don't number four under original consideration an ordinance and incorporating a ten arch street into arch street and only with the resolution calling for a public hearing on december twenty eighth two thousand and fifteen discussed in committee without objection on consent know five number five a resolution adopting various sections to be incorporated into consolidated local street highway improvement program chips via new york state d o t twenty fifteen discussed in committee  objection on consent item number six or number six a resolution authorizing acceptance of twenty sixteen new york state special truck options program stop d w i grant award without objection on consent item number seven house for a sign at one seventy lafayette street discussed in committee without objection on consent i don't number ten or number ten a resolution authorizing the sale of three six seven twelve street discussed in committee without objection on consent item number eleven number eleven a resolution authorizing the sale of twenty six twenty eight mcallen st also discussed in committee without objection on consent i don't number twelve or number twelve a resolution to settle a claim with twenty first century insurance  so marilyn jeffers discussing claims without objection on consent i don't know or thirteen number thirteen a resolution authorizing the city of schenectady to settle a tax or sherie for seventeen thirty two and seventeen thirty eight avenue also discussed in claims that objection on consent and a number fourteen and over fourteen a resolution recognizing the seventh annual broadway chopper's toy run in support of the toys for tots this will be taken out of order mr as i will present that number fifteen i number fifteen a resolution recognizing the friends of the green house this will also be taken out of order mr cocksure will present that and item number sixteen a number sixteen under contract and supply resolution to accept the bid seventeen the number seventeen under original consideration a resolution authorizing the sale of nine tenth's the street to schenectady community action program without objection consent i don't number eighteen i number eighteen a resolution authoriz hurting and they're lonely whose hurt and loneliness is only accentuated at this time of year that they will find their peace and strength in you we also ask that the good will towards men of the peace that was promised over two thousand years ago would be in all of our neighborhoods and our communities of the city we pray by your spirit that you will move and minister touching and blessing all of our first responders those that put their lives on the line to protect us we also ask for all of our city officials elected and appointed at the hand of god to be upon them to lead them and guide them for the good of our community and for the good of our city and all of this we ask in the wonderful name of the lord jesus christ and i'm going to we have two out of order resolutions so the first one is for toys for t you have before thank you this is a resolution recognizing the broadway chappell's toy run in support of toys for tots whereas toys for tots is a nationally recognized program an official activity of the united states marine corps and an official mission of the united states marine corps reserve whose mission is to collect new unwrapped toys in the months leading up to holiday season in order to later distribute them as gifts to less fortunate children in the community and where as lee sykes the owner of broadway choppers on kings road in schenectady serves his county scuse me served his country faithfully as an active duty marine for six years and during said service became intimately familiar with the joys of toys for  campaign where mr sikes has continued his service at home by organizing toy drives that contribute to local toys for tots campaigns and by starting toyah runs for anywhere from thirty to one hundred motorcycles depending on the weather this time of year participate in a convoy to deliver unwrapped toys to children in need and where as with november twenty eighth two thousand and fifteen marking the seventh annual toy run of the broadway choppers mr sikes has only dedicated himself and his organization to do more by arranging to host the event semiannually with an additional toyah run taking place in july of two thousand and sixteen now therefore be it resolved at the end there gary or mccarthy in the city of schenectady excuse to the city council hereby pas in their deliberations to remember as mr sikes and as broadway choppers do those children who may go without the joy of a new toy during the holidays and who encouraged residents of the city to follow the example of mr sikes and find ways to give back to the less fortunate in our community i move this madam president his second by mr porterfield all in favor a young boy try to trade a toy for a blanket for his little sister and at that point i became dedicated to this and i've recently secured a four thousand square foot building in schenectady we're now moving my business and with the extreme landon room i've dedicated a spot we're now going to make it part of schenectady instead of supporting just toys for tots i want to do it here in our town and we're going to start this year on july twenty fourth as  thank you very much right this second resolution of this for friends of the greenhouse this to closure is a not going to have all the folks who are here this evening there we can recognize them states will be very familiar to all you folks here in the community and again just another great project that they've all been working on that together greenhouse and whereas the friends of the green house of experienced a rebirth and a renewed sense of purpose in response to weather damage sustained by the central pa greenhouses during the last years harsh winter and where as a group participated in a park clean up da spring and they helped remove one ton of scrap from the greenhouse site painted picnic tables planters and other structures at the site and where as the friends of the greenhouse organized a weekly thursday night volunteer night in conjunction with the cooperat extension master gardeners to spread mulch weed planted the garden areas and perform general maintenance around the green houses and where as a group organize a successful fall plant sale which you've been doing for many many years  raising enough money to heat the greenhouses this coming winter and whereas the friends of identified in court unaided maintenance and repairing of the heating components in the glass repaired replacements of the green houses and whereas a team of storm watchers has been formed who protect the facility from the damage of accumulating snow we know there were about that so far right keep our fingers crossed and were as the members facilitate the application and award of the grant from the carly and foundation for the repaired replacement of over four hundred feet  deliberations to recognize the accomplishments of the friends of the green house and in doing so encourage the culture of volunteer ism within the city as connected men present i move  you have the honor of you me for this award i think everyone present here this evening has done something that's really outstanding in terms of keeping the greenhouse going and i know the last couple years it was a lot of concern about how the greenhouse would fare and i think what's really interesting with this group of people is that what makes schenectady such a great area to live in is the residents that live here yes thank you all for the hard work communications presented to the city council for monday december fourteenth twenty fifteen under official from the mayor a list of appointments dated december fourteenth two thousand and fifteen a letter dated december seventh two thousand and fifteen from jack salvo assistant chief of police recommending the award of the ok then we'll move on to privileges a floor related to the legislative agenda i have two people signed up to speak the first is mary maclean budget it was urban beautification the council know what the d s i see means by their side i'm no one asked about it at the committee meeting does the d s i city plan to decorate the light poles next summer like they did this year and is city council ok with that conking from the downtown light falls this summer was not beautiful it was tasteless without thing or connection look at the picture  plans to beautified downtown next summer item number one regarding zoning changes for electric vehicles the strangest necessary so that's he can become a certified climate smart community the city would be only the third municipality throughout the state of new york to have certification if it's such a great distinction why don't all the communities have it they cause it's too costly schenectady needs to pay off it are literally set on top of the ground and mulch piles of them after a while these bushes of course started to die and i realized what had been done i went to deicide city and reported it to the their response was city mission that doesn't make sense to me as a response but i reported the problem to them i'd left  back of as buildings just sitting there the growth in the area was waist high i laughed i was so disgusted this is a place for rodents reptiles and strawberry hill they would really like a place like stroke her heel and left i came back after we knew nothing had been done about those bushes i got my hose i removed the bush's i dug holes i took a knife or the end of my ho and i stripped the brewer root that were strangling each other i reset that you really have somebody to oversee or this group if you are going to fund the what they're supposed to do and i also question the the business about the vehicles first of all as far as i know these are just going to be used to be eccles that have already been tested being brought into this area by a consortium that plants and covering the port county   a and the city does not own any parking lots so those two meters on broadway and liberty are there the city does not own the lot i don't know what participation the city is going to do but i do notice that there seems to be some cherry picking about what the city engineer is doing in the way of of what  we are a multicultural bilingual church who strives to better our community through the series of different ministries that we currently have we serve people of all genders race ages and social backgrounds including the prisoners and the last few years we have been increasing in numbers and have been growing we have also been interested in the possibility of extending a facility in order to facilitate a community service with this in mind when the property of nine tenth's they street became available we met with mayor mccarthy and followed the procedures that was given to us at that time we need we would need to be informed that any records set or a process that we need to obtain for this property for we are very interested and are willing to move forward with this with this process we are determined to extend and to carry out the vision and the mission of our church we trust that you will consider us in this decision making and that we will take into consideration that you would take us into the consideration so we can help this community in other words ok we are interested in nineteen states street not only for a parking facility but to expand our church our dreams and  to help the community we wanted we would want to put a food pantry we would like to open up a after school center we would like to help those that have no place to stay or to go with the means of of our of our city and we would take it into consideration if you guys would give us the opportunity and and and help us with this thank you for your time  you right i have no one else signed up to speak on issues related to the legislative agenda so to clear that portion of the meeting closed i will now entertain a motion to approve the legislative agenda mr cocksure seconded by mr moody there and all in favor i be issue and not a corporate issue because we have a a huge mess you had a bunch of residents complain and one person called your office mayor try to get out of a ticket card a secretary now you secretary others are not existing in their houses and step you know letting people move into these apartments with these kinds of problems and then want to be a victim is soon as they complain and say that they don't appreciate living in that kind of situation i think that's very unfair to the people when they're paying their god burd monies to these landlords and then landlords have the audacity to say that like that kind of a situation you can get out that's not fair to these people and these people should not have to be subjected to that and the fact that these landlords do not have to to pick it up i'll keep in see how do you hope to reinforce that situation to make it better for the tenets that have to live in these deplorable conditions these landlords need to have their certificates available for every tenet their lives in your dwellings and they don't have that and a lot of these landlords are with there today and i saw that the porch needed to be repaired the landlord is getting an astronomical amount of red nine hundred dollars is a lot of rich to be receiving from a person that is a working person is trying to take you know their whole soul and the mail order is not taking care of the property this needs to stop here is the neck to be out here where we live that the landlord is being paid you dilapidated houses and then asking for all this money not going to you'll see more of my time to this young lady today she could finish talking about what's happening to clean all my properties are clean you're going to be so happy and not a weekly to find this and my kids now know what cockroaches are they never know what they were before absolutely kills me and the pay nine hundred live i have nothing how am i supposed to as a person is supposed to be working every day at the city's connect to the school district thirteen years i bought my behind cleaning cleaning cleaning do what i have to do for my family to come home to this i shouldn't have to i would understand if i paid two hundred dollars a month rent ok you take with what you got but even then you still should have a clean safe environment for your children my backyard you backyard pictures that's when my children get to play in broken toilets i asked him to clean it he threw behind the garage that was his idea of cleaning i went to code explain to code what happened they told me it's garbage go to the garbage bureau you can't go on living like this thank you jason pla seven thousand jobs for the last ag ten years those are transferred jobs they counted up four hundred jobs coming from wolf rode over to over to the transportation for the d o t transportation thing they counted moving  the that they have been trying for one year to get these documents one year if these documents are sent to albany that means there are public documents they should be given freely then you're a jail because of falsifying these documents all the guys that wrote a nice low article saying the state letter station through its wisdom turned around and took away the enforcement power of this that new york state contractors office or that just that's keeps going we just had a report four weeks ago by having a by the affirmative action you take a look at the affirmative action report all the jobs for minorities or temporary positions how does erie boulevard no form of action we have three point two million dollars of federal money going into the roundabout no affirmative action so when we keep going around in circles but we really need to start addressing the jobs from within the city myself i learned that five five by eight cards spaced and handwritten would give me three minutes i have never deviated from those five cards and yet  there has always been a voice interruption from the bird siding officer and the flashing lights go off as i speak to the voters out there in t land know that there are lights on this podium just like the traffic lights on the street we're in for go yellow persona down and red to stop only in my case by the time i reach the podium the green line is on and the clock has started over the past ten years every for you siding officer who has not in the president's chair sharing seconds from my three minutes because i was charged for the time it takes to walk to this microphone i have also time to council members when they spoke  sixteen items on tonight's agenda even if a speaker wanted to address a third of them more than three minutes are needed to make a sound argument on  sometimes limits are needed such as the night of the public hearing for the casino but not on the regular council meeting nights when there are less people in the audience than there are on the council side of the chamber we are facing a new year and a new presiding officer take heed other communities have be kept aware of what the process is because it's not a done deal yet and we want to be aware of how we can work with the city through our wired as property for our you thank you thank you all received a sentence of over three hundred years to life twenty nine year old coleman decided that he was doing women a favor raping them instead of taking them to jail sometimes justice is done wasn't very happy about it and wasting my votes this time after having seen three times this body elected to so that seat certain people in the arena here and take the public that comes here every other week exceeding our maintenance for them outside the third time it was john because metroplex had army that follows them seated and held up their son but the election for the election is over i've made comment about a lot of work captaining around here i live right across the i haven't seen or heard any of the being done so maybe a solution has been found and this is the workers at night you don't have to be a worried about traffic being planting blasting caps and trees to blow up squirrels to scare people in their neighborhoods you are going to be there as a wall against these evil villains that the police have to fight thank you i'm glad you have found that solution i hope it catches on it's a wonderful thing now what i look forward to since the backyard is the boys of trees that you di up and play at two units on either end of the building and finally air condition this building you can put some units some around at the basement level with entry and looking forward to  very good for for the county they're moving in the right direction they're one of only four counties in this state that attain that double a one status and i know while we are moving forward in our department with chair perasso in the rest of the finance committee and of course with  holiday that was a great event as well here in city hall but again just merry christmas to everybody and a joyous holiday season thank you thank you this next  dollars rose raised and i really have to say a special thank you to assemblyman angelo santa barbara because it was his idea and he spent the entire four hours being a one of the well the main host with other co hosts and i'd like to also thank o s and they did a fabulous job it was the first telephone of its kind live at the proctors theater so you know we expect to see it again but they did a fabulous job and i will say that it went off without a hitch but it went out pretty  well like to also thank philip morris and said we launched schmidt all the volunteers that came out the community really came out and supported this volunteers came from all over to answer phones and do all that so couldn't have done it without all those wonderful people stepping up and of course to all the donors that gave to the to the effort and so the group will be coming back again to city council discuss that more but i want to take this opportunity immediately after the telethon to say thank you i'd like to wish everyone a merry christmas and h holiday season and looking forward to all the wonderful things but we have one more council meeting before the new year so i'll save that ok thank you with  every two weeks and say there's just so many good things to talk about that i've seen over the past couple of weeks i do want to commend the group that worked on the telethon it was really quite impressive they just had act over act over act and it was more than four hours of just a wonderful variety of people coming up to share their experiences or say your dance and all sorts of good things we also had our first chili out down and her stand karo over there was a judge and it was a challenge accounts i think that the telethon showed that when a group of people have passion come together they really can make a difference and that was a wonderful announcement for prince of and his group of students that will be embarking on a journey to create a film that doesn't is not a sequel to fast life but will continue on in that vein in telling important stories and  really challenging teenage pregnancy why we're struggling with teenage pregnancy and through a peer effort i'm sending a positive message and they've been awarded with a handsome grant from the  foundation and i'm really looking forward to see how they go forward with it because the use that they had at the press conference were just absolutely phenomenal and he's talking about taking it to an even higher level of production and fast life and we were the excited that we have snow or you're not excited that we have snow i think the good weather really brought our families out in abundance for the upcoming holiday so thank you to all that participated in our in please make sure that the apartment is livable before you move them and if landlords are collecting rent and they're not fixing the apartment you have an obligation to call the code enforcement department and to repor t things please i just would like to wish everyone a merry christmas happy holiday please have an enjoyable festive time with your family your friends your neighbor please be safe and have a happy  everyone loves merry christmas and happy holiday season oh this is a great time here for mayor i think you're working on this problem delamont avenue i hope you are him unfortunately mr motivator and sometimes when people go to code that's when the landlords tighten up and they give people a victim notices police are saying is correct but that does happen and that's that's the sad part so i think we can have to tighten up our rental certificate program since it's not being enforced properly and we have situations like this happening so i hope this works out and i hope everyone has a happy holiday season thank you you thank  festivities and join my colleagues and wishing everyone a merry christmas join the holiday season and only the best in two thousand and sixteen thank you madam president thank you and i just also like to add my count as i thought the city holiday was wonderful i came down i said there were lines everywhere and everybody seemed to be having a really good time so i think it was it just a very successful day and i too would like to wish everyone whatever holiday you celebrate this season i wish you a happy and healthy one