i'm going to call the city council caucus to order from march fourteenth two thousand and sixteen please we had one public hearing this evening if the court could please read public hearing number one regarding names of certain streets at mohawk issuance of twelve million two hundred fifty two hundred eighty three thousand two hundred sixty two dollars aggregate principal amount serial bonds of the city of schenectady new york pursuant to the local finance law to finance savings resulting from refunding that's discussed in committee without objection on consent item number four number four resolution to adopt the schenectady county jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan update committee without objection consent i don't number five number five a resolution establishing guidelines for employee recognition and appreciation once again discussed in committee without objection on consent item number six or number six resolution confirming mitchell miller's appointment to the planning commission a roll call vote will be taken on item number six item number seven and number seven a resolution accepting the transfer of fourteen properties from thirty nine foster avenue once again that was discussed in committee without objection and consent i don't have a fourteen number fourteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or sherry for thirty twenty seven albany street and that was discussed in committee without objection and consent i did number fifteen a number fifteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of attacks or sherry for twenty five twenty five broadway discussed in committee without objection on consent i did number sixteen number sixteen a resolution or number twenty a resolution recognizing the month of march as irish heritage month and recognizing the achievements of irish americans on st patrick's day and again this will be taken out of order mr palmer and he will present item number twenty one  the number twenty one a resolution recognizing march as social work month and this will be taken out of order ms porterfield will present and i don't twenty one and i asked for a motion to place it in twenty one and on the council agenda motion by mr  the clerk would please call the r also a presentation from the schenectady county public library the first is a ceremonial resolution recognizing march as irish heritage month irish heritage month month wow and recognizing the achievements of irish americans so first up we will have our dancers which we look forward to every year for a lively start to the council meeting this evening wonderful job thank you so much we had the representatives from the floor this is a resolution honoring the john f kennedy division one of the order of hibernian together with john f kennedy division one of the ladies and all irish and all people  irish descent throughout the city of schenectady whereas the city of schenectady is rightly proud of its many irish residents and residents of irish descent as was their many contributions to the wellbeing of schenectady and whereas the john f kennedy division one ancient together with the john f kennedy division one ladies order of hyper indians has contributed to the communities of the city of schenectady for over one hundred thirty six years by making financial donations and performing good works to worthy causes and deserving organizations 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 all of these groups respectively have brought honor upon themselves by their eager willingness to support and defend their new homes and where as two thousand and sixteen marks the hundred anniversary of the easter rising now therefore be it results that the legislative body paused and its the liberations to consider the irish contribution in particular on this occasion to these united states in the larger context of all immigrant groups which have also made in continue to make great contributions and be a result further that the city of schenectady council and the mayor declares that on thursday march seventeenth two thousand and sixteen st patrick's day shall be celebrated throughout the city of schenectady in memory of those brave men and women who advance the cause of irish independence there in one thousand nine hundred sixteen easter rising in recognition of the many contributions and good works of irish american people everywhere i would like to move this resolution move by the presenter second every irish can't be separated from the start of the canal over there so everything in this city we've done it together thank you for what you've done for us and i can't wait to see what else we can do here thank you very much thank next ceremonial resolution is supporting fair funding for public education in scanty very well present government schools universities social service agencies communities the military and mental health and health care facilities where as social workers daily embody this year's social work month thinking forging solutions out of challenges by helping individuals communities and the largest society tackle and involve issues that confront them whereas social workers have helped this nation live up to its ideals by successfully pushing for equal rights for all including women african americans  people who are l g b t q and various ethnic cultural and religious groups whereas social workers are the largest group of mental health care providers in the united states and work to help people overcome depression anxiety substance abuse and other disorders so they can lead more fulfilling lives were arrested thousands of child family and school social workers across the country provide assistance to protect children and to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families where social workers throughout the country and in the schenectady city school district burke with families and schools to foster a future generations by ensuring students reach their full academic and personal potential now therefore be resolved that the mayor gary are mccarthy and the city council of the city of schenectady pause in their deliberations during national social work month two thousand and sixteen and join with the national socialism of social workers and celebration and support of the social work profession and to acknowledge the numerous contributions made by america's social workers and to thank them for dedicating their careers towards helping children adults and families find opportunities to build struggle futures i'd like to move the resolution moved by the presenters second of take a step back i've worked in the community for twenty years in all facilities and i certainly with my colleagues here i think to think that we've helped this community grow and develop and certainly our people who are under representative in our community and give them a voice and help them heal and so it's with great humility that we accept this and also to it's important to recognize those who help so thank you and thanks for what you do and th ok now we'll revisit number nineteen a resolution supporting fair funding in public education is a resolution supporting fair funding for public education in schenectady whereas the mayor city council and member of the community believe in offering free quality public education for all children and whereas in two thousand and seven new york state establishments from vision eight formula based on principle of equality quality and adequacy to determine the amount of fiscal resource to be provided to the local school district and whereas the schenectady city school district receive only fifty five percent of the foundation that is dictated by the formula resulting in a sixty two million dollars funding deficit each year our student enroll in schenectady city school district to district needed additional resources to address the critical needs of students and we are as ninety seven percent of the school district in new york state are funded at schenectady city school district and whereas any significant significant increase in support of the schenectady city school district could be your was not only to provide additional resources to suit him but also for property tax relief no mr mayor council president to city council we think you guys for the resolution again there's a seventy coal is a seventy person agency coalition clergy community members community leaders now there's a new  growing energy and a community parents even some of the children are taking notice and those are some of the things that we're working on the backdrop to think when this all started within the last week we've been to the assembly to be recognized by assemblyman santa barbara we've and to think that such a small group of dedicated individuals become together for such a great issue in our city we understand that lack of funding in education is not the only issue in our great city but we understand that by doing this we are creating real and tangible change that are more residents are able to see in there and able to take pride in so we are still circulating our petitions we will have a meeting tomorrow with senator amador and just you know stick around and we'll have some more things going on throughout the year thank you best education and so we we believe that this is a fundamental issue that really affects that not only the school but every every facet of this community and in order for us to years and the council for your support we do need the whole community to to join us in getting petitions i think the next step one of the next things we want to do is reach out to the governor before we do so we would like to have as many sign such a such a way and energized behind such a movement it's really been great to be a part of the thing to council with we thank you mr mayor thank you thank you the presentation from schenectady county public library karen bradley who is the library director is here to share the many wonderful changes in programs very pleased to be here to speak about something that is really a bright and shining light in the city of schenectady and that is the opening of our phillis port branch library and literacy center at nine forty eight states street some of you were able to join us for the grand opening just to give a little overview of how we got to this point back in twenty twelve the county legislature asked our board of trustees members to examine entire county library system to look for any efficiencies and programming and facilities and to come up with a restructuring plan and part of that process that the board underwent was to form a committee that had members of our community involved with it and our board of course county staff the friends of the library and they began looking at the the whole system and the report was submitted to the county in may  that definitely made some recommendations and one of the very key ones was that we would merge the hamilton hill and the doing branch libraries both facilities were really inadequate to meet the needs of the community that they were serving and so part of that process big came looking for a site unfortunately around that same time carver center had to abruptly closed and we had to actually seize operations of our hamilton hill branch on december eighteenth of twenty thirteen so the pressure to look for that site and find something that would be suitable for the community intensified so our board of trustees and our county staff began an intense search but we also went to our community and this is a series of community forums and outreach to find out from the community what it is they wanted in their library this emerging what kind of resources and programs did they need and so some what we have up here are some of the photos of those community happenings we also undertook written surveys also in the community to find out for those that were able to attend meetings part of the outreach began going out actually into the community where people in those neighborhoods gathered so there were many meetings and events that we went to where we talked to people and again we used our written surveys and we collected that information which was very important in looking at what should this library look like the search for space we didn't look at existing space in the city of schenectady but what was really important for us as our team went out in the community was that it would be assessable to the community would there be access on the bus line so we did look at some existing sites that did not meet the physical needs and the site was identified and you're very familiar with this i know because it took a very important action and i think this is a wonderful example of how this city cooperation of the city of schenectady our county metroplex and business getting involved to acquire the land brownell with vanguard fine was a wonderful cooperation to find a piece of land located actually exactly equal distance from the doing in hamilton branch point seven miles on a bus line and so the property was secured due to this wonderful partnership that happened obviously we needed to design a facility so our land was secured but the county engaged reform architecture to come up with what we felt was a beautifully designed very modern twenty first century library and so this is just a snapshot of what that design looks like a key piece of this was to have community space program space available and so we actually  program rooms available not just for library use but for the community we had an official brown great thing happened on thursday june twenty fifth i know some of you were able to be with us we this  off not without some fits and star about this time last year it went out to bid the first time came in over bid for what we had available and a very quick turnaround we were able to look at a redesign and not lose any of what we really believe we must have in our library so we overcame some barriers and that was important but and that amount of time from february and march to get to in june twenty fifth breaking was quite phenomenal and that was a very exciting day for the community we had a great turnout at the ground breaking we immediately cease fire began construction right into the within that we were on the site and so was the equipment and these are just a little bit of a snapshot of what happened that day it was just a very exciting event we had many of our community partners available that day just to see this happening and people from the community that really couldn't believe this was actually going to become a reality we were really blessed with a wonderful construction season we all know what right into december as we rapidly closed in on the site we were blessed i think and we kept right to the town timeline that the county established for the completion of this project and the community we had a lot of people coming by to see this kind of basically rising up from the ashes i mean there had been the fire there many years ago on that site of a construction project one along and we had our county engineers and staff involved with this and then we got to do some of the fun things and that was picking out what was the interior going to be like and so a lot of decisions had to be made regarding picking things out and everywhere we went from day one what this community so it was always a question what would this be like with a really have something state of the art and modern so the construction went actually quite swiftly we believe and really without any glitches of all and it just began to take shape and as the rooms got closed then furniture arrived and cabinetry and sings and things you need for programs it just began to  look like the library almost we have big white boards in our two program room so if we're having classes of any sort those are able to be held and be useful counters in sinks or programming also and then the staffing began to be very important and we were wonderfully blessed our counties supported our application for an america of this to fellow who is our literacy outreach coordinator and she's been a key part of this because outreach and literacy very much hand in hand so we have more and bendel who is our outreach coordinator that's been meeting with we've met with over thirty four community partners in putting together programming and that's been really exciting and we appreciate the county's support of that position so the fun part for us of course is making it look like the library on the construction team laugh  the decision was made that we would see stop aeration at the drain branch library on february nineteenth and then we had to move our collection into this brand new space of course we took a lot of our educational materials from the duane branch but we have purchase of large amount of new materials for this branch library it is going to have an intense literacy focus and that's really literacy and all of its forms so obviously books in traditional literacy you might think of but there's financial literacy there's digital literacy there's a huge digital divide in the city of s y and so and helpful literacy and so our programming and our resources revolve around this we also have created a picture book city to make finding materials in the library  much easier for the community we're serving our last day of operation we went out with kind of a bang and we have a lego program that day and when kayla met with all of the children that used it you know they all said we will be there on opening day to see our new library so we did have a week without library operation in the county did the fire movers to help us get our materials within four hours we had everything moved in on that last monday leading into our opening and then we had to integrate our new materials and get ready for our event a key piece of this project was of the quest made by phyllis born to our library board of trustees she donated over seven hundred thousand dollars to our libraries she was a former librarian and branch manager for many many years bent her career with us and when she retired she became a friend of the library volunteer and she did pass suddenly and left this large bequest and that was really kind of a foundation of funding  and it was dedicated to be used for branches not for the central library so our board made an important decision that they would allocate a very substantial portion for this branch and from there  also assisted in addition to make the good programs and things happen in the library we did actually go out and write some additional grants we wrote a grant to the right family foundation foundation was a key player for us with the program so we have a very intense burley literacy outreach effort in the city you know are you here all the time schools are struggling children are arriving in kindergarten well behind their peers they're already several years behind before they ever even get into the city school district and so their early literacy peak piece from birth to age three is really key and we're having a large focus on that so we've applied to this and it's the foundation and were awarded eighty three thousand dollars that we will be from a family place library and that's a national certification that we have to hundred fifty thousand dollars to the new library and a lot of this is picking up some of the enhancements that really were needed and made special from a gaming system for our young people additional technology support programming is key and also material support so cultural programming educational programming recreational programming also provided by our friends and we did receive a grant from mohawk valley for an adult literacy grant to give some additional technology assistance to the community and these were kind of some snapshots of some of the things that were provided so the computers not only for the adults but we have what we call a w e e e their early learning computers and that day the picture on the left is the very first day of operation of our young community members fully engaged with the technology the grants from the foundation is something you'll hear a little bit more about we're working with five different early literacy partners in this community and the outreach to engage these families who aren't able to be in some sort of formalized care with children as you know there's not enough slots available for all the children in the city that have a need for service the friends continue to provide the support and the day of our opening we had our literary characters there that day spider man was a great head and so was mouse from give a mouse a cookie the other thing they're supporting which is kind of part of this and some of you have been celebrity readers of which we're very grateful  is our one county one book initiative which this year has a literacy focus the book brown girl dreaming and so we were able to have the artist of some very famous children's books come to martin luther king elementary school and some of you read from some of the work he's illustrated and so this is another key thing that kind of tied in with the opening of this branch and the literacy focus the mohawk valley library system there are great support for us for these construction grants which is highly competitive so as we've heard from our community members that were lobbying for  education we were lobbying the week before for aid for libraries the construction projects are very very competitive the state has been flat for ten years on fourteen million dollars of construction money for the entire state of new york for ten years and so we're advocating for additional money we didn't get all the money we asked for but we're very grateful for what we did three hundred fifty two thousand that was over three great years our grand opening was saturday february twenty seventh and i just say it was one of the brightest days i will say that professionally personally i have ever had the response from the community was truly overwhelming that day  we have a gate counter now as part of people coming into our library and we had over a thousand people come in that day and truly the best part for the staff i believe was the last two hours of the day when a lot of  people that came to visit early on for the ribbon cutting and all left and then it was just the community there and it was just hard kind of you know having to close the door that day and say we're coming back monday for business was a program that day and we're very grateful to our legislature for all they did to make it happen angela santa barbara was able to come and he presented a resolution and one of our highlights was the singing  say her name chance who let us off with some wonderful entertainment and the month pleasant step dancers were there that day also so the event includ some informational sessions are friends of the library where there are young junior friends of the library i know a lot of your connected with youth in this community and let them know this is a wonderful organization to become a junior volunteer with  a great opportunity and they were a big part of our day and spider man was probably the head you see him there was sharon jordan but i think everybody in the place had their picture taken with spider man that day he was definitely we have pete the cat it's family literacy month the smart month of march and we have pete the cat there that's the theme this year and so that's going on all month so we had some face painting some entertainment have had twenty two hundred people and ten days visit the bourne brands so every day i'm getting a report of how many people have been in to use it in ten days we've had sixty renew the first time ever library card holders in just ten days sixty people never had a card to a library before in the community which is quite remarkable bryan collier is a very famous award winning children's illustrator of many books including martin's big words which i'm sure most of us have heard of he came to martin luther king courtesy of our friends of the library on friday we had hoped  able to stay over for our grand opening but two pieces of his art do hang in the new library of which we're very honored to have those hanging there and i think the best car on saturday truly was the children from martin luther king who met him and he talked about our grand opening the next day and all of the kids that came in and said do you know those that we met him and they're just we're so excited and to see his books in our library  so we're very pleased with that and we just really do we're very grateful and thankful for your part and certainly our county taken the leadership our board of trustees everyone working so hard i think it just demonstrate what we all know has been going on in the city of schenectady of all the really great things that are being accomplished because people are cooperating and working together if you haven't been to the new branch yet and i know some had plans that saturday was a very busy day i love to give you a tour just call me any time and but thank you if you have any questions i'd be happy  we have one public hearing this evening regarding the names of certain streets at mohawk harbor we've received a few letters to club the x office they will be entered into the minutes you can review the full comments but  right ok i have nine people signed up to speak first person is jason pla the mohawk trail allocating alcoa for the trail along for that one and a half mile stretch but one of the things that has not come up is the native americans that have played a contribution to this community so hopefully the city council to take a look at some of the native american names that help develop this community because without their help we would have not had schenectady thanks thank you  i mean it was an article in the paper that though we should look at the future not the past for the city i mean i ran into a person that's retired  superintendent of a school district in this area he told me he says in his school he says that's one of the most asinine things i've ever seen in my life i mean you've got the history here i mean y i mean stuff like that is built in the city plus all the other history that we have here i believe that we should leave in history of the city that goes down there thank you thank you good evening madam president council members member carthy during my eight years as executive director of the downtown schenectady improvement corporation the single most exciting thing about my job is having a front row to the remarkable momentum of downtown schenectady is rebirth led by metroplex are elected officials like you and private developers like the gillespie group everywhere i go people ask me about what's happening here and they are amazed by the steady stream of information about this new downtown schenectady new buildings new businesses new infrastructure the pace is truly mind blowing and i know you all know that and now with the development of mohawk harbor on the former alcoa sites c he is poised to write a brand new future forward chapter in its rich history this half billion dollar investment billion dollar investment is a game changer and it's positioning schenectady as a major new destination for living for business for recreation and for tourism i truly understand i do have a long and proud history of alco on this site and i understand the desire to honor the past well that is why i was so thrilled to hear that schenectady county had designated the hike bike trail along the river here as the alko heritage trail complete with plans for a trail markers to educate residents and visitors on the company's transportation and military history here this is commendable i appropriate and it's a fitting tribute for the company and the many many alcove workers and families of schenectady but the cleanup in the reimagining of this site vacant and desolate for so long is also a great tribute to  and this former eyesore is now part of schenectady as we mark about present and brilliant future it is a new riverfront and entertainment destination so it only makes sense that the streets of mohawk harbor represent the sights and schenectady new vision rush treat is known as an exciting destination in chicago for dining for entertainment and for nightlife and we need to believe here that the electric city is just as deserving of its own right street as the windy city the downtown business community is extremely excited for the increased activity that will come with the new mohawk harbor and the rivers casino and resort and it can't come soon enough i urge city council to approve the proposed treat maims at this site and keep this transformational project moving forward for the benefit of downtown and the entire city of schenectady thank you very much even i'm chuck steiner president of the chamber is going to be counting and affiliate of the capital region chamber thank you for this opportunity to provide the city council with the chambers perspective regarding the naming of streets located at mohawk harbor chamber fully supports the proposal name of one of the streets at mohawk harbor rush street we believe that it entirely that it is an entirely appropriate in fitting name russ treat in chicago as a well known destination for premier entertainment dian and nightlife from a marketing perspective the chamber believes that we can capitalize on russia treat brandy rushed three in schenectady will not just be a street it will be a destination an in marketing tool as you know the chamber was a strong supporter of bringing a casino to schenectady we know that this casino or promote our economy and grow jobs in the very beginning we have been extremely impressed him pleased with ross street game rusty game is committed to the future of our community and to their lot of java day here in the city they are investing over three hundred thirty million dollars at river casino resort with well over one thousand jobs being created ladies and gentlemen the city council that commitment is all about longevity to this city and to the region beyond their financial commitment and job creation rus y gaming has already been engaged in responsible member of our community from promoting schenectady as a prime travel destination to part partnering with ne career planning dreaded alliance and the seat center and local workforce development they have quickly proven themselves to be a positive in valued business in the city of schenectady rust reclaiming sees what the chamber sees it's going to be is moving forward and has a renewed sense of civic pride of course we'll always embrace our past as we should however we must also continue to support needed changes you know nor to enrich our city's future a story passed in a promising future what more could any city hope for while the chamber fully appreciates indeed supports the need to honor the men and women who worked at the former site we believe that the planned out pull heritage waterfront trail and rush to game lanes plans  include historic photos and references to elko as rich history on the casino property is most appropriate way in which to honor alkaloids great contributions to our nation's transportation industry military chamber believes it was fittin honor the site's historic past it is equally important to promote and celebrate the site's incredible future three hundred thirty million dollars plus in the creation of over one thousand jobs that level of commitment investment needs to be celebrated and recognized by all our city leadership sending a positive message to the future investors that the city's connected is the place of choice to invest and welcome them by name me one of the streets at mohawk harbor rush street we can make it perfectly clear that the city is going to actually is not only looking forward to its incredible future but whole heartedly embracing it on behalf of the chamber schenectady county we encouraged the city council to support the proposed naming of the streets of more carver one of those streets being rusty thank you evening my name is gary he was and i am a member of the schenectady county legislature representing the city of schenectady i was pleased to sponsor a resolution that was approved unanimously by the county legislature last week and i underscore the word unanimously designating the county hike trail that will cross the mohawk harbor site as the elko heritage trail it's the county's intent that this will be an interpretive trail depicting schenectady so he doesn't feel passed there are other opportunities on the site to recognize our past and the legislature certainly would welcome the participation of the city and the council in those opportunities such as relocating the alcoa locomotive that's currently on not terrorists to a prominent site near the and mohawk harbor way and just as the trail speaks to the site's past these street names speak to the future of the site these streets will be constructed to city standards and paid for by the developers and it's a common practice throughout the county and across the country for that matter for developers to name streets in their developments and then deed those streets over to the images palette for ongoing maintenance rarely do municipalities question the names of those streets for reasons other than prevention of duplications or confusion with the names of existing streets the rivers casino and mohawk harbor are an important piece of skin next to these redevelopment totaling four hundred and eighty million dollars in private investment the developer has conducted research on these names and believes they are the best available choices from a marketing perspective to ensure that visitors to the casino who are not familiar with schenectady will be able to locate the facility through their g p s but with rush creek gaming's preparing to pay fifty million dollars in licensing fees to the state later this month and with a guarantee in the state law that both the city and the county will each receive two point five million risk free share of the speed before the casino is even open coupled with the fact that the developers have put up four hundred eighty million of their own money into the project it strikes me as perhaps somewhat offensive to the developers to suggest as some on this council have that the project is somehow too risky for the names of the developer has proposed members of this council need look no further than roger hole place or georgette addict's boulevard to learn how easy it is for the council and the mayor to rename a street should there ever be the unlikely possibility that that would need to happen and for all these reasons i respectfully urge this council to unanimously approve these names as a demonstration of our city's willingness to welcome this level of private investment and i think culture are more important than man savant of a thank you thank you gen stan heart good evening my name is jim resident mickey and i am a representative of the northeast regional council of carpenters i'd first like to thank the council tonight for allowing me to speed on behalf of the eleven carpenters i have here huge investment the rush game is made in the future of schenectady they should be honored with the name they should be honored by naming this tree whatever they desire this is a great project for the city good evening my name is really here and i own the properties next to the casino thank you for allowing me to time to speak here tonight first of all like to think the counsel in the developers for having the dream the vision the courage and the money to put this thing together this is the best thing that's happened to town in quite a while i really appreciate that i'm also thrilled that the bike path is going to be honoring the american automotive company my father is no longer with us but i did speak with him today he likes it he approves of it so does any concerns you can take it up  opportunity to change it should we wish but the folks that are putting this thing together really should have the right to me to name it as they wish and it's an honor to them which we're creating the new future history will come and speak again and hopefully rush will be the one to be there to say the message  article three point five million dollars to the city not even budget his job and that's that's before the start this process was not hastily thought we started the year ago march of two thousand and fifteen we met with community groups we met with employers we met with focus groups for most of the major employers we did contests again we're paying for the streets the streets are going to be privately held for that another year or two we're paying a lot of money we're doing up to city specs and we're paying i'm paying for the inspections as well this this is needed to be done now for one primary reason right now and nobody can figure out where we are we're three zero one not with every damn building on the site we're building nobody knows where even to make deliveries in today's environment with g p s we've got to start the ball rolling for our marketing materials that we can't print without addresses we've got to start creating simple names right now not not terrorist not street you plug it in we've got too many of those are ready so we've got to start something new is the street names are ours let's not rush renaming the street names as the gillespie group and look for my money where my office so it's very important for us to be able to get the street names done very quickly because it's very important in terms of marketing to our prospective customers we are paying homage to our history the bike path the steakhouse will actually have a bunch of pictures we're designing it take into account the history of schenectady so if you go right around our stakeouts in the casino which is probably more or more appropriate the naming a street name you're going to find that in there so from that standpoint we really recognize the past but we've got to go forward and recognizing the future and from that standpoint i appreciate having the public hearing it really it's important it's important to get the end of the input from the public but we've got to move i urge the city council to move pretty quickly because let me tell you when you drive by and take a it as there are no other speakers i will declare the hearing closed will than to approval of the minutes from the february twenty second two thousand and sixteen meeting mr cocksure moves  and run to committee reports sure starting your time now twenty five thousand i thought last year the mare said he found some money so now we're going to bond days and pay interest only on the two hundred twenty thousand yeah it was great that we got we got the playground equipment everything else it was great that we improved some of the parts but if the we received over fifty over fourteen million dollars in federal money why are we banding this which means we're not even paying off it's like one hundred thousand dollars why i mean that stuff was done all the way back to two thousand and ten ago they stopped short of saying that she felt by the documents because they cut and pasted she cut pasted the documents you can go back and read the gazette paper because they actually quoted exactly what was going on and it's specifically states that you have t roles come on you can't find anybody i guarantee you down a guess on between ninety five and i guarantee you'd find people say hey look there's a job ready you know that doesn't make sense she needs to start doing her job and the other thing is is that you had the resolution the seeping in on social workers forgot person disability as an advocate with a disability i've worked with many social workers and they are the unsung  heroes a lot of the social workers have even saved people's personal disability lives because they've taken too much medication or they just wanted to go and jump off a bridge also a lot of social workers have helped many  individual disabilities go back to work again and they messed up you may have after their name but they also are unsung heroes thank you thank you mary maclan workforce exactly who does the councilman have a non war record nursery surely not members of the engineering department who made a mess of my how about the and volunteer or often item number five was not a good idea and a virtual recognition yes not a formal structure to this agreement with the city's fire fighters humean it's a shock and an insult to the schenectady taxpayer the the taxpayer is willing to pay a fork or cent of those schools employees medical coverage they are not pulling their in my way as as a neighborhood person who voted safety improving homes getting rid of blight getting the schools in better shape release a better reputation breeding more businesses and pushing tax base sunday one and they have an announcement for civil service test for direct support professionals starting at thirty thousand dollars this is not bad going up to forty one thousand so the important job and i think when you enter the civil service system state county city you got a good deal so i gave you all these announcements so they get put in the voting boards of church you know who are just got to spread the word there are jobs available got to take the civil service test you need a high school diploma or the equivalent c and driver's license and i think a lot of people have that so i just want to curtis where they were that's why i'm here about mr mitchell those qualifications graduated from the maxwell school if i remember well very well qualified highly position in the bank somebody that is really qualified for the position beyond that how fortunate we as a city to have a number of people who are willing in such positions to fill boards for free we have a number of people just lining up just to participate to help out the city and it's good that we have such a a bench to pull from and it's good that we can exchange people from time to time and mr mitchell's appointment is excellent and he will fulfill the duties very well  straddling the this individual at all i'm questioning the process i question the process on the last appointment that was made up question and again the person that's being replaced has shown interest and he served a long time on the same board to be chair and they'll be voting on that wednesday night yeah and he has dismissed so they will be voting for this person that's for sure i would rather see this held off until after the election what their peers want so this has nothing to do my colleague is a little misinformed on my intentions i think why i'm voting the way i'm going to vote that has nothing to do with this person's qualifications i'm sure he could f someone else's seat at some point but when someone shows interest to be chair and that has the institutional knowledge to be chair of this board i'd like to see that considered first wife no mr motiv from the union carpenters asked all their members at least they showed up here at the meeting to raise their hands including himself a white males there are already on the job what is the minority participation there had over a billion dollars of the best for the last twelve years to take sales tax exemptions mortgage tax exemptions and so forth it's close to over two hundred million dollars worth of tax exemptions and sales tax grants and so forth have been gone more than half of that over one hundred million dollars have gone to one developer where the jobs there aren't any are still the highest unemployment rate for minorities the person with disabilities in the capital region area where is the infrastructure we still have potholes up to the closet to still have sidewalks and still be repaired where you guys are still giving tax assessments to developers and contractors you know in it's just not it just keeps going on and on about how great everything else is you know we call that corporate welfare that's exactly what we call it for because it's everybody who has money who's paid money to the democratic party over the last twelve years our response this money while the city is not to get anything in return we just saw last year where one of the one of the bell a purse one of his properties came back on the rolls it first it was going to nearly thirty five percent property tax reduction but luckily the gazette wrote of article on it and it came down to twenty percent you gave them for a property susman the downtown properties are so great why are we lowering assessment so these are just some of the questions that we need to ask where are the jobs why are we not doing that why do we have all out you know like you see more cops on a police force still going to have to one way or another have more cops on in cars or speeding through on through like red lights turning when they're not supposed to turn and seeing this all the time everywhere no matter where i go i see it thank you carol della mart good evening my name's carol the miter i live at twenty washington have and i'm the president of the stockade neighborhood association and i'm hoping i would have got a chance to see this february issue of capital region living it featured great homes in the capital region and the story he was only featured with with photographs of many fine historic homes in the district that was followed up on march second by new york state historic district was added to the preservation of new york state seven to say list of endangered places the designation draws attention to the threats of flooding vacancy deterioration loss of visual and architectural integrity and the lack of public awareness but we considers the stockade a model for flying impacts faced by other historic cities and towns in new york city many eyes are on what happens here the stocking association is encouraged that the city of schenectady has applied for funding for several brands to study various aspects of flooding in the stockade and looks forward to working with all stakeholders to safety sidewalks and lighting parking and code enforcement to prevent further deterioration i want to thank president perasso for committing to come to our general membership meeting on march seventeenth to engage with our members on some of these shared concerns and like to invite other city council members to an attendant well you can come in mix and enjoy the either soda bread at six thirty and then stay on to attend the program  i have with me copies of the march by which is our neighborhood newspaper and since the election issue in november we've had a monthly focus on partners in progress with our city  yes i'm just really really just i can't even believe you know i would be so concerned about power holes and stuff and not that they're dangerous are not dangerous and i mean we just have so many bigger bigger problems and i feel like i could literally hold up the problem say here it is and i don't think you'd probably be able to network i mean we have such a multifaceted problem right now and i guarantee you like our older veterans are just literally rolling over in their graves i mean it was so crazy like i got told by you know the public defender's office that you know by a couple different on personnel there that you know the constitution is just i'm outdated document and you know the attitude about it and things that i've been going through are crazy you know i talk about the corruption and i'd like to go into where you know our policies and stuff a lot of stuff to breathe i went ahead i procured an awesome documentary and once i told my public defender which doesn't represent me but he's being forced on to me i don't speak with him i represent myself and successfully you know and i literally i told him what i had what i was ready for next thing you know they want to my phone and they legally se my phone and deleted the information while i was in jail i was warned about this guy judge who knew see that he was looking for me and he was going to go on you know put an excessive bill against me so i couldn't get out of jail and  i was i was hit with a hundred thousand dollars bail because i wouldn't surrender my phone and that's my property and you know there's no policy that supersedes a person's right and i don't intend on waiving m so stupid you can catch him in everything i want to the freedom of information and i got a video of them take an inventory of all my stuff and the chain of custody left me and they took on some personal compelling evidence that i had along with the d v d of what i was ready to do to go to work on jury trial and you know what they're going to decline to prosecute me and i'm going to rape you guys every single time and i'm talking to the d a you will never be able to get me and i'll never allow those bombs to represent ever and i'm not done and i'm going to i back up all my stuff so i'll be back and i'm going to i'm going to go door to door like a jehovah witness and i'm going to show these people how corrupt you walk and i'm going to go door to door and i bet you if you vote for me and get me in office sounds like a crazy idea i'd rather have a guy with a good heart running the city than a person that just has arterial motives and every time somebody asks you about money i see what minister in the minds to a male when he lives like multiple ones like you know your intuition should tell you these guys don't care about nothing and they just hold on i know i'm going to go over and i'm going to wrap it up all right but here's the bottom line you like to talk about numbers and i remember you that advice you gave me plank and you told me they're too powerful and we just give up if you want to live your life i don't intend on living in a comfortable bubble you know what i'm saying i  ok so i have no one else signed up to speak i'll declare privilege of the floor closed and an oversight on my part we did need a motion for the vote for twenty one which i did not get so we need to have a motion in a second and vote again i'm sorry number six scuse me number six so mr cocksure is moving mr ferrars seconds my apologies and if the clerk would please call the ro here and i thank the county support for the bike trail the eichel are the elko heritage way i think it's going to be a great project and once again a great partnership working with the county officials and of course the tired project there are at rivers summer job applications are coming out so i forgot to bring some today but i'll certainly bring some much to the mayor's office in the clerk's office but the applications are out there for the summer jobs no they're due friday april twenty second for all our youth are residing in schenectady county of the three items that the students will need there for ages fourteen to twenty one and they need a copy of their social security card a copy of their bir certificates and of course working papers those are the main three items that a lot of young people have trouble locating in a scan the jobs will be done through a selection we don't through a lottery process and are still working out those details but i'm sure the application aligned with the county as well very soon but again it's a great thing and we're getting them out to the schools as well so thank you my president know the developers are really shrewd businessman and they are investing it's connected because they see it as a worthwhile investment so i applaud them and actually i admire them for their business sense and doing this but it's been there is going to be a return on investment it's not just because we're nice people but we really are there's also going to be return in on the investment so they're investing here because there will be a return on the investment so i feel like you know the citizens are just saying that our heritage be and can our history be noted as well as they have done in chicago which i think is not a it's not a ask that is beyond the realm of possibility so just like the library we had there wonderful reports today about how the library did so many things and there was community involvement i think this is another opportunity for there to be comedian evolvement as has been said when the project was coming together that there was going to be the key there was going to be involved i think this is the first opportunity for us to allow that community involvement to happen and to say we hear what you say and yes we appreciate the history in the culture of schenectady as well and we'd like to be able to entertain that knowing it's only you only get it to put on one street and not three in the other so as we go further in our discussion i think we should take into consideration only what we've heard tonight but also what we receive in writing via e mail being letters and all the things that have happened i think it's a great opportunity for us to actually be able to work together and again the county has done their part that's all standing i commend them and i applaud them i think this is not particularly for it's a city to to do something as well thank you thank you anyone else seasoning we recently received word that the scanty police department attended a training provided by the new york state justice center for protection of people with special needs so the training was attended by all of our sworn members of the police department the new york justice center for the protection of people with special needs has been conducting disability awareness training sessions for members of the department as a part of their ongoing mission and with this training our first can understand what the situation calls for in that the individual with whom they're dealing may simply require some calming time or could simply be afraid of their uniform so certainly the members of our police department are already sensitive to these things  i think extra day training you know always helps in raising awareness so that was very good news also our fire department has their annual run for your life race saturday march twenty it's at it's at nine thirty a m in central park and it's followed by a chowder fast so if you're interested in participating in that goes for a great cause it's schenectady firefighters run the number for your life dot