes that was due to us. This is

for you to consider it today. I'm sorry, tomorrow. Um, and then in closing, the um EDA and the housing authority and the city have all approved the structure. We have it all done by legal form and that it's tied to the building, not to the land. because this land is housing authority owned and leased by the Great Point Studios. But there was a legal way because, as you may recall, Hudson Valley Properties is actually on our bad actors list for the worst landlords, as the mayor stated at the state of the city. So, there are three other sites wanted you to know that um item 8D other communications is actually around the office of tenant legal services. What we're doing there is we're actually increasing the federal poverty level

of a municipal engineer questions or comments from Council Members councilman Gonzalez the bridges contract $800,000 it says to provide Outreach and housing navigation ER how effective are they in they're on vacation too um but they're not here today I know I can personally say that Bridges um we use them as the task force as well so anytime when residents call in and they say hey there's an encampment here or there's an individual here you know we they send out Bridges that's the homeless task force that they go out with but we should definitely have something in

services the services will be referred accordingly and the Outreach team meaning newk Bridges Newark bridges in Alliance with the office of homeless services exactly so the contract before us about the north Bridges and their data this is tied to uh their services that they provide as well to be able to

many of us may not think that is a problem but it's going to put a lot of uninsured motorists on the road uh and it's going to cause a lot of problems here in the state of New Jersey that's do this uh it's going to put a lot of individuals who are trying to make a living on the road without insurance which is which is dangerous thank you councilman Council

former uh you know he's ready he's ready to check me if you say personal got the former DPW directorship right there okay so so when we say education though on here I guess I'm I'm confused oh how we

remaining trash cans uh we're hoping probably within before the summer is out as we launch the new DPW website we'll have the remaining address on there that still need a can so you can just type in

about trash about trash cans or cans or DPW or water I'm sorry I just can't can't stop bringing that up water or DPW do you have any questions no all right well thank you director oh yes councilman a great job and I applaud you for that all right okay all right okay all right okay and that was on the DPW side councilman Nelly how you doing director how we doing it's on the DPW side just um I've been getting a lot of calls lately about Street c cleaning not

zoning at one point in time there was a there was a plan to transfer H let's say DPW to that area there is to see how does this conflict with that well it's not DPW definitely is not going to beat it it would taken up this whole lot that was the plan I mean I don't a long time ago not even a long time ago last year be clear it was plans that this would be the home of the new DPW site so that's obviously not happening anymore correct not it's not my understanding in

any any other comments from Calvin um all right thanin I did want to just uh note that that infrastructure piece is being discussed by the several developers there's about three developers key in that area right now they are having conversations with the city's engineering water sewer around the traffic pattern um the underground infrastructure Etc um so there are discussions dealing with that specific issue sounds good as always thanks for

uh 2025 also to establish a uh fund Capital fund for meter uh maintenance and replacement as well as maintenance on the garage and the third uh way in which this additional Revenue will be uh used

resolution is authorizing the sale of uh secur Bill Bonds for the uh green infrastructure project uh this had previously been approved by Council and we are submitting application to uh sell $450,000 in bonds to uh New Jersey infrastructure bank which again offers uh zero to low cost uh interest and there is some principle forgiveness at

that um in addition um there was a comment that the uh water and sewer department has improperly mixed chemicals at the Watershed and that's just wrong it's completly false

and all of that so I shouldn't have to do this but what I did is as of today I asked DPW to give brooms shovels bags and all of that to help so I can have the youth who are

that complex salable because those people are living in from the curb in it starts on the sidewalk from the curb in those people are living in deplorable conditions I mean what's what are we

Authority being the key provider of of providing those affordable housing units uh to bridge the gap all right thank you hey uh any other comments councilman Kelly you had a follow up a quick

C and D are change orders in the water department C is the repair of water mains service leaks and disconnection of water service services and D is to council members um 12C is in uh this is work that's being performed we have water main breaks so we had if you know last year we had a last year and earlier this year during the winter we had a large variety of large water main breaks that that were repaired during an emergency so this increases to pay for emergencies during one month so one month we had a high volume of emergency large diameter water main brakes and those bills came in exceeded so when we submit the bid that bid doesn't have a

streets that were paved in the north wart this year whether they were funded by engineering water sewer emergency work from psng you there needs to be someone that can put you know that work though a lot there there's there's there Paving projects that are connected to water sewer uh psng work you know you name it there there's a there's Paving activity going on the the stuff through

nutrition program D is for sustaining Public Health Public Health Public Health infrastructure e is to enhance the emergency response system and F is additional funding for additional funding for

to acquire a permanent easement from the grantor in order for the city of Newark's department of water and sewer utilities to clean, repair, replace, inspect, operate, and otherwise maintain in an unobstructed condition a system of water, storm water, and sanitary sewer drainage pipelines. drainage pipelines. drainage pipelines. Any questions? Next item.

permission from the city. Correct. And they you know they have to also apply for um sidewalk permits and things like that. They also is a requirement that they have to there's a

agenda 7 R12 V and W are both bid contracts V is to provide emergency repair for sewers and W is to provide miscellaneous emergency repair of water mains and services leaks any questions next item we dealt with 8 a b and c so we are on item

item number is item number is 24710 to reference to the pedestrian bridge uh we have another item I don't know the exact number let's let's go through each one sure sure I I'll go you want me to or you want to call the over first the first one is regarding the bridge you said so I gotta be honest I'm having trouble hearing too for some reason don't worry about it I I'll add some some heavy level to it um so the first one has to do with the the pedestrian bridge the number is 24710 uh the second item is uh two cannabis so let's let's go let's go to working with um Amtrak uh New Jersey Transit and path uh to review the design for the pedestrian bridge um a few um weeks ago actually uh we were able to talk with those three rail agencies and get them to agree uh to have us look at the use of t…

the number is uh 24 24 24566 I'm missing reference to uh DPW needing uh some 4x4 trucks good morning C president council members this uh this was a bed I when I went out in in November for bed this is for our supervisors in DPW so they could be able to follow the garbage trucks and the uh snow trucks um for their vehicles these are for 4x4 vehicles for our supervisors in supervisors in supervisors in DPW um right now we have two or three supervisors riding in the same truck we can't atically um supervise all the questions you said that we were buying seven seven vehicles I think it's seven for DPW and it may be two others for like one of our sanitation or Cod ins inspectors that come in it all right thank you next item the next item is on is another is a water and sewer item is [Music] 246…

Authority um I'm particularly interested in it nor the development of nor uh infrastructure and economic development and I think that my analytical and problem arm skills will bring A New

Footwear o is per DM Staffing p is tree planting and maintenance Q is tree procurement and R is maintenance and repair trucks any questions concerns from the council seeing none next item 7r1 s of services as well as the breakdown of if there is a breakdown of how the trees how the maintenance is spread across the wards got it is that correct Council I don't want to just miss that's good okay

you to consider um is $500,000 and that amount will be used to pay for infrastructure um specifically Water and Sewer improvements that need to be provided the total amount of water and sewer expense is about 1.8 million um this will cover about 500,000 thank you councilman Gonzalez is

the Council next item f is an ordinance amending the green infrastructure for the sewer system project and other related expenses and appropriating $800,000 questions from the Council next

supportive services and education on cickle cell. F is to provide funding for the police and fire capital improvement for structural repairs and correct POSA violations. violations. operating budget. H is sustaining public health infrastructure. infrastructure. infrastructure. Any questions from the council? Yes, council president. Council Kelly. Um yes

firehouses um that are included in the funding for police and fire capital improvement um for structural repairs. I'm wondering why the firehouse on Palm repairs have been done, but I just didn't want to take just the fireman's complaints. I I've reached out to DPW, who actually handles the firehouses, they said that does fixing uh some further investigate and um the exhaust system did have um some issues and fire um department and DPW are addressing that specific issue because it's a system the whole entire system needs to issues with the house besides the exhaust system and um uh the fire department and DPW are working with that with that one exhaust issue because the whole system needs to be replaced. So um Phoenix that we recognize what the issues are with the houses are working togeth…

to purchase trucks, vehicles, and auto body parts. J is a bid contract to provide maintenance and masonary work. K is a bid contract to provide horse feed and supplies.

have there uh for safety reasons that's going to be part of the capital improvement because the the scope is very large. So, we're going to find um and then again the the bigger picture like the entire um city hall will be under the capital improvement plan for the whole building. the whole building. the whole building. So we will be addressing those problem

uh to you I think that it starts with a solid effective capital improvement program bringing the needs understanding what those needs are and already been done. Um, I think at this point that there should be some uh capital improvement program, maybe a rolling one because some things fall off the list once they're completed, but same thing with all of the buildings here. And and again, I would encourage you to look at capital improvement programs in other cities and see what those look like. that unfortunately does

outstanding bonds for the city issued in 2015. C is 2015. C is $85,000 for the sewer utility bonds and D is $20 million for bond anticipation notes. All right. Uh director, let's

Corporation U Catholic Charities of the Arch Dasis of Newark St. Bridgets V Apostles House and W Catholic Family and Community Services Hope House. first amendment to the agreement to provide for the hosting, support, upgrades, maintenance of proprietary software in the existing electronic medical record system, NextGen

bond ordinance providing for the local units allocable share of capital improvement projects for the joint meeting of Essex in Union counties by

members, this was just want to clear something up um regarding the city's capital improvement program and the assessments. Okay. This administration came in in 2014. Not only most of the county at that time. The city is in progress of of doing a robust capital improvement program. Assessments have been going on and we did act on stuff. do hear your concerns, but we are addressing it on a robust uh plan to move forward with capital improvement programs. You guys have voted on professional engineering firms that's

water department. water department. A is a closeout change order for the repair of the sewer system. And B is a change order for the repair of Timber Brook Road and culvert. Any questions? Yeah, Mr. Chair. Councilman Council I I I know you know Thank you, Madam Clerk through you. Absolutely. C is a shared services agreement, emergency services of sewer vacuum jet rodder to respond to sewer main backups, perform routine sewer inspection services, and conduct quarterly preventative maintenance at Newark Housing Authority properties. Housing Authority properties. Housing Authority properties. Any questions from the council? regarding licensing of dockless vehicles used for commercial e-deliveries in order to promote improved sidewalk and street safety in the City of Newark's public right-of-w…

we're approving these grants prospectively. We're talking about three or four years down the road these streets are supposed to get paved. Um but but I want to know how many grants

the project because some of the some of the projects require a little more sidewalk work um which is what goes on first. So, if we have a heavy pedestrian area, um you're going to see a lot of the sidewalks being done ahead of the paving. So again, um, Council Marine was, I mean, we we we can discuss, you who live in the community whose streets need to be paved and are getting potholes and and and and tires uh uh uh flattened and all other issues that that arise because of this. after you you can answer that but I do want to ditto that it cost the city money when those potholes and people's cars are it cost us it cost us. So while we're waiting and not looking at this as they can prove that they lost their their their front end because of one of our potholes. So, I know it's a catch 22 sit…

like to maximize the amount of money whether it's grant money, city funding, and water and sewer paving. We like to maximize all that together so we're not duplicating the same effort. that's off we officially kick off the city the city projects of paving citywide paving on the city side. Then water and sewer will be coming coming behind it with some of the paving that we'll be doing that we left for water and sewer cuts and uh hoping PSNG to push a lot of paving towards the middle and the end of the National League of Cities. uh cities are encouraged to use a CDBG grants for to enhance bridges and roads. So we should be and and take that CDBG grants and put it as a block instead of putting it in economic development and utilizing it more for roads and bridges and things that are are neede…

uh to authorize the sale of bonds is through the sale of bonds through the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. Uh the first one is for the additional filters for the quantic water project. Uh my forgiveness. And the second uh uh resolution is for the $800,000 green infrastructure. Uh and that one is eligible for 100% principal forgiveness. And we have to do these before June Foundation. J is AIDS Resource Foundation. K is Foundation. K is Foundation. K is Ruckers. L is Futurebridge Business Solutions. M is Beth Israel Medical Center. extension. T is to amend and extend the grant agreement which provided grant funding for the maintenance and upkeep of the purchased trees and shrubs at Hope Village 2. Hope Village 2.

Question from the Question from the council hearing. None. Next item. C is a bid contract to provide maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment for the water and sewer facilities. Question. Question. Next item.

problem right now. Yeah, and I and I did see the list that I believe your office shared along with water sewer and I did respond that there were very minimal number of North Ward streets included on

Yeah, I just want to um through your chair and the administration commend the work of Bridges Outreach. I know there've been a number of occasions where our office has reached out uh to All right. Thank you, Councilman Ramos. I want to add a thank you to that as well to Bridges. well to Bridges. well to Bridges. All right. All right. Next item.

uh with with the with the with the contractor and and and water sewer and and all that stuff. So, I just want to better understand how that's going to

have, you know, um a fender bender. Sometimes, we have folks who have a pothole situation, and they literally send documents to the office to get a reimbursement for the We have that on a regular basis. However, the the the the the most that we get is pothole situations and things of that nature, where somebody's rims may be bent, and it's $400, $500.

improvements. Again, these will these funds will be borrowed through the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. Again, either low or no interest and uh there will be at the time when those bonds or

I believe the green parks project, I believe this is being run by the Department of Water and Sewer. They gave you more specifics on the projects, but again, they are applying for uh funding through the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank. Uh and then similarly as to the prior ordinance uh we'll be uh once adopted in ordinance we will be applying for funding through the infrastructure bank again through principal forgiveness and uh favorable interest rates.

really use the back gates, so it's a lot of dumping. And every week I feel like I'm calling DPW to clean up that area. So there has to be I mean I like your suggestion, Councilman Council, if cameras and hot zones of dumping sites, but there has to be something or I'm calling DPW every week to clean up something that's really, you know, that they're not really scheduled to clean up right now, but let me just add, you know, I in general I believe and I've seen that uh uh DPW has been doing a yman's job in helping to make um our streets cleaner, much cleaner than they so I appreciate that. What what I will say and I thought about this is I don't know if the if DPW has like the police have hot spots where they know there's going to be illegal dumping because

put it out in different languages because everything that I read that comes from DPW is just in one language. a lot of the uh there was garbage pickup on Monday on Labor Day and I appreciate Good morning, Council President. Council members Kareem Medine, interimm director DPW. First, I want to just address Councilman Counselor's um Councilman Counselor's um Councilman Counselor's um complaint. Yeah, we're going to work

It's just the beginning. We're still going to continue to make some um changes around in the DPW and now we pick up garbage. We believe that we should have a clean city also. from the the county like we're alone. We we're sh you know you got the councilman right there that ran DPW at one time but we need to have our own stuff. Everybody has a priority. We can use them for six Thank you. Thank you. You gota we got to make sure that we're able to do the maintenance and the repairs on those things when they go down. We got to look at what's the best of control. Um, the other thing I just want to say thank you to your water sewer staff. I know at the last council meeting I mentioned an issue with one of our homeowners who had been receiving an

for the experiences that we now currently have under your leadership um as um acting director for uh DPW. So, um I too have seen um in the South Ward and throughout the city the change and the Thank you councilman. I want to thank the administration. Thank your support. Thank those men and women at DPW that's committed to getting our trash speaker. Appreciate you. Next item. E is a use

Sure. Sure. 7R3A is application acceptance of grant funds for the local aid infrastructure program. program. Questions from the council?

epidemic. This allows us to go out to be able to sell the bonds and notes through the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank for that additional amount. that additional amount. that additional amount. Thank you. Any questions?

Department of Finance. Uh again this is the uh for the through the department of water and sewer the green streets project uh in order to fund uh that project for $6.5 million. Again the funding will be done through the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank and then we're requesting that to be advanced and adopted in first reading so that way we

for six X-ray inspection systems. D is the use of state contracts for the maintenance and repair services for light medium duty vehicles. E is a use of state contracts for radio services. H is a bid contract for plumbing maintenance, repair and installation services. services. I is a bid contract for street maintenance, snow and ice removal services, salt, sand spreading. J is a bid contract for office furniture and

coming up. Why don't we invite the uh department of water and sewer? We have a discussion on the water. Okay. the water. Okay. the water. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. the west ward and you know I've been speaking to engineering code enforcement DPW and everybody seems to be blocked or waiting on this 10day ticket. The the problem for me is that when a 10day

Next item. Next item. 7R12D is a bid contract to provide maintenance and repairs of cranes. Questions from the council. Next item,

right? that even once you abate something, it has to be continued maintenance, right? And so our hope uh is that they will continue to ensure that all of the other facilities uh that

that are are are supposed to be uh uh it's some kind of pavement or some kind of structure infrastructure work is supposed to be done on. The question or concern I have is are, but it's our residents. It's those that are, you know, the other day I almost stepped in a pothole and almost broke my ankle at a street dedication. It's the the car that gets hit with a pothole and and you know, the tires are flattened or the car is damaged. It's it's our it's it's more

uh typical project. Um in this case uh we've encounter uh a lot of infrastructure uh coordination uh challenges and that uh you know brings about delays in design um because we operations that we need to do. um every time we touch a street, regardless of the condition of the sidewalks, we have to bring them to code. So that also brings about a little bit more time that all know, um it's very weather depending. So, if you know doing the work on the sidewalks takes a little longer, that um pushes the actual paving part, but it does set it up for the pending at this point but again um you know the challenges are the age infrastructure what we have to work around um and also the DOT requirements to remain uh to to keep and maintain the telephone company or whatever, there's a the streets are b…

Lower Broadway Alliance for the revitalization, improvement, and revitalization, improvement, and revitalization, improvement, and maintenance of Salvador Montempo Park. sponsored by Councilman Ramos, second by Councilman Gonzalez. Councilman Gonzalez. ordinance speaks of aou as it as it relates to uh the maintenance of Salvatore Bont Temple Park. Can we get an understanding of that? Because I know the recreation department does not control maintenance uh of of that. So, who is actually going to be doing the maintenance? Is it under DPW? Is it under public buildings? Director. Director. Good morning. Um, council president, council, council members. Kareem, director, interimm director, DPW, director, department of water and sewer, Shabbo Temple Park, the DPW and along with the water departm…

on how I'm sorry this request depending on how much on how big the scope is we coordinate with water and sewer and uh we coordinate with uh our uh uh engineering staff uh to see how the work

It should provide it should also include emergency work, but there is a provision for our water and sewer um colleagues if they have work to do in the city. Yes, it's they say how much you you Director Department of Word, the intent of this amendment is to ensure that um we have enough road inspectors that's out. Somebody normally in uh these engineering companies come in and they bond, that we hold that. If you don't pave, right, you normally water and sewer, we have a you passed, I think the last council meeting, a road restoration contract, right? We go back over the water and sewer cuts and restor. This money will allow engineering to have one of those same type of contracts. So, if this amendment was just to ensure we talk about emergencies, not a provision on emergency that the water…

the the even the regular plumber that may have took a permit out with water and sewer and did one with with um traffic and signal that don't come back and restore that sidewalk or that road improve. But we want to make sure that we can restore it and the money that because sometime a guy may be putting in a 300 feet of water man or 300 feet of sewer man. So that cut may be longer than the average time when you're giving us $1,500 or 2500. We may ask for a bond with that. More and more of that takes us on making sure that we have enough in uh road inspectors and engineering inspectors looking at the work. We don't want people to compact the job two weeks

in Jamaica sponsored by Councilman Kintana of a backhole from the department of water and sewer utilities. It's heavy equipment used for digging, lifting and moving materials. Question next item.

for the 2026 operating budget and B is to provide funds for the debt um contracts and capital improvements in 2026. questions from the C. Councilman Gonzalez.

for the portable public address system. G is for the curb stops for the water and sewer department. H is traffic signs for engineering. And I is computer supplies.

services contracts for engineering services on an assed basis for the water and sewer department. There are 31 vendors. vendors. B is ACOM technical services. K is DM Enterprise. L is FAMTECH engineering. M is GFT infrastructure. infrastructure. infrastructure. N is GTS Consultant. O is GZA Geo Environmental. Environmental.

done during the COVID pandemic. Uh through the mayor's efforts with the help of uh water and sewer director Kareem Adem and his team, we replaced in excess of 23,000 lead service lines at

let the ones who who don't know that, you know, um we've had a lot of maintenance issues with our with our fleet, with our trucks, and those are being taken care of. But the director hesitate to give us a call at 973733-6427 973733-6427 973733-6427 or reach directly out to DPW. But most of those those city those streets today, those avenues, blocks and places where

always said here, my position has been from the beginning that outside of police and fire, DPW is the next most important department in the city. I think it's inevitable that at some point in time, police and fire work 24/7. DPW is going to have to work 24/7 because the amount of garbage I see in front of that an operation has to be put in place and you would know better than me along with the business administrator that DPW in the future has to look into going 24/7. I think that's the only way we get bit? Just want to chime in on that. Um, council president, we're DPW is probably about 85% there of 247, but that's a plan we started two years ago just just one more question. Ju just to to rob that, I've always been on the notion that DPW has to be a 24-hour operation. I've always said that…

snow equipment. The city currently has, um, 20 big trucks. Does DPW have 16? Water and sewer has four. That's the big tandem triac type of trucks that comes out. The main works on some of the big streets. Between DPW and water and sewer, we have 25 little trucks. That's the pickups or mason dumps that the city owns. Problem is

obviously they put out too many pieces or they put out construction material or electronics and our DPW is not going to take that. And so it would be just sitting out there for two, three weeks. Councilman Quintana. Councilman Quintana. While you're here, I'd like to the potholes. potholes. You know, You know, there is a lot of potholes that need to be be I mean, the car I almost had a flat I I'll be between Mount Prospect and Bloomfield and Second Avenue. There's a pothole that is just So if we could start looking at these potholes because these are these are very serious matters. very serious matters. very serious matters. I mean, for I mean, the car is And again, if we could look into this and and uh fill those potholes as soon as we can and identify them all in the different wards. rai…

important how the city looks. We're working on that as well. We have a infrastructure beautification committee infrastructure beautification committee infrastructure beautification committee that's looking at how we can better prepare our downtown to welcome these uh

Police. So, I have different entities that will be part of these events. I'll get DPW out there as well. Eventually and well. Eventually and well. Eventually and Invest Newark, but again I think we have

Hearing none next item. S is an exception to public bidding to support the maintenance of proprietary computer software and hardware. software and hardware. software and hardware. Questions from the council. Do I hear Councilman Gonzalez?

going to break down. Believe me, I take that route every day and I have to drive on the other side of the road because all the holes in that in that street.

Next item. 7R-9A is an exception to public bidding to provide support and maintenance of proprietary software. Next item. 7R-12A is a bid contract for roof replacement at the archive building, the Chickadee Road pumping station, City Hall, JFK recreation recreation and aquatic center, and the SWAT building.

we are able to sign an estoppel agreement saying that they are current on their taxes, water, and sewer, and also current with the project. And um yes, in closing, the gun range was

C is rescinding a contract with Unique Security and Consulting. D is a state contract for water sewer equipment and supplies. supplies. E is an extension of an emergency

streets in the city of New York for the gas lines. And uh after we have done let's say repairs and and repaving of those streets hopefully they are going to repave the whole street and not just the little bit of street that they are breaking.

entire street unless of course uh it's within this moratorum period and they do have to repave a portion of the street curb to curb though but a portion of the of the street. So if you can give me that particular information uh we can include that in what we're demanding that they repave. that they repave. that they repave. Right. So far they they've went from Sanford Avenue all the way down. Right

enforcement, firearms, and equipment. D is a co-op purchasing agreement for a synthetic turf maintenance for the Bo Porter Sports Complex. And E is a bid contract for the family funday.

protected by concrete barrier. Um it also involves, you know, paving, sidewalk, a little bit of drainage and striping work. This is more of a bike lane corridor type project. item. 7R4A is approving loan and escro agreements for green infrastructure sewer project. sewer project. sewer project. Any questions from the council? Next item. 7R5A through I are all contracts with uh, bond anticipation note escrow and loan agreements for the green infrastructure sewer project through the infrastructure bank. Uh, this, uh, project does qualify for 100% principal forgiveness. So, we're looking to act on Neighborhood Health Services. H is future legal services. G is neighborhood health services. H is future bridge business solutions. And I is public strategies. Any questions from the I hear none. Nex…

we have building owners who allow their tenants who move out and they just leave all of the furniture on the sidewalk and it stays there for days. Um, we also have a problem with storage companies, specifically on 13th Street. people come gather their storage or or I don't know if they just leave it on the sidewalk and we've been finding the church that's next to the storage. Um you came to the

Mr. President, Mr. President, C. Yeah. So, and just to be clear, the DPW's commitment that it's going to even with delays 24 hours is going to be picked up. acquisition of property as part of the development and operation of a new water and sewer utilities complex. Director just come up. I mean I think it's self-explanatory but if you read it council president council members I raise it before the end of June. Okay. Okay. Good. Cuz it's an ice word future water and sewer DPW some type of site. site. Great. Great. addarters. I have the directors come up and speak to them. Each uh one is from DPW director deem can address it. It's a state contract. I want to say the letter shard number is 26-0634 state contract to amend uh for um gas for the DPW folks. It would be an extension of their contr…

neighborhoods uh that are happening and going on when we're providing construction and maintenance uh to different areas. And it is important to recognize and realize this just some of

we are on page three of the agenda item five reports and Rec commendations of City officers boards and and commissions thank you madam Clerk and

vote that would be helpful uh but they you know do do um work in terms of the task force of helping remove with police officers an individual that is displaced you know throughout the city uh but but surely let's get that information and

this good morning Madame President council members Jason Frasier uh Chief fiscal officer for no Works uh the workforce uh New Jersey funds are um uh GA and tana funds provided to us

comments next comments next item 709a is appointment of special police officer appointment of one special police officer a Nork resident questions or questions or questions or comments Cenna 709b is a shared service reduction questions or comments regarding this item can we actually can we have somebody come from Public Safety to just speak a little bit more about this item good morning deputy director good morning deputy director Shonda Morris um Public Public Safety so this is uasi funds that were given to the department and based on

because we're overlooking a lot of these things and most of our even code enforcement officers uh are not aware uh of how to enact what this ordinance is speaking of and so they're walking by a

through the block and pick it up oh thank you and o just to add to that I don't know if we have um public safety system public safety director still here just to add to that um we need a better job of enforcement of getting these cars moving and they have no incentive to move because they're not being ticketed and and when the when the officer does come around the time limit is over already so they can stay there so so

council members we are on page two of the agenda item five reports and recommendations of City officers boards and commissions thank you madam Clerk and good morning to everyone any

seea 6p sfk is an ordinance amending title 23 traffic by adding west side of Fabian police between NY Avenue and Lines Avenue and the east side of Fabian police between Shaw Avenue and Lines Avenue in the South Ward questions or comments CH sponsor that item okay

we are on page three of the agenda item five reports and recommendations of City officers boards and commissions thank you so much Madam Clerk and welcome to everyone in the chamber happy September

the clean and green project C is for the Fairy Street streetscape and Improvement Project D is for the public safety and Retail Patrol project e is for the collabor square renovation project F is

7r9 a is application acceptance of Grant funds funding for overtime to address violent crimes questions or comments regarding this regarding this regarding this item page 537 item page 537 city's been able to do in the last year is we were able to hire a new rent regulations officer um her name is Tammy pit and she is present um in the chamber so I didn't want let you know that she's clarify the powers of both the rent control board and the rent control officer so that's something that was not clear in our opinion um in the current law so we asked so we're asking to make

making under the rent control um or uh we do again have both our legal counsel and our rent control officer here if there's other detailed questions um we're also happy to meet with you meet her but this is Miss pittz our new rent control off good morning my name is Tammy pit I'm the rent control officer for the city of nort and the CPI changes every 15th of the month so at this

I'm asking these questions because for me in the west War Bradley courts is is a problem when it comes to um crime and things of that nature it stems out out across the entire city just from Bradley

we are on page two of the agenda item five reports and recommendations of City officers boards and officers boards and officers boards and commissions any questions from the council seeing none excuse me officer can you close never mind all right ordinances on first reading 6fa is

year thank you Deputy Mayor any questions councilman Gonzalez is this is the building where the police and fire were oh um council president to council member Gonzalez's question uh no that

resolutions and E is expressing profound sorrow and regret resolutions next 7 resolutions next 7 r9a is to fund police initiatives to address violent crime through the purchase of surveillance cameras and 7r9 B is to provide grant funding to address

thank you Communications 8A is an ordinance amending public safety personnel to add definition to the basic training course when hiring entry-level Law Enforcement Officers without an Officers without an Officers without an examination Mr President yes councilman Ramos um yeah can someone from the police division explain what what the ask is here it based on my my reading are we saying that in U one of these I don't know how alternate route or non- Civil Service um Civil Service um Civil Service um officers has up to nine months to complete the academy after they get hired is that is that what you're asking to complete the academy is that what you're saying correct and and is that true of an officer that we hire through the Civil Service process or do they have to complete the academy proc…

causes including housing um lately supporting fairstead in the housing I also do domestic violence parenting courses along with many other things that I advocate for I'm truly proud to

morning we are on page four of the agenda item five reports and recommendations of City officers boards and and commissions any questions from the council seeing none next item 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 any questions from the Council on this matter all right seeing none next uh

get um kind of a activity report from that office I know it's under Public Safety as to um you know what kind of initiatives are they undertaking are councilman at our next special conference let's have an executive session with the uh public safety director office of emergency management and their teams and their teams

or council. or council. Yeah that's good. Good morning. Barry Ford, Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery. Relative to the uh selection process, in fact, as it was said, we are looking for justice um influence youth or those who have been victims of violence. Particularly, we are also looking for students who are not your uh generally

may utilize for different kinds of evaluation as well, but um definitely the the police and fire divisions do. So, So, and and I I think what what some of us council? Councilman, even if we had, let's say, 10 providers, the the officer or the candidate doesn't have aoice because he's assigned to one of them. It's not that he's going to go the entity that was here and made a presentation is uh still under contract and officers were recently sent to her office I think last week uh for an assessment. it is in our interest to a very broad sense that we were looking at other entities is that the Hispanic officers were disproportionately failed in the psychological assessment by that particular entity. Um and it is a concern for the administration when uh black and brown applicants uh in this ca…

starting on page starting on page 50 we have an appointment as director of the Department of Public Safety Emanuel Miranda Senor good morning morning do you have a a opening position is a position that I uh take highly um in and serving the Department of Public Safety and also the community and i' stand before you just grateful um meant to always always make myself the administration because I have always believed that promotion promoting a Police director out of the ranking file is creates the morale in the police department as someone who sat in this Council for many years and and directors that would come from other agencies and other places uh no one knows the nework police department like the ranking F who have served with New York police so to the administration want to say thank you…

law is meant to be my servant and not my master still less my torture my murderer the urgency of improving police Community relationships became even clearer to me from my journey from worked tirelessly to support May baraka's Vision on community Public Safety as a specialist in community violence intervention I've successfully secured federal state local and philanthropic do to support this great are on page four of the agenda item five is reports and recommendations of City officers boards and officers boards and officers boards and commissions any question from the Council next item Council next item

between the city of Newark and Broad Street fidelco Street fidelco Street fidelco LLC to be used as a police substation and G is an ordinance authorizing the execution of a lease agreement between the city of newk and fidelco LLC for property to be used as a police precinct substation by the Department of Public Safety any Safety any questions saying none next item eight H

truck equipment just a question about uh The Exchange I'm not I'm sure if someone hears from Public Safety but the the upgrading of the the motorcycles right we have a whole you know team of forward good morning council president council members cillo deputy director of police I will look into the age of the motorcycles I will find out from uh our Personnel I I'll try to get an answer uh you said 791b on page 13 d as in David someone come up you want to explanation Public Safety but yeah I know it's I think I saw 100 V 150 vehicles or something like that again uh good morning council president Leo cillo deputy director uh Department of Public Safety Newark police um uh have to look into exactly uh what the contract is uh adopted for um yeah I'm gonna have to follow up uh with with the unit…

Gonzalez's question Gonzalez's question good morning council president Leo cillo deputy director police um regarding 7 r1d just spoke with director purchasing just to clarify question I had so this funding source that's what this resolution is for so we don't know if if the Department of Public Safety department of public affairs the department no it's it public safety all right all right thank we give you a little slack but starting January

none 7 r2p is waving the 20-day period for an ordinance to take effect regarding the police precinct substation with with fidelco any fidelco any

second thank you C is recognizing and commending resolutions and D is expressing profound sorrow and regret Public Safety resolutions 7 R9 A and B are application acceptance of Grant funds A is fund to enforce motor

have to be 500 fet apart uh as the data represented itself that was presented by the office of violence prevention and trium Recovery uh about most crimes violent crimes happening in front of convenience stores and coupled with that uh the amount of stores that are now

congratulations we are on page three of the agenda item five reports and recommendations of City officers boards and and commissions any commissions any

support services support services G is for Safe Streets and roads for all H is New Jersey victim of crime act Grant I is to improve New Jersey air quality J is to assistance to

members we are on page three of the agenda item five reports and recommendations of City officers boards and commissions any questions from the council hearing none next item

water then you sprung up and all money fell from the sky including the money Trump gave we protest about the crime we protest about the poor Ser services in the filthy streets that's still

small technicalities and then the issue still persists right so we go through sending the officer over there finding them and then by the time it gets to court gets thrown out and then we still

court in the process so does the court notify because the code enforcement officer long is in court so they're aware that this process of what the process is when the owner is or is not there so is it not the code enforcement officer that's there I'm just asking um once they find out that this fine has been paid to go back and see because case uh we have a little more flexibility because we have more officers so we can send them right away we could even have um somebody go while the court case is active um with UCC

and pray that our process becomes just a little bit tighter because we surely got a whole lot of Code Enforcement Officers I don't know about UCC and I know that you're working on that but we just

Council members, we are on page four of the agenda. Item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. Any questions from the council? Hearing none. Next HIV health and support services. C is the lead hazard program. D is the antiviolence out of school youth project for all wards. E is to provide medical care supportive services and education on cickle cell. F is to provide funding for the police and fire capital improvement for structural repairs and correct POSA violations. violations. just wondering if we are temporarily um appropriating emergency funding to police and fire capital, why is this firehouse not included? Mr. President, uh Council Gonzalez. Yes. My question is regarding the budget. So on this list there are three firehouses um that are include…

made. All right. Excuse. So, uh two things, council, get right to you, but maybe I know the public safety director is here or not public director, I'm sorry, excuse me, public safety department is here. Um maybe they can also shed some light on this situation Uh, thank you. Uh, uh, uh, public uh, public safety. Why can't I recall your title? I want to say want to say morning, Council President. Good morning, council. My name is Leo Carillo, deputy police director, New York PD. Um, as far as the uh the work uh for Project Phoenix, um I know there uh and getting updates. The fire chief, I've been in meetings with both the fire chief and the public safety director to get updates on those. Uh and I will work on getting a written update with the

All right, let's go back to that in terms of the I want to know the motorcycles in the in the police department. I understand that at one point in time we had like 18 19 repair the others. Erh why don't we lease as we were doing before so that the police officer will have new motorcycles at least every 3 years we can renew the lease uh count uh good good question deputy director good morning council president Leoor police uh deputy police director um to Councilman Gonzalez's question uh yes uh We we do have a a varied number of motorcycles, plan moving forward is to uh kind of copy the model we did with the actual police cars to get a newer fleet. Uh there is a group right now currently working on that. Uh and uh I do have a

It's a disgust. It's disgusting. All the capital projects. You take the the the one Lincoln Avenue, the precinct, it's falling falling apart. You know, we got to find out what we're going to do here. all these precincts. We talked about firehouses, Councilman Kelly, and I agree with you, but we just there can't be a fix or we're going to do something in terms of getting these buildings back where they need to. The police officers at one Lincoln can't even get to a locker room. They can't even go to a locker room. But you go to other towns, they have showers for the officers, males and female locker rooms, workout rooms. We don't have these things here. We keep that would we voted on in this council and I have not seen the capital money well in terms of the precinct the plans for the precin…

I know we talked about fire, but in what Councilman Kentana just said, we should include police uh precincts as well as quite frankly all other city buildings so that we have a full assessment and

a problem because he was promoted postumously postumously postumously uh by the city, by our police director, our mayor. Uh so if we could change that to sergeant. to sergeant.

let's just let's plain and simple. If you see illegal activity or know of illegal activity, tell the police. Tell the police. Tell the police so that they can address it. Plain and simple. If there really is truly some illegal activity going on, tell the police. With that being said, I finish with my comments. Is there anything from the that's opened up around the city that you would have had ribbon cutings, the police property room, the police evidence room, uh, and many other different things that we're doing. So, I

Yeah, I want I I want to thank the um the City Clerk's office uh Department of Public Safety and I know Councilman Silva provided some input in the drafting of this legislation, but um riding on city sidewalks. So, this creates a a licensing requirement um but it also empowers our uh police division to take some strong enforcement actions uh whenever they do to affirm that all the appropriate departments including uh licensing and um safe public safety did not did have an opportunity to provide input and make some changes and sign off. with the motorcycles. Let's say they come doing wheelies on in front of City Hall, in front of police officers, in front of front of businesses. I believe that we have to There there is legislation that I worked on some years ago that enables the police divi…

Councilman Gonzalez's point, I think residents have called residents have called residents have called um the police division complaining sometimes about sometimes about sometimes about um ordinance locally that creates standards. So, hopefully here gives the police division a little bit of muscle when they're out there uh responding to some of the quality of life complaints

do. Yeah. Well, that's a good point. Um part of this is that you know we are partnering closely with public safety. Uh so the idea is that the crisis response teams are going to be working really closely uh with police officers and responding to you know a a behavioral health crisis whether it is mechanics. R is the supervisors. S is Newark firefighters union. T is police communication clerks and and officers. U the inspectors and V is council 21. council 21. council 21. Anything uh any questions from the

been really good. The ones that are still remaining essentially are the fire officers union, the FOP, which I think we can resolve very very soon. Um as well, and the nurses u the nurses were that the FOP and and I think the NFOU will also resolve. Um, but the NFOU, which is the fire officers union, and uh the nurses, Janesso, they're more far apart than the other BFOP. Um, but it's

are on page three of the agenda. Item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. commissions. commissions. Questions from the council? So, you know, this this um ordinance, I want to thank the administration of public safety and the clerk's office for getting this done relatively quickly. It's one of the what actually happened is after last month's meeting, we worked with public safety. safety. We drafted the legislation and included appropriations. appropriations. A is for the funding to hire 15 additional police officers sponsored by Councilman Silva. Councilman Silva. Councilman Silva. I'll second. I'll second. I'll second. Duly noted. Duly noted. Duly noted. B is for overtime to address violent crimes, also sponsored by Councilman Silva. I'll second th…

page three of the agenda, item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. Any questions, comments from the council. I do have a

information. information. There's one for the wrench uh for the shooting ranch that I believe is like $800,000 a year. and and the one that we just entered for the Gonzalez. He brings up a great point. You know, in addition to that, you have the the police academy, right, which is I don't know how many millions a year in lease payments. So, if you can put

7R1A through C are temporary emergency appropriations. appropriations. appropriations. A is for the antiviolence for out of school youth project. B is for the subreional transportation planning subreional transportation planning

so I appreciate that. What what I will say and I thought about this is I don't know if the if DPW has like the police have hot spots where they know there's going to be illegal dumping because

looking to do with the clean communities, normally we piggy back with the county and the police on using their cameras. going to look to know we're going to look to get our own cameras stop littering and illegal dumping and some of those hot spots that we can't always depend on the police and the county with that little illegal dumping task force to do. So, we've already

we need to have our own stuff. Everybody has a priority. We can use them for six months then they're taken. The police has cameras but they need them for crime, right? It's not always in the illegal dump spot. We've looked at three different companies that will give us Harford and all those. We still do impound. We still do. I don't know if the police still do the Fort Fisher, but they still do impound cars when they catch them. And right, Councilman if you're purchasing that camera unit, it could be from it's a tour around like a compressor. You see the police have one, one of those units costs about 50 to 60,000, right? to renting a couple of

hearing none. Next item. F is the execution of a labor agreement for the Newark Police Deputy Chiefs Association. Association. Association. Questions from the council. Anything administration wants to say Oh, no. And the um NFOU as well. The what? The what? The what? NFOU. The fire officers is just about done. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ber.

it's critical that we have to start uh defining and informing our code enforcement officers and specifically those people that we have approaching the vacant lot ordinance to write it uh my office and in engineering to make sure that all the code enforcement officers understand that particularly that these new statutes really have teeth much more than a clean and lean. requires writing. And we are working to ensure that our code enforcement officers understand what has to be written, what pictures they have, and to make sure that they're available to

these free spaces into on street paid spaces is going to create also uh increased public safety because now we'll have uh officers in those areas patrolling um on streets like Division Street, New Street, Warren Street, New other uh people's cars getting broken into. There'll be a presence creating a public safety uh presence there. Um and we also have lost approximately the past two years about 650 parking

require an ordinance creation. We have already looked into that uh when the police department um contracted with the automated company to help them with their towing. Um I think there were some already out there killing my residents. Um every day I get complaints. It's not North police, it's you guys. You show no mercy. And a lot of the streets that you put down the east ward aren't even close

council members, we are on page three of the agenda, item five, reports and recommendations of the city officers, boards, and commissions. boards, and commissions. boards, and commissions. Any questions from the council?

bid contract for office furniture and installation. installation. installation. K is a bid contract for police motorcycles. motorcycles. motorcycles. Questions from the council. Morning council. Morning council. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Bu director of purchases 12 police motorcycles 12. Yes sir. Thank you. Thank you.

Questions? Questions? Next item. Next item. 79A is an appointment of special police officers north residents. officers north residents. officers north residents. Questions from the council. Next item. Next item.

getting that stuff the Verizon project is still the headquarters for the uh police police yeah Mr. chair at at some point during during the special if we can have the

we'll look into that. Stuff that risk um lanes that may be a p uh not lanes, trash that may be a public safety hazard. I think we we we address it in a timely fashion. Um some stuff may slip

we got to get we have to and I want to thank the law department and the department of public safety and the city clerk because this is an issue that you know it's our airport and uh we got to

We are on page three of the regular agenda. Item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. Any questions from the council hearing? None. Next

Next item. G is a cooperative purchasing agreement to purchase a police drone van. Questions from the council. Next item. contract? I believe it's a new contract. Uh Mr. Waldruff, I don't see any from from public safety. Is that something that you can address or someone from the administration can address? Southern R1J, administrator. administrator. Uh Melvin Waldrop, chief of staff, officers and business administrator. This is a uh new contract. Uh Mr. President, Oh, was a collective bargaining agreement for the Fraternal Order of Police. Police. I'd like to sponsor that. Sponsored by council. I'll I'll second

Thank you. Uh Thank you. Uh and in addition to that uh Melvin Waldrop, our chief of staff, officers, business administrator. In addition to that, there will be playground equipment

is application acceptance of grant funds to provide funds to assist in hiring 15 police officers. police officers. police officers. You can sponsor that please. A second. A second.

are on page four of the agenda. Item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. Any questions from the council? Hearing none. Next item,

probably April, March or April is when you'll uh actually get the budget. We're going to be shooting for as soon as possible so that we don't have to go through all the things we went through Next item. Next item. D is a cooperative purchasing agreement to purchase public safety software. Any questions from the council? I do have it. Good morning, council president. Good morning, council members. Leonardo Curillo, deputy police director Nor Police. Um regarding the one before you, again, it's an approval to use Sourcewell. The $8 million purchase is Hearing none. Next item. J is exception to public bidding for public safety IT equipment. Questions from the council. Next item. 7R2A is a new construction of a two two

Next item. 7R9.A and B are both appointments of special police officers. A is a resident and B is a non-resident. Any questions from the council?

adjustments as as appropriate and we'll continue to follow the law in that regard with respect to claims that crime is not down u and we challenge anybody to bring forward statistics that they based on empirical data that is collected by some reputable entity uh to dispute what is out there. The crime has has gone down under Mayor Baraka um for the last several years. will have an

are on page three of the agenda. Item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. commissions. commissions. Any questions from the council? is a temporary emergency appropriation to provide funds for the 2025 public safety answering point grant. Questions from the council.

want their garbage to be picked up on time they want want to know that you know the police can respond if they're able to call they want to know that the fire department is able to come and all

always said here, my position has been from the beginning that outside of police and fire, DPW is the next most important department in the city. I think it's inevitable that at some point in time, police and fire work 24/7. DPW is going to have to work 24/7 because the amount of garbage I see in front of

our office is going to be advancing legislation through um the clerk's office in collaboration with the police division. uh observation during a snowstorm is that you know some of these

are on page four of the agenda. Item five is reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. Questions from the council. Next item. appropriations. appropriations. A is to purchase body armor for the Newark Department of Public Safety citywide. citywide. B is to obtain funding for the Newark F is radio communications equipment and accessories. accessories. accessories. And G is to purchase police sirens, mounts, brackets, speakers, additional accessories, and ancillary installation J and K are contracts with grant recipients to provide community-based violence intervention and prevention and youth mentoring and or safe passage. J is for the Ironbound Community

Next. Next. 7R9A 7R9A 7R9A is an appointment of a special police officer, a Newark resident. Any questions? Next item. B and C are acceptance of grant funds. B is for the drunk driving enforcement and C is for body armor for police officers. Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Next item.

things that they is unrelated to them. Uh some of them may have been uh victims of violence. Uh some have may have had to have their car towed because the car was involved in an investigation unrelated to them. So, for example, unfortunately, there's a shooting or there's an incident that's a place and when that happens, a car has to be days cuz the car's still under investigation because sometimes, you know, the police have to do whatever they have to do when it comes to investigation. We just don't want people be released? be released? So, we're going to make sure our public safety our public safety folks have a contact with the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, the AG's office, Right. Right. This is for people who are victims of violence, victims of crimes, or people who have no associa…

issues with some of the kids that were going there. I brought the captain of the precinct on site and I explained to her that I wanted to make sure that we were being responsive to some of the

already dealing with a number of tow issues when it comes to uh police-involved issues. Now, we're going to deal with property-owned towing uh issues. Uh the other issue we had was

World Cup. How about like like um is the police division going to have more more manpower on those days? Like how's that are going to be in the city of Newark staying at hotels, Airbnbs. Like how do we handle that from a public safety standpoint? standpoint? standpoint? Well, first and foremost, we have to I'm in discussion with you know, the Department of Public Safety to look at those kinds of uh you know, kinds of you know, issues.

one of the meetings as well. I had University Hospital yesterday, Newark Police. So, I have different entities that will be part of these events. I'll get DPW out there as

Councilman uh Ramos. Councilman uh Ramos. Yeah, I had asked for um some kind of statement or analysis by the police division regarding the ordinance, and I don't think I received that. So. Okay. Council members. Good morning. Captain James George from the Department of Public Safety. Public Safety. Public Safety. Um Police Department. I did provide some additional information to the Public Safety Director's office, and I believe they're in preparation of

G is a contract with recipients. G through Q are contract with recipients to provide community based violence prevention prevention and youth mentoring and or safe passage.

Good morning, Council President um governing body. Khadijah Wingfield-Hill, Director of the Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery. Just to answer Councilman Gonzalez's question. expenditure report monthly in order to receive funds from the Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery. And they get reimbursed based on the on those reports. Excuse me? They get

from 72 to around 225. Also, in the summertime, we have Less Trash, Less Crime. That's an initiative uh that's an environmental and a public safety initiative that um we launched uh last year with Kean

importantly, and we specialize in youth that are justice-impacted, that are justice-impacted, that are justice-impacted, trauma-informed, and violence-impacted. trauma-informed, and violence-impacted. trauma-informed, and violence-impacted. That's good. And what are you doing? And what we're going to do with the

generate and so you can expound upon. Kiyisha Wingfield Hill, um director Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery. Um, as stated before, we do um receive programmatic reports uh that but also not just quantitative data, but qualitative data as well because when we look at violence um and we look at the reduction of violence across the city when we look at the uh amount of juvenile arrests and how we've been able ecosystem. And so, we don't take credit for everything that's happened, but when you look at violent crime being down across the city citywide, um we don't just say thank you to the Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery, but we say thank you to the organizations here. organizations here. can let's see again, if you can produce let's say for us a report that th…

we we had a rough year ending. I lost my niece niece to violence, domestic violence. She was young dating young at risk kids, so this mission is personal to me

might can't go in Bradley Court and pull all them kids. They might can't go down Bottom or any of these areas the police kids in. We can do that. So, our relationship is to build some of these spaces or bring these kids to safe spaces or even having a meeting place. We can use the Office of Violence Prevention, Safe Zone. They got spaces in there where they let organizations is the West Ward uh on South Orange Avenue, Office of Violence Prevention, is that available? Is the Ron Rice available for or anywhere, whether it's in the South all have programs currently in our Ron Rice Center. Um additionally, the Office of Violence Prevention Central Office uh located in the Central Ward is available for organizations to program um through stop by 690 uh not just 695, but also uh 1017th Avenue um…

morning still. Good morning. Apologies. Um Mariel Hufnagel, Chief Operating Officer of FPYC Outcry Foundation, better known as the Hub Arts and Trauma Center. 135 Prince Street. 135 Prince Street. And um what we're currently doing, we are trauma-informed violence prevention and intervention with a arts-based focus. Really looking at how do we

recommended that we coordinate all IT purchases across the disciplines in the city public safety health and the court system in addition to hers to make sure that the equipment that we're purchasing

four of the agenda. Item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. commissions. commissions. Questions from the council.

G and H are contracts with recipients to provide community-based violence intervention community-based violence intervention community-based violence intervention and prevention in youth mentoring and or safe passage. Rafael Healing Academy

Next item. B is the acceptance of grant funds for police overtime. police overtime. police overtime. Questions? Questions? Next item. C is an exception to public

Councilman Ramos, is you have these construction vans that park on the street, but Newark police cannot issue summons because they don't have commercial plates. They have regular what they're actually doing is committing fraud and it handcuffs Newark police because they really can't do anything about it. And so, now with this ordinance, anything that has a to park their vehicles overnight in residential neighborhoods. Uh we we we definitely need Newark Police Division to make this, you know, focus area even if we have to figure out a way Jersey, it still classifies them as, you know, a regular vehicle. So, it becomes difficult for the police to to summons them and and I believe this ordinance is going to allow some discretion point, they have a license plate that doesn't define them as com…

high-risk youth. We get excuse me, referrals from OVP and Newark Police Department to work with these young people. We partner with Ibn Ali's boxing gym to teach them

Council members, we are on page three of the agenda. Item five, reports and recommendations of city officers, boards, and commissions. Questions from the council the council

um through through your chair and the clerk and um can we ask the BA if we can get from the police division uh how many summones were issued um year to date for commercial vehicles parked in residential areas overnight just to get a sense of how active um you know police division has been and enforcing what's in the books now and hopefully see what

Second by Councilman Scott Moundry. Duly noted. F is a collective bargaining agreement for the Newark Fire Officers Union. Questions from the council. Next item.

habitability process. Um, so for a good year and a half, we did have one dedicated code enforcement officer who was able to do the review and inspections for certificate of taking longer because we no longer have that dedicated code inspection um officer. So is there a possibility that say that if you don't get inspected by let's say 30 60 days that you are deemed

amending the properties included in the Newark Downtown special improvement district and remove the residential Class 2 properties included in the

families and general assistance supplemental nutrition assistance supplemental nutrition assistance supplemental nutrition assistance program K is the workforce investment Opportunity Act adult youth and dislocated workers dislocated workers Program hey any questions regarding the temporary emergency appropriation seeing none all right 7 r1m through 7r1 P or bid contracts State contracts an exception to public bidding m is to provide Street Outreach and

comments seeing none 7r2 Q is reading and adopting the 20124 Bergen Lines Clinton special Improvement District budget questions or comments I'll sponsor it yes councilman Council wishes of the commercial zones so as you may recall we upzoned the commercial corridors but we also changed some of the zones from residential to commercial still allowing some residential development to be developed on our commercial corridors that's one um change that we're asking for right now we probably have about 10 um or so

the public on sustainability stuff around recycling got it okay can we um can we invest in some recyclable recy recycling cans that can be stationed like we use the um you know the garbage those apparently can't be like chained down or glued down I don't know whatever y'all do with them um so can we invest in something like you know new and creative you know for the public spaces you so much director you're welcome thankk thankk you 7 r12a is a bid contract for the Panic sludge Lagoon Panic sludge Lagoon Panic sludge Lagoon remediation he questions or

because uh I have people texting me that uh they have secured a location they've have invested money they've done all that and they're still waiting for appointments to get to meet with the issues but you know the harsh reality is that as you said folks are folks from this city are investing their money hard-earned money into uh aam Dre of doing something different and we need to

you the square footage um number um but it was done based upon a process of um submitting a bid for how much they would pay for the property you say replacement of H hope one yes what are they going to

breakdown or some of the additional benefits There's No Business Zone uh business improvement district over there but he's basically created himself hired the folks to to to do all of those

proposing um you know one of the things that I talked to Anthony about the other day is that our commercial corridors are are desperate need of Municipal parking so so I'm hoping that one of the things

forward he councilman Council wishes to sponsor and move forward second second by councilwoman round Tre any other comments CNN H is to authorize invest newk to acquire maintain and dispose of certain city-owned certain city-owned template that I think that in some instances can be done faster than what invest Nork is trying to do okay um I know Deputy Mayor lad and director Ren off is here any other comments or Housing Development we will work with the respective council members along with invest newwark to provide um documentation for an amendment on the floor uh for tomorrow and but we will if I could just say I did want to just note that appreciation to Marcus Randolph the president and CEO of invest nework I know that he spent uh much time reaching out to every council member um

clarifies a little bit of a concerns okay any other questions comments Cena next item e is a bid contract to award Nork Ironbound roundabout safety Improvement Federal project questions or Members CN thanks Ben you're welcome 7 r4b through 7 r4l are applications for Urban Enterprise Zone funding B is for the clean and green project C is for the Fairy Street streetscape and Improvement incentive pilot program J is a shuttle bus service bus service bus service project K is a South Ward small business loan pilot project and L is a facade Improvement Grant pilot Improvement Grant pilot intention of it is for it to bring people from all the wards down into Central business district but sessen the Arts and education district and then shut them back so literally

every year uh so we receive a specific pot of money that we're supposed to uh invest in our public housing stock um and this is the plan of how we're going to spend uh those

to lower cost retail and that's new um in our city where we're trying to keep our small businesses here uh and also having more art in our city especially in the Newark Arts and educ ation

concerns any concerns any questions seeing none 7 R12 A and B or bid contracts a is to provide for roof replacement at the Panic water pre-treatment building the metal lands saying that the contract overran because of some of the work there's a new contract that's out the bid now but the contract over ran during those emergencies during one month so one large diameter water main brakes and those bills came in exceeded so when we submit the bid that bid doesn't have a maximum amount maximum amount maximum amount or when weit the contract so when we submit the bid inside the bid is different diameter there a different quantities for different diameters of

for the city of nework as a first generation afro Latina and small business owner I bring not only my entrepreneurial spirit but also my

right. Thank you, Councilman. Uh clerk, next item. F is a bid contract to purchase aluminum traffic sign blanks. traffic sign blanks. traffic sign blanks. Any question from the council?

and say, I want to go to Dr. Patel or to Miss Dr. Diaz. He's assigned by the by the person doing the investigation. Is that correct? that correct? that correct? Yeah. Council Eric Pennington, business

back to 7f um you know I had requested that the Department of Economic Development set up a a meeting with this um proposed developer for developer for or temporary emergency or temporary emergency Appropriations questions saying none 7r1 C through e are State and or bid contracts C is for the geographic information system software D is for

really proud of this initiative um and just to talk a little bit about the investment you know as we know historically public housing authorities have been receiving less Capital money

it all right okay that takes us to my apologies we are now on page 49 of the agenda 7 R12 V and W are both bid contracts V is to provide emergency repair for sewers and W is to provide

comes to the kinds of establishments that we have along our commercial corridors um what would help me is if we can get a list um from the office of see any kind of uh uh establishment popping up along our commercial corridors our smoke shops they seem to be um in large quantities of popping up in our commercial corridors is that going to be addressed uh through this ordinance and if not if there's a way to

little but I'm struggling to he today so I repeat council president these are these is this is a bid that went out last month bid came back it was awarded these are for 4x4 vehicles for our supervisors in supervisors in

Authority um I'm particularly interested in it nor the development of nor uh infrastructure and economic development and I think that my analytical and problem arm skills will bring A New

through K or temporary emergency Appropriations B is for the home investment partnership investment partnership investment partnership program C is for homelessness housing Grant D is for Brick City peace

that's available for through the home program like if a developer were to sell a particular project that we invested home funds in like I know I the County we we typically get repayment money back

now go ahead 7r2 C and D are both introducing budgets for improvement districts C is the 2025 annual budget for bloomfi Avenue Lower Broadway business improvement district and D is 202 202 annual budget for the Mount Prospect Avenue neighborhood improvement district Management Corporation any questions from the council this I'm glad that we through the review and should be here um within the next um meeting um and that one would be the Ironbound um bid so we have reviewed that one and that should you should see that um in March and the

construction thereafter it applied for Aspire funding through the New Jersey Economic Development Authority and um as part of the Eda Aspire program a community benefits agreement is required

state statute for the Aspire program um that is managed Again by The Economic Development Development Development Administration um per the law the amount

that actually live in that area from this development that these I mean I have nothing against them investing in their own development and it just doesn't make a lot of sense I'm trying housing I'm looking for something with mothers that are going through I'm looking for somebody to invest in programming um that when I hear benefit long term not just going to the movies other groundbreakings that I've attended they they do make a significant investment in like an apprenticeship program um which in the past has been headed by Bill o day and a

were presented so I'm asking you to bring the office of affirmative action newor works Economic Development the city clerk's office everyone that has to do with the implementation of this newor

support anything anybody that just like we said you need to do a federal investigation over code investigation over code investigation over code enforcement and get a monitored and look boom more corruption thank you for your

well, right? The same the same that we spoke about before. Okay. So, we did further investigate and um the exhaust system did have um some issues and fire um department and DPW are addressing

and um we have to uh declare whether we have to see if they declare an emergency or we go through the bid process. Um just want to note that these specific line items this 750 is specific for

vendor and their authorized distributors to purchase trucks, vehicles, and auto body parts. J is a bid contract to provide maintenance and masonary work. K is a bid contract to provide horse feed and supplies. and L is a bid contract to provide cleaning equipment and supplies. Any questions from the council? there are local vendors who are out here uh in this area that is able to compete and put in for the RFPs or bid processes whatever it is that we should be doing our best uh to continue to lift up the the city doesn't pay on time. They say takes 60, 90 days, 120 days to get paid. So why would I as a small business owner would do with business with the city? I I believe that we are the ones

We've neglect unfortunately neglected this over over the years and again we have to make the investment whether it's in these capital facilities or whether it's in rolling stock we have to make the investments but it starts with defining what the needs are and then we have to sit down and determine what

introducing the 2025 annual budget of the Aaron Bound Business Improvement District. Questions, concerns? Like to sponsor that. Knew that was coming. before. Step move closer to the mic. Pardon me. Um, I know we spoke about it before um about having all of the bid budgets presented around the same time. So, I just wanted to know if that was Broadway and also Mount Prospect. Um one is today um which is the Ironbound Business Improvement District. Um in addition the two um downtown the tourism bureau as well as downtown district um the south ward and the west ward. Um we are awaiting their information. We sent both directors of each bid a reminder on March 7th, March 7th, 2025 and we hope that they will submit

formulate zone development plan for the the um as required by the urban enterprise zone act. Uh I'd like to meet one sponsor for this. Council president. Councilman. Councilman. believe Mr. Randolph is here somewhere. There he is. If you can just come up and for urban enterprise zones. Yes. Uh, good morning, Council President. Good morning, council. Yes, this uh is a

director for the department of health. Thank you. So we do follow an RFP process. Every subreient submits a bid. Um we review that. There's an internal and external review of each application

a good place with all five projects. Um, second, these five projects are 166 total units with an investment of $53 of $53 million. The percentage of affordable

education equipment and accessories. And E is a bid contract for Healthy Homes General Contractors. Homes General Contractors. Homes General Contractors. Any questions on these three

parking in the Central Ward. Are the developers here? This is for um Novente. Novente, yes. Investments. Novente, yes. Investments. Novente, yes. Investments. I'm sorry. I'm just saying cuz I'm not sure if the developers are here or not and not hearing their LLC is Novente Investments, anybody here for Novente Investments? Novente Investments? Novente Investments? All right. Hearing none. I want to

City of Newark and Fulton Street Newark LLC LLC and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority as a condition of receiving tax credit incentives under the Aspire are giving us um is a million-dollar payout to the Community Economic Development Trust Fund Development Trust Fund Development Trust Fund um which will consist of $200,000 per

contracts. C is the Bergen County Cooperative Contract for Computer Equipment. D is a bid contract for vending machine vending machine vending machine services. E is a bid contract for senior nutrition food nutrition food nutrition food program. And F is a bid contract for hosting the 2025 family funday. Questions from the Questions from the

where you come from. Yes. I want my sons to know that where we live, we're invested. I want my sons to know that their mother took on an endeavor that's a minimum of million dollars to do. But

the paving was supposed to happen in this year and it hasn't happened and why why is that? Is it an issue with the bid process like we've had in the past? Like this stuff should be pretty automatic at

application to do DOT, let's say three years ago, they would have approved that process. So is it a bid issue? Like what what's the delay? Okay. So we do have to um follow the the bidding process as you funding ahead of time but the only way to understand how much that is is to bring it to to receive it from the bid and know how much the project is going to cost itself. So the whole process

tell us you know that if if this is what's going to happen send it out to bid and whatever gap the city will cover. So the expectation is that we can be in under budget or on budget and they'll be completely covered. Um but you know the reality is when we put it out to bid when it comes back um it's a different story. So we have to end up um supplementing but the idea is to make Some of that work has to settle and we're doing water work. Our water contract goes out to bid. We always coordinated with traffic and signal to see how much work we're trying to do. We should be and and take that CDBG grants and put it as a block instead of putting it in economic development and utilizing it more for roads and bridges and things that are are needed because that's what

it's an emergency paving. If you have a cave-in, that mean engineering and water and sewer will come out and investigate that, right? Could be a possible sewer collapse. It could be a water leak or it say, "Hey, it's a depression in the road. We may come out there and investigate, find out if it's water, sewer, PSNG, Verizon, or whoever." We make the appropriate uh contract or excavating and re re uh paving that certain area. It's not like that that investigation may not be a one-day investigation. In fact, I just have a question. How long do we have for the bond? Like say PSEG does work. Uh now

you know that that's what we faced. Um we needed a little more time for bidding to put it out to bid. Um the project is ready. Um but um you know we're we're trying to put it out to bid and then we estimate to have a gap also um in um in the installation because the project uh bring the proc the project in uh budget. Um, when do you anticipate going out to bid on this? When I'm Can I I'm sorry. When do you anticipate going out to bid on this? Okay. So, um, the extension will allow us to go out to bid. Um, I'm I'm have to get back to you exactly on when we're going out to bid, but I'm anticipating at the end of this month, beginning of July. All right. Thank you. Anything else? All right. Seeing none, next item. C is a bid contract for the municipal aid 2023 Nor Various street paving projec…

provide EMS services for our residents. Mhm. Um, and I'm not sure if the city initiated a bid process or this is a non-competitive contract and you know, how come we're moving away from the Question from the Question from the council hearing. None. Next item. C is a bid contract to provide maintenance and repair of mechanical equipment for the water and sewer facilities.

University Hospital to provide EMS services through the end of next year 26. So was this in response to a bid that went out an RFQ? Um were there other respondents that were considered? Was was there any consideration made to have more than one provider offer EMS services? Uh no was this is not uh bid is not required for this service uh given what it provides as emergency

Some years ago, I think President St. Michael's Hospital came before us. They made a direct investment in buying ambulances to put in our rotation at no cost to the city. And the feedback that

and a lot of that was state and federal funding infusions and a lot of investment that had to do with raising Medicaid rates. Um, and so again, just a comment on how important it is to

services commission of New Jersey. AE is a cooperative contract to purchase exhaust systems for 16 locations. AF is a bid contract for the rental of portable toilets. portable toilets. portable toilets. And AG is a bid contract to provide athletic apparel. athletic apparel. athletic apparel. Any questions from the council on those

quotes from three different architectural firms. And the OCA Architects was actually the lowest bid that we received and so that was why we selected them. selected them.

Rountree. Duly noted. My apologies. My apologies. I is investigation for area in need of redevelopment in the North Ward. I'll sponsor. Sponsored by Councilman

Is there a second on that? Second. Second by Councilman Kelly. Duly noted. J and K are bid contracts. J is for the Foundry Street Resurfacing Improvement Project. Improvement Project.

contract to continue providing legal services concerning the lead pipe replacement investigation and replacement investigation and replacement investigation and litigation. litigation. litigation. Any questions from the council? Hearing none, next item. B is a bid contract for the expansion of filtration building and construction of additional filters 12 and 14 at the

C and D are related to the state increase of the bid threshold. bid threshold. bid threshold. I'm assuming the council president council members would like to advance

Questions from the council hearing? None. Next item. D is a bid contract to provide fire hydrant tools. hydrant tools. hydrant tools. Questions. Questions.

The budget is based upon the anticipated revenue. Yes. From revenue. Yes. From revenue. Yes. From this is a special improvement district essentially, but it doesn't derive revenue off the assessed value of

You will. All right. Thank Thank you. Uh next item. next item. D is a bid contract to provide structural repairs to two firehouses. Questions from the council?

myself. Okay. myself. Okay. Uh and the uh director of uh Marcus Randolph at Invest Newark and we discussed uh a citywide uh parking study coming up very soon.

F is a use of state contracts for law enforcement firearms equipment. enforcement firearms equipment. enforcement firearms equipment. G is a bid contract for automobile washing and specialized cleaning services. services. H is a bid contract for plumbing maintenance, repair and installation services. services. I is a bid contract for street maintenance, snow and ice removal services, salt, sand spreading. J is a bid contract for office furniture and installation. installation. installation. K is a bid contract for police motorcycles. motorcycles. motorcycles. Questions from the council.

All right. Thank Thank you, director. Next item. Next item. Next item. 7R12D is a bid contract to provide maintenance and repairs of cranes. Questions from the council.

So this is uh the first phase of that asking for permission uh to put those RFPs out to bid. Any questions from the council? Hearing none. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good morning again.

going to be going to be next item. next item. Jay is a bid contract for armed security guards. guards. Questions from the council. right? Any other questions from the council? Next item. K is a bid contract to provide pest control and exterminating services. Questions from the council. L is a big contract to provide flashlights and batteries. Next item. Next item. M is a bid contract to provide pharmaceutical supplies. Questions from the council. Next item Next item

our ideal timeline. But as you know, often with applications and public investments that can move around, but that's our that's our goal. So the you you think that within three

with our projects is when we put together a list of locations um when we do the pre-esign investigation. Some of the streets um are older than others. Some of the streets have not been

Market Street, Central Avenue, and Littleton Avenue. Next item. Next item. E is a bid contract to provide improvements to the Harriet Tubman Square Park. Square Park.

No, it be done by the Bloomfield the uh Yeah, Bloomfield. What's the name of it? Improvement district. Improvement district. Improvement district. Bloom improvement. Currently, it's done by us, going to be providing maintenance and landscaping, but the Bloomfield lower bid will be doing that. Yes. Bloomfield Avenue improvement test. Gotcha. Mr. President, now that the director is

we should be able to issue a stop work order with respect to this property. and enforce that. I will investigate that and determine it whether or not that's the case. But, you know, based on

uh Councilman Councel said, I think anytime there's a business improvement district and there's a park there, we should uh maybe look into uh that business improvement district taking care of our parks. I have done that down in the east and has worked. Uh, and I think that we should look into maybe anou with that business improvement district if the park falls in within their improvement district that they would be responsible for maintaining and cleaning that park. So, it may be

by uh in the south ward. It's being led by the south ward improvement district which is actually called the Bergen Lions Clinton Special Improvement District. Uh the hub is located at Belmont Run Belmont Runan Elementary

related for the city which are, you know, the tax bills, the special improvement district bills. So, those will be forthcoming in the next few days.

Questions from the council. Next item. Next item. F through I are all bid contracts. F is for the portable public address system. G is for the curb stops for the water

It doesn't define the downtown of the city of Newark, nor does it define the central business district. So in both of those cases, there are other plans like the living downtown plan, which is the would love them to lease those spaces up and not be vacant. We would really enjoy their partnership in investing in our city. However, it has not been met with the same excitement as the using a stick approach with our owners that are not looking at our city as the vibrant investment that it should be. And so this case right now, the one before you is more of a carrot approach,

other cities that they believe are blossoming and that they can get a return on their investment. And I think it is extingent upon us uh as a council and the administration to work

retail activation and we talked to them about how we could help incent um the small businesses to be able to be located there and um some were more receptive than others um and so we were the same time. So, we agree that we need to activate spaces. We need to assist our small businesses. At the same time, we want to make sure our owners are not keeping our city hostage to your point,

Good morning. Good morning. Marcus Randolph, president CEO of Investn North. Uh so briefly, this is a uh what we're calling a wayfinding project trying to get cohesive set of just focused on downtown. Now it's a city-wide effort uh and Norc Alliance along with invests uh working on this. So the request here is to uh to cover the cost to prepare the scope of work

the Cooperative Education Coordinator. I also serve as the co-chair for the Youth Investment Council for the City of Newark. And so I'm grateful for the opportunity to serve and

You're welcome. You're welcome. Next item. Next item. Next item. 7R3A is a bid contract to award Broad Street Phase 2 pedestrian safety improvements. improvements.

Next item. F is an ordinance amending special improvement districts to revise terminology and clarify collection and administration of the tourism improvement district license fee. Can we get an explanation for that one? 8F as in Frank. as in Frank. So, Ben, just uh Director, just a quick question. So, who's going to pay this uh fee? It's the improvement districts that are that are No, no, this is when an individual stays motor vehicles to include notice requirements for certain vehicles involved in a criminal investigation. Corp Counsel. Good morning. Uh Kenya D. Storey, City of Norfolk Corporation Counsel. So, of violence. Uh some have may have had to have their car towed because the car was involved in an investigation unrelated to them. So, for example, unfortunately, there's a shootin…

you know, Daryl like in terms of mentioning our partners. Uh Newark Alliance and Invest uh Newark are heavily involved uh with this as well as our uh departments in terms of helping organizations that are interested in being uh you know, part of this. And again, uh Newark Alliance and Invest uh Newark will be pushing out uh you know, more uh information over the next uh you

charter, so to speak. And also, that will be part of uh of Invest Newark. Invest Newark will be I think sending out within the next 10 days a website that people or an invite one-off event. We want to use this event in order to sell Newark for future investments, a future tourism opportunities, okay? So, it's important that our restaurants be involved, that visitors so that you know someone may look at what we have going on downtown and see this as an investment opportunity you know for them. So, we want to leverage all of that. and making sure everybody's at the table. I just heard you say Invest Newark. Um I do know Newark Happening's involved. I do know the Newark Alliance is involved, but there's been a couple of meetings that Invest Newark I don't think has sent a representative to ye…

these events. I'll get DPW out there as well. Eventually and well. Eventually and well. Eventually and Invest Newark, but again I think we have an opportunity here. We have a big soccer fan sitting right there

reading, and final passage. 6 P S F A is an ordinance amending the special improvement districts improvement districts improvement districts to revise terminology and clarify collection and administration of the tourism improvement district license fee. fee. Any questions from the council? vehicles to include notice requirements for certain vehicles involved in a criminal investigation. Sponsored by Councilman Council and Councilwoman Scott Rountree. Mr. President.

um individuals who want to buy a property. And so, we do that today. We have programs within Invest Newark where they do Section 8 home ownership, and there's actually marketing and sale and selection process through a lottery at Invest Newark and there are sessions that are held by Invest Newark that help educate and give information to the residents who want to be part of that

yes, I Let's say economic housing and economic development, we have a let's say the policy that or an ordinance that

has. So I'm hopeful that his example can be followed by economic development when they give us projects moving forward that are offering to sell city owned

amended so that they are consistent with our thoughts around how to create community uh commercial corridors. So, at this point, the answer is is not today, but if the matter gets

I is the 2026 annual budget for the Bergen Lines Clinton Special Improvement District. District. And J is the 2026 annual budget for said it? Yeah, I want to thank them for sponsoring this this sponsoring this this sponsoring this this this bid this bid in the um West Ward. Um You can sponsor, I second. All right, we'll switch it up. Right. Right. I just want to state something um about the bid. the bid. Uh Uh I know that we have reports of a lot of those um those issues and those concerns. I reached out to the bid, to PWI, just to make sure that we're doing what we supposed to do. I ride down these

will help keep the corridors clean because the because the because the I know that the the bid gets a lot of hits because they actually hire the cleaning company, and sometimes it's not

from the BA that this money, once it's collected annually, is going to be invested in purchasing, you know, safety equipment as opposed to it potentially, and I'm not saying this administration

to provide support and maintenance of proprietary software. Next item. 7R-12A is a bid contract for roof replacement at the archive building, the Chickadee Road pumping station, City

E is an extension of an emergency contract for elevator inspections and F is a bid contract for traffic sign materials. materials. Uh any questions from the council?

is a co-op purchasing agreement for a synthetic turf maintenance for the Bo Porter Sports Complex. And E is a bid contract for the family funday. Any questions from the council?

28th. C is Mount Prospect Avenue Neighborhood Improvement District Management Improvement District Management Improvement District Management Corporation. Corporation. Corporation. D is the Bloomfield Avenue Lower Broadway Business Improvement District. E is the Ironbound Business Improvement District sponsored by Councilman Silva. Second by Councilman Canana. G is Newark Alliance. H is partnership westward westward business improvement district sponsored by Councilman Kelly, second by Councilman Gonzalez. And I is the Bergen Lines Clinton Special Improvement District sponsored by Councilman Councel and second by President Cron. Any questions from the council? Next item. Next item. Next item. L is investigation for an area in need of redevelopment in the north war. Any questions from the c…

the assembly and the governor. It's now administered by the New Jersey EDA. Um, this allows developers to get investors to finance part of their project to do green development, green building, this case, Lionsgate, um they are accessing $104 million from New is their investor and they will be using those funds to help again offset the total cost of construction of the Lionsgate around Lincoln Park. Uh they are looking to purchase the property again from Hudson Valley in order to reinvest and also obtain additional tax credits from New Jersey HMFA. New Jersey HMFA.

you 6fg is an ordinance adopting the six Amendment to the Nork downtown core District Redevelopment plan and Amendment to the Nork Plaza urban renewal plan questions or comments from

questions okay all questions okay all right we are on page 8 18 7r2 A through 7r2 P are all private sale Redevelopment agreements here 16 items I will go through them individually I just won't repeat private sale and Redevelopment 7 Redevelopment 7 Redevelopment 7 r2a is a private sale Redevelopment to rehabilitate industrial property rehabilitate industrial property rehabilitate industrial property utilized for light manufacturing there's

specifically development in general um throughout the city at some point when we were redeveloping a lot redeveloping a lot of projects and you know making these new complexes and you know

good okay CN n next item G to create a side yard to be used as parking for redeveloper own adjacent property in the west W questions or comments from Council Members seeing none next item H new

that all right and I'm sorry and is the First Amendment to the agreement for the sale and Redevelopment of land to Springfield Blossom LLC to amend the scope of the project in the South Ward comments okay next item 7 r2s is requesting the Nork Central planning board to consider an amendment to title 41 of the municipal code

grant agreement with Thomas Street urban renewal LLC in the East Ward questions or comments CNN 7r2 Z is designating an area in need of Redevelopment in the central Ward questions or questions or questions or comments I just want to say that you

Springfield uh let me see a 643 to 653 South 11th so it literally it contains about 10 blocks and lots in the South Ward Springfield and South 11th okay uh who's the developer uh this

CA 6p sfb is an ordinance adopting the Sixth Amendment to the Nork downtown core District Redevelopment plan an amendment to the Nork Plaza urban renewal plan questions or

mayor and or his design to enter into and execute an agreement with bygones LLC for the sale and Redevelopment of city property questions or comments regarding this item yeah M chair oh I'm

note a couple of other things because we are we are very clear on what the city's desires are as we look to redevelop certain areas and this particular area was significantly blighted uh despite

at least another 2,000 units that have been approved through the zoning and Central planning board over the next probably 24 months so it's going to be a very heavy s uated area of new housing deferral seeing onone D is an ordinance adopting the Sixth Amendment to the norc River Public Access and Redevelopment plan sponsored by councilman Silva second by councilwoman Scott rry any

from the Department of Economic and Housing Development concerning the sale Redevelopment and or transfer of property a is to create a side yard for the adjacent owned property at 140-142

get I've just in our community walk that we did last year uh excuse me last week with occupying the block there was a lot of calls about who's supposed to handle the tree situations um that are on the

council see council see none resolutions 7r2 a through C are private sale Redevelopment agreement a is to create a side yard for the adjacent owned property in the South

member Gonzalez's question uh no that site is uh n uh 91 orange so very close um and that site uh is being redeveloped by Brandy Wine um what you might be noticing on that site right now is that they're goingon to they're preparing for demolition uh so they can start the Redevelopment of that site but um this is a site um adjacent is pres before yes sir by the gas station there yes yes president I think that's it thank you very much thank you next 7r2 is a private sale Redevelopment to rehabilitate a two family home and to sell to Nork residents whose income is

department for review to ensure that they complied with not only the Redevelopment agreement but also the site plan approval and any restrictions that we have related to the item 7r2 is referral of proposed 7th Amendment to the Newar River Public Access and Redevelopment plan to the central planning board requesting that the nor Central planning board consider a Seventh Amendment to the nor River Public Access and Redevelopment plan any questions from the council oh yeah Council Silva just to

Services any questions from the council saying none next item seminar 2A is a private sale Redevelopment to provide for new construction of a two family home and rehabilitation of a three-

D is an ordinance adopting the seventh amendment to Newark's river public access and redevelopment plan. Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Next item

Next item. Seven A through E are all private sale redevelopment. redevelopment. redevelopment. A is new construction of a two family home to provide two market rate rental

amendment two of the financial agreement for the tax abatement granted to Terrell Redevelopment Partners Urban Renewal LP to revise the address of the property and to extend the deadline for the

That'll be on the second page of your uh excuse me, the third page. It'll have the block the lot. It'll have the number of units and they're going to have to estimate what's in the building.

it next item next appointment is an appointment to the central planning board as alternate number two Miss Susan Austin Miss Austin is

adopting the Seventh Amendment to the nors River Public Access and Redevelopment plan questions seeing none M will be deferred to I'm sorry I'm sorry uh councilman Ramos yeah because ordinance authorizing Amendment two to financial agreements the tax abatement granted to Terrell Redevelopment Partners urban renewal LP to revise the address of the property and to extend

resolutions from economic and Housing Development 7r2 A through M are all private sale Redevelopment agreements a is new construction of a two family home and provide two market rate rental units deferment second round Tre Scott round Tre B is the First Amendment to the agreement for the sale and Redevelopment of land to Ascension Capital Partners one LLC to amend the scope of the great speak up e is the First Amendment to the agreement for the sale and Redevelopment of land to Rising Plains 570 LLC to amend the scope of the project in the central Ward this is e throughout the city um the the owner uh Jamila Muhammad has actually part of the West Ward Redevelopment uh work that was done about half a dozen years ago under the model neighborhood effort uh the

you but we want defer this matter okay duly noted m is the First Amendment to the agreement for the sale and Redevelopment of land to of land to 512-520 South 19th Street Associates LLC

noted any other questions concerns next item seminar 2 a through C are private sale Redevelopment agreements a is provide new construction of a two family dwelling to sell at market rate in the

sale redel velopment of land and a subordination agreement in order to permit the redeveloper to obtain financing necessary for the rehabilitation of property to create an

sorry 7r2 is authorizing local board application in connection with the issuance of Redevelopment area bonds that involves the construction of 81 residential units which shall be

new Financial agreement between the city and rise Rio urban renewal LLC in connection with the Redevelopment project consisting of 42 market rate residential units any residential units any

cannabis consumption Lounge cannabis consumption Lounge questions next item 7r2 A and B or private sale Redevelopment a is to provide new construction of a two dwelling to sell at market rate in the

think let's let's move on to next item seminar 2A A is a private sale redevelopment to provide new construction of a two family dwelling to sell at market rate in the south ward.

Hearing none, next item. 7R2A through G are private sale redevelopment agreements. redevelopment agreements. redevelopment agreements. A is the first amendment to amend the scope of the project and extend the

residential building with 16 units. At 15 Hector Street, they're going to redevelop a single-family home on the property. property. And at 13 Hector Street, um they're

D and E are professional services contracts. D is to provide legal services for redevelopment and E is to provide legal services for redevelopment. Questions from the council. Hearing none. Next item. F is a grant agreement to provide for a grant LLC in the West Ward. Questions from the council? Nope. No. All right. Next item. G is declaring an area in need of redevelopment in the west ward. Question from the council. Councilman Kelly. Uh quick question to uh Deputy Mayor EHD. So when we said we're designating this area in need of redevelopment, this area is is it being sold by like I'm just confused as to some of the sales that we

obsolete industrial buildings, obsolete industrial buildings, environmental site re remediation, and redevelopment of land in the central ward. Questions from the council councilman uh Silva, I just asked the

702A is a professional service contract for engineering design services as well as construction management services. B is a private sale redevelopment for new construction of a two-family home and rehabilitation of a three-family Duly noted. Duly noted. And E is the first amendment to the agreement for the sale and redevelopment of land to Beacon Development Partners LLC to amend the project scope in the

Rountree. Duly noted. My apologies. My apologies. I is investigation for area in need of redevelopment in the North Ward. I'll sponsor. Sponsored by Councilman Councilman uh Councilman uh

Next item. 702 O is a subordination agreement in order to permit the redeveloper to obtain the financing necessary for the redevelopment of the property as rental or for sale owner-occupied housing. Questions from the council.

Questions or concerns? Questions or concerns? Hearing none. Next item. B is a private sale redevelopment for new construction of five two family homes to sell at market rate in the south ward.

Next item Next item B through H are private sale redevelopment agreements. B is new construction of five two family homes to sell at market rate in the south ward.

Next item. Next item. 7R2 A through G are private sales and redevelopment agreement. A is a new construction of mixeduse building with the grocery store in the west ward.

planning and zoning office. uh they uh service predominantly the board's zoning board or central planning board. Um and when uh the payments for this are needed, they're actually paid through escrow agreement um by the redevelopers. And so it is a limited expense to the city because I would say there are times services by the same contractor, but the overwhelming use is for um is being paid for by the redevelopers escrow. Well, thank you. And and if you could just follow up with Councilman Council's Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Next item. I is a redevelopment agreement to authorize the execution of an agreement for the redevelopment of land between the city of Newark and Thomas Carter Village Urban Renewal LLC. to continue to do this development. The agreeme…

city's rights of reverter rights in order for the permit in order to permit the redeveloper to obtain financing necessary for the redevelopment of the property as a three family home and a two family home in the west ward.

F is referral of a proposed seventh amendment to the Newark downtown core district redevelopment plan and agreement an amendment to the Newark Plaza urban renewal plan to the central planning board. planning board. planning board. So, can we get a a brief overview of that? Uh, good morning, uh, council president, before you is a referral request as we typically do when we want to amend a redevelopment uh plan. In this case, the area is the downtown core. The downtown core encompasses the land around the

um, it's a just a technical term. Downtown core is a technical term associated with the redevelopment plan. It doesn't define the downtown of the city of Newark, nor does it define the

owners because it is very important that we make sure that we have all of our downtown districts um redeveloped and re-energized and make sure that they are suitable for not only the people who are

everywhere throughout the city of North, it is done consistent with the master plans that the city has uh development. There are uh zoning board meetings and planning board meetings that people have the right to attend and uh express their uh support or opposition of the

I was waiting to hear that. Okay. Sorry. The first one is legisar number 26-0223 which is an area in need of redevelopment in the east ward. which is a professional service contract for a planning consultant.

uh Grafton Avenue. And we have received over the years a lot of complaints from neighbors uh who live on that block. Uh there is a con some kind of construction

Next item. 7R2A through F are private sales redevelopment. redevelopment. redevelopment. A is new construction of a three and a half story residential building. All

Next item. 7R8A is a reappointment to the Central Planning Board as a council representative, Councilwoman Scott representative, Councilwoman Scott representative, Councilwoman Scott Rountree.

Council President, Council members, we have four added starters. First one is legislation number 26-0353, which is a redevelopment agreement, and a companion ordinance, which is 26 26, I'm sorry, -0354. I'm sorry, repeat that that one.

resolution, one is an ordinance. Yes, one is a resolution, one is an ordinance, one is the redevelopment agreement and the other one is the ordinance allowing us to sell, but

Next item. Seminar two A through E are private sales or redevelopment agreements. A is new construction of a three and a half story residential building. All

F is referral of proposed third amendment to the West Ward Model Neighborhood Initiative Redevelopment Neighborhood Initiative Redevelopment Neighborhood Initiative Redevelopment Plan Plan that changes permitted uses in Uh Council President, to answer Councilman Kelly's question, this is a referral to the Central Planning Board whereby analysis will be done and then the Central Planning Board will consider the amendment and then it this um item would come back to the council uh for remember when we modified the Newark zoning and land use regulations, redevelopment plans are excluded. So, when we did that, that means that some redevelopment plans have to be amended so that they are consistent with our thoughts around how to create not today, but if the matter gets approved by the council, g…

execute an agreement with Bergen Street Partners LLC for the sale and redevelopment of city-owned property. Question uh Uh Miss Daniel, why don't you come up and explain this one too? Hello again. All right. Brandy Daniel, put out a solicitation for letters of interest on July 28th, 2025 for any redevelopers that were interested in helping us to develop this property. Um we did receive two letters of of

execute an agreement with Bergen Street Partners LLC for the sale and redevelopment of city-owned property sponsored by Councilman Council, second by Councilman Kelly. by Councilman Kelly.

All right. Thank Thank you, Ms. Gaylord. Thank you. 7R2A through C are private sale redevelopment agreements. agreements. agreements. A is new construction of a two-family

Next item. F is a professional service contract for legal services for redevelopment, as well as G and H. Questions from the Council? Next item. Next item. J is a loan agreement for the Housing and Urban Development Redevelopment project in the South and Central Ward. Central Ward. Central Ward. Any questions from the Council? Hearing none, next item. Next item. L is referral to the Central Planning Board for an amendment to the zoning and land use regulations. land use regulations. Um this is a request for you to send to the Central Planning Board some modifications associated with the historic structures and how we actually

couldn't hear you. 7R2J. There are There are uh two blocks and lots that are listed as the South Ward. Those blocks and lots are in the Central Ward. Yes, sir. All right. We'll do a scrivener's error for that. Okay. Council President, Council members.

execute an agreement with Bergen Street Partners LLC for the sale of land, the sale and redevelopment of city-owned property. Sponsored by Councilman Council. Second by Councilman Kelly.

Questions from the council. Next item. Next item. 7R2A is a private sale redevelopment. the new construction of two residential homes consisting of one four family home

Questions from the council. Next item. K is declaring an area in need of redevelopment in the north ward. Any questions from the council? Next item. Next item. Next item. L is investigation for an area in need of redevelopment in the north war. Any questions from the council? Next item. Next item.

first reading 6fa is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 746-7650 South 14th Street urban renewal LLC for a project to construct three Council Members C9 6fb is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to ADL 605-607 broad urban renewal LLC for a project to to construct 84 residential or comments or comments CNN 6fd is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to WT JV urban renewal LLC for a project to significantly rehabilitate an existing sponsored by councilman Ramos second by councilman Gonzalez questions or comments CN 6fe is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 297 Clinton urban renewal LLC for a project to construct a new four-story multifamily

comments CNN Communications item 8A is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to 305 Wilson Avenue urban renewal LLC for a project to construct a self storage space in the East Ward item seeing n next item 8B is an ordinance amending the tax abatement granted to 40 Clinton urban renewal LLC for a project to rehabilitate an existing building and units to correct the minimum annual service charge in the financial agreement in the East Ward questions or comments regarding this comments regarding this difference between annual service charge now over the over the life of the abatement good morning council president council members Allison lad director of Economic and Housing Development um for you're considering them and so sometimes there's a um mismatch I would say between a tax abate…

24- 0926 which is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement under the hmfa law to Spring View Development Group LLC for a project to construct a rental income of up to 60% Ami okay let's let's do the the lar number again I'm sorry 24- 0926 and this is a tax abatement right yes what um what's the address on this the deputy mayor is here Madam clerk council president uh council we do apologize for asking for the added starter but this item was considered by the tax abatement committee on June 25th um and it's moved swiftly through the approval process and we are um hopeful

that they're renting based off what a council approved you know or or what's in the financial agreement um but we can definitely add a caveat to it that you know subject to change based on HUD

CA ordinances on first reading 6fa is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to 305 Wilson Avenue urban renewal LLC for a project to construct a self- storage space in the East W questions or comments from Council Members CNN 6fb is an ordinance amending the tax abatement granted to 40 Clinton urban renewal LLC urban renewal LLC urban renewal LLC for a project to rehabilitate an

Crump okay next item 6p sfd is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to ADL abatement to ADL abatement to ADL 305 I'm sorry 305 I'm sorry 305 I'm sorry 605-607 broad urban renewal LLC for a Members CA 6pf is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 746 765 South 14 Street urban renewal LLC for a project to construct three town home style council president and council members okay 6p sfg is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 297 Clinton Urban is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 297 Clinton urban renewal LLC for project to construct a new four-story multif family senior by councilwoman Round by councilwoman Round Tree any other questions next item 6p sfh is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement under the hmfa law to Spring View Developmen…

Kelly any questions from Council Members regarding this item CNN C is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to 369-378 18th Avenue urban renewal LLC for a project to construct 11 market Members CNN D is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to Riverfront quarters urban renewal LLC for a project to construct a 64 residential rental unit

they are not underneath IO with any of their properties so I just want to be clear they have no abatement on their properties they you know have been you know Adam and about not having that um you know afford having that opportunity to have a tax abatement so they're not underneath the io on any of those properties along the corridor of North subsidy um I can say that one property has um requested a five-year tax abatement and it's been going under review through the finance office and if it was to be approved for the the fiveyear tax abatement that one project would have to comply with inclusionary zoning and that's the amendment that was significantly blighted uh despite the fact that Mr Gomes has not come to the city for a tax abatement and prior uh developments in the area I will note …

right Cen thank you so much Deputy Mayor thank you f is an ordinance amending the tax abatement granted to Oak Tower's urban renewal entity LLC to extend the time frame for the developer to complete

is a South Ward streetcape Improvement project I is the exterior improvements incentive pilot program J is a shuttle bus service bus service bus service project K is a South Ward small business loan pilot project and L is a facade Improvement Grant pilot Improvement Grant pilot Improvement Grant pilot project questions or comments from Council Members council member Remos

certificate issuance of a stopple certificate certifying the status of the financial agreement any financial agreement any financial agreement any questions seeing none next item 7r3 a is a professional service contract to

Ordinances on first reading. 6FA is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to Raising Plains Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new four-story residential building Any questions? Any questions? Saying none. Next. B is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to Broadway Star Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new sevenstory start all over again. 6FB is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to Broadway Star Urban Renewal LLC Renewal LLC Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new Next item. C is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to 74-78 abatement to 74-78 abatement to 74-78 Webster Urban Renewal LLC for a project to demolish the existing structures and

Next item. G is a memorandum of agreement to establish a guaranteed education pilot program with Ruckers University. Any questions from the council?

Yes, sir. Great. Awesome. 8D is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to B9 Hyatt Avenue Owner Urban Renewal LLC for a project involving the construction of an duly noted. duly noted. 8E is an ordinance authorizing an amendment two of the financial agreement for the tax abatement granted to Terrell Redevelopment Partners Urban Renewal LP to revise the address of the property

ordinances on first reading 6fa is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to abatement to abatement to 74-78 Webster urban renewal LLC for a project to demolish the existing deferred to January deferred to January 8th 6p fsfc is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to 440 Elizabeth New Jersey urban renewal LLC for a project to renovate and rehabilitate a none next item 6p sfd is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to kspg 39 Madison urban renewal LLC for a project to construct a new five-story

deferred to January deferred to January 8th o on page 10 is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to B9 Hyatt Avenue owner urban renewal LLC for a project involving the questions seeing none next item p is an ordinance authorizing Amendment two to financial agreements the tax abatement granted to Terrell Redevelopment Partners urban renewal LP to revise the

hearing second reading and final Passage 6p SFA is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 40 Austin Street urban renewal company LLC for a project to construct a new five-story

32 um which is an ordinance that's securing RAB bonds as well as a tax abatement and so they're companion pieces um the project itself is located at 20 bramford uh the developer is uh

item Communications item 8A is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 20 Branford urban renewal LLC for a project to construct 81 residential units which questions seeing none next Item B is an ordinance granting a 20year tax abatement to PGH and Associates urban renewal LLC for a project to construct a new five-story mixed use building with ordinance authorizing the execution of an amended and restated Financial agreement in connection with the construction of 18 market rate ordinance assigning the rights and obligations under a 25-year tax abatement authorizing the execution of a new Financial agreement between the city and rise Rio urban renewal LLC in connection with the Redevelopment

assigned properly there are no changes to the terms of the tax abatement thank you thank you any any other other followup thank you Deputy Mayor thank

next item public hearing second reading and final passage 6p SFA is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to PGH and Associates urban renewal LLC for a project to construct a new five-story

benefits agreement going forward you'll see them together and you'll be able to see that when the tax abatement Committee of the council uh reviews the projects going forward um specifically

it's a little more trivial uh because we have less staff um so we we work with um the abatement and if you know the courts uh do dismiss it um that's where we have the gap right we have to kind of be a

answer your question it it can be twofold U I think with code enforcement you see a little bit more of abatement um with UCC I think their focus is on compliance so if we're going through the

noted. 8A was discussed previously. 8B is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 1098 Broad Street Urban Renewal Company LLC for a project to construct a new fivestory building with

economic and housing development. Um this is actually connected to a tax abatement that you'll be hearing on communication today. They're actually related. The um negotiations happened at

our um financing for the project. And included in that is uh a request for a payment in lieu of taxes from the council, which will be forthcoming. Our expectation is that we'll be breaking

Communications Communications Item 8A is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement under HMFA law to Fulton Street Newark LLC for a project to construct a new multi-family housing Hearing none, next item. B is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to Newark abatement to Newark abatement to Newark Portfolio Two Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct five-story

Director Ladd also for a a list of all the the tax abatement projects that we have in the pipeline and where we are in terms of the process. Let's say whether we people complaining that they have projects but we haven't seen any tax abatement uh meetings in the like a month and a half. So, I believe it's imperative that we have uh let's say

second reading, and final passage. 6PFA is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to Robert Street Hotel Urban Renewal Incorporated to undergo major renovations to all systems within Motion to defer as a whole. Thank you. Thank you. B is an ordinance granting 30-year tax abatement to 449 Washington Street urban renewal for a project to construct a new five-story building with a total of 20 the council hearing? None. Next item C is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to the Unity 12th Street Development Urban Renewal LLC for a project constructing a fourstory Next item is G, an ordinance authorizing the first amendment to the original tax abatement granted to Spruce Spruce Park Associates to extend the terms of the financial agreement. Questions from the council hearing non…

Miss Stacy Burer. Miss Stacy Burer. Questions? D is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to 54 Lockwood Street Urban Renewal LLC for a project involving demolition of an existing

one moment and also say the amount in the trust fund is predominantly uh generated by the tax abatement process that we go through whereby there are payments that are made to the trust The first one, legisar number is 25-0697. It's an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to abatement to abatement to SUK Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new 13story mixeduse

Department of Finance. Department of Finance. 6P, SFC is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement under the HMFA law to Sheila Y. Oliver Senior Housing Community for project to construct a

Thank you. Duly noted. E is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to Central Point Urban Renewal LLC LLC for a project involving the demolition Hearing none, next item. F is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to 824 South 20th Management Urban Renewal Entity LLC for a project for a new four-story Duly noted. Duly noted. G is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to 300 Gar Side Management Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new five-story residential And I just want to note that this is a 100% affordable project with a 25-year abatement. abatement. Thank you. Second for that. Council Second. Councilman H is an ordinance authorizing a I is an ordinance authorizing the assignment and assumption of the financial agreement financial agreement financial agr…

See none. Hearing none. Next item. E is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to Central Point Urban Renewal LLC for a project involving the demolition of the existing one-story Hearing none. Next item. F is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to 824 South 20th Street, I'm sorry, 824 South 20th Management Urban Renewal Entity LLC for a project to hearing? None. Next item. G is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to 300 Garside Management Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new fivestory residential I is an ordinance authorizing the assignment and assumption of the financial agreement to amend the project description and amend construction schedule sponsored by Councilwoman Scott

item, communications. Item 8A is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to Gomes Green Urban Renewal LLC to construct 28 residential rental units Next item C is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 107-109 abatement to 107-109 abatement to 107-109 Broad Development Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new six-story

to be addressed at this point because there's no way we continue with with the tax abatement committee now with two members not having all three that should be there don't have a a sitting that meeting when Councilman Gonzalez said that it was going to be boycotted so we could have this tax abatement moratorum so that the government can come into compliance. There's no reason

Any questions from the council? Next item. B is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to 1007-109 Broad Development Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new six-story

communications. communications. 8A is an ordinance granting a 15-year tax abatement to 518 SAT Urban Renewal Entity LLC Entity LLC to construct a new fivestory mixeduse All right. All right. B is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement abatement to New Community Homes Development LP for a project to construct a new stepping up, having those meetings, you know, guys inviting me as a representative from the tax abatement committee uh and ensuring that some of the the work and other things in those

Anything else from the council? Yeah, just, you know, and and a big uh, you know, kudos to the tax abatement committee as well for, you know, pushing this thing back, hearing the the cries Thank you. Thank you. All right, next item. 8C is an ordinance granting a 22-year tax abatement to Gome's Generation Urban Renewal LLC for a project to construct a new fivestory

housing development. In regards to our added starter request, this is an amendment to a tax abatement to kick kick to 39 Madison. And the reasoning behind the request is because the

reading and final passage. 6PFA is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to New Community Homes Development LP for a project to construct a new four-story building

All right. The next item B is an ordinance granting a 22-year tax abatement to Gome's Generation Urban Renewal LLC for a project located in the central ward to construct a new

make sure that these things are done that if they're not done outside of the financial agreement you have to pay, there should be a fine assessment attached to it. The council president

Thank you, Madam Clerk. D is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to Crown Village Urban Renewal, Inc. for a project to construct two residential affordable housing Thank you. All right. Next item. E is an ordinance granting a 30-year tax abatement to South Orange Avenue 1 urban renewal, Inc. for a project to construct 144 non senior affordable housing none next item none next item F is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to Kasamea Mia Apartments urban renewal LLC for a project to rehabilitate a six-story elevator 100% next item next item G is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to 1213-121 abatement to 1213-121 abatement to 1213-121 on broad urban renewal LLC for a project to construct a new five-story building

G is the issuance of a stople certificate certifying the status of the financial agreement regarding property in the east ward. Questions from the council.

Is there a second for second by Councilman uh Kintana? B is an ordinance amending the original tax abatement granted to 50 Mount Prospect Gardens Urban Renewal LLC to extend the time frame to construct the

for a planning consultant. Number three is item 26-0131 which is an assignment of the financial agreement for EHD. agreement for EHD. agreement for EHD. Number four is item 26-0240 which is bond sales for the finance

section 8 residents. This would um excuse me, this would uh transfer their uh financial agreement with the city to the new owners. And once they once they get approval from the city, they will I'm sorry. Could you repeat? Did they have a Did they have a a a prior tax abatement or any dollars that were owed? They did have a prior tax abatement. I don't believe they have any dollars that were owed. I can find out for you and

G is approving assignment of an agreement to the assignment of the financial agreement from the Cottage Place Place to Cottage Place Apartments for an

abas date the situation. And so I think it's important that we look at leveling down the time of abatement and stop allowing folks to get to the courtroom and make sure that our courts are aware houses, on the sides of streets that's remaining there because we are waiting for 10-day abatement period until we do something. But in the meantime, the resident has to drive by this, they has

my point is I know there has been a long history of Georgia King with this council, with the the tax abatement uh unit and and a bunch of other things. But it looks like things are at least

or something, a concession that the builder should make to the city in exchange for the tax abatements that we're giving them. I I believe that it's important that we get some some benefit city, and we are providing valuable contributions to these entities in terms of the tax abatements that they receive. I believe it's imperative that we do a better negotiation with the with the

Normally, uh Normally, uh when people submit the application for tax abatements, they list the cost of a constructing a three family like family like

My apologies. K is the issuance of a stop or certificate certifying the status of the financial agreement. Any questions from the council? Hearing none, next item.

Next item. Communications item 8A is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to 9 Moore 763 South Orange Urban Renewal LLC for a project located in the B is an ordinance that ratifies and authorizes the second amendment to the original tax abatement granted to Spruce Park Associates under the limited dividend law dividend law dividend law extending the term of the financial agreement until March 31st, 2036. their agreement with uh the HAP contract, they have to maintain their tax abatement with the City of Newark as long as they're in compliance and by state statute as long as their HAP contract is in effect, we are allowed to extend their tax abatement with the city and this is what we're asking for right now. now. And that's so the tax abatement is extended to meet the dates for th…

Ordinances on first reading. 6FA is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to Name Or 763 South Orange Urban Renewal LLC for a project located in the West Ward to construct a B is an ordinance that ratifies and authorizes the second amendment to the original tax abatement granted to Spruce Park Associates. Park Associates. Park Associates. Questions from the council.

Next item. Communications, item 8A is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to Namor Namor South Orange Urban Renewal LLC for a All right, thank you. Next item. B is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to 1080 Bergen Developer Urban Renewal LLC for a project located in the South Ward to construct a new Next item. C is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to Morben Holdings Urban Renewal LLC for a project located in the West Ward to construct a new four-story

Ordinances on first reading. 6FA is an ordinance granting a 25-year tax abatement to 1080 Bergen Developer Urban Renewal LLC for a project in the South Ward to construct a new five-story passage. 6P SFA is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to Neymar 763 South Orange Urban Renewal LLC for a project in the West Ward to construct a B is an ordinance that ratifies and authorizes the second amendment to the original tax abatement granted to Spruce Park Associates under the limited dividend law extending the term of the financial agreement until March 31st, 2036. Any questions from the council? Hearing none. Next item. Questions from the council. Next item. E is an ordinance granting a 20-year tax abatement to Neymar South Orange Urban Renewal LLC for a project located in the West Wa…

psng and the Urban League of Essex County um following the agreement there was environmental remediation that had to occur on the site and that has concluded and so at this time we're

provide Training Services for residents so we can place residents into vocational training that lead to a state recognized certification and ultimately employment got it and they don't have to

litter know what day you gonna pick up recycle and stuff like that educating the public on sustainability stuff around recycling got it okay can we um can we invest in some recyclable recy hey there should be recycling bins you know we're trying to you know be a sustainable City where we can recycle in our public spaces but there are no recycling bins and when we ask because organizations in the community or or schools in the community to to help with the some environmental groups yes okay thank you any other questions CNN thank you so much director you're welcome

temporary emergency temporary emergency Appropriations A is for the childhood lead exposure prevention program B is for the immunization project C is for the Ferry Street intersection safety

business model down there that will help to create and generate revenue and income to help sustain that building right one and then probably some of the larger kind of challenges um that you in the community as as well as looking to create other kind of models where they can help to sustain themselves with parking you know garages since we've done all of this wonderful stuff with

of Grant funds B is to provide support for STD testing and patient followup C is the childhood lead exposure prevention program D is the IM communization Grant of communization Grant of communization Grant of 2025 and E is the lead Grant acceptance program questions or comments from Council

you can have of public housing units uh but outside of that you can build as many units as you you can sustain uh so there are a number of housing authorities across the country that have

economic and Workforce Development initiatives through Community initiatives through Community initiatives through Community programming and advancing environmental resilience that have positively impacted thousands of nework thousands of nework openly queer elected District leader for the 35th District of the West for additionally my experience as lead producer for the Nork lgbtqia Pride week uh this past summer has been a true

application or acceptance of Grant funds C is for the supplemental nutrition program D is for sustaining Public Health Public Health Public Health infrastructure e is to enhance the

the urban area security initiative uasi Region's ability to build maintain and sustain National preparedness sustain National preparedness sustain National preparedness capabilities I think this will go towards our special towards our special

ICE guy coming to knock on the door and take some people out and and and you know right now the environment is not in a great a great time for people to open doors and and back then I remember up in

and B are application acceptance of Grant funds A is fund to enforce motor vehicle violations that lead to hit and run fatalities and B is for the purchase of two or more fire trucks to augment

and cons uh for any evaluation the second part is is we are working on having the um testing for Environmental Testing occur and the third is is looking at the um structural ability for

Nationwide and you sprung and and you stood up and did something we protest to contaminate the water then you sprung up and all money fell from the sky including the money challenge anybody to present any document any uh literature that supports that statement the lead line replacement program here in the city of norc which replaced 23,000 lead service lines in three years during the pandemic mic when it was said it would take between 10 and legislation that allowed that to go forward we're extraordinarily proud of what took place that program did lead to Federal funding for other municipalities for other uh cities and other states and see whether or not there was $1 that came from the federal government to help the citizens of Newark pay for the lead service lines that were replaced by ma…

door that is something that seems kind of emerging to me because that could lead to a fire when there's a a building over on Camden Street it's had four Fires at 123 Camden 123 right next to

for pensions. B is to provide Ryan White HIV health and support services. C is the lead hazard program. D is the antiviolence out of school youth project for all expenses until the adoption of the 2025 operating operating budget. H is sustaining public health infrastructure. infrastructure. infrastructure. Any questions from the council? Yes,

we'll be working on um the life safety and health, right? Um the health ones, the um um contaminants that will be working on already. This is the second step, the structural ones. Um so, it's

regarding hearing? None. Next item. N and O are application acceptance of grant funds. N is for the environmental justice government to government program and O is for the rehabilitation and

development come here so that we can uh ask some questions. Good morning, council president, council members. Allison Lead, director of econ economic and housing development. Um, we do have uh the gentleman here who

you. Next item. X is application acceptance of grant funds for the lead hazard and healthy homes reduction program. Any questions? Next item.

involving demolition of an existing obsolete industrial buildings, obsolete industrial buildings, obsolete industrial buildings, environmental site re remediation, and redevelopment of land in the central ward. Questions from the council

ward included. So, ward included. So, I I do know for a fact that as part of the lead service line replacement, there were a number of streets that were paved in the ward, but that recent list didn't

7R 12A is a professional service contract to continue providing legal services concerning the lead pipe replacement investigation and replacement investigation and replacement investigation and litigation. litigation.

Duly noted. Duly noted. 7R2 I is acceptance of grant funds from the New Jersey lead funds to provide re-entry services. re-entry services. re-entry services. Any questions from the council?

commend uh council uh colleague Roundtree and Council President Crump uh for helping to lead that charge. I know I was you know in the backgrounds on on most of it, but I just want to uh you

help the families help the families uh and to support pathways that will lead to stability, education and economic mobility. Um, I have a lot of experience in community

Hernandez Elementary School on 345 Broadway. Um I will say that each one of the lead organizations has several partners that are working with them to arrange again food services, clothing

B is ACOM technical services. C is KS Engineering. D is Prestige Environmental. E is Tech Tiki. F is Jerry J. Nol and Associates. Noly, infrastructure. infrastructure. N is GTS Consultant. O is GZA Geo Environmental. Environmental. Environmental. P is H2M Associates. Q is HDR Engineering. Engineering.

9A is an ordinance amending zoning and land use regulations regarding fossil fuel facilities and B is amending tax tax for fossil fuel generation questions from the council. So what so So what so what what Uh when it says prohibition on the on the use of city funds for fossil fuel, including fossil fuel power generation, they say when it says the use of city funds for fusel fossil fuel, that means that we cannot buy gas. buy gas. That's that's not what it what the heart problems, respiratory issues that there is statistical data that supports the notion that fossil fuel generation uh causes some of those problems. So we have to balance that and make sure that because I I do realize that down the line we have to you know continue to think about environmental justice especially being the lar…

is second to none and has been replicated throughout the country in changing the lead service lines. Indeed, when there was in the very beginning uh concerns about elevated lead levels in the water, that was self-reported. That was information that was brought to us responsibility to raise funds sufficient over hund00 million to change over 23,000 lead service lines. It almost feels like a bit of a broken record. Uh but people said that that could not be help of uh water and sewer director Kareem Adem and his team, we replaced in excess of 23,000 lead service lines at no cost to the residents and have improved the water quality and have were able to do so without increasing taxes and without having uh residents to pay for those lead line replacements. So, for people who say something to th…

maintenance. So, the the kind of equipment that we need to be able to sustain uh what it is that we have to do in the city based off maintenance agreements and warranties all that are

B is to obtain funding for the Newark tree canopy initiative. tree canopy initiative. tree canopy initiative. And C is the Sustainable Jersey PSE G Partnership Program staffing and community engagement grant program. offers funding to make progress toward reducing the community's energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse gas emissions. Any questions from the council on those and Councilman Silva? and Councilman Silva?

moving it to this space. Uh one is Aman Clark. She's present in chambers. She's been the lead project manager, and the second is Nana Djima, our chief of staff. Um and so, you will continue to

Also, in the summertime, we have Less Trash, Less Crime. That's an initiative uh that's an environmental and a public safety initiative that um we launched uh last year with Kean

for me growing up one of my biggest like contributions to engaging in a criminal activity was my environment. So, when I grew up I seen people and I seen dudes come home from prison and they just did

your continuance. I'm glad that you're getting this grant so that it can help sustain your program and help move your mission forward. So congratulations and thank you. Thank thank you. Next item. R is application for grant funds to apply for the sustainable Jersey grant funded by PSE G. Questions from the council.

on-call consulting, and E is a professional contract for on-call environmental consulting. environmental consulting. environmental consulting. Questions from the Council? Next item.

writing the more specifics. Yes, council president uh council members Allison Lead, director of economic and housing development. Um this before you uh to answer council

Transportation for city of Nork safe routes to routes to school C is the application acceptance of Grant funds for the New Jersey Department of Transportation 2025 State

comments is someone here to speak to this item this is to provide lit control and education it's clean community's money yeah I mean is someone here to talk about it cuz I would love to hear more to check me if you say personal got the former DPW directorship right there okay so so when we say education though on here I guess I'm I'm confused oh how we how do we educate like how do we use the funding for education so education is those pamphlets that the city sends out or that we hand out that says you know garbage this say recycling you see them in the airport you see them in the school system yes I think we can okay cool coun councel did you have something to add you had some you have something

don't qualify for federal funds because of their record or because they don't have a high school diploma so we pay it directly from the wib to get people things like CDL license sora license we

you so much Madam Clerk and welcome to everyone in the chamber happy September and first day back to school and Labor Day and everything else that we have uh missed we missed you guys alrighty um

about it but that is an issue and one is open right now that we just closed before school year ended they're back open lights on you know it's just a little walking distance you know you go

people from all the wards down into Central business district but sessen the Arts and education district and then shut them back so literally this morning there was a call trying to

city of New there's some I just want to say that because we've been talking about the street education since I've been on the council we haven't amended the ordinance and so I gather this is a

clear seminar h g and H are both waving special event application permit fees for the annual back to school celebration both are annual back to school celebrations sponsored by councilman canana do you have a second second by councilman Kelly next item

actually with the evictions that are taking place by landlords who are not registered so that that education piece is so very important because with the eviction rate being as high as it is

children that we lost in the fire we had about 20 students coming from Mount Vernon School which the the kindergarten went to and it affected her entire family um from her brother to her father being in critical condition in the hospital still and the school is just you know they they really are taking it hard and we just decided to cancel

Next item. E is accepting a gift of a 24 passenger school bus. school bus. school bus. Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Seeing none. Next item. I'm sorry, Councilman Gonzalez. So, this is something that the school board is giving to the city of Nor so that the city of Nor can give to somebody else. Why couldn't the school board give it directly to Italy? Any comments from from the administration? council administration? council we don't clear it how we should do this but it can be that the board of education education in return says say says to the city do this uh exchange of giving some to question as I understand it is that we have a sister city relationship with this entity and the board of education does not and that's why it's being transferred to us through them and we

Next item. G is a memorandum of agreement to establish a guaranteed education pilot program with Ruckers University. Any questions from the council? ensure that young people in the city of Newark uh have a fair chance of getting a college education uh as well uh not just with Ruckers But I know with St. Elizabeth uh College, so I definitely young people. uh again that will have a a chance at going to obtain a college education uh and will not have to feel the brunt a strain of of of what we would call um giving back dollars um as

business week and the other thing I had requested was certification regarding the proximity to the school that's in that area and I never got that either so I could have that to you before the

you covered it you're good all right next item 7r1 v is execution of a labor agreement regarding the school traffic guards any question Mr President yep councilman Ramos these are crossing guards right yes yes before us is going to help the city strengthen its position to recruit uh more and more school crossing guards Eric do you know how many vacancies right now no okay just get

everybody wants us to do but when you say community benefit I'm looking for something for children in education I'm looking for something for children with housing I'm looking for something with

New Jersey State navigator for 2425 Grant year and B is to provide medical care Supportive Services and education on Sickle Cell any questions from the council

attorney? Uh I I am a lawyer by training. Yes. Okay. Yes. Where did you go for for law school? Uh well for undergrad I went to Howard University. Um where I studied political science and Africana studies. Um, I then went to law school at Cardoozo Law School in New York City, uh, where I specialize in constitutional and civil rights law. HIV health and support services. C is the lead hazard program. D is the antiviolence out of school youth project for all wards. E is to provide medical care supportive services and education on cickle cell. F is to provide funding for the police and fire capital improvement

session. B is professional service contract to extend the time for the safe route to school project. Any questions from the council? Hearing none. Next item.

the total amount of $31 million, $29 million for general improvements and $2 million for school bonds. Uh the market has changed as such where uh it has become financially viable in order to

education equipment and accessories. And E is a bid contract for Healthy Homes General Contractors. Homes General Contractors. previously adopted. previously adopted. This resolution was meant for Newark Public Schools. Public Schools. Public Schools. Say that again. I didn't hear that last For G, the resolution the reason why we're rescinding it is that it was actually meant for Newark Public Schools and I apologize. Okay. All right. Thank you.

grants, immunization grants that make sure children are appropriately vaccinated before they enter school. So, you know, we are very concerned about the public health um

D is an ordinance amending business and occupations to create a new chapter entitled driving school registration to promote improved street safety in the city of Newark's public right-of-way, this ordinance because again there's other cities that do not allow you to as a driving school to just go park on in terms of what Councilman Ramos in terms of

unless I'm in a rush in the morning and there's a car in front of me that's from a particular driving school. No, I'm kidding. kidding. All right, all right. That's only when

house. J is hope Kindness LLC. K is schools re-entry. L is good education group. M is new direction behavioral health

born in Newark. I work in Newark. I'm raising my three sons in Newark public schools. College graduates, whatever. Um, I'm happy to say that when the mayor children on section 8 and I learned from that that you have to work hard. I went to school. I graduated honors ruckers. I hate saying all this in public, but I wanted it to be clear that simply

University here on the North campus as the associate director of the humanities action lab. I also attend the law school uh here at Ruckers North. Um, in the evening I'm a part-time student. In

services. AD is a cooperative purchasing agreement for membership to the educational services commission of New Jersey. AE is a cooperative contract to purchase

to prepare construction documents for the Community Health Center at Park Elementary School. Elementary School. Elementary School. Mr. President. Mr. President. Mr. President. Councilman Ramos. I'd like to uh sponsor

we'll have an event at our headquarters at 394 University Avenue. We'll be providing food and gifts and educational materials to the community. Part of that giveaway is a scooter that will be 7R7A through F are hold harmless agreements for the use of Newark Public Schools facilities. Schools facilities. Schools facilities. A is for the North Ward Town Hall

appropriations. appropriations. A is for the antiviolence for out of school youth project. B is for the subreional transportation planning subreional transportation planning subreional transportation planning program. and C is for clean communities. that can I know be used for recycling and other ventures, it can also be used as educational tools uh to to educate the folks on uh littering uh and and and um you know, dumping. So, it's important

7R10A is application acceptance of grant funds to provide litter control and education. education. Questions from the council. Think we talked about that enough. Next

station, New Street, Newark Street. uh above NGIT. uh above NGIT. uh above NGIT. Um people park and go to uh the school, colleges every day, all day, not creating turnover and opportunity for

uh and to support pathways that will lead to stability, education and economic mobility. Um, I have a lot of experience in community work, in leadership, in regulation, and

District. Uh the hub is located at Belmont Run Belmont Runan Elementary School in the central ward. It is led by the Greater Newark Conservancy and that is going to be at the um flag school on 153rd Street. The west ward is being run by the UVSO and that will be at it's run by the Ironbound Community Corporation and it'll be at the South Street School at 44 Herman Street. And the last is in the north ward and it'll be uh led by Lacassa Don Pedro. Um and it'll be located at the Raphael Hernandez Elementary School on 345 Broadway. Um I will say that each one of the lead organizations has several

to be bought in this dire need to come together as a collective. Today we start at Speedway Avenue School and we will need volunteers. Um NPS was um gracious enough to give us space and speedway where we will be able to operate this you can drop off the food and then we'll have drivers bring it over to Speedway because uh NPS is not going to allow you just to drop off the food there at that school like that. So, we'll be using the Urban Leagues hub on Central Avenue to drop off food and then drivers will be

meeting, unfortunately. meeting, unfortunately. I was told to show up here after my name was given to the superintendent. I do not have an opening statement, but I do look forward to being part of the board of the council representing the Board of Education. Thank you. Any questions from the council? County Building Trades. Um we're on I'm on a CTE board for Newark Barringer High School, West Orange, Belleville. I just think there's a lot of things that I could add to the board. I'm very

work with the as an educator at the Essex County Schools of Technology as the Cooperative Education Coordinator. I also serve as the co-chair for the Youth Investment Council for the City of

mean, some folks have literally called us when they come outside and they have to bring their kids to school, some people have to go get their kids. Some people are on their way to work and they

reached out to me and invited me to an event that she hosted to benefit the school, which we heard was creating some issues with some of the kids that were going there. I brought the captain of possible. And and as far as our support of uh Luis Muñoz Marín School is is a school that we do a lot of stuff for that school directly. Uh the principal there is one of our best principals and um we try to

C is for the public health emergency preparedness grant. preparedness grant. preparedness grant. D is to support the education of nurse practitioners. practitioners. practitioners. And E is to provide funds for the

I is for Push Peers Understanding Strategies to Heal. Strategies to Heal. Strategies to Heal. J is the High School Academic Support and Mentoring Program of New Jersey. K is Voices International Publications

Thank Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank Thank you. Thank Thank you. Thank Thank you. Next item is the the high school academic support and mentoring program of New Jersey. Is anyone here? All right, not appearing. Next Next towards the end of the program. If they're not getting re-arrested or in trouble, we getting them back in school. We give them a stipend at the end of it. Then we take care of some of our

time. But when a kid graduated from high school, he got a pat on his back saying Oh, get get him a ride to the city or rent a car. And he never got a chance to

administration for this opportunity. I'm very excited. I am a product of the Newark public schools. I was born and raised in Newark. raised in Newark. raised in Newark. Very happy to be here in this capacity.

Council president, council members, I'm alerted to page 12, the um high school academic support and mentoring program of New Jersey. Representatives are in the chamber. I need to talk to

going on your trip. Right. Um secondly, I just want to say, when I was at 13th Avenue Elementary School, man, your mom was like a a figurehead for me and and a mentor. part, but sending care packages after you actually helped them get into the school. Right. Cuz I know I needed those care packages when I was in college, and uh sometime my mom couldn't afford to

All right, next item. J is the application acceptance of grant funds to support the education of a diverse nurse practitioner population in underserved communities. underserved communities.

University, Newark Street Academy to get young people who are no longer in traditional education and we redirect them to secondary and alternative education. alternative education. alternative education. Thank you. Thank you. Council President, if I may.

D is Isaiah House, excuse me. E is the Puerto Rican Organization for Community Education. Education. F is Central Jersey Legal Services. G is Neighborhood Health Services. H is

start uh after 9:00 a.m. to allow parents to drop their children off to school, get them there on time so they can eat breakfast and test. That is very important uh not to have these backups