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um so I'll call claims to order and turn
you have one item on the agenda William
Hopkins first city of Schenectady
um do we need to do that in the
executive session I would recommend that
we go into executive session we have
outside Council here to just discuss an
update on this matter okay so I'll
entertain a motion to go into executive
session second
all in favor
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um
so this evening we're going to have a
presentation from Pacific peninsulaire
I'm just connected through this
vitalization plan Capital Property right
well thank you good evening I'm sorry
okay
so good evening city council thanks for
having me uh I think the last time I was
here was the first time I had ever
engaged with city council so tonight I
wanted to just take a quick moment to
share uh revitalization plan we have
um started the conversation and we
started this journey
um almost a year ago we started this
behind the scenes kind of planning
talking about what would be our next
kind of major Capital project for
Schenectady City schools and so
um we are now going around the city
obviously here tonight we'll be tomorrow
we have another presentation at one of
our middle schools I think tomorrow's
Mount Pleasant if I'm correct and what
we just want to educate the community on
what we're asking them to vote for in uh
on May 16th and so it's called the
Schenectady revitalization plan those
are the next couple meeting dates so
we're here tonight on April 17th
speaking to all of you and obviously if
you have questions I want this to be
like a dialogue if you don't mind I'll
go through the slides as quick as
possible because I know you have a lot
on your agenda um um
but if you have any questions obviously
you represent various stakeholders in
this city and I think it's important
that your voices you know be heard and
if you have questions or there's Clarity
it is a big ask that we're asking our
community it's not something that's been
done here in Schenectady uh that I can
find any record of and Kathy Lewis is
our probably our longest standing board
uh member doesn't recall us ever going
out for something for 300 million
dollars but we've done some things
before Tyrone next slide
so keep on
so again I talked about these
information sessions this is just the
flyer that we put out uh again tomorrow
we are at Mount Pleasant tomorrow night
at 5 30 and then we're again on Thursday
at five o'clock at a night of middle
school so uh if you want to share with
your constituents for your various
communities they can come on out ask
questions
um you know it's open to everybody
um so everyone who obviously is the tax
pains
um City member or resident can come out
ask questions or if they're just curious
about what we're doing next slide Tim
so I've started this conversation
um when I got here in 2021 I brought
this little you know what the kids say
as hashtags right you gotta have a
hashtag for every movement every kind of
theme so our hashtag has been
Schenectady Rising since uh July of 2021
when I arrived and we focused on
rebuilding reigniting
um you know bringing back energy to uh
what I heard was a phenomenal District
everyone always tells me the good old
days stories right and so I'm a firm
believer that the good old days are
still here and could easily be reach
achieved and so when I got here the
first thing we had to do was reopen our
schools they were closed for over 18
months to Virtual learning experience
again no fault to anybody it was the
pandemic folks didn't really know what
to do we've learned a lot since then
um so we reopened five days and I'm
proud to say we never closed last year
as a result of covered restrictions or
the pandemic or a high number of
absences the staff did a great job our
administrators did did a great job and
we've been kind of rebuilding and that's
the conversation we're having today what
does rebuilding look like and so there's
obviously rebuilding of academic
programs rebuilding of staff that may be
impacted by layoffs but also rebuilding
of our infrastructure we believe that
high quality students and high quality
staff deserve high quality facilities
and so that's what we're going to talk
to you about what the vision is here
Tyrone next slide
I also think it's always important
because everyone always talks about
enrollment and residence this is right
from the Census Data that happened
during the pandemic 2020 you could
remember there was a census if you go
right on census.gov you can pull these
Trends right for Schenectady you can see
Schenectady was one of the only
communities that actually grew in New
York state many of the other ones it's
in blue so that's how you know it grew
anything in Orange lost residence and so
yes the overall State lost people but
our community didn't lose people and so
I think that's very important as we look
to think about what we do to our
infrastructure there's uh housing units
is on there as well you can see the
number of housing units also grew in
Schenectady County not necessarily the
city but overall in the county which
does include the city I couldn't get
just City specific information from the
Census but I was able to get County next
slide Cameron
this is obviously a look at Schenectady
a city within the county you can kind of
see us cool shape uh silhouette there
our population and obviously we're about
10 square miles and again about 67 000
residents live here in Schenectady next
one sir
this is our district overlaid on our
city map and those beautiful colors they
don't represent like Fruity Pebbles or
anything interesting like that there
actually are kind of feeding pattern our
colored uh enrollment patterns for these
various schools so each of those colors
dictates an enrollment pattern for the
school that's in it so like if you look
at the yellow that's Yates if you look
at uh the pink that's Oneida Middle
School's kind of catchment area is the
larger area which includes pink yellow
green and orange basically our kids kind
of come from all over parts of the city
when they go to our Middle School they
come in three zones and our elementary
schools they kind of are more
neighborhood based but they're not
always neighborhood Basin so I say that
because uh sometimes there's special
Arrangements Sometimes some of our
programming dictates enrollment and so
um you know at the end of the day we're
10 square miles it doesn't take far to
get from one sky to Schenectady to the
other which is a beautiful thing one
thing I I will point out here that's a
breakdown of our buildings 11 elementary
schools three middle we have an
alternative campus an adult education
center also housed there I'm separately
a high school and then we have currently
a vacant Elementary School Fulton
Elementary School is currently vacant we
have some uh staff there that are there
just to maintain the staff and we have a
couple offices that were being used but
total square feet that we're responsible
for as a district is about 1.8 million
square feet that's a lot of square feet
our custodial staff do a great job
maintaining it but there's only so much
you can do given that the average age of
our campuses is 95 years old and so
um there's only so much uh clear coat
you can put on the floor to make it look
good after a while it is only so much
just a clear coat no more Terrazzo or
anything of that that nature on the
bottom next slide time
this is just a breakdown I always like
to put a name to the age of the school
sometimes that's very helpful because
there's always some personal
significance right uh like demanding
where'd you go to school I went to
Woodlawn there you go
1972. so that's just right when you were
born no just kidding uh he's a lot
younger than that
um so you can see the age of the schools
and one thing I will point out how is
1905 it's our oldest building still
being used with kids and a really
important Community it's surrounded by
Community if you look at it
um I only know that because I always get
complaints about parking and there's
only so much I can do because we don't
have we're pretty landlocked over there
but uh what's important there is that
the building is is slowly starting to
get to the point where it's gonna be
harder to maintain given the age of the
building so uh that's a breakdown uh
how's a big one I like to point out as
the oldest building in Woodlawn is
probably our most recent building that
the district has built in 1972 Oneida
doesn't really count because it kind of
was built and then it was added on so
although it was closed for about five
years from 2017 to 2022 for uh 2012 to
20 17
you can remember that it did it did
exist before it was closed down for a
little bit for renovations uh next slide
so again uh Schenectady has done this
work before
um it's just done it very differently
and so I'm of the belief that um you
know it's time to take a little bit more
of a radical approach in the sense of uh
reimagining this doing this a little bit
differently not asking our community
every five years to like hey can we go
out and borrow money instead we'd like
to look at like a seven year window and
say we want to go out for a little bit
more and here's why we want to go out so
if you look on the left you see phase
one phase two when I got here the
completion of phase two is still
occurring currently but you can see the
schools in Phase One and the dollar
values that was used for each of those
schools and phase two is was the dollar
value on phase two but you're going to
notice something in phase two there's a
couple schools that did not get touched
just the you know projects were a little
bit bigger there was some
um
underestimations and some change orders
that had the occur so some things had to
come off the list to stay within the
amount that was borrowed but phase one
and phase two was a total of 135 I'm
going to round up 135 million dollars so
we're asking for 300 million for
basically trying to double that scope a
little bit
um but the one thing I want to point out
is we put the dollar values of how we
got that 300 million to the schools that
we're proposing so the high school has
not been touched in quite some time
um and we're looking at about a price
tag of 126 million and I'll tell you how
we got there some of that is building
condition survey which we're required to
do every five years that says what is
wrong with your buildings every five
years you kind of say what's the life of
the Furnace what's the life of the
electrical what's the quality of the
windows what's the quality of the
lockers things of that nature you're
going to notice Central Park is on here
steinman's campus and they have larger
price tags because they're bigger
Footprints bigger schools typically the
secondary schools are a little more
expensive but these are like not just
fixing the stairwell changing Windows
this is a whole renovation take
everybody out the building kind of gut
the building redo the campus bring folks
back in so that's what you see are those
price tags there you're going to notice
that Fulton we put in parentheses Kane
because we do have to occupy Fulton and
in order to do that we're gonna have to
move a school in there while we work on
another school we had proposed here that
it would be swing space for Kane if uh
if we're successful with purchasing Kane
um and the price tag there we also have
a Central Kitchen we feed all of our
kids in the district we deliver food to
pretty much all of our elementary
schools from our high school which
people don't know that so we cook a lot
of our food at the high school and then
we put them in trucks and we drop them
off to our schools so we need to make
some serious upgrades to create a
central kitchen for our district and
enhance what we currently have we have
like coolers that are sitting on the
back of the high school we probably
don't don't know that or not but if you
did see it you'd be pretty amazed at
what we do with the little bit we have
and then there's some district-wide
building conditions serving priorities
they would touch multiple buildings
these would touch other schools that
aren't a part of this initial list but
it would be identified through the
process next slide sir
this is a again all of this is proposed
because we need still voter approval but
once we get in we wanted to show the
voters in the community that we've
thought about this really intentionally
with our partners at SCI design they've
done a fantastic job walking on this
journey with us they helped us put this
timeline together and you can see we
would start as soon as we get voter
approval scla is our first campus and
we've already started the process to
kind of phase out the current
programming there to allow it to be
become vacant so we can start to get
into that work and you're also going to
notice Fulton being first because right
now it is vacant so we want to prepare
those spaces make them high quality
spaces and then swing kids into them
most people don't want to swing into a
space that looks worse into the building
they just left so when we when we do
this work we want to make sure we're
doing it intentionally and you can see
things we would move freshmen into
diamonds that's diamonds campus we've
talked with our board extensively about
redesigning our high school experience
all the research says if you don't make
it out of ninth grade with five credits
you're not going to graduate on time and
that's something that we notice by
looking at our own groups so we think
it's real important to separate our
freshmen allow some success to happen
they have a theme called Thrive and nine
at the high school right now but that
wouldn't take place until 2025 after
we've done some renovations to the
campus and we've done some work that
would also allow us to vac uh empty the
high school a little bit by about 700
kids
thus allowing us not to disrupt the
school year and move kids around while
we do construction at the high school
which is why you see that little arrow
going to the second and then you see
Fulton and you see like these
parentheses type Bubbles and those would
be all the schools that would swing in
through Fulton as we work through their
buildings
and then you see like how and Page get
added in because they're swinging into
Fulton
and then we've had a conversation and
again if we're successful with the
purchase of pain this becomes moon or it
just may look different but we've talked
about we have two elementaries that are
really a block apart Lincoln came and
we've talked about maximizing maybe a
space that could serve both uh still
allow them to keep their identity but
give them a high quality space they
could have many of the components of
community schools that we would work and
include like you know a mental health
clinic a dental clinic
you know other things that we want to do
that we know are important for that
community on Albany Street and and then
there's this purple at the bottom that
would cover kind of district-wide
building condition priorities and those
are things that I'm going to show you in
a minute
um would be identified by campus so keep
going
and I will apologize some of the fat
will get small but we can leave the
presentation with you guys if you wanted
to see it so this again this is where we
are take people very high then we bring
people low so right now we're where that
little star is we're just planning and
we're just talking and we're working our
way to that dotted line that says May
16th vote so nothing happens unless we
have a successful proposition we're a
small City so we're required to have
super majority which is 60 or more have
to support this vote
um so we've had a really great uh
supportive community in the past for our
budgets our hope is that that continues
we are going out at zero percent tax and
so I just want to make a quick plug that
is the sixth year of us going out yeah
it's a six year of us going out as a
district and that's compliments to the
board who have been strong fiscal
stewards of the district's work
um and so once that vote happens then we
can start this process of really
designing having these concept
conversations around Concepts and really
moving this forward right now we've just
been high level planning some of the
stuff you see here on this Banner are
just proposals so I'm going to walk
behind president Porterfield here this
Banner here is just high level proposals
of some of the things that we see
occurring on our campus and I'll take
you through that but we wanted to show
you visually kind of what that looks
like as well and you also have a pretty
cool brochure that we'll be mailing to
all uh Schenectady residents they'll be
getting this along with the budget
notification as well so they'll be
getting some mail and some literature
that they can hopefully read and support
us next slide Tyrone
so this is really small I apologize but
basically what this is every school's building condition
survey summary and what that means is
like the total amount that would be
needed to get the building up to Snuff
or up to a high quality meaning we're
again replacing Windows broken lockers
water fountains that may still be not
complying with lead regulations or need
to be replaced uh bathrooms that still
need work some of our bathrooms again 95
years old the Stalls only last so long
right and so we've been able to do some
of it and keep some of the upkeep but
some of it really needs a complete gut
and renovation some of our cafeteria
space is not enough to feed more than 50
kids at a time it's just not fair to the
kids it's not fair to the school staff
and it makes lunch start at 10 45 in
some of our schools you know 10 30.
that's right I don't know about you but
it's a 10 30 lunch and then you don't
need to get until you probably get home
at like 3 30 4 o'clock that's a long gap
for some of our kids
um you know hopefully they stay in our
extended day and we give them a snack
and sometimes dinner afterwards but
those are the things that we want to
address things that we want that we
think all kids deserve in comparison to
the surrounding districts and then on
the right obviously we're in a new day
and age when it comes to security we've
got some breakdowns in security that we
also need to address things like secure
vestibules which means in some of our
schools as soon as you get into the door
and you're in the building there's not a
vestibule that would keep you away or
have you get buzzed in to then be
checked so some of that we need to
address as we do this work in order to
keep our most precious commodity our
children safe from anything happening
next slide
so this is just I'm going to go quick
through these just because they're kind
of repetitive but you get an
understanding again I talked to you
about 126 million at the high school
these are just some images right on the
left you can see some of the conditions
now they don't stay like this our Brian
dangler is our chief facility officer
operations officer though his team will
go in and replace that locker and maybe
put a wood panel there but then it just
looks awkward right it just looks
doesn't look well but we wanted to show
you that we have single pane windows at
the high school so you know what our
heating bill is it's off the hook nicig
loves us they love US National Fuel they
love us but
um the reality is we've got to do things
to improve insulation and the quality
and really try to regulate our
temperatures
um and again I show that part of the
school because that's what people think
is the front of the school that's on
Plaza Street people think that's the
front entrance and it really is the
front entrance is actually on the other
side where the Student Bus Loop is so we
want to change that because we could
think it's an opportunity for us to make
Plaza Street the entrance for parents
and families uh and the community come
in and students can still come in on the
back side some of things on the right on
the program improvements are just the
laundry list of just some of the
building condition items but you know we
also want to enhanced programming here
culinary program is one we have as
diamonds we think it should be at the
high school getting kids to work either
in our own cafeteria but also uh host
culinary events at the high school we're
really excited potentially that could
happen
um you know our facilities for athletics
is you know our pool everyone loves our
pool right and so we've done some work
this past year but also looking at other
parts like locker rooms uh health and
wellness facilities replacing some of
them team rooms some of it is just HVAC
work and making things Ada accessible
which we often forget about we have a
lot of students who maybe either
wheelchair bound or just need
accommodations and we also have families
and sometimes our own access to
buildings isn't as conducive as we would
like next lifetime
this is again just visual everything in
purple would be areas we would touch
um and I'm just going to walk over here
just to kind of show you an example this
part here in purple if we were to move
the Freshman which is our plan would
become vacant right away and allow us to
work while kids still attend school
which is important some districts don't
do that which means they can only work
one nights and Summers not too many
contractors want to work nights and
Summers right and so we believe this
will give us an advantage to find
laborers that'll be committed to the
project throughout the year
because they can work uninterrupted
during the school year during the school
day they don't have to give up nights
and Summers to do construction and then
we would move throughout all those
purple areas in the building and those
are just some mock-ups like a mock-up
locker room again nothing's been decided
we would have con um kind of like design
focus groups and things like that to
really determine what we want plus we
gotta have red blue in there you know
Schenectady Cutters next
again another a high level View uh
Deputy superintendent Lynn rupnick and
her team have done a redesign
conversation this turns the redesign
conversation into uh reality giving
wings of the building to fall to these
career themed leadership academies which
we believe is really important for our
kids
um because I don't know about you when I
went to high school I didn't know what I
wanted to do but I knew I was always
there for either an elective course our
music PE maybe sometimes a girl but more
often than not it was for something that
wasn't Matthew science social studies
they are important but we think that the
career themed forces will keep our kids
engaged drive and push them forward and
so we've kind of dedicated various parts
of the building to support that
initiative and so you can see there's a
business leadership community and
Humanities a stem culinary and an arts
and then that like teal blue is where
kind of the administration of the
building would live counselors social
workers so principles principles next
uh this is uh another mock-up same thing
but what I want to show you is that we
are doing work already as part of this
separate from the revitalization plan so
although we're asking to borrow this 300
million
um we are doing work already those
tennis courts are going to be worked on
this summer so we'll have brand new
tennis courts there so anybody plays
tennis I think they'll be able to do
more than tennis I think there's a like
a raging sport that everybody loves the
pickleball so they'll be lined I think
for tennis pickleball
um and we're also expanding the parking
because we're going to take some of the
parking out that's up there and we're
going to expand this so you see that
darker gray that'll be new parking for
the building next slide
this is Central Park another another
great building but needs a lot of work
do you see you can see some of the door
locks still on there they're not even
ADA Compliant because they require you
to be able to turn the lock on the top
um look at the flooring and some of the
pictures there again we've done the best
we could given the time uh tile this you
know mix matched and not really working
out we've got paint peeling off the
ceiling in some parts of the building
due to moisture and just wear and tear
the fire
um the chimney there needs some serious
masonry work and that school needs a lot
of missionary work it's an older school
it's great great architecture
um but you can see and I think and I'm
not sure I haven't talked to the mayor
on this there's actually a city emblem
at the very top of the building and then
we know that we've been discovering
through Deeds work that some of the
buildings used to belong to the city at
one point so maybe we'll be sending you
that 300 million dollars just kidding
just next one
uh again Mrs Steinmetz uh right in the
kind of Hamilton Hill Mount Pleasant
kind of community again something that
uh I think at one point was a middle
school McKinley Middle School if you're
we're in Schenectady long enough you may
remember that name it wasn't little
school at one point Simon's Middle
School at one point and then it became
cities as our campus or our cities and
schools it's a variety of different
things we're looking to take this and
bring this as a freshman Leadership
Academy at steinman's campus and really
give our freshmen their own place to
grow to thrive and to leave there with
five or more credits on track to
graduate as they head into sophomore
year and a lot of people always ask me
like why are you doing that why are you
separating it that is our most fragile
group at the high school if we can get
kids to 10th grade as a true five credit
or more they typically just soar on
their own and you know we have about 80
graduation rate so we're looking at 22
or so that don't make it out in four
years and that's what we always see that
they don't make it our freshman year
with enough credits and then they're
behind EA ball and then It's just tough
um so that's kind of what stylist looks
like there uh next one we'll show you
another preview of it because we're
going to make it a freshman account we
want to make sure that it has you know
it looks inviting right and so you can
see right now all of that in the gray
and the green is just field
um there's a little bit of parking there
but we would add parking because we get
a lot of complaints that we park in
front of people's houses our staff
there's not enough parking so we want to
help out the community as well and say
look we're going to put more parking in
our facility we're going to add a soccer
field there so the kids can you know go
off for physical education and have a
great field to play in that would be uh
done there and there'll be a basketball
court which I don't think there is a
basketball court there other than the
one in Hamilton Hill I can't find Jerry
Burrell Park is I think the next closest
outdoor basketball court in that area so
this will give our kids and Community
another space along with some pickleball
courts and some tennis courts there as
well and the areas in Orange would have
some renovation the cafeteria there is
currently a little small so that's the
blue section we would look to expand
that cafeteria out so we can feed our
kids and again I think it would be a
great place for our freshman to thrive
next time
and again this is just a mock-up showing
that it does fit people have said a lot
of you fit 700 kids in there when
there's only 100 kids there currently
well it's because we're not using all
the rooms but we have Auditorium space
in there we have a really great gym
there I think our show was filmed there
at one point I I hear all the time when
I go over there oh they filmed the
reality TV show was filmed there I'm not
sure if I remember the name but
um Loving Hip Hop or something like that
and some show was so good uh next slide
again just more test fit but vancoulier
another school on the opposite side so
we've been also intentional to kind of
hit multiple areas of the city not just
focus on one part of the city of
Schenectady but you can see there some
pictures and some challenges that's
another school that as soon as you get
into that front door you are in the
building there's nothing that secures
you an outsider in from our kids so we
have to address that uh the condition
and exterior needs some work some of the
masonry work we've got this old vintage
meters that are great they're very
historical but they uh they need to be
replaced some of the mechanical system
fire alarm system a lot of things that
we are still running they're working but
they just they're getting to the point
where there's like one engineer in the
whole area they can work on them and
that person the size of the tire we're
in trouble but
next one
uh how Elementary I talked about this
school in terms of the age
um again looks great beautiful but times
have changed you're going through that
front white door there you're in the
building there's no you're in the main
office like you literally walk into the
main office there's nothing stopping you
moving that forward so we want to create
again another secure vestibule and there
was some work done in the past in the
70s I believe there was an addition
added for some additional classrooms
um it wasn't the 70s
redone the redone it in the recent years
yeah yeah it's like a wing that looks
different industry done in 17 minutes
and so there's been some work there but
it really doesn't match the program and
you can see some of the infrastructures
falling you can see some of the uh these
are these cool little gargles that are
there though if you get a chance they're
pretty neat on the exterior but we do
need to have some work tons of
ventilation there's not adequate music
in our classrooms in those buildings
there is a a cafeteria that also serves
as a gymnasium so talk about programming
what the challenge is there right so you
want to think about how do we create
separate spaces it's a tough campus
because we're pretty landlocked over
there given the community that we're in
but we do have some field that we can
look at playing new to redesigning
um so this is one of the other schools
that we we want to Target as well next
winter
page Elementary School everyone loves
Paige right and the one of the furthest
points in the city uh bordering
Niskayuna and you can see that some of
the challenges as well there from the
exterior look at that electric box it's
got the old Circle uh electric
um kind of Breakers and so I don't know
where they would sell those anymore but
I think Brian has a box somewhere to
keep the school electric running but we
have a ton of Windows ton of exterior
Replacements there's some crawl space
there that's technically we have to have
people wear like oxygen tanks to work in
there because there's not enough fresh
air in there and so we're working on
that right now to try to upgrade that
um but it's just a building that's just
over the lifetime is basically exceeding
its life and it's time to you know bring
new life in it bring some upgrades and
it sits in a really important part of
the community
next one time
style King we've talked about this and we have gotten permission from our
board uh we're working on this we're
already going to be putting this as a
proposition for the community to vote
for us to purchase Kane
um for uh let's say two million dollars
so it's gonna be a two million dollar
purchase from St Luke's Parish uh we're
going to put this on as a proposition so
voters will have basically a proposition
to approve the budget proposition to
approve the Schenectady revitalization
plan to borrow up to 300 million and
then there'll be a proposition to
purchase Kane from St Luke's parish for
two million dollars uh we this school is
full we have a little bit under 300 kids
there but we just can't use the whole
building currently because part of it is
the directory section uh within where
the nuns were and so it's just not
um able to be used by children or or
with children in it we can use it for
adults and we have like office spaces in
there but we can't bring kids in there
for counseling or any type of um you
know
um support or who came back classes over
there so it makes part of the building
unusable
next slide
this is kind of what we would envisioned
that we would do if we purchased it the
voters support us we would change the
layout and that blue would be in
addition you would add classrooms to
Kane so that we can fully maximize that
remember I talked to you a little bit
about Lincoln down the street this would
allow us to have more kids in the
community that is very much a walking
Community to enroll in that campus it
would allow us to add more Pre-K seats
in the district which we know is really
high demand
and we would add a better way to drop
students off right now if you're on
Albany Street at like 7 45 good luck
because it is tough between the two
schools and traffic in the street and so
this would allow us to maybe create a
better way to get our kids in safely
parents through the track next one
Lincoln which is again right down the
street Community School also really
important to the work we're trying to do
um and you know we took some of our uh
local media to tour that building with
us to show them some of the challenges
um with the cafeteria the stairwells I I
can't go down the stairwells without
ducking my head because it's just built
for anybody over five foot uh it wasn't
built for anybody over like five feet so
it's great for the elementary not so
much for the staff so they got to duck
their heads in some parts as they go
down the steps but we have a ton of work
to do there as well replacing flooring
doors hardware the pavement is
deteriorating again and it's another
tough place I think we only get like
five buses there but they take up all of
the side street and then all of our
parents are dropping off along Albany
Street which is just really tough so we
would like to change that and increase
parking next slide
Fulton we talked about a swing space
currently on not being used by children
or four children and we would have to
make some upgrades there before we put
kids in there which is why we would
start with both Fulton and steinman's
before we put kids back in there those
buildings would be really good good
shape and
um people would like to be in them and
it would support our ability to use as
high quality swing space as we do work
at other schools so what that would mean
is we'd move the school out put them at
Fulton for the year close how down do
the work over the course of a year maybe
a year and a half then bring them back
to a brand new campus ready to go and
then put another school into Fulton kind
of what I showed you on the timeline
that you saw earlier next slides
everyone
so I always get asked how we pay for
this how do we pay for this because we
serve the community that we serve we
have a maximum cost allowance of about
98 which that means is for every dollar
we borrow 98 of it comes back to us in
the form of aid from the state so 300
million 98 we're going to be responsible
for about 5.5 I'll just Round Up to say
six million dollars okay so uh six
million dollars is what we would be
responsible for and what we've already
built into our general funds through
Capital reserves excelling we've already
got the money here marked aside to cover
that six million as we make the payments
uh again we pay and then we get
reimbursed at a 98
um kind of Maximum costs allowance and
so every school has this every five
years so they we get a dollar value for
every school of what we can borrow
and in that five years that five years
it renews itself so we've been working
with our financial partners again SEI
Architects Terry gillooly who's a Mount
Pleasant alumni he's my CFO he won't do
me wrong right there
Precious on him he's also like an
accountant auditor everyone downstairs
um but uh we've done a lot of good work
pre-work to make sure that this makes
sense
um but I always like to show this
because this is right in our state
regulations and capital Project funding
we're not doing anything tricky here
we're just trying to fully maximize the
fact that our district gets 98 back on
the dollar and um and then you know
as a result of the pandemic we're in a
really different place fiscally and so I
think it's the right time to take uh to
make this move for our kids and
Community next slide there
again zero impact on taxpayers we really
want to emphasize that because at the
end of the day if we impact taxes it can
impact the rents on some of our families
and we don't want anybody to get have a
reason to increase rent or cost but what
you can see is maximum cost of lanes 98
capital reserve we already have a two
percent aside which is about 5.5 million
and then we have an excella which is
about 3.7 million so actually we have
about 9.2 already put aside and so we
wanted to make sure we can demonstrate
that that's in our budget now the board
will hopefully adopt the budget on
Wednesday and we'll be moving forward
um and then I just want to again
highlight some of the ongoing projects
and repairs you're going to see the
tennis courts at the high school being
worked on we're replacing the boiler
already at Fulton we're doing some
abatement a page that I talked about
that there's really low air quality
we're doing some water line work giving
some of the lead challenges that we have
at Washington Irving and we're doing
some kitchen projects and that runs
itself through the school lunch program
that we have which we have a separate
fund of about 5.6 million we're
renovating some of our kitchens in our
elementary schools and various campuses
and then we obviously have some American
Rescue funds that we're using to redo
the Mount Pleasant field of track which
I'll hopefully show you in a second and
then every year we do about a hundred
thousand dollar Capital holiday project
that's always going to happen every year
we're allowed to spend up to a hundred
thousand dollars on on the capital
project it's our own next time
keep going that's just a timeline really
small just kind of show you again I
talked to this about you earlier the
tennis courts next slide term
this is what we're really excited about
this will be breaking ground uh this uh
hopefully at the latest June
um at Mount Pleasant uh where's Matt
school here June I believe is the
timeline is my architect
um one of my Architects he this is
exciting because this is a community
that really is going to benefit I think
extremely from having a New Field New
Turf a new track if you go to Mount
Pleasant track now it is crumbling
deteriorating again no fault to the Zone
there's only so much you can do but
we're really proud to have another field
that we could have athletic competitions
we can host things it's going to be
right in the heart of the Schenectady
Community over there by Mount Pleasant
you we all know that Mount Pleasant used
to be a Powerhouse high school here and
we're excited because we think it'll
bring back some of the excitement we
have a great youth program Here in
Schenectady Belmont um Schenectady Pop
Warner they're going to go crazy over
this field they see it we also have a
food stand that's dedicated for Mr
George Rose who will be rededicating for
him when we is done it'll be in the top
left in the red if we um and you see on
the drawing on the left and so we
already have it uh name firm but we're
going to rededicate it for him in honor
of his legacy and the work that he did
for children and we just think it's
really powerful it's a tribute we're
also going to add visitors C on the
other side right now everyone has to sit
on one side and that's never good when
you're the whole team so we want to put
the visitors on the other side and we'll
put um again the the ability is we'll be
able to host sectional events here and
bring some hopefully
um competitive action and more events to
the Schenectady Community and if you've
ever parked behind Mount Pleasant you
know it's a tough place to park this
expands our parking behind there for our
staff and allows them to have a safe way
to get to the field versus trying to get
through that and so it just it's just
something that needs to be done given
that that's a pretty Flagship campus for
us in Schenectady and we thought it was
important everything in the light green
we own the stuff on the other side of
the green is City proper
hmm
if you want and that's the 890 there if
you if you try to think about visually
where that was we're going to add some
secure vestibules at scla these are just
architectural drawings keep going turn
them same thing with Mount Pleasant
adding some secure vestibules so that
way when parents come in they have a way
to be or not parents anybody comes into
the building there's a way to securely
clear them before they get into the rest
of the campus keep going
Yates we're working on the kitchens we
talked about kitchen renovation so we're
doing some work over at Yates to expand
the kitchen redesign the kitchen make it
more functional for us to serve our kids
adding a walk-in cooler some additional
storage next one
this is Pleasant valleys we're going to
actually double their cafeteria size uh
so that little line in the middle is
where the current wall is we're going to
expand it out and be able to service
twice the number of kids in there at one
time thus making it easier for them to
run lunches
flip their food line around and allow
them to serve some warmer meals to our
kids so this is really exciting for our
kids and teachers and our principals
love this because they can feed more
kids at once and not have to have lunch
at 10 A.M or 10 30. next
this is another thing that we're doing
these playgrounds are starting this this
year as well these are some of these are
separate from the capital
um the Schenectady revitalization plan
and these are some of the schools and
some of the mock-ups we have already to
start and these are ADA Compliant which
again is real important because
sometimes we have playgrounds of kids in
wheelchairs or kids who have you know
different accommodations can't access
next slide
again this is just our timeline for this
so a lot of this stuff is taking place
come towards the end of the school year
moving into next next
and then just questions
sorry I know it was a lot but I want to
be mindful of you guys have a late start
with premium so for yourself thank you
for coming for school board members for
coming in for staff for coming in I'm
sure providing us with this information
I think taxpayers are going to be really happy about this impact although
in the event also the revitalization of
all the campuses I think it's important
and timely so are there questions or
comments is Patrick hi
um I have three questions I think it's
fantastic
um and I'm thrilled with not only this
but also all of the programmatic
initiatives that are underway at the
school district so you know I appreciate
everything that you you and your team
are doing
um in the school district said three
questions
um
one-on-one at a time
um so just this is neither in terms of
the Fulton campus um as a swing during
the um will Fulton then remain open as a
school after the after this entire
project is completed or is that part
yeah so that part of the plan would be
so right now we have a high uh request
for pre-k we are offering Pre-K
four-year-olds yeah there's not
opportunity for us to do three three
year olds there's usually grants and
opportunities yeah we would like to
explore that we know that
um
having a safe place for our families is
important for them to be able to work
and if we can offer that at a younger
age that's important for our families
and residents so ultimately we would
bring it back online as a school at the
tail end of our project but remember we
have this is only a phase of the schools
we would have other elementaries to go
through before we get to that point But
ultimately we would bring it online and
vacant space is usually an invitation
for other parties to establish schools
or potential networks and so we want to
make sure we use all of our space okay
um next um what will happen to the no I
know the culinary arts you mentioned as
a wing at the high school but what would
happen with some of the other activities
that go on currently at the Steinmetz
Learning Academy so they all would fall
into those leadership communities so we
have a business we have steam so
anything else that would translate we
would look to bring them up to the high
school but we also think freshmen need
to have that exposure too as they make a
decision into which leadership Community
they would go into so we probably would
still keep a culinary space at the
steinman's campus okay but allow kids to
get example you know maybe it's intro to
culinary one and then they make a
decision to stay on that pathway you
know maybe they only take it for 10
weeks and the new group of kids takes it
you know we're working on that right now
with course Pathways and electives to
make sure there's a menu of options but
we believe that kids should have like a
almost like an exploratory course and
say Here's AutoCAD for three weeks
here's graphic design for three weeks
here's culinary and then when you go
next year to 10th grade which Community
do you want to be a part of that's I
think that's awesome okay and then
finally this is sort of the big one but
how does um sort of future demographic
data fit into this overall plan so in
other words over the next seven years
um uh is there a projection that a you
know school-aged children
will expand along with the extension of
these of these buildings we've mainly
used most of our kids at the secondary
level that's when they typically either
go to an out of District Charter they
transfer to a private parochial our
elementaries are pretty packed right now
it's mainly middle school and high
school where there's usually uh you know
people use a choice they'll use more
choice at that level we've done a
demographic study we've been about 9 100
for quite some time in Schenectady in
terms of the total enrollment I think if
we do this well enough we'll get some of
those families back but right now we
have about 500 families that go to
Charter Schools
so if you think about it if we were to
absorb 500 we wouldn't be able to take
them we just don't have the space so you
know we'd have 9 600 kids in there we
just wouldn't have the space so part of
the work that we have to do here is add
some classrooms so that we can absorb
them
um and like I said that's why I included
that um census data that was 10-year you
know Schenectady grew I think part of
the charge that City council's been
doing is trying to figure out how to
continue to revitalize this community
you know you've got great developers
like Metroplex trying to figure out how
to bring more businesses and other
entities here and so you know we we
think we want to be a part of that
um you know I'm a firm believer that
people choose communities by their
school districts versus anything else
and so if we're a viable option for
families then hopefully everything else
will fall soon
entire 300 million
Aire that will borrow as the project is
being rolled out
uh superintendent solar definitely thank
you for being here I applaud the efforts
of not only this project but everything
that you're doing and I think it's very
uh important to note the show of support
that's here in the room with you
um definitely I believe that our
community is something that we need to
continually invest in in providing our
Educators and students a matching
environment to learn and grow is
important as you so eloquently
highlighted my question was do you
identify this huge figure that we're
going to invest how do we maintain it
and does that incorporate including more
staff because this is absolutely a
generational investment as you noted
that we hope will last for another 100
years yeah I think we've made
significant investment in staff you know
the board's been keeping me to task on
making sure first of all that we repair
the harm and we laid off all these
individuals in the past the board has
been real that was a priority when I
came in we gave Urban opportunity to
return back that was impacted but what
we've done is we've used ratios and
things of that nature to make sure that
the square footage that we have has the
right number of custodial staff facility
staff to support it and we've done that
like this last two years in our budget
we've been able to get back to a place
where we think we're at
um pretty pretty good standard in terms
of ratio I think the work now is
protecting that and typically Foundation
Aid won't go down you just may may not
grow as much and so right now the
governor did fully fund Foundation Aid
which is why Schenectady I think is
about 30 million in the last two years
has seen
45 in the last week yeah 45 million in
Worlds in our foundation over the last
two years but you don't never they never
typically take away from Foundation it's
just you don't grow and so if we stay at
the ratios that we are now we believe we
can maintain what we have and again as
we sing our work is going to be what
positions do we really need to replace
because they're necessary versus what
are nice to have and that's going to be
the work kind of moving forward right I
just had a second question uh one of my
earlier questions that you accurately
identified was how does this improve
quality of learning for our students and
they can do that really well
um the question I want to ask is how
does this put us in line with some of
our neighboring school districts are we
then in line or are we ahead per se if
that's the right terminology to use but
definitely I think we want to have a
Community School District that we
believe in so where does this put us I
think in some cases it may surpass some
of our neighboring districts but again
remember there's only a we're only doing
about eight campuses of 17 so it's not
all of our buildings but it will start
that journey and if we do this well
enough our some of our campuses will
look better than some of our peers in
the in the region um you know again this
unit right next door to us they got some
buildings there we'll be super excited
to say hey they're going to probably
take the approach in their Community to
say wait a minute they have it we need
to have it as well but
um I can tell you that our high school
if we do this well will will stand alone
as a flagship and if you've seen what
albany's done with their high school if
you've had the opportunity
um we want to make sure that we are
giving our kids a Schenectady the same
exact experience as a large urban
community like all of these given to
their kids thank you
there's a question about transportation
it's going to be going to other schools
and that will impact parents sure so is
there a plan to make sure that the
children have the transportation and you
know they are yeah we must a lot of our
kids uh now that need it for a variety
of reasons and again if we're going to
move somebody out of their walking
neighborhood we're going to have to
accommodate for that the good thing is
our bus transportation if there is an
increase in cost people get 95 back on
Transportation so again because of the
community we serve we have a lot of
um Aid and reimbursable expenses so when
you know again we spend then we'll get
it back the following year so we will
have to be uh aware of that as we move
forward but we don't want to have
someone not attend the school you know
stay with that community and we've done
it in the past year so like how at one
point
um I'm sorry Hamilton lived at Fulton
for a little bit while they worked at
Hamilton and we busted everyone over
there they need to give us most of our
parents who drive our kids because you
know we're on a 10 square miles but if
it's needed we would definitely provide
the transportation thank you for the questions
Sarah I think it's clear that my opinion
might be a tad bias um due to my
proximity to the district but I want to
say that like you know I think it's
important that people understand that
this is not just an investment it's just
like you know creating you know a better
school uh environment for a student but
really what it does is that you know
when I talk to people in community
there's you know people talk about like
workout you know um you know vocational
programs and skills and trades and so
this is really an opportunity nature
that we can do that in a way as a
district that is really really uh
effective and efficient and right now I
think the district does a really good
job of partnering with uh
Community Partners to kind of fill gaps
and and uh for our kids but I think that
this will really
present an opportunity to improve the
quality of Education educational
experience as well as opportunities for
our students like there's a direct you
know coordination there I think that
that's just something that's important
to know
hope to see you uh on the 16th
um
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I'd like to call to order the Public
Safety Committee we have two items on
the agenda tonight first of which is the
2003 non-fail shooting initiative that I
actually discussed by Chief Clifford
thank you very much
I am here to ask the city council to
consider accepting a grant from New York
State Department of Criminal Justice
Services for a non-fatal shooting
initiative grant that we were provided
for the funding will be used to measure
a comprehensive investigation of all
non-fatal shootings which are bullet to
body shooting cases and there will be a
particular focus on circumstances where
victims are uncooperative and so support
the evidence-based prosecution mindset
that is often used in domestic violence
cases
our task force which is already
currently underway will consist of a
police detective a crime analyst from
the Schenectady Police Department a
District Attorney office investigator
attorney prosecutor
the funding which has been allocated
for the time period of April 1st to June
30th is 89 349 dollars
the breakdown is 42 682 for a police
detective
and 46
667 dollars to be used for overtime
associated with investigations
there's no match for this Grant and the
agreement and I correct myself the
agreement covers March 1st through June
30th
and then next uh the next give cycle
which starts July 1st through June 30th
we'll include this as a component of it
thank you any questions or comments
so any um so right now we're in April
this started in March if there were any
costs associated that the department has
already incurred with this
um
how would that be covered
if you've already incurred the cost
prior to us
they're just part of my normal
investigations
in the budget that we have so will you
be refunding will you be putting that
money back if we've spent all the time
already and there's this money because
it's almost June and there's would you
be refunding that back to these
investigations that are already taking
place that are described here yes we can
go back retroactively and we and we will
be doing this going back retroactively
to March 1st and taking every
investigation that we did that involved
a non-fatal shooting and we're going to
give it a project code so that we could
use this funding for that so in essence
uh a good portion of what we've already
spent from March 1st until now will be
refunded into the operating budget for our on budget and that we will have
the remainder to to be used up through
um June 30th
and is there a do you have a number of
that of failed students that have
non-fatal that have taken place from
since March 1st to the other member I do
thank you
so year to date we have three non-fatals
zero fatals last year 2022 we had 15
non-fatals and four fails and in 2021 we
had 22 non-fatals and one fatal
you know most recently on Eastern Avenue
we've had a couple of them
um we had some really good success
stories on those um so the team's
already working very hard and one thing
I wanted to note is that I really don't
want to go into details here but we are
utilizing every tool that you've you've
given us over the last year in these
investigations all the technology that
we're using we're using it to our
advantage to really really solve these
crimes which is uh fruitful so far
any other questions or comments
um so the likelihood in terms of the
next round of funding
um
generally if we've received this funding
in the past is there a high likelihood
that we'd get the funding again and if
not
um you know how would we continue the
work that's being done under the scram
oh you'll be finding out about that soon
but we've already received the funding
award from the state I believe it's in
the 1.2 million dollar range okay and
last year we were in the close to 800
000 range so we're getting approximately
400 000 more to include not only
non-fatal shooting investigations but a
couple other things
um so we're working out all the details
um on that for our our give 10
application that we have to submit in a
couple weeks and hopefully when we get
the award we'll be back here asking for
acceptance of it okay great
congratulations on the brand thank you
John
questions
it's a clarifying question uh if the
council uh the clue or the committee
does pass this request I just want to
make sure that I have it is to accept
the award and chief are you adding one
position to the current Staffing total
so you're adding one detective position
that's not currently in the budget is
that right or
just want to make sure that I have it
that is correct um did I miss that I
know it's in there I just want to make
sure yeah
except the grant award and also add one
police detective position to the current
budget
thank you yes right that is correct
um that that is the request is to add
one to the current budget
um it essentially means up into our
um we'll be adding one in our budget
request
um come this summer
um and we're going to add one
theoretically for this that is fully
funded by DCJS
with that with fringe also thanks dude
any other questions or comments
uh definitely anything it's important or
if you're doing a word to highlight that
and I appreciate what this fantasy or
extended produce department has been
doing is there any ability to make some
of these findings transparent where it's
respective to the work that you're doing
uh definitely I think it's it's
important to credit what is being done
to ensure that these circumstances are
only being done in the most appropriate
Manner and I think the part of our
responsibility is educating the
community about what we're doing behind
the scenes that makes sense it does and
we've been we've been doing a better job
I think about putting uh our press
releases when the work's been done and
violating the work that's been done by
everybody involved and I want to just be
clear that of the District Attorney's
Office uh and the Schenectady County
Sheriff's Department is a is a big plays
a big role in this and they've been
helping us tremendously so we're trying
to put them out put out the information
when it happens
um and especially when we're able to
make an arrest and provide that uh
security and safety to serve communities
um and and also share in the uh who did
the work
thank you thank you so
um Chief it seems like um government
violence is trading down in that
community over the last couple years and
I you know I think that that's a really
a great thing and would you attribute
you know
some of the tactics that'll be
continuing on through this initiative of
that or
I will I do
um we've been we've been working on
of investigating non-fatal shootings uh
taking a deeper dive into them for years
now and I think that's contributed to
the downward Trend that we've been
seeing
um this this is a uh this is a program
that we offer to DCJS and um and they
accepted it and and then a very similar
request that we put in became part of
give 10 so I'm not sure if if we played
a role in that or not but um it
certainly uh is helping with our
community with reducing gun violence
unfortunately it still exists it's very
mobile right now we're seeing it come
from different areas of the Capital
District
so we have to stay on top of it
especially the areas where we're seeing
it most frequently and uh you know
that's what we do we we know we we
respond we investigate and we try to
send a message out there that you can't
come to Schenectady and commit these
defenses without being held accountable
yeah
so is this a part of the um our police
reform that
um that we submitted to the state or is
it going to be edited because I I
understand that's a document that can
continue to be amended is it currently
in there or is it something that you're
considering adding it's part of the
reinvention reinforce no this is not a
part of that and I haven't really
thought about whether we would add it to
it but you know certainly it's uh it's
something we can start talking about in
the same context that we talk about
reform is changing the way that we're
investigating crimes and specifically
addressing the activity that's happening
in certain neighborhoods because we're
not just going to those neighborhoods
solving the crime and leaving
um you know we're we're putting our
technology in those areas we're
assessing those areas to say okay why
did it happen here is there anything we
can change in that community that will
keep it safer in the future whether it's
you know changing the environment
bringing in engineering or adding
cameras or or just obviously adding more
patrols increasing the lighting all
these things
thank you thank you very much thank you
the next item on the agenda is amending
the Schenectady city codes have
Provisions relating to the use of school
bus stop RM cameras there was recently
in public hearing on the 10th of April
at this point we just need to have a
motion to accept the change of code
thank you I actually took a look at this
a bit further after uh speaking with you
president Porterfield I'm actually okay
with the language I just want the
council to be aware that and you have it
here in front of you in your pocket on
page number page nine when it says
penalties for offenses
the amounts in here are Guided by state
law
so State Law changes we will have to
revisit this
in terms of the penalties
um
so I just want you to be aware of that
but the language in um and I took as I
said I took a bit of a deeper dive into
it says we really need to State what the
penalties are we can't just refer to the
state law which was going to be my
initial suggestion we just reflect what
the state law says you know if you want
to know what the penalties are look at
the state law but I think it's better
for us to itemize the penalties but just
with the understanding that we may have
to change the penalties of State Law
changes
thank you thank you any other questions
or comments
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um
all right are there any other items to
fall before Public Safety Committee and
um
uh next I'd like to call it to order the
finance committee there are three items
on the agenda tonight first of which is
a call for hearing to amend the
2022-2023 HUD annual action plan that
I'll be spoken to by Daniel Gray
that's great
good evening everybody
um before you we are looking to move our
Paving allocation over to our Parks
allocation or CVG
um budget that was passed last year um
it's just kind of helped show up money
that was expended on Jerry Burrell I'm
assuming that we'll be able to invest
additional money in parks
any questions or comments
and how much money is it uh 200 000.
so from Paving to Parks yep and we have
a public hearing on March 11th
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uh just looking at the recommendation
here so that I'm aware of it again when
if the council were to approve this the
only announces for a call for public
hearing not to actually
amend it currently because you need to
continue to speak those first and
through a public hearing right okay
thank you
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um so we're looking to
utilize thirty six thousand six hundred
dollars towards
um our annual Tree Project we do
um
we traditionally contract with Community
fathers
so we're looking to do that again this
year
any other questions or comments
again
so yeah we were looking to get the
accounts approval to enter the contract
with Community followers we have the
money allocated I think there was some
miscommunication and we submitted two
different legislative requests that was
by mistake the first one authorized the
money and also asked for if you can't
get a contract we're looking to really
the second one at this point
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so I understand that the money's already
been allocated it's correct the money's
already been allocated you don't need to
make a resolution for that that's
already allocated right you only need to
do the contract item number three number
three correct so two can be struck and
it would just be three
okay so I guess just for formality
moving to the agenda item number three
authorizing the mayor to enter a
contract with Canadian fathers
Incorporated to manage the tree
cleansing library of the program and as
you have stated uh are there any other
questions or comments regarding that
topic
I'm hearing on this other motion I'll
move it second all in favor
are there any other items that are
qualifying somebody
second all in favor all right
I'd like to follow the order of City
development and planning we have eight
items on the agenda the first item is
award bitten contract for the
improvements to hilfers in Fairview
parks Mr walls
hello hi
so we have in front of us the award
bidding contract for improvements to
Hillhurst in Fairview Park we put out a
base bid with three alternates the base
bid came back as a low of 324 thousand
dollars uh the alternates were the
construction of a dog park for 73 000
the renovations to the Fairview Park
tennis facility for a hundred and twelve
thousand and some amenities at the dog
park that came in at 47 000. our budget
for the project is five hundred thousand
dollars so what we're recommending is
that we were at the base bid of
Hillhurst Park and the Fairview Park
tennis improvements
any question just tell me is the uh
bocce ball cart courts and some of the
other improvements around Fairview going
to be a separate Penn State yes all
right
let's practice yeah I'm just highly
supportive of this I appreciate the work
that's been done in both the design
phase as well as getting the bids and
going back and forth so um I appreciate
this and definitely would move it
forward
any other questions are coming
if not I'll understand motion
second I was a favorite
thank you
all right item number two it's just a
reminder
that the Abandonment for the abandoned
portion of Amelia streets at the public
hearing will be um April 24th
item number three also a reminder the
that the abandonment of a portion of
large Street the public hearing will be
held on April okay
um a reminder that on item number four
amending um
248-18 is Schenectady city codes
designated Fuller street from South
Church to South Ferry Street and one way
street and that public hearing will also
be held on the 24th year agenda says 27
so you can just correct that
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the next item on the agenda is a
ceremony resolution we recognizing
Justin our chairs Mr Williams
uh there was recently a Shriners charity
ball and the city of Schenectady and
Justin shares his formal title is the
illustrious potentator from saying that
correctly
Madison
but as the head of the Albany Shriners
and um thoroughly in New York and I was
the youngest and it's from the title I
think is more than the fitting to be
started upon him a ceremonial resolution
and I would like to see that their
support
any questions or comments
oh it's in motion
I'll second all those in favor
the next item is the ceremonial
resolution recognizing I'm not sure how
you praise his first name Brown so giant
brown is a young man uh born and raised
right here in the city of Schenectady
um you know has has really uh worked
really hard he's a professional fighter
um with his record right now he's 13-1
um he
was recently his last fight Airline
Showtime Showbox which is a pretty
significant accomplishment he's an
ambassador for our city when he's
talking about uh
and trials and tribulations that um he
had had to overcome the hard work and
dedication that he had appointed to
um his uh career thus far I think it's
an inspiring message to uh the young
people
um
dreams of making it to the house that he
has so I think that you know he really
embodies the fighting Spirit and the
resiliency of our city so I think that
we should recognize someone you know how
to do something
any questions or comments
oh second all those in favor
aye item number seven is a ceremonial
resolution recognizing Asian American
heritage month which is May 1st through
May 31st so just want to recognize those
in our community
um for the from the aapi community for
their Heritage Month
any questions or comments
I'll take motion I'll move it a second
all those in favor
and item number eight is a ceremonial
resolution recognizing judge Robert
Kaufman who retired
and so we just want to give him a
resolution to you know to recognize all
his years of service to the community
so any questions or comments
a little bit a second all those in favor
aye
um
have a good evening
that's right second
all in favor
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