all right i'd like to call city development and planning sometimes to order first item on the agenda is a presentation about gateway plaza we welcome mary moore wallinger i'll just start with a few years back we started doing a few studies on lower state street area to get ahead of the development that's now starting to occur there the second phase of it was looking at the liberty park and if you were at chief collin's swearing in this morning you heard him talking about the design of liberty park and one of the things we looked at was that it really wasn't very userfriendly and wasn't very safe and we wanted to see if we could do some kind of redevelopment there that would basically enhance the redevelopment efforts downtown so this study which is the outgrowth of a previous lower state street study was funded did not cost the city anything other than our staff time it was funded by metroplex and the chief capital district transportation committee and i just like to recognize who is their staff person who helped us through this so for a quick presentation i'm just gonna hand it off to mary moore from synthesis and it was excellent work right here thank you for everything on this study it's been a great project to work on so we worked with a great large group of the steering committee organization you can see the list here and worked together very closely we had an insensitive threeday workshop to kick it off where we looked at existing conditions and brainstormed about some potential design ideas and then worked over the next several months in developing those and also had two public meetings as part of the process getting feedback on the existing conditions and preliminary ideas and final feedback on the final design and it was a very positive process and great to be engaged with all the people who participated so as steve mentioned it really grew out of the route five transit gateway study we proposed the gateway park to located at this important intersection in the city and to include some mixed use infill around the park to help bridge the gap between the community college and the downtown this is the existing conditions area you can see liberty park in the corner parcel there and water street which has now been closed down now that the dormitories have been included and students are going up to the intersection there are four buildings within the study area the two aaa buildings which are currently owned by metroplex the insurance agency which is currently for sale in the trailways terminal building so the project was looked at in two phases the yellow area is phase one was designed as phase one of the park which included the closing of water street and incorporating that into the new park and then phase two would include the area where the four buildings are between phase one and roughly where the edge of the student housing was constructed so this is just an aerial view of the park the way it is now and a couple of close ups of some of the structures there's a lot of history within the park dating all the way back to the founding of the city and including more recent things like the statue of liberty that was dedicated by the boy scouts and this is kind of interesting they were having an article just before the study about how there's a time capsule under the statue of liberty and some people were kinda looking forward to finding out what's under there so that could be another interesting component of improving the park and as mr chairman mentioned the park now with the berms and the vegetation it really isn't as safe as it could or should be a lot of the vegetation has been cleaned up which is definitely improved the conditions but the berms still create limited visibility and if nothing else the perception that the park is not a safe and inviting place so really looking for ways to open up the park and make it much more userfriendly and to cater to a whole range of audiences so another layer is as you may remember from the tropical storm lee and irene that area gets a lot of water so having a park there is actually a perfect use for that space and also when we keep in mind that if we do do some mixeduse infill behind it you would need to raise the finished floor which actually creates a great opportunity for being able to incorporate parking below the buildings so that you could meet that city requirement and not lose those valuable parking spaces so these were just some of the key concepts we looked at really providing visual safety pedestrian connectivity accessibility flexibility of uses creating an important gateway that would welcome people to the city another big part of the study was really looking at how do we get people from the college to the student housing and to downtown safely in this really big intersection and so the three main options that we looked at we worked with craig manning they really specialize in transportation planning and engineering and so they really studied it and looked at traffic counts and so the three options that we looked at was channelization which basically would use a fence or a structure to direct people to the appropriate intersection we also looked at gray crossings where you might have a crosswalk in the middle of the road as opposed to at the intersection and then the last was grade separated which would be a bridge looking at all these we came to the conclusion that regardless of which option you go with you would still need to have a fence because the temptation is too great to just run across the shortest point and we know that students are famous for taking the quickest route to the class they're late for so we felt like well the fence is also the cheapest option nobody has money to spend on the bridge and so why don't we start with fence since we're gonna have to have anyway and see how it works and then determine whether something else would be necessary and with bridges people don't really wanna have to go out the extra steps or down the extra steps and how do you control the injuries and so that was kinda the least realistic option the idea of a midblock crossing surprisingly it was actually something that dot was receptive to but they felt like it needed further study and so now that we have the fence if it seems like there's enough traffic that could be revisited but at this time the fence seems to be actually working very well even with the temporary measures so we took it as a basic concept this idea that the park had to cater to two very different users the vehicular user who's driving by the park at a very fast speed and the pedestrian who's lingering and walking through the park and looking for a more detailed experience and so we created a series of two cross axes using water street as the main pedestrian axes and use these as sort of two contrasting walks that would divide the park into a series of rooms so the pedestrian axes is really enhanced with more detail it would use ornamental grasses and sculpture celebrating schenectady's the arts movement that's helping to revitalize schenectady and also a lot of the history in the city and using plants that are relatively low maintenance and the dsic's had a lot of success with it that don't require a lot of extra work so then the vehicular axes would contrast with that in that it would be a very clean open lawn directing your eye directly to the focal point in the center of the park so as a vehicular user coming into the city you would automatically be directed to sort of this big icon that would welcome you to the city and that would join the two axes in the middle and we thought that an interesting idea for that might be to use a sculptural wind turbine that would celebrate the arts as well as schenectady's role as sustainable technologies and might also be an interesting opportunity for looking for sponsorship perhaps from ge or someone who'd be willing to financially contribute to the project so then the four rooms that this divided into what top of the bus area which is kind of the busy room in the park and by having the two axes also takes some of the pressure off that people walking down the street with all the people waiting for the bus it can be quite busy so this gives you a chance to go slightly off route without having to go too much out of your way and allows that area of the bus stop to have its own space and that's where we're also proposing to relocate the statue of liberty so she's a little more in scale with her context and so she's more visible then the area to the left would be more of a quiet plaza this is a bird'seye of what the park would look like and so there would be kind of a quiet plaza at the bottom where you'd have a sculpture it would almost feel like fountain but not come with the maintenance of a fountain just a quiet place to sit and then you'd have in the center of the large open green which since this schenectady county community college doesn't really have a big flat open green we think it would be a really great way to draw the college into the city and to provide a place also for people from the stockade to come and potentially to host different events in that area so this is just a rendering of what the pedestrian way would look like if you were coming out near the end of the student housing and this is a rendering of what the vehicular vehicle corridor would look like with the sculpture drawing your eye to the sculpture in the center of the park so again having the on the back we think would really bridge that gap between the college and the downtown sort of encouraging people to come this step's this business and then another step's the next business and we really see that as something that could really be market driven so if there was a developer who wanted to build it today that would be great or if it was something that waited until there was more of a need that would be another possibility and it also might be a great location for the college to consider including its bookstore or again another way to especially with student housing having over two hundred and forty beds there it seems like a very easy fit for a pizza shop or a place to do your laundry or just any of those kind of college uses that would help bridge that gap to the downtown and also add some nightlife and because it would be slightly elevated and overlook the park it would be a great opportunity for some interesting restaurants with overlooks so the trailways terminal because it is still in the park and it's gonna stay there we thought would be a great opportunity for them to include sort of a news stand or coffee shop just so if you're a student you could grab coffee or if you're catching the bus or changing buses there's a place right there and so we'd integrate the building into the park and really create more use of the park through that building seemed like a natural fit if the owner was ever inclined to do that and then with the open one being able to use it for outdoor classroom space just for playing a ball game or having events that the city or the college could even host sort of an after five type thing that that would have a lot of use and it wouldn't have sort of formal steps receding but it would be slightly sloped so it could function as an amphitheater and again some quiet reading areas and the historic railroad street we thought would be interesting to make some kind of a tribute to that just with a decorative statement or something that would allude to the history of the separate railroad that used to run through the site so as you can see that's phase one which because of the way that the access is tapered allows a nice buffer between the existing buildings and the pedestrian ways that you would feel like you were in the park and less like it just stopped right at the edge and phase one is certainly very doable especially since water street has already been closed and the city already owns the park phase two the really big game would be to have that grade one which will add on to the uses of the park and might be a really strong selling point for the college to engage with the park more but even that being said there's still plenty of spaces within phase one where you could have sort of smaller informal similar events so i think those are the highlights if anybody has any questions i'd be happy to try and answer them questions from anybody in terms of the maintenance of the park you mention dsic so are you saying that they would kind of do something the entire part of it or just well they as well as the city were part of the steering committee and so there was a lot of discussion about how do we create something that's maintainable and is not gonna draw too much and so it would be a combination of the city and gsic right now dsic does a lot of the maintaining the sidewalks and weeds growing in a pedestrian way and there's certain beds that they maintain and then the city really handles any of the mowing i think dsic does a lot of the plowing as well but the city does some and nothing's finalized obviously we'd be looking for partners to see if maybe the community college or another developer in the area might wanna adopt a piece of it but in terms of plans and things that have worked well i've worked dsic a lot for the plantings downtown when we tried to create some of the beds so that they're more maintainable and also so that if we do get the occasional weed it's not really noticeable and so that was how we talked about the grasses as a very simple plan to maintain the ever rich texture and multiseason and it's easy to when you plant them you can plant them so they don't catch a bunch trash and that type of thing and so were the design that's in place now with the berms it's very labor intensive to maintain it so by going to this format even though you're gonna have a larger area it's conceivable we could do it with the same amount of manpower and resources that we're doing on a much smaller format and the big emphasis of this is that the majority of the plants are really geared to being sort of like heights or catch below the knee and well above the head so you have that open middle section throughout the park lighting is there a plan with lighting in there yes there is there would be lighting throughout the pedestrian access in particular and then you have lighting along all the sidewalks on the edge of the streets as well so when you get further into designing we'll just decide exactly where and what style but yes there certainly is time for lighting surprising i just wanted to say that i attended both public meetings that mary moore kind of glazed over quickly but they were very very well attended meetings i would say probably somewhere between forty and sixty people hold meetings then a lot of input was given and a lot of back and forth so i think the citizens of schenectady are well represented in this design cause it was more than one design initially i got to one of them but that one was good is any of this land designated park land liberty park is designated parkland none of the rest of it is so what's the plans for that in terms of redeveloping or adding on to existing park lands there's no existing grants that we have we're not alienating anything getting rid of anything so expanding a park is not a problem and we didn't come across any outstanding conditions that were there requirements from previous grants that we needed to improvise so what are next steps well the next step is to work with some partners we've been having some discussions about getting phase one rolling phase one is easy to do it's implementable the city can do a lot of work removing the berms so we talked with metroplex about potentially doing some fundings phase two a lot more money and is further out but i think the initial thing right now to do is start working to try and do phase one because this study was done in may doing that fence down the middle and making the walkway for the students safe and pretty much proved that while there has been some impact to the business owners there it still works down there with the part of the grove shut down do we have budgetary figures for phase one and phase two we do i don't have them with me phase two was i think was about eighteen million i think that's inclusive that was not inclusive of the buildings which is two million i think that was the entire thing we applied for a grant through and then we did not receive one this year so we'll probably apply again next year once we get through the consolidated funding application in which they're using some of the buildings as matches using some of our work as matches we actually delayed this presentation by about a month and a half because of all the budget issues and we understand that the city doesn't have money to do this so we're gonna have to leverage as much as we can to find services get grant funds good idea to partner with the different organizations i think it was like four hundred thousand for one i think like sixteen million approximately for phase two looking at the picture it looks beautiful any of the existing larger more established trees being preserved to go into that planning yes so this tree here is the really big arching tree that you see from also we wanted to keep that cause we feel like it's a big part of the park and it looked like the grades would work fine because a lot of the berms were built over a lot of the roots and that area's an area that's actually the base of the tree's roughly at the so we kept that so you'll still have that really wonderful sense of the canopy and it'll make the park seem more established and less barren and we kept one or two over here too that are also large trees but the rest obviously in phase two there's really not any trees over there now it's all here it looks big cause it's been opened up here it's actually relatively small and so three big trees is gonna give you a nice ceiling effect but right now it's so dense you can't see five feet into the park so at the same time we think it's gonna open it up and make it lighter and make it more inviting but you'll still have the sense that there's a really nice wellestablished canopy over the park okay anything else okay thank you very much thank you thank you all right let's just strike them as done as all the rest of the items on the agenda i waited until you had a quiet night to present all these things the second article is north side neighborhood designated survey area if you remember in july mayor mccarthy discussed his north side initiative and we were looking at the potential other funding sources that we'd like to look into one of which was tax increment financing and at the time we discussed in a town like everybody was in agreement that we would designate the area surrounded by the bike trail knox street seneca and almost to van vranken and can actually the river properties on van vranken as a survey area just for us to look at it doesn't commit anybody to anything to look at the potential of doing some redevelopment in that area does it work how could you do stuff and then i went on vacation and we never did the resolution designating the survey area so like you we we just designated that a survey area it doesn't commit to anything we had been doing work since july and we should be back in a couple of weeks with just some presentations on how redevelopment could work how it could be funded questions if not i'll entertain a motion i'll move it second second all in favor aye aye should i just go keep going yeah okay the next one is just a call for public hearing to abandoning paper streets in certain city owned properties sheltingham avenue landfill which has thirty four tax parcels and six paper streets and the area between steinmetz park and kailberg park which has six tax parcels and four papers streets this is just a record keeping problem we have all these tax parcels out there every time somebody comes in and looks to do subdivision asks these questions we have to cycle through thirty four properties the attempt here is just to consolidate all the lots into one lot and make a cheltenham avenue landfill instead of thirty four parcels and this area between kailberg park and steinmetz park so this is just a call to abandon those paper streets once they're abandoned then we would do a consolidation of the lots you would never use those streets in that configuration there will never be redevelopment of the park above the and if you ever wanted to do anything in the kailberg park you would certainly put new streets in different locations or the same locations mr ericson the city owns the lots though the city owns all the lots there's no question of that there's a lot that has no access correct and then eventually i'll be doing the same thing in woodlawn cause there are in woodlawn cause there are court closing on three properties right now that would create that problem other questions i'll move it okay second all in favor aye aye okay and my final item is mctap minority contractor technical assistance program the city council has approved previously funding through empire state development eighty seven thousand for the renovation of eight hundred and eighteen albany street which is just about done now it looks beautiful they're getting applications now to start getting tenants in that their board has to approve empire state development has been fronting us the money because this is the last drawdown they will not front us the money they like to hold something back so since the work is done empire state needs to see the receipts for payment mctap needs the money to make the payment what i'm asking for what the town's asking for is a bridge loan for about three weeks in my application we're talking about twenty thousand but actually it's only eleven thousand one hundred and ninety nine so we have all the paperwork ready to go once the money comes in it will be paid and the will be submitted to empire state development corporation questions yes mr is there any chance that the bridge loan they wouldn't get the money within that three weeks and what are the risks i don't really believe there's a problem we've been working with empire state on this and it's tough cause it's an older program getting them back up to speed on this program but they're working with us right now and up to speed they've just stand up some money and are ready to do that other process that other one rapidly so i don't think there's any risk for us it might be a month but i think it really should be about two weeks anything else just i have a question yep cost to the city in terms of lending the money or i didn't do the interest cost on eleven thousand two hundred i could submit that back to you i don't know what we're gonna lose on interest in two or three weeks and where exactly is that money coming from to give the bridge loan where's the money from the city coming from out of what line well that would be something i have to create in the resolution and ask is maniford the exact line item and just basically get them out of the general fund it's usually when we have grants and we have these drawdowns we create these budget lines that pay upfront and get reimbursed later unfortunately not here we'll lose about one thousand and seventy six on interest i'm just more concerned as to what line it's coming out of seeing as we didn't have a line there to begin with i can tell you i have no idea the resolution will most likely have a line in it well it has to have a budget line in it most likely right did not apply a budget so it'll be in there so i don't have that yet and i know that we can without the figures i mean we're certainly talking a minimal amount of money i understand that but i just don't know where it's coming from okay well would you entertain approving it pending the information mmhmm okay so you'll move back pen something i think i'll accept it all in favor aye aye okay good get all the information to you guys it'll be on a resolution or something wednesday it's just a public hearing right call a public hearing yeah one other thing that i didn't put on here that i would like us to do is a resolution recognizing buyer fur company i actually meant to do this last year which was their 175th year of existence and i just think as one of the oldest businesses in the city it would be appropriate to just recognize them sure i'll move that second all in favor aye aye good thank you okay if there's nothing else to come before the city development and planning i'll entertain a motion to adjourn second all in favor aye aye i'll call to order w regarding sick leave where will i get the information i got some down here okay thanks call to order government operations and first item is selection of new council president i think it's just denise no it's just denise and barbara and barbara i do not know the procedure for this denise ms rucker well i would just put forth council member king as the new council president through our committee and then it would go on the consent agenda for monday night any discussion or questions okay i'll second all in favor aye aye all right and appointment of the official city newspaper i assume same make a motion i thought this was usually done at a the first of the year meeting the organizational meeting the first formal meeting of the council will be next monday we do it yearly so in theory we only have an official newspaper for last year's was only for one year the resolution wasn't ready for two do you understand that do you know why it's usually we always do it every two years i've been always familiar were it being done every two years and apparently last year when they did the resolution it was only for one year so we're gonna make so metroland i would yeah i would suggest if you have a newspaper within the city that publishes you have to designate that paper so you can solicit bids get things but they have to give it to the daily gazette oh oh well that's kinda fixed right fixed all right so do you wanna make a motion please i've gone down that road yes i'll make a motion to make the newspapers yeah apparently the new newspaper in schenectady our official city newspaper and i will second that all those in favor aye aye excellent any other business to come before government operations if not we'll be adjourned all right second to name brian kilcullen the new police chief and chief kilcullen is here tonight he did a presentation at the announcement today and of summarizing some of what the department has done last year the last several years and outlined some of the goals and objectives for the coming year and wanted to make them available to the council tonight to answer any questions or comments or just start the ongoing dialogue i think that he was ready to do a powerpoint presentation but they'd taken all the equipment away so supposed to do one of this shows with his hands he can make one of my first requests will be to find some powerpoint training cause mine wasn't anything like that but i think mostly we did see it today but briefly i can go through it again and talk about some of the activity results from last year again we had a goal early in year ten reduction in crime through the end of the year we actually had a ninety two reduction one of the focus crimes was car larcenies we had a lot of car larcenies over the course of the year they were actually down by thirty five and i know some of you even had some in your neighborhoods we focused on that pretty heavily this year and we're actually down three hundred and fifty one now even though we were short of our goal by eight hundred and ten of a percent crime was was actually up slightly in new york city and down just slightly throughout the state there were actually some impact sites that had some slight increases we were an impact site which is where non new york city crime occurs and we had some pretty good successes over the course of the year chief i don't mean to interrupt you i neglected introduced nick macherone who is with the new york state association of chief of police and nick serves as the law enforcement liaison with the governor's traffic safety committee and he's been working with the department in terms of some of this datadriven analysis that we do in the deployment of the department and we're thankful that you're here tonight again nick there's some information that he has also compliment to things that the chief is talking about i apologize chief i'll open some of these and then the last thought actually ddacts nick and we'll talk a little bit more in a second some of the figures over the course of the year we we actually had over six thousand arrests resulting in over ten thousand offenses over the course of the year our car crashes again through ddacts we actually decreased our car crashes by thirteen and a half percent down from three thousand five hundred and fifteen to three thousand and forty one we responded to eighty five thousand calls for service over the course of the year we implemented an online reporting system for minor offenses which really abdicated need to respond to certain minor offenses freed us up to do other things we expanded our neighborhood camera system by twenty seven cameras issued twenty five new and revised policies meeting the standards received over a million dollars in grant funding over the course of the year we participated and this was a big thing we participated in an nij funded police legitimacy project with fin institute and this was highlighted at that national conference in washington we call it our customer service project but again the idea is like the customer service survey almost how are you doing and the idea is if the level of satisfaction increases then the general population tends to cooperate with police more tends to obey the law when the police aren't present and that's the whole idea there's been a lot of research done mostly out of yale university and actually i was on a panel down in washington with one professor from yale who did a lot of research on this so that's great it's not finalized yet it's us in syracuse that participating in the study and again we're hoping the idea is a satisfied general public is more cooperative with us helps us to solve crimes and do all the other things we wanna do then the other thing i mentioned with nick here if you can elaborate a little more nick it's that we instituted that our data driven approach to crime and traffic safety and the idea is what we do is we map out our crime throughout the city we map out our crashes overlay the two and where they overlap that's where we do our enforcement and it's shown to reduce crime in those areas went to a mount pleasant neighborhood association meeting in november it was one of the hotspots we had started this about september at the time crime was down about seven in the city and in mount pleasant was down one hundred and twenty three this is a few months after we had started at mount pleasant and not just that but one of the target areas was mount pleasant and the good thing about this is we can go to the neighborhood association meetings and everyone wants more of a police presence we'd all like that but we then tell neighborhoods why we can't be in their neighborhood more than we already are and in this particular case the good news was yes we'll more of a presence the reason we're here is because it happens to be one of the hotspots but we could also go to neighborhood associations and when they ask for this make the same request we can tell em unfortunately we are trying to do more with less when using this approach to really pinpoint where we need to be and when we need to be there so the good news for that group would be hey look things are relatively quiet here but for that reason we can't necessarily be here any more than we already are so we can use it kind of at both ends of the spectrum but again we went through the training provided through nick's organization back in april and our impact grant actually is up in calendar period july 1st so in may we start our application again after going through this training we said look let's use this strategy but to use this strategy we're going to need to leverage more resources from the state to provide more analysis because we are producing a number of intelligent products with our crime analysis about two years ago we had about a one hundred hours of analysis a week we were down to about forty so he was really at his max but by deploying this strategy to our impact application we were able to learn more resources from than to provide another halftime person so we're back up to about sixty hours of analysis a week and again we're the first in the state to use this and albany's just getting going with it and they actually really took reports that we're doing and kind of doing exactly what we're doing is it a real good report we were shown a number of reports a number of intelligence products produced throughout country and matt douglas did a great job kind of taking it and then making his own and it's great it's easy to read it clearly identifies the target areas shows everyone where to be and when and its worked for us so nick if you want to elaborate on that further i just gotta say that we're extremely impressed at the way that schenectady is using data collecting and analyzing their data directing their resources more efficiently and effectively that's the whole operational model to reduce social harm in communities it's a proven operational model that's going across the country we're really happy to see our tricity partners moving this forward probably the first agencies in new york state to do that we've done four workshops in a year the most recent was again in april with schenectady albany troy herkimer and other sheriffs and state police agencies and again when i saw your article in the paper about you mount pleasant neighborhood and the impact it's been having on that in the number of reduced calls for service and talking to the assistant chief who was at the workshop along with his team i was really impressed reached out and he says yeah we're utilizing it we're moving it forward and we're there to support that in any way we can and again we're very very pleased with that and that's it good thanks and we're gonna expand that a little bit further and we'll go up to two thousand and thirteen as you know and again i think everyone today thank you again for restoring the third to the chief position but going forward into two thousand and thirteen we'll continue to have a field services bureau with an assistant chief an investigative services bureau with an assistant chief and an administrative services bureau with an assistant chief and rather than combining two and giving it all to one person what i did was i took some responsibilities from the two that were combined and moved them were i kept some some of the functions that i had as an assistant chief i'll keep as the chief the budget procurement media relations was formerly under an assistant chief i'll keep that professional development falling under assistant chief i'll keep that again to try to spread the tasks amongst the entire command staff but as i said generally field services will stay the same fleet management formally under a support service will come under the field services bureau partly because most of the cars are patrol cars so most of the needs are easily communicated to the bureau commander of those using the cars we'll move the fleet management too to that bureau investigative services will pretty much stay the same and other than that like i said the administrative services bureau would generally be what was formerly our personal management bureau and our support services bureau and again i tried to take some things from that bureau because again that's where accreditation falls and we definitely wanna finish as i said before we've been talking about this for over twenty years and we made more progress in the last three than we did in the previous seventeen so i don't wanna lose anyone there and at one of our earlier meeting i'd given you a copy of pretty much what we just talked about we mentioned ddacts and as i said i wanna expand that a little bit more to really take the records of a code enforcement to get them more involved and came up with another program called scope and again it's schenectady cooperations and police enforcement and it's using the ddacts model kinda mapping out pro issues or con issues and concentrate or enforcement there and then going further and having monthly compstat like meetings that we're having but including code enforcement and the other city department that has any sort of involvement in this process and that compstat process will provide the forum for accountability and feedback i spoke with eric shown he's going to participate in our inservice training as i said earlier we respond to eighty five thousand calls for service so we wanna explode that now we don't know necessarily what we're looking for in a house what the code issues are but there some that comes to our inservice training that we've started this month for any one service training and to kind of give us some ideas what to look for walk by a smoke detector press the button does it work if not it's a violation we'll refer it as i said today a lot of these things aren't necessarily situations that we can arrest someone for but it may be a problem location so if we can't do anything about it in terms of an arrest well what else can we do so again exploit the fact that we're in these houses all the time especially problem locations so we're gonna work more closely with codes and any other city department cpted the crime prevention through environmental design we've got the training and it's scheduled for the last week in march i'll be working with the major to identify stakeholders we think should come as i talked about liberty park commissioner can tell you on the calls received early this summer halfway through summer the calls for service down there was astronomical it is just a haven for activity you may have seen some panhandlers down there between the park and the college well that's where they were pretty much camping out right in there you can't see em it was pretty well secluded went in there to drink and doing other things were down there regularly and until we actually made a few arrests we were there regularly we're dedicating a lot of resources in that one area again which could've been avoided had that design been proper so we're gonna do this training in march and this too funds for this training provided by the state through impact we developed a very good relationship with those running impact they like what we're doing we have a annual round table where half the impact agencies go to one meeting the other half goes to the other but they like what we're doing and for that reason i think we've been successful in leveraging more resources from them so we'll continue to do that one other photo we're participating in is again it's a federally funded project sponsored through dcjs called ceasefire really the idea is to minimize gun violence in the community and so we're targeting parolees coming out of prison who where identified as violent offenders we're bringing them in for a meeting as they get out and the first meeting was actually last month we have eighteen parolees it's us it's the us attorney's office the district attorney's office and ex offenders kinda who have been there we're bringing them in and tell em look this is our community it's your community it's our community we had enough okay enough with the gun violence it's gotta stop you're here because you were identified as a violent offender if this continues this is what's gonna happen and i'll tell you the message from the us attorney's office you see jaws drop because once they get into felony and the they possess a gun or even a bullet or a part of a gun an inoperable gun a bullet's as good as a gun federally so the message from this us attorney's office really hits home so this was shown to be successful in chicago some others around the country and again we've been one of the few areas in the state that have been selected by actually it was back in april the mayor were out at the capitol when this was first presented in competitive process and us albany maybe two more places were selected to participate so that's what we're doing now as far as our goals again we're gonna continue to target part one crime reducing it by ten again we're doing the right things i think with some of our strategies with our ddacts and expanding that to scope number of outstanding warrants has been up hadn't come down a whole lot so i've already discussed this what we can do with some of the agencies involved one being a the court we've got a number of take traffic violence for example or even traffic misdemeanors warrants are being issued and we talked about possibly suspending the license rather than issue a warrant and even to reduce the number of warrants being issued now there are other ways to address people not showing up in court for people committing certain fences we're going to go through and reduce warrants by at least thirty of this year again by doing a number of different things one other thing one of our goals is to and i may have hurried through this but i'll expand that a little bit and mentioned today reduce our house antics by twenty five this was prepared last month when we met a few times trying to identify an agency that might help us on the collections through their experience typically tickets that are one to five years old or twenty to twenty five of the tickets that are one to five years old are collected on through any sort of collection efforts so we again as of last month when we prepared this there was nine hundred and fifty two thousand three hundred and eighty nine in tickets that were one to five years old we expect to be able to collect twenty to twenty five of that tickets greater than five years old through collection processes typically ten to fifteen of those tickets are collected so we expect to collect between thirty thousand nine hundred and four hundred and forty one thousand now there's a cost associated with that obviously about twenty commission so this is one thing we're looking at but even after that commission we expect to collect between twenty four thousand seven hundred and three hundred and fifty three thousand so that's one thing we'll be doing we're looking to do some other things with towing and some other things but i'm not ready to talk too much about that yet but we've just done some things differently through the course of the year and as i said one of our other goals is to cement our application for accreditation by year's end so hope we'll have a successful year and talk about next year what our successes has been when all these goals will have been met so any questions well you're right we've got one so this one says chief this one says assistant chief we don't have money to buy two badges congratulations and thanks very much thank you very very much okay so if there's no business to come before government operations okay i move second all those in favor aye aye call to order claims free items anything not executive session no i have a motion to go to executive session so moved second all in favor aye aye we're going into executive session