i'm going to call to order the schenectady city council caucus meeting for june tenth two thousand and thirteen if that the clerk why did we have a one public hearing and then when we get into original consideration of the clerk would read them or one number one for original consideration a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a home rule message requesting an axman of assembly bill a seven four nine nine of twenty thirteen and senate bill as five six and thirteen continuing the tax exempt status of certain parcels this discussed in committee without objection on consent item number two i don't number two an ordinance amending section two forty eight schenectady city code regarding fees for vehicles towed and impounded by the city of schenectady introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed ordinance for june twenty fourth tw also discussed in committee against is just calling for a public hearing without objection on consent i don't number three i don't number three an ordinance amending chapter two forty eight of the schenectady city code regarding parking meters introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed ordinance for june twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen again discussed in committee in congress for a public hearing without objection on consent i am number four i don't number for an ordinance amending section one forty four of the schenectady city code for the creation of a dog park advisory committee introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed ordinance for june twenty fourth tw thirteen also discussed in committee without objection on consent i don't number five i don't number five a resolution regarding the proposed application for section one way loan guarantee funding introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed resolution for june twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen could have a few public hearings at the next council meeting but again it was discussed in committee without objection and consent i don't number six i don't number six authorizing the issuance of revokable permit number five seven seven two integra development l l c for a sign that is approximately forty and forty eight inches by sixty inches wide and hangs over the city right of way with a minimum clearance of ten feet from the ground at three eighteen broadway schenectady new york discussed and without objection on consent item number seven i don't number seven a resolution approving a waiver of interest on fees owed to the city of schenectady by the coin onya christian ministries discussed in committee without objection on consent item number eight i don't number eight a resolution authorizing the city to enter an agreement executing  contract for the sale of seven hundred thirty four albany street consisting of s p l number four nine point eight four dash one dash three again discussed in committee without objection on consent item number nine i don't number nine a resolution authorizing the city to enter into an agreement executing a contract for the sale of five hundred twenty nine mumford street consisting of s p l number four nine point three one dash for dash three three discussed in committee without objection on consent item number ten i don't number ten a resolution authorizing the city to enter into an agreement executing a contract for the sale of two fourteen edward street consisting of s l number four nine point seven five dash three dash thirty discussed in committee without objection on consent item number eleven i don't number eleven a resolution for the city to enter into an agreement executing a contract for the sale of one thousand nine hundred two broadway consisting of s p l number four eight point six zero dash one dash fifteen also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number twelve i don't number twelve a resolution authorizing the city to enter into an agreement executing a contract for the sale of eleven grove place consisting of s p l number four nine point two five dash two dash three seven discussed in committee without objection on consent item number thirteen i don't number thirteen a resolution authorizing the city to enter into an agreement executing a contract for the sale of twenty five twenty two campbell avenue consisting of s p l number four eight point five zero dash one dash three for mr poster this matter was considered by the council at last week's committee meetings sense and there have been some developments which i would like to present to the council which i believe that i am obligated to present to the council however in as much as it is contract negotiations it must be an executive session agenda then will recess this meeting to go into executive session because it's a contract negotiations ok item number fourteen and number fourteen a resolution authorizing an agreement with joe davis for services at this city schenectady as water wells this was discussed in committee without objection on consent item number fifteen i don't number fifteen a resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into an agreement with cal america inc for the purchase of and salacio of spot parking pay stations in the amount of one hundred forty thousand dollars seven hundred seventy five dollars and zero cents this is also discussed in his porterfield based on information requests from constituents as well as discussion among the committee respectfully asked to be returned to committee for further discussion i'm afraid i'm going to deny that i believe we have the votes to approve this so i'm going to leave it on the meeting you said in the meeting you said two years we're basing this on the increase in credit card payments that we will see right now we get no credit card payments for parking we're also basing it on the fact that we will have far fewer tickets that are disputed because now instead of a parking enforcement officer walking by and just seeing a red flag not knowing if it was red for a minute or ten minutes or an hour you'll have written pro as to what time this expired so this is going to cut down on our court time as well in addition every city in the united states that has installed multi space in our community has experienced a mass of revenue growth from parking meters not only from the enforcement side but also from the revenue that the meters themselves generate in discussing this with most of the proposals that came in the six proposals almost all of them projected at least a forty percent increase in parking meter revenue currently our parking meter revenue is right around two hundred thousand dollars a year so if you take that extrapolate it out with the forty percent increase we're sure to see a payback in at least two years on the other concern that the threat to me was regarding the elderly we do have a major elderly population in the city and how they would be able to interact with it is a lot of technology so that was another concern as well during the first several weeks that the kiosks will be in place will have all of our parking enforcement officers on site to assist people with manipulating the machine will also do a very very soft type of enforcement for for tickets in fact the first two weeks and probably won't even issue a ticket for people park they're just good people get used to it there's also an eight hundred number listed right on the machine that people have a question or a problem with that they can call the eight hundred number and that's in effect twenty four hours a day seven days a week if there was a question that was one of the committee and then it was regarding whether or not it would be if we could do this with ten and not twenty and with and at the end of the year go up to twenty well yes let me say that it could be done however we've studied this i've been working on this for three and a half years and to do it in such a small measure would not be giving us number one the revenue return that we're seeking for the city it would also not give us a really fair  evaluation of how they're going to work in schenectady the mare and mr winkler mr wall and mr can knutson myself and we've all looked at this very carefully or as i say over a period of three and a half years this is not something that just popped ok without objection then put it on the consent of jenna thank you item number sixteen we're going to hold i believe until next month marry july ok thanks right and then item sixteen so since this committee considered the one offer that was in existence there have been two other offers that have come in one as recently as today and based upon that the council wanted to additional time to consider the offers and it's being pulled from tonight's agenda and being moved  and i would state that it was understood that if any of the prospective purchasers wish to change their offer that any offer must be made to my office  and can be to any of the assistant corporation counsel or to a mare mary ellen o'brien so long as it's in by close of business on this coming friday which i believe is  that you're bless every resident obvious county merely free for all sickness leak means conflict comment relative to a local law amending chapter one thirty eight section c one thirty eight dash ninety four of the charter of the city of schenectady to set fees for public assembly inspections i think i have one person signed up for the stabber did you sign up to speak to this all right so that would be on the legislative agenda the not on the public he preservation inc a letter announcing the grand opening of the bellevue farmer's market this thursday june thirteenth from four p m to seven p m located at two one seven six broadway continuing every thursday through the season the next bellevue preservation meeting is scheduled for wednesday june twelfth at seven p m is same paul's a fiscal church from the woodlawn neighborhood association a letter announcing their next monthly meeting on wednesday june twelfth at the woodlawn reform church hundred fifty eight state street at seven p m invited guest speakers include city court judge said new ski and police chief brian koch call on the meeting is open to the public petitions there are none ok thank you committee or how they're structured i want to encourage everyone to come out naturally speak at the public hearing that's why we have them so i know that i've had some feedback and i would i think my colleagues here so i just want to remind everyone to come out and have their voice heard thank you thank you anyone else many reports right if not that section closed and removed the privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda i have three people signed up here summary mclean center pool laffan on june third third's committee agenda the item was listed as water department contracts on tonight agenda it is called schenectady east water wells if a correction was needed for this item it should have been made back in may not three in any case the most important issue about this item is that the city should never find itself in this position again time task in and other words several people learning and knowing how to do the same job so that the city is prepared in case of an eventuality city council has not been paying attention to the conditions taking place regarding our water supply a city employee retired hastily two weeks ago from the city's water operation with this agenda item he wants to come out of retirement and kept paying for what he knows because no one else can step into this previous job i say no not one nickel let him enjoy his retirement the madam president and his team council members my name is joe keller a resident of the city of schenectady and also a candidate for going to the city council first one open and say at least it was great to see you on friday night at the umbrella  fantastic event and went to a great cause what i wanted to mention here tonight was with the current rate of property taxes in the city compound and by the hundreds of thousands of dollars in un collected parking violations now is by no means the time to borrow and spend for new parking meter stations and these kiosks with a net cost of one hundred forty thousand plus dollars plus five hundred dollars per month for the wireless access twenty thousand dollars per year in the maintenance costs and one hundred dollars each time you call to make a change in the parking rate per station the cost is nearing two hundred thousand dollars in two years now while it and the with all due respect may have been a game of smoke and mirrors to make the the city appear to be in the black the purchase of these kiosks would  compound on top of the already are standing parking violation problem now before we spend on what might work to resolve this issue i recommend that we spend what does work what does work is that we hired a company as we have in the past to claim the outstanding revenue now the funds received and on only pay for the collections in itself and that for collecting those but it would also fund the new meters additionally before we spend the money  xin putting these commuters in place why don't we make take a look and make sure that the violators are properly policed and that we receive an equitable return on this investment thank you very much for your time thank you something that will really help the community a lot better i think the parking meters are find of where they are for the time being i know we all want to get back get into that technology situation where we are up there with the technical technical situations but it's connected to the right now needs to stay put i think and stay away from trying to get parking meters in this area i don't think that we need that kind of technology at this time i think that made it a later time you know we may could revisit the parking meter situation and i also want to talk about the towing situation that was brought up at the meeting also i really am not clear about that towing driving people thirty five dollars additional for the towing of their vehicles i don't think that there's really fair to do that to the people expect to be in a snowstorm where people have limited time to adjust themselves with something that's happened to their vehicle i mean these things can happen all of a sudden you know you could be driving a car when that i was driving my car a woman it into my car just stopped on me and i happened in have i don't have any paper to really write down what was wrong with my vehicle and you know then they'll come by and tell you car i think that these things need to be considered because you have a lot of people that are disabled such as myself that really do need my car and you  can't afford to really put the money out for those types of tolls i think that the situation should be evaluated in every case before you think about tolling in charge of people that astronomical amount of money thank you thank you i have no one else signed up for this area so i'm going to declare the school closed and we will move to the it's me again i want to say that i'm having i want to just say every time that i come up here about my stamp program that i'm having on the twenty seventh of this month at six thirty at them a chance the room in the library i need people to come out tenets to come out of to let people know of their devastating situation with their housing issues i went to a meetings and they were talking about the bed book issues and that kind of thing i want to make it clear that i think i'm not sure but i'm pretty sure that the man said that we've always had bedbugs and roaches and and mice and all this kind of thing but because they hadn't pesticides that really kept that infestation problem down now that the government decided that we don't need any more and pesticides now we have a huge and for station problem i blame the government i believe that the government should too should have tried to make something less hazardous for the community before they took away the pesticides now we have been in for station problem that is very very hard to get rid of and is touching every walk of life the rich the poor with whoever and i think that that need that should have been addressed before they took away the of pesticides now look at the problem if the station problem and i am from what i'm hearing they intend to get the code enforcement intends to or force that law on the poor people and say that if you have a problem in your apartment you as a tenet is responsible for hiring a professional to get rid of their problem i think is very unfair to people that have minimal income they are not able to afford to pay for a professional to come in and straighten out their problem and i'm concerned about how bed bugs roaches and mice they said that all they do is structure they need to do more than just structure i think thank you thank you tony  city to ten thousand dollars or whatever it is that it was supposed to how do we let people go into a piece of property that we own don't collect anything form sign anything he just goes in it starts fixing it up and all of a sudden he walks away it was the same thing when they built the city rajon broadway they were building a piece propped on a piece of property from cary street we never had to detour i mean there's people that's in the city hall they've got to know what's going on and somebody gets hurt we're liable for now friday is flag day so it's no they should display her flags and things that didn't bother me a couple weeks ago when we had the council meeting people are standing up saying the pledge of allegiance at a flag to had on i mean people should know that you stand up say pledge allegiance to the flag you stand facing the flag same thing with the national anthem you stand there you face the flag you don't walk around my granddaughter had a program up at every school the whole second grade was there kids were saying the national anthem beautiful people were walking around taking pictures of kids singing and you supposed to stand at attention to my him you know you have the miami heat game last night they had a twelve year old girl i think she was twelve sing the national anthem it was beautiful the way it should be sung not jazzed up or anything and the barna players understand it with her hands behind her back work and walk rocking back and forth people preterism has been taken out of this country and religion has we've got to get back into this country thank you this one here knows me by now i really are modern president comes to members good evening i have love a topic here that's been going on now it's going to have was gone for a while but it got more on point and i was gone i built a brand new house st and i constructed a brand new sidewalk also in the same time however it is a treat right at the end of my property and the builders were very  conscientious of not disturbing the route so they went back this no i have an arch and it's cracked it's like what a four or five inch depression and he has like a ridge of like six inches to eight inches on one guidance how do how i can go about reconstructing my sidewalk i would like to do it because i know it's not right the way it is even though the rest of the sidewalk is perfect so i would appreciate the calls to or madam chair and mr possum city council members i should have sung the for the agenda item there but i just wanted to i one one first and foremost thank the city itself for the support that is given when the christian ministries and post again others for placing on the agenda tonight concerning the taxes and interest on the record in the christian ministries i have sent a letter out to the city members some time ago talked with some of the city members we have a neighborhood watch i think neighborhood wash should be watching over that because the neighbors are complaining about they cannot go into that park think that neighborhood watch should be watching over the park while the police do other work outside that's what they're for they have three hundred people said so they could send some to watch  curfew on that park and i think that corp you should be carried out thank you thank you sharon lynch  current president king city council members my name is sharon schmidt with pleasant neighborhood association in the mt pleasant merchants the parade was canceled tonight so we're here i do want to let you know that we have a lot of events coming up in mount pleasant one is this wednesday night the twelfth a garden showing at eight thirty eight main avenue at the home of nick and lily and walsh is from five to eight p m to have over two hundred rose bushes i've seen them they're beautiful everyone is invited to come and take a look on the thirteenth this thursday we do have brian kilcullen who will be speaking about the community policing through environmental design except ted he will have mark mccracken with him to discuss self defense and we will have to go from fifteen love talking about the opportunities at the new tennis courts on the fifteenth also we have the crane street business district sidewalk and customer appreciation day from ten to five this is new for us so we're starting small and we want to build from there i will have a garden too or at my home one of and this is put on by the seraph and most of schenectady one hundred percent of the proceeds benefit young girls for scholarships and other philanthropic goals and i will give you a change copy i want to  for the lovely reception she gave at her home last night for the gardeners when i got into this gardening thing i thought it was to promote pleasant and i found there were far more benefits to this so i would encourage those would be beautiful arden to open them up to the seraph to miss for this worthy cause and the twenty fourth city council is going to be giving my pleasant neighborhood in the merchants a resolution we're asking everyone who is involved to please come to city hall and join in this honor because we want to  everyone who helped on the twenty eighth john wooden veron has a kind campaign fundraiser at harmony banquet hall we'd like to see everyone possible turn now we want to support all our candidates here also mar ifill mr erickson as well and we are very appreciative and grateful that we have someone living in mt pleasant who wants to run for city council so i want to thank everyone here for allowing us to present our issues and our events and just thank you very much for everything that you do mary porterfield has been stupendous in helping us and they go to the greatest lengths including almost moving in your house to help you  last time we were here we had the city council to support our proposal to purchase the lot the entire lot of the city however said that because other parties were interested in the law the city will consider subdividing it we do think that was fair because we believe we had the highest bid on the lot so we went back and said well we'll see if the city wants to subdivide it will consider purchasing half the lot now we even offered to pay the city for the cost of those barriers that they put down around the lot the five thousand dollars then we read in the paper that to my lou is our bit altogether i don't know why because we believe well believe that this will be a good thing for our community and we may lose according to the paper we lose there because the city believe somebody might come a few years from now that would actually b forward with a proposal to develop it as long as far as we know nobody tallest the lot is not on a main strip like state street or union street or even eastern ave our offer was fair you know the seventy four thousand dollars if the city wants a lot more or less discuss it now we have serious problems parking problem right now after the put the barriers around the lot some have propose that would pay a part of which is payment in lieu of taxes but no other entities you know maybe like except like union college is paying to buy it if you look around for churches you have to compare this to churches and there is a similar situation with units we already have enough thank you thank you mary mclean ok thank you i have no one else signed up but i know some of you had indicated you'd like to speak twenty two campbell in the city the city own property i also do have a listing another city listing carry street so i am familiar with the city program and how it works with the city owned properties i did to realtor day i was very impressed with you mr mayor and with the commitment to the city my feeling is that you hired real estate agents to market your property so that we could find you the best people for these properties to get them back on the and get money back into your community and i agree with the second man that spoke tonight i'm sorry to remember his name and he was saying about properties where they buy em and then they run out of funds and then they go back to the city i have two very qualified buyers who had a letter pre approval they put in or is deposit them we wrote a contract and you have other offers and i understand that but have they seen the property do they know how much work is involved are these good offers is it just going to come back is the property going to be shallow while we're waiting for two weeks there is a time limit on their offer they don't want to tie their money up forever and they're good buyers and i wish you would reconsider their offer and make a decision tonight for them so they know what they're going to do with their money in their investment thank you thank you right now i think i'm christopher militants my brother david military i just want to say that we work with the city in the past we're current on any taxes we know the permit process we know what's involved in the bigger picture as they get the house back up to code it severely  enforcement is put an estimate on this property at fifty five thousand dollars to bring it back to code to the other bettors even know that number or they just going into thinking they can slap something on the property and get it back we plan on starting this full time hit the ground running and just go as soon as we get the property we're not going to wait we're not going to sit around we don't even need the year to get it back up and back on the taxes my brother also wants to be a resident on the upper floor and rent out the bottom floor so he would continue to be a resident in the city it's connected i think it's something that everyone can benefit from this project and we want to work with the city and we have in the past ok thank you ok and we also have some photos of prior work i don't know if you guys would take that into consideration but we do have some photos of severely dilapidated buildings that we brought back to life and are currently on you know where we've sold and people have purchased ok thank you and i probably would encourage you to maybe get in touch with mr pollster and you can explain more of what's what's going on thank you all right now i do not have anyone else sign up so i'm going to do this person of the meeting close to move to miscellaneous business in the council pretty lousy outside but i didn't have a clue that there was anything worse than a storm coming through but when i was waiting at the bottom of the the steps of councilman erickson came down and said he heard that a tornado hit so as i drove through downtown i didn't see too many problems i came up broadway held then i start to see the problem so when i turned out to my street campbell avenue i really saw the problems but to the city's credit crews were already on the street and this was like quarter after eight cleaning up the police were out the fire department was out it was amazing i only have to say since i've been on the council about a year and a half i've never fielded so many positive phone calls in my life people stopping by my house to tell me it was just great me the whole generation for ourselves and my house was from power being which probably i was here i think it up at seven o'clock around seven o'clock nine o'clock thursday night the power came back on the streets were clean they were all passable was just an amazing effort but i can't say enough about all the city employees and i mean all the departments that were working and the cord nation between all these departments and talked to the commissioner also and he let us know that without that cooperation with the city national  wasn't not going to be able to restore power as fast as they did they had to replace a lot of telephone poles that were snapped i mean it was like annabel if you got hit the hardest i know what hit other parts of the city the bellevue got hit very very hard and just the cooperation and the auxiliary police were working neighborhood watch everybody was working together so it shows when there was real when all push comes to shove people band together neighbors were helping each other it was just it was a sight to see  and i'm really proud of the city and the work that they did and mayor you chippie commend that you know for putting this all together it was a great effort a great city effort and i can't say enough about it it was just amazing i've never been through anything like that in my damage i don't have to go through it or anything but just seeing the damage the trees down the power lines down but that small time frame that basically everything was fixed was just amazing i can't say enough about it and  to the city and all the employees they all deserve a big pat on the back and that's what i want to give them so thank you couple of things i want to talk about tonight on the agenda we had the sale of a bunch of homes and this is i think really good progress i think delighted with the  number that we had tonight and then ask here there's more kind of in the queue that are coming up that will be looking at and right away we've discovered a problem with our process and that's how to handle multiple bids in competing bids on houses and so you know one of things i feel is that's probably a really good problem to have and we have people multiple people who want some of these houses where in the past the idea was that nobody wanted them so i think it's a really great problem to have but we need to figure out a process so that we treat all the bettors fairly that everyone has the opportunity to bed and if they everyone knows it's competitive bidding and everyone has an opportunity to come back and whatever the rules we put in place we need to make sure that it's fair to everybody people are walking around with a roll of quarters in their pocket i know when i travel on business to other cities and better country there i go most cities that are going to be or bigger they have these meters because i have credit card in my pocket but i don't have a roll of quarters and if you're going to go to a city most places you jim park for a quarter or two you're paying in the down terms of dollars but if you're going to be there for a couple hours rarely do you have that much money in your pocket so i think it's a benefit to the people who are visiting so i think people are coming in whether they're coming to proctor's or their own business or coming to eat we have to provide a more modern and current method of paying for parking and i think it'll eliminate people getting tickets because you get there you've got to park but you don't have a way to stay there so i do you know you kind of stuck you drive away until you find a quarter so i think it's a move we need to make the first time i saw this type of electronic kiosk trying to think back to the exact year but it was probably almost twenty years ago in boston so this is not a new technology this is something that has been going on for quite some time  no doubt it will have some bumps and it'll take some time for some people to get used to it but i think that once we get used to it people will find it more convenient so i'm glad that we voted for it and that's passed and hopefully we'll see those sooner rather than later so thank you them as i said in the council meeting i would have liked to have seen a spite off a smaller child but i also said that i wouldn't hold things up either if my colleagues felt comfortable with things i also want to state that i feel like the presentation was very well prepared there was a lot of studying that went into these key asks and as stated by about three and a half years worth what i would like to request is that in the future when we're doing that kind of an intensive study that maybe the council get some information prior to because it's very difficult to know we to digest that information field questions and concerns from constituents and make a decision that quickly so yes that's again my word was that i was going to hold it up but i did would like to request going forward that when we going into major studies like this the council gets little bits of information at a time and also in that the public will get little of information at a time because in these days when money is so tight putting out a hundred forty five thousand dollars is scary and changing things is scary so that's that's my piece on that i want to say that i'm very excited to pass the integris sign if people are aware it's just a couple doors down from a couple words i guess up broadway from the municipal here proctors it's a derelict building that's been boarded up for years and it's now being rehabbed fortunately it's right next to another building that was just being rehabbed to see to architecture and i think they'll be celebrating their opening with an official ribbon cutting in the next couple of weeks so it's just lovely to see the growth in the rehabilitation spreading out from the center of downtown and we certainly all know that mayor mccarthy has focused on our neighborhoods and has some great programs to keep keep that momentum going today the before i die board went up on j street it was supposed to be opened at three p m but considering the weather they moved it up until eleven it was still raining but i was walking back from a meeting at one thirty so i walked up the pedestrian walkway and it was already filled  and so it was really fun and it was everything from you know before i die i want to tell my family how much i love them too before i die i want to form a kicking kick in metal band too before i die i want to pet a li n so it's it's going along just as the union college students planned and hopefully i can get the kind of the person who spearheaded this before she graduates and goes away so we can say inc know the thing is i want to reiterate that the bellevue farmer's market is opening this thursday june thirteenth this is very very exciting for bellevue it is the second year we will have a satellite greenmarket up in bellevue it is every single thursday from four to seven p m on the corner of thompson street and broadway in that parking lot so please please come out and frequent the thursday market and lastly it's time for me to bring up recycling again there's been a lot of neighborhood cleanups going and in the i guess i should say proces the negative proceeds of those cleanups are are lots of recyclable materials there you know glass metal and plastic can all go in the same and it gets this nice realistic or receptacles are not particularly expensive you can get one for five or six dollars paper products i use my window envelopes and there i rip my name and address out of my junk mail and put all my junk mail in there i put my shoe boxes in there and i will admit to having numerous shoe box s so i put you know everything every cardboard and paper that i can that not personal out for recycle and i really ask that everyone does the same because it does generate revenue for the city and my offer stands that anyone who wants stickers that can come down to city hall give me a call or send me an e mail my information is on the city well website and i will deliver them to you in person and i think that's it thank you ok thank you the sport thank you well first of all with regard to the king you know i think that being modern is important and to being up to date is important but as i said when i saw the earlier that if there were a constituent concern and there's more in a request for more discussion i don't find that unreasonable actually i think it's reasonable and prudent to discuss more if the decision is made you say well we need to make have more discussion i don't think that's an unreasonable request and so i'm all for the city moving forward and things improving which i think we're doing but again there were some concerns which i really would have liked to have further discussion and explanation for with regard to the cleanup that we did have in hamilton hill on saturday thank you again for all the people that came out we will have again and will have a bigger turnout i'm sure there was one thing that occurred that i found really troubling and one of the things that we did is we cleaned out the storm so as you know they we've had a lot of rain in c it's been catching a lot of of debris so i had an occasion to look into storms or something i don't want to regular basis and it was just really i found to see all the debris and the garbage that was in there so and a lot of it is what like with the things that we could that could have been recycled and should have been recycled but didn't get recycled and up sweeping into the into the store which ends up sweeping through our system and ultimately it affects our environment in a very negative manner so as i said we will be doing more clean ups and one of the things i'm asking people because what i've decided to do is on my street the four corners to actually clean out the storm stor because as people see water rushing past the storms or it's rushing because they can't get in and that's because there's too much stuff in there so one of the things i've committed myself to doing is on my street to clean them out on a weekly basis i'm asking other people take that is to take that same responsibility i burial ground ceremony that they always do at six p m in vail park in the african american burial ground and also on friday at the proctors theater hamilton hill art center will president bill will people be presenting congo square african some and additionally on saturday congo square will be in central park from twelve noon to four p m and that is free to the public so we're encouraging people to come out to observe and to celebrate juneteenth thank you very much tomorrow's can be the last day that the city will take tree limbs and anything just drag to the curb i just want to make that clear starting wednesday any kind of debris from tree limbs or anything like that has to be done the right way for foot lengths and bundled up so just so people know and i think bellevue collection day is tomorrow i'm not sure about any other section of the city but people want to be sure they can just bring their stuff out to the curb in the city will take it but starting the day after on wednesday we're going back to normal rules of thoughts correct mayor you can reinforce that ok thank you mary and what you're saying about the storm stores you're right when you don't and i litter campaign is what we need something i've been talking about for a long long time  we sure devastation in parts of bellevue woodlawn other sections of the city and the crews mobilized really with an unprecedented level of enthusiasm that a lot of challenges there thank national grid for allocation of crews to the city of schenectady we match them up with our city crews so that we were first identifying  wires that were down there making sure they were d energized our crews went in and moved the trees debris out of the way so they could go in reestablish the poles put the wires back up we had three gas leaks that the fire department secured again we did all that without any personal injuries in the city is connect the so we are truly fortunate i happened to be i wasn't at the council meeting attended to be a little bit late for the council me i was meeting with a the new chair of the assembly cities committee was meeting with him and some other local mayors in his the calls start coming in for the tornado other wind damage and we're going over problems that we have a cities in where we're always looking at the state to be partners in this effort and some women seem quite responsive in intensive to the needs on a broad range of things and it seemed he acted extremely quickly because the storm happened we're telling this is one of things as were we cut the meeting short to go back to schenectady in and then come to the council you know just went to the command post up in bellevue but the assemblyman did introduce legislation this week which creates a three million dollars pot of money for cities to apply for where you have storm damage like this where again our only recourse is local dollars to deal with it and anybody gets a chance call senator farley this week to make sure that the senator senate counterpart to that bill gets favorable consideration but it would be kind of a breath of fresh air where the a new chair of the city's committee and seems to be approaching things with i will call an open in pragmatic view of municipal government and having a working relationship with the state government and local government so that understands the burdens we have and the financial pressures that are put on the cities but i think the assemblyman for his quick action the city staff were working together names of all the people that work so we can a more formal thank you for him in the neighbors neighborhood watch people came out in everybody worked together people were patient in we bounce back really about twenty four hours forty eight hours we had everything reestablished in in the last week we've done the clean up so that most cases you can't tell that anything happened so again we were truly fortunate and thank the study staff thank everyone for their support and