consent of gender number three a resolution authorizing the acceptance and allocation of seized bonds motion to approve i believe this was also discussed in committee seconded by council member king thank you all those who favor ok this number three will appear on the consent and gender number for the resolution authorizing the acceptance and allocation of  resolution setting administrative fees as it relates to the zoning ordinance ok also discussed in committee motion to approve council member of her as a second by council member king others in favor thank you lord how you woke us up this morning and dressed us and our right mind to start us on our way in and we want to thank you we thank you lord for the sight that we see in the hearing of the years and thank you lord for the voice you've given to us even as understanding of god given the patience of god's law that he may see that he may wonder in a law to do those things that are beneficial to us all but more so satisfying in one site father we know that you to give up strip to giver of life you to give of hope january third organizational meeting communications and petitions communications presented to the city council for monday january twenty third two thousand and twelve from the mayor a list of appointments general bellevue preservation inc monthly meaning thursday feb ninth seven march first ok just so everyone remembers that march first tax exemption applications are due for all the nonprofit so please get the m committee reports are there any committee reports this evening no committee reports saying no one committee reports are closed along ok next stop is privilege of the floor on the legislative agenda and it doesn't look to me that i have anyone is that i have no one signed up for the legislative agenda that portion of the meeting is closed mr x president knowing so what i think i got to hear ok now privilege of the floor on any item and we have many members signed up here first good evening my name is derek saying i've been living and working in this era for the past twenty five years twenty five years ago when i relocate here many of my friends in new york city why schenectady and i simply answer in one word opportunity i felt schenectady had quite a bit of opportunity and today at this moment i would consider this a great opportunity to address both the ex president of the the new president of the council the council members and our mayor mayor mccarthy i think but this chance here now a few weeks ago i was here when the council interviewed about  for deceit and you know from what i saw he was the only candidate that actually went through campaign and really fight and work very hard for that seat and i think everyone here in the city understand how much work and effort it takes to do that secondly i think john has a higher probability to wind it to next election to maintain that seat simply because his name is out there he went door to door i remember vividly it one day i says i don't know why you're doing this john it was like ten degrees out there and he was there campaigning going door to door so i commend him for that  one thing disposition the other reason is his work experience and his ability to run budgeted timely profitable projects in his company i think with that experience he's going to be an asset that this city and to the city council i also feel his link to many of the organization the community service that he's involved in the many events he's attended over the past ten years will allow him the opportunity to what i would say man and build and maintain some positive relationship between the city and its residents i know for a fact that he could do that because  you know i know many times people would come into city hall for different issues different reasons and they will complain because they did not get what they want i myself and john i know has taken the opportunity to explain to those people that we live in a lan law under certain rules and everything that we have to follow so we have been and i know john for a fact has been able to minimize a lot of conflicts or ill feel between the residents and the city john was also very instrumental to motivate about a dozen schenectady youths that actually build and run and is running right now a learning center in disconnected a hindu temple and i know for a fact that he has donated five computers those kids and i know every week he would meet them talk to them how things are going and he's very involved with them and my sixth reason actually is i feel he would bring very good balance that a council and i feel that's necessary given the diversity between the people the culture that has evolved in our city over the past twenty years again with that twenty five years have seen schenectady change over that period of time and i think you know with him being in the city council would bring good balance mr singh and he just summarized her right in closing here i had the opportunity to see john in a variety of settings and i would say he's always been respectful and is well respected in our community and again given the forty two hundred votes i feel the city is somewhat obligated to appoint him into deposition and again i'd like to thank you and everyone here here in spite of all the bad publicity i still live on hamilton here and i think there are better days ahead with this administration in power i'm the democratic committee member for it thirty eight district i work very hard to get everyone vision for schenectady not thinking of politics at that time however during this period of time he got involved in community affairs sponsoring and promoting various religious and community celebration in schenectady his commitment to civic and different community organizations are untiring john was encouraged by many citizens under democratic party to enter politics as their know he could make a difference bring some and fresh ideas to local government here in the city of schenectady the election of twenty eight eleven has cemented that decision by him receiving the endorsement of the democrats conservative independent and working families party john along with his supporters from all backgrounds beat the pavement days and night going from door to door for over six to eight months in inclement weather conditions  mind you sacrifice and time and effort to discard while securing over four thousand two hundred twenty one votes the public has spoken loud and clear who their choice he was outnumbered by third and i voted by a very well known educated prominent member of this city council i'm proud to say i'm sure he will work to make schenectady safer and prosperous he's coming from the private sector selected to fill this seat this would be an injustice to the people of schenectady in closing i'm saying that i think john is well versed knowledgeable he knows what's going on he has a vision for schenectady he can bring a purpose and you like fresh ideas here in this city council thank you thank you sir and i'm a resident of schenectady for the past thirteen years very happy resident sometimes i'm not happy with certain things but i do enjoy living here with my family i've known john byrne and his family for several years now john is an outstanding member of this community he is an avid member of the schenectady hindu temple of which i am an executive member mr singh said he donated the five computers to the temples learning he helps not only the hindu children but children in our walks in this community tremendously he is also the organizer or of the most of you know it as a spring festival celebrated here in schenectady bringing all kinds of people together under the wiley festival which is a festival of lights a cordon is the safety issues and also helps with the talent segments to see everyone has a good time and also he in the summer time organizes the cricket games of people here in schenectady one other thing that i like about john is that he works with the best they can both situations he works closely with them in their own environment goes into their homes help them to restore their relationship restore peace and helps in whatever way he can he's also instrumental in starting up the diabetic coalition for the west indian people they all prevent and kodos with diabetes and work tire lessly in meetings with all these people so in closing i feel john will make an excellent and valuable city council member thank you thank you ma'am he's capable of qualifying vigil who knows how to get things done i personally know that because as an executive member of gandhi's association he was or past president i know john would appear for several years now he's a dedicated vacancy his record and accomplishments strictly itself he was brave enough to run for city council seat four thousand two hundred twenty one people are knowledge that they went out of the job under from their homes and they went and voted for him i understand citizen of connect the and but appointing john would be rewritten as a city council in schenectady city thank you thank you sir city council members my name is david beriah i'm currently a residence of schenectady and also a real estate investor in schenectady i'm involved in numerous religious and he has a right idea to help move our city forward john is a permanent member of our community someone who is willing to help everyone he's committed to support local community organization to help the people in schenectady he's a professional in everything he does being his job and community service he will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the city city council due to his experience in his financial sector varian is a devoted husband and father he's raising his family in schenectady during our several years of interaction he's committed to see changes in schenectady john will be the best qualified person to fill this vacancy on the city council i strongly urge the city council members  member of president city council i'm also here to voice my support for john i have a few things written down while trying to keep this is short and sweet he should be given the opportunity to be on city council it's a simple decision he earned it he ran he got four thousand two hundred twenty one votes he should be passed up to somebody that in the event run for city council seat should be his he took a bold step to run election like he was leading by seven votes after all the absentee votes he was by thirty nine he should be given the opportunity he has a great background financially his family is in mt pleasant stable he wants to do what is best for schenectady he's got a brilliant picture of what the city should be and i think you should give him the opportunity to let him pull it through thank you thank you mr allen mister brand mana got through things on my mind about the city council and number one is this business with these people in saratoga county providing them with a car aren't they getting well paid to work in our city what are we providing transportation for in the first place let alone unless you ve four wheel drive vehicle i think it's an absolute disgrace to the citizens of this city to even consider it if you have a contract you better break it and break it soon tonight as matter of fact i'd like to see that happen that's an absolute install i thought we had a law in the books were employees were supposed to live in the city and what do you do in force for the taxpayers we have people here that can't buy medication don't have insurance can't get their food and you want to give these well paid employees transportation from the county they should be living here good for your called when they get here they get the vehicle and do their job and they i proposed before the election that no one should be elected more than two terms on this council and that's the way it should be and you ought to put that in our contracts we got so many here you don't live by our mayor has told me on several occasions you're paying all this money out to have cameras on all the street corners and wherever to go to city and you can't afford them nobody to watch them full time and you want to get these people vehicles on tell you you're completely out of line to even consider that and i understand i don't know if it's true or not stand that some of our supervisors get a five thousand dollar salary increase every year is that true what did you do about the fire station up on did you fix it up after was turned in unlivable you haven't done everything you haven't completed that one should look after all our city property and spend the money on that and fix things up this would have been done if it wasn't for the court system i'm telling you you're completely out of control and it's time you come down to earth and work for the citizens not the unions not the employees but work for the taxpayers and citizens in th city and stop this other nonsense it's out of control completely accidents we've got to do something to stop it and make all the players cross border walk light as they cross when a walk light is not on this is got to stop and address the speech made it very imperative that casino gambling probably come in reality we should propose a referendum to have casino gambling insidious connected that the residents can board on as a first we want to be competitive with other missing minnis apologies as you can see albany's got their hands out saratoga lake george an aqueduct so we should also get a piece of the pie we want people to come to schenectady and we want to keep the money here let us spend it where we're discs you know be to be along the river away from any immediate a residential area a timetable for this hopefully would be anywhere from two thousand fourteen to two thousand and sixteen the first step is that a referendum let us know of the residents would even be ok with a casino gambling too we need to research what requirements are needed from the state in new york so please consider casino gaming in the near future as it could be a source of income for our great city my second issue is a reason why i'm here regardless of party john wood to burn was the highest vote getter and i think they would be being a great asset to the city and i think you should give them a chance to work with you for the next year and lets the voters of the see disconnect you decide where they want him there after  and i spoke with him a few times and i like what he's got you know in mind and it seems like from all the past  people that have spoken with i really haven't gotten very far i feel like one of the last indians on my own pleasant and second avenue there's really nobody really paying it that much attention today the area i'm live in next to four burned our houses and it's gone on like on second year already the one that's been really it's a safety thing more sheets on a windows were doors or you know from the from the city people that come by and stick them on there and and the wind takes them off and they just blows them around and  i just got more stuff to pick up so i had my speech over it now but i guess i lost that or somebody stole that but i'm here really i think we need some fresh blood there and  garbage still as ladies said garbage is brought out on tuesday or wednesday and it's bike week and it's just keeps sitting and it's same people that's doing it and that aggravating thing is like why is it that there are allowed to keep doing it i mean this is not just week after week this is year after year i mean and it's just in that one area and anyway i'm here for other people that are on this residency committee and i think we need to go forward with that because there are a lot of things would improve in this city if we would hold to the charter which indicates that anybody who works for the city should live in a city the scenario where she could not get on the ballot and now we have a problem but if it had not been for the the proxies she she would have been on the ballot so i am not going to mention a name food whose proxies were used but there were two proxies use and consequently she was not one of those selected by the person who had the problems and now we have a problem we have she's been here a long time represents the black community john been here for a while not that long but a while and he's a good candidate as well so you have two good candidates vying for this plus you have two different groups vying for this and it was created by somebody who was not thinking and they use the proxies unfortunately and here we are now stuck so i don't know how we handle this but at that it's  this is a problem and i say when you've got two good people and you don't know how to get it done hopefully somebody will come up with a bright idea thank you type of member on this council that we've not had before but it certainly is time for this type of candidate and if this type of candidate is also represented right now month now and it keeps being tabled about vehicles being purchased by the police department and they can't get support for if it were voted on tonight it would lose so they just keep it so the police aren't getting what they want and then this past committee meeting of the commissioner got up and added his two cents to it and he said something that kind of rang a bell with make he accident but anyway and i thought you know heard him say stuff like that before seems like his bottom line is there may be legal precautions to this and i don't like hearing that that's threatening to me and it reminds me of why we have such big feyerick trucks here it's because of the few turks decide to go above the three  storey limit that exists in many communities that makes them easier and better looking to restore a couple of your people around here building six a nine story building so just think and some of them are so considered fireproof but you have to have that big fire truck just in case once in every ten or twenty years you may need it and fortunately you don't mind doing that because there's a potential for leasing instead of actually buying them so i don't i don't think i really think that this is a bad move to let this keep going on this threat of maybe they'll be something an accident or whatever i wish you would just please ignore it i found something in the newspaper this week if you don't mind me referring to the wall street journal i'm not putting on i've read it before but anyway there's an article in there that says i can hardly ever read and then once i did i stark choice for lawyers firms must merge or die and they just put into seven hundred fifty more new york state lawyers this week and an f b i agent who is flipping insider trading the supervisor of one of the towns in the community i'm from rockland county his name is howard philips he is making contact with all of the mayors in the area and i find this rather both the times union about them that's my extent of my knowledge of them my comments regarding the bacon city council seat are as follows since both are democrats i see disappointment as a big dilemma for you as both seem very qualified for the position but would very different backgrounds and work experiences i listen to ms for mr porterfield support is this the last council meeting i urge you not to make this a popularity contest i had no idea w going on tonight but to first evaluate the needs of the city and make your choice of what i have learned to both current candidates is accurate i feel that in this crucial poor economical times the best thing for the city parents private sector financial experience which can contribute much to helping with budgeting and especially overseeing compliance and accountability for that budget i've heard sprecher say that our most powerful influence is in voting in the voting booth this mood of bearing campaign along with other candidates just getting on the valve of the declaration of commitment and i think this should be rewarded the vocal voters spoke in november one solution common about the vehicles both of them were excellent articles and really thought to the point of the traveling time or on call people on call people who should be either here within or within twenty minutes  good evening i'd like to touch on a couple of issues tonight first i want to thank the citizen who wrote a letter to the city council about the broadcast format for city council meetings and  for getting the issue on the committee agenda nothing else should be on the screen when citizens are speaking not even not even the city logo on another issue the advantage of opening up the selection process for mr mccarthy survey can see is that the voters will know what was all for it and who they got left with the stream of supporters who spoke on behalf of miss porterfield at the last council meeting was amazing if appointed are they going to come back and do her critical thinking for her the session clearly in the k did she could not speak for herself for mr eriksson's remarks the council he said that the council is looking for a fit and for people who get along i'm going to give you an example  qualifications this past spring i ran into your wife at the c v s we spoke of your pending move she said the move was necessary ok this is the part that's relevant the property is located on a busy street in a high crime area it does not have a driveway to drop their children off there are nine s property would not miss mclean i'd like to make something clear to everyone out here that privilege of the floor is exactly that it is a privilege it is here to talk about city business it is not here to disparage council members council members families or anyone else that sits either in front or behind that rail and people need to conduct themselves in the same respect for way that they like to be treated themselves and if they cannot they will not speak here at privilege of the floor as long as i am sitting here in th next speaker their victims had in common is that their abusers were cops even darryl lawrence he was in a fight with his ex girlfriends brother why should this lice of domestic violence victims get special attention from the council i've got three reasons one is this is a all domestic violence is dangerous but this kind is particularly dangerous because abuser is armed they have all kinds of resources at their beck and call they're trained to find you so if you choose to leave they can find you and they're part of an intimate part of the criminal justice system to liability little earlier we were talking a little bit about the city insurance policy i became a little bit familiar with this issue a couple years back when i became friends with lane judson his daughter crystal was married to the police chief of the city of tacoma washington after years of abuse he killed her in the parking lot their two kids were in the car lane later on this is after years of abuse this the police department the city council the city council members knew about it the city attorney knew about it lane end up suing the city for thirteen million dollars he settled for two point five million that went into a trust fund for the for the kids another reason image in the peterson case witnesses testified that they did not call this connect the police department because they knew peters was a city cop now we heard people talk a little bit earlier about choosing to come to schenectady the image is important our citizens need to know that they can go to the police department and feel comfortable that things will be handled fairly and right away what can a city council do report every month you know about any officers who are accused of domestic violence who are d i r is filed on and for any arrests there may be names won't be attached but the outside supervision is absolutely critical for this to work the city council should consider passing an ordinance that the d a must be informed the d a must be informed of cases where there's domestic violence accusations where d i r is filed and where arrest is made now this was actually recommendations made by the state investigation commission based upon incidents up and war warrants tao or watertown new york  could i just mention really quickly thank you to two council members lisa personal for reaching out also vince rigby council president broker has we're going to be meeting later in this week and to the guineas present council member city council i came here tonight i think tonight if helen corinne were still living this would be my sixty fifth year i've been for the city council and you know i always had this city at heart and only reason why i live in this community it's back when i came out of the service of serving three continents i couldn't buy a host or rent a house in this community was here she would be had to because no one in his community support for women's rights civil rights and all kind of rights and helen i general electric company throughout this community and i came in this community and you know how we were treated in this community and i know that i was told a long time ago if you don't stand up for your rights of fight for your rights you deserve to los my sixty five years and disconnected county in this community i fought for everybody's rights i started head start building nursing home and scotia nursing home thirty programs community and i come here to talk to you i don't come here not being phony because i don't want anything i don't need anything my wife and i are givers not takers support i need you to summarize why i'm talking here tonight i know a young lady in this community as don't drop in work and we didn't seat and i would go into work and help her wherever she goes because i know the contribution she's made community and i know that many people his community love her for decency and honesty and being a christian she puts her face and got and she does what's the god thing she does things go out but i came here in support marian ok thank you so much thank you very much great speakers mr allen and mr boyd to come out and share their wisdom with us like the remind  candidates that are very qualified for the seat that is vacant in the council and the brother st paul are here tonight in support as we have in the past of marian porterfield appreciative of her efforts is that she has organized and is associated with many efforts in the city that are designed specifically for empowering others her her purpose of being a person experience is in these endeavors have proven marion would be an asset to the city council and so we just came out tonight to express that as in the past again we would like to support marian in our effort toward city council thank you good evening mayor mccarthy madam president members of the council thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak with you tonight my name is ackbar ham dar and i'm part of the muslim community here in schenectady new york i've been living here for ten years and i'm the owner of brandywine pizza formerly twenty one diner and the community that i'm part of it's a diverse community that includes sudanese yemen and yemenis algerians egyptians people from afghanistan pakistan and what we've done in schenectady is invested here there's a great deal of businesses that we have here including convenience stores restaurants and dollar stores just name a few and these businesses investments they stimulate the economy here they provide jobs and fund revenues through taxes for the city of schenectady representation on it in the council in proportion to our presence in the community so i'm just here because i want to support my good friend mohammed hafez he is one that is close to our community and he he he's very good and he's helped our community you with things such as a financial leader scuse me legal and insurance issues he's very well educated has two masters degrees and business and computer science he's also he's just a very i feel he's an ideal candidate for this position and i just want to mention that not only would he be a good person for this position just to represent our community but also everyone is connected as a whole everyone from all different backgrounds so thank you for your time and have a good night thank you sir robert sanders really going to repeat it all i am a supporter of john's right what i'm going to say is the forty two hundred posts john received they were all from democrats  primary as most of the democrats know he finished fourth in that primary in that he received the conservative endorsement the independents indorsement of working families indorsement so out of those forty two hundred votes they were across the board they came from all over ok so it's not like he got all democratic votes jon got post from all over and you know in you know you know how democrats are i am a would have been sitting on the other side and his whole thing would have been taken care so when you sit there and you think who should be who should we vote for who should you vote for i can't tell you who but i do so i'm saying thank you for this opportunity to speak to you tonight i'm also a member of schenectady stand up guys you don't have to be a guy to be a member of schenectady stand up guys where an organization that tries very hard to bring to the attention of our community the plate of domestic violence it's wonderful that there are very that are there are men who are speaking out on this issue we have a long way to go i've been working on this issue since one nine hundred seventy five and i feel like i'm a huge failure because domestic violence still happens in all of our communities all across the nation all over the world however there have been some really good studies done and there are some really good precedent set about how we can intervene as a community we have a lot of opportunities out there lots of good research that's been done ways to intervene better training for our officers better procedures for arrests and more support for victims i would really urge the city council to consider forming a task force a committee a working group however you want to structure it to look at some of these studies and to see what we can incorporate in schenectady not everyone realizes that our county has the highest rate of domestic violence in the state of new york there's got to be a reason for that and if we can figure out some of the reasons we can figure out some of the interventions that can work in the recent case where a person was acquitted of domestic violence even though three people witnessed it happening which so very rarely happens the victim was not able to participate in a way that was honest forthright and true that's how complicated domestic violence is victims can't even be their own advocate self advocates so we have to do it for them as a whole i hope that you will take under consideration some of the things that are out there just the stand up guys would be happy to help you figure out how to do that and i urge you to do that as soon as possible so we can plowing nothing it's bad for the vehicles and it's just wakes up the neighborhood i mean there nectar not pollen anything you're just making noise and one other thing about these vehicles i can't i can't see these people living out of the county with the price of gas today i mean it is ridiculous i know my sister in law lives in stillwater i have a four cylinder car i drive up to still water pik or saratoga come back i know i use gas so he's guys are doing this every day and they're supposed to be using these vehicles just going in coming from work are they doing that who's policing them and for the safety part what happens if they're five miles from home in a snowstorm in their own personal vehicle so they have to drive if they get called in they have to drive to get develop the police vehicle that's a safety hazard i mean you're driving your own vehicles so what's the big deal and another thing going to in from work was when the other police chief was here so it's a police car go up every day you drop a kid off at school and just continue on i mean it's ridiculous so i mean especially with the price of gas and they're out of town i mean it it's costing us money i mean i'd like to mr mayor madam president and the members i am revan diana fletcher i live disconnectedly for forty seven years i have lived in my home for forty one years i am a taxpayer i have tried to stay out of this for reasons but i'm here tonight to talk about  in regard to marian porterfield she was asked to work with the committee which she did during the campaign she worked very very horrid marian have lived in schenectady for forty seven years she have worked tiredness in this community she have worked with all kinds of people all religion all background the committee recommand to her if the democrat one she would be you recommend it to the open seat the party one and now she's being treated like a ping pong ball back and forth while someone is trying to get a person in the seat who ran and loss that is not right if that was the procedure and the process there would be someone else sitting in our mirrors seat today it would have been the mayor that we have i have taught my children to be honest and fair and respectable when they give their word stand behind their words because a person is no better than his or her word city where she gets paid and she works which you don't get paid i don't understand this there's somebody to lie or does somebody change their mind my mother and father always told me if a person the person who will steal marian have done so much good work in the city and if you promise something stand behind you  i could stand here for hours and hours on end to tell you about their important feel but that would be redone this committee please stay behind your word who are celebrating the chinese new year a fifteen day celebration which is the year of the dragon and especially to reverend daniel and she dining at the methodist church and switching now to the business part of it all residents not just a particular district however being a resident of the city of skin that the for over thirty years i can count on one hand the number of times i've heard any mention of mt pleasant almost as though it were s it is to be noted one of the fastest growing districts in population mount pleasant has certain areas which continues to deteriorate the past pace in particular this deterioration can be seen on some of the main streets were outsiders that a city can get their first impression of schenectady so of course when i heard that a mount pleasant president was running for a seat on the city council i was elated mom pleasant could finally have a chance to bring serious attention to areas which have been woefully neglected he was a young man john moved over and who stepped forward taken precious time and money from his family in order to represent probably one of the most diverse smelting pots in schenectady having african americans in east chinese italians polish irish and others which we've heard of many more this could even be a place where if you have it international day i thought what a plus missed the material would be for the city with his background  accounting particularly with the state of the economy and his particular serious goal the pine weighs the fish and financially creative reduce the fundamental impacts by encouraging state to take ownership of unfunded mandates main cause of property tax escalation and to ease the pressures on the pax taxpayers who would not who would disagree with that but also was also impressed that mr moved to for an interest but democrats conservatives working family independents won an impressive four thousand one hundred twenty five votes over four thousand votes however for someone who was a part part of the team proven vote getter spent time when he waved mistakenly in order to campaign and with his expertise i was somewhat surprised that mr moody was not what a medically selected for the bacon city council seat of his that furthermore i must say that while sometimes promises are made with the very best of intentions however the may come times unfortunately when promises need to be rescinded at the further study in conclusion i have confidence that all the issues will be fully reviewed when an open mr mayor madam president a member of the consul getting my name is in a fault i live in the mount pleasant area i have known marion porterfield for about twenty years as a neighbor a member of the family friends of the family and as a professional i am acknowledge about her character and her abilities from other sources you will be made aware of her excellent academic record and hard work history what i can testify to is that ms porter feel is also a woman of outstanding character discipline hard work and trustworthy loyal and responsible she has a high standard for herself and worthy long term goal and she worked steadily and under medically to make tain or t meet them she's a warm and supportive person marian is in bishes and determined to be the best as what ever she does when she set out to do something it is done she is also poised personable well manner and surprisingly easily giving to her best to her busy schedule easygoing relaxed and caffeine and she makes everything she does look very easy when i'm sure it's involved a great deal of hard work and self discipline two things i appreciate about marian porterfield are that she can think for herself and she is a reliable person she no choices has consequences and she apparently lives by a code of efforts that lead to a certified that if anything would ever go wrong they could always come back and we tell people to use their earned income tax credit for people who are fifty thousand or under earned income tax credit people with it whether they have children or not this is sponsored by the cash coalition with stands for creating asset savings and hope and it's connected to county we now have just five locations the location that i want to really spend time in mention is that at the ellis medical home what happens that three of the cash coalitions merged we came together to collaborate to provide the service in one place that's easy for people to get to so lated located in the else medical home which is six hundred mcclellan street the or they can call the y w c a at three seven four three three nine four and i really encourage people to use the service it's a wonderful service we've been doing for years and we've brought thousands and thousands of dollars back into the community for people saving people by getting earned income tax credit and by not using paper i have some flyers here for anyone that would like one and i'll make sure to downstairs and they can also find the information on the the city owned by some people outside and city my college education is from new york and long island i went to st john's university i received a bachelor degree in a master's degree i also went to city state university of new york with another experience in project management and technical and business projects and i have acquired a whole bunch of your experience from various position that i held in the past i also taught in college  schenectady i have some ideas for schenectady first connect to me i think we have to marcus connected he we have i spoke before and during the interview sessions about these ideas and then we have to have a marketing campaign for new owners and i have to sell that that you know we have to sell the properties that we have a surplus of in schenectady we should make schenectady homeowner friendly city who must have we must treat homeowners well not punish them with excessive  penalty and overly aggressive quarter force on policy we should welcome new homeowners to schenectady and show them the best disconnected he has to offer it's going to act that he is a good place to live schenectady is already one of the highest property taxes so let us show example another service over the internet we should run you know it's a cliche but we sure really runs connecting like a business and i need you to summarize well i discuss all these ideas with the fellows in different neighborhoods well along with a lot of very special guests tonight i would like to introduce flat stanley flat stanley was sent from a second grader in apison elementary school which is an places that regular round people can't so stanley has visited troy and albany but he's very interested in local government so tonight i will ask my colleagues if they might stay just a moment after the meeting so we can  chronicle flat stanley's visit here to schenectady city council and we can return him to his rightful second grade owner in tennessee looking for  get mixed up with their days and garbage they sell for days like on a friday of the day maybe a tuesday and what she said is absolutely right animals are going to get what not so i think our cold air force one does have to tag these these offenders you know so they get the message that it's not going to be allowed so that's that's should be loud and clear but the domestic violence senate guider i met with them and i think lisa dead too and i think it is something that this council should address and probably get a taskforce together and find out at least what our policies are in our schenectady city workforce and what's in place what's not they have a lot of things to offer and i think it's very very important especially in today's day and age and it's some interesting things and i learned a lot meeting with him so i think that's an important thing the other thing is the exemptions i know you mention for the not for profits but everyone has to file by march first those we need senior exemptions and enhanced are so that's important that people get those in so there's not a problem when when the tax time comes that's very important thing and not to mess now about the about the open sea i mean i've been staring at an open seat here since i was sworn in now this doesn't really have a lot to do with me apparently the problem is the democratic party problem so i'm happy to say at this point i don't belong to any party so i have i don't have a dog in this fight as far as that goes but two weeks ago we did have interviews and i think we had seven people interview we haven't discussed that has a council yet are we waiting for i think we have to make a decision here are we going to appoint somebody that to that seat or not people want to know i'm getting phone calls and people want to know what's going on i know that the democratic party had a meeting here at one ten last saturday apparently you couldn't come to a consensus but nobody has asked me yet what my feelings actually are and who what i will vote for or not vote for so i'm being left out of the process and i'm willing to put my two cents in so we can break this if there's a tie but i haven't heard from anybody yet i'm waiting this january twenty third so i think we have to decide what we're going to do oh promises were made they should have been made  again i mean you would when you give a promise if you can't keep the promise i feel kind of responsible for this because apparently i'm the problem i was elected and i caused a problem here salt and i don't want to feel that i was a problem but it's not good to pick communities against each other it's not a good thing and that's what we have going on right now and there was other people that interview with that word they had some good points so i think we should sit down has a consul discuss this and either say we're going to appoint  at least come to an understanding of what we're going to do with this because i think it's very important and people have a right to know  president thank everybody for coming down it's always interesting dialogue you're sitting in a different seat no i have a different perspective on things i want to thank the council for the discussion that's ongoing about some of the city police vehicles some of it is course not as simple as we would like the hose which seems to generate the highest negative impression actually get better gas mileage than some of the other vans that are being proposed for purchase that may be cheaper and so it's your gas mileage the most important thing is the initial acquisition cost what's the residual value of the vehicle if we run a one hundred thousand miles or if we run him a shorter a cost per mile for vehicles so that it would look to provide that data to the council on an ongoing basis and even just make it available to the public on the website as we get down the road a little bit so that we can compare some of those things and actually see where we are spending some of the city resources of one of the points that i would ask for consideration in two weeks for a committe meetings next monday off looking at some of our properties where we have long term situations where individuals have not paid the property taxes where we're looking at foreclosures to have the city staff tomorrow the department head meeting start to review it and would look to bring it to the council in two weeks for discussion where if somebody hasn't paid their taxes and other fees in two years three years or longer i don't think that we should necessarily be providing the water service to the residents the property or even our garbage collection those are things that we're providing those services it's just spreading the costs around to the rest of the taxpayers in to create a greater disincentive for individuals who are not paying some of these fees would look possibly of just discontinuing those  make that announcement tonight for people's consideration research it a little bit in then bounce it around the council in two weeks to see what the mood is and how that we might best go down that path again to promote a more positive response from citizens to again pay their taxes i think in most of the properties think we're going to find the most egregious violators are those that are not an owner occupied in that tend to be absentee landlords that do not have ties to the community so i look forward to working with you in discussing this and seeing if we can't make things just a little bit better thank you madam president welcome thank you by the council president it doesn't need to be a resolution so those individuals have been contacted and we will begin to meet as soon as our first residency or decision needs to come up so that's number one  lot of talk here tonight about the police vehicles and vehicles going home and i really see this niven reading a lot about it in different municipalities as well i really see this is two different issues i see it one as the expense of the vehicles that we're looking at whether they're tacos or vans that's number one the second issue that maybe it's the big elephant in the room is about individuals and it's not just the police department it's could be throughout the city that are taking cars home that perhaps are not entitled by virtue of their job to bring those vehicles home so therefore again as president the council i want to  committee to take a look at all of the vehicles that are driven home by city employees and take a long hard look with input obviously from the council and i would also love to have input from those departments who were looking at in order to have someone else sit on this committee with us and help us make these decisions because these are policy decisions that are made by the city council this is one of our jobs and one of the reasons that we're elected to the city council is to create policy and legislation for the city of schenectady and that's what we need to be doing and i think this is such an important issue and such an issue that brings up the ire of all of us as someone who drives one hundred miles a day every day back and forth to work i certainly understand people's finding that someone distasteful if someone should actually have a vehicle to be driving back and forth so it is time for us as council members to take a long hard look at at this at what's going on here with vehicles that someone needs to have one if it's an emergency and we agree upon it and can come up with a a strong rationale for doing that then so be it but we need to take a look at it and i think it is so important that it really does need its own committee in its own study as opposed to constantly having us put it on a committee cycle week after week after week i mean i really think it's something that we need to take a long hard look at it in and of itself  certainly mr gaidar so appreciate you coming in tonight you and i used to work together so i know him very well i know his dedication mrs ackerman again thank you for being here as well certainly the council does want to participate in some type of taskforce or some type of way that we can help and again begin to sat and look at policy how we can change things how we can work with one another  to i'd like to think that some point we could prevent d v but i think if nothing else we can certainly put a very strong dent in it and really take a different look at the way we  city and as members and as residents of this of the city of schenectady how we work with these issues that do affect all of us as residents as well as the liability of the city and on and on and on and i think the mayor made some great points in terms of looking at these properties that are delinquent and that the services that the city is providing and specifically sewer and water and all their services that go to people and also i think we have a very good venue with channel sixteen many times people's names get printed in the paper about whether or not they're doing their taxes they go on such a long time you  you read all of them but perhaps we need to do a running stream on channel sixteen of people that are delinquent and sometimes what happens is the city has an inability to find these folks because they buy a house with cash something happens to it they walk away from it they're not they're not obligated to buy insurance if you pay cash for a house you can walk away from it your house burns the ground and you don't have insurance you walk away and believe it or not you know you see people shaking their heads and we probably wouldn't do that as responsible citizens but there's people out there who do that and then we can't find them and then the city is stuck and we as i say the city not us but all of us out here are stuck with higher taxes based on others individuals not being responsible so maybe we do our own kind of looking to see if people know hey do you know where these people live because they're not on you know three twenty seven patrick court anymore they must've left or is anybody know they have any relatives so it's kind of like my own little version of channel six as per patrol and people are willing to help but i think that is just so important and i 'm so happy to see more of the engagement around whether it's about disappointment or the police cars or whatever it is i'm happy to see people down here giving their input but more importantly giving the solutions that you bring we can all stand up and talk about what's wrong with the city and what's wrong with mean what's wrong with this one is wrong with that one but when people come down and actually offer their solutions or other i mean that's how we improve the city we improve the city was solutions so for those of you who have done that night and continue to come down here please we welcome you we welcome your suggestions we certainly can't think of everything and we cannot do a buyer's selves so i thank you for our your comments and taking the time out of your busy segue schedules to come down here and with that i'm losing my voice and mystery has something to say you can add one thing i do with this but there was one thing that i forgot to mention i was surfing our public access this weekend and it came to my surprise as i got to eighteen i wanted to know what they had to put out my garbage so  i saw that there was an informational meeting here friday afternoon somebody from the governor's office was here well i don't know if i was just inadvertently left off the list of being invited i don't hobby a conspiracy so i yeah well i could i could think that but i won't i'll think better of that but please if i could be in form so what because i want to represent the city also and i like the capacity so if we could just i don't know who i should call shall i call your secretary mr mayor i don't know