how
me
hey
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okay i'd like to call this connected
city council committee meeting to order
for monday may 2nd 2022
and the first committee up is public
safety mr williams
so i'd like to call the public safety
committee to order we have one item on
our agenda tonight that is the school
committee engagement officers uh this
evening i would like to introduce the
superintendent of our smackdown city
school district superintendent and paul
solaire uh thank you for joining us this
evening sir i thought it was important
to have
him be present to provide us a statement
from the school district and also to
provide better context to the degree of
the community engagement officers and
allow us the opportunity to just hear
straight from his mouth the intent with
the program and uh we appreciate you
being here sir supporters
yeah thank you for uh sorry i can
physically be there in person
so i just want to thank city council for
inviting me uh definitely to provide
some remarks on the community engagement
officer uh program uh that we've
instituted since november um any
specific questions but you know for us i
think one thing that uh i want to really
be clear on is that it's been a really
collaborative effort uh really focusing
on
um what i'd like to say as another
mitigating strategy
for our students and our community when
it comes to safety you know we have
administrators school counselors
staff typically first responders and as
uh issues progress and sometimes the
challenges progress
we had to find another mitigating
strategy and
that's right community officers being
kind of that last defense before we uh
would allow families to just go out and
engage
the police on their own or hopefully not
take matters into their own hands and so
um been very very beneficial
kind of reset that we've had it's not a
traditional school resource officer
program and real intentionally called
community engagement officers because
we're trying to change the narrative of
what schools and officers up in schools
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all right thank you again uh
superintendent solaire really appreciate
you being uh being here tonight i didn't
know
oh yeah uh does anyone have a question
for superintendents away from the
council members no i don't
i was going to ask to see if she clicked
here tonight and then also received
thanks for joining us again
yes do you have do you have any other
employee or feedback further at this
time
so i know our discussion last week was
postponing the resolution
to allow additional time for insulate
and input i know for myself before
allowing my council members and fellow
counselors to add their input i
definitely appreciate having the
additional time to have conversations
with one of our current
community engagement officers i know
other members reached out to uh
superintendent solaire to get some more
justification and using that additional
two weeks to just provide more
clarity to this program i think was
very intentional and also deserve it
just based on the magnitude of
time that was allowed on the school
board to have these discussions i know
for myself it was definitely very
important to take the time to
peruse through this agreement to make
sure that as i deliberated for myself i
made the appropriate decision so i'd
like to at this time turn it over to any
uh comments or feedback from my fellow
consumers
so similar thoughts that you know the
first time we saw it we you know had it
like from a friday so we just had a
couple of days and there were some
questions that uh arose
um that needed to that evening came out
of the discussion that was that um when
she presented there were some questions
that it was at least in my mind so again
i also thought it was important because
we're making a very important decision
here
and we need community input and in
addition to that
although the school board got to hear
both sides of it the city council did
not so
i personally reached out to the
superintendent to make sure that i
understood
things from both point of views both
points of view i think that's extremely
important for everyone who's um you know
engaged in making decisions in addition
to that making sure that i spoke to
other administrators other residents and
all the people that are involved in this
decision-making process so i'm glad that we took the additional
two weeks to do that it's not a decision
that's going it needs to be rushed um
it's going to end up being something
that we'll be doing for three years so
you know to take two more weeks to make
those decisions and make sure we had all
the information we needed just um to me
made sense so i i appreciate the
committee um chair and the members for
doing that
so
any other input or feedback mr moon yeah
thank you i'm too glad that we held it
for two weeks to to answer some of the
questions that council members had and i
think most of the question was answered
i had an opportunity to have a
discussion with superintendent also
so we know we have all the answers to
our questions and i think we're ready to
move forward with it
but uh on my side i
wanted to suggest or to make a
recommendation for just an amendment
and i'm just going to read it and
have a discussion on it all the
reimbursement received from the school
districts remain under the police
department budget
and use to hire mental health profession
and to continue to hire a community
engagement officer would you mind
repeating that
all the reimbursement that we're
receiving from the school district
remains under the school on the police
department budget
and this money used to hire mental
health profession professional and
community engagement officers
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that is my suggestion to add to this
resolution
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i would support that because our initial
when we initially did our reform and
reinvention when we talked about
community engagement officers
initially they were supposed to be out
in the community um and i understand
that um having the meeting with the
superintendent actually he himself said
that when he saw it he said this is
something we need in the school so i
understand us um including that in the
school however we still need to stick to
what we said into our reinforced
reinvention and make sure that we have
community engagement officers in the
community as well so if we could use
that i won't call it savings because uh
but if we could use the money that we're
now going to be receiving to make sure
that we um still stick to what we said
we were going to do what we assimilated
to the state i think is extremely
important
yeah i just want to clear something up
we keep talking about the community in
the school district because if they're
two separate things
the school district is part of the
community the kids in the school
district are part of the community
they're not two separate entities so i
just want to clear that up
and first of all i would like to more
clarity as into
what is meant by
mental health professionals are you
talking about training for the police
officers
or
something else
earlier today mccarthy and i had a
discussion earlier this morning and this
afternoon in terms of partnering with
mental health
organization or
county who is already doing or providing
service mental health services to
partner with them with the police
department or to hire somebody directly
within the police department to oversee
the mental health
issues
if i was to respond mr palmini i would
agree with the portion of your statement
however there are many individuals in
our city who do not have members their
family that are actively in the school
district although they are members of
the city i think it's appropriate to
make sure we're taking steps on both
sides to make sure everyone is
benefiting from this reform
collaborative i know myself although i
have a daughter she is not a school age
so although we're taking these steps to
prepare and
better position our staff and students
within the school district it's
important to make sure that if our
intent is to build um better
relationships for our community and our
police taking these additional steps in
the other avenue as well
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i would like to move this with the
stated amendment to this resolution
and i would second it oh sorry also you
can boo inside we just have a question
almost
i'll move it with the intended um
changes to the resolution
and
just mr ferrari how do we handle uh
today
the school district will hire
police officers for sporting events
other activities and they reimburse
us pretty much 100
correct
uh
does that just go into general revenue
or does that go back to offset the
expenses within the police department uh
the police in our budget we have a
budget for a police
or activity outside and that goes into that budget category we don't
reimburse the police budget now
said he will run into the police budget
the requirement the
should be done it's an amendment to this
resolution that's before you or
if you want to do a separate resolution
just saying that this money is going to
go back into
whatever
line that
the chief designates or the two
designated so that accounting is
consistent with
yes as we do
uh we're paying out the city is paying
100 percent and the money you receive
from the uh school district would we
consider a revenue
it doesn't offset the uh does not add
any money or reimburse the police budget
it comes in as a revenue at the end
so if you if you wanted to use that
money again you would have to
reappropriate
an expense
if you want to use that money to expend
for something else
as opposed to doing this just do a
separate resolution
doing a budget amendment saying that the
300 000 is going to go back into
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because revenue would be police services
and then if you want to offset that
revenue you would have to appropriate a
budget
expenditure
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increase the revenue i don't have my
budget information police services like
300 000
and then you would increase
the budget appropriation for
police salaries i believe that's a
3-1
31
so we can just move the resolution to
reallocate reallocate the 100 000
i recommend two resolutions one
obviously
the council is inclined to enter into
this agreement with
the school district and then a separate
resolution
stating where uh the reallocation of the
three hundred thousand dollars will be
made
yeah i don't mind doing separate
resolution but i just wanna reference
into this resolution that we're passing
the police
community engagement offices reference
that where it's going to be going and
then to additional resolution okay so
great uh our second all those in favor
aye
all right
uh is there any other items the public
school advice
all right and then we'll have to do the
next one for the
uh
this is reallocation or
wasn't that the real elevation that was
it that would be one resolution taking
in thank you
so much
perfect thank you
any other items to fall for the public
safety committee
um so if it is not i would
have a motion to adjourn so
a second all those in favor
call to our
finance committee and the first item is
the 2022 project reappropriation for
pasta avenue site
mr ferrari
council president
city council mayor apollophone was out
ill today i was very sick but he asked
me to come and uh uh
get this
uh try to get this out front of the
council because it needs to be done as
you can read from the background of what
we sent you uh the dc has inspected some
uh a site on foster avenue and uh found
that there's potential violations uh so
well uh what the city has done they met
with dec they met with uh contractors
and they uh came up with a plan
and uh it turned out the plan uh that
they uh approved is with the william
learning sons that put the play together
to mediate this site
and uh
the cost
of estimated cost is 557 000
uh we like to appropriate uh
our revenue loss as part of the finance
laws that we see that way we don't
uh have the money uh that way we'll have
to borrow the money that's we don't have
to use reserves and uh it's part of our
revenue loss that will you know be the
best for the city uh to use financially
sorry
any questions from my colleagues
who haven't supported all right the
current budget of 4.6 million and yeah
um
in the actual budget isn't this
allocated for salaries or job intentions
it's allocated for it as as the thing
that i sent you what we do we want to
increase that but we're taking it from
the
revenue loss portion of uh art for
revenue
because this will be still be considered
opera revenue
what was the amount i'm sorry what was
the amount of money that we originally
had in for the salaries for this i
thought this was i haven't
so we're increasing that revenue line
uh by the amount of 557
of that uh revenue loss
appropriation
that's my question thank you
any other questions
my only concern is that i mean we
continue to chip away at the alcohol
money and to keep moving money from well
this is this is part of that 8.9 million
separate from what we what we've done
this is the revenue loss
from 2019 to 2020 that was separated
from that you know that we broke out of
the original 26 million you know that
was the guideline for the federals
that's the one that we're uh we don't
have we we don't have that much uh
there's no uh what's word i want to use
restrictions
on that port at a revenue loss portion
is there any possible to use money from
contingency to offset this because we
don't have enough money
all right the contingency budget for the
year was only 250 000.
and we already used half of that already
go ahead please
i would have to agree with mr munivarian
that uh
still continuing to pull from the heart
of my i get how some things do occur
sproutedly throughout the year but i
think with already having formulated the
advisory committee yeah but this is just
separate from that right now
this is going to pull from that no it
doesn't pull from that 13 million this
is the actual revenue loss it's already
been budgeted yeah okay so we've got a
separate phone number separate from that
yeah okay
so um it seems like you've already
chosen the contractor right he's the one
that uh applied and uh
out of the contractors uh that all had
uh
sent there this is the one the dec
approved with this and it actually
happens to be the lowest uh oh it's a
bit too
i don't have the other bits with us this
is just that's my question because
i'm accustomed to seeing three bids and
if they're not here one point one point
two and seven hundred and seventy and
this was uh
like i said paul's not here so we don't
have all the
stuff but i just want to give you you
know what it is
and the only reason why i do this you
know we can probably if you want we take
money out of reserves but this is
something that we have to do with dec
if you don't wish to do that but i'm
trying to find the city the best way at
the least amount of cost in the long run
any other questions
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go ahead i mean it's entirely up to the
committee whether they move it out
tonight or not but i would like to
before we formally vote and as a full
council would like to see the other bids
it's it's a common practice that we see
all the bids
not a problem
well i don't know when paul will be back
and he has all that information
so can we hold this for two weeks then
i think we may be able to get that
together for you tomorrow
okay
he has a better connection to paul and i
thought
would there be any violation with the
dec if we put it on hold for two weeks i
mean this is something that we need to
move
i know that we were you know we told
them we're going to do this by the
constructing the construction season
which is now is made
so it says you know site work will begin
at the 22 construction season you know
so this is actually the construction
stuff there where
they don't mind us
using a temporary basis but we can't
leave some of the material there on a
long term basis
and
some of they said that there was a
consent order entered into
a long time ago we have no record of it
and dec didn't have any record of it
but
so we're trying to avoid that and that's why
that's what we're trying to
speed the process up
so just for clarity so you're swinging
out of this the last revenue what we
have right now is eight point something
million eight point nine two million
people
so and we have unallocated money
in that
bucket right now yes taken five seven out of that correct
was that money supposed to be set aside
for
projects
yeah well yeah this is not really a
capital project this is a what i mean
yeah for stuff like this for that you
know yeah
you know for our lost revenues yep
because we lost our revenues because you
know we did we lost three million
dollars in 2020 you know
and
uh 2019 you know we had uh
two losses you know
any other question
i'll move
it and i would say based on uh the
assessment that this is within that
budgeted pocket of money out of the
second half
contingent upon us getting we'll get the
traditional information information
yeah
all in favor
aye thank you thank you
the next item is the allocation of 30
000 of cdbg funding to the 2022
pre-planting
collaborative is kristen yet
thank you good evening everyone um this
is related to the tree planting
collaborative program um it's a
partnership with retrieve schenectady
sjta and community fathers
in 2021 this partnership planted over 30
trees in hamilton illinois pleasant
we're looking to expand it this year um
employing six to 12 youth that's going
to be based on who applies to the sjta
program and who gets assigned
um so this is just um an authorization
to allocate 30 600 of cdbg funds for
this 2022 tree planting collaborative um
and to enter any necessary agreements to
effectuate
this resolution and the program for this
year
any questions yeah
please go ahead
i'm curious why this isn't going through
schenectady retreat which is what we've
typically
done never allocated we never retreat
provides more of the volunteer services
with selecting the species of trees
and doing on-site volunteer coordination
so the the community fathers pieces is
really through the actual training so
working with their occupation instead of
incarceration
as a as a program that they have to
basically train
um youth and to
manage the the summer youth employment
piece of it retreat doesn't actually
manage the sjta
youth so that would be something that
would be done through the community
father's partnership so then all 30 000
will go to the kids
yeah and to the yep to that and then to
the site leaders in the in the
management of the program so do you have
a breakdown of
the administrative expenses
we do i don't do we dan might have do
you
know more about the breakdown
yeah i mean we can send you the
breakdown as proposed to be fathers if
you'd like to see it it's primarily to
manage like the
you know somebody has to oversee the
children
it's actually a whole curriculum we did
the first um we did this for the first
time last year so there's classroom time
that involves training and
speakers from you know landscape
architecture or city planning or just
various
um various of the the trades and
expertise that would be involved in the
plantings so they have the classroom
time and then they have the on-site time
of actually planting the trees so it's a holistic curriculum that again is
in partnership with retreat and the job
coaching from sjta
um so it's a it's a partnership that
really involves all three parties
um which includes community fathers
actually housing the training and the
planting sites
i want to see the breakdown
when you when you're standing like can
you please copy it to the entire console
that information
thank you
clarifying question uh on the agenda
says thirty thousand dollars um in the
materials it says 30 600 as if this goes
through i want to make sure that the
resolution is correct it's 30 600. yep
okay and that was the budget that was
presented and like i said it will be
dependent on how many youth actually get
we're trying to expand the program this
year but that really depends on the you
know who gets assigned to it so that funding will also you know if we
don't this is the maximum budget like if
there was 12 years and we had more than
you know we had
i guess that's the maximum budget if we
didn't utilize it all we would just put
it towards the program next year or to a
similar program
um
so we're just getting approval if we get
the 12
um sjta candidates but we're not sure
who we're going to get right now
so i just wanted to make that clear
any other questions
no i don't have a question i just um i
you know was familiar with the program i
saw what the kids did last year and i
think it's we always talk about how we
want to engage our youth and make sure
we have programs that teach them skills
et cetera and this is a um
it's just really a great program i
actually went once and um helped maybe
put a shovel of dirt in i don't know
that's it but um
but to see them engaged and many times
we don't see urban youth um engaging on
this level so i think it's a you know
it's a good program and community
fathers actually have a very good
reputation in the community engaging
youth and fathers uh and doing this so
um yeah really i'm hopeful that we can
move forward with this because um
as i said it's already proven they did
it last year
we already have um retreat involved
who's continually been doing things and
now to just engage our youth is is also
a good move
so thank you
and you have a question
i have a motion
i would like to see the administrative
expenses before i do anything
well we'll get you that we'll get that
tomorrow to uh
tentative breakdown
just to understand is it's conditioned
upon
the actual number of uh
youth that are uh
assigned to or work under the program
yeah because i really want the money
going to the kids and
that's where i'd like to see it so i
will move it on that
so we're moving it continuously while
i'm getting receiving the information
all the favor
hi
thank you
the next item please stay just there the
resolution of reallocating seventy
thousand dollars to the hamilton hill
dropping art and prague association inc
yes so um
in 2020 we had allocated cdbg cv funds
through the cares act to the hamilton
hill art center for specific
improvements to their building
since that time they received additional
funding through the state and have
expanded their scope of work on the
project
so they actually have more a capital
campaign
um to contribute to the reconstruction
of the art center which
has increased in scope
um so we're just bringing this forward
to
account for that um that we're not moving forward with just
the hvac services but we're trying to
help with some pre-development costs
related to the overall renovation um
with the 70
000. so it's basically a change in scope
of work of an allocation that was
already approved in 2020.
any questions
may have a motion
second all in favor all right
the next item is proposed 2022 2023 hot
annual action plan we had a public
hearing last monday
would you like to update us on anything
in regards to this um i believe sylvia
had sent the
public comments to you sam i don't know
if those were distributed yet the public
comments though
from the national public comments
no it was just the notes that we had
from the public hearing
and
okay well i think sylvia sent that to
you so if we just distribute that to the
council yeah i think the next committee
cycle will be coming for the approval of
the action plan oh
so you're not looking for any action
here tonight on this item
no because our public comment period
actually ends on the 5th i believe so we
are waiting until the next cycle
you guys like just wait till the end
yes
agenda to hold the public hearing this
public hearing we just have to
incorporate the minutes
from that hearing as part of the grant
application
and then
should we be
successful we're cautiously optimistic
then when it comes back the council
would vote to actually accept the money
at
some point in the future
thank you
the next item is
financial deposit
to consolidated local street and highway
improvement program chips
mr wallen
hi
so every year after the state budget has
passed
we receive a letter from the new york
state department of transportation
uh detailing a annual appropriated
balance for consolidated highway
improvement program known as chips the
first one we have here is the chips
program itself which is chips and it
also encapsulates the extreme winter
recovery program in the paved new york
program
our balances are identical to that of
last year
so
totaling
almost two million dollars of total
funds for our roads
and we also use that money for design
services and consulting anything having
to do with public works or on our
streets
so that is the first one
as well like many chances do you have
like a list of the streets that will be
participating in this program um
well this is just accepting funnel just
accepted you don't have you don't have a
list
i do have a list i can share that but
that's a different that's the paving
program this is what helps fund the
payment program
so i can give you that list
when we're working on developing it our
favorite program is going to be going
out in the next week or two please share
it to the council so that you have an
idea sure plaza and lexington
put that on the back
thank you
any other any questions from alex
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the next item is the commission of
finance deposit the new york state
department of transportation touring
program funding
and the total amount of 1.6 to 5 million
correct
this is
the second year of the new york state
touring route program
prior to two years ago the city was
solely responsible for the ownership and
maintenance of touring routes in the
city our touring routes are
state street route 5 erie boulevard
so if you were to drive into town of
niskuna town of colony anything not a
city the state owns maintains those
roadways in the cities all those
roadways were owned and maintained by
the city
due to some
new programming it was decided to set
aside money
for
that it was given out based on how many
miles of road you have and our
appropriation of this new funding is 1.6
million dollars i believe this program
right now has a five-year life meaning
that this is year two of five years
um so this is not like chips where we
essentially have gotten it for over a
decade
but we are using this and it can be used
similarly to chips it does not have to
be used on state or area we use it to
supplement our paving program
any questions
may have a motion
exactly all in favor
aye thank you mr
any other businesses for finance
may have a motion
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uh we have 14 items on the agenda
however
we don't have a quorum for claims so
we're going to have to move that
particular item into city development
and planning as well
so
um oh mr paul here you are so our first
item on the agenda is revocable permit
number 669
vocal permit 669 is for two awnings at
26 broadway this is the building between
finhead susan's and 20 north broadway
the building is
under new ownership and they would like
to put two awnings over the windows
these awnings do overhang
the city right away and sidewalk
there you'll see the little sketch that
they have
three feet off the building and we have
104 inches so
no no issues with these these are kind
of typical in that area we have that at
the restaurant across the street as well
are there any questions
i remove this
second all those in favor all right
the next item on the agenda is a revolt
movement number 670
this is a similar same applicant they
purchased the building
across the street
closer to the corner of union i believe
it used to be like a travel agency and
they want to put a similar style awning
on the window of this building
similar application
there we go
so that okay
right there
and
uh once again 36 inches no issues so
kind of typical for that block
30 inches
any questions
um move this
second all those in favor all right
thank you
okay uh the next item in the agenda is
uh 145 barrett street historic landmark
elite agency for seeker sdf
so the department of development
received a request from one point by
fair street to designate this structure
um as a historic structure and to apply
the overlay historic district to the
property so it's currently in the c4
downtown mixed use district between
franklin street and state street
um so this is a three-story brick and
wood frame structure originally
constructed as a residential townhouse
between 1899 and 1900
most recently it was used as a jazz club
um it's also been was the carpenters
union hall from 1928 to 1985.
so designating the historic structure to
include it in the oh district
would open the potential for historic
tax credits while also applying the
review standards required for properties
designated um in the zoning ordinance
under the this overlay
um
so
this we have to do for reasons we have
to do the three requests the first would
be the city council um declaring the
intent to act as the agency for the
seeker review and commence the 30-day
public comment period
miss tia do they have to go to the state
at all to um to get this historic
destination yes
so they would do this for that process
after
yeah i believe
and the owner is here um just to be super clear i am the
applicant so uh i'm not giving any
advice to the commission uh any
questions on the lawsuit with mr golden
but so this is a local designation local
zoning designation
it will streamline the process for
listing on the state national historic
register but it is a separate process
entirely so this gives me
kind of the zoning protections for that parcel under the city's owning
law demolition section and also opens up
an avenue for property tax exemption
credits for historic rehabilitation and
then after this process i will see
listing on the state national registers
which open up the uh historic tax credit program for
qualified rehabilitation expenses
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well um so just to be clear so can we
really do this before you've gotten it
as from
designated by the state um yes so uh
this is a function of our local zone uh
and so this would be the city of
schenectady making the determination
that the structure is historic which
would actually help with the application
with the state
uh for the national register and the
federal register
um this is an alternative to creating a
historic district so
uh
it would just apply to that strength of
that parcel right yeah here
any other questions
i'll move this
second
all those favor all right
the next item on the agenda is
to refer this item to the planning
commission
that is correct
same same project just referring
the to the planning commission for a
recommendation
so
all right oh sorry
um this is question mr holden um
considering that you know you make sure
there's
uh this is the city employee so we want
to make sure that that's clear and uh do
we need to do anything to make any
declaration in terms of any conflict do
we need to do that that was so conflict
um you know he's came here as a private
citizen he made it very clear
that he's here on behalf of the llc the
owner he's a member of i don't know if
he's a sole member
his partner might be a member too
um
i don't see any you know
legal issue with a conflict
okay
you're acting independently as a city
council if you have legal questions
obviously direct related to this
particular
measure please direct them to me
um and not mr martin okay just want to
make sure we're clear
thank you
i will second
i was in favor aye
okay
and now to call for a public hearing
145 bear three
so
can she
just um let's just help
all right so sunnyview belmont uh avenue
reselling
yes so we received a request from
sunnyview rehabilitation hospital to
change the zoning of three parcels
from our one single family
to the institutional district
these three parcels are currently owned
and maintained by sunnyview
and they um the size is approximately
0.57 acres
it is immediately adjacent to the eye
institutional zoning district in which
sunnyview and alice hospital campus are
located
um so sunnyview has been experiencing
steady growth over the past decade and
they have a new expansion plan for the
building
so additional parking will be needed to
accommodate this new plan because the
new plan actually takes up some of their
existing parking
on the site
so
that is the proposal
and
um
yes the the uses is allowed within the
institutional zoning district
and so we are asking that council
declared an intent to act as the agency
for the seeker review and commence the
30-day public comment period if there
are any questions we also have the
engineer on the project here
if anybody has questions
any questions
if not i'll obtain a motion
second all those in favor hi
okay uh sunnyview belmont avenue zoning
uh planning commission referral
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uh
so this is just to refer
um refer this request to the planning
commission for a recommendation all
right
any questions
uh i'm just getting a motion so
second all those in favor all right
and um
the next one the sunny new belmont
avenue resulting request public hearing
yep call for a public hearing for
rezoning approximately 0.57 acres along
belmont ave from our one single family
to institutional
okay any questions
in a motion so
second all those in favor
thank you i think that's it for you
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thank you very much
uh just want to the next item on the
agenda is to give an update on the rf
advisory committee
as i sent the email out to council
members there was a training last week
there were two there was a in person for
those that could make it and we also
held a virtual so um
that the individuals
that were that
agreed to be on the advisory committee
received their training
one of the documents the department of
development uh was there to make sure
that
they did all the um technical part of it
i was there to just let folks know you
know how the committee came about we
talked about the tour that the mayor did
and the various neighborhoods and just
kind of giving background information
and obviously including how arpa came
about and all of that so um
today their applicant they should be
seeing their applications
and they will start their review process
uh in terms of questions we asked them
to that miss miss michael the single
point of contact to get receive their
questions so the questions aren't you
know going numerous places and people
leaving questions unanswered um so and
then she will forward them to to
department of development as as
is necessary and then you know send the
responses as well
so that's where we are in the process as
we told the folks when they signed on
that this will be a four-week process so
the intent is that by may 31st this
process will be complete and their
ratings will um then be submitted
to
back to the department of development
are there any questions about that
okay um the next item on the agenda is
the ceremony resolution
recognizing barbershops as community
institutions
mr farley is not here tonight however um
this is something that's pretty simple
um
it um may is national barber month along
with many other national months and um
and for those of you that go to barclays
or mutations you know that it's a place
where a lot of conversation goes on and
maybe some even advice so he just wanted
to do a resolution to recognize that
so i
just entertain a motion for that so
second elbows in favor
uh do we have
all the information in there
well he'll
yes we'll make sure that he i think the
uh resolution of excuse me legislative
request is here i'll make sure that he
uh that we get the
information for the resolution if
there's additional information obviously
excuse me if there's additional
information i saw the legislative
requests yeah
it's had some things i think there may
be more but i'll ask mr farley to make
sure that we have it thank you you're
welcome uh the next item you can do a
resolution for each barbershop oh
that's a lot of paper
maybe they can pass it around each
people will be spending money for trees
here
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and they can just pass it around
everybody hold on to it for a week
um the next item on the agenda is a
ceremony resolution for national foster care month mr williams
thank you so in addition to me being a
national embargo month um
i thought it was important to
intentionally thank
the families that have assisted with
these impacted communities as they go
throughout this process although i was
not a person that experienced going through
the foster care system is something that
very much exists in our country and
taking a moment to appreciate the impact
that a lot of our local residents have
done to help
individuals who are succumbed to that
system i think is important
any questions
thank you
and
the next three items on the agenda and
time will be an executive session so
um i would ask for a motion going
executive session to do
property sales and also um discussion um
litigation
so
second
all those in favor
okay we're in executive session thank
you
so much
you