i'm going to call the city council caucus for feb ninth twenty fifteen to order the clerk would read item number one consent item number three item number three for original consideration an ordinance amending the schenectady city code to amend the zoning and select parcels on state street and brandywine avenue from c to mixed use commercial district to p m day planned mixed use development district introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed ordinance for february twenty third two thousand and fifteen without objection on consent remember for item number four under original consideration or a resolution accepting the sacre findings for mohawk harbor without objection on consent item number five item number five a resolution authoriz item number eight i am number eight a resolution authorizing the sale of two forty one third street it appears as ninth avenue in the agenda but it's correct in the resolution without objection on consent item number nine item number nine  haven't discussed in claims without objection on consent item number eleven item number eleven a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or sherry for forty brandywine haven't you also discussed in claims without objection on consent item number ok all right let's try when we get to it and if she's not hold it ok and then three items that were discussed in city development and planning tonight of number eighteen item number eighteen  resolution authorizing the sale of ten twenty one pleasant straight without objection on consent item number nineteen item number nineteen a resolution authorizing the sale of six thirty five mcclellan straight discussed in committee without objection on consent and item present right we have one possible out of order resolution is jenny carp in here and ok then we will hold this for two weeks we have no public hearings i'll entertain follow on that but we expect that to be up and running around spring time so any you know payments to taxes or whatever the case may be can be done so on line now so stay tuned for that under government operations in that same vein we've been talking as a council for quite some time about interest rates for homeowners that you know fall on hard times and may fall in arrears temporarily and the council has decided who are going to education initiative because really if you keeping up with your payments little by little it's a tremendous difference in how the interest rate accru so we will be putting out some information in pamphlets going forward which will dovetail very nicely with the addition of the on line payments are good and the other committee reports porterfield thank you for health and recreation believe it or not we're starting to talk about things to do with the parks i know if you look outside today you may not think that that's something that's on their mind but it is so we're going to be having a meeting in  here at city hall the room will be confirmed health and recreation will be meeting there is a group who will be coming to talk with us some of the things that they'd like to see in the park so we can start preparing ourselves to get ready to do the improvements that need to happen in our parks so thank you it's nice to think spring and the other committee reports are right if not we're going to move back then to the out of order resolutions d resolution recognizing jenny carpets extraordinary acts of kindness and generosity you have as lord thank you whereas jenny carpenter resident of mount pleasant nursing student at schenectady county community college in cashier at wal mart in r was working on december fifth two thousand and fourteen and whereas on that day miss carper was checking out an elderly customer who did not have enough money to pay for his groceries and food for his pet and whereas instead of making the customer turn the item she could not afford to miss carp and pay for the groceries and pet food with her own money and whereas after another customer noticed her act of generosity offered to reimburse miss karpen who declined the offer citing store policy which prohibits employees from accepting money from customers and whereas at no time did miss carp and seek i q later reimbursement for a good deed and whereas the public would not have become aware of the occurrence before wal mart's management who contacted media outlets and whereas later while being interviewed miss carpet explain that what she did was no big deal and that such acts of generosity should be done every day and now therefore be resolved that the mayor carrie are mccarthy and the city council do then this past december and seeing that she's going to be a nursing student i think she's really going into the right field with her compassion for people and it's really extraordinary in these times when then is there any discussion ms porterfield yes with regard to this particular part of the legislation i'd like to make a motion to the amend this legislation by removing section two sixty four fourteenth h three which currently reads electronic sign display cannot make change more than eight seconds unless otherwise authorized by the planning commission given the fact that we just passed the tonight but by the the comprehensive legislation that covers it all over the city for the eight seconds this really makes this duplicative and unnecessary i'd like to point out that it does not change the intent of this legislation in any way and actually makes it more effective if we need to change this particular rate of signage all of the city would only have to make one change to the legislation that we've passed tonight and then that would apply to everything all over the city so for that reason i'd like to amend that we've removed it from the legislation they are second mr item for consideration of the local law think i've just been told that when we test the amendment that also passes the original motion so we're good so that that's all right we will then move to privilege of the floor regarding city business i have three people signed up to speak joe rodrigue from albany i missed recently met her and i was very impressed by her talent i was frankly blown away by her courage if you could use the word for a woman to go alone into that region of the world with a camera and walk around the west bank and capture this type of story bring it back here for us to look at the stuff i was really seeing a film really educated me and i learned a lot about the issue really kind of changed my mind knowledge of the issue profoundly so i decided to help her distribute this film i've been down to the islamic center i spoke with members of the  center everyone is invited this is a free showing it's open to the public as one one of the members of the mosque put it muslims christians jews atheists you're all welcome there please come i think it's a great chance for people of all different in all different backgrounds to come and talk about an important issue in an environment like that like i said it's open for the public but it is also a fundraiser because it really is trying to raise money to distribute the film herself lobel lead and entering  want stuff so it's really open to the public but if you'd like to donate to the cause feel free again sunday february fifteenth at the islamic center of the capital district twenty one lansing road because i got a little time you know when i sit back and i go this year i have not seen it in hard copy that doesn't mean it didn't take place i'm saying i'm not aware that you were reelected for another year i have read your book i think i've told you that before concerning your concerns about the differences of a community college as opposed to the traditional form of education which was either a four year college or what was called at one time a junior college community colleges are recent  evolution trying to meet community needs and some communities that have chosen technical colleges for a while others have chosen a community college segue into a four year program by choice but they were to have met the community needs and to be run by the community coming   how it was being implemented so that while he was still alive anyway they went over to mr parker's version i see mister  of madame x that you have anonymously chosen for your own convenience sakes i don't care for it and i think you need to do something about it i also want to address my june twenty sixth voyage to the city that has yet to be responded to looking for certain records that i know have existed for many many years as many as fifteen years here but now they vaporize with a new regime that the records have vaporized my for you has not been responded to the and the information i was looking for to my knowledge is missing thank you thank you and just for clarification i was elected last year to a two year term so i have no one else signed up to speak on privilege of the floor regarding city business so on that it clear that portion of the meeting closed and we are going to go back there's been a little discussion up here about the vote we do need a motion to pass the amended version of the the proposed local law this porterfield second mr porterfield move to amend the local law by just deleting that section related to the eight seconds because we've already passed that and what we passed a city wide so it's redundant to have it in there so what we did was we then approved the amendment her amendment and now we're just voting to approve the actual local law now that would you approve the amendment now or approving the  and they went very carefully and methodically through the process and so i just want to recognize the hard work of the planning commission because they don't really get the public recognition  this project is one hundred fifty million plus project by a developer who has left a trail of success all over our city and it's really been pivotal in turning the city around and has done quality fabulous projects and therefore i'm happy to vote i was part of thank you  also like to just make a few comments because you know people send e mails when they have questions and they want things that too to be addressed and so i took the time to look at not just what's happened here because i have attended the plan planning commission meeting zones for our meetings  but been able to find out a lot of information which i found extremely helpful in making my decision and in addition to that i decided to take a look at similar projects across the united states and there's one place in particular  baltimore inner harbor which is you know a development along the along the water and that some places i've been so you know i know what it looks like and all that so and taking all that into consideration the success of these particular projects across the united don't present after giving this thoughtful consideration in time and speaking with many of our many people of our community it is imperative for us to look toward what will be rather than what was yes thank you i just feel like i don't have enough visual concept the what this monumental zoning change is going to be i just want to talk feel and see it and i don't feel like i'm capable of making this decision without being able to do that it isn't that i don't trust the planning commission it isn't that i don't trust trust the developer on this but this is a monumental zoning change that we're approving tonight and i just don't feel i qualified enough to make this without being able to see it i'd like to see things and i don't know why this council has empowered presented with renderings to see what this looks like or a model to see what it looks like with the signage and what not because that's what we're approving tonight and i just don't feel comfortable with that at all this is a major major zoning change and i don't feel comfortable with this i don't have enough information i don't i haven't seen it the planning commission that's going to be up to them what they do i did ask for a little change and that got shot down so it's to be sure that the planning commission won't have this so at all that i just don't feel comfortable with this at all i hope this this project is very successful i don't have a problem with any of that but i don't have a problem with voting on something that i'm not able to really visualize what it's going to be or see what it's going to be we were presented with some signage from  from illinois and the square for total square footage of the signage that we were shown was about four thousand square feet so that's nowhere near what's what we're approving tonight so i'm not comfortable with this whole thing again if you really want to embrace me then show me what's going to look like so without that i'm can abstain on this thank you but mr motive aaron motion is carried the amended motion i just wanted to announce that there's going to be a movie this friday at the high school with called the end of summer and it's in it's own with a black history month and it's about the civil rights movement one thousand nine hundred sixty four in the civil rights nine hundred sixty four and the person who wrote it is a local person the daughter of surely reedy so it's free so everyone's he invited to be there and i believe it starts at six thirty and if not you can find it on the web site for the city of schenectady but again it's a free movie and it's an historic of some historical facts in there and written by someone who actually grew up in schenectady so it's always exciting to have someone who appeared to come back and to be able to present these things so thank you i believe there's also going to be conversation with her at the after following the movie so yes that anyone else missed friday two things about the president first of all thank you carl for the wonderful representation she made for our millennial council which will be having its second meeting on wednesday at six thirty here and i'd like to invite anyone else who is interested between the ages of eighteen and forty yes the group has upped the age range to forward the resume to myself and to attend our second meeting on wednesday also a new business has opened up on upper union street this morning cupcakes offering good goodies for those  are hopefully not on a diet but it's a young two young entrepreneurs who are making a difference in our city and i invite everyone to participate in our tasting what they have to offer thank you very good an madam president i just want to remind people again we've been experience some snow last few weeks in the city and please don't plow snow across the streets to knott's below snow blowing to the street and not shovel into the street it just makes it much tougher for our guys to get their job done and you know just be considerate i think is the thing i want to announce that the gulf you preservation meeting that was scheduled for this thursday february twelfth has been cancelled due to weather in the cold but i do want to say that the farmer's market sponsored by bellevue preservation is looking for vendors to participate in the market from june to september if you're a vendor and all of a vendor who might want to join this growing market please call three it is the senior enhancements that are due march first i know that for a fact and last year we were all required to do the star exemptions on line but once we have done that last year we are no longer required to do that it's just the seniors who are receiving the enhanced now they have to there will be a second meeting this wednesday at six thirty at bridge christian church at six thirty five crane street so people who are interested in giving their input into how the c b c g money should be spent or want to talk about projects for their community are invited to come again at six thirty five crane street bridge christian church thank you thank you anyone else had conversations with stephanie rowlands blake who's the america baltimore talks about you know that significant development of inner harbor in the good things that have come out of that and how that's changed really the image of  opportunity to have conversations with michael nutter the mayor of philadelphia who i don't think personally is necessarily a big proponent of gambling could not speak highly enough of the rush gaming team in terms of their commitment in their follow through when they said they were going to do something in how pleased he was with the end result in the casino that is in philadelphia that they run so it gave me a level of confidence again for the decisions that we've made the team that we've put in place in the project it's moving ahead in this community it's mr ricky pointed out we've had a little bit of snow  we're probably going to get a little bit more tonight the crews are generally staying ahead of it if people do see problems feel free to call my office or the hotline  number when you're out shoveling your sidewalk one shovel on each side of a fire hydrant opens it up in the unlikely event that we have to access it but it's better to have that clear than have a fire department personnel wasting time