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hi chad how are you good how are you um
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that's what i have to do don't worry
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i'll send it to you
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i like you sort of drawing oh thank you
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thank you now um tomorrow what time
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should we be here how about 8 45 good
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bye
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good
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for monday march 21st
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and the first committee is government
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operations mr charlotte okay so i'd like
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to call the government
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operations committee to order um we have
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four items on the agenda
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um
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a discussion around uh cannabis
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licensing zoning procurement policy uh
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ceremony resolution for zion lutheran
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church
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and a discussion around personnel um so
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first around kind of candidates licensed
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zoning i wanted to bring this back up to
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the council we
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spoke a little bit about this um
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and there was some conversation around
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this before i uh i actually joined the
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council but um as we're moving um in
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this direction i want to kind of
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open up the conversation to make sure
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that we are
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keeping in mind that we are trying to do
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this and within the spirit of the law
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that seems to uh
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clearly point out trying to you know
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write some wrongs and some historical
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lines around prohibition in
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marginalized communities and how they
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were disproportionately impacted
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by these laws and i wanted to just kind
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of have that conversation with the
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council and make sure i was uh getting
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your thoughts on on how we can do so
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and i would also if you don't mind i'd
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like mr um colin uh to speak to his
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drawing part of it yeah
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yeah mr coleman
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thank you uh good evening everyone
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um to begin um we're still waiting for
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regulations to come out from new york
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state related to
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um
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you know the parameters that the state's
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going to set up
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for lounges and dispensaries
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um i don't want to say we're in the dark
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when i think you know
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but we haven't seen even proposed
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regulations let alone finalized
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regulations
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um
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with zoning obviously you know
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there have been discussions that i've
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had with people in the development
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office
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generally i think
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we're of the mind that it's good to have
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the conversation but until
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the regulations come out so that we know
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what the state is going to require and
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whether or not
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you know we can go beyond what the state
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um may require
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um
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that's up in the air we don't know
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for example you know
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you know this i'm i'm speaking because i
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have really have no idea yeah it could
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be something related to like you know
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liquor stores where you have to have you
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know you have to be 500 feet apart for
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you know there are distance um
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requirements with liquor stores
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there's a chance that the state will do
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something very similar along those lines
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and the state may say and a city may be
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able to go beyond those restrictions we
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just don't know
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um
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you know i think obviously it's good to
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have the conversation to know to kind of
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keep it fresh but until really i think
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the state comes out with
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some type of
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you know
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regulations for us to review
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um
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it's very difficult to say what we can
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do and what we can't do
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there's not much more that i can really
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say on that i know you know as i said
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i've talked to the zoning officer about
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it we've
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you know um reviewed um you know things
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that may come up but we just as i said
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we don't know until we know
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i guess you know as we're out because
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we're gonna
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end up operating within certain
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parameters right so i just wanted to
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make sure you know i guess for the
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council outside of that piece was just
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like you know what you know as we start
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to think ahead of like you know what are
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you know some of the things that we can
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be uh you know
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making sure that we are in line with the
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spirit of this law because
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i i want to make sure that that's
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something that we're doing here that
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we're really honored you know um
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correcting you know some of the
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historical inequities that uh
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prohibition has
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uh impacted certain communities mr mayor
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can i correct i thought the
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state was going to put out first draft
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regulations so there would be a comment
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period so we would be able to
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get a general
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feel for
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the criteria that they were going to put
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into effect
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and
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kind of react
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from that you know should we endorse it
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100 should we
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say no
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we don't want some of this and
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zoning is still largely
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the program of the local legislative
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body that you're going to have
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uh
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the final decision on that
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with the exception you know the state
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has taken some things
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such as group homes
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and
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gave them the designation as a
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thing this is a single family
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are one so that you can't
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and it's appropriate where you can't
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discriminate against them
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but
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at the same time where you have some of
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those
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homes that come in
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they create issues that
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are ancillary to their activity they're
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parking
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their traffic the things that uh
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people understand the goal of the
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organization as a whole but there's
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sometimes there are impacts that the
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state
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legislature or illinois may not have
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considered
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how do we look at these and be able to
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articulate a position that's going to be
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appropriate for schenectady and probably
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other communities across the state
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so we've opted in for the retail
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dispensary and the on-flight consumption
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right
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and then
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um
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then we have the other information here
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where it says that
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the governor has said that certain
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communities people certain people who
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are impacted negatively are going to be
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the first ones to get
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um
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um
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so
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i mean is that something that i mean how
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do we
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i know we can't make this decision today
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but i think we need to start having a
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conversation of how we even identify
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because people have already come forward
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who
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that doesn't that they're not in that
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category but there are people
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so people who are in that category how
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do we begin to identify or you know how
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do we do that um i know that people
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aren't going to get licenses until 2023
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but um
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it's gonna probably take a while to get
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through all of this so
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um i think that's one of the reasons why
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we're talking about it today just to
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begin to kind of put in place
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so that we're not there in 2023 trying
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to figure that out yes yeah and if it's
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i mean yeah please uh
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mr coleman pointed out
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the application process somewhat mirrors
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are similar to a liquor license
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you know we don't become aware of it
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until the process is well underway
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and i believe i read that the governor
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said there'd be the first 100 to 200 is
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that all new york state yes yes so
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that's what it is
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so i mean i guess we would just wait for
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people to fill out a license and if
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they're in our area that's how we would
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determine who was going to be able to i
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don't know and i don't think they've
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said how many
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licenses they're looking to give
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statewide
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is that 200
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most of them is it half of them is it
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still a lot of unknowns in the
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discussion
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i think they're
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unknown but
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um i thought that it was a first round
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of 100 licenses across the state and
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then the second round of 100 licenses
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across the state i thought
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but i think they're in a public comment
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period
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right now actually um
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in terms of those first hundred but
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i'm asking this question however
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even with those first and it is 100
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across the state so obviously i would
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think that they're going to be
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as the state awards the licenses they'll
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be looking at
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you know probably be skewed to different
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areas of the state as well so but we
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don't have the licenses right i mean
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it'll be a state estate thing so that's
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it's not it's not even in our control
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at that point who gets the licenses i
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think
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that's my assumption at this point
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yeah
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you know that doesn't mean that you know
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just because there are no there are
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unknowns we shouldn't think about you
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know this obviously you know the idea
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here is you know um any type of you know
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permitting process we do internally for
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the city whether that's a special use
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permit that the city council wanted to
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require for any dispensary or lounge or
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um anything related to
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you know the areas around the city in
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which
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the council may look to you know only
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allow
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dispensaries or
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lounges you know that's within your
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purview um it just can't be anything
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that's really unreasonable in terms of
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preventing somebody from actually or a
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company from actually operating within
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the city
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um but you know there may come a point
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in time where the council says you know
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we don't want to have
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you know i'm not speaking for you
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obviously this is hypothetical where you
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may say we don't want to have
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dispensaries or lounges in our one
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residential district
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obviously that's important to know um so
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we can take a look at the zoning code
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and
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um you know maybe better identify you
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know that's a gun up to you and as i
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said i've talked to the development
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staff about it you know
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again without the regulations it's
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really hard to say you know what can be
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done and what can't be done um but it's
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important i think to be mindful of
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when the regulations do come out you
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know where the council
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thinks that it would be best for lounges
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and dispensaries to be and then what we
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do internally with you know whether it's
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a special use permit or obviously you
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know somebody would probably still have
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to get site plan approval um but um
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there are things to think about um
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but with so many unknowns it's really
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hard to say how does the council move
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forward
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right yeah
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yeah just for clarity you know the
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conversation today isn't necessarily um
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you know how we you know how we move
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forward it you know for me what i really
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want to do is make sure that we are as
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because we do need to start thinking
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about it right right because we know
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that it's coming down the line so if
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we're doing that that we're doing that
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um you know in in alignment with you
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know uh
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the spirit of the law that that
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you know as it's been done so i just
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want to make sure that it's the lens
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we're looking through as we're
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um
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as we do as we're starting to think
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about it
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thanks uh so i definitely think it's
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important to actively remind the
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community that as these conversations
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continue to evolve as a council we're
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remaining in tune with the information
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that's coming out and then definitely um
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emphasizing what mr farley mentioned
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just understanding what the governor's
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intent is so absent or personal uh
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interpretations or opinions about the
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seating opportunity initiative it's just
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understanding that whatever is decided
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there's a little comment period as the
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mayor alluded to or that's what the
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expectation is
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but understanding that regardless of
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what comes out as a counselor and sure
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that we're promoting it to the
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betterment of the entire community so i
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think it's just
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we're aware of updates there have been
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no formalized legislation coming forward
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everyone just be patient
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that's it
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as i was looking up some things at the
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office of canada's mismanagement after
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this was on the agenda i noticed that
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there was something that they did called
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community conversations
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where they went around and talked to
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people i wasn't aware of that so um you
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can go back and it's on the website you
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can go back and hit the link and
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actually um go look at it i haven't had
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a chance to do that yet but so i it'll
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be interesting for us i think to maybe
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take a look and see
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what these community conversations were
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about
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so it's in english in spanish for those
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who are listening and may want to go
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back in
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i don't have the um
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the link here but it's on the cannabis
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website
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any further discussion on that
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okay
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so we'll move into our procurement
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policy
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portfolio
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thank you
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a few weeks ago we discussed
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new procurement policy for year 2022 to
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2023
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and we held this back because mrs
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porterfield had wanted us to
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recommend that we insert the mwb
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language into the policy rather than
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having a footnote
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so
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we did that
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and this was a version that
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is with us here for us to review
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and come up with any additional
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recommendation that we may have
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if i may ask um
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mr gardner just give us a brief update
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if you don't mind sure sure
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mr gardner you just want to give us a
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brief update on these uh added
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changes the benefits of doing these
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all right good afternoon
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thank you um
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so so basically
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what what is the quote for you is taking
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the language that's already been
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approved in the uh mwde
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policy
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and adding into the uh practicing policy
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you know every language as opposed to
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football because it's already there but
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fellow in going
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we there's
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back and forth
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basically
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unless we have any specific questions
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i noticed a question that i think i'm
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not sure if it was from mr colton it
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says a.k.a um i was
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uncertain about that too i don't know if
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that got
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worked out
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do you want to say it or do you want me
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to i don't have any i mean that's the
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question that i raised i didn't i don't
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have an answer um so
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it um i'll just read it says um
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are the goals for
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each mbes and wpes 15 as indicated on
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the first paragraph for public works
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projects more than 100k
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or are the goals for each of those 12
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and 8
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and i did notice as i read through that
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it is in it is it says 12 and 8 in some
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different things okay so i was a little
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confused also the workforce goes deal
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specifically with the workforce so
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that's the hourly
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person working on the job site so so
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that's the eeo component
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and then the mwbe contract compliance
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piece gives us a
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okay
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okay so numbers of people on the site
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work at the workforce in the workforce
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and
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then the other part is just for like the
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contractors
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i guess we'll have one more the only
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other thing is that i did notice that
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the
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ceiling went from 250 000 to 300 000 for
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the apprenticeship
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programs i know we had talked about that
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quite a bit
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last year i just did couldn't you
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comment on that yeah and and again that
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was the um suggestion you know was to
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come back and discuss it was talk about
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you know bringing it you know and
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phasing that in and that's all that was
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what's basically probably 250 up to 300
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000 again
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the mindset is to create opportunities
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for
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you know the smaller firms that not
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necessarily have
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you know access to these friendships
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more local small business owners
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one of the questions i think that was
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raised at the last time that we talked
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about this a few weeks ago was to what
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extent we've had success
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um with local
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contractors being able to to do this
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based on these changes that we had made
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last time okay so so it's a long term
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process you know it's a commitment and
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um you know we've had success uh we're
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getting you know more and more firms uh
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know
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coming in line consistency in terms of
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what the state requirements are
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and so we're working that and it's a
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much more strenuous process
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in other words
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you know to get certified and all that
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there's
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and
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you know we've gotten more companies
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certified
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you know as a result of this and then
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you know more opportunities
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you know coming forward and ultimately
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you know i won't be able to say in you
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know two years from now or five years
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from the conception
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that we create more prime contractors
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that's you know in this thing that
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people you know compete and have
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capacity to perform and execute on these
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jobs
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which also means that we would have more
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opportunity for
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the workforce and our constituents so
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again we have to do two things one you
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got to bring the capacity of other
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companies to compete
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and you know being the thing which is
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all about good business but also we have
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to train and develop the workforce to
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support
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you know these companies so that's why
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you can't do one without another you
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know so you can't necessarily have a
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training program
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and you don't have companies capable of
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taking longer to do that so you have to
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bring up the workforce to support you
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know these companies that
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you know that comes along and
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there's a lot more to it than just
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the labor on the work you know and
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having the children person you know
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these companies they need
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back office support for them and they
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have trouble
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getting the paperwork in and processing
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really which is why they know their pay
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which is
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adds to the cash flow issue so so it's
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evolving process
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that they have to
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you know do and
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you know we are making that way and
[30:56]
you know a lot of success and we have to
[30:59]
continue but it's not easy by no means
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you know it's
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well i appreciate the work that you do
[31:08]
to help folks get
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certified and
[31:11]
recruit a larger workforce so thank you
[31:16]
yes i would also like to thank you for
[31:18]
your input in this
[31:20]
this pickerman policy to get all
[31:22]
information to us and also working on
[31:24]
the nwp the updated mwb version for the
[31:27]
next two years so once again thank you
[31:29]
for all the
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good hard
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you thank you so appreciate it
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so i i raised this question so mr um
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should we
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uh we're number 10 which was going to be
[31:41]
that footnote should we now if we're
[31:42]
going to be moving forward just delete
[31:43]
that from this document sorry listen
[31:46]
i'll go back for a second i was looking
[31:47]
at this
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um
[31:50]
that was the question in my email but
[31:52]
i left it in there and i just added for
[31:53]
additional information because obviously
[31:56]
you know there's additional information
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in the um equal opportunity and
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affirmative action plan okay it's a good
[32:03]
reference for people to go to it's great
[32:05]
that you know we've now included the
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utilization in here but kind of fills in
[32:09]
some gaps for people to go to the other
[32:11]
document knowing that there's another
[32:12]
document
[32:13]
okay we just have to put it because i
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didn't see i didn't see
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on the place where the footnote where
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the this 10 was so we have to find the
[32:20]
place
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it's uh
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under number four it says for
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mwbe utilization and then footnote 10 is
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there with it all right
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okay
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thank you
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okay no i'm good
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with this okay
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okay
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pretty much
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it's the 150th anniversary for zion
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lutheran church it's just a resolution
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to recognizing for
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their anniversary
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second
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all those in favor
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okay
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and
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now we're going to move on to a
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discussion
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around personnel
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um so this is something if it really
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needs to be an executive session so i
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would like to have it there okay so i
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would like to uh recess no the mayor um
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wanted to add something oh okay okay
[33:44]
afterwards okay so um uh
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so what we'll do is we'll go on to um
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the mayor wanted to add something here
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and then we'll
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go into that discussion so mr mayor
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talked to council member uh
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council president porterfield
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a little while ago got a request from
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the u.s conference of mares
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to
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uh
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pass it around
[34:13]
there i thought
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two weeks ago that had been resolved
[34:17]
but they're still
[34:19]
a
[34:20]
discussion in congress
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to limit or take back the money that has
[34:25]
been allocated for local governments
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to fund some of the
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issues that are arising from the
[34:35]
activity
[34:37]
in the ukraine
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and
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some of the deficits that
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are
[34:42]
funding
[34:44]
necessities that are
[34:46]
coming so from media
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and what i was looking for from that
[34:51]
memo is to have the council consider
[34:54]
passing the resolution
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saying that we
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appreciate the work that went into
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getting money for local governments
[35:03]
we're going through the process now to
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spend it we've identified some projects
[35:08]
in
[35:09]
holland central park going through the
[35:10]
review with community now and
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again looking forward to
[35:16]
other things as we deal with it next
[35:18]
year
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and
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i always appreciate the good work of
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people in congress sometimes it happens
[35:27]
where i don't quite understand the logic
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and uh would uh ask for the council's
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consideration to go on record saying
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that
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we can thank them for the money that
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we've got and
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we need that money and
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don't want them to undertake something
[35:44]
that would claw it back or modify
[35:47]
what we have
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coming to us
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today
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i would absolutely 100 support that
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you know that you know we got the money
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we're anticipating spending the money so
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i think that it's definitely something
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that we should do
[36:06]
so
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i agree
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so at this point um
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this is a traffic tool that's an outline
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again okay
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okay so i want you to recess
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okay all those in favor
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2022 capital projects which you had
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already really improved in uh the budget
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process uh
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in november of the past year uh
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and as you know uh what we're in the
[37:16]
process right now is to actually go out
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and borrow the money so we're just
[37:19]
getting an approval uh with this bond
[37:22]
awareness to go out and borrow the money
[37:24]
um as you know uh the total capital
[37:26]
prices came over 12 million dollars but
[37:29]
we we're looking to just borrow uh
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6.9 million uh the other difference is
[37:34]
the cost of issuance costs of 93 000 uh
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we're going to be banning this ban as a
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bonding station though uh usually for
[37:44]
one year and we'll probably bond it next
[37:46]
year as as long as the interest rates
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are favorable which they are right now
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um have any questions yeah
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yeah so mr ferrari mr mayor
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how many of these items are associated
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with
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no
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any questions yeah just about you said
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it was 93 000 that was a cost of
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insurance no issues
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that's right i had a question i think
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earlier today about the vehicle
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um uh i'm going to break it down uh the
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fire department they're going to have
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four command vehicles uh the last time
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they got a vehicle was four years ago
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most of their vehicles are over 15 years
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old
[38:35]
and they're asked asking for four new
[38:38]
ones because 15 year 15 years old is the
[38:41]
newest of the last four ones so that's
[38:44]
why they're getting that the police are
[38:46]
getting a total of 16 of 12 uh mark cars
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for unmarked
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uh you got to remember uh
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they just received the new cards for
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2021
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but we never got the cars in 2020 so
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they're replacing cars with huge amount
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of mileages so so we're actually we're
[39:04]
looking for this actually probably won't
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get it for another nine months to a year
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so
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those police cars
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how many did we get just before i know
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that we're getting 16 now we'll get 69
[39:15]
last year we got 12 all together eight
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and four
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uh the streets uh the streets uh
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department we're going to get two dump
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two dump trucks with plows the plot of
[39:24]
streets and two new pickup trucks again
[39:27]
those pickup trucks are uh over uh 12
[39:30]
years old the ones that we're replacing
[39:33]
the waste department we have four new uh
[39:35]
garbage trucks
[39:36]
and two pickups for the supervisors too
[39:39]
and if you've seen the supervisors
[39:40]
trucks you know that they need new
[39:42]
trucks those guys those are also over 15
[39:45]
years old
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uh the snap snap crew we're gonna snap
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and uh uh
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let me call it
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nuisance guys yeah there you go it's
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gonna be a total of three uh
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uh and that's you know one first staff
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and the two for the new nuisance guys uh
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we're
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with the mayor's uh uh uh reasoning
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anything that we use for vehicles we're
[40:07]
gonna try to get all electric so trying
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to move in the electric uh
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in the electric uh realm of things
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and uh sooner you think we'll be buying
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uh electric uh pickups pretty soon as we
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hear this coming
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uh
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yeah
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how many sweepers are we gonna have
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we're gonna have one new sweeper in fact
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uh we as you remember uh i think about
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uh two months ago jay where we asked to
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order it so it's in the order now and
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that one sweeper is it still not done
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yet so we're hoping to get it before the
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end of the year hopefully get it for
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linda's sentence
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two of the streams
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one
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we're gonna have a total we're gonna
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have a total of four retirement
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any other questions
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mr would you have any other questions no
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no okay thank you thank you very much
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i'll be back
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you may have a motion on this
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second all in favor
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aye
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the next item is purchasing microphones
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for city council with sport appeal yes
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um we've been discussing this for a
[41:25]
while um you know mr family brought up
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like back i think back in november just
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the whole
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um
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not good quality of uh our um our
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broadcast
[41:37]
and um i know that it's going to be a
[41:39]
longer process however
[41:40]
uh if you notice i mean i know you all
[41:43]
know this now
[41:44]
we're down to one microphone period in
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the chambers and that's being shared by
[41:49]
the public as well as by the council
[41:51]
and
[41:52]
our last meeting it just reminded me of
[41:55]
a
[41:56]
episode of parks and rec if you've ever
[41:58]
seen it so
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i really really think that we need um
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and highly recommend that we buy at
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least two microphones so that the
[42:06]
council is not sharing the microphone
[42:09]
because it looks like it's going to be a
[42:10]
longer process for us to um get all the
[42:14]
contracts and all the other things that
[42:16]
the mayor was talking about um i did
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read an email
[42:20]
um where i know that there were there
[42:22]
was a request for having um these
[42:24]
gooseneck mics but then there was the
[42:26]
whole thing about running cords which
[42:29]
again is a longer process so i think at
[42:31]
this point in time we need to do
[42:32]
something in the short term and just
[42:34]
have microphones so that the council has
[42:36]
a couple microphones to use
[42:38]
it's just getting more and more
[42:40]
challenging
[42:42]
during our meetings
[42:44]
absolutely i have to agree with that
[42:46]
that we need to get new microphones and
[42:49]
let's work out the detail and getting
[42:51]
the other stuff fixed
[42:55]
yeah so um it's looked into this they
[42:58]
looked into whether or not the
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goosenecks
[43:01]
would be
[43:02]
financially
[43:04]
cost effective they are not
[43:06]
um
[43:07]
that was the idea
[43:08]
the wiring process really isn't a big
[43:10]
deal
[43:11]
according to it
[43:15]
but the cost is just
[43:17]
well over what two wireless microphones
[43:19]
would be i thought maybe since they were
[43:22]
wired it might be about the same cost
[43:25]
but it's not so the two wireless are
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slightly less than five hundred dollars
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any other comments
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you may have a motion to proceed to
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purchase a new microphone from moving
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all in favor all right
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the next item is amendments to the 2022
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2020
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annual action plan to include a
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reallocation of 250 000 from snap and
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street paving to park improvement
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good evening and happy spring
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um this is just in relation to the
[44:03]
public comment period we just had for
[44:05]
the reallocation of 250 000
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um from the street painting and snack
[44:10]
programs to park improvements this has
[44:12]
to do with ongoing park projects that we
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have
[44:15]
um and the need to kind of spend down
[44:17]
the money that was on spend for prior
[44:19]
years
[44:20]
um so just looking for the council to
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approve this amendment and the
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reallocation of the funding
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that is 2021 2022
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yes okay
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oh so that that's a that's a typo on our
[44:35]
agenda
[44:37]
okay
[44:38]
questions
[44:40]
go ahead please uh so i know at least
[44:42]
for me being a new council member
[44:44]
whenever i hear anyone recount
[44:45]
reallocating money from the street
[44:47]
paving and smacking like what
[44:52]
um but i didn't know if you were able to
[44:55]
or
[44:56]
chris i was able to come and speak to
[44:57]
just a proportionality of what this
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amount of a hundred thousand dollars
[45:02]
being
[45:04]
is in comparison to the entire budget i
[45:06]
think just to reassure people that
[45:08]
this is not something that's being made
[45:10]
at the expense of the entire paving sure
[45:13]
uh our paving budget is is well right
[45:16]
now so right now we usually get around
[45:18]
1.5 million dollars of chips money which
[45:21]
is state highway consolidated roads
[45:23]
money
[45:24]
in addition to that the new york state
[45:25]
budget has allocated an additional 1.2
[45:28]
million dollars to the city for the last
[45:30]
year i believe it's going to be a
[45:32]
three-year program which is additional
[45:34]
chips for state routes but we can use it
[45:35]
for other roads um on top of that in the
[45:38]
capital budget which you are just moving
[45:40]
forward we also have i believe it's a
[45:41]
million and a half dollars for roadways
[45:44]
and there um so the paving program uh
[45:48]
has the money to pave the roads one of
[45:50]
the things that we cannot use this money
[45:51]
for just to be clear is that this is for
[45:53]
contractor work with roadways for
[45:55]
long-term work it can't be used for
[45:58]
potholes
[45:59]
so potholes is considered maintenance
[46:02]
and maintenance is not eligible for
[46:04]
expenses under this money so that is
[46:07]
where we have our operating budgets and
[46:09]
in that kind of money but as far as i'm
[46:11]
concerned we are fine for prepaying
[46:13]
roads we actually have two contracts
[46:16]
starting this year again and we have a
[46:18]
third going out in april
[46:20]
all of them essentially multi-million
[46:22]
dollar programs
[46:25]
and i guess
[46:27]
we're doing as much work as staff also
[46:29]
would allow you know like we are pushing
[46:31]
the work out and getting it done so i
[46:33]
don't think that we're doing any
[46:34]
disservice to the citizens connecting by
[46:37]
by reallocating this money i mean this
[46:38]
is development block grant money this is
[46:40]
money that we do try to use but now that
[46:42]
we're getting increases in other areas
[46:44]
i'm perfectly comfortable doing it
[46:47]
thank you
[46:49]
any other comments
[46:53]
may have a motion
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[47:04]
health care and national fitness
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champion
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is um mr city applied for a grant for
[47:11]
the 2022 mvp healthcare campaign um this
[47:15]
is going to be allocated um toward the
[47:17]
purchase of an outdoor fitness port that
[47:19]
will go into orbit park as part of the
[47:21]
recent involvement there
[47:23]
so this is just to accept the fifty
[47:26]
thousand dollar grant from mvp for the
[47:28]
fitness court um to be installed at what
[47:30]
you want
[47:32]
any comments
[47:34]
we have a motion
[47:37]
second all in favor uh
[47:39]
the next item is authorized the
[47:41]
allocation of 90 000 cdbg funds
[47:44]
for the national fitness campaign
[47:46]
outdoor fitness board misty so related
[47:49]
to um
[47:50]
related to the fitness court request
[47:52]
this would be
[47:54]
um
[47:55]
this would be
[47:56]
the authorization of the ninety thousand
[47:58]
dollars to meet the local funders
[48:00]
funding requirements for the um for the
[48:02]
fitness court and orchard charts so
[48:05]
it's basically just
[48:07]
yeah it's the funding that the city will
[48:09]
be contributing towards the fitness
[48:10]
course
[48:12]
any questions
[48:14]
go ahead and support you so the 90 000
[48:16]
is coming out of the 250 000 that we
[48:18]
just yes
[48:21]
yep okay and then the balance of that
[48:24]
of the 250.
[48:27]
the balance yes the 250 we're using what
[48:30]
is the bet so 90 000 is going to go to
[48:32]
this project
[48:33]
so do we um do we have a
[48:36]
have we decided where the other uh the
[48:38]
balance of that's going to be allocated
[48:39]
at this time
[48:41]
yeah so some of the right now
[48:44]
this is that 50 000 for the equipment
[48:49]
then there's going to be installation
[48:50]
costs that are associated with it which
[48:52]
we're procuring through the policy um
[48:56]
we're not going to put this thing
[48:57]
together it's extremely intricate to put
[49:00]
this together so that's anticipated
[49:02]
uh to come out of there and we're
[49:04]
working it has to be we have to get
[49:05]
three prices for our policy because it's
[49:08]
going to be over 3500 we're anticipating
[49:10]
it's going to be less than 35 000 so
[49:13]
depending on the ranges we're either
[49:14]
going to get verbal or written quotes so
[49:16]
that's going to come out of there and
[49:17]
then there is also a pad that goes with
[49:20]
it because these things are going to be
[49:21]
mounted to a pad so that also is going
[49:24]
to be in there which we're also looking
[49:26]
at either doing pricing for
[49:28]
our policy so both of those costs um we
[49:32]
don't need your explicit authorization
[49:34]
because through the purchasing policy
[49:35]
will be less than a bit amount but those
[49:37]
will come out of there and then the
[49:38]
balance of it is remaining for parks
[49:40]
particularly if we're looking at jerry
[49:41]
burell yes and that will be going to the
[49:43]
dairy rail park so once the project is
[49:46]
moved forward we have more concrete cost
[49:48]
items we can give you an update of what
[49:50]
the split would be okay but those are
[49:52]
our anticipated costs right now this is
[49:54]
because the grant the equipment we have
[49:56]
kind of set up and the rest of the cost
[49:58]
we're anticipating we're not going to
[49:59]
have to bid anything
[50:00]
um which is going to help us because
[50:02]
that's going to also save us time
[50:03]
because they know that we really want to
[50:05]
get this in for the late summer or i
[50:07]
mean late spring early summer
[50:09]
push this so we can use it um but that's
[50:12]
where we are right now so the balance
[50:14]
that they go over the next part is kind
[50:15]
of unknown okay so
[50:17]
thank you
[50:18]
of course
[50:20]
yes
[50:21]
let's go ahead okay please
[50:27]
is this the remainder of this money
[50:29]
you're thinking jerry grove
[50:31]
we're thinking about that for the likes
[50:33]
that we were talking about a couple of
[50:34]
weeks ago and we were talking about some
[50:36]
hardware money uh
[50:38]
possibly exactly
[50:43]
funding for the park we are the design
[50:45]
is in process so we have kind of an
[50:48]
estimate but until we put the bid out
[50:50]
we're not going to be we're not going to
[50:51]
know what the total is going to be um we
[50:53]
know there's a gap you know i i will say
[50:56]
i mean this is like any project that
[50:57]
you're going to hear from myself or
[50:58]
chris has been before anyone is that we
[51:00]
could always use more funds for our
[51:03]
parks so
[51:04]
the allocation of this money i would not
[51:06]
say would preclude us from pulling that
[51:09]
because we are going to have to add
[51:10]
alternatives we're going to be looking
[51:11]
to do more looking at you know there's
[51:13]
the base and then we're going to put in
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for what we're looking at with that
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alternative design either the tennis
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courts or the basketball courts or some
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other things and yes this could be used
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towards the lighting but that may
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prevent us doing one of those other
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features so that's where you know as
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much funding as we can as we can get
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towards the project we would like to do
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so that we can put it as much into the
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park you know i always say to people
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that this is public money this is not
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going to build me fool you know you're
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not going to come to my house and see
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anything in my backyard it's all going
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to the public into there so anything
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that we can give
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you know that would be great you know so
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i would like to hope that it gets
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reviewed on its own merits yeah and that
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if it does then that's great and then to
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maybe get a little bit more
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yeah
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go ahead mr man
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and again just find out mr wallen said
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that the
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design work and jerry work morale park
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is what i'll call the park proper
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as i look at it those basketball courts
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as you go farther along hamilton street
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in
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across the street there
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it's foolish to
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fix
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this whole area up here and then leave
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this
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it's kind of a dilapidated embarrassed
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section across the street
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so as they're doing the work up
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and then look at the whole thing
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and
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there's not going to be quite enough
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money
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on the table to do
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everything right now
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but i believe as we come through and get
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some firmer numbers on what we're going
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to actually have to come up with whether
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it's arpa rearranging other things
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to make sure that we've got a project
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there that
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does everything we want and that we're
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all going to be
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proud of it and the neighbors are going
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to be appreciative of it
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and
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thank you for your consideration on the
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orchard street park uh follow-up to uh
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councilmember uh william's suggestion of
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moving the council meetings around
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maybe that we could have one at this
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place and all the council could work out
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just as a ribbon-cutting myself
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any other questions
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so the remaining is 160 000 i'm sure
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you're going to come back to the console
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for allocation for the 160 remaining the
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balance of the 160. oh would we allocate
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that yeah sure okay i mean the
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application yeah but that's what i'm
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getting here but it's going to be
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you might not notice that we're doing it
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so we'll put it up because if we you
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know like when i bring you a paying
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program i don't i don't explicitly
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detail the funding of the paving program
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there may be multiple foreign sources a
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lot of times the word we use is a
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funding quilt sometimes when i bring
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things such as psat i bring that here
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you know there is federal there's local
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there's metroplex most of the time they
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don't get into that detail but if you
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would like to sort of detail if we can
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yeah if you don't mind just let us know
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how the allocation is going with regards
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to the remaining 160 would appreciate it
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any other questions regarding this item
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may have a motion
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development plan
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there's 13 items on the agenda and the
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first item of secret determination for
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barrett street and south avenue yeah
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so this is relation to you know what was
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on the agenda two weeks ago there was
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some questions about the planning
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commission meeting and the minutes for
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that um i did provide those minutes um
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you know we didn't see
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as much there wasn't much opposition to
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the project it was more
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questions sort of
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you know reservations about what does
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this mean you know for the neighborhood
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and
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you know so hopefully you've had a
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chance to look through that but um
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is there any questions about that
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any questions anymore yeah
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all right then that takes up
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motion
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so
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this this first one would be for the
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same seeker yes for the secret
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nope oh second
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i'm sorry all those in favor all right
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okay uh the resulting ordinance for bear
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street in south avenue
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um yep related to the same thing this is
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just the recommendation to pass an
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ordinance um changing the zoning
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district from r2 to the c4
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any questions around that
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second all those in favor
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thank you all right thank you
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okay the next item on the agenda is to
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award three bids and contracts for this
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connected police department fire and
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raid mr wallon
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so
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as uh we may or may not be aware
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the
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seneca police department actually has a
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firing range
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fire
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has not functioned in quite some time
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um
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chief sieber did receive a grant to uh
[56:21]
upgrade the facility and get it back to
[56:22]
functioning we have been working with a
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consultant taking a little longer than
[56:26]
we hoped but we have finally put out a
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bid for the work
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what you may see is there are actually
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four given the
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amount of money that this contract is it
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is a essentially
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a million dollar contract in a way
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we have to follow wick's law which
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separates all of the
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duties there's mechanical there's
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electrical plumbing in general
[56:50]
we put it out
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we called it a
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firing range ventilation upgrade we got
[56:56]
three we did not get a gc bit
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we think that was due to the fact that
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it was called spd
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ventilation because the majority of the
[57:05]
work is in here's ventilation but the gc
[57:07]
component we did not get any prices so
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we met with aaron and we discussed it
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and we said we were comfortable with
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these bids they were
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actually i think a little less than our
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estimate they're contractors that we've
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worked with so what we're doing is we're
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putting out the gc pro on wednesday with
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a new title called
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firing range reconstruction because we
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want to hit the ticklers on the web to
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make sure that gc see it
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so this is three of the four they are
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independent
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and then once we have the gc back and
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awarded we can begin the project
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so
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are there questions mr probably yeah so
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the group covers the entire cost of this
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no okay the grant covers a portion of
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the cost we're going to be using uh in
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our capital budget not
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in our capital budget we have a
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facilities line item for city facilities
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we'll be using the city's facilities
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line to cover that portion of them
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because the grant
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the grant was for let's say the
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pertinence is inside of it the the
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tracks the burn those things but as we
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started researching
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um
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the actual ventilation
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the engineering components of how to get
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air flow how to make sure that when you
[58:20]
shoot the lead goes down range the fumes
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go out we have a hepa filtration system
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it's actually you know a lot more
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advanced than it is so we put the
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capital budget together to cover those
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costs
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so it's once again
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a couple different fund sources like we
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say but we we do have it together um and
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uh we're going to be ready to move
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forward but no the grant couldn't it
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didn't cover all of it because the cost
[58:43]
just went up we also had uh you weren't
[58:45]
here at the time about two years ago um
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there was lead in asbestos
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we used a good amount of money i led an
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asbestos abatement to
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evade the whole area and clean it up we
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had to clean the floors actually mop
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them like several times to get let off
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the floor so it's a it's an interesting
[59:02]
process but it is going to be uh you
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know a very functioning range that they
[59:06]
can use hopefully for the next you know
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30 40 years so that's what we're hoping
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for but um this is for the three and
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then i'll be bringing you the fourth
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once we have it in a couple of weeks and
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then from there we'll move forward with
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hopefully construction get get it all
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functioning again
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any other questions mr what's it aaron
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yeah just uh talking aside with mr
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colding i think we should pass this in
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individual um contract one e
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sorry 1b 1c and 1d there are separate um
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subcontractors yeah that'd be great
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so three three approvals i would like to
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recommend that we do them individually
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okay
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are there any other questions before i
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no
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okay so first of all i'll entertain a
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motion on contract one b
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so second all those in favor all right
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uh second uh and shiny motion on
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contract 1c
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so
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second all those in favor all right
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and finally uh concerning motion on
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contract one and d
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so
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second all those in favor all right all
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right thank you
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all right and we'll just make sure
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that's reflected in there all right
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thank you um the
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next item on the agenda is the award
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vision contracts with the bail park
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improvement uh project phase two
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yes thank you so this you you might
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recall seeing this before
[1:00:25]
um this is actually the third time we've
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bid this hopefully the last thing is
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we're talking about bail park tree
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removal um
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previously we had a discrepancy in the
[1:00:36]
bid documents that meant that we had to
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rebid it there was some language that
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got left in from the previous bid
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we did receive three bids the bids were
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almost identical than before
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the low is still the same as the second
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time that we bid it the cost per tree
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might have actually come down a little
[1:00:54]
bit but uh and then this particular
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bidder we're doing they just to let you
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in behind the curtain a little bit we're
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doing something to a little bit more
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proactive on my office where we're
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receiving the bids we are not
[1:01:05]
immediately rushing them to this table
[1:01:07]
so we receive the bids on wednesday we
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used to bring them right to the
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legislative and then monday so now what
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we're doing is we're taking a step back
[1:01:15]
we're working with ron
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and we're really making sure that we
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have all of our utilization paperwork
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that ron's having a moment to vet them a
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little bit more thoroughly and then
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we're moving forward so in this case
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uh they've been working with ron
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actually for four weeks because they
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knew that we had to rebid it and i
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believe that you've been happy with the
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progress that you've seen you've had
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some good emails back and forth they now
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have what three subs that they're going
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to be using absolutely
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so um so that's kind of a new process
[1:01:42]
you're not going to see things coming
[1:01:43]
here as fast because instead of us
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awarding and then going through the
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process we're going to go through the
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process make sure we're on the same page
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then award just so that we don't get
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caught in any kind of a you know the
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carrot is the award
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so we want to make sure that we're doing
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it in that process and so it's worked in
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this process we're doing it a couple
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others
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so
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well thank you for that consideration
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sure is that just a question so is that
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a best practice that they can do moving
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forward for all projects or just kind of
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my office sure yeah
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that's what we've started to do and i
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think it's worked better that way don't
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you ron yeah absolutely
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all right the remaining items are all
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for property sales and we'll be um
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an executive session so i'd like to
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entertain a motion to recess
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so second all of the favorite
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we're reset
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so
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yeah
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yeah so i would like to get a motion
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second
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oh
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all in favor
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interest
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related to uh foreclosure action the
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other one is a claim
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okay so so are you saying they're both
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should be an executive session okay um
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with regard to
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number four that from government
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operations earlier yeah
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i don't know exactly what the discussion
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is around
[1:03:28]
i just want to make sure that it's
[1:03:29]
covered by executive session it has to
[1:03:31]
fall within the scope of what's allowed
[1:03:34]
under open meetings law
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um so i don't know the scope of you know
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well i i talked to mayor batman and so
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um so what we would be discussing we me
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too
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um
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it's it's around personnel
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i mean personnel generally is could be
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discussed in executive session yeah can
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yes it can
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it depends on the level of detail
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obviously i you know without me knowing
[1:04:03]
the level of detail or you know
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but i'll you know obviously um
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i'll i'll defer to you um on the
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discussion um obviously things related
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to employees and
[1:04:19]
employment history
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is privy to executive session
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um it is around employees i can say that
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i guess
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okay i'm part of that yep as one make
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sure yes
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so i think we're in
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yeah
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you