i call the city council caucus meeting to order for november twenty fifth two thousand and thirteen if the deputy clerk would be the first item on the agenda item number one under final consideration a local laws related to flood damage prevention  authorized by the new york state constitution this is been discussed in committee couple of times so without objection on consent item number two and number two an ordinance amending chapter two to eight of the administrative code of the city of schenectady regarding a permit to close a public street to hold an event where alcohol will be served also discussed numerous times in committee without objection on consent item number three i don't number three under original consideration an ordinance authoriz re appropriation in the twenty thirteen budget discussed in committee without objection on consent item number for i don't number for a resolution to award a contract for the city of schenectady is general property of liability insurance also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number five i'm number five a resolution appointing william sanderson to the board of assessment review discussed in committee without objection on seven i'm number seven a resolution authorizing a contract with carers incorporated for consulting and grant applications services for the hud two thousand and twelve continuum of care and accepting two thousand and twelve continuum of care funding for the capital district y m c a discussed in the city development planning committee without objection on consent item number eight item number eight a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a claim by a central insurance company a s o ronald butler against the city discussed in claims without objection on consent item number nine iron number nine a resolution setting a fee schedule for permits issued pursuant to chapter a of the administrative code of the city of schenectady also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number ten i don't number ten a resolution endorsing the grant application of retreat schenectady to the urban and community forestry program of the new york state department of environmental conservation discussed in committee without objection on consent i remember eleven i don't number eleven a resolution recognizing the formation of these connectivities chapter of a woman's civic organization it will be taken out of order mispresent where are you going to present that ok and then three items that were discussed in the claims three says claims committee tonight item number twelve i don't number twelve under original one nine broadway also discussed in claims tonight without objection on consent and item number fourteen i don't number fourteen a resolution authorizing the transfer of title two one zero zero three strong st discussed in claims without objection on we give thanks for the many things of our lives and for the occasions when families and friends time for which we can indeed be thankful but as we care there we also remember for those for whom the season is difficult whether it be matters of mind or body or spirit and we ask that the carrying of your people be present among those who are in need you have given us also to be a compassionate people and also a generous people as we gather in times of thanksgiving we are mindful of those who have gone before us all those who are here no and those who are yet to come and pray that all the situations might be made to include a monthly review of the economic strengths which enrich the city of schenectady this review will include presentations by an array of economic economic contributors including locally based corporations and industry area business districts representing small and family owned businesses and other economic sectors from health care to service to education and non profits these presentations will highlight the economic impact these local businesses corporations and organizations have on schenectady see kaname including generated revenue number of local jobs innovation and production along with a review of the history and future planning of the business according to richard florida in his book hoosier city today's key economic factors talent innovation and creativity are not distributed evenly across the global economy they concentrate in specific locations it is my belief that schenectady is one of these locations and if not yet fully soon will be our guest tonight has successfully engaged with these economic factors either through his own innovation talent and or creativity where networking and empowering those assets and others in an online business review article by michael damasio entitled philip morris expands proctors he described philip morris as follows after ten years on the job a decade in which he has tripled ticket sales procter c e o philip morris shows no sign of slowing down philip morris has done more than a front row seat to downtown schenectady as resurgent over the past decade he has been the bandleader as chief executive officer proctors philip morris led the historic theatre on state street through a thirty million dollar expansion that attracted hugely popular broadway touring shows filling restaurants and hotel rooms and boosting the local economy so i'm very happy to have with us tonight  something i read about in the us there a magazine about five years ago and it ends up that many places do it as a format for sharing information that's has to be about twenty slides twenty seconds each a chawl and i don't read the slides i talk about something else while you with the sludge because i assume smart enough to read and it's really interesting because most people don't do stuff like this with our boys anyway there was a picture cujo format being organiz i was sort of amazed when i first came here ten years ago when the board interviewed me i asked the question what happened downtown and i couldn't get over it and you all lived through it you al clearly the changes that had happened to the city were immense and sure revitalizing the city was more than just money but was reimagining who we were i believe that the work that you did the city did the county did metroplex did we did donors did to revitalize the city and we changed it and we branded it's been pretty remarkable as these numbers will show and bear out just to think about seventeen hundred twenty eight events in one year is a pretty romar couple understanding of what happens in our downtown now versus a decade ago when puckers maybe would have done e seventy i am really proud that the work we do is not just around our downtown but in fact around and education program of substance every kid in schenectady high school has come to our for so early more than once in their school life in fact two point five tons if you were to average all the dumb birds and our goal is for that to grow to five we are in the school with full time teaching resident in video and media working with teachers to get kids who are at risk of dropping out of school to find english interesting and to use english to create media to stay in school and be interested in what happens we do have a broad range and we have a broad reach in the capital region trying very hard to make our facility sort of the powerhouse of the region to be honest and with that we are ticketing for others we are running capital rep we're having conversations as you all know with potentially a relationship with the universal preservation hall in saratoga probably the thing that's most odd about us as of the theater in the world that we know of that does that and as that slide did say we've reduced our carbon footprint as a community by forty pounds an hour which always amazes me to think of it in terms of bowling balls that's a lot you can that's twenty four hours a day three hundred sixty five days a year this is also about economics and we believe that our efforts have yielded about a forty five billion dollar economic impact it's pretty substantial it's pretty broad it hits housing it hits food it hits hotel laying it hits construction it hits design a lot of places at the same time our tickets don't pay for everything by a long shot and so to killings about sixty seven percent of our revenue we earn about eighty six percent of our revenue and the other fourteen percent is continuous  which we wouldn't be open not to mention over twelve hundred volunteers who on average are putting forty to forty five nights a year it to have an proctors run well that's assures bartenders conception people and our stores so the community effort the community enterprise is remarkable and that's probably why it works if this was any less the end ok thank you very much we greatly appreciate all you  two fraternal service clubs such as rotary it and whereas a strap to miss clubs worldwide organization is made up of clubs throughout the united states canada ireland great britain and europe and whereas schenectady chapter was originally sponsored by the albany's or optimist club and became one of the approximately ninety clubs making up the north atlantic region of the american federation  whereas membership in these clubs is by invitation limited to women recognized for their high standards of personal and business ethics currently engaged in specifically recognize career classification it's now therefore be it resolved to represent our represent our organization on this recognition so we thank you for their optimism as you have mentioned the heritage of it and that's how it originated is also here for awareness advocacy action and what a lot of people do not know how to pronounce or optimists seem to forget that we have helped here's the list goldie free mammogram programs through alice the former st clair's and bellevue community hospice of schenectady haven three angels park at central park mohawk pathways girl scouts it says to house step which is the acronym for saratoga air therapeutic equine program for children special needs children which was housed in glenville schenectady day nursery  the public library program for arts at pleasant valley school schenectady free health clinic scotia glenville and the children's traveling museum of scotia home furnishings boys and girls clubs spark the y w c a children's programs the residents who reside at the y with having a holiday party for them things of my very own boys and girls club of schenectady pampered patriots routine wisdom and there is more because if i kept on going you'd be getting pretty tired to hear about this we sense this is thanksgiving since i did just read in the paper about the time of prayer and gratitude we are very grateful for our members with all that they do for our community the time that they spend for our organization to make schenectady better place for our women and our children and we have many different scholarships through our fund raising efforts that we offer and there is the woman opportunity award for up to two thousand dollars we have the violet richest an award for volunteerism the beatrice hocking award the community service award for morning goes back into the community were many of the organizations that i mentioned that's where that money goes to so when you see the words are optimist please don't stumble over so our old p t i am i s t when you see that word these are women of action this was given to me many years ago and i think it's very the fit for me to read this while we're here these are the women that are in our our schenectady community they smile when they want to scream they sing when they want to cry they cry when they are happy and they laugh when they are nervous they fight for what they believe then they stand up for justice they don't take no for an answer and when they believe there is a solution they go without new shoes so their children can have them they go to the doctor with a frightened friend they love unconditionally they cry when their children excel and cheer when their good friends get awards they are happy when they hear about a birth of a new of a new marriage their hearts break when their friends die and they have sorrow at the loss of a family member yet they are strong and they are there when there is no strength left they know that a hug and  kiss can heal a broken heart women come in all sizes all colors all shapes they drive fly walk e mail you to show how much that they care about you the heart of the woman is what makes this world spin women do more than give birth they bring joy and hope they give compassionate ideas and they give moral support to family and friends in our schenectady community thank you thank you right we have no public hearings tonight so we'll move on to the approval of the minutes and we have the minutes both from the at two thirty and twenty thirteen meeting which our recessed meeting when we voted on the budget and our meeting from nov twelfth tw motion to approve both of those kind of all in favor i write communications and petitions communications presented to the city council for tuesday november twenty fifth twenty thirteen under official from the mayor a list of appointments dated november twenty fifth two thousand and thirteen under general there are not under petitions there are not thank you for health and recreation there was an item that was on the agenda tonight regarding the goals of course concession proposal that has been removed from the agenda it will be returning to committee for sure where we were with that that has been returned to committee and we would be discussing it further this coming committee meeting thank you thank you and he other committee reports right if not we will move on then to privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda i have one person signed up and that's jason  and if we've gone a problem you need to be able to solve it and you can't say well we're going to go to binding arbitration binding arbitration has been used by the unions for many years there's been several big cases across the country in where th police over use of police force and they turned around took it to binding arbitration they said we got to because nearly two hundred three times they will overturn their decision to be fired we had one up in the school district up north here the guy was caught smoking marijuana while driving a bus load of kids they took the binding arbitration they took all the way to the court of appeals the highest co into this guy's vehicle you know we need to take control of this and how much money we're losing the next item is not in number seven which is the care's application in dealing with i don't know if people know about the hud housing  homeless on housing that went on eight forty five broadway basically there's no way where they're going to go for grocery shopping where they're going to go for all the services and so forth also people don't know is that the developer which is the same big huge developers been getting got the five hundred thousand dollars out of this city council got mortgage tax attention sales tax exemption property tax exemptions and got a whole host of other pilot programs along with building eight forty five  broadway where were the jobs for minorities were there but jobs for personal disabilities and where is the economic development and economic goals for this project what is the do also to is that d s s building was already short of parking spaces already for the current services that were needed within that building were we going to put those parking spaces for those hundred over one hundred fifty apartments or close to be in there you know we need to take a look at some of these items and exactly know where we're going are all in favor i then will go to privilege of the floor regarding city business i have five people signed up to speak clarence terry is the first  ninety thousand dollars worth of back taxes on this property and we negotiated over the next few months and i came to an agreement price and i did pay tolls liens off and then when i did that i came back with the agreement that was put on a table because i did not live on the premises so all it would be better dead if i were living there sol i condemned it was a condemned house i took the condemned house and from that point to june first of this year spent everything i had and put excess of thirty thousand plus in the house it was completely got it right now when i moved in june first it has completely new i'm asking if i raise twenty thousand and i'll get it was twenty eight thousand all i could raise was twenty chiles and i offered to twenty thousand dollars to pay in full by attorney at the city council can only make that losing anywhere around twenty thousand dollars per year in rent out of that i had always had suggested that you should at least twenty percent of the gross sales out of that piece  that is a standard operating procedure out of most all rentals and if you are implying electricity utilities and so forth to that organization sometimes that will increase up to thirty percent but the averages have been around twenty five percent and you need to take a look at what kind of direction that you're going out and you need to look at gross sales they've always come back and said hey we're not allowed to see what the  are because that is a city function and it's a city property everything else they have to open the books up to and you can verify this with any restaurant even call the community college it's all based on gross sales is what your rent is when you do a lease so you know i mean when you're looking at that piece also too is that where you said there were some construction money that was to begin with well that was to help pay for some of the stuff i mean you had a floor that like this and it was eventually you were going to end up in the women's bathroom the freezers and so forth because the floor was bent so far that was the reason why some of that stuff was happening and i believe that if you go back to that twenty percent at least guaranteed at least that much you can i mean there is no reason that you can't collect over fifty thousand and rent out of that place that place is doing under two hundred fifty thousand gross sales you figure twenty six weeks at ten thousand dollars per week in gross sales that's not a whole lot it's only fifteen hundred dollars per per day so you know twenty percent of that that should come out to be the other one is november is awareness month we need to you know make sure that this is one disease that you don't even know not even available to their worst enemy and hopefully we can bring some more awareness on all timers itself also to us i like to say happy holidays sorry we're not getting a five day weekend so anyway thanks for much and good night thank you m just a document with a lot of numbers that shows you people in need in our community and the response of the community we have a very generous community that we're able to do this and i'm glad to mentioned you might have heard but maybe not of the go owner today additional resources for food program such as ours and so we're very glad that the governor is partnering with many to make thirty eight thousand and eighty two more available out of special funding that comes on the heels of the cutbacks in the food stamp programs who are very glad that this is occurring the main reason i want to share with you was to talk about the summer lunch program in the season thanksgiving i want to extend thanks to you for your partnership in feeding hungry children in our community this past summer as a winter storm approaches perhaps hard to remember the warm days of summer i just want to share with you some highlights from the summer lunch program this year and i bring you greetings from elson williams who very ably coordinated the program and plans to return in the spring with your help we provided fifty three thousand six hundred lunches this year which only a small number were seconds this was a major expansion over the thirty four thousand of last year we appreciate the support from the mayor and the office of general services who helped in many ways for the success of the program for the first time with the support of know the way we pollard a summer lunch wagon a small yellow school bus that went to six sites daily we thought this would serve one hundred per day but it was more like three hundred on a daily basis except for july fourth literally hundreds of volunteers were involved from car geishas employers such as g e in the community we have staff supervisors and interns with volunteers are critical for the success program attach ellison talk to a woman who spoke i come to free lunch with my children every day i bring them here because we play in this park sometimes one of my children colors and plays with the other she guessed he was some friends i have to get time to talk with some my friends we meet here on some days we have a menu so it pretty much know what our children will have to eat i like the fact the kids get a sandwich fruit juice and milk most of the time the eat all the food at least i know where one meal a day is coming from i don't have to worry monday or friday this year the meals are different from last year she loves the peanut butter and jelly i also must say that friday pizza day is a hit for most of the people at the table during lunch this year is better here because some of the people eat at the other arts center so it's not so crowded like last year i wish this program ran all year my children don't go to school yet so when we don't eat lunch here i struggle to feed my children healthy meals each day i like a summer lunch program and so to my kids and they also come out when i left the table i feel i must be doing my job it was a warm and fuzzy feeling i look forward to your partnership for next summer as we take some steps to address childhood hunger in our community until the day where we can truly say there is no kid hungry thank you for thank you on mar evening my name is mary maclean i live in this city i had not intended just say anything about the council race but at the last council meeting the council member elect toral process showed a lack of respect for the republican candidates who were running for office we heard everything and he may hand subjected to this children to emotional abuse while at school is this a flawed personality asked where the other democratic candidates i think they should take a lie detector test to prove to the voters that they were not collaborators to the deception on election day the voters thought they were voting for any professional accountant the voters were also led to believe they were voting for a successful businessman neither claim was accurate consequently the winner has no legitimacy to the council seat roast was fraudulent election needs to be held again thank you thank you i have no one else to sign up to speak from and clear this portion of the meeting closed will move to miscellaneous business of the council anyone else ok mr ag thank you i just wanted to just make note of for we passed a new insurance agreement tonight and just so of one knows her deductible no one from twenty five thousand to fifty thousand and that's fairy just concerning to me because we're we know we were self insured before but certainly all these accidents that we've had in the past have added to that and from what mr furrey explained to a c underwriters assume only where they would write it was with that high deductible and that is a high deductible my main concerns are about property damage i think and i'm sorry not property there bodily injury because that could add up to a lot of claims that could be up to fifty thousand maybe above above fifty thousand the company will pick up but that certainly speaks to  you know i guess the driving record of some of our employees so whatever we can do whatever we can come up with as a console to try to get a handle on this because we're paying a lot of money for coverage that basically we have to pay the bills so we're self insured all the way around i guess with health insurance and with liability insurance but just just something that's come to my mind then it's been on my mind for a while i tour the city garage today and i spent a couple hours down there with mr complain pretty impressive and i understand now more about the cost overruns for maintenance  past but there's been other departments that one maintenance budget so that covered the cost overruns and some that went over so mayor it wasn't only because we didn't approve cars new cars that is that the only reason sky did get that to that one but the operation it's a nice clean operation there i have to say that i'd like to see the garage you for to do some more mechanical work because again i saw bills for i think it was would like to see us try to do some of that more of that and house and have better use out of that beautiful facility because it's a nice facility i would like to work there it is so nice for  maintenance places very nice and the upkeep is very nice there that's kind of what surprised me i've been in a lot of different service areas in my lifetime and that has kept up very nicely it's they're doing a good job there so i just want to bring everybody up snuff with that and wish everyone a happy hanukkah because i am understanding the first time in seventy thousand years that this is apt and so happy hanukkah because that's going to start wednesday remind people that canadian pacific railroad they do a holiday train which will be making its stop here in schenectady this wednesday november twenty seventh the about six thirty event but they do ask the individuals who attended bring in perishable food item or a cash donation to be made to the local food bank and get all the money and food that is collected stays right within the schenectady community and we appreciate canadian pacific involvement here they've done this for a number of years it's a very good evening and we hope the weather cooperates with us that will make it enjoyable and then i wish everyone happy thanksgiving and a great holiday season they can out of present day and i would just like to commend everyone who was involved with the holiday parade those of us who walk it can attest to how cold it was and how snowy it was at times but it was a lot of fun and a lot of people there so i just commend everybody for m me that's the truth a little chilly holding on to that was yes and also encouraged you if you have an interest in art is a wonderful arctics a bit over at schenectady light opera