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Schenectady city council committee to
order for Monday May 1st 2023 and the
first committee is Public Safety device
called Safety Committee to order we have
one item on the agenda for tonight that
is the renewal of Mohawk Ambulance
Service contract and I'll be discussed
by Chief Marina
especially
good evening everyone
uh here this evening to present a
contract from Mohawk Ambulance Service
is one that is uh one we've had for over
20 years if not longer it renewed 73
years
the only difference in this contract as
opposed to the previous one that we're
operating under
I believe it's in uh point 17.
in the previous contract said that
neither party could get out of the
contract with a 60-day written notice
and that has been changed to a 90-day
written notice no other changes
attention any questions or concerns from
the console okay presentation so second
all the favorites uh
are there any other items that are
called for the Public Safety Committee
hanging out with your piece of emotional
Journey second
all those papers today
thank you I would like to call the
finance Community to order the course
item is adopting in 2023 2024 Hub annual
election plan
if public hearing was called an April
returns and we had a certainly come
interior which is over
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would you like to just come into
anything new that happens in the year as
well uh we didn't receive any written
public comments um for the annual action
plan so we're just looking to move it
forward for adoption as proposed
any questions comments
thank you one more item for you no sorry
this is a reminder for public hearing to
amend the 2022 2023 annual action plan
public hearing a schedule for May 8th
that's next week Monday
any comment on that or this is just a
reminder just a reminder
thank you any other businesses for
finance
may have a motion to adjourn second all
in favor bye thank you I'd like to call
the waters to development and planning
we have 12 items on the agenda uh the
first oh first there's a call for public
hearing for Hamilton Hill resorting Miss
DIA
yes so um we are requesting to rezone an
area of Hamilton Hill from R1 to R2 and
this is the land that's between Hamilton
Street Schenectady Street Strong Street
and parts of Summit Ave and bumper
Street
um so the area is currently zoned as R1
but it contrasts what's with what's
physically present
um in the zone so a majority of the
housing is actually two family
structures so the the R1 zoning kind of
prohibits
um development in the area and the ReUse
of the structures there given the
limitation of a two-family structure
having to be a single family home
um so I think this was done back in 2007
um and we've just seen the impact of
that you can see in the map I don't know
if it's in color but the the R1 area is
basically surrounded by R2 zoning so
it's really only those couple of blocks
that are R1 and over time we've just
seen the impacts of that and the
limitations with how the properties can
be used how we can look at reinvestment
in the neighborhood working with our
nonprofits and other partners in just
the general revitalization of Hamilton
Hills so this has been something that's
been discussed for a long time and we're
finally bringing it forward and we're
looking forward to the future of of the
property there when we kind of match the
zoning to what the structures of housing
currently are
I was just going to say so the first
thing would be to call for the public
hearing for the reasoning of the R1
single family zone between Hamilton
Street and Strong Street
any questions
sorry Mr Williams
um like parking or any uh increases in
vehicles in those areas it would be
pretty similar to again what's
surrounding
um and we don't see really any issues
with with parking
um there's actually some data that
supports that 40 of households don't own
a vehicle so they're actually taking
public transit and walking and biking
and things of that nature thank you
all right I'll move it just a second
all right thank you uh okay Mr lead
agencies for the um Seeker in opening a
30-day comment period for the Hillary
zoning
yep so related to that item this is just
the city council declaring um the intent
to act as a lead Agency for the Seeker
review
um and the call for the public hearing
to determine the environmental
significance of the project
are there any questions
stay in motion so second how was the
paper all right and item number three
referral of the Hamilton Hill zoning
changes to the Planning Commission
yes um referring this zoning Amendment
proposal to the Planning Commission for
a recommendation it would be on the May
17th agenda for this month's Planning
Commission meeting
are there any questions
item number four authorize the mayor or
his Destiny to enter into an agreement
with the New York State Department of
Transportation for Franklin Street cycle
tracks and your Schenectady Franklin
Street do not Terrace the J Street Mr
Wallen thank you uh so the city of
Schenectady received federal aid money
to study and install a cycle track or
something not Terrace and Clinton Street
directly behind me Jason City Hall we
have an agreement with cha this is an
agreement with the dot so that we can be
reimbursed up to 95 of the costs
associated with the design
other questions
and number five award-winning contract
for the Congress Street retaining wall
replacement
sure
um Congress Street adjacent to the
Dunkin Donuts in the former Bike Shop
which is now a essentially a kitchen
renovations store the wall there is
failing and has been braced we've been
working with the new property owner on
it we have a temporary easement to enter
and a permanent easement as the
retaining wall is going to extend out
farther onto their property probably
approximately five feet from where it is
now we solicited received four bids the
low bid was reichenberg Contracting we
have worked with rifenberg before
rifenberg did a lot of work on Erie
Boulevard previously we haven't worked
with them recently but
the price is uh under our budget and I
have no reason to believe it won't be
able to perform the work are there any
questions
take motion so second all those in favor
item number 60 would be in contact for
the Forest Road intersection Improvement
so this is two intersections on Forest
Road we did a project similarly on
Forest and Francis last year where it's
essentially a road diet project we'll be
removing the existing two small
landscape circles narrowing the
intersections and installing crosswalks
this is essentially also to complement
our Craig Street Mount Pleasant Brook
that we're doing some of our linkage
studies
we had three bids we're going to be
looking at doing the the base bit and
Alternate one alternate one is the pave
the corridor one we've done we had an
alternate two for curbing however given
the cost and the lead time associated
with curb
to just do alternates uh the Basin
alternate
any questions
clarification on same motion so second
that was in favor
number seven uh work bin contract for
replacement Kings Road Bridge over cfcsx
Amtrak this is a older project federal
aid that we've been talking about the
weight replacement of the king's Grove
Bridge we went out to bid for this for a
standard period of 30 days as required
by state contracts we got four bids all
from reputable contractors with oil
being wind construction we have not
previously worked with wind but they are
local and they have done a lot of work
in the area and with people that I work
with consistently they have been
recommended and their bid was sent to
the dot for concurrence I will be
getting that soon and then you'll end up
seeing me come back with an agreement
some more to Franklin Street to
the funding for the reimbursement for
the project so I will be back here again
for this it is well within budget our
budget for the project was somewhere in
the six and a half million dollar range
so they came in but that doesn't include
we have construction inspection in here
which
is so a project came with a budget
schedule wise we're putting it out now
with the intention of getting all of our
shop drawings which is our review
process done getting our steel ordered
and really starting the project next
year first thing in the spring since the
bridge is open it should be but what we
don't want to do is we don't want to
have a situation where we
close the bridge and then have a winter
shut down we want people working the
entirety of the time as the bridge is
closed because there is no detour The
Detour Biz ad tour there is no partial
closure of the bridge to do it so what
we're looking at doing is I mean if the
contractor says that they can get it
done this year and we will welcome it
but right now just given the lead time
on materials we're thinking it'll be a
spring to summer project straight
through with no shutdowns in between
nine questions
okay item number eight uh word bin
contract for the North Center North
Center Street reconstruction yep
um this is a smaller complete streets
project that we're doing
um North Center Street a little Jug
Handle Street between union uh Union
business district and the Little Italy
business district
um we closed a rail underpass there
we've also seen some issues doing the
flooding we have some sidewalk and some
parking issues there's been some
development in that area
where the people there have asked us to
look at that street
Metroplex is actually I don't have that
I just got commitment from them
Metroplex is going to cover the cost of
these sidewalks on the project so we are
selling and mou with them for 114 000 of
this cost and they wanted me to bring
that up so I'm working on that right now
with David Hogan camp and Ray Gun
the bid was slightly over our estimate
however the bids were so tight within
4000 of each other that it is what it is
the market is is what it is and I don't
feel a reason that we don't have
anything that we can a Magic Bullet
where we could say that we're going to
you know lower these by substantial if
we were to rebit it so Congress Street
retaining wall came in a little low this
came in a little high
balances out
any questions
because I assume that's just a typo in
the cover memo where the recommendation
is to enter in a contract with wind
construction service so it should be
just counting Counting it's probably
left over from the other resolution so
where do you uh way down oh down here
yep we'll change that for the council
meeting thank you
thanks mayor
all right
the correction a little bit second all
those in favor
um thank you thank you all right I think
that's it thank you very much
uh item nine on the agenda it was to
authorize the abandonment of the portion
of Amelia Street we did have a public
hearing on the 24th we had one person
that came to speak and I believe he's
still in favor of that
portion of a large Street in the public
hearing again was held on April 24th no
one came to speak
salt into the motion
a second all those in favor all right
and item number 11 amending 2418 of the
Schenectady city code to designate
Fuller street from South Street to South
Church Street to South Ferry Street and
one-way Street and again the public
hearing was held on April 24th and no
one came to speak about that
same motion so second
paper does you have a question no thank
you
um there is the addition the next item
is actually going to be for executive
sessions so before that I would like to
um
thank you to ask
this May's mental health month so we'd
like to ask there would be a ceremonial
resolution given to the local group um
for that so I would need to ask the
committee if they would entertain that
so second all's in favor all right thank
you and item number 12 for sale is the
sale of 91 Division Street
which is uh would have to be an
executive session
so at this time I asked for a motion to
recess so moved sorry all those in favor
um we're recessed
um I'd like to call claims to order we
have four items on the agenda um and all
four would be uh things that we need to
discuss in executive session so I would
like to ask for something
I'm sorry do you need to stay where they
are yeah the four items I would
recommend they go into executive session
that has to do with ongoing litigation
and or claims uh And discussing it in
open section could impact and impair our
ability to resolve these matters
do you want me to read them out loud no
okay
so I'd like to get a motion to go into
that recession
um I'll second it all in favor okay
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