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[2:08] thank you

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[4:52] recycling

[5:09] oh

[5:11] yeah yeah Albany City hospital I've

[5:14] never heard of that you know take my

[5:17] phone

[5:22] I bet you it would be fun Memorial

[5:26] I know there's you know child's hospital

[5:29] but

[5:31] that was a long time ago

[5:36] couldn't find anything

[5:40] for her no but we found it oh yeah

[5:45] wow

[5:57] so was it her

[5:59] liquor yeah

[6:06] especially stillborn or buried in

[6:09] Potter's Fields right right

[6:12] so it's nice

[6:17] I wonder if her dad was a um

[6:21] in the war

[6:24] yeah yes your father was

[6:27] um

[6:29] they were in that they were in the early

[6:31] 20s so he might have been out of just

[6:34] out of the war I figure he just died

[6:35] yeah that's interesting

[6:46] I'd like to call to order the

[6:48] Schenectady city council committee

[6:49] meeting for Monday July 3rd 2023

[6:53] uh the first committee is finance I'd like

[6:58] to call to order the finance committee

[7:00] there are six items on the agenda

[7:02] tonight first of which will be the

[7:04] supplemental Bond ordinance for North

[7:06] Ferry Street Pump Station by Safari

[7:16] city council uh what we have here is the

[7:20] supplemental bond issue for uh the North

[7:22] ferry Street Pump Station originally

[7:25] back in uh 2019 we hadn't passed the

[7:27] bond ordinance for 24 million dollars

[7:30] for the for the project we are not

[7:33] borrowing 24 million actually our

[7:35] borrowing is going to be 7.7 but as

[7:38] we're going through the process of

[7:39] finalizing uh our grants and our EFC uh no interest loan and low interest

[7:46] loans uh DEC and the new and the New

[7:49] York State Environmental facilities

[7:51] Corporation want us to to amend uh that

[7:54] uh amend that uh Bond resolution to the

[7:59] with the total cost will be which is on

[8:01] the next page of 25 million 233 5 24 25

[8:06] or 525. so what we're looking to do is a

[8:10] amended to what that total cost project

[8:12] was going to be and that will help us go

[8:15] along and be able to receive our uh the

[8:18] balance of our grants and our uh low

[8:21] interest loans and uh zero percent

[8:24] interest loans

[8:26] perfect thanks for any questions or

[8:28] comments

[8:29] there's an ocean

[8:30] a little bit second all is in favor all

[8:33] right the next item on the agenda is the

[8:35] bond ordinance for water resource

[8:37] recovery facility resilience project

[8:39] okay yes

[8:41] um okay now uh uh we are you know as you

[8:45] know uh with the arpa and the New York

[8:47] State uh there's they're starting to put

[8:49] a lot of money into uh uh grants for uh

[8:52] water and sword infrastructure uh what

[8:55] we're doing here is uh the pumps at our

[8:58] wastewater treatment plant right now are

[9:01] old they're uh from 1972 and actually as

[9:03] we built our new uh our new pump station

[9:06] it's actually not

[9:09] um I would say it has enough capacity if

[9:11] there's a big storm for us to put the

[9:12] fluid water because it's on

[9:15] gravitational now it wouldn't be able to

[9:17] put it back into the river so what we

[9:20] need is a new pumps and electricity so

[9:23] that we can pump the affluence the

[9:26] waters back into uh into the river

[9:30] without having back up throughout the

[9:31] streets uh again this is one of those

[9:34] projects uh we are setting this uh Bond

[9:39] resolution up so that we can go out and

[9:41] uh see what uh the type of uh grants

[9:44] that we can get through this and we're

[9:46] actually hoping to get at least 90

[9:48] percent of Grants on this so this will help us uh tour that despite

[9:54] passive resolution again we'll come back

[9:57] when we actually we're going to do the

[9:59] project and ask and borrow money if we

[10:02] have to or get money but I'm pretty sure

[10:04] that we're going to get at least 90

[10:06] percent grants

[10:08] any questions or comments

[10:14] the next item on the agenda is the bond

[10:16] ordinance for Washington Avenue Pump

[10:18] Station this again is the same thing but

[10:21] we want to go out and get uh get uh

[10:23] money and grasp for this but like I said

[10:25] you could tell uh that that pump station

[10:28] right now is not operational and these

[10:30] all new electrical stuff that you can

[10:32] tell when we have these large storms and

[10:34] stuff on them just get an SEC parking

[10:36] lot it's uh flooded and then uh below uh

[10:40] behind uh what's that called the Frog

[10:42] alley gets flooded down there it's

[10:44] because the pot the pump station's not

[10:46] turning on and so this is the whole week

[10:49] to read get grants and money to redo it

[10:51] and I know that this is one of the

[10:53] projects that we have money put away too

[10:55] if we can't get the total amount of

[10:57] Grants and stuff we have this is going

[10:59] to be done I think no matter what but

[11:02] that's what we're asking for

[11:05] so this um so giving this uh

[11:09] is through this positions us better yes

[11:12] okay yeah

[11:15] any other questions or comments

[11:17] um second all those in favor all right

[11:20] and I don't love this one now but the

[11:22] secret that they're going on the table

[11:24] thing it is not here yes okay it is okay

[11:27] so the next item on the agenda tonight

[11:29] is the Seeker for kids

[11:31] water resource recovery facility

[11:34] resiliency project

[11:35] right this is this is a uh uh the Seeker

[11:39] uh this was uh VEC asked us to put this

[11:42] on uh the Seeker for us to put on even

[11:45] with our bond resolutions even though

[11:47] these uh as you read it uh The Pump

[11:50] Station stuff is mostly for uh

[11:52] what what's it called for uh repairs and

[11:55] maintenance and uh putting pipes so it's

[11:57] a type two and really it's not gonna uh

[11:59] it's not gonna affect the environment at

[12:01] all but they want us to put they wanted

[12:02] to put us in there to to see uh you know

[12:06] for them again uh what I was told was as

[12:09] we put this as a Seeker it'll help us

[12:10] put her higher on the list

[12:12] for that so uh Miss uh Porterfield had mentioned one of the

[12:19] things that we will conduct a secondary

[12:22] by your move when it's completed uh but

[12:25] like I said I think as we go through it

[12:27] before before the end of the stuff it

[12:29] will be satisfied our review

[12:31] so there's no impact on it now and it's

[12:34] a type two so any questions

[12:38] I just want to clarify that in the uh

[12:41] evaluate evaluation analysis it said

[12:44] that the city is going to conduct a

[12:45] secondary environmental review to verify

[12:47] the findings and I just wanted to

[12:49] clarify Mr because I've not seen that

[12:51] before so I just want to make sure

[12:52] before we sign this assign this or if

[12:54] that's something you know I'm going to

[12:56] get clarity on that correct and I'll

[12:58] give back to you and I'll talk to Mike

[12:59] Miller on that to get back to us but

[13:01] this is something they want us to put in

[13:03] the both of the resolutions and they

[13:05] want us to have the secret

[13:07] on as a resolution also this came from

[13:10] director from Duc right so with that

[13:14] being satisfied the number yeah uh so if

[13:16] there are no other questions or concerns

[13:18] can I get a motion with having that

[13:19] clarification also yep I'm a little bit

[13:22] second always a favor all right uh the

[13:25] next item on the agenda is the 2023

[13:27] budget reallocation pursuant to

[13:29] agreement between the city of

[13:31] Schenectady and the police benevolent

[13:32] Association for 2023 yes in March of 20

[13:35] 2.3 we the city council passed a

[13:37] resolution for the labor and agreement

[13:39] between the PBA and the city of

[13:41] Schenectady which included a raises and

[13:43] a different Financial issues uh at that

[13:47] time even though we uh put in that what

[13:49] we thought was going to cost us

[13:51] for some reason we forgot to actually

[13:53] come to appropriate the money at the

[13:55] council to appropriate that money so

[13:57] we're here actually asking you know to

[13:59] appropriate the cost of of uh of those

[14:03] raises and stuff

[14:05] and I have a list I think on the second

[14:07] page or sort of where it's going

[14:10] and the total amount thank you any

[14:12] questions or comments

[14:18] and the last item on the agenda is a

[14:20] follow-up on the article contracts uh Mr

[14:24] Ferrari yes Miss Diaz not going to be

[14:26] here today I thought more Reese was

[14:27] going to be here by things coming later

[14:28] uh on the contractor issues uh we've

[14:31] actually have a we're out to contract

[14:33] with the bcni and with the Schenectady

[14:36] foundation for the food and also with

[14:38] Proctors for for uh uh putting in the

[14:41] handless washers and stuff like that so

[14:43] we're moving forward on that the two

[14:45] weeks went by so fast that we had so

[14:47] much to do I didn't get really get in

[14:48] contact as we spoke I didn't really need

[14:50] contact the other agencies but I'm

[14:52] you're working on it so we got these

[14:54] three with three more moving in so every

[14:57] week when we're trying to get at least

[14:58] another one in to figure it out

[15:00] so uh you know and but you know like I

[15:04] said I told Proctors and all these

[15:06] agencies come in do the work let's go we

[15:08] got a contract time I'll go out there

[15:09] and get it done right

[15:11] so we want to we want to get spend the

[15:13] money as soon as possible

[15:15] thank you I wish I wish I had more

[15:17] fulfilling uh stuff I try to just went

[15:19] by it so fast I didn't even realize that

[15:21] it was two weeks already

[15:24] questions or comments

[15:26] hearing nothing I'm just going to keep

[15:28] this on the agenda absolutely yep any

[15:30] other items that will fall for finance

[15:32] committee we should do it during a

[15:34] second all's in favor all right hi and I

[15:36] want to thank you very much

[15:40] so the next I'd like to call to order

[15:43] Public Safety Committee we have one item

[15:45] on the agenda tonight instead of

[15:46] discussion producing City speed limits

[15:48] at 20 miles per hour

[15:50] thank you this was a carryover from two weeks ago

[15:56] um and I'd like to ask Mr Lucio if you

[16:00] could talk to us about

[16:01] um

[16:02] the results or the information that he

[16:05] has from the Kings Road demonstrations

[16:06] project

[16:08] thank you so invest Community meetings

[16:11] uh the before of information

[16:15] um went back and one of the requests

[16:18] that was made was to look at data

[16:20] earlier so that we could do

[16:23] comparison from the earlier information

[16:26] so this is somewhat of an abbreviated

[16:28] version of it we were able to

[16:32] movement

[16:34] hmm

[16:44] so we were able to collect some data

[16:46] from March 13th through March 19th it is

[16:50] not totally Complete because that wasn't

[16:52] the time period when they were

[16:54] installing it and testing them but I

[16:57] think we got sufficient enough

[16:58] information that you can look at and uh

[17:01] take some data so just as a refresher

[17:06] there were seven nodes there two on

[17:10] different sections of Kings Road we're

[17:13] ready to go one

[17:15] um mean that there's limited data on

[17:17] there so it's just going to show that

[17:21] um

[17:22] you can read this but I can get any

[17:23] copies of it so this is comparing the

[17:26] volume

[17:27] from the march to the May dates give you

[17:34] an example we'll go to uh

[17:40] drive and in March there were 10 000

[17:45] Vehicles going Southbound for the week

[17:47] and

[17:49] the neighbors 15 000. so it's in the

[17:52] same area and there's definitely reasons

[17:54] for fluctuation but uh

[17:57] just wanted to be able to give you that

[17:59] information

[18:01] setting the average

[18:04] the 50 highest speeds

[18:07] some of them are very similar some of

[18:10] them are a little off one's down by

[18:12] McDonald Avenue compared to the March

[18:16] was 32.39 miles per hour and in May it

[18:20] was 38.33

[18:23] again some of them are very similar

[18:26] going the other end at Albany and Kings

[18:29] Road in March it was 19.96 and in May it

[18:33] was 21.4 and not a huge difference the

[18:36] largest difference you're seeing is that

[18:38] the MacDonald Avenue patch

[18:43] this is the difference in traffic

[18:45] volumes between the two dates the

[18:49] blue ones are from March and the brown

[18:53] and tan ones are from May so you can see

[18:55] the difference in the count

[19:00] relatively similar but not you're never

[19:02] going to see exactly

[19:05] and this is 85

[19:07] percentile speed so this is really

[19:10] important this is what we're looking to

[19:12] see you know what the difference would

[19:13] be

[19:15] through relatively close to each other

[19:17] not major changes

[19:20] um

[19:21] the Note 7 which is on the bridge that's

[19:24] sort of shows the largest discrepancy

[19:27] between 30 and maybe three and six for

[19:30] 37 miles an hour

[19:34] I believe that's all I have for you

[19:38] um if you look at the speeds overall

[19:42] in March the March numbers with about

[19:47] nine percent of total vehicles that were

[19:51] over 35 miles an hour

[19:54] um and in the May it's about uh

[19:58] 15 or maybe 15 over the speed limit so

[20:03] if that only did increase

[20:07] 14 percent

[20:09] so again a March nine percent of the

[20:12] traffic was driving over 35 miles an

[20:15] hour and in May 15 14 right

[20:21] yeah

[20:23] goodness questions on that information

[20:29] I'm going to ask Chris if he could uh

[20:31] chime in on this we've had some

[20:34] discussion of cetc and they provided a

[20:38] little guidance for us

[20:43] so for our last meeting I reached out to

[20:46] the executive director at the Capitol

[20:48] Regional Transportation Council it's the

[20:50] new name of the cdgc they provided me

[20:53] with the D.O.T speed limit guidance

[20:57] paper that they're going with that kind

[21:00] of lays out what we need to do to be

[21:02] able to change it generally we have to

[21:04] with States here cities and Villages

[21:06] sets speed limits on highways with under

[21:08] jurisdiction New York state vehicle

[21:10] contraction while we enter and I talked

[21:11] about it section 1643 right here we will

[21:15] need an engineering study by an engineer

[21:18] first in traffic which I worked with

[21:20] quite a few of them and they do have

[21:22] some methods that they State here that

[21:25] they want you to go by to determine if

[21:27] it's an applicable situation to reduce

[21:29] the speed limit so that is the next step

[21:32] that I'll be taking is working with the

[21:34] dot and one of our Engineers on retainer

[21:36] to complete these steps under the

[21:39] vehicle traffic law so that we can move

[21:42] forward with this corridor

[21:43] and if I can just add for a second

[21:46] although it's not radar well we're

[21:49] hoping that the information that we're

[21:51] collecting here would be acceptable a

[21:53] new uh radar that's one of the questions

[21:56] we're going to ask

[21:58] yeah oh I don't know if I can call him

[22:01] do we need to do that piece before we

[22:04] can do the demonstration project on

[22:06] Kings Road yes

[22:08] yeah I don't I think it's smarter to

[22:10] just go and then the college

[22:12] demonstration because that could set a

[22:13] precedent of what's demonstrated you can

[22:15] do a demonstration and then we're kind

[22:17] of

[22:17] you know sub

[22:19] going going around a lot so I would

[22:21] rather keep them in place so that the

[22:23] mpo has sent me to this

[22:25] go to the pde I'll work with the dot who

[22:28] I work with all the time anyways and

[22:29] we'll we'll get something set up

[22:34] any other questions or comments

[22:37] yeah

[22:38] that's okay so um so are you saying that

[22:42] after the the speed signs were put in

[22:45] traffic went off

[22:47] it was there was a higher percentage of

[22:49] class people going over 30. what I said

[22:52] is is in the March numbers nine percent

[22:55] of the total on the traffic were going

[22:58] over 35 miles an hour and that could be

[23:03] I had to go to that number because the

[23:05] buckets that that information is

[23:07] provided goes by five then it goes and

[23:11] since 30 is a legal speed limit yeah I'm

[23:14] stuck in the middle there I can't say 25

[23:16] to 30 or 30 to 35 so if I'd pay 30 to 35

[23:20] to be fair because

[23:25] so the March numbers were

[23:30] nine percent of the total Vehicles were

[23:33] exceeding 35 miles an hour and 14 in the

[23:37] medium but we're talking a couple

[23:39] hundred thousand feet

[23:43] all right so once we do this we'll take

[23:46] some more numbers

[23:50] all right thanks any other questions or

[23:53] comments

[23:55] electric um I just want to get a sense

[23:57] of whether you guys think we

[23:59] think we're just back on in two weeks or

[24:01] should we wait um I could put it back on

[24:03] when I have something concrete I'll just

[24:04] put it on Michael's okay yeah it would

[24:07] give me two weeks might be two types but

[24:10] I know that actually

[24:13] you know we yeah it might be a little

[24:16] quick but we also have a big break after

[24:18] which is good with a dark Friday coming

[24:21] up so Monday I mean so we'll be able to

[24:24] get something hopefully by August we'll

[24:26] get it and I I want to work with John

[24:27] who really haven't sat down and gone

[24:29] through all this and how much this data

[24:31] is going to be acceptable by like John

[24:33] was saying if if we can if we can get it saves us a lot of time because this

[24:37] data is so readily available right but

[24:39] it is new to a lot of people a lot of

[24:41] communities do not have this kind of

[24:43] technology so readily available right

[24:47] I'm just using video detection as

[24:49] opposed to here we go

[24:51] right thank you very much uh definitely

[24:55] Mr Wallen uh one of the things I was

[24:56] going to ask is I know there are

[24:58] probably residents within this area of

[25:00] the city within Kings Road specifically

[25:01] watching for updates do you feel

[25:03] comfortable providing just that estimate of how long they're having

[25:07] realistic timelines and expectations

[25:09] will help gauge their understanding of

[25:11] how much additional time is needed is

[25:13] there a ballpark yeah if you give me

[25:16] the month of July I should have a whole

[25:18] program for this area because like

[25:21] because the people I know and the

[25:23] information I already have and all the

[25:24] steps just give me until the first

[25:26] committee meeting in August when I

[25:27] should have a plan put together thank

[25:30] you you got it any questions or comments

[25:32] hearing none I will wait for Mr wallet

[25:35] to provide that new information We'll

[25:37] add it back to the agenda okay if there

[25:39] are no other items to look forward uh

[25:41] Public Safety Committee can I please

[25:42] have someone

[25:45] thank you

[25:47] all in favor

[25:50] I'd like to call to order City

[25:52] development and planning we have nine

[25:53] items on the agenda uh the first item is

[25:56] to authorize the issuance of a local

[25:58] permit number 676 to Destin chartered

[26:01] Prep School

[26:07] for 530 Franklin Street where there is a

[26:10] Charter Prep School it is the building

[26:12] one block up behind us on Franklin

[26:14] Street

[26:15] they would like to install a blade sign

[26:18] as we call them typical you would see on

[26:20] the 400 block of State Street and some

[26:22] of those

[26:23] bladesign will overhang it right away on

[26:26] Franklin Street Planning and Zoning has

[26:29] approved it and we see no reason to say

[26:32] otherwise

[26:33] any questions comments

[26:35] second all's in favor aye

[26:38] item number two call for public hearing

[26:40] to authorize the city to abandon and

[26:42] sell a portion of the public right away

[26:44] at the corner of State Street and South

[26:46] Church Street that one are we pulling

[26:49] that one

[26:50] so this one we're going to push off for

[26:52] the next uh the next meeting as we get

[26:55] some more information for the council

[26:58] okay item number three authorize the the

[27:01] mayor or his designated to enter into an

[27:03] agreement with New York State Department

[27:04] of Transportation for the Craig Street

[27:06] pavement and Bridge Rehabilitation

[27:08] project yeah so this is an exciting one

[27:10] because this is a long time coming this

[27:12] is to enter into a master agreement with

[27:14] the D.O.T for our Craig Street project

[27:16] this was our four-year project that

[27:19] started with a the most successful

[27:21] linkage study in the Capital District

[27:23] history on Craig Street uh it's also

[27:26] known as the corridor of Hope linking

[27:28] Main Avenue and Albany Street along

[27:30] Craig this was right into some funding

[27:34] issues in the middle covid you know did

[27:36] not help us necessarily but we were able

[27:38] to secure all the funding it is now a

[27:41] roughly nine and a half million dollar

[27:42] February Fund in progress project so

[27:45] this is the master agreement for design

[27:47] uh 95 paid for by the federal government

[27:50] and state in the amount of

[27:53] 938 thousand dollars so once we have

[27:57] this master in place we can start with

[27:58] our survey and design we're hoping to

[28:01] have the project designed this year in

[28:02] the next bid for next year instruction

[28:04] most likely due to the size of the

[28:06] project we will be doing work to the

[28:08] bridge over 890

[28:10] um reducing the width you know we have a

[28:12] lot of things that we're looking to do

[28:15] on this quarter probably making um the

[28:17] largest Public Works projects I've done

[28:19] since Erie Boulevard so it's an exciting

[28:21] project and this is step one

[28:24] any questions comments

[28:26] Miss Williams Oh Mr one what does that

[28:28] mean with Daniel because I know

[28:29] definitely hear your office job is a lot

[28:31] you can see a lot of that from the

[28:33] projects that you're managing definitely

[28:34] going toward the city does that mean

[28:36] you're having more people tied it's one

[28:38] project for longer or for this project

[28:40] this is just more on you to manage so

[28:44] we're going to be working with a team of

[28:45] Engineers led by MJ Engineering in

[28:47] Clifton Park and they are going to be

[28:50] dedicating you know an engineering staff

[28:51] of you know three or five people full

[28:53] time to designing it and then I'm just

[28:55] gonna have to stay on this but also this

[28:56] is going to be a big project with the

[28:59] development department because they were

[29:00] so you know growing it but this is you

[29:03] know out of all of our projects even

[29:05] though this has been one of our top

[29:06] priority projects for you know five

[29:09] years so we're really just excited to

[29:11] just see it because you know we've

[29:13] talked to the community about all these

[29:14] projects and really try to deliver and

[29:17] this has been four years of talking

[29:19] computers understand necessarily how

[29:21] hard it is to fund a project of this

[29:23] size but we were able to do it so we

[29:25] just want to get going and you know and

[29:28] do it and this is in the vein of you

[29:30] know cotton Hollow Bridge four and a

[29:32] half million dollars and did that you

[29:34] know we're just starting next month

[29:36] actually two weeks we're starting

[29:37] Francis I mean Forest Holland and Forest

[29:40] and Maine you know so we're really

[29:42] putting a lot of investment into the

[29:43] communities there Mount Pleasant no but

[29:46] uh no I don't think this is going to be

[29:47] a problem for me bandwidth-wise

[29:49] hopefully too I'm going to have some

[29:50] projects

[29:51] sun setting you know unless there's some kind of an

[29:55] ARP around two which is gonna inundate

[29:57] me again let's hope actually not for

[29:59] them

[30:00] thank you you got it yes so

[30:03] yes Mr so I was just thinking that I

[30:05] know being a part of someone who's

[30:07] planning meetings um that really had a

[30:10] pretty significant Community engagement

[30:12] I would say it's really impressive I was

[30:14] wondering are you know you have to kind

[30:16] of communicate that back out to the

[30:18] people who are part of that group or

[30:20] something we're going to have another

[30:21] Community engagement session once we get

[30:23] to it so what we have to do is remember

[30:26] um much like everything else a linkage

[30:27] study is a linkage study you know you

[30:29] look at it you engage with the community

[30:31] and you find out what they want but now

[30:34] this is engineering so this is a you

[30:37] know this company is going to do a

[30:39] complete survey of the entire right away

[30:41] you know what can we actually do how do

[30:44] driveways affect it what are our sight

[30:46] lines there's going to be a lot so

[30:47] certain things may change certain things

[30:49] may you know not be ideal and then we're

[30:52] going to have to go and say okay this is

[30:54] what we're doing because we've been

[30:54] holding these meetings at the Electric

[30:56] City Bar and they've been very

[30:57] successful I think we have a good plan

[31:00] of how to engage with the community at

[31:01] this point through a series of you know

[31:04] almost entertainment and trying to uh

[31:06] you know we do Raffles now we try to

[31:08] make it interactive and fun and we're

[31:10] going to have another one of those once

[31:11] we have our realistic uh design and not

[31:15] just

[31:16] make sure yeah we have to we can't just

[31:18] show up and say okay now here it is

[31:20] it'll be it's too much also some people

[31:22] probably don't remember this is going

[31:24] back two years ago to what we talked

[31:26] about so uh and I think it's a good uh

[31:29] good time to do it because we've just

[31:31] had two Community meetings uh one at

[31:34] Sikkim and one at the Mount Pleasant

[31:35] Library for our second Lincoln study

[31:37] which is for Albany Ukraine which we

[31:39] touched on this and gave them the update

[31:41] so I think the community is kind of

[31:42] they're ready to see some progress but

[31:44] we will not believe that we will engage

[31:47] with it

[31:50] anyone else right so thank you very much

[31:53] for that and yes it has been a while but

[31:55] it's coming it's happening that's

[31:57] exciting

[31:58] all right so instead of motion

[32:02] second all in favor aye

[32:05] okay

[32:06] you're Paul okay all right item number

[32:09] four to award bidden contract uh request

[32:11] for approaching annual thing uh the sodium hypochlorite

[32:18] okay so like it says we use this uh

[32:22] sodium hydrochloride every year the

[32:24] chemical is used for uh City Wastewater

[32:26] we received a bid from GCI Jones to

[32:30] Sarasota the amount was uh ninety one

[32:32] thousand dollars is that correct

[32:35] one of the things that we did have a

[32:37] note on is that um the company's gonna

[32:40] hold pricing the pricing on

[32:42] chemicals right now is just

[32:44] exponentially growing so one of the

[32:46] things we're going to do is Bid this now

[32:48] twice a year again take a semi-annual

[32:50] bid to try to mitigate the cost of

[32:52] increases as we go forward so for right

[32:55] now uh this is where we're going but

[32:57] we're looking to authorize GCI Jones for

[32:59] 91 800.

[33:05] second Allison Davis

[33:07] item number five award and business

[33:09] contract for two contracts for the Rice

[33:11] Road fluoridization Improvement project

[33:13] yep so this is down at our Rice Road

[33:16] water treatment facility that we have

[33:18] there uh the facility is in need of some

[33:21] repairs it says the fluoride it's

[33:24] a chemical it uh it degradates things

[33:27] down there so what we're hoping to do is

[33:29] demolish and reconstruct bulk storage

[33:31] and the buildings and the associated

[33:33] infrastructure uh as if you were to go

[33:36] down there you would see that the

[33:37] constant

[33:39] chemical down there it just starts to

[33:40] break down the facility as you need so

[33:42] we haven't done this in quite a while we

[33:44] did put it out we have uh Facebook let

[33:47] me show you what we had we had two

[33:48] general contractors good and three

[33:50] Electrical uh Schultz we have worked

[33:53] with before put in the low bid in

[33:55] O'Connell electric we're working with

[33:56] O'Connell right now at our pool project

[33:58] uh they've been great to work with so

[34:01] the two bids that we're looking award

[34:02] would be Schultz for our general and

[34:05] O'Connell for our electrical

[34:12] a second all those in favor aye have a

[34:15] great fourth all right you do the same

[34:17] thank you thank you

[34:21] well the next item on the agenda is the

[34:23] municipal endorsement for Sikkim

[34:25] applications for the near to New York

[34:26] State Department of Environmental

[34:28] Conservation so Sikkim is trying is

[34:31] doing a project where they're going to

[34:32] be doing

[34:33] um

[34:34] converting 82 000 pounds of food waste

[34:37] over the next three years so they're not

[34:39] asking us for any money but in order for

[34:40] them to apply for this grant they need a

[34:43] resolution of support from the

[34:46] municipality so that's what this ask is

[34:48] all the information is there in your um

[34:50] in your packets

[34:51] and so I'm asking tonight if we would um

[34:54] support their application

[34:57] any questions comments

[35:00] a little bit yes second all those in favor aye

[35:05] the next three items are for property

[35:08] sales item 789 which will be done in

[35:10] executive session

[35:13] so um I'll move that we go into

[35:15] effective session second

[35:17] um

[35:18] we're an executive session the public

[35:20] would have to leave

Schenectady City Council Committee Meeting, July 3, 2023

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