[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