appearing on the consent agenda signify by saying i and he oppose item one will appear on the consent agenda item number two item number two a resolution calling for a public airing on tuesday october eleventh two thousand and eleven at seven p m at council chambers room two zero nine schenectady city hall setting a date for the public airing concerning the proposed two thousand and twelve budget item number three a resolution authorizing the city to enter into a contract with the new york state division of criminal justice is to secure grant funding discussed in committee move by by mr erickson all in favor of item three appearing on the consent agenda signify by saying i any opposed item three will appear on the consent agenda item number four i have number four resolution authorizing the settlement of saying any opposed item for will appear on the consent agenda item number five i am number five a resolution authorizing the settlement of attacks are surely concerning two five three six and bracken avenue sailor mr erickson all in favor of item five appearing on the consent agenda signify by saying i and he opposed item five will appear on the consent agenda item number six item number six a resolution adopting the new york state office for the prevention of domestic violence as proposed domestic violence property policy i'm sorry so that city policy will be the second in the state to adopt this along with our sister city of albany a second second by council member king all in favor of item six appearing on the consent agenda signified by saying i any opposed item six will appear on the consent agenda item number seven seven through twelve will be out of  recognizing lorenzo parker and once the mr ayling are going to do that will be out of order i remember knowing item number nine a resolution recognizing achievements in contributions of hispanics dns and declaring september fifteenth through october fifteenth hispanic heritage month in the city of schenectady in the city of warder like to present that nonsmoking am number ten item number ten a resolution proclaiming september twentieth dads take your child to school day in day out of order agenda signify by saying i and you oppose item number twelve item number twelve a resolution recognizing the tenth anniversary of the upper union street business improvement district its out of order  working these three ceremonial resolutions eight twelve or twelve a twelve b twelve c recognizing individuals dealing with the movie the place upon the members of the schenectady city council and all those who are present for this meeting tonight by the power of your spirit may the council be guided with wisdom so that their deliberations will be open minded to the concerns of the residents of schenectady give them the inside to listen carefully to all that is being communicated by the citizens and allow them the ability to respect fully deliberate all those issues that come before them almighty father made a citizen so schenectady be inspired to value all the ramifications of their concerns as well as the decisions of the council for the greater good of schenectady each of us faith we fulfill our individual responsibilities and fully appreciate the dignity of each person we view everyone as an equal in our eyes and in yours heavenly father give us the grace to accept the answers that we may not agree with but always seek to explore new paths together guided by honesty in truth where the greater good be accomplished by the average of the council this is a resolution recognizing the tenth anniversary of the ever union street business improvement district so mr president i would read this whereas the other union street business improvement district you you bid was created on july ninth two thousand one  went to local law to dash two thousand one and whereas the original mission statement of you you bid provided that the organizations objective is to revitalize our area improve the individual value of our enterprises and make up our union street a shining example of schenectady so heritage and future a strong well organized team is the best way to get the mission accomplished we will learn together work together and make decisions together no one on the team is bigger better or stronger than anyone else our objective is to accomplish the task at hand in a true spirit of friendship and cooperation and where as you you big has lived up to these lofty goals has nearly completed a three year three stage streetscape program making the district more attractive and accessible to our patrons has maintained a ninety five percent occupancy rates through the recession has dozens of new business is thriving on a pretty union and has had provided special events that are well attended and profitable now therefore be it resolved that this council does pause in its deliberations to recognize and note the accomplishments of the upper union street business improvement district and its many contributions to the development and improvement of the speidel business district at the city to express the appreciation of all residents of the city for its dedicated and reliable partnership with the city on its tenth anniversary of service to the community mr president i move adoption of the resolution  signify by saying any opposed resolutions adopted is is fresh on our minds because it's coming to fruition just now but i know there's been ten years of cooperation and strength building and we look forward to another ten or twenty perhaps thirty years of prosperous girls up there on union street just to let everyone the council and anyone in attendance we do have one of those festivals coming up october fifteenth ten a m to three p m come hang out see what the neighborhood already knows tha a bradley where quarter field father take your child to work to come inside the rail or take your child to school take your father to school all of the  whereat fathers and father figures across new york state are being encouraged to accompany the children to school on tuesday september twentieth as part of an ongoing statewide effort to promote healthy families and whereas the new york state office of children and family services in partnership with federal state and local government and local community groups are working together to encourage participation and dad to take your child to school day and whereas dad take your child to school is a one day event designed to engage fathers for the rest of the school year with schools headstart centers and community organisations using this opportunity to get to know the fathers of their students and to encourage them to remain involved throughout the school year and whereas according to new york city school chancellor dennis walcott even the simplest gesture of walking a child to school shows that you believe in them and value their education i cannot stress enough the importance of positive male role models for our students and i hope that this is that will motivate fathers grandfathers uncles and male caregivers to become more involved in your school community and whereas according to joyce a thomas regional administrator for the federal ministration for children in families actively involved fathers are positive force in the lives of their children and their community when fathers are involved in the law to do children especially their education the children learn more perform better in school and exhibit healthier behavior even when fathers do not share a home with their children their active involvement can have a lasting and positive impact and dads take your child to school day of the great forward to encourage fathers to be more involved therefore be it resolved this council positiveness deliberations to join the many informed voices promoting dads take your child to school day to recognize the contributions fathers ma the lives and education of the children and the many positive social and community benefits derived from the active participation of father and father figures and the lives and development of our next generation of responsible citizens and it is further resolve commitment to shape the life and educational experiences of their children by accompany them to school time move this have a second say to mr erickson all in favor signify by saying any oppose thank you acting mayor mccarthy city council members other elected officials and my community city residents i'm rene bradley i am here on behalf of the new york state office of children and family services to accept this resolution we're very proud of the dead take your child to school day initiative it's part of the federal heard that was conducted on september twentieth of this year statewide over one hundred and fifty schools participated in this effort i'm most proud of the fact that here in schenectady mt pleasant middle school central park middle school lincoln elementary school keene elementary school and martin's making magnet school participated i was just looking at the sheets today of the attendance of dads that signed it on that morning and sitting across the five schools we had one hundred three hundred and forty dead who came out to participate on  web think it was actually rather live three hundred forty deaths because many of them didn't get a chance to sign and so i think it's really a testimony of what we as a community can do when we come together  and work together and expects to reach the males and the deaths in our community from diverse backgrounds that very often are not pulled into the process so we're very proud of the initiative we look forward to doing it bigger and better next year and i'd very quickly like to thank all of the principals who came to planning meetings over the last five months price chopper who provided the refreshments to all five schools as well as field del the dallas  is who contributed a lot of school supplies as for us and so once again i'd like to say thank you one be half of new york state office of children and family services that initiative was supported by many other sister state agencies sandra harding is representing the state office of office where the aging was here with us tonight as well as ebony belmore from mount pleasant so i would just like to thank you on behalf of the thirty fathers they came you renee because i had the opportunity to participate in the program mount pleasant middle when it king and it really was an impressive turnout to me so the level of excitement enthusiasm sometimes the schools don't get the proper credit for the work that they resolution number seven council member brooker mr president this is a resolution declaring the month of october stop domestic violence month on october nineteenth stop domestic violence day it would like to call up and thank you very much for coming up as or anyone else here from your organization ok happy to have you and it's very pertinent tonight that we also passed the resolution creating a policy domestic violence policy as president mccarthy has said that we're the only the second municipality in new york state we join with to present these policies and we're very very proud that we have the ability to do that to see even in happy that you're with us where as domestic violence  the lives in compromises the safety of thousands of new yorkers were tragic destructive and also fatal fatal results in occurs within a wide spectrum of relationships including mary formally married couples with children in common couples who live together will have lived together gay lesbian bisexual and transgender couples in couples who are dating or have dated in the past and whereas domestic violence is recognizes a pattern of coercive tactics which includes physical psychological sexual economic and emotional abuse perpetrated by one person against an adult intimate partner with the goal of establishing and maintaining power and control over the lives of the victim and whereas domestic violence has destroyed lives undermined self esteem in exactly a tremendous toll on the lives of the person it directly effects and all those others who are indirectly a fax now therefore be it resolved that in recognition of the adverse societal in associated effects of domestic violence in order to promote and encourage a society free from domestic violence october shall be recognized in observed as a stop to mystic violence month  can't remember kay all in favor signify by saying any opposed resolution stan am my name is joan faxon and i'm from the office for the prevention of domestic violence and on behalf of the governor and my office i just want to thank the acting there and the city council and the staff of schenectady who worked so hard to get this policy in place as as you've heard schenectady is only the second municipality to adopt this domestic violence in the workplace policy albany was our pilot project and the acting mayor got on board as soon as the offer was made to have schenectady the second be the second municipality so we're very proud and very pleased on all the work that's been done to make the workplace in schenectady safer not only for victims of domestic violence but for the rest of us and you have a wonderful local program here in schenectady at the at the y w c a they sent a representative here tonight to celebrate with us this this occasion  and if you have any questions or any concerns about family members please contact your local y and they'll get you say thank you very much this is indeed a pleasure i like to call up at a family members of a llama so park lorenzo parker anybody else in the community who wants to come inside  you running for office mr president you have the floor sir thank you sir a resolution recognizing lorenzo parker were as we sadly we have far too many occasions to recognize selfless acts of concern and good citizenship and whereas there seems to be fewer and fewer good samaritans in our midst despite the need of greater caring and concern among the residents of our community and whereas the age the age of increasing insensitivity it is heartwarming and inspiring to observe it recognize the positive community minded acts of one of our young residents a renzo parker who came to the aid of a six year old who fell from a window in august this year and were as the family of the child was unaware of the situation lorenzo attempted to break her fall and then alerted the family of what happened now therefore it  resolved that the citizens the city as the city council of pauses to do its deliberation is to acknowledge and recognize the code and commend lorenzo parker for his samaritan like dedications as a service to his  resolution stands adopted gradually that we can make right that we have in our power to do and when i heard about this i said who did this who runs in tries to save somebody from falling out of a window and i said i want to meet this young man and when i came and i met him he told me the story of that and we got the other piece from mr president as each year americans observe national hispanic heritage month from september fifteenth to october fifteenth by celebrating the histories cultures and contributions of a american citizens whose ancestors came from spain mexico the caribbean and central and south america and whereas the observation started in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight is hispanic heritage week under president lyndon johnson and was expanded by president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred eight to cover a thirty day period starting on september fifteenth and ending on october fifteenth and whereas the day of september fifteenth is significant because it is the anniversary of independence for latin american countries close to rica el salvador guatemala honduras and nicaragua in addition mexico and chile celebrate their independence stays on september sixteenth and september eighteenth respectively also columbus day or dia de rosa which is october twel falls within this thirty day period and where as like all of america schenectady has benefited from the cultural diversity attributable to its hispanic residents and has significantly and has advanced significantly as a result of the contributions of hispanic descent now therefore be it resolved that september fifteenth through october fifteenth two thousand and eleven shall be observed this is spanish heritage month in the city of schenectady and this council does pause and it deliberations to remember recognize and express appreciation to all of its hispanic residents past present and future for their many contributions to the growth and success of the city mr president i will be adoption of the resolution  public hearing for review of the two thousand and ten consolidated comment on the two thousand and ten consolidated performance and evaluation report  for speakers jason playing my request that my entire written comics be included in the report and not paraphrased the following times that the city is not down and needs to be done the affirmative action office is still not provided a proper report of accountability of what she has done in a proper outlines of goal is not done any reports on affordable and accessible housing for the elderly and the disabled how much there are in the employment analysis is not done in a plant to provide an opportunity for access to jobs under the affirmative action office still has not public hearing on the process on the same day as the city released the are of people poles look for grants out to the community the city seven city has also has not done an economic disparity study in regards to governmental contracts eight the city has not done a public hearing on the in house money to run the city hall for forty city employees and explained how it relates to the five year plan the city needs to open up the books on the community don't block grant money and redo the five year plan with full public hearings and start implementing the goals of solving problems that are in our neighborhoods respectfully submit it takes a plank to spell the  petitions cations presented to the city council for monday september twenty second two thousand and eleven and category official there are nine hundred general there are none and there are no petitions committee reports most quiet on the committee front will move to privilege of the floor dealing with the legislative agenda the first speaker is jason clay act in their city council on the agenda item of dealing with the domestic violence policy graduations if you did something the other piece of the puzzle is that only get half right it deals with affirmative action and the affirmative action should if given a comment plus you should have had a thirty day public comment period on the policy i know it was already going to be approved and it was going through but you do not need you cannot step the public comment period on that it affects the civil rights and the employment of individuals while being employed near the city and you know we need to be in we need to start doing exactly this piece and we still don't and we also needed the public comment from  disability coordinator which you of collaterally duty on that piece so you have missing two different people that should have given a comment on to that piece also another comment piece that you should have gotten one was from the human rights commission you know this is another piece of the puzzle that needs to be anytime when you adopt these employment that deals with civil rights and vigils so hopefully in the future that we could be able to not and be able to process this thank you good evening events for you campbell avenue i'm happy to see that number one you are going to suspend the permit fees almost and i don't have anything to what i brought up two weeks ago but if it did i guess i could say accomplished something in eighteen years of coming down here so the snow was not lost but i'm kind of puzzled with the twenty dollars i don't know what that i guess you could say what does that mean to the homeowner but what does that mean for the city to twenty dollars why not just go away with the whole thing something's better nothing and thank you for doing that for the residents because it's important for them and i'm glad that you're doing it so thank you they can so i don't have to cross the street because it's pretty bad for some people never give up i put on my big girl shoes for it and i i want to speak first of all i want to mention number porn five the search for sarah tori whatever this they're large amounts and i'm just are these handled by amy couple agreements or do these people have to get a lawyer and take it to court because i think the lawyers are expensive and then i want to speak about the domestic violence legislation and the resolutions for this month i don't have a list of subscribers to benefit of but domestic violence organizations but my hat's phyllis claiborne hats i get the mets years and ten percent of the income from the sale of these hats goes to support domestic violence go on to the legislation later that include public participation in domestic violence some people think that when people separate that women without a male partner in the house and i'm talking about divorce issues that they ought not to have homes of their own and they get rather arrogant hostile not only george the women but the children they try to present issues and there are many that can happen when the entire family is away at school and work and this includes it's towards the animals  animals left at home during the day so i want to add that to thank you good evening my name is pat salinger live in the city of schenectady i would like to address agenda item number two resolutions calling for a public hearing on for the for the allotted time so over the over the year i mean people forget about the budget but our property taxes are running of the city everything that involves the city budget and it's not something that should be a one month after on the city council now i do understand that you do have your your hearings with your department heads but it's also not quite enough for the citizens in the city to be able to to grasp ahold of everything that's been in there or that goes in there in the mayor's proposed budget i do know that the mayor's proposed budget is due to the city council by october first which is this saturday and for the last three to four years that a copy of the mayor's proposed budget has been put on the website in p d f format i also recall that in two thousand and three during a lot of crisis and turmoil within the politics of the city then skee had submitted the budget to the city council on september first and that way gave the city council and members of the public more of an opportunity to be able to look through the line items of the budget he also at that time provided a very good summary of what was contained in the budget and that hasn't been done for the past seventy years it would be nice to see that summary outline of the budget when the mayor delivers that to the council it would also be great to see it continue to be put on the city and the city's website but a clear budget summary statement is really the most important thing it would also be a good idea for the city council body to write up a resolution with the help of our corporation council of course that would require the mayor submit the budget to the council by september first i do know that former mayor stratton i did do that by i think it was september eighth one year and then another year was september fifteenth and that really gave the council body more of an opportunity to look through and it also gave the public more of an opportunity because you know a lot of eyes can be very helpful we can't we can't see everything so a lot of guys would be very helpful to to help you decide on budget thank you roger hall i live on a boat a road in schenectady i also want to make some very brief comments about the budget first needs to be timely as was just stated earlier the better legally it's the tail end of this month but the point is the earlier one gets of you something the better want to deal with it second it has to be an open and honest budget this should not be a politically or the election year budget where things are simply kick past election day when needs to take a hard look at things and make sure the decisions are done properly third one has to make sure that there are no items in there such as a golf course decision in the stand during the last session we had the acting mayor said he was backing off this idea of having a golf course and there should tip that's an important one to back off from because the golf course is something that is bad for the golfers both in terms of increased traffic and increase fees and second it's bad for the public because ultimately they're going to be holding the bag on that decision finally with i'd like to point out this one has to scrub this budget as best as one can  have a situation now where this budget is going to affect everyone in this community as i walk the streets of schenectady as i ring doorbells and talk to people as i see the increasing numbers of for sale si it's clear that middle class is being driven from its homes this is something that we as a community can't deal with unless we take out of the budget things which do not belong and do everything we can to enhance revenues the middle class is getting killed in this process and it's bad for the community case in point on my block the property values are going to be affected because the house across the street is one that went on the market for a price three years ago today it's on that market for one half that price they have been no offers for that house when it does sell the net result will be the property values on that street will change and the result also is at the highest property tax community in the capital district will find its tax rate in effect doubling the next year that is bad for everyone and it's not something that helps attract middle class people  c list of individuals who signed up to speak on the privilege of the floor dealing with the legislative agenda i would no entertain a motion to adopt a consent agenda floor dealing with general city business first speakers a barber a cat grant and we've blasted public areas has completely which is the acting director of economic development has completely sidestepped and completely history fused to comply with city council's request on that information nearly two million dollars that he is controlling without having any public areas he is mandated under federal law under the community block grants i've given a given the statutes of the community level block grants in the r to the members of the city council and you know it shows they're supposed to be at least minimum two public hearings and the public would be on the in house money in the other one is the outhouse money which is the three process that goes out the end of the month this money also would include the affirmative action officer that we send fifty thousand dollars over to the county this also includes last year that you guys  plan you know we need to start coming back to what federal law states we need to come back to affirmative action the economic development board which did strike me and sits on which of the three key person to be one two three zero seven which is the hamilton hill no area we've got to start putting our own people back to work we've got to come up with some kind of a jobs plan and what kind of direction we're going to come we can't keep continue with what we're doing and these pilot programs all we're doing is just paying peter to pay paul and they're not providing us with any kind of economic development nothing you come out and say we created thirty five hundred jobs created not that those jobs were transferred from everywhere else except here and we've got to start happening got to do an economic disparity study we've got to be able to understand how we're going to be able to set aside contracts and how they're being awarded and also we've got to force states thank you very much and some of the houses i know in the house i grew up on there's one in rust could leech down you know just a couple streaks here and there on to like the aluminum that's capping the old wood trim and they got cited by code enforce ment for that i think that's a little over the top the one cow that happened call me tomorrow will take care of it ok because i mean that's that's just i think a little too much and she has a very nice house so thank you for that secondly then the second issue is about central park i know you're in the budget process i know money is tight but we have to look for some security i think for central park because there's things going on there that shouldn't be and i don't believe we have security there like we used to so i think it's something we should look into and the parks committee maybe should look into and see how maybe this could be funded because i think it's important that is the jewel of the city as we all say and people should be able to walk through there freely but there's a lot of vandalism going on in there at times broken windows and whatnot and i think if we had security again at some point even if it's only one ship to start with maybe or or break it up just so there's some presence there so people know that they're being watched while they're in the park so i think that's an important issue it's a beautiful park and it's an asset of ours so i think to protect and to protect the people would be a good thing  here and somebody get in here with some backbone and put up with the city employees into the city you want to revitalize our school system our neighborhoods you've got to get the city employees in this city and those that want to live outside the city  you can't tolerate to study more we can't afford the taxes and have all our money going out of the city you've got to wake up and i don't care what party members are on the council or the mare they've got to wake up and realize what's going on here in our city it's a disgrace our streets you're repaying look at the manholes of this city you hire people from the broader damned to write speeches for air force one what do you all want to job on air force one you all want to job with the state get appointed what's going on here we need help here a new city we need people with backbone if you can't talk up to the city union city employees and get them to live here in our city we don't need you know not one of them because that's why our problem right there all of our tax money going outside the city you didn't do anything about all these cars going home be a different situation than perhaps if they lived in the city but you're not and you can see this like i said before one supermarket in the city one complete supermarket on easter now have no all these is a nice market if you want to can hire people from outside of the city and pay him ninety one hundred thousand dollars i don't know where your thoughts are mary maclean i name is mary maclean i live in the said hey tonight i want to say something about neighborhoods and volunteer ism neighborhoods first mr mccarthy lived on wendell avenue until his marriage three years ago former council member and now judge mark lance failed letters on when to live a new mr erickson lives on learning to live in new the city engineer who introduced the new method to repair streets lives on wendell avenue the newest store actor operations who proposed a three point five million dollar expansion expenditure for the golf course lives online and on line avenue and the woman who reviews assessment grievances also hires i wendell avenue address it seems that council has found its comfort level is any wonder other neighborhoods are neglected volunteer of some my neighbors volunteer to putrefy our area controlled litter problems help each other and know each other by name my neighbor cuts my lawn trims the bushes plows the snow and so on no garbage cans roll around our street after the sanitation workers empty the cans my husband returns the cans to the neighborhoods to the neighbor's back yard he has been doing it since he retired twenty years ago i buy plant and maintain flowers for the city island garden six months out of the year i would like to do something for michigan avenue for anyone who lives there and is listening tonight i can give you perennials for the strip i also keep an empty box and gardening gloves in the trunk of my car they are used to pick up litter on city streets i also use the point of the scissors to pick up cigarette butts volunteers come on down folks and volunteer your time for the city in return for your efforts expect surly comments from the council president limited speech at council meetings shave seconds from the allotted three minutes garbage collection maps beside your faces and be investigated volunteer thank you n bellevue ten months ago they had an article in the paper on a cold war but i'm going to bring it up again it was told to me that they were going to do it and i was told a month ago month and a half ago that something's going to be done nothing is going down i mean or do you only municipality in the county that's not getting them i mean i'm not asking for myself believe me because zero seven neighborhood because of the older whole housing stock and it's an collaboration with better neighborhoods community land trust of schenectady habitat for humanity of schenectady county and capitals energy efficient and everything is free so it's an opportunity for people to come out homeowners and renters alike they can get their home assessed for how much energy that they may be losing and then free of charge get it through the grant get contractors to come in and take care of it so they can save dollars on their energy bill and also there will be giving away a free refrigerator that day this is going to be a drawing for that so we encourage people to come  some money on heating in this difficult economic times thank you thank you  also have an issue here i think it's a big dirty secret in city hall and i'm around time around that old houses first of all we start with  there is a fault that runs from scotia to schenectady is the car all the silva dorrian fault at one time used to be try and the work that they done that's the big city center but in the meantime just currently it started again and there are still people that work at city center that you know we're all aware of it and i can testify to it sometimes this can cause structure to crack and weaken and sing change degrees of of the floor walking on but sometimes they can go even further than that causing the sewage pipes know the water department are very aware were aware of it and are doing absolutely nothing about it because they probably can't but they aren't informing the people that are involved who have problems with sewage even to the point of gas coming up into the sink areas bathroom and kitchen and producing fruit flies y things they're all over the place it's a dirty little secret me and every time i call and something happens that reminds me of a story up in saving here remember steven baker and his family were they near vail cemetery where they were having these paint ball shot all over their house and all and i quote from mr butt and mr pecker said they they do it to their house because the police aren't there commissioner bennett said he's a nice man who doesn't deserve this it's a deal whether what i do to deserve all this to summarise police council people that work at city h good evening again my name is founder and i live in the city of schenectady again with the budget twenty twelve there are three actually three things that i would like to address now last july actually july of twenty ten former mayor stratton pulled together his budget presentation and there were there was one item or one issue that really was a concern at that time and that was the twelve million dollar deficit now this was for this year's budget the two thousand and eleven budget which was passed and we really heard nothing about it my understanding of that was that so many millions of that were because we would all with the school district money that we apparently didn't pay them i don't know if we had paid them somehow so many millions of them were because we owed the county property tax money in order to make them whole and then so many millions of that was to go into the retirement system and we we had generously given the retirement incentive to a number of city employees but also that our retirement obligations would be going up and twenty eleven as was was put out by a press release in conference by the new york state control office so we haven't really heard anything about that we have no status report on this twelve million dollar deficit that was in this year's budget or how that was going to be made if any legislation was put into place in order to correct that situation the second thing that i would like to address is that the sales tax distribution with the county now i have addressed this at one time in earlier council meeting and it was kind of fluff as not being quite as simplistic i believe were the words that were use the fact of the matter is that approximately five years ago six years ago the county was taking in approximately say forty two to forty six million dollars in sales tax revenue and the city was receiving eleven million and then three years ago an agreement was made between the city in the county where they would increase our sales tax revenues by twenty five thousand dollars per year up to this year which should be included in the twenty twelve budget of eleven million one hundred thousand dollars now i would imagine that early next year that's one of the most important things is this the sales tax revenues because in  besides the forty two to forty six million that we were taking and we're now taking in that the county is taking in more than double that and i believe that a lot of that is due to the businesses that have been built within the bounds of the city of schenectady and i'm talking about marcella talking about the griffin green house and items of that nature so please put that on your agenda your your own agendas to make sure that we deal with that thank you community who does a good deed and it's just good that we recognize it for obvious for the girl that he helped but also the other children that are his age and possibly younger that look to him and say i just went out on my own one day and just did something nice for somebody and i think it was good to see that and i encourage us to recognize more young people when they're doing just a good deed so thank you and there's some comments tonight about the paving and interestingly maybe paved more roads this year i think than we have in a long time and inevitably someone's always come up to me saying well what about my street what about my street and it's going to take a number of years i think to get to all of them but i think this year we focused on some of the main thoroughfares didn't get to all of main thoroughfares but each year we will get more and more of them done but it's going to take a number of years before every one street gets done and so we just have to be patient it's a it's a money issue on employment in the minority communities and i was wondering do we ever look at what's happened here in schenectady and we have a lot of young people just wandering around unemployed and i think we need to do something about the unemployment rate here in the city is connected anybody i mean i know so i pretty sure the affirmative action office doesn't do any of that pertain to the city a think and i've said in the past and i say in the future and i say right now it's a waste of fifty thousand dollars that we have that we're paying the county for supposedly doing affirmative action fifty thousand dollars it's not in the sneeze at but yet we throw it away every year and i get no results from it and i maintain that it's a waste of money but i noticed how on c n n they have day after day week after week month after month reports about the high end unemployment in the minority communities particularly the black community and of the young people and yet the city has been actually doesn't seem to be that interested or for doing any studies to see what we're facing here so i i think we need to do something if the affirmative action office doesn't do it somebody has to do it and they're not going to do it because she came in with a report a couple weeks ago that she she had no complaints about about the civil rights complaints pertaining to unemployment or anything else and i just wonder boy what world is she living but it's a it's a concern of mine it will be a concern of mine until december thirty first of this year so hopefully somebody after i leave will look at that and say you know he was yeah ok i can hear myself i too want to congratulate all the people who gave down tonight for resolutions but certainly in particular lorenzo and all of the community support that he had was so nice to see we certainly do need to know more from our members in the community about young people who are out there doing these really good things because we certainly would like to recognize them i think it's kind of always goes directly to what you were saying mr allen in terms of you know bringing people up and making them see that their community does count that people do care about them helps them hopefully stay in school do well and want to be a  contributing member to our community and we're very fortunate to have that young man as well as his family in our community in terms of some of the comments that were made and in particular about about the roads in the paving and as you said you know every time you do something it is always another complaint around it but i would have to say that from the almost twelve years i've been on this council i will have to say i think we had more roads paved this summer that we probably have in about five years done very well done less expensively and i would have to attribute that to a lot to our city's staff but certainly also to you mr acting mayor for making a lot of those decisions and surround yourself with people that can help you make those decisions so i'm behalf of the community as connected as a taxpayer as a city resident as someone who drives down kings road every single day  definitely thank you to the members of the city who work so hard to do that and to you and your ministration as well thank you and the other members of the council  i will have a budget for the council probably later portion of friday direct of the staff that it be printed only in black and barbara i think we're going to be able to print it and two sides don't hold me to that but heart and we're trying so that it will be down there and it will it will be up on the web it may not be until monday or tuesday but we'll get the p d f file up there it is challenging year we're going through it trying used the example of union college contributed its fair share we would probably be dealing with a budget that would have a tax reduction but we will deal with the budget that was more challenging and i look forward to working with the council over the next month to putting in place a spending plan that continues to build on the good things that are happening in this community and positions it for future growth and with that i will