own in regulations for halfway houses ok and then number two for a public hearing i don't number two amending the schenectady city code to include a provision for towing fees and fee schedules ok as i said these are both public hearings  gone into the regular agenda then item number one for final consideration for final consideration an ordinance abandoning and this continuing paper streets and they would lawn preserve we had a public hearing on this and again it was discus committee without objection on consent item number two i don't number two an ordinance amending chapter two sixty four zoning of the administrative code of the city of schenectady changing the zoning classification on a portion of five fifteen king's road s p l sixty point six one dash one dash three two are three and multiple family residential we also had a public hearing on this and it was discussed in committee without objection consent i don't number three i don't number three a resolution making night negative declaration of any significant environmental impact relative to the rezoning of a portion of five fifteen kings road from our one single family residential to our three multiple family residential also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number four item number for an ordinance amending the chapter two six four zoning of the administrative code of the city of schenectady changing the zoning classification of s p l for nine point seven one that's five fourteen two c five business also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number five i don't number five a resolution making a negative declaration of any significant environmental impact relative to the rezoning of fifteen zero to crane story from  mix use commercial to see five business again discussed in committee without objection on consent item number six i don't number six for original consideration or resolution reappropriate re appropriating animal control related expenses in the twenty thirteen budget and you'll notice if you it in your packet there is a slight change in the numbers there to make the numbers balance out so that has been corrected on the actual legislation it's  d here adding the animal control and the set to the pretty in salary for two part time people was thirteen six eighty and then reducing the animal control fees for services line should be sixty six thousand three hundred  twenty dollars not sixty six five zero five zero five hundred but as i said that's should be corrected in your your packet and it's corrected on the actual yes yes it's still budget neutral ok so again discussed in committee without consolidated plan discussed in committee without objection on consent item number eight i don't number eight a resolution authorizing the issuance of revokable permit number five seven five two vintage automotive service a design for a sign at forty six dash forty eight north j street discussed in committee without objection on consent item number nine i don't number nine a resolution amending resolution number twenty without objection on consent item number eleven i don't number eleven a resolution approving a waiver of interest on fees owed to the city of schenectady by the calvary baptist church discussed in committee without objection on consent i don't number twelve i don't number twelve a resolution waiving city code section one a six that's six b open container for specified central park festivities discussed in committee who without objection on consent item number thirteen i don't number thirteen a resolution authorizing bombers brito bar to serve alcoholic beverages at a public event on july thirteenth tw also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number sixteen i don't number sixteen a resolution record recognizing the goose hill neighborhood for its recent neighborhood cleanup right this will be taken out of order mr erickson i believe you're going to present that number seventeen under contract and supply a resolution authorizing the award of bid and contract for the fuel management system to the north these technologies incorporated in the amount of fifteen thousand five hundred and three dollars also discussed in committee without objection on consent and then we have to unanimous consent item size and the seventeen a a resolution authorizing the property management committee to list tax foreclosed and now city on properties for sale and to enter into contract negotiations subject to city council approval right we had some discussion on this in committee but i'm going to ask mr pollster to kind of walk resolution yes as was discussed last week if you will recall during the realtor day there were approximately sixty properties that the city offered out to any number of odd to list and hopefully sell and rather than having sixty listing agreements negotiated by the city council directly  resolution that is in front of you would allow the property management committee to enter into the listing agreements with the various religious on doing it administratively in house rather than having to tax your already busy schedules however the ultimate sale would still have to come before you for the individual approva sixty fifty nine sixty s are there any other questions if not all entertain a motion to move this to the agenda don't all speak at once schenectady to grant schenectady county explicit authority to enforces liens within which has an interest and again mr poster yes this is at this time merely a call for a public hearing on to provide some clarification with respect to our charter relative to the collection of taxes as between the city and the county so again with distress this weird is calling that yes that's right so you will second it ok thank you all in favor then of putting this on the agenda for tonight to say i pay any and opposed and then to move it to the consent agenda ok hearing which is obviously great right we have open discussion is there any concern that moving forward even making the consideration  changing the way we're doing things or you know we've we've passed some law last year saying that we don't have to make the county whole and there's a whole thing that's gone through so making a move does that change point and i'm concerned also since we're being sued by the county and by just discussing bringing this up for discussion i would think since we were advised that we were ok last year we wrote the check i do have some concerns about that mr paul's right respect your legal opinion but it is kind of admitting that maybe things aren't quite right if that's the case so i don't know if sides have some problems with  opening it up for that person all my personal feelings about this little solace if that's the case so they can stand in line i guess but anyhow i don't think i'll be voting yes on this property taxes the county has taken a different position this is following the county's theory where they're saying we didn't do some of the technical things this is starting to address those technical points which strengthens our original site again just a reminder that this is just calling for a public hearing it's not taking any definitive action on this so now i believe i had a motion and a second to put it on the agenda ok yes i saw in favor putting it on the agenda let us pray oh god we pray for a world that we live in sometimes we look around and we see all the evil of the senate but lord we can call upon you so tonight will look at our city council meeting and we ask the lord for your blessing for your guidance we ask you to be with each one of us lord help us to see the needs in our community we think of our children some times they hunger sometimes there is abuse but lord we thank you that we can call upon you in our times of need we think of our police and  department and how they respond to things that are sometimes overwhelming so we ask the lord to protect them we think often of our beloved city of schenectady we always pray for those that are around we think of those that are abused but yet lord there's those that oftentimes are willing to help and all we need to do is to reach out to those that need we thank you lord we ask your blessing upon us this evening we think of our city we think of our country and we think of all the leaders that watch over  our country or community and we pray for them we bring peace to our earth community speak to us now and show us lord being a part of this miss king present miss blanchard is excused all right we have one out of order resolution which is recognizing the goose hill neighborhood cleanups so mr erickson i'll let you take the floor so and whereas this resolution is meant to extend a special thanks to everyone who participated to make this cleanup such a great success whereas approximately fourteen hundred pounds of debris was collected and removed and whereas the city is connected the benefits from the leadership volunteerism and community collaboration all of which came together to conduct this neighborhood cleanup and whereas neighborhood cleanups within the city were i know you love public speaking i'm really good at this truly and sincerely i thank everyone that participated and i strongly encourage the city possibly to consider a day of cleanup and get all of the neighborhood organizations to clean up the city in one day or just spend a day cleaning it up our city and our streets and our parks thank you thank you very much  obviously we're all very happy when the neighborhoods can work like that to take care of the neighborhood it's a so great so all right we have to public hearings the first one involves the south it's established in zoning regulations for halfway houses something that we had visited some time ago and are just revisiting i have two people signed up to speak to this public hearing the first is reverend michael hogan i am speaking to you as the president of new choices rehabilitation center which is located as you know in the corner of your ebola of art and state street we have been considering putting a group residence in that building possibly on the upper floors but what i would like to stress to you is there is a great difference between a group residence and a halfway house a half way house is a facility housing rehabilitation or training of persons on probation parole or early release from correctional institutions or guilty  f criminal offenses a group residence licensed by the state of new york provides residential services and supervision for more than four but not more not more than sixteen individuals who need not be related and who are in need of rehabilitation some have mentally ill mental illness challenges as well and so we are interested in the possibility of establishing a group residence in that facility and i would ask the executive director of new choices if he would come up and explain a little bit more and again apologies for my throat thank you thank you stuart rosen lot rosenblatt i'm the executive director of new choices recovery center and the reason for the hogan and i came tonight is because when we looked at the ordinance we were concerned that there might be some confusion around the distinction of what's a group residents versus a halfway house and we want to take the opportunity to clarify what our intentions were and to put it into some context as most of you know new choices has operated out of the three or to stay treat for many years providing comprehensive chemical dependency and mental health support to people in recovery  who reside within the city and from within the county and we see a variety of individuals many who are mandated by child protective services or the department of social services so we serve a whole range of people some of whom are on probation but by no means do we serve an exclusively criminal justice people involved in criminal justice  we were approach we're licensed by the new york state of alcoholism and substance abuse services they approached us with a proposition that they were seek to renovate our entire building and refurbish it from the basement right up to the fifth floor and their interest in doing so was we don't currently utilize the fourth and fifth floors they used to be a masonic lodge for our purposes it's not well suited as a modest nonprofit we don't have the resources to renovate the fourth and fifth floor so they came to us with the support of the state and the new york state dormitory authority and indicated that they were interested in investing eight to ten million dollars in completely renovating and beautifying that building from top to bottom on the condition that we would build a group residence on the fourth and fifth floor which is right now just wide open space and so we are currently pursuing that when we looked at the zoning ordinance that ordinance that's being proposed we were concerned that there might be some confusion with the halfway house given the fact that are currently located i believe in the sea for zoning but the ordinance is currently written would limit a residence halfway house don't want to get into semantics to see two or a c five so what we would appreciate if the city council could consider for the purposes of allowing us to proceed with the state that may be under existing zoning rules see for we could establish such a facility so thank you ok thank you all right i have no one else lined up to speak on this subject there that public hearing closed and go to the second the second public you signed up for the second one mary it's the on amending the ski schenectady city kloden clue provision for telling these schedules yes that's that's the one i'm calling for right now so the first person i have signed up to speak there is dennis mr mayor culture members i named denis around us like other cities looking to close budget gaps schenectady is also to do to say i know earlier some of the council members had some misapprehension about how this i believe would be instrumental the locals that are towed by order the police department normally or people have broken the law or of cause an automobile accident which more times than not is covered by their insurance company to give you references the fifteen cars so far towed in the month of may by our company for the city three or for scofflaw and i believe currently we have about two point four million dollars on the books parking tickets five were auto accidents and seven were for uninsured d w i arrests and unregistered motor vehicles as most people are aware if you receive a ticket for a motor vehicle infraction in the state of new york it carries a fairly hefty surcharge and in total i believe the state collects almost a billion dollars in surcharges because people broke the law and the city or not in this case the state takes some of the money or revenue to offset expenses we're not talking about will save ms smith whose automobile broke down and a police officer comes upon her or she is called to say that i need assistance those are the people that are going to have any type of surcharge or any type of additional fees other than the cost of the service provided to them then same thing on routine road service that we provide to people that are broke down again the call in as a token pany servicing the city it will require additional administrative work on our part but the overall financial benefit i believe for the community is what we're talking about and i just wanted to give you a different opinion based on some of the facts that i have golf in our city tonight cement if approved will charge anyone for having an accident in schenectady the amendment calls for towing theist's the fees are actually kickbacks from the towing company to the city depending on who makes the phone calls as was discussed in the committee meeting if a city worker such as a police officer makes the call to have the cars towed away from the accident scene the city will receive forty dollars from the cost th city intends to charge them for having the accident i consider this ambulance chasing and i am against amending the city code for such a recent thank you ok thank you i have no one else signed up for public hearing number two saw to clear that public hearing closed move on to approval of the minutes from april twenty second ok mr brady moves it their second this process all in favor i thank you communications and petitions communications presented to city council for monday may thirteenth two thousand and thirteen official from the mayor a list of appointments they did monday may thirteen twenty thirteen a letter from  carlson commissioner of general services dated may thirteenth two thousand and thirteen addressed to the honorable mayor and city council regarding the recommendation of awarding the fuel management system contract to northeast technologies incorporated of schenectady new york this work will be charged to the two thousand and thirteen operating budget code a five one three two dash four seven zero in the amount fifteen thousand five hundred three dollars general a letter from the schenectady county of veterans organizations they did april twenty third teen inviting the city council and mayor mccarthy to their memorial day services to be held on may twenty seventh of bell cemetery ten thirty a m and veterans park at eleven am a correspondence from julia louis dated may eighth two thousand and thirteen announcing the bellevue preservation inc is sponsoring an armed forces day flag raising ceremony to be held on may eighteen at eleven a m at the george westinghouse and bellevue veterans park at the corner of broadway and gilder lind ave the public is welcome petitions there are none ok thank you committee reports ok we'll move on then to privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda i have one person signed up that's mary maclan item number seven adoption of the two thirteen to fourteen consolidated plan the plan calls for fifty six thousand dollars of community development grant funds to be used for the demolition of rundown houses in schenectady this issue is a wish come true for the citizens of schenectady they wanted the lease places to be torn down for a long time because they have been living with these conditions for a long time fifty six thousand dollars from their grant is a beginning however the federal government can stop the funding at any time it is not a long range plan or guaranteed a source of income for the city therefore in order to be able to continue the program if funding is stumps from the c d b g money the mayor has proposed a three million dollar beauty diminish home values and hallie of life pleasures or are also diminished there is nothing wrong with schenectady the current of legislation that dispatched in this chamber can be a problem approval of the two thirteen to fourteen consolidation plan is good legislation the legislation will benefit the entire community please approve the plan thank you thank you all right i have no one else signed up so we will move then to the approval of the legislative agenda ok ms president to visit a second mr brady ok all in favor i and we have one roll call vote resolution calling for public comment concerning a local law amending chapter six section c section best six of the charter of the city of schenectady to grant schenectady county explicit authority to from the perspective of you know underlying our for reinforcing our opinion of where we voted last time on the issue of this i'm a little bit concerned that moving forward in an open kind of saying hey we're going to discussion about it may undermine your argument from of strategic standpoint but you know i have no concern no objections to having you know public dialogue on it i just think it's kind of contradicts itself so you know i'll vote in favor of having the the public comments i'll say i hear but i'm not sure  you know we're ready to change direction you again i'm certainly not opposed to having public comment on anything but we are being sued by the county and i want to make sure we have the strongest position possible for the cells wind up in courts all with that i have too many questions about it that aren't being have a been answered to my satisfaction about this and if it was brought up maybe in committee and we discussed it a little further all we were told was there may be a chart of change so will i understand this discussing but again by discussing does this open up a door i don't know i'm not a lawyer but i certainly have concerns about it's all both no misgiving i write so it doesn't carry now we will move to privilege of floor regarding city business i have nine people signed up to speak animal start with tony but  so i mean that there i was up against and this old street bridge it's closed no one says how long it's going to be closed what's going on about emergencies first people up in bellevue mean it's nothing is being done on it and when i was in the service down in fort benning back in fifty seven to fifty eight down the fort benning general there's a story rumor going on down there to general patton didn't like the way to public trains were going through the base and he told them that if those trains that slow down that he was going to put a tank around the corner i'm one of the tracks and i believe that he would because i knew a person that knew him personally was a bodyguard to one of his generals and he told me stories about him and i believe he would have done that if the road doesn't want to fix the bridge was blocked off the tracks we've got enough junk cars around the city put them into tracks let them know about it and we have to detour going around it goes something's got to be done another thing is to sure work on shelving imagine that i haven't been down there as anyone thought of having a civil work done while the bridge is closed this way here you don't tie traffic up all the time  and the traffic is terrible i was going over to combo fish fry one friday night at four thirty i went down broadway and the traffic was tied up from you down to eight ninety it might have been past eight ninety i mean it's disgusting if of emergency vehicle has to get up there how do you going to do it they just can't do it i'm looking here all the roads in the city i know we don't have money but the roads are terrible coming down holabird avenue coming into the city it's like a washboard and it's a roller coaster you go down washington avenue because you don't come up broadway up very boulevard you go across washington avenue like a washboard i know we don't have the money but i was told that we have so i am so glad to be here today we had a meeting last month and we had people to show up from the city council which really helped out a meeting and made it a prosperous meeting and now we're going to have another meeting maybe twenty third at six thirty at them a chance to roam again to the library and we do hope that some of you will show up again to participate in that one meeting and help us to you know share with thoughts and views with the people to get people interested in coming out to want to fight about themselves about what's happening in their homes with their landlords i went to the hospital today and they was telling me that there are children that are being injured in these houses there are people that have been injured in the report minutes and so we want to get these people to start coming out and talking about these issues and our meeting so i'm really hoping that people will hear what we're saying here today may twenty third as six thirty eight image as the room at the library ninety nine clinton avenue and please come out and participate and let us know how we may be able to help you i also wanted to say  i agree with miss mclean when she was saying about tearing down these houses that now the mayor is one to tear down a lot of these abandoned houses i am so happy to hear that i'm hoping that you will tear down quite a few of these houses and build them the proper way have somebody that comes in here that really know how to build houses and not have just throw something up and the rooms are so small to you can't even fit a full bit room into these rooms these rooms are so that people you know really can't live properly in these houses i'm hoping that you will allow a woman i've been saying these dilapidated houses need to come down i've i was looking at a property years ago at some of the city council when i was looking at that property by on state street and henry street anetta sharon smith vice president of the mount pleasant neighborhood association and coordinator of the mount pleasant merchants good evening mayor mccarthy madam president and city council members my neighborhood a very success had a very successful cleanup day on saturday may fourth from nine to noon we estimate that about seventy five who registered and another twenty who actually didn't working in the various areas of mount pleasant participated i may have the mt pleasant neighbor dissociation hammad half as president donna fully treasure fifteen love tri city cricket club superintendent larry king in this connected schools in the mount pleasant area home depot twelve thirty nine our lady of mount carmel church to mt pleasant merchants mount pleasant public library marty's hardware store shelves many other organizations and individuals including mary mclean who provided corruptors from the good wishes texts from six forty five a m to the pick up of yard trash in garbage bags early monday morning the cooperation of the city of schenectady was terrific we were not able to clean up every street but we are encouraging residents to pitch in and keep the pleasant area going to need a net up thank you to the residents the second through tenth avenues and the streets in between who pitched in clean up the area as part of the community policing through environmental design septet dedicated volunteers will continue to visit avenue second through six to clean up that area with residents help on a continual basis while cleaning up the property owned by this connect the urban renewal agency's two neighbors came out to help us this past week day plan to visit fifth and sixth avenue is this week and then revisit avenues fist second through eight six the gant again to keep that cleaned up  and ahead of the code sweeps may fourteenth and twenty eighth in the beginning of the dogon numeration program which will coincide with cold code sweeps we'll proceed to another area of pleasant once our current target area maintains its clean up on its own and we also want to thank those who put our events on their website and their facebook thank you to mt pleasant thank you to schenectady thank you might mention a different streets i want to come up with clarify where i'm talking about seven thirty eight albany street this property is very badly deteriorated and i simply just saw the alderman regarding their property and when i said that it was rejected because  too many pictures so hopefully you've had a chance to see you know our recent it with a smaller file so hopefully everyone of you have had a chance to see it i do think the autumn in that didn't respond to that both  concerns on this property we had a very tragedy incident since last april where on four thirty eight he was a street it was a very bad fire of course everyone knows the tragedy was resigning it but since then that property has been has been taken down and it should have been for course but the property of seven thirty eight has also has seen summer tragedies as well back on may twenty ninth of two thousand and twelve the paper to the property on seven thirty eight albany street and there was another fire there was another incident a paper noted body found in albany street building identified as fifty five year old schenectady man this is august nineteenth of two thousand eleven so there has been numbers numerous problems at that property in the past summer to was happened recently in our neighborhood on beulah street but there is no action as as been taken on this property and it is you can see that it's not being secured properly children to be able to access this building it's a very tragic am hoping that we can get this resolved as soon as possible and hopefully the communist nation will handle that  have tried to get information on what's available i spoke to who is the director of course of course me and i'm he was not very helpful i've tried to get the freedom of information information from him but i need to know what documents are available in order to request it and he was not forthcoming with that he actually stated that that information is private so i would ask the city council if you have done imitation to please respond to my e mail w good evening mr mayor council members my name is how the shoulder and i reside and on lot of audience going to is the city of schenectady i am here tonight on behalf of the civilian fists good evening mr mayor city council member my name is mohammed hard as i live in new york i live in the city i used to live in new york i'm here tonight talk about a property currently owned by the city of schenectady and it's located  and eventually build a community center the a well they plan on having programs for family and kids and to help the community and encourage other families to move to schenectady value and we are looking forward to working with the city to develop this lot it's not that we're just going to use it for parking lot because he has some concern about that we will immediately fenced a lot if we purchase it and we will plant trees and wood with some li lend your support for this project and vote for this purchase because it will prove beneficial to the city of schenectady as a whole i have with me a whole bunch of bunch of people here and a mom of the mosque interested in purchasing the lot which is one o nine north brandywine ave i just wanted to kind of give a little brief history of the mosque as far as why is this property really important to us and why are we after it  would be for three hundred people to find parking in the surrounding streets you know we can easily cause traffic jams and you know accidents even parking tickets violations and all of that we have around two hundred families that actually live in the city of schenectady they also work in the city of schenectady so our mosque is for the community of schenectady if we lose out on this parking lot what's going to end up happening is that we're going to lose the moscow or they're going to go elsewhere into other cities and that will damage you know that will have a detrimental effect on the community you know and the services that we offer if we in the month of  so i would request the council members in the city to to approve the proposal and we thank you for your time thank you thank you mary maclan  used to sell the cars according to information that was in the packet for the may sixth committee meeting the city has ordered two more new cars and until the new cars arrive the city is considering an agreement to use surplus cars from the county the county is willing to transfer the surplus cars to the city for the sum of one dollar in return for the use of the cars the city will have to agree to the following sell the surplus cars after the new ones arrive and give the proceeds to the county  vehicles as it is with with all its faults and in the current condition through the county is not responsible for fitness of the cars for the city will pay a registration fee s and sure the cars and assume all responsibility for the operation and use of the vehicles these expenditures are for two cars times of these kinds of expenses by the twenty seven cars already in the city's fleet and the tax payer is paying a big price for percs what is the solution to what is done in the private sector pay my luge to employ who use their cars for work related this is c e o spend a lot of time trying to save money for their investors legislators need to do the same for taxpayers less spending means lower taxes for all those who pay the bill the cars thank you all right i have no one else signed up to speak on privilege of the floor regarding city business saw the power that portion of the meeting closed will move to miscellaneous business of the council know the reason you need your vehicle towed in on the show if there's a distinction there we can apply whether your car is being towed because you're drunk driving or because you're being towed because your car up to break down that's something i think we should consider things the the lot of brandywine ave it was the first i heard tonight so i'm not sure if that offer that came in is is being processed and just hasn't made it to council yet but i did happen to drive by yesterday and i saw the barricades in front of the properties in front of slot over and bernie wanted to have and i was surprised some massive pieces of concrete appeared all around this whole property and it's quite stunning i'm not sure if we've done that in the past or if this is the first time we've done something like that to block off the property but again i think there's more discussion access is all news to me i saw the barricades yesterday and then you know that we here tonight  i want to thank you know all the neighborhood associations and the folks that live in all of them who so you know we recognize tonight mount pleasant hamilton hills having one coming up soon i think that's critical that's that's what builds community people want their neighborhoods rebuilt they want you know a different feel they want something different the neighborhoods but that's the kind of things that make a neighborhood a community in and the more people to come out and help out whether it's just for half an hour for half a day or whatever they can think it's great meet some some wonderful people and you find out you've got some neighbors yes something in common with and that's that's what makes everything great and then there's other comments about roads again and i think we will never run out of potholes but again i encourage investment roads curbs sidewalks i think it's critical to rebuilding our neighborhoods and and of course encourage anyone to find specter money around which is spent there so thank you thank thank you first of all the gentleman that came up about seven thirty eight albany street yes we did get the information and as was spoken about today there are some houses that the city is looking at taking down and that one  is was there was on the list was discussed in committee last week so we don't know exactly when it's going to happen but just to let citizens know we are taking the consideration the things that they are bringing before us i also did not hear anything about the offer from the islamic center to do something on the corner of brandywine and becker i don't know what the offer is whether it's reasonable or what it is but as the comments were made that they were talking about parking and then after that building a community center which is something that sounds like a reasonable thing to do especially if it's a large community that you know that that's here and want to do things to build up the neighborhood so i'd like to hear more about exactly what's going on with that i'd like to also to think a mount pleasant for the clean up the work that we're doing in look forward to all the communities continuing to do that throughout the summer and there throughout the year i'd like to thank the folks thinking to the end poverty schenectady forum which was held on may fourth at proctor's it was a beginning conversation about this topic and some resolutions and how everyone that can be included in the a building of second eighty we did have a nice turnout and we will will be ongoing so the next date will be june first which is again a saturday at proctor's to continue the conversation we'll be having different speakers and invite the public to come to give their input to ask questions to see how we can work on this particular issue together so on june first senate believe it was started at ten in the morning we'll be doing that again at ten in the morning and will be will be going will be ongoing but that is our next one june first and then after that will after that when will announce the next one so thank you very much ok thank you mister thank you madam chair i'd like to announce we have a new business that moved into bellevue on broadway to twenty thirty eight broadway that's right across the street from the birthing that's going to come down so which everybody's happy to hear that it's united appliance parts gary sawyer he runs a really nice business and he done a nice place job on rehabbing it was the old hollywood cleaners when i was young and then it was a chiropractors office but looks very nice in there and gary handles a lot of appliance parts and he also can give you tell him what's what your washing machine may be doing he can give you an idea what may be wrong with it so we welcome gary in to bellevue that's it's really a nice thing to have on broadway in front street as having a neighborhood clean up this saturday the eighteenth ten am and they're going to be in front of to all five front street and for anybody has any questions you can contact carmela reset zero zero three seven two zero zero three six three seven two zero zero three six clean ups are great and it is a good sense of community when people are out there helping out in and cleaning up we worked my wife and i were maybe just a couple hours a couple saturdays ago and just that one fenceline of norwood avenue between the little league and pennsylvania avenue where it starts we picked up six big bags of litter just in maybe one hundred fifty feet on both sides of the fence line i'm afraid that for some reason and we've talked about this before but we have to get the message across that littering is not  not a good thing to do i went to schools i've addressed young classes maybe we can do that has a group but we have to the message as got to get through especially to young children this is not an ok thing to do a lot of resources are taken cleaning this up and it's a good thing we can't leave the mess there but i think we also have to get to the root of the problem we can clean it up and we can have clean ups i think every week for sure and they'll be a lot of things to clean up but for some reason there's a mentality out there that think that it's ok just to roll up a bag of mcdonald's and open up the car when the one toss it out and little land on somebody's property something wrong with this kind of thought and i think we have to get to the young people with the impressionable minds and maybe try to tell them you know it's always good to be not a litterbug so good in the sky to police and forcing some of the littering the laws issuing some texts will also help but i think the cleanup start definitely necessary and i like the idea about having maybe a citywide cleanup that may not be a bad idea if we can coordinate all the neighborhood groups together so i'm certainly in favor of that about the towing and storage mr kugler brought up some good points but i think some of our councils concerns were if somebody does have an  accident they're actually not of not a violation of anything they're not a scofflaw or anything like that so should there be exceptions when police do have to call for a car to be told i understand that to to keep the streets clear and that's that's a given but should this be an across the board for every for every person that has to be told and that was our concerns right from beginning when we first discussed this so i'm looking forward some further discussion on this and is parker thank you mr president just want to invite people and let them know that this weekend the eighteenth and the nineteenth invite you to the woodlawn neighborhood for the area woodlawn garage sale come to my house buy a bunch of my stuff there's stuff all over the place one person's trash is someone else's treasure many of the things i have i probably bought a garage sales too but it is a great event you can get a chance to take a look at all the renovations i have been made to the woodland park bring your children is going to be a great event so if you get a chance after all the during all the other clean ups and all the other things that we have to do this weekend please kamau please support the neighborhood must some of the proceeds do go to the woodland park which is certainly there not just to benefit the residents of woodlawn but certainly for the entire city is connected a saturday and my colleagues for carrying my voice at the committee meeting last monday i had a work obligation that i could not avoid it was very difficult as my first committee meeting that i missed saw was it felt very uncomfortable but thank you  i appreciate moving the small amount of money into the second lunch fund as i requested it's a program that truly can move mountains with us very small amount of money and feed truly hungry children so thank you all for supporting that in my absence i appreciate that and also you know thank you to how the neighborhood groups because i love people using positive energy and positive attitudes to make a change in a city that they love as much as i do and it really does to coin you know take the coined phrase it takes a village you know the city can't  come up with all of the solutions to the litter in the garbage that we have and we need every hand in everybody and in everyone to pitch in and help so thank you thank you  d and really an impressive track record that's been developed here by our fire department investigative staff work with the d a s office in working with the alcohol and tobacco firearms unit out of albany that they've solved a number of cases and again this one and hewlett street was closed out in a very short time of initial arrest and there are still ongoing investigation and that but it shows that we are working together and when you have tragedy that the staff in the community does rally and respond in a manner that the best face on the a bad situation and brandywine avenue there are a number of people who are interested in that lot or i shouldn't say just people but parties to the barricades up to the other thing were neighbors were complaining because there are a lot of parking there of those boats lapid vehicles old things that  trying to protect the image not create liability issues there those barriers were purchased after some thought the cost i think was a little under five thousand dollars for those but we can use those  in other places in the city where we have to put up barricades they will be with us for a long time so it's a good investment for some flexibility to do it they're somewhat decorative on one side so they can be put you know to block streets that creat retaining walls do other things and think it's a good short term investment and the oak street bridge we had to close that it's really a safety issue in the fire department has reviewed the options there there are scenarios where does the increase some response times command staff is always dealing with that in looking what's the best way to do it the worst scenarios would be really for weather related events and just looking at options which as we get into that with the winter where we just position apparatus it different locations to minimize that response time so it's an ongoing review and again we want to assure people that fire department and police department do respond in the adequate and official manner when we're called upon so that i thank the tomorrow is the neighborhood code compliance review kick off be where the schenectady police fire code enforcement will team up for public safety is going to be as a may fourteenth tomorrow at eleven a m at the mount pleasant tennis courts off of michigan avenue between s to be there and the system will get this get the skull into the city and lastly just again a reminder that i normally our next council meeting would be monday memorial day we will be moving that to wednesday at seven p m here in council chambers