[0:00] sound like that

[0:03] sounds like something else didn't it i

[0:04] think you think

[0:10] [Music]

[0:28] so the funny thing is that as soon as

[0:31] you open that here it's impossible not

[0:33] to spill it just a little bit through

[0:34] those days

[0:48] um

[1:01] okay

[1:14] um

[1:41] i'm looking forward to that i got faith

[1:48] [Music]

[2:06] i said wednesday afternoon or

[2:09] thursday wednesday

[2:12] okay um

[2:44] happy new year

[3:00] [Music]

[3:16] phone

[3:20] business

[3:26] i like this important distinction right

[3:29] sometimes

[3:30] it's like oh

[3:52] [Music]

[3:57] uh

[4:09] oh

[4:28] [Music]

[4:32] so

[4:42] 2pm

[4:46] thank you

[4:48] i'll send out an invite as well yeah

[5:08] [Music]

[5:35] um

[6:02] thank you

[6:18] oh

[6:28] um

[6:52] [Applause]

[7:01] good afternoon god i just said good

[7:02] morning god

[7:05] is scary

[7:07] i don't know i haven't seen him

[7:08] i would assume

[7:16] i already cut up that one

[7:19] this was a much prettier one

[7:55] okay

[8:07] right

[8:09] [Music]

[8:24] when i send a

[8:26] legislative request out

[8:28] um i'm happy to copy you want to see

[8:30] that other time but sam sends everything

[8:32] out anyways with everything you can

[8:33] always reach out to me if you have any

[8:34] questions

[8:36] like every other

[8:37] okay

[8:38] except

[8:39] [Music]

[8:49] is

[9:03] like the review here does not need to go

[9:05] into exactly the session about

[9:11] i don't think that qualifies for

[9:12] executive sessions that's after all the

[9:14] public hearing the second one the

[9:16] discussion that i'm going to negative

[9:18] should be an executive session because

[9:20] it has to do

[9:24] all right

[9:25] okay

[9:26] good evening thank you

[9:28] and uh first of all i'd like to call for

[9:31] this connectivity city council uh

[9:33] committee meeting to order for monday

[9:34] january 3rd 2022

[9:37] and um first of all i'd like to say

[9:39] happy new year to everyone and we will

[9:41] go right to public safety

[9:43] so i'd like to call the public safety

[9:45] committee to order we have two items on

[9:47] the agenda this evening the first is the

[9:49] body worn camera grant and it will be

[9:52] briefed by assistant chief max

[9:54] thank you website

[9:58] welcome happy new year

[10:16] so you decide to expand the program um

[10:18] into our animal control officers our our

[10:21] um

[10:22] parking lot tenants as well as our

[10:24] detectives now

[10:25] um just for clarification of course

[10:27] detectives

[10:28] use that as they see fit you know

[10:30] sometimes instead of do work patrol

[10:32] activities um they do interdictions

[10:34] sometimes or depending on their job

[10:35] segment so there's to record that it's

[10:38] not to be on 24 7 all interviews i just

[10:41] kind of carry that up right

[10:43] there then obviously anybody's not put

[10:45] in the warehouse patrol officers every

[10:46] innovation it's a little bit different

[10:48] objectives um with that said

[10:51] the program is basically completely

[10:52] funded by

[10:55] the bureau of

[10:56] justice program and

[10:58] there is an in-kind service that we have

[11:00] to leave and kind of match i should say

[11:03] and it really comes down to

[11:04] lieutenant kind of signs the program

[11:06] some of his salary we have some other

[11:08] personnel assigned to

[11:10] uh

[11:11] video redaction and so forth and

[11:13] basically we laid that out all out the

[11:15] grant application and

[11:17] it is our match so no this is the budget

[11:19] neutral but it's um 155

[11:23] 20

[11:24] award from the cameras and

[11:26] equipment all right thank you were there

[11:29] any questions from our fellow council

[11:30] members

[11:31] [Music]

[11:34] if not then if i can get a motion to

[11:36] pass the grant

[11:39] second

[11:40] favorite hi

[11:43] so moving to the second agenda item it's

[11:45] a ceremonial resolution recognizing tom

[11:48] kelly on his graduation from the fbi

[11:50] national academy and i'll be presented

[11:52] by mr collins

[11:56] mr kelly went to the fbi academy um

[12:00] which is very prestigious uh i believe

[12:03] the

[12:04] third member of our course the chief

[12:07] detective sanders

[12:10] and now him

[12:12] so that would be uh i think assistant

[12:15] chief seavers also

[12:21] some of the staff have learned more from

[12:23] the academy

[12:28] so this would be to recognize his uh

[12:31] hard work from a very prestigious

[12:33] academy

[12:35] i'll move this second give me any

[12:37] questions first

[12:40] [Music]

[12:43] second

[12:46] motion seconds all those in favor

[12:50] was there any other business that come

[12:51] before the public safety committee

[12:53] closer to the chair

[12:55] second all's in favor hi

[12:58] and we are here

[13:01] at this time i'd like to

[13:03] call the worker government operations we

[13:06] have two items on the agenda tonight um

[13:10] first is uh governor hercule's executive

[13:11] order

[13:12] 11.1 and

[13:15] andrew they're going to uh speak to that

[13:17] yep i know this is a assessor mcelroy

[13:20] whose name was on here unfortunately

[13:22] she's ill today um

[13:24] so you should have before you uh

[13:26] legislative request

[13:29] to

[13:30] um

[13:31] essentially exercise a local option

[13:33] pursuant to governor hokul's executive

[13:36] order 11.1

[13:38] it relates to

[13:40] allowing those people with exemptions as it mentions in the request item

[13:47] the ability to

[13:48] [Music]

[13:49] get essentially

[13:51] an automatic exemption

[13:53] um that that those people had on the

[13:57] prior assessment year

[13:59] role

[14:00] so we're dealing we're talking about

[14:01] senior low-income and disabled

[14:03] low-income resident property owners in

[14:05] the city of schenectady um their uh

[14:09] exemption would be automatic based on uh

[14:12] their presence on last year's role

[14:16] obviously otherwise the city does not

[14:21] pass a resolution to exercise this local

[14:24] option pursuant to the executive order

[14:27] these senior low-income and disabled

[14:29] low-income

[14:30] property owners would have to leave

[14:31] their homes to file the exemption

[14:32] paperwork during

[14:34] this coven spike

[14:36] the governor has obviously passed a an

[14:39] executive order

[14:41] to give the municipalities around the

[14:43] state the ability to

[14:46] essentially opt in

[14:48] to allow the automatic exemption

[14:53] any further discussion

[15:09] okay next one all in favor

[15:13] all right

[15:19] one of the

[15:20] much grace i will be depending on as i

[15:22] ignore myself here to these new

[15:23] procedures okay okay also second on the

[15:26] uh again that we have a reminder

[15:29] amendment chapter 138-30 of the code of

[15:32] the city of schenectady and i also turn

[15:34] that back to andrew thank you um

[15:38] the

[15:39] there's a reminder that there's a public

[15:41] hearing um at the next uh council

[15:43] meeting on the 10th

[15:45] related to amending section 138-30 of

[15:49] the code to add a subsection

[15:51] for the ability

[15:53] for tenants and

[15:55] owners of property

[15:57] to opt to have a hearing

[16:00] in the event that the city

[16:02] issues in order to vacate due to an

[16:04] unsafe structure

[16:06] this is something that i've spoken to

[16:08] the mayor about and chris lon

[16:10] we see this as being

[16:12] a good check and a good

[16:13] really just a better practice for the

[16:16] city to

[16:17] um

[16:18] you know just review our decisions when

[16:22] um code enforcement offices are on the

[16:23] scene to make sure that you know we're

[16:25] not

[16:26] um

[16:28] we're not

[16:29] requiring people to vacate their homes

[16:33] arbitrarily or

[16:35] not even arbitrarily but you know

[16:37] sometimes in the in the heat of the

[16:38] moment we may think that a property

[16:40] needs to be vacated due to the

[16:42] circumstance

[16:43] but in retrospect it may be that we need

[16:45] to modify the order so this gives people

[16:47] the opportunity to be heard

[16:49] i have some language that's drafted i

[16:51] will be sending it to city clerk

[16:53] tomorrow

[16:54] so that it can be made available as soon

[16:56] as possible

[16:58] and i'll obviously ask her to send it

[16:59] along

[17:00] to all the council members

[17:04] any questions or further discussion on

[17:05] that

[17:08] okay

[17:10] so

[17:14] no no other business out of a government

[17:15] operation so

[17:18] can i

[17:18] have a motion to close up

[17:22] so move

[17:23] okay

[17:24] all right

[17:26] all clear hi hi

[17:29] thank you

[17:32] i've got to call to order city

[17:34] development and planning we have one

[17:35] item on the agenda to authorize the

[17:37] mayor to enter into supplemental

[17:38] agreement with new york state uh

[17:40] department transportation

[17:41] for pedestrian safety plan

[17:44] um city of schenectady pin

[17:46] 1760.95 mr wallin

[17:55] good evening

[17:57] for those of you that are new on the

[17:59] table the city of schenectady

[18:01] applies for and receives federal funding

[18:03] for several transportation projects a

[18:06] year

[18:07] this is one of them this is a pedestrian

[18:08] safety action plan this was money that

[18:11] was earmarked for municipalities such as

[18:13] the city we still had to apply for it we

[18:15] were awarded 1.1 million dollars

[18:18] the design was completed the project was

[18:20] bid

[18:21] the bid was awarded by the council

[18:23] several months ago but the project has

[18:25] not started yet due to weather it's

[18:27] queued to start in april however before

[18:30] we incur any costs what this is to request the dot that we have

[18:35] awarded that we have our agreements in

[18:37] place and that we would like to be able

[18:39] to receive federal funding to reimburse

[18:41] ourselves so on a project such as this

[18:44] we are actually eligible for 100

[18:46] of the federally eligible costs on the

[18:48] project

[18:49] which in this case for construction is

[18:51] around 800 000

[18:53] so

[18:54] with these resolutions we send it to the

[18:56] state

[18:57] and then they understand we form a

[18:58] formal agreement and then as the project

[19:00] goes i working with finance send

[19:02] paperwork to them and they reimburse us

[19:04] for the costs that are eligible in the

[19:06] project

[19:07] thank you for the detail explanation are

[19:09] there any questions

[19:12] is that outstanding motion

[19:15] second all those on paper

[19:18] thank you thank you mr wong

[19:20] is there anything else to come before

[19:21] civic city development planning if not

[19:24] i'll obtain a motion to adjourn

[19:27] all those in favor aye we're adjourned

[19:29] thank you

[19:30] i would like to call it order finance so

[19:32] the first item is a 2022 electronic

[19:35] waste recycling billing

[19:44] good evening

[19:47] so i'm bringing before the council that

[19:49] did for 2022 electronics waste recycling

[19:51] the mercedes contract provided these

[19:53] services from electronic waste collected

[19:55] from city residents has expired

[19:57] and so a new solicitation was issued the

[20:00] solicitation for electronics waste

[20:01] recycling services was issued and one

[20:03] bid was received from elat electronics

[20:05] recycling

[20:07] for a cost of six hundred and forty four

[20:09] dollars and fifty cents per ton with a

[20:11] one hundred dollar child container

[20:12] charge for pickup

[20:14] the estimated total for this contract on

[20:16] an annual basis is seventy seven

[20:18] thousand

[20:19] two hundred and eighty dollars plus the

[20:21] fees per pickup

[20:23] so i'm uh requesting that a resolution

[20:26] is passed for the mayor to enter into a

[20:27] contract with elon's

[20:29] recycling

[20:31] any discussion please

[20:33] is this the company that we've used

[20:35] before yes this is the company that been

[20:37] on it last night okay is this um is this

[20:39] an increase in cost or

[20:41] it is left it is an increase in cost and

[20:43] there wasn't the pilot container charge

[20:45] pick up prior okay so do you know what

[20:48] the increase of like percentage wise

[20:51] um

[20:52] i would have to look back because i

[20:53] don't recall what the class was

[20:55] previously okay

[20:57] thank you thank you

[21:01] any other discussions

[21:03] they have a motion

[21:06] second all in favor

[21:08] okay

[21:09] the next item is request for

[21:11] authorization to purchase sodium

[21:13] hypochlorite 2022 in this polar point

[21:20] every year we did have our chemicals for

[21:22] the wastewater and one treatment plant

[21:24] um first lady mcfester also purchased

[21:28] component we need for foreign treatment

[21:30] of wastewater prior to going into the

[21:32] river to meet the disinfection

[21:33] requirements um the treatment

[21:35] um

[21:36] it was for

[21:38] survival chemical for this year they've

[21:40] been the provider of our hypochlorite

[21:43] for quite a long time they manufactured

[21:44] me in auburn um

[21:46] [Music]

[21:48] you know there were a kiss is to um

[21:51] before the american agreement for the

[21:53] purchase of

[21:54] so you have deployed for the year 2022

[21:59] any discussion

[22:02] second second all in favor all right

[22:05] the next item is request authorization

[22:07] departure listed sodium by 12 2022.

[22:11] again it's an essential chemical use

[22:13] once we chlorinate

[22:15] for disinfection we have to dechlorinate

[22:17] go back into the river so we have to

[22:19] remove the chlorine after we put the

[22:20] chlorine in

[22:21] so the

[22:22] sulfate is to remove the chlorine after

[22:24] treatment prior to

[22:26] discharging into the mobile curve again

[22:29] it's an essential chemical needed in the

[22:31] treatment

[22:34] any discussion

[22:35] how many bits do we get

[22:37] um i apologize because phyllis has to

[22:40] leave early but he should be in the mid

[22:41] tab for the

[22:43] sodium my sulfate yeah it looks like

[22:45] we've got two

[22:46] and this is the company that we've found

[22:48] yes that's something we've used before

[22:50] yes thank you

[22:59] the next time it requires the

[23:00] authorization of fortunes fluoride

[23:03] asset for 2022

[23:06] again this is for the water treatment

[23:07] plant this is fluoride hydroxylic acid

[23:10] it's barely chlorine um it is required

[23:13] on the argument to put flying in the

[23:14] drinking water for the city's

[23:15] connectivity

[23:17] again and the central capital chemical

[23:19] for the treatment of water

[23:28] [Music]

[23:34] the purchase of chloride yes there's no

[23:37] objection i would like to add it

[23:39] chlorine gas is

[23:41] again it's essential in treatment for

[23:43] our water supply it's for this infection

[23:46] it was one vendor

[23:48] bid it's

[23:51] sarasota but they do have manufacturing

[23:53] rhode island

[23:54] they've been bitter for the past several

[23:56] years

[23:57] um

[23:59] they can only guarantee the price

[24:02] and you would like to know

[24:04] they can't increase the price in our in

[24:06] their bid with 30 days notice um because

[24:09] of the pandemic right now and the

[24:10] production of chlorine gas they can't

[24:12] commit to a price for the full year they

[24:14] are the only bidder however

[24:17] with the help from law we will put

[24:19] something in our contract that we can

[24:20] get out in 30 days notice also

[24:23] okay but this is the best interest but

[24:25] sorry this is the best interest of the

[24:27] city to you know potentially terminate

[24:30] that contract

[24:31] because you know the price goes up um

[24:34] and we need to look for another vendor

[24:36] that can you know provide the gas at a

[24:39] better price

[24:40] um we'll put language in the contract

[24:42] to make sure that

[24:44] we can do that

[24:49] so we only got one bidder and let's say

[24:52] the price just went through the roof did

[24:53] they have is there a limit on how much

[24:55] they can increase the price by they do

[24:56] they say that no there's not so they're

[24:58] just saying if we need to increase it

[25:00] because our cost increases and i did

[25:01] check you know um with another local

[25:04] community right in front across the road

[25:06] and they've got the same uh uh

[25:07] considerable increase from last year

[25:09] this year it's considerable increase

[25:10] it's all based on the pandemic and the

[25:12] trucking on the gas transportation

[25:14] and the manufacturing of it

[25:16] they cannot commit and you could check

[25:18] what rot it is and they also were seeing

[25:19] a significant increase in they purchased

[25:21] from jones also all right thank you

[25:24] go ahead please um can we order like a

[25:26] year supply no unfortunately because the

[25:30] their cylinders and their gas we can

[25:32] only store so many on site and

[25:35] if we you know we can't store offsite

[25:36] because it's considered hazardous and we

[25:38] can't transport it ourselves of our

[25:40] vehicles so it's transferred by the

[25:41] company

[25:43] so how much of this i'm sorry

[25:47] how much in the supply recorder um we

[25:49] usually order about 20 to 30 cylinders

[25:51] at a time that's all we can pick in the

[25:52] building

[25:54] it's about a month something it's really

[25:56] based on demand we use more in the

[25:57] summer because the actual supply of

[25:59] water the demand for water goes up

[26:00] considerably in summer watering pools

[26:03] everything else so winter is our you

[26:05] know lower time we don't have that much

[26:07] of a demand so it's really based on the

[26:09] demand that we need so

[26:13] just so um i'm just curious as to why we

[26:15] have that one vendor

[26:17] getting is that just in the past

[26:19] jones chemicals

[26:21] the most

[26:22] known vendor for chlorine gas

[26:25] like i said they're on a warwick years

[26:26] ago even at the wastewater chamber plant

[26:28] we used pouring gas and then one ton

[26:29] cylinders

[26:30] back in the 80s 90s it was it was jones

[26:32] chemical they're pretty much the

[26:34] producer pouring gas

[26:37] but there was an increase from last year

[26:38] this year from 125 to 240 some dollars

[26:42] so it has come up because of the

[26:44] pandemic

[26:45] um but again

[26:46] that's the only thing we use to

[26:47] disinfect our water supply for drinking

[26:49] water um

[26:59] any other questions

[27:01] we have a motion

[27:03] second second all in favor all right

[27:06] party any other business before finance

[27:09] second all the favor all right we're

[27:12] adjourned thank you thank you thank you

[27:16] i'd like to open claims um and i guess

[27:19] for the first item we need to stay

[27:21] uh outside of executive session

[27:23] so we want to just go ahead with that or

[27:25] we can go into executive sessions that's

[27:27] right there's nothing that has to well

[27:28] for the first item because i

[27:31] don't believe it qualifies for exactly

[27:33] so i'm calling claims uh to order and

[27:36] the first item on the agenda will be

[27:37] presented by mr colton um regarding

[27:40] amending section c 6 18 of the charter

[27:43] of schenectady

[27:45] there was a public hearing that was held

[27:46] on december 27th related to

[27:50] amending this section of the charter

[27:53] to conform with

[27:56] what the state law says to extend the if

[27:59] you know to extend the time for

[28:02] owners of one two and three

[28:06] unit residential properties um

[28:09] the time to pay their their delinquent

[28:11] taxes um i know obviously i think would

[28:14] be a question for the city clerk if any

[28:15] public comments were received at any

[28:17] point no one spoke no comments received

[28:20] thank you

[28:22] my position obviously from the law

[28:23] department i brought this forward would

[28:24] be to um

[28:28] a legislative request to pass an

[28:30] ordinance uh amending this section of

[28:32] the charter um

[28:35] specifically the language that was

[28:37] provided um to the public and to the

[28:39] council

[28:41] okay any questions

[28:44] no i just uh

[28:46] i just want to comment that i think it's

[28:48] important especially you know

[28:49] considering the fact that we're talking

[28:50] about the fiction and the um

[28:53] the more sorry about mortgages you know

[28:55] coming to an end people could be in

[28:57] challenging situations so i'm glad that

[28:59] we're

[29:00] you know looking at this

[29:02] any other questions

[29:04] okay i'll entertain a motion

[29:08] 10 second

[29:09] all in favor all right okay thank you

[29:12] and so now i'd like to um

[29:15] entertain a motion to go into executive

[29:17] session for the second

[29:18] uh piece of this do i have to come out

[29:21] you have to do a motion to go into

[29:22] executive session this has to do this

[29:25] for the public's awareness this has to

[29:27] do with uh ongoing litigation uh

[29:30] discussing um

[29:32] you know where litigation stands and uh

[29:34] settlements and other things along those

[29:36] lines okay so i'll entertain a motion to

[29:37] go into executive sessions second second

[29:41] okay all those in favor all right okay

[29:44] we'll go into executive session

[29:46] i want to request a chief clifford um

[30:19] okay

Schenectady City Council Committee Meeting: Jan 3, 2022

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