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a little bit
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second all in favor all right
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all in favor
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aye thank you
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call to order government operation the
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parsa item is called for public hearing
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to a man city ordinance 87
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0.6-1 residency requirement from this
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quarter to you
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all right so we've been talking about
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this for a while and the fact that um
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you know we're low on staff
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and
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right now the
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requirement to work for the cities that
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you live in the city or get a waiver so
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at this point in time like to entertain
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us
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expanding the footprint of who where
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people can live in order to work for the
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city
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as i've said before that
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everyone is experiencing the same
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problem that we
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are having
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and other folks as well other
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municipalities and businesses etc are
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also expanding footprint where their
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employees can live in order to come here
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so i'm putting this forward to actually
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have a
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public hearing regarding the residency
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requirements and i'd also like to point
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out that it has not always been required
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that you live in the city of schenectady
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in order to work for the city of
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schenectady this particular ordinance
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was changed in 1988. so clearly at that
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time um there was a time when we didn't
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need it or wasn't necessarily a time
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when maybe the city was had many more
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people here and therefore we had a
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larger pool of people um
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to choose from and now we're at a
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different place so
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i'd like to just put this forward to uh
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for a public hearing
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let's change the code
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any comments any questions regarding
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this public hearing to amanda city
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residency
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second all in favor
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right
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the next item uh discussion on
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implication of the employee misconduct
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and supported field um as i understand
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this speaking of the mayor there is a um
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ongoing investigation
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so this would need to go into an
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executive session
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you can't hear me i didn't hear the last
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part of it this would need to go an
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executive session
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so we need a more complete momentum
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second all in favor aye aye
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i'd like to call to order city
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development and planning we have four
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items on the agenda the first item is a
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hundred and one forty-five
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uh street historic landmark
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designation i'll see miss diaz here
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is there anyone here to speak to that
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at this point i think it's just
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specific questions that i could answer
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we're
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just moving through the process
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i think the planning commission
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reviewed this application
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i think was referred to the planning
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commission
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and at the june 15th meeting
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they uh issued a resolution of support
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to designate the site of historic
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landmarks and that's coming back to city
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council for
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action if the city council is so
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inclined
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are there any questions
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i'll move it second all those in favor
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all right
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okay the next item on the agenda is the
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sunnyview belmont avenue rezoning
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planning commission referral again ms
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diaz who's not here uh mr coleman would
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you speak to this as well uh i will can
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i get to the page sorry
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again there was a public hearing already
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on this uh the city council had referred
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this to the planning commission uh it
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involved the rezoning of the parcels uh
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it was considered by the planning
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commission at the june 15 meeting and
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the commission issued a unanimous
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recommendation to the council to approve
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the zoning change of the parcels uh with
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the additional finding planning
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commission looks forward to working with
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sunnyview to improve the overall
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efficiency and code compliance of their
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properties
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are there any questions
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i'll move it second
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the next item is to authorize the mayor
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as his designate to award the brandywine
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avenue safety improvements project
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to carolina industries ms
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uh wong award that we have here is a
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rebid the project was originally bid
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over a month ago however it was bid with
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the add all included in the base fit the
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number that we got was similar i would
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say to what we have here was over 2
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million
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budget for the project is not that large
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we were able to secure some safety funds
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to bring it up however still they will
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only cover the base bid i will say that
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i have talked to some people who are
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experts in the area about the success of
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raised intersections which was the base
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bid
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and
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to date without going on the record for
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who i talked with the costs associated with them right now
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do not weigh the investment
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they are large precast panels that get
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put in
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to the intersection turns the entire
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intersection to a slightly raised
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concrete area and you see that the cost
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for that would be a little over half a
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million dollars
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that would be half a million dollars
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that the city would have to bear
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entirely due to the budget
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and like i said talking to people
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we are going to be reconstructing
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striping
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new signals really trying to you know
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improve the with typical measures so i
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don't think that half a million dollar
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investment is worth it at this time we
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can probably move that money up
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elsewhere and do other improvements so
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i'm comfortable moving forward with the
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base bit the reason i just explained
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that is because
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the
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bids would shift depending on if we were
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to take the alternate so i just want to
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make sure that everyone's aware of that
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so
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these are the closest bits in my tenure
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history
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if you do the math they're actually
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separated by 0.03
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5 000
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on a 1.7 million dollar bid i mean
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that's
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amazing unbelievable
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uh i am comfortable moving forward with
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the base bid with calling in without the
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at all uh any questions at the time
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uh the only thing is to come up with
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schedule
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i i don't know how the schedule is going
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to work as you can tell from other
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projects
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even if we were to start this year with
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calendar
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components signal components mainly and
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things that involve metal or brackets
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for computers they are all on huge lead
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times
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and so it may not be the wisest that we
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start
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immediately we may want to order do our
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shop drawing and then start right in the
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spring i will you know make the mayor
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aware but i just want to make sure this
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is step one i don't want to promise that
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we're gonna have a shovel in the ground
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in september
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because if you can't get the signals and
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some of the components it kind of might
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leave us in this half-baked situation i
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have to find out
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any questions
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i'll move this second all those in favor
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thank you thank you
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um
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and the last time on the agenda is uh
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g's easement agreement with the town of
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rotterdam mr colvin thank you um
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the city owns a property in the town
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around it rotterdam it's identified as
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section block and lots 60.17-2-26
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it's a
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vacant uh parcel it's approximately 7.77
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acres
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the town of rotterdam has approached the
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city
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they have a drainage
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project that they're looking to put
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together
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in order to move ahead with it they're
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seeking an easement from the city so
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that they can access the property
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for the purposes of the project as i
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said
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it will have negligent impact on the
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city as i mentioned it is vacant land
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i included a survey
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showing the area in which
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the easement would be covered
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i'd spoken to paul faun
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about this he doesn't see any impact on
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his
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projects or
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his use of any properties in rotterdam
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related to this
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so looking to
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potentially enter into an agreement
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mayor
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some ongoing negotiations with the town
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of rotterdam a couple things where this
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is part of it so before the council
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votes on this i'd like to review
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some of the things that are
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part of ongoing negotiations so that
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would require
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just a brief
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time and executive session okay well then at this point in time i'd
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entertain a motion to go into the
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executive session
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second all those in favor
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okay