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all right
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I like to call it supports Schenectady
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city council committee meeting for
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Monday June 20 June excuse me Tuesday
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June 20th 2023.
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um First Community is finance
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thank you I would like to call the
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finance committee to order the course
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item is authorization to enter
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agreements cares of New York
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so
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prong is going to take this
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afternoon
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as a part of the American Rescue plan at
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HUD has distributed home investment
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funds to assist individuals and
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households who are homeless at risk
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diplomacies and other vulnerable
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populations through the Schenectady home
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Consortium the city of Schenectady the
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city of Troy the town of colony are
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allocated a 3.8 million dollars in
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funding
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we are asking for authorization to enter
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into agreement with cares of New York
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for and not not to exceed of 413 938 of
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Home art funds funding allocated to the
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Consortium through December 31st 2029 to
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administer the implementation of the
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homeowner application
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questions comments
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Cena and worship
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some a second but all if you ever hi
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thank you thank you thank you the next
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item is
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contract follow-up
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the Ferrari
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's out here
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oh okay great thank you
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all the funding that we involved
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what we have here is an application of
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all the funding that we had so far from
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our book and including that I have some
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in color here and at the last page it
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shows when they would have named the
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colors greens mean that we are
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contracted with these agencies
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colors uh the yellows show that we're
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about to contract with these agencies
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and the one in blue are we have receipt
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they have received specs that we're
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going out to bid to see where they're
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where they are I've been in contact with
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a few of these arpa agencies I had a
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meeting specifically with the electric
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uh Electric City Co-Op uh over the
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weekend to find out where they are where
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they're going we let them know that you
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know times of essence they have until
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September of 2022 to get the funds that
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they said that they're going to need to
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allocate 6.7 million dollars to get our
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one million dollar contract
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they're
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a problem that they're having is uh
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they're looking to purchase of New York
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which is the school that bought so I
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kind of put them in a tailspin and now
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so they're looking at other options
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uh one of the things that I mentioned is
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that they had other monies coming from
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the county whatever and they asked
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everybody says well you that all has to
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be in place before we do our contract
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with you so I let them know that they're
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working on it and hopefully uh uh
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they're located in time uh I did have
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some Communications uh uh at third party
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Communications with the uh
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aquatic group and the work that I ever
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had was that they're looking someplace
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or rather than uh New York and I think
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that disqualifies it from our top our
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program it has not been has not been
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completed yet uh so you know if they
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come to Schenectady or they still have
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to come up with their funding too and
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that again that is uh by uh October August for them to get their
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money we gain one year
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uh we're following up
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here with the seat see we're very close
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with the seat for uh uh and the
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empowerment education for jobs and uh
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where I'm going on a lot of the
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decisions projects with approval so
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we're getting ready to bid for the golf
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irrigation uh I believe
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I'm looking at the work at steinman's
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Park and
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this is the last one and Jerry Burrell
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Park was getting ready to start one of
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the things we're going to have to ask is
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the big questions when we start getting
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with our bids back for instance for the
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uh Miracle on Craig Street Harbor rehab
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you know what have what do we do if it
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comes like a million dollars more than
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we allocated uh you know that's the
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question that we have to ask do we go
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for more money how does that happen you
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know what what are the factors that
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include that again those are some of the
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questions that they ask and uh the other
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question is what would they do if they
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need more time you know and of course my advice to them was you would have to
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come to
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speak to him another uh
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a problem that was asked was about if
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they wanted to change their original
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application I said I didn't think you
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could change it but again that's really
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all up to the powers to be so uh if you
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have any other questions
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question go ahead so some of these did
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not have to have any um there were no
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contingencies attached so
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um so I'm just kind of wondering why
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what's like so the Enterprise seat you
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mentioned is going to be doing very soon
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they're getting ready to go but like the
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food delivery box like for 50 000 more
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so you don't think so right so for
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instance so one of the things I'm a
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communication with Proctors for the
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Proctors for their uh a reopening
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startup and you know I emailed them say
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I know I know you're open so you must
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have completed the work I go maybe you
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don't need the money now let us know so
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um you know it's you send emails out
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they don't come back you know so we're
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kind of at a standstill of some of these
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things
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uh also too some some of these Waller
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organizations their their people have
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changed and so you know I gotta try to
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find like who's in charge of it to
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actually send them or talk to them to
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see what we can move this out see ya
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understand go ahead please you're making
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the direct contact I'm trying to make
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the direct contacts and I'm actually
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bringing them in there you know to be
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with me so I could see who they are and
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really go through it you know
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good so I just want to go back to miss
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porterfield's question so you haven't
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did you not get a response from the
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Green Market about yeah like uh I
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thought Haley bakar was the head of it
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but she she's no longer the head of the
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community so I'm trying to find who
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who's ahead of it and who's going to
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move this forward you might see Mary
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Jane shave I'm not sure which I don't
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have any information
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or area I'm not sure I don't know
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I don't have I don't have a connection
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with them either so anybody knows I'll
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send you something please I appreciate
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it yep
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it's safe to assume that any projects
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without any additional numbers or
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figures represent agencies that haven't
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had communication with you correct
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credit on that contracted right
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and at the very far and right corner is
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actually what we have spec and then
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totals at the bottoms
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hmm
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yeah so so you gave us some indication
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verbally of what who's going on contact
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so um when we see this again in the
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topics like the tennis Central Park
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tennis courts there's no activity on
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that
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um
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yeah oh okay yeah the public ones yeah
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they're kind of mixed in there
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I just wanted to give you the list but
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Chris can answer a lot of yourself about
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the pools the parks
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there you go Chris thank you
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so the list that I'm handing out
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that is the public part of the process
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that engineering is the lead on I'm
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working with Anthony on them however
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they are not
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talking about
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so if you look we have was 21 million
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yeah
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21.3 million dollars of article funds
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committed to public projects
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parks
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so this is the status system so if you
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were to go down Jerry rail Park
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construction Central Park swimming pool
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under construction Builders Fairview
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Park is going to be under construction a
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diamond field lighting is awarded and
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going to be under construction the
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Central Park General improvements those
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are on hold right now Central City Hall
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ventilation that we had a design kickoff
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meeting last month the Central Park
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Michigan I have tennis court we've met
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with cha Sports
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USTA and we have a plan of attack kind
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of wrote that there we're going to
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preserve ports one through five and ten
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to 14. that is being designed and we're
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hoping to do that as soon as possible
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through a purchasing agreement Bill
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holder's part that's the pool that loses
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uh quite a bit of water we're going to
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be doing some Mainline drain tests on
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that this week Riverside Park that's on
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hold old North Berry Pump Station we
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have synthesis looking to put together
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some big specs and plans we got quotes
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to do the work it's within budget
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whether it's outside of our purchasing
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policy so we need to bid that it's
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diamonds Park that one is on hold right
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now grout Park we're doing a survey Golf
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Course irrigation system is out to bid
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Michigan Ave field phase one retaining
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wall we awarded that last week and the
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Empowerment Center we have the roof
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replaced we have the deck removed we
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have a design firm pending to come on
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and do the design and we have a track
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pending to do the environmental
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mediation
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yes any questions
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go ahead I just want to say good work
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this is great thank you for the update
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yeah thank you both for detailing this
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for us we're kind of guys along where we
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are thank you Lord thank you any other
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questions
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yeah
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uh just the on hold projects will
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probably remain on hold until the end of
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the year just because we have so many
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that are in design and construction
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thoughts so
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we have a little bit of time I put the
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arpa allocation right here in the middle
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of that sentence there that we must
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obligated by the 24th and spent by the
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26th so for those projects that are
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right now overnight in any kind of
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Jeopardy
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projects above we only have so much
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capacity in this sort of offer
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absolutely all right all right thank you
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very much thank you thank you
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any other business of profinance
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all in favor all right thank you I'd
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like to call the order of the Public
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Safety Committee we have one item on the
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agenda today that is discuss the
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reducing City speed limit to 25 miles
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per hour by councilman Patrick thank you
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Mr Williams
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um I wanted to put this back on the
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agenda we talked about it
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um last September
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um and I wanted to bring It Forward
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again certainly we continue to hear the
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complaints from residents across the
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city about the speeding issue I've asked
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mayor McCarthy if he and Mr beanjo give
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us some some feedback about the speeding
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about this idea of reducing the speed
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limit
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thank you council member thank you Mr
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chairman uh
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this is from some of the sensors had a
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lot of public discussion at Kings Road
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so uh
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piled
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there's six sites there been afraid of
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all of them
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people here in the Bible
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so if you look at these sites along the
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road it's where the sensors are from
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that we can pull speed data show
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which I saw some vehicle counts
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so one of their terms of the amount of
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traffic that's going there and this
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is a number of factors and some of this
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detailed analysis before we now have it
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in
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with the project that Mr Wallen is
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leading for
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Bridge replacement
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largely all these vehicles are going to
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be diverted off Kings Road when puts
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intended day for us to shut that down
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Kings Road breaker won't open the
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shutter down December first
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so right about their
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be some inconvenience for those
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individuals that use Kings Road now but
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it's the price should pay for Progress
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to get the bridge replaced but from this
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from each one of these sensors uh is
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compiled the actual speeds that are
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there and this is the seven day 85th
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percentile speeds in these locations and
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these nodes are you connected to know
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there's 750 of them in the school
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throughout the city and I'm giving us
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various data such as
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speed power and pedestrian value they
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don't involved do the same it's because
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of the mirror there
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set in the position of them some of them
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wanted to uh able to give us certain
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things so they've looked at every single
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one and collect the data
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from all the items that are possible and
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can be accurate in terms of information
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so these are again so these are the
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seven day average
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certain type of speeds we're going to
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walk you through all the speeds and
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different locations
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it's a lot of data we're going to go
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through it quickly because you're
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to be more than two there's so much
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again this is the breakdown of the uh
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actual speeds
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vehicles and this is a detailed
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information that we've never really had
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in the past so some of the deployment of
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the census that out there allow us to
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collect better data and to
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again hopefully do
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throughout the city and that the kids
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see that far away so let me just tell
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you the first thing is going to bring
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the circle that's the location of where
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this particular sensor is and that's the
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data inside so that I don't know so if
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you look at compliance there one side is
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the number of vehicles in
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across the bottom is also depending on
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the color of the graph or the speed so
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you have a large number of vehicles that
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are compliant with the posted speed
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moving in with what would be an
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acceptable
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manner of driving up and down the road
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I'm going to go through real quickly and
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serve as much as and then do that to
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make sure
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the largest
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to go to location two so that we were
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not going down
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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so location three we're going to now
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still at the top speed either Tuesday is
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25 to 30 miles an hour but mayor and I
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looked at this and Chris as well and one
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of the things we looked at um because
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the lower speeds are are the highest uh
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numbers it's really hard to see if
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you're speeding so later on toward the
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end you're going to see just as few
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years now okay
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this information allows us to be
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proactive to give the police department
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the information to know when the best
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time
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that's time left to go out
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of course now we're on location five so
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we're further down now we're looking at
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a little higher speed because that's a
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little more street so when my homepage
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away from the river session
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this is the last one and this is right
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over the bridge now you see it at the
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top speeds during the third time the top
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speed but the
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those and their students 30 to 35 miles
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an hour
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and Sunday
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and now we're going to switch to just
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the vehicle speed over 30 miles an hour
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to show you this one but back to
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location one this is Monday
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you're looking at a speed of 30 to 35
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miles an hour meaning we know what we're
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speeding at this time at that location
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on
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obviously the numbers were a lot lower
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there's so so much compliment
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location two
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location three
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by the time
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so so that you know we're 30 to 35 is
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out there in most of these they're 30s
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legal so they could equal in 30. and we
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don't have a split that much that would
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be so hard to regret
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you should
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sustainable yeah
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with us
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we're at location seven on a Monday it's
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a couple of uh 45 to 50s way down looks
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like there might be two of them
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40 45 so a little higher if you look at
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3 P.M on Tuesday it's a much larger
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number of people that are driving
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towards the 45
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and look at this around about four to
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six pm at the time here
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so it shows the detailed analysis that
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can be done it enables better
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enforcement in what recommendation to
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try and use we've collected the data now
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post this section of
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Kings Road with a 25 mile an hour speed
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collect the data over again a similar
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period to see if we get element
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Appliance and again this
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is done after there's been a fairly
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aggressive enforcement component this
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take this as an experiment hosted five miles
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to see what the actual shift is and then
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beginning throughout the city at an
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appropriate
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applicable basis
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data to be able to see if what we're
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doing is very thin and if it is making a
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difference
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so I have a question so this is like a
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very like limited time frame that you
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collect with state it has is there a
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longer time Trend that you've been
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selecting in
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right so these nodes were in place
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for a while yeah yeah so so I was
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wondering if the data was collected like
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for months before that or is it just for
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that week because as the mayor said that
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um this is based after there's been some
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like a lot of information about it you
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know a lot of talk about it's been on
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the news people have come down so I was
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wondering if there was something to
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compare to before all that enforcement
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happened
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yeah I mean it's possible to go back and
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look at that sure
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well I think that's important to have
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that comparison
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okay
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so I kind of more to your point of
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President Porterfield that was awesome
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because I know that there's also was um
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I'm not exactly sure what you call it
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there the sign that lets people know oh
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you know this is the speed this is the
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speed that you're traveling
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um I know that that uh that tractor
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mechanism has been there for some while
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so I was just well I guess my question
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is similar to that could we look at some
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data before that it was put in place
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and then look at you know the data after
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that uh specific intervention was
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implemented to kind of see how effective
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that is so are we going to go in the
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right direction now reduction of speed
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limit or is it just you know enough to
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have that type of
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that intervention that's in place well
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it can be pulled back to whatever period
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of time you want
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that we're actually activated done for
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reference here one week
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time frame so it gives a I'll call a
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workable Baseline
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this level of data is not generally been
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available so that
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type of being a little
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analytic Rock clear and
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consistent results from it so it's Again
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part of it is we're learning
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sensors and
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information in a better way to
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use case manage
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management I guess if I could
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we certainly can provide that
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information I'm not sure what we would
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be looking for in front of it because we
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are seeing that vehicles are speeding
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you know especially to everybody rotted
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in in so I mean
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show you
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that you know
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so so yes the question I was asking was
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more around the specific interventions
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that are that have been implemented thus
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far in other words if we now have this
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mechanism that's letting people know
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this is the speed limit this is the
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speed limit that you're driving in like
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I know that that hasn't been out there
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yet
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that's been out there at Kings Road
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there for some time right so we're
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coming over the bridge is actually a
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sign of that same experience before the
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status yeah right so what I'm saying
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about so my question and um and
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hopefully now or kind of along the same
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train of thought is that
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this data if we can look at the data pre
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uh whatever interventions that we've
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implemented and then post and that would
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design so the question really isn't
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about just some clerical question my
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question isn't really about is speeding
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because of clearly to the point that
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there's some speeding happening my
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question is about the effectiveness of
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you know what interventions that we're
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using I'm just saying this seems like a
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really good tool to be able to do that
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because we do that yeah you can do this
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three different periods right
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two months
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hearing them I still want to be in the
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spring
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period because of the weather and then
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we can compare that to this to after we
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change
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so in order to do that we don't need the
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data from before because what we're
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looking to do is look at two different
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interventions we have this one this is
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the Baseline if we do the 25 mile an
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hour one we do a one week period Then
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pair
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I mean which intervention works we don't
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really
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4 in order to decide which intervention to do
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see if there's any difference so you
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could see if there's a statistically
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different significant difference between
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the two interventions in order to decide
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you don't need the data before that in
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order to make that decision
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could I just um for clarification do you
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mean when you say the two different
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interventions so one would be the neon
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sign that is
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enforcement versus the reduced speed
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right so sort of again put up right what
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I'm saying is that we could look at the
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specific interventions so in order to
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look at the effectiveness of a specific
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intervention we need to get data um
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pre-intervention and post intervention
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so whether that's
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well actually you do if you're if you
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have a tool and you're implementing a
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tool
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and then you look at the data what has
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this tool house this changed Behavior
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well if this tool is saying now that
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people are speeding you implemented this
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intervention now we are looking at
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reduction in speed and we can say okay
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well there's something to be said about
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the effectiveness of set intervention if
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we don't look at the data before we
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implemented the tool but we don't have a good Baseline to be able to narrow
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down where what intervention in
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particularly was effective and which was
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actually you do it's called an anova or
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a t-test you can compare two columns to
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see if there's a statistically
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significant difference in order to see
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which intervention is the better of the
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two you don't really need that other
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data
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so um as I said to me I really want to
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see the data prior to any interventions
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before we um so we have that to to see
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if how the intervention works the
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clothes clearly through the speeding
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problem it's been brought to Our
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intention this is after the police thing
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was put up there or the neighbor started
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complaining and I understand that there
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was some business by the police so I
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would like to at least see and as you
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said um when the spring began Mr fuccio
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what the speeding was like I'd like to
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see that be able to see that data as
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well
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even those questions or concerns
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I had a question specifically definitely
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I appreciate the word that's been done
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so far and for any individuals watching
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from the Kings Road neighborhood I'm
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glad that these steps are being
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considered at their present time but
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with respect to other areas of the city
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haven't been any discussions as the
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additional neighborhoods that we can
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consider also because I would hate the
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center presidents of in order to get
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your area in the community identified to
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be coming to City Hall so I'd like to
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show a collective approach as to here
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are other areas where we're going to be
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identifying to have similar
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can we have information that's being
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collected throughout the city gen
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reference and
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it's a number this will also
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create some
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unique performances because
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we've had the generally
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an open Period get some enforcement and
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then when the bridge closes this is all
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going to drop to very low numbers so
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it'll cover all the bases
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yes this thought was a good
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section of Road uh traffic concert
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fairly High there again more as a
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demonstration projects were
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close to speed
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anytime you change vehicle uh
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criteria like that it's usually creative
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soft enforcement so you have to educate
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people
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addition and
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to getting close to the higher speed we
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drop it down do some measurements and
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see if in fact
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we're getting the results that we want
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what are the best ways to
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get in compliance with additional
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signage is it some modification where we
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put up the red lights for the flashings
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and some different options there better
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delineation of the streets or on the
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street surface but
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appropriate Lanes
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some instances
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turning or swinging wide we're looking
[42:30]
to looking where we are going to rebuild
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the section of Brandywine from the state
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going to 890 and that is a very high
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incidence
[42:44]
Auto pedestrian so that after that and
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that's taken a long time to actually put
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together
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we're going to see some positive numbers
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coming up
[42:54]
coming out so this also stopped short of
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putting up
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uh stop signs so let's see if we can get
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it if we put up stop signs
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generally what will occur is the
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of auto accidents is going to increase
[43:12]
people who are used to stop selling this
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feeding you're going through their teeth
[43:17]
really getting cars that are going to
[43:18]
run into each other and
[43:23]
environmental things to keep the
[43:25]
vehicles moving and is the best
[43:29]
efficient way to handle it it's again to
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get the drivers to be compliant with one
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speed is
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and so that they're not creating hazards
[43:40]
for themselves pedestrians or irritation
[43:42]
to the neighbors
[43:44]
Jason the two Kings Road
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um definitely with a respect to a lot of
[43:52]
individuals who've been affected by this
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for a long period of time I know we've
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talked about it a lot we're definitely
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talking about action and implementing
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something is a very important
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differentiation we have to make so for
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clarification are we looking at lowering
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the speed limit throughout the
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individual locations that had higher
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speeding or are we looking to limit or
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lower the speed limit to all of these
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locations one through seven
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identifying some additional areas you
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said you would be able to comply with
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listing
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sure
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just a question so nothing happens this
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evening Jack comes back in two weeks
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with data that really isn't important so
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it's another two
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I'm sorry can you repeat that you said
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that data that was not really important
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right the data that shows maybe from
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March to
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April and this is in May data that is
[45:06]
not a baseline this is our Baseline for
[45:08]
what what's happened what's happening
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now so
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all we want to do or all that should be
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done is implement the 25 mile an hour
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speed limit to see what the new data is
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to see if that's making a difference I
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mean it's kind of just simple
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so I think um
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two things can be true and I think that
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you're you're might be an investing
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responsible my inquiry was what I was
[45:36]
saying to what I was saying is that this
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tool seems to be a way to measure the
[45:40]
effectiveness of any given intervention
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in order to know whether intervention is
[45:46]
effective or not
[45:48]
so in order to know that if the
[45:50]
intervention is effective or not you
[45:52]
have to have data previous to the
[45:54]
intervention then then post the
[45:57]
intervention then we could say oh this
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works so my question was in my statement
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was this looks like a good tool in order
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to do that for a very specific
[46:08]
intervention so that's how we can tell
[46:09]
the effectiveness is something you can't
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measure the effectiveness of something
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if you don't know what the state of it
[46:15]
previous the intervention and then post
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information that's the only performance
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making so that's why that information
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will be valuable to me
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and what we had talked about the last
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time we talked about it is like
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identifying areas throughout the city
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not just a specific one which is what Mr
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Blue Joe has just asked for so that when
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we implement this those roads that as I
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said you said there's some roads that we
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could not reduce it okay
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there's 750 of these numbers
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you know we all have the ability like
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Keith Rose does not have a lot of cyber
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traffic ready coming out of them they
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have a couple of key points that they
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found basically their lower mind so the
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traffic on the main as the opportunity
[47:03]
traffic signals there or anything so
[47:06]
they have the ability to flow
[47:08]
effectively so that's one of the reasons
[47:11]
why we're looking at this street
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for a hook type because it made sense
[47:15]
because of the numbers we had it
[47:18]
available to count the traffic I guess I
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thought we were looking at it is if we
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test this body reducing the speed limit
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to 25 miles an hour and it does make a
[47:29]
difference then it makes sense to expand
[47:32]
it in other areas but if we Institute
[47:35]
this 25 or around an hour at least
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in the average speeds that we're moving
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at then I'm not sure in my mind that makes sense to change it because
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it's not really the difference
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okay
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I understand what you think because I
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know that wasn't our initial discussion
[47:54]
several months ago it was talking about
[47:56]
looking throughout the city is what our
[47:59]
initial discussion was about agree with
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you I don't know if Christian will talk
[48:03]
about that what was the sort of study
[48:07]
that was required that was something
[48:10]
that
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and
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thank you so the cdtc the dot and
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several municipalities uh got together
[48:30]
to do studies on these the biggest I
[48:34]
would say outcome of that was that the
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D.O.T from their perspective they said
[48:39]
that they will allow local
[48:41]
municipalities to do this on local roads
[48:46]
however they will need a detailed study
[48:48]
for anything that is not considered a
[48:50]
local Road and what that opened up for
[48:53]
us would be the idea that we would need
[48:56]
a detailed study to change the speed
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limit to 25 on groups such as State
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Street Union Street Erie Boulevard
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Albany Street those roads that are
[49:05]
classified as something other than the
[49:07]
local and the challenge that that makes
[49:10]
is that then you have a network of main
[49:14]
roads where the speed limit is 30 and
[49:16]
then dozens upon dozens of local roads
[49:20]
off of that where the speed limit is
[49:21]
different meaning that we need to sign
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every one of those roads
[49:25]
so that you know that you're entering a
[49:27]
road that is a different speed than the
[49:28]
one we're just on New York City is
[49:31]
experimenting with a sign when you come
[49:34]
in that says speed limit 25 unless
[49:38]
otherwise noted so then we would put
[49:41]
signs only on the main routes that might
[49:43]
save us however I don't know how
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enforceable that would be if challenged
[49:47]
on a road that you know we would have a
[49:50]
dozen signs entering the city and if you
[49:53]
so I mean that's one of the reasons that
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I haven't been actively pushing this
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topic is because it's a large topic
[50:01]
even Kings Road it's Cloud station Kings
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Road is not a vocal Rover
[50:08]
so we would need to talk to the dot
[50:10]
about that
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um
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yeah I mean there are the towns that
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have done this so far are small I think
[50:17]
it's East Greenbush are both working on
[50:20]
these
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considerably smaller than Schenectady I
[50:23]
don't know of any cities that have gone
[50:25]
through with a full city-wide change yet
[50:27]
but I'm sure there in the works that's
[50:28]
why I was working with the cdtc to see
[50:30]
what we could do to follow
[50:33]
sometimes it's just as good to follow
[50:37]
theme song I know for me personally I
[50:39]
would hate for it to be interpreted by
[50:42]
and watching this that the only way to
[50:44]
get your street or neighborhood in the
[50:46]
community adhere to is by getting an
[50:49]
article in The Gazette and I know that's
[50:51]
not what we're supported but definitely
[50:54]
there is a concerted effort from our
[50:57]
Avid growing white community
[51:02]
topic to be a survey
[51:05]
significant way and so I definitely
[51:07]
think having those surveys in Step which
[51:09]
show the community that we are
[51:11]
identifying this but also you raise a
[51:13]
really good point about unfortunately so
[51:15]
also looking at what is our multi-tiered
[51:17]
approach as a city with respect to
[51:19]
addressing cities with it with respect
[51:21]
to addressing speed and I think it is
[51:23]
now appropriate to then talk about what
[51:25]
tool we currently do have which is speed
[51:27]
homes so are there any interest or is
[51:29]
there additional funding to put more of
[51:31]
those deploy some of those resources if
[51:34]
we were able to speak to that right now
[51:36]
yeah I guess my opinion which is
[51:39]
probably not is popular because to be
[51:41]
more of the engineering opinion is that
[51:44]
the things that we are doing today are
[51:47]
what we should be doing uh the data that
[51:50]
initial presented you know the post the
[51:52]
pre-data and then we could do Post data
[51:55]
same order with Dwayne Avenue and rugby
[51:57]
which we're going to be doing
[51:59]
we're getting data we're seeing the
[52:01]
effects and then we're going to look at
[52:02]
the effects as it didn't work and if it
[52:04]
works it's a problem so what you're
[52:06]
saying is that you're going to put the
[52:07]
information before intervention and then
[52:10]
after the invention to measure the
[52:11]
effect of this intervention right okay
[52:13]
but this is this is
[52:15]
if I made a drop but this is this is the
[52:18]
free data and then we'll lower the speed
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limit here as a demonstration project
[52:22]
for this one road
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um and then we'll have that data as our
[52:27]
post data right right but I think the
[52:29]
difference was that there hasn't been a
[52:31]
police uh an enforcement uis there
[52:34]
hasn't been a concerted effort to notify
[52:36]
the community with regards to this so
[52:38]
interesting
[52:39]
so I think it's different with regards
[52:41]
to this uh what tomorrow doing in
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speeding
[52:45]
yeah I guess the speed humps
[52:48]
you're trying not to bias the jury
[52:52]
you know so we we put the cameras up and
[52:55]
they're in incognito mode before so they
[52:57]
don't flash because the flashing is
[52:59]
actually the term you don't want to
[53:01]
deter you want to see what is actually
[53:02]
happening similarly now that we have the
[53:05]
speed humps on the core work with their
[53:07]
back and they're also in incognito mode
[53:09]
because we don't want to
[53:10]
be both now in the end of the day both
[53:13]
is probably the most effective but we're
[53:16]
trying to find out how effective were
[53:17]
these right so we're going to try to see
[53:21]
how effective they are and we're moving
[53:22]
them to another area you know so we're
[53:24]
going to have one in Hamilton Hill then
[53:25]
we're going to move on to the high
[53:27]
school area north side of the city and
[53:28]
see what we have and be able to say you
[53:30]
know what these work you know
[53:31]
surprisingly we have gotten any
[53:33]
complaints
[53:36]
but that was one of the you know the
[53:38]
many factors is we put these speed
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tables directly in front of residential
[53:43]
homes and I have not heard from the
[53:46]
residents the resident one resident we
[53:47]
talked to welcomed it oh yeah
[53:49]
um and so but it is a you know it was a
[53:52]
noise
[53:52]
um that they didn't make so that was
[53:54]
right off the bat okay no complaints
[53:56]
okay now we move on to the next are they
[53:58]
working how far do we want to put them
[54:00]
apart are people speeding up is it you
[54:02]
know haven't haven't gotten complaints
[54:04]
about that
[54:05]
about people going over them and then
[54:07]
racing to the next one you know so
[54:10]
hopefully that's a good sign hopefully
[54:12]
people are adhering to it we're also
[54:14]
doing them in this period which were
[54:16]
picked this window because we're going
[54:18]
to have it during school not school and
[54:20]
then the other one is going to be no
[54:22]
school during school so we can try to
[54:24]
get a more fair evaluation of what
[54:26]
really happened but
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I think it's difficult to just it's a
[54:32]
significant investment and to just go
[54:34]
and make it based off of you know a
[54:39]
complaint that's it's a difficult puts
[54:41]
me in a difficult position it puts John
[54:42]
in a difficult position for us to do
[54:44]
these things it's the exact same thing
[54:45]
that happens with stop signs you know
[54:47]
and that's what happened
[54:48]
today you know what if we got a stop
[54:49]
sign here that would solve all of our
[54:51]
problems with the stop signs or not
[54:53]
supposed to be traffic control devices
[54:55]
we're not supposed to solve problems
[54:56]
both will be there for a reason so
[55:01]
I'm gonna try to go in and to your point
[55:02]
they're not here right now but
[55:03]
enforcement
[55:05]
it's huge it's a huge part of it and I
[55:07]
do think that the police are taking it
[55:09]
seriously they have a grant to buy more
[55:11]
radar enforcement signs which we've been
[55:12]
working on uh the trailer they were
[55:15]
moving it around wherever John and I are
[55:17]
the mayor put it into
[55:18]
to try to help in certain areas so
[55:21]
I think that also helps
[55:25]
the question especially well I just I
[55:26]
just want to try to summarize but I
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think that this demonstration project
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will be some useful information and I'm
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thrilled that we're doing it
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has been
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an ongoing discussion we're certainly
[55:40]
all hearing it throughout the city we're
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all here I'm sure all of us are hearing
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from residents that speeding is you know
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one of the top concerns that's out there
[55:50]
right now I think we're seeing it also
[55:52]
probably individually as we drive around
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so I appreciate everything that you guys
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are doing
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already to try to work on this and I'm
[56:03]
looking forward to getting
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seeing what happens after we he puts the
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25 mile per hour
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in place on the demo
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so just because so do we need any input
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from dot at all to um I'm going to
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retirement if this is the anchors we
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want to look to make this the 25 miles
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per hour test and I will reach out to
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them
[56:27]
for any other questions or comments
[56:29]
regarding this topic about Miss Patrick
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will be here bring it back in two weeks
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yes sir thank you so much
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there are no other items that can fall
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before Public Safety can I please accept
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emotions return
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all those in favor
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I'd like to call it or decision
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development planning we have five items
[56:51]
on the agenda first one is Ramon to
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authorize the mayor to enter into
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supplemental agreement number three with
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the New York State Department of
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Transportation for the placement Kings
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Road Bridge so speak of the devil
[57:04]
Kings Road Bridge uh you awarded
[57:08]
the actual contract to win the
[57:10]
construction uh two cycles ago once we
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had that we sent the contract and the
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documents to the dot they authorize and
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come back with a supplemental agreement
[57:21]
the supplemental agreement in front of
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you is for the 95 reimbursement for the
[57:26]
cost of the great replacement
[57:28]
are there any questions
[57:32]
so second I was in favor hi item number
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two award-winning contract for the half
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in place asphalt recycling
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um this is a holding we used to do hot
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and place recycling
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um as everyone knows it was a process
[57:47]
with large train with lots of fire
[57:51]
rejuvenator rolling it was a actually
[57:54]
very useful process however it was not
[57:58]
applied at every application in the
[58:00]
right right spot right time so what
[58:03]
would happen is that it's an overlay it
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is not a mill we usually I'd say 95
[58:08]
percent of our Paving program is a Mill
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and paper because we have curves we have
[58:13]
drainage structures we have driveways we
[58:16]
really can't add a pavement so when we
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do a hot in place we add three quarter
[58:23]
of an inch of a polymer pavement over
[58:25]
the rejuvenated service
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um we found historically it does last
[58:29]
the product does work it saves US money
[58:32]
however in certain areas when we've done
[58:34]
it you create puddles and driveways
[58:36]
because we're now affecting the drainage
[58:38]
and so we took a pause on it for a while
[58:41]
and this year we have a couple of
[58:43]
candidates up in Bellevue that we are
[58:46]
looking to try it again because we think
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that those candidate streets are
[58:50]
worthwhile this is an award-winning
[58:52]
contract but it's actually a piggyback
[58:55]
the county uses this process and we are
[58:59]
allowed to piggyback off of County bids
[59:01]
so this would be that's what we've done
[59:03]
in the past as we we pull what we would
[59:05]
like from the counties good to use it
[59:06]
ourselves this is the only group that
[59:09]
actually does this so it's almost like a
[59:11]
sole source but it's not and we are
[59:13]
going to you know walk survey the area
[59:17]
and we are going to try this in areas
[59:19]
where we think it is acceptable I'll
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give you just an example to talk too
[59:22]
much on an area where I don't believe it
[59:25]
should have been done was like at Union
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Avenue by Union College if you
[59:29]
drive it you will notice that paid over the curbs and there is a
[59:34]
giant rough now between union Avenue and
[59:37]
the green space
[59:39]
because we just we just put a little too
[59:41]
much pavement on that road we really
[59:43]
needed to bring the paper down
[59:45]
curb line established instead we kind of
[59:47]
overflow of the curved line and now the
[59:50]
Green Space has become a makeshift
[59:52]
gutter line which isn't how that drill
[59:54]
is supposed to be so that is an instance
[59:57]
where you really just don't want to go
[59:58]
and hold the later road because it's a
[1:00:01]
nice new product
[1:00:05]
and so so I'm hearing that my first
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intention is like that's amazing that we
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like I have identified that now
[1:00:15]
your experience how is that continually
[1:00:17]
captured moving forward
[1:00:19]
like that truth that
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of what we should have done well you
[1:00:24]
could always do it by you know the
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artists in the end but now you know we
[1:00:27]
have a consultant and we tell them these
[1:00:28]
are the tools that we would like to have
[1:00:30]
in our toolbox and look for candidate streets so
[1:00:34]
typically downtown if we're doing a
[1:00:37]
downtown area the other thing is to tell
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you the train is enormous they call it a
[1:00:41]
train it is enormous it cannot do city
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streets it needs to kind of just fade
[1:00:46]
away and make a nice big radius it's a
[1:00:48]
camel nice turn Fairview those are nice
[1:00:50]
streams to have you know that kind of a
[1:00:52]
process you know you couldn't put it in
[1:00:54]
a downtown Because by the time the first
[1:00:57]
truck is making the turn the last truck
[1:00:59]
they're Jane and so it's really meant
[1:01:01]
for uh you know more rural roads but we
[1:01:04]
did find that it was a good product and
[1:01:07]
I'm not saying you'll see me here next
[1:01:08]
year with it it's kind of like if a road
[1:01:10]
is applicable for it we use it if not if
[1:01:12]
not and since we can piggyback it really
[1:01:15]
doesn't add a lot of work to our
[1:01:16]
workbook we're just selecting things
[1:01:22]
um
[1:01:23]
you mentioned Bellevue as possible sites
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I was just wondering can you identified
[1:01:27]
where you think you're going to be yeah
[1:01:28]
I think Campbell's the main one that
[1:01:30]
we're going to try it on and try to do
[1:01:31]
as much as Campbell as we can because
[1:01:33]
that seems to work out pretty well for
[1:01:35]
that and then I think a piece of
[1:01:36]
Fairview I don't have the list I should
[1:01:38]
have brought it but those are the areas
[1:01:39]
we like it's just kind of and you know
[1:01:41]
the paving program we're trying to do
[1:01:42]
things in concentration so we're not
[1:01:44]
going back to one area and you know
[1:01:46]
hitting people every year so that's
[1:01:48]
where that's where we're looking to do
[1:01:50]
but I can send the list to you tomorrow
[1:01:51]
morning
[1:01:54]
sure yeah
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any questions
[1:02:02]
right there yes
[1:02:08]
thank you
[1:02:11]
any questions
[1:02:15]
thank you
[1:02:18]
I'm number three the filing of zoning
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administrative decisions
[1:02:23]
um Mr Marney
[1:02:25]
yet unfortunately I had to run out of
[1:02:27]
the Planning Commission meeting so I
[1:02:30]
will come with us
[1:02:33]
um so one of the requirements
[1:02:38]
um that happens out of the zoning office
[1:02:40]
is or part of the job is to for the
[1:02:43]
zoning officer to issue zoning
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compliance determinations or
[1:02:46]
administrative zoning decisions somebody
[1:02:50]
will request something very specific the
[1:02:52]
zoning officer reviews uh the requests
[1:02:54]
and then comes up with the determination
[1:02:56]
as it stands right now those
[1:02:58]
determination letters are filed in that
[1:03:01]
office
[1:03:02]
a better practice and it would have to
[1:03:05]
be authorized by city councils for those
[1:03:07]
decision letters those administrative
[1:03:10]
zoning decisions to be filed with
[1:03:13]
um the the record officer for the city
[1:03:16]
which is the city clerk so that is
[1:03:19]
because it is an administrative decision
[1:03:21]
so it would be accessible to the public
[1:03:23]
and it would create a process for
[1:03:27]
essentially a time limit for somebody
[1:03:29]
who would like to challenge a
[1:03:31]
determination by the zoning officer to
[1:03:34]
do it within a certain amount of time
[1:03:35]
once it's filed with the city clerk
[1:03:39]
as I said many of these decision letters
[1:03:44]
right now are not well none of them are
[1:03:45]
following the city clerk and this would
[1:03:47]
create a formal office for the receipt
[1:03:49]
of those the term those determinations
[1:03:52]
um because there is a deadline for
[1:03:56]
people to challenge a decision of the
[1:03:59]
zoning officer by filing it with the
[1:04:02]
city clerk every single time it would
[1:04:04]
create essentially uh the stopwatch so
[1:04:08]
to speak for a person to challenge the
[1:04:10]
determination because those
[1:04:12]
discriminations would be challenged you
[1:04:15]
know through uh could be the BCA and
[1:04:18]
eventually become an article 78 some
[1:04:20]
people challenging care too so this
[1:04:23]
creates a formal process so we're
[1:04:25]
looking for authorization for the city
[1:04:27]
council to
[1:04:29]
require the zoning officer to file those
[1:04:33]
administrative zoning decisions with the
[1:04:35]
city clerk and also direct the zoning
[1:04:39]
officer to also file those
[1:04:42]
administrative zoning decisions not from
[1:04:44]
a legal standpoint but just a practical
[1:04:46]
standpoint in whatever computer system
[1:04:49]
the city is using but currently it's
[1:04:52]
Unicity but who knows in you know 20
[1:04:55]
years it could be a different program
[1:04:56]
that the city sees it
[1:04:58]
so that's what we're looking for is just
[1:05:01]
a way to clean up the process that's
[1:05:03]
currently in place by creating one
[1:05:05]
designated person legally to for which
[1:05:08]
the zoning officer would file those
[1:05:11]
decisions
[1:05:12]
so do you know about how many decisions
[1:05:14]
we're talking about I'm just I'm just
[1:05:16]
trying to get my head around how much
[1:05:17]
additional work this is going to create
[1:05:20]
um I don't know the exact number that
[1:05:22]
come in
[1:05:24]
um certainly you know we're not talking
[1:05:25]
about one a day or anything along those
[1:05:27]
lines they come up periodically uh many
[1:05:31]
times it's somebody who's looking to buy
[1:05:33]
a property and they want to know hey can
[1:05:36]
I use the property for this under the
[1:05:38]
zoning code
[1:05:39]
um the informal request and then a
[1:05:42]
formal letter from the zoning officer
[1:05:44]
that letter would then be filed so it
[1:05:47]
doesn't you know it comes up every so
[1:05:49]
often a lot of times it will be like
[1:05:51]
maybe in an R1 District where there's a
[1:05:55]
two-family house can I still use it as a
[1:05:57]
two-family house or in a commercial
[1:05:58]
District can I use it as you know this
[1:06:01]
commercial space as a restaurant so it
[1:06:04]
would be a decision letter like that and
[1:06:06]
the process for the city clerk will just
[1:06:08]
be to receive
[1:06:10]
um it is a filing like the city clerk
[1:06:12]
would receive a determination of the BCA
[1:06:17]
Williams was this determination made
[1:06:19]
with the city clerk's office the city
[1:06:22]
clerk um no the city clerk is aware of
[1:06:26]
it um you know we did talk about it at
[1:06:28]
the legislative conference
[1:06:30]
it does create as I said you know
[1:06:35]
it is more work than cities for the city
[1:06:37]
clerk's office there's no doubt about it
[1:06:39]
um you know I can't tell you how much
[1:06:41]
more time it will take for the city
[1:06:43]
clerk to you know receive and then you
[1:06:46]
know file and presumably put into laser
[1:06:49]
fish it would be the zoning officer who
[1:06:51]
would put it in the computer system the
[1:06:54]
separate computer system that you know
[1:06:56]
the Departments have access to but it
[1:06:59]
really is you know a necessary piece for
[1:07:04]
the city to create a formal body to
[1:07:07]
clerk to receive these decisions
[1:07:12]
any other questions
[1:07:20]
all right
[1:07:25]
um
[1:07:26]
item number four is the sale of a
[1:07:28]
property of 2180 Desmond Avenue make a
[1:07:31]
lot and item number five is a special
[1:07:32]
1040 Wonder Avenue and both of those
[1:07:35]
will be an executive session so at this
[1:07:37]
point in time I'd like to ask for a
[1:07:39]
motion to reset
[1:07:43]
okay I'd like to call our claims
[1:07:46]
committee to order we have three items
[1:07:49]
on the agenda all of which need to be
[1:07:51]
addressed in indicative sessions so I
[1:07:53]
would like to call for a motion to go
[1:07:56]
into executive session
[1:07:58]
so all in favor
[1:08:01]
aye okay thank you
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