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5 Mr. Abelar.
6 Second?
7 MS. PEARSON: Second.
8 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: By Ms. Pearson.
9 Any questions, comments or concerns?
10 Hearing none, all in favor please
11 signify by saying "aye."
12 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
13 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any
14 abstentions?
15 Motion carried.
16 Next item $127,291 for Millville
17 Main Street/MDC Operating Budget, Year 2.
18 MR. AYRES: Yeah. This is the
19 annual operating budget and this is a 50 percent
20 of the operating budget request. And it would
21 handle part of the administrative salaries, plus
22 basically office and utility-type costs for the
23 operation, Marianne and one assistant. And they
24 implement the entire program including the other
25 components you heard about today. And have

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1 really been the main persons responsible for

2 recruiting and bringing in all these new
3 businesses and for keeping the activities going
4 on the street.
5 The annual holiday celebration was
6 this past weekend and how many people?
7 MS. LODS: We had about 2500 people
8 and it was only about 25 degrees out on Friday
9 night, but we had a two-night event. Again, a
10 huge success for the downtown.
11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Great.
12 MR. AYRES: And this Friday will be
13 our third Friday of the month so we get
14 back-to-back events. And they have been -- their
15 Friday's have been bringing in 2,000 to 3,000
16 people --
17 MS. LODS: Yes.
18 MR. AYRES: -- according to what the
19 weather is. So this is the underpinning of that
20 whole effort is to support that -- the Millville
21 Development Corporations operation.
22 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Great.
23 Can I have a motion, please?
24 MS. PEARSON: So moved.
25 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by

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1 Ms. Pearson.

2 Second?
3 MS. KREIPKE: Second.
4 MR. ABELAR: Second.
5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by
6 Ms. Kreipke.
7 Any questions, comments or concerns?
8 Hearing none, all in favor please signify by
9 saying "aye."
10 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any
12 abstentions?
13 Motion carries.
14 Next item $74,770 for Funding for
15 Fire Fighter, Year 15.
16 Don?
17 MR. AYRES: Yes. This is, again, a
18 public safety component of our UEZ program. This
19 was a fire fighter, while he does respond to
20 calls, his primary function is to go out and
21 visit with UEZ businesses and work with them on
22 fire safety matters, and to be a resource
23 particularly in the downtown where we have the
24 older buildings and some substantial rehabs going
25 on, to make sure that those kinds of issues are

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1 addressed, and to just keep that in the forefront

2 of everybody's thinking. And this would be the
3 80 percent of his salary for Year 15.
4 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you, Don.
5 May I have a motion?
6 MR. ABELAR: So moved.
7 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by
8 Mr. Abelar.
9 Second?
10 MR. HURD: Second.
11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by
12 Mr. Hurd.
13 Questions, comments, concerns?
14 Hearing none, all in favor please
15 signify by saying "aye."
16 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
17 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any
18 abstentions?
19 Motion carried.
20 MR. AYRES: Thank you very much.
21 Thank you.
22 MS. LODS: Thank you very much.
23 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Next Passaic's
24 request -- we're on page 2.
25 Passaic's request for $94,132 for

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1 Graffiti Eradication, Phase VI. And Soraya Stam

2 is here with us this morning.
3 Good morning, Soraya.
4 MS. STAM: Good morning.
5 Passaic has requested 94,132 for the
6 continuation of the Graffiti Eradication Program.
7 The program is run by the nonprofit corporation,
8 the downtown merchant. And basically what it is,
9 is two employees, one being a truck driver who
10 have a truck with a power wash equipment on it,
11 and the other employee is the helper. They
12 remove the graffiti either by power washing the
13 surface or by painting over the surface that
14 cannot be power washed. And they work five days
15 a week from six, seven in the morning until two
16 in the afternoon.
17 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: May I have a
18 motion, please?
19 MS. PEARSON: So moved.
20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by
21 Ms. Pearson.
22 Second?
23 MR. ABELAR: Second.
24 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: By Mr. Abelar.
25 Any questions, comment or concerns

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1 for Soraya?

2 Hearing none, all in favor please
3 signify by saying "aye."
4 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any
6 abstentions?
7 Motion carried.
8 Thank you, Soraya.
9 MS. STAM: Thank you.
10 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Next item we'll
11 take separately. Perth Amboy.
12 First item is 500,000 for Jewish
13 Renaissance Medical Center Project. And Robert
14 McCoy is here with us this morning.
15 MR. McCOY: Sorry for the delay.
16 Good morning.
17 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Good morning,
18 Robert.
19 We're going to take the first one
20 for Jewish Rena --
21 MR. McCOY: Jewish Renaissance.
22 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Correct.
23 MR. McCOY: For the Jewish
24 Renaissance Foundation, funding provided for this
25 project will be used for construction cost of the

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1 Jewish Renaissance Medical Center which is a UEZ

2 certified business that's located in our
3 enterprise zone in the center of Perth Amboy.
4 Jewish Renaissance Foundation was
5 founded as the first federally faith-based
6 federally qualified health care center in the
7 nation. Jewish Renaissance has approved plans to
8 renovate 42,762 square feet of a building that it
9 owns in Hobart Street in Perth Amboy, of course
10 within our UEZ boundaries. The building
11 renovation will allow the Jewish Renaissance to
12 relocate, consolidate and expand its operations
13 at the new facility.
14 The Jewish Renaissance Medical
15 Center is a nonprofit, nonsectarian 501C3 health
16 care organization, provides medical and mental
17 health care services to the residents of Perth
18 Amboy. And will make those services available to
19 nearby communities without regard to raise,
20 religion or capacity to pay. And I recognize
21 that we would have to amend our application to
22 include the establishment clause.
23 But the mission of the Jewish
24 Renaissance Medical Center is to deliver
25 preventive and primary medical services to the

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1 underserved and uninsured population in

2 culturally competent environment in Middlesex
3 County, again, regardless of ethnicity or
4 religion.
5 Now the economic impact of this
6 project will be the establishment of the Jewish
7 Renaissance Medical Center as one of the major
8 employers in the city of Perth Amboy with the
9 creation over time of more than 100 jobs.
10 Presently, the Jewish Renaissance
11 Medical Clinic located at 272 Hobart Street and
12 is no longer adequate to meet the health care
13 center's patent needs. The number of users at
14 the facility continues to rise. It's expected to
15 increase at a rapid rate over the next five
16 years. Market data indicated that the
17 low-income, under insured and uninsured
18 populations have extremely limited access to both
19 medical and dental care.
20 Now the new facility will enable
21 them, the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center, to
22 provide accessible, efficient environment for
23 delivering primary medical, mental health and
24 dental care to low-income individuals.
25 Now the Jewish Renaissance Medical

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1 Center submitted a request for funding to the

2 Perth Amboy Zone Development Corporation Board of
3 Directors in an amount of $1 million. Now the
4 Board accepted and approved their proposal and
5 requesting the Zone Assistance Fund funding for
6 Phase I of this project in the amount of $500,000
7 in the application. And will appear before the
8 Authority next year -- we'll come again before
9 the Authority next year with a request for an
10 additional $500,000. And, of course, that will
11 all be contingent upon the availability of funds
12 and approval by the Authority.
13 Now the population in Perth Amboy
14 has approximately 25 percent of the service area
15 or 11,000 individuals living at or below the
16 poverty level according to the 2000 Census. And
17 again, accounting for undocumented population,
18 the majority who exist below the poverty level,
19 that figure is actually closer to 45 percent.
20 So that statistic is important as
21 the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center target
22 market is low-income, uninsured and under insured
23 individuals and I request your consideration of
24 our application.
25 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay.

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1 Again, before I ask for a motion,

2 the D.A.G., I'm going to let her make two points.
3 I'm going to let Trish begin with her --
4 D.A.G. BRUCK: Sure. I'd just like
5 to reiterate with Mr. McCoy's point that the
6 recipient of the Zone Assistance Funds is perhaps
7 faith-based. And to assure that there is no
8 religious overtones or activities related to this
9 project that we require the proposal contain the
10 following language regarding the establishment
11 clause.
12 I'm going to read that so we're
13 clear, that the establishment clause of the First
14 Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the
15 government from directly funding religious
16 activity. Zone Assistance Funds allocated to
17 this project will not be used in any manner that
18 would violate the establishment clause. Foods
19 and services purchased under this project will be
20 secular and not idealogical.
21 If requested by the UEZ Authority,
22 Perth Amboy will promptly deliver to the UEZ
23 Authority a written opinion of Perth Amboy's
24 legal counsel opining to any particular use of
25 Zone Assistance Funds identified by the UEZ

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1 Authority to stop violate the establishment

2 clause.
3 Further, Zone Assistance Funds
4 allocate that this project cannot be used to pay
5 any expenditures which are required to be
6 reported pursuant to the New Jersey Campaign
7 Contributions and Expenditures Reporting Act.
8 Thank you.
9 MR. McCOY: Thank you.
10 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: And as we
11 discussed Bob --
12 MR. McCOY: Yes.
13 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: -- this is a
14 $14 million project.
15 On page 8 of the proposed budget,
16 you indicated that there's additional funding,
17 bank loans in the amount of 8.4 million
18 N.J.C.C. --
19 MR. McCOY: Yes.
20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: -- which you have
21 identified as being --
22 MR. McCOY: New Jersey Community
23 Capital, formally New Jersey Loan -- Loan Fund,
24 administered by Bob Graham.
25 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay. In the

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1 amount of 2.9 million N.J.R.A. 300,000. A HUD

2 grant in the amount of 1.5 million and equity in
3 the amount of 202,000.
4 MR. McCOY: That's correct.
5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Before I get the
6 motion or ask for a motion, I would just like to
7 know what the status of that funding is. I know
8 in the proposal that there are some award
9 letters --
10 MR. McCOY: Yes.
11 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: -- and I'm going
12 to ask that if you can update this project --
13 MR. McCOY: Certainly.
14 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: -- to include the
15 award letters.
16 MR. McCOY: Thank you.
17 There are currently $9 and-a-half
18 million that's already committed in place. A
19 bank loan that's in place for $7 and-a-half
20 million. The $1.5 million, HUD grant is in
21 place. Those commitment letters are part of the
22 application in your packet. And the
23 pending -- the balance that is different -- I'm
24 sorry, there's also the $500,000 that we're
25 applying for here which is part of the

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1 application. Funding from New Jersey Community

2 Capital, formally New Jersey Loan Fund, is
3 pending contingent upon UEZ approval.
4 And as I shared earlier, that letter
5 will be available in January. And the EDA
6 administered by Raymond Fisher (pho) also has
7 approved their commitment of funding and a letter
8 will be forthcoming as well. And the Jewish
9 Renaissance Medical Center is fully aware that
10 their funding through the UEZ Authority would be
11 contingent upon the submittal of those supportive
12 documentation.
13 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Thank you.
14 May I ask for a motion, please?
15 MR. ABELAR: So moved.
16 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by
17 Mr. Abelar.
18 Second?
19 MS. PEARSON: Second.
20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by
21 Ms. Pearson.
22 Any questions, comments or concerns
23 from the Authority members?
24 MS. KREIPKE: I have a question on
25 the same chart that we're looking at, page 8.

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1 How does the additional 500,000

2 which you say you plan to come back and ask for
3 relief for next year, how does that factor into
4 this?
5 I see the UEZ grant at 500,000. It
6 says in 2007. So what's this -- so that's in the
7 other funds column and this 500,000 you're
8 applying for is in the state UEZ Funds Zone?
9 MR. McCOY: The total request is for
10 $1 million and the sources and uses.
11 MS. KREIPKE: So right now the
12 future application for 500,000 is currently
13 reflected in the other funds column?
14 MR. McCOY: That is correct.
15 MS. KREIPKE: Thank you.
16 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: And he understand
17 that he will need to come back and there's no
18 guarantee.
19 MR. McCOY: Absolutely.
20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Right?
21 MR. McCOY: Yes.
22 MR. ABELAR: Has the Center
23 qualified as a fellow qualified care center?
24 MR. McCOY: It's the first one in
25 the nation approved under George Bush as the

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1 first faith-based federal qualified health care

2 center in the nation.
3 MR. ABELAR: Thank you.
4 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any other
5 questions?
6 Approval will be contingent upon
7 receipt of the additional information.
8 MR. McCOY: Okay.
9 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: May I have a
10 motion?
11 Oh, we already have a motion.
12 All in favor please signify by
13 saying "aye."
14 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
15 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed?
16 Motion carries.
17 Thank you.
18 MR. McCOY: Thank you.
19 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Next item is for
20 Perth Amboy is King Plaza, 500,000 for King Plaza
21 redevelopment Project.
22 Bob?
23 MR. McCOY: Yes. The UEZ funding
24 for this project, and I have an illustration here
25 to my left, will be dedicated for the exclusive

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1 use of providing public parking for the King

2 Plaza Redevelopment Project.
3 King Plaza is a multi-purpose
4 project comprised of residential and retail with
5 private and public parking facilities on three
6 and-a-half acres in the heart of our central
7 business district as illustrated on that center
8 map there. Specifically, UEZ funds will not be
9 used for construction of any housing in this
10 project. The retail component of the project
11 will contain a supermarket of 30,000 square feet
12 and 36,000 square feet of general purpose retail
13 space.
14 Street level surface parking spaces
15 will be provided for the use of retail customers
16 and the general public with an overflow retail
17 customer parking component provided within the
18 parking garage.
19 There's a four-level parking deck
20 with 574 spaces for residents and shoppers, and
21 an additional 149 street level surface free
22 two-hour parking spaces for use by shoppers and
23 the general public.
24 When completed, the King Plaza will
25 represent 249 efficiency one- and two-bedroom

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1 units with the 66,000 square feet of commercial

2 space for the 30,000 square foot supermarket and
3 a retail strip 18 to 20 vendors. The public
4 parking spaces in this project are part of the
5 overall $70 million redevelopment project costs.
6 Now this project will create
7 200 construction-related jobs and 100 permanent
8 management and clerical jobs with the
9 construction of the new supermarket and the
10 retail stores and the construction of the
11 residential building -- buildings.
12 The developer for this project is
13 King Plaza, LLC. They were selected by the City
14 of Perth Amboy's Redevelopment Authority. And
15 the developer has pledged $1,325,000 of his
16 capital toward the commercial development of this
17 project.
18 During this phase of the project we
19 are requesting $500,000 in this, of course, with
20 the plan of returning next year for additional
21 funding. The total funding request from King
22 Plaza is for $2 million. That, too, has been a
23 approved by the Zone Development Corporation
24 Board of Directors. And in 2007 we will submit
25 separate project proposals for the additional

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1 $5 million, of course, contingent upon the

2 availability of funds and approval by this
3 Authority.
4 Thank you for your consideration.
5 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay.
6 May I have a motion, please?
7 MR. HURD: So moved.
8 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion by
9 Mr. Hurd.
10 Second?
11 MR. MOORE: Second.
12 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by
13 Mr. Moore.
14 Any questions, comments or concerns
15 by the Authority?
16 Hearing none, all in favor please
17 signify by saying "aye."
18 AUTHORITY MEMBERS: Aye.
19 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Any opposed? Any
20 abstentions?
21 Motion carries.
22 Congratulations.
23 MR. McCOY: Thank you very much.
24 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Next item is
25 Pleasantville's request for 295,000 for Litter

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1 Collection Services, Year 7.

2 James Hebron is here filling in for
3 Mr. Roger Tees, who by the way had the birth of
4 his third child Raymond.
5 MR. HOPKINS: Charles Raymond,
6 8 pounds, 1 ounce. Referring to Roger Tees
7 birth.
8 I'm Marvin Hopkins. I'm the City
9 Administrator.
10 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Okay.
11 MR. HOPKINS: Okay, no problem.
12 MR. HEBRON: In that record, Madam
13 Director, we are going to ask the Authority to
14 give us permission to add a new member to the
15 staff. And the request --
16 MR. HOPKINS: -- will be in the next
17 administrative budget.
18 MR. HEBRON: Good morning. We're
19 here, the City of Pleasantville, you have our
20 proposal for the amount of $295,000 for the
21 continuation of the Litter Collection Services
22 Program in Pleasantville. The funds we are
23 requesting are funds that will finance six
24 laborers that will be succunded (pho) to the
25 Public Works Department in the City of

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1 Pleasantville.

2 The efforts of the laborers will
3 supplement normal activities of Public Works
4 Department in the City of Pleasantville. They
5 are concentrated and specifically employed to
6 work specifically in the Enterprise Zone. Their
7 concentration is in the central business district
8 as it has been for the past six years. That will
9 continue.
10 The funding is broken down into two
11 parts. Primarily, the bulk of the money, 277-odd
12 thousand is for salaries, wages and benefits.
13 But there is slightly more than $7,000 to
14 purchase equipment; that is, the personal
15 equipment, safety equipment that the laborers
16 need to comply with all the safety regulations.
17 That would include boots, gloves, hats and the
18 vests.
19 These workers do not work the
20 traditional hours that the Public Works
21 Department works. In that regard, this is how we
22 see that and can say to you that these activities
23 are indeed supplemental. These workers work odd
24 hours. They are on duty weekends and holidays,
25 as well as in the evenings after the normal

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1 Public Works workers are discharged and go home.

2 We have found through surveys a
3 couple of years ago, certainly after we started
4 this, that the contribution of this unit has been
5 rather significant in noticeable terms. By that
6 I mean the demise or the reduction in the amount
7 of litter that has been traditionally in our
8 central business district has been tremendously
9 reduced.
10 I must also say that this unit is
11 charged with cleaning an area around the bus
12 station in Pleasantville. This is one of the
13 principal transit clubs in the County of
14 Atlantic, New Jersey Transit Authority, and it's
15 part of our Transit Village Program. Without
16 these workers there, it would be difficult for
17 the Public Works Department as a whole to be able
18 to achieve the same results that we get from
19 these workers.
20 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: I think that's
21 good Mr. Hebron. Let me just ask for a motion,
22 if I could, at this point.
23 MS. PEARSON: So moved.
24 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Motion, okay, by
25 Ms. Pearson.

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1 MR. HURD: Second.

2 CHAIRWOMAN KUBE: Second by
3 Mr. Hurd.
4 Any questions, comments or concerns?
5 MR. ABELAR: No.
6 MS. KREIPKE: Could you just tell us
7 what is the total Public Works budget, if you

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