[0:01] hey this is a regular meeting of the
parking authority of the city of
[0:05] Elizabeth New Jersey listed in the
animal notice at the farm by chapter 2
[0:10] 31 p.m. 1975 on that copies of the
annual notice of email and we'll deliver
[0:18] to the north star gaze upon the news and
ribbon
[1:04] okay probably speaking portion of the
meeting we open the portion of this
[1:14] meaning to the public I see we have a I
guess we'll start one by one well I
[1:25] thought that we have your name and your
name's pay your name and address you
[1:30] like five minutes halt mattress or
visitor's does it matter what I use Oh
[1:36] we'd appreciate your home address but
business address as well will be free
[1:40] and we can go away fast yeah they can
write it is you're going to see nobody
[1:57] wants to start out with more than happy
to my name is Yvette for Nicole a bed
[2:02] zipper Nicola I am an owner of the
business of elizabeth avenue Leonarda
[2:09] jewelers i'm here with my sister were
five siblings that own the business I'm
[2:16] here because of the increase of the
parking meter rates throughout the city
[2:23] of Elizabeth specifically of course I'm
concerned about the parking meters on
[2:28] elizabeth avenue and the parking general
one elizabeth avenue when the rates went
[2:35] up I was not aware that they were going
to happen and my fault I guess I'm I
[2:39] know that it is public it's on the end
of their public forms or record whatever
[2:46] but the first thing I found out it was
you know somebody coming into the store
[2:50] saying what the heck a quarter for 10
minutes and somebody's in two minutes
[2:56] 15 and so one thing led to another I
contacted I'm also a board member of the
[3:01] elizabeth avenue partnership i contacted
them and they told me yes it's true what
[3:07] this happened so i had reached out to
Mayor Pro Ajay he come on he put me in
[3:15] contact with Carla and I had been trying
to rally some people together just
[3:21] because I understand that the parking
authority does not get taxpayer money
[3:28] does not receive taxpayer money and you
were funded solely through the meters
[3:35] and I know that you have a big nut with
the parking garage that was built here a
[3:42] million dollars or whatever it is I
don't know the exact figures but the
[3:48] reality of it is is that regardless of
what those costs are the elizabeth
[3:54] avenue cannot sustain these residences
this out of control when i reached out
[4:00] to the mayor i had done a syrup you know
i had done some checking on my own going
[4:06] through online trying to find out other
towns with the parking rates work I
[4:10] actually wasn't able to find anyone that
was as much or more than we work and
[4:15] when I reached out to Mayor bull which
he told me that Carla had done a survey
[4:22] and that she had said that the rates
were comparable she sent me a list of if
[4:30] I had said I don't have an extra copy my
vm tail yeah yeah now I have one more I
[4:36] have one more actually two more a three
more look at that so if you guys went I
[4:41] don't pass these little round and I'd
given went to the attorney at the table
[4:45] the listed on passing around
incorporates Carla's list with other
[4:50] towns that I was able to get get the
parking information for the ones that
[4:56] are the towns that are in italics are
the one towns that carla has given me a
[5:01] list of if it's in bold that means that
the price is more or the same
[5:07] Elizabeth everybody else is less
Berkeley is a town I know nothing about
[5:12] I have no idea where Berkeley is but
besides Burke link the only other towns
[5:17] that are as much or more ro beach towns
and they're all seasonal and they're not
[5:26] even all partner it's not all of the
meter spots they vary from Street to
[5:32] Street for instance in Asbury Park Ocean
Avenue only is two dollars an hour for
[5:39] the rest of the town is either free
parking or a dollar per meter parking
[5:45] I'm not a hundred percent sure on it
that's dated in terms of May through
[5:50] October because some of the other towns
that were listed belmar being one of
[5:55] them that is strictly May through
October and that's only along the
[5:58] boardwalk area that is two dollars an
hour and other beach towns cain't may as
[6:04] a dollar an hour other towns freehold
another business district free parking
[6:11] you'll see that there is really seaside
park is a dollar fifty and hours he said
[6:18] height varies from 2 to 12 dollars an
hour to a dollar an hour there is to me
[6:24] there is nothing comparable to Elizabeth
in terms of a business district because
[6:30] even in town speech towns where the
parking on the beach is very expensive
[6:34] if there's a business district those
areas are not as expensive so um that's
[6:41] why I'm here because I'm very upset I
just I really don't think it's something
[6:47] that sustainable several years ago I was
at one of the meetings here Claire was
[6:52] gracious enough to invite the movers
with having a partnership and also the
[6:57] Midtown we have come in when at that
time our parking tickets have been
[7:02] raised to $54 for overdue meters just
let your 32nd ok for voodoo meters so
[7:10] again I reached out because I wanted to
bring us everybody's attention and there
[7:18] at that time we were told you were doing
a trial of pilot program here with the
[7:25] meter boxes and I was hoping when we
were at that meeting that they would
[7:30] come to elizabeth avenue they've come to
other parts of this video Lizabeth
[7:34] avenue still does not have these meters
these parking boxes there is just no way
[7:40] that we can sustain these costs and we
get no benefits none so that's what I hi
[7:54] my name is Vivian Zeke lund I am one of
the owners of sure hi I'm livid 17
[7:59] Yarmouth court in Scotch Plains New
Jersey my father's had start a business
[8:04] here on those are fabulous jewelers we
attract customers from all over and bad
[8:09] enough to get them to come it's they get
horrified when for 10 minutes they pay a
[8:16] quarter they don't pay it we offer our
customers the money it's also not fair
[8:21] to people that live anywhere near that
Avenue anyone that lives in that area
[8:25] face it they're poor they're probably on
subsidies they can barely afford their
[8:30] rent and there if there parking there at
all during the day it costs them a
[8:35] fortune if they forget to put a quarter
in for 10 minutes then they get a $39
[8:40] ticket food ticket you know so I own a
home in the inner harbor Baltimore
[8:47] Baltimore is fifty cents and the inner
harbor a tourist attraction fifty cents
[8:53] for an hour I mean it just it's really
not fair thank you I'm Cecilia
[9:02] Wisniewski from Union I manage property
my family's property on the corner of
[9:07] high street and First Avenue and I was
just alarmed same thing that's probably
[9:11] what parking here went up to 25 cents
for only 10 minutes that's just you know
[9:16] that's chasing away the customers what
I'm voice my concern about that Dave
[9:23] Stroh jenkem the executive director of
the elizabeth avenue partnership 913
[9:27] elizabeth avenue and I'm like event said
and our Chairman emerson's here you know
[9:32] I'm the voice liaison for the merchants
so when the rates did increase I get a
[9:37] ton of complaints you know they're
really upset and it goes against
[9:41] everything that we're doing because we
spend a lot of our money that we get
[9:45] from their property taxes to market the
downtown we spend a lot of money to
[9:49] clean the downtown keep it safe so this
goes against our RM oh you know we're
[9:55] doing so we're trying so hard to bring
people down eat at a restaurant shop at
[9:59] our stores and boom 10 minutes goes by
by the time they get out and they kind
[10:03] of find where the store is you know they
get a ticket they're not come of that
[10:07] they're going to be pissed they it
leaves a bad taste in their mouth so we
[10:11] really you know on behalf of the
merchants just here to leave with you
[10:15] guys and plead with you you know maybe
you could bring it up to 12 minutes you
[10:19] know you know just yeah back then I the
15 Club minute but yeah there's how you
[10:26] can do you how did you know I know you
guys have your with Carla's letter and
[10:29] it's just important to work together
with us like Michaels here from the
[10:33] Midtown s ID and last night we were at a
dead mo event at the parking garage and
[10:38] it's a wonderful tourist destination
event and they're trying so hard to
[10:42] bring people into Elizabeth and Edwin
Gomez was there from Mars a demand from
[10:47] Vimeo business owner of chupitos and
other restaurants and he said all this
[10:52] that we're doing here doesn't mean
anything at the 25 cents for 10 minutes
[10:57] continues because we're going to recruit
people are going to market a track
[11:00] people down here and then they're gonna
get a ticket so we just want you guys to
[11:04] work with you know we hope that you
would work with us a little more and
[11:07] respect our efforts over the last 10
years of bringing people down your
[11:13] marketing keeping it clean keeping it
safe and attracting customers we're not
[11:17] here to shoot customers away or scare
customers away
[11:19] so we hope that you could reconsider
this somehow some way and think about
[11:25] what we're saying here because this is
not just five six ten people in here
[11:29] these are the merchants these are 300
merchants on my avenue Michael's got
[11:33] James under 70 the guy from Nomura was
there last night from the pharmacy he
[11:39] said he was going to come tonight edwin
said he was in town so there there's
[11:42] different groups than in this city that
really are against us and they're really
[11:47] upset about this especially the
hard-working business owner that's
[11:50] trying to make it in this in the city
[11:57] Michael Oh Bryce I'm the chairman of the
big town special district I've been
[12:04] chairman for 11 years and almost every
meeting monthly meetings in almost every
[12:11] meeting we spend time discussing the
park we used to have a subsidy which we
[12:16] had to cut out for budget constraints
just we tried to get a merchant's the
[12:20] park more in the lots and garages and
you would subsidize what they were
[12:25] paying the parking authority so midtown
is historically probably the worst place
[12:30] to park in Elizabeth or at least with
the least amount of parking most amount
[12:36] of businesses we had a problem I guess
where we work together with the parking
[12:42] authority and the the fine was reduced
because it was increased to an amount
[12:47] that was larger than most other cities
in New Jersey and humbled to listen
[12:55] right but we work together with with the
sport and did get reduced the
[13:01] Commonwealth us is your Jersey City New
York Patterson to say and everything
[13:05] that I've seen there they charge a
dollar an hour for parking where dibala
[13:11] 50 that's fifty percent increase over
over what we were charging and what they
[13:18] charge now if if the merchants are going
to attract people here like like events
[13:24] up from out of town any two things they
need to seek these streets and safe
[13:29] streets and it places the park we have
to do system which which right so it
[13:37] makes things a lot easier for everybody
so I guess if it's not too late we're
[13:42] just a little here to even work with you
guys over the next couple months they
[13:48] just tossed some ideas around I don't
know what why be increased was put in
[13:53] but I'm sure was to increase revenue
somehow and if there's a way that we can
[13:56] cope with different ideas they're free
different concepts look at other things
[14:01] that work together with you guys that
that's just what we really want to do
[14:06] better for everybody thank you
[14:11] nobody else wish to speak
[14:18] my name is Emerson amadora I'm the
chairman of the elizabeth avenue
[14:22] partnership i also have a business on
the Avenue I do get clients coming in
[14:28] all the time to meet and all of a sudden
you know they have to dart out because
[14:34] of the time constraints on the the
mother so I was taken aback when we got
[14:42] the letter saying well basically this is
it we're changing it from fifteen cents
[14:48] to ten cents too bad 15 15 minutes to 15
minutes of 10 minutes you know too bad
[14:54] really feel that that's hurting the
merchants specifically everybody on the
[14:59] Avenue in other parts of the city you
know especially when they're on the
[15:03] tight budget stuff like that to really
should be addressed yeah we're together
[15:16] we'll take all your comment we just
can't give you an answer right now we
[15:37] appreciate the appreciate the forum and
allowing us to speak in allowing us to
[15:42] even tell us that you're even
considering to work with us or you know
[15:47] because it's the first time we've ever
heard back so that's a positive sign
[15:54] I guess is that everybody is full is
alternating
[16:51] mr. Martinez yes sure all of that yes
Timothy that's fine i also need a
[17:07] special meeting to real all the special
only improved the minute to discuss the
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advice for older man I 17 your most
[18:20] include the repression of petty cash
[18:56] we have one new item my number correct
resolution 16 find a resolution services
[19:13] on call me in tears and parking
facilities where at the parking garage
[19:20] Marquis d'auriville independent chairman
me for on call maintenance for parking
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comply with NJ essays 10 45 ish 31
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and whereas Marva waterproofing
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7013 the lowest responsible responses
[19:45] there and now therefore be it resolved
if commissioners of Mark authority of an
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waterproofing for 24 months as an option
[19:53] to extend the 24 additional month one in
the ring to do so by both the awarded
[19:57] under and the parking sorry on a time I
material not to exceed the rate has date
[20:01] instead will attach the attachment is
time immaterial rages well this is to
[20:13] maintain our garages every so often we
you report to several times when a piece
[20:18] of concrete poles so we want to make
sure that now we want to the emergency
[20:22] we just call the company and they can
fix this this was in conjunction with
[20:27] our engineering there's engineering
business desmond a medical Desmond
[20:32] designers of the group is our architect
and engineers and they recommend it that
[20:37] we do this so that way we can then call
the people that have for emergency under
[20:42] 24-hour so anytime you and I are day
right also we have a 24 24 month
[20:47] contract with them if we are satisfied
with their after 24 months we're
[20:51] satisfied with their work to extend it
24 hours assuming they agree and we
[20:56] agree i miss well done pursuant to a
fair and open beta ground they're not
[20:59] been fitted out they put it put a bid
and they came with the lowest responsive
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