I'd like to call the city Caucus meeting
to order
ladies and gentlemen
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I'd like to call the city Caucus meeting
to order for Monday January 9th 2023
and we will open with Prayer by Reverend
Amare Tanya Santos
as we prepare to listen and consider the
state of the city address and as a city
council convenes for his first meeting
as a plenary in 2023 We Gather to call
on every source of inspiration for
excellence admiration and goodness it is
my hope that we can find manifold
reasons to be thankful this evening even
in the midst of the very real and
profound challenges faced by far too
many in our beloved city of Schenectady
And We Gather in prayer because as a
community of leaders we must seek to be
guided in our discernment and empowered
in our actions by everything that is
true holy righteous pure lovely and
worthy of praise
and it is seeking to be guided and
empowered in these ways that I invite
you to join me in prayer
Everlasting source of Truth and Love
in whom we leave and move and have our
being as individuals and as a community
give us purity of heart and strength of
purpose that no selfish passion May
hinder us from knowing your will
no weakness keep us from doing your will
that in your light we may see light
clearly and in your service find perfect
freedom
open unto us light for our Darkness
open unto us courage for our hatred
open unto us hope for our despair
open unto us peace for our turmoil
open unto us joy for our sorrow
open unto us strength for our weakness
open unto us wisdom for our confession
open unto us forgiveness for our
shortcomings
open unto us love for our fear
open unto us your holy self for our
human self
to you all sorts of goodness open unto
us we pray amen
thank you Reverend Santos and I'd like
to just first of all wish everyone a
Happy New Year tonight the mayor will be
presenting his state of the city address
mayor McCarthy you have the floor
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president
Reverend thank you other distinguished
members of the clergy that are here
thank you for joining us tonight
appreciate the work and the service that
you provide to our community every day
council president Mr Majority Leader
members of the city council thank you
for the opportunity to address you
tonight
as we start our 225th year as a city
I'm looking to talk to you about housing
continued development Public Safety and
city services
I want to thank our department heads and
the city staff for the work they do
every day for the residents of our city
and especially how they stepped up
during the pandemic to make sure that
our city ran smooth and it's great to
see everyone out here tonight
I see uh judge Hoffman is with us he's
been retired a few days
we got to find a way to put you back to
work judge it's done uh I see Mark
little joined us who's uh again
contributed so much to this community
his role at Global r d for GE the
service on the Smart City commission
his and Terry's contributions to the
community on an ongoing basis uh Neil
golub uh we're just so lucky to have all
the talent that we have within this room
I want to thank my staff that helped put
this all together coordinates all this
John coluccio Alex Sutherland Michelle
Davis Amy Hill
can some of the people who are joining
us tonight our district attorney Robert
Carney uh distinguished members of the
County Legislature Rich Russo Rich
paternity Gary Hughes Omar McGill
assembly member Angelo Santa Barbara is
in route and should be here shortly
hopefully when they come from the state
if they bring a check it always livens
up in these meetings then
uh former city council member Sean
O'Brien
uh Sunni president steady mono I don't
know if it's Dr Professor just all
around good guy to Shabazz uh helped us
so much with some of the work we're
doing in the reform uh with the police
department uh the police collaborative
and the work is doing to help us with
Recruitment and education within law
enforcement
uh Deputy superintendent uh Lynn Rudnick
with us from the school district thank
you for joining us uh former School
Board member our former city council
member and current School Board member
Kathy Lewis thank you for uh
stopping by tonight
Schenectady is a leading Community with
new housing initiatives work continues
on the next phase of the 300 unit
Northside Village
home ownership opportunities are still
the Cornerstone of my award-winning
homes program in construction of market
rate Apartments remains strong in this
community
the last several years we have produced
over 1100 units of newly built or
renovated affordable housing in the city
of Schenectady
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our Partnerships with the federal and
state government are producing Real
Results congressman tanko and Governor
hokel have been very supportive in
creating Innovative housing options and
assisting us here in Schenectady
Congressman tanko was able to secure in
recent Federal legislation a million
dollars for a community virtual power
plant project
we have partnered with a local company
Echo long who's CEO Nancy Min is joining
us tonight
this will be done in conjunction with
the Brookhaven National Laboratory this
project will place highly efficient
components into homes that will lower
heating cooling and lighting cost by 30
percent and what we expect it may grow
to as much as 50 percent with some of
the machine learning that's being
developed by the Brookhaven National Lab
and this is a nationally recognized
program and deployment that's happening
here in the city of Schenectady the
Clean Energy Efficiency modifications to
low and moderate income residential
buildings will include on-site clean
energy generation such as solar and
battery storage
building loads will be optimally
controlled using machine learning for
energy use reductions in demand in
generation flexibility to lower overall
energy cost
each building will be connected and
coordinated to further optimize the
demand and flexibility and again this is
going to serve as a national model
I'm looking to incorporate the community
virtual power plant in a soon to be
formally announced affordable home
ownership opportunity on Summit Avenue
working with aik properties whose
principle is also with us tonight Pam
swanigan
and MLB
construction who is one of the
principals Damien Pinto Martin is here
will construct on 15 vacant city-owned
properties they're going to get
converted into 31 units of affordable
housing using this higher level of
technology which will again make them
much more energy efficient and while
these are going to be applied to some
low and moderate income housing the
technology that's being developed is
applicable across housing not only Here
in Schenectady but really across the
country
DePaul properties on Crane Street their
Mosaic Apartments will transform several
Parcels of vacant land and buildings in
the Mount Pleasant commercial Corridor
into 60 units of new quality affordable
housing
this is the same developer that did the
Joe Allen Apartments on Albany Street
and this is just up the street from the
recently developed Orchard Park
and down the street from the new
Pleasant County Library it's actually
not quite as new now it's been a couple
of years but really great projects
within the neighborhood
the former Elmer Avenue School on
Eastern Avenue received some local
financial support and it's recently been
awarded state and federal housing tax
credits to transform the building into
Elmer Gardens a senior housing complex
developed by home Leasing and better
Community neighborhoods the project will
convert the historic Elmer Avenue School
into 51 apartments for adults aged 55
and older and 26 homes will be reserved
for seniors in need of Supportive
Services to live independently these
units will be funded through an Empire
State Supportive Housing Initiative
award
I thank governor hokel and her team at
Housing and Community Renewal for this
critical support that makes possible our
efforts to renovate the historic Elmer
Avenue School and create the new Elmer
garden senior housing
our unified economic development team
led by Metroplex in the chair Ray Gillen
is here with us tonight
worked on this project for several years
and while it was not an easy deal to put
together this award of the highly
competitive tax credits is a recognition
that our team with the governor's
support has once again been successful
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we're proud to support the construction
of Bethesda house new eight and a half
million dollar facility Cara house
which will include 26 units of permanent
Supportive Housing 11 units with 16 beds
of emergency housing for adults
experiencing homelessness and those
re-entering the community from
incarceration
facility being built on a previously
vacant city-owned lot at 910 State
Street
will expand Critical Care in safe and
secure housing for our most vulnerable
residents
we're grateful to have the opportunity
to support this project and share
Bethesda House's call to create
healthier safer and a thriving community
I also want to thank again Neil golub
again for his personal contribution
which made this project possible
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kneels cars the one out front that has
the bumper sticker that says new
Schenectady on it
also the New York State Office of
temporary and disability assistance
nyserda and our partners in Schenectady
County who have supported this year's
Long effort to make this project a
reality
I said before work continues at the
North Side village on Van branken Avenue
both Hillside Crossing on Albany Street
and Renaissance Square just off Eastern
Avenue are open and fully occupied these
developments represent over 180 million
dollars of investments in our community
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we received a record amount of Home
funds through the American Rescue plan
to reduce homelessness and increase
housing stability
this award is shared with the city of
Troy in the town of colony the majority
of these funds will be used for
additional affordable housing
opportunities in the respective
communities
recently the 2.3 million dollar Restore
New York award for the wedgeway building
at the corner of state and Erie
Boulevard was the second largest award
within the region and the sixth largest
award in the state which will enable the
restoration of this vacant blighted and
historically significant structure in
the heart of downtown
we're lucky to have Mark Paquin and his
team at Cass Hill development now owners
of this site they have transformed they
will transform this corner into a great
addition in downtown
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the Adaptive reuse of historic buildings
adds character art to our community the
Foster and Edison buildings are great
projects home to a great restaurant The
Nest the Edison Banquet Hall in housing
to new people who are moving to our
community and if you have not stopped at
the Armory Studio to see the van Gogh
immersive experience please put it on
your schedule because it's got a few
more weeks of being there
I was doing a quick count and I think on
this list there are only 39 projects but
I see John Roth in the audience in the
public hearing tonight for the Masonic
temple historic district overlay later
on the agenda
so the city council should be able to
assist in the financing to make this
restoration possible so that we can add
it to the list and round that number up
to an official Ford
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thank you
just the last few years we've reduced
the number of vacant properties in the
city of Schenectady by more than 50
percent but distressed property still
drives a lot of our costs for code
enforcement police fire and related
expenses on top of the lost property tax
revenue
the cities of Albany Schenectady and
Troy obtained a settlement of over 665
thousand dollars in a coordinated zombie
property lawsuit against Ocwen Financial
Corporation and PHH Mortgage in July of
2021 utilizing New York State zombie law
the three cities filed 18 lawsuits
covering 18 properties with over 502 New
York State building code violations this
coordinated action sent a strong message
to Mortgage Services across the state
that they must properly maintain
properties upon which they foreclose and
bring foreclosure proceedings to a
timely completion
also in the city of Schenectady judge
found El AK al-haq LLC guilty of
multiple property code violations at
eight properties in the city of
Schenectady and imposed fines totaling
over 600 thousand dollars
the city Law Department prosecuted the
cases and proved numerous violations
going back to 2018 and I thank Andrew
Colden and the team and the corporation
council's office for their work on that
project
city of Schenectady was a winner in the
IDC government's Insight fifth annual
smart cities North America Awards the
city was recognized in the
administration category for our
community data our community officials
data exchange commonly referred to as
code
this project that shares data around
problem property owners and best
practices in Code Enforcement with the
goal of using data to address Urban
blight in our communities
we thank the New York State Department
of State and the center for technology
and government the applied Research Unit
the University of Albany for their
partnership and continued engagement in
the work together that we're doing to
address the stress property we're
grateful to receive this recognition for
our joint efforts to Target blight in
the harm that it does to our
neighborhoods quality of life
since I've been mayor my focus has
continued to prioritize the sale of
foreclosed properties and to create home
ownership opportunities
since 2013 chart shows that we have sold
over 817 properties
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a number of those are vacant Lots but
most of them again have been
put there in our creating home ownership
opportunities throughout our city and
it's an ongoing effort I appreciate the
work that the city council does and the
staff does to make that all possible
at the same time this program is
producing real Revenue these sales have
generated 13 and a half million dollars
in revenue and it's just not that
purchase price but getting the property
back on the tax rolls and the
reoccurring property tax revenue that is
being generated by competent and
conscientious landlords and property
owners
prior to covid we had a cutter tax rate
for five consecutive years
today our tax rate is still six and a
half percent less than it was in 2015.
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and we actually lowered the tax rate by
one cent a thousand for 2023 when we did
the final computations before the tax
bills were sent out so we're continuing
that trend
our assessed value of property in the
city continues to steadily rise with a
total value of over 2.4 billion dollars
this summer the city of Schenectady and
local community organization hosted the
inaugural 518 common Unity cup
local law enforcement and Community
organizations participated in a
five-week summer Sports series that was
kicked off during National Night Out
the 518 common Unity cup was a five-week
summer Sports series with one cause the
community
during the eighth month of the year
there were events held every Tuesday in
August
basketball kickball football softball
dodgeball and field games and the
locations were Jerry Burrell Park
Bellevue 4th Street Park Schenectady
High School Central Park at the Mount
Pleasant Middle School
and we're looking to make that an annual
event and I want to thank will Rivas
who's here tonight and the event
sponsors we can give will a round of
applause here
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thank you to thank will and the event
sponsors on this successful Community
Partnership this is an exciting new
event designed to promote activities for
local Youth and serve to strengthen the
bonds within our community and I thank
all the dedicated Community Partners
who've made that possible
in 2020 we saw historic lows in criminal
activity due to the covid pandemic we
unfortunately have seen an uptick in
crime since then and these graphs show
the last over the last 10 years
our part one violent crime is still 20
percent lower than what it was in 2012.
I first came in as mayor and property
crimes are 18 percent lower than 2012.
a lot of the data that's quoted today
references the historic lows that
occurred during covet crime was down
economic activity was down people were
laid off from jobs everything had a
lower base and so people have to put
things into perspective and understand
what the real numbers are when you're
doing economic comparisons
last week we added nine police officers
who graduated from the zone five Academy
and I hired six
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and I hired six officers who will start
at the police academy this will bring us
closer to full Staffing and enable the
public to see a greater level of
deterrence to criminal activity
the city is partnering with transfinder
who CEO Tony savitel is here tonight
Tony are you great
on the development
and pilot deployment of Patrol finder
it's a GIS software that will increase
police officer efficiency
dramatically improve the flow of
information to and from the patrol
officer expand Community safety and
forward-facing transparency
I'm doing this solely as a teaser
putting it out there because we're not
going to get into the full details of it
that Tony and the team at transfinder
Chief Clifford and the members of the
Schenectady Police Department are going
to do a formal announcement on this next
Tuesday the 17th at 9 30 at the GE
theater in the Proctors campus and I
invite everyone to stop and see that and
again we thank the transfinder team for
their work
we continue to develop a new
telemedicine platform with Ellis
Hospital insurance carriers United
concierge medicine and ideon and are
looking to expand our Partnerships with
other providers
the country saw the value of immediate
and appropriate Medical Care last week
with the fluke incident with Buffalo
Bills safety Demar Hanlon and I wish him
the best in his continued recovery
but having trained and equipped
Personnel that immediately respond
produce in that case and every day
life-saving results about 70 percent of
the calls to our fire department are for
Emergency Medical Services
we're able to put apparatus with fully
trained paramedics in front of your
house in three to four minutes from that
9-1-1 call
the current protocols have paramedics
put the patient in the ambulance and
transport them to the emergency room
if there's trauma a cardiac or stroke
event that's clearly the best way to
treat the patient but most cases most
patients don't need the full Suite of
services that are provided in an
emergency room
we're using our well-trained and
equipped paramedics to do a more
detailed diagnostic evaluation in the
field with direct observation and
consultation with emergency room
certified UCM Physicians the patient can
then be directed to the most appropriate
level of care
it could be an urgent care center their
personal doctor maybe an Imaging
facility where you're not sure if
somebody has a twisted sprained ankle or
broken ankle
or even the emergency room but doing it
on a scheduled basis is opposed to kind
of the random event
through the 9-1-1 call
you go there with a non-life-threatening
set of circumstances or symptoms you can
sit there for a long period of time
in some of this it's to level that flow
in the emergency room and also uh
cases where people maybe should just be
left at home it's our partnership with
ideon that's going to allow a high level
of monitoring for patients that are left
in place
but by getting individuals quick and
appropriate level of care it will
improve the outcome and reduce the
overall cost of Health Care again this
is being looked at as a national model I
thank the men
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thank Chief Marino we have some of the
members of the Schenectady fire
department with us tonight thank you for
the work that you do every day and
really part of this Innovative and
transformational program
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everybody doesn't have it on your phone
put it on before you leave tonight
we continue to see an increase in use of
our online platform for residents to
contact the city with issues or
questions after our first full year of
deployment we're very happy with the
utilization and look to continue to
promote its use by our residents is just
one more way to better manage citizen
requests and to assure appropriate
follow-up last year we were able to
successfully close out 1500 requests
we've now completed the conversion of
all our 4 000 plus utility pole mounted
street lights uh in the city to Smart
LEDs
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this mesh network has reduced our
electric use by over 1.6 million
kilowatt hours every year
this next slide shows some of the
equivalent impacts of that savings you
know it's over 50 000 trash bags uh
would be recycled 20
000 trees seedlings growing for 10 years
again it's a significant positive impact
it reduces our costs it's
environmentally sustainable and in fact
the lighting on the streets are higher
level and better than what they were
before
our public Wi-Fi deployment
neighborhoods is also steadily increased
which has been critical to many
residents throughout the pandemic
they want to acknowledge Camille
susanowski and Christine Moore from the
goose Hill Neighborhood uh
give me a hard time because I said the
North End would be sooner in this
program that it actually ended up being
which was more of an engineering
decision but this is in our next phase
and it's highlighted there so we're
coming to the North End
I remind residents of the interactive
Wi-Fi map we have on our website to keep
everyone posted on where we currently
have this service
networking of All City facilities with a
fiber backbone is found is a
foundational part of this project in
we're more than halfway there and I want
to thank Nathan Roberts from nice Tech
who's here in the work he does every day
in the guidance that that organization
has given us in terms of deploying and
implementing this we have installed over
115
public Wi-Fi access points throughout
the city there are 304 additional access
points that are going to be installed in
the near future through the cares act
Grant and our total project will have
1500
with the full city-wide deployment
to show just how important this network
has been for residents in just the past
year there have been almost a million
and a half visits to our Network this
was driven by over 53 000 unique
visitors in 19 2022 and that's up from
forty five thousand in 2021.
can we're looking to continue to expand
this and I hope everybody's Wi-Fi access
tonight is working or or John I'm going
to have to yell at you
our Partnerships uh continue to produce
Real Results
uh the solar Consortium with Schenectady
County again it's from replacing the
city street lights with Advanced LEDs to
building the municipal solar arrays to
expanding our EV charging infrastructure
to Growing our Municipal Fleet
uh proud to continue the electric City's
Innovative Legacy by Leading The Way on
climate
the city of Schenectady has previously
received a climate smart Community
certification through DEC and a clean
energy Community designation through
nyserda
I want to thank everyone and all the
volunteers who helped organize the
Capital District Drive electric week in
sustainability Fair
to celebrate National Drive electric
week Here in Schenectady
and this was done in conjunction with
the Green Market Schenectady was the
largest National Drive electric week
event in the country by the number of
registered participants
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and we continue to take advantage of
incentives and Partnerships as we build
out our infrastructure and shift the
fleet over to vehicles that are far more
sustainable
it'll be formally announced next week
that Schenectady has been selected as
the electric vehicles Association EV
city of the year in 2022.
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the electric vehicle association is
North America's leading volunteer
organization that accelerates the
adoption of electric vehicles
the climate vulnerability and adaptation
report done by our staff identified
critical the critical role that Urban
trees play in combating air pollution
reducing the heat island effect and even
improving Mental Health
DEC provided funding to complete our
city-wide tree inventory and management
plan uh Kenneth Brooks I believe is here
tonight
from uh ground up Landscaping who in
conjunction with Community fathers
worked with us to plant over a hundred
trees throughout the city of Schenectady
this last year we looked to continue
that effort as we go forward
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garbage collection is one of our
greatest services that we provide to our
residents unfortunately we're still
facing two issues with that
a recycled material we used to have it
taken away at little or no cost today
our cost is just under 62 dollars a ton
for disposal
and compared to our MSW that's standard
municipal waste is it only at forty four
dollars a ton so again it costs us more
to dispose of recyclables than it does
for just regular garbage
and we're still dealing with individuals
who put out extraordinary quantities of
garbage I look forward to working with
the city council to address this issue
and our code and trying to create some
process by which we can shift that
burden to those individuals that drive
up some of those dramatic costs and not
have it go back onto the homeowners who
really play by the rules and do
everything that's right
I appreciate the city council's early
support for a new pool in Central Park
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this is moved a little slower than I'd
like but it will allow us to deal with
the state department of Health's
compliance issues with the current pool
it's going to reduce our overall
maintenance issues and this facility
we'll complement our previous
investments in music Haven the a diamond
in the Central Park tennis courts
we rededicated the Central Park a
diamond last year to the famed William
Buck Ewing Ewing was a star catcher for
the Mohawk Giants who used the Central
Park field as their home field from 1924
to 1943. Buck Ewing spent five years in
the Negro Leagues including three years
1928 to 1930 with the famed Homestead
grays
this Improvement of these improvements
this facilities were made possible by a
million and a half dollar Grant from
assembly speaker Carl Hasty and assembly
member Santa Barbara and stack
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we look forward to starting construction
in the spring for Jerry Burrell Park
upgrades that's a million three in
investment in that facility this will
include
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this will include a new Splash Pad
basketball court seating area lighting
and public art again this was possible
because of support from New York state
parks Schenectady County and it
complements the Investments made by the
city of Schenectady
we continue to plan upgrades in other
Parks we have projects for both
Hillhurst and Fairview Park and the
Bellevue neighborhood
they're designed and ready to be bid for
construction this year these projects
were designed with the input from the
Bellevue preservation Association in the
Mohawk pickleball League
again we're going to put one full tennis
or basketball court there two half
courts six pickleball courts and
refurbished the two tennis courts in
Fairview Park
the Schenectady Municipal Golf Course I
generated an all-time record in 2022 of
over 1.4 million dollars the course
continues to be recognized as a regional
asset in its quality and the really
fantastic plane opportunities there and
I thank Matt Daly and the team
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the 3.1 million Francis Avenue bridge
deck replacement was completed through
the New York State competitive Bridge
New York program
the project included the complete
removal and replacement of the concrete
bridge deck the sidewalks and increased
lighting and I again appreciate the
tolerance of the neighbors because we
closed that bridge so that allowed the
project to move at a faster Pace
but it did create some inconvenience for
the neighbors and residents who wanted
to use it these essential upgrades to a
vital link connecting to Mount Pleasant
and Hamilton Hill neighborhoods also
complements the recent pedestrian
improvements at the Forest Road in
Francis Avenue intersection and I'd like
to congratulate and thank Chris Wallen
our city engineer
the team in the engineering department
and our project Consultants on this
successful completion of this critical
infrastructure project in our community
last year the city of Schenectady paved
14 miles of Road
we paved more miles in 2022 than any
year in the past decade
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and we're slated to receive four million
dollars in 2023 in the state budget
the current process used by the city
council for special assessment for
sidewalk replacement I believe is too
complex
it has many variables that residents
find hard to understand
I'm going to submit legislation to the
council and ask you to put in place
a fixed cost of 55 dollars per foot of
sidewalk for the property owner which
could be financed from 10 15 or 20 years
at the council or the resident's
discretion
the city would assume the liability for
the variable cost and again we're
spending a lot of time and effort
engineering class design class going
back and forth that translates into
added expense but not actually anything
practical in the field we're doing
calculations in terms of how much we
should charge the residents if we just
make that assumption it'll smooth things
along and speed things up
and I'm also going to recommend that the
council appropriate a million and a half
dollars of our dollars to help Finance
this initiative
in 2022 the Capital District
transportation committee approved over
14 million dollars for major
transportation infrastructure projects
in the city of Schenectady it's included
nine million dollars for the Craig main
connection
and we're going to go to the cdtc this
month with a tip amendment to merge
these three individual projects into one
large project
we anticipate that all of 2023 will be
dedicated to design of these and begin
construction the projects early in 2024.
the forest's main Forest Holland
improvements to these two intersections
are designed and will be coordinated
with what is ultimately approved in the
New Albany crane complete Street study
and we also have I still have in place a
500 000 Grant from assemblyman Angelo
Santa Barbara to complete the crane main
Chrysler intersection upgrades and
Solomon I thank you for that before you
arrived it's always good when people
from the state come and bring a check so
if
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we look forward to you coming back many
times
we have over 35 million of spending on
infrastructure projects uh going into
2023. the Rice Road water infrastructure
improvements which include three new
water wells that will produce 9 000
gallons of high quality pure water per
minute made possible by a three million
dollar WIA Grant from the New York State
Environmental facilities Corporation in
these critical infrastructure upgrades
will help improve the resiliency and
sustainability of our water supply which
serves not only the city of Schenectady
but multiple adjacent communities
and we're still hiring we still have
openings in the city I would appreciate
if people go to the city website you
have people that might be uh looking for
a new job looking for a career change
look at the site and see if we can match
something up and help with the city
Workforce
we're receiving National recognition in
terms of that home energy project with
Congressman tanko the electric vehicle
designation our telemedicine program the
record of our accomplishments is
impressive our City's future is bright I
thank you for the opportunity to serve
as your mayor and I want everyone to
enjoy the rest of the evening thank you
very much yield Batman
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thank you
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thank you
I'd like to thank the mayor for the um
for the state of the City address
10 minutes to clear the room
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