is
from the tower
oh
bye
agency first items acceptance of the
minutes from our june 28 meeting
entertain a motion move
so the second
field
all in favor signify by saying aye aye
and imposed
and under adopted excitement
the acceptance of the investment report
for 2021.
entertain a motion to approve it
moved by paulo
next item is the acceptance of the
procurement report for 2021
entertainment motion prime minister
paolo mani secondary sentiment stupid
aaron
all in favor signify by saying i
acceptance of the measurement report for
2021
entertain a motion to approve mr
palomini
adopted that item is the acceptance of
the annual report for 2021.
movement
by
porterfield
all in favor signify by saying aye
and he opposed
which was adopted in the other business
come before the agency
move to adjourn palomini second
field
thank you
very
cultural art of finance the course item
is the
2021 bulletproof
vest partnership grant
um this is a yearly grant for you to
apply for through uh new york state and
where the formula we use is um the
number of officers that need replacement
best every year by their uh expiration
date
and anticipated new hire stop
that's the funding that they give us the
50 match is already
within our budget on budget every year
during the budget cycle so there's no uh
additional funds other than it's already
budgeted so
any questions i'll answer
any questions
okay sorry all in favor
aye thank you
the next item will be adoption of the
2022 2023 action plan and location
good evening everyone
so this is related to our community
development block grant emergency
solutions grant and home investment
partnerships funding that was receiving
annually as you know we just closed the
comment period we had the public hearing
and we are now
proposing for the adoption of the
proposed annual action plan
um
one of the
things that we're waiting for is our
final allocation from hud
so we have not got the formal
word on that but we're moving to adopt
it and moving forward so that we can
you know and then once we receive the
final we'll probably come back to just
show you what that or at least submit
the revised budget based on our final
allocation um at that point but for now
we are looking to adopt the proposed
angle action plan for 2020.
any questions come in
just i remember last time i told them so
you don't have the final allocation but
you hear kind of reasonable assumption
where they might fall right there's
something that it's not going to change
like drastically
yep
go ahead and also you indicate that any
changes with
the outline
second
all in favor all right hi thank you
the next item is a home home arp needs
assessment with cares on the yard
so this is also funding that's coming
through the american rescue plan act
it's being administered by hud
and it is it is
to basically um come through the home
investment partnership we have a
consortium with troy and colony where we
manage our phone funds this particular
funding is for copic response and it's
also to address homelessness um
and provide the housing needs within the
housing consortium
we are looking to work with cares in new
york they manage a lot of data in the
region and they work with schenectady
troy colony
in the management of that so we are
proposing that because we need to do a
needs assessment
to provide the analysis of homelessness
the risks of homelessness
and vulnerable populations in all three
areas
we'd like to enter
we'd like authorization for the mayor to
enter a contract with cares to conduct
that needs assessment and come up with
an allocation plan
for this this funding so this is
separate from the other arc of funding
but albany is contracting with cares as
well
yes so troy is part will be part of this
actually so is it additional are they
kicking in 45 000 as well or i guess
that's not we have an overall allocation
that gets split between us troy and
colony that's the reason why we get the
funding because our city is not of the
size to get it on our own
um so yes it's going to come out of
the pot that goes to all of us for this
service
okay
only forty five thousand dollars as a
consortium yes okay yes
thanks that should work
sorry about that any other comments
may
the next item is environmental
facilities cooperation engineering
planning
is the acceptance of a
50 000 engineering planning grant in efc
this grant will be utilized to evaluate
flow along the walk river especially in
areas of washington avenue
riverside park
areas of
sccc and also down by the wastewater
treatment plant to see the impacts as
the river comes up and the abandoned
sewer lines that are impacting our
collection system which causes you know
ini issues with regards to the sewer
collection system
it's a 20 match on the grant
it's going to be
50
money fifty thousand dollars and the
total of the um
the contract with paul harbor was ninety
eight thousand dollars
and some change
so the contract is 98 750 the grant is
50 000.
we're seeing a matching of 20 10 percent
you have to imagine minimum oh minimum of that correct but because of
the expense of this along the hawk river
from washington avenue i said including
part of the sccc the plane that goes in
that area around the washington avenue
palm station the old palm station
and all the way down to the wastewater
treatment plant because of the influx
that we have in our collection system
and we get a lot of
influence from the river we believe when
the river comes up to a certain
elevation and it floods our system which
creates a lot of problems in those areas
what's the cold enough soil here is that
you have any comments no i drafted this
uh
since he was out last week
um
yeah so it's you know it's okay business
robot says twenty percent match the
project itself because the data is more
expensive so even though we're going to
get 50 000 and we have to contribute 20
um the cost of the project is why it's
98 750 we have to pay that
we're also getting you know essentially
correct
um so under the recommendation it says
that the mayor wouldn't execute all the
agreements but our what we should not go
beyond the 48
okay
thank you
any other comments
i have a motion
all in favor all right thank you thank
you
the next item is filling the vacant
position with arco
allocated fund i think
thank you um so um
as we know the main city department
learning staff and i was also inviting
the um archive to fill those vacancies
so
um i did speak to the mayor of the
government and so
what i wanted to bring forth is like how
we talk about how that happens
and i did ask mr ferrari to give me uh
give us a list of the vacancy
and so you should have it before you as
well um
it doesn't not a horse does not include
police and fire
or shortly absorbed
for various positions but i just really
want to bring this forward so we can
start talking about um how we
um get our staff back up so that the the
folks that are here aren't as overworked it's because i'm here in
love so um i know that mary and them i
don't know there may be no mr ferrari
indicated but um
and miss
ali was not able to provide the
extensive list she's out this week
so i want to just bring this forward so
we can you know
have a conversation about
how we can help and facilitate um one
place
so i don't enough with any comments
so i mean um
we have not looked at that we're doing
recruitment through
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a number of
sites and
some of the areas are
specific technical backgrounds that are
required for them and
it's just the difficulty in the market
right now for
hiring people in general yeah
bye-bye guys everybody send me more work
go ahead please so that was my question
what is the council can we do to support
that
individually collectively
just get the word out from
some where there are
higher level technical requirements you
know it's just knowing somebody
with
that particular level of skill or
expertise
are these uh posting um are these
posting
are you ready
can help and there's some of the it's
the technical posting that we do some of
the contracts which are as simple as
putting in the bulletin board here
notifying the unions the other one's
reaching out to linkedin
i think the other
funds has done an ongoing recruitment
for
some of those entry level positions the
bureau of service which you've uh
had difficulty
getting people and
in one of the areas
of
people down oh yeah
updated on the website i wasn't sure if
it was
it it just wasn't we had all the jobs
posted but just recently
ran out and then when mary comes back
she's going to reinforce
them that's how i would pull it but it's
not updated at this point in time and
that's why i asked the question
so i don't know like what our
competitive
capacity is coming from the city too
like you know organize that you know
something for jobs
those two things you have to run use
people in your network
something that's really specific to
including people but i don't know what
the capacity is
so we do have a second seven days we do
have a
table at the green market so would you
be open to having applications and all
the information there sure yeah
so we could do that on the second sunday
i don't know if kids aren't exist is a
good place because that's coming up too
do they have you gonna have kids
and juneteenth will be
yep yep
so it's more or less a comment i think
it's really important to take
alternative approaches to feelings from
these vacancies
specifically from my position and my
civilian capacity
um
this definitely attributes to employee
satisfaction
everyone is seeing good employees who
are being asked to do more
um being separated by trying to make up
for some of these vacancies which i
would imagine have been open for a
significant period of time but
definitely
willing to do my part in participation
with the other council members that
assist
foreign
thank you
and you gotta do some for finance
all in favor
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yeah thank you uh this is an icon here
that we have been doing over the last
several years
and that's bringing this to the council
for us to do it again one more time not
sorry not one more time but for this
year
uh asking for your you know your
approval to
get this win as a
free waiver for all exterior work for up
to
four units on residential properties
we have done it over the last several
years it's been a success and i think we
just need to continue to do it and to
benefit
the homeowners in our neighborhood as we
try to give back to the community this
is one
of the many uh way that we can give back
to the community by doing this
during the period of i'm asking that we
do it june july
and august about this year
and it's going to run for three months
one other question i was looking over
lane loads um
what's it called you had to mention that
in an audience is
one year
department is valid for one year instead
of six months sorry i didn't get a
chance to call you and i was looking at
yeah last last year
those permits are valid for one year
so we can
put this for six months we have to go
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so when we
for example even when we sell properties
right to an investor and six months to
rehab it they pulled their permits at
perfectly for a year
agreement
too
so that's the only thing i have to say
yeah usually we get a report of
last year or a year before you know a
couple years before today
and then see that i do
i didn't get a chance to share it but i
will share it
i can
it wasn't much last year it was uh
four thousand one hundred for a roofing
about two thousand dollars
we've got the is
we put it on our social media we reach
out to our organization and let them
know that this program is in place
please um take advantage of that that's
what we've been doing over the years
and we should probably
comments
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uh
um there was a particular board that was
unable to convene because they just
could not get a forum
so
it's really uh felt like it's really
time that we need to take a look at the
board see what the vacancies are and
then
move forward with um
recommending people um in your packet
you will see what is the mayor's
appointment what is the council's
appointment and then what's the mayor's
appointment with the council of pool
so
you know by that we would either
do that ourselves if it's just a
council approval like the board of
assessment review but the ones that are
merit appointments obviously that's up
from there and the ones where the mayor
the council of approval you take a look
at and then you can follow the names and
then um you know the mayor will take a
look at those and then bring it back to
us
if you had an opportunity today there
was an article in the time changing
about the civilian police review board
and one of the comments made by the
chair was that they were
and if you may remember at the rail
there was a person that came forward and
specifically spoke about the affirmative
action committee that hasn't met in
several years it's not on here
but that's another one and then we
definitely need to be able to take a
look at that and then and all the other
bills this is the entire list of them
i will ask mr sullivan in that question
there are a lot of boards and
commissions that have been created over
the years that are not on that list
okay
so we'll get the entire list to the
council
decades ago though that wouldn't
necessarily be relevant okay well the
ones that are relevant
then you got it
thank you
i was wondering when i was in campus
today um
the ethics the board of ethics is that
any rule or a council or both
so as i said it doesn't say
that
that's both
ca
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okay and i'll make sure that we get the
updated list
who does what
i'm sorry oh thank you
um i do notice that
probably may not be um
up to date like it says like under
submitting cprv i know that naacp we
didn't recently vote on bringing someone
on board there
foreign i don't believe there's agencies
there people are saying there are
filed a vacancies
so as far as the members still
are serving
well there's one hold over that because
i asked you know
the woman who's chairman she said
there's somebody who they didn't make
them to us apparently but she's held
over she's finished her two terms that
she could but she they held her over
because they didn't have anybody else
um
referring to my appointment yes
she wanted to continue to serve the
council wants to raise infection and
she's highly qualified
and the rules on the public officer's
law are somebody continues to serve
until their successor is supposed to
qualify
she hasn't told me she doesn't want to
serve
i am happy with her performance
but are we going to read everybody
legislation
the council asked me to drove over i
will consider
and then i also was going to comment in
the same way because it does seem as
though they only have the one vacancy so
if they're not having a forum that must
just be the folks
which is
well from my
brief conversations with the chair it's
difficult for them to address those
attendance issues if they can't perform
so yeah if they can't have a point right
so the lack of corn makes it difficult
to address some issues that are existing
on the board
getting a total of participation in a
lot of workforce so i think it's
important to remind the city that we
need a
continual influx of just new bodies and
new ideas and concepts
just because there's been a lot of
members who have just been in tact
saturated because it's a lot so
definitely i think actively looking at
some of these vacancies and making
valiant attempts to fill them and then
both systems that are currently serving
to ensure that they are meeting on a
consistent basis to do a business that
they're intended to be conducting
on
these vacancies
has impacted people's lives creating a
lot of different ways
you know get some grace and flexibility
as well
okay any more questions
i just wanted to bring up the cprv we
did also decide that people had
alternates because we need alternatives
as well so
i'm not sure i know one of these
organizations that has an alternative so
you know we would want to make sure that
we also say to them that please give us
a name for
the
main person and then an alternate
needle
okay
all right
just the
rosters that you had submitted to the
materials that was from january so there
have been changes since then
so i can circulate a new updated summary
that would be great
that's it
that was going to be i was going to have
people get a new updated list so
answer that question and then
we can move forward
you know suggest names to the mayor um
or if it's ours to uh to put on these
sports or committees so thank you for
your consideration in korean press
operations
i'd like to call to order city
development and planning we have six
items on the agenda the first item on
the agenda award-winning contract four
machines
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this legislative request is to
purchase fire hydrants for the city's
water department um our current
inventory is getting well we have less
than 10 hydrants in stock so this is
replenish we do every year we replenish
some of our brass goods in this case
it's fire hydrants
there is a lot of delivery you will
probably be hard pressed to even see
them hopefully this year
um so
hopefully we can get the order in
and
there was one bidder
ferguson waterworks in the amount of
two 167
twelve dollars and it would come out of
the operating budget code fx8322 to
eleven
questions
connecting police department firing
range
thank you um several weeks ago i was
here in front of you awarding three
contracts regarding the firing range one
was for hvac one was for plumbing and
one was for electric this is the fourth
contract which was not awarded because
we did not receive any bids
the issue with the original bid was that
it was called
sbd firing range ventilation and
reconstruction we think the ventilation
kind of threw people off so we
repackaged the bid we put it out just
calling it spb reconstruction we
received two bids for the general uh the
general contract portion of the work uh
one from r b one gallow the low bid was
gallow 232 000
we did call on them and we had some
references checked by our architect
they are a reputable firm in the area
and we're comfortable we'll be forward
as they are the last contractor we need
to actually move forward with the
project as a
are there any whole
um
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because you know summers of the summer's
approaching right so um you know in the
meantime you know what i'm doing is uh
you know trying to reach out to some
community partners to help
build capacity for this so as we do it
we can do it and still maintain that
larger community impact um and not try
to over stress you know the safety
capacity and our school district
capacity so what i want to do
if it's okay is i want to kind of bring
this back um
for our next cycle
and provide more background information
and do a proper support at that point
because i know the mayor has been really
um advocating for this to happen as well
as i have been and i appreciate that
because this is really important
um
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applications and it's just so important
because it will pay
kids that you know need the resources
and it also gives them job skills
and workplace skills so i'm completely
in favor of this and
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having meetings talking to community
partners i talk to everyone you know um
and they don't have to talk to someone
you really need strong support so
but
when i bring it here i want to make sure
that we have our teeth across my eyes
that i think that that's important as
well so again there's something that we
want to make sure that we are able to
list some of our partners accomplish
some role clarification and things like
that i think it's important before we
pass it out
my understanding we had a proposal for
this so
isn't all that stuff
kind of
in line or
am i thinking of something different
concept is being more engaged with the
educational process earlier in the year
helping
teachers
students
what my original concept was and
discussion with superintendent
i would be hard-pressed to fully
implement
at this point only because the time
we've
used
but as mr farley pointed out there's a
broad-based interest in this and how do
we bring community partners in again
young adults to
give the opportunity during the summer
to
make some of this money and
there's still people that are
adversely impacted by code ultimately
target some of that so that it puts
money in these households and the
families
that otherwise
don't have it and
leverages
educational opportunities within the
school district and
creates
a
complementary
engagement with what ron gardner is
doing
to map out some of these career paths so
that when kids
either are in high school or graduate or
20 years old or so can
find a pathway to
become successful contributing to
members of society
so um as i understand it so you're
saying that there's already work being
done and then it's not like we're
waiting
in january
oh okay
uh so
to have those conversations and make
sure that we have everything
together at the time including the mayor
being involved in that oh yeah
absolutely so yeah you know my intention
is to make sure that
we're not the right partners in order to
make sure that we can have that larger
impact that we want to have because time
is taken
about
making sure that we have the capacity to
impact as many uh people as we can so
that that's really um
what's happening now that makes sense
yes mr phil
um who are the like the community
partners that you're reaching out to so
right now um uh uh sjta and i spoke
about that
some time ago and many of you actually i
youtube i mean
about because they have kind of the
infrastructure to um they do this right
so it makes
really good sense to tap them to say
being that we are having a short
window of time here
you already have infrastructure if you
already have the belief and you can't
really do this you know
having that's a part at the table makes
a lot of sense and we'll ensure that we
can you know have that larger path are
they ready to move yet so yeah
they they enjoy strong support from the
private knowledge
partner project but what i wanted to do
is bring um together with the mayor and
the superintendent um to kind of go over
some of the um fire points and make sure
that
because two weeks
from now it's
memorial day so you're like we'll be on
the other side
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interest of the fundamentals of time
about this right
so let me just also add that um the
application process that they always
already do will they'll continue to do
so it's i've not seen a year where they
lack the kids i've seen a lot of years
right i've seen a year where they left
for um
positions
so mister
okay
doesn't matter go ahead
um so i'm a little confused because i
thought this was going to be separate
from the county program yeah
directly through the city right so then
any forms that then sent out really
have nothing to do with this program or
no no no they absolutely do um so
partnering partnering with accounting on
this um so the county does a summary of
a program that every single thing they
do this is what they do
so what
we're trying to do what i'm trying to do
is leverage um some of their expertise
and their uh
you know they have the foundation to do
these things right they do this so what
i'm saying is celebrating everything in
this apartment to where it makes sense
you can reach a larger group of kids and
a short period of time that we have it
just makes sense
not for them to um you know
completely take this over or
just that's what they do
yes i just would have some concerns
there just based on some previous
experience yeah i hear what you're
saying but i think we have the capacity
as well through our hr office
to be hiring and running this program
ourselves
um
i'm just saying that's almost like
getting 300 000 to the county way too
okay no no in fact i think that kind of
up to our point earlier
our previous discussion about
the uh um
volunteer agencies that we have in the
city right now are struggling to get
people into worlds and jobs right now i
think that
now it's it's it's extremely important
that we look to partner um with the
county and the school district so we can
leverage um those partnerships to make
it more of a meaningful experience for
the youth that are involved
so i understand that if you guys hear it
would have been the school district on
this
what money would have gone through the
school district on this
no this will go through the city
yeah i was going to ask that question
because
sometimes the school district gets
intelligent uh
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the whole concept was to start the
beginning of the year
and work with teachers to
work with students to have them come up
with like a business plan to
have them pick a problem or a project
within the community
that they would map out a scenario
not on these individuals but
collectively
to work on and solve
during the summer
we would then
hire them to
implement that project
and they would have to do a business
plan have to do a budget working with
the teachers
learning process
maybe some review on it
i am at the decided disadvantage at this
point
in here to be able to
implement that it's not going to have
the full impact of what i originally
intended
i mean i'm putting this on the hr
already uh you know
have so much work and so many vacancies
to fill
that in your 75 position on each other
isn't that uh
hopefully
you can hire teachers during the summer
it there is a
narrow window it is a targeted group
and
when we have those vacancies the other
thing i would ask you
is
an item that we're not
doing garbage just picked up
potholes a little bit behind them and
hired
an outside contractor to supplement that
we're still getting the work done we're
proud of the effort the city staff is
doing
our police response
is
not at the level
i would like
called backing up that they are priority
three calls so it's getting a report
it's more of the
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support function that the department
does
that we're not responding to as fast as
i would like
but
priority one priority two calls the
closure rate on major cases is still
very impressive
but this weekend
could have made half we're not 100 sure
because of the timing
and when you pass it you still have to
set up a
contractual way to get the money
and uh it's
similar with the other things that the
council has entertained to be able to
actually implement them and move them
forward
mr williams
so i know as a council although i
imagine people are directing it as
specific council members but we've been
highlighted as being slow to action i
think it's important to highlight that
if we
continue forward with discussions about
spending market money as we have an
advisory committee that a majority of us
elected to
support i think it sends a very
mixed message about continuing to spend
money perhaps their opinions
um i would like to highlight and say
thank you to councilmember farley for
wanting to keep this on the agenda do we
need more information because i think if
we're going to send a message having all
the facts are important
and i know that we want to make sure
that we're doing the best to support our
youth in the city but i also want to
make sure we're not doing it at the
expense of people that have been taking
the time to go through these
submit applications to make sure that as
a city the community has
not only invested interest but has a
value voice in us so
but to the mayor's point about
um something that we have worked on i
hope that's not the message that our
council is giving the people that are
listening absolutely
i see
all of the
completed projects that are going on
absent these vacancies i think it's just
making sure we're taking account of how
much burnout that is being
born by the members of the city and
whether that's
us continuing to function with these
vacancies has an implication in our
long-term ability to function as a city
so i think it's just making sure that
we're intentional with
filling these vacancies and we're
doing it in a manner that continues to
add resources to the city stuff and not
replacing
it's fun so yeah so at night so
as i'm kind of taking them on
uh people's perspective here it's like i think it's important that two things
can be true here and i don't think that
we're
you know
too far apart on what everyone's
intention is here is to um you know
really impact the lives of people who
have been most disproportionately
connected and pastored by a clover to
your point mayor and i appreciate that
so i think that we do that by
you know making sure that we um
have the capacity to do it the right way
um
do it very intentionally
um and i think that we're still in a
position to get it done
i don't think that these are too
conflicting um
what i'm hearing is just you know
the urgency and the necessary urgency
to make sure that we
need these resources to build available
to the community and so i just think
that's a good distinction
so there's
two separate things first of all the
vacancies are completely separate from
us
and
honestly is a totally different
discussion
with regards to the kids
i mean historically we've had
tremendous amount of students that want
to work
it's a lot different than
the vacancies
so
assuming that holds and there's no
reason to think it wouldn't
there's no reason
the city can't facilitate this and get
kids hired and out there and working
it's again two very separate discussions
i mean the kids want to work they want
to get experience they want to get out
there doing stuff and quite frankly it's
to our benefit because we can get them
job skills that maybe they can have a
great career in the city and and to me
that's
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and i would have to say that being
understaffed would definitely impact
this because you're asking the staff to
not want only what they do but also to
supervise whatever you are in their
program so that is additional i can
speak to personal experience i actually
run summer programs for seven years so
it is and the people who were had to do
their job and in addition to supervise
young people
it was it didn't do this more so there
is an additional ask of staff
when you add staff to them especially
young people who are maybe just learning
job skills
yes which is i think um i mean again i
have a lot of respect for the program at
the connie crumps and i've worked with
them for years
but i do know that one of the issues i
think that they have in trying to fill
in trying to get the kids higher is what
ms porterfield is saying which is you
are sort of going to non-profits for
example and saying you know would you
hire a kid and most of those people are
saying no we're too stressed we can't
take on another kid and have your
supervisor get on top of that what i saw
what i thought was going to happen
with us having our own program and this
is different than what the mayor had
initially proposed
i would see for example so you get 30
kids that hire for the summer and
they're out collecting litter every day
in our parks
or you've got kids that are running
programs in our in our parks for other
kids um maybe through the boys and girls
club or something but that it's really
more um
it's not that we're saying okay one
kid's gonna go here and kid's gonna go
there but that grounder we're hiring
with a bunch of kids um and so therefore
it's not necessarily that you know the
kids are going to anthony's office or or
you know chris's office or something
like that where it does put more stress
on our staff
but more that they're maybe taking over
some projects that that we need to get
done in the city that
because you're you know i definitely
agree that it's too late to be able to
do the whole
business plan idea
um but that there are other alternatives
where it's a city run program in city
parks or whatever for bulk of kids
um
and you know yeah no i i
don't
you know what i'm trying to be clear on
is that
you know
leverage like you said like the boys and
girls stuff because i think you're the
student working there so you know
we're partly partnering with the boys
and girls club
because they have the uh capacity and
the skill set to
facilitate these type of things so it's
like of course
a partner with with fgta um
there's also a component of
staffing job coaches successfully
who really support our students so not
only our students you know getting the
job skills um
but they're also you know getting some
real-time coaching around like how to
navigate that which gives them a great
chance of
goal success finding gainful employment
later on that job success coach is a
really big part of that so so with those
who you know
keep those things in mind it's like okay
doing that
with that level of intentionality is
what's going to give the kids the
greatest chance of success instead of
you know not to take longer
it's a great thing but if they're in a
position
that is more meaningful to them
supported by a caring adult will have
some um
experience in this area
you know that's gonna give them a
greater chance of long-term success and
entering into that field to the mayor's
point so that's why so there's those key
things but i think that really needs to
be um kind of iron health and whatever
to be successful that's what i'm saying
so i mean there's obviously a lot of
people are seeing this from different
angles so i think that to take the time
to do that and bring it back and have
meetings with mayor and
wherever the other city partners are and
um i do want to to speak to the uh we
talk about we want children to have
opportunities need
those diseases but to hire a bunch of
kids to pick up litter is not what i
envisioned for this or it just it's not a it's not a fun thing i mean
we do it because we have different you
know
want to hire a group of organization
with the specific purpose of
your goal your job all
summer long used to go around and pick
up litter um you know i've had kids who
participated in our litter pickups and
some of them didn't want to be seen by
their friends picking up live so
wpa model of the past and our youth
where we did do those kinds of things
and it was more of a community you know
you're getting paid for something that
you might otherwise do this volunteer i
definitely i've brought the boys and
girls of people in
i would see that as a component of any
program that we had where they were
doing the job coaching and teaching
those workplace skills as well no matter
what the job was
um but i mean many cities
um
you know will have a youth corps
um that can go out and do the kinds of
projects that then are really helpful to
the city and the
beautification of the city and it's a
perfect summer kind of kind of
opportunity for them
um and it really is getting at that
skill so i mean that's how i was
envisioning this um
so obviously we have different opinions
on it but so it may be better to wait
till next summer and put the thing into
place yeah
the
tournament the landscaping or picking up
is one component of it but you have to
either plant
flowers grass or something so
people understand the
sequence of events that build
sustainability and uh right it's real
bad
mr garland i just think it's because
yeah
at no point in my conversations with the
mayor you know
picking up litter
you know the focus you know for young
people you know
really they're about
and that could include you know
some cleanup some planting um
you know a variety of different things
but you know the point here was to make
it something that you are able to buy
into that's going to give back to the
community and help them
find a
company fully employed hopefully in that area of interest and you do that
with partnerships and job coaches and
you know so that's a way longer process
than anything we're talking about my
guess is
no no we couldn't where we're at now we
couldn't but tapping these people in our
community who
have
some capacity partnering with the right
people we can do that
so i see this coming back on june
6th is it
so we'll have to
hope that anytime any meetings will take
place any
detail when we work out something that's
conceivable that can't happen this
summer
okay
thank you for the
input
so
the next one on the agenda is the
cannabis presentation by the new york
state office of politics management all
of you should have received an email
from the same holiday
from the young lady um
neville nevilee white
and so they've reached out to the city
and asked that there be they
we helped put on a public presentation
they would do the presentation that we
helped by marketing and getting the word
out there um this is something i when
you talked about this back in this
february i've mentioned that they're
getting community conversations those
community conversations took place
virtually and now they're doing them in
person so they've already done one
albany and are trying to get to
connectivity and troy and to do that as
well so they again send to all of us
there's some of the information in here
if you um
if you're looking for defining an email
and then just like to come to
connectivity and um do a presentation
somewhere at a public venue so that the
community can come out and understand
all of um
the opportunities what the mission is
and what this really means
and quite frankly this is really
specifically targeting people who
were negatively impacted
by um
by sailing marijuana and
gold had gone to jail or family members
have been impacted that is the
particular
focus of this
so um i was bringing to the council if
you want to participate collectively and
helping to um support this they will put
uh they will find the venue and do all
the work obviously bring their staff to
everything and the only ask of
us would be to help market it and make
sure that the public
knows
uh the decision to
not opt out definitely
predated
my joining the council
being a member of this council currently
i think it's important for us to send a
unified message to the city
that choosing to remain in
we are willing to become
or remain invested partners in this i
think that only occurs if we
are informed and collaboratively working
with the office of cannabis management
to make sure that whatever programs are
rolled out to our city actually reflect
the intent of the program designers
so i very much appreciate this
individual reaching out
i think without having the ability to
view
how this message is properly conveyed to
the community i think it's starting off
on the right foot and i would happily
wait to support any fashion
as a council member and also just a
resident of the city to make sure that
when these licensures are
awarded
that whatever members recipient of this
it reflects again
anyone else
it's too big
yeah
is it possible that we can invite them
to do a presentation so the consoles
will be able to get the message out
through our online
live feed at the same time we work to
help them to do a public
outreach
um
so not in scala
which ends on 31st
so um that's that's something that
we're open to we should get that
information out to our contacts
that maybe just email itself or
something part of the email um but so
the answer is yes i would speak to mr
slipping to miss white after i got the
email i just wanted to be clear on what
they wanted
which is what you see before you and i'm
speaking with her again after having
brought this before the council to say
um yes the council as
okay so okay so are you trying to say
before after the order doesn't matter to
you it does okay they'll be able to see
all right
i'll do it
okay
any other input
are you missed okay i guess what i'm
looking for is are people supported
as a council um supporting this to to
host it or
would you prefer not knocking under the
city council
i actually don't really think
you know i think it would be it's fine
to add a presentation
so in terms of the public forum yeah
i mean i don't mind having to come to
one of our meetings
as well
so you would support both yes okay
that's my question
so
as a council no matter what how we feel
about it i mean
is it
i'm thinking is it okay for us to
kind of promote this
well as a council we showed him to not
opt out so
right well no matter how you know so yes
um so i would say i don't know that i
would agree with them even to give us a
presentation i mean depending on how
long it is during a council meeting
maybe it's an hour too like
i don't know what what their
presentation would be and if there's an
open comment um
would it be
you know where people could actually
comment during our
meeting no
yeah it's just a presentation just a
presentation
i'm sorry we do limit those
presentations
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the link gives you a lot of information
a lot of background and a lot of it so a
lot of us there already
that may
give you an opportunity to formulate
questions prior to that but the
information is definitely in the
email that was followed by this my
picture
mr
public meetings fine i don't really see
a need for a council meeting
it seems to me it would be redundant and
we could just take their presentation
and
either put it on the website put it on
and the last two items on the agenda are
for
executive session for sale of properties
so uh it's in motion to reset so
second
okay
claims and i would like to uh then say
that we need to
get that interesting motion to go into
executive session
oh i need a second
okay thank you and so now i would like
to also have a recess of claims
okay
you