i'm going to call i'm going to call to order the city council caucus meeting for monday april twenty seventh twenty fifteen we have one public airing number one regarding proposed twenty fifteen consolidated plan and twenty fifteen to twenty nineteen five year plan and will move in the items for original consideration item number one item number one for original consideration five nine one to cousin to restaurant for a sign on the front of the building located at fifteen forty nine kerry straits connected in new york again discussed in committee without objection on consent item number three we ended up combining for the use and maintenance of grout park that's in committee without objection and consent i remember five item number five a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with general electric energy for fire protection and emergency medical services without objection on consent number six item number six a resolution authorizing a memorandum of understanding between the city was connected in the capital district transportation committee for the purpose of completing a linkage study without objection  consent i don't number thirteen a resolution authorizing the sale of five twenty schenectady straight without objection on consent and another fourteen item number fourteen a resolution authorizing the sale of to thirty two states str schenectady to settle a tax or she wary for sixteen fifty eastern parkway and without objection on consent i'm eighteen number eighteen a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a tax or surely for eight hundred sixty seven states resolution authorizing settlement of notice of claim twenty five fourteen one twenty five without objection on consent item number twenty one item number twenty one a resolution creating the schenectady film commission without objection  twenty three item number twenty three a resolution calling on the governor the new york state assembly and the new york state senate to enact the abandoned property neighborhood relief act without objection on consent i remember twenty four item number twenty four resolute support of the streetlight replacement and savings act without objection on consent number twenty five item number twenty five a resolution supporting a feasibility study of an micro grid utility solution without objection on consent number twenty six item number twenty six a resolution recognizing karen b johnson as the first woman mayor of the city of schenectady door in women's history month this will be taken out of order mrs johnson could not be here but the support of field will read the resolution item number twenty seven item number twenty seven a resolution recognizing schenectady millennial generation this will also be taken out of order mr ferrari will present that an item number twenty eight i did number twenty eight under contract and supply a resolution  will now call the city council meeting for monday april twenty seventh two thousand and fifteen to order and i ask you to rise for the invocation by reverend go on robert shall be pray to god we thank you tonight for this opportunity for being here together people we thank you for blessing will be upon this city of schenectady we pray god in the name of jesus that you will think your place of god will be the god of this city god you will come and the were thank everyone for coming out tonight for got a number of things on the agenda and there's a lot of things going on in the city so we appreciate people showing their interest coming up having their input and just participating in the different things that are happening in the city of schenectady some of the most important positions that we have in the city of schenectady our police and firefighters they're on the front line every day dealing with complicated  challenging issues in that i'm so impressed with the level of the professionalism in the performance that we see we see really lifesaving maneuvers in the delivery of service every day by our fire department the steady improvement in the performance of our police department under a chief kilcullen it's really becoming a clearly a regionally recognized department and we're setting the standards not only within the region but in the state of new york and across the country for data driven policing in how that we're managing those resources and we're becoming again more sophisticated more functional in our analysis and our ability to respond to people's needs so that i compliment the command staff tonight and it's with a tremendous sense of pride we're here to make two promotions and i would ask first captain mark  raise your right hand and repeat after me i state your full name do solemnly swear that i will support in uphold the constitution of the united states that i will support nepal the constitution of the state of new york and the charter and the laws of the city of schenectady and that i will faithfully discharge the duties as police officer in and for the city of schenectady to the best of my ability so help me god congratulation write us the chiefs and it shows the good command presence that they don't want to give their long speeches tonight so that will keep on with the agenda but if i could also just turn  in the red cross is always there i have immediately providing service assisting in the transition and stabilization of people's lives when we go through these tragic set of circumstances so this year we opened the golf course that daily the golf pro is able to get a driver donated and then we had individuals chip in five dollars for a raffle to win that driver and the proceeds of that we're donating tonight to the american red cross to have gary striker here to receive it now most times we have those great big checks but i found that when you go to the bank they really prefer these check so that behalf of the city of schenectady in the gulf first were proud to present to you six hundred twenty dollars and again thank you for all your effort for your team and the work that you do every day week we had another fire at an apartment building we had another twenty that wasn't enough we kept rolling for the following we'll get another apartment building fire and add another thirty so phenomenal then we really appreciate your help in there all the time it's raining it's snowing you're there we appreciate it and to the police officers and firefighters in fire officers congratulations i appreciate recognition thank you we're very grateful for this gift the people schenectady and all of you know all too well the work that we do responding to fires almost every day so we're very grateful for the support that we've had so many fires this winter all throughout our twenty four counties and what w particularly grateful for is the great working relationship we have an entire city with the mayor the fire department obviously on the golf course it really helps us do our job and help the people that we need to help so thank you so much to everyone in schenectady for it a lot of great collaboration stirring this fire a lot of the j street fire a lot of organizations partnered with us and helped us and we all those partnerships that make it all work so thank you thank you gary a meeting so that before we get into the public hearing because for that i have twenty six people signed up to speak right as i mentioned before we have two out of order resolutions the first is a tribute to karen johnson softball and a supporter feel to read that anniversary in a first three of the women's history movement and the national women's history project and whereas accounts of the lives of individual women are critically important because they reveal exceptionally strong role models and whereas karen johnson is woven hundred to ninety two prior to being elected mayor karen had been a sin city council member for eight years and where is karen johnson continues to serve in public office it's incur and is currently the vice president of the schenectady legislature representing one half of the city's connectivity and public policy decision and as chair of the health and human services committee and whereas karen's achievements can serve as an example to all women of all ages of what a this will be presented to mr johnson at the county legislature very good well deserved our second out of order resolution is for the millennial generation and i call him mr ferrari madam president you have before this is a resolution recognizing the city's next generation of leaders and encouraging the millennia old generation to take an active role in the renaissance that is taking place here in the city of schenectady whereas the millennia old generation is defined as a cohort of individuals born between one thousand nine hundred and two thousand numbering ninety two million strong making them the largest generation in u s history outnumbering baby boomers and whereas the millennium generation is poised to reshape the national economy having grown up during a time of rapid change giving them a set of priorities and expectations sharply different from previous generations and whereas the city of schenectady is home to more than zz many of whom are entrepreneurs and small business owners community and civic leaders homeowners and renters professionals and artists and whereas the city of schenectady is home to millennial ceremony hicky owner of puzzles bakery and cafe prince brought director producer of the fast life evan europe to do owner of studios and vice president of the greek orthodox church christian di at the o two architect with reform architecture kelly maher founder and editor schenectady doesn't suck and elizabeth mccall a professional real estate agent with c m fox and of course there are many more whereas the city of schenectady is proud to be the first minutes a pallet in the capital region to host a millennial council whose mission is to work in conjunction with the city of schenectady to bring a positive youthful exciting energy to the regrowth of the city and empowering the millennial generation to get involved take charge and help recharge the community we live in work and and where as  counsel comprise of individuals with diverse talents will consist of will consist of various committees including social urban marketing and membership to engage in power and advocate for our city whereas the millennial council will officially launch at a social event to be held mccarthy and city council do hereby pause in their deliberations to recognize the city's next generation of leaders and to encourage the millennium generation to take an active role in the renaissance taking place in the city of schenectady madam president i like to move this second you for i present this thanks i received an email from bob harvey president the eastern av neighborhood association and schenectady united neighborhoods and he asked that this be on record that this past saturday the eastern avenue neighborhood association members organized a litter cleanup on eastern avenue from the elmer alvin you elementary school to not terrace they only had five members ready to go when much to our astonishment a whirlwind of energy brought forth three more volunteers from the skin to these new millennium council the secret was one of our millennial members had sent out a mass e mail to the rest of them when he was asking for additional volunteers and they came if one of the goals of the millennial council is to attract more young folks to come or stay in our city and get involved in the f and the building up of a great place to live and work than it is succeeding we enjoyed the energy in the attitude of the manuals who worked with us on our project we look forward to the great things from this group thank you so very much to the millenniums bob harvey thank you madam madam president mr mayor esteemed council members john for ari thank you so much for this resolution standing before you is a vibrant very intelligent very motivated amazing group of people we've been working together for three months now and i'm amazed at the enthusiasm that everybody has for this city there's tremendous love and passion and it's driving us to do amazing things and we have lots more to come i just want to briefly introduce everybody keeping us organized and getting us going with family like to introduce everybody to the vandyke thursday april thirtieth starting at six p m to be an opportunity to hear more from the millennial council and we would like to share with you our plans and how we're going to impact the city's connect you make it a better place for all of us thank you very much we look forward to all of the things you're going to contribute to our great city court would be that public airing number one regarding the proposed twenty fifteen consolidated plan and a twenty fifteen twenty one thousand five year plan i have twenty six people signed up to speak and it just would remind you to try and stay within the three minutes ah the first reverend stan skinner president king members of the council and my fellow citizens my name is stan skinner and i'd like to say a few words in support of the better neighborhoods organization and why they are deserving of your support through c t b g in the home program my time with better neighborhoods goes back thirty years when i was asked to join the b and i board as executive director of the carver community center i continued to serve on this important board while i was at the schenectady new miscible housing authority for another twenty years as its assistant director i have witnessed over the years what a tremendous difference the work of b and i has made in terms of the condition of housing in the hamilton hill and vale neighborhoods and in more recent years also in mt pleasant eye has built more renovated hundreds of units of housing over the span of its existence offering low income people a decent place to live at extremely affordable prices many of these first time home buyers it had not been for this organization schenectady would have dozens more dilapidated boarded or abandoned houses than it has as the department of development has acknowledged in their preliminary allocation of funds this year b and i has and can do important work in providing first time home buyer education for those who are planning to buy homes in the city and also renovations allowing disabled individuals to stay in their own homes much longer as an alternative to hospitalization or nursing home placement this work not only improves our neighborhoods but it save huge amounts of money in terms of medicaid nursing home placement please extend to b and i all the support that you were able thank you  grants one of the statements in there says that you've completed all your goals for the last five years and that's faults you have not and one of them is jobs jobs for both minorities personal disability and the underemployed and throughout the whole entire two hundred twenty one page document you said one of the impediments to housing is because people have low incomes that are going beyond fifty percent of their income and thirty percent and you said that more than fifty percent is the most severely case of what you've got the only way that you're going to be able to improve the quality is by providing jobs and you have not done so out we've had to rebuild the part over thirteen million dollars of federal money not one minority not one person with disabilities you've had other federal contracts that  you've even done the community vote block grants for paving and everything and you're paving program hasn't done the apprenticeship program you have a much more stronger apprenticeship program here in the city than you do in the state does you that you wanted to make goals but you haven't implemented that another part is that you that you set priorities are for eastern avenue hamilton hill and mt pleasant yes eastern avenues there but the home ownership rate is a lot higher than mt plaza and hamilton hill there are at between forty to forty five percent homeownership rate why our weakest link is hamilton hill and mt pleasant we need to be able to not only increase jobs but also need to be able to improve the quality of life in both of those two neighborhoods you know you've got to be able to uplift the weakest link you do that then you improve the quality of life throughout the whole entire city you give hope you don't need to hire more officers because the crime rates going down because people are working and that's what basically what this communal block grant you're giving more money over six hundred fifty thousand dollars more to stat program and so forth and you're not moving towards the actual portion of it and you keep talking about this stuff and again we need to work on jobs that's the only way that we're going to be able to improve the quality of life here we noticed that when you jobs and so forth we need to do the same thing you've got you've got other programs that are going in there but you don't have any kind of new ones going on you can see the whole entire list thank you thank you but it may have hamilton hill arts center there are some of my fellow community members who know of me but little who know about me or my story and how i came to be so i am active in the arts and i'd like to tell you about the beginning but i would first like to kind of fast forward through that and tell you a little bit about the story of my nonverbal autistic mentally disabled nephew for recall i'm his guardian  often his voice about seventeen years ago his mother my sister asked me to take care of him if anything ever happened to her about eight years ago she was tortured and starved to death at the hands of her domestic partner that's when i inherited free what people often don't know is that freed himself was also being starved and tortured at the hands of the same person who murdered his mother once i was finally able to gain custody freedom myself were both emotionally battered and traumatized but like so many other new mothers i had to continue to work to support my growing family due to red tape budget cuts and a series of unfortunate events it was taking months for me to get services in place for him so this is when my life partner began taking three to the hamilton hill drop in center miss bell the coordinator of the program for the children the afterschool program for the children there and the other children in the center folded him into the program and took care of this adult sized two year old and shared with him things that they would normally see there with anyone else of the clan without hesitation and he began to come out of his shell misfile helped him build this huge motorcycle ramp that he carried everywhere with him if you know anything about autistics autistics usually have some little obsession about themselves that they just obsess about his is laughter and motorcycles so it is on his be have and with his story in mind that i respectfully ask for an increase in the cd funding for the hamilton hill arts center as requested because like my nephew many others in the community of the arts center not only just find a safe place but they also find a place with their family so that makes it a home for them thank you thank you sharon carter evening council members and mayor mccarthy my name is sharon carter and i'm a long term resident of the city of schenectady i'm also proud new homeowner investing in the north side neighborhood i very much appreciate this opportunity comment on the city's propose use of federal funds through the consolidated plan process and wearing two hats this evening i'm an employed by the schenectady inner city ministry and have been affiliated with the hamilton hill art center in various capacities for a dozen years both of these organizations have served for almost fifty years and both address the needs of some of our city's most vulnerable citizens wearing my cecum hat i will say that we certainly appreciate your continuing support of our free summer lunch i think most of you know that last year was our twentieth year providing lunches for of the city and that we served over sixty five thousand lunches this year with your help we anticipate serving over eighty thousand wearing my hamilton hill arts center that i appreciate the city's recommendation of continued funding for art reach however the arts center is very challenged physically or fiscally and i'm requesting that you seriously consider increasing the allocation significantly this year for me the most important reason for and sure most important reason is ensuring the survival of the art center is that the art center saves lives literally located in  section of our city noted for many problems are reaches a safe haven providing a free culturally supportive environment where hundreds of children are introduced to the arts each year black lives matter throughout our country and right here in schenectady the other most compelling reason is that the arts center is needed now more than ever the city's demographics are changing in the seventy's the nonwhite population was only three percent in two thousand and ten it was forty percent earlier this month the times article reported that the capital region ranks last one hundred metro areas for healthy development for black children the hamilton hill neighborhood was specifically mentioned carver community center close its doors in two thousand and thirteen if nothing else i ask you to consider putting to the arts center what historically went to the carver community center i encourage you to be part of the solution thank you for your kind consideration thank you s hill president council members mayor mccarthy my name is sarah hill and i'm a proud native of the city of schenectady raised right here in schenectady and wiley st i attended public school and went on to graduate at new york university studying film and theater arts my career as an independent arts presenter and former marketing manager at proctor's was deeply inspired by b hamilton hill arts center and my mentor margaret cunning just a few weeks ago i had the privilege to work with a team of great great people who love her and the arts center so much to honor her at proctor's and that moment was very special for me and so many in attendance including my eight year old daughter the art center has had a major impact on my life and so many of my childhood friends who have gone on to be artists teachers fashion designers counselors and so on this evening i would like to read a statement that i found during my research of mrs margaret cunningham a statement written by the late reverend carl taylor pastor of friendship baptist church here in schenectady new york he served as the president of the hampton who are center board this statement that i'm about to read by reverend taylor is still relevant today as it was in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven for me the most important reason for ensuring the survival of the arts center is because our children are the future and they need to be in rich inspired and love the way that i was by the arts center and mrs cunningham this letter which was written in june of one thousand nine hundred seventy seven reads it is always an exciting experience to watch a child grow change and discover within himself hidden talents and creative ideas the smile that comes in the excitement of new are we warding those of us who work and play with children of our community at the hamilton hill art center find fulfillment in this we take this means of thanking all of you our community who have helped during the past year through your contributions support and service to extend the program of the center without your interest we could not ha done all that we have done are capable staff of paid workers and volunteers are commended for many hours they have given to implementing our program we continue to seek your support we need your help share with us as we continue to play a vital role in the life of our community i thank you for listening to those words and i encourage you to be part of our solution to keep the arts center alive thank you thank you jessica good evening madam president council members and mayor my name is jessica hunter i'm here tonight or so to show support for funding the hamilton arts center i am a member of the group moshe as some of you may know a performing dance troupe that learns practices and performs dances from across the african continent our group meets once a week at the art center and is open to all children from the time they can walk into their tool to dance i joined a motion when i was thirteen before i joined moshe my goal was to get educated and get far far away from hamilton hill in schenectady i was the youngest of four children both of my parents worked full time and we were more than often left to fend for ourselves with money tight as well as nerves i wanted to be anywhere but home a friend of mine at school invited me to moshe for a class project she eventually left but i stayed for the next twenty years and a member of the moshe can tell you that emotion means unity that unity means family and i'm honored to still be a member of that family today today i'm twenty five and hold two degrees in nuclear engineering a bachelor's degree from r p i and a master's degree from m i t i am proud to say that i was able to continue mo through those years coming every weekend from troy and every summer from boston i will also tell you that my success is in no small part to what i found at the hamilton who art center emotion is about culture it's about focus and discipline mosher brings in children and teaches them about their african culture and then allows them to spread their culture through performance it taught me how to control my body and focus my mind it taught me to practice to work through pain and to believe that with enough hard work i could do that movement that jumper that role performance taught me that when i made a mistake the only option was to keep moving forward and it taught me that if i fell i could get up and that one fall did not make me a bad dancer it only meant that i could get better these are the values that i took with me through life and when i saw what emotion had taught me with the support and friendship of the lifelong friends i made their had done for me i decided that i would return to schenectady because the mission here is too important it would be wonderful instead of a few stories like mine you heard hundreds hundreds of children that climbed out of poverty and chose to remain children that said i care about schenectady because they care about me please consider this one determining funding for the h center and thank you very much for allowing me to speak tonight thank you for making time good evening mr mayor madam president and city council members i am the former or one of the former executive directors of the art center still involved still very interested in the future of the art center and so i've come to say a few words about support for the arts center the need is as ms carter said for a safe supportive creative place after school has increased since the founding of the art center not decrease adequate funding has always been an issue with the arts center but when there's been better funding and there have been times when there has been there been better programs the programs have been stronger the opportunities for the youth who come to the arts center have been stronger we've been able to involve families in many positive ways and offer events that support the entire community without adequate funding the art stand still exists but it's limping along we have a limited staff we have volunteers but not the strength that the community needs and deserves right now we're short on administrative sath as well as program staff we don't know if they'll be funds to continue with the minimal staff that we have let alone plan for the future about six years ago we did a project interviewing arts center kids alumni asking what they thought was most important about what they had received at the arts center and among the answers one of the things that kept coming up was learning about black culture the accomplishments of black people and our heritage there are very few organizations that can offer that and yet that is part of the strength of the center we know you can't solve the arts and has problems and we're not asking you to but more money will provide the stability that will help us to move forward in a focused way rather than patching as we go along so i ask you to think very carefully and support the arts center to the most thank you thank you michel mayor president king and council members i don't write anything because what i have to say comes from my heart i have been a member of him you know my entire life it's been fifty five years with their section of the time that i share and served in the back to where used to be there are many lives at stake there are many young people who wander but the only place they have to go is missed in the arts and there are rich program that is provided there gives them that sense of consistency that many of them do not have a home there are times when you watched him walk down the street no wonder what is that place and they come inside and they say it would miss about where she gives them value she gives them more of my family has been  maybe the only meal they have what it was about gives him first not that maybe the only meal that they have i'm pour you to be part of what it takes to lay that foundation for the hamilton hearts and thank you thank you good evening madam president mayor and city council members i'm here on behalf of a former hamilton hill art center participant he says to the members of the school or to the city council my name is benard kerry and i'm writing this letter of support for increased funding for the hamilton who are center for those of you who don't know my story the art center was the most pivotal community resource in the hamilton hill community first of all it was a safe haven for me and my friends there was always places for us to play such sports such as the carver community center the boys club little league in football but quite frankly i was always curious about other things other things than sports so living on the hill my mother would always allow me to go to the art center by being since it was in the community the programs the center offer turned me on to the arts for the first time in my life i was learning to use the arts as a mean of express the means of expression in essence the art center was literally the institution that facilitated intellectual curiosity for me to become the person i am today i don't say this lightly i gave all the accolades to the art center an organization that saw something else and we besides sports now only was i introduced things that were not always available in my community i was mentored to even obtain my first job as a janitor i humbly request that you would find in your budget to support additional funding for the arts center their art center is the only community organization left on hamilton hill i know that there are lots of young been ards growing up on the hill that could utilize the services the center has to offer let's provide them with the same opportunities i had as an impressionable youth growing up in hamilton hill inclosing in addition to my parents i also attribute my success in college to but even mr mayor madam president members of the council i'm here tonight to speak in support of the schenectady basketball club and i know i know this is a new proposal to the consolidated plan process and to me the amount that has been requested is in the larger scheme of things relatively small ten thousand dollars it's important to note that this club is largely a volunteer effort and so the need for this small amount of funding is just to stabilize the program this club provides an after school and and off the streets activity of young for young people mostly african american males and yes some females the times union in the past month as was referred earlier featured an article showing that by formal analysis this metropolitan area ranks at the bottom hundred of the hundred largest in the united states in terms of opportunity for african american youth this program that i'm speaking of the schenectady basketball club pro fights opportunity the club is not just recreation no volunteer leaders and coaches provide formal life skills and training and mentoring the club is known for a high level of proficiency in the leagues and is well regarded among the athletic teams the program is incorporated and it's now working on its tax exempt status and plans to be fully independent in the next year now i recognize that the major item in the poll in the public service category is listed as community policing at hundreds are almost one hundred sixty five thousand dollars scott i think he only has an incident based policing not community policing and to me it seems it would be better to prevent the need for policing by solid activities for youth rather than paying for more police this allegation for policing only pays for a portion of the salary of a few officers and does not quote unquote by community policing so i would ask you to think about perhaps or rethinking the opportunity to provide funding for the schenectady basketball club and i thank you for my opportunity to speak thank you show along schenectady new york i am here to speak about the opportunity that i was able to buy a home here from better neighborhoods long time ago before they had worked jobs that allow me to buy the home without any money i had been living in a home since september thirteenth one thousand nine hundred eighty three imagine that thirty one years and seven months i am now a widow thousand nine hundred eighty three i moved four times in that same year i had five children at the time for three fourths the children my husband and myself nobody wanted to rent to us and when they did  was it was houses that were in the lap of david inside the outside looked just as poor and i looked at my husband and said let's work on the outside first and then go on the inside because he was a carpenter and had worked for forty two years and construction world and i'm very creative after we did that and moved four times i said i had enough and someone said there's a house but in neighborhoods own and was around the corner i walked around the corner looked at the house next to it was a dump it was a city dump cars refrigerators and my husband said if you can get that lot you can have that house i went to better neighborhoods talk to bed to ed august and he said ok let's see where we can do it i said let me start and be truthful truthful to you i have no money i don't have a downpayment i don't have a penny and so he wrote everything in my application so i could afford this home neighborhoods makes home ownership dreams come true for those that really cannot afford to give workshops however you need to understand one thing it puts houses back on the tax road you say you have no money get your money from those homes they build on they we had them my house in itself i called and said the floors the creek and i don't understand what's wrong with th came from the kitchen the door over here came from the living room i'm like i can't work with this i can't hear my husband so you've got to archway and then i looked at the other side and i'm like there's two doorways say why he put the archway there and then i said last summer ice i also was creative in opening night shop there with the building burnt on j street i had the playground called create a play for children in the city and i took care of the proprieties children for two hours a day i also brought a boarded up houses two doors away from me to improve the city's looks so better neighborhoods need show money to continue giving homes to needy thank you george warner little bit more to nature we always see the grandeur of the trees and the magistrate when they grow and when they become so tremendous one thing we've got to remember just like the challenging fiscal times and you are difficult choices to make i want to make brief comments on sicamous for applications and a few comments on other areas three minutes is too short for something that covers five years so my comments on the longer portion o a feeding hungry children for too many it is the first meal of the day and for some is the only meal with your help last year we provide a record of over sixty five thousand lunches we're planning and more sights for this year and with your help we can keep moving in that direction as we did last year i want to ask the council members and the mayor to consider coming together on a day to distribute lunch we operate with volunteers teams and most sites and provide a lunch for you to give out please consider is a way to get we also put in renovations for a three so that all the street was owned by the city but we've been fortunate to get some resources for that since we applied similarly with the a c s a pilot program which was not recommended we were glad to see the food security on  issue as part of the five year plan you may have seen the restart the times union about this project we are starting with fox creek farm as with the previous ones we believe we have another resource to provide for this we put  also for the best book club which is not our program but we are involved as the fiscal agent and we believe this is a very important community effort i know there is will ask for your consideration of adding this to the plan this year others have spoken very eloquently on spoken i share the concern for supporting affordable housing programs especially additional amounts for housing counseling because they are below last year finally this year's recommendation continues a city's practice of utilizing relatively scarce public service funds or was called community policing my comment here is not about the s p d or anyone in it i greatly appreciate the leadership and commitment the s p d now as opposed to some years ago we don't have time for a trip down memory lane it appears that all is in the proposed budget is an allocation of one hundred sixty four thousand towards the salaries of four officers who work in c b g eligible areas the regular city budget should support public safety i encourage to see it remove this item and remove a neighbor's stabilisation category incorporate those the public service category and then have the resources for additional locations and we somebody commonly woodsy as public service the other comments are before you thank you banks don't seem to be interested in either reselling them or repairing them and owners out of frustration or lack of resources walk away i'm representing b an as part of the homes program we work with that wonderful organization and created a brand new house that is under construction as a modular pre engineered structure for foster ave built by the bo sees they do foreclosure counseling they do construction i would strongly urge because they were recently welcomed as a partner to the homes program a couple months  we seriously engaged them in the expertise that they have shown for forty nine years repairing houses providing foreclosure counseling and home management and working with banks which they've done very successfully in helping people of modest means by homes which they have built and they have done hundreds of them so i would urge that we create a public park private partnership that will be very fruitful for the not the current program of zombie houses thank you thank you don no good evening there madam president council members i'm here to speak tonight in support of the hamilton hill arts center which has been in existence for over fifty years the arts center has provided culturally support programs and creative programs and so also allowed our are used to be introduced to the arts i want to speak it very quickly from two perspectives one from a law enforcement perspective and also that from the perspective of former use center director myself from the perspective of the use center director the most critical times of the youth day is the unsupervised time and the time they leave school to the time they either reengage into a structured program or reconnect with their family if there is a large gap in that time period we are exposing our youth to undesirable elements and negative influences which at inevitably unpack the growth in their train of the of their youth from a law enforcement perspective data shows that after school programs in arts programs we do still in quincy intro and see an increase overall academic performance with our at risk youth i know budgets are tight as a story of a fifteen million dollars plus budget at the sheriff's office i can appreciate that and we all want to be judicious with the monies that we oversee i would suggest and submit to all of you to view any financial support that you  to the arts center or any after school program or youth program as an investment and not as an expense ok and that investment will pay off in the form of putting our children in the best possible position to be successful in closing i just want to share a conversation that i had with an individual that i have quite a bit of respect for about five years ago former police superintendent state police superintendent harry corbitt had the opportunity to have lunch with him to discuss the gang program and the one thing he left with left me with he said to me son you want to make a difference in the urban community he said would say three things deal programs programs and programs so i thank you very simpkins i'm sorry ok walter hold on here i apologize i'm short i know you couldn't see me i or just want to say thank you for allowing me a few minutes of your time and i'm really going to just take a few minutes of it because absent young hot young men behind me that i think you really want to hear from i'm here on be have of the ring of hope oxen and fitness club plaza i too am here because we are in need of funding we are we have there is zero funding for the peaceful peaceful warrior program and yet we've it for the last three years to somebody on that might say if you don't have all you could probably do it for another few more but the truth be told is that our resources are drying up and it is becoming extremely hard to continue so i'm going to relinquish my time the two gentlemen from the peaceful warriors i think are one or two names behind me because they were being the respect for young people that they were taught to be and they stepped aside so that some of those could turn with their name on the back but i just want to even your mind that as the rest of these organizations are are doing we too are trying to reach out to  youth we're dealing with the older population we're talking that fifteen to twenty two year old bracket which is very difficult there's not very many safe havens for that particular age group but our particular sport is one that has some street credibility it's ok for you to be in a boxing gym you know that's not right you talk because as i sit here i'm learning about some programs and some things going on that i haven't even heard and so you know it just gives you the richness of what we have to offer and if we can start to put the money we needed direction of somebody you and the youth programs this would be a great thing i know that everybody is under pressure in terms of money let me tell you something i got a lot of respect for the politicians today because i got someone under the bus i said i was coming here to speak for the arts and everybody was going to talk like i was going to get some other program shane if you listen i don't know what they were talking about but they're like the boys and girls club is an important aspect of our community just like the other programs but i'm going to tell you something our culture is very important i'm down i'm not a part of the millennium goals you know they were up here today but i'm from the baby boomers and i can tell you that it was the death of martin luther king that started me it being interested in black history and getting into culture and what the culture meant and from the i went on to the city college of new york and got a bad to his degree in black history and i've also have a master's degree in africa studies sunni opening and what i found was by people understanding who they are and what their potentials are it can take them to the places that they never dreamed of going what we have here is we have a mind to know on a scarcity issue in our community we get a s who gets money so one program gets money the other program doesn't and what we have to do is we have to change that up because everybody deserves something we have to sometimes rearrange the allocations and what we feel is important and if we don't feel that is important we're going to be lost i'm already on i want to sing about the sixty two million dollars that the state is not given to the board of education of schenectady and they gave five million dollars and nobody's talking mike now you got five million dollars and so you want to be happy when the reality is you're holding back to sixty two million dollars so what does that mean you know i'm on welfare so i should be able to deal with the room for a check i got and don't worry about getting the job could you get money we have to change the mentality and not and i want to know art center is why i'm here i was the president of the board of directors for the arts center for a number of years and i'm telling you i never saw anything to me as glorious as what i saw happen there for myself as one of sort of you so i just say please consider please consider culture because this is going to be an entertainment capital center of the capital just because far as i'm concerned that's what's going to these about thank you thank you good evening my name's patty cox madam president and and council members thank you for allowing us all to speak on here on behalf of the hamilton hill arts center as a past president of the board to some of those days when we could offer so much money to those children then we can now they need it and they deserve it and i was sitting here tonight listening to all the other people who spoke about the art center saying all the things that i would have liked to say and i thought after watching everything that went on before we started this section of this part of the evening everybody talking about the wonderful things that are happening in schenectady which is true and what a great city schenectady years which is also true i love schenectady and i'm i am been here for many years now and i really have you know my husband and i  love being in schenectady and we support the arts center as much as we are able financially but then it occurred to me a great city needs to take care of the release of those who can take care of themselves and those are the children that we are talking about whose parents cannot give them many of the things that other parents in this city can and the wonderful things that they can learn the safety that is there at the art center their children have a place to go to be safe to learn to play and to learn a lot more about the world then what they see and how until hammonton hill so i would urge you please as much as you can come up with i know again that your funds are tight but this art center and these children deserve as much as they can possibly get thank you very much thank you sean  good evening mr mayor and all hello my name is shawn burke and i'm a sophomore to get back to high school i'm a participant in the ring of hope boxing club sponsored by coach prison kid and as he said it is a program with no funding and it's something that's worth it's worth keeping going honestly it every day every student who stepped in that boxing gym and in that ring it changed them they really did because if you can step in a ring with someone that you know go a few rounds you know take a few blows get a few and step out and talk about it in talk what you did wrong and what you did good it's something that binds you it's something that i did with my friends you know davis back there and it really brought us together i really really do enjoy this club as do every single other student that stepped in and it's something that changes students it's it's not just boxing it's it's a way of life it teaches you hard work and dedication it's something that it's something that the say in the gym and before i stepped in jenny was just two words in my vocabulary but now it's something i mean something it's really it's really it's really it's very amazing it's thank you so thank you good evening i am here on the behalf of the peaceful warriors or the rio folks and i'm asking you guys to like to really help us out as we say we have zero funds and this is something that really disappoints everybody w with and this this program really changed me now i haven't had it with throw since i started high school and i mean i'm a sophomore now it's going to be high school this is really something you guys should invest in and if you do together we will make a difference thank you thank you my name is dead i've been a schenectady resident my whole life and i'd like to thank mayor mccarthy and madam president and not you on the council for your dedication to your city as well as the opportunity to speak here tonight i want to tell you a story some thirty five years ago a single woman who was expecting a baby was looking for an affordable partment to rant that was not on the third floor anyone that's been a parent knows what it's like to bring a baby carriage in one floor let alone three a friend who was in real estate business said wanted to look for a home to buy and the woman said me i can't buy a home the real estate woman said why not the short version of this story is that the woman who was expecting did buy a home and it changed her life she went from being a renter to a homeowner her self esteem was boosted her stability in the community was more secure how many people here remember the first home you bought the butterflies that you wish variance the fears and concerns that you had as you committed your name to the paper before on the closing this is just one thing that b and i has done over the years we have been telling people who would not even think of owning a home why not why not look for a home of your own why not rent why not build equity why not buy a piece of schenectady to claim as your own you are the best landlord you'll ever have tonight i'm speaking to you as president of b and i board i was that woman thirty five years ago i still own my home today since two thousand and two b and i has provided information about being a homeowner financial counseling necessary to achieve that goal and we have encouraged three hundred sixty eight first home first time home buyers since two thousand and two we have also prevented two hundred fifteen home foreclosures and have been successfully counseled hundreds more when they have been in financial distress since two thousand and two we have constructed a rebuilt one hundred thirty four housing units and have served almost fifteen hundred clients the positive change in the city is a direct testimony to the mayor's office and the city council recognizing that something needed be changed in these areas and the money provided to these programs along with the dedication of the and i board of directors and many volunteers over the year has made this happen let's not go backwards without homeowners who actually live in their home in the neighborhood the area will be run down we know how the city has suffered with slum lords over the years and boarded up buildings we need to continue to focus on home ownership please continue to broad guide that seventeen thousand dollars the money we need to create in the minds of people the dream of their first home they summarize the dream in which many of them don't even know they are qualified for homeownership is the answer to stability of the individual in the city thank you restoring for restoring this money to the budget thank you nancy johnson and then vincent place to go and swim it's more about entertainment in a city where we live right on a river and i'm a city where inflatable pools and quick set up pools are a dime a dozen and all over the place it is imperative to have our city pools and to have the front street pool to give our youth a place to learn to swim for free to give them a place to go and swim where their supervised in this safe area every child should have been a a official lesson before the age of eight and in schenectady disconnected the community it is very hard for families to afford this and that front street i'm proud to say that we can give several children over the summer this opportunity to lead them into a lifelong sport and to make them stronger and to give them a safe place to be and grab a free lunch important it was for us in our kids and how important for any city kids especially in hampton hill the veil area as well as my pleasure now as recent years so we really try to reach our kids we obviously don't have enough funding or enough to take everything because we do with a lot of low income housing single parent homes lot of my parents work a lot and left a lot of my coaches are left cochon i did have a few other kids here and a few other parents here to support us but obviously time of his friends had to leave them but i want to just bring this out too that we are here and we're very real about what we're trying to reach what our kids about not only that we collaborated with the wind cia we also collaborate with the boys and girls good evening mayor mccarthy madam president and our city council members my name is only a coupe or and i'm here this evening to speak on behalf of the hamilton hill art center i'd like to start with giving you a little history about myself and the art center i've been associated with the art center since one nine hundred seventy when i came up here to go to suny albany and at suny albany i started an african dance company called the paper and a african dance company that stayed in existence for about thirty years but at that time that was the same time that mrs cunningham was starting the art center and i was brought by so wilson dane to meet mrs cunningham and they wanted to do an african dance company nobody knew african dance and i was axed to assist with that so i kind of became an ad hoc kind of artistic assault consultant for moshe which is still performing today we moved from our in the eighty's we moved from suny albany and we made our headquarters to bryn day african dance company at the hamilton hill arts center where we continued to co exist with the motion of work with the moshe later on i actually became a board member and i was a member of the board for many many years the board and last year around february i was asked if i would come on board as the executive director for the arts center i was told that the art center was experiencing some financial difficulties so i knew it wouldn't be a six figure job but i've given my history with the art center that really wasn't an issue for me i barely accepted i came on board and within a month we had no money we had to lay off all the staff so i say that to let you know that mickey said earlier that we are limping along we are actually crawling we were able to maintain the summer camp program and we did that with volunteers that staff and community volunteers we continue to limp along  actually crawl along people don't realize how close the art center is to having to close its doors and i'm not just talking about programs i'm talking about being able to pay the bills to keep the building open so i mean of probably good things that they said about the art center i submit this to you that the art center is more than a safe haven it's a life skills academy it's an academy that provides well models positive messages encouragement it helps our children develop self esteem south pride it is the creator of dreams of endless possibilities and it's the beginning of a road to the successful and productive future for many of our children in school or any to summarize yes i'm finished i just appeal to good evening mayor mccarthy the city council members want to thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight about the two thousand and fifteen action plan put the city's consolidated funding and vicki her wits on the local resident my reason for speaking tonight is to urge you to increase the funding for better neighborhoods housing counseling program from the proposed thirty seven thousand so the fifty four thousand i got last year recently i had a young man come to my house to perform an energy audit he loved my house and said he wanted to buy one just like it he was twenty two years old in college working and engaged busy like most millennia was just getting started in life when he said to me i don't know anything about buying a house i was happy to be able to tell him about that in neighborhoods three part home education course and give him the agency's number i knew he'd be in good hands i've been a volunteer better neighborhoods for the last eight years and during that time i've been consistently impressed with the quality of service the agency provides to its clients i think it is short sighted to put in neighborhoods funding for this program right now don't do you said just read an article about the second return of the first time home buyer noted this category of home buyer makes up about forty percent of purchasers purchasers nationally in a given year the article also notes that millennium goals are more likely to buy a home than any other age group as rents are continuing to rise we all know that this age group we just saw tonight is an important demographic and secure inequity we also know that the mayor's home's program is doing a good job of attracting new homeowners into schenectady the better neighborhoods home by education course is a great tool for supporting this effort but are neighborhoods is the only hope certified counseling agency has connected the county this guarantees that the counselors get ongoing up to date training research has shown their clients to undergo pre purchase counseling are one third less likely to become ninety days to link wit in their mortgage payments i just  today that our land bank disposition committee has put in its policies that they can require first time homebuyers to go through a three part homebuyer education course such as what better neighborhood to offer and so the battery circumstances warranted in other words it's a way to get these cameras in shape so they can really be successful in purchasing the homes so i feel that all we have reasons to not cut the agency's funding at this time thank you thank you gloria herm every member of the happy face she was basically like a single mom she was married and my father was very responsible and was not there to help or so that's probably one of the reasons why i work  take care of a property you know it's very very very important by cutting our funding you basically are hiding are we in your kind in the opportunity of these families to be able to be educated education should be one of the last things that you tried in this if it's getting very specially since you have so many houses that are vacant you have so many families none of you probably have the opportunities that i have every week to see with three or four five time families let me tell you most of them maybe forty percent of the families that come to see me are latinos and the rest are black look at the locations in this connect the where you have these vacant houses and think about the people that are in need or are willing to purchase houses i'm a realtor for the last nine years and when i tell people that make one hundred fifty to two hundred thousand dollars a year you can buy this c opportunity of owning your own house in this can take that in we have the funding we can help you and we are here to help we are you boys of the air you have the houses and you have counselors that are willing and able to a more healthy and happy family thank you very much for your opportunity and i really hope that you really really really reconsider rights in the fund because it's very very important you have a lot of n t houses in this city and you have wonderful if you ever want to meet with one of those time with they summarize the present thank you very much thank you ok i have no one else signed up to speak on this public hearing is there anyone who didn't neglected to sign up come up and tell us your name thank you good evening madam president city council members mayor mccarthy you all have a very hard job i recognize that sitting here for the first time i'm glad i'm on this side of the podium because you have a very difficult position certainly as leaders in our city so thank you probably can name my name is john sharp from the executive director of habitat for humanity of schenectady county thank you for this opportunity as you know habitat work successfully in partnership with the city of schenectady and the capital region land bank to help provide safety center affordable housing to low income working class families right here in schenectady today habitat has helped forty four families achieve  home their dream of homeownership all of which are first time homeowners schenectady habitat brings together volunteers donors corporate partners to build homes and strengthen the backbone of our community which is what we're all here to do and the schenectady central school district on behalf of our homeowners and our nonprofit organization in two thousand and fifteen we expect to pay more than one hundred fifty thousand dollars in taxes and we're happy to do so it's spring construction season and we have five more projects to accomplish this year with your help we can add three more houses to those five carry street townhome construction project they were seeking funding for will allow us to build three more town homes on kerry street on land that will be donated by the capital region land bank this project is modeled after the capital district habitat sites successful townhome projects in albany and troy you know them  in hollow and fox hollow habitat for humanity is requesting an increase in our home funding for this project i want to share with you that our habitat families are diverse and the majority of them were right here in our community at ellis hospital at price chopper our habitat homeowners work at stewards and county community college and m v p health care at union college and manufacturing lines here in the city and local banks and schools habitat makes the american dream of homeownership more affordable accessible and diverse habitat homeowners reduce the blight in our neighborhoods and i also want to share that in addition to a thirty year mortgages zero percent interest habitat homeowners enjoy reduced energy bills because of our homes our energy star server i'd peace of mind knowing that their construction meets local and state colds improved health habitat families have fewer incidents of obesity asthma and diabetes stability imagine no more moving from apartment to apartment imagine not having to change school jens sign up because i didn't intend to speak but i don't know about the rest of you know i have goosebumps all i am i'm just blown away by the stories i heard here tonight  there right after the incident at the high school that now i'm plus and all of those children need to be exposed to that program o albany straight because it is the best that you can offer it's just that it's just a just there's no excuse for running about and dot dot to excel in the city of schenectady thank you thank you anyone else place portable housing and things but it's very hard to do that if you don't have a job as good at that is there but and i think that many of these things are geared towards so in a system middle class where those only work in innovations we have a lot of young people out there today that some have dropped out of school or whatever and but they have no trades they have no way of supporting themselves and that's why we find so many that are wondering the streets today  a way that they help to for them to become north or contractors or get into a trade to be supportive it's one thing to always feed someone and therefore become just a to it but it's always better for them than learn how to feed themselves and therefore i believe we have to give them some sort of skills that may help themselves to get up i'm pretty sure everyone is sitting in this council here that came up t trade or a job or skill support themselves before you got here and that at the same mechanism that everybody needs therefore they need these skills to help themselves so my tap is there even though we have come very short on funding staffing is moving but yet we have are trying to touch a lot of these young individuals that want to be contractors there see their contractor but they're really not the really kind of semi tradesman but because they lack the deceptive it kids and things that they need in order to be for some of these jobs but i really think we really need to get invasions working in the city in a way we can do that is there some for them to find some sort of trade even going through the apprentice courses and things we have projects that are coming up and that is coming up we talk about the casino and things the building but who's going to build those and therefore if we have the opportunity to put those individual in those positions to feed themselves they must do that because as they go beyond the some of the ages that they are now doors close i run into individual or were grandmothers are trying to put kids out of the house and they're in their thirty's but they have no skills have no ability so i'm just saying that we need to keep some devices in the ear and order to prevent a lot of things from happening we have too many young people they're just walking a settling in the streets today and i think that we find a way to get some of them even if a small percentage therefore to get them trade whatever to be independent there for a lot of some of this may go away so i really hoping that if we find some way that we may help them make their program whatever help us work to get some of the individual the street will be greatly appreciated thank you thank you anyone else one more person please hi my name is jordan i work for a better neighborhood as a part time pre purchase housing counselor and i know we've talked a lot about it tonight but i wanted you folks to know what we do as counselors is not just a group education things like that we offer one on one consultations where we see clients many many times sometimes it takes as years to get from point a to point b point b being homeownership the first thing we do when people come in is we pull their credit we work on a budget we figure out ways to find money within their budget so that they can address their credit issues because ninety nine percent of people come in with major credit or fifteen thousand dollars you wonder how can that happen they have medical collections of five six thousand dollars these are huge obstacles when it comes to homeownership so we get through all of that that we figure out how much of a house that they can afford based on their income and their debt ratios things like that so it's not job and i love my job i love going to it every day i'm very fortunate so please keep the funding coming up thank you thank you anyone else if not i'm going to declare the public hearing close on and want to thank everybody for taking the time to come down and communications presented to the city council for monday april twenty seventh two thousand and fifteen from the mayor list of appointments dated april twenty seventh two thousand and fifteen i letter from william winkler dated april thirteenth two thousand and fifteen recommending the contract for electronic waste recycling be awarded to son k under general a letter from the upper union street city representative city council representative model and door notifying the city of her resignation  petitions there are none thank you and there are any committee reports yes thank you madam president i just wanted to report that the recreation advisory commission which is really not part of health and recreation health and recreation but we been working with them has started their inventory of the parks that they said they would schedule so it started on the twenty first and so far they've been five parks that they've done the inventory of take a look at the what's going on in the parks and what needs to happen and i'm really pleased to say that it's going very well they have a very aggressive schedule that they have planned and they they are moving forward with it there were two planned three planned for this past week but because of the weather  maybe so and so they continue to do that and i also want to commend the recreation advisory commission because they're taking their job very seriously to actually go out there look at it and i have a video and pictures of them trying out the equipment so that's all going to be part of the report when we're all finished with this so i just want folks to know that they are they are coming to the parks all over the city and we welcome people to come to it to do it when they're in there when they're in their neighborhood and if you want to know when they're going to be in your particular neighborhood you can get in touch with the city and they can let you know i can tell you that the parks they've done so far steinman's kilberg carry street in the south and park and couple parks like i never even saw before so i was it was kind of a thing to be able to go out with them and also woodland park so you know the recreation vizor commission is doing a great job and we want to continue to continue to work with them so that by the summer our parks are in shape that we want them to be and thank you very much thank ryan bailey for we had an excessive force notice a claim filed against the city by playing a little hard ball and showing that we were going to take it to court the they decided to drop their notice of claim so i think that's good that's a heads up that's a savings for us and thank you for you know holding the line and keeping these claims down it's really important thank you thank you anyone else if not we'll move to privileges the floor related to the legislative agenda i have one person signed up to speak and that's jason plank  one item is item number one this is a continuation from an item back in november the twenty six the two down into the two and a half million dollars for the roundabout at that time we had said that you needed to have in the contract minority participation persons with disabilities compliance with sex of five or three an apprenticeship program the corporate counts come back to said we don't need to hire minorities we don't need to hire a person with disabilities we don't need to have an apprenticeship program we don't need to adjust the contract and you guys went ahead and proved it two and a half million dollars for the federal money tonight you're a peruvian another six hundred thousand to about three point four million dollars of complete federal money again you did not even read change the contract to reflect to make sure that minority participation personally disability compliance with five a three in apprenticeship program is put in place again this is an oversight we need to create jobs within the city of schenectady we need to create jobs that are for the minority participation and this is a tantamount to legal malfeasance by the city attorney this is a federal law it's been in all facts bible three it's been a fact since  ninety eight the affirmative action just had its fiftieth anniversary of title seven just last year i mean fifty one americans with disabilities act will have its twenty fifth anniversary july the twenty sixth of this year with these are programs that have already been backed and we just can't keep ignoring them and that's exactly what's happening and we need to re of a great these programs thank you thank you i have no one else to to speak to the legislative agenda i'll declare that closed and take them entertain a motion to approve the legislative agenda mr ag cited by mr cocksure on favre i will now move to privilege as a floor regarding city business i have ten people signed up to speak anthony kara council over the last two to three years have given contractors developers and business owners anywhere between twenty five to fifty percent off of their home assessment of their businesses  we need a reassessment within the city so i'm hoping that people will start doing more because if there are more homeowners do assessments than there benchley the city is going to have to be able to go back in and redo assessments also two men  present if you can let the mare in the ms office know on what street i mean there are grand canyons in the road on greeley right in front of home depot there are i mean there are holes i mean a semi truck to fall you get to west mester there are cracks right in the center and even one of the manholes about to fall and on went west mr which is the alley which is the that the trucks trucks drive and there's big huge holes there putting you guys on notice that these have got to be done i mean these are this whole entire section of it you've got the the high school that's right there you know and i mean we've got also we have a truck driver that is parking just opposite of home depot and you can see where they tire indentions of where that where he's parking and everything else sometimes it's wal mart truck sometimes a target so it's an independent truck driver to bring in the trucks and so hopefully we can be able to get this resolved thank you thank you see it's michael and i'm having trouble reading the last name  connected he for over sixty years with a family business i'm here to talk about the roads i know you've heard about everything about roads every day but first thing is the i want to get to the miscellaneous part of the roads is we have two problems down there euclid avenue it's right near where your grandmother lives you filled in one hole but you have two going towards go one better dip in and if that is a part that's going to be a problem down the road because these people were run over that hole and they were must have been gas leaks or water main breaks but they have to be one was patched patched and in front of it was right near your grandmother's house and that stayed but going down the road there's too soon you come off a go an avenue and then there's another one right right where rob jackie heard lives there dip in ok second thing you you have people that are parking on the left side of that road and you can't see the traffic coming towards four corners it's a blind spot one day i want to price chopper cut through hegan ministry and i come back and there's a big accident because of that blind spot you can't see that traffic coming there and maybe these people could park on hagman street on the other side of human street maybe they can do that but you shouldn't put any parking there should be any parking there because it's just it's such a dangerous spot ok now to the good stuff i read in the paper that you know some of the roads that are being could be repaved and i noticed some roads that don't need to be paving and that comes to hell to mine avenue to get to maybe chrysler ave to go to price right all of these or whatever home depot that road will not last we're lucky if it lasts another year with the bridge closed the sheltering them avenue bridge close and vehicles will be damaged from that it's just a constant constant bounce and on the side and on some parts of that row there are potholes it is just a terrible road we're lucky if we get another year winter out of that road all right now there's other roads we were street in front of that we were street edison avenue in front of the g e main gate which is a terrible road may be missed brazos since street you could check out philip street philip street is it is a forgotten street in bellevue and there's only two two places on phillip street that are residents one where the i call it the panic a house because i'm from growing up and then you have begin to be roofing and you just summarize your time is up ok all right but that is the that is the that is the other problem and quickly broadway broadway maybe you could lower the speed limit on broadway to make it last because i know you're going to broadway is on the list you can make it last maybe if you lower the speed limit there is not one speed limit sign on broadway checked it today going from bellevue reform church all the way down to the town of rotterdam lynell summarized very quickly there's not one speed  on that road maybe if you can lower the speed limit to twenty five because there are businesses there there are two family houses there are kids playing on that road maybe you could put children's play in children's you know slow down children playing all right but these are time is to me to make it last maybe you should slow down the speed limit and limit the weight limit on the trucks or the size of the trucks record go broadway thank you thank you thank  good evening madam president of the council of nicaea here with local resident i'm up here just to talk again about potholes had asked me to speak tonight about some potholes and how milton hill because he couldn't be here he was it an awards dinner and i won't be labor the point since we all know there are potholes i have some pictures of the whole eminent climb and there are several on that intersection i was there about eleven thirty this morning and i drove over one very slowly and if i didn't speed i would have had  quality truck and i know margaret has called twice about these potholes and nothing's been done i also understand there's a meeting tomorrow night about potholes so maybe somebody on the council could announce that i didn't know about it but that's just told me so i just want to hand out the pictures and hopefully these can be fixed before somebody has a bed problem with their car thank you thank you john how  many madam president counsel opportunity to go to a very special event the women of distinction put out by assemblyman santa barbara and particular to residents of our city to active people in our and neighborhood revitalization if we really want to encourage economic growth building our tax base and improving our quality of life we need to really deal with these issues and i wholeheartedly support the legislation and i would encourage anybody who is really interested in neighborhood revitalization to do so as well thank you thank you meeting so you'll have something to look forward to and listening to all these organizations coming before you like can stop this from thinking and coming up with some ideas and suggestions and possibly you've done some of these things but what i would like to see if you haven't then you've got a full plate i know many things to do and you don't need other ideas and work but if someone could put together all these organizations on the list that have come before you as the first step second step would be in my mind if you can get the let's called c e o s or the heads of all of the groups into one general meeting of how and what they're doing to see where there's overlapping or where they can cooperate more with each other and this is an idea of had years ago when i did have my business downtown and trying to get enough for profit heads together to see because i saw a lot of repetition going on and not as many people being served or youngsters being served that could be the third thing would be then taking this list and maybe at some point publicizing it and who and where people could make donations to and i was thinking if the city would consider accepting some kind of donations for each one of these lists and then disseminating it to those organizations it's another problem for you and another burden and maybe that wouldn't be the answer but there is money out there i feel from individuals and things who would like to donate if it could be clearly identified to the general public what each organization does and how it interacts into the city as a whole i think there needs to be more coordination not necessarily for you to do it but you have the ability to contact someone who has that ability to put this more together all these groups there's many groups and some have mention they didn't know about the other group or didn't know what they were doing etc etc etc as i said i think there's a lot of youth that is not being served or being looked at to try to get them involved in some of these groups they don't have an understanding of what these groups do where they are how to contact them and you need some way to get into the neighborhoods to seek out some youth in the schools and i think you have to bring more people together into one kind of a meeting maybe once every two months or whatever but there needs to be more coordination from what i was listening to as an outsider here thank you thank you i have no one else signed that's going to declare this portion of the meeting closed will move to miscellaneous business job training agency we have extended our deadline for summer youth employment applications they're now being accepted till may twelfth and the county legislature tomorrow is receiving additional funding for another one hundred jobs will be about three hundred plus jobs in the entire county that would be available to our youth ages fourteen to twenty the application drop some applications up downstairs in their own lobby they're also available online to disconnect the county dot com website into involve operating machinery landscaping the dog licenses that we're talking about down in his community is some folks on their road repairs and we were just short of young men and women between the ages of twenty of eighteen and school district board president scott the city school district believe or not is looking for a pair of professionals and teacher's aides there's an application on line that's due by this wednesday april twenty ninth and it was a big ad in the a does that sunday and that's how i happen to see it and it's quite simply just need a high school diploma or ged and again they're taking applications until the april twenty ninth so please if you're interested in that contact us going to city school district and go to their web site thank future and so it is important that we do as much as we can to try to make sure that they have someplace safe to go and also have affordable housing sell we're going to have to figure all of this out i'd like to say thank you to the marriage for  the press conference today to support the attorney general's abandoned property neighborhood really fact that was able to be at the press conference and i can tell you that you left a very happy neighborhood there to know that something its story getting started so i'm looking forward to that moving forward throughout the city so that you know we can just move forward and all the wonderful things in revitalization of the communities throughout all parts of the city i'd like to announce that this saturday is i love my s day it's going to begin at eight a m for those ambitious people and will end it for it p m there are a few parks and i'll name them that are listed central park jerry burrell park simons park riverside park start at ten a m until there's no end time so again folks who want to come out i believe the weather is going to be a lot better on saturday than it has been no snow flakes so it's my part day let's all get out there do some work in our parks in our respective neighborhood for those who don't have a park in your neighborhood i welcome you to come to park i'll be there thank you thank you anyone else ok thank the council for the resolutions tonight in support of the zombie property bill the option for health care consolidation and county level for efficient lighting state level also supporting that application for a micro grid proposal within the city of schenectady councillor porterfield pointed out saturday and try and do some things in the parks get him cleaned up a little bit and hopefully the weather will break and it will actually be the  beginning of a pleasant spring rolling into a very nice summer i want to thank everyone who came out tonight appreciate their input as you know the cd b g money makes a big difference in so many programs and so many organizations and that of course in washington congress has been cutting that back in the share in we're dealing with more reductions from last year so it makes it more