and number three a resolution to extending the moratorium on taxi medallions discussed in committee without objection and consent i did member for a number for resolution authorizing the mayor to apply to new york state for funds for a mohawk harbor visitor center and vessel dockets and that was discussed in committee without objection and consent i remember five a number five a resolution endorsing the museum of innovation and sciences vell park project resolution requesting new york state to impose stringent enforcement of fireworks laws i was also discussed in committee without objection and could send item number eight or number eight a resolution requesting schenectady county legislators to repeal the law allowing number fourteen under con contract and supply resolution accepting the better than awarding the contract for the schenectady municipal golf course improvements and that was discussed in committee without objection and consent nothing else come before the city council ferrari seconded by mr cocksure all those in favor and we are urging i will now call the city council meeting to order for monday july eleventh two thousand and sixteen and i'll ask that you god of all we thank you for the opportunity to gather together to day to do the work that makes this city a community they are conversations with one another be gentle and our disagreements  may our intentions be honorable and we ask that you would guide and direct this meeting so that it is reflective of wisdom productivity and respect for one another for good work to do for goals to communications presented to the city council for monday july eleventh two thousand and sixteen under official from the mayor list of appointments to the july eleventh two thousand and sixteen a letter from chris wall and city engineer dated july eleventh twenty sixteen recommending the award of schenectady municipal golf course improvement contract to enter golf under general there are nine hundred petitions there are no thank you in regard to committee reports this porterfield money set aside for benches carries three park there's been twenty seven thousand six hundred eighty dollars allocated land in terrace park twenty two thousand seven hundred forty one dollars and seventy eight cents south ave park thirty two thousand five hundred thirty four dollars and aside to do benches and fencing in parks that that is needed so that is how the allocation this year of two hundred fifty thousand dollars for the recreation advisory commission has been recommends is spent thank any other committee reports mr ferrari with from the new york city department of public service the north american numbering plan administrator and the that ministers area codes has advised at the five point eight area code to be out of assignable telephone numbers by the end of the first quarter of two thousand and nineteen therefore the department is going to be conducting a series of informational sessions and a public statement hearing to seek input comments from the community there's a meeting that's could be held locally on thursday good evening to the smart city folks agenda item number four authorize the mayor to apply for new york state funds for mohawk harbor visitor center i cannot understand why the city would want to apply for funds for anything but i don't think the mohawk harbor is the right on broadway and two of us are station and round it like a colonial williamsburg nannie operation lived in that area for ten years i was bringing my experience to the city secondly my version for them mohawk river was an aquarium and at the last meeting a councilman mention that a america disabilities act you're required to make sure that all government programs services and activities if you gave regulate are made excessive and we need to know exactly how many of the tax pads are there that are accessible but the ramps so forth that are built into it we also need to know exactly how many of these taxi cabs that are outside the area they were coming in so we need to know exactly  where those are some of the things because we've got be able to understand how we can go from here from schenectady to the airport to give you an example going from the airport from my house to the airport i go from schenectady the airport it cost me thirty at the airport so i'm saving over twelve dollars almost twelve dollars by having the meter itself so these are some of the things that need to be taken to take a look at when you're looking at having no authority and then the also too is that under the visitor center in the docs we're supposed to have a cost benefit analysis of what's happening how much money is the develop put in how much is the grant and how many jobs are going to be produced by and we haven't gotten any of that information the state kind of controller asked in two thousand and nine and said discussion in the neighborhood yahoo group about fireworks and and the issues that neighbors were raising so i'm actually just coming here in support of the council for the efforts to work with the county or with the state to curb the use of illegal fireworks to pose a fire hazard in an urban neighborhood such as the stack a were destruction of a store on homes would be tragic and also related to injury to neighbors for me i'm here was legal or illegal devices is also a concern support your efforts including for slant public service announcements well in advance of july fourth about what would be considered legal safe you in any ordinances that can be enforced for noise is excessive so thank you for your i do not support the resolution for the greenwood between the museum of innovation and science with dale park i don't see any contiguous  entrance there and in fact i think the union card cemetery might be in the way and i might remind all of you in case you don't remember the day in there has been set fire twice an outlying area since some people are referring to is fireworks as sparklers the other night the factor was it was absolutely way off  i'm i'm i've been there seventeen years i'm accustomed to people breaking these laws put the burden factor i came outside i ended up at veterans park from veterans park i could see four different locations in hamilton hill where the it was setting off fire works i mean  elevation roman and bowls or anything of that nature for sites in hamilton hill there were another two sites over around brand franklin and the college area and then i went back to my humble abode which to my window on the second floor i can see directly over to where the proctor is i don't know how they were doing it number eight has me agenda item number eight hold for roll call agenda number eight a resolution requesting schenectady county legislators to repeal the law allowing sale of fireworks in schenect in that twelve and a half years we have not seen affirmative action nor have we seen jobs created you guys have the power but you're not in the force and that's where the problem is and that's where we need to take a look at you have the roundabout that just went into effect over three million dollars of federal money you had erie both of our that went into effect over fifteen million dollars of federal money you're building houses that are town houses that are not even affordable nor accessible i mean we have this looks going in a city you're creating heat microcosm of a get rich area and screw the rest of the neighborhoods and that's the problem that we've got and until you can start addressing the needs of the community we're going to continue to have it the exact and the times you just reported out of two or fifteen cities we rank number two thirteen in the highest crime rate in the state there's only twelve cities that are better stronger than us the only other city  stronger than that's worse than us is albany and they were ranked that to about two thirteen or so so you know i mean what's going on we have to be able to create jobs and if we don't we're going to continue this pathway you're saying we have to hire maracas years we don't need to hire more officers if we create more jobs and less people around the right on the thing and if we create more homeownership which is what hides requiring in some of our neighborhoods we're only at forty percent homeownership rate you know to stabilize a community you need to be at sixty percent homeownership rate but if we keep building not accessible houses we're going to be out we're going to be in the same worse condition that we are also to is that where it's at two hundred two and a half million dollars it went into the general fund but where is that money actually going you know that's where we've never had accountability thank you thank you mary maclean my baby brother is a retired policeman he was on the police force for twenty years one day while walking his beat alone took them and ran out of had on my car to say thank you for what they do for us every day we all have stories that are smiling thank you thank you august two thousand and fifteen she had her sidewalk black tie completely around the corner and in front of her house which is you can see the foam and city ordinance and  n follow up on it and she was issued a citation and nothing ever been done about it i went to spring down here and i asked about it and said it takes a lot of time so i've asked again i've been here several times through code enforcement and engineering and they are just good to run around and say we're working on three weeks ago she had brought it up was for us on that cover council toward you that they were discussing money or something like that i think you brought that up and you know the meeting i'm not mistaken has been going on for six eight months carol telemarketer that we want to get make sure you focus on the excellent art that we're going to have by many professionals including group those from groups like oakland artists and art in the garden makes this a very unique garden tour for those being offered in the community so we we hope that folks will come out and support it includes two sculptures one by george rickey and one by  thank the city park folks that have that have always been supported us with mowing and picking up the trash and we also want to thank the many volunteers in the sponsors of this event who make this possible this year the spent several thousand dollars and public gardens in riverside park and it warrants indian we contribute twelve of doggy bags to keep the neighbor neighborhood safe and we continue as an organization to raise issues and preservation and provide support for street skate improvements especially options for residents improving sidewalks in this very walkable neighborhood so we invite all of you to come on saturday or on some friday afternoon or on saturday and sidewall from erie to very it's a very short distance i don't see why we have to have contracts let out for each block of sidewalk that's being done i believe got these vaults in the street but that was taken care of to my recollect a long time ago by the grid and also when proctor was doing their heat system so i think somebody really needs to check on that also many times i've complained about there is a parade of people that drive wheelchairs and i'd like to go on liberty street and go under the trestle on the wrong side of the street into a blind traffic it's terrible and nobody talks about that but it's also been since one in that trailer was higher and it went under and went about ten ten feet before it stopped and its roof was peeled back well since the cab was shorter than the trailer the driver appropriately unhooked is up and took off so in the meantime somebody called somebody and we had a he had gone to his company and call to see what to do about this so they sent somebody out to hole the tractor trailer back out but there were over one hundred pictures taken not one appeared in the and they get said not a single one i was looking for but we only got the story because somebody braze the issue of the safety of the trains on that overpass you thank you the city staff especially operating engineers for the cleanup and the repairs done in our parks i was over at hill first monday morning  the overhang kind of shelter where they feed for free lunches for the kids that got damaged but rich wall snack was there and bob to feeney and they they came to the conclusion that it could be repaired which  that sustained quite a bit of damage to one of the fences on the tennis courts but that's getting cleaned up now so that's good so overall they've done a good job that was something that just came out of the blue with that storm and we did we had a lot of damage central park and all a lot of our parks on top of everything else a lot of trees went down so it's good to see city staff came together good job i did ministration getting things going in and getting things cleaned up a back to normal that's an extra strain but it's something that just happens and there's nothing you can do about it but i am happy that we have some good operating engineers of the city garage could welders these guys to work that a lot of times we don't know about repairing snowplows and things like that and it's it's really their service is invaluable to keep our our machinery going and a lot of our structures calling so it's good that we have people like that with that kind of expertise and i just want to give them a shout out for the good job that they do care of i'd like to say thanks to the affirmative action advisory board for having for hosting rivers casino to come and be provided informational session last week regarding m w b e s minority of the next few months and then the lights will go on leading up to that bill there will be surveys that are be taking so you'll be encountering the ambassadors who will be going around the neighborhoods taking surveys asking people how they feel about the breathing lights project how they feel about their neighborhood and it's not confined to one neighborhood the houses are spread over various neighborhoods throughout the city so you may have a neighborhood bastard coming up to you asking about how you feel about the neighborhood so we just encourage people to take the opportunity to answer that survey will be doing a post a priest survey a during survey and then a whole survey so it's going to be a period of time over which they'll be doing this this friday is summer night here in downtown schenectady from five p m from five p m to ten p m there will be entertainment there be vendors it's for those who have never attended can't imagine how many people that could possibly be most people have been i'm sure it's quite an evening of fun and you know of a time to for families to come in just really to have a good time in downtown schenectady so we just encourage people come out and joy themselves in them at the end they'll be fireworks that will i think that for me anyway it's difficult to realize the tragedies that have happened and not just you know talk about how it's it impacts families how it impacts our community how it impacts our officer michael cole those seven lives are intertwined whether we want to think about it that way or not and as a community there's going to be a community conversation this wednesday at mount baptist church but just to talk about what's going on and how it impacts us and how it impacts our children because the kind of world that we live in now it's just not where it happens because the minute something happens when you see it on the internet or you seeing on t v it impacts our children impacts our community so the community conversations going to and sixty eight park avenue the community conversation will take place thank you  many the issue of fireworks obviously is a very serious issue however the right solution to ask the county to repeal the sparklers really isn't going to address the issue of unfortunately people who are really interested and purchasing sparklers are continue going to continue to purchase us they're going to go to the surrounding counties and purchase them secondly the real issue again is the illegal fireworks and and that method really isn't worthy of schenectady it's time for us to really start writing a new book a new chapter that's why i introduced the resolution to ask the governor and attorney general and the superintendent of things to trick state troopers to strongly enforce the law now that it's been unanimously passed i will be contacting urban centers around the state sending them the resolution and asking them to pass similar resolutions and put pressure on the governor the attorney general and the superintendent to actually enforce these laws and enforce the laws of moving the fireworks across state lines marketing and the actual sales this actually may have an impact unless the state repeal this law which is very unlikely so with that in mind hopefully other urban centers will also  register resolutions and we can pressure the governor as well as other state officials to enforce the law should you want to you could call the governor's office at four seven two thousand again that's seven seven six two thousand and i would really encourage everybody who has issues which i think everybody in this body does have an issue with the illegal fireworks to take that u also i would like to  really look at and commend the mayor as well as the staff as well as this the city employees for the work they did with the trees in central park as well as well first i went to the parks both parks as well as fair few couple times they just looking at the amount of trees that were down it was really impressive what the weather did it shows the force of nature  and the amount of destruction of the trees was incredible and just how quick the staff really went about things and got things cleaned up was amazing and they really should be commended as well as the mayor so thank you very much came out help their neighbors in terms of removing branches cutting things up moving it out i think we generally have pretty much all the tree to breed cleaned up to maybe still a little bit  as mentioned next friday night it is summer night it's always a great community event where people come out to get to see some old friends hopefully make some new friends and enjoy some music great food in the community church will have the form this wednesday night and hopefully it will show schenectady guinn is a leader in that where we're looking to build on our strengths in not play off our differences in create animosity and tension where it doesn't need to exist because we've seen just a series of tragic events across the country and i will tell you they can happen in any place in any time and i think we're fortunate here where a number of years ago we started a much more detailed in in depth background check and screening process for the hiring of police officer where it's a complicated job it's a challenging job in we want our employees to have that skill set to have the tools to have the training to be able to respond to any situation in they it on a daily basis really perform at a level that should make the residents of this community proud we saw that again we can go friday with our paramedics with the fire department the police responding it's not shooting situation but a natural disaster again can challenge people and put people's lives at risk just as much as some of the other events and so i can compliment the staff thank the residents of the city his motorcycle from albany to buffalo and that was to raise awareness for new legislation that a passed at the end of session tyler made sure all of our viewers know about it in polling women as to why they did not get their regular screening for breast cancer there were two factors that they stated one was time and one with money and so the new legislation has the requirement of our clinics and our hospitals staying open at least four hours outside of normal monday through friday night or five business hours so evening hours and weekend hours and also now all mammograms or any follow up screenings that are necessary there is absolutely no co pay so there is no excuse to get screened and get your mammogram annually also this thursday in vail park we did have a rainy day last friday so our family movie night will be this thursday believe the starts at one p m and with regard to the oak street bridge it wasn't about money mr been and what it was was that we were waiting for in track to get back to us with some changes that we made they did get back to us we needed to make some more changes we've already made those changes gotten them to amtrak and i believe corporation council followed up with them today to see what their view of those changes was so it's more holding the plan of the oak street bridge and i know that where we're on it very diligently and i believe we're in the final stages at this point but we do we do want to cross our fingers and say we're we're moving in a forward direction we're in lastly we had a couple of pretty serious accidents on broadway over the course of a day or two and i just want to remind everyone to please pull over for emergency vehicles that interchange with eight nine p m broadway and emergency vehicles getting through that cord or at rush hour or whatever the case may be is really quite challenging so please please please do your best to get as far old for that you can and so that our emergency vehicles all over the city all over the country really can get by safely and that is also i will ask for a motion to a