just explain what that is because there seems to be some confusion about it yet the public hearing tonight it's not going to be setting the fees for anything to having to do with the park it's just about whether or not the council wants to authorize the code to be changed to allow for a fee to be set for the use of the pa thank you then on to the original consideration item number one item number one a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a project development agreement for a performance based energy efficiency and water system improvement project located at seventeen o five union street schenectady new york discussed in committee without objection on consent number four item number four a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or share wherry concerning eight five six union street discussed in claims committee without objection on consent i remembered five little league world series championship it's to be taken out of order mr ag will present that i remember seven item number seven a resolution honoring correctors bakery for their hundredth anniversary this will also be taken out of  item number eight under contract and supply a resolution awarding the bid in contract for the uniform rental and laundry services to the universe corporation of waterville lead in the amount of thirty five thousand five that you have given us for the mild summer yes that you would help us as we care for creation we pray for the memory of father mike hogan we thank you for his life and all that he did for this community he with all of us as we gather together for the common good item number six a resolution honoring the members of the one nine hundred fifty four schenectady little league team upon their sixtieth anniversary of the little league world series championship madam chair i think it's happy apolo that we are celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of schenectady winning the world championship nine hundred fifty four cents this was little league world series for schenectady it is amazing so you have for oh i just want to preface this with joel loudest will accept this for the fifty four team but it will be in schenectady high school and display with all the member of delia from there and also the twenty seventh this wednesday eleven o'clock in the morning that's we're going to have the street renamed on nor what have you after coach mike my at a so i spect i hope everybody's going to show up for this because that's another really good thing and i want everybody to get there for that resolution honoring the members of nine hundred fifty first connected little league team upon the sixtieth anniversary of their little league world series championship whereas the state of new york takes great pride in acknowledging anniversaries of historic events which brought nothing by the way as advancing to the semifinals the team saw another hard earned victory over mason town pennsylvania where as a pressure final game against colton california which was watched by over ten thousand fans schenectady again with victoria spy a score of seventy five and pitcher billy on the win and has throughout their impressive season an exciting tournaments schenectady players exhibited remarkable athletic ability sportsmanship and team foods and whereas the bakery and more practice is a fundamental part of the little italy street festival in its ninth year taking place on september sixth two thousand and fourteen now they are for being that the mayor and city council this means a great deal to me we've received in the past week week or so from the u s congress found the new york state assembly but it means so much for me to get it from you all from the city of schenectady because everybody who knows me knows how much i love schenectady i i eat breathe and sleep schenectady so this is such an honor and as as you said in the resolution  the little italy neighborhood is a wonderful wonderful old fashioned italian neighborhood we work very hard all of the business is on the street and we're just about to celebrate our next little italy street festival so we wish to see you all there saturday september sixth from twelve to close off the street and have a real passion italian street fest for you communications presented to the city council for monday august twenty fifth two thousand and fourteen under official from the mayor list of appointments dated august twenty fifth two thousand and fourteen from the office of general services a letter recommending the that so the committee met to discuss it with the folks who are proposing it right now there is no finance and if it were to happen it would happen in either twenty fifteen or twenty six so just to let folks know that that is something that there not knowing that you could not be on the ground at all i went there looking for a dog and was threatened with arrest for looking in the windows however during that time i witnessed  bowls turned over and piles of feces and dogs panting it was it had to be very hot in there however here came here to convey is that  i wanted to give you a little perspective into the people that have in the past or will speak to the conditions of the essay see some of you may take a seriously some of you may think that we're a nuisance that you hope will go away i should let you know that the opposite is true there is a page on facebook that i have watched over the past two weeks gain a thousand residents of schenectady people are outraged not only are we not going away we are actually growing in numbers i have watched the staged facebook page like i said we are not just housewives with too much time on our hands we're not just tree hugging hippies looking for a new project that we can work on we're professionals with careers with families with with responsibilities there's a misconception that we are all part of a particular rescue group  fact we are actual city residents and we represent many different walks of life were individuals speaking out for the innocent lives creature innocent living creatures who can't tell you how much they are suffering in reality we don't want to be here we were leaving behind our careers taking time away from our families in our lives because some of the needs someone needs to stand whatever your religious or spiritual beliefs may be i think it can be agreed upon innocent beings need the help they cannot ask for themselves and you don't have to be a dog owner i don't own a dog i just am a human and i feel like i'm a good human and i want to take care of these animals so when you hear the emotion and passion in our statement snuff isn't becoming better to say we are good people who just want the best for these dogs because if you aren't willing to work for the solution you are just part of the problem thank you thank you monica i'll try to make this is brief possible i have a cold but i am a resume and voter in schenectady county schenectady sitting and what i've seen and heard in the last two weeks not only on facebook but talking to people in the community is outrageous to me i just want you to picture a room sort of like a cell that you're locked in there's no air conditioning it's hot it's humid your so called fresh air is coming from the windows that are open on a sewage treatment plant that's your fresh air you sit on concrete floors you're surrounded by your own your  own feces in fact your water is surrounded by the same here and feces as well as your once a day dog bowl of food you want but you're not even allowed outside you have no actual size you sit cell by yourself in the heat your eyes in fact it you have no medical treatment as your eye grows more and more infected for the possible seven to ten days that you're there the possibilty up around your eye you're in pain yet still you have no help you have no care occasionally a person might walk past you think you know mind they pay no attention not even a pat on the head sounds like to me but that's torture whether you be a humane or a dog i don't understand why people don't care why don't you take help from the experts who have afterward to help brad share of more cuts in humane society i happen to be a volunteer there for the respect you may want to try it sometime thank you people in st george i think the residents of schenectady county would be absolutely appalled if they knew that their tax payer dollars are paying for these animals to live an absolutely inhumane conditions despite the fact that they're paying taxpayer dollars these animals are being denied adequate medical care that they deserve they will be appalled if they knew that their dog got loose and was picked up and thought of as a stray brought to the control cent that no one would look for its original owner if that resident didn't know to go down to control center that dog is going to be dead in a week there is no adoption process whatsoever to put in place to get these dogs homes that is heartbreaking it's sickening most other cities had adoption process is put in place it is a death sentence for a dog and i am in schenectady county if it ends up at animal control i also think you'll be appalling for the residents of schenect shelter and any other state in the united states it's time to act the principle it's time to act and be ethical it's time to be compassionate it's time for reform it's time to treat these animals humanely and we look to you to start to change thank you carol john good evening my name is carol johnson i'm not a resident of the skinny city of schenectady i'm a resident the capital district nelson mandela said we can change the world and make it a better place it is in your hands to make a difference  empowering concept is the principle behind animal rescue for many of us i want to believe that it is also the principle for those such as yourselves who have opted to be the voice of the community by serving local government as members of the schenectady city council it is your desire to make schenectady a better place for all to which i played today both alexander hamilton and malcolm x have been attributed with the quote those who stand for nothing will fall for anything much has been made of late of the conditions of this animal control holding facility with many of us saying that it's inhumane and others suggesting it's good enough please don't fall for the idea of good enough please don't fall for the sanitized version of the holding facility as it may now appear play stand up and be a voice for the vulnerable those who cannot speak with whose lives still matter clearly the city and those running the facility have already recognized that they can do better because after a little media attention was given to the animal advocates observations of these conditions at the holding facility the conditions dramatically improved but i believe as does the rescue community that schenectady can do better we're nearly at a crossroads where you as the representatives of schenectady city government must soon decide whether you will settle for someone else's idea of good enough or whether you will make a commitment to do better to maybe even do the right thing a community problem such as lost abandoned abused and homeless animals requires a community solution no one expects you to fix this problem alone and you have a community of people willing to assist from helping west dogs and their distraught owners find each other again to caring for those drugs while in city custody to assessing dogs and helping to home them please stand with us and say that no animal should be treated inhumanely or be killed simply because it's cheap or because it's easy when resources are help or homes are available to them when john f kennedy  astonishing the west german peace corps he quoted dante as saying the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crises maintain their neutrality when a city develops a practice of killing dogs simply because it's convenient i respectfully submit that that city is in a period of moral crisis so i ask you members of the schenectady city council if you do not speak for the least of these who is it that you speak for if you do not stand in defense of the defenseless who and what do you stand for and if you cannot be counted on to do the right thing to make a difference what is it that we can count on you to do thank you good evening my name is brenda jean and i am reading this letter from irene rose in she had last sunday on eight seventeen her dog amber got out of the house and ended up being picked up by schenectady animal control later that morning i was freaking out because i am twelve hours away in north carolina taking care of my elderly father i had never had my dogs get out and go missing and i didn't know what to do so i went online and asked friends what should i do i posted on craigslist about my last install or stolen dog as i originally thought she was taken by someone i also called the animal control number and all i got was a recording as it was ten forty five p m sunday night i left my name and number and message that i think they had my pomeranian dog amber well that night i got a phone call from a man who had his dog go missing on sunday afternoon and he had my post of the lost or stolen dog and he called me he told me that he had contacted s a c earlier sunday and he said not to get my hopes up but he had found his missing palm and was told that they had picked one up that looks similar to his and it could be my missing dog as it turned out it was her missing amber monday morning i started making phone calls and one was to the police department to tell them i needed to report my lost or stolen dog they told me they would take three poor in the person told me it's confirmed that they had her at the anthony street holding shelter i was told that my husband would be able to go down to the facility and once he got there he should call the lady i spoke with and she will have officers come and meet him down there so he takes a taxi cab there because the car had been overheating and wouldn't be able to drive there when he got there he tried to go in and was told he was not allowed there and he had to wait in the taxicab for the officers to come as it ended up he waited about an hour before i was able to call the lady back to let her know he is there awaiting the officers it took about another half hour before officers arrived and told my husband he can't be down there and that he had to go to city hall with proof of her ray beach and shots and that she was spayed any current dog license and give them to the clerk and he would have to pay fifty fifteen dollars fine as this is the first time she had ever been picked up i guess to make a summary of this is i understand that you all are working on a website for the lost dogs in the meantime i think it might be a good idea in the day in the day of technology that we have that we might you all might want to consider even making your own facebook page posting pictures that people can go to advertise that site so they can find their dogs thank you thank you  my name is marie said jobs reac i am a capital district resident that was two minutes of confusion wondering anxiety dogs that are held at schenectady for seven days are supposed to ten thousand and eighty minutes just like that they deserve better you guys can be a big part in making it better for them thank you thank you done this before so bear with me there is a right and wrong there is a humane and any humane the animal control building is both wrong and inhumane and anyone with a heart can see this my old dog is dakota he has been in there since june twenty fifth that's two months today this dog would get beat up by a chihuahua anyway i ask why do you make money off of every dog in there do you take some dogs out of bad situations and then just put them in the similar bad situations you fine people for treating these dogs this way and yet the city treats them the same way if they were problems before your comp sounding the problem even more by being by them being locked up and away from human companionship maybe if they were fostered or allowed to go back home and monitor would save the taxpayers some money and help the dogs to become productive and positive thank you thank you know you stay on the couch and he's on top of you and just wants to kiss you and love you and spend two months that he's been gone and i just i don't think it's fair he's stuck there where he can be home there's no blanket my name is nancy summer resident of schenectady county and i'm here today to ask and plead with all of you to improve the conditions at the animal control holding facility to make them cleaner and more sanitary to give the dog more fresh air social interaction and care if needed for an adoption process if a dog is not cleaned within seven days to improve the process for owners to find their lost and i had the question if any of the council members have actually been to the facility and seen it because as you're making your decisions that can make a big difference if you've been there you've seen it you've seen the dogs vs trying to make decisions from a distance  care and responsibility if the dogs that wound up there wound up there because their owners were in some way irresponsible in the dogs they were abandoned i would say let's not fail them twice and let's bring them to a place that at least has humane conditions where they are treated well and given an opportunity to be adopted and have a nice life so thank you for your time thank you be treated humanely and die with dignity i listen to the public speak two weeks ago as well as the special committee meeting last monday and what i hear is a lot of her fellow pleas for you all to do the right thing and a lot of talk about what you're considering doing when council member talks about how he owns rescue dogs and i wanted to speak to you after that but we obviously aren't allowed to interact we feel do you not realize that your at your facility these dogs are not even given a chance to get to rescue if you're labs that you've rescued had schenectady stray as they would have died here bloodletting and they would have had no opportunity to even enter a scale i held out hope that one member of the chance of would pick up the phone to set up a meeting and dogs no one or ship is taken by the study i read being frightened now threatened by the very city who have been hopping for the past nine months the same city who takes our food toys biscuits hard earned money collected for the dogs in our own program to use on your sick dogs and the urgent medical expenses we have not received a thank you a screw you nothing you're just trying to sweep this under the carpet but you continue to let the dogs stuff for my wrong and only final hope was chief salvo who i found to be a very ethical human  g enjoyed my meeting with him talking with him listening to him at red faced with his hands in his pockets stumble through the questions while lying was extremely just heartening to me as a rescuer and a human being he talked about dogs the ballast were types of evaluations are being done  also who's actually doing them where were they trained you animal control officers can't even get dogs in and out of the vehicles would poles are generally a fake the dogs in their care how do i know this because i've had to transport them down the markets and humane society we were the only ones purchasing the treats and would be called by sunday when the dogs were out to replace them he talked about the dogs being rocked the chief al goodman is meeting with the mayor's office several weeks ago no dogs are getting out at all i know that they are not today i could go on and on but i won't because my time is running short i am sad to say that all of our efforts that only lead to more neglect and abuse of these five dogs is now their only being fed once a day so the animal control officers don't have to clean up after them and cut down on their waste it's pathetic should they have to wait another two weeks to get a second male every day i don't know how we're enjoying our conditioning they have not but you are sitting here and you allowed him to barely get any straight answers and you accept that it's sad to me that these dogs are suffering and you are doing nothing to  mention two hours i said two hours a week two hours a week to growers a week the contract it's two hours a day that they were supposed to stay open and i thought i had spoken before i max all had made a mistake  that i was every time i mention that a day it was week and i still hadn't got an answer yet and want to go to closure was supposed to let me know what was going on i haven't heard anything yet and then last year they were open i mean closed on a sunday they weren't supposed to do that according to the contract so i mean it's summer's over but for next year i hope we open our eyes before we sign it contracts thank you thank you day madam president commissioner council members i want to bring up two things this evening but the mayor's not here he's won a promise to do something a year ago and i still haven't received it so i'll wait for another time for that the one thing to do want to bring up tonight is i have a neighbor who lives next door to me at five o nine pennsylvania who came home from prison became a barber now he cuts hair on his front porch under side lawn in his backyard last year i had to drain money pool three times because he cuts here next to the fence next i'm a pool where all the hair goes in the pool this year with it is h spare to his secretary she said well you got to take it up with code enforcement which we did code enforcement came up they sat down for twenty minutes talking to the guy and then he continued cutting hair and then the next night he cut hair so i had andre now i don't know what to do i was what i owe my pool all summer long i'm without my cars now or in a driveway loaded with hair and it's giving up noxious i mean i have a vegetable garden in the backyard you go on your plate a cucumber you got hair on it i mean what are we going to do you know i don't want to hear in my food i don't want to hear my pool and i don't want to air on my cars i mean i figured it was against the war you got to have a license to cut hair or be a barber go to a barber school go to open up a shop stat doing in the back yard but nobody goes over and stops this guy i mean i can't keep calling the police every time that he's out there cutting put that's besides the point i said what can we do any suggestions on what we can do to stop this guy from cutting hair and covering everything in my house repair vince has my phone number commissioner bennett has my phone number anybody has any suggestions on what to do please contact me i'm tired of the air being all over my yard my pool my house thank you thank you the good evening commissioner city council president city council members and fellow city residents i'm going to calorie property owner resident of the city as president central state street neighborhood association neighbors contact me with issues i would like to commend  recommending to the plane commission a moratorium on future convenience stores this is encouraging for the future however it does nothing to address the problems of some existing convenience or is that we as residents are living with on a daily basis it seems these convenience stores are far from the mom and pop stores many of us remember growing up problems that impact residents of quality of life problems such as die scambling litter loitering say selling of cigarettes loosies many of their customers for these  kids kids who don't have enough money for a full pack of cigarettes but do have a couple bucks for to some convenience stores have restrictions on hours of operations but the restrictions are often ignored it could mean a store in the central state street neighborhood is open from six thirty in the morning until one thirty in the morning of the following day this particular store is permitted to be open nine o'clock at night not until one thirty in the morning meanwhile residents put up with the noise the traffic that lording the cars being hit and litter from the store finding its way to their properties nearby residents and their children can't sleep there also being gunshots fired on the street close to where the stores located it was shelved casey's landing on a neighbor's sidewalks i brought this issue to the attention of the city department of develop it into a city council member i expect the situation to be remedied quickly i will be watching this situation closely no resident should have to live with the situation going forward the city must enforce existing instructions of the permits of these existing convenience stores and place restrictions in any future convenience stores neighbor should not have to be really be fearful of retaliation if they report the stores there are loopholes in the city code they're allowed to vina stores to avoid fines and requirement to obtain a permit to operate a true convenience store the shell game changing the ownership from one family member to another should not be allowed and should not be allowed to be used to avoid fines in consequence of violations when the ownership should fall any fines and violations another trick that seems to be used is to open up a store for example a cell phone store and then later it seems like they are allowed to carry up to twenty percent of needing a permit for convenience store loopholes like these need to be addressed by revising city codes not all convenience stores are problematic but those that need to be reminded that they are located in a residential neighborhood and should be good neighbors this wednesday night i urge urge the plane commission to adopt the city's moratorium for future convenience stores and if in their power to extend the time of the moratorium i urge the development department and zoning to work together to institute restrictions that any further convenience stores with restrictions on hours of operation and the number of stores that c located within a given area the point commission will have a basis on which to decline applications for convenience stores or residential neighborhoods i thank you for your time thank you mr commissioner madam president city council my name is joe keller her i'm resident here in the city disconnecting there are several issues i want to talk about tonight first of which my wife and i have been walking around the city and talking to residents on numerous occasions we've had the opportunity to not only talk to them about some of these convenience stores that are located in the residential areas not only causing crime but trash inside these residential areas and them do need to be reminded that they need to be right down through to the bottom of the drain it was right next to it right through the house fall right after that on the on the monday following i did call the department of services and the next day i went by that afternoon after work and did see a barrel there as of today down only had the storm drain was removed and the hole is bigger with it over it so it does look like the repairs are starting to be done but they also went down the street and filled up the potholes so as much as i would like i do want to commend the public service to taking care of the streets and for their quick action on my up on my call and i that's appreciated to see our tax dollars at work taking care of these emergencies in as much helping with our city residents there's an increasing number of vacant homes in this city causing decreased property values that businesses are allowed to be reassessed however residents when they go to get reassessed are denied their businesses come and go but residents they own homes here in the here to stay they're doing tonight these reassessments and in the interim their own able to get proper refinancing and are held to higher pay higher tax dollars in the interim where in some people's cases over the past year alone or past fifteen years some of these numbers have quadrupled with all this being said and for there being a vacancy on the city council i passed around my resume to be considered be on the city council just until the election in november i hope that you'll take that into consideration not working as a candidate i'm working as a resident as a resident here in the city i'm not expecting anything return i'm doing this for the people and definitely not for myself and as much to please that you heard from people here behind me here today to take care of the animals over at the usa see allow me to offer this here we have volunteers that are willing to work we have the incarcerated that could use these animals to do rehab with and to take care of the facilities and some of the most could be trained for service as well if they're not claim to the proper timeframe i hope this helps thank you thank you mary edward thanks to i had some plumbing issues that the city did rectify only to find that the building across the street from me which is on davis terrorists had had a broken pipe that had been leaking forgot   permit by the city to come in do the work the work is done till today i have reached out to the mayor's office i have reached out to anybody that i can and there's a person they are whose first name is still and i believe the other person is spread every time i will give you a call back will give you a call back i've not received a call back i've been talking to meghan in the mayor's office constantly over the past three weeks what i found out is that the city was having problems with the closing out of the work in the area and i said to them why was he given a permit to work on my property when you've been having problems with him as a taxpayer and as a voter i feel that is unjust there is no way i should be spending my time chasing the very people that are put in place to serve me and the folks here in this community three weeks ago think i understand that the city has to do what it has to do but when you have people that live in a community that care about the community or their property there's no way i should have to beg borrow for sn that's the only name i've been given to come and take care property of abandoned buildings which now i have to look at in front of my house and i even said to them if you get it down to a point where i can maintain it i don't have a problem with doing that because i to look out my front door i have friends that come and visit even the driveway or at the street right now all the rocks in the stone the dust is everywhere my neighbor next door who is also been an advocate for me has said you know mar i've gone to the mayor's office same thing they're telling us what they're telling me and i and i just think it's totally unfair so i have to come here to give you this information and hope that you will take a step not just to advocate hi my name is penny ross no i'm not a resident of the city of schenectady but i have had a hands on approach with the animal control officers for the last year i also attended the meeting last week officer fellow was very has a to every question that he was asked that he had to provide an answer for everything you said was faulds him telling us now they're feeding the dogs only one time a day that's so that is so wrong and it's only because the dogs have too many and as he indicated there's no one there to clean clean the mess up during the day with the council asking a couple of questions one to the fact in two weeks you wanted to know about the outdoor shelter i think that should be an absolute no and con should be called in at the market should be called in to test that soil before anything is put outside there are so many diseases from the humans as well as the dogs that could be transferred just by touch now these people are going home to their families and their touching things and things are getting deadly diseases being spread and i also want to say i am here on behalf of ready empire rescue i am not just an activist one of the dogs that we've taken in july her name is kareena animal control picked her up on the side of the road took her to the lake and clinic and advised them they wanted her put down this is somebody spat in by the looks of her it probably came from an elderly person who really did not have the means to take care of the dog now where these people they have no idea where to find her we took it upon ourselves late them called us we went there we were rescued that dog and we fought with animal control that we were not putting the dog to sleep she is now under our medical with our money and she's in a foster home awaiting her forever home last year in november i was called by animal control prior to being no water the day i went they were all crying in separate shelters shut separate facilities down there i took the three love bug out of there piled them in my car they got along like they were together their whole lives all three now have homes something needs to change there we need to move the building it's very toxic the dogs are not getting any treatment whatsoever you could tell by the way officer fell but was answering us questions last week the longer we say in two weeks we want to answer in two weeks we want to answer are the answers ever going to come in has anything being really done for the dogs thank you thank you  look at the dogs of pictures of dogs up for adoption the paper most were a pit bulls which really means that the owners can't handle them i want to pass them on to someone else saw my view is  or slandering small business people and specifically of a small store owner a friend of mine mr fabulous they lining up for police in front of it in front of his off of his so store there he's been there twenty five years story i'm not really prepared today for the speech i didn't think i'd actually make it here today but i am here on behalf of the animals of schenectady animal control basically i work with animals every day and to know that in my own county that there are animals suffering and it could be my neighbor's dog my dog that got loose got her bad and you know that these things are going on i'm not ok with it and ice for everyone that has been up here talking about it and september fourth on a thursday forty eight at the time isabella familia and i feel at that time probably the pitches will be snoozing it's our it's our annual fundraiser and every all the officials are invited the public invite to all of you the county to anybody running for office stop by and say hello bobby to be there to greet you and it's families friends and consumers children with mental illness in addition to advocacy we educate others about mental illness provide families contending with mental illness with bottle and emotional support at our monthly meetings last year the very very last year was very very busy for an army we ran three a charlie rose's brain series at the schenectady public library is always open to the public we continue to support it's a peer peer group we sponsor outdoor activities for consumers and expanded  because we hear that has been very very successful nationwide are we have a forensic task force the c i t crisis intervention team training and our police to get some training on that we're very happy to say and  possible for nami schenectady to carry on its work hopefully we'll see some of you all of you on september fourth thursday it's forty eight at the pump billions is going to be all sorts of games maybe we can encourage neville the president to do the ice bucket if not then i'll do it or or both of us will do it thank you very much and one of the facts that i tried to emphasize is that the board of directors of eleven people two of those eleven which is more than any other community are from the city one by this the city council name the the other person's name i don't i can't pronounce it so hyphenated name but she's just appointed by the city council the only thing i make a point of is that there are to be and there haven't been annual reports written and verbal to the different municipalities so one is supposed to be to the residence of the city of schenectady that responsibility of calling back and say we want to report and we want an oral report falls to this body to do one of them and i think that there is an increasing disconnect between metroplex and its activities and the ordinary residents of this community and the thing that kind of brought this in a very jarring way home to me is that there is a proposal is presumably now to have the robertson property which is in downtown schenectady as you know developed into luxury apartments with one point three million dollars to be given by taxpayers to a private developer to develop luxury apartments one point three million dollars and it says in the newspapers that if he doesn't get the one point three million dollars from taxpayers that he's not going to do this i don't think there's any paper that requires in the do anything contrast that to something that was in yesterday's sunday gives that with regard to housing and what's what the city is doing in getting houses back on the market or taking them down that i think is a much higher and better priority than same and the commitment presumably is that there will be twenty two million dollars into this new luxury apartment and the newspaper went on to say you have a lovely view of the plant here this is a priority for one point three million dollars you know so that i only have seven seconds left i would certainly say  when moved to miscellaneous business of the council are a lot of issues come up tonight and i think one of the big ones that i seem to be that see that we suffer in this city is communication so many people come to us rail and say they've called different departments and they don't get a return phone call i think that's a that certainly is an issue and i understand why people feel the way they are do they do i think that's something we have to work at to make sure people that are when they're asked to be contacted told to be contacted a certain department that they have the courtesy and the wherewithal to return that phone call even if they may not like what's on the other end but that's the way it goes i mean all of us get phone calls all the time and  we return those calls to the best of my knowledge i know i do but i see this over and over again it's kind of troubling to me and naturally when that doesn't happen guess who they call next they call one of us that's the way it is then we have to make that phone call so it would that even that dog story the dog that was the pet that got loose that did get resolved on tuesday it did get resolved in the police department brought the dog right to the owner's home afterwards but it took some involvement by a third party to get that gone and maybe it would have been resolved anyhow i'm not going to say a word but i think it's really incumbent on the city to maybe be a little more user friendly when it comes to dealing with the residents i mean the issue with the with the dog are holding facility i'm not going to say everything the way i feel over and over and over again because everyone i think knows the way i feel about that but i think we do need maybe a one number to call if you lost your dog and they know that number they're going to get a return phone call back from somebody because you know  wife and i had dogs and we had many dogs and you know we were younger it's frantic if you lose your dog you become frantic you don't know what to do back in a day used to call the animal shelter and that was a one call call call is what it was and they would tell you if they found that he died logs if any dogs look like yours and like that so i think those are all the things we have to work on i know we have to work on quite a few issues with this facility and certainly there certainly is room for change and to make that better it's just that this issue if we arm mandated to have this facility i think we have to run it to the best of our ability and to do that are there i said we can't then we should outsource like we did before we have a budget process coming up soon on the to talk about and i think with that we should discuss a lot of these possible options that we may have as far as the animal facility because sometimes it isn't becoming a short term facility for somebodies dogs like it was meant to be it's not short term so if it's not short term then we have to deal with it i think in another way mr color and all due respect my feelings are that seat should remain open atoll lection day the day after election day whoever wins that see whether it be john ferrari whether it be barnes whether it be whoever other candidate maybe they should be appointed to that seat the next day after election day that's my feeling sod it let the people decide who fills that seat that's the way it felt in the past and it's ways should be nothing personal there's only good shoes that go on and sometimes are not being dealt with that's another quality of life issue and i think that that should be addressed and hopefully to rector will take care of that again i w everybody anybody that wants to come on wednesday morning for the event nor what avenue it's this is something that's been a long time coming and i think with all the  coming and i'm glad it's going to happen so i hope to see as many people as we can there are quite a few players there that i know of that are coming so i think it'll be a nice feel when the supposed to be a decent day to thank you thank you thank you madam president and i just also want to say thank you to all the people that came down regarding the facility i am personally no longer a dog owner because i feel like the amount of time been away from home wouldn't be fair to an animal and based on what i've heard there is definitely some things that we should be looking at to address specifically our policies and procedures it was troubling to hear the story about the people that know who to call or what to do and if we can just you know just give people information it's extremely important i know that there's been there's been some work done within the city in terms of you know community involvement and i know that the answer just always happen immediately but i just want to let everyone know that what you have to say is not and so i personally am and will support mr you who was taking charge because sometimes it just takes one or two people to take the lead and the rest of us to support them so moving to support us making the changes that need to happen to make the facility a better more humane place for the animals that are there so you know continue to to bring suggestions forward because i don't think that we necessarily have all the answers and for people who do this all the time it  is you know it's good to have information from them so thank you again for coming and i am committed to supporting changing the things that the facilities that need to be changed to improving them and making it a more humane place for all yes for those people that weren't at the committee meeting i asked that we start with three basic steps one is that we get a robust web page with photos and information and clear  cut steps and procedures to find your lost animal and the mayor is working on that currently the second thing was for our legal department to look into how we can utilize our volunteers and how we can use the people who have passion for that in our legal department will be coming back to us on monday night with those recommendations and how we might go forward and also in addition to that  my last point just like i did when i was talking about saddle come back to me but anyway you know i think we're all we all strive to do better but i think the most important part of this was that for many weeks and months there were a cohort of people who had concerns and we weren't aware of it until two weeks ago so it's just a great example of why we need to hear from people and why the city can always use and you know people voicing their concerns and all of those things so i encourage everyone who has a concern to come down i think tonight was actually a really good example i thought it was a great meeting for people coming down to talk to us about things they need assistance with and that's what it's all about that's what our job is in addition to that i just want to make a short announcement about gathering of support which is going to be thursday september fourth six thirty p m it's going to be on the hollow of steps of city hall there is also a reception that follows that mexican radio if you want to join in but the public and everyone and it's a message that we can't forget as a city councilmen and i know everybody in this audience feel the same way  saying that we certainly made the commitment is as i'm sure all our city council members to the commissioner bennett i'm speaking for the mayor as well and with mr will certainly put one hundred percent effort behind this to make sure that we get this resolved  come to a close a program with the boys and girls club has ended but we are going to sponsor a our first ever three and three coed basketball tournament at the park this coming saturday august thirtieth that starts at ten o'clock sharp and we have several trophies  sponsors and we giving up backpacks and school supplies and gift cards to all the participants there are a ages thirteen to seventeen and there's free admission there's no registration fee at all and you can just go up on our website at the woodlawn neighbors association dot org or go to our facebook and find us on woodland park those of you have facebook i don't manage to navigate that thing to go but i got to get to the woodland park site and just a reminder as well a school opens believe it or not next week  our summer has gone by very very quickly and school opens next wednesday and just be careful for the little ones and of course be aware of all the school buses that are driving through in a little bit in the lights and it stops very very important as we have nearly eleven thousand crossing guards but i believe we still have an open some openings and some need for crossing guards in the city of schenectady at some of their sites so please if there's anybody who was available or who was interested a little part time gig we can guarantee good weather now but i'll tell you what in the wintertime  a tough that's a tough thing and we certainly had softened we appreciate all that they do for us and just finally got in the metroplex situation you know back in two thousand and four when when i sat on the county legislature and we had the opportunity to actually appoint ray killen as the chair of the metroplex and that group has just done a tremendous tremendous job since two thousand and four the finances they receive is it is taxpayer money but from sales tax revenue that's a half a percent of one percent that goes to metroplex to fund the continuous businesses and opportunities that we have in downtown schenectady i had the opportunity just this past weekend walk around with  downtown and we're on j street and some folks came up to us and said hey are you the mayor and we said no but they were here from tennessee visiting and they said what a beautiful city you have there to speak at saratoga  up there and they were staying here from tennessee in downtown schenectady and they could not believe the beauty of the city and how it has changed since they were last here some ten fifteen years ago and the same afternoon we had some folks from vermont looking for a restaurant and they're looking on the boards and once again the same reply they could not believe that the turnaround of downtown and as i've said many many times the downtown is the heart of the whole county if the downtown is not beating we're not going to get out so the arteries are not going to get out to the neighborhoods are not getting out to the towns and villages and that's what we're doing right now we're starting to get out to the neighborhoods starting to work in the end a village and towns but again metroplex has just done a tremendous tremendous job and i certainly encourage the council's continued support of them and thank you to the  and to all the board members as well thank you thank you anyone else i'm so sorry but for public record my mind fog just cleared up the other thing that i would really like to talk about in monday night's meeting is defaulting animal control officers position to someone so that we always make sure no matter if we have staffing dave monte will be talking again we've talked over the years about a lot of things i'll find out about their cuts and see if i can resolve that problem leave by elimination of the barbershop or ensuring that it's done and such a fashion that does not interfere with your life and said words i don't think i've met you but i will go find out i didn't see that today  i'll go online and find it and i will go down and talk to the the people that work with the plumbers and find out what really is going on here and see if i can't get this resolved for you my next comment is wayne bennett speaking not gary mccarthy i cannot sit here as the economist police and fire and not respond to somebody referring to jack  it's not the first time either that's come out of this issue we are willing to do whatever it takes the council the police department the animal control officers the professionals and binaries science the different groups out there rescue groups in particular we certainly want to try and do the best thing for the city but calling individuals out in labeling them as a liar in a public forum is certainly not suggesting to me to your heart's in the right place if you're the to make so statements and i can assure you my heart won't be in the right place either jack serve the city for over thirty years as a police officer he's a dedicated professional for those of who know him personally you know what a guy he really is he's sincere he's genuine you madge know hurtful that comment is to him his family if he fired those comments in that direction from microphone up here you'd be calling me to complain about him who does jack complain to we're going to make any progress at all we can have that whether it's from this direction or towards me it's gone beyond that it's time to for everybody to come down with the positive things that they can offer and give us the greatest for riot have options that we can at least agree upon to try and improve the whole situation fingerpointing is childish it's in mature it's  responsible let's not go there any more or right i can tell you jack fallible won't go there so let's just all get together and get on with it thank you thank you and you know rest assured as my colleagues have said we are working to address the concerns you know these dogs treat us like we're not doing anything because we really are and the only other thing i wanted to mention is we talked about the little italy festival  it's also a stockade arch show and it's also i'd leave the great festival so it's a big weekend in downtown schenectady so i encourage everybody to come and take advantage of all the good food and the socialization and just the fun