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