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I'd like to call to order the
Schenectady city council committee
meeting for Monday November 7th 2022 and
the first committee is claims hi I'd
like to call claims to order we have one
item on the agenda and for that item we
need to go into executive session so I'd
like to have a motion to go into
executive session
challenge
I want to be this the second car oh
did you move oh okay in a second okay
all in favor
um so we'll go into executive session
sorry it didn't
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well yes I'm sorry uh the next item is
going to be delayed until November 21st
thank you
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thank you Colorado finance committee in
The Far Side tell me just a reminder for
public hearing the purchase of 0.15 acre
paper
3.588 at Broadway
and the public hearing is scheduled for
11 14.
the next item is a World Cup rules
Garden restoration committee potential
reimbursement of expenses as a Ferrari
you are taking that um
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this is uh just bringing person for the
Rose Garden restoration committee for
expenses they incurred to maintain the
Rose Garden
uh in 2022 we're looking to reimburse
them I told five thousand seven hundred
forty five dollars uh so I'm just
requesting that Council approve this
and we I did reimburse them in 2021 as
well
any questions
all in favor hi thank you
the next item is a public hearing call
for public Hearing in the 2023 Downtown
special assessment District
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I'd like to open health and Recreation
and we have two items on the agenda this
evening uh the first item is regarding
the senior meal program
um the second item is a New York State
climate Action Council scoping plan
um so I'd like to turn the floor over to
Miram Cosby for the first time
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Council in the 2022 budget and then 2023
budget put money in for meal sites I've
been able to enter into negotiations
with the Catholic Family improved
services to uh provide the support
structure for those and at this point
asking the council for authorization to
allow me to sign a contract to formally
engage them
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I just want to know the hours of
operation I unless I'm missing it
I don't know if they've been set the
hours of maybe like 11 to 1 years so the
hours will be uh
thank you for having me here
um yeah the the hours for the program
will is going to vary on each day Monday
and Wednesdays the hours will be 10 30
to 12 30 so that the participants have a
chance to come in socialize when they
first get there we will be offering some
activities when they at about 11 o'clock
for 2022 we will be offering a matter of
balance exercise programs a fall
prevention Initiative for folks so they
will engage in those activities
structured activity from about 11 to 11
45 then we'll serve lunch and they'll be
able to have lunch and then socialize a
bit afterwards and then then leave by 12
30. Fridays are going to be a little bit
different Fridays are a breakfast
program so the hours there are going to
be about 10 to 12. they will arrive
um it is at a cafe it's at the Bellevue
Cafe so that food is going to be
prepared and ready to go so they'll be
able to come in again socialize for a
period of time have their breakfast at a
nice breakfast buffet and then following
the meal we will be doing the activities
at that site so it will be the same
thing for 2022 it's going to be our
matter of balance we have a certified
instructor on staff who will be coming
in to do that in 2023 we are in
negotiations and we have talked with uh
MVP who will be coming in to do or some
of our programming then so they will be
doing some Tai Chi chicks chair Tai Chi
and other types of programmings that is
you know beneficial for the older adults
will also be doing when we can some
types of activities for uh not only just
physical activities but brain engagement
if you will trivia really trying to keep
the folks because we know social
isolation has been so challenging and
folks have gotten used to being home and
are kind of content so we want folks to
get back out have a meal socialize
engage in some activities and have the
opportunity to do that in three
different sites each week
and this is
kind of compliment what has been set up
at the Hibernian so I'm approaching with
some of an open mind where we'll have to
see what the actual level of
participation is and
what the client mixes so that you know
could vary depending on who
Catholic Family Beauty Services has done
this number of levels and has the
flexibility I think to kind of handle
whatever May evolve here so that it'll
benefit the people and you know reflect
well on the money that the council has
invested in this and
can create opportunities within those
neighborhoods Miss birthday so um you
said you mentioned the site in Bellevue
is the Belgian Cafe yes what what are
the sites in Goose Hill and Hamilton
Hill in Hamilton Hill it is the hillside
Crossings
and in um
Goose Hill it's the um or do I have this
back no the steinmets steinmet's
community park community room okay
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other questions
since you're here would you mind just
expanding on your long-term teams with
the project and how you see this kind of
functioning in the city of Schenectady
sure so Catholic Charities as a whole
has been doing these types of
programmings for over 40 years in
Schenectady County so we operate within
a contract with the county four other
congregate site so that's kind of what
we see long term for this and being able
to partner with the city and not only
have it at these sites but other
locations again having the opportunities
to have places where older adults can
come out and engage with each other and
have socialization in meals so my goal
is always to bring more and more and
more out into the community where the
people are where the needs are we
envision the first uh probably you know
four or five months spending some time
talking with the folks that are coming
out to these sites and really kind of
looking at it as what what do they see
as their needs what else would they like
to see where else would they like to see
this some other types of things so we as
an agency our mission is to bring the
services out to hopes in the community
we're they're at so we offer other types
of programming so I guess that's another
Advantage we do have other programs that
can benefit the older adults that come
there too we can make referrals for a
lot of Need for case management really
trying to help to connect with health
insurance information and counseling and
caregiver support things so we can get
folks connected that need that so my
goal is to be able to expand the types
of services and the types of sites that
we do for the older adults in the in the
county
support them so what does your Staffing
look like and each of these okay at each
site we will have a staff person at each
site each day
initially we have staff person right now
who we're able to pull some of her hours
from her full-time position to be on
site to do that we have a program
director who oversees the program who
will also be on site for as long as it
takes until we kind of work out some of
the Kinks and get it running smoothly
the goal is to hire a person
specifically for this program once we
get flowing and we kind of see how it's
going to work so that's what we're able
to do right now is to have the the staff
that we have on board the food for the
sites at
Steinmetz community park and
Hillside Crossings is going to be coming
through a vendor we already have a
contract with so we already pick up food
at the McClellan Campus of Ellis
Hospital so we have the staff person on
board who already has the we have the
vehicle and the equipment and everything
that we need to go and get the food
bring it over to the sites and then the
staff person there will will be able to
receive it and start the program
obviously we'd be looking for volunteers
to help support the staff person there
as well and depending on the number of
people at a site it'll get a little bit
more challenging with one person but we
do utilize volunteers and a lot of other
capacities in the agency as well
so you mentioned 2022 and 2023 so 2022
is like we're almost done right so 2023
do have an average of what the cost is
going to be for um
provide the service we put a budget
together for 2023 and I think that we
came in and right around 50
000 was the budget
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thank you thank you yes I just want to
say that I'm very thankful about it
because I think it's going to be an
amazing program
um and the fact that the city of
Schenectady is going to be supporting
um both this idea of allowing active
older adults to come together I don't
like to use the word Senior come
together for both the socialization as
well as a pot nutritious meal now five
days a week
um so none of it is conflicting with the
program that it's already been
successful and ongoing hybridians but
now it's every single day of the week in
the city of Schenectady there's going to
be an opportunity for seniors to come
together so it's you know really
groundbreaking and and we're very you
know I'm very excited about it so I
appreciate the partnership
thank you thank you
health and Recreation yes a motion to
move this sorry I'll move it okay second
chance okay all right all in favor
aye any opposed
okay thank you that's great
um next is the alternate floor where
this is called many to talk about the
environmental piece so this is a uh
something that the state is considering
I'm just a resolution to support it it's
largely an environmental aspect you have
a
overview that's quite extensive but the
idea is to reduce carbon emissions and
greenhouse gas emissions
considerably that's going to be done
largely going to electricity but there
is a a major component that can impact
our residents beyond the environment
the board of authority the port of
Albany is part of this program where the
state is looking to really establish
wind energy across the state that's part
of reducing the emissions and it's a
substantial
investment into the court of Albany
they're going to need a number of people
to work there
hopefully some of our residents will get
that job get those jobs
and bring some of that money to their
households but largely it's an
environmental piece of reducing
emissions and looking to ship away from
fossil fuels towards electrical
any discussion on this
and Mr Paul many I think you're asking
for the council support in supporting
this correct Bill okay then I look for a
resolution admission okay all in favor okay thank you very
much
awesome so uh motion to adjourn from
Healthcare patients
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um okay thank you very much
government operations we have two agenda
items the first is implicit bias
training um president Porterfield thank
you so we've been discussing this in the
council um all the council has been an
agreement that we will do it part of the
considerations were the cost
and um so you know we did receive
information from various vendors however
our insurance company that ensures the
city that also um does our workplace
violence trade uh training and also
sexual harassment does have training
available to us which is essentially
free
there is a cost because I explained to
them that they wanted to do it during
the day but during the day just doesn't
work for everyone because people have
jobs during the day so they want to do
like in mid-afternoon so that's probably
something that could not be
accommodating after speaking to um
council members who work during the day
so um they have provided an opportunity
for us to do it in the evening
but then that means that there's over
like accommodations
so I spoke with Mr
um Ferrari and we do have there is money
that's available to pay for an overnight
accommodation which is going to be much
uh less than if we paid the trainer to
actually come into training so they are
prepared to come forward to do the
implicit bias training they provided us
with a couple of dates at the end of
this month October 28th and 29th so um
November November 28th and 29th yes
November 28th and 29th so I mean I'll
send out an email you'll have to check
it right now but I'll send out an email
with your Avail for your availability
but um something it's something we
really need to move forward with and so
we have landed on that again with a
little or no cost uh a low cost to the
city but also an insurance carrier that
we all we already deal with to do our
other trainings
expression so yes ask questions any
questions
on this matter
it's good to get the insurance company
so I so I was looking into this as well
I think that on the explicit virus
training is definitely going to start
the police start
um I know that we spoke in our College
sessions around you know also engaging with anti-racism training
um since I reached out to um some of our
partners within the school district and
they were called to be able to
accommodate us to
do that training as well
as these trainers do go hand in hand
really build off each other as far as
sustainability goes I think would be a
good
um thing to take advantage of we have a
partner willing to help us in that thus
far in the conversation for the first
training was will be done in the course
any questions about that
so are you recommending or asking that
these these trainings be done
simultaneously what is what are you
suggesting well I I don't want that
because as far as just logistically put
them together and if we could I think so
um but I know that this is um
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as many you know Refreshers
um I also think that there's a specific
um
type of training I guess within this
training that is relevant to our
positions as a governing body
so I think that we can um we allowed to
take advantage of that so so at this
point logistically I don't know if it
would have learned you could do like the
same thing but I'm sure that the council
members would also
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have any questions concerns
around anti-racist security as well
okay
so if I could just switch up on the
implicit bias um they did give us the
time frame is like three hours just so
you know it's not an all-day train but
it will be at least three hours and in
doing the background and research and
looking into this
it's my understanding that anything
under two hours is really not that
beneficial so they already have their uh training outlined and it is
three hours so they would come to us
with with the uh with the training that
they provide and our insurance company
actually is known was
for Forbes they received Forbes 2020
being the most one of the um Assurance
company that that racial that had a lot
of diversity and inclusion as part of as
part of their Workforce so I I'm hoping
that the training that we'll be able to
get from then will certainly benefit the
Council
would it be able would we be able to
work it out with our insurance company
as well for the industries the same
training he said that was free free from
school from the school district is there
just one
person or that supplies that just one
individual the trains yeah
so multiple people would come in or well
that would depend on the scope of
services that we operate so it really
depends on the need
so part of that though when if I can
speak to that part of that is that they
come and kind of talk to the council and
say you know kind of get our idea of
what needs to happen so they think so
it's sort of like interview process sure
so then they can then they would take
the training and make sure that the
training is specific to what what was
identified
training is really important that you're
responsive right so um you don't want to
just come in and say I mean there's some
pretty basic you know sheer Concepts and
understandings and definitions that you
know we just kind of universal things
but really what you want to do is you
really want to make sure that your
trading is tired responsive to who
they're funny so it's more relevant and
you can actually apply your practices
so would there be like a questionnaire
prior to us getting a team in to speak
with us or or would they come in and
speak with us and then go from there
well our
I'm not sure how they would want to do
that um and in my experience what I do
is I I may not meet with whatever group
or at least some representatives of the
group that I'd be working with and then
kind of get you know ask them some
pretty basic questions as to around me
um you know commitment you know what is
you know
where are there any special areas that
you're getting better you know have kind
of risen to me I'm concerned that you
need to address you know so on and so
forth so it really depends
I think we move forward with the
implicit bias training as far as the any
racism training I think we should look
at a variety of different vendors if we
go down that road and get through the
three hours first that's
a big time commitment to end one evening
some of these meetings have been three
hours so and we all know how we are
after those three hours so and so I
think we get through that and look at
various vendors and who might be able to
do training and see about moving forward
on that yeah and we all want to make
sure that also the cost is something we
always want to keep in mind and I don't
want to diminish you know you know we
had a little levity here but I want just
to reiterate that there's this is very
important and I'm sure that as good
trainers they will give us a break
somewhere in the middle we don't break
I'm sure they will that's just how
that's how good trainers do it
so I would just uh say like so
safariable or other vendors the
anti-racist trade um I'm definitely
willing to to do that as well but I
think that if there's a you know if one
of our Community Partners offering that
for free and it's a pretty clear need
that is something that I need as a
council and I think that you should
probably have on that
I'm not saying not to I'm just saying
let's look at a variety of different
well organizations we can do this
similarly with what we did with this we
looked at you know what the cost would
be in various vendors and people from
out of town and all that and just came
back to the fact for us this was a
little bit easier because it's our
insurance company that we already deal
with Etc so um absolutely that's
something you know to be considered is
like with anything else we want at least
three so
um
yeah but with this as it gets said it's
a little bit different because our
insurance companies are there offering
so um we could definitely you know make
sure we look into that and uh we'll
start with this
want to get through budget season but
we're through that and uh so we'll move
forward with the training
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and I don't think we need a resolution
for that we're just having a discussion
is that the 28th is a council meeting
evening so the 9th of 29th because they
gave us the dates yeah yeah I can go
back and ask if uh unless unless I mean
again I know folks work but unless we
did it before Council
I can go back to them and ask if there's
another date that they can um offer us
and see if we can but uh I don't want to
kick this can too much further down the
road so I'll do that right now then we
would definitely say the 29.5 the 28th
and see if we can do another date
um
and I'll ask Marianne gave me the dates
I'll ask her to stay away from Monday
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for free
um
so please jump into words
um
whatever you decide you're about 11 I
think on Netflix so
oh is there a possibility since we're
requesting it that we all pigeon
ourselves to pay for it without
burdening the taxpayers
so
I guess that could happen but that's why
you know that free part well again we
want to open it up but you know I'd be
in favor of that myself
yeah so you're suggesting we pay for the
overnight accommodations that's already
budgeted for us to get trading if if
that's what it takes it's already
budgeted no not the biases or already in
there but
moving forward if we don't want to
burden the taxpayers with that and
there's you know foreign
that was just a suggestion that I'm
making personally
well in service training is something
that all departments do and we just have
it
but there is money available too and
it's it's an overnight accommodation I
don't know where you know what hotels
rooms and that was the issue just
because it's okay
yeah that's not even it's connected they
didn't have to say one close enough to
walk so now we're going to really narrow
it down
I would say it's public servants I apply
this training is helping us be more
beneficial by our roles in the movies
and service the city so I think what I'm
excited for most is although maybe other
councils haven't partaken these types of
actions I think this is very
revolutionary in our city where this can
potentially be something that's annually
so I look at the benefits of this long
term for future capsules and how we are
taking in Monumental stuff and making
sure that there might be various
trainings that are required of council
members to make sure that we are most
beneficial at our roles in the city so
I'm excited for that I think with that
point I would say it should be a budget
item within the city but definitely how
I
is making our work more impactful for
the city
with that mind we could potentially
piggyback with the police department
since there's 60 000 in the budget so
that might actually be a quite a
beneficial thing for everybody
piggy bank what does that mean like we
train all together training yeah yeah
well I think I think I've said this
before and I'd like to repeat that I'd
like that training that that that just
like increases the numbers which means
there's less interaction all that this
training we talked about for the council
so for this particular I would like us
to say focus on that
would not be implicit right okay all right
they already yeah they already have in
their budget right yeah so we can
piggyback with that and be beneficial I
think for everybody yeah I would say
on the inside of anti-racism training
the same as implicit bar training that
we should probably make sure that we're
doing it in a way that is relevant to
our jobs and duties and our having
seen the University of training that
happens because of the police but I
would imagine because I did go to the
inclusive buyers of unfortunately I was
able to look at some of that so I would
imagine that some of that content is
going to be specific to the nature of
the job that you're doing so with that
said I think that we also should focus
on Council that's what we've done the
same way before because it's about
shared anti-creases of training
discussion
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okay sounds good I'll send you an email
all right
agenda item and ask
us
an item that would require executive
sessions contract negotiations
to hold it maybe to the end when we go
in for property sales
okay so I definitely not like to recess
the operations
right I'd like to follow the order City
development and planning we have seven
items on the agenda the first item is to
award bin contract for the Schenectady
Park connector Trail wayfinding and
signage to WS fun design company
so
um this was a complicated project for us
to do not in implementation but just
kind of in the bidding process it's a
small project it's a little you know
tough who do you how do you use it
what's the cost going to be do you bid
it do you get quotes So the safest thing
was to bid it
um we did put it together as a bid we
only got one response I did talk with
some locals as it was a bid and not a
price they found it a little cumbersome
to go through our bid processes uh
they're smaller shops that don't usually
have Bond requirements and things like
that so we got the one bid from WS signs
out of Springfield Massachusetts The
Price is Right Where we kind of expected
it to be taught from other vendors we
have not worked with them but given the
kind of the elementary and stuff the
project we would like to recommend
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early spring we're doing this project in
cooperation with the county and
Metroplex it is kind of a half and half
tourism project a local project because
it's just about linking downtown in the
Parks to each other so we're going to
start at the dog park in Central Park
and we're going to end at the Vail
entrance way and then the goal is going
to be when we complete our Franklin
Street cycle track that we're going to
take this type of sign as you move it
all the way down to J Street and then
that way we create the J the Central
Park Corridor and we're going to expand
off that
in retrospect I mean this is hindsight
but I don't want to I don't want to
punish in a way the company for going
through the work and doing the bid but
in retrospective the cost was under 35
000 and we knew that from the did go we
could under our purchasing policy get
three written quotes
but we thought the bid was the safest
that we had the estimate somewhere
between 30 and 50. okay okay
thank you any other questions
um
that's it all in favor
aye thank you thank you very much
okay next item on the agenda's
discussion it starts with me
anti-literate program
anti-liter action plan follow-up
someone sure
um so just to keep this on the Forefront
to try to move through some
is that may uh may not be as
controversial
um just looking to see if the council
would agree to authorize the mayor to
um
do certificates as we have for example
this is an example on page 69
with businesses to encourage them to
keep up their property to get the litter
picked up on their properties try to put
garbage cans out there
and move forward to try to
systematically go through some of the
easier Parts before we get to the more
difficult parts and authorize the mayor
to do that so that way we're all engaged
with this as a council as well as an
Administration
do we really need to
authorize the man to do that yeah so
Meredith you can speak there's probably
a little bit more
um because it started this project I
wouldn't do it just by myself
you want just like you want to the
resolutions you want us all the Slime I
think well let's how do we do something
that's a little bit fancy you know
people take a little bit of pride in and
become part of your message
yeah but my question is do we need to
like authorize you to do that I think
you can maybe do it informal
my only oh sorry
I apologize my only thinking was if we
all got on board it shows that we're all
committed to trying to tackle this and
that was my only thinking on that we
certainly don't need to authorize the
mayor but it would be a I think a show
that we're on board trying to get the
city cleaned up well hmm
Miss Patrick
um I was going to say that in terms of
you know we've been getting a lot of
positive feedback about this plan and
every time that somebody reaches out to
me I send it out to them and get their
feedback you know to the plan et cetera
um and across the board people are
really interested in this idea of what
new businesses do and how can we support
the businesses in their own storefronts
especially our smaller businesses in
having a park and playing a role in uh
cleaning up cleaning up the city so I
think that's a good one I do think that
this is a good kind of easy start to
some of the other recommendations that
are in the plan
yeah I I thank all of us on when I saw
most I think all of us are concerned
about the other troll of the city and we
have all of us receive concerns from
residents from business and things of
that and I think when this initially
came out to things more on an
educational drive to to work on that
continent towards the resident towards
business and things like that so I think
we should you know continue that
momentum where we build on the
educational confidence of this operation
here and
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is the executive officer so I don't
think we can we can do that but we need
to just work on our set out to
originally educational confidence and
all of us can help in terms of driving
that message to Residents and everybody got
involved
um I like the idea of Mayor of if
there's going to be a fancy certificate
that we all sign it I think that's that
shows the
commitment of all all council members so
I guess you'll be designing that
we'll go out and find some fancy frames
too oh okay okay
I also think it's important to be
realistic and that there's a lot of
different like trends that go around and
I absolutely like love the thought of
anti-littering being a trendy Topic in
the city how I think it also is
important for us to recognize that there
may be individuals that do pledge and
unfortunately either Fall by the wayside
or don't continue to enact that belief
of making sure you're picking up your
trash order and keeping your area clean
so having plenty dollar consideration to
how to remedy those types of issues or
address people that may be falling by
the wayside in a productive manner so
that we just don't have like a thousand
players in the city so it's
where it's on page 68 yeah
I mean those are really good points and
that's why I think the accountability
issue
um is definitely and how do we hold
people people and businesses accountable
so there are different
um it's not just uh 68 it actually
starts on 66 but yeah there's a few laws
in the enforcement piece
number of different recommendations
um
I'll just say for some of the listeners
that might have had an opportunity to
review this and you can just highlight
the important part
um
so to collaborate and communicate with
Schenectady businesses that have
Perpetual litter and trash issues and
violations so just some easy ways is
maybe take some pictures of the litter
on the business property speak nicely to
the owner the manager of the business
you could even send a letter with the
picture asking you know how can the
residents help how can the city help
make an appointment to meet with the
business owner or the manager ask them
how we can work together to educate
customers to stop littering which is
part of the certificate aspect offer to
provide educational materials such as
posters for posting in prominent places
in their establishment follow up with
good news if they
get less litter or with bad news if
there's continued litter and if bad news
it it would be a fine from the city and
this pledge would be their commitment
of it starts with me of trying to
address this issue so it's kind of a
incremental process of easing people
into hey we need to take pride in our
business and keep it clean
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then I think that there's that
combination and that balance of
incentive and positive feedback with the
idea of
really you know holding folks
accountable if they don't
continue to meet the The Pledge that
they that they've taken
so
how who would do the work what what
department is this to me is would this
be assigned to
well I think that's a
decision well
in general
that was in the office of General
Services he was a police and code
enforcement are part of it and a fully
city-wide campaign you got to do
Outreach into neighborhood groups
talk about going into the schools
educating some of the kids and stuff in
terms of recycling and the benefits of
it so you've got you know a broad-based
engagement
where it starts with me hopefully people
take care of the problem themselves and
we don't have to use City resources on
it is really the ideal scenario
but the reality is there's going to be
some balance where yes you know City
crews are going to have to play some
role in it whether it is
hopefully it's a constructive
engagement as opposed to
having to find people or cite them
for you know poor choices that they're
making
Miss Patrick I'll follow up to that um I
did ask Mr Lafond for his feedback as
you had requested
um he absolutely you know was very
enthusiastic about the plan
um definitely like the rest of us thinks
that the educational aspects and
especially the aspects around behavioral
change whether it's young people adults
businesses Etc are going to be really
important he did make a suggestion of
possibly a nuisance officer might be
somebody that could be like a
spokesperson almost and really kind of
talk about the city's litter literary
campaign as we move forward the other
piece of this is we do have a virtual
meeting set up with some members of the
school district
um who I went through Dr Kato and he has
several people that are meeting with us
this week I can't remember now what the
date of it is but we'll be doing that
virtually to start talking about some of
the educational aspects that are in the
plan
and how how we can partner with the
school district
um on many different aspects of this
so that's that's coming up as well we'll
be able to update you that about that
after we have a meeting
yes I'm sorry I was Patrick just
mentioned at their meetings set up would
it be since all the city council members
and mayor are involved no I think it
would be wise if all the council member
are invited to these meetings meetings
are happening and only selected a city
council member or invited so I would
like to see everybody invited we're all
part of it now
sure I can send out the date and the
time and it's a virtual meeting so it's
teams I can't remember
um it could be certain it could be WebEx
um but I'll send it out to all of them
that would be all of them
I get confused these days
so this is good stuff number one I think
that this is and I love the educational
component of this
um
you know
just you know certain businesses who
seem to have a problem but later
um I would just caution us to you know
have a really broad Rush with this and
like this is something that we want all
of our businesses all of our residents
um especially that being that there's
kind of some graduated interventions it
looks like that will happen I would I
would be mindful that we don't want to appear like we're selecting certain
businesses for surveys that we just want
to make sure that um
way that everyone is this opportunity
participate in this place yeah
absolutely
on every single business in the city
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the clinic popular annual renewal used
to bring the businesses in here I now go
with fire chief police chief
represents Law Department
code enforcement out to the stores and
we walked through
police calls look at the other calls for
service I wanted to tell them because I
wanted to view the city as a partner and
I want an adversarial relationship and
one of the places cleaned up there are
couple of places that I have told
without question their Pig styes they
are an embarrassment of other ones most
people they understand that they want
their business to be good they want it
to be attractive they want to pick it up
the song that
I question their business model and
maybe why they're in business
your point is well made and I don't ever
want to project that image where people
feel that it's adversarial or being
treated at different levels that you
want people to again be successful make
money here and add value within the
neighborhoods
get in my town to see the city staff as
partners
Mr Moon Yeah there's Rocky Banks when we
were discussing this last time we did
mention in London use some sticky thing
that was fast a couple of years ago and
there were some issues with a ticketing
and I it just reminds me that I had
asked Mr Golden to look into it and to
see what is needed for the police
department your office but I'm always
involved to see that we need to bring
that back at the same time so to move
forward with the ticketing aspect you
need some ticketing aspect of that
combined with the educational confidence
a bit also so that's the thing if you
know you have some time please fill us
in and see where we can land that as we
move forward yeah and you know obviously
um
one of the issues that we've had I think
is well first you know being on the same
page this police department and you know
the law Department being on the same
page as the police departments obviously
a great significance
um and I haven't had an opportunity yet
uh to speak in detail with uh AC Whipple
who oversees you know a lot of this part
of the law enforcement
the other piece to this is obviously how
the filths are interpreting the tickets
that come in I'm sorry how the courts
see the ticketing
um obviously we have different city
court judges and you know obviously
looking for a consistent interpretation
method from the judges is you know
Paramount here because what we have
right now we know Works across the board
to modify it we would obviously need the
you know not one judge but you know all
the city court judges to be on the same
page and you know they're not being an
issue I think you know sometimes uh you
know tracking down the judges to you
know find that time to talk to all of
them and then for them to talk
internally to make sure that they're on
the same page and proved to be a bit of
a challenge
um but it's something obviously that you
know we're going to do once I talk to
the police department to figure out what
is going to be the most efficient way
first for them and then making sure that
it complies with you know all the
requirements of the criminal procedure
law
we're also going to be bringing in
commissioner Devine since he's a former
judge he might have some expertise there
and uh
ability to work with the court system
with Mr Coleman as well as assistant
chief Whipple so their your point is
correct and we're we're definitely
looking into putting that together but
wanted to start with something yeah
it's already on the books we just need
to revise we need to revise and move
forward
to the campaign
thank you
uh just one other point so mayor are you
comfortable with what it's being called
it starts with me because I received an
email
saying that the council had taken over
your program so just want to make sure
be on record that you're comfortable oh
one big happy family anybody likes it or
not so just it's on the record so I can
let her know but I did receive an email
saying that I've taken it over maybe you
shouldn't Rebrand it and call it
something else so
you're 100 we actually worked with the
mayor so it was not stealing his program
well that wasn't made public we didn't
know that either so
maybe she's listening to the meeting
because she she obviously was listening
enough to know so now she knows that
we're all on board with this together
all right
any further discussion on this
particular item okay you're quite well
uh the next item is discussion of
um hosting town hall meeting and that's
Mr Harwin thank you so I'd like to thank
the community for allowing us the time
to focus more intently on passing and
approving the budget for this year or
for upcoming year we had an opportunity
to send out two
iterations of
dates to host the town hall at the Boys
and Girls Club I would like to thank Mr
Shane Barbie for being very
understanding and accommodating and it
seems that the majority of the council
is available on December 1st I know
there were some conflicting schedules
but I appreciate everyone taking the
time to respond back to the email I look
forward to hearing from the community I
know in the absence of this meeting
there have been a number of residents
who have come forward to this state
their their issues and and just concerns
about housing within the city so
absolutely I look forward to having this
town hall be hosted in collaboration
with the other council members and I
look forward to working collaboratively
with them so that it reflects our truest
intent just hearing from the community
so first with time
I believe it was 5 30 to 7 30. so the
time Remains the Same okay questions discussion we're
Mr turo well no wait there's a Hamilton
Hill meeting that night I just put that
up here
just I'm sorry it's Patrick no I'm just
I have two conferences
to try again so Mr Williams answer your
point of Mr Tara Lake unfortunately is
trying to make sure we at least have
this discussion uh making it coincide
cleanly with some of the neighborhood
Associated meetings
uncomfortable but I think for me it's
reaching out to them letting them know
in advance and hopefully they'll be able
to adjust accordingly but again you
don't need to be in attendance uh
definitely want to make sure the
appropriate email is put them on the
flyer but people will have multiple
options to be able to send their
feedback so it'll be more opportunities
for you to move your point
does yours need to be an independent in
person you can similar to how our
Council meetings you can send in an
email
he's talking about the purpose of the
floor when people want to send in
particular the floor they don't have to
yes they can send in via email and
subscribe what their concerns are so
doing something similar with this
so we have the majority of the council
available on that date
any other questions further discussion
so I think some of the first five thirty
to seven Target at the Boys and Girls
Club education
thank you
any other questions for the discussion
uh the final four items are property
sales which you will have to go into
executive sessions for
as well as the recess government Ops
so at this time I make motion we go into
the second session all in favor
um