all right i'd like to call the city council caucus meeting to order the clerk would read item number one on the agenda item number one for original consideration a resolution calling for a public airing relative to a local law amending chapter one three eight section c one thirty eight dash ninety four of the charter of the city of schenectady to set fees republicans public assembly inspections introduced only with a local law calling for a public airing on monday june tenth two thousand and thirteen at seven p m at council chambers room two zero nine schenectady city hall one hundred five j street schenectady new york discussed in committee without objection on consent item number two item number two a resolution authorizing the commissioner of finance to increase the capital budget code designated specifically for the chips fund by the amount of one million one hundred seventy eight thousand two hundred thirty four dollars and one thousand cents discussed in committee without objection on consent item number three item number three a resolution authorizing the acceptance of audit results for fiscal year two crane street from the schenectady urban renewal agency rights was discussed in committee without objection on consent item number five item number five a resolution accepting title two for forty six brandywine avenue from the schenectady urban renewal agency without objection on consent item number six item number six a resolution amending resolution two thousand and thirteen dash sixty two reflecting the proper s p l number for eight story also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number seven i don't number seven a resolution accepting title to eleven zero eight albany street from the schenectady urban renewal agency and discussed in committee without objection on consent item number eight item number eight a resolution establishing a moratorium on halfway houses also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number nine item number nine a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of four forty six brandywine avenue consisting of s p l number forty nine point three six there to dish thirteen discussed in committee without objection on consent item number ten item number ten a resolution authorizing the transfer of title to fifteen zero to crane st consisting of s p l number forty nine point seven one dish five dish fourteen also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number eleven item number eleven a resolution authorizing the issuance of a revokable permit number five seven six to union college for a community board to be placed throughout the city of schenectady within various city rights of way also discussed in committee without objection on consent and in number twelve item number twelve a resolution authorizing the settlement of attacks surf concerning six twenty one union street discussed in committee without objection on consent item number thirteen item number thirteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or sure wary concerning eleven ninety seven glenwood boulevard again discussed in committee without objection on consent item number fourteen item number fourteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or surely concerning twenty three o two broadway discussed in committee without objection on consent number fifteen item number fifteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of a claim by rocco palmer for the amount of nine thousand dollars discussed in committee without objection on consent item number sixteen item number sixteen a resolution recognizing the contributions of the schenectady community action program scap and designating a as community action month write this resolution to be taken out of order miss porter feel that that number seventeen item number seventeen under contract and supply a resolution awarding the bid contract for the city of schenectady two thousand and thirteen paving program parts want to say one b and one say in the amount of one million one hundred eighty two thousand two hundred twenty dollars and sixty cents to empire paving of schenectady also reviewed in committee without objection on consent and item number eighteen item number eighteen a resolution to award a contract for hot in place recycling person went to the county wide bid process to the highway rehabilitation corporation again discussed in committee without objection on consent all right item number eighteen a is being held it's not actually going to be referred back to committee so we will not deal with that tonight is there anything else to call to order the city council meeting for may twenty ninth twenty thirteen ask you to please rise for the invocation which will be given by reverend purcell richter from the first unitarian society let us oh god of one creation week if for this day these leaders our city and its citizens and your call to each of us to serve in our own way may we do so humbly keeping before us the greater good of our community we pray that this council governed by working from wisdom wisdom from open minds and hearts wisdom from facts and figures wisdom from the voice of the people they serve we pray this citizens and office holders from all neighborhoods as people of good will commit working for the prospering of the whole city in your infinite love guide us in your ways of compassion grant us courage and strength for the challenges that we face and we pray this in the many names by i think i'd like to invite the continue from skeptic come on up behind the rail see if we have enough room for you community action month whereas may is national community action month and whereas the community action program skep is the federally designated inside poverty agency agency with city of schenectady and whereas since that the mayor and the city council hereby designate may as community action month in the city of schenectady and pause in their deliberations to recognize the presence in many contributions of the schenectady community action program and the city congratulations and i just want to say it's really a pleasure to be able to present the resolution because for a long time we've been neighbors on the same street for business for different years and so i know the worker you do personally and i want to add my personal thanks for all that you do for the community thank you we're really appreciative of this honor commemorating may as community action month this year marks forty eight years the schenectady community action program has been providing services to the community we are one hundred twenty employees strong with eighty five percent of our employees living in schenectady not only do a majority of our employees live in schenectady our employees work here every day purchasing services and goods from restaurants and shops and local retailers are volunteers live and work here as well contributing not only to scabs mission but integrating our work into their daily lives and contributing to making schenectady a better place to live and work for all of us that's why we're thrilled to be here today except in this recognition from you all and to share with you the roll out of our long story short campaign which old is holding up our proud poster to we want you to know there is hope for and poverty hope demonstrated through the stories of people like crystal who is featured here crystal is working and living in schenectady earning an income that supports her and her son with a plan to advance her career and give back to her community there are many people like crystal these are their stories our stories and schenectady stories and we thank you for forty eight years of support from the mayor and the council  that has enabled us the volunteers and employees of scap to be a part of these stories so thank you very much for having us here today we really appreciate it and thank you marian it's been a long time we've been working alongside of you for a long time we're thrilled that you're on the council along with all the other members that online communications presented to the city council for wednesday may twenty ninth two thousand and thirteen under official from the mayor list of appointments dated wednesday may twenty ninth two thousand and thirteen  letter addressed to the honorable mayor city council from christopher wall and city engineer dated may twenty first two thousand and thirteen recommending the city of schenectady two thousand and thirteen paving program parts one a one b and one  be awarded to empire paving of schenectady new york in the amount of one million one hundred eighty two thousand two hundred twenty dollars and sixty cents this work is to be charged with two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve g funding the two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen chips and two thousand and twelve paving a letter to the honorable mayor and city council from christopher wall and city engineer dated may twenty third two thousand and thirteen recommending the hot in place recycling contract be awarded to highway rehabilitation corporation of brewster new york in the amount of two hundred ninety eight thousand five hundred twenty seven dollars this work is to be charged to the capital budget code that will be specified specifically designated for chip's funding under general a letter received from the grout park advisory committee outlining graue park weekly usage under petitions a petition from the groud park advisory committee tri city cricket club and schenectady cricket association respected respectfully requesting the city to reconsider its decision to consolidate all cricket activities to grout park this year asking me what does it mean does that mean we're out of the woods i mean we should you know pop some champagne and celebrate i just wanted to make a few comments in terms of where i think it kind of translated to somewhat layman terms we came out of the end of two thousand and twelve with a surplus which is better than a deficit obviously right so that is that is a step in the right direction i don't necessarily think it's time to celebrate that we're out of the woods and happy days are here again  but clearly having surpluses is something that we strive for we want to we budget and you try to aim for the budget but when you're spending ninety million dollars to run a large organization like a city you know you're not a land to the penny so you budget and coming out close the budget is good and the up on a surplus is as good as well so some of the reasons why we ended up with a surplus you know there's a lot of puts and takes in that calculation but the couple the major points that i want to point out was the mayor was able to control very effectively a lot of the spending last year of two thousand and twelve and you know we've always struggle with that because there's always more needs and always more causes but able to keep a handle on the spending was one reason and the other is an increase in revenues by the mayor doing a wonderful job of collecting back taxes and we have a lot of people and when we budget there's uncollectable taxes and i think last we budget around fifteen percent if i recall for our collectible taxes and those are people who just don't pack and normally you know the rest of us we fear the consequences but the city for quite a number of years had no consequences and so the mayors clamp down on that and said you don't pay or lose your house or your property and it convinced a bunch of people to come up and pay a lot of the back taxes along with the back taxes we got some interest in penalties and so that helped increase some of the rather is for the year and so will that happen against next year i'm sure there'll be some more people that will pay will have a better flexibility rate but probably not such a huge inflow of cash as we did this year too there is a lot of other things but edged i want to touch on a couple of the ones that i think were were you know important to highlight and so i think we've got a lot more work to do we need to be diligent and we need to be frugal and we need to make sure that we're creating value for the tax dollars that we have by continuing to clamp down and really control spending and make sure that everybody who lives in the city participates by paying their taxes on the road and i think those are the two key elements to move onto a different topic again what we dealing with tonight is  is road paving and on the agenda or on the plan that we have we have a five point five lane miles of surface that would be paving the share and la really half the roads if you think it's not five miles of road it's that's about two and a half or two point seven miles because there's two sides of the road that's plain miles of surface we're utilizing several methods for paving one is where we grind up the surface and lay down a new layer sometimes we lay down two layers there's the recycling which we've been using more in the last few years where we actually send equipment over that heats it with big  torches we kind of mix it up a little bit add some more oil and then really roll it which is a recycling process which is quite a bit less expensive and people have talked about how long the last compared to the other methods but inside walks i think that is probably one of the more important things that we can do in a lot of the neighborhoods because a lot of the neighborhoods the curbs are deteriorated almost completely there are some roads that have hardly any remnants of having curbs and i think that it's important that we we're punished that we're asking people to invest in our community we're investing people to maintain their house and invest money in their house to make it worth more money we need to do the same nobody wants to invest in something that's worn out and so i think it's critical that we invest in our infrastructure the trouble with there yes the one challenge we have is if we look at the cost of repairing curbs and sidewalks if you know the best image that we've got this year if you do the math that works out to about three hundred fifty three dollars a foot and so if you have a property that is s thirty foot wide it would cost about ten thousand five hundred ninety five dollars to do curbs and sidewalks on the roadway in front of your thirty foot piece of property house that pays one hundred thousand dollars or the house that assessed four hundred thousand dollars pays approximately thirteen hundred and taxes and city city property tax not counting the fees not school not county and so if you divide it out you know a rough numbers it could take eighty some odd years to pay off that that infrastructure investment and so therein lies a problem and we need to figure out how we're going to solve that in terms of paying for it and so you know i think i would ask that their fellow council members the mayor's office and members of the public kind of think about that and how we invest but i think it could be challenging is if we're not going to invest in be able to repair all the old sidewalks and curbs in a relatively short period of time we're going to be paying you know the taxes and people  to be contributing for this fee for this expense yet they may not realize the benefit on their street for ten or fifteen years down the road in there are neighborhoods that don't have curbs and sidewalks so i think there's we need a mechanism to pay for this investment i think th investment is critical for the growth of the city so i ask is more of a discussion point to begin discussions to say what's the best way to do this and job throw that out there as well so thank you very much ok thank you and he had the committee reports all right if not i'll declare that portion of the meeting highlights and we will move on to privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda i have one person signed up to speak and that's mar number twelve according to the comprehensive plan one of the goals for all the city's neighborhoods is beautification i fail to see how a community board pulled around on wheels and brought to one day good after another will add to the city's beauty in the past union college students helped have helped to beautified the city by planting flowers and painting bridges but their new proposed project won't beautified anything if the students want a community board they ship put it on campus and invite the community to go there to write on it i would vote no on the site  thank you thank you yes thank you i had a couple of questions that i asked last week when we were going over the audit and missed each and all was running it all over and before the council meeting started she clarified a few things but again my problem with this is the end or fun transfers is a big problem do we have the correct documentation because these are large large transfers four and a half million dollars worth and for that to be support services for these two funds i'd like to see the documentation for this because it's very high and it does skew the audit and it skews our surplus or not surplus at the end of the year so i'm very concerned about that and as a matter of fact the comptroller's report that we all got this past week it states and to kempsey the comptroller had concerns about that went out the correct documentation the documentation is what is very important and i'm for sure this year  when we go to budget i'd like to see the documentation for these transfers i realize it's an estimate but it's supposed to be for support services that the city provides to that fund that's a separate fund it's a separate taxing rate for that taxpayer may want to want to sue the city over something like this so it's something i think we have to have in the other point was if we paid the retirement fund our portion of it six weeks early we would have gotten a one percent discount and that amounts to one point nine million dollars that's seventy thousand dollars that's somebody salary for sure and then some so why that wasn't done i know that was right at the time when there was a transfer of leadership in the finance department it may have been a oversight a may have been done to keep the one point nine in the two thousand and twelve budget on the on the plus side which it could have been but that cost a seventy thousand dollars and again that's like anthony ferrari salary in itself so those things we shouldn't be overlooking i just feel that it's important and so with that and since i don't have the documentation to prove this i am going to vote no just on principle thank you thank you perspective anyway we have some real issues i can't wait to september to that two thousand and twelve paper comes out people go to jail because on i've got a lot of bodies in micro macro economics and i understand exactly how to take money doesn't really just you know all police arrest someone not with only two convictions one of my donnie cochran without a law degree going against going against the district attorney over here carney the guy the reigning champion that's been here for twenty five thirty years that just just happens to decline to prosecute every official that breaks the law around here every official and then people say oh i won't share my evidence when i say it's right here give me a call give me a call and not only that when i for a lot of foil to get it in there is for oil numbers attached to i got this evidence from you how will i not share something that i received from you how my supposed to take the oversight in this city seriously when nobody is really really it hearing to procedure or document in the complaints and they're being buried left and right you know in in you know what i want i want g e to give me a fishing license because i can't even eat the fish out of this trashy river because it's been damaged to the point and not only that when people are trying to do things in this place productively like play a game of cricket and people are telling them they need to get off the field and you're someone parcels of land that belong to schenectady as public you know district a resident of schenectady and you're sick and tired of the box reappear and the cynical opportunism in this incestuous way of everybody knows each other everybody blows each other trust me i don't care i'm telling you i want to apologize to anybody who was offended and i left my girlfriend and i'm going to just donate all my time one a one b and whatever's put it in a more sinister he always seems to be overlooked for some reason or another again last year i complained about the dirt that was piled on the old shallot building i can tend to my understanding that they did that because they were breaking in cemetery i take care that lot of forty three worse history which they dumped the dirt last year and to get that was kind enough to do an article on it my point is that we are going on a year later and we have a something think about i mean i don't care i understand well the low poll it's not a heavily traveled street or whatever but you know i have surveillance cameras and you can watch the traffic that comes up good turns around there are not  contract that maybe at least maybe do some of the street which we were promised last fall into last spring last year and we were again forgotten about saw hope the city find some way some resource good evening everyone i leave it to five zero five pennsylvania avenue in the city here and i say home happy with the city disconnect here but except for one thing i went down to o g s in december about a tree that's on the corner of the property mine in the neighbor's house next door this tree roots are up rooting my sidewalk in my driveway the roots are coming through the driveway i've paved it three times and roots still come through i went to o g s they come up to look at it and they said yup it's archery i said fine i said what are we going to do well we'll let you know in a few days so january comes around i go back down t which he has they send somebody up take more pictures one gentleman car of that import said you know he took pictures i'll let you know in a couple days i never heard anything february march the same thing i went oh g is telling me now file a claim against the city why it's not what i want of though i just wanted this tree removed because it is destroying my property it's overrun the curb the left part of my driveway is now seventeen and a half inches up from the curb on this side it's three and a half this size seventeen the bottom of my car seems every time i pull in and out of the driveway it's already sheared off the bolts of my old car and i had to get rid of his way to buy a new one that's fine mr poser i'd talk to your office to an attorney car on he told me well go get a permit from the city engineer department bust up the sidewalk cut the roots i said well them trees going to that he's all of it dies it dies and he says if it dies it dies it's going to fall on either my house the neighbor's house a school bus going by or or whatever i can't get anybody from the city is can they give you give me an answer about taking this tree that across the street at five twelve three years ago exact same problem occurred with a tree they were up within two weeks took it down five seventeen three doors away from me steve all those doors house same problem the tree that the city owned on the curb pushed his driveway up so high he couldn't even get in his driveway they cut the tree down i've been dealing with this tree for three years and i've been asking the city please can you do something i'm not getting anywhere so now i'm here because the attorney carle told me just bust the sidewalk up cut the roots and kill the tree i mean i'll take care of the sidewalk because it's my responsibility if i was a homeowner but if a child's walking up the street journal night and doesn't see that this is seventeen inches up he's going to trip and fall who's going to get sued not the city although it's the city's tree it's my property next to it and if i get sued by my insurance company the home the insurance company from the city sent me a letter saying that they were going to you know stake  yes it is mother nature but my sidewalk is destroyed ok i thank you for your comments and will make someone follows up on this and thank you thank you joy hall hey we got to know the big problem every time the streets flood they need to clean up the drains and just like he said about the tree it cut these trees done that destroying people's property and making it unsafe for anybody to walk on the sidewalks in the driveway or whatever because something's got to be done with something dogs happen back and i want to see the drains cleaned out arab part s an avenue everywhere they gotta be cleaned out before anybody gets the car gets flooded or whatever try to get through it up stage three to go all the way they need  for even on bellevue first of all at the last meeting i was asking for some information on the bridge oak street bridge and all i got was that it was unsafe but i was very disappointed to see in a paper that it's going to be years so i don't and we got our flag up so i want to thank them and some other things that they did up there that i'm not going to mention thank you thank you the usage of quick it feels in schenectady our organization was formed in two thousand and six how the membership before teams and we grew the twelfth feeds and we used to play cricket in central park on four i'll be we're told that central park among present park is not would not be available to us to pick cricket all the cricket has to be played in grant park oh god park is  accommodate all the cricket that the solicitation has to offer we have to rough teams and there is hardball going on there at the same time on sunday is that the organization has been playing for over the past six years since the formation of the organization in two thousand and six all new teams being formed so dear are we are growing in membership i just point in time we have to restrict our membership to what we have because of the of the l ability of fields some guy in the us moved here to schenectady because of the fact that the arm laundered there were cricket league sub here and you can bring their favorite pastime here and raise their families here and send their kids to school and stuff  we also have a kid's academy of about forty kids which the parents keep calling the kids keep call in since the beginning of the year ben are we going to start a kid's academy i no answer for these kids nor to nor to families and all that cricket would keep the kids off the road and also at the same time it would keep them healthy you know all we live here we raise a family   we play a central part for over six years seven years now and we lose in central park we lose in mount pleasant park this city told us we can play cricket  somebody's going to get injured or softball got over one hundred forty fifty members there you cannot put one hundred fifty members in one park ok it's all us we can go on please cricket outside thirty right i don't think that's fear i live in schenectady for twelve years now i've been a taxpayer for eleven years now i've been paying taxes i don't see why we should go over the weekend to destroy it they went there and they planned grass on our pitch you i believe we have some of the kids that wanted to speak yes not the mayor council president council members and city residents my name's under crandon i live in the city it's an unusual situation we have here we have people comes to the podium and are actually asking for more time at the parks there's a childhood obesity problem in this nation and we are encouraging physical activity monitor youth and here in schenectady we seem to be denying a large portion of our population and to do that i think we really need to reconsider the situation there's another couple of community events that i'd like to bring into our attention and that's going to have a free cancer screening on june eight nine o'clock the screening will be for breast and colorectal prostate and cervical cancer you can call else hospital for more information appointments are encouraged and will be college campus and then this saturday there's going to be cleanup at the dog park in central park so bring your rapier broom when your energy and your four legged friends will thank you on a less pleasant issue the city wants to borrow three million dollars from future c d g money i don't like the idea of putting the demolition of the houses and the property clean up of d s s and not stray all in one bill let's  separate the issues there are two different issues they should be considered separately thank you thank you d deborah remember here to talk about my program as a m p stamp schenectady tennis association meeting program that we're having here june twenty fifth seven as six thirty i will be back has the room and the library on ninety nine clinton avenue is committed in new york and contact me if you need to have any further details we will be having refreshments i will look forward to meeting people to come out and talk about their different problems people have called me on the phone to discuss these issues that they have with the email and however they need to make the meeting instead of calling me on the phone which i appreciate very well but i also need to come to the meetings to discuss your issues in person so that we may be able to help you better and i also wanted to say something about the housing situation i think is awfully terrible people constantly call me about different issues and one of them being housing debt i was told here recently that old lady had to leave her house after paying her mortgage for all her years and then she ended up having to leave because of the high taxes this is disgraceful we're all person who has been diligent in paying her a mortgage now the taxes are too high for her to live in her own home has to city the state everybody has to do better with these taxes these taxes or taxing people cleaning out of their homes and that's not fair for anyone to have to lose their home and evil renters like myself the landlord puts all the taxes on the printers and money goes up anymore all my rent it what am i going to do where am i going to live in my car i hope that won't have to happen we have to think about putting the last summer i stood here and told city council not to make the changeover from the private sector to the public sector regarding the operation of the water treatment plant citizen's worst shored the changeover would save the city a lot of money here it is less than one year later and the city is dealing with issues such as union wages jobs descriptions work classifications and so on operator  can't do operator number two stop operator number twelve can't do operation number nine stops as a result of the changeover one man had the qualifications and and expertise to supply water to every person plant and animal in the city water necessity and one man in this city controlled it until last week when quote his retirement came so the former employee who suddenly retired now wants to come back and a say contractor to help with problems others can't so that too was a quote until the end of the year and double dip for thirty thousand dollars so where are the savings for the changeover where is the positive for the city and the rub is that the man who retired has all the information about the operation of the treatment plant in his head because he designed the program he provided the software and he has the expertise you say get this situation at the water treatment plant is unacceptable and dangerous many people need to be trained and licensed to operate the plant not just one  big mistake when of voted for the changeover councils vote was not a plus for the city it was a negative thank you i don't make the negatives i just talk about them thank you thank you all right now i will ball back and forth on who's going to pay but my main concern right now is since this looks like this could be long lives in the commission i'm glad you're here and i talked to the mayor about it when we get into the bats weather season which i know it's only the end of may but you blink your eyes twice and it's going to be november we have to be sure when there's a problems with the weather and broadway hill becomes a little icy or anything like that since we don't have a fire station anymore and bellevue that we have a emergency vehicle parked up on top of the hill where they used to park it was in the c v s parking lot have a pumper up there or with paramedics aboard because people are at risk you know and that's the bottom line and we're going to be cut off from from basically any kind of emergency help if there is any kind of icing on the hill which it happens very fast on broadway hill so since there is no other way to get there i would  we could put this on the calendar we'll talk about it again but we want to make sure the people in bellevue and also hungry hell are protected because it's certainly a concern of theirs they had a lot of phone calls over this and anyhow what that a speaker just spoke about privatizing the wastewater treatment plant well this position has nothing to do with that whatsoever i asked that question a committee as you know you were there lafond said it's completely separate this is the water wells this is not the waste water treatment plant on the anthony street so this has nothing to do with it was never run by a private concern that part because that was my concern also but i wasn't on and so it just set the record straight with this whether this man is going to be hired or not that's another issue completely but it has nothing to do with i was never privatized the part that was the wastewater treatment plant that was privatized in the city took it back over and that was with the two thousand and eleven council just to set the record straight not the two thousand and twelve council thank you thank you thank you madam president i just want to talk about the visitors the cricket players that came in tonight to talk and i know i've talked to her several times quite a few years now with the same concerns and i know there's different groups playing cricket and but i think that you know there's a large enough population here that are looking for more fields and i understand that we have to share there's only so much space and there are other needs and there are other people who play other sports on similar fields but i'd like to see if we could have at one of our county meeting or council meetings or at a nother session of some sort where we could talk with jeremy and carlos and say what are all the different possible locations what's going out there and just to show us what the schedule is because at this point you know from when they come up and talk to us it sounds like they were playing a central park and i'm told they can't they were playing a growl and then they're in they're out of a move in the group around what's going into those spots when they're told they can't play there anymore is it just sitting vacant not used by anybody or is there are some other sport that's going in as they shuffle one sport or one group of people in with another and so i think we need to go through all the possible playing locations and h to have a better understanding of how can we utilize these maximize utilization as a city population grows and we have a young population with lots of kids and young families who want to activity it's critical that we provide this in one speaker made a good point this is their here their payment plan paying taxes we need to provide these services to people and i think that of all the services we provide providing a field for people to play cricket on is probably one of the less expensive options we have that could really make a bunch of people happy so i'd like to put on our agenda or some house set up a meeting so we can talk about this thank you thank you anyone else's point of view thank you i'd also like to mention about the cricket but come up with a plan to to handle those concerns so i think we should be well bit maybe try to be open to finding other field where they could play it's as as was said it's an activity for the children accused them of the street you know keep it's a family activity has families together so i think we should take a look at agreeing with my colleague we should take a look at how we could try to accommodate the group to be able to play other places as well i'd also like to mention something about a a program that it's he's a former professor from suny albany professor alvin magid and he's doing a program called reading is fun and it's focused on four year olds to learn how to read and he's looking for volunteers to come together to do this he wants to focus on every single four year old in the city of schenectady that is his goal to so that they learn how to read to teach their caretakers how to teach them to read and also to work with volunteers who will work on this program we know what we've been talking about the concern about children not being able to read and all that the ramifications of that and so he's come together program is looking for volunteers to do that he sent me an entire four page explanation of how the program would work which i'd certainly be willing to copy and share with all of you and it sounds like something that's really good and again it won't cost the city any money  but will be extremely beneficial to the residents of schenectady especially our children and lastly i'd like to announce that this saturday were having the second form on and poverty schenectady the first one was in may and it focused on the profound impacts of poverty and the poverty in child poverty in our community the second panel is going to focus on jobs and the dilemma of not having jobs and employment for persons in poverty within our communities so we have five speakers that will be coming including dr bullock from the community college will have the tele from the capitalistic area of labor federation jennifer lawrence from northeast parent child and nan delicious from the schenectady one stop and also a representative from the capital district community loan fund it will start at ten am at proctor state or in the guild room and go till twelve o'clock and it's open to the public there's no cost whatsoever and refreshments are provided so we invite people to come in to have a discussion about this about poverty in our community and not only about it but what we can do to help resolve it thank you very much thank you anyone else th ank you i just want to thank my colleagues for supporting the before i die board that is being worked on by union college it is actually a street art project that has gone international candy chang before i die she has a talk about how this board came about she is an artist in new orleans and took a decrepit building and painted the side of it with  chalkboard paint in invited people to come and reflect on what they would like to do before they die what their what their kind of public bucket list is so in collaboration with the college and proctors in downtown schenectady improvement will be keeping an eye on the board keeping it clean keeping it updated in certainly making sure that it's well secured and in the public's right away so i'm very excited i thank everybody for their support on it wonderfully engaged community oriented student is spearheading this is really quite quite impressive on her part i also want to just bring up that art of the umbrella has having an event on friday june seventh at six p m the umbrella organization helps to keep elderly people and disabled people in their homes living safely they have a safety check point they also provide handy person services at a very very discounted rate and also to different courier services and it's a very inexpensive ticket prices thirty five dollars to support the  the the organization and then they have different artists that donate all sorts of on brawler related art whether be jewelry or a painting or a lamp or whatever the case may be that you can that are auction off but regardless for thirty five dollars you can come and support the organization so contact umbrella of schenectady if you're interested in doing that and then as far as the cricket goes very often and i think we don't know about a problem until it's really a problem and i know that we had as a city dedicated grout park and really actually turned it over to the cricket leagues to improve as they saw fit without being aware that were kind of decreasing the number of wickets in other parks so certainly glad the conversation was brought to light and brought out in the open and i think you know we need to look at ways that we can increase people coming to the parks but that being said i think we also have experienced a lot of complaints from area neighbors in the central park area so we need to look at protecting our neighborhoods  also so i'm interested in having those discussions and seeing how we can compromise and come to a solution ok thank you anyone else ok commissioner bennett i should mention that the mayor is not here tonight because he got tied up in a very is the only other thing i want right i can right everybody have a saturday is kids arts festival starts at noon and four o'clock on j street hopefully we'll keep our fingers crossed about whether the rain location is here in city hall but it's always just a great event kids have so much fun doing all these creative artistic type thing the said lots of entertainment for them as well so we hope everybody will think about coming down and with that i want to take a motion