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17 MR. RODRIGUES: -- of the Historic 18 Midtown SID because they themselves have funds. 19 And what we do is we match their funds once they 20 match one to one. So it's to go to match their 21 administration cost, operational expenses and 22 promotional items. 23 MR. MOORE: Okay. 24 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: James, it's for 25 the administration of the Historic Midtown SID, GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 24 1 and the UEZ can match it one to one. 2 MR. RODRIGUES: One to one, that's 3 an eligible cost. 4 MR. MOORE: Okay. 5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any other 6 questions? 7 Hearing none, all in favor please 8 signify by saying "aye." 9 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye. 10 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any 11 abstentions? 12 The motion carries. 13 Thank you, Mario. 14 MR. RODRIGUES: Thank you. 15 MS. DE AVILA: Thank you. 16 MR. RODRIGUES: Happy holidays. 17 MS. DE AVILA: Happy holidays. 18 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: The next is 19 Hillside's request for 140,000 for Community 20 Policing in Phase IV. 21 And Mr. Yves Aubourg is here with? 22 DEPUTY CHIEF FRIZE: Deputy Chief 23 John Frize. 24 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you. 25 Yeah, for the benefit of the GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 25 1 Authority and the audience, with the police 2 projects we're asking that police personnel come 3 with the coordinator just in case there are 4 questions or concerns. 5 So thank you for coming and giving 6 us part of your day. 7 Yves? 8 MR. AUBOURG: Yes, good morning. 9 The Hillside UEZ is requesting $140,000 to pay 10 for four officers, part of their salaries and the 11 town will be matching the rest. And this 12 project's on its fourth year. It's a six-year 13 project for the town. Hillside's surrounded by 14 Newark and Irvington, and we really need the 15 police officers to reinforce the business 16 section. And I work pretty closely with John 17 Frize to supervise the guys. And then if you 18 have any questions regarding the police 19 department, he's there to answer it. 20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: May I have motion, 21 please? 22 MR. HURD: So moved. 23 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by 24 Mr. Hurd. 25 Second? GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 26 1 MR. ABELAR: Second. 2 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by 3 Mr. Abelar. 4 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any comments, 5 questions? 6 MS. KREIPKE: I -- 7 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Mr. -- oh, 8 Adrienne, I'm sorry. 9 MS. KREIPKE: I do have a question. 10 You're asking for two additional 11 police -- 12 MR. AUBOURG: No. 13 MS. KREIPKE: -- since last year? 14 MR. AUBOURG: We're replacing. We 15 had four last year. Because of the salary we 16 moved the top two guns out of the program and we 17 recruited two new officers that just came out of 18 the Academy making less money because we don't 19 have enough money to do the cap. 20 MS. KREIPKE: So it's the same 21 four -- it's still four positions as last year. 22 MR. AUBOURG: Four positions, yes. 23 MS. KREIPKE: I did not understand 24 that. Thank you for that. 25 I was just going to ask that I GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 27 1 notice in the sort of statistical data that there 2 are four -- an increase in four police and they 3 were all in the municipality over last year -- 4 MR. AUBOURG: Yeah. 5 MS. KREIPKE: -- and I wondered if 6 that was indicative of increase in crime in the 7 municipality. Like the municipal police went up 8 from 70 to 74. 9 DEPUTY CHIEF FRIZE: Just the fact 10 that we do need four officers in the UEZ. 11 Geographically, these officers are in different 12 parts of the town. Being surrounded by 13 Irvington, Newark, there are high-crime issues on 14 our borders, and these officers need to be 15 dedicated specifically to those areas for -- just 16 high visibility. There's traffic issues and 17 interacting with the merchants where they can get 18 specialized services from the Department based on 19 need. 20 MS. KREIPKE: Thank you. 21 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: You're done? 22 MS. KREIPKE: Yes. 23 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay. Mr. Abelar? 24 MR. ABELAR: In October of 2005 you 25 came to us with a request for $30,000 for public GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 28 1 safety and community services -- 2 MR. AUBOURG: That's a different 3 project. That project's for a ticket officer 4 that goes out and re-enforce the cleaning and the 5 parking enforcement. That's completely different 6 from the community police officers. 7 MR. ABELAR: What does that officer 8 do? 9 MR. AUBOURG: She goes out in the 10 morning, early in the morning reinforce that we 11 clean the UEZ Zone. Sometime, you know, the 12 residents leaves their cars on one side of the 13 street and we are not allowed to clean them. She 14 goes out and makes sure the area are clean. And 15 she reports to the police department if there's 16 another issue that need enforcement. 17 DEPUTY CHIEF FRIZE: She's doing 18 enforcement on alternate side parking to ensure 19 that the streets are clear of vehicles so that 20 the DPW can get in and actually clear the 21 streets. 22 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: I believe, if I 23 recall from the project, she issues summonses; am 24 I correct? 25 DEPUTY CHIEF FRIZE: Yes, she's a GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 29 1 special officer. 2 MR. ABELAR: Okay. 3 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any other 4 questions? 5 Hearing none, all in favor please 6 signify by saying "aye." 7 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye. 8 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any 9 abstentions? 10 Motion carries. 11 MR. AUBOURG: Thank you. Happy 12 holidays to all of you. 13 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you. 14 Next item is Jersey City's request 15 for $650,072 for UEZ Maintenance Phase IV. 16 Roberta? 17 MS. FARBER: Good morning everyone. 18 This is a continuation of a program 19 that we've been running for these past three 20 years. It's a maintenance program. It's above 21 and beyond what the City does in municipal 22 services to keep the Streets Fund clean. 23 We use the services of the DOE Fund 24 which is part of Ready, Willing and Able. It's a 25 comprehensive program where they utilize persons GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 30 1 that have been on drugs. They do random drug 2 testing. There's a whole social service 3 component. And this year we have an increase of 4 eight persons to keep the streets clean. It's 5 been a hugely successful program for Jersey City. 6 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Roberta, before I 7 ask for a motion, you and I have talked -- 8 MS. FARBER: Right. 9 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: -- you do not have 10 the resolution -- 11 MS. FARBER: Correct. 12 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: -- for this 13 project. So I'm going to make two 14 recommendations that the approval be contingent 15 upon a fully executed resolution. And two, that 16 you change the "to and from" dates on this 17 proposal. 18 MS. FARBER: No problem. 19 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay. And that 20 will be reflected in the letter. 21 But now I will ask -- based on my 22 comments I'll ask for a motion if I could have 23 it? 24 D.A.G. BRUCK: A motion to consider 25 the proposal. GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 31 1 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Yeah, a motion to 2 consider the proposal and then you can ask 3 questions. 4 MS. KREIPKE: So moved. 5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Adrienne? 6 First a motion by Adrienne. 7 Second? 8 MR. ABELAR: I second. 9 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by 10 Mr. Abelar. 11 Now any questions? 12 MR. ABELAR: This is a municipal 13 eligible service? 14 MS. FARBER: Yes, it is because the 15 service is above and beyond what the municipality 16 performs right now. 17 MR. ABELAR: What is the percentage? 18 I don't see the -- so far this year the 19 percentage of contribution from the -- 20 MS. FARBER: There doesn't have to 21 be contributions from the City on this because 22 the monies are not going directly to the 23 municipality, it's being outsourced to another 24 company. And it is just a contract with the 25 company and there is no match on that, except -- GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 32 1 D.A.G. BRUCK: If I may just make a 2 comment because I think Mr. Abelar asked if this 3 was a municipal service. 4 MS. FARBER: I'm sorry, it's a 5 project. 6 D.A.G. BRUCK: It is not a municipal 7 service, it is a project. 8 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: We identify 9 "eligible municipal services" as police, fire 10 personnel and equipment. It is not an eligible 11 municipal service. 12 D.A.G. BRUCK: But in the source of 13 your confusion is perhaps that in some cases 14 where there's equipment being purchased in 15 connection with a maintenance project that 16 there's a policy circular which requires that 17 before that equipment line item that there be a 18 20 percent match, just to add to your confusion. 19 MR. ABELAR: Okay, thanks. 20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: And I didn't mean 21 to confuse you either. I'll explain it further. 22 Adrienne? 23 MS. KREIPKE: I have a few 24 questions. 25 The contractor on this, the DOE? GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 33 1 MS. FARBER: The DOE Fund. 2 MS. KREIPKE: The DOE Fund. The 3 salaries that are listed here, are those just the 4 UEZ component of their salaries -- 5 MS. FARBER: Correct. 6 MS. KREIPKE: -- or is that their 7 full -- do they have contracts besides this 8 contracts? 9 MS. FARBER: They have contracts 10 besides this contract. If you notice in the one 11 column it shows the percentages. 12 MS. KREIPKE: Yeah, I didn't see 13 that for project manager, that's what -- 14 MS. FARBER: The project manager 15 works full-time. He works for the EDC. 16 MS. KREIPKE: Okay. So the DOE Fund 17 is much larger than these seven individuals? 18 MS. FARBER: Absolutely, uh-huh. 19 MS. KREIPKE: It struck me that 20 there seems to be a lot of overhead for the 21 number of workers there are. 22 MS. FARBER: That's because of the 23 services they provide for the workers that are 24 there. What they have found to make this program 25 successful to keep persons off the street is get GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 34 1 them employed. 2 They work with the Second Chance 3 Program which are anybody that's been on drugs 4 that's been incarcerated that they need to have 5 that overall supervision at the top to make sure 6 that there is the supervision on the streets 7 that's needed; that the supervision is involved. 8 They provide housing, they also 9 provide a stipend for the residents when they are 10 done with the program; that they will be able to 11 go out and get their own apartments. They 12 provide the down payment. They do random drug 13 testing all the time. They provide GED training. 14 They provide ongoing assistance with job 15 placement once the program is complete. 16 So besides just cleaning the street, 17 it's really a program that works in getting 18 people back into society and into a job. 19 MS. KREIPKE: And do you have any 20 statistics on how many people they graduated 21 through the program? 22 MS. FARBER: I will have -- as a 23 matter of fact, that will be hopefully in my 24 e-mail this morning. I will forward that on to 25 the Authority as soon as I get that as well. GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 35 1 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any other 2 questions? Okay. 3 Mr. Abelar, I didn't mean to confuse 4 you. I just didn't want to make a motion and 5 then have to amend it. I wanted to refer to our 6 discussion so that you were aware of what had 7 taken place, okay. And since I can't amend these 8 motions the right way, so we'll have to do it 9 that way. 10 Any other questions? 11 Hearing none, all in favor please 12 signify by saying, "aye." 13 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye. 14 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any 15 abstentions? 16 Motion carried. 17 MS. FARBER: Good Faith waivers now 18 or you want me to wait? 19 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: No, just wait. 20 Okay? Thank you. 21 Next we are going to take Kearny's 22 proposals. We'll take them separately. I will 23 ask Mr. D'Arco to please come up front. 24 The first project is for 300,000 for 25 Business Development Revolving Loan Fund GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 36 1 Program - Phase III. 2 Matt Bouldin the Acting UEZ 3 Coordinator is there as well and their police 4 personnel. Okay. 5 MR. D'ARCO: Good morning, Joseph 6 D'Arco, D, apostrophe, A-r-c-o, Acting UEZ 7 Coordinator. 8 MR. BOULDIN: Matt Bouldin, UEZ 9 Finance. 10 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Go ahead, 11 Mr. D'Arco. 12 MR. D'ARCO: Well, I'm going to take 13 the easy way out this morning. For Matt who 14 handles the financing and the loan program, I'll 15 have him present the project. 16 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay, he's going 17 to -- Matt is going to do the Revolving? 18 MR. D'ARCO: Yes. 19 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay. 20 MR. BOULDIN: As the third phase of 21 our Revolving Loan Project which we use to help 22 bring in relocating businesses. In the past, 23 we've brought in a business from Brooklyn that's 24 been fairly successful, National Packaging Corp. 25 You know, it was a low-interest loan program that GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 37 1 is very helpful in recruiting in helping out 2 businesses that bring jobs to Kearny. 3 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: May I have a 4 motion, please? 5 MR. ABELAR: So moved. 6 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by 7 Mr. Abelar. 8 Second? 9 MR. HURD: Second. 10 MR. MOORE: Second. 11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by 12 Mr. Moore. 13 Any questions? 14 MR. MOORE: How many businesses have 15 you brought into Kearny and how many jobs were 16 attached to those firms? 17 MR. BOULDIN: How many total jobs? 18 MR. MOORE: Let's see, what do we 19 have -- I have seventeen jobs full-time and six 20 part-time created over the life of the loan 21 projects. 22 MR. MOORE: Okay. Is that all from 23 one firm or multiple firms? 24 MR. BOULDIN: No. That's over 25 the -- what do we have, seventeen loans, which GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 38 1 some of them are -- if a company is -- they can 2 reapply, so we've had re-cast loans. I think 3 three businesses have re-cast their loans. 4 MR. HURD: Question. 5 MR. ABELAR: I have a question, too. 6 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay, Mr. Abelar? 7 MR. ABELAR: I see that 20 percent 8 of this amount is for micro loans is that around 9 the -- a percentage? 10 MR. BOULDIN: Yeah. We not only 11 want to bring in, you know, larger businesses, 12 but offer incentives for some of the smaller 13 businesses in town. 14 MR. ABELAR: Yeah, I would say that 15 it should be increased to be more -- to be 16 truthful to the Urban Enterprise Zone Act to 17 increase the micro loans and diminish the big 18 loans to big players. 19 MR. D'ARCO: And to help answer that 20 question, yes, we've had major players -- to use 21 that phrase -- move into the Kearny UEZ Zone 22 which included the water company Poland Springs, 23 I believe it was. Wal-Mart has moved into South 24 Kearny, which is UEZ Zone. Some of the major 25 corporations are looking at our UEZ Zone. GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 39 1 But our concentration is on the 2 small companies that would have difficulty 3 relocating. Those are the ones that we funded in 4 micro loans and have been very successful, and we 5 have not had failures that I'm aware of that have 6 been reported. 7 MR. ABELAR: Yeah, I've seen that, 8 yeah. 9 MR. D'ARCO: Yeah. 10 MR. ABELAR: I saw the list and it 11 seemed to me that there are no big corporations. 12 But it's good to have the micro loan for the Mom 13 and Pop according to the Act. 14 MR. D'ARCO: Yeah. There are 15 merging small companies. A majority are moving 16 from New York locations or other New Jersey 17 locations to our UEZ Kearny Zone. And those 18 small companies have done very well. They're 19 doing very well and growing. 20 MR. ABELAR: Very well. Thank you. 21 MR. HURD: Quick question? 22 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Yeah, Mr. Hurd. 23 MR. HURD: When you recast a loan, 24 was that due to the business needing additional 25 funding or was it because they ran into trouble GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 40 1 and you didn't want them to lose the loan, go 2 into default? 3 MR. D'ARCO: The re-casting of the 4 loans has been primarily due to their growth. 5 They've gotten larger. They've needed more 6 equipment, more sizing or increased space. 7 I sit on the UEZ Board also there at 8 the meetings and review those loans with the 9 Commission, and it's usually growth and getting 10 bigger. 11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any other 12 questions? 13 Hearing none, all in favor please 14 signify by saying "aye." 15 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye. 16 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any 17 abstentions? 18 Motion carried. 19 Next item is Kearny's request for 20 175,000 for Zone Fire Engine - Custom Pumper. 21 Mr. D'Arco and -- the gentleman, 22 please identify yourself. 23 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: Joseph Lapsanski. 24 Kearny Fire Chief. 25 MR. D'ARCO: I've obviously brought GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 41 1 the fire chief. I believe in bringing the key 2 people which is what you would like -- 3 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: We appreciate 4 that. 5 MR. D'ARCO: -- to hear it directly 6 from the horse's mouth, so to speak. 7 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Sure. 8 MR. D'ARCO: The Chief is the expert 9 on fire and he'll proceed. 10 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: Specifications 11 have been drawn up for a fire engine which would 12 be 1500 gallon pumper. It carries 750 gallons of 13 water. It would be stationed at 109 Kearny 14 Avenue which is UEZ Zone. The engine at that 15 station there will replace the engine in South 16 Kearny which is a UEZ Zone, that is a 1980 Mack. 17 I have pictures here that I would 18 like to show, if I can, if it's permissible. 19 And you'll notice -- if you look 20 behind the tires, you'll notice that we have 21 chains holding up the fuel tank, I mean, that's 22 how bad the conditions are. 23 So that's the plan to move the 24 engine out of Station 2, which is in the UEZ 25 Zone. It's a 1997 E1, 1250 gallon pumper, to GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 42 1 move it into a UEZ Zone, and bring the newer one 2 to 109 Kearny Avenue because there are a lot more 3 activities up in Kearny, the upper end compared 4 to the lower end. 5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you. 6 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: And the engine 7 would respond to South Kearny, also. So it's 8 going to take care of the zones uptown and 9 downtown. 10 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay. 11 MR. D'ARCO: And probably to 12 anticipate the question that's going to be asked 13 relative to the Zones, I'm not sure the 14 Commission here is aware that the equipment when 15 it does come in has GIS tracking system which is 16 through a satellite program. All of the 17 municipal vehicles being brought into the fleet 18 for the past four years have GIS tracking, that 19 includes police cars, Public Works, all of our 20 brand new equipment. And it provides a report 21 for mileage, fuel consumptions. 22 We track the fleet and exactly where 23 it is. So I'd be able to report to the UEZ Board 24 reports and digital printouts on how many hours 25 are on this vehicle, the location that it goes GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 43 1 to, where it stops, when the engine's running. 2 You would have that kind of detail which we have 3 on the entire city fleet. And that's brought up 4 by computers. 5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: And that's useful, 6 too, should there be future audits or anything. 7 MR. D'ARCO: Yes. 8 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: May I have a 9 motion, please? 10 MR. HURD: So moved. 11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Mr. Hurd. 12 Second? 13 MR. ABELAR: Second. 14 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: By Mr. Abelar. 15 Any questions or comments? 16 Question, Adrienne? 17 MS. KREIPKE: The engine that the 18 new -- the new fire truck will replace the one 19 that is not in great condition as you pointed out 20 in the picture. And that truck will move to 21 another station house? 22 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: Right. 23 MS. KREIPKE: Replacing an even 24 older engine there or an additional engine? 25 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: The newer -- if we GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 44 1 do get the funding, the newer engine will replace 2 a 1997 engine which will go into South Kearny 3 which is a UEZ Zone to replace that 1980 engine. 4 MS. KREIPKE: That's the one that 5 will ultimately be retired? 6 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: Right. It's 7 25 -- 26 years old going on 27. 8 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: And that wasn't 9 purchased with UEZ -- 10 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: No, that was 11 recommended. 12 MS. KREIPKE: Out of curiosity, was 13 the 1997 engine purchased with UEZ dollars? 14 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: No. 15 MR. D'ARCO: No. The UEZ office 16 never took advantage of the full program, very 17 honestly. And in evaluating the needs of the 18 City and the needs of the UEZ Zone, that was the 19 first striking item. 20 He Chief had -- the City has 21 purchased a new truck that was just delivered in 22 a non-UEZ firehouse. 23 We have four firehouses? 24 CHIEF LAPSANSKI: Yes. 25 MR. D'ARCO: We have four and two GUY J. RENZI & ASSOCIATES 45 1 are in full UEZ Zones. 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