the agenda that originally went out there was a page that was in it incorrectly the version that is here now is correct but it still has two page fours but is correct is it right  page for no additional charge a three seven three providing for the creation and the ministration of land bans for the come version of they can abandon or tax delinquent properties into productive use can discus on the consent agenda signify by saying i any opposed item number six a resolution authorizing professional service contract with m j engineering and land surveying p c to perform a t and do you want to present that contract to well repairs seventeen a period on the consent agenda signify by saying i and he opposed seventeen be creator of all that exists lord of life itself we give you thanks that you have formed a good earth and that part of it we call schenectady we thank you for the country we live in for the men and women who make  great we thank you for our freedom and the chance to call your name we thank you for our family and friends or fake it for each breath we draw in each month year of life we rediscover you are living and loving god tonight we ask your blessings upon these men and women as they endeavor to serve the people of schenectady give them wisdom courage and insight in their deliberations empower them t govern with justice and dignity to night lord we are mindful of those who suffer from hunger poverty terrorism and war be with them lord and keep them sa percentage of the city council for monday june thirteenth official of the merits of appointments distributed june thirteenth from the department of water and waste a letter recommend in exceptions of the bed from and the amount of thirty two let's say you go across fifty four thousand in the amount of one thousand two hundred seventy dollars and then four cents and then the my with thirty two thousand three hundred sixty one dollars thirty six to ride public transportation to save money to protect their environment to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and improve the quality of life for all americans and i would just like to say before i begin reading this resolution i'm sure many of us based on what fuel costs are even though they've gone down a little that was certainly the opportunity to dump the pump so with that i'd like to read the resolution before whereas people who ride public transportation can save on average more than ten thousand dollars per year based on today's gas prices the cost of owning a car and the average under served parking rate and whereas for every one dollar invested in public transportation four dollars is generated in economic returns and whereas u s public transportation use reduces the count countries carbon footprint by thirty seven million metric tons the equivalent of one of four point nine million households using electricity in a year and whereas u s public transportation you saves four point two billion gallons of gasoline per year the ability of nine hundred thousand cars filling up every day and whereas public transportation is in use in four hundred thirty nine  areas in the united states saved over seven hundred eighty million eighty five million hours in travel time and six hundred forty million gallons of fuel in two thousand and nine and without public transportation congestion cost would have risen by nearly nineteen billion dollars so now therefore be resolved at the acting mayor here mccarthy and city council proclaim june sixth as national dump the pump day in schenectady and across the capital district transportation authority will join with us in other transit agencies across the country to participate in the six in will national dump the day to encourage people to use transit ridership on june sixth and therefore be a further resolve that the by using public transportation people can save money they could help the environment reduce dependence on foreign oil in approve america's quality of life and be of further resolve that public transportation is an important part of our nation's transportation system been a strong supporter of public transportation and recognizes that c t a service improvements in mobility project advancements help to keep people in jobs and are hard to be moving the national dumped at home promotions sponsored by the american public transportation association and presented by hundreds of transit agencies across the country is an awareness campaign to remind people of the positive benefits of taking public transportation which include huge commute cost savings in air quality improvements according to the latest abt a transit savings report individuals in a two person household can save an average of more than ten thousand dollars annually by downsizing to one car and the research also finds that a person with a twenty mile round trip commute which is around the average who switches to using public transportation can reduce his or her daily carbon emissions by twenty pounds per day or more than four thousand eight hundred pounds a year to encourage everyone to in the capital region to take that first step towards making our greener world so leave your heart home and right c t a even if it's just for one day then you'll see how affordable and being it riding public transportation really is this is for a resolution supporting schenectady city inner city ministries how healthy homes healthy people where as healthy homes healthy people is a unique three year environmental justice initiative funded by the new york state department of environmental conservation and coordinated by the schenectady inner city ministry in partnership with the first  to improve the environmental health of the city of schenectady particularly its low income residents and where as many common household products may cause significant threat to human health or the environment if not managed properly and where as many individuals not realizing the danger of many common products used in the home garage workshop yard and garden and door and not knowing what else to do keep hazardous products in their homes or dispose of these products in appropriately and where as left in the home these products may endanger the health particularly of children and pets additionally some hazardous products or flower well and may cause a fire not only to the individual residence where the product is stored but to nearby homes as well where as disposed of in appropriately these products pollute community land and water and where as healthy homes healthy people is helping to keep people safe in their homes by educating residents of the city of schenectady about the proper disposal of hazardous waste and encouraging the use of alternative not hazardous products and where as connected the county's program for collecting household hazardous products is located is at a site that is inconvenient for many inner city residents to travel to and where as healthy homes healthy people is encouraging residents throughout the city of schenectady to bring their have household hazardous waste for disposal free of charge to the parking lot of s emergency food pantry at eight thirty nine albany street on saturday june twenty fifth from ten a m to two p m now therefore be it resolved that the schenectady city council supports the efforts of sicamous healthy homesteaded homes healthy people project to educate citizens regarding the dangers of household hazardous waste and encouraging the use of all turnitin products and the safe disposal of toxic products and be a further resolved the schenectady city council encourages residents of the city is connectivity to bring their household hazardous waste disposal free of charge to the parking lot of sicamous emergency food pantry at eight thirty nine albany street on saturday june twenty fifth from ten and center for folks this side of the first fifty you come but i think our main point really is education to try to educate people more widely about what things are company around the house that we really need to carefully dispose of explosives that's always a good one ammunition large propane tanks medical waste or pharmaceuticals there will be a pharmaceutical action later this year and we'll have information about how dispose of all those things safely is that's like that  thank you very much for your thank you for doing this and good program and everybody should try to participate of the have everything in their house like to get rid of thank you thank you discussion next week we passed a resolution in support of the proposed changes to the new york state tax increment finance law that will help with the redevelopment of blighted areas of the city we also passed a resolution in support of the proposed changes to the new york state land bank legislation that will allow for creation of a local or enemy miscible nonprofit they can foreclose on problem properties and hold them free of all real property taxes and we authorized the mayor to enter into an agreement with c d t c to find a consultant develop an engineering and landscaping plan to reconstruct an enlarged liberty park across water street and this project is funded through a grant funds thank you for the other committee on line access to motor vehicle accident reports not only does this help with bringing us more into the twenty first century in terms of technology that is available out there for the police department but it also is going to free up staff which otherwise would be at windows me ending and trying to get those reports out to folks i think it'll be a lot easier for people not only for individuals who need x you reported spot also for insurance company and other individuals that also need access to those accident reports to be able to get them on lines this is a very good step forward from the police department within the city is connecting and it's going to have a positive impact on our revenue and free money for metroplex but actually it's not it's money that we get nervous sales tax and you know this is just another back door to avoid affirmative action also to iss ensnaring company do we have an affirmative action are they hiring people here locally in the city and also too is that they went out and actually looked and see if we had any qualified people here that live and work here in the city for this contract just because the developer depot we also back in two thousand and five two thousand five me had a contract with another building a kind of supply house in rotterdam we had some local people that are here locally in schenectady  never heard that i was very aware with of in a community i moved here from in the seventy's was late seventy's it was said they had a very active swat team and i've never heard of that around here and i ask it because of some of the buildings that have been constructed lately the fact that you have a story buildings you don't have a fire protection here that can adequately serve those that types of  buildings and so i was wondering if the police department here ever been trained in swat training and then number thirteen the healthy homes healthy people project  but anyway since i can't get to this facility that they're talking about and i do maybe once a year twice a year i have these items i've been told to wrap them properly so that they just different than the regular trash and mark on them sent to the transport transfer station which is what i had done so maybe that's how my bag of trash got to receive honorable mention but that's what i had been told by commissioner olsen just make sure that these items are for the transport transfers station so thank you thank you that concludes the individuals who signed up for the privilege of for dealing with the i have a concern about the eminent domain indication and my experience for what i've read and heard in the past has been that this is opposed to be beneficial to city schools counties and other local agencies and i haven't heard anything from this project was declared for him to do me when i don't know anybody who's really benefited from it except the company that's who who won the bid thank you thank you just some of the my residential and commercial development in the blighted area of the city so it meets these the textbook definition of public purpose for them the domain and these properties have been tied up in the estate of the owner who has been deceased for some years the the care of the owner is his sister in law his brother has really seized him under what will she use the air without the will there are nephews and nieces that are the heirs no one has pulled forward on the estate taxes or the build up and not concerns they had about this proposed project and that there was only one person we have through our administration in the city looked at this really carefully i believe that it isn't the best in the city due to the fact that we'd be looking into more lady job there to actually create some type of livable all conditions down there for folks to move into so all that being said i'm voting  piece to include everything it's kind of hard to do a kind of doing business with the county government or the city government without having any policies or procedures in place and average person is it will spend between three to four hours spend the three to four hours put in are why would you waste time we've got to develop policies and procedures in development that we call for an economic disparity study and this city council contracts are and you know just to have a box with a name names on the affirmative action for a list of local companies doesn't count for affirmative action you know that it's not about how many name a list it's actually how many contracts and what dollar amounts also part of your economic development is this developing jobs for one two three zero seven neighborhood i mean that is part of the economic policy you haven't gone out to the public and hold public hearings on you have done nothing to to be able to foster the direction at all and you know we've got to start creating jobs here locally and not have plans there's been no containment on the bugs the other thing is that speeding here in the city it's absolutely of a control i can understand going forty miles on the recall of yard but when you get on some of our rivers our streets in the city especially campbell  patrol cars up there every evening it's just terrible the other thing is with our house because what happens when a person takes on a permitted to remodel or house or to work on a house do they take out a permit to avoid citations from our code  tear nothing's been done in years took down a building up on the poles before mr bob use they all cost fifty thousand dollars do we get our money back this is a lot of things we don't know about here in the city and i think that we ought to look into some of these properties that have been neglected for a number of years i also believe that there aren't very many communities that have a police training center available like we have on the report of card i would like to see him set up a system there where they inspect these your may twenty third meeting during the miscellaneous business portion of the city council meeting to dulles all chose to use his time condemning a letter written by in one unnamed individual to the newspaper appearing the day before i wrote that letter and i choose not to remain unnamed and while i found it quite interesting that mr dunn solid chose to refute this letter and mr mccarthy's behalf i strongly believe that perception is in every individual's announcement of gary mccarthy his run for mayor shown on the government access channel eighteen through time warner cable i did not see anything from roger hall or any candidate for the republican party and i believe that this is a genuine misuse of public access perhaps mr mccarthy's influence in actions that placed public access in the hands of the practice theater played a greater role in determining what is shown on these valuable channels as a citizen i believe that we all should be concerned with how we are governed i also believe that we should have access to all political points of the o not just wow it is deemed to be important by those who are control of the medi paid for this service but there was no service announcements attached to that rather lengthy political advertising sam has turned these meetings into an act always them has turned the government channel into a children's t v station occasionally there are balloon sets when the cross is green and the garbage schedules with the recycling should marketing efforts certainly to distract the viewer from what is being said i never thought i'd say this but i now rather wax the boring metroplex meetings that are shown rather than a rerun of any of these meetings and should anyone have to submit a foil request for a meeting video strangers will see that our city officials and our politicians look and  like a bunch of clowns lot the building even here your rehab and probably some environmental remediation but these are not unsurmountable obstacles i think those that make a great location for a department store the very quick internet research company that deals department store for example has an average store size eight thousand good evening my name is mary mcclain i live in the city i do not like to approach this microphone more than once your in a city council me frankly i would prefer not to have to stand here at all agenda at the council meeting last and two weeks ago that should have been addressed and i want counsel to know that the item did not go by the notice i speak of tonight i want to mention two other issues there is a problem with him on the upper end oh no i disagree next to trust go back to someone told about the problem but the caller told me that the place both these problems were called into the city among the go they needed attention thank you all reports from the council people night there were some nice or it's a couple of months ago it was like week after week when yes there were no reports and to me i cannot understand this because even if there is no reason for that night certainly the council people must be working on things and am really interested in the citizens please review and i know that since i was previously that they are supposed to have at least three or four for the year and an annual before and unless i've been sleeping at home and sun i'm watching council meeting haven't seen in a couple of months now i have there's a joke you know for that yet who needed two o'clock in the morning if you want to see mr plex but there actually first to be two other programs one at eleven o'clock i think on a saturday or sunday night and the other some around six or seven on friday whatever the times are i've tuned in and they just are not there and i'm taking those times from the printed  was sitting in bellevue with her dog and all of a sudden they were attacked by a bull and people four people came to her aid and somebody called the police department being it watching some people steal like federal food commodities by the box load six seven eight boxes and that's that's not that's twenty thousand dollar your promotion from i assume the commissioner because the new chief of police had come on board yet so i don't think that the police department's clee i don't even think it comes close to be president first thing i want to know for those who haven't heard them are some that took a fall into home and he is currently recovering and i just wanted to wish him well we the regular investigating i don't have any more information than anybody else in the room would have the newspapers but one more time we have evidence that the number of handguns that exist in our community lead to tragedy yeah we need to find some way to get handguns off the streets if there were none of that event we might still have the young man with us and finally our little good news of the time the union published their best of the capital region issue  third in the hotdog category so it's just nice to have connect the business is being recognized and i encourage you all to frequent them thank you the new pavement that was was placed there and they replaced it they didn't replace it just it it's like a washboard your bum bum bum bum along and for some reason that the nine hundred or just local plumbers but that it's a disgrace what they did to that street and somebody needs to check it out find out how come there were the whoever did the digging was allowed to dig that block up the way they or what their ideas but i don't know if we need to as staff people here in the city hall let these posts know or come up with some legislation to let them know that you have yours opposed to being properly dressed when you come into city hall i mean as they used to walk on the street pants hanging down underwear on display is ok it's really not ok it's unfortunate that is maybe not were fine where the owner of the house was fined fifty dollars for not having a plate on the car and my neighbor is going to come show me this paper that he got which says you owe fifty dollars for having an unregistered vehicle i have years ago i had an unregistered car in my in my car and i never got a thought about it all the garbage does store in front of houses is a shame it disagrees we have laws that say you can't store your garbage in front of your house and yet people do that on a regular basis so  whoever is responsible in a city position to to monitor the storage of of garbage and waste we need to get on board and let people know that it's illegal there's laws against storing your garbage in front of your house so i don't know who's going to be in charge of that i don't know if we have enough staff people to cemetery at six p m and then it will go on saturday from one to seven and then sunday from about eleven thirty to five a lot of different activities for kids music awards food just lots of  stuff ah it's also the upper union street strawberry festival on saturday and i think this year they will have strawberries and that run like i believe us guys around ten in the morning but they and have food in a grass and all just a lot of  stuff so it's worth going up there and just taking a walk around there's also the west indian family fun day that's going to be in route of the park on saturday also with a barbecue games races music and more and  lastly there's also the rose garden barbecue that when you do need tickets for but that's of course to raise funds to support the rose garden and i'm just i haven't been up there yet but i understand the roses are just beautiful the other thing i just wanted to remind everybody  about the small business workshop that is going to be at a c c c engine sixteenth at five thirty and this is the workshop is designed to help people understand the dormitory authority of the state of new york and had their opportunity program are they support construction contracting commodity compliance financial services and professional services and also very supportive of women and minorities small businesses things like that so just want to encourage people to consider going to that to learn more so that they can get more involved thank you in appropriate manner we got you know five companies that bid on it at least five companies a bit on it none of them were the companies that mr pointed listed so you know i'd encourage anybody who's watching in the newspapers to write it mr blank you can call them and you can actually call them yourself and say hey there's a big going on want to participate but i think we're doing everything we can to get more company used to participate in our bids because the more the people have participated the better the competition the better prices we get better is for the taxpayers so i have not seen it in the situation so far where we are excluding companies that are qualified local businesses if i am in the see actually the third time got cancelled on saturday because of the rain but the good news is it's been rescheduled to june twenty fifth and it's the week from the other vans do not have to be a woodlot a resident to come and help clean up  but also the driving down kings road and i have noticed significantly in so have my neighbors that there has been quite a slow down of trucks on king's route so again i invite anyone who would like to come on the twenty fifth from e mail from one of the regulars a private citizen who stays in touch for me and a lot of matters mr i'd look into that i did poll the tapes of phone calls that were made of the first phone call we've got in fact was a gentleman saying that there had been an encounter between hit a ball which was wandering the street and this woman's pet dog the second call we got was from an individual scared it looks like it needs to be fed i will call your animal control officer tomorrow when they come back on duty and ascertain what i need to do to take ownership of the dog the third and final call we got was indeed from the woman who only the other pat was involved she had called after she returned home and she wanted to know if the police officer could be sent to her house in rotterdam to do a report as it is standard procedure once something has had time lapsed we then asked them to work down to the station at the at the main line we will be more than happy to do the report she was those instructions from the dispatcher i listened to it all to my in regards to speeding harry i wasn't aware that i will certainly have them up there starting tomorrow to see what we can do about that and the last thing i want to mention is i don't give twenty thousand dollar raises to anyone i'm not familiar with who that person may have been but i know i don't know who twenty thousand dollar raises for anybody anywhere in the city and i really think that perhaps in the statement but it certainly is not attributable to me and i'm not quite sure wh or running for this office front of the mirrors office i had my campaign committee pay for that it's played back on sixteen of channel eighteen was also informed that even though i was a pain for you there's rumors that i think somebody else is running against me they videotaped that individual and part of it was also played back even though that i had paid for the videographer to be there and videotape it i would encourage people to use a way of sam who put in place a digital soapbox we're pretty much can be run by one individual where before the public access you had to pay for crew or bringing people in to run the cameras and sound board and other things the digital soapbox which is when the access channel seventeen for education channel eight hundred for government and we are looking to try and put more programming on all those channels and people who have ideas or concepts should reach out and from them and we are putting together the staff will be a more comprehensive approach to the garbage code enforcement of things and i'm not sure whether that will be in place by the last week of june or maybe be the first week of july by the time that we will be able to get it up and running in the council will be briefing them in the next committee cycle and some of those activities  comment about the general electric in the five million dollar investment of metroplex one of the best boats i've made on that bed deal brought one hundred million dollar investment but the g e plant for the battery facility it's leading edge world changing technology the schenectady had to compete worldwide to where g e was going to cite that and we brought it here and we should be proud of that you know those people who want to cast a negative aspersion or connotations and these acts of what are really fundamentally good deals there's a lot of good things happening in this community we should be proud of it and people shouldn't shy away from the record that we've put in place here of