standard review board if only whether it's going for a public airing in chapter sixty eight of the city code housing standard review board on march twenty third two thousand without objection on consent item number three resolution authorizing the issuance of a revokable permit number five eighty nine for ninety six j street discussed in committee without objection on consent item number five item number five a resolution authorizing the stamp of one twenty six robins to settle a subrogation claim with nationwide insurance as subrogate robert watts discussed in claims that objection on consent item number eight i am number eight a resolution honoring the john f kennedy division one  e order of hibernian as well as all people of irish descent throughout the city of schenectady on the occasion of the feast of st patrick's this march seventeenth two thousand and fifteen ok will take this one out of order mr ferrari will present that item number recognizing jennifer lawrence as the twenty fifteen youth build director of the year the saucer be taken out of order mr cocksure will present that one and item number eleven item number eleven a resolute under contract and supply a resolution accepting the bid in awarding the contract for the city hall boiler replacement to camp ito plumbing and heating also discussed in committee without objection on consent if there's nothing else to come before the city council caucus on again a motion to adjourn mr cocksure second  favor i i will now call the city council caucus meeting to order from march ninth two thousand and fifteen and ask you to rise for the invitation by reverend butler from full liberty fellowship of the power and we give thanks for unity and as we stand in this great hall with this great body of government and this great city within the great state of new york we invite the spirit of collaboration cooperation unity that we push aside differences and that we invite that which will help the people strengthen the people and power of the people we asked you to impart wisdom into this body into our mare into our gov and we ask that you just continue to be with them and continue to give your love your power and your strength i mean a call on judge march mark banfield to lead us in the pledge of allegiance oh really cocksure thank you mr mayor members of the council is such a pleasure to be back here in this context but i'm not here as your city court judge i'm here as the proud parent of a child the central park international magnet school and i want to speak on behalf of all of the parents to of alice in wonderland which will be running at central park on friday night at seven p m this coming friday and saturday at one thirty so with those thanks and that announcement i would like to invite the  h at one thirty tickets are two dollars for student and three dollars for it is really fun and really rewarding to do i would like to think all the faculty specially offer helping this come a good evening my name is misha time and i'm the principal at central park it's pretty exciting for me in that it's a new position for me i just started in september with these guys but i just wanted to emphasize that they did all of this themselves there were no adults giving them any direction and i did all of the auditions she organized where the students would go it's a huge accomplishment and it's amazing what our kids can do when the dots sort of get out of the way and let them do what they can do so i just wanted to emphasize this is all them and we're really very proud of them thank you alice jumped into the dark rabbit and fell for what seemed like three and a half weeks more like four and a quarter she fallin fallin fell but she wasn't alone juliet project which is going on starts wednesday the of this week with a matinee on saturday as well that has an adult theme to it so it's for mature audiences so again come here bring your little ones in and enjoy anything at the high school so thank you very much a good luck on friday and while they're accident i'm going to invite joe gaza to come up and make an announcement related to open stage  media this is just a minor detail compared to the tragedy that's happened across the street but our live video cable that allows us to go live with this meeting with that building process street so that cable is now gone so technically we're not able to go live however we are still streaming live stream and it's and it's w w w live stream dot com slash city of schenectady all one word so we're live on the internet screaming we for anyway so just know we're still going live whenever we can very good thank you all right we'll move now to our out of order resolutions the first one is for st patrick's day and i believe we have some dancers to this is always a treat when we get close to st patrick's day how ironic a nice italian boy giving out and i are certificate this is a resolution honoring the john f kennedy division one ancient order of hibernian and its lady's ancient order of hibernian as well as all people of irish descent throughout the city of schenectady and the ok zhang of the feast of st patrick this march seventeenth two thousand and fifteen madam president you have floor whereas the city of schenectady is proud to be home of several irish residents and those of irish descent who have contributed to the well being of schenectady and whereas for the past one hundred thirty four years the john f kennedy division one of the ancient order of hibernian and its ladies ancient order of hibernian have demonstrated their commitment to the local community by making financial donations volunteering with deserving organizations and performing good deeds and whereas the irish are just one of the many immigrant people who fled to the shores seeking refuge from the yoke of oppression and whereas the year two thousand and fifteen marks the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the end of the american civil war a war in which many ethnic groups including the irish were called upon to support and defend their new home now therefore be resolved that the mayor gary r mccarthy and the city council of the hereby pause in their deliberations to reflect on the contribution of immigrant populations but particularly the irish in keeping this country united in the context of the american civil war and be it further resolved that the mayor or gary are mccarthy in the city council declare that on tuesday march seventeenth two thousand and fifteen the city will celebrate st patrick's day in memory of those brave four forebears who had danced the cause of liberty during the american civil war and in recognition  they have to have a picture taken with the mayor so all right the second out of order resolution is for the persian film festival in this pro know we're going to hold apparently the person accepting that is on his way but he's not here yet right so then there's mr  communications presented to the city council for monday march ninth two thousand and fifteen under the category of official from the mayor a list of appointments dated march ninth two thousand and fifteen under general a letter from the schenectady veterans council to the city  schenectady extending their gratitude for the donation to support their organization a letter from the veterans of foreign war of the united states pows three five seven to the city of schenectady extending their gratitude for the donation to support their organization under that the other week it seems we have a mere come on in forbes everybody who's associate or whose life has been touched by jennifer i know it's been many please come forward please come for wonderful i was just saying to genesis not even a fraction of a fraction of the people that she has touched in and the wonderful program and again i just caught this because i was at a fundraiser with ne and i happened to see the flyer the newsletter and i said what just a wonderful recognition that was given to her and this piece of paper really doesn't mean a lot but you know what we just want to show our appreciation to you as well so let me read this if i may madam president yes thank you recognition a resolution recognizing jennifer lawrence as the two thousand and fifteen youth build director of the year this is a nationwide honor whereas a community action organization youth build usa operates two hundred seventy six programs and nationwide in pursuit of its mission to assist young people in transforming their lives and communities through training community service and sustainable wage jobs and whereas youth build schenectady as a nine month program designed to engage at risk low income youth between the ages of eighteen and twenty four who need to complete their high school education and receive career training and where as youth build usa recently honored jennifer lawrence northeast parents society executive program director of career services that of course includes you bill schenectady with their president's award for director of the year whereas national organization chose miss lawrence from a pool of more than two hundred fifty you've built directors nationwide and based their choice on miss lawrence his ability to engage youth in the city and a commitment to seeing them succeed now therefore be resolved that the mayor guerrier mccarthy and the city council do hereby pause in our deliberations to recognize jennifer lawrence as a two thousand and fifteen youth build a director of the year and offer her chief meant as a noteworthy example of her community involvement then president move this right is there a second you and i don't have the talent like all the lovely people before so i was thinking the national recognition was a complete shock very humbling but i have to say getting notice of city recognition meant the world to me because this is the city that i love that people who believe in it and back it up and what you see here with me are a bunch of people who believe in it and back it up every day i couldn't this isn't about me this is about people who live the walk every day so thank you were you know some people think that what i do is different what i do isn't difficult compared to each and every one of the people that i look at so i have to get up and do this every day i have a student a young lady here today who just gave birth less than two weeks ago i have a young man who's a graduate who's going to work an overnight twelve hour shift i have a teacher who is also our job coach our driver our counselor and anything else that we needed to do so i could the list goes on  and i have a wonderful program director who spent all weekend helping to graduates our two students get to washington d c with men's wearhouse suits new clean shaven faces for personal freedom so these are the little things that being small in the faithful you know gives you a great reward and large so thank you congratulations again jennifer well deserved legislative agenda and i have no one signed up to clear that portion closed i will move then to approval of the legislative agenda mr second by mr cocksure all in favor i and then we will now go to on for three ninety nine o five ninety nine you can't go wrong i mean second i just want to touch on this fact that i think it was unfair and i don't want to i don't want to sound races but i had to say that  it seems to bring out some form of racism in the city because when they put the audit going to get said about the people being beyond in taxes you know to everyone on the front page was a minority and not one kook i don't find i i'm sure i can would bear that in not i know that this city has some homes and i know for a fact that are in violation may have before you have thank you this is a resolution recognizing the festival cinema invisible of the persian speaking countries and communities whereas march twentieth marks a celebration of the spring equinox in the persian new where new year mean northern india celebrate this cultural new year through unique rituals that include poetry music gifts celebrating the pryor is his me celebrating the prior years achievements and expressing the hopes and dreams of the year to come and whereas the proctors will host the fourth annual festival cinema invisible from march twentieth to twenty second celebrating the invisible cinema of persian speaking countries and communities through study of the conditions circumstances and made of its featured films and filmmakers and whereas this event is not a traditional film festival in that it also see engage the community through enriching panels and workshops where filmmakers social scientists academics and critics may review the origins and causes of prejudice and wears a unique event in upstate new york the two thousand and fifteen festival cinema invisible well screen over twenty persian language films in all genres with two having their world premiere here in schenectady and five others having their american premiere now therefore be it resolved that the mayor gary r mccarthy and the city council to hear by pas in their deliberations to recognize the forthcoming two thousand and fifteen festival cinema invisible and thank those because they put the sign up and she get conning who i appreciate that very much he went out there and check on him and next thing i want to know if these five men  chairwoman council members mr mayor here to talk to you tonight about snow emergencies catskill compose saratoga watervliet troy albany one of these all towns all have in common they are local municipalities that do declare snow emergencies snow emergencies which are necessary in order to plow the streets back to the curb as i travel the city i see many streets or two lanes that are now reduced to barely one leaving due to snow banks protruding into the street up to two feet on each side the stage or a sling narrows the street increasing the probability of head on collisions as people cross the yellow line to maneuver around parked vehicles the narrowing of the streets also creates a public safety hazard that emergency vehicles would find it difficult if not impossible to traverse such areas i've lived in schenectady for over a decade now and watched winter by winter as the minutes of our streets during and after snow fall has deteriorated i live on bay crab now and last winter there was a medical emergency on our block  of emergency vehicles coming from the plum side of baker avenue they were forced travel the wrong way up from union avenue and this winter the streets again were so narrowed that school buses leaving howard alimentary needed assistance from people living on the street to navigate safely without striking parked vehicles i can only imagine if there had been an emergency the likelihood of a tragedy would have been substantially increased baker app is listed on street signs as a priority street alternate side parking rules in effect after three inches of snow fall until it is properly removed so how did it progress to this point one might ask the reason is simple due to a lack of enforcement of the existing rules this is my second winter on baker avenue and i've watched as the parking rules are completely ignored people know they are safe to do so since they won't be ticket in the period between feb first and feb tenth i made name numerous calls in the city street department only be told that i would be called back these calls never came contacted city very via twitter no response called the mayor's office twice leaving messages no response on feb eighth to promptly got stuck trying to navigate the street at that point they got motivated and cleared the outside of the street as part of parking rules even tolling of the occult you would think at this point the city would send a plow whole side street being cleared they didn't the next morning i called the city yet again with no response in desperation i called city police only to be told to call the media honestly i'm not sure which is worse cities ineptitude order attitude about the situation so i did just this i contacted y n n nine who contacted me to interview me as well as i can talk to the mayor's office quinson only enough emergency no parking signs went up on my block immediately and that night dump trucks were sent up to clear the frozen bags i'd wonder how much money it cost the city versus doing it right the first time this city seems to be play to them they need to summarize please your time assessment it's a very just one more sense deserves to know that they will not have to worry that they will get onto a head on crash and up to now one main street and most of all its citizenry deserves something other than radio silence thank you for your time and thank you joy  were the other six can give me any idea if this bridge is going to be started at your street bridge of to run to start building distinguish your i mean i'm sick and tired of listening can someone give me an answer are we going to start this bridge what's going on with it thank you thank you stanley is it to sha consider closing down we've had a lot of problems a lot of criminal activity it's a great scape group and it would help i think the near post to be a little bit more safe and there's really no good reason for that time anymore it's  needlessly when council voted for the twenty fifteen budget back in october the budget included money to cover bonuses had fifteen people stood at this microphone and asked council to vote no the taxpayers please would have been meaningless because the money was already in the budget for the bonuses on february twenty third council finalize the deal the bon gifts are not a financial necessity for the city the item involved couples who are city employees they have a two income household study paying jobs medical coverage for both partners another lifetime benefits all the things i don't have but my tax dollars are used to give to others who want more for themselves it is wrong to spend tax dollars in this way as will the cory thousand dollars council spends on fluoride every year i think council needs to look elsewhere at other communities to see how they handle this issue online for the past ten years this city has tried to bring the desperate ends to the downtown area with the blink nod that concept how has been turned upside down what have you done reduced foot traffic downtown to diminished bus rider ship three lost i'm having trouble i didn't bring my glasses lost business to restaurants and store owner ship owners for destroyed a concept that had been nurtured for many years bought something that was not necessary and spent monday needlessly this is a kind and he didn't or is a city department head told me when people go downtown they don't go downtown just to pay their taxes please summarize also took it hot this is been a tough week obviously and everybody knows why but again i know everybody's going to say the same thing can't say enough about the first responders day they worked under terrible conditions and just thoughts and prayers to all the people that had to work in those conditions and thoughts and prayers to the people in that building the people that may have perished in that building it's really mind boggling when you think of these things and how grateful we should be for just every day life and how it can change just like that but it's come to my attention that there was a dispatcher that handled this this thing was a real cool hand and he he he orchestrated a master plan and kept consequent occasion with the development of the event and all the various entities that had to be brought into this he kept the air clear and again these are the people behind the scenes had nobody really knows about or hears about but i understand from people that know that he did a magnificent orchestrating this whole thing to making sure the right people got to the to the scene but again just my heartfelt condolences to everybody that was involved a lot of victims of this fire and again our hats off to all our people that work hard and every department of the city to really control this it's really amazing has best that they did because it could have been much worse participate from june to september ninety one interested or if you know anybody that may be interested to vend there please call three nine three zero four zero three three nine three zero four zero three thank you madam president thank you this porterfield thank you and i also want to say thanks to the first responders for doing a fabulous job at what was a very serious tragedy firefighters as well as police  working under those circumstances and to all the residents that live there and those that are missing you know my heart goes out to you and i want to really say a special thanks to christchurch how they opened their doors to have people come there and to stay and to the red cross for their fabulous job they did i had the opportunity to go visit some of the folks who live there on friday i went to the christ church just to stop in and you know to say sorry about what happened just to give people an ear to listen to and you know folks are just really in a state of shock so appreciate all that the city is doing that we i know that city hall was open to have people come over and so you know people did whatever they could you know was like when you there's a when everyone rushes to to make take care of that and that is what happened and i just want to say thanks to everyone that didn't everything anything and everything to help to all the different churches and organizations that came out and brought things and i also want to just say about the young dancers tonight i take my hat off to them that they have the music stopped but they continue to dance you know so i thought that was really great that they were able to do that we had a couple people here they came tonight and talked about the potholes and i've gotten calls about potholes and i think we all know there's potholes but i was asked to mention it tonight that we really need to do something regarding the potholes in addition to that the streets which the gentleman spoke about tonight about the narrowing of the streets because of where the cars are parked and i gotten at least one phone call that a car was towed and i'm not sure all the details and i know that  mayor's office is working on that but that has been a concern this winter as well regarding the old street bridge two people came to speak tonight me i'm sorry about the what the tunnel to people came to speak out that i just want to remind folks that there is a public hearing on this on march twenty third so if people want to comment talk about it there is an opportunity to you know to come bring other folks to talk about their particular issue at the public hearing on march twenty third and lastly i'd just like to announce that the himalayan hill neighborhood association we're having their monthly meeting this thursday march twelfth at six thirty p m at the bethel ame church five forty mumford street thank you yes thank you short and sweet i mean what my colleague said i mean it is just amazing the people the work i think all of our hearts are broken it was just a very difficult thing  but maybe a little unorthodox but i think a thank you should go out to the press as well our t v stations our radio stations our newspapers just the coverage on this story was incredible and i think it was really helpful because a lot of people were very concerned and really wanted to know what was going on and i think the amount of press coverage kept people away from a really dangerous scen e because there's always you know a lot of concern and maybe even curiosity as to what's going on so i think you know we often forget about that part but i think they deserve a thank you as well thank i know i'd be echoing the sentiments of everyone else here however in the early morning of the fire i received an email from kelly marr who runs an instagram page called schenectady doesn't suck and she is one of the many people on our millennium council and she said what do we do what can we do and the beauty of our community is coming together and helping and kelly maher and the money council set up and go fund me page for the victims of the fire and as of right now we've raised over five thousand dollars so we want to thank everyone for though their donation and that donations are still open and available i believe on the delegates at website if you look at the article about the fire you can it can bring you right to those pages so i want to thank everyone and thank our first responders we can't do without us thank you thank you anyone else good evening just like all my colleagues here i would like to express my gratitude to the public safety official our stuff city officials and my hat's off to everyone who had helped around the clock and my heart goes out to the people who  affected with this fire i was friday evening at a christ church a visiting and it was so sad that it just breaks my heart to see so many people affected by just one fire and i encourage everyone please the one aids whatever you can red cross to go fund me at the millennium site and help help our community thank you thank you you madam president again appreciate the council's comments and the communities of all this tragic event but it was was an impressive response by the fire department in the police department is a coordinated effort where  mutual aid plan kicked into place in that was able to contain it really to two buildings in the initial evaluation the who were worried that the fire would spread beyond where it went but  goetia grand boulevard fire department in the red cross stepped up as mentioned christ church made their facility available for housing to connect the county even had offers from the city of albany it's working in some aspects of it state office of fire vention alcohol tobacco and firearms has mobilized in assisting the fire department the fire chief in determining the cause and origin that's an ongoing  investigation and review because of the scope and magnitude of the damage it's going to be a longer period of time than we would normally expect it's going to run through this weeks of there's go be continued inconvenience for people coming in and out of downtown some of the parking restrictions here but we appreciate everyone that his worked with the city and helped again minimize the impact  what is a just a tragic event and then the comments on the tunnel and going under eight ninety that tunnel is owned by the state of new york under the agreement it's maintained by the city of schenectady and or we've looked to close it state d o t has asked that we hold a public hearing and create a record whether people want it open or whether they want it closed in against the mention the council has called for that trouble coordinating with the railroad to get access for the evaluation that report in the cost estimates should be ready fairly shortly and then hopefully it will be within the budget so that we will be able to rehabilitate it and we will move forward with that rehabilitation and with that and then president in just thank everyone for their support this week in that the community outpouring that has come forth working to both put out the fire and deal with everything that they're dealing with now to see that it's think they did the best job they could have also just want to remind when people have talked about the snow emergencies the mayor had a letter to the editor  believe yes where he really addresses the issues related to the snow emergency so i would encourage any of you who have concerns about that to you know read the gazette and that's a very good letter and i think a very thorough one