don't number two i don't number two for original consideration inordinate ordinance changing the zoning district four eight seven knots three introduced only with a resolution calling for a public hearing on the above proposed committee without objection on consent i am before i don't number for a resolution adopting the final twenty thirteen that's twenty fourteen consolidated plans salsas been discussed many times without objection on consent catherine fuller discussed in committee without objection on consent and number seven i don't number seven a resolution authorizing the hearing of the title of twelve thirty first avenue consisting of tax parcel number four nine point three discussed in the claims committee without objection on consent item number thirteen i don't number thirteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or sherry concerning a property located at five to two manhattan street also discussed in claims  objection on consent and on the fourteenth i don't number fourteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or sherry concerning a property located at two forty two mcallen street discussed in claims without objection on consent i number fifteen i don't number fifteen a resolution authorizing the settlement of a tax or sherry concerning for a union street also discussed in claims without objection on consent and a number sixteen i am number sixteen resolution settlement of a claim with reuben j campolo for the amount of three thousand five hundred thirty eight dollars and twenty seven cents also discussed in claims without objection on consent i remember eighteen a resolution recognizing nineteen under contract and supplies a resolution authorizing the award of three contracts for the twenty thirteen w p c p d watering centrifuge also discussed in committee without objection on consent and item  i'll call the city council meeting for july twenty second twenty thirteen to order and ask you to rise for the invocation from reverend reverend parsons from concentration camp surely goodness and mercy just follow me all the days of my life and i will welcome the house of the lord for i have probably come tonight asking you lessons over not only this council but over our city a measure of the lord to feed the mind about leaders of this town and feed the minds of the people that live with it cover us with your community for his love of children and devotion to making the belmont pop warner football program a success and whereas for more than forty five years george rose was was involved in the program never missing a single pop warner season not even after he had a stroke in one nine hundred eighty six and whereas mr rose believes believing that adults must instill values in our youth has become legendary in the community for his decades of volunteer service and distinct inner city children and whereas goodwin a proud mother of five is committed to youth in our community and has by example taught them the importance of community commitment and working together and has for over thirty years devoted her time to pop warner football school organizations and afterschool programs and whereas during the one nine hundred eighty s she began became involved in belmont pop warner football and has served as treasurer cheerleading coach concession stand assistant and continue to support the program and whereas shondra goodwin is it meyer respected and loved by her family the children who participate in the program she served in the larger community and whereas the city of wishes to recognize the valuable services provided to the you and i just also like to say personally say thank you i know the work that you do and you know what you've done for children who are the most valuable part of our community and our future so thank you again and i have yes oh it was over a seven six and two nine zero zero zero three right i have no one signed up to speak to this public hearing so i'm going to declare the public hearing closed we will move on then to approval of minutes of appointments they did july twenty second twenty thirteen from paula fonda rector of water and wastewater a letter dated july twenty second two thousand and thirteen recommending the award of the three contracts for the twenty thirteen  the watering centrifuge project for the three lowest responsible bidders under general there are not under petitions there are none right do we have any committee report just a little follow up on something that went to the government operations committee summer night was this past friday a wonderful evening and it was plenty more no one was cold but no one got  rained it was a really special night you know there's a lot going on in the city for free for our citizens to come out and come together and fellowship and just have a plain old new mayor city council and fellow city residents my name is linda calendar and i live in own property here in the city for over thirty years this three million dollars alone will be paid back by future c d g money future meaning the next twenty years as such the full city reaching funding will not be available for not for profits a neighbor so she sions but of course it is more important beneficial to some of you council members and the mayor to give half a million dollars for the new residential building this will be in the form of a pilot for payment in the of taxes as a property owner of over thirty years i have never and i bet most press city property owners haven't received a break on their property so why should the city residents need to be informed they need to follow the money see who is contributing to a two page color add the political party's program should be a helpful hint good evening mr mayor city council thank you very much when i spoke of the rail here just four weeks ago i recommended against the khaleesi group giving that policing group one point three million dollars for the remediation  sion of the old d s s building located at forty seven not street i did recommend though that it would be more cost effective to demolish and rebuild the building it while i was in lightened as you can imagine to learn that the city council majority took my recommendation as their own however i never recommended using taxpayer dollars to fund a private developer with a privately owned building this is the responsibility of the buyer who knew full well the condition of the property the whole three million dollar loan is expect to be repaid by unsecured future funds which were meant to improve our neighborhoods and city as a whole it seems however that the deal was already done back in may when the mayor met with the buyer and told them the funds were coming this is what mayor mccarthy admitted to during the city council meeting just last week on july fifteenth the people of schenectady have had enough of the backroom deals and out of control spending they want transparency long time local businesses like matthew signs and eastern ave you can't get a cover for a city owned trash receptacle and from the building but we can give half a million dollars to a multi million dollar corporation for demolishing their building which they bought for a dollar and plus thing of course the two hundred thousand dollars in the water bill the people are following the money and they do see where it leads as i stated four weeks ago this is a loan this loan is for three separate issues funding a private developer should not be one of them i oppose this plan as it is written thank you very much thank you mary  favor and we have one extra item on the agenda for unanimous consent if the clerk would again read that one thank so that is approved then we will down move on to privilege of the floor regarding city issues the first person i have signed up is dave monte johnson members i was year on may twenty ninth to address the city council of the problem of my psych ward regarding the tree that was on the honor of the lodge i didn't hear back anything for like two three weeks and i ran into man new council members and they i made a few phone calls to check on what was going on and come to find out that it was just way they thanks it is one council member the tree did come down part of the sidewalk was fixed temporarily and they said that they would be back at a later date to have fixed the site because it's just plain are right now and i just want to say thank you very much to councilman regain because he took it upon but mr olson said that he would be back to take care of it permanently and i just wanted to come here tonight personally thank mr readdy mr olson who snapped here and one other person i just want to thank tonight too for something mr ricky on the internet this picture of a development by the leasing cooperation in the floodplain at the former properties and i think this is putting my property at risk like the pass this out to the individuals here evaluating this property i think there is a very adverse effect on my personal property on the my neighborhood east front street in a neighborhood and also the stockade because the possibility of raising the river level during flood and also the frequency of floods i have a summary of the sea corps process i'd like to submit to  you also like up a formal response now i don't know that i have all the facts but i don't think this project can proceed with out a proper review to the public because of its adverse environmental affects on my neighborhood i don't know how you can do it but i think something should be done i mean there's people on there i know you've got cadillacs in your yard i know people that they honored a person one time at a family down here gave a minute of silence the one person family died there on the tax list i mean we've got to do something like that i know probably legally our hands are tied but that's an awful lot of money republican he said pretty forget some of that another thing  doesn't make sense that you pass a contract you give them a contract on a monday night but the week before these people swim in a pool down there with them so i think we've got a we've got to do something and i'm wondering if i can get a copy that contract is really where i can get a copy that contract or whenever you get a change you could let me know another thing the bridge street bridge there and i know it's a hear there's a three to four minute delay from one to the bridges open in the city on property where people are going in and running them if something goes wrong with the property the city is not responsible for it was in the paper now if i own property rental property something wrong with the proper grammar responsible for it why do we have two different things one for the city and one for the private owners  it's two weeks ago they imagine hugh williams they were doing something which you williams and with this is honoring the football tonight when you died about six eight months ago i got up here and said how much he volunteered for them and volunteered gave money to kids down the boulevard blow the ball so thank you ok thank you come he owns center city he owns mr holmes property he owns a property by the river and you're going to give him five hundred thousand dollars metroplex takes care of him he gets a tax deduction and you're giving him five hundred thousand dollars for all your strong leadership that's a poor decision in my opinion and many other citizens who decided when it's time to wake up to that fact each and every one of i truly feel that any member under city council serving more than eight years should go and that should be in our laws in our constitution and bylaws it's outrageous you don't have the interest of the citizens why do you think you have nobody down here and every time i come i have to complain because of the lousy stink in voting it's terrible it's sinful actually the way things are going on did you ever think about that twenty five billion dollars property and going for a can have no did you ever go over there go through it and see what goes on there did you ever go to the sewage play and see what goes on there and if the points are happy i doubt it there's more dissension in first place you're spending money like water during all these difficult times you didn't freeze wages you gave money away ten twenty thousand dollars salary priests the citizens can pay for the taxpayers  good evening once again i'm joe keller a resident of the city of schenectady just a couple quick things i spoke my piece earlier about the police the corporation but there were a couple of very good things happening in the city that i did want to mention about one in particular was this past friday night my wife and i happened to be downtown for the a schenectady county summer night and very enjoyable evening saw lots of familiar faces down over that way and it's very nice to see  coming up on the fourth of august sunday the habitat for humanity women build barbecue and blues bash is going to be over the central park of billion and my wife and i is living right there on the gateway to central park look forward to being there from five thirty seven thirty p m i also want to mention about the amount plus a picnic that's coming up next month on thursday august eighth in the evening it's going be a fantastic event and we look forward to being there too as a veteran and a member of the american legion i do want to remain people that they're welcome to bring and encouraged to bring their retired flags to the american legion post ten ninety two for stars for troops of which my wife my wife linda is one of the leads in that program in this area over here so people are interested in doing that they can be there on tuesday night june like scuse me july thirtieth at six p m at the american legion post in ninety two that's eighteen zero nine union street they can contact me if they have flags or if they need to way they need information about the stars for troops event at eight eight one six four but we never really see a list of who those appointments are going to be awful nice to see not only who these appointees are but their residency as well thank you very much and thank you mar in the city of schenectady there is nothing good about an eight year kim chee contract for council  financial expert family three million dollars discrepancy in the contract that he was fired nor did nudity by the city use strategery not good regarding the my husband cleans out the storm drains near our street line my husband cuts the high grass that is allowed to grow around the fire hydrant and i want to see pictures in here about loads of people who come to walk hall or a school to have lunch and dinner like they do at the the person who brought the demolition forward would like to clarify right now that mr erickson indeed was the person who went and not only met with the cancellation to the council prior to that council  one percent low to moderate income housing can go back on the tax rolls so i want to clarify i stand by my vote i'm speaking out publicly although the last time i publicly as well a national recognition on live with kelly and michael if you go to the website you can vote for them wouldn't it be wonderful if they want to national contest for food trucks right here in our own backyard so people that used to go to the free clinic can now either go to hometown health care or else in medicine primary care location or the family health clinic on the clones street and they will have a seamless trans ition into those very same services just at another location both are on major bus lines so transportation will not be a hardship for people who have to go to a different location and i think  situation in the city so i just wanted to let people know that there's a couple of neighborhood organizations actually that come together to work on proposal that obviously would be brought to all neighborhoods so you know it's a situation that we can all work on together because to me it's not a problem really unsurmountable because if we work on it neighborhood by neighborhood it's something that we can change the look of our city overall and i think it can be done quite simply by the next council meeting will be he more about that and where we are with that the other thing i wanted to talk about is that this past saturday we had our third and poverty and the panel this time was a group of young people the youngest i think was seventeen  oldest was twenty eight and it was really interesting to hear what they had to say their perspective on what it was like to live in poverty what poverty looked like in their community but more than that we heard stories from doing that again and in the near future within a couple months hopefully but it was just interesting to hear and i want people to be clear that when we're talking about end poverty schenectady we're not talking about ways to do give more services to people but ways to provide opportunities so that sometimes people hear that word and they think you know it's just more programs now it's about providing opportunities here what type are to these people feel that need to be provided especially young people because i think it's important to hear the voice of young people it within our city too to get their perspective sometimes decision makers are older than twenty eight so almost it's you know it's good to hear what younger people have to say and again i have to say it was a really wonderful input that they they had to give and i will be sending out at least to the council members notes on the outcome of that meeting thank you thank you anyone and he's put in fifty two years and that was only because he didn't get his ten dollars back for a son that's that's pretty good story of what volunteers like george i think that george has them like my out of you know he's the mike me out of football and what mike did for the kids with baseball in this city georgia stanford kids with football and if certainly keeps the kids occupied it teaches them good rules and good sportsmanship so it's an invaluable  service provided by these people and i think it's so it's a long time coming for georgia and i'm glad to see that and next year and planning on doing something for mike my attic is next year is a six year fan verse three of the schenectady winning the little league world series in one nine hundred fifty four and that's a huge event and was a huge event back then and it's still something that everyone should be proud of in schenectady by mr monti coming to the rail i want to tell you  mayor your department heads make my job easy and i'm sure it makes your job easy till i ask for something they respond i'm not doing anything special particular special or anything like that so in my humble opinion it's because of your department heads responding and responding positively which i've talked to before like that well you afford the console that server speak because it's very important because you can't be everywhere and everybody here can't be everywhere at the same time so i have extra time on my hands at times and it works out well but it's well appreciated but the city workers deserve all the all the accolades when this comes down because they're the ones who are doing the work in the department heads are supervising this so i think it's good and i appreciate that the problems that mr bicester brought forward i think these are valid concerns mayor and i don't know if you but maybe we should get the neighborhood involved since they have various concerns and it's just not going to it's not affect me up in bellevue were applied so we don't worry about flooding there but the people in the stockade and the front street area certainly have valid concerns so maybe that's something that can be worked out and so their concerns are be laid and i'd appreciate that thank you thank you anyone else he's t you know how do you get the best utilization of that facility that site in we've actually seen a better management of the river more recently i joke that when the brain stretton was mayor on the council talk to him on a regular basis more recently oh my conversations tend to be at three o'clock or four o'clock in the morning with them when we're changing hydrology report boards for water flow in the mohawk forever in a more recent times where we have severe flooding farther up the mohawk river but here the early predictions indicated that we would have flooding a couple times in the  area not as dramatic as we had during irene or leave but significant but the canal corporation again managed the flow of the river better by opening up the dams that exist in the lock and improve the flow of  tornado in bellevue which put things back a little bit terms of the scheduling when they did get the treat down the sidewalk and those we don't fix those things immediately as we don't buy short loads of concrete we wait until we can get a full truckload of concrete so that it is actually cheaper and we will do two three four five different spots where concrete has to be placed that's sometimes you'll see crews work and catch basins rather thing you'll see they'll start to dig it up take it apart and it'll sit there for a while it's there waiting until they can get again anough of them set up so that when you buy a truckload of concrete thing come true and pour the concrete in all those sites so that we do try and do things train schedule it and get it done as best we can to address the needs of the citizens the neighborhood and the building and not street again some level of controversy i don't mind discussion and debate people who just criticize who stand up and say no you shouldn't do it in do not offer any alternatives that's things that we had in the past and want to just leave problems there you don't want to deal with and sometimes you have to deal with things that you would prefer not to and some of them cost money i want the progress to continue in the community we've seen a lot of good things happening good things are continuing to happen and we're going to continue to deal with these problems saturday we of the habitat for humanity come out in the north and trying to do these things citywide to create individual opportunities and involved neighborhood associations to do some of the little things because we do not have enough money to do everything that we would like to as quickly as we'd like to so we work through it in a systematic fashion in is that people talk about the summer night primarily sponsored by the county a great  event good times and i don't know who the county put in charge of the weather but the thunderstorms moved around schenectady so that while it was a little bit warmer that evening everybody had a very pleasant and enjoyable comment on summer night because again i was there for a while i went early and unfortunately i couldn't deal with all the heat so i didn't stay as long as i normally would but while i was there i happened to talk to some of the folks who were involved in a new arts program called tapping into the art this is a joint effort by the lights and the light opera the schenectady a r c and schenectady county senior and long term care services where they're offering a variety of three day many courses and one day workshops on things like live life through dance acting one i wanted so flower arrangements and reefs things like that a number of the courses have already finished a couple of them are full but there are still a number of them that are being offered the end of this month and in the month of august so this again is information the other thing i wanted to mention is the schenectady day nursery planning again for their annual steak and lobster fest which is going to be thursday august fifteenth and what they're trying to do is reach out to businesses and different organizations  and they will give a dissident or cent discount on tickets if you buy ten tickets or more you can either then take have dinner right there at the pavilion in central park or they also have arranged now for a take out system where you can just come and get your food and then go to your home or wherever to watch take participated that this is a decision very worthwhile organization and i think anything people can do to support it and this is one very fun way to support this if you know the lobster  said the food is great and it's a really good time so i hope you think about that and at this point then i'm going to entertain a motion to recess the council meeting this is just sort of a just in case things were finalizing the consolidated plan if we come up with any little things we have to tweak before we submit the final application this will give us a chance to talk about them before the deadline is a set of i don't anticipate anything but again just in case something we're going to recess until the comm