water meters number two regarding an ordinance amending the code of the city of schenectady regarding having municipal golf course rates and fees set by resolution number three regarding an ordinance amending the code of the city of schenectady regarding prohibiting the sale of single cigarettes right then we go into final consideration item number one item number one under final consideration an ordinance deleting obsolete boards and commissions and we' discussed this several times and i just want to reiterate this involves the board's dear environmental conservation the police objective review committee tuesday in the park clonie a festival and the central park stage committee so without objection on consent item number two item number two underage original consideration a resolution adopting a negative declaration person went to the state environmental quality review act this is also discus committee without objection on consent item number three item number three an ordinance authorizing the city to issue two thousand and fourteen bond anticipation notes and bonds this was discussed in committee but without objection on consent i remember for item number four an ordinance approving the continuation of current binding anticipation notes for an additional year in the issuance of certain bonds and bands also discussed finance committee without objection on consent item number five i am number five a resolution authorizing an amendment to an application to the environmental restoration program person went to the clean water clean air bond act of one nine hundred ninety six relative to a parcel of property on van guys along avenue also discussed in committee without objection on consent i don't number six item number six a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to execute a contract between the city of schenectady and open stage media discussed in committee without objection on consent item seven item number seven a resolution recognizing the ancient order of hibernian this will be taken out of order mr cocksure will present that number eight item number eight a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with usa for design service relative to the oak street bridge also discussed in committee without objection on consent and i'm number nine item number nine a resolution toward a contract for outputting police vehicles tool automotive inc also discussed in public safety without objection on consent item number ten item number ten a resolution to award a contract for furnishing and installing a side load drop frame refuse packer body to see e j j yank again discussed in committee without objection on consent item number eleven item number eleven a resolution to authorize the sale of three properties and you'll be getting a copy of that very shortly that was discussed in claims committee tonight without objection on consent and we have one item for unanimous consent item number ten day a right tonight is a special meeting because we will have the swearing in of mr cocksure saw invite county legislator gary hughes to come inside the rail and ed's family to join him this is a great opportunity in a pleasure to swear ed in as a member of the city council i wanted to say just a couple the things to his council colleagues you will never serve with  more diligent hard working collegial talk to everybody work things out councilman than you will with that cocksure to the people of the city of schenectady you will never have a more effective advocate the council then you have in that cocksure and i can say those two things having served with that for four years on the county legislature and clearly the in my mind one of the best colleagues and one of the best legislators that we've had and look around the city of schenectady and you see the improvements to recreation facilities in no mention of the county pay part of that that was its program that brought that into being in the city and was a tireless advocate for baseball fields and parks and and you name it and secondly it was the first chair of the committee on intergovernmental cooperation our chair at the time susan savage was here and susan had the wisdom to appointed to that post and it's because of that work that you have the shared municipal agreement with the city regarding the maintenance of city vehicles by the county and all of the interlocking agreements that exist between the city and the county for snow plowing and other various public works so he will do a fabulous job and i've talked long enough so do we proceed here york and that i will faithfully discharge to the best of my abilities that that's all right the duties and responsibilities of the office of city councilman for the city of so help me god  believed in schenectady who believes so much in nurturing our children and families working through paid school making a difference making certain that you know the family values that we all embrace that the conditions we want to see that are there for a vibrant investment did in schenectady and the county and moving forward with progressive border of politics are all that it had always honored and worked to make certain that they affected us and in  very sound ways so i feel very comfortable about the work that he's done to feel very comfortable about the position he's assuming and i know that he will give it his best shot and continue with the progress that has been made here city council members i wish the best of luck to all involved at the mer it's an honor to work with you to represent you in washington and let's continue that partnership that is a very spirited that is bipartisan in nature that will allow us to go forward in public private partnerships working with academia to make a difference and to really spell soundness for the next generations to come in and i know your heart is there with those generations you have shown it with your wonderful family and with many others who have benefited from  your passion to make a difference congratulations thank you thank you mayor council president council members i'm very excited to be here tonight to talk about a service so everyone knows northeast everyone a lot of people know you've built schenectady what i don't think people know what i want to talk about tonight is the fact that we are an independent contractor to nicer at zero and we have services that we can offer city residents and county residents for low cost or no cost and so it's been very excited about it so far we've weatherized over ninety homes in the city of schenectady we are looking forward to sharing this information with you and being able to help increase energy efficiency in your home as well with me today as simone salmons and simone is our community outreach educator for energy efficiency simone has all the details of this great program so i'm going to turn the mike over to her and wrap up with some facts thank you hello everyone my name is simone case of the program that we have it's called empower new york it is aimed at the low income community of schenectady the first part of the program is what we do is electrical reduction audits so what we do is we do energy efficient upgrades such as lighting upgrades we insulate how water tanks insulate piping and since the heat program has their funding is finished up for replacing our broken or inefficient appliances such as furnace isn't boilers with after actually taken that up so we can come into people's homes and we can check out your for your boiler in your furnace see if it were in efficient same thing with refrigerators because those run twenty four seventh's so we can check those and see if it's ten years plus or if it's you know inefficient it's not working well we can replace that for absolutely free our program is for renters homeowners if you live in a mobile home it doesn't matter as long as you fit within heaps income guidelines we also have another program which is assisted home performance with energy star and that's for a higher income bracket and we can pay for fifty percent of the work and then the other half is you know either out of pocket or you can attach small payments on to your national grid bill each month in order to pay that off on the weather is ation portion of it all we can do up to eight thousand dollars worth of work for absolutely free which could include you know insulating walls insulating your attic air sealing they do a blower door test so we will take a step back and look at your home as a whole and we'll see you know what we can do to make it a few things about you know this is how can it be free we all pay into this there's a systems benefit charge on our electric on our national grid bill every month and that is what feeds this so it's accessible to everyone there  guidelines and there's a lot of ways to finance people but most of it is free we want to help reduce those energy bills i also wanted to say a special thank you to council member marion porter field who's really championed this effort and made sure that we were able to get here tonight we've been in the community talking about this for a while marion's been helping us spearhead this so thank you very much you and i'm the deputy city clerk and i'm also been involved with the american made movie event that you've probably heard about that the city partners hosted theater back on january twenty first and that events had a number of sponsors and stakeholders as well as panelists that participated including congressman goes on the panel with us for that event and we were able through all the sponsors and supporters able to cover all of our expenses the american made movie committee presents the youth build schenectady group with a check for one thousand ninety seven dollars and fifty cents for one of their students so we're very excited about  impacting details some of the fixing that we need out there to grow the economy and grow jobs and it was impacting that we asked that it be shown in washington and so hopefully there'll be a great audience and knowing that it emanated schenectady and the good work by this is that clerk we thank you all for offering the inspiration so that real solutions can provide a sustainable outcome really has us on the up rise so that we can grow those jobs that are substantial for communities so a powerful movie really well done and congratulations to you both for the scholarship award congratulations everyone thanks washington d c viewing of the american made movie will actually take place on april third down in d c and some of the folks involved in the screening up here in schenectady will be traveling down to be part of that viewing in d and i've also heard that the filmmakers involved in the documentary will be on hand for that as well so that's exciting the only other update i have is the american made committee has continued to follow through following the movie event and we had a meeting last month that will be having a follow up meeting on march twenty first and that meeting is going to be facilitated by the center for economic growth who's going to help the american made committee get concrete with regards to our mission and objectives as we move forward so that's pretty exciting so that's descent as well as their many and varied contributions to the well being of schenectady and whereas the irish are just one of many immigrant people to have come to the shores seeking refuge from the yoke of oppression and whereas the j worthy causes and deserving organizations now therefore be resolved to the city of schenectady council declares that on monday march seventeenth two thousand and fourteen st patrick's day shall be celebrated throughout the city of schenectady in recognition santa claus santa claus made a special appearance that sunday and we had over that's the night of the storm we had almost two feet of snow the burn impact and i was plowed we had church vans pulling in with kids we served over two thank you thank you thank you and i believe we have some irish dancer simming yes but there's more as we always say wait there's more always a nice tradition the festival of color remains a popular spring festival joining which everyone splashes color water or powder all over each other's face and clothing reflecting nature's bringing forward gorgeous color community on behalf of this connect the hindu society and the hindu community beside the honorable mayor the mayor's office the city council members i'm just city of schenectady connected hindu society is a federation of hindu organizations in schenectady it was registered in november two thousand and thirteen and form primarily to promote hindu colorful it to celebrate it with colored powder colored water and the singing of hindu folk songs it is the world largess colored festival tonight possible but before i close we would like to extend an invitation didn't our city council and the mayor also under general public to grace this event starting up one p m on the twenty second of march thank you thank you thank you suggesting that type of great we've also had the city council approved to move the the parks and rec id card from the parks and rec building to the city clerk and that has not taken place and we've had that approved back in two thousand and nine that still has not been moved that was a reasonable accommodation because to put a ramp at the at that building would be over twelve thousand dollars and both caroline and then i lame and chopped all said it would not  overburden them to have the id card sitting up in the second floor of the clerk's office and that's where they would go and get it so we definitely need to get the id card moved out of that building because it's totally inaccessible for a person with disabilities so hopefully we can be able to take a look at this and be able to add person with disabilities to this thank you i have no one else signed up so i'm going to their public here number two close public hearing number three here are number three regarding an ordinance amending the code of the city of schenectady regarding prohibiting the sale of single cigarettes i have four people signed up the first  hello my name is joyce which all of and i'm a taxpayer in the city of schenectady i'd like to first ask the question here who on the city council or even in the city has even called the schenectady public health department true report that a business is illegally selling tobacco products to minors and i can't give you the answer because i spoke to a representative at this connected to public health department today their answer is there has been virtually no complaints coming from the city my point here is that the city has been gone for the proper channels to correct this problem our first plan of attack should be to alert the city residents to let them know that they are able to make a complaint the phone number for the schenectady public health is three eight six two eight one we need to make them aware of the problem so that they can come in and investigate and then they can either close these businesses or take away their licenses take away their lottery licenses well they have the authority to do that and they're good at it the statistics for teenage smoking in new york state has decreased by half in the past decade and also to place an undue burden upon the schenectady police force in my opinion is a waste of time and not in the best interest of public safety to have of officers have to go and visit a store and issue a violation is just simply foolhardy we need to allow the schenectady public health department to do their job first before we ask our police department to do it as well a duplications effort is just going to waste taxpayer money but i do believe that there is a very big benefit  those off the pilot programs put them back on to the tax rolls that's where we should be consolidating that's where we will get our money and this would be in the best interest of every struggling taxpayer in the city thank you thank you fellow and thank you for the opportunity to speak my name is judy wright meyer and i am the director of the capital district tobacco free coalition we are a department of the new york state department of health funded grant that covers albany scanty and runs the counties county coalition for healthy communities and as a member of that committee we are working to try to bring that tobacco use rate down we know that the way to bring tobacco you straight down is to prevent our young people from smoking suppress them from starting and to help smokers quit we know that ninety percent of people that smoke started smoking before they were eighteen years old so if we can get our kids to be eighteen years old and not smoke we have nine out of ten of them never smoking if we get them to be twenty six and not smoke and they will not smoke so our job is to make that tobacco product less less attractive to young people  so one of the ways we do that is by keeping the price high for cigarettes and new york state knew that and that's why they raised their tax on a pack of cigarettes to four dollars and thirty five cents and when they did that they saw the youth smoking rate drop down when we sell individual cigarettes it's very affordable for young people so we know that we want to decrease that occurrence we do not want to have our kids being able to give a dollar and get a cigarette it's against the law it's against federal and state law  and we want to do everything we can to prevent that we also know we need to decrease the number of places where cigarettes are sold because the more places there are the more dense the popular the more dense the number of locations are the more likely the youth will smoke and just to give you some point of reference in schenectady county there's one hundred eighty six places to buy cigarettes one hundred fifty five of those are in the city of schenectady so one of the things the city could do is make a license and and make the people in the city be required to buy alliance license to sell tobacco and then decrease the number of licenses that you choose to give out you can also choose to not allow its back to be sold  pharmacies or stores that contain a pharmacy the other thing we have to do is help people that are smokers to quit and one of the things we do for that is to make our environment tobacco free so we can make the city any property the city owns to be a smoke free property and not a lot of smoking on it the city is already done a wonderful job in making their parks one hundred percent free and that his is huge because it changes that social norm around tobacco and i've got five seconds and i guess the last thing i want to say  they could also ban the use of coupons or buy one get one free so that it again keeps the price high and so kids would not be able to have that thank you very much for thank you  erin buchan meyer tonight my name is erin buck and my i'm here representing the schenectady coalition for a healthy community and this coalition last february started the you matter schenectady survey we surveyed over two thousand residents of the city of schenectady in a three month period of time and some of the results of the survey what we found is that thirty seven percent of those people that we spoke with are smokers just to give you a little bit of perspective a little bit of reference on that if we look ownie wide going to the county of the smoking rates close to eighteen percent even eighteen percent schenectady county is has a higher rate of smoking than does albany county and rensselaer county so we definitely have a problem with smoking here especially in the city and another thing to mention quickly of the that thirty seven percent said that they were current smokers on our survey fifty percent of them said that they tried to quit in the past year so we have a real opportunity here to work with these people to help them to quit and one of the ways that we do that is to change our environments and make the an easier decision and make it easier on people to follow through and to be able to quit so i would ask that one of the ways you can start to change our environments would be to ban the sale of lucy's thank you thank you and frank the city council for monday march tenth two thousand and fourteen under the category of official from the mayor a list of appointments dated march tenth two thousand and fourteen a letter from commissioner olson recommending the award of purchase to furnishing and none under petitions there are none committee reports we have any committee reports on months going twice ok then we'll move on to privileges the floor related to the legislative agenda i have tried to make a recommendation to remove person with disabilities as a representative body on the affirmative action board also to also disagree with that you need to have qualified people on that board because she she would have to train them well she's not even qualified in the first place in two she was hired by the county in july the fourteenth two thousand and eight for the game for the for the current position by four in two thousand and nine her job application from the city i mean from the county here's a here's a resume and not one bit of it she would have never qualified if the county did not did the paperwork they bypassed that she was totally unqualified for the position is still is now the other thing is that also in february of two thousand and ten i also found out that they tried to make her position exam and the the current personnel  person testified that she was not even the one that did the job description it was done in within the county manager's office so they purposely did the job description for her and did it for that now and the next thing also to is is on the they also she also recommended that the executive director for the human rights commission be put on the board as one of our recommendations on the executive that would be a conflict of interest and also her voting record on human rights in this county is also fraudulent misappropriate federal funds by building the glendale nursing home with the p l a agreement which denied jobs to person with disabilities and deny jobs to minorities and there are other aspects within that piece so falsified those documents but she did but they asked the county the city to make sure that she did not move forward on that issue so i'm just you know one more cautious saying hoping that we can move forward on your copies of this if you needed them thank you thank you mary maclan that the material will be legible i was not able to read the paper that contains the numbers or the bond anticipation notes and bonds that the problem needs to be corrected thank you you thank right i have no one else signed up so with that portion of the meeting closed and i'll entertain a motion to approve the legislative agenda i favor and we'll move to privilege of the floor regarding city business i have six people signed up to speak the first is joe rodriquez wednesday we hope much we don't know but there's a big crater which had to because i'm in the middle of wall street my concern is i know the city suffering with a lot of holes and i can understand that my concern is this is like a parking space to you good bye to get to the end of my to my house to create is so big that you can see inside it's about a good four feet if you get some person does not sane or intoxicated they definitely going to go into my concern again i to get an emergency vehicle to our side of the street by accident a last meeting when is the last time besides the members that i know that been on the street had you come on the street and just look just please l a concert there's not so much we understand that the city doesn't have the funds or is to preserve the safety of the people i think we should take notice that if you just take some time maybe while you're driving up state street take a turn on and from since two thousand and three i came in schenectady and i've been investing in schenectady and i never see anybody from the city did any work and  it is getting worse daily and nobody cares and we are paying taxes dear such as cutler street i've been living there for ten years and no improvement it's fifty seventy five it's an x property there and it was there for i would say for years a one family converting into a two family and it's very bad there there's no and some streets are east and am not a bad troll and it it's got to be something is better be done i've seen some big very big holes everywhere and we got to do something pretty quick and we gotta do something about these people that stop at a light to make a left hand turn and you get somebody else to come on your wrong side and make a left hand turn when the arrow is not on that something's got to be done about that this has got to stop before somebody gets killed we don't need that to happen so better get at it and do something quick and stop the speeders from speeding from one end of the street to the other end of the street i see this is all on call for it's got to stop now thank you jason plank downtown and stockade and the other one would be the north hill area a lot of these developers of contractors if we have seen over the last two years have received major reductions in their assessment between twenty five to fifty percent with one developer last two weeks ago received over seventy percent nearly a million dollars reduction in their assessment i had asked that if each of one hundred homeowners and each one of those got together and then hired an attorney to grieve which is the first part of may disc would force the city to do a city assessment the city says it doesn't have money but has money to do everything else has money to give to general contractors and everything else big huge tax breaks has money to give pay raises it has money for everything else except for giving property tax relief and this is one way that the city taxpayers can be able to force the city to do what it's supposed to do a lot of people blame the mastroianni for the erroneous high tax assessments the problem is and that everybody should deserve a tax break but a lot of people don't realize is that thirty percent of the property taxes within the city is not exempt or has pilots attached to it and also to your wondering that the school destr y the city of schenectady is going to ten million dollar hole well this is one of the reasons just two weeks ago when you did that one developer for a million dollars that's a million dollars with assessment of the school districts now that that has been overpaid and the you know that's a lot of money that the that the school district is going to pay back and this affects everybody effects also the county the county represents about fifteen percent your tax bill the city about thirty five and school district fifty so we need to be able to get this back under control and i'm hoping that the taxpayers will gather together and to be able to go forward because of four hundred homes followed grievance yeah it may take you two years but it will force the city that they will have to do it and  equalization rate of one hundred twenty three percent but the state saying that's too much thank you thank you harry brand with your hearts and your conscience and vote for the citizens a city we heard most like by mr costars his oath being sworn in we've got seven people on the city council we've got america and you people need to represent the citizens and this city and forget everybody else whether it's a party where there's a county you're in the city and you're an officer to city and only in the city here that you should be providing the best for everybody here you need to work together work things out talk things out if the man had married his too much power it's your to talk him down bring up the questions these high salaries the taxpayers cannot afford to wait this city is run now mr rigby shouldn't be left out of meetings shouldn't be a rubber stamp dollar voting we're all here for one purpose for this city to do better and i've never seen a look worse than it does now from our streets to the houses you have what eight hundred fifty homes either boarded up burned out or you receive them back on on no fault of paying their mortgage plus how many for sale for five hundred eight hundred what do you do in your run in the people out of the city you sold low income housing one hundred or more is now wonderful what happens if you raise taxes we cannot afford these high pace increases twenty thousand ten thousand gifts and that it's time to get down to business and run this city the way it should be and work together you're all good  mind but why don't you care for our city and not citizens i've never seen a city look so pear from one end to be other our streets you can't drive them it's a shame the construction jobs your state's tree got to stop otherwise we don't need you we go down without you don't help it it's a shame obeisance your thought is get the city going to wage should be  thank you mary maclan immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for undocumented residen library mind council that members took an oath of office to uphold the law and that undocumented people are here country rhea ellis island he often talked about two lines one line was for those who were fit and were able to continue on their destination and the other line was for those who were ill and were returned to their homeland pod in all circumstances they all waited their turn and author to come to the united states the modern immigrant thinks all he needs to do me as run our meeting at seven p m this coming thursday march thirteenth and we do hope that mother nature will be kind and be done with her fury by then this topic for larry king will be phase one the seventy million dollar capital project and he states with zero or minimal cost to homeowners and the k through five and middle six through eight configurations we will forward to his talk in his presentation as a result of our pleasant first community workshop we are having an all sports information and sign up day saturday march twenty second ten to four and the little timer here is not working so i want to make sure nobody thinks i'm getting treatment that will be held at the bridge church from ten to four at seven thirty five crane street the old marcel appliance building participants will include the schenectady little league the merged league the basketball the basketball club we are going to have jim's gym he has a boxing ring in the back of the church doing demonstrations we have spoken with some people about some bridge church in the mount pleasant neighborhood association are working partnering together to have a cross walk at ten am and we're going to be putting together a route to provide to the police to process intersections hopefully it will all be done on a sidewalk we're going to go from church to church and the church will do a little sermon as they've done like in scotia and other places and we have about five churches now so we're looking for more churches to join us and i just want to say that the pleasant middle school cabin fever community day was a huge success we did a lot of networking we got a lot of sports representatives to talk with us about the sign up day for sports as educational day we'd like all the kids who are been asking me if they could please have a basketball team in mount pleasant this is your time to come out we're going to get more advertising out there but this is a response to the i want to start with the fact that it's vital to us that people come down and use privilege of the floor to give us information to raise questions to challenge challenge us but i answers for them but personal attacks of that nature spoken as fact but yet not supported i think is really unfair so i just will ask that people think about when they come to the rail presenting it in a way in a also as a result of the hud loan is that the community loan fund will be opening a satellite office at nine twenty albany street and that's the county business center they having a grand opening on march twentieth at three thirty p m if you're not familiar with the community loan fund they give low cost flexible loans to community development organizations small businesses micro enterprises low and moderate income borrowers and more and they also provide training and technical assistance to local businesses and nonprofits so if you want to learn more about the community loan fund march twenty eighth at three thirty also i'll probably be mentioning this every two weeks we're ramping up for give graffiti the brush again which is our graffiti removal program the city will be identifying properties for our program that uses youth on probation to come and cover it at no cost to the home and business owners so people in the communities my contact information is on the website if you want to call me and kind of target some properties give me addresses i'm happy to add them to the list so that they can be cleaned up neglected to give her contact information so if anyone heard the information in five of them are interested in hearing more about it she can be reached at three seven two four one zero zero extension three five two one or and some more exciting things that homeowners can take advantage of st madeline sophie church is partnering with the group mission trips and dillon central high school district to bring it work camp trip to well you could live within thirty minutes i believe it is of when so they're looking for residents who need basic home repairs which include interior and exterior painting deck and wheelchair ramp repair and construction whether it's whether it's ation and up is april first i believe yes april first so the actual program will be in july but the deadline to submit an application is april first so if people are interested they really should get their applications in quickly i also just want comment on what mr rodriguez had to say about st i have visited the street several times and there are some serious concerns there that we really do need to take a look at you know there was the fire there and and as a result of that  there is some houses that are now down which thankfully but the condition of the street is you know it's is of concern so if we can just really take a look at that and you know try to get something done he's come numerous times i've heard from him personally he's called me so i'm just hoping that we can take a look at they get that filled especially with the weather being what it is it's you know it's knows it's not snowing but that is a street and i know there are many but there is a huge hole in that street that we hopefully can take a look at quickly and thank you for coming down and hopefully we can do something thank you thank you they remember that so one of our regulars a joy all coming down every every other week to hear the calls made to talk about something important safety and you're a lot of credit coming up and reminding us you know some of the things that you know she talks about are traffic speeding people crossing the roads and  know i see a lot of folks driving fast too fast for the city and you know i think with spring time coming more people getting out walking around you know the traffic division the police department maybe you can focus more on  i think people are sometimes driving a little careless these days and just going as fast as they can get away with going and maybe feeling that they're not going to get caught because no one i was out there watching and so maybe we could address a little of those concerns and just kind of remind patrols to get out there and keep an eye on kind of dangerous behavior along with that we talk about potholes sinkholes and things like that and every year that's the topic right i mean this is the northeast and every winter you're freezing and thawing and so it's not new it's going to happen next year too i predict that we will have potholes but it seems that every year we get to our paving program very late in the season and so i like to see if maybe this year we can address the paving plan in the plating paving strategy in the city earlier and maybe get some of the roads paved in you know maybe june or early summer timeframe and that way we wouldn't be rushing sometimes at the end of the season where temperatures aren't so conducive to putting the asphalt down and we might be able to get better quality services if we if we do it earlier in the season lastly i want to congratulate mr cocksure welcome to the council i know you'll  me in a different light now and just took care of one this morning which i just want to talk about very quickly about the senior enhanced star exemption i went downstairs and one of our neighbors who is ninety five years old in our community and is bedridden and didn't have the proper identification get the enhanced star his driver's license had expired and so on and so forth within thirty minutes of time this morning working with downstairs you censors office the folks down there  are tremendous we went down that board of elections and got a validate board of elections id rather thirty minutes i was able to get to work by nine o'clock and we had the situation resolved but the point is that they have a stack of did to save the parish in the building we can just keep the community in your thoughts and prayers i'm sure they would appreciate it's also just real quick with these the school district as you know we have the capital project referendum going to be voting on tuesday march twenty fifth that's coming up in just a few weeks and that is going to have over seventy million dollars or motivations for schenectady the city school buildings they have a couple more informational as we just noted with the mt pleasant neighbor association this thursday at seven p m next tuesday the eighteenth are doing another one at central park middle school on elm street so encourage folks if you're interested to please get out there and just take a look at what these projects  board of education have to make in the next coming weeks and the last budget workshop is coming up on thursday march twentieth at six p m it m l king school and i really urge folks who are watching here or who really have children in the school district to attend that meeting it's an actual interactive workshop you'll actually be given a booklet by the superintendents and you'll be making budget decisions budget cuts they will impact our children our community  and it's a working session what you believe in and starts a six you'll be that about eight thirty at night going through this whole program so i really would like to see folks get involved has some great turnouts at some of our schools but it will be the last one before it gets brought to the board for the final decisions building it was unveiled over the weekend some of the scouting has finally come down it's a beautiful silver gray building now but the seventy seven and they've done a tremendous job on the building parking is still an issue over there because we still the renovation going on for the bellevue preservation their last meeting was canceled because of snow i hope that this thursday we won't have the same thing maybe it's a bellevue preservation that's causing these problems i don't know with the snow so hopefully not but anyhow their monthly preparations are being made once again to sponsor bellevue farmer's market this season the public is invited so hopefully the weather will kind of pass off the south and they'll be able to have their meeting as usual mayor and  corporation consul there's been an ongoing problem with county waste especially in the bellevue neighborhood one street in particular they pick up for film school they print habitually picking up way too early this last past two fridays the lady that lives by that spent complaining they pick up five o'clock in the morning i think i talked to commissioner bennett the police chief is taught to county waste the lieutenant has talked to county waste apparently they're not getting the picture if they want to i think if they want to do business in the city schenectady they have to follow the rules so the school district is hiring them maybe we should allow alert the school district to this also but they're waking people up some people don't get up at five o'clock in the morning i do it may not bother me but maybe someone else doesn't have to get up to seven o'clock or eight o'clock this isn't right and this lady that's getting awakened on a regular basis she's tried every avenue she can she's called everyone and she hasn't gotten relief so i think we have to stretch send a strong message from the city to say for this is illegal what you're doing i believe the ordinance is six thirty you know that's ok but five o'clock is not ok so i would hope that we can get that done some nights in st problems they go on and on and on mr rodriguez the one thing that he brings up which if we do have an impending snowstorm which snot going to happen but we have to make sure that areas clear some bridges who vehicles can get through even though for whatever reason that scored off we have to make sure snow was clear properly from there so people can safely be able to navigate especially emergency vehicles as very important and lastly the st patrick's day resolution unless i missed something again as i do sometimes sometimes slews but i believe that part that the speaker was talking about was removed and the one that's adopted by the council had nothing to say about that whatsoever so there is concern from the concert that's why that was removed and rightfully so sold that i just want to set the get a firsthand look at what's happening there i brought it so the council enemy attention and hope that we can revisit it and lend some support to the resident they are unable to work with them and help to fix it just a few more on the monk pleasant neighborhood association is having an all sports information and sign up there and i encourage everyone to utilize this it's free and you can contact reverend james booker out at the bridge christian church eight six four five eight four nine or you followed him up mr mcgee was saying i'm going to bolster very briefly there was a draft concerning the resolution for the hibernian as it did include some language that was an early draft it was in the packet last  week when the council was reviewing certain things but by the time it went through for final consideration this evening all of that language had been deleted thank you  the president yes we do have a few potholes put in to the crews are working and that is being dispatched on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis we work in a sector go through but anybody that has a pothole call it in so that we become aware of it can get it on the list so that we will fill what was on moist in st last thursday we're looking at that yes we're trying to address that street surface again  with the loosies again that's part of a broad approach to some of these neighborhood stores and the initial review of the first ten were working with those ten stores generated thirty four hundred calls for service over the last two years roughly twenty four months it's ridiculous i want the police department to do policing it's really their function in the role of a babysitter and we cannot have these businesses function in the manner that creates a negative environment in the neighborhoods it draws on our services and it's just an embarrassment so the loosies e's one component of the overall approach that we are dealing with these stores we want them to be successful we want to be profitable but they got to play by the rules in that if they don't we're going to tighten it up and they just won't be in business when a president i thank you