right i'm going to call the city council caucus two meeting to order for june twenty third twenty fourteen if the clerk would read the first item on the agenda item number one under final consideration and ordinance amending chapter one sixty seven of the administrative code regarding commercial property inspections and we are going to pull this from the agenda we will revisit this in a couple of weeks item number two i don't number two in ordinance amending chapter two ten of the administrative code re certificates ok we had a public hearing on this so at this point without objection on consent item number three i don't number three an ordinance amending chapter two forty eight of the administrative code regarding oversized vehicles we also had a public hearing on this without objection and consent i don't number four item number for an ordinance amending chapter two forty eight of the administrative code regarding parking meters can without objection on consent i remember five am number five under original consideration and ordinance amending chapter one eighty six parks and recreation introduce only with the resolution calling for a public hearing regarding changes to chapter one eighty six of the administrative code regarding fees for authorizing the sale of two nineteen brandywine avenue discussed in claims without objection on consent item number nine i don't number nine a resolution authorizing the sale of for fifteen summit also discussed in claims dash to dash six point one and also again vacant land without objection on consent i don't number thirteen i'm number thirteen a resolution authorizing the sale of sixteen sixty four foster avenue also discus authorizing the settlement of attacks or proceedings regarding one sixty one j street also discussed in claims without objection on consent item number sixteen number sixteen a resolution authoriz settlement of attacks or sherry proceeding regarding the forty four hampton avenue also discussed in claims without objection on consent and then we have one item for unanimous consent a resolution proclaiming june twenty seventh tw fourteen as a new king of the hogs day in the city of schenectady all right is to move and would you move that all right seconded by mr erickson all in favor i and then to move it to the consent sporting field all in favor i ok all right if there is nothing else to come before the city council caucus i had this portion of the meeting close family moved on to the city council meeting right we have now out of order resolutions we have no public hearings and at this point i will not ask for approval of the minutes the draft minutes are available in your packets but as you can imagine with all the people who spoke at the last meeting it's taken the clerk's office a little while to pull that together so they will have that for us in a couple of weeks so again the draft minutes their communications and communications presented to the city council for monday june twenty third twenty fourteen under official from the mayor a list of appointments stated june twenty third twenty fourteen under general there are no one hundred petitions a petition asking the application for a gaming license to the people who live in and around the park that we would like their input on this it's talking about increasing the lighting in that part of the playground equipment perhaps creating a fenced in soccer field and instilling handball court so if anyone has any comments regarding that especially those who live in tents into the park they can call vicky at three seven two six four six nine again it's vicki at three seven to six point six nine if they have any input about those  a search for barry says has been the case and i know some of the council people are very concerned and i am too i think it's time that we should at least start discussing doing a rebound in the city of schenectady because there's people that are prepared parent paying a disproportionate share of their taxes because some people are granted relief from those that don't grieve they're not granted relief so it shifts the burden on to them those people i think it's time and i'd like to see it  and a committee cycle soon at least for discussion and get it to the appropriate committee where we can discuss doing a citywide revile maybe one won't need to gather all the information again has we did in two thousand and eight but i think it's something that's needed and i think some of my colleagues feel the same way because it to shift the burden every time we grant relief to someone like we are tonight that need to shifting the burden to all those others who don't grieve so i think it's something i would like to see discus committee at least try to get the ball rolling thank you thank you anyway else all right if that case will move to privilege of the floor regarding the legislative agenda i have three people signed up to speak jason like free for the landlords to be able to get it and i think it's totally wrong that the city is now taking this over and the only excuse they had was that the city is much stronger than the than the section eight vouchers  if that is the case then you need to do it every single year just not the first year so i just think it's just a shift in a cost another one is the agenda item on the on the audit itself basically stated in page seventy that you're complying with all federal and state regulations in regarding contracts and so forth and you're not you have denied the affirmative action for both minorities first when disabilities are completely not even dare you not even meet goals you're not even even discussing it we have been asking for the last eight years for an economic disparity study and having and even be gone we've asked that there would be a change in the contract with america to  and i believe it's totally wrong and totally illegal there the city council at any point in time on affirmative action cannot interfere with an investigation they can ask for an investigation but they cannot interfere it's part of their article seventy eight proceed under the executive branch they could ask for that for the results of the investigation and nels results then would turn around and be made public so therefore the it city council w need to go into executive session and so at this point this is regarding the legislative agenda yes it is on the legislative agenda and it's going back to the original piece because we're not allowed to speak last week so this is part of the legislative agenda from last week and it's part of that peace and under and i fossil contacted bob freeman you're very well aware of public media law you've got to be able to have some kind of peace and that's where we're at and it's part of that alleged dave agenda and it calls everything else what you're doing tonight it goes with the arctic with the action and so forth you have to be able to come to an agreement of having an open dialogue it's called part of your south valuation and a part of that cent and even the city council members have asked for thank you thank you david someone's not doing their job and today you head on the legislative agenda of your parking meter legislation and those amendments were filled with so many grammatical and syntactical eras heads sentences without verbs it head just that it totally consistencies about what term it would use it said can when it meant may just things that i mean a high school dropout would be embarrassed about what's less a lawyer saying i've read this and it's ok so i just don't know because i told i've i've written to you guys and i said that this particular piece was a jumble it was just a total verbal mess and it came it came in the exact same way it's not just the corporation counsel's job to make sure the statutes read in a way that parse that the general public can understand what it says it's your job and your job and your job and your job and yet nobody thought that oh well mr jack looney what would he know about how to read a text and how to read a statute and so once again ignored i wasted i didn't waste it i spent my entire day writing rewriting what you just passed to night and i hope somebody will look at it and say you know what we should have changed this because it's so i'd be thrilled if i don't have to see you guys in this room for another year or two and just see you at the park and say hi and thank you thank you mary maclan certificates i have read the pronoun for runoffs certificates letter and on page ten reads exterior property areas clean and free of garbage refuge and other conditions which may threaten the health and safety of the occupant be included with every inspection if the grounds i see many beautiful places last week i was in the didn't they section of town that i did not see one scrap of paper and that is not exaggerating ranchers need to be responsible as homeowners we all need to pull our weight because we all live on this planet cope the litter problem in the city and council should vote for the change thank you thank you all right have no one else signed up to speak asked in the past and so one things i found is that occasionally some of the questions that were asked which i think are very good relevant questions sometimes were not within the scope of the audit and  it puts us in a situation where i will that wasn't conducted yet is a good question so how do we verify that these things are being checked so that is my opinion that going forward we should probably have the council involved and maybe putting in our p d get there so that some of the questions we intend to ask would be included in the scope of the audit and it might make the process coal a bit smoother next time around but that being said i think that the audit has good results i think what was involved the scope the audit came back positive and the city staff and the finance department are defined job and so i will vote yes i'm understanding more has her going along but i do have some questions on amortizing our retirement fund this year which we did we kicked that can down the road but it is what it is and you know the audit was positive i'm kind of concerned if that surplus is actually a surplus but i vote yes on this leaving all just want to say here i am once again speaking from washington street spring is passed as winter and summer i was told that we're going to get some accomplishments to see anything but i do have to say that today i ran into some difficulties with a quarter forstmann i have down to see say that the supervisor respect his were very polite very professional and i explained the whole situation to myself on i know a lot of people come up here and want to criticize and it's not fair  because a lot of them when they come down our street even though it's considered a hill whatever you want to call it the two senators are probably really picks up the trash i mean they don't spill it on the street anymore like very extremely difficult some of the cuts are up to your kneecaps so you know we need to be able to maneuver yesterday was on june the twenty second was the fifteenth anniversary on  ohms that decision and the city still has not done a study on affordable and accessible housing and it continues to accept applications for townhouses luxury houses and so forth and we still do not have affordable accessible housing within this community we still need stead decision we still need to be able to have some kind of portion of that put together to piggyback back participation get trying but that's only half the story she's only doing her job she's still in violation and then to say well we put out a application for digging ditches you know laying the pipe that's only half the story you still have a flat person you still have somebody who needs to drive a truck you still need somebody to make payroll you still need somebody to site you still need a human resource person to open for at least two hours a day for every day in the contract period they can keep their pool but only two hours a day if they want to i mean that's not fair and what use it a pool to syllabi to its members and invite these other didn't general public so in other words they could keep it open for two hours and then invite their friends down i think something's wrong someplace and this  and they were supposed to have from an agreement sixty days before it of fourteenth of june i don't know if there's any agreement you know if they contact you people last year  every year for a day camps and stuff for kids to go down i'd like to know that you're not i didn't speak on the casinos last week because a couple weeks go to a few people here but i'm totally against it and like the i thought the garbage trucks were supposed to take brooms and shovels worked up from the curb in the middle of the street the whole mess of garbage looked like a back broken the truck was way down they never picked it up and coming out of the garage it al screwed and there's holes on asp eat there to i couldn't believe i mean if somebody could check this out i mean that they use that street all the time to go by their mean no i wish somebody would check that out thank you thank you schenectady and my complaint is about the trash in that area it's really bad you know the people next door throw trash in my yard soon as i clean it up my brothers here he could testify that soon as we clean it up they put more trash down on the side of the house landlord that owns that house he put a panel for you not to go into the alleyway and there's nothing but trash back there he should pick up a lot of debris and so the best way he covered it up so when i speak to him about these things he does not give me any kind of response it's almost as if i'm not saying anything to him you know but he does talk about the people that live there he has fear of yeah of addressing the problems to them that they might do something negative so this is  ongoing thing it is really sad because and i they get out of their cars and they put trash rain on the ground from from inside the cars and so along the street when it rains or snows and everything like that you can see all this time rain really fills up in an area called a lot of flooding very easily so that was my complaint and i'm just wondering what i could do about that because i also live there at my address and i also have a business i'm a hairdresser so i have customers coming in and out looking at the trash as if i don't pick it up but pick it up they put more down one day there was a lot of the ticket all over  because i don't smoke so there shouldn't be any cigarette butts read up on my steps you know i can't get over this but it seems like the more you try to speak to them about it the more i rate they get so that's what i'm dealing with and if i can get any help i appreciate it thank you beauty shop and soon to open our abode seek a clothing store a cellphone store a bar and the diner will open soon under new management as i work to gardening around some of the trees and crane street this past saturday i witnessed micro businesses homeownership and home repair as well as not for profit projects this has encouraged at least one lady who is interested in starting a cottage industry we still need a veterinarian a peg or a dentist an accountant lawyer small manufacturing these are examples i think we can thank some of our city officials for the increased activity in filling our empty shops we need to improve however the response time to loud music complaints  our residential areas when we purchase a home the deed usually comes with a covenant of quiet enjoyment of one's property a recent incident took at least three hours of neighbors calling the dispatch center even reaching out to the sheriff's office to be told there were no patrol cars available not till about one a m did an officer become available to pay a visit to a home from which the booming and extremely high decibel of noise them unaided we don't blame the police officers who  responding to more urgent matters they're frustrated also but when children can't get to sleep when neighbors are threatening each other when good people are at the mercy of those who do not respect the rights of others there must be a better way perhaps a neighborhood watch or exhilarate police perhaps through public announcements the laws are there to be obeyed it's just a shame we don't have the before resources to enforce them we need to come up with a better solution and i just want to put a plug in for a meeting to at the mcchesney room main library from one to four how do people get food in our community i spent a lot of hours this past week doing mom pleasant resource directory for this is well as physical activity resources and so anyone who wants to go to that can say may have got the r s v p information here from this one thank you thank you david logan i said i didn't want to be here but happened to walk by one of the new parking chaos last week and i'm a little worried she  twenty years i told the city that new york state has a rule a law that specifically says no city may make it a violation to park at a broken meter you have an interesting new wrinkle on the kiosk if the meter is if this meter is broken you must go to another meter and get your receipt there well i was standing over by a single bar and if i wanted to get a receipt i would have to walk to manhattan exchange and then from all the way back to wherever my car is and put it in their own that seems a little bit extreme and it doesn't seem to be in the spirit of it you may not give a ticket to it to a car park at a broken meter the other thing that i noticed course is that they're all saying a dollar an hour and there are an awful lot of people who are going to be pretty shocked that it went up you know quadruple in a vast part of downtown schenectady last year i said every city that i looked at that has done this has told wherever is going to set the fees how often they can raise it and what percentage they can raise at any one time and i bet none of them said you can go up three hundred percent once please talk to people like filling all bart and find out what it's going to do to his business they have a dollar to have dollar meters in front of his place that didn't used to have any need to get to spots it didn't have any meters now they all have meters and it's a dollar you can't just go for a quarter you got to be the dollar delhomme and he said to me why aren't they helping union street i have to compete with those liquor stores you know he sure does and i think a lot of a lot of shop owners are going to be pretty mad but i think a lot of the public even more angry people are going to be parking in up in whatever free spot they can find something to be parking at stores where they really aren't shopping they're going to be parking in the library lot even though that which is always filled anyway even though they're always done so i think that we're seeing that the mayor may have proud of still slow but he did he's not going slow when he's going up three hundred percent at one time in dozens and dozens of spots in the city so once again i hope that someday this council waits a set of policies and guidelines for how rates may be reached by the mayor thank you thank you mar i am really really angry over this plea deal given to the rogue cop and anyone who had recently i told you that two of them are union carpenters another one of my nephews paul also degree and i just have one announcement and oh well first of all i'd like to say thank you to everyone on the city staff that donated to the project that the young girls from mount pleasant did first step to the girls school in uganda we did have a box or shine the donation is seven dollars per person or for children under twelve because they want them to know history it is free for additional information and the press can call three four six zero four two three again that number three four six zero four two three thank you thank you anyone else schmidt brought up about the loud music there's been an ongoing problem and they are pro temp commissioner i c c two on an email i sent this morning there's a store it's on the corner of chrysler and or what avenue without it it's been ongoing there's an elderly couple that lives just about right next door and when people pull up to the store they leave their cars warming to leave their radios blasting and they're really having a hard time sleeping and what not i think chief kilcullen talked to the manager there but apparently i don't know what they can really do but i think we need some enforcement there i mean the husband has a world war two vet and he's had all the memorial veteran's day affairs that we go to and i don't think it's fair that someone from the greatest generation or any generation should have to put up with this nonsense i know it's ongoing throughout the city and we are short staffed or we need attention to things like this especially when somebody that's a true senior citizen reaches out and ask for help they don't know  are prisoners in their house they can't move right now i mean there are probably mid to late eighty's and then we just want some relief they want to be able to sleep at night in peace and not have i mean there's a big problem with respect we all know this with the lettering and everything there's a major problem with respect for other people throughout the nation maybe throughout the world i don't know but we're interested in what's going on here in schenectady and this problem just goes on and on and on and we don't seem to see relief literally all over the place or happen the street is just a mess albany street going right down the hell it's just it's awful it's awful we need some enforcement i'm afraid that's what happens the penalty isn't first met with out  force meant things just go on and on and on i know i've talked about this before and i'll talk about it again because without enforcement of anything else that we have on the books we were just spent on our wheels you know we want to have a nice city want people to move here we want people to send their children to school here so i would be a life is the most important thing for anyone whatever it is is quality of life and most people they put up with quite a bit they're not just people complain about every little thing that goes on but these issues like this especially with the nice weather they seem to manifest itself to where they are today so i would like to see i don't know  commissioner what can be done with the steward situation but i like to see some at least somebody talk to the manager again and i don't really not sure when somebody i guess they could put a sign up turn directions off turn your radio without help probably not again we're going to need i think we're going to need some some enforcement in that area when this thing is going on so maybe the message should get through loud and clear but it's just something that a kind of take your heart away from you when you talk to people that i've lived here all their lives and the really good people in this community that have to put up with nonsense like this mr fowler to call this your problem i don't know if you contacted anybody on it but it's kind of i that's another kind of sad thing and i kind of lost on it but i know there were numerous in their taxes right now but they can't sell the place either because the basement is full of water so i don't know what happened in this development but i keep hearing and even their insurance company says that it's due to the development that happened next door so they're kind of innocent victims in this to this thing played out and it's a sniper sad situation that happened her to continue want developing i don't know simply doesn't seem right to me about this that they're going to continue developing when there's obviously drainage problems with the development that they put up it's another business that's been there a long time the union and now they haven't paid their taxes because they're frustrated and they don't know what else to do i think the city probably think they have told august first what i do from what i understand but fire but i think they should and i think we should be extra cautious when we allow this developer to continue but the one thing he's causing problems i have to say it makes perfect sense that if you've never had a broader problem in your basement  says that's the problem so i don't know what can be done about it but i think we have to be extra cautious in the future and really look into things of this nature  this weekend than it was it was well attended it was very good and i don't know who when it went inside the church there but it's kind of sad to see what happened to that church with the fire and they are going to rebuild and it's going to take a lot of money and they do have a fund set up  for people that might like to donate so if anybody doesn't have their number contact me or probably any other one of the council they can put you in touch with the people to donate to this one because that's one of the oldest churches in the city  folks as well in addition to all that and as i imagine the free lunches are starting monday as well where they had all our area parks so rather they begin at eleven thirty serving and they got all the way through two o'clock in the afternoon so  fifteen plus years there's been no parking on the north side of campbell avenue and we worked through the council mystery myself actually one met with some of the neighbors and visited so we're now going to have parking on both sides of campbell  number which will be right for more the park starts all the way down west down to twelfth avenue i believe it is and that's going to fill up about fifteen sixteen park spots for folks previous years we only had parking on the south side of campbell avenue and believe it or not it was only parking for three vehicles so it made it very difficult for our young families who will bring the children to the park to ride unload their children and park near the park and what they're doing believe it or not is parking in the handicapped park inside the park area itself because we just didn't have any other parking available so well thanks to the council for the supports and of course you had john crucial for working on that for us and i think that's going to a big improvement to really get some some good we are maxed out at two hundred students this year and all those camps begin on monday but certainly contact the youth bureau contact our office if you need any additional information folks are out there that most folks do have scholarships or sliding fee be in conjunction with the boys and girls of the schenectady and we have an outstanding young lady name a sheila dixon some of you folks might remember the name of our schenectady high school one day she was a division one is the division one basketball  you anyone else ok i started to say they are mccarthy was at the conference of mayors down and doubtless and ran into flight issues coming back today so commissioner bennett is here with us commissioner anything you wanted to say no safely back in town oh it's ok and i just wanted to announce on monday june thirtieth at eleven am we're going to be having a neighborhood code compliance review you kickoff this is going to involve schenectady police fire code enforcement as well as the animal control team this will also be the start of our dog numeration kickoff so hopefully many of us can be there and that this is a good thing if things go on for the summer and if there's nothing else i will entertain