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meeting for Monday June 5th 2023 the
first uh
committee is finance
don't see Mr Flora oh okay
there he is
thank you I want to call the finance
committee's Arda and the first item in
the presentation of the 2022 audit
acceptance Mr Ferrari
good afternoon Madam president city
council mayor we heard today we have a
presentation from one of the partners
and owners of kuzak and Company or
independent Auditors for the cities
connecting who audited our books this
year he's going to do a presentation and
I have right for me uh the financial
statements right here last year I sent
it to you early and then you guys all
forgot to bring them so this time I
bring It Forward
John I'm going to pass these out and
then you will speak
okay
thank you
some reading material for tonight
all right well uh thank you all for
having me here tonight just wanted to
start off by saying thank you to Tony to
the rest of their staff at the city here
about South turn the audit especially
towards Nelson who was our primary point
of contact during the audit
um our ultimate responsibilities during
the audit is to be able to issue an
opinion on your financial statements as
to whether they're materially stated and
whether they're in compliance with
General accepted accounting principles
otherwise known as CAD so our audit
takes place in three main phases the
first uh main phase of our audit is the
pre-order phase which takes place in
December so during this time what we're
doing is we're reviewing your internal
Patrol processes we're testing those
internal control processes we perform
variants of budget analysis we review
the city council meeting minutes and we
also include our internal risk
assessment procedures
uh the next is our audit field work
phase which takes place in December we
use the information gathered during our
pre-order phase to develop our audit
programs and verify that your account
balances appeared materially stated and
the third and final main phase of our
audit is the reporting phase this is
where we review the financial statements
that are prepared by our senior
accountant and we report on the final
results
so the financial statements that you
have in front of you these are a seven
to six page documents overall and
they're broken up into several major
parts so the first major part of your
financial statements on page one through
seven this is the Management's
discussion and Analysis this is a
required on audited section of your
financial statements it summarizes your
operating results and also your other
financial statement highlights pages
eight through ten this is your
independent honors report this is where
we issue our opinion on financial
statements I am pleased to say that we
have once again issued an unmodified
opinion on your finish statements so
this is considered the highest level of
insurance that we can give you it's
considered a clean report we have no
reportable findings or interior issues
one important thing to note about your
financial statements is that these are
on the fun level and account group basis
only exclusive of the non-current
governmental asset accounts so these are
not full Gabby 34 compliance statements
they're on the fun level only so we're
issuing our opinion on one level
uh Pages 11 through 13 these are your
governmental fund balance sheets and
statements of Revenue expenditures and
changes in fund balance approximated
operating results for the year ending
1230 122. the general fund had a surplus
of 2.6 million dollars water fund at a
deficiency of one million dollars the
steward fund has Surplus 14 000
Recreation fund surplus of 248 000
special grants and revenue funds surplus
of 23 000 and capital projects had a
surplus of 2.5 million which was
primarily because of your proceeds from
serial Bond issuance and band reductions
so the main contributing factors to the
general fund Surplus and these are
approximated sales tax revenue exceeded
your budget by 2.3 million dollars
Casino revenues exceeds expectations 800
000. prior year of taxing collections
these exceeded expectations by 3.1
million
Insurance recoveries exceed Expectations
by nine or forty thousand mortgage tax
revenues these exceeded your
expectations by 560 000 and your federal
Arco funds that were utilized during the
year 2.3 million
overall we feel that management does a
very good job managing your reserves
overall fund balance in the general fund
eighteen point nine million dollars in
2020. 6.4 million dollars of that was
restricted uh the details of your
restricted and assigned fund balances
these are on pages 51 to 52 with the
notion status
your band borrowings decreased by 461
000 during the year primarily for a
principal repayment and conversion of
cereal bonds uh New York State EFC
borrowings these increased by 2.4
million
uh serial Bond debt decreased by 1.1
million for a repayment and refundment
uh we're going to finish savings as well
you will see a decrease of 9.4 million
dollars in the city in the city net
pension liability for the underfunded
ERS and pfrs doing gas for statement 68
or required to put these items into your
financial statements at their actual
evaluations
balance of end of the year 4.3 million
dollar liability for police and fire
retirement
ERS was actually the asset of 3.6
million dollars per year to 2022. Total
liability this is your other
post-employment benefits decreased by 65
million dollars to a 261 million dollar
liability overall on page 14 that's your
custodial fund this is required by
Jasmine statement 84. this reports the
property taxes by other governments to
die every minute
Pages 16-58 these are the no serial
financial statements I wasn't going to
go into any major detail on disease but
if you're not comfortable with the face
of financial statements or financial
statements in general notes are a very
good read highlight the significant
accounting policies of the city and also
the material account balances that
appear on the face of the college
students
pages 59-65 is your required
supplemental financial information
budget actual reports ERS and pfrs
pension asset liability detail and also
the full Tech detail and related ratios
on pages 66 through 76 this is the
federal single audit since the city
expanded awarded 750 000 in federal
funding during the year you are required
to have What's called the federal single
audit
um total thorough expenditures for the
year with 14.1 million dollars we are
required to rotate our major program
selected every third year so this year
the major programs are allotted where
your Community Development block grant
and also our funds we noted no material
weaknesses and no significant
deficiencies within the same audit we
were also able to issue an unmodified
opinion on your single audit it's a very
good report clean with no Finance no
reportable issues
your Arbor funds are required to be
obligated by December 31st 2024 and
expanded by December 31st 2026 currently
the city at year in 2022 was 49 million
dollars we're going to spend in our
point that must be obligated and
inappropriated by that time period so
the general fund Surplus and operation
shows the city has has continued to
improve so from an accounting standpoint
it felt that the conventional patrols
were very good and the city is uh the
cities accounting information is
reliable
uh one additional item that you will see
in the pack that you have is our post
governance letter this is considered our
management letter or require
communication at the end of the audit we
did have one recommendation during the
year and this has to do with your
Municipal voucher bills they're
outstanding your previous years we feel
that these are being reported properly
of the financial statements but we do
have some other items that we give
recommendation to um either consider
writing these off the rest of
collections or you know some find some
other means either collect these items
or just allow them accounting staff to
get these books
uh the only remaining item that we have
for the audit is the federal census form
it's from sfsac it's required to be
fired filed with the federal government
that report to your federal funds that
were expended and bought in during the
same allotted so that's the last
remaining item that we have for the
audit if there's any questions on the
audit process in general and what kind
of what we're getting kind of quick but
um if there's any questions I can take
them at this point on the audit results
or the odd process in general
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thank you
any questions
all right we're just getting a chance I
am having a chance we just got it so I
have any questions for you right now no
that's okay
um so Mary what happened to you last
year is going to do the summary of the
operating results that that might be
helpful to you what I can do is also
send that again you know two or 50 cents
the entire city council I haven't take a
look at it and we're gonna go with age
you in going through the financial
statements to you know the major
highlights essentially the cloaking yeah
all right thank you very much
oh
uh the finance department where I
requesting to pass this tonight except
the audit if you don't mind
that way we have certain nutrients
moving forward clearly has any questions
do the summary and be able to get you
and the answer is during the next week
if there are points that come up that
people want detailed info
further explanations and the reason for
this is that we have this time limit to
send things to different parts of
government and we have certain number of
ways right that our audit has to be
complete and accepted by that's why
we're asking to move it along forward
so we can hit make all our dates for all
our agencies
hey John goodness Tony scribes so we do
have we do have a limited amount of time
from the end of our audit so the
substantial completion of our field work
until the finalization of the audience
is financial statement so I think there
is still some time to go over results
and if there's any questions I think
that's you know that could be
appropriate if that's
um
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additional time to go over this uh send
questions back to me if there's any
concerns as you're going through the
audit
um
the overall I feel that they're in very
good shape I feel that you know the
numbers in there are they're very clean
it's a very good report
um so I don't think there's anything to
preclude you from accepting them tonight
but if you if you wanted that additional
time
okay any other comments
can you come in yeah I well I would once
I'm looking more I mean this is the
first I've seen I'm and nothing I don't
believe you
but the given you said the fact that
it's just timeline if not then we could
have passed it and then you know if I
had any questions anytime but if you
think there's
um no I absolutely think it could pass I
think you could pass it tonight if
you're two weeks after that that's what
it is so you know I know I'm kind of
going back and forth with different
things so there's a time I would be more
of like you're reading another one oh
you know everybody
process that moves it to full Council a
week from now so if you hold it two
weeks it would actually be a three weeks
that's that's why we're asking and if
there's anything in between that time
period you could handle that yeah I
don't anticipate any material changes so
I would be looking more for material
changes large changes in numbers that
would substantial
all in favor thank you thank you very
much
the next item is contract
let's Porterfield
uh yes so I asked Mr Ferrari to give us
to follow where we are with The Arc of
contacts in terms of what has been
signed looked at the door
what's where we are the steps to those
that have an answer
again hello everybody uh I I think it
was two or three weeks ago that I think
it made the middle of May there's really
has not things have not changed since
the middle of May but we do have three
contracts in place
for the YWCA of capital needs the
Bethesda house uh Carey's house and a
safe Inc for critical needs we have
three in place and we have a
three off uh in the pipeline we have
this connecting Foundation we have the
bcni and the Hamilton art centers with
the planet is that we're having we you
know we just lost what you know one of
our main guys Dan Gray who moved on and
so I'm in the process of taking it over
uh and what the plan is to do is uh by
starting in the next couple days and
during the week I'm actually going to be
emailing calling and working with all
the all the agencies and companies that
we've had given the grants through to
see where they are because we did uh ask
them to deliver us some pre uh
pre-contract uh
reports so I'm going to contact them
we're going to see where they are with
that and then I'll have a gig I'll be
able to personally give you a better
idea where we are with that uh you know
we're looking we're looking at uh you
know time's running out I mean we have
some things in August and then in
September by September all our
contingencies are are going to be more
often going away I just one of the
things that I've noticed as I was
looking through everything is uh you
know we're starting to get a lot of
these organizations are getting uh
prices on what the projects that they
you're doing and as you know as we're
going through this with our the city
projects the cost of actually doubled
so one of the things we're going to have
to think about is
are we going to be able to afford to pay
these agencies when they come in and
they didn't get funded enough so that's
something I just want to just keep them
back in mind of something that we need
to do or how we're going to do it going
forward
Kristen would you like to add anything
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any any questions
you wanted to add you wanted to know how
much we spend is so we spent so far
right so far as we spent about 4 million
I got that number right here
so far we've spent four million
9793.96 and the bounce uh that we have
left in harpa that's free and clear I
mean without
any you know concerning if every project
goes through we have
792 768.52
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a couple of weeks ago when you were
talking about
um that you the government might be
talking about unexpended funds correct
so can you is have you heard anything
more can you stop uh and as you know
they just recently passed the debt
ceiling limit and one of the main things
out of that up to the last day they were
going to call back funds uh I think at
the final the you know as we're reading
the past Congress was not it does not
include touch any of the Earth but I I'm
thinking going forward you know that's
something that's going to come back
again so I just that is the reason why I
want to contact all the agencies I want
to get our you know try to get all our
money in a row I want to get it all uh invested and I wanted to all work for
us
okay thank you
I know you're mentioning providing us an
update from your emails calls and just
in general what can we expect
like I said I'm going to start this week
uh and uh I figure it's going to take me
at least two weeks to get through
everybody so I don't want to I'm going
to get it all done so I can report back
I don't want to like do half and then
come back in the Poor Dad so maybe maybe
buy the next console media we'll have
that ready I'm sorry that's my goal
thank you and again a lot of these
agencies uh they're reluctant to uh to
talk about or get this stuff to it so
hopefully I can get to everybody yeah
thank you any other questions
thank you thank you for your detail well
thank you very much oh we're gonna
happen would you like to have it back in
two weeks okay yeah
motion to return so
all in favor all right thank you Council
Holy City development and planning we
have 17 items on the agenda the first
item is ceremony resolution for flying
neighborhood for Flag Day Miss Patrick
yes June 14th is Friday
um we've been doing this resolution for
the last several years and um hopefully
if this passes through we're gonna have
someone from the county uh the new
executive director of the county
Veterans Affairs is going to come in
except the resolution in a couple of
weeks
I move this second all's in favor
next item number two is cerebellum
resolution recognizing the celebration
of Juneteenth so we all know um
Juneteenth we'll be celebrating here in
the city of Schenectady
um starting the weekend I believe of
this it's on the first days on the 16th
so I'm just asking that we have a
ceremony resolution to present at the
event that will be held in Central Park
on that weekend
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okay all those in favor aye
and the third one is a ceremony
resolution recognizing Sergeant Robert
Becker who as you know has worked with
the Vets Organization for a long time he
is not in good health but they are doing
it they are honor doing him for honor of
that so we'd like for the city council
to have a resolution there
hi
okay item number four secret
determination uh Hamilton Health
rezoning to R2 to family residential
public hearings was on 522. hi Mr hi
good evening everybody
um this request is related to the rezone
that we brought a few weeks back
um for Hamilton Hill and rezoning the R1
area to R2 so the first item would be to
for the council to adopt a negative
decoration declaration for Seeker this
is a determination of non-significance
any questions
a little bit
a second all those in favor bye hey I am
number five resulting organ coordinates
for Hamilton resulting our two two
family District the public hearing was
on 5 22.
um same reason and this is just
um recommendation for the city council
to pass the ordinance to change the
zoning District of 27 Acres from our one
single family
um to our two two family
are there any questions
second all those in favor
item number six 23 20 23 2024 Hub
continual care definition of white wmca
Yep this request is related to our the
annual funding that we received from HUD
for the Continuum of Care Project in
partnership with the Capital District
YMCA so this is to provide permanent
housing and supportive services to
homeless people with disabilities and
their families
um and so we are just requesting the
city council to approve the annual HUD
COC contract for the YMCA allocation and
authorize to enter a contract with the
YMCA for this purpose
or any questions
second all those in favor
item number seven demolition of 715
ranking Avenue
yes so um this this project we're
excited to discuss the 715 Rankin Ave
it's a blade Warehouse that is
non-conforming with the current zoning
District which is our one single family
so this property has been listed for
sale since 2021 we've never gotten an
offer that was a viable you know use for the property
um it's been vacant for many years and
working with our partners at the land
bank and Habitat for Humanity we're
looking to demolish the structure and
partnership with the land bank and then
Habitat for Humanity is looking to
subdivide into three lots to build three
um single-family homes for the
neighborhood so this is something that
we're really excited about to have a use
here and to provide just a better use in
the neighborhood which is the R1 single
family District so we do have our
partners here if anybody has further
questions
um but the first request is just for the
demolition of
um of the building which would be done
by by our partners at the land bank are
there any questions
it's a great opportunity second
all those in paper
okay and number eight sales 715 Rankin
Avenue so once the demolition is
completed
um this would be to authorize the sale
of 715 rank into Habitat for Humanity in
the amount of three thousand dollars
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item number nine is for the sale of 1012
Eastern Avenue
thank you you're welcome uh 1012 Eastern
Avenue the city is on since August of
2017.
um it's located in a two-family or two
district and it is a private class super
as well we are looking to sell this
property to Habitat for Humanity who
will convert it to a single family unit
which will also be rehabbed and then
as well in the amount of one thousand
five hundred dollars
any questions a little bit second I have
a question I was just wondering why um
we we had the um
the announcement of this before it came
before the council
it was a press conference last week and
then we hadn't gone through this process
yet
just messaging the deal that is being
put in place
so that particular this particular
property originally had a resolution for
sales to credit or Community Land Trust
for the purposes also for uh owner
occupied since the merger of bcni we did
change around some of our projects and
so when habitat did I mentioned that
they had interest in using doing this
particular project it was something that
we presented to the mayor in order to
you know talk about the successes of
this new project I think quality I'm not
a question that process but it's just
that we had the announcement before it
actually went through the council so
all right thank you thank you any any
other questions
it's a different one okay no it's the
same one but uh second all those in
favor
all right item number 10 to authorize
the issuance of a reloadable permit
number 675 to 101 State Street
so well
I'm going to attempt to go digital so oh
all right so uh revocable permit uh for
uh 101 State Street which was the old
Campbell house but I think it is the
current Campbell house but that's what
it's known as uh the two signs that are
there for uh are for a tattoo parlor in
an art shop they both went through
planning or meet with planting purple
other questions
second all those in favor
excuse me and number 11 authorized the
mayor or his Destiny to enter a joint
agreement with Metroplex
for the North Center Street
reconstruction
so last cycle came forward was North
Center Street award uh I said that in
that time that we were booking a partner
with Metroplex on this project for what
we typically do in business areas with
sidewalk work
and now they have passed into their
board we have a grant agreement in place
so now we're looking to accept the grant
agreement authorize the mayor to sign
the grammator
and David looking for Metroplex is here
to run any questions so you said
something about sidewalk so they're
doing the entire sidewalk in front of
them
this project is going to be uh semi a
complete streets project we are going to
be doing curb and sidewalk
um however
you know sidewalks are a controversial
thing so to speak and you know for our
residents we usually want our residents
to do a petition and then pay for them
out of pocket so uh you know
conversations with Metroplex have came
to be that you know for the most
Equitable and fair of things for all
residents is that if we're going to do a
downtown business development and
sidewalks are involved that the city
would do curbing roadway we're doing
drainage on this project all the things
that we would expect the city to do but
then when it comes to sidewalks which we
some mostly put on the residents
Metroplex offers us these Grant
agreements this is very similar to what
we did on South Church Street where
Metroplex in the city did that project
as well so that
um that we kind of have this Equity so
that we can say that we're you know
talking out of both sides of our mouths
when it comes to oh it's always downtown
it's always development so we have a
Development Authority we're partnering
with them to get you know projects done
like this which I think has been very
successful
okay any other questions how about this
second all's in favor
um I'm number 12 award-winning contract
for the 2023 Schenectady chips Paving
program yeah no this one
um I noticed that the backup did not
transfer and I'm not sure why
so I printed out back up for this for
everyone
pass it around
um actually
uh
sure so I'll give you a minute to look
but we did get several bids for the pro
for the project
um and the bids were competitive
um
the numbers were uh fairly competitive
and they were within our estimate
um this is a program that we fund uh
solely with our state money which is
Chip's money we get several allocations
which we actually accepted I think the
last cycle those were the chips paper
potholes uh State Route touring money
then we have emergency winner recovery
money so we accepted roughly four
million dollars from the state we also
had a little bit of a surplus we also
Bond some money but we're not going to
try to use that right now so we are
looking to authorize the base bid and
Alternate one alternate one is the
paving at the wastewater treatment plant
or our water recovery facility we've
seen a lot of construction in that
facility and commissioner will fund
asked that we add that to payment
program to pave the area now that the
construction has been completed
other questions
I'll second it all those in favor
okay excuse me item number 13 uh we've
been contacted North College Street
Rehabilitation Newcastle Community
so this one I apologize some of the
backup that I wanted did not make it as
well because I just did not have time to
get it to you so I understand
uh I we'll just talk about it first this
is the for College Street sidewalk
Assessment program
um so we went forward and we you know
worked with the property owners put
together
um
the bin package this one will get a
little bit different we actually have
each individual property owner with our
own little piece of drawing in there we
haven't done that before just to try to
make it more easy for people to digest
and then under the new program what
we're going to be doing is taking their
own near feet of Frontage plus their
lead walks and adding that together and
then multiplying that by the 55 dollars
per foot that was approved and that will
be the no number that is assessed that
is what did not make it I actually have
it I just
did not put it in that was my fault I am
going to distribute that and try to work
with Diane Runkle who's been leading it
on the street in some of the
neighborhood residents that we're
working on to kind of show them what the
cost would be
um I kind of I'm kind of in a gray area
here how we want to move forward with
this though do we want to have them
approve anything or are we moving
forward with it and the assumption that
everyone's going to pay because they did
the petition I just want to make sure
that we're in step with our next point
of this because this is something that
they're going to be assessed the cost
and they haven't seen the cost yet
hmm
so should we update them on the cost
again
is it a mailer is it I guess that's what
how many houses or how many families you
know
how many people are we talking about
there's roughly 20 on each side there's
an apartment unit there a large one um
you know there are some changes that
people view but I'd say right around 40
but again under the new rules where it's
going to be the fixed cost per foot it's
not like there should be big surprises
or people or
the residents in this neighborhood all
were expecting no assistance
um and the fees were quite High when we
were talking with them
um now that it's a set price at 55.
they're thrilled that they're actually
getting some sort of assistance from the
city
um yeah I think we move forward I think
it's important to tell them what their
exact costs are whether they're let it
but I think it's also important to move
forward because this has been several
years in the making and I think they're
very much looking for that
it's making me
that's what I usually do
they're not they're aware of the 55 but
they're not aware of the actual like I
haven't given them the document I have
the document but I was waiting for the
bids and I have not distributed it and
I've kind of got a lot of pots on the
fire here and I just did not get to that
step yet before this one but they know
what they're possibly basically they do
not know at this time because I haven't
distributed that sheet it's an Excel
spreadsheet similar to camp in Ardsley
Road I've created it it was meant to be
in here but it didn't make it into here
and then I was going to distribute it
okay but they do know that the 55 they
know that they just don't know correct
they will estimate their footage but and
chair the one area the council still has
to decide on is what we offer the
residence is upon completion of this the
homeowner can pay the full bill so
uh with the tax bill at the end of the
year or enter into a financing mechanism
over some period of time which is still
at the discretion of the council so that
you're going to have to decide uh it's
going to be 10 years is it 15 years
uh so there may be some comments from
the residents that they want a shorter
period they want a longer period
and I did speak with commissioner
Ferrari we have known 10 years
right but we haven't talked about by
extending it to a minimum 15 maybe
because the life of the concrete is
longer than 15. all right so we'll need
to take that up Mr motivara so yeah I
have to agree in terms of modifying them
so they actually have a way around the
real cause
um 10 years we have actually given 10
years to be out of two four three
projects I suggest I mean we do the same
10 years and they can come in and pay
off you know before that your time oh
yes we need to notify that okay despite
the fact because it's 55 let them know
the exact positive 55 a week
so it is time to
um we need a motion to move it forward
so second all those in favor
uh item number 14 award-bidden contract
for the Central Park a diamond lighting
okay this was a harpa allocation 500 000
to install
Collegiate level lighting at the a
diamond as most of you probably recall
we used to have lightning on the a
diamond it was outdated non-functioning
lighting we've decided to upgrade it and
we have engaged with cha sports and
recreation they put together a bid
package which we put out the bid was
higher than the arpa funding 716
thousand dollars we did get three bids
two of the bids were quite uh close one
of the bidders was the pool electrician
who wanted to bid it and they were
actually the second bidder so stilson
does the majority of electrical work in
the area like this that usually do
signals and things like this and the
third bit I would guess is almost like a
fishing attempt if you're going to pay
me terrific I'll do the work but you
know you can see that number
um
we don't think that this is a you know
this is the market price number we think
the only way to save money over
something like this was to be to
redesign and go to a high school level
of lighting however we think that that
limits us because if we are Collegiate
level that opens us up to what we have
now which is Brian Stratton it offers us
a Sienna Union College who we've you
know with with like at one point
discussed coming back so
um we do have a capital fund that we set
up uh for facility work that has enough
capacity to cover the balance
so if you're okay with it we'd like to
move forward with this
question
all those in favor bye
item number 15 award bitten contract for
the Michigan Avenue ball field uh
baseball field wall okay this um is a
project that is a conglomerate project
it is both arpa and a little bit of
thriving neighborhoods done with the
Schenectady foundation so this was
originally uh put in for the you know
arpa with a little bit of that which is
that the Schenectady Foundation has
awarded them some money to when we are
done with this project and creating this
level area off of Norwood they will come
in and put picnic tables or Pavilion as
a gathering space for the Little League
we did it as a base bid with an adult
but we decided to go with the base bin
because it's a it's you know we're a
municipality so things get a little bit
more than you pay for if you were doing
it privately but we do see the Merit in
this the wall will be about chest high
for 100 feet long Norwood Avenue it'll
allow them to level out the top it'll
have a decorative fence and they're
going to look to like I said grade the
top of it and then put some of the
numbers in recognition of previous ball
players that have played there in Maloy
we've worked with them before they've
been a great contractor we got several
bits so we're comfortable moving forward
are there any questions uh well the
second I wasn't there
um
item number 16 discussion waiver of
apprenticeship requirement for the gulf
irrigation installation Contracting so
uh I'm in a position now where we are
designed and ready to move forward with
the bid package for the uh scooties golf
course the issue that we are running
into is a conflict of we would like to
we have in our bid spec qualifications uh you have to have done
this in the past we like someone that
has done Golf Course irrigation for five
years who's installed you know a minimum
of five irrigation systems in the past
and the issue we have is that this is
specialty work on the contractors that
we're hoping bid one is in New York
state one is in Pennsylvania one is in
Nebraska those are the three main
players for it the work does not
necessarily fit into a common trade I
did talk with the New York State
Department of Labor they said that there
is irrigation mentioned under
um specialty craft and laborers however
in that definition which I I should have
brought to show you it's under
Landscaping so it's in the building
section so essentially you know building
parking lot grass bushes landscaping and
then it says under their irrigation this
in my interpretation is not that this is
a golf course irrigation it has data low
voltage communication since it's low
voltage communication it does not
require an electrician that would have
if if it had required an electrician we
wouldn't have then we could have used an
electrician this is low voltage lines
the system is actually going to be it's not even comparable to the system
that we have now each head will be
individually programmed so we can put
water on the course at any point it's
all linked to a computer software
backend program
um it'd be amazing if we had it in now
because the course is dry and we're
having issues keeping the course green
right now with our manual system but
that is what I wanted to talk with you
about is that we haven't required we
haven't done this much but we haven't
had many specialty projects like this so
kind of wanted an open divertic
discussion around this
um I'll second it all those in favor aye
thank you thank you
uh item number 17 a sale of 2315 van
Rankin Avenue
and that would be an executive session
okay
so at this time ask for a motion to
recess it's in developmental planning so
it's like a all those in favor bye
um next up is claims we have one item on
the agenda and it too needs to be in
executive session so I'll look for a
motion to go into executive sessions
okay
um man I'll second it all in favor