Patterson-On Tuesday night, the City Council gave Mayor Andre Sayeg half of the funds to make up for the $4 million shortfall in his $47.7 million Great Falls project, which will include a new Visitor center and a 270 parking space.

Sayegh said he expects to announce another $2 million required for a plan later this month, which he claims is essential to Paterson's revitalization efforts. Officials are scrambling to secure all types of financing for the project in order to start construction next spring and complete it on time before the key state deadline of December 31, 2023.

The US$2 million for the Great Falls project was one of four separate votes on Tuesday night, in which the council allocated US$12 million of Patterson’s US$63.7 million from the federal government’s large-scale COVID-19 recovery plan.

The City Council also approved US$7.5 million for road and sewer repairs along the River Street, US$2 million for pandemic hazard taxes for municipal employees, and US$500,000 for consultants to help the city plan to use the U.S. rescue plan Funding for the COVID Relief Program.

Although several members opposed it a week ago, the board of directors still voted 8 to 0 in favor of funding the Great Falls project. Although the committee rejected the same contract at a higher price ($742,000) a month ago, the consulting contract was approved.

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Several officials said privately that the Sayegian government had won parliamentary votes for visitor centers and consulting contracts by agreeing to set aside funds for employees’ hazard pay.

The dangerous tariff pay resolution was passed 7 to 2, because supporters said the city should have acted early to compensate employees for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Although it was decided on Tuesday night to allocate $2 million to approve pandemic compensation, officials admitted that they did not know when the city began to transfer the money to employees or how much they would receive.

The two council members Al Abdelaziz and Flavio Rivera, who voted against the dangerous pay resolution, pointed out that the city has not yet determined how much funding the initiative will require, nor has it formulated a plan for how to allocate these funds. Municipal staff.

Abdelaziz and Rivera stated that they do not want to vote on the funds until the city has formulated a distribution plan that they believe is fair and equitable.

Officials said that under their three-year, $500,000 contract, calculating hazard pay would be one of the duties performed by consultants hired by the city on Tuesday night, NW Financial of Hoboken and Millennium Strategies of Morristown.

Ed Farmer, the president of Millennium, is a good friend and political supporter of Sayegh.

At the same time, Dennis Enright, the founder of NW Financial, has donated $15,600 to three members of the Paterson State Legislative Group in the past year. According to state campaign financial records, Enlight also donated US$1,000 to the Progressive Values ​​Political Action Committee in 2018, which provided US$138,000 to support Sayeg’s mayoral campaign that year.

Congressman Alex Mendez stated several times on Tuesday night that the consulting firm had donated $138,000 to Sayeg. Mendes did not respond to the news sent by the reporter, asking him to explain why he made what appears to be a false statement about the political donation of the consultant.

Joe Malinconico is the editor of Paterson Press.

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Paterson, New Jersey: Great Falls Visitor Center receives COVID funding

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