final consideration an ordinance amending chapter two hundred and forty eight and the code at the city of schenectady regarding parking meter rates this has been discussed numerous times without objection on consent item number two i'm going to hold for two concerning flood plain management introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing regarding a proposed local law concerning flood plain management also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number six item number six a resolution calling for a public hearing relative to the approval up the ds ad two thousand and fourteen budget and we will have that budget by committee meetings next week so this is that this column for public hearing item number nine a resolution recognizing kenyan runners and their visit to schenectady this'll be taken out of order miss plaza will present that are we also have to unanimous consent items the creek would be the first item number nine a a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a contract between the city of schenectady and niagara mohawk power corporation dba national grid relative to a project on weaver street kenya in july two thousand and twelve in a team of kenyan runners including three women and three men will be living in schenectady for the next four to five months under the guidance have sports care pactor doctor ten mags and a former kenyan world class runner coach paul our boy to compete in major races nationally anywheres in one thousand nine hundred and ninety three kenyan runners originally came to schenectady with dak demands in the subsequent relationship he has created with the athletics kenya has now led to the innings love this attack coach in kenya who has coached the kenyan national cross country team for the past eight years and now by coincidence kenya has won the world cross country championships in each of those years whereas d the coaches in the coaches opened an olympic training center near nairobi and handed selected runners to begin preparing for the two thousand and sixteen olympic canyon trails which now brings into the united states for international racing with plans to return to kenya to continue their training he in whereas the team runs under the name cpo yaad acecomm which stands for concerned parents young athletes been designated to raise awareness uh in advance sports biomechanics in sports medicine for middle and high school aged children a group now underserved by that profession anywhere new book fixing health care crisis did discusses the importance of educating the younger generation and the importance of proactive care needed to maintain the muscular apps musculoskeletal system in where has this team  you very much i sincerely appreciate all of you taking the time in in recognizing the program in these six athletes um it really is very exciting and i can have a front row seat to watching how they live that because we know can you is the greatest country in the world for runners two weeks ago a canyon broke the world record in the marathon last week a canyon broke the chicago marathon record and it's a very close community over there these guys know them we believe that we can bring great things disconnected because this program its gonna be going on to the next three to four years they will be here virtually full time to be different groups coming in going so i just wanna personally introduce bernard monkey julius both were and just so you know two weeks ago in hard for the half marathon ah seven thousand runners julius one and we have a miss munger i we have gladys guevarra and we thank you immensely and we hope if you see them out on the road training give my be let them know that they they are at home thank you and we have a gift we like to present to the mayor so enjoy your time in schenectady my welcome right we have one public hearing tonight if the court agreed that relative to a proposed ordinance to amend chapter two hundred and sixty four the code and the city of schenectady with regards to our three density and site plan review requirements i have no one signed up to presented to the city council for monday october twenty eight two thousand and thirteen under official from the mayor a listing appointment stated october twenty eight two thousand and thirteen under general a letter from the council uh veterans organization inviting me city council and the goal is to have the budget approved by november first but i think if things go well and we can all come to agreement and a syriza topics adjustments a maybe wednesday is the goal today we're going to shooting for  re group the the full council and then pass a budget and so worked on it there's a quite a few change the table a i think significant changes the that you know it's clear that everybody who's participate in this is thinking a deep in the details and so i appreciate the support the ruins given and we've had a lot of the dialogue on it and i encourage everyone to keep keep communications going to thank you thank you anyone piece isn't vision in that this phone will become a little slush fund and when you're talking three point four are three to forty thousand acres one percent property tax fifteen million dollars for the spain set aside at fifty percent your tech property taxes so when you taking a look at that you need to take a look at on that any money that is taking added there other than for health care have to come back before the city council you don't have that as an ordinance or sumpin resolution in there this can become like a giant slush fund and you gotta put some cost containment inside that fun all saw to be able to make sure that you put the the unions in check because if are like he had was cancelled where that the pot private was pain twenty nine percent where the initial pain eight far of ho that we need to do a full reassessment because what you're doing is that you're giving the top one percent in this city its property tax decrease while the rest at the parkway population is paying higher taxes in property taxes so if you know you need to need to take a look at this and not bow down and you also may remember that not only did you do it for here but you did it for the county it'll increase k taxes and you did school district which increases the school district axles salt lake because it all based on property assessment in your assessment needs to be put together and it and one of the articles in the gazette paper ass what was one the biggest problems city thank you thank you i jo kelle good evening thank you very much city councilmen president mister mayor my name is joe kellerman resident the city of schenectady thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak very quickly i understand that so there's still hope something on the agenda however had may have been held now regarding the a parking meters and with all due respect to the mayor be keeping the one person or that person's designee as the person the sole person to make  justification as to raising the parking rate is me might be that the best option here and inasmuch putting these things in the ap in these devices in the city budget when we are already strapped for cash and we're seeing that as jason mentioned with in nob option number eight bear with the decreased property values are the reassessment were already we've already lost about a million dollars there that we could be for receiving in property taxes so be if we with jim had a half million dollars in unpaid parking fines if we take the effort in the time to go and retrieve some other that even if we  after that back from going out in in hiring somebody to take your that for us we by getting just happy that we already made up the taxes that would be losing from this past year from that reassessment and  would still have money left over likely to pay for those parking meters outright social think we'd there's a lot that needs to be taking a look at what the budget and i hope that over the next few days be a city council has the opportunity to sit down take the really good look at that and remember that if we're ever gonna raise or lower the rates for one person we need to lower them across the board many beat need to be more fiscally responsible with the monies that we do have coming in thank you thank you schmidt mccarthy president king city council members my name is sharon lynn schmidt a mark pleasant home owner in community volunteer at the last public city council meeting here at the rail i suggested that the parks budget be reconsidered prior to my speaking  calendar jail plain spoken ways to trim the city budget i should have said quote i reiterate linda kelleher suggestions enclosed prioritizing expenditures is what we strive for if not essential budget i am to reconsider perhaps some funds could be and enlisting volunteers neighborhood like bill the woodlawn in north side had been the driving forces behind the park improvements with assistance from the res limited resources and parks department and saturday october th mount pleasant capped off a summer long parks looking for money saving examples from the candidates she stated the last time i checked nobody was advocating for the closure public parks and pools or for the elimination garbage pickup for reducing the funding for police and fire departments and khloe i think the city as well as the mayor  no how the neighborhoods feel about their parked by now and no we do not advocate closing our parks and pools our kids have been neglected since the park budget was cut bike are also invest in about five years ago our kids need more recreational resources to keep them busy active and physically fit not less the current democratic team candidates stay in part in their literature that the plan to invest in among other improvements park beautification this is music to my ears in ears are waiting to see how they pan plan to pay for it garbage removal has been integral the park cleanup we need more police on the streets and in our schools and we need fire persons for rescue again i reiterate we need to find other budget items to cut which are not as much of a priority thank you thank you day eliminate the cost for gas maintenance and insurance from the money forty budget remove the cost of medical coverage for part time elected of salary after the turn fire chief retires and what about this literature this is this lover literature is used for th added cost there are nine colors on this page it's an outrageous expense to the taxpayers their silly council stop the unnecessary world to stop the spending have the nerve to lower taxes thank you thank you i have no one else signed up to speak to the legislative agenda so i'll move on and tim motion to approve the a few places like that they will see the flyers so that they can start to come out to the meetings and really hoping that people will are starting wanna come to the meetings to on he will we have to say about housing because there is a lot of problems with housing and and we need to get people on board trying to help themselves about these howdy issues that we want to try to help to address in the city because the people in the bed bug issue still they are losing their furniture talking about bedbugs they need to find another way because most people cannot afford to pay out more money for solar flares and for carpets take it they don't have the monies to do that and so we need to get  politicians to start working speaking a politician's we need them to had more power to help in the community all they claim that they can do for us is right a letter to agencies we are complaining about that's not enough we need action these agencies are taking advantage up the slack a faction from the senators and and governments services they are taking advantage should and also want to talk about on punishment is not always biological cure all working with people i'll take up the community not against them can be more rewarding because are the fact that i'm hearing about what happened in the school system made a forty kids were expelled from school that should never happen the community and meet the people that are now running for office should start trying to do something to help these guys have issues to stop happening to the children in schenectady meanie teaching again education if they do not get an education they're going to be a problem in our society and we're to have to deal with it one way or the other my pastor always said you need an a deal with your kids on all on a on a positive note all you gonna do what you can to negative note that you will be dealing with your children thank you can thank you  jason plank for getting that your armor ties inc on the state pension plan for over the next ten years so even if you coming to zero budget you're still coming within with your still not paying all your bills so it's just another gimmick the other one arm the other piece  is dealing with some food stamps is going to cut by an eleven percent the economic stimulus plan on four two thousand and nine that gave the extra portions of it armistead be cut over the next uh six months to another year some more deep cuts he he he may be cut so it's going to get a lot more and when you think that the this is a minor eighty percent of all schoolchildren in it in this city school district qualify for free much so this is going to be a real big huge arm blo over the next year i mean it's going to get tightened budgets on the second one insists that the schenectady county legal by women voters on miss holding the county legislative districts one and two debate tomorrow night it th the downtown library from six thirty to eight thirty and in the last and final are one is next tuesday november fifth is voting day doesn't matter who what party are what's going on please get out and vote are two election commissioners have said that between fifty five to sixty five percent will not show up in this taken election cycle we have a four years election cycle this is the lowest turnout an election cycle if you really want to make change within the county leadership in the city leadership this is a time to do it your vote doesn't count and with the low voter turnout you can make a real big difference and some asking everybody to show up  next tuesday thank you thank you join hall team comes around and we need keep the parks clean up in everything else on on that part we need to work on east certain street crane straight down by the bowling alley avenue my pleasant neighborhood association mbna will hold its monthly meeting seven p m at the faith deliverance tabernacle church corner crane in ten twenty aos train to place and thursday november th the speaker will be angelica morris chair schenectady county human rights commission and she'll be explaining the role and mission on the commission a vote will also be taken as to where to hold the december twelve christmas party january two thousand and fourteen mta meeting will include nominations for executive officers another organization business november twenty eight thanksgiving day reverend james book out to bridge church seven hundred and thirty five crazy plans a fee to one hundred and twenty five people in need reservations are required he's on the web and facebook and fourteen concern mount pleasant citizens inc are encouraged to me to develop a plan to coincide with disconnected two thousand and twenty plan to submit to the city the plan will include all areas of mount pleasant workshop dates to be announced thank you thank you harry bran grand resident taxpayers cities correctly well we're just ball ready to have the budget report completed we're about to have an election do we have any leaders do we have anybody that has thought about this budget with another since before the last few weeks or months i doubt it not the way things are going was there any complaints about rmer giving these big salary increases how much money is ano how much money is another here from the taxpayers we cannot afford you people to lead our study what a shame to have to come down here and even say that i can't believe what's going on here in our city salary increases twenty zero ten thousand nine thousand how can you do this we don't have the money now you want to raise our taxes in our fees does feature dollar billion with the taxes let alone there should be no fees we can't  clare it as taxpayers you think we're just uh me here you know hi after reading it is to see what's going on in the city with our sewage plant where's that million dollars were supposed to say and have i can't believe this give a contract for crime investigators living up in long lake george to take vehicles home a four year contract what's going on don't you have any common sense your mostly all intelligent people where is it you don't show it to the citizens the taxpayers where is this intelligence wanna put up graffiti bored so we can cut the weeds o strip all the way how can you be provided the city with our leaders it's really a shame and something needs to be done we got a couple people here with common sense the rest love you i don't know where the heck er if you're swimming in the mall hotter what you're doing but it's a shame leadership we can complain about leadership we don't have any and that he'd rule when you see what's going on in this city with the storage plant and with the employees i don't blame the employees for one the money were pain hundred twenty thousand dollars were given clothing were given insurance who can afford this most the city people don't you make twenty thousand dollars a year number and they haven't even proven themselves i'll tell you we did a lot of help in lately there's been no love i mean no know more than we have usually seen with zero with robberies burglaries assaults gang violence here in the city so we need to be more cautious i love not only ourselves but one another to for that i her just connect aliens to contact their local skin aging neighborhood watch to learn how to protect themselves their loved ones in our community to you there's a lot of great information available at the disconnect in a neighborhood watch dot com  it's a testicle fact that in urban areas especially with a lower median incomes their zone there's a higher in a crime then we'd we'd see that right here in the city oh and i hope that people will add added take the opportunity to not only get involved in their communities through some the neighborhood associations but also get information from neighborhood watch to find out more information what they can do to protect themselves and their neighbors along with their loved ones arm as was mentioned in the letter that  appreciated here in this city and i hope we can continue to do so and love organizations like the vfw the marine corps league and the one near and dear to my heart the american legion which i belong to is a is so always looking for assistance they're always looking for people to help and i we appreciate people just mentioning to us that the in all the uh veterans even the returning men and women i'll who are current job members of military now they appreciate there just to mention what they've done for our country inasmuch we need flags if our people have flags that are embroidered with the stars there is being used burger organization called stars for troops where we cut the stars out i happen to have one in my pocket union street i also the last thing one dimension is there are two more meet the candidates that are coming up are those are be happening tomorrow night at the price chopper community room for the one twenty three nine eastern avenue in central state street neighborhood associations and also on halloween night for goose hill thank you very much have a good evening thank you mary mclean rong tonight but two reasons one i want to promote tourism foreskin acted a into i want to create a symbol that is uniquely scan it de ti in regarding tourism i think it is very important it would bring new money to the city so the that we can get serious about lowering taxes so i love my have to wear a funny hat to get the message across that is what i have chosen to do schenectady needs to promote its dutch an nothing not even the chamber of commerce mentions tourism on the cover i'll its brochure they even let the job let project fall through the location on that house was ideal for a visitor's center the chamber spent all the money for siding and there was no money left for interior r instead are the visitor center it's going to be perhaps a bagel shop that ever did anyone ever think to ask the fireman population for pilot to fix the house did anyone ever think to ask the police population for pilots what about the teachers population and most members from these organizations do not pay taxes in the city as for creating the symbol for skin activated i would like to know people were something our ranch for public events signs albany washers the city street be four it starts the tulip festival still not only does not have in visual symbol wearing something orange would do it the color orange is very significant in the dutch culture orange is the name of the royal family the dutch were something orange one celebrating scan that day audience can do the same  event and when i've seen those children come up here that's into our city his knee i gave it to them and i personally invited then to this function and i think i'll ask lance i think i all about maybe sixty or seventy acceptable that people that love their church support to church cannot make it into a so we're doing a fundraiser and i'm inviting everyone past only if they can palm i it's ten dollars and as i said is this samples i personally think so thank you thank you alright i have no one else signed up to speak on city business summit clear that portion of the meeting closed or moved miscellaneous business in the council and and also i would like to report their the pilot graffiti program had a very successful october our goal was to go out throughout october and and paint buildings we fulfilled our list  city owned properties in waivers that were on received in that totaled more than forty buildings add he and we had a little bit of extra time so we painted the underneath the train trestle and front street as well and so it was very very successful we are going forward we received our full funding will be starting next a brawl will be using the winter to identify properties and get our paint supply together and getting infrastructure and storage facility location so that it's not in my basement in my it but it was wonderfully successful in in my purposes thank you thank you thank you thank you to home depot they will wonderful they need a lot of product in manpower think volunteers they came out and worked with the youth on thank you to the center for juvenile justice the department of juvenile justice in the county we had somewhere just over thirty different used that are on probation some a band which have been arrested for tagging uncovering the graffiti we had a inmates go out on do the county jail so thank you to our share of town  did egos pizza for feeding it for feeding our youth every weekend also and i'm looking forward to reopening the program in april in working through october very good and congratulations to you for that and not i know you've put in a lot saturday mornings too so i'm did sure your looking forward to having one to your cell okay anyone else springfield i have uh several community announcements i'd like to make a nhtsa so in date order the optimum health care chiropractic which is a a neighborhood business located at nine twenty our ministry will be having an open house their new expanded of it so on the saturday november nd from eleven a m to three p m folks are invited to come out get healthy fellowship information and refreshments and gifts for all the attendant and on that this sunday on november rd the mount albert missionary baptist church is moved to their new home at one thousand and sixty eight park avenue and we'll be celebrating with the service at six p m and everyone is invited to attend also lee hamilton hill neighborhood association will be having their monthly meeting at p m arm the number seven at the ame church at five forty mumford street which is having their practice this saturday and so the main topic up to me will be the quality of life issues in the neighborhood and everyone who is lives works our worship in the neighborhood is invited to be a party that meeting unless they just like to think the in college students they came out to help argue with the neighborhood cleanup on at the th october it was a great job we had a great time and a additionally they'll be coming back to do some other things to help with seniors in the neighborhood so we're looking forward to that as well thank you very good thank you anyone else internal discussion be from commissioner finance have the authority to do that water park looked at it we've had commissioners a finance we've had directors a finance we've had police chiefs have public safety commissioners to spend debates and summer those from the commissioner fine its the acquisition over the parking meters we have all mechanical meters across the parking district downtown most of which we are unable to get replacement parts for their old meters that you can only put a quarter in the we can either purchasers mechanical meters where you can put coins in again which limit people's flexibility in terms of how they're going to pay war for pretty much the same cost as replacing your old meters with the new mechanical do with your mechanical meters we can put these pay stations in place which allow all again a greater flexibility in user friendliness for individuals who are using them so you can put coins in put money in put credit cards ian you can vary the amount of time that you wanna put in and it will also give us greater empirical data to better manage the parking resources at the city right now we have what are called general feelings and knowledge of where the meters are used in what the turnover is but it's not an exact science because we just have to watch that we go around collect reporters would count how much money is coming in there but we don't know how much money actually comes out to anyone specific meter comes out his own sister picked up these meters will allow us to have that data so that we can look to see which spaces are being used how long they're being used for how frequently they're turning over and better again utilized the parking resources were looking to have an element of convenience here so the miss characterization that we're going to waste money we're we're misappropriating money by buying me speeders is incorrect this is a cost effective way to do it we're going to do it over a period of time to rate we're going we'll probably take three years to face this into by the new pay stations i'm not looking know that have been given this awesome authority engine delegating to the police chief electrician or finance change those rates really until we get all the pay stations in place in even when they go in place there's a period of time we still have to do some education to let people use em figure homes brochure prepared to give you a full when in depth report on their with the nine colors which is very expensive his cost the city zero we don't spend any money for that but stunning in conjunction with our other partners with a print that we've had city staff working on that the school districts they asked for different businesses banks mortgage companies other ones again it's trying to market the city promote homeownership  together the mount pleasant cleanup can see this someone involving here kind of a polite competition between the neighborhoods were you know north understand some stuff there's been things and woodlawn more poisonous doing it brings  bellevue in its all positive we appreciate people coming out giving up their time helping make a difference improve their neighborhoods and i think that's really what makes connect to be great we wanna continue to work with the group in continue to build to make the