Schenectady City Council Committee Meeting, March 7, 2022

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[0:36] i can't scour all the way
[0:48] [Applause]
[0:50] yes i did
[0:54] you didn't notice
[2:07] it's a call to order the schenectady
[2:08] city council committee meeting for
[2:10] monday march 7th 2022
[2:13] and um we've had some we have some
[2:15] absences tonight so we're going to have
[2:16] we've changed our agenda um let me just
[2:18] be clear since these are public servants
[2:20] mr move aaron will not be here this
[2:22] evening
[2:23] mr farley
[2:24] had a family emergency and illness in
[2:26] the family and miss patrick will have to
[2:28] leave early so we've changed the agenda
[2:30] to accommodate the members that are here
[2:33] and we've moved claims to the beginning
[2:35] of the agenda otherwise we would not
[2:36] have a quorum so at this um time
[2:40] i'll turn over to ms patrick whose share
[2:42] of claims i'd like to open claims
[2:44] and i would like to call for a motion to
[2:46] go into executive session
[2:53] okay
[29:51] all right
[29:52] go back
[29:54] i'd like to open up the finance
[29:56] committee the first item on the agenda
[29:58] is the 2020
[30:01] to 2022.
[30:04] uh emergency solutions grant esg cv
[30:09] mr good evening everyone this is just um
[30:12] in relation to a contract amendment with
[30:14] cares of new york and bethesda house and
[30:16] it's related to the emergency solutions
[30:18] grant that was awarded through the cares
[30:20] act it's just a transfer of funding
[30:23] from the rapid rehousing and homeless
[30:24] prevention to the street outreach
[30:26] program so they're requesting to
[30:28] transfer 25 000
[30:32] to the street outrage program so this is
[30:34] just a resolution accepting this
[30:36] amendment and um
[30:38] authorizing the mayor is designated to
[30:40] enter a contract to effectuate the
[30:42] agreement are there any questions
[30:45] seeing none have emotion
[30:47] second all in favor i have a motion to
[30:50] adjourn
[30:51] second all in favor
[30:53] like the open administrative efficiency
[30:55] the first item on the agenda is the
[30:57] seeker for barrack street and south
[30:59] avenue mr yoke
[31:01] this is the secret determination
[31:04] for the rezone of approximately 3.91
[31:06] acres from r2 to the c4 downtown zoning
[31:10] the the planning commission made a
[31:12] recommendation
[31:14] at their last meeting and this is this
[31:17] first revolution for the city council to
[31:19] adopt the negative uh seeker deprivation
[31:22] the determination of non-significance
[31:25] are there any questions
[31:29] there was a little bit more opposition
[31:33] the planning commission that i than i
[31:35] expected but this was going to be more
[31:38] simple and straightforward and i don't
[31:40] know if the council
[31:42] just
[31:43] to take that into consideration
[31:46] as you move forward
[31:48] i thought this was going to be kind of
[31:50] simple and straightforward some of the
[31:51] neighborhood in fact
[31:55] is not unified in this
[32:00] undertaking
[32:04] this part of you so um
[32:06] do we have information that you know
[32:09] kind of talks about that any place
[32:11] uh i don't have the minutes from the
[32:14] planning commission
[32:16] [Music]
[32:19] but it could be made available to the
[32:21] council
[32:23] but they they but they had enough they
[32:25] had the majority that voted it through
[32:26] is that's why it's back here with us
[32:29] correct
[32:31] yes
[32:35] um
[32:36] now the one they did so this would be
[32:39] separate from this rezon record but the
[32:41] planning commission did recommend
[32:43] that this in the seaport downtown makes
[32:45] use that um convenience stores would be
[32:48] required to obtain a special use permit
[32:50] so that was kind of one of the
[32:51] recommendations along with this i think
[32:53] some of the concerns were just around
[32:54] that
[32:55] and just the unknown of what would be
[32:57] developed in the area um
[32:59] you know again the reality is that it is
[33:02] adjacent to the c4 and if the zoning
[33:05] kind of changes mid block um but yes i'm
[33:07] aware that there were comments just
[33:09] around the uncertainty
[33:11] and the other recommendation from the
[33:13] planning commission was to for the
[33:15] consideration of
[33:17] requiring that convenience stores get a
[33:19] special use permit
[33:20] to open
[33:22] is there any time sensitivity to this
[33:26] um
[33:29] not i mean this is just this is
[33:30] something that's been in alignment with
[33:32] the comprehensive plan just other things
[33:34] that we're looking at and the just the
[33:35] lack of kind of use of the lots there so
[33:38] there's no immediate time constraint if
[33:41] you wanted to wait to see
[33:44] you know something else um
[33:46] that's possibility my recommendation is
[33:48] we hold off until we get the minutes of
[33:50] the planning commission we can look at
[33:52] those and then
[33:54] proceed i would agree
[33:58] so motion to table
[34:02] second oh favorite
[34:03] thank you
[34:18] multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation
[34:20] plan mr walling
[34:29] hello
[34:31] so
[34:32] every five years the county
[34:35] updates our regional hazard mitigation
[34:37] plans effort is led by
[34:39] ema at the county with all the local
[34:42] jurisdictions in the county taking place
[34:44] we have to vote and outline our
[34:47] objectives goals and
[34:50] agree on kind of just a general
[34:53] work plan for not only the city for the
[34:56] county this plan is then updated we work
[34:58] with fh hwa
[35:00] i think it's land on it and then it goes
[35:02] on to the record we have it and then
[35:04] we're eligible for federal funding to
[35:06] actually implement part of the plan one
[35:08] of the things that we've done is uh we
[35:10] put a berm around the water wells years
[35:12] ago we're looking at doing some things
[35:14] at the wastewater treatment plant there
[35:16] was a plan at one point maybe put a
[35:17] generator at city hall it's all
[35:19] mitigation plans
[35:21] so that
[35:22] we are prepared when hazards do come and
[35:25] we have to evaluate what hazards that we
[35:26] would have you know so we're not birth
[35:28] defective
[35:30] lately even tornadoes we've had
[35:32] you know power outage we actually
[35:34] identified trees in the plan
[35:36] like for the first time because when we
[35:38] do have these
[35:39] issues with high winds the trees are the
[35:41] villain when they take down power then
[35:43] they cause the issues
[35:45] so
[35:46] we put together that plan it is i did
[35:48] have the link it's a very large way so i
[35:50] don't know if you had a chance to look
[35:52] at the link but the link is is there for
[35:54] the entire county the city just has an
[35:56] extra
[35:57] um but i didn't want to provide it to
[35:58] these
[35:59] several hundred pages that would be
[36:01] printed
[36:02] so
[36:03] um this is a good bedtime reading
[36:05] tonight yeah
[36:07] well is there any questions on it this
[36:09] is something that's required for the
[36:10] city to be able to receive federal
[36:12] funding
[36:14] are there any questions
[36:16] have a motion
[36:18] second second all in favor all right
[36:21] thank you next is to authorize the mayor
[36:23] to go into agreement with metroplex for
[36:26] the
[36:27] mohawk harbor dock project grant
[36:30] yep
[36:31] so
[36:32] several years ago
[36:34] actually metroplex made mr dillon here
[36:37] working with the blessing group and the
[36:38] city
[36:39] completed and was successfully awarded a
[36:41] cfa for the construction of a large
[36:45] vessel dock and trail along the mohawk
[36:48] river
[36:49] as you may be aware mohawk harbor
[36:51] currently has a harbor but the harbor
[36:53] typically has a limitation of roughly 40
[36:56] feet in length for boats i know that
[36:58] sometimes they get a little bit larger
[36:59] than 40 in there however the boats that
[37:02] traverse between uh say chicago and new
[37:05] york city some of them can be upwards of
[37:06] over 100 feet
[37:08] these boats will not fit there
[37:10] so the idea is that we would be able to
[37:12] capture this as a tourist destination
[37:14] also use this as possibly something for
[37:17] recreational boating and also what is
[37:20] the term commercial where we would have
[37:22] a maybe a larger vessel like a dutch
[37:24] apple or something where we can actually
[37:26] do cruises and this is all possible
[37:28] using this
[37:29] part of that is public access to the
[37:31] dock
[37:32] so that the public can use it for
[37:34] working at kayaking fishing general access to the dock
[37:40] and we're looking to incorporate it
[37:41] directly into the alko heritage trail
[37:44] which goes along the river
[37:47] so to do this we put out an rfp last
[37:50] year we received two proposals we
[37:52] selected a team of
[37:55] waterfront solutions in mj engineering
[37:58] we entered into a contract with them
[38:02] late last year
[38:03] part of that was working out this
[38:05] agreement here between the city and
[38:07] metroplex due to the complexities and
[38:10] the in the design and getting the
[38:11] agreements together
[38:13] we have just started surveying a project
[38:15] we have geotech lined up because these
[38:18] docks are going to require footings to
[38:19] anchor them to the river
[38:21] so we don't have any plans we don't have
[38:24] anything i know that there was some
[38:25] conversation about renderings or renderings they were used
[38:29] as part of the grant application they're
[38:31] you know they're nice to look at but
[38:32] they're not really representative of
[38:34] what we're doing because we don't know
[38:36] what we're doing
[38:37] so
[38:39] this agreement here
[38:40] is to cover those design costs that we
[38:43] talked about that was part of the thing
[38:45] that
[38:45] the discrepancy was
[38:48] our original estimate
[38:50] had a design cost that was slightly less
[38:52] metroplex agreed to cover that
[38:54] difference which is what we're talking
[38:56] about here so that we can move forward
[38:58] there is no city costs um this is paid
[39:01] for by the cfa this metroplex share and
[39:04] then the local share is actually being
[39:06] covered by the gillessy group through a
[39:08] partnership
[39:09] so um so that our local share is
[39:12] actually uh nothing
[39:14] so that's what this agreement was for i
[39:16] know i've got a chance to look through
[39:17] it i don't know
[39:22] you did a great job as always chris i
[39:24] just uh
[39:26] you know we have uh
[39:28] we have the biggest waterfront project
[39:30] in upstate new york and mobile carver
[39:32] it's a huge success dr brian stratton he
[39:34] trumpets it all the time it's
[39:36] the biggest most successful waterfront
[39:38] project
[39:39] and for so many years skanky was cut off
[39:41] from our waterfront i grew up here of
[39:43] course alco playing close at 69. gary
[39:46] talks about elvis all the time right for
[39:48] 50 years and sat there rusting and no
[39:50] one could recreate no one could connect
[39:52] to the river we've connected to the
[39:54] river again we have a marina people rent
[39:56] kayaks and boats there they can dock
[39:59] their boats there they go to restaurants
[40:01] they go to the casinos and two hotels
[40:04] we really didn't have a dock for as
[40:06] chris said a large tour boats could tie
[40:09] up prior to covid we had some real
[40:11] interest from some of these boats they
[40:12] call them loopers they go around to
[40:14] chicago off the mississippi and that
[40:17] would be really exciting to bring you
[40:18] know some tourism dollars but also for
[40:21] people here that want to go out on the
[40:23] river and fish go out and launch their
[40:26] own kayak or canoe set a renting one at
[40:28] the marina it's really for the people to
[40:30] be able to go out and and also like the
[40:33] ski teams are really excited about it
[40:36] the other groups that want to recreate
[40:37] the river
[40:39] we really thank the galessi group for
[40:41] providing over 300 thousand dollars that
[40:43] would have otherwise been the city's
[40:45] match
[40:46] we had a little bit of a overage on the
[40:50] design costs that's where metroplex is
[40:52] putting in 75k the rest is funded by a
[40:54] state grant no cost to the city
[40:57] except for chris's time uh and he's been
[41:00] great well i think the mayor because we
[41:02] actually had secretary of state rosada
[41:04] rosado come out and torah and gary's
[41:07] really made a plea for this for this
[41:09] grant to be awarded and that really made
[41:12] a critical difference in getting the
[41:14] grant so we're really excited about this
[41:15] a couple of questions came in we did
[41:17] some answers for you and sent those
[41:19] around but it's
[41:20] we're really at early stage this year
[41:22] it'll be a year of design work there'll
[41:24] be public input sessions
[41:27] as part of the contract and hopefully we
[41:29] build this next year
[41:31] and connect our community back to the
[41:33] waterfront
[41:35] in a way we've really never had before
[41:37] so we're really excited about this
[41:38] appreciate the council
[41:40] moving forward to accept 75 000 from
[41:43] metroplex are there any questions
[41:46] no gladly except 75.
[41:52] second on paper
[41:53] thank you
[41:55] next is the authorize the mayor to go
[41:59] into an agreement with metroplex for
[42:01] pedestrian safety action
[42:05] more comfortable
[42:08] so what this is another agreement with
[42:09] metroplex i actually was here i believe
[42:12] two weeks ago maybe four talking about
[42:15] the psat and there was a question about
[42:17] uh the shares and we talked when i said
[42:19] i believe the metroplex share was
[42:21] between 200 and 300 so this is it is
[42:24] 300. so what this is is that the psat is
[42:27] a federally a 100 eligible project
[42:29] however due to the location of it being
[42:31] around city hall and the combined
[42:33] efforts of metroplex in the city to do a
[42:35] two-way j in front of the post office we
[42:38] thought that we would want to do that
[42:39] all and the same project at the same
[42:41] time instead of two contractors two
[42:42] things so
[42:44] it was decided that the
[42:46] share would be split between metroplex
[42:48] and the city um the local share is
[42:50] approximately six hundred thousand
[42:52] dollars three hundred of it uh
[42:54] to the city three hundred to metroplex
[42:56] was a disagreement so at the end of that
[42:58] project we will have upgraded pedestrian
[43:01] signals around uh two-way j from the
[43:03] post office and then decorative
[43:04] crosswalks and pedestrian refuge areas
[43:08] are any questions this park field so
[43:10] we've already had we ever had the funds
[43:12] already uh allocated for this yeah 300
[43:15] 000.
[43:16] yeah our funds are allocated correct yes
[43:18] we have
[43:19] yeah
[43:20] we have all of our paying funds i manage
[43:22] those we have we have more than enough
[43:24] money to cover this and our paving
[43:26] program okay yeah we were in good shape
[43:28] and then metroplex of course is in good
[43:29] shape so we're we're ready to go this
[43:31] contract is actually already going to
[43:32] award the calendar uh of course we've
[43:34] already had meetings they're looking to
[43:36] start you know the beginning of the
[43:37] spring so this is just accepting of
[43:41] accepting someone okay okay
[43:44] anything else
[43:45] kind of a motion
[43:48] second call
[43:50] thank you
[43:51] next is to authorize the issue as a
[43:53] revocable permit to unique lounge for a
[43:57] sign
[44:00] this is our local permit unique cloud is
[44:03] on duane avenue it was it has been
[44:05] historically a bar and restaurant
[44:08] i believe they have an owner's name
[44:11] same owner
[44:12] i believe that's what it is and so what
[44:14] we're looking is we're vocal current for
[44:17] the sign that overhangs it right away
[44:19] and the on
[44:25] i believe this property is still owned
[44:26] by the city uh the city council
[44:27] previously authorized a um
[44:31] an option agreement
[44:32] uh for princess rollins on this so in
[44:35] order for her to exercise that option
[44:36] she needs to
[44:38] get all of her ducks in a row before we
[44:40] transfer the property so this is part of
[44:42] that
[44:43] okay
[44:44] any other questions oh so we didn't
[44:47] she's not owning it yet then not yet but
[44:50] she's trying to get everything that was
[44:52] part of the option was that she had to
[44:53] um
[44:54] get certain approvals before we transfer
[44:56] to her property
[45:02] have a motion
[45:05] second
[45:06] favorite thank you
[45:08] next is a ceremonial resolution for
[45:10] saint patrick's day mr williams uh
[45:13] thanks for mr paul
[45:15] uh the investments of irish americans in
[45:18] the city of sanectity and also
[45:19] throughout the country is
[45:21] something that does not need any
[45:23] discussion
[45:24] i am very excited to work on this
[45:27] project
[45:28] i know
[45:29] trying to get the proper words to say me
[45:31] being a proud um african-american
[45:34] definitely supporting
[45:36] the legislation last month was was
[45:38] something that was near my heart but
[45:40] that definitely exceeds beyond
[45:42] my specific race so i'm excited to take
[45:46] into consideration the proposed
[45:48] resolution that was submitted by mr owen
[45:50] wilson i had the opportunity to attend
[45:52] their last meeting at the hibernian
[45:54] they're a group of and passionate and uh
[45:57] motivated individuals
[45:59] that they had a uh
[46:01] i think it was a
[46:02] cabbage dinner or something like that or
[46:04] not a fish didn't fish any fish thing
[46:07] but
[46:08] staying on task uh definitely excited i
[46:10] want to make sure the resolution that we
[46:12] do pass forward as a council is a
[46:14] message that we can adopt as the city of
[46:16] schenectady so i've already had
[46:17] discussions with mr wilson uh there will
[46:20] be some adjustments uh i can forward
[46:22] those out to the council members for
[46:23] their consideration but unless there are
[46:26] any questions
[46:28] i think we'll do a motion um
[46:30] and
[46:32] we'll assume everything's be okay we'll
[46:35] wait till we get this but do a motion to
[46:38] move it along and then
[46:40] if there's some issue with the second
[46:42] all in favor
[46:43] thank you
[46:44] uh next is your planning commission
[46:46] appointments mr carter
[46:48] [Music]
[46:50] can uh some vacancies on the city
[46:52] planning commission
[46:54] submitted
[46:55] two names for your consideration today
[46:58] uh diary
[47:00] tall or junior and colin
[47:02] evers
[47:04] that's the council's favorite
[47:07] consideration
[47:09] any questions
[47:10] no i just um
[47:12] do a statement um so i'm glad to see
[47:14] that the um planning commission is
[47:15] getting more members because they were
[47:17] you know there were people leaving
[47:19] unfortunately we had someone pass away
[47:21] so
[47:22] they do important work so i'm glad to
[47:24] see that we
[47:25] are filling those seats so i would
[47:27] definitely uh make that motion have a
[47:29] second second all in favor aye thank you
[47:32] next is the advisory committee on our
[47:35] funding is portfolio okay so just to to
[47:38] kind of give an update of where we were
[47:40] um at our last meeting we um we asked
[47:42] for people to submit their names and at
[47:44] this point and we still have a week to
[47:46] go there are 24 people who have
[47:48] submitted their names which is really
[47:49] not a bad that's a bad number um
[47:52] i sent out uh because we may have to based on what the correct
[47:56] you know recommendation or may have to
[47:58] cut it down so i sent out um an email
[48:01] with um
[48:02] the draft
[48:04] application so i did get some um
[48:07] responses to that and just uh so you
[48:09] know we really um i would like to
[48:11] any final edits by tomorrow so we can
[48:14] actually put together the final document
[48:16] and be ready because we have said that
[48:18] on the 14th all names need to be to sam
[48:21] so um i think that by the 15th we should
[48:24] be in a position that we can actually
[48:25] email out all of the um
[48:28] the applications
[48:29] i know there was a suggestion to put it
[48:31] on the city website however we're
[48:34] targeting specific people and i don't
[48:36] want people to get the impression that
[48:37] if it's on the city website that they
[48:39] still have an opportunity to
[48:41] um to to
[48:43] apply because that's not what we what we
[48:45] agreed on so um that's where we are and
[48:48] of course there'll be a cover letter to
[48:49] go with that application
[48:51] and um
[48:53] so i'm just excited to see that people
[48:54] are
[48:55] lining up that's great so just an update
[48:59] um
[48:59] all right
[49:00] thank you so i was the person that
[49:02] suggested putting it on the website but
[49:04] um
[49:05] and that's fine i that that's a good
[49:07] point um but it would be great if we
[49:09] could make it a fillable pdf so even
[49:11] when it gets sent back out
[49:13] to the people that are sending their
[49:14] names to uh ms maiku that at least would
[49:18] be easier for them to just fill in the
[49:20] application instead of having to hand
[49:21] write it or anything like that
[49:23] um
[49:24] i don't know how to do that but i'm
[49:26] assuming there's someone with it hear
[49:29] that well we did have a discussion based
[49:31] on that recommendation and um for those
[49:34] who can do this syllable pdf that's
[49:36] great there's some people that cannot as
[49:37] you said and sometimes with fillable
[49:39] pdfs when you send them from one
[49:41] application to the next the information
[49:43] doesn't exactly gel because i i talked
[49:45] to ms michael about that because based
[49:47] on your recommendation so that was the
[49:49] concern
[49:50] so that to make sure that the when the
[49:52] um
[49:54] that was you know for miss michael who's
[49:55] going to be receiving all of these that
[49:57] make sure that the information
[49:58] translates correctly so um we're
[50:01] standing out in hard copy we're going to
[50:02] ask
[50:03] them to then return to her
[50:05] we don't want any
[50:07] more
[50:08] challenges
[50:10] you know if somebody's application
[50:11] doesn't come through properly or
[50:12] something like that so
[50:14] um and a lot of people can't do the
[50:16] fillable pdf you'd be surprised
[50:19] so that was um that was you know as i
[50:22] said i discussed with mike miss michael
[50:23] based on your recommendation and she
[50:25] also got that as well and that was her
[50:27] concern since she is the one who will
[50:28] have to do the work on that okay i know
[50:30] there were a couple of other questions
[50:32] still um i
[50:34] do agree i think if we're going to have
[50:36] them
[50:36] um last time we talked about folks
[50:39] needing to reside in the city of
[50:40] schenectady i think that should probably
[50:43] i think that should be right here that
[50:44] should be a um
[50:47] put that on there well it would be
[50:49] actually on the cover letter because
[50:50] there'll be a cover letter over there so
[50:52] people know they won't even have to get
[50:54] to the application and once they reach
[50:55] the cover letter they'll know this
[50:56] doesn't apply to me i don't even need to
[50:58] go any further okay and then i just
[51:00] really do think that probably asking mr
[51:02] colton to look at the pieces that are
[51:05] more sort of legal
[51:06] um i think would be a good idea in terms
[51:09] of the language that we put into this
[51:10] well when i sent out the original email
[51:12] i specifically asked mr colton to do
[51:14] that when i sent out the email that all
[51:15] of you got i specifically said to said
[51:17] mr andrew could you look at this though
[51:19] that was in there
[51:21] i sent uh this afternoon i sent um
[51:24] proposed provisions to the conflict of
[51:26] interest statement to ms mikey and
[51:28] president porterfield for their review
[51:30] great thank you welcome
[51:32] thank you and that's the only thing that i had other
[51:36] than that so little ones little copy
[51:38] edits
[51:39] we'll um so we'll incorporate um there
[51:41] were other members who had some concerns
[51:43] oh um i'll speak to this one which they
[51:46] said about hobbies and interests so um
[51:48] part of it is um from i see this as
[51:51] developing a volunteer base
[51:53] uh we made from some of these people who
[51:55] send in their applications maybe people
[51:56] 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
[52:03] 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
[52:11] um that kind of gives us a little bit
[52:12] 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
[52:18] we do but um but just to have that
[52:20] information and and most people and that
[52:22] to me is an easy part to fill out you
[52:23] 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
[52:39] 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
[52:48] that was the thought behind that
[52:54] my only concern was the last little bit
[52:56] but i was waiting to see what the final
[52:59] thing is because i knew it was being
[53:00] worked out so
[53:02] otherwise i was relatively okay with you
[53:04] know there are some typos and whatnot
[53:06] that's easy to clean up
[53:09] anything else
[53:10] mr williams oh so just for clarification
[53:13] uh it's 24
[53:14] names in total or is it 24 additional to
[53:17] the 15 previously
[53:19] total
[53:20] 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
[53:31] if i'm not willing to put myself forward
[53:33] so if anyone has any issues filling it
[53:35] 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
[53:54] i don't know it just seems like on the
[53:56] edge there
[53:58] yeah with a council member don't get it
[54:01] and just to the earlier point i think if
[54:03] uh when ms michael gets the name she'll
[54:04] be sending out the application so if we
[54:07] have extra hard copies available here
[54:09] it's the same thing as having it on the
[54:11] website you know what i mean that um
[54:13] other people passed the deadline of
[54:15] march 14th could just pick up the
[54:18] hard copy so
[54:20] sorry i've had a very hard kill yeah no
[54:21] i mean i'm feeling the same way um
[54:24] so anything further
[54:27] all right i'd like to go uh have a
[54:30] motion to go into executive session for
[54:32] sale properties so
[54:34] kind of second
[54:36] favorite