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call to order the Schenectady city
council committee meeting for Monday
March 20th 23 2023 we have the first
committee is finance Mr metaveran thank
you good evening everyone I would like
to call the finance committee to order
the first sizes 23 budget amendment for
IPs positions
okay
what's everybody tonight
okay so what I would like this uh
propose
uh currently we have three ladies in the
office first staff
very busy office
and we asked them to do a lot and we're
asking them more and more every week
So currently we have
one that it's a ips4
one person is a principal account Clerk
and the third is an informational
statistical Clerk
they all have different duties and
they're all compensated at different
levels
what I found in the office the office
works very well ladies and gentle office
work sharing it all together and they
share a lot of the same responsibilities
even though that is now what her job
titles are
in the last month and a half maybe
closer to two months we've applied for
two grants we're going to be looking at
a third print that is on one person
that's the person that is the
information and statistics Clerk
she's responsible for a friend she's a
new member to our team but when that
happens
especially now these two grants were
came pretty close together and it was
all hands on deck while she was doing
that other people were doing some of her
duties
so the point is they're all sharing in
the duties
about a month ago we had two members at
the same time had to take some medical
leave there after two weeks so all
the running of the office fell on one
particular person and she was doing
payroll and she was doing
everything so it is very important that
they're all trained at the same level so
it's my proposal that they will all be
at the same level brought to true that
are not PS4 they'd be brought up to that
level
and it will have an impact of
approximately six thousand dollars this
budget
but we have money in the budget to pay
for that we're going to take the money
that uh they're put aside for the
assistant G which is not happening until
at least until the exam has been
corrected we don't expect that to happen
till maybe June that year it is
so we are saving money from that from
that line so it won't have a financial
impact
and uh
one other thing that's driving me to do
this is our senior person in the office
is going to be looking at retirement in
the next two to three years so it
becomes very important to make sure that
people that we have are going to be
ready to pick
any questions concerns
just say that it seems like this is an
effort to make a pretty efficient
Department even more efficient I
appreciate your dedication yeah thank
you
sorry you're saying that makes sense
yeah
I try not to admit that any problems
well done thank you thank you
sir all right thank you thank you thank
you thanks Chief the next item is a
presentation of the 2023 2024 proposed
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it's just going to reflect some of the
things that I'm going to talk about here
um so we put together we put in our PL
late January we got proposals back for
our annual
um HUD funding which is the Community
Development block grant the emergency
Solutions Grant and the homes
initiatives program so there's three
different
pots of money that we each year get
requests for proposals for and put
together a budget based on our goals and
our five-year Consolidated plan
um so the annual action plan outlines
the proposed allocations for these
activities and it's for the federal
fiscal year of 2023 to 2024. so with
that being said we don't have our final
allocation yet from HUD it's always
around the same it's based on a formula
we have our deadline on May 15th to
submit our plan to HUD so we want to
make sure we do that although we don't
know the final number so you might
remember from last year things changed
slightly we tried to round down this
time just to make sure that hopefully
make sure that there isn't a decrease
like we had last year with the CBG
funding
um so the allocations and the use of the
funds are based on the national object
objectives it's to benefit while
moderate income persons to Aid in the
prevention or elimination of slugs or
blight or to meet Community Development
needs having a particular urgency so all
of our funding has to meet those three
categories and then we have three goals
that are outlined in our Consolidated
plan with the overall outcome of the
city of Schenectady neighborhoods
thriving vibrant communities where
residents and businesses are afforded
viable opportunities to improve their
quality of life so the three main goals
in our Consolidated plan which are
probably maybe familiar with but just to
highlight the expanding housing
opportunities which is the first
priority the expanding of Economic and
Workforce Development priorities
as the second and the third is the
strengthening of local neighborhoods so
all the projects that we've done relate
to these three goals in meeting the
outcomes that were identified in the
Consolidated plan
the anticipated available funding for
this year for the Community Development
block grant is around 2 million for the
Emergency Solutions Grant 190 000 and
for the home investment Partnerships is
1.15 million
and with the home investment
Partnerships that's in our Consortium so
we work with the city of Troy in the
town of colony and we we basically split
that allocation between our three
communities for the overall outcomes
um so I I won't go through line by line
um in what's in the the current proposed
budget um we do have a 30-day public
comment period that begins tomorrow and
it'll run through April 21st we also
have a schedule of public hearing for
the general um city council meeting on
Monday April 10th so there's
um time to submit comments
um on this plan and to have time to
review it further let us know any
questions if you have questions about
certain projects um definitely let us
know
um we I'll even back up sorry for a
second
um I just wanted to outline that in the
public service category
um this is the area where we're always
um we always struggle because we have a
public service cap we can only use 15 of
the annual allocation of cdbg funds for
what are called public services and this
is what we get most of our applications
for
um so it always becomes a struggle of of
how to incorporate applications in the
plan and still stay under that 15
percent cap so you can see some of the
projects outlined and includes some of
the bigger ones are like the Boys and
Girls Club of Schenectady who fund
recreation in the parks in addition to
the youth Coalition which is a
collaborative of around 16 organizations
12 to 16 depending on who's
participating but that they have kind of
collaborated to put in one application
that's more of a coordinated effort so
we've seen success with that over the
last couple of years and we have
proposed to fund this again in addition
to the other items that are outlined
there
um
and this is just showing the the public
service exemptions from organizations
that are operating within our
neighborhood revitalization strategy
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and then this is the Public Works
outlining that and then our
Administration funds that go towards the
operation and monitoring of all these
programs
um so as I mentioned we have a 30-day
public comment period which starts
tomorrow goes for a month you can submit
written comments to the email outlined
and then also the public hearing will be
on April 10th um in room 209 at 7 pm
and is there any immediate questions
um I I could
I will say there are a couple new
programs that we have in the budget
which I was going to just highlight
quickly because we haven't funded them
before one of them is from Wildwood it's
an application from Wildwood they have a
home for five individuals that have
developmental disabilities and this this
application is really to just do some
Capital Improvements on their building
so that they can
um you know they can ensure that the The
Residency is up to code and everything
is taken care of
um I think that was the main new one the
other new application that we propose
funding for is for the him the Hindu
temple youth programming so this is
related to the renovation that's
happening for the guidance Community
Center and they're requesting some cdbg
funds to expand on programming at this
Center which I think is currently under
construction however they did indicate
that they'd be able to use their
existing facility which is the the
temple I believe Dan correct to start
some of this before their the Community
Center opens
um so those are the main highlights
those were the main two that were that
we organizations we had not found them
before
any questions comments
so we'll need a motion so call for
Republic hearing
I'm gonna move it second solid paperwork
all right thank you uh
the next item is authorized
authorization for the mayor to answer an
agreement with a Schenectady inner city
Ministry
HBO
yeah so this is in relation to
um the next two requests on the first
for second the second for Schenectady
Foundation
um this is after
um discussion around the 950 000 that
was allocated for arpa funding
um for the overall food Council
initiative
um so this first resolution is
um is basically relating to sitcom's
request that was part of that overall
strategy and um it's it's allocating 350
000 of the funding I'm too sick of to
carry out the goals that they've
identified in their application I
believe they included a couple of
updates
um in the memo that they provided and
um it is in collaboration with the food
Council we have Bob Pro here from the
Schenectady Foundation to discuss some
of the goals and um Outlook of that of
that initiative moving forward
but yes this request is specific for the
350 of the Arca funding to Schenectady
Anderson Industries
any questions comments
yes please please if you'd like to come
up Amari and just say a couple words or
if anybody has specific questions we
have Reverend I I'm sorry I didn't even
with your mask
um
thank you
um
just to highlight what I hope you read
on the uh on the memo we have at the
continued some of the work that we have
with the proposed and the funding would
go along with sustain it for three years
as you know for many uh not for property
organizations the the challenges funding
to get the appropriate staff and the
appropriate resources to get it going
three years of funding which is what
we're proposing we did 350 000 would get
us a significant amount of time to get
the product ongoing but also work on the
long-term sustainability of the project
what I also want to highlight
um I see that some of you might have
Black and Whites
um copies of the of the proposal there
have been several
um and the updates to to the work and
not only that we're already working in
14 locations the eights of the city
neighborhoods which is an increase at
the uh from six of this uh the real
proposed neighborhoods into eight of
these neighborhoods
um the community composting program
which was a significant part of the
original plan we have partnered and we
are currently working on the our first
Avenue
Farm which is owned at Dubai by the city
in creating a smaller scale but
sustainable and and
um and a movable
um composite of the project with the
swollen water organization in the county
already working on on that is far more
in the sustainable it will get community
um uh impact in in the kind of
composable work that we want to work
through so that's at the ongoing and we
have been able to do that outside of
this um of this product and of course
again we have included Union Street in
the sake in the communities that we are
impacting so you know we thank you for
the consideration of this work and look
forward to the ongoing and the work that
we're trying to do around food access
and partnering with a city hall in this
work
thank you any questions
I just want to comment that you know
being familiar with the work that um
organizations are doing and I'm really
impressed with the ability that you guys
have been able to scale I'm really kind
of doing more with less so I think that
you know anytime we have opportunity to
support that very important work we
should do so that's why
and I will add that I think adding the
two neighborhoods of Union Street and
Stockade I appreciate that and I um you
know the farm to school uh curriculum
development project that the school
district is doing
um supporting that in this way I think
is is very important and then also the
fact that you're collaborating with the
YW on the other on the other project as
well I appreciate those those
Partnerships
go ahead please I had a quick question I
apologize the phone I'm speaking out of
turn the monies need to be allocated by
2024 and spent by 2026 will there be any
issues with it being three years
but yes yes the money will have to be
spent by the end of 2026 in our contract
will reflect that and when we work
numbers to make sure that that happens
absolutely
in history
any other comments seeing them we have a
motion
seconds exactly all in favor bye thank
you thank you
the next item is authorization for the
mayor to enter an agreement with the
Schenectady Foundation utilizing our
first funding that's the end
like this so this is in in connections
to the last request this is
um the 600 000 that is proposed to go to
the Schenectady Foundation which would
be in direct support of the food Council
you may have gotten a memo I sent around
earlier it was just confirming the
amount from SUNY Schenectady and their
needs for the food related items that
would also be part of this and I would
like to invite Baba to just talk a
little bit about the next steps for the
council and how the funding will do to
us
Schenectady Foundation I want to thank
my colleague Murray who all worked at
the Supreme and you know this is very
collaborative community and that is one
of the reasons why we think uh we can do
work differently here than in
communities and given that we're seeing
this widespread issues particularly
visible since covid of food insecurity
we can respond in an emergency Manner
and we have been
we also believe that there's a way to
kind of take it up a notch and be more
thoughtful and thinking the long term as
to how do we fix the system and that takes
everyone sitting in the room together to
discuss and when I say
who that all is we've already started
forming the council we've we've had two
meetings it's still it's formative
stages so it's not a full Council yet
but we've been outlining uh the issues
we're going to start on one is equity
and access is at the top of the list for
this year to take a look at the other
one is just looking more broadly at the
food system which involves Farmers
Distributors providers retailers they
are all part of the system too and then
the third area we're looking at is in
communication
uh public information getting the public
to understand and be more aware of what
the real issues are why we have this
these issues and engaging residents and
telling stories
and that's one of the most significant
pieces of this we do believe and you
don't buy into the idea of creating this
food Council understanding that the
solutions are usually with the people
who are closest to the problem
and so we will have residents at the
table we will do one of the the first
things we're doing is um organizing uh
Outreach and focus groups sitting down
with residents in neighborhood
association meetings and listening to
their stories about what are their what
why do they think that their
neighborhood has problems accessing
healthy food so we are we've started
this
when we receive our funding uh if we're
so blessed to then this just gives us an
injection to be able to hire somebody on
a part-time basis who's on this every
day
right who's on this issue so that it's
not drifting from meeting to meeting to
meeting and no we have to get on this
and we have to put a priority I should
also say that this uh since we put this
together this plan has been augmented by
uh Schenectady County Public Health
Services uh and Cornell Cooperative
Extension which are providing a um a
graduate level fellow
who will be with us nearly full time to
do the research and pull the partners
together so we we will have a whole team
for the next several years working on
food security trying to make every
resident of the city food secure and we
welcome the city's role in a place at
the table in that process as well so
that's just kind of an update on where
we are now
any questions comments
things
go ahead please
um I appreciate that we're having this
conversation because I think it would
have been you know I I mean we talked
about this a long time ago and um being
able to have um our two speakers here
and you uh to kind of um give us an
overall picture of this I think is very
helpful and
um I know that I had a brief
conversation with Mr Caro about it um
back when we first started talking about
the project
um but I I'm glad that we're having it
now
um I wish we had had it back then
um I think that
um I I appreciate very much this
long-term plan
um I
um
I think that that chance for the council
the food Council to be looking at the um
systemic
you know underlying causes of food
insecurity is just so important because
I think you know Ms detores and my
experience just doing this one month uh
food drive that we did we certainly
gained a lot of knowledge
um by being in touch with so many
different food pantries
um and those I think the group of people
that came together as volunteers during
that process really felt strongly that
there is this opportunity to be able to
and food insecurity in Schenectady and
we would like to see that happen so
um I'm you know really supportive of
this project and
um can't wait to see all the outcomes
no I just want to well thank you for
bringing forward I want to thank Mr Caro
I appreciate the fact that you're
bringing people that are impacted by
this to the table because I think that I
know for a fact that that's most
important when we're doing the work that
we're not just doing it from the
top-down approach but people who are
impacted can bring things and give ideas
that we probably would have never
thought of so appreciate the
inclusiveness of that
yeah and then just to highlight again
since I think 450 000 of the requested
600 goes directly will go directly
towards you know actually implementing
the things that come out of the food
Council so that's you know it's it's
identifying the issues and then it's
also having some resources to implement
changes
um directly so I just want to amplify
the fact that you um are focusing again
on equity and access I think that's so
important
um often people kind of just say that
but don't do that so to have that
embedded in a priority on what's really
important so I want to just kind of
highlight that and I hope other people
that are watching and see this because
that kind of leads into the next one
we're talking about telling that story
you know being witnessing what the city
and the county did
um during the pandemic you know kind of
really removing some red tape but
collaborating with people was probably
some of the best work I've ever seen um
coming out of our city in our County so
I think now collecting that data almost
can create uh you know kind of this is a
best practice for other municipalities
to see what we're doing here so I think
that that's also really important so I
just want to say I really appreciate the
equity
um lens that you're using and actually
doing I'm just saying and recording that
information so thank you for that thank
you
and just similarly with this contact who
would just make sure that the contract
end date is within time that's correct
okay thank you I
think it's important for the public to
understand as well that the Schenectady
Foundation is also putting in
um a big chunk of money 1.5 million
dollars into this initiative so it's not
just that the city
um is supporting this but there's um
money from the foundation other
foundations as well as other product
donations that are going into this
effort so I appreciate that as well um
thank you
the next item is authorization for the
mayor to enter an agreement with a
Schenectady Hindu temple and community
service
okay so this is really just a correction
um we had a resolution that authorized
the mayor to enter an agreement with
this community guidance Community Center
for fifty thousand dollars to convert 12
18 6th Avenue to a community center
um it has been determined that the
Guyanese Community Center is not yet a
501c3
um so we can't enter an agreement um
with with that specific entity under
that title
um however the building is currently
owned by the Schenectady Hindu temple
and community services and we are just
um requesting the authorization for the
mayor to enter an agreement with the
Schenectady Hindu temple and community
services for the fifty thousand dollars
to implement the um the changes for the
community center so it's just really a
name we couldn't enter the agreement
under that name we needed to use the
name that had an active 501c3
questions comments
seeing none may have a motion um
thank you
the next item is the 2023 negative
exploration Sweeper for Capital project
Mr Ferrari thank you it's been a while
yeah
how was your vacation thank you by the
president city council we're here
tonight uh actually the next three
resolutions in Aurora deal with uh
bonding and banning of the funds of the
capital projects uh the first one we
want to talk about is the negative
declaration because the city is the lead
agency and you know we're about to
borrow you know 12 12.6 million dollars
and uh it's been determined with the
issue of these bonds that there will not
be as significant or adverse effect on
the environment so this is a something
that we'd like to have the city council
signed as lead agencies I gave all the
paperwork for you to read through it
thank you
is there anything missing
and go to the next one because it
actually deals with the 2023 uh capital
projects which where you just did the
negative uh Declaration on as you recall
this is the city's connect I've already
passed uh in the 2023 budget the capital
uh capital projects uh and it was
determined through that that we need to
borrow
12.4 million dollars and change but as
we go through a boring process there's a
cost of issuance of 168 000 so total
amount of that we need to be borrowing
was a 12 million 639 841 dollars
uh like you said this is has already
been approved in the capital projects
during the budget process we've been
working with our fiscal advisors and and
our bond Council and we're determining
that the this band uh for the first year
is going to be issued around 3.5 to 3.65
uh we're trying to rush it before things
get even worse but the banks we think
we'll be able to handle this right now
so that's that's what we're shooting for
questions coming in may I have a motion
I'm moving all in favor uh the third one is to uh what we're trying
to do here is that as you recall the
2022 we borrowed the capital project
money we use the bond anticipation
though and what we want to do for 2023
is to actually uh make this note make it
a permanent financing for the next 21
years
again with our fiscal advisors and our
bond councils we determined that we want
to firmly uh borrow the amount which I
think it was in the back of the of this
legislation 6 million 985 778 uh we're anticipating between 3.75 and 4
and that's that's why we're we're like a
month ahead here trying to get it over
but because of the banking situations
thank you
sort of like to call disorder the Public
Safety Committee we have one item on the
agenda tonight it's gonna be a call with
hard of hearing for school bus stop arms
safety camera local dog I'll be
presented by a message uh good evening
so um a few weeks ago we had the people
come in and explain about the um our
school bus camera and how much do it
first of all it would create Revenue
they already went to the school district
to make sure the school district had
buy-in on this particular
project and the school district did have
buy-in but in order for us to do it
first of all there has to be a local law
created in order to do the local law we
have to have the public hearings do that
so this right now is to um just to call
for that public hearing
all right close to order student
development and planning we have eight
items on the agenda the first is to
authorize the issuance of performance
number 675 to the boys Italian deli
oh
Mr Wong is we'll be right down a little
bit oh okay
all right well we're waiting for him we
are going to skip to item number four
uh which is um asking for a ceremony resolution to honor a vet most
of us may remember Jim Wilson who passed
away and this um the Saturday they are
going to be actually honoring him so our
resolution will come because the
information came so late we will not get
this in time but I did want to still do
a resolution uh honoring him
any questions last second all's in favor
okay Mr Wallen
I'll be waiting for you thank you
besides not to waste time and pass
something no I'm sorry I forgot my
paperwork oh okay first one
yes number one all right on the
revocable permit um this is the joyous
on vanbrinken they are reopening
um it used to be the Joya now is the
joyous and they need a new sign new
insurance they have submitted it the
sign is essentially the same sign other
than the apostrophe on the same Mount so
I don't see any issue
coming year
um Seasons hopefully going to open in
April depending on what the weather does
for going forward
um this year we are getting a new Fleet
of electric vehicles as we're getting a
new Fleet we thought it was a good time
to increase our fees for parts as we
usually have a little bit of a strategy
where we try not to do increases every
year we try to be strategic with what we
do so we held off doing any kind of
increases because our fleet was at the
end of his service life now this is a
brand new Fleet Factory uh Road premium
carts with the lithium they're going to
have a new GPS system in them uh the
charging cables are back and all that
and it is you know cost the city the
golf course really money to make those
improvements so we're recommending a one
dollar increase for nine and a two
dollars increase for 18 holes and we're
still within uh you know Regional
competitiveness
change uh is on the back
um it was an error from last year for
the assistant Pro it was the same rate
as the pro we actually charge the city
makes a little less off of that because
the pro actually makes it a little less
so that was a correction that Matt asked
I made and he apologizes for not being
here at a personal issue
and so there's just really um
there's gonna be a lot of changes no I
decided I try to highlight and then this
is also with the Rhythm so that these
are the rates for next year so I try to
make sure that every year we have a good
track record of what the rates are for
this year so it's really just amounts to
um four changes that are being made so
if Abraham had an option before uh look
at it and see the motion for me it's
like a follow us in favor all right
thank you
and item number three to authorize the
mayor to insert into supplemental
agreement number two in the New York
State Department of Transportation for
Broadway Mill and Phil 4th Street yep so
the Broadway project uh is in a similar
state to the PSAT project was the
project around City Hall we are
substantially complete with the projects
but as you'll see the signals are not
100 complete there's some components
that are not done this is caused by
supply chain shortages the supply chain
shortages have led to uh longer
inspection costs walking time so we have
that in here as well as there were some
quantity differences where we actually
put a little bit more Paving down we
altered some drainage structures we did
some CTE inspection and cleaning and we
reached out to the dot uh I sent them a
letter about this and they agreed to
reimburse the city as part of the
project cost for 95 80 Federal 50 state
and to do that we have to have a
supplemental agreement with them to
change the amounts both for them and
then we change them with Finance once we
have the resolution so really no
negative distance over two hundred
thousand dollars of of Aid to go towards
the project
and the cities um
City's portion is the city's portion I
don't have that right for this right uh
the city's portion of it would be it's five percent of 250 000 so roughly
six yeah
60 000 over 20 yeah just to make sure
65 yeah 250.
it's been at the uh 17500
no excuse me no I take it back this
times around 12.50
1250.
yeah yeah so that's that's our share
that's the five percent so we've been
I've come to the you know we've done
this quite a bit of a lot of projects
just want to make sure yep any questions
oh my apologies for being late
um thank you Mr Waller
item number five ceremony resolution for
Saint adapters 120th anniversary Mr
palomini saying adelbert is celebrating
their 120th anniversary and having a big
celebration so uh that'd be appropriate
to recognition
it was scheduled for March 11 they had
to postpone it and it's now April the
4th after Schenectady Hindu temple
summer Crossing resolution okay so first
April 4th 1pm okay
have any questions
entertain a motion I'll move it second
all is in favor
item number seven created outdoor
garbage collection bins Mr Pauline yes
this is uh about the garbage cans to put
around the city with creative outdoor
again they will supply bins that have
ads on them certain percentage that
comes to the city anywhere from 10 to 15
000 in annual revenue you get a
recycling bin as well as a garbage bin
and um
asking that the Merit be allowed we
authorize this for the mayor to go into
negotiations with creative outdoor
questions comments
we discussed this I think we were held
up because they were asking me Salah
made to meet with the uh the union
representative to discuss some concerns
they had about who's going to pick up
the garbage and things like that
May is not here so I'm not sure who has
that information I have been meeting
with held and those concerns
Mr Colton's raising his hands
um I can speak to that the mayor did
meet with local 1037 I was president Mr
Lafont was present members of the union
and their business agent were present
they didn't raise any significant
concerns related to the pickup of
garbage they recognize that they already
pick up garbage from the city trash cans
at certain corners and they realize
that's within the scope of their work
okay but they were concerned about this
company picking up the garbage this
company is not going to be picking up
the garbage has always been proposed
when that gentleman had come in to speak
about it that question came up
um and I think at the all indications
and this would be part of the contract
would be that city employees will be
picking up the garbage
thank you
and certainly the city council and
authorizing a resolution can create that
limit on the authorization you know
including terms like they do with other
with the council bills of other things
saying you know um with the condition
that City employs in a collect the waste
thank you Mr farmer yeah I just want to
again discuss support for this program
it sounds like a really good program I
think that there's been a lot of efforts
from our city government as well as our
residents to reduce litter so I think
this is a great way to do that
um
I guess the only thing that I'd like to
share is I think that um you know is
there a way to do this without replacing
the garbage cans that we have right now
I just think that that should we should
just I believe we should go ahead and
move forward and feel supportive I just
think that we should replace the
existing ones I think we should just add
um uh these uh canisters here so
therefore you know it's just a easier
way and we're able to reduce litter I
don't I don't know if we want to like
roll back any of the work that's already
been done I think that we should
the progress
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so I think um that as long as the you
know I I
recognize that Mr Lafond and and his
office I mean if there's garbage cans
that need to be replaced because they're
damaged or in bad shape but um basically
if we're adding to the without having to
spend any money on them I think it's a
really smart idea and
um certainly we hear over and over and over uh that this is a huge
issue
um so
you know the more the more garbage cans
the better because and especially since
we're not having to outlay any resources
so in addition to Abby what's out there
by I do know in the north side
um they had some new cans last year and
so wherever they're going to leave those
cans alone but there are a lot of cans
in the city that do need replacing and
this will be recycling alongside of uh
trash so
um it you know I always look for a
recycle bin and I can't find anyone you
know not too many in the city so this
would just be a good good situation all
right so I think just because
um the problem about the trash cans
because in the um in the LR it says
replaced old trash cans
um so just one yeah just to make sure
that we um
we are not replaced because people there
was a project that went on and several
neighborhoods said you know you need
trash can so ideally as I understand
this they will be in high visible areas
any anyway so the other trash cans are
there can maybe move further into the
neighborhood
um I would also recommend that we
contact be in contact with the the
groups that already did the trash cans
that are currently there as we do this
and maybe whenever we have to reposition
some of those older trash cans and Bob
Carroll could probably tell us who to
get in touch with because they um the
finicky Foundation was the ones that
actually funded all of those projects so
they would know who the contact people
are but just and a lot of those trash
cans are in really great shape and we
paid a lot of money they the Schenectady
Foundation paid a lot of money for that
so keeping with keeping those and not
getting rid of them I think it's hugely
important here
I did um had an opportunity or review
the um the presentation once again so
just want to clear the recycling is that
only going to be a municipal property
that's what the presentation said right
so
they're all it's one unit it's just one
big yeah and we can choose all recycling
or or trash to recycling
thank you in a beach
and I think I know in the last minute
you said that they um in terms of
placement they would contact they would
be in touch with the city council in
terms of where the public the mayor and
then the city council can certainly have
their input as well and again I would
recommend that we have inputs in the
neighborhood groups that already you
know are invested in this process and
have been invested in this process so we
don't exclude and move things around
without the people in the neighborhood
so I think that's important as well I
think that we really it I I think it's
not necessarily high visibility areas I
think it's traffic areas and high areas
where there's I think we've identified
and can identify areas where there is a
lot of litter
um I I think that these are going to
probably mostly end up on those
corridors where we have
um business activity like State Street
and Eastern and of Broadway and Frank
van Rankin I mean I think those are
probably going to be the areas where um
we'd be looking because of the
advertising component
um I would think yes if I was trying to
get the advertisers I would probably
look to the businesses that are going to
be surrounding the areas where these
garbage cans might be placed so
um yeah so I think
there's certainly I think that again um
the email that we got from the resident
that outlined those very
um heavily littered areas is going to be
a really and of course our office of
General Services is going to know
immediately
um where that volume of litter and trash
is
so I I think they did say high
visibility as well they really want
because people want their business is
seen so which makes sense so um you know
we have the issue regarding the
um whether there was concern from the
Union Address and making sure that the
neighborhoods have their um you know
have an input into you know where the
other candle that we don't throw the old
cans I you know those are the concerns
that we want to make sure that we
address as we move forward with this
is there anything else that I
didn't I'll move in a second all those
in favor
um okay
uh the next item will be an executive
session so I'd ask for a motion to reset
all this in favor
what's up
government operations we have three
arguments on the agenda the first is
that because
I recommend that these three items in
undergovernment operations uh go into
executive session uh pursuant to section
105.1 e of public officers laws that
relates to Collective negotiations
um we have one item on the claims agenda
um and that item also would be something
that we'd need to go into executive
session for
um so I'll look for a motion uh to go
into well I guess do I recess my
committee to or just going to Executive
sessions go into executive session first
and then research yeah
the small openness and executive session
and then we can go back to the other day
okay all right great so
all in favor
okay so now we're in executive session
oh one member of the public