Transcript for Piscataway Council meeting on March 9 2021
Note: Transcripts are generated by rev.ai and may not be fully accurate. Please listen to the recording (below) if you feel any text is inaccurate.
Speaker 0 00:00:00 Basically the time date, location, or dial information. And to the extent known the agent by posting a copy of the Northeastern musical bridge, Mississippi to court, and to municipal lady in board, when she put a website, providing the copy to the official newspaper of the township and by filing copy in the office of the township Clark in accordance with the certification by the Clark, which will be entered in the minute, the township continue to use the telephone meeting format in an effort to mitigate the chance of export to COVID-19 as part of the township ongoing effort to slow the rate of transmission, or what am I doing or treatment center in order to make sure clear record of the meeting can be married. And that all parties are heard in an organized fashion. All a member of the public will be muted during the meeting. Speaker 0 00:00:55 If you're a member of the public risk to reading any public comment person, please press star nine. In order to raise your hand to speak, we will unmute member of the public individually. If they have to get Henry, when it is your turn to speak, you will hear a notification that you have been un-muted. It is that time that you get to ask any question you may have. You will have three minutes to speak at the conclusion of which you will be admitted again, and the counselor or administrator will respond as necessary. Should you have any further comments or questions? The township council is always available by email and phone, and you can always call the mirror off during the normal operating hours. Each member of the public cell only have one big duty east public person is the technology does not allow us to know if there are multiple color and you, the line we asked, if you wish to speak and have you dial in a separate line so that we can recognize you. And as a separate individual, and you may also submit, you can comment to the bouncy Clark up to 48 hours per year to the meeting read by the township club. During the public comment portion of the meeting saved comments and within three minutes of the meeting, thank you in advance for your patient. And we continue to move the township forward during this health emergency. Speaker 0 00:02:28 Ms. Shooter, please go to court. Speaker 1 00:02:31 Councilman Bullard. Yeah. Councilman Cahill, Councilman con Councilwoman Lombardi, Councilwoman McCollum here. Councilman Aaron council, president shot, mayor Brian Waller, business administrator Kennedy DC township attorney Roger glimmer township attorney Michael Baker, deputy township clerk, Monaco, Orlando. And I'm here with myself, Melissa CEO of central park, standing for the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag.Speaker 0 00:03:47 Okay. Item number five. Comment from regarding for adjournment of any matter on this agenda. Any comments from Speaker 1 00:04:09 Saying none? Speaker 0 00:04:11 None. Okay. All right. From number six, Open to the public comments regarding item number eight, consent agenda item. Only If you wish to speak at this time, please press star nine to raise your hand. When it is your turn to speak, you will hear an announcement that you have been unmuted at that time. Please state your name and address and know that you have three minutes in which to make your comments. The counselor will respond if necessary after you have completed any comment or question Speaker 1 00:05:00 Not the president. I have one person currently with their hand raised. I am asking them now to unmute themselves 7 6 0 4 last four digits. Please unmute yourself by hitting star six. Speaker 2 00:05:18 Good evening. It's Stacy Berger, 2 33 Ellis Parkway. Hope everyone's doing well, staying safe. I can't seem to find the agenda. One second. The, the consent agenda was very long. And so I was curious if there was any, uh, information that the council or the mayor could share about the joint insurance fund, since that seemed to be of interest last time, as well as any information about the property reassessment from being hired except the same firm as last year. Speaker 3 00:05:50 Um, the property reassessment from that is the same firm that was done that the last year. And this is for commercial property and the joint insurance fund with this. It allows us to participate in their safety program program. They provide training and made the facilities and sections for us. And if we attain enough points, we get a, a, a end of the year bonus, which, uh, which we did get last year. Speaker 2 00:06:18 The thanks letter JCB. Um, I think that's introducing anyway that, um, the property reassessments companies that also the one that does the individual property taxes, or is that just for commercial property? Speaker 3 00:06:33 No, this is just, this is just for a commercial property. Speaker 2 00:06:37 Okay, great. Thank you so much. Speaker 0 00:06:41 Thank you. Speaker 1 00:06:51 Anyone else who wishes to speak with regard to a consent agenda items, please press star nine to raise your hand to speak. Thank you, Council president. There are no other individuals with their hands raised. Speaker 0 00:07:22 Thank you. Item number seven, ordinance for city approval and amendment able to redevelopment plan four blocks 5, 4, 5 0 1, not 1.4 Speaker 1 00:07:38 It resolved at the township council has got a township New Jersey that inordinate entitled ordinance of the township of the Skyway county of Middlesex and stayed in New Jersey, approving an amended redevelopment plan for block four or 5 0 1 lot 1.02 pursuant to N J S a 48, colon 12 eight dash one at SAC, the local redevelopment and housing locks being if you're by adopted on the first reading, that'd be published in the official newspaper and that a second reading of public hearing be held at 7:30 PM. Prevailing time at the Piscataway municipal building 4 55 hoses lane, Piscataway New Jersey, as well as by telephonic conference on the 23rd day of March, 2020 2021. Be it further resolved that a copy of this ordinance shall be posted in at least two public places within the township prior to the day of the second reading of final passage and a copy of this ordinance shall be made available at the office of the township clerk for any interested member of the public. Speaker 0 00:08:33 Thank you. Be sure to do high offer counseling Boulevard offer. Thank you. Go ahead. A second. Speaker 2 00:08:43 Second council woman Lombardi. Speaker 0 00:08:46 Thank you. Speaker 3 00:08:51 Yes. Speaker 1 00:08:52 Councilman con yes. Councilwoman Lombardi. Yes. Councilwoman McColum yes. Councilman Aaron. Speaker 0 00:09:06 Yes. Speaker 1 00:09:07 Council president shock. Yes. Speaker 0 00:09:11 Thank you. Item number eight. Benefit the agenda reservation, Whatever frequency item have been considered into a concert event, that will be what they want together. The material for this item has been distributed. The council in advance of the meeting at this time. Are there any item that council would you like to remove from the consent agenda that we discussed or what on separately? Speaker 1 00:09:50 Thank you. Speaker 0 00:10:03 Well, most of them offer Councilman con second, second. Thank you. Speaker 1 00:10:18 Councilman Dillard. Yes. Councilman con Councilwoman Lombardi. Yes. Council woman McCollum. Yes. Councilman RN. Yes. Council president shot. Speaker 0 00:10:35 Yes. Okay. Item number nine. seats by 2021. When you shoot budget, this is realism. Speaker 1 00:10:49 It resolved with the following statements. I've revenues and appropriation. So I'll constitute the municipal budget for the year of 2021. We have further resolved that said budget will be published in the star ledger and the issue of March 12th, 2021, the governing body of the times about the scattering does hereby approve the song as the budget for a year or 2021 explanatory statement, summary general appropriations for appropriations within taps municipal purposes, $52,424,059. Appropriations excluded from caps municipal purposes, $25,342,247 and 85 cents local district school purposes in municipal budget. Total general appropriations excluded from caps $25,342,247 and 85 cents reserved for uncollected taxes based on estimated 98.85% of tax collections. 2 150 $7,437 and 46 cents. Speaker 1 00:12:01 Okay. Uh, building aid allowance, the total general appropriations $79,923,744 and 31 cents less anticipated revenues other than current property taxes, $29,034,486 and 63 cents difference amount to be raised by taxes for support of municipal budget, local tax for municipal purposes, including reserve for uncollected taxes, 48 million, $11,898 and 68 cents minimum tax I'm sorry, minimum library tax $2,877,359. A hearing on the budget and tax resolution will be held at the Piscataway municipal building as well as by telephonic conference on April 20th, 2021 at 7:30 PM. At which time and place objections to said budget and tax resolution for the year 2021, maybe presented by taxpayers or other interested person. Okay. Speaker 0 00:13:26 Thank you, Michigan. Well, that's her counsel, her Lombardi. Councilman Chanel. Thank you. If you didn't have roll call, please. Speaker 1 00:13:45 Councilman Bullard. Yes. Councilman con Speaker 0 00:13:50 Yes. Speaker 1 00:13:52 That's a woman Lombardi. Yes. Council woman McCollum. Yes. Councilman Arran. Yes. Don't go presidential. Speaker 0 00:14:04 Yes. Thank you, Michigan. I turned number 10 announcement and comment from official. Uh Speaker 5 00:14:16 Uh, yes, the, uh, very quickly I'm hoping that, uh, just all of us or most of us are in the process of getting out of, uh, needles. Um, because I know we're getting a lot of calls and so forth, Speaker 0 00:14:34 You Speaker 5 00:14:34 Know, so that's pretty much all I had to say. Speaker 0 00:14:39 Thank you, Ms. Villa, constantly, man. Got hope. UConn. Thank you, council president. I just want to, uh, Speaker 6 00:14:50 Recognize my other women members of the council on international women's day, as well as my wife and business partner as well. And, uh, there's a lot of great women out there. Um, the women that we have on the town council have had, have been terrific and I I've long, uh, said we, we need, we need more women in, in politics and we certainly need more women in Congress. Uh, so I just wanted to acknowledge my, uh, my friends and colleagues on the town council. Speaker 7 00:15:23 Thank you, Steve. Thanks. Thank you. Save. Speaker 6 00:15:30 Um, clearly, you know, I can certainly mean that we were, we were one of the few towns anywhere, maybe at one point in time, we had, we had more women on the town council than we had men. Uh, and we did very well. I would say Speaker 0 00:15:46 Thank you, Mr. Speaker 7 00:15:51 Just wishing all of those Irish happy St. Patrick's day out there. Speaker 0 00:15:59 Thank you. Awesome. Speaker 7 00:16:03 Hi, thank you God for president. Uh, I, to, um, like counseling con, want to acknowledge that women's history month is the month of March and, um, uh, national women's day was yesterday. Want to thank my colleagues on the council as well as the, the women on this call, the residents at the SCAD away for all of your hard work, and just want to read a statement that I had actually posts, um, state it's women's history month is a time to recognize and celebrate all the hard work and sacrifice women, mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, wives and sisters have endured to secure a seat at the table for women in society today. We just want to thank everyone for all their hard work and continue to keep up the good work. We just know that we appreciate you. Thank you. Speaker 0 00:16:54 Thank you, McCarthy constant, man. Frank God, Thank you. I just echo my colleague, uh, consonant con and McClellan core the month of March for missing woman days. So I wanted to call everybody and everything. Thank you May have ran on a Speaker 8 00:17:25 Thank you council president. I want to echo what all the other prior speakers said. And then as an aside note, I want to thank, uh, Senator Menendez and Booker and Congressman Polone for helping support the covert relief bill that passed both the house and Senate. And hopefully we'll be on the president's desk by the end of this week. Um, and it will dramatically help a lot of citizens around this country and this state and here in Piscataway township. Um, so, uh, hopefully this is a game changer to help those families out, uh, during this COVID pandemic crisis. Speaker 0 00:18:03 Thank you, mayor. Uh, nothing. Can I? Thank you. Thank you. thank you. Thanks. for March 23rd, 2021 ordinance, secondary amendment chapter seven, graphics and 14 parking prohibited, public . And in question of calming, none Ottoman secondary into it. Exit diminishment budget, appropriation limits, and SWS to cap bank open to public resolution at uptick ordinance. Any comment or question Look like none ordinance have competing, approving and amendment redevelopment plan for block 4, 5 0 one.one point you ought to open to the public adopting ordinance. Speaker 0 00:19:18 Look like none ordinance, a frustrating amendment chapter 21 zoning add text 21 that's 1102, the supplement landscape standard as a listener adopting ordinance. Any comment or question? Thank you. Ordinary frustrating board audience roar. We have really, they sent three improvement, appropriate thing for 49 million and 2 million 4560 10 days, 45,600. any comment or question? Thank you. There's a authority. Edward master energy sales agreement for for building electricity. Any comment or questions? None per contract, 20 21, 20 22 security guards that we spoke. Sterling village, senior housing did opening March 18th, 2021. Any comment of ratio award of 20 21, 20 22 milling and road surface for the person for DPW, the first resurfacing for various streets. Any comment or question? No, thank you. I thought anything I would have did Leslie, when you improvement phase one, bid opening 11 miles 2021, any comment or tuition? None. There's Alyssa notarizing return of safety. And they're related to some guarantee bond with Ms. Property LLC block 9 2 0 1 lot with before dash oh 5, 1 41 detail role-based any comment or question? Okay. None. Okay. They do listen authorizing the release of Parcell escrows yelling related cannons, move to different unit Bland winder, valid Margaret Adam, Adam, and Carol myself. And he commented patient Speaker 0 00:21:42 20 21, 20 22 hot mix as well, material 2021. Any question or comments? Like none it isn't. I seen, although I didn't get to be 20, 21, 20 22 landscaping maintenance of township property, mid opening, February 25th, 2021. Any comment or question none. There's a lesson altering rising award of contract three E S E N G for computer hardware, laptop, desktop SALWAN, and components, CDW government, LLC, not to exit. And it doesn't any comment of question Like non state contract for computer hardware, laptop, desktop monitor. Uh, and I saw their components, Dell marketing LP, not Brexit and the thousand. Any comment or question None order. One restoration of meatless house $3,000. Any comment or question none rather who should implement it, that not drugs in $2,140. Any comment or question none. altering our full contract of contract administers and in construction inspection that blend and one new improvement phase one, I mean done. And what makes engineers not three exhibit 230, 5,000? Any comment or questions? None. Okay. Most than accept the report of February, 2021. in February, 2021 of the month of February 20, 21 and most than accept council meeting minutes of January one and 12 20 21. And if I made a question, Look like none, item number 12. Or if you used to speak at this time, please press star nine. To raise your hand. When you use your time to speak, you will hear an announcement that you had been unmuted at that time. Please state your name and address and know that you have three minutes in which to make any comments to constellate and Mr. Responded necessary after you have completed any comment or questions. Speaker 1 00:24:56 Council, president. I have a individual with their hand raised, um, last four digits, 9, 8, 7, 9. I've asked them to unmute themselves. Speaker 4 00:25:08 Yes, Speaker 10 00:25:13 No long. Can you hear me? Speaker 0 00:25:15 Yes. Restate state your name and address. Please Speaker 10 00:25:18 Said Madison 1 76 Blackford avenue, Piscataway. It's a follow-up to, uh, last meetings, uh, uh, comments where I asked for a resolution and I sent, uh, a, uh, email describing it. Uh, hopefully the console has had the chance to read it. I'd like to make the following, ask the following, please close your eyes and visualize the following. Your house is on fire. The fire chief arrives takes notes of the situation and says your house will be okay. We are going to pour water on it. At the same time, gasoline is being poured on it. Now we would all agree that this is an unlikely scenario, but not the way to save your house. Consider the analogous situation which applies to the world and New Jersey. The first, the house is our home. Our only home planet earth. We cannot replace it. We must keep the level of irreversible loss to a minimum. Speaker 10 00:26:30 Our governor governor has plans to save our house, pour water on it. He has promised to take some steps in that right direction, but he is also allowing gas to be poured. It allowing more fossil fuel infrastructure to be built in New Jersey. We have limited control over the rest of the world on this issue, but we can tell the governor to immediately enact a moratorium on fossil fuel infrastructure in New Jersey over the weekend. After I wrote that, I read in an article about Exxon, just a short, a portion of a sentence, if you're, and this is a quote. If you're going to take a climate emergency resolution, seriously, the first thing you should stop doing is literally pouring more fuel on the fire. So stopped building new fossil fuel infrastructure. End of quote, the same thing that I said above. So, uh, I'd asked the console, uh, what's the next step. Can we vote on it? Do you have questions? Have the console had an opportunity to read, uh, the email I sent? Um, that's my, my side. Speaker 1 00:27:50 Thank you, Mr. Madison. Speaker 7 00:27:57 Um, just want to acknowledge, um, from Mr. Hi, Mr. Madison, Councilman shit. I'm a call him. Just want to say that I did, um, get your information, um, having had an opportunity to go through the entire packet yet, but thank you for sending it over. Appreciate it. Speaker 1 00:28:17 I'm the president. I am asking the next individual to unmute themselves. They're identified as Ryan Mute yourself. Speaker 11 00:28:28 Can you hear me, Brian rack 1247 Brookside road? Uh, my, my only question was is the budget going to be posted somewhere before that meeting? I mean, it's obviously hard to understand a bunch of numbers being read by someone on a call. Speaker 10 00:28:47 It will be posted on our website tomorrow afternoon. Speaker 11 00:28:51 Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Speaker 10 00:28:55 Thank you. Speaker 1 00:29:00 Helpful president I'm meeting the next individual with their hand raised last four digits 7 6 0 4 Speaker 9 00:29:13 Was Parkway me again. I saw the mayor's message in the newsletter today, and I was curious about the statement that the township economic development plans and goals, and three as many good jobs for Piscataway residents. Can anyone provide actual information and report on the number of jobs that have been created and the wages that they ballpark bigger than a bread box? Speaker 7 00:29:49 So, uh, this burger, this is McAllen. So I am not able to provide that information. Um, we're not the employer of some of the instructors that Michael hired, so we wouldn't be privy to that information that turns into child. We put those individuals and I don't have the, um, the number of individual residents in Bradley that have that either by, um, I, um, the new company in constantly to come into this skyline. But I do know this, there are individual Chataway who currently work for some of those. Speaker 9 00:30:25 It's just that there's an ongoing claim being made that these, um, that your economic development plan has created many good jobs for Piscataway residents. A lot of people would like to know exactly what that means is that one job is that a hundred jobs? What kind of jobs and his judgment cane, meaning wages, I will Jasmine on benefits. So I thought I could ask him to do best. Don't actually know Kathy with that and don't have that information. Thanks. Also, the timing in the mayor's message like the township's land use policy is proactive is, uh, similarly curious at a prior meeting, Mr. Pawn claimed that the township had attempted to purchase the property at 1570 south Washington avenue in response to awkward request. I was told that there was no documentation of that attempt and that in fact, in Chicago efforts to acquire a property at 60 90 south Washington avenue, Mr. Khan, or anyone else elaborate on exactly what steps could counsel to acquire that property. Speaker 6 00:31:26 Well, I , if someone will, let me go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, I knew I misunderstood. It's a property that Ms was questioning about when I understood I hadn't heard or a question and the question and to be at out the property further up, uh, that was, uh, last, last, and that's what I do. I don't know what I know. I know that I was involved at some of the office, so I missed, I, I apparently there's an overview, uh, concerning document on the . That was my era. That was my Speaker 9 00:32:19 I, when I'm trying to identify what steps did the council or the, or the township or counter proficients take, you had a discussion. What was, what was in that discussion? There has to be a record of that discussion it's township council or public officials were involved in it even so much as an email or challenge or opportunity, which is why there should be a written record of what you all said you did to back up rather a written record and what you did to backup what you said to me. So I'm trying to ascertain what are the actual steps that somebody done for coffee? Did you have a meeting? Did you have an exchange of ideas? What were the things that were done to try to acquire the property at 16? Speaker 0 00:33:07 I understand you've already made a ProQuest and we're gathering those documents to respond to accordion Speaker 1 00:33:17 Council president. I have another individual, uh, that has had their hand raised, Uh, the last four digits, 4, 5, 2, 5. You can unmute yourself and may speak. Speaker 0 00:33:38 Okay. Please state your name and address please. Speaker 12 00:33:47 Hi, can you hear me? Yes. Uh, nidus Varghese 15 X street. Uh, just had a question, um, on, uh, brotherhood. I know you guys spend some significant money, uh, adding sewer sewer, sewer lines into that street, uh, over the summer. Is there plans to repave that road as well? This coming spring or fall? Cause I know that you guys, uh, you know, have to take a lot of time to, uh, to actually put a sewer lines on, on that main road. Speaker 3 00:34:18 Yeah, this was, uh, the administrator, Tim. Uh, yeah, we're waiting for some, uh, utility work to get completed. They got to move some gas lines and uh, some PSE and G work needs to be done out there. And when the spring comes, we'll be looking to, uh, paving into the next Speaker 0 00:34:37 Damn good Speaker 1 00:34:49 President. There are no other individuals with our hands raised at this time. Speaker 0 00:35:01 Okay. Uh, I come to my Dean. I didn't mean to hire more awful Speaker 1 00:35:10 Closing. Speaker 0 00:35:14 Okay. Now item number, thread, open to the public. Wasn't his clothes. So I've done my 13th amendment, w I R Molson offer second. Thank you everyone. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. None have a good evening, everyone. Thank you very much. Goodbye.