[1:25] how
[1:43] me
[1:55] hey
[12:57] [Music]
[13:55] okay i'd like to call this connected
[13:57] city council committee meeting to order
[13:59] for monday may 2nd 2022
[14:02] and the first committee up is public
[14:04] safety mr williams
[14:06] so i'd like to call the public safety
[14:08] committee to order we have one item on
[14:10] our agenda tonight that is the school
[14:12] committee engagement officers uh this
[14:14] evening i would like to introduce the
[14:16] superintendent of our smackdown city
[14:18] school district superintendent and paul
[14:20] solaire uh thank you for joining us this
[14:22] evening sir i thought it was important
[14:24] to have
[14:25] him be present to provide us a statement
[14:28] from the school district and also to
[14:30] provide better context to the degree of
[14:32] the community engagement officers and
[14:34] allow us the opportunity to just hear
[14:36] straight from his mouth the intent with
[14:38] the program and uh we appreciate you
[14:40] being here sir supporters
[14:43] yeah thank you for uh sorry i can
[14:44] physically be there in person
[14:47] so i just want to thank city council for
[14:49] inviting me uh definitely to provide
[14:51] some remarks on the community engagement
[14:53] officer uh program uh that we've
[14:55] instituted since november um any
[14:58] specific questions but you know for us i
[15:00] think one thing that uh i want to really
[15:03] be clear on is that it's been a really
[15:04] collaborative effort uh really focusing
[15:07] on
[15:07] um what i'd like to say as another
[15:09] mitigating strategy
[15:11] for our students and our community when
[15:13] it comes to safety you know we have
[15:16] administrators school counselors
[15:18] staff typically first responders and as
[15:21] uh issues progress and sometimes the
[15:23] challenges progress
[15:25] we had to find another mitigating
[15:26] strategy and
[15:28] that's right community officers being
[15:30] kind of that last defense before we uh
[15:33] would allow families to just go out and
[15:35] engage
[15:36] the police on their own or hopefully not
[15:38] take matters into their own hands and so
[15:41] um been very very beneficial
[15:45] kind of reset that we've had it's not a
[15:47] traditional school resource officer
[15:49] program and real intentionally called
[15:51] community engagement officers because
[15:53] we're trying to change the narrative of
[15:55] what schools and officers up in schools
[16:00] [Music]
[16:01] all right thank you again uh
[16:02] superintendent solaire really appreciate
[16:04] you being uh being here tonight i didn't
[16:06] know
[16:10] oh yeah uh does anyone have a question
[16:11] for superintendents away from the
[16:14] council members no i don't
[16:16] i was going to ask to see if she clicked
[16:19] here tonight and then also received
[16:21] thanks for joining us again
[16:23] yes do you have do you have any other
[16:24] employee or feedback further at this
[16:26] time
[16:30] so i know our discussion last week was
[16:32] postponing the resolution
[16:34] to allow additional time for insulate
[16:36] and input i know for myself before
[16:38] allowing my council members and fellow
[16:40] counselors to add their input i
[16:42] definitely appreciate having the
[16:43] additional time to have conversations
[16:46] with one of our current
[16:48] community engagement officers i know
[16:50] other members reached out to uh
[16:52] superintendent solaire to get some more
[16:53] justification and using that additional
[16:55] two weeks to just provide more
[16:57] clarity to this program i think was
[17:01] very intentional and also deserve it
[17:03] just based on the magnitude of
[17:06] time that was allowed on the school
[17:07] board to have these discussions i know
[17:09] for myself it was definitely very
[17:10] important to take the time to
[17:13] peruse through this agreement to make
[17:15] sure that as i deliberated for myself i
[17:18] made the appropriate decision so i'd
[17:20] like to at this time turn it over to any
[17:22] uh comments or feedback from my fellow
[17:24] consumers
[17:28] so similar thoughts that you know the
[17:31] first time we saw it we you know had it
[17:32] like from a friday so we just had a
[17:34] couple of days and there were some
[17:35] questions that uh arose
[17:37] um that needed to that evening came out
[17:39] of the discussion that was that um when
[17:41] she presented there were some questions
[17:43] that it was at least in my mind so again
[17:45] i also thought it was important because
[17:47] we're making a very important decision
[17:48] here
[17:49] and we need community input and in
[17:51] addition to that
[17:53] although the school board got to hear
[17:54] both sides of it the city council did
[17:56] not so
[17:57] i personally reached out to the
[17:59] superintendent to make sure that i
[18:00] understood
[18:01] things from both point of views both
[18:04] points of view i think that's extremely
[18:05] important for everyone who's um you know
[18:08] engaged in making decisions in addition
[18:10] to that making sure that i spoke to
[18:13] other administrators other residents and
[18:15] all the people that are involved in this
[18:17] decision-making process so i'm glad that we took the additional
[18:21] two weeks to do that it's not a decision
[18:24] that's going it needs to be rushed um
[18:25] it's going to end up being something
[18:27] that we'll be doing for three years so
[18:29] you know to take two more weeks to make
[18:30] those decisions and make sure we had all
[18:32] the information we needed just um to me
[18:34] made sense so i i appreciate the
[18:36] committee um chair and the members for
[18:37] doing that
[18:39] so
[18:40] any other input or feedback mr moon yeah
[18:43] thank you i'm too glad that we held it
[18:45] for two weeks to to answer some of the
[18:47] questions that council members had and i
[18:49] think most of the question was answered
[18:50] i had an opportunity to have a
[18:52] discussion with superintendent also
[18:54] so we know we have all the answers to
[18:56] our questions and i think we're ready to
[18:58] move forward with it
[19:00] but uh on my side i
[19:02] wanted to suggest or to make a
[19:04] recommendation for just an amendment
[19:06] and i'm just going to read it and
[19:08] have a discussion on it all the
[19:10] reimbursement received from the school
[19:13] districts remain under the police
[19:15] department budget
[19:17] and use to hire mental health profession
[19:20] and to continue to hire a community
[19:22] engagement officer would you mind
[19:23] repeating that
[19:26] all the reimbursement that we're
[19:27] receiving from the school district
[19:29] remains under the school on the police
[19:31] department budget
[19:33] and this money used to hire mental
[19:36] health profession professional and
[19:39] community engagement officers
[19:41] [Music]
[19:45] that is my suggestion to add to this
[19:47] resolution
[19:56] [Music]
[19:58] i would support that because our initial
[19:59] when we initially did our reform and
[20:01] reinvention when we talked about
[20:02] community engagement officers
[20:04] initially they were supposed to be out
[20:06] in the community um and i understand
[20:08] that um having the meeting with the
[20:10] superintendent actually he himself said
[20:12] that when he saw it he said this is
[20:14] something we need in the school so i
[20:15] understand us um including that in the
[20:18] school however we still need to stick to
[20:20] what we said into our reinforced
[20:22] reinvention and make sure that we have
[20:23] community engagement officers in the
[20:25] community as well so if we could use
[20:27] that i won't call it savings because uh
[20:29] but if we could use the money that we're
[20:31] now going to be receiving to make sure
[20:34] that we um still stick to what we said
[20:36] we were going to do what we assimilated
[20:38] to the state i think is extremely
[20:39] important
[20:45] yeah i just want to clear something up
[20:46] we keep talking about the community in
[20:48] the school district because if they're
[20:50] two separate things
[20:52] the school district is part of the
[20:54] community the kids in the school
[20:56] district are part of the community
[20:58] they're not two separate entities so i
[21:01] just want to clear that up
[21:02] and first of all i would like to more
[21:04] clarity as into
[21:06] what is meant by
[21:09] mental health professionals are you
[21:10] talking about training for the police
[21:12] officers
[21:13] or
[21:15] something else
[21:17] earlier today mccarthy and i had a
[21:18] discussion earlier this morning and this
[21:20] afternoon in terms of partnering with
[21:22] mental health
[21:24] organization or
[21:26] county who is already doing or providing
[21:28] service mental health services to
[21:30] partner with them with the police
[21:31] department or to hire somebody directly
[21:34] within the police department to oversee
[21:36] the mental health
[21:38] issues
[21:44] if i was to respond mr palmini i would
[21:45] agree with the portion of your statement
[21:47] however there are many individuals in
[21:49] our city who do not have members their
[21:51] family that are actively in the school
[21:52] district although they are members of
[21:54] the city i think it's appropriate to
[21:56] make sure we're taking steps on both
[21:58] sides to make sure everyone is
[21:59] benefiting from this reform
[22:01] collaborative i know myself although i
[22:03] have a daughter she is not a school age
[22:05] so although we're taking these steps to
[22:08] prepare and
[22:10] better position our staff and students
[22:13] within the school district it's
[22:14] important to make sure that if our
[22:16] intent is to build um better
[22:18] relationships for our community and our
[22:20] police taking these additional steps in
[22:22] the other avenue as well
[22:31] [Music]
[22:34] i would like to move this with the
[22:37] stated amendment to this resolution
[22:41] and i would second it oh sorry also you
[22:43] can boo inside we just have a question
[22:47] almost
[22:48] i'll move it with the intended um
[22:50] changes to the resolution
[22:52] and
[22:54] just mr ferrari how do we handle uh
[22:57] today
[22:59] the school district will hire
[23:01] police officers for sporting events
[23:03] other activities and they reimburse
[23:06] us pretty much 100
[23:09] correct
[23:10] uh
[23:11] does that just go into general revenue
[23:13] or does that go back to offset the
[23:15] expenses within the police department uh
[23:18] the police in our budget we have a
[23:20] budget for a police
[23:23] or activity outside and that goes into that budget category we don't
[23:27] reimburse the police budget now
[23:32] said he will run into the police budget
[23:34] the requirement the
[23:38] should be done it's an amendment to this
[23:41] resolution that's before you or
[23:44] if you want to do a separate resolution
[23:45] just saying that this money is going to
[23:47] go back into
[23:49] whatever
[23:50] line that
[23:52] the chief designates or the two
[23:54] designated so that accounting is
[23:56] consistent with
[24:01] yes as we do
[24:02] uh we're paying out the city is paying
[24:05] 100 percent and the money you receive
[24:07] from the uh school district would we
[24:09] consider a revenue
[24:12] it doesn't offset the uh does not add
[24:14] any money or reimburse the police budget
[24:17] it comes in as a revenue at the end
[24:23] so if you if you wanted to use that
[24:24] money again you would have to
[24:26] reappropriate
[24:27] an expense
[24:29] if you want to use that money to expend
[24:30] for something else
[24:34] as opposed to doing this just do a
[24:36] separate resolution
[24:37] doing a budget amendment saying that the
[24:39] 300 000 is going to go back into
[24:46] [Music]
[25:04] because revenue would be police services
[25:05] and then if you want to offset that
[25:08] revenue you would have to appropriate a
[25:10] budget
[25:11] expenditure
[25:17] [Music]
[25:23] increase the revenue i don't have my
[25:25] budget information police services like
[25:27] 300 000
[25:29] and then you would increase
[25:32] the budget appropriation for
[25:34] police salaries i believe that's a
[25:38] 3-1
[25:39] 31
[25:50] so we can just move the resolution to
[25:52] reallocate reallocate the 100 000
[26:11] i recommend two resolutions one
[26:13] obviously
[26:14] the council is inclined to enter into
[26:17] this agreement with
[26:18] the school district and then a separate
[26:21] resolution
[26:23] stating where uh the reallocation of the
[26:25] three hundred thousand dollars will be
[26:27] made
[26:29] yeah i don't mind doing separate
[26:31] resolution but i just wanna reference
[26:33] into this resolution that we're passing
[26:35] the police
[26:36] community engagement offices reference
[26:37] that where it's going to be going and
[26:39] then to additional resolution okay so
[26:43] great uh our second all those in favor
[26:45] aye
[26:46] all right
[26:47] uh is there any other items the public
[26:49] school advice
[27:05] all right and then we'll have to do the
[27:06] next one for the
[27:09] uh
[27:10] this is reallocation or
[27:12] wasn't that the real elevation that was
[27:13] it that would be one resolution taking
[27:15] in thank you
[27:17] so much
[27:20] perfect thank you
[27:21] any other items to fall for the public
[27:23] safety committee
[27:24] um so if it is not i would
[27:26] have a motion to adjourn so
[27:29] a second all those in favor
[27:36] call to our
[27:37] finance committee and the first item is
[27:40] the 2022 project reappropriation for
[27:43] pasta avenue site
[27:45] mr ferrari
[27:50] council president
[27:51] city council mayor apollophone was out
[27:54] ill today i was very sick but he asked
[27:56] me to come and uh uh
[27:58] get this
[28:00] uh try to get this out front of the
[28:01] council because it needs to be done as
[28:04] you can read from the background of what
[28:05] we sent you uh the dc has inspected some
[28:10] uh a site on foster avenue and uh found
[28:13] that there's potential violations uh so
[28:16] well uh what the city has done they met
[28:18] with dec they met with uh contractors
[28:21] and they uh came up with a plan
[28:23] and uh it turned out the plan uh that
[28:26] they uh approved is with the william
[28:28] learning sons that put the play together
[28:31] to mediate this site
[28:32] and uh
[28:34] the cost
[28:35] of estimated cost is 557 000
[28:38] uh we like to appropriate uh
[28:41] our revenue loss as part of the finance
[28:43] laws that we see that way we don't
[28:45] uh have the money uh that way we'll have
[28:47] to borrow the money that's we don't have
[28:48] to use reserves and uh it's part of our
[28:51] revenue loss that will you know be the
[28:54] best for the city uh to use financially
[29:02] sorry
[29:04] any questions from my colleagues
[29:07] who haven't supported all right the
[29:09] current budget of 4.6 million and yeah
[29:12] um
[29:14] in the actual budget isn't this
[29:16] allocated for salaries or job intentions
[29:18] it's allocated for it as as the thing
[29:20] that i sent you what we do we want to
[29:22] increase that but we're taking it from
[29:24] the
[29:25] revenue loss portion of uh art for
[29:27] revenue
[29:28] because this will be still be considered
[29:30] opera revenue
[29:33] what was the amount i'm sorry what was
[29:35] the amount of money that we originally
[29:36] had in for the salaries for this i
[29:38] thought this was i haven't
[29:46] so we're increasing that revenue line
[29:49] uh by the amount of 557
[29:54] of that uh revenue loss
[29:56] appropriation
[29:58] that's my question thank you
[30:01] any other questions
[30:04] my only concern is that i mean we
[30:06] continue to chip away at the alcohol
[30:08] money and to keep moving money from well
[30:11] this is this is part of that 8.9 million
[30:13] separate from what we what we've done
[30:15] this is the revenue loss
[30:17] from 2019 to 2020 that was separated
[30:21] from that you know that we broke out of
[30:23] the original 26 million you know that
[30:26] was the guideline for the federals
[30:28] that's the one that we're uh we don't
[30:30] have we we don't have that much uh
[30:32] there's no uh what's word i want to use
[30:35] restrictions
[30:36] on that port at a revenue loss portion
[30:41] is there any possible to use money from
[30:43] contingency to offset this because we
[30:44] don't have enough money
[30:53] all right the contingency budget for the
[30:54] year was only 250 000.
[30:57] and we already used half of that already
[31:07] go ahead please
[31:08] i would have to agree with mr munivarian
[31:10] that uh
[31:12] still continuing to pull from the heart
[31:14] of my i get how some things do occur
[31:17] sproutedly throughout the year but i
[31:19] think with already having formulated the
[31:22] advisory committee yeah but this is just
[31:23] separate from that right now
[31:25] this is going to pull from that no it
[31:27] doesn't pull from that 13 million this
[31:29] is the actual revenue loss it's already
[31:31] been budgeted yeah okay so we've got a
[31:33] separate phone number separate from that
[31:34] yeah okay
[31:39] so um it seems like you've already
[31:40] chosen the contractor right he's the one
[31:42] that uh applied and uh
[31:46] out of the contractors uh that all had
[31:48] uh
[31:50] sent there this is the one the dec
[31:51] approved with this and it actually
[31:53] happens to be the lowest uh oh it's a
[31:55] bit too
[31:57] i don't have the other bits with us this
[31:58] is just that's my question because
[32:01] i'm accustomed to seeing three bids and
[32:02] if they're not here one point one point
[32:05] two and seven hundred and seventy and
[32:07] this was uh
[32:10] like i said paul's not here so we don't
[32:12] have all the
[32:13] stuff but i just want to give you you
[32:14] know what it is
[32:17] and the only reason why i do this you
[32:18] know we can probably if you want we take
[32:20] money out of reserves but this is
[32:21] something that we have to do with dec
[32:24] if you don't wish to do that but i'm
[32:26] trying to find the city the best way at
[32:28] the least amount of cost in the long run
[32:35] any other questions
[32:39] [Music]
[32:40] go ahead i mean it's entirely up to the
[32:42] committee whether they move it out
[32:43] tonight or not but i would like to
[32:45] before we formally vote and as a full
[32:46] council would like to see the other bids
[32:48] it's it's a common practice that we see
[32:50] all the bids
[32:51] not a problem
[32:53] well i don't know when paul will be back
[32:55] and he has all that information
[32:57] so can we hold this for two weeks then
[33:01] i think we may be able to get that
[33:03] together for you tomorrow
[33:05] okay
[33:07] he has a better connection to paul and i
[33:08] thought
[33:11] would there be any violation with the
[33:12] dec if we put it on hold for two weeks i
[33:15] mean this is something that we need to
[33:16] move
[33:17] i know that we were you know we told
[33:19] them we're going to do this by the
[33:20] constructing the construction season
[33:22] which is now is made
[33:24] so it says you know site work will begin
[33:27] at the 22 construction season you know
[33:30] so this is actually the construction
[33:32] stuff there where
[33:34] they don't mind us
[33:36] using a temporary basis but we can't
[33:39] leave some of the material there on a
[33:40] long term basis
[33:42] and
[33:45] some of they said that there was a
[33:47] consent order entered into
[33:50] a long time ago we have no record of it
[33:53] and dec didn't have any record of it
[33:56] but
[33:57] so we're trying to avoid that and that's why
[34:00] that's what we're trying to
[34:01] speed the process up
[34:04] so just for clarity so you're swinging
[34:06] out of this the last revenue what we
[34:08] have right now is eight point something
[34:09] million eight point nine two million
[34:11] people
[34:12] so and we have unallocated money
[34:15] in that
[34:16] bucket right now yes taken five seven out of that correct
[34:25] was that money supposed to be set aside
[34:27] for
[34:28] projects
[34:30] yeah well yeah this is not really a
[34:32] capital project this is a what i mean
[34:34] yeah for stuff like this for that you
[34:36] know yeah
[34:37] you know for our lost revenues yep
[34:40] because we lost our revenues because you
[34:41] know we did we lost three million
[34:43] dollars in 2020 you know
[34:46] and
[34:47] uh 2019 you know we had uh
[34:49] two losses you know
[34:56] any other question
[34:58] i'll move
[35:00] it and i would say based on uh the
[35:03] assessment that this is within that
[35:05] budgeted pocket of money out of the
[35:06] second half
[35:09] contingent upon us getting we'll get the
[35:11] traditional information information
[35:13] yeah
[35:15] all in favor
[35:17] aye thank you thank you
[35:21] the next item is the allocation of 30
[35:24] 000 of cdbg funding to the 2022
[35:26] pre-planting
[35:28] collaborative is kristen yet
[35:32] thank you good evening everyone um this
[35:34] is related to the tree planting
[35:36] collaborative program um it's a
[35:38] partnership with retrieve schenectady
[35:39] sjta and community fathers
[35:42] in 2021 this partnership planted over 30
[35:45] trees in hamilton illinois pleasant
[35:47] we're looking to expand it this year um
[35:50] employing six to 12 youth that's going
[35:52] to be based on who applies to the sjta
[35:54] program and who gets assigned
[35:56] um so this is just um an authorization
[35:59] to allocate 30 600 of cdbg funds for
[36:03] this 2022 tree planting collaborative um
[36:06] and to enter any necessary agreements to
[36:09] effectuate
[36:10] this resolution and the program for this
[36:12] year
[36:14] any questions yeah
[36:16] please go ahead
[36:18] i'm curious why this isn't going through
[36:20] schenectady retreat which is what we've
[36:23] typically
[36:24] done never allocated we never retreat
[36:28] provides more of the volunteer services
[36:30] with selecting the species of trees
[36:32] and doing on-site volunteer coordination
[36:37] so the the community fathers pieces is
[36:40] really through the actual training so
[36:43] working with their occupation instead of
[36:45] incarceration
[36:46] as a as a program that they have to
[36:49] basically train
[36:50] um youth and to
[36:52] manage the the summer youth employment
[36:55] piece of it retreat doesn't actually
[36:57] manage the sjta
[36:59] youth so that would be something that
[37:01] would be done through the community
[37:02] father's partnership so then all 30 000
[37:05] will go to the kids
[37:08] yeah and to the yep to that and then to
[37:10] the site leaders in the in the
[37:12] management of the program so do you have
[37:14] a breakdown of
[37:17] the administrative expenses
[37:20] we do i don't do we dan might have do
[37:22] you
[37:23] know more about the breakdown
[37:35] yeah i mean we can send you the
[37:36] breakdown as proposed to be fathers if
[37:38] you'd like to see it it's primarily to
[37:40] manage like the
[37:42] you know somebody has to oversee the
[37:43] children
[37:46] it's actually a whole curriculum we did
[37:48] the first um we did this for the first
[37:51] time last year so there's classroom time
[37:53] that involves training and
[37:55] speakers from you know landscape
[37:57] architecture or city planning or just
[37:59] various
[38:00] um various of the the trades and
[38:02] expertise that would be involved in the
[38:04] plantings so they have the classroom
[38:06] time and then they have the on-site time
[38:08] of actually planting the trees so it's a holistic curriculum that again is
[38:12] in partnership with retreat and the job
[38:14] coaching from sjta
[38:16] um so it's a it's a partnership that
[38:19] really involves all three parties
[38:22] um which includes community fathers
[38:24] actually housing the training and the
[38:27] planting sites
[38:28] i want to see the breakdown
[38:30] when you when you're standing like can
[38:31] you please copy it to the entire console
[38:35] that information
[38:37] thank you
[38:39] clarifying question uh on the agenda
[38:41] says thirty thousand dollars um in the
[38:44] materials it says 30 600 as if this goes
[38:47] through i want to make sure that the
[38:48] resolution is correct it's 30 600. yep
[38:51] okay and that was the budget that was
[38:53] presented and like i said it will be
[38:55] dependent on how many youth actually get
[38:58] we're trying to expand the program this
[39:00] year but that really depends on the you
[39:02] know who gets assigned to it so that funding will also you know if we
[39:08] don't this is the maximum budget like if
[39:10] there was 12 years and we had more than
[39:12] you know we had
[39:14] i guess that's the maximum budget if we
[39:16] didn't utilize it all we would just put
[39:18] it towards the program next year or to a
[39:20] similar program
[39:22] um
[39:23] so we're just getting approval if we get
[39:25] the 12
[39:26] um sjta candidates but we're not sure
[39:28] who we're going to get right now
[39:31] so i just wanted to make that clear
[39:34] any other questions
[39:38] no i don't have a question i just um i
[39:40] you know was familiar with the program i
[39:42] saw what the kids did last year and i
[39:43] think it's we always talk about how we
[39:45] want to engage our youth and make sure
[39:46] we have programs that teach them skills
[39:48] et cetera and this is a um
[39:50] it's just really a great program i
[39:52] actually went once and um helped maybe
[39:55] put a shovel of dirt in i don't know
[39:57] that's it but um
[40:01] but to see them engaged and many times
[40:04] we don't see urban youth um engaging on
[40:06] this level so i think it's a you know
[40:08] it's a good program and community
[40:10] fathers actually have a very good
[40:11] reputation in the community engaging
[40:12] youth and fathers uh and doing this so
[40:15] um yeah really i'm hopeful that we can
[40:17] move forward with this because um
[40:20] as i said it's already proven they did
[40:22] it last year
[40:23] we already have um retreat involved
[40:25] who's continually been doing things and
[40:27] now to just engage our youth is is also
[40:29] a good move
[40:30] so thank you
[40:32] and you have a question
[40:33] i have a motion
[40:38] i would like to see the administrative
[40:40] expenses before i do anything
[40:45] well we'll get you that we'll get that
[40:47] tomorrow to uh
[40:49] tentative breakdown
[40:50] just to understand is it's conditioned
[40:52] upon
[40:53] the actual number of uh
[40:55] youth that are uh
[40:57] assigned to or work under the program
[40:59] yeah because i really want the money
[41:01] going to the kids and
[41:04] that's where i'd like to see it so i
[41:06] will move it on that
[41:07] so we're moving it continuously while
[41:09] i'm getting receiving the information
[41:11] all the favor
[41:13] hi
[41:14] thank you
[41:16] the next item please stay just there the
[41:18] resolution of reallocating seventy
[41:20] thousand dollars to the hamilton hill
[41:22] dropping art and prague association inc
[41:27] yes so um
[41:29] in 2020 we had allocated cdbg cv funds
[41:32] through the cares act to the hamilton
[41:34] hill art center for specific
[41:35] improvements to their building
[41:38] since that time they received additional
[41:40] funding through the state and have
[41:42] expanded their scope of work on the
[41:43] project
[41:45] so they actually have more a capital
[41:47] campaign
[41:48] um to contribute to the reconstruction
[41:52] of the art center which
[41:54] has increased in scope
[41:56] um so we're just bringing this forward
[41:59] to
[42:00] account for that um that we're not moving forward with just
[42:06] the hvac services but we're trying to
[42:07] help with some pre-development costs
[42:10] related to the overall renovation um
[42:12] with the 70
[42:14] 000. so it's basically a change in scope
[42:17] of work of an allocation that was
[42:19] already approved in 2020.
[42:23] any questions
[42:25] may have a motion
[42:28] second all in favor all right
[42:30] the next item is proposed 2022 2023 hot
[42:34] annual action plan we had a public
[42:36] hearing last monday
[42:38] would you like to update us on anything
[42:40] in regards to this um i believe sylvia
[42:43] had sent the
[42:44] public comments to you sam i don't know
[42:46] if those were distributed yet the public
[42:49] comments though
[42:50] from the national public comments
[42:52] no it was just the notes that we had
[42:54] from the public hearing
[42:56] and
[42:58] okay well i think sylvia sent that to
[43:00] you so if we just distribute that to the
[43:03] council yeah i think the next committee
[43:04] cycle will be coming for the approval of
[43:06] the action plan oh
[43:08] so you're not looking for any action
[43:10] here tonight on this item
[43:11] no because our public comment period
[43:13] actually ends on the 5th i believe so we
[43:16] are waiting until the next cycle
[43:18] you guys like just wait till the end
[43:20] yes
[43:38] agenda to hold the public hearing this
[43:42] public hearing we just have to
[43:43] incorporate the minutes
[43:46] from that hearing as part of the grant
[43:48] application
[43:49] and then
[43:51] should we be
[43:52] successful we're cautiously optimistic
[43:55] then when it comes back the council
[43:56] would vote to actually accept the money
[43:59] at
[44:00] some point in the future
[44:03] thank you
[44:04] the next item is
[44:08] financial deposit
[44:09] to consolidated local street and highway
[44:13] improvement program chips
[44:15] mr wallen
[44:20] hi
[44:21] so every year after the state budget has
[44:24] passed
[44:24] we receive a letter from the new york
[44:26] state department of transportation
[44:28] uh detailing a annual appropriated
[44:31] balance for consolidated highway
[44:33] improvement program known as chips the
[44:36] first one we have here is the chips
[44:38] program itself which is chips and it
[44:40] also encapsulates the extreme winter
[44:42] recovery program in the paved new york
[44:44] program
[44:45] our balances are identical to that of
[44:47] last year
[44:48] so
[44:49] totaling
[44:50] almost two million dollars of total
[44:52] funds for our roads
[44:54] and we also use that money for design
[44:56] services and consulting anything having
[44:58] to do with public works or on our
[45:01] streets
[45:02] so that is the first one
[45:06] as well like many chances do you have
[45:07] like a list of the streets that will be
[45:09] participating in this program um
[45:12] well this is just accepting funnel just
[45:14] accepted you don't have you don't have a
[45:15] list
[45:16] i do have a list i can share that but
[45:18] that's a different that's the paving
[45:19] program this is what helps fund the
[45:21] payment program
[45:23] so i can give you that list
[45:25] when we're working on developing it our
[45:27] favorite program is going to be going
[45:29] out in the next week or two please share
[45:30] it to the council so that you have an
[45:32] idea sure plaza and lexington
[45:39] put that on the back
[45:40] thank you
[45:42] any other any questions from alex
[45:46] [Music]
[45:51] the next item is the commission of
[45:53] finance deposit the new york state
[45:55] department of transportation touring
[45:58] program funding
[45:59] and the total amount of 1.6 to 5 million
[46:02] correct
[46:04] this is
[46:05] the second year of the new york state
[46:06] touring route program
[46:08] prior to two years ago the city was
[46:11] solely responsible for the ownership and
[46:13] maintenance of touring routes in the
[46:16] city our touring routes are
[46:18] state street route 5 erie boulevard
[46:22] so if you were to drive into town of
[46:24] niskuna town of colony anything not a
[46:27] city the state owns maintains those
[46:30] roadways in the cities all those
[46:32] roadways were owned and maintained by
[46:34] the city
[46:35] due to some
[46:37] new programming it was decided to set
[46:39] aside money
[46:40] for
[46:41] that it was given out based on how many
[46:43] miles of road you have and our
[46:45] appropriation of this new funding is 1.6
[46:48] million dollars i believe this program
[46:50] right now has a five-year life meaning
[46:53] that this is year two of five years
[46:56] um so this is not like chips where we
[46:58] essentially have gotten it for over a
[47:00] decade
[47:01] but we are using this and it can be used
[47:03] similarly to chips it does not have to
[47:05] be used on state or area we use it to
[47:07] supplement our paving program
[47:10] any questions
[47:12] may have a motion
[47:15] exactly all in favor
[47:17] aye thank you mr
[47:19] any other businesses for finance
[47:22] may have a motion
[47:27] [Music]
[47:30] uh we have 14 items on the agenda
[47:34] however
[47:35] we don't have a quorum for claims so
[47:37] we're going to have to move that
[47:38] particular item into city development
[47:40] and planning as well
[47:42] so
[47:43] um oh mr paul here you are so our first
[47:45] item on the agenda is revocable permit
[47:47] number 669
[47:49] vocal permit 669 is for two awnings at
[47:53] 26 broadway this is the building between
[47:57] finhead susan's and 20 north broadway
[48:00] the building is
[48:02] under new ownership and they would like
[48:04] to put two awnings over the windows
[48:06] these awnings do overhang
[48:08] the city right away and sidewalk
[48:11] there you'll see the little sketch that
[48:13] they have
[48:14] three feet off the building and we have
[48:17] 104 inches so
[48:19] no no issues with these these are kind
[48:20] of typical in that area we have that at
[48:23] the restaurant across the street as well
[48:26] are there any questions
[48:28] i remove this
[48:30] second all those in favor all right
[48:33] the next item on the agenda is a revolt
[48:35] movement number 670
[48:37] this is a similar same applicant they
[48:42] purchased the building
[48:44] across the street
[48:45] closer to the corner of union i believe
[48:48] it used to be like a travel agency and
[48:50] they want to put a similar style awning
[48:52] on the window of this building
[48:54] similar application
[48:56] there we go
[48:58] so that okay
[48:59] right there
[49:00] and
[49:01] uh once again 36 inches no issues so
[49:04] kind of typical for that block
[49:07] 30 inches
[49:09] any questions
[49:11] um move this
[49:13] second all those in favor all right
[49:16] thank you
[49:18] okay uh the next item in the agenda is
[49:21] uh 145 barrett street historic landmark
[49:23] elite agency for seeker sdf
[49:30] so the department of development
[49:32] received a request from one point by
[49:34] fair street to designate this structure
[49:36] um as a historic structure and to apply
[49:39] the overlay historic district to the
[49:41] property so it's currently in the c4
[49:43] downtown mixed use district between
[49:45] franklin street and state street
[49:47] um so this is a three-story brick and
[49:49] wood frame structure originally
[49:51] constructed as a residential townhouse
[49:54] between 1899 and 1900
[49:56] most recently it was used as a jazz club
[49:59] um it's also been was the carpenters
[50:01] union hall from 1928 to 1985.
[50:05] so designating the historic structure to
[50:07] include it in the oh district
[50:10] would open the potential for historic
[50:11] tax credits while also applying the
[50:14] review standards required for properties
[50:16] designated um in the zoning ordinance
[50:19] under the this overlay
[50:21] um
[50:22] so
[50:23] this we have to do for reasons we have
[50:25] to do the three requests the first would
[50:27] be the city council um declaring the
[50:30] intent to act as the agency for the
[50:31] seeker review and commence the 30-day
[50:34] public comment period
[50:36] miss tia do they have to go to the state
[50:38] at all to um to get this historic
[50:41] destination yes
[50:43] so they would do this for that process
[50:44] after
[50:46] yeah i believe
[50:47] and the owner is here um just to be super clear i am the
[51:00] applicant so uh i'm not giving any
[51:03] advice to the commission uh any
[51:05] questions on the lawsuit with mr golden
[51:07] but so this is a local designation local
[51:09] zoning designation
[51:11] it will streamline the process for
[51:13] listing on the state national historic
[51:15] register but it is a separate process
[51:17] entirely so this gives me
[51:20] kind of the zoning protections for that parcel under the city's owning
[51:24] law demolition section and also opens up
[51:27] an avenue for property tax exemption
[51:29] credits for historic rehabilitation and
[51:32] then after this process i will see
[51:34] listing on the state national registers
[51:36] which open up the uh historic tax credit program for
[51:41] qualified rehabilitation expenses
[51:42] [Music]
[51:44] well um so just to be clear so can we
[51:47] really do this before you've gotten it
[51:48] as from
[51:50] designated by the state um yes so uh
[51:53] this is a function of our local zone uh
[51:56] and so this would be the city of
[51:57] schenectady making the determination
[51:58] that the structure is historic which
[52:00] would actually help with the application
[52:03] with the state
[52:04] uh for the national register and the
[52:07] federal register
[52:08] um this is an alternative to creating a
[52:11] historic district so
[52:12] uh
[52:13] it would just apply to that strength of
[52:15] that parcel right yeah here
[52:23] any other questions
[52:25] i'll move this
[52:27] second
[52:29] all those favor all right
[52:33] the next item on the agenda is
[52:35] to refer this item to the planning
[52:37] commission
[52:38] that is correct
[52:41] same same project just referring
[52:44] the to the planning commission for a
[52:45] recommendation
[52:47] so
[52:48] all right oh sorry
[52:51] um this is question mr holden um
[52:53] considering that you know you make sure
[52:55] there's
[52:56] uh this is the city employee so we want
[52:58] to make sure that that's clear and uh do
[53:00] we need to do anything to make any
[53:02] declaration in terms of any conflict do
[53:04] we need to do that that was so conflict
[53:06] um you know he's came here as a private
[53:08] citizen he made it very clear
[53:10] that he's here on behalf of the llc the
[53:12] owner he's a member of i don't know if
[53:14] he's a sole member
[53:15] his partner might be a member too
[53:18] um
[53:19] i don't see any you know
[53:22] legal issue with a conflict
[53:24] okay
[53:25] you're acting independently as a city
[53:26] council if you have legal questions
[53:29] obviously direct related to this
[53:31] particular
[53:32] measure please direct them to me
[53:34] um and not mr martin okay just want to
[53:37] make sure we're clear
[53:38] thank you
[53:39] i will second
[53:41] i was in favor aye
[53:43] okay
[53:44] and now to call for a public hearing
[53:47] 145 bear three
[53:49] so
[53:51] can she
[53:52] just um let's just help
[54:08] all right so sunnyview belmont uh avenue
[54:11] reselling
[54:12] yes so we received a request from
[54:14] sunnyview rehabilitation hospital to
[54:16] change the zoning of three parcels
[54:19] from our one single family
[54:21] to the institutional district
[54:23] these three parcels are currently owned
[54:25] and maintained by sunnyview
[54:27] and they um the size is approximately
[54:30] 0.57 acres
[54:32] it is immediately adjacent to the eye
[54:34] institutional zoning district in which
[54:36] sunnyview and alice hospital campus are
[54:38] located
[54:39] um so sunnyview has been experiencing
[54:42] steady growth over the past decade and
[54:43] they have a new expansion plan for the
[54:46] building
[54:47] so additional parking will be needed to
[54:49] accommodate this new plan because the
[54:51] new plan actually takes up some of their
[54:53] existing parking
[54:55] on the site
[54:57] so
[54:57] that is the proposal
[54:59] and
[55:01] um
[55:03] yes the the uses is allowed within the
[55:06] institutional zoning district
[55:08] and so we are asking that council
[55:11] declared an intent to act as the agency
[55:13] for the seeker review and commence the
[55:16] 30-day public comment period if there
[55:18] are any questions we also have the
[55:19] engineer on the project here
[55:22] if anybody has questions
[55:24] any questions
[55:27] if not i'll obtain a motion
[55:29] second all those in favor hi
[55:32] okay uh sunnyview belmont avenue zoning
[55:34] uh planning commission referral
[55:36] [Music]
[55:37] uh
[55:40] so this is just to refer
[55:42] um refer this request to the planning
[55:44] commission for a recommendation all
[55:46] right
[55:47] any questions
[55:49] uh i'm just getting a motion so
[55:52] second all those in favor all right
[55:54] and um
[55:56] the next one the sunny new belmont
[55:58] avenue resulting request public hearing
[56:00] yep call for a public hearing for
[56:02] rezoning approximately 0.57 acres along
[56:05] belmont ave from our one single family
[56:07] to institutional
[56:08] okay any questions
[56:11] in a motion so
[56:13] second all those in favor
[56:16] thank you i think that's it for you
[56:18] [Music]
[56:20] thank you very much
[56:21] uh just want to the next item on the
[56:23] agenda is to give an update on the rf
[56:25] advisory committee
[56:27] as i sent the email out to council
[56:28] members there was a training last week
[56:30] there were two there was a in person for
[56:32] those that could make it and we also
[56:33] held a virtual so um
[56:35] that the individuals
[56:37] that were that
[56:39] agreed to be on the advisory committee
[56:41] received their training
[56:42] one of the documents the department of
[56:44] development uh was there to make sure
[56:47] that
[56:48] they did all the um technical part of it
[56:50] i was there to just let folks know you
[56:53] know how the committee came about we
[56:55] talked about the tour that the mayor did
[56:57] and the various neighborhoods and just
[56:59] kind of giving background information
[57:01] and obviously including how arpa came
[57:03] about and all of that so um
[57:06] today their applicant they should be
[57:08] seeing their applications
[57:10] and they will start their review process
[57:12] uh in terms of questions we asked them
[57:15] to that miss miss michael the single
[57:18] point of contact to get receive their
[57:20] questions so the questions aren't you
[57:22] know going numerous places and people
[57:24] leaving questions unanswered um so and
[57:27] then she will forward them to to
[57:28] department of development as as
[57:31] is necessary and then you know send the
[57:33] responses as well
[57:34] so that's where we are in the process as
[57:37] we told the folks when they signed on
[57:39] that this will be a four-week process so
[57:41] the intent is that by may 31st this
[57:43] process will be complete and their
[57:46] ratings will um then be submitted
[57:49] to
[57:50] back to the department of development
[57:54] are there any questions about that
[57:57] okay um the next item on the agenda is
[58:01] the ceremony resolution
[58:03] recognizing barbershops as community
[58:05] institutions
[58:06] mr farley is not here tonight however um
[58:09] this is something that's pretty simple
[58:11] um
[58:12] it um may is national barber month along
[58:15] with many other national months and um
[58:18] and for those of you that go to barclays
[58:19] or mutations you know that it's a place
[58:20] where a lot of conversation goes on and
[58:22] maybe some even advice so he just wanted
[58:24] to do a resolution to recognize that
[58:28] so i
[58:30] just entertain a motion for that so
[58:32] second elbows in favor
[58:34] uh do we have
[58:36] all the information in there
[58:38] well he'll
[58:39] yes we'll make sure that he i think the
[58:41] uh resolution of excuse me legislative
[58:43] request is here i'll make sure that he
[58:45] uh that we get the
[58:47] information for the resolution if
[58:48] there's additional information obviously
[58:50] excuse me if there's additional
[58:51] information i saw the legislative
[58:53] requests yeah
[58:54] it's had some things i think there may
[58:55] be more but i'll ask mr farley to make
[58:57] sure that we have it thank you you're
[58:58] welcome uh the next item you can do a
[59:01] resolution for each barbershop oh
[59:04] that's a lot of paper
[59:06] maybe they can pass it around each
[59:08] people will be spending money for trees
[59:09] here
[59:10] [Music]
[59:11] and they can just pass it around
[59:13] everybody hold on to it for a week
[59:15] um the next item on the agenda is a
[59:17] ceremony resolution for national foster care month mr williams
[59:22] thank you so in addition to me being a
[59:25] national embargo month um
[59:27] i thought it was important to
[59:28] intentionally thank
[59:30] the families that have assisted with
[59:32] these impacted communities as they go
[59:34] throughout this process although i was
[59:37] not a person that experienced going through
[59:41] the foster care system is something that
[59:43] very much exists in our country and
[59:45] taking a moment to appreciate the impact
[59:47] that a lot of our local residents have
[59:49] done to help
[59:51] individuals who are succumbed to that
[59:52] system i think is important
[59:55] any questions
[1:00:04] thank you
[1:00:06] and
[1:00:07] the next three items on the agenda and
[1:00:10] time will be an executive session so
[1:00:12] um i would ask for a motion going
[1:00:14] executive session to do
[1:00:16] property sales and also um discussion um
[1:00:21] litigation
[1:00:23] so
[1:00:24] second
[1:00:25] all those in favor
[1:00:26] okay we're in executive session thank
[1:00:28] you
[1:00:31] so much
[1:01:58] you