sound like that
sounds like something else didn't it i
think you think
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so the funny thing is that as soon as
you open that here it's impossible not
to spill it just a little bit through
those days
um
okay
um
i'm looking forward to that i got faith
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i said wednesday afternoon or
thursday wednesday
okay um
happy new year
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phone
business
i like this important distinction right
sometimes
it's like oh
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uh
oh
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so
2pm
thank you
i'll send out an invite as well yeah
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um
thank you
oh
um
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good afternoon god i just said good
morning god
is scary
i don't know i haven't seen him
i would assume
i already cut up that one
this was a much prettier one
okay
right
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when i send a
legislative request out
um i'm happy to copy you want to see
that other time but sam sends everything
out anyways with everything you can
always reach out to me if you have any
questions
like every other
okay
except
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is
like the review here does not need to go
into exactly the session about
i don't think that qualifies for
executive sessions that's after all the
public hearing the second one the
discussion that i'm going to negative
should be an executive session because
it has to do
all right
okay
good evening thank you
and uh first of all i'd like to call for
this connectivity city council uh
committee meeting to order for monday
january 3rd 2022
and um first of all i'd like to say
happy new year to everyone and we will
go right to public safety
so i'd like to call the public safety
committee to order we have two items on
the agenda this evening the first is the
body worn camera grant and it will be
briefed by assistant chief max
thank you website
welcome happy new year
so you decide to expand the program um
into our animal control officers our our
um
parking lot tenants as well as our
detectives now
um just for clarification of course
detectives
use that as they see fit you know
sometimes instead of do work patrol
activities um they do interdictions
sometimes or depending on their job
segment so there's to record that it's
not to be on 24 7 all interviews i just
kind of carry that up right
there then obviously anybody's not put
in the warehouse patrol officers every
innovation it's a little bit different
objectives um with that said
the program is basically completely
funded by
the bureau of
justice program and
there is an in-kind service that we have
to leave and kind of match i should say
and it really comes down to
lieutenant kind of signs the program
some of his salary we have some other
personnel assigned to
uh
video redaction and so forth and
basically we laid that out all out the
grant application and
it is our match so no this is the budget
neutral but it's um 155
20
award from the cameras and
equipment all right thank you were there
any questions from our fellow council
members
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if not then if i can get a motion to
pass the grant
second
favorite hi
so moving to the second agenda item it's
a ceremonial resolution recognizing tom
kelly on his graduation from the fbi
national academy and i'll be presented
by mr collins
mr kelly went to the fbi academy um
which is very prestigious uh i believe
the
third member of our course the chief
detective sanders
and now him
so that would be uh i think assistant
chief seavers also
some of the staff have learned more from
the academy
so this would be to recognize his uh
hard work from a very prestigious
academy
i'll move this second give me any
questions first
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second
motion seconds all those in favor
was there any other business that come
before the public safety committee
closer to the chair
second all's in favor hi
and we are here
at this time i'd like to
call the worker government operations we
have two items on the agenda tonight um
first is uh governor hercule's executive
order
11.1 and
andrew they're going to uh speak to that
yep i know this is a assessor mcelroy
whose name was on here unfortunately
she's ill today um
so you should have before you uh
legislative request
to
um
essentially exercise a local option
pursuant to governor hokul's executive
order 11.1
it relates to
allowing those people with exemptions as it mentions in the request item
the ability to
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get essentially
an automatic exemption
um that that those people had on the
prior assessment year
role
so we're dealing we're talking about
senior low-income and disabled
low-income resident property owners in
the city of schenectady um their uh
exemption would be automatic based on uh
their presence on last year's role
obviously otherwise the city does not
pass a resolution to exercise this local
option pursuant to the executive order
these senior low-income and disabled
low-income
property owners would have to leave
their homes to file the exemption
paperwork during
this coven spike
the governor has obviously passed a an
executive order
to give the municipalities around the
state the ability to
essentially opt in
to allow the automatic exemption
any further discussion
okay next one all in favor
all right
one of the
much grace i will be depending on as i
ignore myself here to these new
procedures okay okay also second on the
uh again that we have a reminder
amendment chapter 138-30 of the code of
the city of schenectady and i also turn
that back to andrew thank you um
the
there's a reminder that there's a public
hearing um at the next uh council
meeting on the 10th
related to amending section 138-30 of
the code to add a subsection
for the ability
for tenants and
owners of property
to opt to have a hearing
in the event that the city
issues in order to vacate due to an
unsafe structure
this is something that i've spoken to
the mayor about and chris lon
we see this as being
a good check and a good
really just a better practice for the
city to
um
you know just review our decisions when
um code enforcement offices are on the
scene to make sure that you know we're
not
um
we're not
requiring people to vacate their homes
arbitrarily or
not even arbitrarily but you know
sometimes in the in the heat of the
moment we may think that a property
needs to be vacated due to the
circumstance
but in retrospect it may be that we need
to modify the order so this gives people
the opportunity to be heard
i have some language that's drafted i
will be sending it to city clerk
tomorrow
so that it can be made available as soon
as possible
and i'll obviously ask her to send it
along
to all the council members
any questions or further discussion on
that
okay
so
no no other business out of a government
operation so
can i
have a motion to close up
so move
okay
all right
all clear hi hi
thank you
i've got to call to order city
development and planning we have one
item on the agenda to authorize the
mayor to enter into supplemental
agreement with new york state uh
department transportation
for pedestrian safety plan
um city of schenectady pin
1760.95 mr wallin
good evening
for those of you that are new on the
table the city of schenectady
applies for and receives federal funding
for several transportation projects a
year
this is one of them this is a pedestrian
safety action plan this was money that
was earmarked for municipalities such as
the city we still had to apply for it we
were awarded 1.1 million dollars
the design was completed the project was
bid
the bid was awarded by the council
several months ago but the project has
not started yet due to weather it's
queued to start in april however before
we incur any costs what this is to request the dot that we have
awarded that we have our agreements in
place and that we would like to be able
to receive federal funding to reimburse
ourselves so on a project such as this
we are actually eligible for 100
of the federally eligible costs on the
project
which in this case for construction is
around 800 000
so
with these resolutions we send it to the
state
and then they understand we form a
formal agreement and then as the project
goes i working with finance send
paperwork to them and they reimburse us
for the costs that are eligible in the
project
thank you for the detail explanation are
there any questions
is that outstanding motion
second all those on paper
thank you thank you mr wong
is there anything else to come before
civic city development planning if not
i'll obtain a motion to adjourn
all those in favor aye we're adjourned
thank you
i would like to call it order finance so
the first item is a 2022 electronic
waste recycling billing
good evening
so i'm bringing before the council that
did for 2022 electronics waste recycling
the mercedes contract provided these
services from electronic waste collected
from city residents has expired
and so a new solicitation was issued the
solicitation for electronics waste
recycling services was issued and one
bid was received from elat electronics
recycling
for a cost of six hundred and forty four
dollars and fifty cents per ton with a
one hundred dollar child container
charge for pickup
the estimated total for this contract on
an annual basis is seventy seven
thousand
two hundred and eighty dollars plus the
fees per pickup
so i'm uh requesting that a resolution
is passed for the mayor to enter into a
contract with elon's
recycling
any discussion please
is this the company that we've used
before yes this is the company that been
on it last night okay is this um is this
an increase in cost or
it is left it is an increase in cost and
there wasn't the pilot container charge
pick up prior okay so do you know what
the increase of like percentage wise
um
i would have to look back because i
don't recall what the class was
previously okay
thank you thank you
any other discussions
they have a motion
second all in favor
okay
the next item is request for
authorization to purchase sodium
hypochlorite 2022 in this polar point
every year we did have our chemicals for
the wastewater and one treatment plant
um first lady mcfester also purchased
component we need for foreign treatment
of wastewater prior to going into the
river to meet the disinfection
requirements um the treatment
um
it was for
survival chemical for this year they've
been the provider of our hypochlorite
for quite a long time they manufactured
me in auburn um
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you know there were a kiss is to um
before the american agreement for the
purchase of
so you have deployed for the year 2022
any discussion
second second all in favor all right
the next item is request authorization
departure listed sodium by 12 2022.
again it's an essential chemical use
once we chlorinate
for disinfection we have to dechlorinate
go back into the river so we have to
remove the chlorine after we put the
chlorine in
so the
sulfate is to remove the chlorine after
treatment prior to
discharging into the mobile curve again
it's an essential chemical needed in the
treatment
any discussion
how many bits do we get
um i apologize because phyllis has to
leave early but he should be in the mid
tab for the
sodium my sulfate yeah it looks like
we've got two
and this is the company that we've found
yes that's something we've used before
yes thank you
the next time it requires the
authorization of fortunes fluoride
asset for 2022
again this is for the water treatment
plant this is fluoride hydroxylic acid
it's barely chlorine um it is required
on the argument to put flying in the
drinking water for the city's
connectivity
again and the central capital chemical
for the treatment of water
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the purchase of chloride yes there's no
objection i would like to add it
chlorine gas is
again it's essential in treatment for
our water supply it's for this infection
it was one vendor
bid it's
sarasota but they do have manufacturing
rhode island
they've been bitter for the past several
years
um
they can only guarantee the price
and you would like to know
they can't increase the price in our in
their bid with 30 days notice um because
of the pandemic right now and the
production of chlorine gas they can't
commit to a price for the full year they
are the only bidder however
with the help from law we will put
something in our contract that we can
get out in 30 days notice also
okay but this is the best interest but
sorry this is the best interest of the
city to you know potentially terminate
that contract
because you know the price goes up um
and we need to look for another vendor
that can you know provide the gas at a
better price
um we'll put language in the contract
to make sure that
we can do that
so we only got one bidder and let's say
the price just went through the roof did
they have is there a limit on how much
they can increase the price by they do
they say that no there's not so they're
just saying if we need to increase it
because our cost increases and i did
check you know um with another local
community right in front across the road
and they've got the same uh uh
considerable increase from last year
this year it's considerable increase
it's all based on the pandemic and the
trucking on the gas transportation
and the manufacturing of it
they cannot commit and you could check
what rot it is and they also were seeing
a significant increase in they purchased
from jones also all right thank you
go ahead please um can we order like a
year supply no unfortunately because the
their cylinders and their gas we can
only store so many on site and
if we you know we can't store offsite
because it's considered hazardous and we
can't transport it ourselves of our
vehicles so it's transferred by the
company
so how much of this i'm sorry
how much in the supply recorder um we
usually order about 20 to 30 cylinders
at a time that's all we can pick in the
building
it's about a month something it's really
based on demand we use more in the
summer because the actual supply of
water the demand for water goes up
considerably in summer watering pools
everything else so winter is our you
know lower time we don't have that much
of a demand so it's really based on the
demand that we need so
just so um i'm just curious as to why we
have that one vendor
getting is that just in the past
jones chemicals
the most
known vendor for chlorine gas
like i said they're on a warwick years
ago even at the wastewater chamber plant
we used pouring gas and then one ton
cylinders
back in the 80s 90s it was it was jones
chemical they're pretty much the
producer pouring gas
but there was an increase from last year
this year from 125 to 240 some dollars
so it has come up because of the
pandemic
um but again
that's the only thing we use to
disinfect our water supply for drinking
water um
any other questions
we have a motion
second second all in favor all right
party any other business before finance
second all the favor all right we're
adjourned thank you thank you thank you
i'd like to open claims um and i guess
for the first item we need to stay
uh outside of executive session
so we want to just go ahead with that or
we can go into executive sessions that's
right there's nothing that has to well
for the first item because i
don't believe it qualifies for exactly
so i'm calling claims uh to order and
the first item on the agenda will be
presented by mr colton um regarding
amending section c 6 18 of the charter
of schenectady
there was a public hearing that was held
on december 27th related to
amending this section of the charter
to conform with
what the state law says to extend the if
you know to extend the time for
owners of one two and three
unit residential properties um
the time to pay their their delinquent
taxes um i know obviously i think would
be a question for the city clerk if any
public comments were received at any
point no one spoke no comments received
thank you
my position obviously from the law
department i brought this forward would
be to um
a legislative request to pass an
ordinance uh amending this section of
the charter um
specifically the language that was
provided um to the public and to the
council
okay any questions
no i just uh
i just want to comment that i think it's
important especially you know
considering the fact that we're talking
about the fiction and the um
the more sorry about mortgages you know
coming to an end people could be in
challenging situations so i'm glad that
we're
you know looking at this
any other questions
okay i'll entertain a motion
10 second
all in favor all right okay thank you
and so now i'd like to um
entertain a motion to go into executive
session for the second
uh piece of this do i have to come out
you have to do a motion to go into
executive session this has to do this
for the public's awareness this has to
do with uh ongoing litigation uh
discussing um
you know where litigation stands and uh
settlements and other things along those
lines okay so i'll entertain a motion to
go into executive sessions second second
okay all those in favor all right okay
we'll go into executive session
i want to request a chief clifford um
okay