in this would be subject to the council's affirmative action and transferring the property a little bit later tonight but i would entertain a motion to have this agency ready to accept the property transferred from the  city by surprise so do i have a second secondly councilman rucker all in favor signify by saying i any opposed to resolution carries any other business to come before the urban renewal agency public hearings tonight and then we'll start with the original consideration i also like to introduce chad putnam chad is a relatively new deputy clerk and we're very happy to have you on board with us ok so if you would read item number one number one final consideration an ordinance adding chapter one forty six of the code of the city at schenectady this was discussed in committee without objection on consent item number two item number two for original consideration an ordinance to restore three thousand dollars to the clerk's fees for service expense also discussed in committee without objection on consent number three item number three a resolution calling for public comment concerning a proposed local law amending chapter two ten of the administrative code of the city of schenectady regarding rental certificates introduced only with a local law calling for a public hearing on monday march eleventh two thousand and thirteen seven p m as city council chambers room two zero zero nine schenectady city hall one o five j street schenectady new york this was discussed in committee number five a resolution in support of assembly bill a eighty eight and a twenty four relating to foreclosures we have since learned since we approved this that there is also a senate bill  ok item number six i don't number six a resolution calling for the city of schenectady to obtain its fair share of aid from the state of new york this was discussed in committee without objection on consent item number seven item number seven a solution supporting efforts of the schenectady city school dressed district to obtain its fair share of school aid from the state of new york also discussed in committee without objection on consent and number eight item number eight a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a contract between the city of schenectady and open stage media also discussed in committee  item number nine item number nine a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a contract extension between the city of schenectady and capital recovery systems incorporated discussed in public safety without objection on consent item number ten i don't number ten a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a claims by the stadium golf course incorporated discussed in claims committee without objection on consent item number eleven item number eleven a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax search area concerning eight thirty five union street also discussed in claims without objection on consent item number twelve item number twelve a resolution authorizing the settlement of a claim by tisha sutton also discussed in claims committee without objection on consent i don't number thirteen item number thirteen a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady properties from a tax foreclosure proceeding also discussed in committee and we've got copies of all this property so without objection on consent item number fifteen i don't number fifteen a resolution authorizing the transfer of certain city o properties to the schenectady urban renewal agency this was just also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number sixteen i don't number sixteen a resolution recognizing february as american heart madam president this is a resolution recognizing february as american heart month and whereas more than twenty one hundred fifty americans die of cardiovascular disease each day approximately one death every forty seconds and whereas heart disease claims more lives each year than all forms of cancer combined and whereas cardiovascular disease is the costly as disease with direct and indirect costs estimated to be three hundred  twelve point six billion dollars per year in rares the research is clear that there are preventive strategies as well as community based rata g s that can increase survival rates from cardiovascular disease and whereas making the right  choices related to proper nutrition physical activity and other healthy lifestyle choices are essential to living a heart healthy life now therefore we resolve that the month of february two thousand and thirteen be recognized as american heart month in the city of schenectady and we call on all citizens to join the city council in the mayor in reaffirming our commitment to fighting cardiovascular disease better president with a resolution all right is there a second is all the favor i know i should also note that the mayor has a resolution to present as well mayor killer of women but since it has always been considered an older man's disease women are not paying attention to the statistics then in two thousand and three the american heart association along with the national lung and blood institute formed the national wear red day to get the word out of this vitally important issue every year since on the first friday in february millions of people come together to wear red committing and taking action to fight this fatal disease and whereas in two thousand and four the american heart association also created go red for women a poignant passionate and shared initiative designed to give power to women to have them take charge of their own heart health to unite collectively to try and eliminate heart disease it challenges women to use the tools that go read for women provides do understand their risk for heart disease and to make a start to lessen their personal risk and where as go red for women fund raising money is allows the american heart association to help women by increasing their understanding of their threat of getting heart disease in offering learning programs supporting research to obtain scientific data about heart health through this effort scientific research is turned into resources that healthcare providers and decision makers can utilize to help the cause healthcare providers in scientific guidelines receive the newest treatments and strategies customized to women's individual risk whereas the tremendous strides that have been made in the fight against women's women's heart disease since the first national wear red day ten years ago include but not limited to twenty one percent less women are dying from heart disease twenty three percent more women are aware that this is their number one health hazard the publishing of women specific guidelines for the prevention and treatment of gender specific results establishing differences in symptoms in response to medication in legislation to help gender gender disparities now therefore i gary mccarthy there of the city of schenectady do hereby proclaim february two thousand and thirteen as american heart association month in the city of schenectady in the battle is not over and hundreds of thousands of women still die each year from heart disease so i ask that you join with us in this fight to educate women and men and continue to mr mayor and city council members thank you so much heart disease does kill someone almost every forty seconds and many people didn't know that women wear risk so i feel that i always need to share a few symptoms anyone could have the crushing chest pain that we think of with heart disease but women might also experience into chest and shoulder pain and we've recently learned a feeling of doom and no doctor would ever laugh if you called them to say i think i might be having a heart attack so please do that i'd also like to thank the city of schenectady for declaring this american heart month and for lighting this beautiful building red it's a really tangible reminder to people that heart disease is a real threat the american heart association has always been honored by the support that it receives from businesses in the city schenectady and the light that you have shown on your building reflects that tremendous commitment from the city and the community thank you so much all right we have three public hearings tonight if the clerk would read the first one number one public hearing amending chapter one thirty eight of the administrative code of the city of schenectady regarding fence permits i have no one signed up to speak o that public hearing saul declare that public hearing closed number two i don't number two public hearing amending chapter two twenty eight of the administrative code of the city of schenectady regarding paving permits again i have no one me this is something that should be done i mean people that have six family in hospitals and whatnot need a place to stay and as i mentioned before the last time that this was brought up that it failed and a friend of mine that brought a family out of town i don't remember where was what he said he went to ronald mcdonald house he said and these people were put up free of charge fed and everything so something like this has to be done in the city and meg i think you should go through thank you ok thank you all right and no one else signed up for that public hearing so i'll declare that  communications and petitions communications presented to the city of the city council for monday february twenty fifth two thousand and thirteen official from the mayor a list of appointments dated monday february twenty fifth tw general letter received from the schenectady counties council of veterans organizations on feb fifteenth two thousand and thirteen extending their gratitude to the mayor and city council for the receipt of a rental check petitions there are things i want to talk about tonight one is on our agenda item number seven a couple weeks ago we had the superintendent of schools and giving us an update on the school funding and since  of people said you know what are we supposed to do what can we do you know i think everyone realizes that the shortfall in school funding is significant enough that it affects all our tax rates so significantly so on thursday this th state level to say we want our fair share of funding and it's a good lesson really for anything because it applies to anything you want to write to your legislators about so if you've ever complained that you're not happy with what your government's doing this would be the event you want to go to they will tell you how to communicate with your elected leaders in a very pleasurable to just about anything so i think it's a good good at the event to attend secondly with the this weekend sunday we had an open house here at city hall as as part of the ongoing effort for the homes program we had an update from key banc and a new partner coming in from prospect joel  underwriters and race they're here tonight and i wanted to look given that opportunity to kind of update us you know for those who weren't there on sunday of what the program is and what they're offering so good guys if you'd like to come around and grab the microphone on this side get incredible amount of success with this initiative just recently we close in over a hundred transaction within this program and we're delighted to still be a partner with that being said just recently we announced that we will be offering grant financing to the city of schenectady starting march first the grants will be available to our home buyers on a first come first serve basis the grass will be available to five thousand dollars for each potential  encourage the clients to visit any of our key bank locations and obtain a pre approval in conjunction with their home application to obtain the financing through key the grants are available up to five thousand  dollars there's a prepayment clause up to five years but programmed it over that time period so any home buyer that's looking to purchase a home they can obtain the pre approval from key and secure grant with that home purchase the grant to be utilized towards downpayment property so as long as that transaction closes that brand is released to their home order for the property washer just to give you a total we had roughly about twenty eight thousand dollars in grants that we released to the city of schenectady for properties here and this year we have a stronger commitment from the federal home loan bank of cincinnati these are federal funds that we utilize and we're looking to secure as many as possible for the city and the residents here with that being s that my name is kurt andrus branch manager for prospect lending we are a independent mortgage bank with about roughly one hundred ten offices across the country we've been brought into the homes program to  provide a certain type of financing again called the f h a two or three k renovation loan what this loan allows a homeowner to do or i should say a home buyer to do is purchase the home and also include the cost of renovations or repairs within that purchase loan as an example of someone is purchasing one of these homes for maybe a one hundred thousand dollars sale price and it needs maybe twenty five thousand dollars of repairs we take that total and we land on the total dollar amount the clients has to put down three and a half percent for a down payment and they can include the closing cost within the purchase price so we're very excited to be a part of the homes program we just announced yesterday as an official partner and we're looking forward to you know helping the city move the inventory of homes that you have and it's one of the products that you specialize in with a focus on and a dedicated team to handle it's a little more complex than a standard mortgage transaction but we have a appetite for it and we're looking forward to partnering with the city and helping out where we can great thank you very much for coming tonight and we're happy to have  three is the number of homes have been put under contract so far this year in the city especially it's about one a day and we're not talking about peak home sales times right we're talking january and february when people really are think about spending money on homes or you know dealing with other things so i think it's you know telling that we've we've really doing pretty well in terms of putting houses under contract to city with the program so it's just good information it was kind of shocking i wasn't expecting a number so up so high so thank you to their efforts the other thing i wanted to shock about is mr spring is a visit here i think i really value the information he brought to us it is amazing but i'm more interested now in the school board than ever i have been before because of the results of feel like shit and i really feel like with the  those that one spread a concept a sick concept that exists around here for years and it will never end was that general electric he's going to step in somehow with some pocket full of money to give to this school or some kind of program or whatever but there exists a brand new is a feeling that general electric going to take care of everything so i've been watching not because i didn't appreciate her pretty salts right now i think that's all i have to say good evening my name is mary maclean i live in the city legislative number eight calls for the execution for a new contract between the city of schenectady open stage media i would suggest before the city enters into a new contract with the us council makes certain that the city will receive a good product because it is not good now the programming has not been good since the project was taken from mr harding in november of two thousand and eleven i have raised concerns at least ten times regarding one thing or another initially i called mr philips philip morris he told me he was waiting for new equipment to iran one another cation i went to see him regarding open stage media he was gracious enough to speak with the even though i hadn't made an appointment another time michael missed her assa she said we can do both referring to the garbage schedule that was flashing on the screen no you can't because double messages were infringing on the speaker story minutes i called the camera man asked taking was filming the backs of the presenters who spoke at committee meetings also programming did not match the printed schedule the schedule rumored that there was a a two a m replay of city council meetings i turned it on one morning there was nothing on another cation there were balloons flying across the lectern mr harding never would have done something like that he is too much of a gentleman i know from my college courses that everything that goes on the screen is done deliberately taping needs to be addressed the camera man pulls the car camera away from the lectern it looks like the speakers are halfway across the room the sound goes with that single side angles look like they are taken the whole way i could go on and on one more thing the amplifiers don't always work place invest in new ones  city is stored to pay for program may they should insist on the good product like you thank you right i have no one else signed up to speak on the legislative agenda so we will move foreclosures and also that included the senate bill s three six five five right which you c i don't number eight a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a contract between the city of schenectady and open stage media does anyone want to speak first or do you want to just wait till we call your name ok we call the ro ready yes thank you i have some concerns about this some things were brought to my attention and again we're going to execute a contract between the city and open stage media but we don't have the i don't see the contract you know i wouldn't sign a contract to buy a car and say ok to it unless i saw the contract but that's one thing about it the other thing which i talked to mr pollster about is time warner what the  agreement a certain amount of money comes out everybody's cable bill and i think around one hundred thousand dollars goes to open stage media a year so i'm really concerned i would like to see that contract and get a copy of that contract i tried today but i kind of got dead ended not know what his fault was kind of late when i got this information that i realized i needed but i think maybe in that contract i think it probably states from what i've been told that that includes the broadcasting of the meetings so i'm a little confused with it because i'm confused because i don't see the contract i can't make a good conscious decision on this so i am going to vote no because there's just too really do appreciate you know some sort of vigilance like that because just you know but you're just coming into the game you know the trend around here you have no idea what you're getting yourself into and so you know the flames are at your door like basically i do got to say the same thing goes for policy around here i was talking to miss a lot well you know the chief clerk at the city court and i'm on like china like just basically just put my finger on some sort of policy around here that the cops and the courts operate by and she's tell me no they're not written down or just basically just know when it's practice and i'm like all they're not going down i got i got a recording in my like code because i just record all you guys are i swear i don't even know what to start with a lot of this stuff in on you know like a lot of guys are like people and stuff you know and i can find things know anybody about you know but here's the thing like really in the position that you guys are in i mean really like like take heed to some of the things that people say and i don't know what was really really like going through your mind when you're talking about getting rid of the on civilian introducing some sort of idea to possibly abolish it or something like i really don't want to use this as a platform let's all take a minute to remember the police officer who blew his head off in the locker room because he was trying to talk about problems that we going on in the department he was getting like you know basically and i'm i'm sorry to the family for this but i don't want the man to just go in vain and have nobody really really take heed the how that all transpired the man was basically pestered to death for trying to come out against some colleagues that did some wrongdoings no oversight was really ever effective or not happen and the guy got blackballed than just harassed to the point were you know things happen so let's not let's not forget that right and i'm telling you this oversight thing is a real issue and when i look at everything i'm just like me like mccarthy you're not a leader at all there's a difference between leading somebody and running them you were running people you were running the show here your condition by the police department and you're into office politics with everybody in your real cliquey and stuff i'm  i got ideas to produce revenue in this city i could debate you i could literally drink a bottle tequila and i'll the beach one of the table i'm really going to want to get you for mayor and i'm going to do i'm going to win it and it sounds like a grandiose delusion right now but it's going to be on the night  because i'm really going to sit down i'm going to quit drinking myself and i don't my girlfriend like i'm not even playing like i'm just watching this beautiful mansion of america just fall apart and become dilapidated because the spoiled brats that inherited this country on do not know watch you guys i'm telling you we need to track everything these guys do we need invoices for every dime every penny that space i want projected ideas of where you think this money's going to go what your intentions are i want to see i want to see things we need to develop a civilian intelligence agency plain and simple i'm telling you right now i want to be able to type in a badge number and get a live stream fed via internet to see what these cops are doing i want to see what's going on i will see what is money's going and i'm telling you i'm a leader you're not a leader i grew up in the streets i came up from the bottom i dealt with psychotic people and you know i've learned to become a social chameleon but the thing is i know i'm summarizing so and i think this is very important i learned that you know what you can always  formative action needs to take a look at some of the human rights commission policies and see if we'd be able to make some change i had asked council president king to bring up the issue of the affirmative action managers contract because it was up on the in december it was going to be extended for another six months and it was not brought up we need to discuss how the policies procedures of how that office is being run and also to is to check and see is twenty hours is that going to be enough that we need to we need more than twenty hours also to use look at the erie boulevard the affirmative action contract the failed to manage your office on that on the rebuttal of our we've got a project to build in a nursing home that's failed where the jobs so we know we've got a couple things every april first you're supposed to have a correct accountability of all the pilot programs where's that going to happen what kind of direction we're going to go so there's a lot a couple things that we need to take a look at that needs to be brought forward and we need to find which direction we're going to come from because we've gotta come up with how to produce jobs because if you want to lower the crime rate you've got to be able to get somebody a job if you want to be able to be able to help somebody you get a home you've got to get my job i mean you know they're not going to make it on ten dollars an hour to be a qualify for home we've got to get the homeownership rate up also to this was a state of state address brought out one issue a high security lock dealer an alarm installer and twenty years ago when i was in las vegas the both the city and the county came out with a policy of what it was that they were not going to respond to an alarm calls and what i had to do is i had to have a performance bond and it had provided for much bond to both the city and county for my license and i also had to hire a private security company to actually go on the alarm calls and it any point in time what they did is it reduced the cost both of that to the city and the county of reducing to faults alarms so i would i would strongly suggest take a look at the companies throughout the entire country and get their responses because there are many other communities throughout the country that happen about the mid ninety's came out with these types of policies and also to use when you take a look at a million dollars that represents nearly almost three percent property tax was just going to false alarms so i mean we need to take a look at that i mean that could be a three percent property tax decrease if we could just be able to solve that one issue thank you thank  you kevin shares of the mason all right across street from washington irving a blouse right across street from the school they drop in back there and another thing you know you've heard try to talk about get a permit for putting feds up how many i mean how much more permits we have to get in schenectady do anything we have to get a permit to carding one you know people can't afford all the stuff was gone i disconnected it you have to look at that too you know a lot of people sign of a budget a budget so the budget hurt a lot of people's pockets out here and you need to look are not educated enough to go online and search for jobs some people really need to to get those basic needs met nor to go online i don't know if there's a person here it directly in schenectady that can handle these issues go to washington irving they put you on a waiting list for three weeks four weeks don't get back to you i don't know what is going on in the city but it's saddens me to see people homeless and people can for to take care of their families i thought maybe a good business incentive would be to maybe open up a price right in hampton hill area  to have people you know say having to walk all the way up there or to take a bus up there be able to have it right there in your community you know something to give them some kind of jobs and motivation to want to get like a home  you know better communities because we do we do like arts community but we just can't afford the necessary things that take care of a community so this is just  already been home bellevue just a couple things mr mccarthy with the assessor i'm all for living in the city but i mean if we're going to chastise one person for not living in the city  letting other people do it i think she's doing one act of a job you can get to where you can talk to or not like other sensors we had in my opinion she's doing a good job and on this deal with the fire department you're not paying them any extra water on false alarm or sitting in the firehouse if you have to bring someone in on overtime for it that's different i think we should get these figures straightened out a little and another thing is  they forget i think i got everyone so good to them before the first of your papers and before the first of march thank you thank you good reminder  l president council members here i wanted to bring up the subject of the dog senses i think that chuck thorne has an excellent idea with the state of the city and the conditions of the finances and think that it could be done in a more efficient way rather than spending the twenty two thousand dollars some plots that i have is maybe for six months or a year we could ask the police in the firemen to include in your report if they had seen dogs in the houses that they have gone to if so they can send their information to the city clerk and the clerk can follow up on it this also could be done with the building inspectors they too are required to write up reports and could pass the information to the city clerk if they see another idea is to reach out to the neighborhood associations and ask that they turn in a report with the names of houses that have dogs i know that in our neighborhood i am sure that we know where the dogs are living lastly we should ask the dog catcher to report any dogs not license but i think that this may be done already and if we need to hire someone what about it as p c a they are not they are a not for profit organization who knows how to handle situations where dogs are involved we could probably give them a donation for doing this work we need to think start thinking outside the box and stop spending money thank you thank you when you come down here with suggestions for us that's a good thing all right  i want to speak about the magistrate that was here the other week and told us that he has standing room only and i know that for a fact and that within the next couple of years is going to double what's what's happening there now so i think everybody should take umbrage about that situation they there were two years in a row when the proof had to be plugged for leaks the buildings every and nothing's happening around here positive with the police it really isn't but when it comes to them voicing an opinion around here everybody says they're doing a great job but standing room only and you know they're not doing a great job but they keep saying that because you're going to have to make a choice so a new corps or a new police gilly whatever's name is that metroplex made a remark about the hunter plan being a pale year and indeed it was they filled in spaces and brought it up made it look like a stage and waterfall yeah it was a year but i wanted public opinion on the hunter plan and i went in there and i spoke to the architect and i i told him that what you need to do since you're getting no help from a amtrak is to build it frame on either side of the bridge completely independent of amtrak and that is exactly what was done it is one of the most photographed items on your brochure other than the pizza king had the best looking display but anyway we don't need have to happen so we need to fix a place for people to park when they go to a museum and not to be parking on it not terrorist heights street and around net way because you've got a lot there put up walk lights or something on broadway for the senior citizens before something does happen we don't need to act nobody to get hurt we've got to go by stricter rules not to do something get hurt i don't want that we need to work on this and said thank you thank you mary maclan there were approximately fourteen i need i'm still on the legislative agenda for the february eleventh city council meeting it is impossible for anyone to address even a fraction of that many items in just three minutes i wanted to speak to the two thousand and thirteen budget three appropriations item but i knew that i would have run out of time so i am going to do it tonight and couple the items with the issue of residency residency has a component to it people who live in schenectady or your constituents how will council tree them like stepchildren cinderella's different strokes for different folks approach that is what you did with your appropriations vote on february the eleventh you took money from one constituent and gave it to another the new finance commissioner received a bonus and the same souring as the one who left after years of experience this working for the city the bonus was a payback for a loss of sick time which she accrued in another city for a different employer and schenectady taxpayers footed the bill her high salary did not take into account that she must train to learn schenectady scum plex financial system on the other hand council took away eight thousand six hundred forty nine dollars from the new junior accountants salary a kid fresh out of college and probably end that was student loans do you know what you did to his earning power by taking away that much money from his budget didn't sound very you have delayed the good he did for himself for earning a four year college degree how many years is it going to take for him to make up that last three years four years six years i have been passed over four times for for you to sit in those seats i will never accept this kind of representation for myself and anyone who does miss brucker stop it is hurting the rest of us thank you thank you  good evening mayor and  board and miss conny richardson spoke on behalf of the review board it was too cold for me to call them that night so i'm here tonight and i want to give everybody a council that voted for lowering the number of members on the schenectady civilian police review board from eleven to nine now hopefully this will help the board to have me its quorum so that members can carry on with their business meeting the new civilian police review board was adopted meetings to establish bylaws and legislations and onder marriage or gents katie and i attended some of those meetings and it was very hard to pull everything together but it did get done and the board really was doing quite well until a few months ago when some members had to leave and new ones were not replace i really feel that schenectady should have a police review board like often the dots without one circumstances could really slip back to work and then the city could be sued for various reasons as it was before the year two thousand  urge the city council members especially the three on the public safety committee to contact the organizations to speed off with their appointment since they did not open a an advisory committee for example they could help the board a range a program all giving all the facts about the board or wes them the clear should have nots the upcoming meeting which is the second wednesday of every month and when i'm not here i do listen to this annoy us and i don't hear anyone  board should come about and i hope it does someone if no one on the board has a report a quarterly report that someone on the council really ought to remind the chairperson that a report is due if the quarterly reports come in then the council's going to know what's the one on with the board meeting closed and we'll move to miscellaneous business of the council hants exemption i talked with the assessor today and it seems like there's still some confusion with this and how it's being defined so i urge anyone who is concerned about this to call the assessor's office so this can be straightened out because there's one opinion that's saying the person that's involved in the estate trusts their income has to be included too but the state is saying it doesn't so there's needs to be some clarification with this and it's i don't know where this is going to go but we i think we need to have this clarified once and for all but when i talked to the assessor thirty she said to have anyone who is concerned to call the office but i would like also our lot apartment maybe to look into this a little further so we can get a real clarification on what's what if you would speak to that mr pollster  conveyed their property and yet retained a life estate and if they are otherwise eligible for the senior exemption so long as they have or hold the life estate they are eligible for the star exemption and who's because i think people for the last couple of years have been asked to and i heard about the confusion i want to say about three thirty or so today and i will be speaking to the assessor tomorrow bellevue norm coleman took a tumble when he took over first father paul who was a barber in bellevue forever from when i was little boy took a tumble broca's lake so he's going to be out of action for a while but i'd like to wish him all the best and a speedy recovery thank you first of all i just want to let folks know again that the hamilton hill neighborhood association will be having a community awards dinner on march twenty third at five thirty p m at the proctors theater and will be recognizing people who have helped to build up the community so the tickets are a quite reasonable fifteen dollars so if you like one you can contact barb isaacs who is the president of the association and i have tickets as well additionally i just want folks about you matter schenectady heather kickoff this weekend that there will be an surveyors coming to your home to ask you questions regarding our health but they're not invasive questions it was an article in the paper actually late last week and we just encourage folks to answer the survey because it will be helpful in determining the health needs of the community of the city of the it's the entire city so this is the they will be surveyed every weekend for the next twelve weeks well eleven at this point so you'll see them they'll be wearing white t shirts the thing you matters connecting to thank you thank you anyone else  that survey and while a lot of the questions to deal with health are also environmental issues housing issues that will give us a lot of empirical data for down the road to help allocate the resources that we do through the city and then other community groups so that they are best utilized by the residents of the city you know on resolution eight a story that was again dealing solely with the payment for the televising of the meetings here the committee meetings and the other broadcasts that are done from city hall for the franchise agreement does not cover that designates that money goes to proctor's and is marketed through open stage media in they've really done an impressive job since they've had that it went from one station we now have in schenectady three public access stations or is the public access station you have the education station which is utilized by the school districts and then you have the government access channel and you know it used to be that just these meetings were broadcast we now have our committee meetings are broadcast live which is really unique in terms of local government and we have  legislature metroplex other governmental agencies broadcast their meeting so that people really have the opportunity to see what happens in government and kind of the routine things that are done that a lot of times just aren't newsworthy so that it's i think we're fortunate to have that and truly lucky to have the leadership of proctor's that is made that part of you know the arts and entertainment district in this community i want to thank people who came out this weekend for our open house we try and do that once a month to sell schenectady talk about the housing opportunities here there are a lot of good deals mr erickson pointed out surprising number of houses that are under contract since the first of the year in it's it's an ongoing process it's a multi year undertaking the deterioration the neighborhoods did not happen overnight we're not going to turn it around overnight but just working together in a systematic approach that we will achieve long term results will make this community again a place where everybody wants to live and bring it back to the recognition that it once had thank you madam president ok at this point then i will entertain a motion to adjourn ok mr and second by ms fresno all in favor