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item number one under original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the city to enter into our contract with
cares of New York incorporated for
implementation of the home ARP
allocation plan
discussed in committee with objection on
consent item number two item number two
for original consideration a resolution
pursuant to General city law
sections 81a requiring all
administrative zoning decisions of the
administrative officials charge with the
enforcement of zoning be filed in the
office of the city clerk discussed in
committee with objection on consent item
number three item number three for
original consideration a resolution
authorizing the sale of 2180 Desmond
Avenue for two thousand dollars
discussed in committee with the
objection on consent item number four for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the settlement of a claim by Walter G
Fritz discussing committee with an
objection on consent item number five for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
settlement of a claim by Christopher
Huggins discussed in committee without
objection on consent item number six for original
consideration a resolution authorizing
the settlement of a lawsuit by William
Hopkins
discussed in committee with objection on
consent item number seven item number
seven for original consideration a
resolution authorized in the mayor are
his designee to enter into supplemental
agreement number three with New York
State Department of Transportation where
the implementation and funding in the
first instance 100 of the federal aid
and state Montessori program Aid
eligible costs of a Transportation
federal aid project and appropriating
funds for replacement of Kings Road
Bridge over CSX New York State
Department of Transportation pin number
1758.95 discussed in committee with
objection on consent item number eight under contract and
Supply a resolution authorizing an
agreement for hot in place asphalt
recycling pursuant to the county-wide
bid to Highway Rehabilitation
Corporation discussed in committee with
objection in on consent if there's
nothing more to come before the city
council caucus I ask for a motion to
adjourn
second
moved by Mr Williams
second by Mr mutierre and all those in
favor we are a generant I'd like to call
the city council meeting to order for
Monday June 26 2023.
and I like to call on senior pastor
Johnson of the Schenectady House of God
of Church of Prophecy for the prayer and
vacation
most holy and righteous God
your son Jesus prayed a prayer
that your people may be one as you and father are one
father I pray that same prayer
over the city of Schenectady
and every person in this city
father I pray that we would be one
father that one would be one community
one sin
one County
one state
one nation
one people father let this city be a
template for the rest of the nation
that the unity and love for Humanity
that's displayed in this city will
travel all across this nation father
bless the leadership in this city and as
they minister to your people let the
spirit of Oneness begin to flow through
our communities that our sons and our
daughters May unite and be one that our
administrators our police officers our
leadership in every aspect will unite
and be one father let the spirit of
Oneness
grow from this place touch each and
every individual and again father that
we may be one city
one community
one County
one state
one people one people
one nation
under God and Father Again that we may
be one people we have one father
therefore we're all sisters and brothers
let us grasp the fact that we are one
people
one nation under God in Jesus name amen I'd like to call on councilmember
Williams for the Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge allegiance
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all
thank you
it's a clerk of please complete the Roll
Call
Mr muchivera President Mr Toro
Mr Farley is absent Mr Williams
Miss Patrick
Mr palomini
it's Porterfield here
I'd like to ask for the approval of
minutes for June 12 2023
moved by Miss Patrick second by Mr
multivaren all in favor
the clerk could please read any
Communications and petitions
Communications presented to the city
council for Monday June 26 2023 under
official For Mayor Gary R McCarthy a
list of appointments dated June 9 2023
under General there were none and under
petitions there was a petition of 171
signatures submitted on June 14 2023
requesting increased funding for repairs
of potholes cracks and crumbling asphalt
on State Street
I'd like to call any council members for
committee reports
this time we'll have privilege of the
floor related to the legislative agenda
I have one person signed up to speak
Robert Sanders
good evening madam president
um I think this is truly a good idea
other cities have done it in the
Tri-City area
I believe it's a good idea I know plenty
of contractors they travel throughout
the cities and they do their zoning and
they just micro a few throws so I
it's a good idea it'll help the city out
and that's basically what I had to say
thank you and have a good day
I have no one else time to speak so I
declare the public comment on the
legislative agenda closed
after approval of the legislative agenda
well by Miss Patrick second by Mr mutive
Aaron all in favor
now we'll have privilege of the floor
related to General City business
I have five people who are signed up to
speak
first person is Ed Levin Jr
good evening Mr Mayor chairwoman
Porterfield and City Council Members I
filed an Ethics complaint against the
three judges mayor and city council
members on May 31st it will be heard
tomorrow
I believe the mayor has everything to do
about my complaint not being published
the mayor knows once my complaint is in
print there must be something done about
these three blatantly corrupt judges and
how small claims court judges do not
follow the rules of court or laws of the
Constitution
whenever they so wish
again the mayor is responsible for the
enforcement of the law in Schenectady
unless it is his Hatchet Man Carl
falatico breaking the law
listening to and acting on legitimate
complaints by tax paying residents of
Schenectady is also one of the mayor's
duties he refused to meet with me but
heard my complaint at one of these
meetings as did all of you
the mayor Phil Falls far short of his
oath of office to protect and honor the
constitution of New York and the United
States
the mayor in fact breaks his oath of
office by not acting on my complaint
being being deprived of my
constitutional rights of due process and
a fair hearing
the mayor
only concern is for covering up for the
laws broken by Frost balotico and
Hoffman
Mr Mayor you are the most corrupt mayor
the city has ever seen
you cannot be counted on to discipline
corrupt judges in City Hall and you do
everything in your power to keep me out
of the news so the public is not aware
of these three corrupt judges and her
illegal rulings and judgments
I will be turning your name in for
obstruction of justice to the Department
of Justice and the FBI
nothing to worry about I'm sure they
will do nothing the same they have done
for me
I will expose you in these three corrupt
judges
I will not be leaving without someone
being held accountable
you are damn sure going to have to deal
with me
see you in the next meeting
thank you
Mark and March LaCroix
good evening Council uh I last spoke
here on the 12th and um
uh I I believe that I put everything
before everybody what was going on with
the uh housing issue with the
foreclosure on the property and I
believe today that you are acting as
honorary judges you're not in the
legislative but you're you're honorary
judges because you
allow things to go on in the city that
need to be done
and I asked that on behalf of myself my
mother my family and our future that uh justice is done I've gone
through the documents that were given to
me by corporate Council Mr Golden and I
also had a meeting with him uh last uh
two weeks ago on a Tuesday uh in the
morning and he produced a document that
was assigned out for David stating that
a nuisance officer had clearly posted
documentation on our property door of
said of uh about the Foreclosure
proceedings
um
when I confronted him about having video
footage to promote otherwise it was
stated by Council it doesn't matter if I
have footage he doesn't have to post at
the property this goes against what is
written in the law New York State real
property law uh one one two five
uh says that the final step is to post
on the property
um I also discovered that said affidavit
was not in the packet of legal documents
that he had given me stating that the that it was posted on the property
it said everything else but not just not
that and um
I believe that that's unjust because if
you are going to present to a judge uh
Mark Powers had Donald judge Mark powers
that you should have all documentation
there not just have a side documentation
that you present to me after I told you
at the city council meeting that I have
footage
um I also have
a police report and also uh I also have
documentation from my cameras and my
doorbell camera uh the the dirtboard
camera in the last 60 days so that
footage is long gone from last November
and my uh I have a police report that's
that my house had been broken into and
they stole the security camera DVR box
along with my television a few other
property I was in there and I found out
it was children who had done it but the
police didn't do anything beyond that
but
I believe in this city I've been here 12
years and I see Billboards all the place
of the new Schenectady now I'm not
asking for any favors I'm asking for
support and support in going through the
law and seeing that helping somebody who
is actual resident who's actually a
taxpayer we went and got a huge lump sum
to pay off taxes on properties that we other have as well as well as
Wendell and we took it all and gave it
in and paid showing that we are willing
to pay even that on this day as spoke to
Mr Golden we are willing to pay the
taxes owed as long as it's closing
passage was supposed to be on this
Friday but I know that short time now
within two weeks have passed but I just
want to know that I can count on the
city to make a new a news connectivity
to have new precedent that can help
people who are actually trying who are
forgiving their best effort their best
foot forward trying to build this city
up the way that it needs to be there is
new Schenectady I see it I said we used
to use filament light bulbs now we are
wearing LEDs so let's do new laws new
things that support the people support
residents who are actually trying to do
something and if it has to go through uh
Judiciary uh or legislative ways let's
do it he has to go through more talks
please but I am asking for support and
Redeeming the property so we can satisfy
the city satisfy ourselves and continue
to be part a great part of this city
which is a great City and uh it's
connected thank you thank you
Wayne Harper
well I've got to go in a direction
tonight that's not going to be very
popular but who else is going to do it
um
you know Gloria Christian by the way
Gary in her article is I think it's
Saturday's paper
yeah Saturday Porterfield will manage
City better well that's yet to be seen
but I know as a body and as a whole we
could all do better and we need to start
cracking down on this code enforcement
stuff people coming into residential
neighborhoods wanting to run their
business with dump trailers full of
debris parking people turning their
front Lawns into parking lots that's
what breaks down neighborhoods read her
article she was right on she touched on
other things
now
you know I'd love to give that I love
Mark Mahoney he won't call he doesn't
return my calls and I don't blame him
I'm a conservative they're all liberal
Democrats
uh John D Augustine I've left out I did
talk to John once miles Reid if you've
never met him he's a who you know that guy is a beaut Kelly Murray Paula
opal I remember her because I had an
opal GT when I was a young guy and and
Michelle Wright I don't remember if I
know Michelle or talked to her
but what I want to address
tonight
is Andrew Waite
Andrew Wade is the new darling of The
Gazette he's had the front page probably
90 some percent of the time since he
came back to Schenectady
and he wrote the last front page that I
read that he wrote he happily announced
how his father came out at 58 years old
and I thought how is that a front page
story why did we need to know all that
personal stuff
and uh he said almost reading between
the lines almost gleefully and happily
that his father came out
uh so
I want to challenge Andrew to write
another article follow-up article and
tell the people in graphic terms what
the lgbtq community engages in let these
dopes wake up they think it's just two
people of the same sex I think holding
hands and stealing an innocent kiss
it's a filthy disgusting lifestyle and I
don't like the fact that it's being
shoved down my throat and they even tell
us now we have to celebrate it I'm never
going to celebrate it I know the Lord
and I didn't know the Lord until 82. but
once you know the Lord you know what
you're supposed to be doing and no one's
going to be perfect but you try to go in
a positive direction
so that's what I'd like to see Andrew do
let's let's get graphic let's let's
educate the people and one last thing
for you Catholics that'll be going to
church on Sunday ask that priest if you
can even talk to him after the service
if he knows what Sodom and Gomorrah but
the story of Sodom and gomorph he knows
about it and then ask him to explain it
to you thank you am I three minutes up
they are up okay thank you Mary thank
you
okay
uh Robert Sanders
good evening Mr Mayor
I think even council president
Moorefield members of the council
for many of you who know me and have
known me for a long time I've said one
thing I said 15 years ago I'm going to
say it today you cannot legislate
morality okay and you know we've tried
doing it from the top on down to City
Hall you cannot do it people are who
they are and that will never change okay
you can come here you can make laws you
can put you know signs out on Street you
could do whatever you can do people are
going to do what they're going to do and
that's basically it I personally don't
like things shoved down my throat I
don't like it you know I tell my
children certain things I grow my church
holding up a certain way and that's how
that goes and that's how it is but I
came to speak about you know certain things
um
I forgot my glasses but uh one thing I
wanted to talk about is
right here in the city you know I I left
my house about six years ago
I ran right over by uh right off
McDonald Avenue my rent's gone up 22
percent the last two years now I know
here when you deal with csca
and you deal with your employees you
don't give them a 22 increase
you know so I want to know how is the
average person that's on social security
or collecting SSDI or SSI I'm going to
pay this type of increase because it's
just totally impossible I said this to
County and now I'm going to say it to
you as legislators
this is just totally you had all these
landlords come up to you and beg they
just cried and whined to you and tell
you I can't stand it when my kids do it
and I really can't stand landlords
anymore you know they whine to you and wind you and during
covert oh they weren't getting the rent
now all they're doing is charging and charging you I just oh you
got to pay 100 100 extra dollar
standards last year 75 dollars more
Sanders how when is it going to end it's
either that or I got to move out of the
state
okay that's just one thing and then
another thing just men in general okay
you know just men and I've said this I
tried to get around it a little bit
we're actually being treated like a
second class citizen okay I mean we work
hard
very hard we don't have the actually the
same rights as women anymore
okay I mean you know we're treated
differently women
there's 70 percent of all colleges are
filled with women
okay not men
okay I could go on and on and give you
statistics okay I spoke to numbers of
you about this and you know like you
know this was pride month right smack in
the middle of Father's Day you know
everything was right smack in the middle
of Father's day one day
most uncelebrated holiday of the year
okay and I could go on and I could go on
I'm not going to rant about it because
I'm sure you've heard about this but if
it was Mother's Day so help me God you'd
have a lying mother standing up here of
what they did for the city and how much
they've done for but how many fathers
have done what how many men and city
workers have taken care of your city
garbage collectors have done things for
your city you know are they even noticed
no they're not your time has expired I I
know it's it's not what you want to hear
it's really not what you want to hear
May the best person win tomorrow
God bless you both
thank you Molly Tremonti
good evening Council my name is Molly
Tremonti I'm an entrepreneur I had a
salon on Upper Union Street for three
years and I just recently relocated to J
Street on the J Street Marketplace my
business is a salon and a vintage
clothing store
and I had to file for a certificate of
use to operate the vintage clothing
store part I applied for it in April
I was told that it was a 30-day turnover
I did just speak to Andrew he told me
gave me some guidance and told me that I
could email him to get the process going
but it's been about 60 days I'm having
people
wanting to come in and shop and I really
it's really detrimental to my business
to get that part of my business open so
I just was looking for some guidance on
what the next step for me to do
to have that processed
that's it thank you thank you
Mr cold and we'll speak with you after
the meeting
excuse me I have no one else signed up
to speak so I declared the public
comment of City business closed
this time any miscellaneous business of
the council
mayor
thank you madam president we'll take
care of that certificate of use tomorrow
uh
we had a great weekend uh people are out
in the Parks so want to encourage people
to take advantage of the Investments
that we've made over the years the
swimming pool in Central Park was open a
lot of people got to use it kind of a
historical point today to be the last
year that that pool will be open so they
can go in there for a historical swim
and then next year be in the new
swimming pool but people out playing
baseball
Cricket leagues out there great activity
want people to be able to enjoy again
the Investments that we've made over the
past years not only in Central Park but
throughout the park system in the city
and again tomorrow's primary day
encourage everyone if you have to be a
Democrat to get out and vote uh always
enjoy campaigning
you've had as much fun as I had council
president probably more
that it's a uh you know great City our
future is bright and I always enjoy
meeting and talking to people within our
city thank you madam president you're
welcome I'd like to just thank everyone
for coming out tonight and um as I said
you well the mayor said that you're a
situation we've taken care of Mr
Tremonti and we'll speak with you again
Mr Lacroix excuse me about your um
about your situation so as mayor said
tomorrow's primary day so everybody go
out and make your choice thank you all
for your time this evening and there's
nothing else to come before the council
I ask for a motion to adjourn
Ed by Mr motivary
second by Miss Patrick all those in
favor all right have a good evening
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