bridges were not allowed in the villian although we do make exceptions to that for non profits recently we've had requests from weddings and such wanting to serve alcoholic beverages so we're looking tonight for some feedback on amending chapter two to eight streets and sidewalks of the administrative code and is directly looking at businesses that close streets to traffic for  sale of alcohol this is not have anything to do with church functions or neighborhood block parties it's it's when a business closes a street currently the fee is ten dollars which doesn't even begin to cover city costs so we're looking at raising that fee to at least cover city costs and we're looking for some feedback on that tonight also ok thank you and then we'll move right into the agenda for a final consideration of the kirkwood number one  let me backtrack i am going to be pulling items number one number three and number seven to put back in committee and particularly item number seven is one we were just going to hold and present on october fifteen but items number one and number three will go back to committee so we'll go to item number two item number two an ordinance restoring the position of assistant within the fire department of the city of schenectady authori all right item number four item number four resolution in support of an application by the land three utilization corporation of the capital region to the attorney general seeking three million dollars in funding this was discussed in committee without objection on consent item number five item number five a resolution authorizing the city engineer to reissue a revokable permit number five seven eight to national planning group inc for a sign encroaching on the city right of way at one five three item number six item number six a resolution honoring victims and first responders of nine eleven this will be taken out of order mrs bracher will present that kane item number seven is the said we are holding item number eight item honoring the work of the national alliance on mental illness mammy this is also going to be taken out of order in his presence of will present this and item number nine item number nine a resolution recognizing here advisory board peers empowered experiencing recovery and how this also will be taken out of order and again mr as i will will be presenting that and then we have two additional items item number ten a resolution the with the spirit of your wisdom may be always act in accordance with your will in their decisions before the peace in the well being of all citizens of schenectady amen and amen i'll ask in the pledge of allegiance madam president as we do every year we recognize the victims and the heroes and heroines of september eleventh two thousand and one and we are very fortunate with us tonight to have our commissioner of public safety as well  whereas on september eleventh two thousand and one in unprovoked in her endless act of terrorism was committed against the citizens of the united states of america and whereas nearly three thousand innocent men women and children both civilian military lost their lives in the world trade center in new york city the pentagon in washington d c in western pennsylvania where as more than four hundred firefighters police officers and emergency per person now died in their  to save the lives of the men and women who were caught in those terrible attacks and whereas among those who lost their lives on september eleventh two thousand and one were beloved schenectady ns michael our candy former schenectady police commissioner charles mills james matthew patrick pablo ortiz and whereas any other survivors of their horrific acts continue to suffer from health conditions directly related to those attacks and whereas destruction devastation and grief of this event has forever changed the united states and the lives of all of its citizens now therefore be it resolved that disconnect the city council wishes to pass deliberations for a moment of silence to acknowledge the memory of all of the victims of september eleventh two thousand and one and the great sacrifices of all community volunteers the police officers the firefighters the medical personnel and others who became heroes and heroines through their courageous acts in southwest acts of assistance to those in need in result of the terrible attacks now known as nine eleven madam president i would move this bro shouldn right second by his presence all in favor i thank you thank thank you thank you members of the council mayor mccarthy this is a day that comes around every year and it's very difficult for many people that were involved but  it's sometimes different difficult to contemplate and many people might not even want to remember that day but it is something that we must never forget thank a small plane striking the world trade center and in the short few minutes it took me to ascertain the facts of what she asked me to do i watched on television when the second plane crashed through the other building chief though iraq goes right you know this is something that americans must always remember not just on the anniversary of good but the but every day what a staggering loss of life better occurred on that morning so i thank you for this presentation and b f of all the police officers in america and the police officers particularly in schenectady but my hat's off to mike del iraq oh and some of the other members of the fire department that personally responded to work on the pile life could not be any more difficult so thank you for all that you did personally i had the opportunity to visit the nine eleven site this summer and would encourage any of you who get down to the city to go and see it it's it's very moving and very impressive also all right the second next out of order item is the carcass pouring water a resolution honoring the work of the national alliance on mental illness  i think if it's ok with them i'll bring all of the people from both danny and pierre up at the same time is that ok i would like to go up separately you know that some of you all work together some time and if you everybody can face in that direction toward toward the front so the cameras can see you madam president you have the floor thank you i have a resolution recognizing the working goals of the national alliance of mental illness which is naomi in schenectady whereas in about one thousand nine hundred eighty a group of parents is connected he founded a support group to help one another cope with the effects of family members devastating mental illness and whereas our purposes are to provide self help support group for families and friends of adults and children with serious mental illness education and understanding of mental illnesses and to support research and goals of niamey new york state and mammy national organizations whereas the goals are to advocate for improved care treatment housing and other surface services and for the rights of persons with mental illnesses to propose and conduct programs in the community to benefit persons with mental illnesses and to consider other issues of concern to the members and whereas from about one thousand nine hundred two a few years ago our volunteers conducted a support group in schenectady to give emotional support to individuals and families with relatives who have mental illness now we have merged our group with one based in alice hospital and whereas they now know that mental illnesses are no one's fault they are serious medical illnesses that affect many thousands of individuals in their family and whereas today a diagnosis of mental illness need not be hopeless due to the recent progress in research and treatment and community based services many people with illnesses can get better and lead productive lives treatment is now more effective than ever for schizophrenia major depression and bipolar disorder and anxiety disorders therefore be resolved that naomi schenectady is to be commended for his role as a continuing source of support community this could be a very good community for them because we're a small county and people know each other and we have quite a good hospital health care system and we also have a resolution recognizing schenectady peers empowered in experience recovery recovery whereas the schenectady peers empowered experiencing recovery advisory board or otherwise known as peer was founded by those living with mental illness and or addiction conditions who openly share their life experiences with each other to bring recovery and wellness and whereas p r has conducted numerous public educational presentations leading to dispelling the m and misinformation regarding mental health and addiction conditions and whereas through these efforts peer has reduced the stigma associated with these afflictions and where as peer continues to bring mental health out of the shadows and into the light and where as the willingness of peer participants to be open about their experience helps to bring hope to others save lives fosters recovery and promotes general health and wellness within our community and now therefore be it that the city council and all the citizens of the city of schenectady recognize the schenectady peer empowered experiencing recovery advisory board wish them well as they continue to benefit our community and thank them for their valued commitment to this important cause and move that is there a second  because everybody just closed well and stop thinking and stop caring it's a wall for people so they don't reach out for the help they need we have veterans coming back now and when they come home we want them taken away from us when we're the mental illness or identified as having a mental illness we thank the city for giving us the opportunities for the recognition the people our people having a diagnosis of mental illness is just a small part what makes me who i am what makes michael who is you know it would robert who he is so i like to thank you very much for giving  recognizing the important resource we have in the community that sometimes people forget ok we have to public hearings so if the clerk would read number one public area number one a public air relative to a proposed a proposal amending chapter one eighty six parks and recreation of the administrative code of the city of schenectady regarding the public consumption of alcoholic beverages right have no one signed up to speak on this public hearing some going to declare this public hearing closed and number two item number two our public area number two relative to a proposal amending chapter two twenty eight streets and sidewalks of the administrative code of the city of schenectady regarding the public consumption of alcoholic beverages again i have no one signed up to speak to this i'm going to declare communications and petitions presented to the city council for monday september ninth two thousand and thirteen under the category of official from the mayor a list of appointments dated september ninth two thousand and thirteen under general schenectady council of veterans organizations is holds thing the gold star mothers services on september twenty ninth at two p m at the evergreen cemetery on central avenue a communication from the preservation inc announcing their meeting on september seventeenth at seven p m at st paul's a biscuit will church also from bellevue the bellevue farmer's market takes place every thursday from four to seven september nineteenth through october third at twenty one seventy six broadway the bellevue neighborhood garage neighborhood wide garage sale is taking place on saturday october fifth two thousand and thirteen more information is available at three nine three eight two four three hundred petitions there are none thank you  right there you want to talk briefly about item number one that we pulled from finance you know passed out finance committee for the repro permission of the budget regarding the assessors position and from the time it came out of committee until this week there's been a lot of discussion and i think there's a need for additional time or sation about this miss porterfield  councils did a little research and i think the rest of us looked around asking questions and found of you know what's the right salary for an assessor and through the capital region we found that maybe the average seems to be quite a bit below what the proposal is here and so you know you look at this data and it's hard to say exactly who it is i don't have you know town by town or city by city or what the going rate is but we need to make sure we're making the right decision with the right salary in some regards it's very important because if you pay too little you might get substandard service and i think it's important to the taxpayers that we get an assessor who's the right quality who's doing a good job as good as capable and qualified if you pay too much than you might be wasting taxpayer dollars and of course we don't want to do that and so to send this back to committee for another round a little bit further discussion to really identify what is the going i just wanted to touch on the public hearings once again we didn't have anyone come down and give their feedback tonight but i'm still very interested in getting feedback from the public so i invite them to find my contact information the city website and offer any input that they may have to either of the issues that were brought up for a public hearing tonight  thank you i just want to make everyone aware that the claims committee has been reconvening just about every council meeting night and to take to look at properties that the city own and that are selling and taking bids on and it's been going very well i mean tonight we we we okayed the purchase of nine properties in the setting the may not be for a lot of money but there's going be a lot of money put into these homes and be brought up to code and then they'll be on back on the  rolls so i think that's very positive and i just want to let people know that we have been meeting we have been taking looking at all the offers and deciding on them and these homes are being sold thank you thank you anyone else right on the clay this portion  meeting closed and we moved to privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda i have three people who have signed up to speak here jason plank first session any employee or prospective employee their application their qualifications their civil service of what they got on it it's all public information it could be foiled you went into executive session one which was not legal gazette stayed after and learned that this person was not even certified as an assessor did not even have the qualifications and when you're looking at a job when you're looking at hiring someone who's not even qualif and when when this city does not have a diversified workforce and its failure to comply with that diversity it's really a strange also too is this year you had also given people praises excess of fifteen thousand or more in when you did the economic development switched around from the home from the fair housing coordinator to helm ownership then you just recently in march you gave another one person that you did a lot of  transfer the reason why he was hired like that so that we could be able to get his drop qualifications leak move over to the next position at a much higher rate this city has gone out of its way to discriminate towards minorities in person with disabilities we have to move forward to diversify our workforce we can't continue down this pathway and i know i'm tried as best he could to get the qualifications out but was shut down wrongly and we've got to have out in the open and thank goodness the paper stayed behind and actually asked the hard questions and to give and then turn around it's going to compromise all right so we're going to give this person forty five hundred dollars more than then the i mean where are you getting this money from you keep saying we don't have any money we're broke we're broke but you keep giving this kind of money out so i'm hoping that next week when you go back into this thing you could seriously look at the job application and actually send this back to the community we have over twenty thousand minorities a person disability you're saying you can't find one or two persons that can meet that they may not be certified as assessors but at least meet the minimal qualifications and then hopefully that we the taxpayers can then pay for under the education of the union contracts pay for their certification you know we've got to look at different options we've got to be able to look at how we're there diversify the workforce thank you  evening mr mayor madam president steam council members first and foremost council woman broker thank you very much for that commended commendation and you made it for the nine eleven i lost lots of friends having worked in new york city you mouse back in the eighty's when i discovered what the tragedy that happened and learned of some of my friends and colleagues they worked with the police fire department me a mouse i was devastated as well and there's a big hole in the sky where new york used to be my name is joseph kelleher i'm a resident homeowner taxpayer and voter in the city of schenectady i've recently had an opportunity to speak with other city residents homeowners taxpayers and voters in our city and discovered the number one concern taxes during last week's city council meeting there was a brief conversation as to the two thousand and thirteen revised budget with respect to the office of the assessor the mayor talked of a shell game with respect to the residency requirements for the current assessor we currently have numerous city employees on boards and within departments who live outside the city and take our taxpayer dollars to other municipalities residency should not be a case by case but across the board as to the budget the supervisor of receipts obtaining a promotion for a higher salary with fewer qualifications is completely absurd especially since he is not a certified assessor vickery appropriation should not be a net zero as was discussed but a decrease in as much a recent schenectady gives that article also brought to light that schenectady has some of the highest paid municipal employees in the capital district the taxpayers can afford to pay out any more city council must reassess and control the spending in order to decrease the taxes thus making schenectady a more affordable place to live thank you thank you day my name is mary mcclain and doris publican candidate for schenectady city council i was asked to tell the folks what i would do if i had a council seat when i came here as the figures are strong mr patrick mastro a male worker was paid eighty two thousand dollars a year for the  when he left a female was hired for the work her salary was lowered to seventy three thousand dollars a year tonight's agenda's proposal raises the salary for a new male assessor to eighty one thousand eight hundred eighty one thousand eight hundred twenty nine dollars the individual selected for the position has not worked with assessment issues nor does he have the qualifications required for the job under the circumstances he should receive less not more counsel needs to go back to the drawing board and do this over that's right i'm number two the assistant fire chief position has been vacant for a while no one's safety has been jeopardized by the vacancy this is a management position not won who quote points apparatus toward a burning building on poaching by the mayor and i might add receives a handsome union wage to do it full staffing on the job in the fire department every day that is like contract requirement the chief will be covered when he the time off right i have no one else signed up then to speak on the legislative agenda saul declare this portion of the meeting closed and i will move toward approval of the legislative agenda and i would entertain a motion to approve that they consented and came is present seconded by th  porterfield all in favor i we have one item that was of going to be a roll call vote the clerk would read that item number two an ordinance restoring the position of assistant chief within the fire department of the city of schenectady and authorizing a rear pro creation of the two thousand and thirteen budget in relation to the creation of said position right i said it during the committee meeting you know i'll say it again tonight several weeks ago we sat in a committee meeting talking about position that had no support to it and we found ourselves  in a situation where we couldn't apply the person into the position because they didn't have the qualifications they needed because we didn't think about or it wasn't considered prior to this person wanting to retire someday and it will be a very sad day for me my guess is that she fell rocco will want to retire we need to create the infrastructure to support our leadership for the strength of our fire department regardless of whether this person points an apparatus at a fire or not good leadership is crucial to saving our firefighters lives and saving our citizens lives  thank you one of the concerns that we've had and within our city is succession planning and so i think it's extremely important that as you know as we're planning to move ahead in the city and all of our departments that succession planning is something that we should do and to me that's what this represents we know that we only have one management person right now that is the chief who at the fire department so it's important that if should he retire if he's out on disability or whatever god forbid anything we should have someone who is in management position and not and not be without that in his absence so i know that it requires more money but this is along with the police department our first line of the fence i think six dreamily important that we support that similar to what my colleagues have said you know if something was to happen to the chief the next highest rank is a union employee and there needs to be separation between the union ranks the nonunion arranged management be looking out for the better you know the city making sure that everything is organized properly and the right people are in the right jobs i feel that it would be irresponsible for us not to have a person second person in command when the yes thank you the points that are brought up tonight i fully understand and i fully understand the succession the way succession should go but the thing that happened with the water man a few cycles ago it's not really apples and apples that we're talking about i think that was a two person department is what we were dealing with so it's not the same thing by the big question i have here i understand the part about having a person of the last sort of bargaining unit being involved in a managerial position i fully understand that why has it at one hundred thirty thousand dollars is my question we have deputy chiefs at seventy five to seventy nine thousand dollars the department request for this almost one year ago was at one twenty two and change less than a year all of some the job goes up to one hundred  thirty thousand dollars kind of interesting i think that's what was proposed last year and we turned it down at one hundred twenty two now it's one hundred thirty and we'll say yes let's change and i ask this question  what's changed in less than a year financially for the city of schenectady are we lowering the tax rate are we going to lower the tax rate i don't know i it's going to be interesting to say but we have a very important budget coming up very soon october first i believe the mayor is going to present us with a budget and we're going to have a lot of meetings about this and what to what not to cut what services we should have we shouldn't have but again the spending of this kind of money we have to remember one hundred thirty thousand dollars we're talking about over thirty percent goes to the pension on that on that on that figure probably closer to thirty five or thirty nine so there's a lot of things to be considered here is the position needed yes why are we funding get a one hundred thirty thousand dollars i don't understand deputy chiefs or seventy nine that's a big upgrade from a deputy chief at seventy nine to one thirty that's fifty thousand dollars that's more money than i ever made a year in my life just not upgrade i'm not denying anybody that they should get paid what it's worth but we're not in the position to be dealing these kind of salaries and the pensions that go with it and there's also political ramifications what this and i'm not really going to get into of this but the end the pendants party endorsements are very important and i can understand i just hope all of your really unbiased in this because it's tough when somebody gives you their endorsement in their part of the the fire department bargaining unit that wrong that party that makes it tough i think to really be on bias that's just my opinion and and that's why i'm coming from my i think what this is very simple it's too much money for this position a hundred and thirty thousand when less than a year ago a hundred twenty two was asked for the same position so whatever it is i i think one of the important things to remember with this position too is the restoration of this position this was a position that we had paid for at one time within the budget we were asked last year to resteal our it we went to the chief we ha negotiations and said can you at least give us another half of year come back to see if we have the money the money was found for this year's part of the budget for this position in savings by the fire department the other piece i want to talk about is not just the safety for the men and women of the fire department but certainly for the safety of the residents of the city of schenectady if anyone pays any attention to the amount of fires that we have had i'd say in the past two years they've been inordinate and i can tell you that we just saw in the paper that there was someone arrested for not one not two but at least suspected of an arrest for five different arsons in the city of schenectady and we are still not sure and they are still not sure if this individual or other individuals aren't responsible for more of them the safety of the people of the city of schenectady with our old housing stock and the safety of the individuals that provide that safety fores i believe zero important it is also very important that we know that our fire chief in assistant chief as well as deputy chief she used regularly show up at these fires so it is not just a management position in many respects i see it as a boots on the ground position as well and it's something that shouldn't be sacrificed well as i said before to you know i'm amazed that the department is functions as well as it has without as assistant chief i think this is a much needed position i vote i this fire eyes one no not a campaign platform it's also not a vehicle for attacking or criticizing individuals within the community for something that you don't approve of so i would just ask that you keep that in mind and really focus on city issues when you come up to speak that said i'm going to start with donnie birch of stigma surrounding you know on allegations of the mentally ill and people like just found in are just being like scared even being you know mixed up with that thing but anyway with that being said mr mccarthy with his tact basically applied that stigma to me and said that i was mentally ill and he had you know information through our excuse me pardon me through the district attorney's office as an investigator which was privileged and it's not even true but anyway he said that all my evidence was just phony and that my arguments and my complaints were baseless listen if i'm being abused by you know jail personnel and police personnel i'm not going to turn a blind eye to that i was chained to a floor naked and pepper sprayed all over my genitals i'm not i'm not turning a blind eye to that and then for you to use your position of power to attack my credibility please address me as the president stop interrupting me stop interrupting me so anyway with that being said i basically rendered all my video footage that i got through for oil and it's got squad car footage it's got stuff from booking it's got police reports which were falsified i got recordings of internal affairs and a total affairs officers who were put in place to watch bad cops to make sure everybody's you know in line and this guy was more of an asset to the police department by trying to detour me from speaking in and threatening me with like the hospital and all this other stuff basically you know whoever's out there i don't care if you're a good public speaker if something happens to you and you see like police abuse and somebody's coming here and you don't stop make a noise about it because they work for us period but when i'm done with this i'm telling you you're going to go to jail mr mccarthy and that's not that's not me taking cracks at your anything it's just that you are circumventing me trying to obtain justice you sat there and you played a you pledged allegiance to the flag with liberty and justice for all but you can't even you can't even like honor like more of our main core volumes of justice or due process i mean you know not even looking at my stuff and just saying that's bogus when you know it's not because i got it from so i'll be i'll be organizing a petition and i'm going to speak more and all men are going to put out on the paper i'm going to go to the public library somewhere and anybody that wants to listen i'm going to come back i'm here i'm putting this on you tube at the next little juncture here i'm here to talk about my meeting that i'm going to be having on the nineteenth of this month at the much as the room is six thirty when people need to start coming out and i put my flyers in storage shop isn't self cue bank flyers are in the boys and girls club so people say that they don't know where my fliers are but my fliers are all around of the community letting people know when the meetings are so that they can start coming out now we've got a new thing that's happening now is connect to the county has started the section eight program again now with the section a program how they than about three years ago they accuse people of fraud i wonder is that going to happen again this year where they're going to start cutting people's section eight out accusing people of fraud having people arrested and using the evidence that they claim against these people when they know that the evidence is bogus a lot of the things that they said against me he was bogus and then i ended up having a problem with section eight and losing my housing situation because of the games that the city likes to play with families that are in need families need to start coming out discussing these issues and trying to see if we can have  kind of resolution with these programs making these programs work better for everybody that's involved also i wanted to talk about the fact that the school system what they're doing to these young people that are going to these career schools having to pay out all this money for just to go to school and then don't give them a decent job is outrageous some of that stuff needs to stop too when our kids attend these career our schools they need to be able to get the proper education that's going to get them a decent paying job not just a little penny any job that they're still going to be struggling even more to pay those those loans back and they're not able to function in their households to be able to be productive citizens i think it's a shame what's happening to our youth that's coming out of high school it's a terrible ordeal that's happening to the children now days and then nobody want to speak up about it so again please come out of my meeting and let's see if we can help change some of the dynamics that happen in this community with the families the poor families that these agencies like section eight social services legal aid are all supposed to be helping these families but when they are called to help them it seems like they're doing more weekends the police are strapped but we have a neighborhood watch three hundred people and a website that the neighborhood watch and why can't these people go  it's ridiculous that we have to keep the church in the morning when it's already been and i think that neighborhood watch should give a report of what they are doing cause we don't see any neighborhood watch in the food truck doing business here in the city of schenectady a little bit about our lodge we have over five hundred members we are the largest in the state of new york and we may be the largest  in the country all right we spend a great deal of time promoting and preserving our heritage and our culture and we spend a great deal of time promoting and raising funds to donate to local charities  schools nonprofit organizations the americans have contributed greatly to society for years our country was discovered by in a time christopher columbus our country is named after an italian america the bay of new york was discovered by various right the watering system that supplies new york city is patterned after the aqueducts that brought water from the mountains to the ancient city of rome ok the statue of abraham lincoln in the lincoln memorial was carved by the peach are really brothers ok locally we donate to schools we donate to the schenectady mission we donate to brother  boys and girls clubs little leagues pop warner ok we give scholarships we contribute to school organizations ok we have contributed greatly through the years and we deserve better than to have a truck with an ethnic slur wandering around the streets of schenectady let me ask a rhetorical question that's been asked before if that truck with the name to the wandering nigger the wandering the wandering kike would we be having this discussion i think ok those are despicable terms as law as well as the word those are despicable terms that have no place in our vocabulary much less on the side of a truck ok as a tion americans we deserve better as a society we deserve better thank you thank you  the advocate in the summer you've decided to give a developer nearly half a million dollars this is the same call that were calling for economic development at actual report to take a look at the r o y the return on investments on these developers this developer made a contract with the county for the new county d s s building which is not even it's a fire hazard and it also doesn't meet  york state accessibility codes they turned around and rented this property out and leased it for twenty years at eighty three it paid eight hundred thousand dollars per year it found it at the if you enslave the walls you could save a little over sixty two thousand the power company gave one hundred twenty five thousand then they went back to the same developer and got another hundred twenty five thousand are alone on this to pay out twenty six thousand dollars for the next twenty years or five hundred and twenty thousand dollars that's a four hundred percent interest loan on this piece to that got made an educated guess that this developer would make between eight to ten million dollars off of this besides over two million almost a million a half a fema grants that went into the thing then to turn around and that he was going to buy the old d s s building for two hundred thousand the county ideate found out that the taxes would be too high so it entered into an agreement with the with this developer to lease this property for two hundred thousand dollars the city council turned around and further sweeten the pot for this developer by creating economic development for not only this property but for a supermarket's headquarters property and the alcoa project which you gave five million dollars under restore new york this developer has not complied with affirmative action that's not the plight with the jobs requirements for a person with disabilities and it has not done nothing for economic development except from the city and give nothing back we need jobs and to give all five hundred thousand dollars to this developer and then we got to pay we got to pay interest on top of that five hundred thousand so it's just not five hundred thousand and we do mean ask the question what is the are like how much is this developer going to make off of this property and you never did and all you did is just approved this loan you know we've got to stop giving away the taxpayers money and we've got to start looking at how are we going to create jobs how are we going to create affordable and accessible housing and we need to correct accountability on economic development and we're standing there because we need to know exactly how much these developers and these contractors are actually making the paper just finish up on the paper just down before anything else happens we don't need more fires to happen in schenectady because the thunder and lightning happened all the day it caught the tree on behind the how empty house  cut the trees down and you need to fix up the side sidewalks and the curbs in schenectady it's a disgrace thank you harry brand and residents can i say i'm very proud of some of the speakers that came here tonight and i hope it's a wake up call for all of you from our mare to every member of the city council and for every employee in the city  the last sixty years salaries have been frozen in this city with the economy the way it's bad and you're given our money away i've been retired for twenty years plus and i haven't had any increase in my pension how many people in this city are working how many people make less than twenty twenty five thousand dollars a year and you're given that kind of money away from salary increases you're all replaceable there's nobody told important that we can't do without you the same with the city the fire chief the police chief any of them and they don't even live in our city and they're taking this big money out and x players are paid when are of the city and started going to everyone to forget this friendship and help these other people out every sound should be frozen ok he's got a nice pension that's his business and he took on less salary there to previous mare that was nice of him but don't give it away to all the employees and that's what's happening there's no and other places you've got douglas road up in schenectady the city starred in it and it's been limping now the two ends are not finished for a week or more and that's the way things go here in the city everything is half tal done and don't forget you people can be replaced and even some of your party people may not fully support you good evening and thank you once again for allowing me the opportunity to speak i got to informed about a vacant church over on irving street and had the opportunity to go take a look at it take some pictures and i do want to follow up on it personally to find out what's happening with that but i did see where the house property was boarded up it was a school at one point i believe that belonged to the church some of these windows and doors had been broken through the house is being  firefighters don't even want to go in there to remove the people from that property it's something that i think as a city we should really start to look into this in among other properties where there are danger there are people inside it and before someone gets injured or killed we need to make sure that these property these properties are properly taken care of over the past several weeks i've had the opportunity to visit lots of love vents that we've had out in the community of the little italy festa the st george greek festival the greenmarket the habitat for humanity events especially the one that i was just at over the weekend for their volunteer appreciation picnic the refreshing springs community day the month pleasant boys and girls club grand opening and the one thing that all of these events have in common is they're all based out of community organizations and neighborhoods these are the strength and the what keeps schenectady going and building and growing to what it is to get it back to the great city that it's once was the last thing i wanted to mention is for the american legion we need flags and for anybody that has flags they need to retire we need them in order to use them for stars for our troops stars for our troops is a volunteer completely volunteer organization that spreads across the nation my wife and i are quote we're going to users right here in the schenectady area and we take the embroidered stars off of flags we retire the frag the flags appropriately by cutting the flags out and giving them back to veterans in our community in fact this is what the stars look like after they're cut and it's given a small paper inside to say that this is from retired flag also that the people can drop off those flags a veil cemetery or over at the american legion and as much this weekend is the installation of their new officers at the unit post number ten twenty two thank you very much thank you help to sho here to again urge you to please fill the maining vacancies the now have six people sitting people and there should be nine be can you the said last meeting be had be just squeezed peace deal this is a particular issue i know it's not easy to find the volunteers but i think it's important the as a more pleasant item i would like to all invite you to  thank you ok elmer birch going on at the county level and the industrial development agency and this is a very brief summary of the major things i've found what i'd like to do now it's follow up and find out what's happening with regard to the city side so just to read this very quickly the build the property he said building plus other property for eighty seven not street is now honed by the schenectady county industrial development agency financial benefits be given to go lisi based on the fact that the idea of a has an ist interest in the thing i e it owns it and the quote from the letter is  payment louve taxes for the idea which was granted they have so there's no taxes being paid but the pilot is not with police he is with the county i leases it from the county idea and therefore it pays no taxes but i understand that representative gleason was here and said they don't have a pilot and he's right they don't have a pilot because they don't own the property it's the county a that has the property now the request to have this pilot payment in lieu of taxes was approved by the county idea the county idea consists of seven members one of whom is ill so three of the six remaining members are members of the county legislature the chief the chair of the county id is  blocking their use the other two members are fin and gotta and they have a right group i understand that they approve this this is a problem also the property was sold without a bid it was so which means it was approved by the county legislature which means the same people who approved the pilot approved the sale for two hundred thousand dollars which is a temporary might essentially summarize that is summer as i would like now to look at the records of the city i'm hoping that they'll be made available to me for the project it's proposing with regard to the loan thank you thank you very much nathan darby i have additional copies of this which i'll leave here if any on my name is mr darby i'm the owner of america ice my because son as i've been a mobile vendor for four years in the city for the past three years having counted various persons conducting the same business illegally no permits no licenses from the city i've had to pay rent for storage facilities including the courts to the city i've called the police they said is not a police matter take it up with the ones that i have to put me with and that will be soon the whole they say that they can't enforce this rule so if they can't afford the room why are they taking my money to give me a license to operate these people who operate in illegally without health permit are putting the people of schenectady at chris they have minus operating operating after hours and nobody seems to care about what's going on now started this company to have something to pass on to my kids how am i going to do that when you have people encroaching on my business illegally now one of the rue from the city is that you can't be within one hundred feet of another operation well outside where the police eat every day at noon which lunch there's an icy c set up right there every day no one does anything about it after playing to everybody and nobody seems to do anything now it's something some type of immediate remedial has to be addressed here i've pitches and i have proof and this is clearly out of hand in the seems to be the only concern that these people had is all around the city they have police cars they have on all these cars in the police should be well in form of the policies about the permit and also be more vigilant when they see these caught with no permits these cars should be repossessed for noncompliance and proof of storage permits any assurance should be available upon request there's no excuse in is something that should be done now recently i was in new york city and i watched the police walk up to these people who did not have health commit or insurance and confiscated they cost now a big city like new york city can do it why can't a little city like schenectady who's taking my money do the same thing i like to do which i'm going to do about that and when is something going to be done about it now in jerry burrell park my money don't go to my pocket my money goes back to flying these kids going to school i gave away seventy five book bag i provide parties for these kids so that they can eat for free nobody gives me any money to do this that comes out of my business but you guys aren't doing anything to a force this i like to know when you're going to do something about this made some comments about item number toom from the legislative agenda for monday august twenty six twenty thirteen the finance commissioner was asked to explain the reasons for shifting the salaries i give the presentation two times the kiddie phrase was quote he has been with the city for a long time she was referring to the city were her who would receive the higher salary being with the city for it long time means retirement is not far away by voting to change the sound very the workers pension package will be based on nine thousand dollars more every year and in retirement he could live to be a hundred years old such cell reshift so well have financial impact it impacts on the future budgets and mortgage the lives of schenectady east children as well on another note i want to join my fellow atari and americans who came forward made call wrote letters work behind the scenes and so forth in regards to the offensive name on the food truck i too made phone calls what the owner of the truck has done is to expose an entire new generation to when ethnic slur are that had been buried for a long time under the circumstances he should not the offensive chop the offensive flyer should not be allowed to continue as a business entity or compete in  rodeos thank you all right i have no one else signed up so i'm going to declare this portion of the meeting closed it will move to miscellaneous business to the council don't all speak at once hearted quality of life issues in our neighborhoods there's been issues going on in the north side of town in the miscarrying this is something that has to be addressed i mean we have the same things going on the littering like the size six brought up we could have clean ups i think every day of the week the mayor i'm glad you brought forward the smoking anti smoking campaign for city hall that's a great we also need an anti smoking book campaign i don't know why people think it this is a pet peeve of mine that it's ok it's their business if they small but why do they just take their cigarette and throw it on the ground it's not biodegradable it doesn't disappear doesn't go anywhere so it stays there that's just another little pet peeve of mine but something that has to be addressed but again i really wish i saw something refreshing in today's paper from one nine hundred sixty nine it's connected we're putting up don't be a litterbug science every member of those that's good maybe we should do that again maybe people get the it that the message positive can right in front of my house and a fellow from the city was there picking up in the in the the dog mess over and in park and i gave it to me said i can't believe he says people just throw these away you know it's money but these are the things that go on and go on it's things that kind of drive me crazy drive everyone else crazy and it does affect our quality of life but the thing is you know on the streets where there's parties going on all night and and things like that that's another issue that hopefully we can get a handle on at some point you know going out from there i'm not sure what w do but we can certainly make efforts maybe we should have an anti litter campaign again and don't be a litterbug signs get some put up and maybe mayor you can come with me to some of the schools and address some of the classes and tell them what it is to be a good citizen and  good resident of the city of schenectady that's what we were brought up with and i know we can't go back but maybe we should go backs sometimes and and children they're there to learn and they do sometimes i gotta say they they do listen and they will take up the the effort so that's just something that's been on my mind that i had some call say from people in a couple neighborhoods that are having the same issues going on and on and on  i think mr sparano for coming down and speaking on this issue with the with the derogatory name i've received e mails from all over the northeast from different italian organizations how they got holter this how it went viral i'm not sure but i know mr foreman thank you for for because the the e mails are going through the clerk's office and coming to me but it's kind of amazing you know how this really picked up steam and how passionate people feel about this issue because it is a passionate issue all ethnic groups went through this at one point or another in their lives and it is something that's very important to a lot of people so i thank them for speaking out and the support that i've received in the city of schenectady received from all over the east coast new jersey new york city indiana illinois it goes on and on and i was really really taken aback by the kind of support that came out again i'll remind people i know the clerk already mentioned of the bellevue farmer's market every thursday from four to seven that will go to october third the bellevue neighborhood garage sale is tobar fifth that's a good deal i think it's ten dollars for people to join and that covers a permit and it's good for two days for friday or saturday and sunday so that's a good deal everybody has junk i know i have plenty of it and it's a good way to you know get it out there and make a few dollars so i think all this stuff helps and helps the neighborhoods the neighborhoods are the fabric of schenectady no question about it it's good to see the mo pleasant as i said before groups all the neighborhood groups throughout the city they're all doing their part and keeping the city together and making it a better place to live so i can't say enough about them and their efforts so with that thank you thank you ripley thank you for talking with the cigarette butts it's another one of my pet peeves and you're seeing a lot of businesses and organizations the no smoking on their campus trend and it's troublesome because it's great that nobody smokes there but those smokers go someplace else to smoke and so alice hospital did it and so all their smokers would walk by my house and others are up at the my for a lot of suppose a smoker i was ospital i see you know group homes in the city they ring that up we're getting the public hearings that we had tonight in unfortunately very few speakers commented on them but you know i wish that people would because that's it's something that i think  is important to our community i think there are there's definitely some people on both sides of of the discussion of this and i've had a few people call me and i encourage them come down and speak tonight but they did not  one of things i want to make sure is that by allowing alcoholic beverages in the park i think there's safety concerns with people drinking so close to playground and tiny tot land and all that kind of stuff and you know you'd be allows  drinking and someday someone going to get out of hand in also how it competes with our businesses there's an industry in schenectady a lot of restaurants in those restaurants live off of the business of people getting married and spending a few bucks to celebrate and if the city is offering a lower cost option to party and you know is that going to negative negatively impact our restaurants and businesses in the city so a couple things to consider him again there problem that we have to prevent problem we had we had a fellow that worked for the city and since he retired we didn't fill that position but there was consumer protection there was richard go that was his job to do that to see that permits were issued and if somebody was operating without a permit that was his job to do that maybe since we kept money coming up all over the place i guess i'm going to look in one of and he used to get on top of it he was on top of that i know the law office is taken out all over but the all over burdened with with a lot of things so it's just something we should keep in mind maybe as a console think about maybe restoring that yes couple announcements there is that's going to take place on thursday september twenty sixth at nine thirty a m downtown schenectady y m c a for thirty three states street and it's to raise awareness hustle is happening and sunday october twenty seventh this as a fundraiser for the central park greenhouses a sustainable living center and as we all know for many years are very valuable greenhouses in central park were maintained by the county but that funding no longer exists so there's a group of citizens that are working very hard to keep those funded greenhouses going and they support programs like roots and wisdom and many different programs that teach very valuable skills to people so sunday october twenty seventh it's a very reasonable twenty dollars to register and it's a five k so it will be happening around the central park area i also want to bring up that the schenectady firefighters cancer foundation are selling their pink t shirts last year we were lucky enough to get one for a gift and i know i wear mine proudly they're a very reasonable fifteen dollars and the sales and tomorrow and you can go online and purchase one at never fight alone dot org and this is a self created foundation within the firefighters to support other firefighters with cancer so i encourage everyone to go on line to never fight alone org and order their t shirt lastly i have to personally express my disappointment in the use of this well for political conjecture  i disagree if you disagree with my vote that's fine with me but mr reagan is baseless rhetoric that my votes are based and my party or some endorsement is quite offensive to me and i take exception and i don't think this is the arena for that type of discussion so thank you thank you anyone else all right mr mayor afraid to go in during street or totally incorrect we've put officers there on a routine basis and for extra tension and if any of the neighbors see individuals there or activity that is improper or shouldn't be happening there to call the police department and we will respond appropriately and want to thank everyone who came out over the weekend it was really a great time in the community activity and j street you know the stockade ar best and so i thank everyone who participated in that everyone who came out and again those activities draw people from beyond the borders of the city of schenectady and it gives us a chance to promote the things that are h good things and some nights when we leave here and i like there's nothing good happening here you could sometimes a point of view that's all negative and it's not that case we are trying to do some good things and working forward and the food truck you know again i don't believe the individual label that with malicious intent but he did not clearly understand the significance of the term and that you know it's gone beyond just schenectady it's now a regional thing has been enforcement action taken other jurisdictions there's been lawsuits filed and so we are looking at that and we would hope that given what i call common sense would prevail  people would rethink some of the positions they've taken terms of naming the vehicle maybe a limb an eight that position that is korea a creating so much animosity in the community and just the it's unfortunate so thank you madam president thank you and i would also like to add my thanks to all the organizers of the events this weekend saturday was just a really neat day in the weather cooperated which was perfect but all the different festivals the art show that was just great turn out and just a lot of fun i also wanted to mention that at our next city council meeting on september twenty third we're going to have representatives from the new york state department of tax and finance here to give a presentation regarding the new basic star registration program things have changed with this and now people need to register so they will be here to explain everything this will be probably a ten to fifteen minute presentation they will also be available after their presentation outside this area to respond to questions and to assist people with registration so i just encourage anyone who has questions about that to either pay attention on the t v broadcast or to come down and actually meet with some of these folks