[9:47] is
[9:55] from the tower
[10:06] oh
[11:12] bye
[11:21] agency first items acceptance of the
[11:24] minutes from our june 28 meeting
[11:26] entertain a motion move
[11:29] so the second
[11:30] field
[11:34] all in favor signify by saying aye aye
[11:37] and imposed
[11:39] and under adopted excitement
[11:46] the acceptance of the investment report
[11:49] for 2021.
[11:51] entertain a motion to approve it
[11:54] moved by paulo
[12:09] next item is the acceptance of the
[12:11] procurement report for 2021
[12:14] entertainment motion prime minister
[12:15] paolo mani secondary sentiment stupid
[12:18] aaron
[12:20] all in favor signify by saying i
[12:29] acceptance of the measurement report for
[12:32] 2021
[12:34] entertain a motion to approve mr
[12:36] palomini
[12:50] adopted that item is the acceptance of
[12:53] the annual report for 2021.
[12:58] movement
[12:59] by
[13:00] porterfield
[13:03] all in favor signify by saying aye
[13:06] and he opposed
[13:08] which was adopted in the other business
[13:10] come before the agency
[13:12] move to adjourn palomini second
[13:16] field
[13:17] thank you
[13:18] very
[13:33] cultural art of finance the course item
[13:35] is the
[13:36] 2021 bulletproof
[13:38] vest partnership grant
[13:42] um this is a yearly grant for you to
[13:43] apply for through uh new york state and
[13:46] where the formula we use is um the
[13:48] number of officers that need replacement
[13:50] best every year by their uh expiration
[13:52] date
[13:53] and anticipated new hire stop
[13:56] that's the funding that they give us the
[13:57] 50 match is already
[14:00] within our budget on budget every year
[14:02] during the budget cycle so there's no uh
[14:04] additional funds other than it's already
[14:05] budgeted so
[14:06] any questions i'll answer
[14:08] any questions
[14:10] okay sorry all in favor
[14:13] aye thank you
[14:16] the next item will be adoption of the
[14:18] 2022 2023 action plan and location
[14:27] good evening everyone
[14:29] so this is related to our community
[14:31] development block grant emergency
[14:33] solutions grant and home investment
[14:35] partnerships funding that was receiving
[14:37] annually as you know we just closed the
[14:39] comment period we had the public hearing
[14:41] and we are now
[14:43] proposing for the adoption of the
[14:45] proposed annual action plan
[14:47] um
[14:48] one of the
[14:49] things that we're waiting for is our
[14:51] final allocation from hud
[14:53] so we have not got the formal
[14:55] word on that but we're moving to adopt
[14:58] it and moving forward so that we can
[15:00] you know and then once we receive the
[15:02] final we'll probably come back to just
[15:04] show you what that or at least submit
[15:06] the revised budget based on our final
[15:08] allocation um at that point but for now
[15:10] we are looking to adopt the proposed
[15:12] angle action plan for 2020.
[15:16] any questions come in
[15:19] just i remember last time i told them so
[15:22] you don't have the final allocation but
[15:23] you hear kind of reasonable assumption
[15:26] where they might fall right there's
[15:28] something that it's not going to change
[15:29] like drastically
[15:32] yep
[15:34] go ahead and also you indicate that any
[15:36] changes with
[15:38] the outline
[15:51] second
[16:06] all in favor all right hi thank you
[16:09] the next item is a home home arp needs
[16:12] assessment with cares on the yard
[16:16] so this is also funding that's coming
[16:19] through the american rescue plan act
[16:21] it's being administered by hud
[16:23] and it is it is
[16:25] to basically um come through the home
[16:28] investment partnership we have a
[16:30] consortium with troy and colony where we
[16:32] manage our phone funds this particular
[16:34] funding is for copic response and it's
[16:36] also to address homelessness um
[16:39] and provide the housing needs within the
[16:41] housing consortium
[16:43] we are looking to work with cares in new
[16:45] york they manage a lot of data in the
[16:47] region and they work with schenectady
[16:49] troy colony
[16:50] in the management of that so we are
[16:52] proposing that because we need to do a
[16:54] needs assessment
[16:55] to provide the analysis of homelessness
[16:58] the risks of homelessness
[16:59] and vulnerable populations in all three
[17:02] areas
[17:03] we'd like to enter
[17:04] we'd like authorization for the mayor to
[17:06] enter a contract with cares to conduct
[17:09] that needs assessment and come up with
[17:10] an allocation plan
[17:12] for this this funding so this is
[17:14] separate from the other arc of funding
[17:27] but albany is contracting with cares as
[17:29] well
[17:30] yes so troy is part will be part of this
[17:32] actually so is it additional are they
[17:35] kicking in 45 000 as well or i guess
[17:38] that's not we have an overall allocation
[17:40] that gets split between us troy and
[17:43] colony that's the reason why we get the
[17:44] funding because our city is not of the
[17:47] size to get it on our own
[17:49] um so yes it's going to come out of
[17:52] the pot that goes to all of us for this
[17:55] service
[17:56] okay
[18:01] only forty five thousand dollars as a
[18:03] consortium yes okay yes
[18:07] thanks that should work
[18:09] sorry about that any other comments
[18:12] may
[18:17] the next item is environmental
[18:20] facilities cooperation engineering
[18:22] planning
[18:31] is the acceptance of a
[18:33] 50 000 engineering planning grant in efc
[18:37] this grant will be utilized to evaluate
[18:39] flow along the walk river especially in
[18:41] areas of washington avenue
[18:43] riverside park
[18:45] areas of
[18:46] sccc and also down by the wastewater
[18:49] treatment plant to see the impacts as
[18:51] the river comes up and the abandoned
[18:53] sewer lines that are impacting our
[18:55] collection system which causes you know
[18:57] ini issues with regards to the sewer
[18:59] collection system
[19:01] it's a 20 match on the grant
[19:05] it's going to be
[19:07] 50
[19:08] money fifty thousand dollars and the
[19:11] total of the um
[19:13] the contract with paul harbor was ninety
[19:15] eight thousand dollars
[19:16] and some change
[19:24] so the contract is 98 750 the grant is
[19:28] 50 000.
[19:29] we're seeing a matching of 20 10 percent
[19:31] you have to imagine minimum oh minimum of that correct but because of
[19:35] the expense of this along the hawk river
[19:39] from washington avenue i said including
[19:41] part of the sccc the plane that goes in
[19:43] that area around the washington avenue
[19:45] palm station the old palm station
[19:48] and all the way down to the wastewater
[19:50] treatment plant because of the influx
[19:51] that we have in our collection system
[19:53] and we get a lot of
[19:55] influence from the river we believe when
[19:57] the river comes up to a certain
[19:58] elevation and it floods our system which
[20:00] creates a lot of problems in those areas
[20:03] what's the cold enough soil here is that
[20:05] you have any comments no i drafted this
[20:08] uh
[20:09] since he was out last week
[20:12] um
[20:13] yeah so it's you know it's okay business
[20:15] robot says twenty percent match the
[20:16] project itself because the data is more
[20:18] expensive so even though we're going to
[20:20] get 50 000 and we have to contribute 20
[20:24] um the cost of the project is why it's
[20:26] 98 750 we have to pay that
[20:31] we're also getting you know essentially
[20:42] correct
[20:43] um so under the recommendation it says
[20:45] that the mayor wouldn't execute all the
[20:46] agreements but our what we should not go
[20:49] beyond the 48
[20:51] okay
[20:52] thank you
[20:54] any other comments
[20:56] i have a motion
[20:58] all in favor all right thank you thank
[21:02] you
[21:02] the next item is filling the vacant
[21:04] position with arco
[21:07] allocated fund i think
[21:09] thank you um so um
[21:13] as we know the main city department
[21:15] learning staff and i was also inviting
[21:17] the um archive to fill those vacancies
[21:20] so
[21:21] um i did speak to the mayor of the
[21:22] government and so
[21:24] what i wanted to bring forth is like how
[21:26] we talk about how that happens
[21:28] and i did ask mr ferrari to give me uh
[21:31] give us a list of the vacancy
[21:34] and so you should have it before you as
[21:35] well um
[21:37] it doesn't not a horse does not include
[21:39] police and fire
[21:41] or shortly absorbed
[21:54] for various positions but i just really
[21:56] want to bring this forward so we can
[21:57] start talking about um how we
[22:01] um get our staff back up so that the the
[22:03] folks that are here aren't as overworked it's because i'm here in
[22:08] love so um i know that mary and them i
[22:10] don't know there may be no mr ferrari
[22:12] indicated but um
[22:14] and miss
[22:15] ali was not able to provide the
[22:17] extensive list she's out this week
[22:21] so i want to just bring this forward so
[22:22] we can you know
[22:24] have a conversation about
[22:26] how we can help and facilitate um one
[22:29] place
[22:31] so i don't enough with any comments
[22:35] so i mean um
[22:50] we have not looked at that we're doing
[22:53] recruitment through
[22:54] [Music]
[22:56] a number of
[22:58] sites and
[23:00] some of the areas are
[23:02] specific technical backgrounds that are
[23:04] required for them and
[23:06] it's just the difficulty in the market
[23:08] right now for
[23:09] hiring people in general yeah
[23:14] bye-bye guys everybody send me more work
[23:18] go ahead please so that was my question
[23:20] what is the council can we do to support
[23:22] that
[23:23] individually collectively
[23:25] just get the word out from
[23:28] some where there are
[23:29] higher level technical requirements you
[23:31] know it's just knowing somebody
[23:33] with
[23:34] that particular level of skill or
[23:37] expertise
[23:41] are these uh posting um are these
[23:43] posting
[23:45] are you ready
[24:03] can help and there's some of the it's
[24:04] the technical posting that we do some of
[24:06] the contracts which are as simple as
[24:09] putting in the bulletin board here
[24:10] notifying the unions the other one's
[24:12] reaching out to linkedin
[24:16] i think the other
[24:31] funds has done an ongoing recruitment
[24:33] for
[24:34] some of those entry level positions the
[24:36] bureau of service which you've uh
[24:38] had difficulty
[24:40] getting people and
[24:42] in one of the areas
[24:44] of
[24:55] people down oh yeah
[25:12] updated on the website i wasn't sure if
[25:15] it was
[25:16] it it just wasn't we had all the jobs
[25:18] posted but just recently
[25:21] ran out and then when mary comes back
[25:23] she's going to reinforce
[25:26] them that's how i would pull it but it's
[25:29] not updated at this point in time and
[25:30] that's why i asked the question
[25:32] so i don't know like what our
[25:34] competitive
[25:36] capacity is coming from the city too
[25:38] like you know organize that you know
[25:40] something for jobs
[25:55] those two things you have to run use
[25:57] people in your network
[25:59] something that's really specific to
[26:01] including people but i don't know what
[26:02] the capacity is
[26:20] so we do have a second seven days we do
[26:24] have a
[26:25] table at the green market so would you
[26:27] be open to having applications and all
[26:29] the information there sure yeah
[26:32] so we could do that on the second sunday
[26:37] i don't know if kids aren't exist is a
[26:39] good place because that's coming up too
[26:42] do they have you gonna have kids
[26:45] and juneteenth will be
[26:47] yep yep
[26:56] so it's more or less a comment i think
[26:57] it's really important to take
[26:59] alternative approaches to feelings from
[27:01] these vacancies
[27:03] specifically from my position and my
[27:05] civilian capacity
[27:06] um
[27:07] this definitely attributes to employee
[27:09] satisfaction
[27:10] everyone is seeing good employees who
[27:13] are being asked to do more
[27:14] um being separated by trying to make up
[27:17] for some of these vacancies which i
[27:19] would imagine have been open for a
[27:21] significant period of time but
[27:23] definitely
[27:24] willing to do my part in participation
[27:27] with the other council members that
[27:28] assist
[27:29] foreign
[27:46] thank you
[27:50] and you gotta do some for finance
[27:53] all in favor
[27:56] [Music]
[28:07] yeah thank you uh this is an icon here
[28:09] that we have been doing over the last
[28:11] several years
[28:13] and that's bringing this to the council
[28:15] for us to do it again one more time not
[28:17] sorry not one more time but for this
[28:19] year
[28:20] uh asking for your you know your
[28:22] approval to
[28:24] get this win as a
[28:26] free waiver for all exterior work for up
[28:29] to
[28:30] four units on residential properties
[28:33] we have done it over the last several
[28:35] years it's been a success and i think we
[28:37] just need to continue to do it and to
[28:39] benefit
[28:40] the homeowners in our neighborhood as we
[28:43] try to give back to the community this
[28:45] is one
[28:47] of the many uh way that we can give back
[28:49] to the community by doing this
[28:52] during the period of i'm asking that we
[28:54] do it june july
[28:56] and august about this year
[28:58] and it's going to run for three months
[29:01] one other question i was looking over
[29:02] lane loads um
[29:03] what's it called you had to mention that
[29:05] in an audience is
[29:07] one year
[29:08] department is valid for one year instead
[29:10] of six months sorry i didn't get a
[29:12] chance to call you and i was looking at
[29:14] yeah last last year
[29:16] those permits are valid for one year
[29:20] so we can
[29:22] put this for six months we have to go
[29:31] [Music]
[29:32] so when we
[29:34] for example even when we sell properties
[29:35] right to an investor and six months to
[29:37] rehab it they pulled their permits at
[29:39] perfectly for a year
[29:42] agreement
[29:43] too
[29:46] so that's the only thing i have to say
[30:11] yeah usually we get a report of
[30:14] last year or a year before you know a
[30:16] couple years before today
[30:18] and then see that i do
[30:20] i didn't get a chance to share it but i
[30:22] will share it
[30:24] i can
[30:25] it wasn't much last year it was uh
[30:27] four thousand one hundred for a roofing
[30:30] about two thousand dollars
[30:49] we've got the is
[30:50] we put it on our social media we reach
[30:52] out to our organization and let them
[30:53] know that this program is in place
[30:56] please um take advantage of that that's
[30:58] what we've been doing over the years
[31:01] and we should probably
[31:15] comments
[31:26] [Applause]
[31:28] uh
[31:43] um there was a particular board that was
[31:46] unable to convene because they just
[31:48] could not get a forum
[31:50] so
[31:51] it's really uh felt like it's really
[31:52] time that we need to take a look at the
[31:53] board see what the vacancies are and
[31:55] then
[31:56] move forward with um
[31:58] recommending people um in your packet
[32:00] you will see what is the mayor's
[32:02] appointment what is the council's
[32:03] appointment and then what's the mayor's
[32:05] appointment with the council of pool
[32:07] so
[32:08] you know by that we would either
[32:10] do that ourselves if it's just a
[32:13] council approval like the board of
[32:14] assessment review but the ones that are
[32:16] merit appointments obviously that's up
[32:17] from there and the ones where the mayor
[32:20] the council of approval you take a look
[32:22] at and then you can follow the names and
[32:24] then um you know the mayor will take a
[32:26] look at those and then bring it back to
[32:27] us
[32:31] if you had an opportunity today there
[32:33] was an article in the time changing
[32:35] about the civilian police review board
[32:37] and one of the comments made by the
[32:38] chair was that they were
[32:51] and if you may remember at the rail
[32:53] there was a person that came forward and
[32:54] specifically spoke about the affirmative
[32:56] action committee that hasn't met in
[32:58] several years it's not on here
[33:01] but that's another one and then we
[33:02] definitely need to be able to take a
[33:04] look at that and then and all the other
[33:06] bills this is the entire list of them
[33:11] i will ask mr sullivan in that question
[33:14] there are a lot of boards and
[33:15] commissions that have been created over
[33:16] the years that are not on that list
[33:18] okay
[33:20] so we'll get the entire list to the
[33:21] council
[33:26] decades ago though that wouldn't
[33:28] necessarily be relevant okay well the
[33:30] ones that are relevant
[33:31] then you got it
[33:33] thank you
[33:35] i was wondering when i was in campus
[33:36] today um
[33:39] the ethics the board of ethics is that
[33:41] any rule or a council or both
[33:44] so as i said it doesn't say
[33:47] that
[33:48] that's both
[33:49] ca
[33:53] [Music]
[34:05] okay and i'll make sure that we get the
[34:07] updated list
[34:08] who does what
[34:10] i'm sorry oh thank you
[34:12] um i do notice that
[34:14] probably may not be um
[34:16] up to date like it says like under
[34:18] submitting cprv i know that naacp we
[34:21] didn't recently vote on bringing someone
[34:23] on board there
[34:26] foreign i don't believe there's agencies
[34:28] there people are saying there are
[34:33] filed a vacancies
[34:34] so as far as the members still
[34:38] are serving
[34:40] well there's one hold over that because
[34:42] i asked you know
[34:43] the woman who's chairman she said
[34:45] there's somebody who they didn't make
[34:46] them to us apparently but she's held
[34:48] over she's finished her two terms that
[34:50] she could but she they held her over
[34:52] because they didn't have anybody else
[34:53] um
[34:56] referring to my appointment yes
[34:59] she wanted to continue to serve the
[35:01] council wants to raise infection and
[35:03] she's highly qualified
[35:06] and the rules on the public officer's
[35:08] law are somebody continues to serve
[35:11] until their successor is supposed to
[35:13] qualify
[35:15] she hasn't told me she doesn't want to
[35:16] serve
[35:18] i am happy with her performance
[35:21] but are we going to read everybody
[35:22] legislation
[35:25] the council asked me to drove over i
[35:27] will consider
[35:31] and then i also was going to comment in
[35:32] the same way because it does seem as
[35:34] though they only have the one vacancy so
[35:36] if they're not having a forum that must
[35:38] just be the folks
[35:41] which is
[35:54] well from my
[35:55] brief conversations with the chair it's
[35:57] difficult for them to address those
[36:00] attendance issues if they can't perform
[36:02] so yeah if they can't have a point right
[36:06] so the lack of corn makes it difficult
[36:08] to address some issues that are existing
[36:10] on the board
[36:25] getting a total of participation in a
[36:27] lot of workforce so i think it's
[36:28] important to remind the city that we
[36:31] need a
[36:32] continual influx of just new bodies and
[36:34] new ideas and concepts
[36:37] just because there's been a lot of
[36:38] members who have just been in tact
[36:40] saturated because it's a lot so
[36:42] definitely i think actively looking at
[36:44] some of these vacancies and making
[36:46] valiant attempts to fill them and then
[36:48] both systems that are currently serving
[36:50] to ensure that they are meeting on a
[36:52] consistent basis to do a business that
[36:54] they're intended to be conducting
[37:02] on
[37:04] these vacancies
[37:19] has impacted people's lives creating a
[37:20] lot of different ways
[37:22] you know get some grace and flexibility
[37:24] as well
[37:26] okay any more questions
[37:28] i just wanted to bring up the cprv we
[37:30] did also decide that people had
[37:32] alternates because we need alternatives
[37:34] as well so
[37:36] i'm not sure i know one of these
[37:38] organizations that has an alternative so
[37:40] you know we would want to make sure that
[37:41] we also say to them that please give us
[37:43] a name for
[37:45] the
[37:46] main person and then an alternate
[37:48] needle
[37:56] okay
[38:13] all right
[38:36] just the
[38:37] rosters that you had submitted to the
[38:39] materials that was from january so there
[38:42] have been changes since then
[38:44] so i can circulate a new updated summary
[38:47] that would be great
[38:50] that's it
[38:51] that was going to be i was going to have
[38:52] people get a new updated list so
[38:54] answer that question and then
[38:56] we can move forward
[38:58] you know suggest names to the mayor um
[39:00] or if it's ours to uh to put on these
[39:02] sports or committees so thank you for
[39:04] your consideration in korean press
[39:11] operations
[39:19] i'd like to call to order city
[39:20] development and planning we have six
[39:22] items on the agenda the first item on
[39:24] the agenda award-winning contract four
[39:26] machines
[39:28] [Music]
[39:37] this legislative request is to
[39:40] purchase fire hydrants for the city's
[39:42] water department um our current
[39:44] inventory is getting well we have less
[39:45] than 10 hydrants in stock so this is
[39:48] replenish we do every year we replenish
[39:50] some of our brass goods in this case
[39:52] it's fire hydrants
[39:54] there is a lot of delivery you will
[39:56] probably be hard pressed to even see
[39:58] them hopefully this year
[39:59] um so
[40:00] hopefully we can get the order in
[40:02] and
[40:04] there was one bidder
[40:05] ferguson waterworks in the amount of
[40:09] two 167
[40:09] twelve dollars and it would come out of
[40:11] the operating budget code fx8322 to
[40:14] eleven
[40:18] questions
[40:34] connecting police department firing
[40:35] range
[40:39] thank you um several weeks ago i was
[40:42] here in front of you awarding three
[40:44] contracts regarding the firing range one
[40:46] was for hvac one was for plumbing and
[40:48] one was for electric this is the fourth
[40:50] contract which was not awarded because
[40:52] we did not receive any bids
[40:54] the issue with the original bid was that
[40:56] it was called
[40:57] sbd firing range ventilation and
[40:59] reconstruction we think the ventilation
[41:01] kind of threw people off so we
[41:03] repackaged the bid we put it out just
[41:05] calling it spb reconstruction we
[41:08] received two bids for the general uh the
[41:11] general contract portion of the work uh
[41:13] one from r b one gallow the low bid was
[41:16] gallow 232 000
[41:18] we did call on them and we had some
[41:20] references checked by our architect
[41:23] they are a reputable firm in the area
[41:25] and we're comfortable we'll be forward
[41:27] as they are the last contractor we need
[41:29] to actually move forward with the
[41:30] project as a
[41:33] are there any whole
[41:34] um
[42:05] [Music]
[42:11] because you know summers of the summer's
[42:13] approaching right so um you know in the
[42:16] meantime you know what i'm doing is uh
[42:18] you know trying to reach out to some
[42:20] community partners to help
[42:22] build capacity for this so as we do it
[42:25] we can do it and still maintain that
[42:27] larger community impact um and not try
[42:30] to over stress you know the safety
[42:31] capacity and our school district
[42:33] capacity so what i want to do
[42:36] if it's okay is i want to kind of bring
[42:37] this back um
[42:38] for our next cycle
[42:40] and provide more background information
[42:42] and do a proper support at that point
[42:44] because i know the mayor has been really
[42:46] um advocating for this to happen as well
[42:48] as i have been and i appreciate that
[42:50] because this is really important
[42:55] um
[42:59] [Music]
[43:08] applications and it's just so important
[43:11] because it will pay
[43:14] kids that you know need the resources
[43:16] and it also gives them job skills
[43:19] and workplace skills so i'm completely
[43:23] in favor of this and
[43:52] [Music]
[43:53] having meetings talking to community
[43:55] partners i talk to everyone you know um
[43:58] and they don't have to talk to someone
[43:59] you really need strong support so
[44:01] but
[44:02] when i bring it here i want to make sure
[44:04] that we have our teeth across my eyes
[44:06] that i think that that's important as
[44:08] well so again there's something that we
[44:10] want to make sure that we are able to
[44:12] list some of our partners accomplish
[44:13] some role clarification and things like
[44:15] that i think it's important before we
[44:17] pass it out
[44:21] my understanding we had a proposal for
[44:23] this so
[44:25] isn't all that stuff
[44:26] kind of
[44:27] in line or
[44:29] am i thinking of something different
[44:32] concept is being more engaged with the
[44:34] educational process earlier in the year
[44:37] helping
[44:39] teachers
[44:40] students
[44:43] what my original concept was and
[44:45] discussion with superintendent
[44:48] i would be hard-pressed to fully
[44:49] implement
[44:52] at this point only because the time
[44:54] we've
[44:54] used
[44:55] but as mr farley pointed out there's a
[44:57] broad-based interest in this and how do
[45:00] we bring community partners in again
[45:06] young adults to
[45:08] give the opportunity during the summer
[45:10] to
[45:12] make some of this money and
[45:14] there's still people that are
[45:16] adversely impacted by code ultimately
[45:19] target some of that so that it puts
[45:21] money in these households and the
[45:22] families
[45:24] that otherwise
[45:26] don't have it and
[45:27] leverages
[45:29] educational opportunities within the
[45:31] school district and
[45:33] creates
[45:34] a
[45:35] complementary
[45:40] engagement with what ron gardner is
[45:41] doing
[45:42] to map out some of these career paths so
[45:45] that when kids
[45:47] either are in high school or graduate or
[45:53] 20 years old or so can
[45:55] find a pathway to
[45:57] become successful contributing to
[45:59] members of society
[46:02] so um as i understand it so you're
[46:04] saying that there's already work being
[46:06] done and then it's not like we're
[46:08] waiting
[46:27] in january
[46:28] oh okay
[46:29] uh so
[46:31] to have those conversations and make
[46:32] sure that we have everything
[46:34] together at the time including the mayor
[46:36] being involved in that oh yeah
[46:37] absolutely so yeah you know my intention
[46:41] is to make sure that
[46:44] we're not the right partners in order to
[46:45] make sure that we can have that larger
[46:48] impact that we want to have because time
[46:50] is taken
[46:52] about
[46:52] making sure that we have the capacity to
[46:55] impact as many uh people as we can so
[46:57] that that's really um
[46:59] what's happening now that makes sense
[47:01] yes mr phil
[47:03] um who are the like the community
[47:05] partners that you're reaching out to so
[47:07] right now um uh uh sjta and i spoke
[47:11] about that
[47:12] some time ago and many of you actually i
[47:15] youtube i mean
[47:17] about because they have kind of the
[47:18] infrastructure to um they do this right
[47:21] so it makes
[47:23] really good sense to tap them to say
[47:25] being that we are having a short
[47:28] window of time here
[47:30] you already have infrastructure if you
[47:31] already have the belief and you can't
[47:33] really do this you know
[47:34] having that's a part at the table makes
[47:36] a lot of sense and we'll ensure that we
[47:38] can you know have that larger path are
[47:40] they ready to move yet so yeah
[47:43] they they enjoy strong support from the
[47:46] private knowledge
[47:47] partner project but what i wanted to do
[47:49] is bring um together with the mayor and
[47:51] the superintendent um to kind of go over
[47:53] some of the um fire points and make sure
[47:56] that
[47:57] because two weeks
[47:59] from now it's
[48:00] memorial day so you're like we'll be on
[48:02] the other side
[48:06] [Music]
[48:19] interest of the fundamentals of time
[48:20] about this right
[48:22] so let me just also add that um the
[48:24] application process that they always
[48:25] already do will they'll continue to do
[48:27] so it's i've not seen a year where they
[48:30] lack the kids i've seen a lot of years
[48:32] right i've seen a year where they left
[48:34] for um
[48:36] positions
[48:37] so mister
[48:39] okay
[48:40] doesn't matter go ahead
[48:41] um so i'm a little confused because i
[48:44] thought this was going to be separate
[48:46] from the county program yeah
[48:49] directly through the city right so then
[48:52] any forms that then sent out really
[48:55] have nothing to do with this program or
[48:59] no no no they absolutely do um so
[49:01] partnering partnering with accounting on
[49:03] this um so the county does a summary of
[49:06] a program that every single thing they
[49:08] do this is what they do
[49:10] so what
[49:12] we're trying to do what i'm trying to do
[49:14] is leverage um some of their expertise
[49:17] and their uh
[49:18] you know they have the foundation to do
[49:20] these things right they do this so what
[49:22] i'm saying is celebrating everything in
[49:24] this apartment to where it makes sense
[49:27] you can reach a larger group of kids and
[49:30] a short period of time that we have it
[49:31] just makes sense
[49:32] not for them to um you know
[49:35] completely take this over or
[49:38] just that's what they do
[49:42] yes i just would have some concerns
[49:44] there just based on some previous
[49:46] experience yeah i hear what you're
[49:47] saying but i think we have the capacity
[49:50] as well through our hr office
[49:52] to be hiring and running this program
[49:55] ourselves
[49:56] um
[49:58] i'm just saying that's almost like
[49:59] getting 300 000 to the county way too
[50:05] okay no no in fact i think that kind of
[50:08] up to our point earlier
[50:10] our previous discussion about
[50:12] the uh um
[50:15] volunteer agencies that we have in the
[50:16] city right now are struggling to get
[50:18] people into worlds and jobs right now i
[50:21] think that
[50:22] now it's it's it's extremely important
[50:24] that we look to partner um with the
[50:27] county and the school district so we can
[50:30] leverage um those partnerships to make
[50:32] it more of a meaningful experience for
[50:34] the youth that are involved
[50:36] so i understand that if you guys hear it
[50:38] would have been the school district on
[50:39] this
[50:40] what money would have gone through the
[50:42] school district on this
[50:43] no this will go through the city
[50:47] yeah i was going to ask that question
[50:48] because
[50:49] sometimes the school district gets
[50:51] intelligent uh
[51:03] [Music]
[51:05] the whole concept was to start the
[51:08] beginning of the year
[51:10] and work with teachers to
[51:13] work with students to have them come up
[51:16] with like a business plan to
[51:18] have them pick a problem or a project
[51:21] within the community
[51:22] that they would map out a scenario
[51:26] not on these individuals but
[51:27] collectively
[51:28] to work on and solve
[51:31] during the summer
[51:33] we would then
[51:34] hire them to
[51:36] implement that project
[51:39] and they would have to do a business
[51:40] plan have to do a budget working with
[51:42] the teachers
[51:44] learning process
[51:47] maybe some review on it
[51:49] i am at the decided disadvantage at this
[51:52] point
[51:53] in here to be able to
[51:56] implement that it's not going to have
[51:57] the full impact of what i originally
[51:59] intended
[52:02] i mean i'm putting this on the hr
[52:04] already uh you know
[52:06] have so much work and so many vacancies
[52:08] to fill
[52:09] that in your 75 position on each other
[52:12] isn't that uh
[52:13] hopefully
[52:14] you can hire teachers during the summer
[52:17] it there is a
[52:19] narrow window it is a targeted group
[52:22] and
[52:22] when we have those vacancies the other
[52:24] thing i would ask you
[52:26] is
[52:29] an item that we're not
[52:30] doing garbage just picked up
[52:33] potholes a little bit behind them and
[52:36] hired
[52:37] an outside contractor to supplement that
[52:41] we're still getting the work done we're
[52:43] proud of the effort the city staff is
[52:46] doing
[52:48] our police response
[52:50] is
[52:51] not at the level
[52:53] i would like
[52:56] called backing up that they are priority
[52:58] three calls so it's getting a report
[53:00] it's more of the
[53:01] [Music]
[53:04] support function that the department
[53:05] does
[53:07] that we're not responding to as fast as
[53:09] i would like
[53:10] but
[53:13] priority one priority two calls the
[53:15] closure rate on major cases is still
[53:18] very impressive
[53:20] but this weekend
[53:23] could have made half we're not 100 sure
[53:26] because of the timing
[53:28] and when you pass it you still have to
[53:30] set up a
[53:32] contractual way to get the money
[53:34] and uh it's
[53:35] similar with the other things that the
[53:37] council has entertained to be able to
[53:39] actually implement them and move them
[53:41] forward
[53:45] mr williams
[53:46] so i know as a council although i
[53:49] imagine people are directing it as
[53:50] specific council members but we've been
[53:52] highlighted as being slow to action i
[53:55] think it's important to highlight that
[53:57] if we
[53:58] continue forward with discussions about
[54:00] spending market money as we have an
[54:02] advisory committee that a majority of us
[54:04] elected to
[54:05] support i think it sends a very
[54:09] mixed message about continuing to spend
[54:11] money perhaps their opinions
[54:13] um i would like to highlight and say
[54:15] thank you to councilmember farley for
[54:18] wanting to keep this on the agenda do we
[54:19] need more information because i think if
[54:21] we're going to send a message having all
[54:24] the facts are important
[54:26] and i know that we want to make sure
[54:27] that we're doing the best to support our
[54:29] youth in the city but i also want to
[54:31] make sure we're not doing it at the
[54:32] expense of people that have been taking
[54:34] the time to go through these
[54:36] submit applications to make sure that as
[54:39] a city the community has
[54:41] not only invested interest but has a
[54:43] value voice in us so
[54:46] but to the mayor's point about
[54:48] um something that we have worked on i
[54:50] hope that's not the message that our
[54:52] council is giving the people that are
[54:53] listening absolutely
[54:55] i see
[54:56] all of the
[54:58] completed projects that are going on
[55:00] absent these vacancies i think it's just
[55:02] making sure we're taking account of how
[55:05] much burnout that is being
[55:08] born by the members of the city and
[55:10] whether that's
[55:13] us continuing to function with these
[55:14] vacancies has an implication in our
[55:16] long-term ability to function as a city
[55:19] so i think it's just making sure that
[55:20] we're intentional with
[55:22] filling these vacancies and we're
[55:25] doing it in a manner that continues to
[55:26] add resources to the city stuff and not
[55:29] replacing
[55:33] it's fun so yeah so at night so
[55:36] as i'm kind of taking them on
[55:38] uh people's perspective here it's like i think it's important that two things
[55:42] can be true here and i don't think that
[55:44] we're
[55:44] you know
[55:45] too far apart on what everyone's
[55:49] intention is here is to um you know
[55:52] really impact the lives of people who
[55:55] have been most disproportionately
[55:56] connected and pastored by a clover to
[55:59] your point mayor and i appreciate that
[56:00] so i think that we do that by
[56:04] you know making sure that we um
[56:07] have the capacity to do it the right way
[56:09] um
[56:10] do it very intentionally
[56:12] um and i think that we're still in a
[56:14] position to get it done
[56:20] i don't think that these are too
[56:21] conflicting um
[56:24] what i'm hearing is just you know
[56:26] the urgency and the necessary urgency
[56:34] to make sure that we
[56:36] need these resources to build available
[56:38] to the community and so i just think
[56:40] that's a good distinction
[56:44] so there's
[56:45] two separate things first of all the
[56:47] vacancies are completely separate from
[56:49] us
[56:50] and
[56:52] honestly is a totally different
[56:54] discussion
[56:55] with regards to the kids
[56:57] i mean historically we've had
[57:00] tremendous amount of students that want
[57:03] to work
[57:04] it's a lot different than
[57:06] the vacancies
[57:08] so
[57:09] assuming that holds and there's no
[57:12] reason to think it wouldn't
[57:14] there's no reason
[57:16] the city can't facilitate this and get
[57:19] kids hired and out there and working
[57:23] it's again two very separate discussions
[57:26] i mean the kids want to work they want
[57:27] to get experience they want to get out
[57:29] there doing stuff and quite frankly it's
[57:31] to our benefit because we can get them
[57:33] job skills that maybe they can have a
[57:36] great career in the city and and to me
[57:38] that's
[57:47] [Music]
[57:51] and i would have to say that being
[57:53] understaffed would definitely impact
[57:56] this because you're asking the staff to
[57:58] not want only what they do but also to
[58:00] supervise whatever you are in their
[58:02] program so that is additional i can
[58:04] speak to personal experience i actually
[58:05] run summer programs for seven years so
[58:08] it is and the people who were had to do
[58:11] their job and in addition to supervise
[58:13] young people
[58:15] it was it didn't do this more so there
[58:17] is an additional ask of staff
[58:19] when you add staff to them especially
[58:22] young people who are maybe just learning
[58:24] job skills
[58:26] yes which is i think um i mean again i
[58:29] have a lot of respect for the program at
[58:30] the connie crumps and i've worked with
[58:32] them for years
[58:33] but i do know that one of the issues i
[58:36] think that they have in trying to fill
[58:40] in trying to get the kids higher is what
[58:43] ms porterfield is saying which is you
[58:45] are sort of going to non-profits for
[58:48] example and saying you know would you
[58:49] hire a kid and most of those people are
[58:52] saying no we're too stressed we can't
[58:55] take on another kid and have your
[58:56] supervisor get on top of that what i saw
[59:00] what i thought was going to happen
[59:02] with us having our own program and this
[59:04] is different than what the mayor had
[59:06] initially proposed
[59:08] i would see for example so you get 30
[59:10] kids that hire for the summer and
[59:12] they're out collecting litter every day
[59:14] in our parks
[59:16] or you've got kids that are running
[59:18] programs in our in our parks for other
[59:20] kids um maybe through the boys and girls
[59:22] club or something but that it's really
[59:24] more um
[59:26] it's not that we're saying okay one
[59:28] kid's gonna go here and kid's gonna go
[59:29] there but that grounder we're hiring
[59:32] with a bunch of kids um and so therefore
[59:35] it's not necessarily that you know the
[59:37] kids are going to anthony's office or or
[59:40] you know chris's office or something
[59:42] like that where it does put more stress
[59:45] on our staff
[59:46] but more that they're maybe taking over
[59:48] some projects that that we need to get
[59:52] done in the city that
[59:54] because you're you know i definitely
[59:56] agree that it's too late to be able to
[59:57] do the whole
[59:58] business plan idea
[1:00:00] um but that there are other alternatives
[1:00:02] where it's a city run program in city
[1:00:05] parks or whatever for bulk of kids
[1:00:08] um
[1:00:09] and you know yeah no i i
[1:00:12] don't
[1:00:20] you know what i'm trying to be clear on
[1:00:22] is that
[1:00:23] you know
[1:00:25] leverage like you said like the boys and
[1:00:27] girls stuff because i think you're the
[1:00:29] student working there so you know
[1:00:31] we're partly partnering with the boys
[1:00:32] and girls club
[1:00:34] because they have the uh capacity and
[1:00:37] the skill set to
[1:00:39] facilitate these type of things so it's
[1:00:41] like of course
[1:00:43] a partner with with fgta um
[1:00:47] there's also a component of
[1:00:50] staffing job coaches successfully
[1:00:53] who really support our students so not
[1:00:55] only our students you know getting the
[1:00:57] job skills um
[1:00:59] but they're also you know getting some
[1:01:01] real-time coaching around like how to
[1:01:03] navigate that which gives them a great
[1:01:05] chance of
[1:01:09] goal success finding gainful employment
[1:01:11] later on that job success coach is a
[1:01:13] really big part of that so so with those
[1:01:16] who you know
[1:01:17] keep those things in mind it's like okay
[1:01:20] doing that
[1:01:22] with that level of intentionality is
[1:01:24] what's going to give the kids the
[1:01:25] greatest chance of success instead of
[1:01:26] you know not to take longer
[1:01:30] it's a great thing but if they're in a
[1:01:32] position
[1:01:33] that is more meaningful to them
[1:01:36] supported by a caring adult will have
[1:01:39] some um
[1:01:41] experience in this area
[1:01:43] you know that's gonna give them a
[1:01:45] greater chance of long-term success and
[1:01:47] entering into that field to the mayor's
[1:01:49] point so that's why so there's those key
[1:01:51] things but i think that really needs to
[1:01:52] be um kind of iron health and whatever
[1:01:54] to be successful that's what i'm saying
[1:01:58] so i mean there's obviously a lot of
[1:02:00] people are seeing this from different
[1:02:01] angles so i think that to take the time
[1:02:04] to do that and bring it back and have
[1:02:05] meetings with mayor and
[1:02:08] wherever the other city partners are and
[1:02:10] um i do want to to speak to the uh we
[1:02:13] talk about we want children to have
[1:02:15] opportunities need
[1:02:16] those diseases but to hire a bunch of
[1:02:18] kids to pick up litter is not what i
[1:02:20] envisioned for this or it just it's not a it's not a fun thing i mean
[1:02:26] we do it because we have different you
[1:02:28] know
[1:02:32] want to hire a group of organization
[1:02:34] with the specific purpose of
[1:02:36] your goal your job all
[1:02:38] summer long used to go around and pick
[1:02:39] up litter um you know i've had kids who
[1:02:41] participated in our litter pickups and
[1:02:43] some of them didn't want to be seen by
[1:02:45] their friends picking up live so
[1:02:50] wpa model of the past and our youth
[1:02:54] where we did do those kinds of things
[1:02:56] and it was more of a community you know
[1:02:58] you're getting paid for something that
[1:02:59] you might otherwise do this volunteer i
[1:03:02] definitely i've brought the boys and
[1:03:03] girls of people in
[1:03:06] i would see that as a component of any
[1:03:07] program that we had where they were
[1:03:09] doing the job coaching and teaching
[1:03:11] those workplace skills as well no matter
[1:03:13] what the job was
[1:03:15] um but i mean many cities
[1:03:17] um
[1:03:18] you know will have a youth corps
[1:03:20] um that can go out and do the kinds of
[1:03:22] projects that then are really helpful to
[1:03:24] the city and the
[1:03:26] beautification of the city and it's a
[1:03:28] perfect summer kind of kind of
[1:03:31] opportunity for them
[1:03:33] um and it really is getting at that
[1:03:35] skill so i mean that's how i was
[1:03:36] envisioning this um
[1:03:39] so obviously we have different opinions
[1:03:40] on it but so it may be better to wait
[1:03:42] till next summer and put the thing into
[1:03:45] place yeah
[1:03:46] the
[1:03:47] tournament the landscaping or picking up
[1:03:50] is one component of it but you have to
[1:03:53] either plant
[1:03:54] flowers grass or something so
[1:03:59] people understand the
[1:04:01] sequence of events that build
[1:04:03] sustainability and uh right it's real
[1:04:06] bad
[1:04:07] mr garland i just think it's because
[1:04:09] yeah
[1:04:10] at no point in my conversations with the
[1:04:12] mayor you know
[1:04:15] picking up litter
[1:04:16] you know the focus you know for young
[1:04:18] people you know
[1:04:20] really they're about
[1:04:27] and that could include you know
[1:04:29] some cleanup some planting um
[1:04:32] you know a variety of different things
[1:04:34] but you know the point here was to make
[1:04:36] it something that you are able to buy
[1:04:38] into that's going to give back to the
[1:04:40] community and help them
[1:04:42] find a
[1:04:44] company fully employed hopefully in that area of interest and you do that
[1:04:48] with partnerships and job coaches and
[1:04:51] you know so that's a way longer process
[1:04:53] than anything we're talking about my
[1:04:55] guess is
[1:04:58] no no we couldn't where we're at now we
[1:05:01] couldn't but tapping these people in our
[1:05:04] community who
[1:05:05] have
[1:05:06] some capacity partnering with the right
[1:05:08] people we can do that
[1:05:10] so i see this coming back on june
[1:05:13] 6th is it
[1:05:15] so we'll have to
[1:05:16] hope that anytime any meetings will take
[1:05:18] place any
[1:05:20] detail when we work out something that's
[1:05:21] conceivable that can't happen this
[1:05:23] summer
[1:05:31] okay
[1:05:32] thank you for the
[1:05:33] input
[1:05:42] so
[1:05:42] the next one on the agenda is the
[1:05:44] cannabis presentation by the new york
[1:05:46] state office of politics management all
[1:05:48] of you should have received an email
[1:05:50] from the same holiday
[1:05:54] from the young lady um
[1:05:56] neville nevilee white
[1:05:58] and so they've reached out to the city
[1:06:00] and asked that there be they
[1:06:03] we helped put on a public presentation
[1:06:05] they would do the presentation that we
[1:06:07] helped by marketing and getting the word
[1:06:08] out there um this is something i when
[1:06:11] you talked about this back in this
[1:06:14] february i've mentioned that they're
[1:06:16] getting community conversations those
[1:06:18] community conversations took place
[1:06:20] virtually and now they're doing them in
[1:06:22] person so they've already done one
[1:06:24] albany and are trying to get to
[1:06:26] connectivity and troy and to do that as
[1:06:28] well so they again send to all of us
[1:06:31] there's some of the information in here
[1:06:32] if you um
[1:06:34] if you're looking for defining an email
[1:06:36] and then just like to come to
[1:06:37] connectivity and um do a presentation
[1:06:40] somewhere at a public venue so that the
[1:06:42] community can come out and understand
[1:06:44] all of um
[1:06:46] the opportunities what the mission is
[1:06:48] and what this really means
[1:06:49] and quite frankly this is really
[1:06:52] specifically targeting people who
[1:06:55] were negatively impacted
[1:06:57] by um
[1:06:58] by sailing marijuana and
[1:07:01] gold had gone to jail or family members
[1:07:03] have been impacted that is the
[1:07:04] particular
[1:07:06] focus of this
[1:07:08] so um i was bringing to the council if
[1:07:11] you want to participate collectively and
[1:07:13] helping to um support this they will put
[1:07:17] uh they will find the venue and do all
[1:07:18] the work obviously bring their staff to
[1:07:20] everything and the only ask of
[1:07:23] us would be to help market it and make
[1:07:25] sure that the public
[1:07:26] knows
[1:07:35] uh the decision to
[1:07:37] not opt out definitely
[1:07:39] predated
[1:07:40] my joining the council
[1:07:43] being a member of this council currently
[1:07:45] i think it's important for us to send a
[1:07:47] unified message to the city
[1:07:49] that choosing to remain in
[1:07:52] we are willing to become
[1:07:55] or remain invested partners in this i
[1:07:57] think that only occurs if we
[1:07:59] are informed and collaboratively working
[1:08:02] with the office of cannabis management
[1:08:04] to make sure that whatever programs are
[1:08:06] rolled out to our city actually reflect
[1:08:09] the intent of the program designers
[1:08:12] so i very much appreciate this
[1:08:14] individual reaching out
[1:08:15] i think without having the ability to
[1:08:19] view
[1:08:19] how this message is properly conveyed to
[1:08:22] the community i think it's starting off
[1:08:24] on the right foot and i would happily
[1:08:28] wait to support any fashion
[1:08:30] as a council member and also just a
[1:08:32] resident of the city to make sure that
[1:08:34] when these licensures are
[1:08:37] awarded
[1:08:38] that whatever members recipient of this
[1:08:41] it reflects again
[1:08:46] anyone else
[1:08:48] it's too big
[1:08:49] yeah
[1:08:50] is it possible that we can invite them
[1:08:51] to do a presentation so the consoles
[1:08:53] will be able to get the message out
[1:08:55] through our online
[1:08:57] live feed at the same time we work to
[1:08:59] help them to do a public
[1:09:01] outreach
[1:09:03] um
[1:09:04] so not in scala
[1:09:18] which ends on 31st
[1:09:21] so um that's that's something that
[1:09:24] we're open to we should get that
[1:09:26] information out to our contacts
[1:09:28] that maybe just email itself or
[1:09:29] something part of the email um but so
[1:09:32] the answer is yes i would speak to mr
[1:09:35] slipping to miss white after i got the
[1:09:36] email i just wanted to be clear on what
[1:09:38] they wanted
[1:09:39] which is what you see before you and i'm
[1:09:41] speaking with her again after having
[1:09:43] brought this before the council to say
[1:09:45] um yes the council as
[1:09:59] okay so okay so are you trying to say
[1:10:01] before after the order doesn't matter to
[1:10:03] you it does okay they'll be able to see
[1:10:06] all right
[1:10:07] i'll do it
[1:10:08] okay
[1:10:09] any other input
[1:10:11] are you missed okay i guess what i'm
[1:10:13] looking for is are people supported
[1:10:15] as a council um supporting this to to
[1:10:17] host it or
[1:10:18] would you prefer not knocking under the
[1:10:20] city council
[1:10:25] i actually don't really think
[1:10:27] you know i think it would be it's fine
[1:10:29] to add a presentation
[1:10:31] so in terms of the public forum yeah
[1:10:33] i mean i don't mind having to come to
[1:10:35] one of our meetings
[1:10:36] as well
[1:10:37] so you would support both yes okay
[1:10:40] that's my question
[1:10:43] so
[1:10:45] as a council no matter what how we feel
[1:10:47] about it i mean
[1:10:49] is it
[1:10:50] i'm thinking is it okay for us to
[1:10:53] kind of promote this
[1:10:55] well as a council we showed him to not
[1:10:58] opt out so
[1:10:59] right well no matter how you know so yes
[1:11:02] um so i would say i don't know that i
[1:11:05] would agree with them even to give us a
[1:11:07] presentation i mean depending on how
[1:11:09] long it is during a council meeting
[1:11:11] maybe it's an hour too like
[1:11:13] i don't know what what their
[1:11:15] presentation would be and if there's an
[1:11:17] open comment um
[1:11:19] would it be
[1:11:21] you know where people could actually
[1:11:22] comment during our
[1:11:24] meeting no
[1:11:30] yeah it's just a presentation just a
[1:11:31] presentation
[1:11:33] i'm sorry we do limit those
[1:11:35] presentations
[1:11:37] [Music]
[1:11:53] the link gives you a lot of information
[1:11:55] a lot of background and a lot of it so a
[1:11:56] lot of us there already
[1:11:58] that may
[1:11:59] give you an opportunity to formulate
[1:12:00] questions prior to that but the
[1:12:01] information is definitely in the
[1:12:03] email that was followed by this my
[1:12:05] picture
[1:12:06] mr
[1:12:08] public meetings fine i don't really see
[1:12:10] a need for a council meeting
[1:12:13] it seems to me it would be redundant and
[1:12:15] we could just take their presentation
[1:12:18] and
[1:12:19] either put it on the website put it on
[1:12:44] and the last two items on the agenda are
[1:12:47] for
[1:12:49] executive session for sale of properties
[1:12:51] so uh it's in motion to reset so
[1:12:55] second
[1:12:56] okay
[1:13:16] claims and i would like to uh then say
[1:13:20] that we need to
[1:13:21] get that interesting motion to go into
[1:13:24] executive session
[1:13:29] oh i need a second
[1:13:35] okay thank you and so now i would like
[1:13:37] to also have a recess of claims
[1:13:45] okay
[1:14:24] you