amending article six of the charter city of schenectady regarding assessment of taxes ok's for final consideration and this was discussed in committee without objection on consent number two and ordinance amending chapter one fifty six seven point one and leading chapter one twenty one dash four of the code of the connected as it relates to open fires again discussed at length in committee  well it's already been taken out of committee ok number two will be a roll call number three it resolution approving the amendment of agnes tree in the city of schenectady again discuss the committee without objection on consent number six for original consideration and resolution to the city hall room one o five j street or get visions to the charter one forty four of the code of the city is going to be regarding regulations of dogs within the city limits again just calling for a public hearing without objection on consensus number eight a resolution calling for a public hearing on tuesday may twenty ninth two thousand and twelve at laws regarding medical hospitality house again this is just calling for a public hearing up excuse me on the twenty ninth without objection on consent amber eight will appear number nine to chapter two to four of the color of the city is going to be regarded as soliciting ok again this was discussed in committee without objection calling for a public hearing on the twenty ninth number nine will appear on the consent agenda number ten a resolution authorizing the city askin if you can enter into a contract with the city of albany as a sub grantee to purchase equipment technology and services pursuant to the i e c g p f y o not ok again this is discussed in committee in public safety this is i believe it's the grant without objection our consent different cash back or even in addition to reduced electricity rates and so i like a little more time to do a little more research and get alternative proposals and then put this back  and i think generally speaking the solar panel system is a good idea i just would like a little time to have an opportunity for a better option i mr erickson you're going to keep it ministration in the loop about this absolutely ok that number resolution authorizing merit to appoint three individuals to the downtown it's connected improvement corporation ok again discussed in committee without objection on consent number twelve all pure on consent number thirteen of entries pillars at riverside park ok again this was discussed in committee without objection number fifteen will appear on the consent agenda number sixteen sixteen has been ruled removed from the agenda by mr post ok number seventy seventeen and a resolution authorizing the settlement of taxes surely concerning the property located at four fifty five or fifty seven fourth street and this one again we discussed it in committee and i asked several questions at the end after that committee meeting i did some more research and this is for a pumping station that's on washington avenue over near sketchy cute community college and this current set up was installed eighty or ninety years ago and since it was installed a lot of things have changed in that area we have some recent development but sketchy community college was it was installed before a c c was there was installed before it ninety was there and so my concern is the ground water the flow of water you know that has changed since this thing was installed right now there are three pumps there are large transformers in the building and before we go down the path of you know replacing the store transformers this year for three hundred sixty thousand and then you know so many years down the road of course we have to replace the pumps and to maintain the building  this could end up being a large investment and my thought is sometime the last ninety years things have changed which would require us to or allow us to be modify the solution we have there for dealing with the water there parking area you know in their land and technology in terms of pumps and horse powers and  i am laughing for roll call because of this i think enough things have changed that i would like to have some type of study done that would at least confirm it it might come back up and say yup what you're doing is great but i want to make sure before we spend three hundred sixty thousand dollars that unanimous consent resolution probably made fourteenth two thousand and twelve as crossing guard appreciation day in council member poor fields are going to read that great very happy that those crossing guards are here tonight we have the opportunity to honor them so also take that out of order anything else to come before the city caucuses evening seeing nothing i will do here caucus closed and move on to city council meeting for may fourteenth two gracious god we give you thanks for this day we give you things even for the rain that make things go all remind us of your showers a blessing upon each one of us all members of the counsel for the president denise we pray that you will give a special blessing tonight give a grace to guide this meeting to give her even string to smile even when there is so much challenges before her we give you thanks for who has this wonderful calling and quiet confidence to lead th to make it a better place for all of us and we give you thanks for all the citizens who are gathered here to express our opinion to share their concern help us to listen to each other we patients and compassion sang upon each one of us a blessing tonight and make us a blessing to others and if you are in your green with this prayer will you say sea and the first is a resolution applauding those individuals who helped with the cleanup of wild from park in the city of schenectady please come forward so we can honor you with the recognition s a tough one whereas lisa ignacio is a schenectady city school district bus driver whose route includes wallingford park in the city and where as several passengers along determined that the park was in need of a springtime cleanup and they organized and set aside saturday april twenty eighth two thousand and twelve as park cleanup day now there for be it resolved that the mayor and the city council pause in their deliberations to recognize and applaud the civic spirit and community involvement of rick lynn casey lorraine walker carlia walker rebecca agnostic si most of all i want to give the greatest things to these kids that encouraged me and stepping out to clean this park and while i was on my bus route thought about the word encourage and is the root word of courage and you've been really courageous and stepping out to take responsibility for community in cleaning it up and saying that we want to be a part of the solution here in our city and not a part of the problem i want to thank the city for cooperated with the youth of our city and thank you for giving me the opportunity to step forward and do it with these kids and i also want to thank my bus company durham who gave a lot to feed them after the cleanup and also some sunni albany students for that the city brought over to help clean up and fight us with tools so thank you and also to price chopper shoprite and his own hospitality also for helping to feed them so thank you very much we also look forward to doing more they have a lot of concerns for our parks as we know with child obesity we're looking for saving clean parts so we're going to be hunting for grant money and business owners who would like to contribute and bringing good things to our city parks see and you come back thank you all very much a this is crossing guard appreciation day please come forward our crossing guards you have the floor thank you first of all i am i really appreciate community and government cooperation in your community recognized so i'd like to think first of all tim sam tyler because he brought it to me that he thought so much of the job that you do  wanted to give you this resolution so i have him to think it's well whereas may first two thousand and twelve has been declared crossing guard appreciation day and whereas millions of children all over the nation walk to school every day and where as each and every school day thousands of dedicated individuals home we call crossing guards spend countless hours assisting our children across busy streets and intersections as they arrive and depart from school and whereas we recognize the hard work and dedication of the many crossing guards that ensure a safe journey to and from school for millions of children every children every day and whereas we realize that crossing guards often encountered dangerous and hostile situations while diligently performing their duties now therefore be resolved that the city council hereby recognize and thanks those thank those parties volunteer to be crossing guards and proclaims may fourteenth twelve as a crossing guard appreciation day and urges all citizens to recognize each and every crossing guard for their important work madam president move this resolution ok the resolutions been moved and seconded by mr king all those in favor crossing guards congratulations and i have a long list here of crossing guard so i'm going to try to get your names all right ok jimmy lee williams michael frazier david easter tony roman else they get that right donna ricky stanley all strands are jackie walsh donna norwood dorothy evans michael j webber henry and also each of you will get a certificate of appreciation from the city council we thank you for what you do for keeping our children safe we appreciate that thank you all very much world just to learn if i may as the supervisor parking enforcement we also coordinate all the crossing guards and i can't say enough about the group of people that stand before you because they are out there in all kinds of weather and all kinds of traffic conditions some for as long as thirty five years is that right donna would you go as i think back your donna reed he's been with us for thirty five years doing the same job so these people put their lives on the line every day as you mentioned in the  proclamation they put up with a lot of gruff from the kids and from the parents sometimes but they're out there with a smile on their face doing what they need to do to keep everyone safe and if it wasn't for these individuals out there every day i'm not sure what our intersections would look like i know that we'd certainly have a lot more thank you for your wonderful words and again thank you offer keeping our children safe in schenectady minutes are approved communications invitations email from the woodlawn neighborhood association amounts in their upcoming annual garage sale may nineteenth and twenty and no petitions committee reports are there any committee reports this evening public were there they had opportunity to ask questions review the findings and in the audit and you know i did and there may summarizes even when he has an opportunity to talk at the end but just wanted to  our finances and they checked this out and said we're doing a good job in spite of the pressures of the economy so i'm sure you'll read that people read the paper tomorrow and get maybe some more details but the saying none committee reports are close ok next is privilege of the floor on the legislative agenda i have three people signed up this is on the legislative agenda  ok jason plank percentage and i did she doesn't miss a trick ok the other one is that because a public hearing really decide assessment of taxes which is item number one i'd really didn't understand didn't come up but the question was on page  four six eight adoption a budget you know the current thing is currently right now thirty days but this city council needs at least sixty days to review the budget and you should be a line item should have been scratched out october first and should have been put in september first and then and then and then during the months let's see i don't see it says on it before september tenth of each year the department heads it should be changed from september tenth to august  what's going on with the budget hearing it's more of a transparency item and it should be it should have been done and since it was done tonight it could have been easily changed instead of going on consent agenda there is no reason to not make this little smite will just met again also when i had spoken in january and february with the tax assessments again the claims you have been over the last year and a half to almost two years now to claims you been reducing the developers in the contractors by nearly twenty five to four fifty percent and your taxes if you take a look tonight on some of the claims that you have done tonight there are nearly thirty three to forty percent for do is there tax assessments saying that these developers the property tax assessment is reduced by thirty three percent you're set a precedence and i mean all the other person has to do during the core proceedings of the assessment is to bring these up from the tax  claims you know these these are just some of the things that are going on that people just need to be aware of that you know this is this is tax and this also goes towards the budget you know you're saying you're five million dollars short you  know still owe the city of the school district four and a half million dollars so is that five million dollars at the short last year or is that or is that total of nine and a half million dollars that's a short so these are some of the questions that need to be addressed thank you thank you just for eleven and twenty two actually i will talk about want i think one is good and i think it should be passed as it is i think it's a very good item seven and i talk about because  you're going to have a good dog and that's just that's it we don't need to be chasing people out of the city by putting on another regulation and i'm just going to say that when you have all that public hearing i'm sure you will you'll hear people say that  did that's just ridiculous i mean to put on people in the city of skin equity people love their animals and i'm just going to leave it at that eleven and twenty two are basically the same i've been walking around i've been hearing people talk and you know the situation that the city's in and we all lot of money and both these items you know i have my sort of coming over my house are going to do my house and you know i did it because just you know there's a certain way i could pay it off or i want to do it and both these things are good things but is there a way we can pay this off the pump the thing with the pump station that counts minarik son was talking about you know we don't need that right now we can't afford it we just we just can't do it it's not not a good thing i don't think people on the street like i don't like it and i know the people don't like it because i talk to them and they don't like it at all the solar panels if we could find a better way of doing it and going to bring us in more money i heard a guy in a committee meeting he sounded like you know this is going to be good money money in his back pocket he'll put new solar panels on because you know he's going to make more money it's on the like a real good idea for him well you know i like the city to make more money ok bring more revenue and more tax dollars into the city so if we could do that that would be a good idea my time's almost up so i guess the point is if we can make money that's good but if we're not going to make money it's not time to spend money thank you thank you mr sanders i have no one else signed up for preserve the floor of the legislative agenda so i will declare that closed and move on to our consent agenda blanche booker i would vote yes because of again what we've what we've talked about we've heard from the chief we've heard from several other people in the fire department about what a hazard these things can be in a city that has a lot of old housing stock and it's very difficult for us to measure the size of a fire what a small fire might be to me could be a bonfire to somebody else or vice versa so the difficulty and regulating a size of a fire in someone's backyard or for that matter of fact in someone's front yard because there really is no distinction there i think is is quite the safety hazard so being that said i would vote yes but it looks like we have four nose and three yeses and so the resolution does not carry them all right and we have one more roll call number twenty two that's a resolution authorizing america enter into a contract for the rehabilitation of washington avenue stormwater pump station is king want to speak but has taken i have concerns about delaying this you know we have had two extremely qualified staff people come to us recommending that we move forward with this the mayor has recommended we move forward with this you know i live in the stockade so obviously i know what that's like when that area floods and i know the times at the college when lead had the flooding in the parking lot because the water backs up in there  i know a lot of businesses were impacted by the most recent flood and i just i just i just feel that this is something it's a responsibility that we have talked to commissioner olson and he said eight ninety has nothing whatsoever to do with the water treatment there and i just you know we're talking now also about redevelopment of lower state street so to me we should be doing everything we can to make it safe and you know workable and i just think delaying on this is just not a good thing so i thank  you that we do things in a safe manner but i also think we're talking about an extremely antiquated facility and i think it would be worth a small study to determine whether our needs are equivalent with what is in place in upgrading the system that is in place so i'm absolutely committed to doing the safe thing and moving forward but i also think it's worth a inexpensive study to make sure we're moving forward in the most efficient manner also you know right now we're talking about the situation we are in financially so we want to make sure that whatever dollars we have to spend we spend them wisely so i also agree that it would be worthwhile to spend a little bit of money taking a study to make sure that this is in fact what we need to do and with that and i also let me add to this that this does not mean that we lack confidence in our staff but perhaps that we just need to take one more look at it so that's that's no you know nothing against our staff or partly heads but again i feel we do need a solution here it's just that i'm not sure if the proposed solution is optimal because we're spending this amount of money i've talked to a couple engineers you know kind of just in a inform saying ok explain this to me because i'm not an expert in this type of stuff and there's a sense a lot of changed it wouldn't be expensive would be like two thousand dollars or less just to do a preliminary evaluation by an outside person who is an expert in this in this type of arena and if we're to spend three hundred sixty thousand dollars if that number ends up being three hundred sixty two thousand dollars i don't think that's a significant difference with the assurance that we're doing the right thing if it turns out we can come up with a different solution that's half that price and it's two thousand dollars obviously well spent so with that i also vote no this  pump station and i was told by a couple of people and we have to investigate this that it has nothing at all to do with as c c being in a flood condition so i certainly have some problems with voting yes on this with this kind of expenditure so i agree that a low cost study to be done let us know exactly what's going on there how it can be fixed in a most efficient manner and so no one is in jeopardy that would be up but thinking parker ok well i hear you ones concerns but i have to tell you what i did hear when we heard over and over again from our city engineers and from our water  experts that not only is the pump station affected by the way it works when it's also contained dated by p c p s and if there comes a time when flooding starts in his that station the amount of money that it would cost to clean up p c p s would believe me far surpassed probably by ten fold to three hundred sixty thousand dollars there is development and i can tell you that skanky county community college is built on a flood plain and half of the stockade is partially on a flood plain and we saw what happened this year and we saw with irene and whatever and i want to remind everybody keep in mind that money has already been the weather and how strange it's been and not just in new york state and not just in the city of schenectady all over the nation i would hate to have something like this and have another weather system like we had last year have flooding happen and not only destroy the homes that were destroyed down in the stockade as a result but also the p c p contamination is in extreme danger to the city of schenectady and certainly to the residents so with that i'm voting out it's only myself and council member king and we'll go at this out another way but i would caution people out there that there's there was good reason for our people in the city is connected to recommend this because i can't believe that if there wasn't there would be any other reason for that thank you and will revisit those ok now i need a motion to approve the consent agenda which by council member present seconded by council member king all those in favor of his own agenda passes and now move on to privilege of the floor and firsts and city business in first person i have signed up is tony but know flooding because that's what i was going to talk about tonight a bottom month or two ago i mentioned has anyone checked with our residence down in the stockade in our business is to see if  been paying them i mean i've heard that some of these people aren't getting anything so if they're not and wish to consular the mayor someone would get to mr taco or whomever to see if they could get some help now that's what i heard on that another thing i'm glad to see that we're going after these people are doing when taxes i just want to know how to stake out a whole mr populism before we did i mean we should have had him a long time ago i mean it's a dirty shame i talked a lot of people about this and they said it's a dirty shame that people who paid our taxes all the time have to suffer for what these people are doing great thank you thank you m came prepared today so i don't like you sound like a blue doing it or you you know i've spoken here at the rail multiple times pertaining to like the city's government corruption i'm here today before the council on civil war or to smear the city officials officers but rather inform the public that i've been pilloried constantly by the public and i'm brought up on charges that i'm not even you know automatically like you know punished or like i mean it's  you know the main thing is that i have evidence of this today i brought with me a bunch of certificates at this position that show that multiple arrests that i've been arrested for put in the paper you know we have mr mccarthy who says that he has you know council multiple times and mine realize that mind you that nothing has been done other than a blind eye be turned to everything that i tried to on the veil and the thing is i'm not trying to bash cops although they're profiled and they're picked they're hand picked they look for people that are just bullies and the thing is when they do something and they take an oath to the city to serve and protect us and when they do something wrong they should be reprimanded for what they do and i have came here  mccarthy and said that i would not share my evidence which i actually came here and i tried to get somebody to help me and it's compelling evidence which cannot be refuted you cannot dispute it there's no debate on it and i mean i've been stripped naked pepper spray d in every orifice of my body and i try to keep it p g thirteen even though we're all supposed to be adults here but nobody gets in trouble for it and the most highest paid you know police officer on the skin the police force mr mccracken like literally i have a video of him falsely arrested me pepper spray me making fun of the size of my penis i mean just unbelievable stuff and then when i went to internal affairs about it i was actually told that they would use psychiatric codes of laws that have statutes that would get core orders to put me in psychiatric facilities if i pursued it and he said where's your evidence where's your evidence i have evidence of this in the man said that if i brought the evidence back that he would ball and chain summarizing i'm saying i have evidence and i want to hold the seminar and a lecture at the schenectady public library and i'm going to have a day and i'm going to leave it here in anybody that wants a copy of some of this embarrassing stuff you guys can go home portion of it you're supposed to have affirmative action requirements for both minorities and for a person with disabilities and there hasn't been any and this developer has received multiple several multi millions of dollars of contracts and still  complied with the permit of action or minority requirements for both minority simpers with disabilities we need to in like i've always said as we've got to be able to start creating jobs here locally and we need to start enforcing the current laws that we have already on the books for economic development also in the economic development were required to have jobs set aside for x amount of jobs for the one two three seven neighborhood and also to some most of these grants and so forth are supposed to be within a five percent rate r o i return on investment of the developer and we still haven't even done this all these pilot programs are supposed to have every april first you're supposed to have a resolution or a document stating that developers met these conditions and so forth and you know we have not you keep saying we created five thousand jobs we haven't we've transferred them from all over the place and you've counted them as jobs and they're  not we need to be hold more accountable for these jobs and we need to start creating jobs here locally and if we're going to be given away all this money hundreds of thousands of dollars you know you need to start accounting for the actions and just because you're saying well we're just a it's just a pass through it's actually metroplex now you're responsible for the actions of that grant you're actually receiving it you're just passing the buck off to metroplex and hopefully good news that you can bypass it you know we need to start looking at the things that are going on the county idea in the city idea i mean in march first of the county idea on the same developer was said no i don't want the old d s s build in the county b s because of the taxes are too dang high so the county i did world says fine we'll turn around we'll give it to you well lisa back to you for the two hundred thousand dollars and what that means is that the county idea can you don't pay any property taxes on it i mean you know when you're given these tax breaks and everything else they affect everybody going across the board including the school district who's hurting tremendously on their budgets and so forth and also this city too and then you just said tonight that this was the voice treatment plant was already budgeted in the capital what you're already five million dollars in the hole already in a deficit so that three hundred thousand can be also be a three hundred sixty thousand extract from the five million never meeting telling you that my taxes are too high my house is not worth ninety six thousand one hundred dollars on wasting street when i was no drainage at all i want to say thank you for giving us the dead in science because it comes back on the traffic now today gk the first day they put the signs up traffic was less and that was a blessing thank you welcome the children are safe for now we still don't have no sidewalks no curves no drainage nowhere for i wanted to go and then again might repeat myself  from the last meeting i've been and i prayed to the lord that i didn't win a time when we get snow that there's no danger at the end of the street because there won't be no them for the children so they can be safe and come up with some ideas i have not idea as i did a lot of volunteer work in my lifetime i went through the police academy i did it i know the law the norm might be picked on good evening my name is mary mcclain i live in the city siddle city council open the door where there are remarks store and miscellaneous business at the last council meeting i could have punched holes  everything that was said i'm going to do that tonight but i had to wait three weeks i think miscellaneous business should priests see the privilege of the floor item on the council agenda the people on this side of the railing should have the last word not that side the thinking on council side of the railing is also fundamentally flawed because that is where the privilege is that this council was given the privilege to serve we on this side have the right to be here council members are the employees the taxpayers are the employers and no one should ever forget that furthermore the council president's seat was not intended for proselytizing that has been another fly in the ointment since january first regarding the mayor's comments he said quote there has been a plan in place since april of last year we sold the mayor's car and quote mayor strand's deputy mayor earned thirty thousand dollars a year under mayor mccarthy and step you the mayor was given a salary of ninety five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars ouch that hurts the council president defended the firemen salaries and department had told me that the schenectady firemen suspension plan is the best of any worker in the country and most of them don't live here so much for making policy for fourteen years then there was the clarification for snow removal funds the boat to spend that money showed a contempt for taxpayers dollars regarding the comment about the city cars quote we must show fairness for city employees until public sector workers put as much money into the system as they take out there will be no fairness council could have saved a lot of money this year such as no medical coverage for a part time elected officials not filling the bacon cincy talking to a doctor about the fluoride and so on they did not do it stop spending folks start thinking about lowering taxes thank you robert sanders even mr mayor madam president council members i'm going to talk a little bit about what i talked about before and that was spending ok you know it was just  six years ago i learned how to drive i actually started driving and i bought a car down in new york state option for two thousand dollars i still have that car today now i'm going to where i'm commissioner all someone to buy new vehicles for the city of schenectady and i just looked at the price in committee and i just shook my head because i know the reason why i still got a two thousand dollars car today and i could buy a brand new vehicle is because i can afford two thousand dollars car and it gets me to where i got to go and i don't try too many places but it goes back to the very get thing as you know house is no different than a homeowner you know sometimes you know you could fix or  istead going to find a brand new international truck or whatever it is and you know you've got to get your best buy for your best bang for your buck as the saying goes and that's what we got to do and you know there could be a lot of hoopla a lot of saying and everything but that's what it is mr olsen needs a truck so we're going to get him the best truck he needs and you know whatever it is it's a police car or a fire truck or whatever it is you know the city's going to get whatever has to get well actually that's up to you members but i think that's what you got to do just like the homeowner who needs to put siding not they're going to go out and they're going to find the best site in there is ok because that's where we're at ok and it's like the stockade people choose to live in the stock e and you know with floods they're jumping jacks just got flooded that's not in schenectady but they know that's going to happen ok every year happens i live in woodlawn over a good road in one thousand nine hundred five they tried building  and if you live in willow and you know that's not going to be fixed right away i don't see hundred thousand dollars going over into woodlawn i don't see that happening right away but you know we've got to fix the problem we're in right now is the point i'm trying to make so if you got to a two hundred dollars you know two thousand dollars car to get to around that's what homeowners are going to do so that city council members are going to sit there and say i could do this to make the city balanced their budget but the transformers as all transformers that are of that age were made with b c b s was a standard practice back then so that transformers contain p c b which is perfectly expectable are expected and as far as i understand that they have not lea yet and the concern for replace them and them is that you want to replace them before they leak and so that's as far as i understand that's the situation there is not currently can't tame a nation in there if there is then by all means the the mayor has the option through executive order through emergency to rectify the situation similar we did when we had hurricanes and they were able to expend money without the council's approval and emerges relation but as far as i understand this is not eminent it's just something that's highly recommended that we take care of and i think the other day those transformers need to removed whether we replace them with the exact same thing or something different is i think my concern so i just want to clarify i don't believe there's contamination  anywhere else yes i just want to talk about a couple of organizations you know who are facing some difficult times and i had the opportunity to go to their particular fundraisers and i just want to commend those organizations for  that they had a problem and taking it upon themselves and their members to to do something about that and that was a thing john school they had a fabulous fundraiser really really well attended and in addition to that also the hindu temple something very similar very very well attended so i was really pleased to be able to be there as a council member and to see what they were trying to do to support their own particular organization also you know i always talk about community and community building and how that's like sort of my my theme  for for our next two weeks the theme is to support your neighborhood schools so i just want to remind everyone that tomorrow is the day to use vote for the school board and the polls will be open from nine to from excuse me from n to nine p m and additionally john you jelf he is having a they're doing a farewell for him on the sixteenth from six to six forty five p m they are you know the superintendent or interim superintendent who i think did a fabulous job i've had the opportunity to work with the school system pretty closely and some of the programs that they do so he's leaving us now there is a new superintendent on board but they are saying farewell to him on the sixteenth thank you thank you thank you madam chair i'd like to read the woodlawn neighborhood association annual garage sale will be held this weekend may nineteenth and twentieth from nine a m to five p m permits may be purchased at the snow gas mart twenty five zero seven albany street the corner of route seven for ten dollars for further information please contact ed cocksure at three seven seven eight a one zero so that's a good event bellevue has one also i believe in june but that's a good event for people to support i like to thank the mayor for allowing the department heads when there's any problems and i have to say the department heads of a very good especially code enforcement when something is brought to my attention i can make a direct call instead of going around the ring around the rosy and were able to accomplish something so i thank the mayor john took care of that sign for the gentleman on  sold that's what it takes in the police department very good with the problems that i brought to them so i like to thank you and your staff in the department heads for being cognizant to our problems and addressing them on a good basis and by you allowing i know in the past sometimes that hasn't happened but by you allowing that really makes things a lot easier so thank you both problems that creat nice to have yes just a couple of things i did want to make sure everyone knows that the greenmarket is now outside as of the beginning of may so it's all the way around city hall so that's every sunday from ten a to two p m in addition to that the green market was recently awarded a federal grant which will allow us to open an offshoot of our market in bellevue and that will be starting june seventh every thursday in three to six p m we will be celebrating the opening of the market with a ribbon cutting on june seventh it will be at the corner of broadway and thomson street in the maranatha ministries parking lot so that will be as of june seventh also this past sunday i want to say thank you to the stockade association we were visited by a team of kayakers that are kayaking from buffalo ugly downstate to new york city and they stopped in schenectady for lunch they had a wonderful tour of the stockade we talked about the importance of the waterway in our community they are from the u k so those very very interesting in that you know the stockade association stepped right up to welcome them and give them a walking stockade i also want to commend the hard work of the stockade association as we passed in our committee along with a little bit of help from the county and some maintenance from the city they will be erecting two pillars and riverside which grossly reduce the scope of that project to what i would consider to be a minimum corrective action going over the counter ones will work with you and try and put together something that's acceptable and one sure of the action on the open burning likely nation is to probably direct the fire department still extinguish open fires that i've seen some personally that people consider a little outdoor fire where the flames have been in excess of six or seven feet in the air and it clearly creates a hazard and so i again would like to work with the council to resolve something that sends a message that we're serious just a couple things vince thank you for announcing the woodlawn neighborhood association they asked me to as well so it's a great event and one of the unique pieces of it this week and they're going to be hosting a lot of the garage sales certainly in the neighborhoods but also at the old woodlawn pool site so if you haven't seen it in a while and you have the opportunity please get up there because these guys have done an amazing job with cleaning up that area volunteers on their own much of the money that is collected up there that day for those vendors there will go directly back into the rehabilitation of the park so he'll certainly be making getting some good stuff and also you know one person's junk is a no other person's treasure and you'll also be contributing to that neighborhood into the park that's been so beloved by so many people and really the individuals that have worked on that have done an amazing job thus far i asked this week to i spoke to a few people from the city talked at length with mr waterford from the tax collection and also with the mayor in terms of you know what we can do as far as helping our city along and i have to say i mean we have almost the city has almost ten million dollars on collective taxes that's businesses in residences and one of the things that we talked about is actually publishing the names of those top offenders of the businesses in other residences as well and probably we'd like to be looking at you know when we pay quarterly so probably anywhere between five quarters and up to up to that three year point because once it hits three year there's foreclosure comes in now what's one of the reasons for doing it one of the reasons for doing is making folks aware and if anyone looked in the paper last week glenville had a v m from new york state that was talking to people exactly about those foreclosure problems how can we help solve them let us know let the city know before it gets out of hand when you start to get six quarters behind it starts to be a danger that's half or half a year away from being foreclosed on if we can concentrate as a council as the administration and i like the other thing that you said mr reagan about having the cooperation of the administration because i don't want ever the council to view the administration as something we need to be against or not with in vice versa because we are not going to solve this problem without the work of each other in working with each other so i would ask all of you if you have questions about things that are going on in the  city things that come up on our legislative agenda that you don't understand or you want more explanation from i have never gotten a return phone call from department heads they're very very helpful let's please continue to reach out to them get the information that we need because you're giving it to us in this is i think the example that mccarthy's administration is looking to set we're looking to see a new way of doing business in part of that is going to be you know all of  trying to come to ways to how do we collect that two million dollars what are some ways of doing it and you know put our heads together and take suggestions from other people whether it be robo calls to these people over and over and over again because they're still motors in the cities connected a way that aren't paying their taxes now some of it might be as a result of ill health unemployment some it might just be because they don't want to pay their taxes and if that's the case all of us that are taxpayers in this city of schenectady are basically being stolen from as the city of schenectady is and we need to look at it in some respects and not meander and really  the effort to find new ways to get these on collected taxes from the businesses that sometimes hide behind corporation behind corporation young corporation but i think if we put a concerted effort towards that that's go be a great step towards dick taxes being collected and bringing more revenue into the city i mean we can talk about austerity budgets but didn't who work too well for the country of greece as you can see is that the staff that the in so i think in terms of investment in our city and really looking towards new ways to collect to collect this revenue and to put forth an effort towards that and i'm through our proselytizing so with