code of the city of schenectady changing the zoning classification of four eight seven not street from and one light manufacturing to see for downtown mixed use discussed in committee without objection on consent question about the salary for the i t person that is an annual salary it's not just for the remainder of the year it's to clarify right item number three item number three a resolution adopting a negative declaration pursu  to the new york state environmental quality review act in relation to the rezoning of four eight seven not street ordinance again discussed in committee without objection on consent item number four i don't number for an ordinance amending chapter one eighty six of the administrative code of the city of schenectady introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed ordinance for september ninth two thousand and thirteen discussed in committee without objection on consent had a member five i don't number five an ordinance amending chapter two to eight of the administrative code of the city of schenectady introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed ordinance for l number four nine point five five dash four dash three one also discussed in committee without objection on consent i remember seven i don't number seven a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a nineteen union street also discussed in committee without objection on consent we have two additional items that were voted out of the claims committee meeting tonight ah so item number nine item number nine a resolution accepting title to various properties from the schenectady urban renewal agency ins i said this was discussed in committee tonight without objection on consent item number ten i don't number ten a resolution authorizing the transfer of of real property discussed in committee without objection on consent is there anything else to come for the city council caucus meeting if not i'll entertain a motion to adjourn mr ag seconded by mr erickson  will now call the city council meeting for august twenty sixth twenty thirteen to order i would also make a note that the mayor has been to that function over in albany he will be joining us as soon as he can get here so at this point i'll ask you to rise for the invocation by the reverend richard parsons from consecration  be the expression of their hearts direct our minds towards you our lord and savior and allow them to make the right choices within your city bring a spirit of unity in this don't all speak at once and this porterfield seconded by his present all in favor by communications and petitions communications and communications presented to the city council for monday august twenty sixth twenty thirteen under official from the mayor a list of appointments dated august twenty sixth two thousand and thirteen under general there are none under petitions there are none thank you committee reports this i just like report from my health recreation that the agreement with the dog park committee misty has worked on that and the committee had a meeting that the committee met with her so they've worked through that and i believe it's almost  to i did attend the picnic over the weekend got there at the end but as i saw some of the pictures as a part of it i didn't get to look like they had a wonderful turnout and a great time and i want to thank them for the power that they gave them wearing for them tonight thank you thank you it's the other committee reports right now consider that close we will move to privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda i have only one person signed up for that that's mary maclan item deals with shifting salaries it will not help the taxpayer the budget may remain the same for twenty thirteen but it will be higher in twenty four team twenty fifteen and for ever more council did this salary shifting earlier in the year another one is on tonight and two more are planned for later on if i had to vote on this agenda item tonight my vote would be no representatives everyone should be treated the same that us not happening with this site i'm no thank you i have no one else signed up for that so i live to approval of the legislative agenda up and is walking everyone through that his change changes here which you have before you is a request to deal with two vacancies in the city of schenectady the first vacancy is within a position that is currently shared from budget perspective by police and fire and is the director of communications and records management that individual retired and then the other is to back fill a position in the information technology area which is in the finance division budget and what we're doing or proposing to do and to to be more efficient within our addressing these tasks that are accomplished by these individuals is to take a current i t individual who has been with the city for many years and elevate his pay commensurate with the tasks he's taking over from the director of communications and records management and he this individual will be providing support to the police and fire just as his predecessor in the other position did and that salary is raising to a level which is lower than the level of the director of communications and that resigned and then we are back filling the current i t position with an individual at a rate last or then the individual who had the i t position when they left and then with those savings based on what i have just laid out bringing in another lower level i t personally recreating a information technology unit that is more robust than it has been in the past for the city and interested in and so what you have before you is the necessary budget changes that are required and then two thousand and thirteen budget to fund those positions at the levels indicated in the in the legislative request and if you were to take those changes that are before you today and move them into our two thousand and fourteen budget you actually see a savings of around forty thousand dollars because you are losing a an individual that was paid in the high to mid ninety's and you are elevating people below that individual to a much lower rate in bringing on some beginning i shouldn't say beginning you in this day and age of technology and the rate of growth of technology i think this is an excellent solution to moving the city forward with some very very much needed skills and  position that is being taking on the additional responsibilities of another position will be the other position will not be filled so technically we are saving forty thousand dollars out of the budget so i want that to be very very clear proud of the solution think it's great for the city i i wrote  chopping up kevin moore's communications salary of ninety two thousand but this isn't going to be the only change that's going to come before us i think in two weeks we're going to be looking at a request to add an assistant fire chief and that's not going to be cheap and the mayor is requesting that we move the salary of assessor up one thousand dollars so with all this said we have a lot of departments in this city that are undermanned and we're asking people in the city our city employees to do more with less and that's what they have to do there are people that lost their jobs this past year with the city of schenectady no job at all they went out the door so with that said i can't say that this person seven or eight thousand dollars more that's give me one thousand whatever it's going to be it's going to be up to seventy seven thousand was a ten thousand dollar raise will happen next year he may be well worth that but we're asking everyone else to do more with less in the city so to have fairness and parity across the playing field and to level this playing field i think it's only fair that we ask everyone to do more with less and just chopping this money up and moving it around when i see savings i want to see the savings i want to see the savings in my hand that savings when i look in my piggy bank that's a savings i can see where the savings are we have savings but the taxpayers never see the savings because it gets moved someplace else our job is to try to get our tax rate down and i don't see it happening by acting this way so with that i don't know library i want to fake kathleen more such a great article that she put in the paper concerning the issues with the tenets how the landlords want to do a lease that is very unfair to the tenets and i'm eating a lot of help and asking for an attorney's to give me a call let's see if we can do something because the tenets need attorneys to help us with this very same issue because the landlords intend to have the that without us then they can't have their houses as well because by them renting to us we help them buy them providing their own houses that helps us so we're in a partnership and we need to work together now another issue that i want to talk about is a lot of people being harmed by section eight social services and legal aid what they're doing is putting all felony on poor families accusing people of a felony which according to the state farm these  they say a felony can be off of your record in about three years but the stigma stays with you longer to three years and section eight and social services to band themselves together and put a stigma such as that on poor income families is extremely unfair unconstitutional and it should not happen now  was supposed to have done an investigation concerning this kind of action that happens to these poor families and i'm not understanding who is doing an investigation when you don't fly doubt that number one a parcel has child support or doesn't have child support at that time and number two that the person told social services they know what is social services health yet social services contact section eight to make themselves look good and tear that family apart disabled families shippey recognized and should be treated fairly in this system whether you are disabled or you  straight up poor that is no reason for these agencies to destroy these families thank you thank you  by not denying these people that primary there were a lot of people that were hurt by this i don't care what the owners have to say about it i know how i feel and how many of us for a felt who have submitted the same letters in support of my position i'd like you to take this under consideration and deny them or we vet them from the premises they don't deserve it thank you very much robert robert community together such events to this hope that the public can look beyond a person's disability a recognized many abilities which can be a positive for the community thank you very much thank you anyway i was here at the last meeting and i had something to say on july fifth there was something in that  i'm glad mayor mccarthy came in my name is rosemarie to see and i live in stratford road in schenectady good evening mr mayor city council members and gues it has come to my attention that on august twenty ninth downtown schenectady was planning to host a food truck rodeo consisting of nine food trucks on friday colleen arrays of the downtown schenectady improvement corporation informed me that the proposed food rodeo was postponed i am still troubled by one participant and i want to cancel not postpone schenectady was planning to host a food truck rodeo consisting of nine food trucks one of the food trucks that was even did i'm sorry one of the food trucks that was invited calls himself the wandering day go the wandering day go has gained quite a reputation i read that he was banned from albany's washington avenue launch site for new york state workers and also from saratoga including spac the reason being daigo is a very very derogatory term for a telling americans it is in the same category as the n word for blacks kike for jews spic for hispanics chink for agents and mr mayor mc for irish americans how could you or anyone in the city sanction and approve a permit or whatever is needed to vent food in schenectady don't you listen to your constituents read the outraged editorials that appeared for the last month and the exact regarding this person or feel any compassion for the italian americans the largest ethnic group in schenectady i am asking you to rescind or cancel his vendor permit i have spoken to numerous the talent americans in this community including former mayor frank doocy and sons of italy and i have received encouragement for coming here tonight to convince you to rectify this deplorable situation any way you can before i was informed that the event was postponed i heard from many concerned people that they would boycott the event and perhaps perhaps disrupt disrupt it so that it would be a failure please mr mayor do the right thing and cancel its vending permit unless he changes his name i saw your picture on the editorial page with a crown on your head as the decider make another decision for the city of schenectady and all italian american been questioned for the sewage plant for contracts and so forth and for materials i still don't understand the reasoning for eliminating a company that was running our sewage plant and water plant i thought they were doing a pretty decent job had we hired all the employees from there including the supervisor if the supervisor for the previous company wasn't saving the city money because of overtime material whatever now we are mer had told us we save a million dollars i'd like to see where that million dollars is i've never seen it since that plan has been operated by the city nope nothing comes forward from the council or from the marriage regarding things like this no matter who comes here to speak of not looking for any privileges but i want to write things down here in this city by each and every one of our elected officials favoritism and things like that they've got a stop completely it's odd to troll what's going on here in our city it's not right we'll be a little detroit before long the way things are going the other thing is there was a individual employee from the city that was discharged for his possession of drugs narcotics i haven't seen a thing on not what's replaced report for my understanding for an individual under  the reason he was arrested and charged he could have gotten fifteen twenty years where's the police report there's been nothing in the paper there's no down time standings for court appearance what's going on here i just don't understand all these things can slip by or nothing come forward no information the law it's a shame what are we taxpayers here for what do we come to speak for when our leaders don't do anything about anything i just don't understand a lot of this and i wish it could be clarified there are so many things happening downtown here and around the city vendor trucks whatever a lot of things there's no reason for to waste a lot so many things are done i don't understand and many other citizens don't they would come down here to speak but they lose their temper i lose mine we don't like to see this things happen in our city thank you thank you a school night at our regular meeting of the ma pleasant neighborhood association that will be at seven p m on thursday september twelfth at face deliverance tabernacle church ten twenty eight stranger place our speaker that will be larry springs superintendent of schenectady city schools we are also having a school donation drive will be collecting school supplies that night and  this is being done through the emily a willie foundation she done runs a lot of drives for kids including christmas toy drives and she has a list of items that are suggested you can also get those the most beautiful architecture is in mount pleasant will meet there at eleven am the parking lot will hold a lot of cars you take broadway lower broadway up train street hill take a left and there's a parking lot right there to your first  five fifty lansing street they have all of the branches of the military represented in their architecture within the cathedral they also have magnificent organ pipes and you'll get a really good educational tour we are suggesting a donation of five dollars you can contact me at three nine three two one one six nine five six two four five eight or living life  gmail dot com i would like to make one side note we have been working with crime prevention through environmental design acronym is ted we're meeting wednesday at orchard park any time of day that you can come we usually work from around nine to about four but some people do show up early or we're looking for donations of basketball nets we're trying to get our parks up to speed we'll be doing some painting we're talking about having a national day of service coming up in mid september which i hope we'll be able to announce soon so we're looking for helpers we're trying to work  all of the parks so if anyone is available just give me a buzz and i can tell you where we can use you we're on our six dumpster right now at orchard park thank you so very much thank you thank you for the and i live in the city i've made some observations because sometimes you hear things and you just don't know whether or not to believe them because they're quite unbelievable begin with and so with that  n mind i kept quiet for a while or longer than i should have on the dismissal of tina dimitri obvious i liked her a lot i felt confident about her abilities and i'm very sorry to see her go i'm sorry that we have to just absorb some of the offensive decisions that our mayor makes  think this was subjective and one of the reasons i didn't say anything immediately as i was kind of looking for some kind of fallout from other members of the staff and the public and having heard enough i decided that i wouldn't really was negligent in not having something to say about this i guess we're all kind of guilty of human imperfections from time to time another thing i observed this week  talking about people wanting to come to schenectady observed the police blotter and there were three entries within a period of week to ten days and there were seventy three in the first appearance seventy three people that were adjudicated before the court the next publication there were seventy two within days of the other police blotter and then the latest that appeared i believe friday or saturday thirty eight were on the police blotter and twelve from the sheriff's department these are some of the things that keep people away from schenectady these are some  that keep people that live in these neighborhoods from wanting to invest their lives where they seem kind of at a loss they can't stay in or they can't live like cain  and they like mrs remember even when they get away from the system the system will follow them it's a very hungry system and i think also in the paper this week it showed that cap schenectady city and county is overly generous to their employees thank you thank you i mary maclan meeting several items tonight first a citizen asked me to bring her concerns to city officials she says that child wit road isn't very poor condition it is a very heavily traveled road many cars and trucks use it every day she requests consideration be given to will road when the city is electing roads for resurfacing please check it out thank you second i attended all of the neighborhood picnics th summer it was a joy to see the creativity displayed all the events every picnic had its own uniqueness for instance at the bellevue picnic there were two tables hallway all tied with newsroom children's books the children were encouraged to select a book to bring home what a great idea not only did the picnics are nourishment for the body it also provided food for the brain the mound plus an picnic got rained out but the weather did not dampen anyone's spirit people took to the dance floor and danced to the music provided by a volunteer d jockey the stock eight picnic was held in a glorious setting it was a sclerosis one could get to god how fortunate we are to live near the beautiful mohawk the would want picnic with salt last week a professional chef cooked the food while musicians played bluegrass well don taxes on it it doesn't mean the presence of a warm body a mailing address or rental occupancy taxes are the means needed to run the city not where they can commute but of far enough away where they have no choice but to move here thank  that is shall i would handle residency thank you thank you right if no one else signed regarding privilege of the floor i'm going to declare that portion of the meeting closed will move to miscellaneous business of the council this  funds federal funds from the berger commission mainly private funds retaining created more than two hundred jobs and the care for our elderly up to where it should be they certainly could have gone with a new development and we should all be very very thankful for that i also want to announce the schenectady homes which is coming up on september twenty second i know it's a little early to announce it it is very very important for people and information to gather and i would assume we'll have instructional courses and things of that nature please please mark your calendar for september twenty second i believe that's a sunday is that correct not likely to apply to residential neighborhoods people doing street closings in their communities neighborhoods not going to plight of that this is a discussion based on street closings for bars restaurants people selling alcohol on the street you know and closing the street off for a party of some sort so a lot of people were confused by that you want to make sure the people who are listening tonight are aware doesn't apply to neighborhoods so thank you thank you part of fiel again i just want to make some comments about what a lot of folks came to talk about regarding the name of a particular food truck and as we're considering these things i really think we should take into consideration what our consists constituents  say to me any ethnic slur is you know whether it's made by the group may belong to a particular group there's a slur that belongs that people use for the group that i belong to and i'm not fond of it and don't want to hear it so when we're making these considerations i think that we should take in consideration that we are a multicultural community and when we when we do things we should take into consideration everyone who lives within our community and if enough people find it offensive we have to take that into consideration we all want to be able to get along and to do things in to respect our our fellow person you know so we don't want to do anything that other people that people find offensive because of their particular particular ethnic group or of their background and the woman brought up the names and many groups i purposely did not know that that was an ethnic slur i did not know that but the fact that it is and that people do not appreciate having it that i think we should consider that when we're doing things and there certain things certain slurs we wouldn't use we would we would not dream of using them so i think we should apply that same standard to any any ethnic slur when it comes to us doing things in the city of schenectady because you know we just don't want any group to feel like they're  that their ethnic group is not important enough that we don't consider these things there that they're concerned them thank you thank you anyone else history  x amount of dollars to close off their street that's not that wasn't the intent of our discussion so it's too bad a compass can screw up but i think we're going to be able to after the public hearing straighten all this out because they were what functions are what our city is all about and more pleasant it's got a vibrant group they've rebuilt and they're going great guns and cleaning up the neighborhood and doing good things so all these things are good to see and it's and it's very exciting about this this food truck controversy i've received many phone calls i don't know again about anyone else i received many phone calls from the italian american community about this baby because of my ethnicity but again this city was founded on nothing the roops the general electric brought people here my grandfather came from sicily worked in the g e company he was called they go he was called he was called guinea he was called greaseball he was called them all my father call those names i was called those names when i was young growing up in the fifty's so here is not flattering it is not something people appreciate to see up there on any sign that's nothing anyone wants to see it is not a flattering comment so again for the city to maybe it's just scream an asian i don't know but we shouldn't be involved in anything where makes anyone feel that they are being called names those names are not flattering i can't say it enough people that grew up with it will understand maybe the younger generation won't understand this but it's like any other ethnic name it's  nice thing to say we were taught not to say that even though as kids people called everybody everything but has we grew up and become mature we don't do this any more this is not the way to act and the italian community you know of course that's my roots per se and i have received a lot of complaints about this and talking to the city clerk he's received complaints about this so it's something we certainly have to keep in mind when we're having any kind of function to to have something that may involved a business that has a name with this connotation it is not flattering that's all i can say about it it's very on flattering is what it is it's not cute see it's not anything else it's just a nasty thing to call someone of italian descent it's as simple as that lastly don't forget the bellevue farmer's market it's thursdays in bellevue at the old immaculate conception parking lot on the corner thompson and broadway the food there is money great i know to corn has been great i get that every week for sure and they're going good things are going good there and support not to be a farmer's market downtown but this is thursday's between four and seven so someone getting out of work they can stop by there and grab some produce and it's very good everything is very good in that neighborhood group is doing a good job with its thank you thank you thank you all right  and president holidays for being a little bit late just on the food truck again the permit was issued to the d s i see it when it permits issued it's very similar if you get a neighborhood block party permit city issues  we don't have any control over who you invite or who was there and i think this is a volved that the naming of that food truck was not malicious by the individuals who did it you know they're starting a business they wanted to have an interesting venue it's unfortunate where it has just evoked kind of taishan so that i think they didn't realize were out there and i think probably that they would reconsider if they had to do it now and of course the city is taking that into consideration as we move ahead i think the time it was made that the thing the food truck rodeo had been postponed my understanding is it's been canceled and again when they changed that the permit was issued was issued for one day so there is no permit that is currently available for them and we would review that in the manner that would be more sensitive and hopefully again we want to do things that bring the community together we don't want to do those things that divide us in so that we want to work together and try to make the place a better place to live and work and just have a good time thank you thank you guess i just have one announcement the land bank is proud to announce that they are offering their first property for sale ten o six strong street is going to be open for viewing on tuesday september third from ten to eleven a informational flyers are available at the table here where you signed in or by visiting the department of development and city hall room fourteen or by calling three eight two five one four seven again this is a property at ten o six strong street