right and i call the city council caucus to order if the clerk would read the first item for original consideration or final consideration having item number one for final consideration in ordinance a sixty four of the code of the city of schenectady with regards to our three density and site plan review requirements this is been discussed in committee without objection on consent item number two i did number two for objection on consent item number three item number three a resolution honoring saunters fine jewelry right this one will be taken out of order and this president will present that leap ok item number four resolution commemorating small business saturday this also will go out of order mrs brecker will present that one item number five a resolution celebrating america american made matters also out of  number six item number six under contract in supplier resolution awarding a contract for the purchase of cabin chassis with air compressor and dump body with these a legend to h l gage sales inc in the amount of eighty nine thousand nine hundred  three dollars also discussed in committee without objection on consent item number seven item number seven a resolution awarding contracts for the purchase of a well field water supply generator as follows contract one g general in the amount of one hundred twenty one thousand nine hundred dollars to v m jr companies l l c and contract one a electrical in the amount of four hundred fifty eight thousand four hundred nine dollars to schenectady hardware and electric company also discussed in committee without objection consent then item number eight item number eight a resolution accepting title to ten eighteen will it st consisting of s b l forty nine point four there for dash seven from the schenectady urban renewal agency this was also discussed in the claims committee this evening without objection on consent item number nine item number nine a resolution authorizing the transfer title to ten eighteen will it street consisting of s p l forty nine point four seven dash for dash seven also discussed again in claims tonight without objection on consent item number ten item number ten a resolution accepting title to harrison avenue consisting of s s b l forty eight point eight three dash to dash three five point one one from schenectady urban renewal agency discussed in claims without objection on consent and item number eleven item number eleven a resolution authorizing the transfer of title to harrison avenue consisting of s b l forty eight point eight three day to day ash three five point one one again discussed in claims without objection on consent all right if there is nothing else to come before the city council caucus on attain a motion to adjourn mr brady seconded ministry erikson all in favor i right now call the city council meeting to wisdom and knowledge of all understanding of god as we go through these trying times now largely on a guest in this house touch our minds our hearts give us was a bit knowledge and understanding as we come together to be agreeable right we have three out of order resolutions so we'll start with a resolution honoring stephens began her journey to becoming one of the most successful women business owners in philanthropists in the capital region and whereas opening her own store she broke into a male dominated industry breaking the glass ceiling that often exists for women jewelers and whereas in addition to owning and operating side a prominent business in schenectady in street business district has become a major supporter and fundraiser for thousand toys for the u s marine corps toys for tots program raising money for family and child services of schenectady collecting bedding and paying one hundred percent of the value of collected gold for the annual sweet dreams event now foundation donating approximately six thousand dollars worth of jewelry supporting ellis medicine making twenty five thousand donation twenty five thousand donations breast cancer awareness in two thousand and twelve co sponsoring hospitals day at the northeast northeastern new york twenty seventh annual women in the cheeseman and reach awards event for her unrelenting passion for helping others and for maintaining a small business that gives things of our very own inner city mission the aids council of northeastern new york the legal project for women and children who can afford legal aid and the women's employment and resource center i think it's fitting that i make a motion of my life my son anthony who now woman own jewelry stores now woman owned with the vice president was the man and he keeps me going for he told me not to retire some very lucky to have my son with me and i just want to invite you all to come out on november thirtieth we have a wonderful event coming we're going to land a helicopter at l t skrill for toys for tots and it's going to be fabulous we're going to stuff the truck i november thirtieth the need is great this year we need over two hundred thousand toys will be traveling with the united states marine corps from here to port henry and from here all the way to binghamton so we beg you to come out bring it to i tell your friends go back to work we believe every child needs a little something this holiday season no matter whether they believe in hanukkah or kwanzaa or just jolly st nick and your humble me for this award i asked just that you pray for my health that i can continue to give back to what the good lord has given us for sixteen years and it's an honor to be in front of you madam president our wonderful mayor and all the distinguished members of council thank you very much and thanks for all the good work that you do all right the next out of order resolution is a resolution commemorating small business saturday madam president i'm here to present this resolution like to call up all those people for this small business and ciliated will small business saturday  this is a resolution commemorating the small business saturday whereas the government of the city of schenectady celebrates our local small businesses and the contributions they all make to our local community in economy in whereas according to united states small business administration there are currently twenty eight million small businesses in the u s representing more than ninety nine percent of the american companies they create two thirds of the net new jobs and they generate half of the gross domestic product and whereas small businesses employ one half of the employees in the private sector in the united states and whereas eighty nine percent of consumers in the us agree that small businesses contribute positively to the local community by supplying jobs generating tax revenue and whereas eighty six percent of consumers in the us have small businesses in their community that the consumers would sincerely miss if  small business closed and where as ninety three percent of all consumers in the us agree that it is important for people to support the small businesses as they value in their community and where as ninety percent of consumers enid states i hope are all getting the stats down in the united states are willing to pledge support for a buy local movement and whereas the city of schenectady supports its local businesses and are willing to pledge their support for a buy local movement and whereas a city of schenectady i just said that and whereas the advocacy groups in public and private organizations across the country have endorsed this saturday the saturday after thanksgiving as a small business saturday now therefore be it resolved that the schenectady city council does proclaim november thirtieth two thousand and thirteen saturday as small business saturday in urge all city residents in the residences of local communities across the country such as support their small businesses their merchant says on small business saturday and throughout the year madam chair or madam president and with a resolution i seconded by mr erickson all in favor i gradua thank you certainly the upper union street business district is all about small business we've got a couple of national chains we've got a mcdonald's and we've got a burgers but mostly we have some just fine jewelry and head to tail pet well this and fairy formals and scotty's restaurant in the union cafe and muslims and simon zz all small businesses pretty much all the owners are there in the business and are our  slogan this year is going to be but shop local shop or union street just behalf of downtown schenectady also want to echo some of the things that mel said about the the wonderful things that you can get the experiences that you can have when you shop in independent small business we've got a lot of great ones down here j street aviary boulevard so come down check out our businesses morning if you could all just want to tell everybody watching also that for the fourth year in a row in downtown we'll be having the holiday shopping pass program that will launch on small business saturday nov thirtieth we've got twenty businesses and counting signed up to participate so if you shop between november thirtieth and december thirty first at one of the participating businesses spend one hundred  fifty dollars combined or more you can then turn in your card to win some great downtown prizes just another way to encourage people to support small business in schenectady so thank you ok and the last out of order resolution as the resolute resolution celebrating american made matters day the sporting field madam president you have a resolution celebrating american made matters day whereas november nineteenth two thousand and thirteen has been declared as the first annual american made matters day and where as american made matters has been declared because of the positive impact that american manufacturing has on jobs and local communities the united states economy products safety the environment in the future of america and whereas on the nineteenth two thousand and thirteen schenectady are encouraged to at least one american made products to show their support for american manufacturers and whereas in order to further celebrate the importance of america american made american made movie a documentary examining american american manufacturers positive impact effect excuse me on the u s economy and society will be screened at proctor's on january twenty first two thousand and fourteen and whereas in conjunction with the movie screening the city working with various stakeholders in local manufacturing development and the labor movement will discuss these serious issues in a series of discussions before and after the movie now they are therefore be resolved that the city of schenectady does here by proclaim november nineteenth two thousand and thirteen as american made matters day in the city of schenectady and be a further resolve that the city council encourages all to buy american made and take part in this historic event madam president let's move the resolution aright is there a second mrs bracher all in favor i and i'm so impressed with us i want to thank the city of schenectady i think it's wonderful to recognize the value that having at least some manufacturing in the united states especially for us where i'm in  a from tough traveler where in the textile field which is really we've been devastated and it's just wonderful to have the city i want to thank you very very much i think it's wonderful thank you thank you  all right now move into public hearings if the clerk would be the first public hearing public hearing number one relative to a proposed local law regarding floodplain management which would allow schenectady residents to continue participating in the national flood insurance program right i have no one signed up to speak to that public hearing so i'm going to declare that public hearing closed public hearing number two public here number two has a public airing relative to the proposed two thousand and fourteen d s a day budget again i have no one signed up to speak to that can't communications and petitions communications presented to the city council for tuesday nov twelfth two thousand and thirteen under the category of official a letter from olson commissioner of general services recommending the award of purchase for furnishing cabin chassis with the air compressor and dump body with diesel engine two thousand and fourteen two h l gage sales also a letter from paul a fond director of water and wastewater recommending the two thousand and thirteen well field water supply generator installation contract to be awarded to schenectady hardware and electric of schenectady new york in v m jr companies l l c of glens falls new york under general there are none and there are no petitions right we'll move on to committee reports  during the budget hearings my colleagues and i talked about speaking more to recycling it's been something that i have stood up numerous times encouraging residents to do my offer still stands that i will bring recycling stickers to their home for them if they would get some containers and start to recycle and so i know we'll be talking about that more than going forward but i do want to call people's attention to the fact that there is a forum on monday november eighteenth it's called trash talk and of course that happens in this room but this time it's going to happen as county community college from seven to nine p m in the stockade building room one  two the presenters include john watch debbie jackson and dan kurtz various people that are very involved in the recycling process in schenectady and beyond so i encourage everybody to get out to that and as always i encourage people to recycle and i'm looking forward to more robust conversation along those lines as we go forward in two thousand and fourteen thank you and the other committee reports  and they're fully engaged into fundraising to do the renovations that have been spoken about earlier so i know that there are some folks who are interested in becoming involved so they can if they would email me or call i can give them the information of the secretary who is lori bachelor door but i just want folks to know that throughout the winter they will be working on fundraising and actually selling bandanas for folks who have dogs or want to do it as a gift thank you thank you mr erickson thank you edge but i make a quick comment the number six on the agenda here with the the cabin chassis with air compressor dump body diesel engine this is something that was up before for correctly so again i want to thank him for could take another look at this you know slowing down the specification minimizing the options or acquired and you know it's progress or making making a good way in terms thank you claims committee one little let everybody know we've been meeting regularly we met tonight to to accept a purchase offer sun city property so that's a good thing and they're going pretty well secondly we've been discussing negotiations with the county on the the stairs of the pending lawsuit about making the county all for taxes for two thousand and twelve and thirteen and i'd like to ask the clerk if he would get on the agenda to invite the county representatives to to one of her committee cycles because that was asked of the committee a couple of cycles ago to discuss this with them because i think that's very necessary and i'd like to have that done thank you thank you anyway that's all right then we will move on to privilege of the floor related to the legislative agenda i have one person signed up and that's i want to say that congratulations to all of the candidates for their win and i'm glad to see that you have back in your seats and hoping that we're going to be doing some very good business  really start coming out and participating and wanting to have the a voice is heard to try to change some of the dynamics here in schenectady tenets and landlords i'm told that enforcement can't legally enter an apartment without permission from either the tenant for the landlord then how can there be a prosecution how can it be protection for the tenets of these landlords post their  request access so the property it should be lawful how else can you find out about these lay lords  and they're presenting the the property to the public no landlord should be able to show a property to a prospective tenet that's not under code landlords  being behind several months in taxes shouldn't be able to show property to prospective tenants i got a call this weekend about a property of a couple of properties as a matter of fact where the landlord is saying to the tenets attached to this particular tenet if you want to rent this property i'm not going to change some of the appliances that are broken and i'm renting my apartment for seven hundred ninety dollars that is outrageous no landlord she'd be able to show a property that has  damaged goods in the property like the fridge or rater the stove all of these things should be repaired if you're going to be showing people our place to live at ok at the other tenants damaged it is your responsibility as a landlord to fix that the fix whatever needs to be done because no one wants to live over somebody else's problems that may have came when they were there as a landlord services are gone not because a lot of people want to get to the church and not because the streets blocked cut off it's not right to the people i want to go to church  i can't see why they can't do the running in the afternoon and we need to fix up the street sidewalks and potholes everywhere my message is that you know i have sued the city for twenty six years as a police officer four years in the air force as a vietnam veteran thirty two years in a strat international guard base representing on my city my stay in my country so good my message is simple and two fold take a stand i know i know these people are acting like bullies as far as i'm concerned your so called leaders and you should be afraid to take a stand you know s  have many talents and abilities many of us want to work at least do some pov form a part time work a gang graduations everybody thank you we're with it so let's i would hope that we would get christmas back and i know we have santa claus and all that but i think the word christmas should be there secondly i notice is going to be to death for years but what happened is past election was just terrible i mean here's a made him he got elected he got the most votes yes but he lied on his resume telling people that he didn't want to say where he worked because his boss you want to say where he got his degree from i mean if he's lying to the people before the election what's he going to will be here with us i don't know if you people can do anything about it i doubt it but i'm just a lot of people have come up to me believe me a lot of people come up to me they are not happy with a person like this line believe me thank you thank you i good evening my name is mary mcclain i live in the city my comment tonight's my comments tonight are in regard to the twenty fourteen budget council members who received medical include low income status for house taxes and some city officials enjoy lots of parks medical coverage for part time elected officials should have been her minute lately removed from all future budgets the medical coverage item makes people do desperate things this was the year to have changed it because there is a correlation between the council se that has remained vacant for the past fifteen months and the medical coverage line item council knows it and they should have made provisions so that the situation would never happen again in this city the taxpayers of schenectady are taken for bunch of pat seats conditions can only get worse on nov fifteenth four thousand one hundred fifty five voters turn the city over to the unions and now it's payback time brace yourself folks for trainwreck you'll tax your taxes will never go down thank you thank you all right i have no one else signed up so i wi have a couple of announcements that i'd like to make first of all the hamilton hill arts center is having their annual fundraiser this coming thursday the fourteenth at five thirty p m it's going to be a key haul and tickets are seventy dollars so we encourage folks to support that additionally on tuesday they were nineteenth at proctor's the fillmore gallery from six thirty to nine p m is going to be a film presentation of a place at the table  this film shows us how hunger and obesity pose serious economic social and cultural implications for a nation and how food access issues could be resolved once and for all if the american public decides this is sponsored by the league of women voters it's something that has been put on by end poverty and other groups but we're putting it on continually because there really needs to be some attention brought to this issue this particular  going to make our community a better place and that's really what we count on so i again small business owners i think work harder than anybody else out there there you know up early in the morning they're working late at night they're working weekends expression the retail business i think it's a  job and so i commend them i also wanted to you know thank you for coming tonight you know his comments and terms of negative campaigning i agree with you know maybe a higher level lections if you're running for governor or you're running for president say well hey that's part of politics but in the local elections i think the harm that it does is it scares people away from taking our jobs that scares people away from doing what we do you have to have thick skin run for city council this is not a full time job it's a part time job we do it because we care and i think that doing some of the negative campaigning make people think twice before participating in serving in government local government so i want to thank him for bringing that up and i agree with him on that and lastly remember talked about attendance organization and you know the permission for a landlord or by a tenant to let the city in to do the inspections you know i would encourage all tenants if they're concerned with their apartments or before they rent an apartment to call the city and say is this apartment certified as it passed has it in good condition in the city can provide that information and before they move in or before they give a downpayment or deposit they should check it and i think it's a good way to go because again it's about safety it's about quality of apartments and i think if people did that we would see the quality of some of the apartments improve so again i want to thank you for your efforts and that's  just a very quick announcement apparently november fourteenth is a busy night because i think this is the third time the dates come up tonight but the greenmarket will be holding their harvest dinner at riverstone manor it's at five thirty p m tickets are fifty dollars a very reasonable price so encourage people to come out and support greenmarket i know that i mentioned it last time but i'll mention it again the green market is now inside for the winter and the people that work on the weekends are happy about that thank you thank you yeah you're bringing up some good points and i think as mr erickson said the imperative that the people who are looking to run should check with the city but also the idea of the rental certificate program that they're trash day changes in the parts of mt pleasant and all of bellevue it went from friday till today and people just you know when one person puts their trash on the wrong day it looks like everybody follows suit and that was very windy friday and over the weekend it was pretty much a mess we had a chit tells ring some doorbells and let people know it wasn't the right day and to pick up their trash so if people would just pay more attention to the trash schedule if they don't have it is available online for them to download but now with thanksgiving coming up with christmas coming up with new years it could be an ongoing problem so people would just really pay a little more attention remember generally if it's a holiday in the banks are closed the city's closers no trash pick up i think there are some communities that pick up through holidays but we don't so it does make we have enough mess in the city we don't need anymore so people would just pay more attention and if we could just spread the word city of schenectady consolidated plan this is that just an intent of this notice is to inform citizens of the city of schenectady that the city's caper which is the annual performance and evaluation report on the community development block grant the home investment partnerships program and the emergency solutions grant programs for the fiscal year two thousand and twelve is available for review and comment in the department of development between the hours of nine and five before submission to the department of housing and urban development on november fourteenth a summary of the caper is available at the city's website and copies are also available for review at the public library the city clerk's office of the city hall at carver community center and the schenectady municipal housing  building there is also a public hearing tomorrow evening in room one ten downstairs at six p m on the two thousand and twelve on the performance of these programs so if anybody is interested and wants to comment this is the opportunity to do that and