Council approves minutes, ordinances and consent items; votes at a glance from Oct. 9 meeting

At its Oct. 9 meeting, the Passaic City Council approved a package of routine business and at least one ordinance on second and final reading.

Actions recorded in the public transcript include: - Approval of the minutes for April 22 (roll-call vote recorded as Yes: Councilman Love; Yes: Councilman Mayer; Yes: Councilman Garcia; Yes: Councilman Colombo Munoz; Yes: Council President Schaer). The motion to accept the minutes was presented and seconded; mover/second were not specified on the public record. - Adoption (second and final reading) of Proposed Ordinance 2500-25, “Designation of restricted parking for disabled persons and New Jersey license plate numbers.” The council opened a public hearing, received no public comment on that ordinance, closed the hearing and approved the ordinance by roll-call (Yes votes recorded from all five council members present). - Acceptance of communications and consent agenda items: items 2–5 (approved by roll-call), items 6–19 (approved by roll-call) and items 21–38 (approved by roll-call). Several consent items discussed in the meeting included contracts and project funding; the transcript indicates the Urban Enterprise Zone provided grant funding for some projects. - Approval of payment of bills (roll-call vote recorded as unanimous among members present).

The meeting included a resolution listed as item 20 authorizing a closed executive session; during the agenda discussion participants indicated no need to close the meeting and no vote to close was recorded in the open transcript. For items taken as part of the consent agenda, specific mover/second details were not provided in the public portion of the record.

All roll-call tallies recorded in the meeting transcript show unanimous Yes votes among the five council members present for the listed approvals; the transcript did not show any recorded No or Abstain votes on these items.