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i can't scour all the way
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[Applause]
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yes i did
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you didn't notice
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it's a call to order the schenectady
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city council committee meeting for
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monday march 7th 2022
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and um we've had some we have some
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absences tonight so we're going to have
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we've changed our agenda um let me just
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be clear since these are public servants
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mr move aaron will not be here this
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evening
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mr farley
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had a family emergency and illness in
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the family and miss patrick will have to
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leave early so we've changed the agenda
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to accommodate the members that are here
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and we've moved claims to the beginning
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of the agenda otherwise we would not
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have a quorum so at this um time
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i'll turn over to ms patrick whose share
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of claims i'd like to open claims
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and i would like to call for a motion to
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go into executive session
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okay
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all right
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go back
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i'd like to open up the finance
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committee the first item on the agenda
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is the 2020
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to 2022.
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uh emergency solutions grant esg cv
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mr good evening everyone this is just um
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in relation to a contract amendment with
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cares of new york and bethesda house and
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it's related to the emergency solutions
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grant that was awarded through the cares
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act it's just a transfer of funding
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from the rapid rehousing and homeless
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prevention to the street outreach
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program so they're requesting to
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transfer 25 000
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to the street outrage program so this is
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just a resolution accepting this
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amendment and um
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authorizing the mayor is designated to
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enter a contract to effectuate the
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agreement are there any questions
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seeing none have emotion
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second all in favor i have a motion to
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adjourn
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second all in favor
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like the open administrative efficiency
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the first item on the agenda is the
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seeker for barrack street and south
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avenue mr yoke
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this is the secret determination
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for the rezone of approximately 3.91
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acres from r2 to the c4 downtown zoning
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the the planning commission made a
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recommendation
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at their last meeting and this is this
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first revolution for the city council to
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adopt the negative uh seeker deprivation
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the determination of non-significance
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are there any questions
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there was a little bit more opposition
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the planning commission that i than i
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expected but this was going to be more
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simple and straightforward and i don't
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know if the council
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just
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to take that into consideration
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as you move forward
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i thought this was going to be kind of
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simple and straightforward some of the
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neighborhood in fact
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is not unified in this
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undertaking
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this part of you so um
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do we have information that you know
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kind of talks about that any place
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uh i don't have the minutes from the
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planning commission
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[Music]
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but it could be made available to the
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council
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but they they but they had enough they
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had the majority that voted it through
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is that's why it's back here with us
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correct
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yes
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um
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now the one they did so this would be
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separate from this rezon record but the
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planning commission did recommend
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that this in the seaport downtown makes
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use that um convenience stores would be
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required to obtain a special use permit
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so that was kind of one of the
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recommendations along with this i think
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some of the concerns were just around
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that
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and just the unknown of what would be
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developed in the area um
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you know again the reality is that it is
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adjacent to the c4 and if the zoning
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kind of changes mid block um but yes i'm
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aware that there were comments just
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around the uncertainty
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and the other recommendation from the
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planning commission was to for the
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consideration of
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requiring that convenience stores get a
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special use permit
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to open
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is there any time sensitivity to this
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um
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not i mean this is just this is
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something that's been in alignment with
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the comprehensive plan just other things
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that we're looking at and the just the
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lack of kind of use of the lots there so
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there's no immediate time constraint if
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you wanted to wait to see
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you know something else um
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that's possibility my recommendation is
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we hold off until we get the minutes of
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the planning commission we can look at
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those and then
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proceed i would agree
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so motion to table
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second oh favorite
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thank you
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multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation
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plan mr walling
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hello
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so
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every five years the county
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updates our regional hazard mitigation
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plans effort is led by
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ema at the county with all the local
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jurisdictions in the county taking place
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we have to vote and outline our
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objectives goals and
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agree on kind of just a general
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work plan for not only the city for the
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county this plan is then updated we work
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with fh hwa
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i think it's land on it and then it goes
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on to the record we have it and then
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we're eligible for federal funding to
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actually implement part of the plan one
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of the things that we've done is uh we
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put a berm around the water wells years
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ago we're looking at doing some things
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at the wastewater treatment plant there
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was a plan at one point maybe put a
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generator at city hall it's all
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mitigation plans
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so that
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we are prepared when hazards do come and
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we have to evaluate what hazards that we
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would have you know so we're not birth
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defective
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lately even tornadoes we've had
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you know power outage we actually
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identified trees in the plan
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like for the first time because when we
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do have these
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issues with high winds the trees are the
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villain when they take down power then
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they cause the issues
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so
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we put together that plan it is i did
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have the link it's a very large way so i
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don't know if you had a chance to look
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at the link but the link is is there for
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the entire county the city just has an
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extra
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um but i didn't want to provide it to
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these
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several hundred pages that would be
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printed
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so
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um this is a good bedtime reading
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tonight yeah
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well is there any questions on it this
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is something that's required for the
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city to be able to receive federal
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funding
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are there any questions
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have a motion
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second second all in favor all right
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thank you next is to authorize the mayor
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to go into agreement with metroplex for
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the
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mohawk harbor dock project grant
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yep
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so
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several years ago
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actually metroplex made mr dillon here
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working with the blessing group and the
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city
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completed and was successfully awarded a
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cfa for the construction of a large
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vessel dock and trail along the mohawk
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river
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as you may be aware mohawk harbor
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currently has a harbor but the harbor
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typically has a limitation of roughly 40
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feet in length for boats i know that
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sometimes they get a little bit larger
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than 40 in there however the boats that
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traverse between uh say chicago and new
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york city some of them can be upwards of
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over 100 feet
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these boats will not fit there
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so the idea is that we would be able to
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capture this as a tourist destination
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also use this as possibly something for
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recreational boating and also what is
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the term commercial where we would have
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a maybe a larger vessel like a dutch
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apple or something where we can actually
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do cruises and this is all possible
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using this
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part of that is public access to the
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dock
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so that the public can use it for
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working at kayaking fishing general access to the dock
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and we're looking to incorporate it
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directly into the alko heritage trail
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which goes along the river
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so to do this we put out an rfp last
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year we received two proposals we
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selected a team of
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waterfront solutions in mj engineering
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we entered into a contract with them
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late last year
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part of that was working out this
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agreement here between the city and
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metroplex due to the complexities and
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the in the design and getting the
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agreements together
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we have just started surveying a project
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we have geotech lined up because these
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docks are going to require footings to
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anchor them to the river
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so we don't have any plans we don't have
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anything i know that there was some
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conversation about renderings or renderings they were used
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as part of the grant application they're
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you know they're nice to look at but
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they're not really representative of
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what we're doing because we don't know
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what we're doing
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so
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this agreement here
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is to cover those design costs that we
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talked about that was part of the thing
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that
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the discrepancy was
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our original estimate
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had a design cost that was slightly less
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metroplex agreed to cover that
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difference which is what we're talking
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about here so that we can move forward
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there is no city costs um this is paid
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for by the cfa this metroplex share and
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then the local share is actually being
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covered by the gillessy group through a
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partnership
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so um so that our local share is
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actually uh nothing
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so that's what this agreement was for i
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know i've got a chance to look through
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it i don't know
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you did a great job as always chris i
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just uh
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you know we have uh
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we have the biggest waterfront project
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in upstate new york and mobile carver
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it's a huge success dr brian stratton he
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trumpets it all the time it's
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the biggest most successful waterfront
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project
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and for so many years skanky was cut off
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from our waterfront i grew up here of
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course alco playing close at 69. gary
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talks about elvis all the time right for
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50 years and sat there rusting and no
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one could recreate no one could connect
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to the river we've connected to the
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river again we have a marina people rent
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kayaks and boats there they can dock
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their boats there they go to restaurants
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they go to the casinos and two hotels
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we really didn't have a dock for as
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chris said a large tour boats could tie
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up prior to covid we had some real
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interest from some of these boats they
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call them loopers they go around to
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chicago off the mississippi and that
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would be really exciting to bring you
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know some tourism dollars but also for
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people here that want to go out on the
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river and fish go out and launch their
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own kayak or canoe set a renting one at
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the marina it's really for the people to
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be able to go out and and also like the
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ski teams are really excited about it
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the other groups that want to recreate
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the river
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we really thank the galessi group for
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providing over 300 thousand dollars that
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would have otherwise been the city's
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match
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we had a little bit of a overage on the
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design costs that's where metroplex is
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putting in 75k the rest is funded by a
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state grant no cost to the city
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except for chris's time uh and he's been
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great well i think the mayor because we
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actually had secretary of state rosada
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rosado come out and torah and gary's
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really made a plea for this for this
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grant to be awarded and that really made
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a critical difference in getting the
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grant so we're really excited about this
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a couple of questions came in we did
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some answers for you and sent those
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around but it's
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we're really at early stage this year
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it'll be a year of design work there'll
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be public input sessions
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as part of the contract and hopefully we
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build this next year
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and connect our community back to the
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waterfront
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in a way we've really never had before
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so we're really excited about this
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appreciate the council
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moving forward to accept 75 000 from
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metroplex are there any questions
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no gladly except 75.
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second on paper
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thank you
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next is the authorize the mayor to go
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into an agreement with metroplex for
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pedestrian safety action
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more comfortable
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so what this is another agreement with
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metroplex i actually was here i believe
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two weeks ago maybe four talking about
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the psat and there was a question about
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uh the shares and we talked when i said
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i believe the metroplex share was
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between 200 and 300 so this is it is
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300. so what this is is that the psat is
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a federally a 100 eligible project
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however due to the location of it being
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around city hall and the combined
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efforts of metroplex in the city to do a
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two-way j in front of the post office we
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thought that we would want to do that
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all and the same project at the same
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time instead of two contractors two
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things so
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it was decided that the
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share would be split between metroplex
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and the city um the local share is
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approximately six hundred thousand
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dollars three hundred of it uh
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to the city three hundred to metroplex
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was a disagreement so at the end of that
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project we will have upgraded pedestrian
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signals around uh two-way j from the
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post office and then decorative
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crosswalks and pedestrian refuge areas
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are any questions this park field so
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we've already had we ever had the funds
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already uh allocated for this yeah 300
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000.
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yeah our funds are allocated correct yes
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we have
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yeah
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we have all of our paying funds i manage
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those we have we have more than enough
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money to cover this and our paving
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program okay yeah we were in good shape
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and then metroplex of course is in good
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shape so we're we're ready to go this
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contract is actually already going to
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award the calendar uh of course we've
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already had meetings they're looking to
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start you know the beginning of the
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spring so this is just accepting of
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accepting someone okay okay
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anything else
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kind of a motion
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second call
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thank you
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next is to authorize the issue as a
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revocable permit to unique lounge for a
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sign
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this is our local permit unique cloud is
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on duane avenue it was it has been
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historically a bar and restaurant
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i believe they have an owner's name
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same owner
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i believe that's what it is and so what
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we're looking is we're vocal current for
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the sign that overhangs it right away
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and the on
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i believe this property is still owned
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by the city uh the city council
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previously authorized a um
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an option agreement
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uh for princess rollins on this so in
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order for her to exercise that option
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she needs to
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get all of her ducks in a row before we
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transfer the property so this is part of
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that
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okay
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any other questions oh so we didn't
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she's not owning it yet then not yet but
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she's trying to get everything that was
[44:52]
part of the option was that she had to
[44:53]
um
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get certain approvals before we transfer
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to her property
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have a motion
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second
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favorite thank you
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next is a ceremonial resolution for
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saint patrick's day mr williams uh
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thanks for mr paul
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uh the investments of irish americans in
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the city of sanectity and also
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throughout the country is
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something that does not need any
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discussion
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i am very excited to work on this
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project
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i know
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trying to get the proper words to say me
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being a proud um african-american
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definitely supporting
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the legislation last month was was
[45:38]
something that was near my heart but
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that definitely exceeds beyond
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my specific race so i'm excited to take
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into consideration the proposed
[45:48]
resolution that was submitted by mr owen
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wilson i had the opportunity to attend
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their last meeting at the hibernian
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they're a group of and passionate and uh
[45:57]
motivated individuals
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that they had a uh
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i think it was a
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cabbage dinner or something like that or
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not a fish didn't fish any fish thing
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but
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staying on task uh definitely excited i
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want to make sure the resolution that we
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do pass forward as a council is a
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message that we can adopt as the city of
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schenectady so i've already had
[46:17]
discussions with mr wilson uh there will
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be some adjustments uh i can forward
[46:22]
those out to the council members for
[46:23]
their consideration but unless there are
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any questions
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i think we'll do a motion um
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and
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we'll assume everything's be okay we'll
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wait till we get this but do a motion to
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move it along and then
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if there's some issue with the second
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all in favor
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thank you
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uh next is your planning commission
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appointments mr carter
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[Music]
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can uh some vacancies on the city
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planning commission
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submitted
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two names for your consideration today
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uh diary
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tall or junior and colin
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evers
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that's the council's favorite
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consideration
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any questions
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no i just um
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do a statement um so i'm glad to see
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that the um planning commission is
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getting more members because they were
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you know there were people leaving
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unfortunately we had someone pass away
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so
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they do important work so i'm glad to
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see that we
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are filling those seats so i would
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definitely uh make that motion have a
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second second all in favor aye thank you
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next is the advisory committee on our
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funding is portfolio okay so just to to
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kind of give an update of where we were
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um at our last meeting we um we asked
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for people to submit their names and at
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this point and we still have a week to
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go there are 24 people who have
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submitted their names which is really
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not a bad that's a bad number um
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i sent out uh because we may have to based on what the correct
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you know recommendation or may have to
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cut it down so i sent out um an email
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with um
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the draft
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application so i did get some um
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responses to that and just uh so you
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know we really um i would like to
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any final edits by tomorrow so we can
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actually put together the final document
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and be ready because we have said that
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on the 14th all names need to be to sam
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so um i think that by the 15th we should
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be in a position that we can actually
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email out all of the um
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the applications
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i know there was a suggestion to put it
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on the city website however we're
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targeting specific people and i don't
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want people to get the impression that
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if it's on the city website that they
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still have an opportunity to
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um to to
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apply because that's not what we what we
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agreed on so um that's where we are and
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of course there'll be a cover letter to
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go with that application
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and um
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so i'm just excited to see that people
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are
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lining up that's great so just an update
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um
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all right
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thank you so i was the person that
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suggested putting it on the website but
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um
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and that's fine i that that's a good
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point um but it would be great if we
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could make it a fillable pdf so even
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when it gets sent back out
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to the people that are sending their
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names to uh ms maiku that at least would
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be easier for them to just fill in the
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application instead of having to hand
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write it or anything like that
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um
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i don't know how to do that but i'm
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assuming there's someone with it hear
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that well we did have a discussion based
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on that recommendation and um for those
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who can do this syllable pdf that's
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great there's some people that cannot as
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you said and sometimes with fillable
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pdfs when you send them from one
[49:41]
application to the next the information
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doesn't exactly gel because i i talked
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to ms michael about that because based
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on your recommendation so that was the
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concern
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so that to make sure that the when the
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um
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that was you know for miss michael who's
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going to be receiving all of these that
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make sure that the information
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translates correctly so um we're
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standing out in hard copy we're going to
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ask
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them to then return to her
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we don't want any
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more
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challenges
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you know if somebody's application
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doesn't come through properly or
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something like that so
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um and a lot of people can't do the
[50:16]
fillable pdf you'd be surprised
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so that was um that was you know as i
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said i discussed with mike miss michael
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based on your recommendation and she
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also got that as well and that was her
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concern since she is the one who will
[50:28]
have to do the work on that okay i know
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there were a couple of other questions
[50:32]
still um i
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do agree i think if we're going to have
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them
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um last time we talked about folks
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needing to reside in the city of
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schenectady i think that should probably
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i think that should be right here that
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should be a um
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put that on there well it would be
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actually on the cover letter because
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there'll be a cover letter over there so
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people know they won't even have to get
[50:54]
to the application and once they reach
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the cover letter they'll know this
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doesn't apply to me i don't even need to
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go any further okay and then i just
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really do think that probably asking mr
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colton to look at the pieces that are
[51:05]
more sort of legal
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um i think would be a good idea in terms
[51:09]
of the language that we put into this
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well when i sent out the original email
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i specifically asked mr colton to do
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that when i sent out the email that all
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of you got i specifically said to said
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mr andrew could you look at this though
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that was in there
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i sent uh this afternoon i sent um
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proposed provisions to the conflict of
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interest statement to ms mikey and
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president porterfield for their review
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great thank you welcome
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thank you and that's the only thing that i had other
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than that so little ones little copy
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edits
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we'll um so we'll incorporate um there
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were other members who had some concerns
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oh um i'll speak to this one which they
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said about hobbies and interests so um
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part of it is um from i see this as
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developing a volunteer base
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uh we made from some of these people who
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send in their applications maybe people
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that would eventually sit on other
[51:58]
committees that when we have vacancies
[52:00]
because that's another conversation
[52:01]
we're gonna have to have a little bit
[52:02]
down the road in terms return fulfilling
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vacancies
[52:04]
so having that information and it could
[52:06]
we could put it as optional which was a
[52:08]
also recommendation one person just put
[52:09]
it as optional
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um that kind of gives us a little bit
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more about people um we're not you know
[52:15]
trying to you know we don't want to like
[52:16]
hang out with them necessarily or maybe
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we do but um but just to have that
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information and and most people and that
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to me is an easy part to fill out you
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know what your hobbies and interests are
[52:24]
and again just to be able to have a base
[52:26]
of people that we can if they don't get
[52:28]
to sit on this committee because it's
[52:30]
conceivable if we get way too many right
[52:32]
now we're at 24 and we talked about 15.
[52:34]
um we could still have those people and
[52:36]
then be able to reach out to them
[52:37]
because based on their interests would
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you be interested in sitting on this
[52:41]
committee or that committee so that's
[52:42]
just a way that we don't always have to
[52:44]
start recruiting people and looking for
[52:46]
names when we have vacancies so
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that was the thought behind that
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my only concern was the last little bit
[52:56]
but i was waiting to see what the final
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thing is because i knew it was being
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worked out so
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otherwise i was relatively okay with you
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know there are some typos and whatnot
[53:06]
that's easy to clean up
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anything else
[53:10]
mr williams oh so just for clarification
[53:13]
uh it's 24
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names in total or is it 24 additional to
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the 15 previously
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total
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and then just a common more or less i
[53:21]
would just recommend having hard copies
[53:23]
available at city hall in case
[53:25]
individuals don't have access to the
[53:26]
internet and then i definitely i don't
[53:29]
want to recommend uh additional actions
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if i'm not willing to put myself forward
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so if anyone has any issues filling it
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out i will volunteer myself to get on
[53:38]
the phone with you and help fell out
[53:40]
just to make sure everyone feels like
[53:41]
they uh
[53:42]
have their voice being considered
[53:47]
i'm not sure that we should probably
[53:49]
offer that from you maybe that should
[53:50]
come from the staff or something
[53:52]
yeah i think that would be
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i don't know it just seems like on the
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edge there
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yeah with a council member don't get it
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and just to the earlier point i think if
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uh when ms michael gets the name she'll
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be sending out the application so if we
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have extra hard copies available here
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it's the same thing as having it on the
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website you know what i mean that um
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other people passed the deadline of
[54:15]
march 14th could just pick up the
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hard copy so
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sorry i've had a very hard kill yeah no
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i mean i'm feeling the same way um
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so anything further
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all right i'd like to go uh have a
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motion to go into executive session for
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sale properties so
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kind of second
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