stations public airing number two regarding downtown special assessment district two thousand and sixteen budget public airing number three regarding upper union street bid two thousand and sixteen budget consideration an ordinance authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds of series two thousand and two two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight discussed in committee without objection on consent item number three item number three an ordinance to re appropriate the twenty sixteen budget discussed in committee without objection on consent i remember for item number four resolution authorizing acceptance of police traffic services program grant new york state governors traffic safety committee discussed in committee without objection on consent five item number five a resolution authorizing execution of the lease agreement for bavis hill property discussed in committee without objection on consent item number six item number objection on consent i remember nine item number nine a resolution authorizing the sale of five twenty one five twenty three seneca straight discussed in committee without objection on consent item number ten item number ten a resolution authorizing the purchase of two sara properties for demolitions discussed in committee without objection on consent item number eleven item number eleven a resolution appointing christopher mastery any to the upper union street did board of directors discussed in committee without objection on consent item of the twelve item number twelve a resolution authorizing settlement of a claim by jennifer cost to discuss in claims committee without objection on consent item number thirteen item  l say at twenty one sixty five technology dr discussed in claims without objection and consent i remember fifteen item number fifteen a resolution recognizing the month of november as epilepsy awareness month we are taking this one out of order mr as it will present that item number sixteen item number sixteen under contract and supply a resolution to accept the bed in a ward the contract for demolition and debris removal for select vacant buildings discussed in committee without objection consent item number seventeen item number seventeen a resolution to accept the bid and award the contract for furnishing supplies and equipment for twenty five fifteen for the water department discussed in committee without objection on consent and the remaining objection on consent item number nineteen item number nineteen a resolution authorizing the sale of forty two western turn western parkway without objection on consent i don't number twenty item number twenty a resolution authorizing the sale of twenty without objection on consent i'd number twenty four item number twenty four a resolution authorizing the sale of four sixty three manchester road without objection on consent item number twenty five item number twenty five a resolution authoriz sale of eleven twenty one chrysler avenue without objection on consent and item number twenty six item number twenty six a resolution authorizing sale of six zero three seneca straight without objection on consent there's nothing else to come before the objectives of this undertaking this evening or supreme divine calmly remove the shortcomings misunderstandings and grievances of each and every resident of this county and likeness so that we can always be conscious present right we have one out of order resolution for absolute epilepsy awareness month month  and sometimes death and whereas epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological condition in the united states with more than one hundred fifty thousand new diagnosis each year whereas the treatment options such as brain surgery nerve stimulation in prescription medication four out of ten epileptics still experience uncontrolled seizures and whereas the epilepsy foundation of northeastern new york has been at the forefront of epilepsy advocacy and treatment for the past thirty years in providing free programs and services to those diagnosed with epilepsy and their families including more than three thousand people in schenectady county alone and where as the mission of the organizations such as  wise is ultimately fight to find a cure for apple upsy and to help diagnose epileptics to overcome its challenges to community service education advocacy outreach and research now therefore be resolved the mayor and the city council here by pozen their deliberations to recognize the month of november as epilepsy awareness month and in doing so encourage the citizens of this city to better understand this disorder and promote epilepsy research programs that seek new and we have a special guest with us this evening brighton and she would like to say  my name is and i am nine years old i have nine can and i want to tell you about it i work very hard at school and i am very smart but sometimes i get very confused before we figured out that i was having seizures we thought that i had a learning disability not true staring spells or i spaced out and it looks like i'm not paying attention other people have different kinds of seizures seizures can be different every time they happen my first grade teacher thought there was something more happening in talk to my parents my parents are so grateful for her helping us figure out what was  aaron and my brothers branson and braden support me a lot i'm very lucky to have great friends thank you with the epilepsy foundation of northeastern new york and i've been set up before but this is a real deal to follow that is only my brother in law does stuff like that  e i can only say thank you again for for taking time out of your of your evening to recognize epilepsy i cannot think of a better spokesperson families friends as well as the person who has it we are very energized we've been doing this for the foundation's been around for  next year will be thirty five years of providing a lot of services and programs for not only people with epilepsy but family and friends and we are very energized every time we go down to d c because we didn't meet the people that are doing much of the epilepsy research and this year this past year when we went down to talk to the doctors and the research people there are many many things are very very close to maybe not get a panacea for it but at least to set us in a place where we go down and in a year or five years or ten years we will be able to find a cure and much of our activities in fund raising during the year  and we have several of them there's always a piece of whatever we get goes into the national research and we're we're we're trying to take care of the folks here  wonderful night and i'm just i'm so glad to have met you and said you were right behind me there it is and what a wonderful job and and congratulations to your parents as well because they done a great job especially with the ten dollars thing that said i would stick with that if you add to the deficit but thank you very much and thank you for remembering the epilepsy foundation right we had three public hearings the clerk read those earlier i have no one signed up to speak on any of them so i'm going to declare all three public hearings closed will move to the approval of the minutes from november  communications sprigs added to the city council per monday november twenty third two thousand and fifteen under official a letter dated november twenty third twenty fifth dan from paula find director of water and wastewater recommending the award of furnishing supplies and equipment twenty fifteen be awarded to ferguson water works under general there are non under petitions there are none thank you under have for health and recreation i just wanted to update that we had to read to to reese's regrets he come from the tobacco free coalition at our committee meeting this past week and we're looking  doing looking at some possibly putting forth some legislation regarding smoking around municipal buildings and how far away that you have to be it's something that the health and recreation committee will take the information that she's brought to us and look further into it to see about  putting forth the legislation around that i also want to mention that the there was an article that hud had put out that they're going to be having no smoking in all of their properties all over the united states so this is a trend that we're seeing happening all over the country and so it's an opportunity for second i think to be able to try to bring this legislation forward so we'll be bringing that more of that forward as we work on that legislation additionally this is and this is for employees of the city weight within two pounds of the initial weigh in again it's only for employees of the city but families obviously can support them in this effort i spoke with tiffany white today from personnel and she told me that three times as many people signed the this year which started this past friday as they have and years passed so there's still an opportunity for employees to sign up there there's a register away in day there are two left there's one tomorrow at the schenectady fire department from eleven to one p m and then again on wednesday nov twenty fifth at the again at the fire department from eleven to one p m so people can go register sign in way in they'll keep a confidential story about that part and in then in january they'll be a way out as well thank you thank you any other committee reports right if not we'll move on to privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda and i have no one signed up to speak to that song going to declare that portion of the meeting closed run of president city council america what the budget never thing else you guys have praise in that you've got it under a tax rebate and everything else but you get no response back of raise for the twenty sixteen this is you know this is another reasoning of need to take a look at why this is happening also last week we got a report back in from america just teachers saying well we hired we hired some whole bunch of minorities and so forth but when you drill down into it they were all temporary positions and i'm just looking at that and saying how is that affirmative action how does that improve the labor force within the city it doesn't i mean that's not given any permanent jobs if you're saying you want to improve the lives of hamilton hill central state street mt pleasant hope give them a job temporary jobs are not there and tonight you have done epilepsy awareness regulations it is also known as a hidden them off your head you just want to sit there scratch your head about twenty four hours because they are just itchy but bring alive the jobs and so forth anyway have a good happy holidays and good thanksgiving thanks thank you joy hall day we got us get this traffic a slow down on the streets they speed like on speed way and more actions are going to happen  street book hard to go so that's what the whole story is the goddess slowed this traffic down because i'm getting tired or seeing this every day somebody speeding somewhere for what they want to do such a big hurry little house hour early that's what you gotta do thank you good evening council members member carthy jim slinger with the the downtown schenectady improvement corporation and i just wanted to take a few moments to make the council members and the community aware of a few events that are coming up in the next few weeks here in downtown schenectady the first is small business saturday that is taking place this coming saturday november twenty eighth it's taking place all around the country but our organization for another year is partnering with the chamber of schenectady county capital region chamber and also the upper union street business improvement district on a partnership to promote all of the fantastic small local businesses that we have right here in schenectady so i invite you if you're free and available if you will be there tomorrow morning at eleven o'clock right downstairs in the city hall rotunda we're doing a press conference to officially announce small business saturday in the city of schenectady and we'll be talking a little bit more about this we have close to forty businesses that have put together some specials and promotions for the day so again that's coming up this saturday november twenty eighth we encourage you to check out the information we have to more with the press conference and also pleased to everyone out there in the community come out and support your local independent businesses this coming saturday and the other one i quickly wanted to mention was coming up on saturday december twelfth from noon to four right here at city holiday celebration this is the d s i sees free holiday event for the community and we've done it in city hall for many years and this again is from noon to four on that saturday and this includes everything from free horse and carriage rides around city hall we have free photos with santa claus down in room one ten in front of that beautiful fireplace kid's crafts where schenectady high school junior  students we've got the puppet people my side are to a stockade station dudly observatory free hot chocolate and snacks music and carolyn and we still have things that were adding to the agenda so again that's on saturday december twelfth from noon to four right here at city hall everything is free so everybody in the community come downtown that day and and get a great opportunity to celebrate downtown and while you're at it go out for a bite to eat or do a little shopping at downtown businesses as well thank you very much thank you and on the saturday and there's it looks like they're serious about getting those skating circles over in woodland park probably this winter and so that's good what what what has made me a regular here know i'm kind of polite should be a citizen overseer of the police department and the police department does a good job and it was it's a pray the other night and many policemen there and they were doing what they bennett rather than within the police union even though that's being challenged today i hope it stays that way but the additional the kind of oversight we need and i think the mayor nobody wants a new chief that's going to do data driven policing but i it seems like every two weeks when i stand up i have this laundry list of wonderful things to talk about and tonight is no exception congratulations to all in the parade was a great turnout i hear record numbers and also  congratulations to the hamilton hill neighborhood association for a wonderful dinner all right know everybody worked really hard and it was very very festive and wonderful the new doubletree hotel had their ribbon cutting last week absolutely gorgeous what an improvement on that property i mean it's just amazing it's really very very beautiful so i encourage you all to go maybe have some lunch or a cocktail at the bar and an experience what it looks  like also ring of hope had an open house and if you're not familiar with the ring of hope after it's an after school recreation program it offers a safe haven and supportive environment in the boxing and physical exercises and alternative to drug use and gang activity and it creates a positive support system for young people through physical training coaching mentoring and social support so if you want to learn more about ring of hope they're also always looking for support it's a ring of hope boxing club oh r g also last week i was able to tour the foster building very very exciting as we all know it's probably one of the most expensive  facades in all of downtown schenectady and for many many years it laid to rot so seeing that and you know to really get the full effect you had to hike all the way up to the sixth floor and i to the penthouse and i can say that it was well well worth it so they're actually developing from the top floor down so they expect very soon to be finished so there's a lot of work yet to be done but it really you  know thank you to mr buell for his investment in the city because it's really quite a project sunday the schenectady green market held a little press event to let everyone know that the through the generosity of the vendors at the green market this year alone they have donated six thousand pounds of food to the city mission in the regional food bank which equates to about fifty four hundred meals of local and nutritious food and i think that really needs to be marked it's quite impressive it's local people helping and giving to local people and i think that's a wonderful thing as jim mentioned small business saturday we all need to keep that in mind not just saturday november twentieth but all throughout the year i go to enough ribbon cuttings is enough new business is open in schenectady that i can say that it's totally possible to get all of your christmas shopping done with a small business saw encourage you to do that and even if it's not schenectady although i'd prefer that it was still i encourage people to shop local and shop small and then finally just happy thanksgiving to everyone thank you thank you and it's going to leave quite a hole in that place she's concerned and also some of her neighbors are concerned and i'm hoping that maybe the city can reach out and if they are leaving there's no way to stop them or to encourage them to stay maybe we can look to bring another entity has a c v s in there because they also supply some food stuff since it's kind of food parents and price chopper left there and they can get their staples there that you know short term so it isn't just for medicines or anything like that but there is some concern and hopefully maybe a city or department of the parliament can reach out and see what we can do to plug that gap there i also there was a rumor i don't know about that the trust call may also be leaving so i hope those things aren't true bellevue preservation in sponsor the community christmas tree lighting so on thursday december tenth the public's invited to the events beginning at six fifteen p m at george washington bellevue veterans park at the top of broadway hill to light the tree and place memorial wreath at the monument a special invitation that has tended to all veterans then immediately following their all invited to light the tree at st paul's a pest church in one thousand eleven fairview i have followed by a get together in the parish hall for refreshments growing i think it's about this big now so it has more than six lights not it so maybe this year it'll be a little bit bigger if some here were aware and i'm sure you are schenectady belmont pop warner they're moving on and there they need help to continue their quest to the eastern states champions to join images squad consists of twenty eight players and fourteen cheerleaders along with ten adults and one are one game away from the title right now they're going to play this coming weekend so far there are costs of a man with a thousand dollars and they will need an additional four thousand to complete this weekend please if you're able to contribute to this organization that has served the youth of schenectady since one nine hundred sixty most of us are familiar with george rose and carmen the pollo who give their heart and soul to this worthy program along with a lot of other volunteers who do so much great work for the youth of schenectady he can't even put that into any kind of dollar amount they really need to take care of our youth in and for good things so if  can run that little scroll that i gave him you can make you can check out the go fund me schenectady belmont a cow and contribute or send a check payable to belmont pop warner one eight three drums road schenectady one two three zero two that's belmont pop warner want eighty three drums road schenectady want to three o two in the olds phrase that i grew up with in the fifty's keeping kids in sports keeps them out of courts and certainly holds true and they do a terrific job i can't say enough about what they do and the people that they handle and that organization so is a cease and a giving right now and if we can give to this organization to keep them going i mean the step from there was florida and that be real expensive when i talked to carmen today he wasn't sure even if they win this weekend if they'd be able to make that trip to florida and a national championship so whatever we can do for this program it's well worth it and it's going to go to a super good cause and again everyone bless it and happy thanksgiving thank you it's part of you thank you i'm still angle from d s i see mention this weekend is small business saturday it's also black friday after thanksgiving shopping so there's a group of entrepreneurs it's not downtown but there's a group of entrepreneurs that have been putting together flea market in the cross town plaza mall which is their street in route seven it will be having it again this weekend on black friday and small business saturday  additionally i'd like to it was mentioned about the miracle and there is going to be a telethon this coming to a week from tomorrow on december first this was the brainchild of assemblyman angela santa barbara in his efforts to the street and so they'll be a live show a talented adds and surprise people that you wouldn't expect to see people can watch from home on public access channel sixteen and seventeen and also call in to make donations so if they want to know more about it you can just go to hash tag giving tuesday and find out about the miracle on craig's street it's from five to nine p m at the proctor stared theater in rob alley thank you thank you anyone else a thanksgiving please take a moment spend some quality time with your family and also if you can afford it please look out for a less fortunate thank you thank you anyone else you madam president want to thank everyone who either attended or participated in the forty eight hour day parade and saturday the weather was perfect a great turnout so one of the largest crowds that i've seen  probably a decade it was always a good event and just good things continue to happen downtown been mentioned saturday small business saturday it's a great time for people to come out support  small businesses in our community or throughout the capital district we also have successfully installed the six new playground equipment in the parks throughout the city work with the partners  woodlawn in the community build more volunteers came out throughout the really the city to help put that together it was just a great process and i thank the council for their support in putting the money in the budget in the parks and recreation advice re committee for doing all the coordinating and it really is making a difference in the quality of recreation that's available at our parks so thank everyone and one everyone to enjoy their thanksgiving and have a great holiday season thank you madam president i was like the echo everyone else comments about the good things that have gone on this last couple of weeks it's really been kind of neat and i want to just make an announcement about a special city council meeting   special meeting the schenectady city council public service and utilities committee will be held at five thirty p m on monday november twenty fourth two thousand and fifteen to be followed immediately by a special council meeting to consider accepting the bid and awarding the contract for snow and ice control plowing and hauling snow for twenty five to fifteen twenty sixteen or twenty fifteen twenty sixteen and also wish mr aczel happy birthday and wish everyone a very happy thanksgiving and on that note on