Remarks by Torrance Harvey
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“Okay, so anyone else regarding the public hearing local law authorizing a property tax levy in excess of the limit established by general municipal law section 3c and I want to remind everybody that this is protocol we don't intend to go over to 2% we never have but this is protocol in the event between now and the third week of November when we vote on the city manager's proposed budget, if there were a need to, we would have that flexibility.”
“Thank you for that. Thank you. Anyone else for the public hearing? one wants twice so we will close uh... item number six i'm sorry i don't know the seven of the presentation the public hearing regarding the local law authorizing a proxy property tax levy in excess of the limit established in the general municipal law section three c we're going to close that portion all that particular um... item and public hearing all right next we're going to the most favorite section of our agenda which are comments from the public regarding agenda and or non-agenda items which may be general matters of…”
“All right, thank you. Thank you. Hi, Maria.”
“So we're going to give her another, because that was for the gentleman. His time expired, so we're going to give her a three minute as well.”
“Turn the mic down. Point it, yeah, point it down. There you go.”
“Name and tell us if you live in the city or not.”
“Please go on to that parking survey. Please go on to that parking survey as well. Online, okay? Yeah, we have a parking survey for you. for those comments and things.”
“Just for a point of clarification, is the water service line lead? so there is a program and we just got new funding to replace lead service water lines for free so that funding just came in So you got to fill out an application. I don't care who said no. I know we just got funded. So you got to fill out an application. They got to go check the water line, make an appointment with the water department. But I know for a fact The funding is not available yet. Oh, it's not available yet. It's not available yet.”
“So there will be some funding, but it's not available yet.”
“spot on just before the next week uh... did the gentleman submit some documentation for the council okay can we share okay has his address in contact okay thank you”
“You did a great job. Great job. Excellent. So... Well. Did you speak at the already OK all right so there's other people that want to speak. If you want to speak in Spanish there are some of us to understand Spanish though just want to put that out there but that trace.”
“Thank you. All right. If there are no more comments. um before we before we hear from each council member and we ask everybody to please stay so you can hear from your elected representatives i'm going to make a request to the city manager that in our next work session when we go into executive session within the work session that the interim rec director and a representative from the rec department meet with the council show us the data, show us the licensing agreements so we can hear both sides of the argument from the people who work for the city. And so I'm gonna make that recommendation…”
“Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Martinez. Next we hear from Councilman McLemore. Can you hear me, sir? Yes. Okay. You got three minutes.”
“Thank You councilman Macklemore next we hear from councilmember Mata Verde”
“Thank you, Councilman Zoria. So I want to thank all the parents that came out, spoke up, and spoke out. I too want to thank Marcos Cordero for your service and your hard work. You do deserve accolades and we really appreciate what you've brought to our young people. I want to thank the young people as well. My colleagues did. I want to thank you all. for coming here having the courage to speak up because we don't know what's going on unless you speak up we don't know what are the internal issues going on as council members because the city manager manages the city we have department leaders…”
“Do I have a motion for resolution number 231-2026? So moved. First motion is accepted by Councilman Shakur. Do we have a second? Second. Seconded by Councilmember Monteverde. Roll call on the motion, please.”
“Do I have a motion for resolution number 232-2026? So moved. First motion is said by Councilman Shakur. Do we have a second? Second. Seconded by Councilman Zoria. Roll call on the motion, please.”
“Do we have a motion for resolution number 233-2026? first motion is that the council member monteverde do you have a second second discussion seconded by councilman shakur discussion granted sir so what was that they were talking about tonight about the cameras were they talking about these cameras so this is an agreement with cdr electronics to to uh acquire more install cameras install cameras or to install the cameras um is this specific to the rec department yes it is specific to the red department okay any other questions uh yes i'm maybe we should table this and understand what we're…”
“So when we went over the work session. We're going to see the electronics is going to install all cameras cameras and that department.”
“So let's hear from this legal city attorney. Is there a violation?”
“and I will add that because people made comments that certain individuals were being mistreated in the recreation department and I want to say for the record because I met with the city manager I met with the a couple council members and I also met with the interim rec director if employees, whether they are in the recreation department or any other department in the city of Newburgh's employment ranks, there is a grievance process in accordance with city law and city code, in accordance with CSTA agreements, in accordance with bargaining agreements and non-bargaining employees. There is a…”
“let you know how you guys are disrupting what we gotta do and if we continue to disrupt the business of the city I'm gonna ask are arm public safety officers it to remove you got so please respectfully let us take it let us take care the business thank you without disruption this is my last morning And I'm going to ask you guys to leave, please. All right, let us do our job.”
“Do we have a motion for resolution number 234-2026? So moved. First motion is said by Councilman Shakur. Do we have a second?”
“Ooh, seconded by council member Stewart. Roll call on the motion, please.”
“Do we have a motion for resolution number 235-2026? So moved. First motion is said by Councilman Shakur. Do we have a second? Second. Seconded by Councilmember Monteverde. Roll call on the motion.”