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[3:39] monday february 22 2022

[3:43] the first committee is the development

[3:45] of planning so i'd like to call to order

[3:46] city development and planning we have

[3:48] eight items on the agenda first to

[3:50] revere avenue rezoning ordinance

[3:53] mr epstein

[3:57] hey

[3:58] um so the department is looking for uh

[4:03] an ordinance to change the zoning of the

[4:06] beer ad which includes 22 particles from

[4:08] the r1 single family to the r3

[4:10] multiplier

[4:12] it's not a new um rezoning request where

[4:15] you had the documents we're actually

[4:16] requesting the final ordinance for the

[4:19] rezone um

[4:20] process began in 2020 it's already had

[4:23] the

[4:23] lead agency for seeker

[4:26] negdeck for seeker public common period

[4:29] public hearing sales and planning

[4:30] commission reviewed it and passed along

[4:32] the recommendation as well um but

[4:34] because of africa covey code signing

[4:37] fragment

[4:38] the item would have come back to the

[4:39] agenda there's a lot of issues we're

[4:41] just getting back on we're just looking

[4:43] to finalize the rezoning of the parcels

[4:46] you'll see there's the map with the 22 parcels highlighted

[4:50] and then the pdf with the 22 listed by

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[4:54] all right are there any questions

[4:59] okay if not they're not entertaining a

[5:01] motion

[5:02] second all those in favor all right

[5:04] thank you

[5:06] all right the next item is revised green

[5:08] fees and rates that's necessary golf

[5:10] course mr wallin

[5:13] and mr daley all right hi

[5:17] i thought i'd bring the biggest ones

[5:18] okay

[5:20] i'm over here okay

[5:22] uh so every year matt and i come to you

[5:25] uh with reprise

[5:26] uh greens fees and rates for connect

[5:28] musical golf course uh will you have it

[5:31] in your packet what we're

[5:32] proposing for this year we had an

[5:34] internal meeting ourselves uh finance

[5:36] commissioner mayor we discussed it we uh

[5:38] we've discussed it with the golf course

[5:40] uh committee a little bit

[5:42] and uh if we like what you see here

[5:44] we're looking

[5:46] at a general increase of three dollars

[5:47] and a 50 increase for

[5:50] season passes as well as five dollars

[5:52] for tournaments and then uh we

[5:54] simplified and actually get into it the

[5:57] golf pro lesson rates um there were some

[5:59] rates that just weren't structured the

[6:01] way that was simplest for us so matt

[6:03] came up with a cleaner rate for that

[6:05] along with some increases because they

[6:06] haven't been raised since i believe you

[6:08] started which was over nine years ago

[6:10] so

[6:12] matt you want to talk about how these

[6:14] compares just because i know you've been

[6:15] doing research on that yeah what do you

[6:17] want me to start with first the first

[6:20] yeah so

[6:22] you know we've

[6:24] pretty much prided our size ourselves

[6:26] the last few years since i've started

[6:28] anyway last nine years

[6:30] and really changing the professionalism

[6:31] of the golf course

[6:33] and we've we've become in such high

[6:36] demand

[6:37] when we compare our rates to the other

[6:39] golf courses i think we're very much

[6:40] undervaluing what we what we have

[6:44] so our newest competitor which is

[6:45] stadium golf club and obviously all the

[6:47] rumors are scrolling around with that

[6:48] facility

[6:50] i mean nothing is set in stone if

[6:51] anything's ever going to go through with

[6:52] that but in the meantime

[6:54] i can tell you that their most expensive

[6:56] rate with to ride

[6:58] would be 52

[7:00] which is two dollars more than what we

[7:01] are charging right now

[7:04] and then if you move along down the

[7:06] street to town a colony golf club our

[7:07] nearest municipal competitor

[7:10] uh for their residence to ride would be

[7:13] 49 and for a non-resident fifty four

[7:15] dollars now you compare that to ours

[7:17] we're charging for a resident to ride

[7:20] forty dollars

[7:21] nine dollars less than their resident

[7:23] fee

[7:24] uh fifty dollars for a non-resident

[7:26] which is four dollars less so even with

[7:28] this green speed increase that puts us

[7:30] right in line with our other competitors

[7:32] so it's not like we're going to be price

[7:34] gouging our customers

[7:37] uh and getting breed so to speak

[7:40] and i truly feel that

[7:42] we are undervaluing ourselves i think

[7:44] we're a much better facility in terms of

[7:46] the golf course layout

[7:47] uh the conditions are in my opinion are

[7:50] top-notch compared to the others and i

[7:52] say that because i'm the head

[7:53] professional there and so you should be

[7:58] um and then if you move into the next uh

[8:01] city over to albany capitol hills

[8:03] they're gonna support golf course now

[8:05] when coco struck

[8:07] they didn't open until mid-summer

[8:10] and when they did finally get their

[8:11] facility open they made a significant

[8:13] increase in their grains fees of ten

[8:15] dollars

[8:16] so now their most expensive rate

[8:19] uh is 69 with car okay

[8:23] so that is nineteen dollars more than

[8:24] we're charging

[8:26] i'm not asking for something that's

[8:28] significant okay

[8:29] but i do think that it needs to be

[8:31] addressed and of course you know we're

[8:33] always looking to do future projects and

[8:34] so this revenue increase will help for

[8:36] us

[8:38] in terms of the season passes

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[8:41] uh for a non-resident season pass is

[8:44] currently 1 250

[8:47] stadium golf club is charging 1 750

[8:51] so even with our increase

[8:53] for non-resident will be slightly more

[8:55] than theirs but for a resident will be

[8:57] significantly less than theirs

[9:01] so i hope that kind of puts things in

[9:02] perspective a little bit

[9:05] and then if you move into the to the

[9:07] saratoga county region eagle crest and

[9:09] van patten

[9:10] uh just over the rexford bridge not too

[9:12] far away

[9:13] there are their new ownership both

[9:15] facilities so i'm not really sure what

[9:17] their rate structures are going to be

[9:19] yet i do know that they were

[9:20] significantly higher than ours last year

[9:23] okay

[9:24] not sure where they're headed

[9:25] in terms of the next year

[9:27] and moving forward

[9:30] does anyone have any questions

[9:48] so the next item on the agenda is 2022

[9:51] budget uh golf budget amendment so i

[9:53] think we're staying for that yes uh

[9:56] thanks for watching this uh so what we

[9:58] have is matt and i met over the winter

[10:01] after the budget had been passed with

[10:04] our gulf war superintendent

[10:06] and he uh recommended that approximately

[10:09] a dozen or more trees come down uh he

[10:12] actually matched tour of the course with

[10:14] them that's why i want to say they're in

[10:16] strategic locations we have a couple of

[10:17] dead ones at i believe hole 10 that we'd

[10:20] like to we have some that are blocking

[10:22] the sunlight that's causing frost burn

[10:24] on some of our greens

[10:26] this is not what we did years ago these

[10:28] are strategically located trees

[10:29] strategically as

[10:31] they're not good anymore they've gotten

[10:32] too big

[10:33] uh that we like to uh

[10:36] get three prices on that's why thirty

[10:38] five thousand we're not looking to make

[10:39] this a bid it's just a

[10:41] you know three prices these 10 12 trees

[10:44] come down but because we didn't put it

[10:46] in the budget this was not available in

[10:47] our fees for service line

[10:49] and um so that's what we wanted to do

[10:51] was we have the money i spoke with

[10:53] anthony about it however to be able to

[10:55] have access to the money because we're

[10:56] taking it from our reserves we have to

[10:59] come to you for permission to do that

[11:00] transfer

[11:02] are there any questions just a question

[11:04] so um are you saying that you're not

[11:06] trying to put it out for a bit

[11:08] it's it's we're not looking for this

[11:09] what i'm getting at is uh before you

[11:11] were here about i think it was about

[11:12] four years ago five years ago we did a

[11:14] massive tree project we actually did two

[11:17] they were over six figures they involved

[11:19] the consultant they involved bid because

[11:21] we were over uh thirty five thousand

[11:23] dollars which requires a bit i just

[11:25] wanted to tell you as a council that

[11:26] what we're looking at here is

[11:29] like flagging a dozen trees that are too

[11:32] big and having a contractor come in a

[11:34] dozen so the price is going to be under

[11:36] the bid threshold so that's the 35 000

[11:38] that's why we're still going to get

[11:39] quotes we still

[11:45] that's where we got the numbers so this

[11:46] will put us in there we always follow

[11:48] procurement policy you know we've never

[11:50] done anything outside of that but we're

[11:52] not looking for this to be like

[11:54] a huge project that we've done in the

[11:56] past

[11:58] are there any other questions

[12:00] i'll move this second all those in favor

[12:02] oh hi thank you very much thank you

[12:06] now the remaining items all will all be

[12:09] in executive session for property sales

[12:11] so at this time i'd like to entertain a

[12:13] motion for recess

[12:16] second all those in favor all right

[12:19] thank you we're recess

[12:20] it's all toward finance and one item

[12:22] here is just a reminder

[12:24] amending

[12:25] reminder for public hearing on

[12:28] february 20th with regards to manning

[12:30] 2021 2022

[12:33] odd annual action plan

[12:35] let's see if you have any referrals

[12:41] okay

[12:43] any other business before finance i have

[12:45] something um before the meeting we

[12:48] received the email about the output

[12:49] meetings

[12:50] um just so it's your in case you haven't

[12:54] thought of it i think special media

[12:56] requires 72 hours notice

[12:58] and we wouldn't meet those requirements

[13:00] what's going to call false

[13:02] well if your problem pockets then you

[13:04] have a couple issues potentially

[13:06] all seven of us are democrats so that's

[13:08] a potential problem and secondly

[13:11] what you put in the agenda is requiring

[13:13] decisions to be made and that would

[13:15] break the

[13:16] open meeting on

[13:18] well it was just to discuss those things

[13:20] those are the things that we're supposed

[13:21] to discuss and i have been talking to mr

[13:23] colton about that so we'll work through

[13:25] whether it can be a caucus or not right

[13:26] but i did consult our corporation

[13:28] council on that but what you haven't put

[13:30] in the email does ask for decisions to

[13:32] be made and that would require

[13:36] a regular meeting i would just suggest

[13:38] we do this at the regular committee

[13:40] meetings anyway well i think that the

[13:42] regular committee

[13:43] i feel strongly that regular committee

[13:45] meaning this is going to take a lot of

[13:46] time and will take up a lot of our

[13:47] community meeting tonight we have a

[13:49] short one the last time we were here two

[13:50] and a half hours but the issue is people

[13:53] are used to opening uh special meetings

[13:56] used to our meetings on monday night

[13:59] we want people to participate we want

[14:00] people to pay attention if we have it on

[14:02] wednesday thursday or friday night

[14:04] they're not used to it they're going to

[14:05] miss the meeting then we'll just have to

[14:07] announce because we really need to move

[14:08] forward with this we really really have

[14:09] to get this going i sent down an email

[14:11] and some of you

[14:13] didn't even respond to the first one so

[14:15] that's because you asked for a special

[14:17] meet a special meeting requires 72 hours

[14:19] i asked i sent the email out two weeks

[14:21] ago

[14:22] you didn't respond at all in any way

[14:24] because it was a special meeting but you

[14:25] didn't even say when the time frame

[14:27] could be so we couldn't even schedule

[14:28] meetings because only two people

[14:30] responded so we couldn't even thursday

[14:32] evening

[14:33] no that was today's meeting no was the

[14:36] response was on a thursday evening the

[14:38] first meeting was asking for times and

[14:40] you didn't respond i think so and so

[14:42] only two

[14:43] and it said thursday night or friday

[14:46] which wouldn't have met the requirement

[14:48] for the 72 hours we hadn't even

[14:50] scheduled we were asking for times i'll

[14:52] say again and you didn't respond with

[14:53] any time most of you didn't two people

[14:55] responded with times i was waiting till

[14:58] now because i also wanted to suggest

[15:00] that we knew it during a committee

[15:01] meeting when it was a public meeting but you didn't respond in any way not

[15:04] even that but you just said you didn't

[15:06] even say that i'd like to discuss it so

[15:08] numbers i can't

[15:10] know anything if you don't respond to

[15:11] the emails

[15:13] so well so that's my recommendation well

[15:15] do it in a committee meeting well i

[15:16] think that we i think that's going to

[15:17] take a lot more time and it's going to

[15:19] just be a really and what we have to do

[15:21] that we have to get this committee done

[15:22] but we can have a discussion certainly

[15:24] it's not up to me entirely but i don't

[15:26] think that with something we should rush

[15:28] through and because we have so many

[15:29] other things on our agenda as it is and

[15:31] if people don't mind being here until

[15:32] nine or ten o'clock at night then i'm

[15:35] done because i'm not i'm not i'm fine

[15:36] with being here however long it takes

[15:38] but i don't want us to rush through it

[15:43] so and i'll just ask again if i send out

[15:45] an email some type of response would be

[15:48] uh just courteous to at least say

[15:51] yes no

[15:52] whatever your response is but to not

[15:54] respond at all

[15:55] i i can't figure out what you're

[15:57] thinking

[15:58] well the thinking was you asked for a

[16:00] special meeting you were even quoted in

[16:02] the newspaper asking for a special

[16:04] meeting that requires 72 hours but you

[16:06] didn't even respond and so we don't have

[16:08] to go round and round about that

[16:10] well i i suggest we have a regular

[16:12] committee meeting so people can pay

[16:14] attention well it's a discussion that'll

[16:16] be made by by the majority of the

[16:17] council but i i think that we need to

[16:21] you know definitely get it done

[16:22] regardless and answering emails is it

[16:24] important

[16:28] yes mr toro can i just ask um kylie

[16:31] mr coleman since you were married been

[16:33] talking marion's been talking so what is

[16:36] the deal can we have a meeting

[16:39] can you have a caucus meeting right a

[16:42] caucus or a special meeting does it need

[16:43] the 72 hours i mean well a caucus

[16:46] meeting is not

[16:48] subject to the open meetings law

[16:50] a special meaning would require

[16:52] notice in advance of the public um as

[16:55] much notice as we can provide

[16:58] so

[16:58] there are two separate things or

[17:00] actually three separate things

[17:02] council is all made up of one political

[17:04] party you cannot caucus

[17:08] so it becomes a a very fact intensive um

[17:12] you know proposition to do a caucus

[17:15] meeting um

[17:16] so what is your suggestion do we do it

[17:18] at one of our council meetings i'm not i

[17:21] mean that's really up to the council i

[17:23] can't tell you what to do i can just

[17:25] advise you on the legalities of it just

[17:27] one journey

[17:28] so we can discuss calling social media i

[17:30] just think that we the amount of time

[17:31] it's going to take and wanting to have

[17:33] staff here it's you know we definitely

[17:34] need to get move forward and like i said

[17:36] this is the second email one went out

[17:38] two weeks ago with response from only

[17:40] two

[17:40] of five people six people

[17:43] so

[17:44] we'll discuss it further

[17:46] we have not scheduled a meeting no we

[17:48] have not okay so therefore then we

[17:50] couldn't be

[17:51] in any in any violation everything

[17:53] because we have not scheduled the

[17:54] meeting right the first request was

[17:56] what's available and two people and you

[17:59] know who you are so i don't have to call

[18:00] you names answered and everyone else

[18:02] didn't say anything so

[18:04] um good point and clearly okay

[18:06] i don't we we've waited long enough and

[18:08] i was trying to get this moving people

[18:10] weren't responding and to

[18:12] say that while i was waiting for

[18:13] immediate response

[18:15] uh you know

[18:16] it just when someone sends an email it's

[18:18] a courtesy to respondents on some level

[18:21] so

[18:22] we will discuss um

[18:24] how we you know if we need to do there

[18:26] or if we need to do it here i'm open to

[18:29] either but i just want to say that if it

[18:31] takes whatever amount of time people

[18:32] should be prepared to stay and to do

[18:34] that

[18:35] okay so do we want to discuss here now since

[18:40] it was brought up here can finally have

[18:41] the special meeting or we go into the

[18:43] regular we can do it at 5 30 monday so

[18:46] uh then we'll have to be in time for

[18:48] seven so i'm open to that but i don't

[18:50] know what that looks like for other

[18:51] people that's a good idea to do it

[18:53] before

[18:55] let me monday's meeting

[18:55] the next committee meeting

[18:57] and that will just be that idea that

[18:59] will just be to like organize the

[19:01] committee as i said email things like

[19:03] that i'm sorry i think we'll be able to

[19:04] do it again so

[19:06] i'm certainly open to and we can get the

[19:07] noting meeting notice out and certainly

[19:09] hope it's a meeting at 5 30 this coming

[19:10] monday one and a half hours one and a

[19:12] half hours

[19:13] can we do five

[19:16] months

[19:17] 5 30.

[19:18] like starting one day

[19:20] 5 30 monday is fine

[19:22] we'll be okay okay so we'll meet 5 30

[19:24] monday

[19:26] and uh miss myku can send out the

[19:27] meeting numbers

[19:30] any other businesses for finance

[19:33] second all in favor

[19:38] like to call health and recreation to

[19:39] order um there's only one item on the

[19:41] agenda

[19:42] and that is uh just uh that i'd like to

[19:45] put in for a ceremonial resolution

[19:48] honoring women's history month which is

[19:49] the month of march and i think we've

[19:51] done this

[19:52] uh ever you know in the past so

[19:56] that's all i'd like to

[19:58] do do i ask for a resolution

[20:01] yeah

[20:01] so can i get a motion for that

[20:03] in a second

[20:14] sorry

[20:15] i didn't read my notebook

[20:17] okay so all in favor

[20:19] aye okay and so okay the motion to

[20:22] adjourn

[20:24] second second okay all in favor

[20:30] okay

[20:31] that's

[20:32] it okay i'd like to call the government

[20:35] operations to order um two we have two

[20:38] items on the agenda uh for discussion on

[20:42] the yellow dot program that's marion

[20:43] porterfield

[20:45] okay

[20:46] um president

[20:50] thank you mr allen so i just wanted to

[20:52] um bring this to your attention i heard

[20:54] i uh got a phone call from a constituent

[20:56] about something called the yellow dot

[20:57] program i frankly was not familiar with

[21:00] it but i did look into it so the yellow

[21:02] that program first of all is through the

[21:04] new york state association sheriff's

[21:06] association

[21:07] and what it does is that um i'll just

[21:10] pass it around so you guys can actually

[21:11] see what these are

[21:14] thank you

[21:20] so what the yellow dot program is that

[21:23] you you have the yellow dot and and just

[21:25] heat the paper and um

[21:29] the you put a dot on your car

[21:32] using the usually driver's window

[21:34] and i won't want this back though

[21:37] just so you know those are my personal

[21:38] ones i like this bag um

[21:41] and so you put a dot on your on the

[21:42] window of your car and then so the um

[21:46] and then this this piece of purpose

[21:48] completed

[21:49] and puts is in your glove compartment so

[21:51] any first responder when they see the

[21:53] yellow dot on your vehicle know that

[21:56] your medical information is there in

[21:57] your glove compartment

[21:59] at your home you put it on the door

[22:02] and the your this the information the

[22:04] card goes in the freezer so they don't

[22:06] have to look around and they draw a

[22:08] special drawer it's in the freezer of

[22:09] your home and then they know that your

[22:11] medical information is there

[22:13] so the program has been going on with

[22:15] the sheriff's department locally since

[22:16] 2012

[22:18] however um there hasn't really been a

[22:20] lot of advertisement and marketing for

[22:22] it in a number of years so when i found

[22:25] out about it especially right now we're

[22:27] in covid and people are doing

[22:28] telemedicine all that it just seemed

[22:30] ideal that we should do a little bit

[22:32] more marketing um around it and getting

[22:34] information out to people so they could

[22:36] know that this is available and then

[22:38] making sure that all first responders

[22:39] are involved as well uh the mayor and i

[22:41] had a meeting today with um the fire

[22:44] department chief at the fire department

[22:46] the police department and um the

[22:48] sheriff's department who actually it's

[22:50] under their purview this particular

[22:51] thing so we're working on pulling

[22:53] something together where we um roll the

[22:55] program out again

[22:57] and um in addition to that that we um

[23:00] make sure these are available and we

[23:02] have like each each entity will have

[23:04] them it will have it on their website a

[23:06] link to actually get these because you

[23:08] don't get these from the fire department

[23:09] that aren't local you could if they had

[23:11] them but you actually send away for them

[23:13] so we want to make sure that we also

[23:15] have a supply of them

[23:16] uh locally and that people actually know

[23:19] that the program exists um because it's

[23:22] you know really an i think a really

[23:24] outstanding program

[23:25] and something that people should know

[23:26] about and utilize and so

[23:28] um we're we're having discussions

[23:30] whether this will be county right

[23:31] because

[23:32] it's new york state sheriff's

[23:33] association so we're having discussions

[23:35] about that but definitely to roll that

[23:37] out and to make sure that people are

[23:38] informed about it

[23:41] so i just wanted to bring that forward

[23:43] and let the council know that it's being

[23:44] worked on

[23:45] and we'll you know then hopefully the

[23:47] next few weeks be able to actually do a

[23:49] rollout where we're actually putting

[23:50] information out there

[23:53] yes yes mayor did you want to add

[23:55] anything to that

[23:57] uh no i think you've covered it

[23:59] so

[24:01] that's it i just wanted you all to know

[24:03] i think it's an outstanding program and probably underutilized at this time

[24:07] so let's make sure that uh

[24:09] we uh utilize it so

[24:12] yeah i write about it when you i'm sorry

[24:14] when you had it on the agenda a couple

[24:16] weeks ago

[24:17] i went in and read about it and it does

[24:18] look like a very good program so it's

[24:20] already actually been underway with our

[24:22] share so it's been with our sheriff's

[24:24] department they did something in 2012.

[24:28] but um haven't done anything in the last

[24:31] um almost 10 years so

[24:34] now we're just wanting to

[24:36] do it collectively and have more

[24:37] entities involved and that way

[24:40] it doesn't get kind of lost in the sauce

[24:42] you know if everybody has it on their

[24:44] website and and more people have it um

[24:47] we have it here at city hall

[24:48] so that the people are aware of it and

[24:51] um you know can make sure they take

[24:53] advantage of it

[24:54] so

[24:55] mr parker yes i was just thinking like

[24:57] um with some of the telemedicine stuff

[25:00] that we're doing already uh responding

[25:02] with our i wonder if there's like a uh

[25:05] almost an electronic way to do this

[25:07] almost like if people could have a

[25:08] registry so a phone call comes from

[25:10] let's say

[25:11] this household

[25:13] you know medical history things that

[25:15] aren't efforts could immediately pop up

[25:17] on the screen for maybe a dispatch or

[25:19] something like that maybe something well

[25:21] i'm sure that could happen um however

[25:24] this program is something we're just

[25:25] helping market it's not yeah yeah just

[25:36] an ongoing education effort that we have

[25:39] to look at

[25:41] where you point out most phones today

[25:43] have what's called an ice function in

[25:46] case of emergency

[25:48] a lot of people don't understand that so

[25:50] that

[25:52] even though your phone is locked and you

[25:54] have

[25:54] its password protected

[25:56] that emergency

[25:58] medical people can access that limited

[26:01] area in your phone that would

[26:03] talk about your medicine medical history

[26:06] emergency contact

[26:08] people and

[26:09] again this yellow dot is

[26:12] something that's been around a while and

[26:14] it does a similar function

[26:17] uh and so it's how do you just

[26:18] continually make people aware of it

[26:21] where we all hope that we never in those

[26:23] situations where you need the emergency

[26:26] services and people don't know

[26:29] some of your background your history but

[26:32] it does happen and how do you just

[26:34] prepare people and

[26:37] enable

[26:38] first responders to be able to react

[26:40] appropriately and

[26:42] size up the situation and provide

[26:45] again that

[26:47] correct treatment and diagnosis

[26:52] any further discussion on this

[26:56] okay i think bro that's on the agenda is

[26:59] we're going to talk about our osm

[27:01] broadcast the city council committee and

[27:02] follow up

[27:03] right at our last meeting um

[27:06] we had discussed you know that there

[27:08] need to be the mayor said it would need

[27:09] to be a broader plan but one of the

[27:11] outcomes of the meeting as i understand

[27:12] it mr palami said about us purchasing

[27:15] microphones

[27:16] so

[27:17] um as my understanding is they've come

[27:19] up with a price

[27:21] what is it

[27:22] how much about 530

[27:24] about five thirty but by 530 to purchase

[27:28] microphone so it's not doesn't fix

[27:30] everything but it fixes the fact that we

[27:34] are sharing a microphone the other day

[27:36] we you know we the council member had to

[27:37] speak and so

[27:39] the other counselor had to go get the

[27:40] microphone bring it over to them so this

[27:42] would um

[27:44] alleviate that problem and then you know

[27:46] still be working on the larger problem

[27:47] so um

[27:48] i just wanted to bring that forward that

[27:50] i guess that's something that we can

[27:51] just go ahead and do on one or two

[27:54] oh do we want one or two

[27:59] is it 530 for two or for each one

[28:04] it was also an option to have

[28:06] in the tech department was looking into

[28:09] that

[28:11] those crane type microphones so they

[28:13] would be at each member's

[28:16] desk

[28:17] so we were waiting for cost information

[28:19] on that so i don't know if we

[28:21] wanted to look into that but the i know

[28:24] the mayor's office was looking into that

[28:27] the line had asked for a second the tech

[28:30] individual for second and third

[28:35] options of the entire package

[28:38] but that was something that's being

[28:40] looked into so if we want the individual

[28:43] microphones as well

[28:45] in addition to this or until these are

[28:48] just instead of oh instead of these

[28:50] and how long do you know how much and

[28:52] how long haven't that

[28:54] have they gotten any have you been able

[28:57] to get any cost factors yet

[28:59] estimates

[29:01] i i'm not aware of the

[29:03] cost of anybody else's i know this had

[29:06] sent something

[29:08] but

[29:08] let me see if i can find it

[29:14] so if we if if

[29:16] it's going to be a long time i i really

[29:18] think that we should at least have a

[29:19] couple of microphones that we could use

[29:20] to share one on each side so that makes

[29:23] two

[29:24] because right now it's just

[29:27] it's cumbersome trying to um you know

[29:29] for the council members to try to

[29:31] have a microphone use

[29:33] i wouldn't think it would take an awful

[29:35] long time i mean it's just a matter of

[29:37] seeing if the state has and or if we have to buy it

[29:41] from a private

[29:43] veteran

[29:44] mr williams oh my on the recommendation

[29:46] would be whatever we decide if we just

[29:48] have an additional unit as a uh just

[29:51] backup so we're not having to re-create

[29:53] this entire conversation but

[29:56] so since our our last meeting i did

[29:58] reach out to a superintendent uh uh the

[30:01] schenectady city school district looking

[30:03] to see if there's something that and we

[30:05] can borrow in the interim

[30:07] uh just you know right now a lot of

[30:09] people in office are out so um i'll

[30:11] continue following up just because my

[30:13] only concern is i don't want to be in a

[30:14] position where people were having

[30:16] meetings and people can't hear us right

[30:18] like it and as we're you know because

[30:20] there's some processes obviously we have

[30:21] to follow i want to make sure that we

[30:22] can

[30:23] you know people can hear us in the

[30:25] meantime so

[30:27] i'll let you guys know i don't know

[30:30] borrow the microphone until we can yeah

[30:47] so if we could just find out how much it

[30:49] would cost to so um

[30:51] we're talking about the microphone per

[30:52] person so six of those it's

[30:55] the ones that we have uh

[30:57] it's the ones with the the

[30:59] stick you know them and the microphones

[31:01] but they're wired so they're not

[31:03] wireless so like the ones that we're

[31:05] using up there yeah so the issue

[31:07] hopefully with the wireless would not be

[31:09] a problem though because they would be

[31:11] hired

[31:13] okay

[31:14] any other uh discussion around that i

[31:17] just want to give i want to bring some

[31:18] circle around so you're going to mr

[31:20] follow me find out the cost on that b

[31:22] and we're talking about not doing the two

[31:25] wireless this is the mean time whichever

[31:27] way yeah i can get the cost

[31:30] and assignment

[31:31] yeah so i think because we really need

[31:33] to solve this has been it's going down

[31:35] real fast

[31:36] we went down from three to one to none

[31:39] and pretty soon if the last one the one

[31:41] that we have goes out

[31:42] together we have to scream out loud

[31:44] so you can find that out and we can send

[31:46] out the information so we can make a

[31:47] decision on that

[31:50] okay any further discussion on that

[31:55] okay

[31:56] i think that's my motion to return so

[31:59] second all in favor say aye aye

[32:04] so um i'd like to open claims but i

[32:07] believe we have to go into executive

[32:09] session for all of our items on claims

[32:12] correct so i'll call for a motion to go

[32:14] into executive session

[32:17] okay all in favor

[32:19] okay so we're going to execute

[32:29] you

Schenectady City Council Committee Meeting, February 22, 2022

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