fall the city council caucus meeting to order for teens twenty fourteen we have one public hearing listed on the agenda but we are canceling that we need to do some more research into the topic before we go ahead with that moving then to urge original consideration of kirkwood read number one item number one the resolution confirming appointment of members to the affirmative action advisory board all right without objection on consent involving property located at twenty five sixty five albany story also discussed in claims without objection on consent item number six item number six a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or she wary brought by draper development l o consent i don't number eight item number eight a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a claim by kerry and mill him again discussed in claims without objection on consent item number nine item number nine a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or sure where he brought by a cone family investment partners lp involving property located at four twenty six franklin street on sun claims without objection on consent item number ten item number ten a resolution authoriz of schenectady to settle a claim by brenda long without objection on consent item number eleven item number eleven a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a claim by david m paula gone again without objection on consent item number twelve item number twelve a resolution recognizing the twenty fifth anniversary of the music cavan world class concert series this will be taken out of  heads martin luther king jr once said that everyone can be a great service during the day we needed to do was to have a heart full of grace almighty god we x that you would be with and your glory and help us to be more concerned about one another and less concerned about self that we may be able to grow into the city that you would have us to be in jesus name amen i ask him on a goal of to lead us in the pledge of allegiance right we have one out of order resolution recognizing the twenty fifth anniversary of the music even world class concert seri your resolution recognizing the twenty fifth anniversary of the music cave and world class concert series and permission to leave the floor thank you just so you know way back in the sixty's i played on this stage there when i was very odd so i see that's part of the resolution whereas free music has been a long cherished tradition in schenectady central park and whereas the music a big concert series now celebrating twenty five years representing world class concerts in music cavan and in one nine hundred fifty but twenty six foot wide and twenty foot deep stage replaced the bandstand to continue to offer free musical performances and whereas in one thousand nine hundred nine mona call up approach then mayor karen capital region to travel the world one concert at a time with artists from various backgrounds performing at the park's venue and where as eventually the elements began to take their toll in the active but aging stay age was in need of replacement and where as fundraising to build a new stage was initiated with a two hundred ten thousand dollars grant from the new york state department of parks recreation and historic preservation one hundred fifty thousand dollars grant from the schenectady foundation in the name of agnes s macdonald a one hundred fifty thousand dollars gift from the william and a stele goal of foundation all combined with generous contributions from the right family foundation and schenectady county legislature among numerous other organizations and individuals and where as on twenty four summers music ace haven has established itself as connected as premier outdoor performing arts center bringing world class international and regional talents to schenectady under the leadership of volunteer producing artistic director where as two thousand and fourteen marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the agnes mcdonald music cavan concert series bringing the joy of music to a most grateful public now therefore be a resolve that we call on all citizens to join the city council  this is a tremendous honor it's been a pleasure for the last twenty four years to have music be a summer home for artists from around the world and around the country and to welcome anyone and everyone who wishes to join us to enjoy an evening in a distant land right in the heart of our city our crown jewel of central park i invite you to join me there are four concerts left the season on sunday evenings at seven and i thank you so much for recognizing me and so many others who have worked to make these concerts possible over the years thank you thank you all right we will move on then to approval of the minutes from both june ninth and june twenty third twenty fourteen ok favre i communications and petitions communications presented to the city council for monday july fourteenth two thousand and fourteen under the category of official from the mayor of appointments dated july fourteenth two thousand and fourteen general there are none under petitions there are no thank you for health and recreation on the agenda tonight is something that we've been working on for the last six months the affirmative action advisory board so i like to take this opportunity to thank the mayor for that we're able to move this forward in making those appointments and also to thank everyone who submitted an application to be on this there was some concern initially that we wouldn't have enough and when then we had the exact opposite there were just an overwhelming number of people who are interested in serving so i'd like to say thank you to all of those folks that we made some changes in the code because it's obviously save the city a lot of money so i just wanted to bring that up i'm glad that that was straightened out because it's a problem that can happen to a lot of homeowners where a corporation is clogged scored in my i applaud that thank you thank you any other committee reports right if not we will move on to privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda i have two people signed up the first is jason plank by nearly forty six percent i mean this is the area of downtown that you guys from both the city in the county leadership claim that you pumped in eight hundred million dollars with the new investment that means this property should appreciated in value should a deeper shaded over the last five years and to reduce the property tax assessment by forty six percent counterarguments your economic development for the downtown area i mean this is just a slap in the face to the city residents we need to do more of this about this there is also another agenda item in there where the attorney on another piece of two thousand dollars slight means down the city's budget is twenty three thousand dollars out of whack already just on one property how many more of these losses do we have to pay back because they've overpaid in their taxes on the how much of that money are we losing how much money are we do we have to give back i mean this is i mean this puts our budget our city budget in a hole so and if you figure that you're doing all these properties at this kind of a cut know between twenty five to fifty percent for these developers you're asking the homeowners who are not creating to pay the whole lion's share of the thing so we need a reassessment leave you guys on a positive note i'm glad to finally did the appointment on a from an action board thank you very much and all the hard work for marion porter field for getting the board moving forward i'm asking that the affirmative action board please start working soon as on jobs the first i think that would be the priority one we have a seventy percent unemployment rate for personal disability for the last where the dead last in the county and i believe that we could be able to do some good work there thank you very much thank you affirmative action here and i could say dogs on a person with disability if anybody knows what it's like to have a disability it's me and today probably the worst day in my life i had to go to my doctor's and either prescription pill   i ended up having to release the doctor and get my old doctor over and i was hospital actually rehire a doctor this is a terrible thing for a person who could fall down and have a seizure many of you know my medical situation here my point is a form of action most people think of formative action just for people color i want this group to know that affirmative action goes for people with disabilities told to sit there and have to hire a doctor or a new doctor just to get in papua each probably most people don't even know what to drug it is ok it's just a narcotic and my it was because  script was four days past due over at c v s pharmacy you think the pharmacy would spot me for pellets no it was too much so i spent my day at the county office building calling different doctors and like i said four more months would be my regular day so they could bill my insurance company give me an exam oh ok then give me the script ok and then i could give it to my new pharmacy but these are the kind of things to happen all the time and i would like to of action board sit there and deal with people of everybody because you know what has it doesn't matter if you're democrat it doesn't matter if you're republican people just treat each other terribly today and you know we're all human beings and we should be treating each other nicely i mean politics aside we don't treat each other nicely anymore today and if you have a disability if you have diabetes if you have cancer if you epilepsy it's all today we have got to start treating each other with some type of compassion and this board was a step in the right direction thank you you thank ms mclean did you want to speak on the legislative agenda and a high premium on education the academic background of those who are being considered as members of the affirmative action advisory board tonight are very impressive i think the person who chairs the survived the reward should have the same the level of education and talent as a smell as i've witnessed the evolution of this committee over the past several weeks the process has and still is flawed recently in a state of michigan decision the says green court declared racial preferences on acceptable in dealing with plea head consequently a lot of well qualified people are passed over so just my neighbor a freelance photographer for national geographic who came to america from bangladesh also schenectady has a hindu temple why didn't council prepare some from the hindu population and is there a smaller minority than an eighty year old position at eleven dollars per hour seasonal work gallery another male position golf course cashier eleven dollars an hour seasonal work deborah female golf course cashier seasonal work nine dollars per hour for members for women on city council approved a salary last year of two dollars less for a female over her male counterpart the purpose right here folks look into your cells before you throw stones at others thank you thank you i have no one else sign up simon to declare this privilege as a fork closed and we will move to approval of the legislative agenda mr ag moves that seconded by mr cocksure all in favor i thank you and he had basically had put out a graph that the homes that he was seeking was a little over fourteen hundred dollars per month including property taxes markets and everything else and that it is the cheap price that you can buy within the c district area well the banks say approximately thirty percent of your mortgage is supposed to be your mortgage taxes and everything else so that would put it at approximately twelve hundred dollars per week a salary that puts it at about sixty thousand dollars per year the average salary here in the city is about thirty one thousand but some of them are step saying between thirty six thirty eight i'll give the benefit out i'll take thirty eight then you also say that the county employees c s a is about forty two thousand per year and the city c s a employ employees are about forty thousand that means seventy percent of both the labor force and within the population of the city is connect the cannot even a qualified for one of mayor's nice well homes at fourteen hundred dollars per month saul i mean this is one of the reasons why we need to take a look at the the assessment we also need to take a look at the taxes and everything else how could you say that fourteen hundred dollars a month is a great buy when seventy percent of the population nearly seventy percent population can't even afford a bank loan for these homes so you know i mean when we talk about affordable and accessible housing we have federal money state money we have metroplex money going into the glassy project on alcoa building all these affordable and luxury talent houses we have the tallaght that built luxury townhouses right on the backside of proctor's by the by the new story liberty tower there and we've got more luxury towers going on there on the lower in the state street how does that pleasant asserting that forty to forty five percent how can these individuals move forward you know when we're all looking at all this together we did not we need to have a fair housing we need to do instead decision and we also need to look at how we're going to be able provide jobs to the community thank you thank you m whatever they want because their hold on it came out that night and saw them destroying a property it would have been something different everybody who would have had something to say ok like to thank kathleen more for the sunday july thirteenth the daily gives that article she wrote about the crane street corridor and thanks to peter for the photo and credit actually goes to some special may fourth month pleasant clean up day volunteers  who delivered the cigarette butt cans and crane street and kathleen thank you for comparing our efforts to those mirrored by metroplex you could not have given us a higher honor let's add a movie theater and a game arcade to the list of businesses that the merchants would like and crane street a sports equipment and clothing store and an ice cream parlor to the list of businesses we'd like to see fill our empty storefronts and invite regular in for free ice cream cone next i'd like to schenectady basketball club for taking on the kindergarten through eighth grade future basketball players of orchard park which is open to all schenectady k through eight basketball players the sign ups are increasing the kids are learning the basics and interacting with each other in an admirable way volunteers are also welcome to join the saturday morning and monday night practice scrimmage and games thanks to local one hundred six union members who put the basketball pole and back board back in place in time for first sign ups john would a very well provide details of our saturdays bike repair and save child idea that thank you thank you harry brand and residents can make the i don't know what we have for plans and priority in the city but the good condition of all of our streets is for absolutely deplorable i can understand the tearing up and paving there the street was terrible all winter then part of it was torn up for several weeks now thirteen weeks counting this week and it hasn't been repaid drop off edges on both ends it couldn't be smoothed out even that i don't understand where our prior sark are merriest be the summer years ago are we doing anything right ms city and i don't see very much except downtown i just drive over i go forward boulevard during all the look at union never know it was never done right two years now and it's got cracks both things are patched up what is it we had a winner there the whole winter when there was snow in the ground you had to drive over  line no matter which way you want to that's supposed to cross the summer line are you a solid center yellow line but that's the only way you could pass on that street do we need to make some of these streets fire or these one wa but nothing happens here you've got to have an accident somebody killed before you do anything i don't blame the workers hell the half the time during the convenience stores in the drugstores getting your cigarettes and and coffees all over the city i don't know what their work hours are i don't know what their break cars are it is not for me to know this for you people know and do something about let them go home early winter jobs finish holy mackerel i never heard of anything so overages of my life there's nothing nothing can do they can pull weeds you got more room city hall you can't even treat the farmer's market fair you have a garbage truck rusted out in a river in the collection box sent here from city hall from friday to monday morning there's no other garbage trucks to move in a farmer markets around the city summarized i'll tell you what you want to wake up or slow grow up or do bot you get this city right for the citizens and the taxpayers fear it's a shame thank you pastor priscilla terr  at the beginning of the year i was notified that our property was up for closure but believe it was march and later it was notified it was july but at such time in february i went down the city hall  to the assessor's office with a minister of my church and a fellow pastor in a community i ended up starting at the assessor's office and at that time the assessor walked to corporate counsel at that time had asked was asking for an extension because of circumstances relative to our have any difficult time getting through the bureaucracy of how to apply for tax exempt status did become tax exempt status i believe in two thousand and thirteen which was applied to two thousand fourteen but we owe taxes i believe from ten and eleven and twelve if not eleven and twelve at the time i asked for an extension because of the circumstances with the city would not participate as such evil of closing a church he said at that time that he he pulled up the records he indicated to me he could see that the taxes we became tax exempt he could see that the property went into the church as a name and he said he's not sure at that time if he could alleviate all the dead but he said he did not see it to be a problem in regards to have a name extension or something worked out he said he hoped he could relieve all the debt he would try to but he was unsure if he would be able to do that he said he would get back in touch with me after he spoke with the appropriate person and a few weeks later he called me back and he said that he spoke to the appropriate person and they could not believe the debt but that they would give me an extension to twelve thirty one fourteen at which time he indicated he was send me a letter after several weeks of not getting that letter call his office back again he said for some reason lot of letter was returned verify the address and he said another letter would be of sent when i didn't get that letter a call back again at that time there was a regime change assisting corporation counsel rachel ward and i spoke to her about the situation she said there was no she didn't see a problem with it being honored and then later after spoke to her again she said that they denied it so i'm asking for a city council to be able to support of this in this endeavor to be able to have the city honor its word if anything else so i'm just hoping to get some support so the church doors doesn't have to close a seventy on over us being misinformed or whatever the situation it happened thank you ok when the meeting is over if you would talk with our corporation counsel mr holster that would be helping thank you bob sanders duo was between the union and the city my twenty two year old nephew pointed a water gun at a street sign from the cabin of his truck and he got the book thrown at him in the state of new jersey a schenectady police officer randall shows his revolver and an american and retired with full benefits he can live another forty five years there is no way he can put into the system as much as he the cash was based on a document that did not apply to the job he was leaving i told her that document and read it another employee retirement thirteen and padded this kind of shit with forty thousand dollars worth of over time work door in his last year of city employment wh you i have no one else signed up so i'm going to tear this portion of the meeting clothes will move to miscellaneous business of the council of farmer's market in bellevue thursdays from four to seven and last week they started bringing corn and the corn was very good so i just want to give that a little plug because it was very good mayor if you could update us on the oak tree bridge i had some people ask me about that when i was at the mount carmel feast this weekend so if there's anything that we should know or that we don't know i know when i'll to design stage but i'm not sure what happened with that if we got about for the community and for the church i want to thank carmen to paul and george rose for pop warner they do a great job they are in need of money they had a fundraiser this saturday a chicken dinner fundraiser which helps but they could use some help financial help to keep that league going that league is very important for the city of schenectady without question for the youth of schenectady they teach a lot of things they mentor in a lot of ways sin and as far as what marvel brought up the kids running wild while those kids obviously are playing in the schenectady pop warner league because they are they do teach them about what it is to be a good citizen so this is very important if anybody wants to donate contact me i didn't bring carmen's number with me but if you contact me i can give the contact information to donate to this leak it's very very important for schenectady to keep this league going and i think they handle somewhere as we tween five and seven hundred kids between cheerleaders and the kids that are playing and that's amazing you talk about volunteer ricin that's true volunteer is some of these people are really into it you know and they do a great job and i just want to let everybody know how important this organization is to the city of schenectady we can't let it down we can't let it fall tour because it's  important that the problems we have with kids today it's as awful it's been brought to my attention there was a special needs child that was probably i'm going to guess he was thirteen fourteen years old and he was lured into quackenbush park after school in june and he was beaten up by a kid it was filmed commissioner bennett they did schedule an appointment there was an answer and they know who the kid is but that the perpetrator was twelve this is what society has come to a kid that was defenseless to watch this i don't even know what to say it's really heartbreaking to get something that we should really really take pay attention to and really be afraid of that this is what's happening it isn't just our city these things are happening but this is what society has come to there isn't any respect for anything whether it's people's property whether it's people's the person's whatever it is serves no respect and we can't have that that again that incident was just it's so troubling and so heartbreaking to watch i don't even i'm without words on this boat we certainly need we need think that's why these things are so important mr sanders what you brought up i did talk to marion about this i think this board firman of action should also it be nice if we get up with somebody that at least understands the needs of people with disabilities because that's also an important part of ferment of action and i did speak with mr porterfield about that so i think in the future i know this is a board in progress because we can add to it and i know we have some concerns  about other groups being added to this i think it should maybe we can get a tool for somebody that can fill two spots at the same time i think that be a good to look for so what that i thank you for your time but really we have to we have to try to take control of what's going on with with just what society in general but i would like to see anybody that can contribute to belmont pop warner please contact me i'm on the on line a website and i'll make sure that i can get the right contact information for people to donate thank you thank you thank you just a few public service announcements electric city bike rescue free bike repair and maintenance saturday july nineteenth from eleven am to two pm at the bridge a christian church at seven thirty five five green street also in a parking lot i encourage folks across the city to attend these events these events are sponsored by pleasant neighborhood association thank you thank you thank you first of all i'd just like to clarify something that was said at the rail today with regard to the affirmative action legislation and certain groups are were asked to be represented i just want to clarify that the way the legislation reads is that the individual who represents women's interests disability disabled interests does not name specific minority groups it says someone who represents those interests now i know that most people run to that that  means that if a person is going to represent minority interests they would have to be a minority not necessarily so so or or disabled not necessarily so so i want to be clear that the legislation does not name specific minority groups and names for an individual who represent specific interests so if anyone wants to read the legislation it's certainly there to be read i just want to make sure that people are clear on that and when we asked for people to submit their resumes that is the information that they also received in terms of what we were looking for i want to announce that there's going to be a in the exam for the new york new york state court officers the filing perry does from june nineteenth through august fourteenth two thousand fourteen you have to apply online and there is an online application fee to do that so anyone who is has an interest in becoming a new york state court officer the opportunity is there now only through august fourteenth and make sure th coming to talk about various things going on in the community he was a very involved community worker so reverend and store is going to be leaving the area moving on to do other things so mr cocksure and i will be going to the the service that sunday morning at ten am at met macedonia in colony to present him with that resolution but i just want to be able to stand and say that you know the work that he did that's going to stand he worked with a lot of groups his health was such that he was not able to continue that but still he stayed in touch by phone and you know if you need advice from him he was there to give it and those of you that know very be in store he just had a such a wonderful way of putting things he gave a little humor to it but you got the point so  we're certainly going to miss him being here but we we would we wish him well in his future endeavors and are grateful for the time that he did spend it's connected thank you thank you know ok that bridge they're doing to try and work a valuation that reported come back hopefully it will be within budget so that we can actually start the renovation and rehabilitation of the bridge so that our goal is again to get it open as quick as we can and i don't know exactly when that report is due back but i know they're working on it and they've been directed to do it as an expedited manner as they kim thank everyone who came out first summer night it was a great evening and the weather was perfect great individuals family oriented crowd in just hope everyone got to enjoy their evening and they can reflect on the good juvenile drug gun on him turned out to be a b b gun but again the officers acted with a high degree of professionalism a high degree of restraint and  ended again without anybody getting hurt without any horrific outcome but it's again you know people have to assume a little bit of responsibility for their children we want people to have a good president and i too would like to commend everybody involved a summer night the idea of the sandbox was just amazing kids were having so much fun and it was a great