item number one for final consideration an ordinance amending chapter two zero four of the administrative cost of the city of schenectady providing for the application of fees for public assembly inspections again this is only calling for a public for original consideration in ordinance to amend section eighty seven dash six and eighty seven dash thirty of the code of the city of schenectady introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed ordina scheduled for july eighth two thousand and thirteen ok also discussed in committee without objection on consent number three item number three a resolution authorizing the acceptance of the new york state occupational safety and health hazard abatement twenty four thousand three hundred fourteen dollars grant award again discussed in committee without objection and consent number four item number four resolution accepting title of list of properties from the schenectady urban renewal agency discussed in committee without objection on consent number six i don't number five a resolution accepting assignment of various mortgages in accounts from s l d c person went to its dissolution also discussed in committee without objection on consent number six item number six a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of s b l forty point thirty day ash one dash forty three hendrickson avenue to try and cally herman also discussed in committee without objection on consent number seven item number seven a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of four twenty hulot street consisting of tax parcel number forty nine point three two dash for dash twenty nine to khamenei assume dial also discussed in committee without objection is told here on the consent of gender number eight item number eight a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of one thirty nine elmer avenue consisting of tax parcel number forty nine point twenty seven dash three  ten to signature homebuyers also discussed in committee without objection on consent number nine i don't number nine a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of five twenty nine straight consisting of tax par forty nine point three one dash for dish thirty three to persist city oh shut discussed in committee without objection on consent number ten item number ten a resolution  authorizing the transfer of title of nine hundred twenty nine crane street consisting of tax part and parcel number forty nine point four seven dash three thirty four two for it's a fault without objection and consent number eleven i have number eleven a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of twenty five twenty two campbell avenue consisting of tax parcel number forty nine point five dash one dash three four two david melissa without objection i'm consent number twelve item number twelve a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of eight o five lincoln avenue consisting of tax parcel number forty nine point four forty dash six their thirty four to mark chong without objection consent number thirteen item number thirteen a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of thirteen thirty one albany straight consisting of tax parcel number forty nine point six seven dash for dash twenty four two series sukkot without objection consent number fourteen item number fourteen a resolution authorizing proctors theater to serve alcoholic beverages at various public events from july eighteenth to twenty first two thousand and thirteen without objection and consent number fifteen item number fifteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of attacks are sure wery concerning sixteen nineteen union street without objection and consent number sixteen item number sixteen a resolution settling a claim of mcfarland discussed in committee without objection on consent number seventeen item number seventeen a resolution recognizing deputy fire chief scott dorothy for completing the executive fire officer degree program ok will take this out of order mr erickson you know read that great number eighteen i number eighteen a resolution recognizing and appreciating union college students for establishing a before i die community board without objection i consent and will take this out of order and this will be number one  number nineteen item number nineteen a resolution recognizing the clean up efforts of the mount pleasant neighborhood association again without objection and consent taken this out of order are you confident reporter feel ok number twenty is tabled number twenty one item number twenty one a resolution recognizing the six hundredth anniversary of the city of niger the netherlands ok and the mayor is going to take this to the netherlands and anybody else who wants to go with him he told me tonight we're going to have a raffle at the end twenty two i don't number twenty two under contract and supply a resolution authorizing the purchase of supplies and equipment for two thousand and thirteen for the water department again discussed in committee without objection on consent and they are for five five additions that were held and discussed in claims tonight in voted to unanimous consent and the clerk will read those please i did number twenty three a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of fourteen myers alley consisting of parcels numbered s p l thirty nine point six five dash one dish fifteen and thirty nine point six five dash one dash sixteen to lose year ris restorations discussed in committee without objection on consent number twenty twenty four item number twenty four resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract for operation of city swimming pools again discussed in committee without objection on consent member title number twenty five a resolution authorizing the serving of alcohol at an event in central park again discussed in committee without objection and consent item number twenty six resolution authorizing the mayor to enter into a contract leasing certain city property to the afghan is islamic center or the new york capital district again discussed in committee without objection and consent and item number twenty seven a resolution authorizing the transfer of title of nine fifty to albany street consisting of tax parcel number forty nine point four two dash one dash seven two should care and  we gather calling each of us to our personal faith we welcome the presence of all that is bless us as we gather here today bless us as we meet to serve our community intent on doing good work bless us as we seek to represent fairly and well those who have given us this task and to represent all members of our community with respect and equality we seek blessings on the task before us bless our efforts with clear insight our deliberations with wisdom bless our work with clarity and accuracy bless our decisions with impartiality we recognize our responsibility to the past and the future and the rights and needs of both individuals and the community may our personal faiths give us strength to act honestly justly and well in all matters before us may we act with grace and humility amen is recognizing it appreciated union college students first stab in the before i die community board and i like to ask them to come on up here ok this is a resolution recognizing expressing appreciation to the college students that established it before i died community board madam president you have the floor thank you whereas a participatory community where as several community partners such as the kennedy community center downtown schenectady improvement corporation schenectady county visitors agency and the city of schenectady have supported the efforts of the students involved in this community project and whereas the board is available for members of the community to share their dreams aspirations goals and wishes for what they would like to accomplish before they die and where as the protest for the participatory art project is based on the work of new orleans artist candy chang and whereas the board will remain on j street for three weeks where the college students involved are making note of the comments and additions by the members of the schenectady community and whereas after its run a j street the board will be placed at other parts of before i die aboard now for therefore be it resolved that disconnected the city council pass in its deliberations to recognize the efforts of union college students and the community partners who have contributed to the before i die community board  i'm going to hand this over to show put aside a few words but i did want to explain to you that we originally met on this project when maybe march we met on this project sent an e mail out saying she was interested in doing it and through that time she had spearheaded this entire project from working with the city to get the proper permits that she needed to finding the funding for it to working with the college staff to correct it and working with the students she's organized all the students to clean the board make sure that what's posted there is appropriate and the postings have been all over the place from before i die i want to pet a lion to before i die i want to meet steve urkel to before i die i want to buy a home from my my children and tell my family how much they love them so keep an eye on the board because it really is a special project and now i well let's show us a few words michelle thank you for this award it's quite nice  and thank you lisa for making this happen this board is a spa example of the community here it's an entity and how everyone here works together for a bigger bigger cause and just a testament of the fact that this is a wonderful place to be so our next resolution is recognizing deputy fire chief scott dorothy for completing the executor fire officer degree program officer dorothy please come up and if your family would like to come up with you is well they're invited as well initiative of the united states fired ministration and the national fire academy designed for senior officers and whereas this program aimed to provide an understanding for the need to transform fire and emergency services from being reactive proactive with an added emphasis on leadership development prevention and risk reduction in whereas the program calls attention to the value of research and its application to the firefighting profession as well as the value of lifelong learning whereas the fop spans a four year period it is comprised of four core courses each spending two weeks in length whereas deputy fire chief scott doherty is the first schenectady firefighter to complete this prestigious program and where as deputy chief already is responsible for the the fire department fire investigation division hazardous materials team and the tactical medic program and where as deputy chief dorothy's educational efforts set forth a good fire chief scott doherty as the first connected firefighter to complete this christie just executive fire officer program and setting a high standard for sketchy firefighters by achieving a high standard of professionalism through higher education i move the pass higher education there is a great deal of emphasis in the fire service today on leadership training and it's something that really doesn't exist outside the national fire academy from the time firefighters enter the basic fire training at the youth a utica academy or much more false then maybe some community college training which takes place all across our state then at the top of the pyramid is the executive fire chief you do set standards and make us all proud the job that the men and women in the fire service do for the city of schenectady just on behalf of the united states fired ministration in the national fire academy in recognition of the successful completion of the requisite courses of study in applied research projects the national fire academy under the authority granted by the hundred eleventh congress of the united states of america and on the recommendation of the faculty confer the title of executive fire officer upon scott and dorothy with all honors privileges and responsibilities care unto a apper chief it's i'm trying to sense of pride that i present that to you and i know the chill again continue to set that standard in the department that will make us all the envy of other facilities and organizations in the region in the state thank you all and i'll be at least as brief is that the chief this was a very challenging program and as i'm sure you all know you can't do a program like this without support of of coworkers friends and especially family so i'd just like to say i'm a public thank you to my wife kathleen for all her support thank you ok our last ceremonial resolution is recognizing the cleanup efforts of the mt pleasant neighborhood association like to call the mt pleasant neighborhood association members up resolution will be read by council member marion porterfield so that everyone ok you have the forms thank you a resolution honoring and recognizing the mount pleasant neighborhood association whereas the mount pleasant neighborhood association has engaged in numerous activities to  community and thus improve the quality of life of man in mount pleasant and whereas on may fourth two thousand and thirteen approximately ninety five people including residents and volunteers representing various groups converged on mount pleasant and were  projects throughout the neighborhood and whereas this commendable effort was organized by the mount pleasant neighborhood association executive committee of muhammad house says sharon then schmidt donna foley and john norton along with the association aaron and whereas when the dust settled literally they had filled at least one hundred eighty one large bags with yard debris and garbage and were themselves filled with a great sense of accomplishment and whereas this outcome w through the support of mount pleasant mount pleasant merchants fire station number three in mount pleasant mount pleasant branch of the schenectady county library stewards shops marty's hardware the home depot number twelve thirty nine the guy nice american association fifteen love tri city cricket league mount pleasant middle hamilton elementary in schenectady high school's new creation in christ church our lady of mount carmel church schenectady fire department police department  general services and numerous individuals and whereas members of the mt pleasant neighborhood association continue to sustain the community's enhanced meant by regularly cleaning up around the band in parks buildings sidewalks and curbs now therefore be it resolved that the city council of the city of schenectady pauses in its deliberation to recognize and express its acts if its appreciation to the map pleasant neighborhood association for its diligence fortitude and  a someone that you'd like to speak thank you very much for all the groups that participated and the city employees and specially the fire chief and the police chief home depot and everyone else and mayor carr all from pauline prison and a lot of the people's names who i don't really know here but they all came out to help and it's with your help that we're successful in this can't do it without the community that's your community so it's up to you and us to continue to get it cleaned up so we still need volunteers on an ongoing basis i just must say i know that you guys been working on this for a long time you've done a really outstanding job and it just goes to show what the community can do when it pulls together and you're if you're really an example for all the other committees who were also doing things out there as well government can't do it alone we need volunteers and people the community who want to make this a better place to live to come together so thank you once public here number one a hearing relating to amending section two forty eight of the cysts connect to the city code regarding parking meters perry brand here in the city and in all fairness i hope you can use some common sense when you adjust the fees for these parking meters sometimes just going to a place like the post office in a pay at dollar five dollars or whatever your fee is going to be just to go in and mail a letter some places i think it's too much so just use a little common sense when it comes to that the other great buy has with the city vehicles park and rode city hall for hours at a time at parking meters why we have a parking lot done on liberty street every city employee should use it they should be given a public the privilege of parking by a parking meter here free if they wan authority to discontinue their parking at the parking meters if i had a business round city hall and no thehotel to park i do explode it's a shame you're paying taxes for mortgages insurance and everything else in the city people making big wages are parked around city hall five six eight times the vehicle sometimes it's a shame not for five minutes burger half hour if it's necessary to have the meeting  hello i'm david junko name i was school in session now because i think this is an important civic lesson about what is the proper role of the executive and what is the proper role of the legislative branch of our government my main point in answering the question should the mayor hail from power over all parking meter fees and door and time limits is that that's your responsibility you should be making those choices taking the heat asking the hard questions the mayor's job is to implement the law and to make recommendations to you your job is to decide what makes sense for this city this board sets the fees for cricket field use and it sets the fees for photocopies and it sets the fees for rose garden weddings and yet you think parking are not important enough that it should be your direct responsibility i don't understand how you could have possibly gotten this out of committee and brought this out to the public not only a parking meter fees a significant source of revenue they impact thousands of schenectady and all the time and in fact what's going to happen here the rate increases are going to affect the very people you've been trying so hard to get to come downtown you know i'm not seeing any of the changes that the mayor has suggested might happen are in and of itself wrong i'm saying it's your job to decide whether or not to make some of the very important changes for instance you have you know that the mayor in the city engineer have already told you they want city wide rate of one dollar an hour that will quadruple the rate in many places you know that so by handing this off to him you're basically saying we're not going to take the heat for that we're going to let the mayor take the heat for that that's irresponsible  parking meters are the first face that many visitors health of this city and i think that perhaps you should be talking about no fees for a shopping district and instead of saying well they charge a dollar in albany we'll charge a dollar why not say come and see us we care so much about you you don't have to pay for parking when you're on our shopping blocks it's hard to say but you should make that decision  will there be one issue that has been mentioned a couple of times at least in the press the mayor has said that it's really important to have short term duration in a lot of places and they have to that we have the turnover that we need so i need you to summarize please ok to summarize many of the things that will happen with the will in fact impact short term parking by making it lay allowing people to in fact renu their time you need to be to be deciding do we want that to happen and you need to be deciding whether or not you want weekends in haile's and  e good evening my name is mary maclean i live in the city no one who are on this parking meter proposal or who will vote on it well be affected by the various salts like me i moved to schenectady thirty four years ago my husband arrived in march waited until june after the children finished school because she was living out of a hotel  room he rented a post office box to receive his mail we have never given up the box for thirty four years we have gone to the post office nearly every day to pick up our mail now with this if i want to get my mail i will have to pay for it and so will nine hundred seventy two other people there are nineteen hundred and seventy three blocks leases at the post office that just how many people will be immediately affected because twenty five cents for fifteen minutes to park times that fifth day weeks and five work days each week schenectady taxpayers i don't want t good evening mr mayor city council members my name is joe keller i'm a resident of the city and candidate for city council with respect to a resolution or rather public hearing in with this first section regarding a parking meters i once again hold true that why i think we're being a little too hasty with putting these parking meters in place as the constituents of the city council still have a lot to say and a lot that they're thinking about it that they still need to say regarding them with the article that was in the paper that gives that recently regarding the mayor taking full control over changing the rates of the parking meters although with all due respect mr mayor when you say that you're not expecting that the rates will raise it's one hand that has the opportunity to do so and that one hand does not provide the checks and balances that the u s constitution and the united states allow us by putting all that power into one person's hand and taking out the city council where prolongs because the city council is the one other the ones who represent us as a whole one person should not make that decision it makes it more of a monarchy rather than ever public or a democracy thank you thank you sir i have no one signed up for the public carrying out signed up for the public   that that other areas have and i think that is that we have right now is just fine you know and to get into the media to have other things that need to be addressed in this city that we parking meters are something that i think you should rethink about because you don't need any parking meters you have enough parking meters right now and trying to get those new plug in meters just because everybody else as them i don't think that's right thank you i have no one else signed up for a public hearing number one therefore i'm calling it close moving on to public hearing number two amending section two forty eight of the schenectady city code regarding fees for vehicles to all bellevue i'm not sure if i understand this correctly but it's going to be a fee if there's an accident and then the first mistake in a hospital and then the city employee calls the towing department now is that person going to be charged a fee or is it just for impounded vehicles that are parked that they don't know what are you know what or they're not parked british should be that's the only thing i have and if there's going to be a fee for an accident or something i think that's  and if they don't realize that the f the police calls and they have to be told that they're going to be paying an additional thirty five dollars i think that's correct that sometimes people people are so rattled that they need  it's a really bad snowstorm and people are having a real bad problem you doing that talking to people that thirty five dollars people may be suffering this is a crises in a person's life you know i'm i remember when i was stuck in the mayor council members my name is marion recital i'm the chairperson for the dog park committee and i wanted to come before you to say thank you thank you for considering making us a committee of the city this help to move forward with donations for our dog park renovation project as you know we are not going to take any money from the city this project is becoming so exciting we have a potentially big fundraiser plan i will tell more when details are finalized we have had many favorable comments about this project we have brought the rendering for people to take a look at the biggest changes are going to be in addition to the section for our small four legged friends and adding a double entrance that will be handicapped accessible we will also be adding a water supply hopefully with drinking fountains for the dogs in closing again i want to work your good evening mayor and councilman thank you for having us here i'm just going to give you a little bit of a history on this i'm the president of the one two three zero nine neighborhood association and this project came out as a result of our association here up in the upper union street area i'm also a resident of the one two three zero nine area and i live just around the corner from the current dog park this sucks this dog park hasn't been hasn't had a facelift or a look change  eleven years eleven years ago someone from our city asked this the city park people could we have a dog park in those empty tennis courts we were given that permission and for eleven years it's been an empty tennis court with dogs running around we had a vision of a local resident in our neighborhood norma shelley who brought it to the neighborhood association asking could we do something for our dogs it's time to change and our associat voted yes we would take on this project and with the help of our new chair marion receipt oh we're actually moving forward on this the mission really is to ensure that dogs have a great off leash experience we really want the par to offer safety and health and wellbeing for not only our dogs but for our owners and we're very aware of the importance of the safety and licensing of dogs in the health of dogs we will be taking those needs very serious as we move forward please consider this project we need that assistance and we have a big event as you said coming forward and we actually have lots of plans beyond a fundraiser to kind of change the activities so that our dogs and our owners can be in a safe place and it will be as lovely as the rose garden next door thank you thank you thank you both very much overdue and i hope all the funding every dollar commission for that purpose the citizens of the city is connected in the very that what i'm upset about is the fact that mr clichy corporation would like to have some of this mo well i got to to win a prize and words for mr police his company he should be well prepared to handle any contamination he has property in his city that's contaminated broadway does well the old  property he has done is going to fix out a lot lot of contamination both places now he wants to help them out with not st paul loaning he shouldn't get one penny for not st no other purchase place would get it he gets good rent and if he wants to take the risk of buying that building that's his responsibility and nobody else's especially not the city i'd rather see not building torn down colleges and burned out places that we've waited years to have some of these buildings taken down and now when there's a possibility of getting money he wants to share you know what brings to my mind is there somebody getting a kickback million dollars in two thousand and twelve in my opinion is obscene much of the development money that the group has used is supported by money that comes from sources like new markets tax credits new york state really the our state canal corporation the source of the money from all of those and to these above comes from us the taxpayers we have already done our part to help the largest private company in the capital region police a group will survive without that one point three million dollar loan from us i ask you to borrow the three million dollars is all of it one hundred to tear down as many derelict houses as the three million dollars will allow your daughter and a faster timeframe for more areas of the city than the present proposal think about it think about the residents of the whole city and thank you for your time thank you  a recent law that was passed by our federal government with all kinds of extra provisions inside it that should never be included these are two separate issues for the demo of funds to be come out from borrowed especially during a time when we're already strapped for funds to tie these two separate issues one for demolition and one for renovation by a private company are completely absurd it's completely unacceptable the should be two separate issues and should be voted on completely separately the taking one point three million dollars to give to the police the corporation to renovate the not street building with  removal project just that alone with him putting in fourteen units in that into that building winds out to about just shy of one hundred thousand dollars per unit which is it which would be more cost effective to rip the building down clean it out and put up a brand new structure that's more efficient and more beneficial to the community we can make it more ecologically sound for the community as well taking the other funds for the demolition for all these buildings that we have available absolutely we need to do something with these buildings there have been a lot of opportunities and lots of thoughts from the community as well which i don't think have met yet been taken into consideration such as using some of them for the fire department to do some of their training with i think there's a little bit more that has to go into this and lot more thought that could go into this before we put it into effect but these are definitely two separate issues thank you for your time thank you sir have no one else signed up for this public hearing here for and i'm sorry your name please my name is gail hopper and where you live representing the chamber of schenectady county good evening my name is gail hopper and i represent the chamber of schenectady county and am speaking on behalf of the more than one thousand business members in the county we are here tonight to encourage you to support the proposed project at four eighty seven knots street the former d s s building at forty seven not street is located in a key location between the new gallup headquarters ellis medicine and across the street from santa nice church and union college it is an important part of the north side neighborhood the current condition of this building is a deterrent to keep current and future residents and businesses who may want to locate or expand in this area the proposed project would provide greatly improved facade to the building and a beautiful safe energy efficient and reasonably priced housing we believe this will attract new residents who will work shop and live on the city's north side this project will further increase property values in the neighborhood we fully support the city's efforts to bring new residents to the city and believe this project will bring new residents to a beautifully renovated building we encourage you to approve the project thank you thank you for your comments communications presented to the city council for monday june twenty fourth official from the mayor a list of appointments dated june twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen also a letter dated june twenty fourth two thousand and thirteen from paul of fine director of waste from water and wastewater recommending the award of furnishing supplies and equipment for two thousand and thirteen to the following companies brothers of la supply corporation of rochester new york ferguson waterworks of clifton park blair supply corporation of rochester new york the purchases will be funded by the two thousand and thirteen operating budget under general there are none under petitions there are not ok committee reports are there any committee reports this evening co yes i just wanted to touch on what to eat brandywine i believe last cycle we had some people come down and express their desire to use the law across in the islamic temple and it was very helpful to us as a council were able to bring it into committee and discuss it and the agenda tonight for unanimous consent is in agreement with the  temple to use that site for parking so it's a win win that's why we encourage you to come down in and talk to us and give us information because we can sometimes find common ground and solutions to move forward good point  three people signed up first person is reverend manual adams which is good and people have talked to him so we were really want to do is try to get some kind of quorum or place or that we can come together and we talk about these issues three minutes is a rough time but issues therefore they can really go on  marsh air marshal we have joe allen we have clark all those on my committee and we're really looking for you to come that we may give the community more information and that they be more involved and also in our education with a gun for the graduation is going on this year but a little better than last year a really need that and i think by the more of our to stay in school and graduating i think it's part of the result in the solution to a lot of problems are happening in our judicial system a minute we get into school get a magic aided in more likely to go to be incarcerated so i'm just saying that we should get more involved and take more responsibility upon ourself and then to know what we're talking about is one thing to talk about something the legislative agenda number fourteen their trucks for proctor's proctors director mr philip morris went before city council storing last monday's committee meeting and told council members that he belongs to expand programming for open stage media he needs to fix the programs that are currently on the air first taxpayers are paying for a defective product at the strawberry festival last saturday someone told me she no longer watches city council meetings because she cannot get volume from the program source and her home remote cannot make the sound any louder i have the same problem at my home furthermore how much to taxpayers oh proctors one the director earns a six figure income he moved away he doesn't live in schenectady three one of its employees is a council member and i hope she plans to rid kooser self from voting on this item tonight for proctor's took a worse connect at least tradition of holding the christmas parade on the friday after thanksgiving now with this agenda item proctors wants to take this in the subway from the business community the agenda item requests a waiver from the city so that proctor scanned runs simultaneous concession stands to sell beer one truck will operate on july nineteenth for summer's night the other truck will sell beer for four days from july eighteenth through the twenty first council lunch to grants waiver months to grant waivers to proctor's to sell beer on the above mentioned dates them proctor should use the profits from the beer trucks to promote tourism for schenectady proctors for road show successfully it could promote sketch schenectady as a destination store staal or skin save the city from f ruin and help lower city taxes otherwise no waivers for proctor's thank you members thank you once again for ally me the opportunity to speak very quickly on number fourteen regarding the alcoholic beverages at the public events of proctor's theater non profit organization who has benefited the community on multiple levels and i would highly recommend that i think there they provide a lot back to the community not only with the program that they they offer but along with some of the other  opportunities and their hosting of the green market is fantastic and i think for these events it would be tremendous to keep the funds right there at the facility regarding number seventeen  deputy fire chief i understand having been a firefighter myself in the past as a volunteer while much training some of these firefighters go through and i would like to commend the deputy chief myself and thank him very much for his dedicated service to the city of schenectady and as far as the before i die community board my wife and i had an opportunity to take a look at the board and down at the green market this past sunday and we really enjoyed going and reading some of the things that people wrote up over that way and the young lady who received the award and she deserved it very much so thank you very much for thank you sir thank you ok no one signed up for on the floor and legislative agenda or no one else i should say call that closed and next we will vote on a consent agenda oh i'm so sorry wishful thinking it's so hard for all of you will never get well you know i'm just kidding now i'm here again to speak about my program that i'm having on  have a great outcome this time i'm really trying to work towards helping the the citizens of schenectady to have a voice about their housing issues just for once have called me recently to complain about their housing issues occupancy this is not a thing that needs to be put aside these landlords should be forced to have their occupancy  paper so that when these people when ten is move in they are told that they have to move out because the occupancy paper is not existing a lot of tenants are told that they have to move out of their housing until the landlord get that paper that's a bad situation that's causing a lot of problems in the city you're harming the regular citizens of this city because of these out of the city landlord and it's not fair these people should have someone here that can you know address the issues of their property so i just want to let you know that you have to put the buzzer on because i'm leaving right now ok thank you thank you for your comments speak about some issues that happen with like i think that it's just very unfair that that when you get a job or whatever the case is that they const they just cut you off immediate after receiving a job with given no notice so whatever the case says they say that you like within a certain budget or whatever but you're just you know trying to you know being on temporary assistance of whatever the case says and then you get a job and then they cut you off that mediately working part time at a job that their hours are not concrete you know you might work twenty four hours one week the next week you might be back down to nine hours and then everything just is cut off you know i think that they have to give like the working person the opportunity to try to build themselves first before you just go ahead and just cut that person particular person off because most of these jobs in schenectady i have found out is just going to light part time they're just hiring part time for you won't receive like the medical benefits and different things like that so you you know and then if they're unionized you're getting that taken out the size the taxes so you're back down to getting nothing like once a week you know you like it still like one hundred dollars or whatever the case is once a week and then if you have a forty hour week and then next week you're back down to nine hours a week i mean this is just like a constant thing and it's just like you know it's just like a fight you know and when you go down to d s s it's just like a big problem you get nothing by attitudes you get nothing but static so you have to involve other people so i have call senator for all his office and spoke to diane about it she's been very helpful and getting back with me with the concern calling down there and pigeon hole voice for me i just really do appreciate that the service that she has rendered to me and i just wish that like the community city council so on and so forth get involved in like just trying to help like people that want to actually work wants to be off the system no one wants to be on the system for ever i mean maybe there are some people that do but i most certainly don't and i'm just trying to just build myself up thank you thank you sir and good luck to you very very and still a citizen is collectively i'd like to say that i've lost a good friend in the passing of john paul of mean to me he was a devoted citizen of this city and a true and honest friend and i will miss him and i think the city will miss him a little i'd also give the compliment to the city employees for the job they did during the past storm i think they did a very wonderful job a very efficient job but then again they were hired for that but to give a compliment doesn't hurt when i get one nice job like nelly certainly doesn't and i appreciate it especially in bellevue wario i saw them firsthand what they were doing working with the power company and rising and so forth and it was a very efficient well worked out clean up i like this big but this parking meter business in regards to union they have you have so many cars parked there year round no this is summer just starting but i think you ought to give some thought to the fall and possibly parking meters on union avenue it seems that in the winter some cars are parked there for three four weeks or more and never told never to kidded nothing happens when it comes time to move their vehicle the snow went to the street but i think something ought to be done there i don't know if there are employees of union college residents whatever they are but i think that's an abuse of the property and before summer started there were so many cars parked there they were parked in a crossing lane by union street and union and nothing done week after week nothing done to treat everybody the same i don't care who they are and we gotta stop showing all these privileges to some people and treat everybody the same for downtown here things are looking a lot better i have not made bed to several meetings here in the past and it was because i didn't want to be here but i think that it's time that we control the salaries of our city employees and over time when employees make one hundred twenty thousand dollars a year they get a clothing allowance and benefits for the most part i think they shouldn't be paid overtime that's my recommendation that should be part of their job and if they don't like th this i don't understand that it's got to be controlled somehow someway and i thank you for the time  and something that's bothering me on the hill there is a building on albany street and  concern was not there now article three section fourteen of the new york state constitution says that there is a mandatory three day review period from the time bill hits the floor to the time it should be voted on and that review period is there so assemblyman and state senators can look it over read it and make educated decisions on their votes as a separates a repub a legislature and a republic from a rubber stamp legislature in a dictatorship that votes on wherever wherever their dictator says to vote on that review period was not done based on a message of necessity that was based on a lie our governor stated in a message of necessity that it was to protect our children our first responders and our citizens and which is why i needed to be pushed through immediately yet no other i repeat no other efforts were made to make those children to make those first responders to make those citizens more secure so was it necessary it was three days was it necessary really had to be pushed aside no it wasn't and the people are angry and not the c b s six news did a poll ninety five percent of the people in this area said this law was passed too quickly without adequate review right now fifty two out of sixty two counties in the state have passed resolutions opposing this a fact and asking for recall including schenectady county furthermore two hundred thirty nine municipal governments including the waynesburg and glenville have also passed resolutions opposing this a fact i should say this so called safe because it not that does nothing to do to make us safe i would ask that disconnect the the city we've spoken with the parks department many times and were informed that they were not to be there it is understood that this group is a splinter group of the mainly and has a different president this is not the first issue with the feeling you see the neighbors right to quiet enjoyment of their property being trampled i can list the horror stories and reset the dangerous actions and images over the years but not now so to make it clear this is not singling out any one group some of the council members know the stories and for those who have nothing made where you will be we are not pleased with the rumblings and we are sure that we will be vetoed therefore we prefer to be involved in the solution for this issue a solution offered could possibly be the players would use the field would not encroach in our neighborhood they can access the field by education drive he that either end of the school there is an abundance of parking they must inform off players and all who come to show support that the parking is only a school and continued violations could cause eradication of the permit field access is through again if more than one game is playing on the field at a time then a boundary line of one hundred fifty feet from the fence must be established to ensure no damage from ball hurled over the fence into traffic or on properties all city regulations must be followed all trash and all articles brought in must be taken at the end of the day a porta potty should be installed the president's phone number should be given to a select few in the event of an issue insurance gets damaged in the field and surrounding properties must be provided to the city the city is a business and should be reimbursed for expenses related to the use of the field by the players this is not a sit in front of the event if more than three valid documented complaints occur within the season immediate withdrawal of the player's permit and policing of that draw will be imposed for designing our neighborhoods faith in our right to quite enjoyment our property please listen to our concerns and complaints we are not few we are not going away we pay taxes take pride in our homes and want to preserve our section of the city so we expect the right to quiet enjoyment of our property and we vote the solution president proposes a fair one and should initiate an informative and city of schenectady i support all the local businesses in the city of schenectady i try to help contribute to your economy i like to spend locally but i also like to feel safe in my community in schenectady county i'm a retired military got to hear the first amendment and the freedom of speech in action and democracy is happening here and that's that was very pleasing to me i think that you would agree also that all of our constitutional rights in our civil rights are important they support one another but some of our rights like the second amendment help ensure that the other rights continue unfettered like the freedom of speech and people being able to speak their mind and interact in their community in a positive way what i'm asking the city council to do this evening is to adopt a resolution supporting the second amendment and civil rights for all of the members of this city of skin activity as well as people that come to visit the city of schenectady and you heard a couple minutes ago that the county did pass right solution in march that supported the second amendment in a coast to say fact there's also fifty one other counties that joined with schenectady  county that have done so schenectady is one of the tri cities along with all the ne and troy schenectady s a city of importance it's got a storied history it's a city of influence it's a city of respect and you are the seat of schenectady county i'm asking the city of schenectady or to take a leadership role and also support a resolution to support the second amendment and to oppose the safe fact and january fifteenth that was passed i have no doubt that there were some good intentions with that but the end result of this a fact has gone terribly wrong and it's actually made us all  unsafe than we were before it's essentially targeted law abiding citizens and restricted their second amendment rights to the extent that people are potential felons just by having an additional bullet and their  the rifle than they had before january fifteenth and there's a lot of other examples i know that are running short of time but i very much respect the council i very much enjoy my time in the city of schenectady in the county of schenectady i've been a resident for ten years i'd certainly just summarize please sure i would ask that the council please consider a resolution opposing the say fact and supporting the second amendment there are tonight i really want to acknowledge friend of mine john pelan me any who after he retired came to every committee meeting and every council meeting he always says that in the role right here he really kept track of just about everything john did not speak before the council unless it was a notice concerning the bellevue neighborhood or another very important issue rather he sat and listened intently to everything he became my mentor twelve years ago when i started to call them to these meetings i came with my friend mary since he has moved colony and she you know i did not understand a lot that was gone when i saw mary said let's ask he's always here and so john became my mentor and i will miss him and his counsel to me although i want to add i didn't always agree with john died friday and there is a service at the presbyterian church on lower union street tomorrow night as that was very nice i was struck by the stories the two council members told at the last council meeting regarding cleanup of the city one council member praised the city workers for all the work they did to clean up after the storm of may twenty ninth he said the clane up was a coordinated effort with a full compliment of city workers out on the street at eight p m the night of the storm everything got cleaned up the other council member talked about the trash should removed from the storm drain when she volunteered to clean up the hamilton  neighborhood work done a p m means overtime money storm drains should be cleaned out every week to our regular work out worse was to take over time money to clean up the city the way it should be done last week during the committee meeting the mayor told council that during this time of year people want the grass cut but the city does not have the manpower to do with the to do it and yet there was plenty of manpower to do the necessary work of planning up the storm debris at eight o'clock on may twenty nin where did the manpower come from council owes the citizens of schenectady an explanation how much did it cost the taxpayers and overtime monday to clean up after the may twenty ninth storm thank you thank you once again this is the final time i promise tonight really now we i'm sure you do first and foremost my true sincere condolences for your friend who was a loss to the community truly my wife and i had the opportunity to go last week to the grand opening of the bellevue farmer's market what a fantastic event lot of great people out over that way a lot of great vendors from the area and it was truly a benefit and we look forward to going there on more thursday evenings after we get done with our work day we also have the opportunity to visit the wood groups and wisdom open house which is part of the central state street community of which my wife is the president of the neighborhood association there and got a chance to meet some of the kids who make their efforts known and show known and grown right there at their weird some wisdom garden every thursday i know that they sell some locally grown produce and true locally grown produce which will to some great food over there very healthy food it's not your typical diner fare but has a little bit of a higher let's say more healthier fare if you will and a truly  tasting breakfast that we had over that way i know that tomorrow night there are three neighborhood associations the one of the three one of two excuse me one two three zero nine eastern avenue and central state will be having their picnic their summer picnic over the price chopper community room i'll be looking forward to going to that and seeing some friends and neighbors out over that way also i know misra you have the the proctors event coming up on friday night pink and brew that's going to be if we're going to be enjoy going to that too so we look forward to seeing you there lastly two things wings and swing is also tomorrow night over the moon river caf the city's very own joe sinatra his son joey chris will be out there singing and i've been advised that i'll be singing now there are now two so that will be a lot of fun to go out and enjoy lastly i had the opportunity to weekends ago to go to the american legion college of new york to learn about their leadership skills and more so about american ism and how to help the community and better serve the veterans of our community this weekend is of course the saturday morning breakfast they have we also have a flag drop off for retired flags where people can bring their flags for proper retirement ceremony that's every saturday morning but i'll be out there this saturday the twenty ninth from eight o'clock until ten thirty in the morning people can enjoy breakfast there are great breakfast for five dollars and also  stars for our troops where we take the stars off the flags the embroidered stars to pass them along to our troops that's being done my wife is one of the sponsors of that and people can contact her thank you so much thank you mr call sale of properties and that's something that i think we should make note of every time it happened because is really what i think the mayor has been pushing really hard to do the staff and the council and everybody has been kind of working on this program to sell houses not only is it putting ten properties back in the time actually to help contribute to the expense of the city but we sold them for reasonable you know amounts of money and some of these houses in the past we've had auctions and they've gone to the highest better if the better it was a couple of dollars and that's what it went for these houses are going for thirty thousand and ten times more and their house i mean a lot of work and so in terms of a strategy people talk about what do we want to do in the neighborhoods and i think key to this program is if you take your neighborhood and you are to look at the three or four worst properties in your neighborhood and turn them into the three or four best properties your neighborhood you will you know raise the bar and kind of raise the entire character of the neighborhood and so i think this is really good it's exciting and as far as i understand the backlog continues so every two weeks will be few weeks back to still had it and i think all the neighborhood groups are getting together and doing cleanup in the neighborhood and i want to take note because this is really you know your community is what you make of it and so when people get together to do something of joint purpose like cleaning up the neighborhood or getting together for social activities that's what makes your neighborhood a great neighborhood and so them encourage that and it's glad this i'm really glad to see that everybody is getting together and working towards a common goal there were people talking about tonight at the public hearing the fees in the parking meters and there was both a little bit about the fees little bit about the parking meters and what people wanted and i think that overall it's a great benefit i know for someone who travel on business having the ability use a credit card is key when you come and visit from out of town not everyone walks around with with a lot of quarters and so i think the parking meters it's a good deal in terms of the discussion of who sets the fees there were some good points that were made in terms of who should be controlling that you know granted it's not a huge dollar amount it may not be the largest impact in the city but i understand people's concerns for the balance of power one of the things i'm just kind of thinking of as we're sitting here and we can talk about it in committee in the next cycle is  you know the council could set potentially the maximum fee and if the mayor would have the derogative or the ability to lower on occasion if he felt necessary that way the council still controlling the top the top level  as an idea and again maybe we could have more discussions about it and lastly several other people have mentioned good friend of ours john allen has passed away and i know we don't we don't have favorites but i think it's safe to say th john was probably most of our favorites but i always enjoyed coming in and seeing his smile every week regardless of which monday if it was here or downstairs and he will be missed thank yes i was thrilled that people mentioned john's name because he was first on my list tonight coming into this now there a long ago john was always very encouraging and  also spoke his mind freely which was always appreciated and was just a kind kind person who loved his city loved the city that i love and was a great great citizen and and someone who use their positive energy toward solution driven discussion and i really respected him for that i want to thank everyone that came down to six i think it was just a great slice of democracy and then we had neighborhood associations here cleaning up we had a unique college student that wanted to give back to her community before she graduates and probably will move away move back home to where she came from and we also had in recent weeks you know people come discuss their concerns with us and we were able to work towards solutions for them one of those being the cricket games and it was good to hear the other point of view and that is something we discussed in committee and they have come forth with a proposal of of having some set rules so it'll be nice to continue to have those discussions i want to just touch on a couple of misconceptions one is that  charge everyone coming down to park in shop at our businesses that isn't correct we have hundreds of parking spots that are free in our city lots for up to two hours so although our prime parking for convenience on our main thoroughfares is at a cost something that a lot of city other cities don't do is again we're probably thousands of parking spots that are free to people to come down and shop at our businesses and i think that's a very very important point that i just skip around here because it's my notes i do want to touch on the fact that the bellevue farmer's market in addition to the green market on sunday is now every thursday night another slice of of a community stepping up the green market originally got a federal grant to fund that pilot last year and were not interested it was just too taxing on the organization to continue so the bellevue preservation lee actually applied for the grant themselves is here and they are running it their own and that is a community stepping up in a food desert that needs fresh vegetables and produce such a wonderful thing as three minutes goes we can all see that we had a tremendous amount of people here tonight it was very very warm and uncomfortable in this room and in an effort to make everyone heard and be able to express their opinion i personally think that some time limitation is important but that being said all of us are always available via e mail and phone calls and you can take all of the time that you want and we can discuss the finer points so although the privilege of the floor is somewhat limited that other vehicle is always available to people i also  congratulate schenectady pride in their second annual pride day that was this saturday i was the judge for the pet contest this was a lot of fun and it was just a wonderful event and it was all sorts of people came out to show their support and it was a positive wonderful thing that went on and j street brought people downtown to spend their discretionary dollars and have fun and comradery and celebrate the diverse wonderful world that we are so congratulations on that i'm be honest about a year and a half ago the county designated proctors the tourism promotion agency for schenectady county they did this because there's no funding attached to that so for the last year and a half tractors has poured staff time into that at no reimbursement at all to proctor's because we realize their practice realizes that they are a large draw to people coming into the county and we embrace that with our partners all throughout the county like maybe farm and e c m and my side and all of those things we have proctors developed a website as well as web page and we were tired leslie to promote our businesses and our attractions so mr mclean had the right idea and we've already been doing it for about a year and a half thank you there was talk about the parking meters and there was a comment made basically that we would be increased increasing the number of meters when in fact the way it's the way the red legislation is written will be placing the existing meters so it's not like we're looking all around trying to find places to put new but simply with the with the older meters being replaced with the newer system and you know as as has been said we opened with the reason there is a public hearing is we want to hear what the public has to say and it will begin to take the consideration that if you need to go to the post office for fifteen minutes that you know there will be meters will be such as they are now you can put in a porter i think it is for fifteen minutes and get to fifteen minutes but if you need to stay an hour then you put in four quarter so you know those things are considered in terms of how much money you have to put into the meter i want to thank everyone that came down tonight it is it's really refreshing to see people come we'd like to hear the concerns we also appreciate people coming to say thank you for the things that are going well in the city because a lot of things are going well in the city i'd like to also to congratulate girls incorporated because today they dedicated rededicated a playground it was dedicated to women veterans and they had the ribbon cutting today it's really wonderful says the things that they're doing in the neighborhood to empower girls and also to improve the quality of life in the neighborhood so also with the dog park a real excited about seeing the things that are going on and again that live that in mt pleasant neighborhood association it's just an example of what people are doing to take it upon themselves to further improve indeed if our beautifier our community it's all of us working together to get it done that's what it takes so we really appreciate all the efforts and look the city will continue to work with these organizations as they move forward thank you very much it's called kids learn to fish and is sponsored by the clearwater chapter of trout on limited they'll be at schenectady central park at the fishing dock next to the stone bridge kids between five years and twelve years old and they must be accompanied by an adult to watch over them it's going to be tuesday and wednesday mornings and they'll be three sets of tuesday and wednesday still lying ninth and tenth july sixteenth and seventeenth july twenty third and twenty fourth so when they sign up and i'll tell you where they can sign up they can pick one session one tuesday or wednesday and they can sign up at the following locations gold stocks sporting goods and freeman's bridge road tailor and vatanen sporting goods at the five corners up on broadway worm bait supply and route fifty central park and ministration offices that are near the dock so they'll supply the bait and the gear but they also can bring their own gear if they like so bart's done a wonderful job and he's a great person for the community i give them all the accolades in the world and this is great for them for our community i was kind of taken aback by one of the speakers that i guess we should have maybe snow storm sand maybe tornadoes coming through during only daylight hours when people are getting straight time i don't understand even what that supposed to mean but all i can say is i'm aghast by hearing something like that the figure i got from carlos on the total was around ten thousand dollars and let me tell you something maybe that speaker didn't go through the neighborhoods hoods and saw the destruction that was done for that to be done for around ten thousand dollars is amazing but whatever the cost it had to be fixed we couldn't just leave it there we couldn't leave power lines down in trees down and people not be able to navigate the streets so i swear that sometimes i'm not going to answer some things that are set up here but those things have to be answered because it makes no sense to me if it makes sense to me i won't say anything but it makes no sense whatsoever yes it be nice if we can have these tragedies and snowstorms so whatever the events are on regular time but it doesn't happen that way in the real world i'm afraid so we have to pay overtime and we may not like it but we have to pay overtime so what that the other thing the reverend adams is bringing up some good points and i would really like to see us it's great with the neighborhood cleanups the communities working together and with this storm it showed when people come together a lot of things can get done the thing that i'd like to see get done is to have a panel empowered to discuss some of the quality of life issues that every going through in the city of schenectady i would like to see the mayor either appoint a panel or the city council we can appoint a panel of community leaders to put our heads together and see what we can come up with to deal with some of these issues the warm weather is here and some of the problems are here fortunately jerry pearl park and i spoke to the commissioner about it and i saw that chief bill call and sent an e mail today people shouldn't be awakened at  stay awake until one or two o'clock in the morning listen to the people fighting breaking bottles and causing distractions the curfew in our parks is nine o'clock that's it it's nine o'clock nobody belongs in the parks after nine o'clock i don't care where the park as it's burrell park if it's fairview park hilary's park central park quackenbush park wherever that is nine o'clock the cutoff we can allow this nonsense that has to stop people have a right to live in peace they're paying taxes they're living in these neighborhoods they have a right to enjoy the peaceful and the tranquility that can we can have in our neighborhood so i would really like to see us put our heads together and have a a community panel put together to discuss somebody says shoes and maybe some solutions to these issues because i think reverend adams and i'm sure he could be a good member to help us with this because i think it's well needed and again unfortunately with the nice weather and no rain while the other problems come along with it and this is all part of having a nice community to live and people to buy homes here and want to live here so i think we need the whole ball of wax to make everything work so i'd like to see that happen and  thank you just in the parking meters the rates have not been set in the way that legislation is proposed to the scenario as the mayor is that me my original concept would probably be to have  the police chief or the commissioner finance review the rates and put some flexibility in it the city council the mechanism by which changes rates is to go through committee call for a public hearing have the public hearing than act on something it's a slower process in with these new pay stations we will have a lot more imperiled data in be able to better manage the parking resources so yes should some spots be more expensive should we give away parking as a part of a promotion yes those are all scenarios that i believe we should look at and under the current legislation we have to go to the city council again to review it to call for a public hearing to have the public hearing then act on it it is a slower process and i believe it doesn't allow us to have that flexibility to again manage the  resources to their optimum so i look forward to the discussion with the council as we put in the initial pay stations and how do we format that in terms of making it user friendly and  of people come here for different reasons john was always well thought in his position he researched things he never tried to embarrass people never tried to grandstand in he always appreciated when he took a position or was asking for something to be done because he had sought it out wanted to do something that reflected well on him and wanted to reflect well on the community so it's really a loss and again extend my sympathy to his family and friends thank you thank you mr mayor first of all i want to thank all the speakers who did come down tonight speaking to the public hearings i think someone mentioned it was hot it was noisy glad to have not just the public speakers come down but the folks from the neighborhood associations and all of the you that come down on a regular basis and really try try very hard to help the city of schenectady as much as you do and it truly is appreciated certainly by myself and by the rest of the council  certainly i i certainly want to add to my condolences to john paul and meet his family as long as i've been on the council he's always been here he's been one of the most kindest first class gentleman that has associated themselves with our local government for such a long time and when i heard eunice do that really nice tribute to him tonight i know exactly what you mean about being a very helpful gentleman because to any of us who were in all of us who came in his new council people john paul and me he was always there with a smile or the pat on the back of it didn't go that well he was just that kind of gentleman to other people to  i'd like to mention tonight that that have recently passed and certainly a tragedy within their family but patrimony who was a long time worker in this connected well over thirty years and he was always the one who would probably pretty much organize the snow pick up and everything is done here we had been with the city very long time recently retired passed away at a relatively young age and then a week later his mom died so the family has been through quite a bit long time city residents all of them contributing members to the city as connected and certainly our supporters so my hearts and thoughts and p connected to achieve that educational honor is really something and it just goes to show how far we've come as a city with our municipal workers education has become a marking point for many many people so he and his family should be very proud as much as we are with him for the rest of the city and with that i want to wish the mayor a good trip bring us all back something to look wooden shoes i'm not sure  said hello i went a few years ago and it was great it's totally amazing so i'm sure have a wonderful time and the people there are so welcome me and love to have people from the city there wish everyone a warm comfortable dry rest of the week probably not going to happen but i'll say it anyway and we'll see in two weeks motion to adjourn so moved and seconded i was in favor s