like to call two orders to the city council caucus to four this evening but before we do that we have a special presentation this evening from cappie yellow dairy products so i'd like to call up to  few weeks ago he has a small check for the city every check is significant in fact this check is a little bit more than a small check but  national cheese company and basically they want to grow the company here they want to grow the business here and they're looking forward to a long lasting relationship with the city so we help that work out very well it's building on the long history of cappy l in this community in the in the check is for two hundred twenty thousand dollars so that what if i leave early tonight it means i've just gone to the bank as his man is met here but we we  again thank you very much and look forward to a again a long continued history of your involvement in this community ok i'll now call to order the skanky city council caucus meeting for may twenty ninth two thousand and twelve madam clerk could you please read the resolutions regional consideration a resolution authorizing acceptance of odd results for fiscal year two thousand and eleven for the city of schenectady ok as soon as was discussed in committee last week without objection our consent for one will appear on  a resolution authorizing transfer of title of ten sixty four garner avenue to habitat for humanity of schenectady county inc and better neighborhoods anchor for one dollar  again discussed in committee without objection on consent number three will be on consent number four and a resolution approving operation operating agreement for the central park pool for two thousand twelve ok discussed in committee without objection on consent number four will be here on consent number five a resolution approving operating agreement for the hill her school for two thousand and twelve again without objection on consent number five will appear on consent for six and a resolution suspending city code section one eight six dash six be open container for the little italy discussed in committee without objection on consent number seven will appear on the consent agenda number eight and resolution authorizing practice theater to serve alcoholic beverages at the summer night event ok number eight without objection on consent number eight will pier on consent number nine resolution authorizing settlement of tax or surely concerning the proper properties located at fift ninety two and fifty ninety four stage street in the city of schenectady kagan discussed in committee without objection on consent number nine appear on the consent agenda number ten a resolution authorizing settlement of attacks or sure concerning the property located at one forty five j street in the city of schenectady number ten without objection on consent number eleven a re the consent agenda number twelve and resolution amending resolution twenty twelve dash fifty seven that authorized the settlement of tax or s where concerning eight hundred fifty eight eighty and sixty six and eight hundred seventy hamburg street ok number twelve on without objection on consent number twelve appear on the consent agenda in number thirteen under contract to supply a resolution to award the hot in place asphalt recycling purse pursuant to the county wide bid to the highway taishan corporation again number thirteen without objection i'm consent number thirteen will appear on the consent agenda thing else to come before the consent agenda number eleven her retirement very very early but a much well deserved resolution and certainly you deserve one for every every week that you've been there eileen but we can only give you one  again without objection on consent would you take that out of order and is there anything else to come before schenectady city caucus this evening seeing no one to clear a caucus closed and begin the city council meeting for this evening madam clerk for your last time could you read the present accounted for ok if we can please write as for the invocation as you can see our priest is a little late but will have a moment of silence my fellow colleagues mr president madam clerk we're so going to miss you but i know this is a very well deserved resolution for you and i know you've worked long and waited a long time for this moment so certainly we wish you all the best your family is lovely we're so glad you've been able to have been able to join us this evening so ladies maybe the resolution ok thank you versace was blessed with one child vincent and three beautiful grandchildren caroline rosemarie and michael and whereas eileen for saatchi has lived in schenectady she has taken great pride in her home her neighborhood and being involved in various community groups and whereas in one thousand nine hundred eighty eileen versace accepted the position of deputy city clerk for the city of schenectady beginning her distinguished tenure to the office responsible for a reasonable record keeping city clerk of schenectady on june eighth two thousand and nine and has served with distinction having better reappointed by the city council two times throughout the tenure of two mayors and whereas her career as a clerk for saatchi has helped many people and has been the compassionate face of schenectady government as the milestones of our lives from birth marriage and death have been made part of history through arlene's dedicated service and where as why we understand that eileen will miss the people she has worked with and has served with for many years she will not miss having to inform a person that they have to a they may not obtain a copy of their spouse's birth certificate without the spouse being present and whereas we are further assured that as a proud as we are as versace for her service to our city of schenectady eileen's family are even more proud of the person their mother and grandmother has become now therefore appears that the city council the mayor of the city of schenectady thank for her extraordinary service to the city of schenectady and be it further resolved that the city council and the mayor of the city of schenectady and all the people of schenectady hereby wish versace happiness public hearing number one revision of chapter one forty four of the code of the city's connecting regarding the regulations of dogs with in the city limits mr poster would like to make a comment on this before thank you there have been a number of calls that have come into the city with respect to what is being proposed for the changes with respect to dogs and i would just like to take a moment it may clear up some things for some of the speakers the amendment is discussing two things the first concerns of stray dogs in what i say stray dogs those are on licensed and apparently on own dogs right now we are by our code required to house them for five days but often with saturday sunday and monday at the facility is not open it turns into eight days and it's a very significant expense for the city under agone markets we are authorized to reduce that to three days so the dog if there is a loose dog brought in after three days the dog can either be put up for adoption euthanized if need be but whatever the circumstances are the city would be responsible for three days this does not include licensed dogs if a dog is licensed and if the license is on the tag then the city is schenectady notifies the owner if the notification is in person the owner would have seven days to go down and retrieve the dog if it is by certified return receipt mail and the city uses those two procedures then there would be nine days to go and retrieve the dog so the reduction of the time period to three days only affects stray dogs the other change that's in the in the other proposed changed is the requirement that anybody who owns a dog must have liability insurance  for people who own their homes the vast majority if not all of them will have homeowner's insurance and the homeowners insurance would provide the coverage for the dog  for renters they can go out and get renters insurance liability insurance and i have heard quotes from a number of different companies generally in the range of one hundred  fifty to two hundred fifty dollars a year depending on how much property you want to cover and what your limits of liability are the statute is requesting fifty thousand dollars worth of liability insurance and i would just no that this pozole is in response to a number of very horrific injuries that have been received by a number of victims throughout the city  over the last year or so and we're just trying to make sure that while dog ownership is fine that it is be handled responsibly so those are the two two changes that are being  posed thank you ok i have two people signed up for this public hearing first person is tony but known  now from what i understand and the leash law or anything like that does not pertain to it's going to my right what i'm know what i'm getting at was the said eight foot leash on what i read over here now is that been an order already i mean because i've had people go down the middle of my street and i live about ten yards up from the sidewalk i mean just push the button and the dogs are up on my lawn or urinating on a long killing along so that's already in effect in my right eye so thank you thank you robert sanders from schenectady i'm glad you cleared out uptown so i got a couple issues here even if the dog is licensed you said in your past that time there are certain on ramifications that could happen to the dog like i sta before this is more of a situation with the dog owner but we're going down a slippery slope here i think because what we do know if we passed a law like this where i look at it it's almost like a mandate ok where you're passing something on our you know and i understand what dog bite incident i understand that but where do you go from here how much farther you're going to take it with a lot of dangerous people we have websites with felons on and things like that what's your next law going to be i mean are you going to have insurance for dangerous felons what's the next law going to be that's what i don't like about this whole thing is once you start on something like this there's always the next law just look at albany it's wall after law after law well i do understand the idea behind it i think if you've thought out much more thoroughly i've owned dogs my neighbor's own dogs they don't  go around biting people ok well i think you need as we speak a piaf of people that you know give the dogs away my wife screens for cats they make sure that the right people own the cats ok i think that's what a problem lies i'm not saying he had his or nor could organization i'm saying that if you go to buy yourself a dog i wanted a new dog since my dogs passed away ok i haven't got one because i haven't found the right dog i'm just not buying a dog until i find that dog if i make a the sense to go ok by just passing another regulation regarding medical hospitality houses ok with this public hearing i only have one person signed up and that's mr ben wiles excuse me mr post i would like to read something into the minutes ok and again before you is a proposal for inclusion in the zoning ordinance of definition of a medical hospitality house and right now there is a request that such a facility be within or mid within a hundred fifty feet of a medical facility being ellis hospital sunny view former st clair's and so before you is the question of whether or not you want to add this but the other issue that has received a tremendous amount of interest and commentary on both sides of the coin is right now if you take the hundred fifty feet there are a number of properties that are in the g e lot along not street across the street from ellis hospital and there have been discussions about whether or not the plot should be included or excluded from the hundred fifty foot area now with respect to that i have received a letter that is addressed to the members of the city council dear honorable members of the schenectady city council i am a member of the board of directors of jack's place as you may know jack's place intends to site a medical hospitality house in the city to provide a safe convenient and comfortable place to stay for the parents and families of sept eleventh and we asked that this letter be considered as part of the public hearing process our concept is similar to a ronald mcdonald house and it is a mission that we have diligently pursued and are easier to undertake i am writing this to say support the amendment of the city zoning ordinance to specifically define and authorize this intended use because it is important that such a facility be located closely proximate to a hospital to make it easy for pedestrian travel between such medical facility and jack's place the number of properties which would fit our model is already limited as such we support and respectfully request your consideration of a zoning amendment which allows our location in all areas proximate to a hospital while we are sensitive to the various concerns raised we request that an amendment  passed that is inclusive of historic districts and just for purposes of clarification the g e is in historic district we understand our obligation to comply with the preservation requirements of such areas jack's place has long wanted to acquire and utilize property located across the street from ellis hospital pending all necessary approvals to use the property for our purpose tip of the continued support of the city and the community and hope to be able to purchase a permanent home and begin our operations in earnest as soon as possible very truly yours john i'm sorry john  and i would ask that you made part of the record ok mr whil t i'm here on behalf of the real plot association our neighborhood association the best way to come and speak i didn't realize you were time limited in a public hearing but i'll try and go fast i hope it's not too fast the  one fundamental point i want to make to begin with is to step back just a little bit from what is when maybe a dispute right now now to recognize that the ordinance that we're talking about as far as the realty plaza concerned the historic district ordinance was actually a the designee to greet people who come and move into the real key plot and we offer them we give them a welcome gift and say we're glad they're here take their name put them in a directory i've been doing that for fifteen years since the beginning of  january two thousand and eleven basically year and last year and a half i visited eleven people to do that eleven houses have sold in the real key plot new people newcomers to the realty plot have come to us bought a house they live in our neighborhood i think that's a good that's a success story i think that you you and other people in the city should take credit for that that word and was established to promote that kind of result and in fact i think it had at the time each of the houses that these people move into all have idiosyncrasies that's the way the realtor that's with the housing the real people at work some are larger than a normal family would want right now some around awkward lot some are have very very large lots that have no relationship to the needs of people who live there there's lots of things that are odd but the fact the matter is that all those things got overlooked for one i think important characteristic and that's that the house is located in historic district and in a district that the city is willing to protect and maintain another i think what people are saying by moving to the realty plot is that for thirty five years it was a good bet for the city to maintain historic properties and maintain ordinance and it will be a good bet for the city to do it for another thirty five years unfortunately what we're talking about in the  ordinance amendment right now is not protecting the real key plot is not or any other historic district it's introducing a new use and not historic use and a use which could really be accommodated in other parts of the city the notion one hundred fifty feet from a hospital is introduced by this amendment is not in law today you could have two hundred fifty feet you could have five hundred feet there are lots of there are alternatives that you could use that would expand the scope of the proposed amendment think when i spoke before that is only where i made the point at the very beginning so i didn't have to i didn't repeat it here but people in the realty plot recognize the value of a medical hospitality house recognize that there isn't one in the city right now that we have large and medical institutions that could be that the patients and patients families would benefit if we had such a house we said that time time again i said tonight it's not big news our problem is that the place where this proposed  facility is going to be located is not only within historic district it's on a piece of property that has unique historic characteristics within among the houses that are in the real key plot there's a long i could give five or ten minutes and what those historical sources are but i think they would come out in any environmental impact statement and people could read them the owner in the original builder of the house we were talking about was in the region one of the original sponsors of the realty pilots association so the house represents lots of different themes he was also treasurer general electric for fifty years was also in came to the country before he was born in immigrant from canada so as can you summarize these yes i can summarize by saying that there are two versions i've seen of this ordinance one excludes historic districts one includes the historic district i think the jacks place let it was in favor of the second version which includes historic districts the first version which prohibited this type of use in a historic district or continued probation is the version which we are in favor of which we have which we would encourage the council passed it would provide the definition which is supposed to do it would provide a special permit procedure that could be used in the residential district to accommodate the new use we feel equally strongly that the second version should not be passed ok thank you s i have no one else signed up for this public hearing therefore declare it closed public hearing number three revisions to chapter two to four of the code of the city's connecting ring regarding soliciting ok again in reference to this third public hearing i have no one signed up so therefore i will also declare that public hearing clo communications presented to the city council for tuesday may twenty ninth two thousand and twelve official from the mare a list of appointments from the department of engineering a letter recommending the award of the hot in place asphalt recycling to highway rehabilitation corporation of brewster new york pursuant to the county wide bit general and email from bellevue preservation nk announce an upcoming events petitions not ok thank you committee reports any committee reports this evening on one thing i want to talk about today and it was something we all got nor folders of the mayor authorized the implementation of a new c wide city owned vehicle usage  members of the council also provided some input along with the mayor's staff and you know some of the things that i think are or are important is it indicates that vehicles are not to leave the city limits without permits of department heads in the mayor if there's a need to has accommodations for emergencies and things like that it outlines a different class of vehicle assignments whether it's a management vehicle or on call duty vehicle a daytime duty vehicle emergency assignment or temporary assignments and has a different set of rules for each of those classifications it talks about what to do if there you have a traffic ticket or a an accident well and it's the city vehicle of motor vehicle accident procedures is also part of this document and another thing i think is pretty interesting and i'm happy to have it in here is that if you're in a city employees involved as a driver or gets a ticket or involved in an accident with a personal vehicle even though they're not on city business they still have to notify their supervisor and i think that's important because i think if we have an employee who's has a series of issues in their personal lives of driving and keeping a car on the road or are away from other cars and that it's in our best interest to take action as well so the document i think is is pretty good i'm i'm happy to see that we have a policy in place and i think it can be a working document as well and as we you know identify some other things that would help streamline the process i encourage other people to on the council to you know that suggests you know any any other improvements can be made but i think this is a good starting point i think it includes a lot of the concerns that we have so i just want to highlight that and also thank the mayor for  fact that once again the hot asphalt recycling program will happen this year or last year under the direction of our mayor we were able to pave nearly ten miles of roads as opposed to the just a little over one mile that was budgeted for it's a green situation where real using asphalt that's already in place which i think is wonderful this year we're looking at doing more than seven miles of our city roads i was very pleased although we didn't have a very difficult winter as very pleased to see that the program worked wonderfully i haven't noticed any potholes there are any issues on those roads so i just want to make this is aware of the fact that that will be resuming again and i'm sure  will we be publicizing a list of the roads that will be done maybe on the city website or  approval of the in place recycling and for next monday night for committee staff will have ready the streets little be the mill and fill the ones that are a little more complicated need more work on it so that hopefully our total number this year will equal approximately what we did last year in terms of actual lineage in term street surface ok thank you thank you councilman or anyone else committee reports  your reports are closed to move on to the privilege of the floor of the legislative agenda and first person i have signed up is donald j birch junior everyone was to say i'm back and i have all these thoughts that run through my head on a daily basis but you only get three minutes to speak at a time when you come here and i can't make it to everyone although i'd like to even though i get a lot of scrutiny when i do i was really thinking about trying to create streams of revenue and stuff and as far as legislation trying to rid get these dogs in the breeds of dogs but i have teeth so if i started biting people tomorrow we're going to start pulling teeth out of the students is connected you can do it same thing with guns like somebody get shot with a gun you ok so so we have private companies that capitalize and take tons of money from our tax dollars that we were sending prisoners over to schenectady at the correctional facility and then you have these commissary things where they spend so much money and all that money goes to a private company why not send it to the city and create a huge influx in the stream of revenue take all the money that these people get all their little luxuries when they're washing their armpits or feeding their face when they committed crimes and take that money and put it into the city series or are just is that good i mean is that a legislative thing if it's not on the agenda it really isn't i hear what you're saying let's put it all your thoughts let's put on the agenda because i've got a lot more but i'll stop  and the school district had to take out a loan on to make up for that money and i thought that was really we could a had a tax reduction at the school district if the city made  obligations to pay its debt and i just thought that needed pointed out that the odd it says that we're five million we're close to almost nine million dollars we add the darn school district tax to the other one is on the  nearly almost four months almost five months later you decide to yank the eight hundred thousand dollars out of the budget and slip it over to ship over to snout and that's what you did with the communal block grant money and then last enforcement where is that you know and where is that money and that money has been shifted back and forth now twice and you know it we need accountability and we've always asked can ability on the creative block grants and we haven't gotten it and this is the in house money and as the money is getting shorter and shorter you know we're throwing things back and forth and i think it needs just be pointed out you know this could force but money needs to be accountable and the community block grant money needs to be over to this is going to be a union person i imagine if it is i really don't have a problem with it but i you know like i'm sure the mayors and you know when they talk about when you work for the county as i do  now the office i work in i can't have another person with the same last name to me or a blood relative working on it i would like to see that happen or if it's a provisional appointment will say ok another  counting on public safety and they set off ok our fire or police but anybody else no one else you know could have the same could be related to the same person ok so if you're going to hire a code enforcement officer ok and they finish second on the test you're not going to pick number seven ok that's what i you know that's one thing i say about this i hope that we pick you know a person that is qualified to do the job because i've seen the last time a coded portsmouth person was picked that didn't happen ok and it's not that often you know i'm belittling the person or anything like that but that's exactly what happened we grabbed number seven instead of number two ok and being a union person i knew when a person always wants to make sure the best person gets to job and when you have my own already contractors come up here they wanted to make sure they were able to get the contract and they were qualified to get the contract so i think the city should take the lead the county has ok and make sure that the best person gets to job silva to professional point man you only have one in tow ok i think if the person three comes in a matter who it is that person should get the job thank you thank you mr sanders ok and no one else signed up on the legislative agenda  're going to give this person a twenty dollar an hour job for the first year which is forty one thousand six hundred for basically a paper pushing and then increase that to twenty put in what they in other words i'd be willing to do this job for fourteen dollars an hour and i'm also eminently qualified to do it and before you simply give away forty one thousand a year i really think that this should be a position that should be so it's a contract will position that it should be something where everyone gets to put in not their opinion but what they are willing to do the job for because i really feel ok no one else signed up for the legislative agenda call that close move to our consent and we have one item for roll work i want to say yes i recognize that spending money right now is not something to be taken lightly within the city but the bottom line to me is that good decision good business decisions sometimes mean spending money to make money and when we were going door to door over the summer neighborhood improvement was the number one discussion along with the concern for taxes of course so also quality of life is certainly a strong reoccurring message around the council table and at our meetings so in my view all of the mayors proactive approach is an efforts with regard to the improvement o neighborhoods being of course code enforcement also the key to the city home buying plan and the homes rehabilitation plan that was just announced is falling on the codes office and mr schilling is doing a fabulous job but is short staffed there are four positions within his office that remain unfilled this particular candidate is not only a licensed architect but also  certified in lead paint remove a specificity men twenty dollars an hour is an extremely reasonable cost to have someone at our counter who can help our contractors find their way through the system when they're purchasing one of these homes or when they're taking over one of these homes for real rehabilitation so i do have to disagree that this is a paper pushing job i think this is a very crucial position that's going to play a crucial role in rehabilitating our houses and helping to run the code office a little more smoothly in addition to that that position is now currently being filled by one of our code officers so it's free that person ought to get out into the field and do the work that they're meant to do so including the fact that it's a contracted position it's a very reasonable hourly wage in there will be no benefits paid by the city i feel this is just darn good business and i'm proud to say yes ok thank you yes thank you as as you know when this came about in committee my question was the process not the person because we had no information on the person at that time the process by which was that was done and that's what i really really like to speak to since the since we ask questions about what the process was who the person was we got information on that but i feel that that should have come on the front and not on the backend and additionally i feel that other people should have had the opportunity now this may be the best candidate but there were no other people that were considered and that is what i'm speaking to at this point i have to see this individual's resume and i've seen her qualifications and i'm clearly understand that hiring her is not going to cost the city anything but that it will it will kind of even itself out and perhaps even more of an age where money will come in so those are not that my concerns my concerns with the process this gentleman here who spoke that you know if he had the opportunity he would have done it for less there may have been other candidates i recognize it's a specialized opportunity position and not everyone can do it but i do believe that the field is and is larger than one and so my my concern is the process and that individuals have the opportunity to be engaged in that process and so that it appears that we are giving others opportunities to make sure that we do get the best response with the job but we also consider other people so with that be considering that they're bringing in money and all of those things i vote yes but i just need to voice my concerns regarding the concepts thank you thank you i'd like to add that in addition to what my colleagues have expressed you know i do agree that the process of how we identify candidates is important in that you know this person that we're bringing in i do not know personally at all but we need to have an open interview process or at least if we're going to be hiring a contractor we have an open open or of p for people to propose you know different scenarios or t able to apply for the contract position as well that being said i am actually in favor of bringing in contractors for a period ahead of time to determine if they're worth it right the one thing we could do is hire an employee at some maybe something less than twenty to twenty five dollars an hour and if we determine of the really not working out sometimes it's more difficult to get rid of somebody so brings them in a contractor as a temporary basis up front i think is a good idea whether or not we hire them afterwards is an option that we would have for twenty to twenty five dollars an hour i would expect that this person will be doing more than just clerical work working at the desk with their background and experience and you know i guess implied abilities based on their resume they might be able to do something like manage a sidewalk reimbursement program or some other program that i would love to see forward in the city so i will be happy to introduce myself to this person when they come into the city and and talk to them about you know how they're doing and some other ideas i might have as well so i encourage it and vote yes thank you serious concerns about this move and i had and i expressed it a committee as a gentleman brought forward that spoke were circumventing civil service were circumventing collective bargaining were circumventing affirmative action were circumventing our residency law this person does not live in the city of schenectady but foremost with me as i'll stick to what i said before we should have a hiring freeze i think this is a clerical job it's this person is clearly overqualified to do this job now i don't know anything about the office how it's run seems like a clerical person should be able to perform this job and the number one thing i heard going door to door was taxes and i think it's incumbent on myself to try to save the city money and i can't see spending extra money we have to do what we have and i truly believe that i heard the word quota come out at committee and it was corrected by mr erickson but just the thought of that sending people out to write people up i have a problem with that i don't have a problem with code enforcement per se but i have a problem with people going out to write people up to bring for a revenue stream for the city it shouldn't be quite a foresman should not be a revenue stream for the city that's not what it's intended to do i would like to see more crime and foresman i'd like to see along with cold and force my i think it's important i'll speak more to that under miscellaneous but just this whole idea in saying that we just send this quote enforcer out on the street you know we'll pay for this person's position it leaves a bad taste in my mouth hearing that and i don't like hearing that we have a lot of elderly people in this city that can't afford to fix some of these minor things that they're cited for i've had phone calls about this people that have peeling paint these people that stay the course they're paying their taxes they're good citizens to schenectady they have a little peeling paint on their house as far as i'm concerned let them be they're doing their job they're trying to stay the course in the city of schenectady that's what counts to me so just the thought of we're going to put another coat of course are out on the street i don't know why i wasn't on the street in the first place why court couldn't do this job but i'm not the building inspector but i do have a problem with the thought of this person on the street is going to fund this position for a person that does not live in the city of schenectady we're circumventing a whole lot of things here with this move with this consultant wolf so i obviously vote no on th i'm tired of coming home from work and that is the whole neighborhood you know and something have to be done about it the bottom line there's a lot of things going on in the city and it's ridiculous that i had to keep coming here perpetually to talk about corruption to talk about how these police are running rampant in abusing people and then in turn the cities acquiring humongous humongous lawsuits like for instance you guys are going to pay me the citizens are going to have to pay two million dollars for a comment that was made on him him driving a wedge between me and my family and other damages i'm not going to get into all that but i have documented everything to support everything that i had said sure i've come up here and i've deviated from little speeches that i wrote not good you know reading you know i mean i got a's in college and whatnot but at the same time sometimes and i'll jump from one topic to another because there's just so many it's going to be you know so you only have one time to really aim my direction and i'm saying that i have chronologically put in order and once i get my d v d done and i have a seminar the you know the library or wherever it is everybody that has basically took a post and obstructed my ability to get justice and covered up for people you are going to jail and i'm not going to stop until it happens and i'm not even get into the whole fact that mr mccarthy has been stealing things from the historic at it literally and i know people that know people i'm not going to divulge right now but when it happens you're in trouble you definitely trouble all you want trouble they have not done nothing and turned a blind eye to everything that i came up here and spoke about and it's offensive you know and i'm sitting here and i'm trying to make sure that the integrity of the police department is upheld and you know and when we're paying taxes and giving these guys raises and given them tasers to run around and bring up all these arrests and all these things and people that aren't as sharp as me that have to basically cop out to police that they're intimidated by i've came up here i've given mr plank i've given other people certificates a disposition that show that i was not guilty my grandfather called me up and like done what are you doing you come in here you're making a fool out of my name in yourself in you know you're in the paper constantly and that's the thing i've been being pilloried by the paper and by the justice department for bringing me up on charges that ultimately get this missed all of them not not just one we're talking all the phone it's crazy and i still got some on appeal and i'm suing the police because that's the only thing that i can do to ensure that justice is met because nobody will just simply investigate these things i know that i'm running pretty close to my time and i know that you will make me summarize very quickly unlike that other gentleman and i know that you let the other men gentlemen speak when you wouldn't let me speak in the past but that really does reflect on the bias that is projected towards me and i'm telling you right now i'm going to have to really really make myself sit down and write a speech and come up here and not deviate from it but when everything is released and everything's all said and done you guys are about the day the day is coming the day is coming you guys are losing your positions and i can't wait to see you in prison simply as a summer's coming along we're looking going into budget time and so forth and one of the things that we have not even addressed still haven't addressed is the affirmative action on these pilot programs and we need to we need to make sure that we're moving forward on that and make sure that we're receiving them and also to use in the community of a block grant consolidate a five year plan done in twenty ten may you still have not even met the goals and you haven't even started moving forward towards that direction of complying with the affirmative action you know we've got constant reports coming back from america  workforce and looking at what is actually how do we get people with jobs now with styling clearly now retiring that leaves one more position open to zach going to be opened up to affirmative action or i opened up just whoever you want to pick for that position so i mean you know and some of these things in the position of the depth of the car so i mean you know these are some of the things that we need to take a look at and we need to start opening up  the jobs and you know having only one african american writer is not appropriate you know when we have a fifteen percent population you know we house when you can allow these two businesses on state neary boulevard having seven eight ten cans out there overflowing every weekend and no citation you can upgrade to repeal of lard and leave those garbage cans sudden on the sidewalk to rid of them now i don't understand this operation they've got four concrete block setting on the second story window sill supposedly for an air conditioner but there's no air conditioner there all you need is some yoyo to push this nobody does anything i don't understand how we operate this is two thousand volt and we're in the dark how can our city be broke how can our city have financial problems when you give mr pulley no ten thousand dollars for retiring wonderful gifts what do you expect from your employees don't you expect them to do an outstanding job i would if they worked for me i got that from under me and they enjoyed their job but it doesn't seem to be that way with beer everybody lives outside of town where they are both schenectady arse all of our top officials outside the city give me a twenty thousand dollars raise like to buy a new car ten thousand dollars for the fire chief and not the workers one would surprise her with salaries frozen that's what bothers me about the fire chief get twenty thousand dollars increase no one the job no performance shown and you get a twenty thousand dollar salary increase for what i've asked that for a long time now no way answers openness fear yeah there's openness i'd like to find another person up the garage ten thousand dollars a salary increase how did the right to is job description what are the responsibilities dahl one of the people doing i think you need a committee here to look at everybody's job a marriage job with unlimited vacation i think we need every job know of has finally had a flag put on his and the front of his headstone and i went out there today to see that it was placed and i was very very pleased with that chorus a little bit of mr purchase and maybe as i've been living with this for so long i was followed and it's back to the old days when they were sending the big official you know the six had some kind of bicycle or biking couper i haven't heard from him nor his son and i think his son had partially gotten activated into politics and  sure that some worthy excuse but i do see this as an avenue to get some troubled children into what i'm familiar with is called the wilderness program which is virtually taking youth out in the in the wilderness with trained police men and sometimes military men and really putting them through their rigors to help them decide which side they're gnome first of all i'd like to apologize to all of veterans that are did not attend yesterday's ceremony i missed it in the paper i don't know if they and i don't know if they announced to freemount so that the last meeting if you did i missed it and i was home doing nothing probably argue with my wife but it was my fault so i apologize to all the veterans i should have been there secondly i lane i'm going to mi ok i have no one else signed up for privilege of the floor so now we'll move on to miscellaneous from the council risking several announcement i'd like to make the first concerns a sponsored by a national organic company communities take root the organization that gets the most online votes will receive a fruit tree orchard and irrigation system so we need the support of people to vote each day at the website communities take root and if you go to and click on communities take root and log in and select a state new york click on new york on the map and click on vote for this location  understanding is we are in competition with another community that has mobilized schools and everybody in the community trying to get get a lot of votes to to get this opportunit system so i just want to encourage anybody who's listening to pay attention to this and hopefully get online and vote and hopefully we'll get more communication out about this so that we might stand a good chance of winning this couple of other things this saturday is kids arts festival runs from noon to four p m weather permitting we will be on j street if not we will be here in city hall lots of fun things for kids lots of entertainment we've got the puppet different hands on activities for kids it is just a great event i encourage everyone if you can stop down it's just so much fun to see these kids just having a good time being creative and that just are a great thing couple of upper union big dot org or by contacting their executive director now boroughs and also the ninth annual surat to his garden tour which side saturday june ninth rain or shine from ten to four there are nine local gardens tickets can be picked up at numerous places like experiencing creative design felt thousands florist open door bookstore and others i also want to take this opportunity to thank bob becker bob is the one who coordinates the all the veterans services yesterday and i know many of us were able to attend those very very impressive ceremonies i also want to commend our police officers who were honored at the balor day ceremony last week that was just a very impressive ceremony we clearly have some cable keeping in touch with you so don't think you're going to get what i get away totally thank you thank you i have just one thing eileen thank you very much for your support over the my time on the council a lot of people out there but i know that the city clerk offers a ton of support to council members and i know from when i first started not really knowing what to expect and how the process works you know on the inside the church office you've been a wonderful support i think you greatly for everything you've done i wish you all the best and i will definitely keep in touch with you and i will see you on a regular basis i'm sure i'm feel free to call and tell me where i'm going wrong and i will keep keep me on the straight and narrow as well and i just want to get it so i think you very much and i wish you the best thank y thank you for it well as you know of rebuilding communities what i'm always talking about and i want to talk about the some folks on lincoln avenue who decided that they were they started last year doing something and now this year they're moving it forward where they're doing recycling because they realize that we can save a little bit of money with doing the recycling so they're trying to take the effort upon themselves to do that and also to be defy their street to make it you know look nice and because everybody wants to live in a nice neighborhood so for the next two weeks our commitment is to picking up litter whether you drop it or not and i'd also like to say to eileen thank you very much i know it's been a very short time and but in that short time you i learned a lot where to pick up the packages in the box were on the can't counter so i appreciate that and all the help that you gave me and getting my spearing in ceremony together so thank you very much i wish you all the best in your retirement people have in their yards i was taking my walker early in the morning and i came down twelfth street and they were smashed all over the roadway and a lot of them not just a couple and then i found out because my wife when she was marketing she came down thirteenth street it was the same thing in eleven street was the same thing i don't know where else in bellevue with that may have happened but apparently whatever group of youngsters or whatever you want to call them figured it was time to target solar lights and they were expensive ones they were the ones with the glass lenses and they cause the house heard on the roadway the small building in fairview park was tagged on the last few days so that there's things going on th really disturbed me and i again will last for a comprehensive plan and as far as dealing with these things we have to make people accountable somehow i talked to said the city is planning on painting over graffiti in the near future very near future now that's going to bring prime targets to be tagged again because can be freshly painted and brim no i will certainly volunteer myself  deputize me to go out at night we have to catch somebody is people that are causing these problems and make examples of them that's what's going to work the neighborhood problems are the  we have are fine but to encourage people i'll say it again to move into schenectady we have to also have crime enforcement whatever it's going to take to get that is what we have to do we can't have children running wild and that's what's going on in st i had a phone call kids six seven eight years old twelve one o'clock in the morning causing mayhem we can have this you know that that's all i keep saying  because it's the truth we cannot have this in this city and expect people to want to live here we have to clean the streets off and i don't mean peeling paint i'm talking about these quality of life issues that are keeping people and having people move away from the city so i'm available for any suggestions my zero tolerance idea i'm not going to let go of that because i truly believe that's what we need and  see vandalism and to see people's property destroyed just for the fact of destroying it is very very disturbing so mayor i'm willing to sit with you and anyone else and so we can maybe get our arms around something some kind of plan on so we can do something about this a more are than happy to me to offer my services whatever that may be worth on a complimentary no i have the san shack family from campbell having had a fire the week before last a small fire but they asked me to to thank the fire department for their prompt and very courteous and professional service they took care of her right away they're very happy there was minimal damage was gone and they're very happy they came immediately and it was a believe it or not it was a self cleaning stove so something to be aware of there was a leaky seal from what i hear and it started a cabinet on fire so it's something to be concerned about if you have a self cleaning stove maybe don't put on soft lean in and leave the house speaker as they did have a fire with that in the firemen did an outstanding job as they usually do and  they are very pleased with that i can't say any more about that on that no it may or may be you can answer this i was told by someone that and i'm i this is the first i heard it when there was a fire is the is the fire department is the city building the insurance company homeowner's insurance i understand that's the practice i'm not saying that's fact or not but if it is it does concern me because i feel that something that a service that we're paying for and if an insurance company gets billed those people's rates could go up just like it would in any kind of claim so i'm concerned about that if that is practice because someone had a fire and they were asked their insurance company's name their carriers name and their agent's name by the fire department so it's kind of interesting i'd like to know more about that if you can provide me with that information the memorial day service said it was great they were they were trafficked the new flag at veterans park looks great the flagpole looks great all painted up it looks really nice it was very good very moving services both of them a veil in that that veterans park and the speaker i can't remember the colonel's name but he was very impressive avail cemetery the real great job ok eileen went to st joseph's church saturday afternoon sat down on a lady came up to me and costs and she said i had a problem with the curbing and there was steel coming out of the curb and i called the clerk's office and i leaned versace took the time she she told me she took the time she was very impressed that you went to the mayor's office to find out who she should contact and i think you hooked her up with chairman howard they cut the steel out of that curb because it was a problem people are cutting their tires i think maybe she dead so and cost is very happy and it just search shows you the service that you gave to the this is broker that you mistakenly when i when i when i moved the second bigger your bullshit that you called me mr versace i'm proud of that that you did that that's very good because i was very close to did know him and i was playing tennis with a guy who had a pipe and a small place playing tennis and i thought that was kind of neat and he was able to volley no problem with a pipe at a spot so again you when you went well above and like i said this just happened this past saturday where i heard this e couple of announcements from bellevue bellevue preservation will be having a community wide grad sale on saturday june second from nine to five and buyers can pick up a list annual chicken barbecue dinner tickets are ten dollars you can call three nine three zero four zero three for tickets advance sales are appreciated for planning purposes but they will accept walk ins also you can eat  there or take it out schenectady greenmarket as i mentioned i believe the last meeting is also assisting with the bellevue preservation to open the bellevue market which is going to be a farmer's market that opening is june seventh with a ribbon cutting hosted by the chamber of the county at three p m the location is at the park and the ministry's which is on the corner of thompson and broadway and the market is open from three to six every thursday i too wanted to thank not only ball of the veterans that were very very hard but an extremely moving ceremony together that really reminds us that memorial day isn't just about picnics but truly honoring the people that have given their lives for our very very precious freedom and between you know the flag raising in and the calling of the deceased soldiers wreath presentations in the music it's just a very sitting way to spend your morning on memorial day so i was happy to be a part of it and a lot of work goes into it also i also want to express my how pleased i am with the boys and girls clubs taking over our city pools i think the city has done a great job historically but that position the person no longer is in that position and the boys and girls club have had tried and true practices at other city pools not only do they ensure the safety of our our youth but we know who's in the pool  who is not allowed in the polls that goes across city they provide accountability they do on land activities so it's not just about the kids being in the pool and kind of getting in trouble when they're out of the ball there's lots of different things for them to do so i think it's a it's a great thing clearly it's their mission because the budget is is a very tight budget saw i'm pleased that they took that over council in review is talking about that's on the top of all of our minds and it is something we discuss so i look forward to hearing some of his ideas and i also look forward to giving my own him but and coming up with ways of improving our neighborhoods and of what is going on in our neighborhoods and tha thank you madam president but to like to just compliment bob becker in the veterans organizations for putting together a series of that which culminated in the ceremonies yesterday it was fitting that we honor those individuals who made the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the fence of this country i'd like to really compliment the fire department in terms of the excellent work we've seen them do in some very serious major structural fires over the last several months we had again a two of them yesterday that devastating compliment the police department have made an arrest in that terms of a juvenile it's just unfortunate when people engage in that type of conduct but the work that they do you can net in to see some of those working that how impressive they are and how diligent methodical the response see as you point out they're very quick we talk about the insurance i have directed the fire department the finance department a lot apartment it any fire anything to look at recovering the expenses incurred by the city of schenectady we've had too many cases where the individual has had some insurance policy they had a fire and then they've taken the proceeds and walked away from it in left buildings that are just disgraced they're part of the urban blight that exists in this community where you say there are some restrictions in terms of paid fire departments volunteer fire departments what insurance companies can provide but so you're now also says a little bit inconsistent where sometimes they want to pay because you have a professional fire department our response time in most cases is a little over two minutes before the time from the time you dial nine one one full time the piece of apparatus is in front of the house insurance companies are willing to pay for some of that because the damage is greatly minimize by that quick response time in a given the ability to suppress any fire most so not quite sure where i've told the code enforcement office in the staff call common sense we want to work with property owners we want to try and encourage people to comply in maintain their property and manner and we do differentiate a little bit terms of property owners in those individuals that are i should say owner occupied property as opposed to those that are absentee landlords and i don't understand some how you're saying you want to zero tolerance on one side but then some people we should let peeling paint go other places that i think we have to give notice to the people we want to work with people i understand some people have difficulty in terms of financing these things but the city staff is trying to be responsive and look for ways to accommodate everybody it's a complex undertaking there is more work out there than in the staff is able to handle in a short time we all know the decline as occurred over a long period of time we're not going to turn it around overnight told staff told the residents i talked to him it's a slow methodical process we're going to keep after the people we're going to follow up on things and we're going to make people be accountable and we're going to end up with a product that we're all proud attend a retirement party for june thirteenth we holding a small get together pat is and if you'd like to call chuck thorn in the city clerk's office he can coordinate any sale of tickets or other congratulatory efforts to eileen but in thank you and wish you many years and happiness and enjoyment your retirement thank you madam president oh i too want to join my colleagues in the mayor and telling eileen how much we're going to miss her and thanking her for the great job he's done and also voicing what the mayor said i'm sure you're at work until the six your last day on june seventh so she'll be receiving gifts there too if you want to just send things to the to the office that would be ok too but you know people don't realize the job of the clerk is just not sitting here a lot of times and listening to us go on and on it nauseum sometimes and taking notes but it's keeping all of us in line during the day reminding us of meetings and different things that we have and calming us and letting us know about places that we're supposed to be thank god for you but we'll have to make sure our next person comes it is is well trained without you don't an amazing job and as i said before you have such a wonderful and colorful feehily so happy to know all of them so happy to have known you into had the ability to work with you you'll be missed but i know that you're not going so far so again thanks for everything wish you all of the best and just enjoy your retirement and you know keep your fingers crossed for me some day i can retire ok