i'm going to call the city council caucus meeting to order from march twenty third twenty fifteen tunnel between watts street and route park right and for original consideration of occurred clark would mean item number one and number one under final consideration a local law amending chapter sixty two of the administrators code of the city of schenectady to allow for best value purchasing this was approved in committee a while back and the questions that were raised have been resolved so without objection on consent item number two i don't know or two under original consideration an ordinance dated march twenty third tw fifteen authorizing the issuance of nine million one hundred fourteen thousand four hundred ninety five aggregate principal amount serial bonds of the city of schenectady new york pursuant to the local finance law to finance twenty fifteen capital plan you can discuss in committee without objection on consent and a number three and number three a resolution authorizing the an interim in a civil agreement with the village of scotia discussed in committee without objection on consent item number for another for resolution authorizing the close out of its or municipal agreement with the village of scotia also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number five and number five a resolution authoriz of schenectady to settle a tax thirty sherry for sixteen south church discussed in claims without objection on consent item number six or number six the resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle tax or sherry for eighteen south church also discussed in claims without objection on consent item number seven a number seven a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a tax or sherry for twenty south church again discussed in claims without objection on consent item number eight a memory a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a tax or sherry for twelve union street also discussed in claims that objection on consent item number nine number nine a resolution authoriz ten union street and we do have an amendment this porterfield president i'd like to offer an amendment to change the selling price of this property to seventy one thousand dollars their second ok recognizing schenectady community colleges men's bowling team as the twenty fifteen and j c a a champion has also been taken out of order item number twelve and number twelve a resolution recognizing the month of march lesbian gay bisexual and transgender help this will also be taken out of boredom is present will present and i don't number thirteen or number thirteen a resolution recognizing april second as national autism awareness day without objection on consent this will be presented at the ribbon cutting for puzzles miller there and all in favor i and then this will be presented out of order ok item number fourteen another fourteen resolution authorizing the cell of fourteen twelve albany street this was discussed in city development in planning tonight  so without objection on consent item number fifteen or number fifteen a resolution authorizing the sale of eighteen eleven albany street also discussed in the committee meeting tonight without objection on consent item number sixteen and number sixteen a resolution authorizing the sale of ten eighty nine albany history also discussed in committee without objection on consent and if there's nothing else to come before the city council caucus i'll declare that meeting closed and then we will move to this fall city council meeting for on prostrations on give me a gracious father return to for his beautiful gift of life we thank you for the groundwater with just infinite resources  that we can always be conscious of all true realities be true to ourselves and augers inspire us that we can always be humbled and execute all duties give us the courage and the strength so that we can overcome all right we have four out of order resolutions and i'm going to reverse the order that's on our agenda and ask miss porterfield to do the first one unifying theme to be shared by all who want to promote women's history there in for this year is weaving the stories of women's lives and it presents an opportunity to we women stories individually and collectively and to the essential fabric of our nation's history accounts of lives of individual women are critically important because they reveal exceptionally strong role models who share a more expansive vision of what a woman can do the stories women's lives and the choices they make encourage girls and young women  think larger and bolder and give boys and men a fuller understanding of the female experience knowing women's achievements challenges stereotypes and up and up and social assumptions about what women are and what women can accomplish today so today i'd like to offer a resolution honoring beverly lewis sally during two thousand and fifteen women's history month whereas the two thousand and fifteen theme for women's history month is weaving the story of women's lives this thing presents the opportunity to integrate the diverse and compelling story of women's lives into a colorful tapestry highlighting the intricacies and interconnection of these stories and whereas beverly lewis sally move schenectady in the early one nine hundred fifty s from black which virginia where she grew up on a two hundred sixty four acre farm where tobacco cotton peanuts and vegetables were grown she recalls it was funny at times but she had to go to work we had a lot of chores i started working when i was eight years old and where as she and her husband migrated north because he couldn't find work in virginia they were part of the great migration where more than six million african americans from the rural south moved to cities in the north midwest and west in schenectady he is a welder and burner and she is a stand outside business together they raise their six children in schenectady after leaving g e she worked as an executive director of parker day care center for seventeen years and where as mrs lewis sally was active in the community she joined friendship baptist church where she still attend services and she was involved with carver community center the pleasant valley conservation club and the national association for the advancement of colored people and whereas at the tender age of ninety three her wisdom for younger generations just stay for just a friendly and stay in church now therefore be resolved that the city council and the mayor of the city of cincinnati pause in their deliberations to recognize mrs beverly lewis sally during two thousand association extends to promoting foster junior college athletics and intersectional and national levels and whereas it's going to county community college is committed to being the premier community college that empowers individuals to reach their greatest potential exceptional and an innovative education and training and whereas intercollegiate athletics are in and target all parts of the college's extracurricular activities whereas the two thousand and fourteen fifteen s women's bowling team recently won the national championship national championship i want to repeat that defeating the runner up suffolk county community college and corning community college well as gentle words you know very good congratulations a graduate of a local high school here notre dame bishop givens letter team to victory and was named the most valuable player the chinaman with their average of one hundred eighty seven pens very nice very nice i can do that in three games now therefore be resolved that the mayor gary are mccarthy and the city council do hereby pause in our deliberations to commemorate the achievements of the skin t county community college women's bowling team and to celebrate their  f c c c man's bowling team recently reclaim the prong at national champions defeating the runner up suffolk county college community college by a total of eight hundred fifty six points and whereas andrew a freshman was named the most valuable player of the tournament with his highest average of two hundred three point t wo and whereas nick pick us back away at sorry and also a freshman was recognized for the standout performance by being named the national all american team for honor for me and for the team and on behalf of welcomes my system coach this is the first we really had thought we had a good shot this year and we actually pulled it off and not only are the winners on the bowling lanes but they're winners in the classroom my men average g p a is two point nine my women's is three point one and every software on the team is graduating in two years or so and this is truly an honor i am very humbled that you invited me here into this i'm truly honored thank you very much mr ross how long have to three years twenty years twenty three years and we've known each other longer not have it once we have it but it's you can but honestly say i've been living it's going to be almost my whole life and to bring this back to schenectady is going to community college is really the highlight it's a dream come true for me congratulations again madam president you have thank you this is a resolution recognizing the month of march as lesbian gay bisexual and transgender health month whereas there is roughly nine million lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people commonly referred to under the act where an elegy and more than six hundred fifty thousand same sex couples in the united states and whereas the community has historically lacked access to culturally competent health care and experience discriminations at the hands describes me discrimination at the ends of service providers and medical insurance providers and where as health disparities continue to plague the  community and the fear of discrimination causes many people to avoid seeking health care in whereas new york is the only state in the country which celebrates l g b t health month which encourages people to come together across settings and disciplines to participate in discussions about disparities and to advocate for the education of healthcare providers and whereas the pride center of the capital region which serves the city of schenectady works to promote the wellbeing of the community and those discriminated against based on gender identity and expression and whereas the promotion of health is fundamental to the pride center's efforts through their peer support groups as well as community and professional education designed to enhance provider support to people now therefore be it resolved that the mayor gary r mccarthy and city council do hereby pas in their deliberations to proclaim the month of march as lesbian gay bisexual and transgender health month in the city of schenectady madam president i move this resolution is there a second sporting field empowering the lives of this community you know around the capital region so again we truly appreciate your recognition and support of everything that we have to thank you  and for those of you three here for the out of order ceremonial resolutions you are welcome to stay for the rest of the council meeting but please do not feel that you have to i'm sure some of the students have some work to do for class tomorrow right we have two public hearings tonight for the clerk would be the first one public hearing number one amending the schenectady city coach up to sixty eight regarding the housing standards and review board i have two people signed up to speak for this the first is  thank you good evening madam president city council and mayor mccarthy my name is steve marcum i am a member of slick schenectady landlords influence and change referring back to the november twentieth two thousand and twelve  article by reporter kathleen more the headline reads review board had for code violations city landlord disputes would be heard the article begins with quote schenectady may soon have a board to mediate disputes between the expanded code enforcement department and city landlords to further quote the board was supposed to rule on any complaints regarding code violations of rental rental certificate inspection failures for multi unit welling's the goal according to the city's code was to give landlords a way to appeal code of course meant decisions without going to court the article also states the board has the power to uphold modify ehrlichman a any code violation or violation or inspection failure it goes on to say in addition to determining whether in and inspection went beyond the city's codes the board could also determine that some violations were not serious enough to require sanctions this information was publi c publicized following slick's request for the city to reinstate this long dormant board that was still on the books since its creation in one nine hundred ninety one according to the above article councilwoman  quote it seems to make sense and plan to bring up the issue at a future meeting for changes in two weeks it's been over two years since that initial article was published and last week we finally received that the proposed revision of the housing standards review board the term tweak does not even begin to describe what was done to this board for example and comparison to the above because that description of the board the revision now states i am sick eight dash one creation purpose to receive comments from the public related to the housing standards requirement of the new york state and city of schenectady as well as operations of code enforcement and the buildings department also item sixty eight dash ten powers a rules and regulations the board is authorized to make and adopt such written rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper enforcement and interpretation of this chapter and to security intent there off such rules and regulations shall not be in conflict with the provisions of this chapter or any other ordinance of the city nor shall they have the effect up waiving any provisions of this chapter of any other ordinance we ask what exactly does all this verbiage mean and what purpose does this thank you thank you evening that i'm president council members and there mccarthy my name is chris morris and i'm the director of slick nowhere in the drastically altered version of the housing standard review board do we find any reference to the very reason that slick was requesting a three state in the first place and that would be the appeals process and the power of the board to pass judgment on code violation issues we feel the original intended benefit and purpose of this board has been a blip obliterated and replaced by ineffectual nonspecific words from what we're seeing in this proposal we can only come to the conclusion that the city just doesn't choose to relinquish any control in regard to code enforcement rulings and doesn't want to allow for any formal arbitration process this impression only solidifies and furthers the sense of intimidation and oppression that many of us express we are only seeking fair in just legislation encouraging us to help the city not fight the city we need to establish more security and sustainability in this business and create greater incentive for future investment only through cooperation collaboration and like minded vision can we hope to achieve our collective goal in closing slick asked the council to address the that we have expressed regarding this revision by going back to the drawing board and work to restore the appeals in the power sections of the house the standard review board as initially created we understand that this board would have to take into consideration the concerns of city council the mayor and the building inspector regarding the importance of life safety violations and we would not in that the board would not interfere where appropriate and having said that we still ask that this board be allowed to determine the most expression expeditious and reasonable steps to best carry out an effective mission so we thank you for your attention and we look forward to your response in the future we thank you thank you i have no one else lined up to speak for this public hearings i'm going to declare that public hearing closed and we will move to the second public hearing number two begun the possible closing of the pedestrian tunnel between watch street and park i have four people signed up to speak to this the first is the tunnel has long since out with its purpose it is now a quick impressive egress xscape route for criminal activity which does not make it safe for our children or anyone walking through their upon campus in the area with their petition to close the tunnel i was informed of several incidents that have happened recently a man wandering about in the backyard and driveway at nine thirty at night when the homeowner took her dog for a walk in her yard and a young lady who discovers someone had tried to slide open her storm windows and found her car vandalized these in an incidence are very close to the tunnel neighbors who want to walk the dogs and grow apart discover drug paraphernalia and activity in the park that makes them uncomfortable to go inside the gates we want people to purchase homes and the residents of the area and this is what they see and hear who wants to live with that the damage that has been done to the park buildings the buildings one burned down and the other boarded up and covered in graffiti the playground equipment destroyed and trash strewn about that is just disgusting it is blight on our neighborhood in the city with the closing of the tunnel we may be able to improve appearance and safety so that residents once again may enjoy the park david tanner has a wonderful video on the internet which shows the park now and speaks of what used to be we understand that what used to be doesn't last forever but it doesn't mean it should be destroyed forever over the years and more so now there have been numerous reports of theft vandalism and break and some of which the residents were sleeping inside their own homes at the time a home on watts street was also burglarized that night and the tunnel would have been the only way for such quick work these june twenty fourth team break and had one family move out of their house the next morning never to return and the house just sold after nine months two empty houses on twenty first street were badly vandalized by kids who do not live in the neighborhood in and one instance a pass police and they were apprehended this nice quiet street now has been de lys properties the safety of our residents is of the utmost importance most of the residents here have long established homes and now lament and how unsafe it is to has become for them and who will want to purchase their homes when that time comes please the tunnel serves no good purpose anymore it only serves purpose to those doing no good thank you thank you i have a i have the petitions that i would like to submit t good evening mayor mccarthy madam president and council members my name is donna foley and on behalf of my neighbors who live in the area of the crawl park tunnel i am here to support closing the tunnel i have lived near the tunnel for most of my life as you know the tunnel was built as a safe walkway for the children living on the wild street side of eight ninety to attend grove park elementary school in the grob park playground the school and the playground are no longer functioning in their original capacity this disgusting tunnel has for many years been the core door for those using drugs drinking now bohol and as a quick and easy xscape route for committing crime people who use the playground to run their dogs have complained about containers litter and drug paraphernalia left behind the tunnel is not a viable access for emergency vehicles and if the tunnel was closed the suspects may have to cross the bridge at duane and watch streets making them more visible and the police better able to catch them the crime activity has gotten worse in recent years and our neighborhood has become more victimized by vandalism and by burglary in our homes and in our cars within the past two years several homes have been broken into even during the night when people sleeping which frighten me enough to have a security system installed we feel the tunnel is a major factor that contributes to criminal wrongful activity that affects our homes our personal property and our quality of life we hope the city and d o t well except our concerns and sprawl park tunnel thank you thank you good evening mayor mccarthy madam president council members and city residents my name is linda keller am a resident and property owner in the city i'm speaking tonight as a concerned resident of the central state street neighborhood as the president  central state street neighborhood as a delegate to the neighborhood i try to remain vigilant about the city issues especially public safety issues public safety is ongoing concern of many city residents the tunnel  grow park is a public safety issue for nearby residents residents of the north and central state street neighborhood or residents of the town of rotterdam it wants or neighborhoods has now become an escape for criminals and vandals i understand that this is an issue for d o t and other members of the mt pleasant neighborhood association are gathering signatures from nearby residents and petitions to smit to do your duty this must be closed off i support the efforts of the pleasant neighbors association and hope that the city and county council should also should also support their efforts to close off the tunnel at croke park to promote public safety in this area thank you thank you would and if you be so kind as to pass those around fred leigh is the president of the schenectady neighborhood watch of which i'm a member and he's also the past president of the schenectady united neighborhoods and he and he states as such schenectady neighborhood watch is always concerned with enhanced public safety for all the residents and guests of the city of schenectady in schenectady county there are numerous structural suggestions that we can have made in to aid  accomplishing that goal and the closing of this tunnel would be a good step in this area and this is an arena he says when i need eight ninety opened the tunnel it was most likely represented concession and most likely represent a concession rather to residents about dividing a neighborhood many of those residents have moved along long ago it was however become a tool of criminal activity in the southeast section of the city and for the town of rotterdam as well as he continues to state i personally became aware of this existence ten years ago when i participated in a ride along with the schenectady police department to serve on the civilian police review board after about thirty minutes in the back of a squad car that time they had received a call where there was an armed robbery in progress at the convenience store located near the tunnels entrance the victim stated that the perpetrator ran down the street through the tunnel on the far side the witness of the cell that south side said he observed a male running through the back yards and had pitched an object into one of the back yards at the base spent an hour with flashlights searching for what was presumed to be a gun the incident required duplicate sets of police cars both sides of the expressway for fear of criminal search circling back around we the schenectady neighborhood watch who would recommend that the tunnel be equipped with strong gates equipped with locks available to public safety officers and in the event that the tunnel needs to be accessed to serve as a pass through for fire or manmade or natural disasters we recommend this be accomplished before the summer season since there is normally an increase in activity during the season as you can as you've heard from other neighborhoods it's this seems to resonate throughout the entire neighborhood and we would certainly appreciate your consideration thank you thank you you i have no one else signed up to speak so i'm going to declare this public hearing closed and we will move to the approval of the minutes of the march ninth twenty fifteen meeting this porterfield makes most that the second instrument of aaron all in favor by communications and petitions communications presented to the city council for monday march twenty third two thousand and fifteen under official from and from the mayor a list of appointments dated march twenty third two thousand and fifteen under general there are not under petitions there are none thank you was you had it set aside for the affirmative asked me to come back and give the results no results it's still the same old thing that you had before under intent and purposes you have completely discriminated towards persons w committed legal malfeasance by having this city council and the mayor to sign off on the roundabout for two and a half million dollars worth of federal funding on erie bowl of art and the prior to that the city council also approved along with the mayor for the  erie bowl of art a fourteen million dollars of which thirteen million of it was federal funds this is not an oversight this is just continue as ation a standard operating procedure paragraph sixty two das three it says the board on the lowest bidder or best value it says there is no preference giving to city schenectady owner businesses it says that you can award anywhere where there could be albany new york city buffalo or anybody else there is nothing there sixty four sixty two dashboard definitions again you're doing definitions of small business certified minorities or even own businesses again excluding persons with disabilities completely right out of the thing last year of march section zero three from the feds really have certain their obligation that the city governments and local governments have forty to make sure the person with disabilities are included in purchasing services goods and so forth and they even put a of seven percent and the city still has not even complied with that and then on the last one for requirement sixty dash five this is moving very fast this to be put in and you guys still did he wanted written and you've got the word should in here this is the same stuff that you had before with no changes and where are again i want to bring up where the recommendations from they're from and of action to correct some of the stuff again you know you have to comply with section five zero three there are over fourteen thousand out of the sixty six thousand population of persons with disabilities that are in the city and you have to and you have to realize that nearly over fifty percent of d s s is the city by putting person with disabilities back to work putting minorities back to work you'll be cutting off the property taxes thank you thank you regarding city business so i have six people signed up to speak the first is anthony corrado no money could you be huge for what's really needed to be fiction in this city you have the city literally falling apart we are on your watch you had to dave the news conference and i was here and in the crowd supporting could people waken up by your range over thank you joe rodriguez assessments by over fifty percent weave through clines the last two years you have reduced the contractors developers and so forth by their properties anywhere between thirty to fifty percent we need a reassessment of what's happening and you know when you take a look at the pilot programs you have to take a look at are they creating jobs no they're not because if you transfer from erie boulevard to four forty state street and you say well we just created twenty one jobs no you didn't you just transferred them from one job to the other thing then all sudden now you have the battery plant for the g e they're now shut and that down to almost down to around eighty employees the paper was a little bit off they say eighty to two hundred because i think was two hundred i think the albany list eighty people but does that mean now that we did reduce the private we should and we should increase that and be able to recover we have nearly a twenty percent reduction at the gulag headquarters on employees that should also be reduced and the a pilot should be increased so we can capture more money because there's no jobs being produced it's a job loss why are we doing pilots to put in a luxury townhouses over on broadway were put in luxury townhouses at the alcoa site it doesn't help us with affordable and accessible housing at all you know it's just the whole entire piece of what's happening and as i just said previously over fifty percent of d s s recipients live in the city if you turn around and you put these people back to work and give them an opportunity for jobs then you would lower the dss cost which would lower your county taxes the county taxes are at fifteen percent of your total tax bill so you need to take a look at the whole entire piece of what you're actually doing you have the sales tax agreement that you're losing nearly four and a half million dollars per year in two thousand and eight they said the sales tax would not increase it's increased by ten million dollars if you use the old formula you would receive over four and a half million dollars per year you know these things that are happening are on the isis watch and that's basically it is thank you thank you joy hall hearts the next day we got a lot of streets and potholes and lot of bad curbs and seniors should try to get across the street and can't get across the street at all they need to put that's got to stop too so we've got to do something about that too through the last election i certainly the during the last election i believe that some people may have taken things that were said as hurtful and that was certainly not the intention and i certainly want to apologize for anything that they have been imply that hurt the candidates or their families with that being said i want to wish all the candidates for this new election this year all the best for this twenty fifteen election may they be blessed and treat one another with fairly  very fairly and respectfully and remember that their representation of those whom they serve regarding the j street fire i want to mention about the outpouring of blessings and support from the community ryan jones i consider him a friend from christ church he had the foresight back last year to work with the local emergency management of becoming emergency shelter of christ church there at the corner of state and swan streets our hearts and prayers go out to the families and of those who were lost and who those who are looking for a new home will certainly continue to be out there for them as anybody who knows me knows that i am an advocate of our local veterans i want to mention that i've become a person who can vet people to go to the veteran's miracle center so anyone who happens to be a veteran in the area and  needs any type of assistance whatsoever as far as spiritual assistance assistance in finding a new job or just taking care of things for simple things like just for things for their home the veteran's miracle center is lo albany or rather in colony on interstate drive and i have i'm one of the folks who have been become vetted or can vet them to go over there and gather any and for anything that they need even the most simple of needs as far as household goods or clothing in this much the freeze out that we had at the american legion post we were able to collect a whole bunch of clothing and were in the process of opening what we call the veteran's closet and as much we also need flax over at the american legion so if you have retired flags and any of these things that i mention above you can contact me at area code five one eight four zero six six four eight seven or visit the american legion website at a l summer asking for changes in the animal control than the way the animal controlled was run some of the changes that we asked for was a facebook page and that's been done but sometimes it takes six or seven days before a dog is posted after it's taken in the story holds up i stay static so i don't know what the delay is in the seven days why it's taken so long and we've also found that there's a hidden animal control page where they post dogs that you can't comment on you can't share it you can't like it i don't know why there's two animal control pages instead of one also i'm here for writing empire we're here offering our help once again we want to pull dogs from the hold we want to take dogs we want to help dogs that's what we do we're rescue and we've been rebuffed every step of the way since we've started coming to these meetings and i'd hate to think that retaliation for speaking out about the conditions one more thing about the devastating j street fire we know is horrible but there was people that lost everything and some of those people also lost their pets in that fire and a lot of those people were calling animal control and they were getting no responsible and i know you heard about zeus who was saved after eight days the owner of zeus actually made contact with one of the animal control officers and she was told to lose my number and hung up on we know that the dogs were involved in thank you like to thank everyone who came down to speak tonight especially on the public hearing for the closing of the underground tunnel on grant park and made their feelings very clear and i'm sure it will act accordingly on this bellevue preservation to incorporate the whole disc monthly meeting thursday april ninth since we have a week off next week i thank you for giving me that for my birthday invited i think of fire chief senekal is going to reschedule because he was kind of busy when he was supposed to speak at the last meeting but again thank the police and fire departments for the great work all throughout the  e tragedy across the street you can't say enough about that there's been some miracles with the animals i think there was a cat was found to yesterday and that's another miracle along with s there's still rays of hope in all the devastation and some good things can happen one last thing i did get a present from my son who's an e bay fanatic he found the manual city council manual from one nine hundred thirty seven i know mr porterfield this asked for this so maybe we can reinstate this is some point when we're elected if anybody gets elected they get a little manual to go on to go with it but one thing i found very interesting mayor is the tax rate back then was forty three dollars a thousand of course it was partial assessment i think also recess about two thousand dollars but it's just kind of amazing that part and coun city council salaries were thousand dollars nine hundred thirty seven but i guess it hasn't grown that much has it seventy eight seventy almost seventy years so that's kind of another interesting or i'm sorry eighty has been closer to eighty years so anyhow and the mayor salary was a thousand dollars but it wasn't a strong mayor back now but this is interesting reading at a letter once a par with kampar oh but it's it's a pretty interesting book and i thank my son for giving me this and thank everyone for their birth birthday wishes but from thank you just a quick announcement the schenectady firefighters cancer foundation is presenting laughter saves lives comedy tour saturday april fourth and the proceeds from this event will fund the schenectady firefighters cancer foundation in their missions to support local firefighters in their fight against cancer so if you're interested tickets are just thirty dollars which i think is if very reasonable cost for a night out and lots of laughs very cathartic saturday april fourth eight p m and purchase them by going to just by chance the proctors website but you know this is a great fund and it's a total volunteer effort for our from our firefighters and they do so much as it is to support this extra that they've taken and just want to remind everybody to get out there and have fun at the same time thank you  and i too it just like to make it now some of the woodlawn neighborhood association meeting which would be this wednesday we have a very honorable guest with us so we have the mayor himself will be there so again we need now on the fourth ones friday crosswalk and it will be this friday and begins at ten a m at the holy holy name of jesus nathen national catholic church on ten forty pearl street and the walk will and at the hosting church which is the bridge christian church which is of course at seven thirty five crane street and they asked to make that to be about eleven forty five in the morning and one final thing just want to congratulations to our neighbors as well the scotia glengall boys team and of course the  course was undefeated they played another undefeated team and again congratulations to those men until two school districts thank you thank you anyone else ok mr mayor thank you madam president much mr happy birthday and many more of them do again want to thank the men and women of the police and fire department for the tremendous job that they did in march six in the subsequent days after that the  command staff both of the police and fire department chief senekal wayne bennett brian kilcullen in the broad based community outpouring that came you know this is the nature of these things you get a lot of times there's shin people will take what i will call interesting positions and some of their comments are not quite sure where they come from but the response i think should make this community proud  and we're still working through that the demolition has progressed a little bit faster today than i think we thought and so the site there is becoming more stable looking to work with some businesses and get them open as quickly as we can and continue that to remediate the site in a timely and efficient manner and i will tell you that the expenditure of the four hundred thousand a little over four hundred thousand dollars i think there's really no other option that the city has that since i've been in this position we have not let the burned out the lap unaided building sit that we take control of the site and we were mediate them in a quick manner you know we drive through the city in other communities across upstate new york where you have buildings that have had fires or other events in their dilapidated they're an embarrassment they decrease the value of the adjacent property in really setting the example on how to best manage some of these properties it's not a perfect process we learn from every event that but i'm proud of the response that have come from not only in the public safety but the support staff you're of service and working that it with other agencies in terms of dealing with the situation and i think the commend you and the see your staff i think this has been handled as well as the possibly could have been we had in this course i think often about the victims and happy birthday mystery you not quite caught up to me yet but i'm working on