and then for original consideration item number one i'm number one hundred riginal consideration a resolution authorizing the sale of eight forty eight stanley street discussed in committee without objection on consent i don't number two i don't number two a resolution authoriz thirty eight thirty five eighteen partial directly behind seven hundred twenty two broadway discussed in committee without objection on consent item number three i don't number three resolution transferring title to eight sixty six and sixty eight eastern avenue to the land re utilization corporation of the capital region discussed in committee without objection on consent item number for a number for resolution skin act it is the place to be an official city song this will be taken out of order mr ferrari will present that i do number five i mean number five a resolution declaring october to be italian american heritage month this will also be take it out of order mr regie will make that presentation item number six i mean number six a resolution recognizing the hundredth anniversary of the sons of italy lodge three twenty one also out of order with mr rickey presenting ok our number seven i don't number seven resolution recognizing the month of october as item number nine i don't number nine a resolution authorizing the sale of adjacent lot to eight l v street discussed income city development i'm planning this evening without objection on consent item number ten i number ten a resolution authorizing the sale of eleven eleven may claim in st also discussed in committee this evening without objection on consent i am number eleven a number eleven off a resolution authorizing the sale of ten fifty five pleasant street it's  lot also discussed this evening without objection on consent item number twelve and number twelve a resolution authorizing the sale of six twenty two lange street also discussed in committee without objection on consent i remember thirteen is just a repeat of item number twelve that i don't number fourteen the resolution authorizing the sale of five twenty one to five twenty three senate history also discussed in committee this evening without objection on consent there's nothing else to come before the city council caucus on task force thank you for this opportunity to perform tonight's invocation i would like to take a brief moment to recognize the two students that are here from our current class of community crisis chaplains and thank them for their dedication it into the calling to aid our communities with spiritual pastoral care to all and providing hope in the midst of despair let us pray a great creator thank you for both the favor in the forgiveness which you provide in our daily lives please be with our elected officials this evening as they deliberate on the issues concerning our city and then as they go forth to serve all of us which they represent  guide as we respect one another and allow us to work together as your children or brothers and sisters lord we ask that you be with all former and active military those who protect this each and every day and those persecuted for their faith god bless our city and community god bless the state of new york and god bless the united states of america kane present all right we have a number of out of order resolutions and i'm going to take them in a slightly different order than they were read from the agenda and we are going to start with october as italian american heritage month and the one hundred anniversary of the sons of italy if everyone has come upstairs we look downstairs is a very nice arrangement i think the laura said something to do with that i believe they be ok so you did a good job this is a resolution declaring the month of october to be italian american heritage month madam president you have the floor whereas the voyagers of the italian born explore christopher columbus merger of european and native american cultures and whereas columbus first contact with the new world in fourteen ninety two was commemorated has a state and federal holiday every year of the month of october and whereas the history of the city of schenectady has been significantly influenced by the rich heritage of italy whereas  now where as the strength and continuing success of schenectady the vitality of our neighborhoods and the effectiveness of our community depend on the distinctive and strongly qualities demonstrated by various ethnic groups exemplified by members of the italian american community now therefore be it resolved that the mayor and city council do hereby pause in their deliberations to proclaim the month of october to be a tally in american heritage month and recognize the ongoing contributions of the italian american community street and to the columbus hall which apart from being the heart of the center of the lodge community at one point served as a temporary site for the parishioners of the knights my son john the baptist church searchin well as sensex sumption large three twenty one has been an active community member by fundraising for and contributing to separate worthy causes such as scholarships for local store dance mentorship programs for inner city youth museum support red cross services for scout group scout activities and little league baseball and their ass apart from the services are provided for the community lodge three twenty one provides for its members a sense of continuity with the past couple with separate pride by bringing people together to share in the monthly homemade dinners golf tournaments and family picnics and whereas in these face fast paced times it is meaningful to organize and come together on the basis of shared community a love of italian culture and tradition and the betterment of the city we all love in order to guarantee a positive outlook for the future not therefore be it resolved that the mayor gary r mccarthy and city council do here by pause in their deliberations to recognize the hundredth anniversary o let's move on to schenectady the place mr ferrari fight mr brecker to come forward to present you have the floor this is a resolution declaring schenectady is the place to be an official city song whereas schenectady is residents have always been passionate about their community and whereas a number of talented people from schenectady county community college have taken it upon themselves to celebrate our city's history and future by writing a song and whereas that song titled schenectady is the place was written by s c c c c instructor of music rocker and the vocals are performed by amanda cuthbert and brandon donovan and whereas the song showcases the city and encourages people to visit and live here and whereas other acts just look at us today a renaissance is underway a community reborn success is here to stay perfectly expresses the state of our city now therefore it be resolved that the mayor gary r mccarthy and the city council here by pause in their deliberations to thank those who gave their time and efforts to create this song and are proud to declare it an official tired i was just telling question of bennett that i don't have accent radio anymore so forced to listen to talk radio and like god the things people say about our city it's just unbelievable i mean it's so negative out there and i'm like so i really want to write a song that really expressed a positive uplifting good feeling about schenectady and all the things that we didn't represent in from the past and then the second verse of course everything is happening in the future thanks  good work and i also want to showcase the great community college we have that s e c c with dr mike lee allowing me to use the new studio their state of the art studio and the faculty are all virtuoso musicians and their students are phenomenal and it was just a great opportunity to come together and create something really positive something i wanted to do for a long time and it's my gift to the city where was in the chair i hope everybody uses this song for whatever purposes they need and for those of you who watch the council meeting two weeks ago you got to hear the song and it's all right let's move on to october is breast cancer awareness month this porterfield right members of the fire department and the partners foundation to come forward had you had before a resolution declaring the month of october two thousand and fifteen to be breast cancer awareness month whereas the month of october is recognized as national breast cancer cancer awareness month and october twenty first two thousand fifteen is recognized as national mammography day and whereas mammography an x ray of the human breast is recognized as the single most effective method of the tech to breast cancer breast changes that may be cancer long before physical symptoms can be seen or felt and where as according to the centers for disease control and prevention breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women and the second highest cause of cancer death among women and whereas there are certain there are several types of breast cancer which can be divided into noninvasive and invasive types and pig can be diagnosed at different stages of development it can grow at different rates and whereas in two thousand and fifteen the national cancer institute estimates that two hundred thirty one thousand eight hundred forty new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in women in two thousand three hundred fifty cases in men and whereas in order to facilitate early diagnosis and prompt treatment  breast cancer in women in mn public education awareness and understanding of the disease is necessary now therefore be resolved that the mayor gary r mccarthy and the city council do hereby pauls in their deliberations to proclaim the month of october to be breast cancer awareness month and the city of schenectady and remembrance of those who have lost their lives to breast cancer and in support of those who currently who are currently fighting this disease madam president like to move the resolution ok to move seconded by the spirit of all in favor i madam president mr mayor we always are so honored when you guys recognize us for this it's obviously something very near and dear to our hearts we are exposed to things every single day course of regular business and we're finding that they're discovering cancers that we never even considered before so recognition in october for breast cancer awareness month is amazing and we're extremely appreciative and we're very pleased to the community for their support of us as well thank you so much thank you the work the men and women do the foundation it's unbelievable they usually have a golf outing i believe might want to mention the shirts that you're showing currently they put on a comedy show as many of you have heard me say out in the twenty one year breast cancer survivor so i really appreciate the work the department of the foundation does and bringing awareness and can't stress the importance of early detection so again thank you very much right and then we'll go on to stop domestic violence  madam president you have thank you this is a resolution declaring the month of october to be domestic violence awareness month where as when a family member is abused it can have long term damaging effect on the victim that may also leave a mark on family friends and the community at large and whereas domestic violence is widespread and devastating to society as a whole but particularly in women and children and whereas the problem of domestic violence is  to any group or groups of people across all economic racial gender educational religious and societal barriers and is sustained by societal indifference and whereas victims should have he who should have help to find the compassion comfort and healing they need in domestic abuse or should be punished to the fullest extent of the law and whereas the city encourages domestic violence victims and their families to seek assistance from appropriate victims services organizations in new york new york state domestic violence hotline which is one eight hundred nine four two six zero nine six and i'll say that again one eight hundred nine four two six zero nine six whereas the city is committed to increasing public awareness of domestic violence and its prevalence and to eliminating it through prevention and education now therefore that the mayor and city council do hereby pas in their deliberations to proclaim the month of october to be domestic violence awareness month in the city of schenectady in recognition of the important work done by domestic violence programs and  you being committed to educating the public about domestic violence is silly and i was here for the why did you do to your colleague to give us a presentation about a new initiative that they put forth the high risk task force ok we're going to just move over here for a second but this town madam president mr mayor and city council members on behalf of the why did you see a of new york and the staff and the thousands of victims and their families that we serve each year i thank you for giving us the ceremonial resolution and recognition of the work on that the white w does to bring about domestic violence awareness in our community and to offer a safe haven for victims and their darkest hours we could not do this without the support of the city  schenectady and the many community partners we work with every day why don't you will recognize forty long years of hard work grassroots effort since our domestic violence shelter was opened in one nine hundred seventy six we will honor all the victims who have lost their lives who also who can now call themselves survivors because they realize they no longer stood alone and they broke free from their abuse the y w was there to support guide and empower them we were on other staff and volunteers from forty years ago who paved the way and those who are now fighting to eliminate domestic violence as advocates counselors shelter workers and community outreach workers the journey continues on how we must come together as a community to stop the violence find our strength bring domestic violence to an end to help me with we're going to kind of give you some information about this high risk team i'm so if you could so the high risk team was established about two years ago with funding from the office for the prevention of domestic violence violence and we were given the the goal of creating a team with the schenectady police department the district attorney's office as well as the sheriff's department and probation and the why did you see is the lead agency it is a high risk domestic violence scene which allows us to as counsel impreza said hold perpetrators accountable as well as keeping victims safe in their homes so our purpose is to make sure that we are providing a umbrella of services to our victims allowing them to feel safer thereby that following through the legal issues that are necessary in order to make sure that they become free from their perpetrators so what kim does she oversees there are now seven advocates who work in the police department work at child protective services as well as work in family court to support victims who come into those victim trying to gauge where that victim is in their safety plan then when we finally get a hold of them and then a daily basis we actually get copies of those place reports with that risk assessment and from there we can establish prioritizing which cases need immediate attention there are certain questions on the risk assessment that will be a trigger for the victim being in more  danger some of those could be if they have ever made threats to kill that are strangled the victim if he has ever used a weapon or if he has extremely or has any kind of stocking obsession and  another one would be if he ever harmed the victim while she was pregnant from this risk assessment were able to determine a timeline with the victim to look at the pattern of behavior for the perpetrator and through that we're able to develop a safety plan we have outside agencies that are involved with a high risk team which we depend on incredibly and that's the district attorney's office their probation department the police department and the sheriff's department so once we've assessed that maybe a case needs to go to the high risk team all of those entities get together that kim just listed in we meet monthly cases are brought forth and we look at  they kind of were graded i guess is the word to use on the danger assessment that the advocates have completed so that they go from like not very dangerous to extreme danger so those cases that are that are extreme danger cases are brought forth to the high risk team and they're voted upon by all members that are on the team so each entity gets a vote and i have given you a sheet that list to date we've had forty one cases that have been brought forth to the team and you can see the types of work that we've done with those cases and some of the outcomes the purpose is to keep victims in their homes not to have them go into shelter and as you can see only one victim actually went into shelter out of the forty one cases but we have worked with to date one thousand six hundred twenty eight cases and that's just over since two thousand and fourteen and then six hundred ten sheltered client clients so we're over two thousand clients over a two year period and that includes those forty one cases so we're talking high volumes of domestic violence happening in schenectady and with the support of the city of schenectady we're hoping that we are decreasing those numbers and the high risk team allows us to do that by focusing on those higher risk cases and really working together with the d a s office with the police department to make sure the perpetrators being held accountable and that the victim is safe we also work with albany protective services which allows us to put alarms in victim's houses  and then they're allowed to then again stay in their homes and create a safety plan from there and continue to go to work and continue to have their children in school which is key for many of our victims because when we speak about domestic violence it is not just physical it is verbal it is emotional it is financial many of our victims come to us with nothing and then we help to rebuild and work them back to being empowered and back in the community as viable community members doing what they need to do to live their lives and that's really key so the one of the thing i'm going to give you is that we have our take back the night march coming up which kim passed around it is the twenty second it is so that everyone can be safe we'd love to have as many people as we it's our take back the night march thursday october twenty second it's at the y w we have opening speakers and then we march the streets and really try to make people feel safe again and support safety for everyone in the city of schenectady  and then we have our purpose which allows us to help victims financially so i'll just pass that around to get some information on it but all of this happening in the month of october and their campaign is make the invisible visible one in four women experiences domestic violence in their lifetime so who is your one in four what is the who is the woman that you know who's had some type of domestic violence in their life so that that's a great opportunity for you to go on and that talks about financial abuse and how women can come out of that so i just wanted to have that and lastly there's an article on the high risk team that allows you to kind of know what assessment is the danger assessment and all of the information about how the team progressed so currently we are still running the team even though that the grant has dissolved we are now receiving money through which is the violence against women act stop grant money and we do that in partnership with the d a s office and the police department and the sheriff's department as well as probation are still working with us even without funding because that's how important this team is to make sure that domestic violence is at the forefront that we are aware of it and that we are doing everything we can to stop it as a community so i appreciate your time we are very honored to receive this resolution very very much thank you it's very  all right we have two public hearings tonight the first is on the twenty sixteen proposed budget i have two people who signed up to speak jason pla down to around thirty nine thousand it's now up to forty four and now you're proposing to go to about fifty four thousand you know i mean this is we don't understand what's going on here why are i mean we're why are you giving these people this for the items that when you do for staff one of the major areas that we're concerned about is the community hall block grant for their farm and action officer and manager what's going on you know we need to have address of what's happening we're getting information through it's like pulling hen's teeth and we're not even complying with the federal and state mandates on affirmative action and you know these are some of the things we've had these jobs but you keep signing on p l a agreements project labor agreements with the unions for union only jobs and they only represent between forty to forty five percent of the population and they're mostly out of all the detroit they're not and you know so i mean some of this budget needs to take a look at that the other piece of it is the disability parking educational fund are known as the handicapped parking surcharge you had in twenty fifteen a little over thirty nine hundred and then you're budgeting twenty five hundred for this thing half of that goes to the city into the county and half goes to the city so there's never been in the whole entire history of this department educational fund has been over four thousand of the cities collected and there's over well over twenty eight thousand dollars in that fund so and that doesn't represent what's actually in that piece and that money is earmarked for programs  discussing and disability parking so that's another error within the budget itself thank you thank you mary mcclain ok thank you all right and i'm going to tear this public hearing closed  second public hearing is about the abandonment of water street i have no one signed up to speak but i am going to call on mr strike when to come up and just explain what this is about thank you the abandonment of water street is the beginning of the expansion of liberty park which is part of a two year two part study well attended by downtown residents businesses and supported and then  adopted by city council and it culminated in a four hundred thousand dollars grant from the office of parks recreation and historic preservation to expand liberty park so this will start next year it will expand over water street which requires the abandonment of the street currently the street has been shut down at washington avenue now for a year with no significant impacts on traffic the abandoned it will also have it shut down at railroad avenue and with his entrance at church street as well and will require the eventual granting of a restrictive covenant to new york state that will this will remain forever while so basically it's a great expansion improvement of liberty park that will make corrections all minutes where it says that the for the hamilton hill neighborhood association for the meeting last week was actually the monthly meeting not the annual meeting ok thank you got that was the monthly meeting at the presented to the city council for monday october thirteenth two thousand and fifteen under official from the mayor list of appointments dated october thirteenth two thousand and fifteen under general there are none under petitions a petition to reconstruct oxford place and maryland avenue streets ok thank you will have on the committee reports do we have any committee reports like no ok we moved to privileges for related to the legislative agenda but i have no one signed up for we have just put in over a million dollars into this facility and training we put in new buildings on the units we've cleaned up that property immensely we used to have five luther's i scream on one side we bought that tor down put up a new building on the landscaping well this saturday were having an open house and we would like to have all you come and visit and see what the facility looks like now then what i did few years back i've talked to a lot of neighbors over in that area and they've all even said that some of them didn't even know they were storage units in the place we took out all the trees we took out everything we really made it nice and even of a family moved in across the street and tore well they're redoing that entire house making that look gorgeous from the outside now so we are revitalizing the grange street area down on our end and as it were having an open house saturday the seventeenth from eleven for mr mayor it's that he's going to be there we're going to have like a little ribbon cutting for the building the building we're hoping that it's going to be one hundred percent done that the plumbers are there now putting in the finishing touches and the handicapped bathroom and the black hat people are going to be there tomorrow we're having it all black typed and hopefully this spring we're putting up another hundred fifty units on the slab that we put up this past spring so i hope to see everybody there we have food hamburgers have dogs out it's cold drinks coffees so hopefully you guys to come and see me and see all of the rest of the neighborhood it's open to the entire mount pleasant area city is connected and i just went picked up a big sign from pastor charlie muller in albany so we can put out front and advertise it so now i'm on my way twenty four train street so i go on the corner of the lakeview and train so come on out have some fun day ok great thank you very much for your investment to jason fi america october is disability employment awareness month just wanted to be able to bring awareness to some of the jobs that are not being available within the city of course with the contracts that were signed  of march new regulations under federal contracts if you've got to have a seven percent participation rate schenectady county is the worst county in the state for hiring personal disability i also want to be  able make an mentioned that and both the cosat and the times union in the end of april head said that metroplex had falsified the documents of the jobs reports of the new year and quoted the new york sta re allocated it in appendix c of that document one of the things that they also had said was that metroplex was not recouping the dollars of the cost benefit analysis and on it they also said that the seven thousand jobs that were created was falsified that there was not seven thousand jobs created and that the jobs that were counted the seven thousand were moving like from rotterdam to the city they claimed seven hundred jobs from that or they would claim six hundred jobs were created out of the cheap area when it's down to around three hundred to two hundred depending on what the numbers are those numbers were not there also tunes these jobs were not even identified whether or not if the people lived within the city of schenectady and also to is it also a dent a fight many of the different properties of what was happening where the actual tenets were not get the money but the actual developers were getting it and they were asking for recalculation that piece so you know when we're looking at affirmative action and we're looking at the jobs within the city there are some major things that need to happen both the mare's appointment to metroplex and the city council's appointment needs to be able to act on the behalf of the city council when it's and the mayor's position at metroplex and we need to be able to take a look at what's going on about actually where is th actual jobs are because there are no seven thousand jobs that's totally false and that's by the new york state cop the troll or actually did the report so this isn't some politically or some other people are saying from the other groups and we need to address what's going on especially with our front of action officer not doing our job and we just lost our ferment of action officer unfortunately the wrong way of losing the person and we need to figure out where this is going to happen because the county did not a budget for this affirmative action think by name is mary maclean i live in the city if my comments then they won the impression that i did not like the flower baskets and from the downtown li consequently the downtown was left with honky tonk it doesn't happen another nearby cities it shouldn't happen here which brings me to another point i want to correct the statement that i made during the last city council meeting it was an honest mistake the comments refer to the poor picnic tables introduced on the lawn of city hall this year it was dusk when i left the committee meeting on september twenty first from my vantage point at the top of the steps it looked like three tables were painted a rust color and once set was painted blue and i so stated in my remarks such is not the case when i saw the set in daylight every table was painted a different color that is more objectionable those colors belong in a kindergarten classroom  callers are out of place on the long of a stately stork building once again no thought was given to the beauty of the surroundings someone had an idea and it ended up in the wrong place on another point at the committee meeting last week and agenda item was about the streets and sidewalks no one mentioned a beautiful the city needs a beautiful occasion committee people who will embrace the comprehensive plan and make all neighborhoods look beautiful thank you thank you joy hall a terrorist to i meet a lot of street somebody could fall down and get hurt i don't want to see that happen at all i want to see the sidewalks fix the curb fix it was something does happen so we i've seen it every day i see something new i never know what the suspect i'm just let us know something's gotta be done thank you i'll h hear what the mayor had to say about the service to mt pleasant i ask a couple of casino questions of course and more about not having police presence in on train street or not enough or not enough downtown the mayor didn't give us many answer to these questions and he later changed the subject and then he said to me that i no longer i along with other landlords don't want to don't mayor that landlords simply challenged the improper enforcement of the law by the city court in force when the officers what we stress is that inspections are done either by consent of the landlord or even the ten warrant signed by a judge and that the city cannot intimidate the landlords into consenting to allow code enforcement officers inside our property and that the city cannot penalize us even not consenting to inspection these are property owners rights and also landlords legal rights that are protected under state and federal laws and of course the united states can constitution pittsburgh had a lot less crime than expected actually the phrase it differently but that's exactly what the quote is and somebody commented that it creates a crime is really in the sky closed to move to miscellaneous business of the council thank you very exciting puzzle's bakery in cafe and state street five fifteen straight street to be exact was featured on the national c b s nightly news and saturday and if you're not familiar with puzzles it's owned by a hickey and it's designed and built to employ people on the autism spectrum so it's a wonderful wonderful example of the great things happening in schenectady that reach beyond the boundaries of our city and go nationwide so those very exciting to see and congratulations to sarah may and all of the really wonderful work she's doing down there give graffiti the brush has just finished its third successful season for those of you who travel west on eight ninety get off the michigan avenue off ramp you will now notice that entire wall has been cleaned up of a tremendous slathering of graffiti so it was my it was my goal project all year to get done there was a lot of moving parts with department of transportation and such but we got that done among you know among a myriad of projects that we did all over the city and people often ask me about and i have to go through and actually count the numbers but i think the majority of our properties stay clean if they do get right back and cover them up again so we're having pretty good luck and in the meantime of course other spots are popping up but you know we're we're doing something and we're moving in a forward direction so i feel good about that also recently been asked to be the chair of the veiled park task force which has not been active in a couple of years so we have started meeting about vale park i know the city has done some work to get the lights up and running again properly and we just happen to coincide with a national day of service in calif which is a saturday so we will have forty volunteers going into the park and a cemetery to clean up remove some graffiti paint the fence clean up flower beds pick up litter all sorts of really wonderful wonderful things so more news to follow as we work our way through the winter and word towards spring in in the recommendations we might have for vail park but stay tuned on that because it's really quite exciting just to add a little more information to mr strike when presentation and liberty park i also want to make it known that the berms are being removed i know that's been an issue for people with had people come to the rail and talk about it and you know that certainly something that was taken into strong consideration when redesigning the park and that will be i believe one of the first things we tackle in the meantime i know that recently so overgrown brush and and cleanup has happened at that park so also very welcomed and asked for a picnic tables outside city hall from what i understand the pride festival donated those to city hall and they are fabulous lee bright and beautiful and they make me happy when i see families sitting at them during the green market and when i see city hall employees sitting at them so i guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder because i think they are bright and beautiful and i think they represent the diversity in our city and i think the pride committee and festival madam i hope some of us can get down there saturday to see the grand opening that is quite a development on that bladud of corner of crane street lakeview invent belsen so they did a nice job and it looks good i just want to bring people make people aware i know i've heard this before but our household received a phone call today from someone stating they're from the i r s and the i r s is filing a lawsuit and to call a certain number well i know one thing i've never been sued by the i r s but i don't think they're going to do it by a telephone telemarketing phone call that's for sure i think we're going to receive some kind of letter first stating that but i'm really concerned that there are some people that may be taken in by this scam i have a number and i don't know what i should do with it or where it comes from out of washington but it's kind of scary that people would prey on those that can't really defend themselves and probably scam them out of some money so i just want to make people aware that has modified they called back again and twice because the first one was a message and i answered the second one it was it was just a robo call but it is just kind of sad because it sounds kind of official and some people may buy it so just for awareness thank you thank you it's p i'd like to make an announcement regarding a form that's going to be held tomorrow evening at seven p m at the first united methodist church and it's it's how to reduce community balance by employing street savvy change agents it's going to be presented  is the director of office of neighborhood safety from richmond california and in richmond they were having a very severe problem with with armed firearm assaults and homicides and there was a seventy seven seventy six percent reduction in homicide and sixty nine percent reduction from two thousand and seven so mr wagner is going to be here to describe how this was accomplished and with the operation peacemaker fellowship program so it is free and open to the public again it's at seven p m tomorrow evening at first united methodist church and so folks want to come certainly they are welcome to come and there will be refreshments following the presentation thank you thank you like to address some of your question that was brought over the weekend to my attention regarding hmong pleasant so what's the city and amaze doing in terms of one place and just want to provide the most accurate information as possible in terms of building that was pavements are happening and also in terms of the equipments for part we have forty five thousand dollars going to quackenbush parts of fund new playground equipment and this is happening budget we look forward to bringing it to a timely conclusion just on behalf of the city want to extend sympathy to at o'brien his family friends and colleagues at channel six said passed away  yesterday long battle with cancer you know he was an individual that always had the ability to take complicated issues reduce amount in a manner that were understandable and had a sense of humor and was really just a great