on the city council caucus meeting to order if the clerk would read the first line of money agenda final consideration an ordinance amending chapter two ten section two ten dash eight and section two ten  fourteen and chapter one thirty eight section one thirty eight that's forty and section one thirty eight dash eighty one of the administrative code of the city of schenectady relative to rental certificates we're going to hold this one for two weeks there are a number of other questions that have come up so we'll put this back in committee on monday night ok item number two i don't number two an ordinance amending chapter one thirty eight section one thirty eight ash eleven of the administrative code of the city of without objection on consent before i don't number for an ordinance amending the chapter two to eight section two two eight dash two four of the administrative code of the city of schenectady and says dealing with curbs and sidewalks again discussed in committee without objection on consent at number five i don't number five the original consideration an ordinance amending chapter one sixty five of the schenectady city code introduce only resolution calling for a public hearing concerning a proposed amendment to the city code chapter one sixty five to include new greens fees category also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number six i don't number six in ordinance re appropriating various items within the two thousand and thirteen budget relative to the water fund and the goal fund discussed in committee without objection on consent i don't know are seven i don't number seven a resolution setting the fee for fence permit also discussed in committee without objection on consent i don't number eight i don't number eight a resolution setting the fee for paving permits discussed in committee without objection on consent item number nine item number nine resolution calling for a public hearing regarding the two thousand and thirteen consolidated plans proposed allocation of two million eight hundred and one thousand two hundred forty eight dollars in federal housing and urban development hud funding so this is dealing with the community development block grant so began just calling for a public hearing without objection on consent number ten i don't number ten a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of one yell street consisting of parcel number s p l number four nine point eight four dash four dash thirteen to share fee bradley ok again discussed in committee without a budget out season a misprin that will be a roll call right number eleven i don't number of eleven a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of two properties at eight and ten school st consisting of parcel p l number sixty point two one dash one dash two one point two and sixty point two one dash to dash two two two well i'm an american this was discussed in committee without objection on consent number twelve number twelve a resolution approving an agreement between city of schenectady and schenectady employees local ten thirty seven also discussed in committee without objection and consent  number thirteen i don't number thirteen a resolution approving appointments to the city of schenectady municipal golf course advisory committee discussed in committee without objection on consent item number fourteen i don't  fourteen a resolution settling a claim of robert kelly junior discussed also in claims committee without objection on consent i don't number fifteen i don't number fifteen a resolution commemorating march as american red cross month this week taken out of order mrs record will present that item number sixteen i don't number sixteen a resolution recognizing the achievements of women and designating march as women's history month this will also be taken out of order t brazill number eighteen number eighteen a resolution recognizing paul mitchell the school for its sponsorship of several fund raising events and so also be taken out of order again his presence introduced this social present that name number nineteen number nineteen a resolution authorizing the purchase of fertilizers and pesticides for the municipal golf course discussed in committee without objection on consent number twenty number twenty a resolution awarding four contracts for these diamonds part renovations in the total amount of five hundred eighty five thousand four hundred dollars discussed in committee without objection on consent and then we have two items for unanimous consent that you read the first one a resolution proclaiming march thirty first twenty thirteen is power walk wholly hindu spring festival day in the city of and number two the second one a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of eleven fifty four artfully road consisting of parcel number s p l number forty point seven seven dash one dash three seven let us pray oh god we pray for the world it's around us sometimes lord we don't understand what's going on but we know that you're in and through us as we reach out to our neighbors we praise the lord that you call all nations to peace and that's it's peace through people lord with you we mourn for the children in this world that have fallen victim to many is crime in and lord it even here in schenectady we think of young people going to bed hungry we now pray lord for our community who struggles and for those who do not look for the good and in our beloved city lord speak to us now and show each of us our part that we play and bring in peace and justice and in the world and especially in schenectady the lord cleanse us from all that keeps us from serving and from loving our neighbors lord we pray for for those that are involved in in each of our communities in our churches and our synagogues in our temples lord we we pray that this day that we need to listen more closely to one another to work more diligently and to be more open to hear what each of us have to say lord we pray for schenectady we pray for those who struggle and for those who succeed in and to find they only want more and lord as always we pray for our police department and our fire department keep them safe well at the same time that they may use sound judgment as they make their decisions oh lord we need to always pray for children of schenectady some need only our prayers well others need to know that we as adults are there to give them a hand so lord we ask you we ask you that you touch each of our teachers give them a heart for their students lord we thank you for community mentors those who help the students to feel that the community cares about them and is concern for them and lord as always we pray for our country we pray for leaders may we always work to bring peace and justice not only in our community but in the world around us lord speak to each of us now and show us our part of being a hundred eighty and whereas at the y w c a carol's duties in part called for her to oversee a yearly budget of one point three million dollars to operate a number of programs including providing services to crime victims housing for women services for domestic violence clients advocacy counseling and school outreach and whereas carol is a lot of the state university of new york at albany where she graduated with a b s a in sociology and a minor in psychology and whereas carol has always been a very active and respected member of the greater community and whereas carol has received several awards such as the liberty and professional women's organization and where as carol is retiring from her position at the why don't we see a and where as the citizens of the city of schenectady would like to take time and recognize and honor carol maryl missouri and all of her important contributions and achievements now therefore be a result of that the city get to the city council because it is in its deliberations to recognize and thank carol maryl missouri for all the important community wide contributions in extensive services that she has provided to many members of the schenectady community as well as to her for her many significant achievements and be it for the reason that the mayor and the city council extend their very best wishes to carol for her retirement and for all her future endeavors madam president favor congratulations i simply want to say thank you this was so totally unexpected and i feel very very poor lass to have had the opportunity for twenty five years to leave the programs at the  and i look forward to another twenty five years of you know hopefully volunteering thank you so much  carolyn but we thank both of you for all you've done ok next one is resolution commemorating march as american red cross month this b r president i'd like to call up anyone that's here from the american red cross to receive this resolution seeing none are read in any way as indicated this is a resolution that commemorates marches american red cross month whereas march is american red cross month a special time to recognize and thank our heroes who volunteer donate blood take lifesaving courses or provide financial donations to support an organization whose mission is to help those in need and where as a city of skating would like to remember and thank those in its community by general by generously giving their time to help their neighbors and whereas in schenectady the red cross works tirelessly through its twenty nine employees and nine hundred volunteers to help when disaster strikes when lifesaving blood is needed to provide twenty four hour support members of the military veterans their families to provide training in c p r aquatic safety in first aid in whereas across the country the american red cross responds nearly seventy thousand disasters a year it provides over four hundred thousand thirty services to military members and civilians it collects and distributes about forty percent of the nation's blood supply in trains were than seven million people in first aid water safety and other life saving skills every year and whereas despite these challenging economic times the american red cross continues to offer help and comfort to those in need in whereas our community depends on the american red cross now therefore be it resolved that the city of schenectady does proclaim march two thousand and thirteen as american red cross month and be it further resolved that the city council encourages to support this organization and its noble humanitarian mission and i mean with the resolution right there second is present all in favor i all right our resolution now for women's history month mr porterfield madam president you have for a resolution recognizing the achievements of women and designate march as women's history month where as women were among the certain first settlers of schenectady in six hundred sixty one and since then have contributed to the growth and strength of the city  countless recorded in one recorded ways and where as women have played critical economic economic cultural and salt social roles in every sphere of life in the city of skin eighty and constituted a significant portion of the labor fo force working both inside and outside the home and whereas women have played a unique role throughout the history of both the city of schenectady in our nation as a whole often by providing majority of the volunteer labor force everywhere as women of every race class and ethnic background service early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social movement and where as american women have been leaders not only in securing their own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity but also in the abolitionist movement the industrial labor movement the civil rights movement the peace movement and of civil movements all which have created a more fair and just society for all of us and whereas the spout despite his contributions the role of american women in history has been consistently overlooked in undervalued in the literature teaching in study of american history and whereas the city of skin actually has a rich history of women of every race class and ethnic background who have served to enhance the city and wellbeing of its all its residen schenectady city council here by designate marches women's history month and the city of schenectady and recognize the struggles contributions  on behalf of all women thank you and it's an honor and a privilege to accept this resolution and this is really a significant year because the y w c a will be celebrating our hundred twenty fifth anniversary and you'll hear more about the contributions of the women of schenectady thank you thank you thank you thank you we certainly do have a lot to celebrate this evening this week is wonderful as well as a good thing i love all this good good news man president you have for thank you this is a resolution recognizing paul mitchell the school for its sponsorship of lots and lots of fund raising events where as during the month of march paul mitchell the school has held in plans to hold more events in an effort to raise funds for various not for profit organizations and where as on march third it hosted its first fund raising event called a cutter and where paul mitchell educators fashion the end invision salon offered professional haircuts for twenty five dollars and whereas on march twenty second cha cha lessons were offered him whereas on march twenty fourth there was a photo shoot fundraiser which included makeup and hair style provided by paul mitchell educator along with a thirty minute session with a photographer and fifteen edited download digital images for seventy five dollars and where as the fund raising will continue into the month of april and will include a bolt on april seventh at dodgeball tournaments on april twelfth in a glow in the dark golfing on april fourteenth and whereas on april seventeenth the ninety nine restaurant gilder lin will be donating fifteen percent of all table sales from six to nine p m from any diners who present a coupon issued by the paul mitchell school and where as the proceeds of these fundraisers will go to several worthwhile organizations such as the andrew gomez dream so foundation magic johnson foundation morris animal foundation boys and girls clubs of america food for africa habitat for humanity in haiti no limits for deaf and hard of hearing children children's miracle network hospitals gary sinise foundation findlay asian cancer sri answer foundation and the american humane association now therefore be it resolved that the mayor and the city schenectady city council recognize paul mitchell the school for their vision and efforts in sponsoring these exciting fundraisers and thank them for for raising funds and probing awareness for several i would like to thank everyone here this evening thank you mayor council and residents of glad to leave if you don't mind just a moment a few minutes to let you know tell you something about our school and what we're all about i do need glasses as we i want to thank you for inviting us where honored to accept this award my brother julio who is also my business partner regrets that he cannot be here so i will speak on his behalf i do have with me my wife and my sister who are also part of the business and work along continue to do what we do because it is part of our culture to give back i would like to thank my team they are amazing we share the same vision to educate and empower all to complet any level of success that they wish and so they all work together toward this common goal we would also like to think the city is committed to the for embracing us as you have you have made us feel truly welcome in the past two years we have seen eight hundred to one thousand patrons walk through our doors each month for services my brother and i are very happy about this because we are seen as connect to the come back to life we would like to think all involved with the revitalization of downtown be we truly believe that this would create it revises ation of the whole city as we move forward we're also like to think the metroplex the s i c p go easy group and the chamber the mayor and all of you here at the city council for helping to encourage businesses to come this going to add to the and help it continued to grow we are proud also to announce that we are percentage of gainful employment of our students was eighty nine point nine zero percent that's amazing possibly ninety percent of our graduates have found employment in the field i would like to speak for a moment about the culture of our school we believe that it occasion is an adventure and that learning experiences need to be fun our instructors we call them learning leaders are trying to draw out the artist in every student and prepare them to compete in the real world through our annual fundraising campaign we raised and don't need it millions of dollars in support a many charitable causes we build homes with habitat for humanity fed thousands of african orphans and supported the victim of aids breast cancer homeless abuse and hundreds of other causes the paul mitchell network is nearly one hundred thousand salons strong and and it is in eighty one countries worldwide every professional hairdresser knows the paul mitchell name now with the arrival  taken a world the cosmetology education by storm each year thousands of future professionals and staff members from pa mature schools donate their time talent and energy to support a variety of charitable causes over the past nine years our annual three month long fundraising campaign has raised over eight point five million dollars through bake sales fashion shows the town's grassroots outreach and countless other activities and events to support our philanthropic efforts there is a great thing about our three month campaign is that we support local national and global organizations money that is collected for children's miracle network goes to the local children's miracle network hospital which is the children's hospital at albany medical center the gary sinise foundation just built a home for a veteran in albany this passion year the animal protective foundation in scotia has also received funds from the morris animal foundation giving back is a huge part of our culture paul mitchell we teach our future professionals out easy it is to get involved and give back to their community yes we want to produce successful hairdressers and we do that but we also want to teach our students how to share their talent and energy to make the world a better place you all cherish so i won't go through them again there is one that kathy buckley i'd like to speak to you quickly about she is with no limits it's a nonprofit organization for children who are hard of hearing or deaf started by kathy buckley who will be at proctor's main stage at eight o'clock p march thirtieth this saturday kat is a five time american comedy award nominee as the best and up female comedian she is an actress writer producer arc their humanitarian and one of the country's most sought after motivational speakers she has accomplished many great things overcoming many obstacles including the fact that she was born deaf whether performing any comedy club appearing on television speak in publicly teaching at cannes for children or peering in any number of other settings cathy spreads a great message that anything can be achieved when the heart and mind work together this is a message that we feel is important for the whole world to hear and we wanted to share it with our community so we've decided to offer this program free of charge to anyone who wanted to enjoy it with us we'd love to have you all join us at proctor's for a fun night of encourage and entertainment again i would like to thank you very much for this recognition we are honored and we are committed to continue encouraging our future professionals to give back to the community right and one more out of order resolution and this is for to him this spring festival day in the city is connected can you have a floor thank you is a resolution program wing proclaiming march thirty first two thousand and thirteen as holy hindu spring festival day in the city is connecting whereas our holy the festival of colors remains a popular hindu spring festival during which everybody splashes colored water or powder all over each other's faces in clothes reflecting natures bringing forth gorgeous colors through the blossoming of flowers thereby creating a feeling of oneness with nature and whereas with all of its fun holy like other festivals has its own spiritual worth because it builds love in god and attaches the person from the material enjoyments to encourage spiritual development forgetting the hatred of others in starting the new year with love and whereas it was a festival that commemorates saying farewell to winter celebrating the coming of spring good harvests in the fertile land although the springs abundant colors and whereas the social element in pog holy is the uniting of different groups the powerful the weak the large the small the rich and the poor and whereas the celebration brings love compassion truth forgiveness and hope that all people will show goodwill towards each other all in celebration of the coming new year and whereas pod while holy tells us that we must always keep god spiritual light in our hearts and according to the gita the lord manifest in the spring season with the holy festival representing the lord saw now therefore be a result that the schenectady city council hereby joins with gary mccarthy  goodness of this love and also good spirit fate conviction trust in god and everyone this precious and priceless gift to us it is indeed a very auspicious and a very much blessing and right that is the end of our out of order resolutions we have no public hearings tonight sahlin attain in motion to approve the minutes mr brady second the sporting field all in favor i  thirteen general letter dated march twenty fifth two thousand and thirteen addressed to the honorable mayor and members of city council the letter asked that the purchase of the fertilizers and pesticides for the minnesota golf course be charged to the inspection fee as you know we have requested an inspection checklist prior to inspections this list will give landlord an idea of what is expected from the city and will be a guide to that the landlords have their units ready we would like this checklist to be included in this proposal prior to you and i know we have some time to do that now if it hasn't already been done also are requesting that owner occupied properties of the tree units be exempt from inspection because they are classified by the assessor as residential properties and not commercial additionally field inspection fees too high at fifty dollars with a respect if you have twenty five we would like to suggest a decrease of forty dollars and zero reinspection fee please reconsider that give us something back in return as we are trying to work with the lack of it this city council and day code enforcement department and i'm delighted partner so please let us have something to let i know we were given some there were some bending of the rules here i stopped at sash and sure would like to thank the city council for helping us in that respect and i'll support enforcement good evening my name is bob burgess and i'm also a member of slick city council mr mayor madam chair i want to thank you for tabling this proposal that was put up for the rental certificate and reconsidering and really looking it because there are some serious issues that need to be addressed the area i want to touch based on his insurance requirements at the city is proposing to put in the the proposal that is requiring a twenty five thousand dollar bond or proof of insurance if the insurance policy is chosen then the requirement is that the city of schenectady be named as a certificate holder on the policy per the proposal dispersed policy is condition to identify and save harmless the city against all forms of damages and losses which may result from fire at the building which could cause the city to have to demolish or maintain the building the city tells us that this is for fire and insurance verification verification only and that they would be notified if insurance is cancelled i want to touch on that i did call my agent through state farm what i've been with for several years and she did tell me that she would be more than happy to list the city but they cannot be bothered to notify the city if there is a lapse in payment and they wouldn't do it and this is what i'm being told by my agent here are the problems what if the owner is self insured if the city requires a bond it is costly for the owner to name the city on an insurance policy as a certificate holder there would be an additional cost due to a broker sfi putting the city's name as a certificate holder on the policy implies that they have financial interest in the property similar to a mortgage holder release think insurance information will become public record therefore it violates the property owner's private rights at this point we urge to address all of these issues before making it a law please take some time and look this over we really appreciate it thank you thank you certificate before but when you do you have to put the tenants name on it and we feel this is an invasion of privacy because all city documents are publicly and sensible according to the city code and i'm going to read it to you shiftiness it states the general public shall have full access to said landlord registration statements and rental certificates upon filing of a proper freedom of information application we feel is a problem in my going to explain why currently my husband and i rent to a woman and child who are victims of a domestic of abuse and they do not want to be found in these in this instance like this their security and safety is not only our responsibility but it's the city's we certainly feel that we would not be protecting the ten that we run to if we put their name on a rental certificate and open the door to city and landlord like billet after all the inspection should be for the unit not the tenant we serialize we see this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed ok thank you thank you dollars of the neighborhood federal grant money they already have gone out on a spending spree with our funds they bought uniforms they bought shiny new badges they have asked for new computers and p d s before you know what they will be asking for more court officers in addition to a street is just high for landlords like us we get charged fifty to one hundred dollars for each rental unit inspection these inspection to be conducted by the court officers there are hired with our friend or a federal grant money section aid is a federal housing program and the section eight fees charged to the owner or the landlord for each rental inspection is zero dollars we have asked the city for the reinstatement of the twenty five dollars inspection free we have also asked the inspection to be conducted each and every three years to reduce the cost of doing business when landlords a little bit in the city our requests from fell on deaf ears think of the consequences vice factions high inspection fees there will be less compliance by landlords those who do comply will have to increase the rand making it difficult on fixed fixed income tenants those who do not reply will be embroiled in controversy is with the with the city on the  wasting our legal and other resource landlords are ready to file complaints and it may take them directly to hot the end result will be a negative impact on the city's image and the city's campaign to attract new people to live in schenectady please or copy reconsider the consequences of the high inspection fees before you vote on this new or into law thank you very much thank  good evening mr mair members of the council i'm jim or so i'm also a member of slick i'm here basically to talk about the enforcement safeguards in my view why there's so many less than twenty percent of the landlords that are flying into rental was it one of the reason i'm going to give a good example a good landlord wants to do the right thing he goes to city hall he takes out a rental application has his property prove he this certificate has a problem down the road with a bad tenet probably not pan the ranch or he's running a wholesale drug trade out of the apartment he does the right thing he asked for the eviction process the tenant gets very angry now we want to retaliate against the landlord first thing he does i'm going to call code the code officer goes to the apartment the tenant takes him around showing  every little thing where we could find a violation might find a bit of a split of wood on the spindle and a porch might have a bad piece of trim and a basement window might even be a switch cover in a hallway that's not the next thing you know the same land lord who did get the certificate he finds in the mail and the parents or parents tickets from the city goes to court has a court date goes in front of a judge maybe the judge it goes in front of this one that has not a common sense of fairness so the judge reads all these violations tells him about the cumulation the fines i would suggest that you call and work a deal with th city that deal usually commences from fifteen hundred to three thousand dollars where i think it's very unfair at that point it seems to me it's more of a fundraiser for the city and i used the term city here who is the city i look around this room we are the city every property owner every business owner everybody that works in this city is the city what slick is trying to put across right now is that we could have a working partnership with the city administration working hand to him together to make a better city what i'm going to say i love this city i want to be an asset to the city i want to see a school forward i do not want to see a stake find negative ways to go backwards i want to thank you for giving me this time thank you thank evening ladies and gentleman i'm back slick book continue to forge ahead in its quest to effect positive change in schenectady by the way i am for smores and i'm a number of like will continue to develop open lines of communication with the various entities of the city and we intend to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with them that's one of our goals we really want to thank each of you who has listened and pondered and offered suggestions that address these issues that we bring to you over these past few weeks on end we wish to applaud both your individual and your combined efforts that have resulted in any of the positive changes that have been made thus far we really do appreciate that and of course tonight we're absolutely thrilled to hear that you are sending the rental  proposal back to the drawing board for further consideration because it's what we really need to have you do we thiel strongly that the city needs to provide more incentives for us to work with as we've been saying we're with you and remember you're throwing the ball to us so let us play the game and see how high we can score we're all familiar with the phrases down the road looking forward revisit in the future but we also know that this is often just a way to put things off so we want to act now and we'd like that from you as well but we need the tools any tools that you can give us so we can do the job that we need to do for all of us we strive for success in achieving both quality of life and financial objectives that will be mutually beneficial to everyone in the community and emphasize that your willingness to work with our organization of landlords is vital to the very premise of our existence we need you honestly and frankly you need us thank you thank you disabled and personal disability are put into this program and make sure that they are available also to these we need to make sure that the city's apprenticeship training program is also apply to because the city's a training apprenticeship program is much more strenuous than state so item number twenty we need to make sure that that that this is going forward and jobs are being provided i didn't number six is where you had  where what happens is the standard operating procedure within government from away from the feds will be down to the state the county and local levels is that they played on they play on jobs relaxed is that they that the mare or the head of the executive branch hires provisionally a person and into one position and as soon as they qualify for union rules and regulations now they can be able to be able to laterally transferred to another position in itself and that's basically what you have done here is your bypass would be affirmative action requirements this position that this person is transferring was to was originally a trainee position this is perfectly good opportunity to put a minority or a person with disability in this position you're here to train that person to be calm a good employee to learn this position also to use one when you on when you provisionally prevent this person in hiring in another position you give that person all the rules all the benefits within the thing where the city could turn around pay for that person's for training and do everything else so that when that person qualify for transfer in that position you're moving from water fun from the public works with an it's an equal lateral transfer basically so that means he can be able to it's in job classification for training so he gets all this free training from city so what i'm saying is that we need to take a look at our front of action and how we're hiring individuals we had a perfectly good job here that could have been opened up to minorities a person with disabilities what's to we're training a trainee means you have nothing we have no skills don't nothing it's an open position so trying to say that you two can't find anybody who's qualified is totally wrong because you don't have you don't need the qualifications it's a trainee position so we need to start diversifying our workforce and this was a good position and what we're doing now is that we're just later write up is no smoke detector no carbon monoxide detector broken window and a crack in the front door there's no way i could have gotten around to certificate if that stuff was missing no problem we fix all the stuff in the timeframe that they've given us then we get an administrative fee of fifty bucks but we did what we were supposed to do and get one certificate so what's the difference between a landlord who has a run certificate and a lan the who does it i could gamble roll the dice not get the run a certificate maybe go through two or three tenets then get hit with a fifty dollar fine for not having a rental and the same fifty dollar fine for ministry to feed so why not give a little bit of positive reinforcement for landlords who do do the right thing and do get around a certificate because i agree with jim it feels like you guys are doing a fundraiser on landlords that there should be no ministry that if co did what they said they did which is our quality of our property was good enough to rant with the run certificate plane my name is mary maclean i live in the city number twelve when there certainly made the changeover from a private sector contractor to a public employee workforce to operate the sewer treatment plant the mayor shored the community the move meant a substantial savings to the city i don't twelve on tonight's legislative agenda negates such a claim it reads a resolution approving an agreement between city of schenectady and schenectady employees expenditure to the twenty fourteen budget and author to satisfy a union category pay scale known as a seventeen essay operator it was that forced savings to the city they encourage expenditure is just the beginning of many more increases to come over the lifetime of a workers strong union employees received a crude set time a accrued vacation pay and a comfortable retirement pension times those benefits by twenty two more employees who the city hired for the changeover and it's easy to understand how city officials have already mortgage the lives of more money and stead the money will go to a local ten thirty seven a union members at the item passes tonight the night that city council voted for the sewer treatment changeover a group of union members were sent to the city council meeting from occupied albany to support the council's vote one of the speakers  right no one else signed up to speak on the legislative agenda sought to clear that portion of the meeting closed and will move to the approval of the legislative agenda of the consent of genda to have a motion to approve this  on favre i thank you all right now we'll move to privilege of the floor regarding city issues and i just would like to comment here just to remind people that speaking in this is real it is a privilege i would ask you to be respectful not just of us but of people in the room people who may be watching on television and i particularly stress that four letter words are totally inappropriate so i just hope that will stop tony but  to make a comment last week at the we're not allowed to comment on what it said after the meeting and i was thinking about that on the way home it what's happening is people are taking money from our social security and they're just putting it all over the government and social security is certainly down now it's that's the same thing that's about what's happening shape money wise because they were taking money that was allocated for the golf courses and other places and using it someplace else mr stratton took over that money all had to be made up now i to get help with this i mean it's used for other parts of the city i understand but is it legal i don't know i'm not a lawyer i don't know if it's legal or not because that would happen would be for mr strat to ok over wasn't legal and it passed and everything else went through so i hope that this does not come back to bite his in a couple years thank you thank you and before i go on to the next rest of the speakers i just realized i forgot we have a roll call vote on a resolution authorizing the transfer of the title of one yell street so mr kirk what you  right so that does carrie thank you all right back to privilege of the floor lori robinson hello good evening i just want to say that out i agree with you know more minority participation jobs around here in schenectady we do need to open the doors  kind of lower the standards a little bit for minorities to get into work place to be able to afford things and do things in the neighborhood i wanted to let you know in with the city kno that i'm interested in helping the community out by forming here in schenectady and we're going to have our first meeting at the mckenzie room at the library on august twenty fourth from six thirty to eight p m any questions you can contact at three five seven eight to eight two for the information thank you right jason thank madam president city council mare with the with the gearing up with the city doing their own paving contracts and other contracts that they've got during the summer what i'm hoping for is that you'll start addressing the issue of affirmative action  we had a major malfunction from our from out of action officer and also a far from out of action manager a failing on federal projects for the erie boulevard you know we need to make sure that we're  the affirmative action for the acquirements that is federal money that's over thirteen million dollars of federal money it's going to that thing and you guys have to sign off that fits you have tried to do affirmative action also too is this city still has an apprenticeship program is these contractors that have done on this area both are they complying with this apprenticeship program that city happens like i said it's a strong it's stronger than the state and they need to start looking at that direction  and we need to start looking at how are doing it also april first every april first the pilot programs are supposed to do an accountability of what the pilot in a cost benefit analysis and is the pilots meeting the goals are providing jobs and so we need to have those done and it hasn't been done and that committee needs to be put forward and we need to start addressing the issues of this piece of the  puzzle i mean you guys keep saying with medicaid going up food stamps going up everybody's going up well how you cut the services by not cutting those services but by giving people good quality jobs so they could qualify those are income based jobs i mean programs so if you turn around and give somebody a job they're not to be able to qualify for such you reduce your rolls das the reduce your contribution payments into the things so you know it all comes back to the simple and we also to this is that we've got to be able to increase homeownership how can somebody qualify for a homeowner homeownership when you've got one there make it without you know it's promotes they can't so i mean we've got to come back and look at trying to get jobs and be able to be able to focus on that issue because we're not going to get homeownership up they said they have to deal in mt pleasant it's got a homeownership rate between forty to forty five percent they said in order to stabilize a neighborhood you need to be around sixty percent homeownership you know so all these things to come back to the jobs we've got to start providing jobs and you've got to start and foresee the current laws that you've got on the books and that's what we need to be able to do thank you thank you jason sacks you signed up on the sheet also did you want to speak again or ok thank you mar schenectady and i thank them very much thank you thank you i'm joy hobbs connected hey i tell you we really need to fix up the streets before you go fixing up golf courses and a nap because the streets are the most important thing the roads and the sidewalks and the curbs that there's a lot of bad places and we need to put the signs up but the lights to that don't turn unless the arrows on because too many things are happening left and right people are getting almost getting hit and everything else we can't afford to have that happen it's got to stop when you got to somebody speeders to speed from one end of the street to the ate my statement tonight as in response to miscellaneous comments made by the mayor and council member and a council member door in the last city council meeting the mayor has sat on dharnas miscellaneous business comments he said some people from union college took many of the city's sounds off the tax rolls at the time union college acquired those properties roger hall was ends so honored roger hall did not know how to use that information to his advantage or he would be mayor today and eighty nine vote victory does not mean a of confidence for the current mayor regarding the councilwoman scum and she used more than three minutes to say her piece she did not have a green light a yellow light or red light signaling her to start slow down and stop like the one that has here at this podium nor did a voice interrupt her at mid sentence some much for pa this council council members can work as much as they want on city business it doesn't matter what matters is how they vote their votes impact the lives of every one was the yes vote for the eight your county contract not even moody webb for the strategy nor is she pleased whether council salivary she called it pennies on the dollar she forgot to include health care benefits for part time council members is that why the issue of the vacant chair has not yet been addressed it's pennies on the dollar  concern about my community and an issue that came up that in a part of the legislation that has been written that kind of moved out the neighbors associations of the neighbors so she is a very important key elements and then to our community when everything when people need boats and things they come to the communities they need to stick to the facts or even funding they come to the communities it's when the hill area when one does not have the opportunity to speak with to address their issues or write issues or turn complaints n it's very hard it's very heartening because there is a i know there's a lot of not for profit organizations that are there in if you get maybe on the board but they cannot address community issues because they don't live there they may work there but they don't live there and what we need is those individual that input that lives in the community they really can address the issues because they don't hear the silence they don't hear and then this happened in our community they don't know if things are not connected to family whatever so to be taken off of bit of legislation which they should be in my present to such a state street to woodlawn whatever and i think these are essential organizations that really that these communities need to have a place to speak in and i think that's very important even though it has even need individuals in our community that they may give and put to what you need to help our communities and i think that's what's important because when i go to them i'm also chairing a bar of the hammer general area and voting and when i go to them and they try to address these questions that they ask me and therefore and say well how can i do that when they kind of take us out of some of the process in the issues that are going on a community so i'm hoping that we may take a lot of things in consideration that they get the communities more involved in medicine issues that are going on because it's important to them we don't want to just nurture them but we also want them to work for their own communities in their own way can do that is beyond participation or take participation in some of the decision making business of the council eric push for what they believe in and i give him a lot of credit maybe take some lessons i think in some cases they're pretty good group you know they've they've made a lot of points i have some similar concerns you know with privacy you know for tenants there's need to be a work around and not necessarily that we don't collect the information as i think it's necessary it's useful information but there need to be exceptions to the rule for some of these things in the checklist i think another really good idea and sometimes it's just presentation of the information is already there i've been told that that checklist already exists but i think when we make a presentation hopefully in two weeks when we go to vote on this legislation it should be in city letterhead appropriate documentation a bunch of copies printed out and put here for the group tallies take with them so it proves that we have this lipstick should be on the city website before we vote on it or at least ready to go on the website so that once we do vote on it it would it would be put published  i think you know some the enforcement rules council member was working closely on the review board i think the concern of a lot of people is fairness and i think that's a really relevant  concern that you know my house would get raided differently than the next person's house and so if somebody is not being treated fairly i think we need to have a mechanism in place that would rectify that and make sure that things were were appropriate that there's clearly some some concerns i think that they are by all means concerns that maybe are already solved it's more of a communication issue and so hopefully we'll have a lot of this information you know straightened out within two weeks so we can vote on this and get this moving forward to the day this is not going to be anything that i knew was going to consider perfect it's something that doesn't have a perfect solution but we need to move forward we need to go forward something that's better than what we have now and that's progress and so hopefully we'll get that resolved relatively soon another thing i wanted to make a point on as i usually do with anything that involves procurement with some of the bids we had whether it was the purchase of fertilizers and pesticides for the golf course and also stop at the park renovation happy to see that we had quite a few betters on these on these beds that's good for the city it's good for the taxpayers because it means that there's more competition and the prices generally go lower so it's been a big change from what we've seen in the past i  think i can remember a lot from last week the total count but then some of these things were five or six or more bidders and that's a great thing so i wanted to go and congratulate the people in the city staff who worked on those and were able to you know retain those results so i think it's great thank you thank you thank you madam chair again slick i agree with councilman erickson nobody can say that we're rushing the line on this that's for sure so we're certainly listening to your concerns and and everything you're brought to the table tonight will be listened to and they'll be discussed so that's more than anybody can ask for and that's what we're going to joe i want to note the passing of another it seems that that's what i'm doing of long time bellevue residents and matriarchs another matriarch who coincidentally is the sister of the lady grace hill that they announced about a month or so ago it's katherine all shot passed away and she's a staple of bellevue she lived to a ripe old age and she's going to be missed she lived on campbell avenue not far from me and i'm going to miss seeing her sitting on the porch especially now that the weather's getting nice and she would always spot vehicles and wave to everyone but that's the type of people that the family is sand again her sister grace passed away katherine passed away so there are two people that i remember dearly from my neighborhood and from my youth that i grew up with an i i just sent thoughts and prayers at a family with that i just want to have a wish a happy passover to everyone and a happy easter to everyone this holy week is coming up for every one and this is a great time for everybody to count our blessings and ask for the lord's blessings thank you thank you anyone else it's part thank you a couple people came up today and they talked about the need for more jobs in the city more people be working and and i agree with that you know the more people that work the better off everyone is overall just want to say  jason plank talked about the affirmative action and not meeting the goals etc and hearing from our firm and action officer and i know that next month she will be coming to a committee meeting to report on that so i have to say that i don't think  in order in terms of hiring women and minorities and persons with disabilities excuse me disability we need to lower the standards but simply provide the necessary training the need for people to be prepared for the jobs that are available there so again there is a project being worked on you'll hear more about that it is so it's things that we're aware of unfortunately things don't move as quickly as everyone would like but it is being addressed so thank you very much thank you anyone else